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What should I do with my 7 year old computer?

Roarasauras
By Roarasauras
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So I realised I had an old computer under my house and I was wondering what I should do with it.

Also I have a couple of really old graphics cards. A sapphire HD 2600 XT and a GeForce 6800 GT.

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HTPC

 

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Fold?

heat your house?

A small server for you to play with?

HTPC?

Spare PC in case your main one suddenly goes kaputt?

Never trust my advice. Only take any and all advice from me with a grain of salt. Just a heads up.

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Emulator cabinet...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

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Fold?

heat your house?

A small server for you to play with?

HTPC?

Spare PC in case your main one suddenly goes kaputt?

  

Fold!

Forgive my ignorance, but what is folding?
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   Forgive my ignorance, but what is folding?

tl;dr version:

Using your computer's power to solve mathematics to improve science and find a cure for diseases like cancer.

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Uh play older games on it?

Too many ****ing games!  Back log 4 life! :S

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tl;dr version:

Using your computer's power to solve mathematics to improve science and find a cure for diseases like cancer.

Ah, thanks.

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Make a server?


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Take it to the shooting range.

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Take it to the shooting range.

No, that's what you do with RRoD'ing Xbox 360's...

Never trust my advice. Only take any and all advice from me with a grain of salt. Just a heads up.

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Install PFsense on it and use it as the most kickass router you've ever had.

Just an idea...

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NAS or folding.

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DO NOT THROW IT OUT! you can make a router out of it if you watch tek syndicates pf sense router tutorial. you can also save it and make it an htpc. which is usefull. its realy usefull to do that. make it a game server.

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Overclock all u can and watch it burn :)

Connection: 200mbps / 12mbps 5Ghz wifi

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Overclock all u can and watch it burn :)

Connection: 200mbps / 12mbps 5Ghz wifi

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Make a game server, a NAS, or a htpc.

 

but DON'T throw it out. :)

 

its super easy to set up file sharing with windows. thats what my old pc is right now. :D

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Destroy it.

What do they know of England, who only England know?

"Well that's what I always said I wanted to be remembered for, for being honest. Nothing else is worth a damn"
 

 

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