Old workstation hardware uses?

[Dustyne]

So i just got a bunch of old workstations a couple of weeks ago, and just tested them today. 4 of them seem to be working fine, 2 aren't displaying to the screen but turn on. I got the 6 of them all free and i plan on giving a couple working ones to a couple of friends and try to get a few others working for myself.

 

I'm just wondering if there is anything useful i can do with them. I looked up what I could use them for and it seems hard to find anything

 

Specs: Dual AMD Opteron 250 (Single Cores)

            Nvidia Quadro FX 3000

            4GB DDR (Atleast 2 of them aren't seeing half of the ram or reporting errors on 2 DIMMs)

            Seagate Cheetah HDD (Not sure the size yet)

 

My plans were to run Linux on them, or if one was completely trash just do a DIY scrap test bench. Any other ideas?

 

(Sorry if I did anything stupid posting this, first real post)

[Starelementpoke]

5 minutes ago, Dustyne said:

So i just got a bunch of old workstations a couple of weeks ago, and just tested them today. 4 of them seem to be working fine, 2 aren't displaying to the screen but turn on. I got the 6 of them all free and i plan on giving a couple working ones to a couple of friends and try to get a few others working for myself.

 

I'm just wondering if there is anything useful i can do with them. I looked up what I could use them for and it seems hard to find anything

 

Specs: Dual AMD Opteron 250 (Single Cores)

            Nvidia Quadro FX 3000

            4GB DDR (Atleast 2 of them aren't seeing half of the ram or reporting errors on 2 DIMMs)

            Seagate Cheetah HDD (Not sure the size yet)

 

My plans were to run Linux on them, or if one was completely trash just do a DIY scrap test bench. Any other ideas?

 

(Sorry if I did anything stupid posting this, first real post)

NAS? Really big and bragging rights router/modem?

[Jer45]

10 minutes ago, Dustyne said:

So i just got a bunch of old workstations a couple of weeks ago, and just tested them today. 4 of them seem to be working fine, 2 aren't displaying to the screen but turn on. I got the 6 of them all free and i plan on giving a couple working ones to a couple of friends and try to get a few others working for myself.

 

I'm just wondering if there is anything useful i can do with them. I looked up what I could use them for and it seems hard to find anything

 

Specs: Dual AMD Opteron 250 (Single Cores)

            Nvidia Quadro FX 3000

            4GB DDR (Atleast 2 of them aren't seeing half of the ram or reporting errors on 2 DIMMs)

            Seagate Cheetah HDD (Not sure the size yet)

 

My plans were to run Linux on them, or if one was completely trash just do a DIY scrap test bench. Any other ideas?

 

(Sorry if I did anything stupid posting this, first real post)

if i can run lubuntu on a 20 year old pc with 256mb of ram and a 500mhz PIII cpu then it will probably be fine to run on those

[thekeemo]

That old nothing useful

non useful retro games?

[Dustyne]

12 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

NAS? Really big and bragging rights router/modem?

Would these CPU's even be fast enough to be a NAS though? I've seen a lot of posts just trashing these cpu's

 

6 minutes ago, Jer45 said:

if i can run lubuntu on a 20 year old pc with 256mb of ram and a 500mhz PIII cpu then it will probably be fine to run on those

Is there any other distro's i could run with them too? i mean i have 6 so I could experiment lol. Is there more distros that are light enough?

[PokeCatz]

Retro Gaming System

Overkill Router

NAS?

 

[Jer45]

1 minute ago, Dustyne said:

Would these CPU's even be fast enough to be a NAS though? I've seen a lot of posts just trashing these cpu's

 

Is there any other distro's i could run with them too? i mean i have 6 so I could experiment lol. Is there more distros that are light enough?

here is a list

https://www.linux.com/news/best-lightweight-linux-distros

[Jer45]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

Low end editing?

photoshop CS2? ive used that on a 16 year old laptop

[Jer45]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

Editing might be useless on this, though.  It's 2 single cores.

well my experience was on a 950MHz single core amd durion