What should I do with mom's old PC?

[mchllatham03]

Hey guys, 

 

     My mom just bought a new laptop a few weeks ago and gave me her old desktop and monitor.  I put the monitor on my desk and i'm loving the dual monitor setup I have now even though the resolutions are not the same.  I'm kind of at a loss on what to do with the old pc.  I cleaned it up and loaded windows 10 on it just to see if the old 2 core e2180 could handle it. (it came running windows vista).

 

Here's what it has:

 

Intel E2180 CPU at 2.0 Ghz with stock cooler

2Gb DDR2 RAM

Integrated Graphics

320Gb HDD

DVD Drive

SD Card Reader

 

I already have a great performing desktop and I'm using my old mac mini as a HTPC/Plex Server.  So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

 

Here are a few pictures:

 

Sorry for the picture quality, my wife took the nice camera with her today so I had to take these pics with my nexus 5x and compress them on the computer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[OfficialJsP]

HTPC for your bedroom maybe.

[007agentHP]

nas

guest pc

ghetto gaming rig with a q6600 and a 7850-

[xQubeZx]

Small server for experimental stuff? Like a webserver for messing around? 

[petem]

Hey guys, 

 

     My mom just bought a new laptop a few weeks ago and gave me her old desktop and monitor.  I put the monitor on my desk and i'm loving the dual monitor setup I have now even though the resolutions are not the same.  I'm kind of at a loss on what to do with the old pc.  I cleaned it up and loaded windows 10 on it just to see if the old 2 core e2180 could handle it. (it came running windows vista).

 

Here's what it has:

 

Intel E2180 CPU at 2.0 Ghz with stock cooler

2Gb DDR2 RAM

Integrated Graphics

320Gb HDD

DVD Drive

SD Card Reader

 

I already have a great performing desktop and I'm using my old mac mini as a HTPC/Plex Server.  So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

 

Here are a few pictures:

 

Sorry for the picture quality, my wife took the nice camera with her today so I had to take these pics with my nexus 5x and compress them on the computer.

 

<pics removed for clarity>

 

The CPU is not powerful enough for a NAS, and you don't really have much storage potential.  So skip that.

The integrated graphics won't be able to handle any home theatre work...so

 

Add a GTX 750 ti and make a home theater PC 

[comicsansms]

Steam link?

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Give a Q6600 and any low profile GPU and have a media center PC. I'd recommend a GTX 750ti, it would turn it into a pretty capable little gaming machine actually.

[whitty_14]

I would salvage parts for my computer, like the hard drive, RAM, optical drive and more. Here is a good video by AwesomeSauce Network explaining it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfFpGhoOqk

[Arcanekitten]

-snip-

maybe a new router? like with pfsense

[mchllatham03]

Thanks guys for the suggestions. I might upgrade it if I can do it on the cheap and replace the Mac mini as my htpc.

[Maximoose]

Put an SSD in it and put Ubuntu on it and it will run pretty smoothly

[iruixos]

One of the contractors we have at work builds computers from salvage (unwanted) parts and donates them to women's shelters, schools, etc.

[FixedDevice]

sell it on ebay for $50 and buy an SSD, a new ram kit, or something else useful.

[RyanMacRocks]

You could grab a q6600 for $20 on eBay and then either add a GPU for gaming or just use it for BOINC/Folding

[Benji_w]

Wipe the hard drives so her nudes don't leak!

[Derpologist]

Whatever you do, for christ's sakes, replace that damn power supply. 

[cragger89]

Game streaming/HTPC or put it on ebay.

[Guest]

Clean it and build a NAS out of it.

[iHardware Shelden]

Whatever you do, for christ's sakes, replace that damn power supply.

Those models of Bestecs are actually well built, not to mention replacements are expensive due to the form factor.

[Quincy15]

Wipe the hard drives so her nudes don't leak!

Lol

[Derpologist]

Those models of Bestecs are actually well built, not to mention replacements are expensive due to the form factor.

Hm. Never heard of the company. I'll take your word though. 

[That90sKid]

I have this exact same computer and one that has a core 2 duo in the other. Not sure what to do with them either.

[Fredrik123]

 

Follow that instrucion

[mchllatham03]

Once again, thank you for all the suggestions.  I will definitely do something with it, not sure what just yet. I can always count on this forum for tech help... and only one person talked about my mom... Not bad.

[iHardware Shelden]

Hm. Never heard of the company. I'll take your word though.

Ya they had a revision that was used in HP's and Compaq's in the early 00s that would go out with a bang, they quickly fixed that though and actually have had good luck with them since in terms of pre-builts.