What should I use my HP Pavilion for?

Canada EH · September 16, 2016

Let me rephrase it

What should I use my Shitty Ass HP Pavilion for?

I was personally thinking of using it as a downloading PC, separated from the office PC.

Do I need to worry about D/L'ing viruses, that might infect other devices on the home network.

I honestly do not care what happens to the old HP Pavilion PC.

What I got setup is my cable ISP router (2.4GHz no 5GHz) setup as a repeater, wifi turned off.

That is connected to a wifi router (with 2.4Ghz and 5GHz) that the entire house runs off of.

Currently I got the office Desktop HARDWIRED to the ISP router, but I could HARDWIRE it to the wifi router port easy enough.

Is that a layer of protection?

I will buy a large capacity HDD or SDD, cheapest I can find.

I will buy a $5 used PSU because I want to free up my EVGA 600B that I have in there now for another project I got planned.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01625611

Release date - 20-Nov-2008

MS-7548 (Aspen)

Manufacturer: MSI
Form factor: micro-ATX-24.4 cm (9.6 inches) x 24.4 cm (9.6 inches)
Chipset: AMD 780G
Memory sockets: 4 x DDR2
Front side bus speeds: Up to 5200MT/s (5.2 GT/s)
Processor socket: AM2+
Expansion Slots:
- 1 PCI Express x16 graphics card slot
- 3 PCI Express x1 slots
AMD Athlon X2 5050e

Operating speed: Up to 2.6 GHz

Number of cores: 2

Socket: AM2

Bus speed: 2000MT/s
Processor upgrade information

Socket type: AM2+

TDP: 125 watt

Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:

Athlon X2 BE-2xxx (Brisbane) (AM2)

Athlon 64 X2 up to 6000+ with Dual Core (Brisbane) technology (AM2)

Athlon 64 X2 up to 6000+ with Dual Core (Winsor) technology (AM2)

AMD Phenom Triple-Core (Toliman) up to 8xxx series (AM2+)

AMD Phenom Quad-Core (Agena) up to 9950, (AM2+)
Memory - 4 GB
Amount: 4 GB

Speed: PC2-6400 MB/sec
Memory upgrade information

Dual channel memory architecture

Four DDR2 SO-DIMM (240-pin) sockets

Supported DIMM types:

PC2-6400 (800 MHz)

PC2-5300 (667 MHz)

Non-ECC memory only, unbuffered

Supports 4GB DDR2 DIMMs

Supports up to 16 GB on 64-bit PCs

Supports up to 4 GB* on 32-bit PCs
Integrated graphics using ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 (Supports DirectX® 10)

Integrated Realtek ALC888S Audio
LAN: 10-Base-T

Interface: Integrated into motherboard

Technology: Realtek RTL8111C

Data transfer speeds: up to 10/100 Mb/s

Transmission standards: 10-Base-T Ethernet
802.11 b/g wireless USB adapter card

Figure : Wireless card - side view

Interface type: USB

Data transfer speeds: up to 54 Mbps

Transmission standards: 802.11 b/g

Supported antenna connections: 1

Operating band: 2.4 GHz and 2.5 GHz dual band

Supported security protocols:

WPA

WEP

Electronics Wizardy · September 16, 2016

2 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Is that a layer of protection?

Won't help you at all.

If you wnat a download box. You can use a vm on your desktop if you leave it on.

You can easily make this into a file server and install linux on it.

Canada EH · September 16, 2016

What about a "Sandbox" program?

I just thought of that now.

Download everything into the sandbox.

Yeah I was thinking of that earlier. I used Xubuntu before, so I could put W8 Virtual Machine on it. I always hated Vista, but I think it was because of the AMD 2 core CPU and only 4GB of ram. Programs would always stop working when I had a shit ton of web pages open plus World of Tanks online pc game. The i5-4570 setup is as smooth stippers buttocks.

Electronics Wizardy · September 16, 2016

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

but I think it was because of the AMD 2 core CPU and only 4GB of ram.

Windows 7 will run faster than vista.

Id use linux.

Canada EH · September 16, 2016

Yeah I will use Linus (LMFAO, no no its Linux - I will leave the typo in), maybe try a few different flavors. I loved Xubuntu though. Maybe I will try a lean distro. Slap W8 VM on it just to get a feel for 8.

Later on when I know more about home servers I will give that a go on it too.