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I have this old computer that has been sitting in the corner of my room for about a year now. It has some horrible old Intel processor (2ghz dual core) and 1gb of ddr2 ram. Also has a WiFi card, 80gb hard drive, and a potato for a power supply. Is it worth doing anything with this? or should it just go in the garbage? I am open to suggestions.

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2 minutes ago, mpsparrow said:

I have this old computer that has been sitting in the corner of my room for about a year now. It has some horrible old Intel processor (2ghz dual core) and 1gb of ddr2 ram. Also has a WiFi card, 80gb hard drive, and a potato for a power supply. Is it worth doing anything with this? or should it just go in the garbage? I am open to suggestions.

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could run something like small servers, a minecraft server or something. Or you could disassemble it and take everything apart for fun like i have done, and make the processors into keychains, ect, thats probably the better option in my opinion.

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Sell it on ebay or craigslist. You never know, someone might have a $150 budget. Or you could find a pc refurbishing store that might want it. 

Or do something like what they said ^^^ :)

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Dual-cores have tons of uses m8. You might benefit from a RAM upgrade, but that thing would make a great Movie box, Local file server, Router, or Emulator box to name a few.

 

EDIT: or yeah, it's probably worth a hundred or two on craigslist. If you have spare parts on hand, throwing a few in there could bump the price up some.

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that would be just about perfect for a pfsense box, if you do get rid of it keep the wifi card, they're always handy.

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make a game server out of it or a home storage server.

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10 hours ago, Ellen_orangecloud said:

Make it into a NAS or router :) 

 

 

Yes, A router would be legit. Bring all the nerd girls to the yard

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Make a CPU keychain! or necklace!

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You could slap a few Delta fans on it and turn it into a hovercraft :D

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Recycle it.
Older computer consume a lot more power than computers today, it's not worth making it in a router, NAS or HTPC.

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