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So i have this old media center PC its an emachines and the model is E4036 i am really not sure what i should do with it i was thinking about making it into a home sever but i would need to add a 2nd hard drive and more ram but i don't see the point upgrading an old rig and i don't want to spend the money on it and it runs windows XP should i just bin it? any suggestions 

 

Specs:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 524 (3.06GHz)

Ram: 512MB DDR2 (not sure what make)

OS: Windows XP

GPU: Integrated 

MoBo: Msi MS-7173

PSU: Bestec ATX-300-12E (300W)

Storage: Old 160GB Hard Drive

 

Update (21:57 13/06/2014)

So i have decided to turn it into a home theater and i am thinking about adding a 650 Ti and getting 4GB of RAM and overclocking the CPU as much as i can also i have found out all of the specs and i have updated the spec list above i think i am going to get steam OS and using steam in home streaming

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Put it in a glass case and call it a museum display.

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watercool it and overclock it lol.

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Setup XBMC on it, it should be completely fine.

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Also do some cool projects, probably watercool it and overclock like hell

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Also do some cool projects, probably watercool it and overclock like hell

 

i have decided to make it into a home theater rig for my tv do u think i should get a core 2 maybe? i also have an old 650 ti i could put in to it and i am going to get some new ram at least 2GB and a new case the motherboard i currently have in it is a msi ms-7173  and i am not sure if it will be stable to overclock on that board plus i have never overclocked before but i guess its some good practice and if something dose go wrong its not that much of a loss

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i have decided to make it into a home theater rig for my tv do u think i should get a core 2 maybe? i also have an old 650 ti i could put in to it and i am going to get some new ram at least 2GB and a new case the motherboard i currently have in it is a msi ms-7173  and i am not sure if it will be stable to overclock on that board plus i have never overclocked before but i guess its some good practice and if something dose go wrong its not that much of a loss

Upgrade to two gigs of ram, install XBMC, enjoy.. Also i would save that 650 ti for something else, or you could send it to me xD 

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