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Old IBM P4 server.....Ideas?

frankr2994
By frankr2994
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Brought an old IBM tower server home today. P4 hyperthreaded with 8gb of ddr2 ecc and a gt730 passive graphics card. Model of the tower is a x series 206m. Now I've done a couple win 98 builds this last year with P4 dells and as awesome as it is to run 98 at light speed this machine is a little on overkill for that. And then I know I can run xp on something much faster without issue. So what do you guys think I should do with it? Open to any ideas other than throw it in the garbage....those comments have to wait a couple days to see if there are useful comments first lol.

 

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Im lining up a very similar snag from work.  Going to convert the case to my personal rig cause...ancient - and then Im going to waterblock and OC the snot (if it can be) out of the CPU

Workstation Laptop: Dell Precision 7540, Xeon E-2276M, 32gb DDR4, Quadro T2000 GPU, 4k display

Wifes Rig: ASRock B550m Riptide, Ryzen 5 5600X, Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6700 XT, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz V-Color Skywalker RAM, ARESGAME AGS 850w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750, 500gb Crucial m.2, DIYPC MA01-G case

My Rig: ASRock B450m Pro4, Ryzen 5 3600, ARESGAME River 5 CPU cooler, EVGA RTX 2060 KO, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz TeamGroup T-Force RAM, ARESGAME AGV750w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750 NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 3tb Hitachi 7200 RPM HDD, Fractal Design Focus G Mini custom painted.  

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 5 3600,ASRock B450M Pro4 (3dmark.com)

Daughter 1 Rig: ASrock B450 Pro4, Ryzen 7 1700 @ 4.2ghz all core 1.4vCore, AMD R9 Fury X w/ Swiftech KOMODO waterblock, Custom Loop 2x240mm + 1x120mm radiators in push/pull 16gb (2x8) Patriot Viper CL14 2666mhz RAM, Corsair HX850 PSU, 250gb Samsun 960 EVO NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 500gb Samsung 840 EVO SSD, 512GB TeamGroup MP30 M.2 SATA III SSD, SuperTalent 512gb SATA III SSD, CoolerMaster HAF XM Case. 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/37004594?

Daughter 2 Rig: ASUS B350-PRIME ATX, Ryzen 7 1700, Sapphire Nitro+ R9 Fury Tri-X, 16gb (2x8) 3200mhz V-Color Skywalker, ANTEC Earthwatts 750w PSU, MasterLiquid Lite 120 AIO cooler in Push/Pull config as rear exhaust, 250gb Samsung 850 Evo SSD, Patriot Burst 240gb SSD, Cougar MX330-X Case

 

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What operating system do you plan on using? I wouldn't mind something like that to keep around here just don't know what to toss on it. I'm sure I'm going to fight with drivers on it no matter what direction I go. I was just looking and some pretty fast p4's are available for cheap on eBay. I don't even know what one is in it yet lol

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Well this was brought in because "it didn't work" I opened it up cleaned out a clogged cpu heatsink,scraped off the concrete thermal paste repasted and lit it up. Threw a pci error but booted past it. 80gb drive is basically full but cpu and memory load seemed low. So I'm going to toss a new drive in and reload something. Might try and cut open the pcie x8 slot so I can drop a x16 card in it. Got a Quadro k2000 I'll be pulling out a machine at work lol. Should be old and low powered enough. Maybe I'll make an xp gamer out of it or something...dunno but it's too cool to toss out.

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