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Ruostunut kokis
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You could move some of your files there, so you have more room for games (or whatever you need room for).

I have trouble filling my main storage drive already... It's 1 TB and only 500 GB is filled, mostly by Steam... :lol:

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the explosives cost more than the pc :P

And not so legal in Finland.

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Breathe new life into it with Linux!

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I would install some sort of linux distro. A lot of them run really well on old hardware.

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Cover all holes in foam or isolation so it gets really hot in there. Put the side panel back on so its totally sealed, put it on its side, and place your coffee mug on top of it. Now you coffee stays hot and good!! ^^ haha

Or alternatively you could place it under your feet to keep them warm.

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id say put a linux on it and put plex on it to make it into a movie server

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web browsing? video watching? a second screen for forums when youre doing something else? the options are endless :D

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I don't think it can run emulators all that well... Even my Windows 8 tablet could be better at that.

Easily, (After many dealing's with refurbishing these)

Just strip Windows98/XP/7/8.1 of all its fancy shit and it can run on a potato :) Esp the older OS's which would be preferred for OS/Emu style machines.

But if you've never dealt with Emu's before, then it's a lot of reading when it goes wrong with (Emulated GPU driver dll's, sound emulation)

Give it a GPU of sorts (DX7-DX9) even the most basic ones should suffice for even the simplest of EMU's like Nes/Snes/M.drive/SegaMS <-- all these gems.

Then give it to a semi-tech familiar family with kids and show them the games that were worth playing, if anything I brought a 3200+ back to life with a Sata1 driven SSD cache drive to help the main drive.

You could spend way less than $50, or about that if you want, and some time. A nice gift to someone.

Effort and Tinkering in your spare time,.. I'm sure you'd make someones day.

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The question is what can't you do with an old computer?

 

I installed Linux on my old comp just to play around with it, but a server is another real possibility.  Don't destroy it with overclocking, though, because it always helps to have a backup computer just in case.

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So I've had this old PC for few months already, got it for free and it hasn't had much use. What could I do with it? It could be too old to sell it away for even under 20€ and I don't know what could I do with this...

 

The internals look like this:

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According to the specs sheet in the front of the case it says it has:

 

-AMD Athlon XP 3000+

-256 MB of DDR RAM

-80 GB IDE HDD

-HP DVD writer

-And some random GPU that would honestly be beaten by a GPU in a mere smartphone...

 

Additionally: the PSU states it's 250W (non 80-plus. I don't think that certificate even existed back then), and the motherboard is so old it doesn't have any PCI Express lanes (shame, as I can't just slap my old 550 Ti in there). There is one SATA port, though...

 

Could this be made into anything useful at all? I highly doubt it... Even if this could be made into for example, a NAS, I don't think I'd have any use for something like that.

Carry it to these guys, they will know what to do with it.

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Can I have it? I'll pay shipping if it is cheap

Ehh... Shipping it to US would cost more than anything as old and weak as this you could find on Craigslist or ebay... The reason I was jokingly requesting shipping it for @M-ursu is that the price of the shipping would be actually almost reasonable (or not... 15€ - 30€ for an item that weights as much as it does).

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Ehh... Shipping it to US would cost more than anything as old and weak as this you could find on Craigslist or ebay... The reason I was jokingly requesting shipping it for @M-ursu is that the price of the shipping would be actually almost reasonable (or not... 15€ - 30€ for an item that weights as much as it does).

I wasn't paying attention. Never mind. :)

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Honestly I'd take the hard drive out and destroy it (if there is any possible sensitive data on it) and take it to somewhere that will recycle it for you. Linux isn't really that good on a system with 256mb of RAM. From what I can tell it only has 2 SATA ports and a system that old probably won't support anything over 2tb (if even that big) and they are likely SATA 1 (150 MB/s) ports.

 

I know, I have a computer that I think is very similar that I got from work a while ago and haven't found anything useful to do with it but I can't force myself to get rid of it either!

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If you are not going to actually use it you could take the magnets out of the hdd and have some fun with those. Also now that I think about it you could use the old components as decorative things. If you are feeling really creative you could turn the case into a display case or something. (cut up the side panel and use that as shelf and buy a cheap piece of acrylic for the window.

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Modify the CD-rom and empty the case, make a savings box for you small cash,, maybe power the CD-rom only in some way so you open it and put coins into it and it drops into the case when you close it. Would be cool thing to have.. Maybe spray paint it as well! I did this with a old CD-rom only, so It sits on my shelf, instead of a full pc case, I taped a CD into the tray so i can place coins there and close it fast so the coins shoots into it and drops to the bottom of the cd-rom. Attached a thumb screw to the tray so I can use it to open and close it.

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I would turn it into a server! Maybe make a little money running someones Minecraft server. Or just use it for some cloud computing?

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lmfao I have this same super old PC

CPU: AMD FX-6300 4GHz @ 1.3 volts | CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO | RAM: 8GB DDR3

Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-DS3P | GPU: EVGA GTX 960 SSC | SSD: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO

HDD: 1TB WD Caviar Green | Case: Fractal Design Core 2500 | OS: Windows 10 Home

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Install PFsense onto it, turn on caching and cache your favourite websites. you can do a lot of stuff if you make it into a router.

 

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I've heard of people scraping bits of gold off of the ram modules and stuff.  Never done it, but you could give it a shot.

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Why does everyone want to turn a crappy desktop into a server :huh:  I usually turn crappy servers into some type of desktop, even if its parts, assuming I can jam them into a desktop case. Desktop to server is like turning a VW Bug into a 18 Wheeler Truck :wacko:

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