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I have a bunch of systems with all of them rocking an old Pentium 4 (Except for the one with the first AMD 64 bit processor) and all of them are crap. I have no use for them as of right now and I was wondering if you guys have any other ideas.

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Try and retrieve all the gold off of them :P

 

 

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Turn them into folding rigs.

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file servers, back ups, donate, folding, scrap for parts.

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I have a bunch of systems with all of them rocking an old Pentium 4 (Except for the one with the first AMD 64 bit processor) and all of them are crap. I have no use for them as of right now and I was wondering if you guys have any other ideas.

sell them...i found someone to take a computer off my hands for a good dollar

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I'll buy one or two if you want to sell them. Honestly I REALLY need some crappy but working PCs at the moment.

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donate to charity

 

If they accept them. I know of a few instances where charities won't accept old but perfectly operating computers just cos they are old.

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Could make a computer fort out of them.

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If I were going to get rid of them I would keep the Athlon 64 one and one of the P4s, if I had to get rid of them.

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Install Linux

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Sell the individual chips, and ram. They are worth more than the whole computer.

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Make a router out of one of them, a file server out of another, an HTPC out of another

 

Fold with the rest

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Specs for the AMD? I really miss my old Athlon XP 2500+ Barton and wouldn't mind buying an old AMD for nostalgic reasons. :)

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Install Linux

Linux machines for all of his friends, yes.

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What is folding?

https://folding.stanford.edu/

 

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Its a way to utilize many individuals' computer's computing power to solve big problems. Download the software, and you can easily give your computer's power to the cause.

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I got 1 for Linux. 1 for backup which is connected to a bunch of junk hard drive.

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I had a similar situation. I just tossed the cases and sold the components individually. I actually made a fair bit on them, probably more than they were worth. Ended up making enough to buy three noctua NF-P12s.

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Id say donate or throw out.  The power, compatibility, and reliability (due to age) of those machines makes them useless (in my opinion) for anything like a file server, folding, or any other kind of actual use.

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