what the heck do i do with this?!?!

[FizzHead24]

so my dad brought home an old computer from his work, so i started taking it apart and i found a old intel pentium 4 on lga 775 so my question for everyone is what should i do with it?

[ixi_your_face]

Chain, or keychain!

[Godlygamer23]

You can drill a hole through it and stick it on a key chain.

[91wow]

Keychain? Tamper with the board so if you can unlock the bios in some way, get it to 5GHZ on air.

[TheSLSAMG]

See if board is compatible with Core 2 Quad. Buy a nice, cheap GPU, and have fun. That's what I did with my grandmother's Socket 939 computer, other than the C2Q thing. And keychain that sucker!

[LegendKillerRG]

Play around with it, take off the IHS and turn the computer on and see what happens etc.

[DeViLzzz]

so my dad brought home an old computer from his work, so i started taking it apart and i found a old intel pentium 4 on lga 775 so my question for everyone is what should i do with it?

Does the board have a pci-e slot and what board is it ?  You might be able to make this a nice little rig if you upgrade the cpu and add a used 9800 GT or the like.

 

If you have no use for the pc donate it to some charity and let them sell it or give it to someone you know who is less fortunate and has no rig at all.

[LogicalDrm]

If it works, turn it to media server or home server. And put Linux into it. P4 is still valid cpu.

[Tonny]

Throw it through the window and don't look back :D

[iAsuno]

use cheese as thermal compound. 

[Matsy]

key-chain.

[MiracleMan]

Get some dry ice/LN2 on there and overclock it. 

[Scia]

Build a media server  / Nas out of it ^^

[Youbetternot]

keychain ^.^

[felixbearpig]

You should tape it to your new computer so you can have more cores and processing power

[Blade of Grass]

Someone made a really cool coffee warmer, but I can't seem to find the tutorial link.

[Flynn]

I would do everything possible to get this thing to combust while attached to the mobo.  Put it under as much load as possible.

 

Be sure to record it and post the video here, you will get some mass Cool Points if manage to actually get it to flame up.

[Flynn]

You should tape it to your new computer so you can have more cores and processing power

 

Put it in a glass case with a sludge hammer next to it with a sign that reads "In case of moar power, don't break glass"

[Nirmal]

Troll the forum by saying you are building a rig with a P4, and then just tape the P4 to the case. I don't know what else you can do with it, as the power consumption on those chips are quite high.

 

EDIT: I think that if it is a Dell GX620 or newer you may be able to upgrade it to Pentium dual core, or whatever those are called.

[grayperview]

here is  a thought, use it in a computer.

[Lil Chillbil]

I would personally put a core 2 quad, 4 gigs of ram and a 9800 gt dual processor card

 

 

then save it for a lan party pc

[mgsstar]

Overclock it and use it to fold

[newbie]

Find a Core 2 Quad (or Extreme if it's not too much for the mobo) and find a nice a graphics card for a nice small rig (pretty much the same idea as others)