Give me ideas

[TwoFace]

Hey guys I'm getting a bunch of older pc stuff and should have a few pcs worth of hardware.... Was thinking of setting up some server/networking stuff.... But I need ideas throw 'em at me... What should I do with all this hardware? 

 

Ps.... I'm totally new to doing anything network related

[Guest]

Sell it

Give it to me

 

[DisconnectedYT]

Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

Sell it

Give it to me

 

Dont listen to him!

GIVE IT TO ME

Sell it. If there are old Xeon chips you could make $50 on them

[doomsriker]

start a youtube channel about used pc hardware.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, doomsriker said:

start a youtube channel about used pc hardware.

Who would watch a used hardware?

[doomsriker]

look up "tech city" on youtube, and find out. 

[kittycannon]

Combine parts of similar age into one PC and sell it if you don't need it

[r00tH4cK3r]

Turn one of the old PCs into a router

[iamdarkyoshi]

Try building a NAS!

 

Thats one of the first things I did

 

Hint: Overkill cooling is GOOD.

[Canada EH]

I want you to build, then see if you can set on fire, electronically.

[WkdPaul]

moved to New Builds & Planning

 

 

@TwoFace what type of older hardware do you have?

 

A good way to recycle old PCs is to setup some sort of NAS using free OS;

 

http://www.freenas.org/

http://www.nas4free.org/

http://www.openmediavault.org/

http://www.openfiler.com/

 

 

Or you could turn it into a HTPC, again using a free OS (a linux distro or your choice) and Kodi;

https://kodi.tv/