So, what should I do with these?

[AshleyAshes]

I mostly just watch the YouTube channel, but I thought I'd sign up to post this question.  I recently got six Q6600 kits for free from work, complete with Intel DQ965GF motherboards and 4x1GB of RAM.  They're basically the remains of a retired render farm that then sat in a bankers box for a couple of years before we did a clean up.  We put a few others asside for future usage at work, like servers, routers, whatever, but I got to take these.  So, err, what should I try to do with'em?

 

[8enjicraf2]

sell em?

[App4that]

Folding farm

[Opeth747]

eBay?

[GigaSnow]

HTPC?

 

Hang them on your wall?

[Pcinacan]

give one to me or you could sell them but i like the first one more 

[NoobCase]

Build six retro style emulation boxes for old console games.

[S7117]

You could always create a server. Have your own website and maybe one day your website will be famous

[AshleyAshes]

HTPC?

 

Hang them on your wall?

 

HTPC would be cool if I didn't already have some.  I already have two HTPCs, one is powered by an i7 3770K with HD 6950, the other by an i5 4590 with HD 6850.  Kinda good there.  The 4590 box even doubles as a 21B storage server, running Transmission, SABNZBD, SickBeard, CouchPotato and MySQL. Though building a dedicated 'Steam Box' just for fun, out of all used parts might be a distraction.  I'd also be curious to bench a few cards on such an old but still quad core machine to see where the CPU becomes the bottleneck and nothing faster does any better.

 

Build six retro style emulation boxes for old console games.

 

But I have this Rasperry Pi 2 I'm trying to build into a Sega Genesis case already.

[GigaSnow]

HTPC would be cool if I didn't already have some.  I already have two HTPCs, one is powered by an i7 3770K with HD 6950, the other by an i5 4590 with HD 6850.  Kinda good there.  The 4590 box even doubles as a 21B storage server, running Transmission, SABNZBD, SickBeard, CouchPotato and MySQL. Though building a dedicated 'Steam Box' just for fun, out of all used parts might be a distraction.  I'd also be curious to bench a few cards on such an old but still quad core machine to see where the CPU becomes the bottleneck and nothing faster does any better.

 

 

But I have this Rasperry Pi 2 I'm trying to build into a Sega Genesis case already.

 

Post some pics of that Genesis!

 

Anyways, that's a sweet setup you got with your HTPCs.

[klh2000]

HTPC would be cool if I didn't already have some.  I already have two HTPCs, one is powered by an i7 3770K with HD 6950, the other by an i5 4590 with HD 6850.  Kinda good there.  The 4590 box even doubles as a 21B storage server, running Transmission, SABNZBD, SickBeard, CouchPotato and MySQL. Though building a dedicated 'Steam Box' just for fun, out of all used parts might be a distraction.  I'd also be curious to bench a few cards on such an old but still quad core machine to see where the CPU becomes the bottleneck and nothing faster does any better.

 

 

But I have this Rasperry Pi 2 I'm trying to build into a Sega Genesis case already.

Fold

[BOT Edward]

Go to the tip shop and pick up some other parts to make functional PC's, and give them to charity organizations that are in need of them

[TheRandomness]

And nobody's noticed what @App4that said about folding@home?

[AshleyAshes]

And nobody's noticed what @App4that said about folding@home?

 

I pay for hydro in my apartment and the thought of spinning six 105w TDP chips 24/7 does not enthrall me.

[4960X]

give them to me so I can sell them and make money. Thanks in advance.

[Keudn]

*Ahem* Give some to me? *Ahem*

[AshleyAshes]

Everyone wants to take my shinies! D:

[potatoproduction]

You could melt out valuable metals ie. Gold Coper Platinum

[Tedster]

Give them to me!

[Full Metal Jacket]

Give one to me so I can give it to my friends? ;p

[Guest]

Put Linux on them.

Put em in a case, with PSU and HDD.

Sell them

[GoldSrc]

Fold.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/876-foldinghome-install-guide-and-links-linustechtips-team-223518/

[carguy86]

Get long standoffs with nylon washers and stack them on top og each other, then put them in a glass cabinet and make a folding farm to decorate your living room. (Replace the hdd activity led with rgb ledstrips for extra bling)

[AshleyAshes]

Get long standoffs with nylon washers and stack them on top og each other, then put them in a glass cabinet and make a folding farm to decorate your living room. (Replace the hdd activity led with rgb ledstrips for extra bling)

 

I'm not really interested in folding, but the core of this idea I like.  One could even cheaply go solid state, since they're old enough to have IDE slots, which could easily take say, a 32GB CompactFlash card with a simple pinout adaptor.  However, what kind of power supply would be best for multiple boards such as these?  You'd have a pretty bulky arrangement with full ATX PSUs for example, is there something more compact and efficient I could use?  I have to admit, I haven't seen PSUs for multiple systems outside of rack unit servers that fit multiple 'nodes' in one box.

[carguy86]

I'm not really interested in folding, but the core of this idea I like. One could even cheaply go solid state, since they're old enough to have IDE slots, which could easily take say, a 32GB CompactFlash card with a simple pinout adaptor. However, what kind of power supply would be best for multiple boards such as these? You'd have a pretty bulky arrangement with full ATX PSUs for example, is there something more compact and efficient I could use? I have to admit, I haven't seen PSUs for multiple systems outside of rack unit servers that fit multiple 'nodes' in one box.

you could use those tiny sfx psus? (They could be hidden pretty easily)