Best use for a second desktop pc

[Cupar19]

What would be the best used for a second desktop pc,without a video card,other than selling/donating. I would like to know what I could do with one so would build it around what its for.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

You can turn it into a NAS.

[Egg-Roll]

Could turn it into a media center/streaming content/nas beyond that nothing much.

 

Could also turn it into a security system as well.

[Cupar19]

Security system? And how would a media server work?

 

[TheGlenlivet]

Folding or Boinc, if you're feeling generous.

[Mr Bilbo]

Depends on what you do as well if you do scripting you could run your code on the machine or test websites. 

[Cupar19]

3 minutes ago, Cupar19 said:

Security system? And how would a media server work?

 

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[Dissitesuxba11s]

5 minutes ago, Cupar19 said:

how would a media server work?

You have your movies, tv shows, streaming providers, etc on the PC so you can watch them from other PC's over the local network.

 

Also, comment or mention the person you want a reply from. Like this @Egg-Roll.

 

EDIT: Check this forum out.

https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/84-servers-and-nas/

Edited January 16, 2018 by Dissitesuxba11s
Added NAS/Server forum link.

[combine1237]

Render machine if you do videos.

[Cupar19]

@Dissitesuxba11soh ok and thanks for the tip

[Egg-Roll]

12 minutes ago, Cupar19 said:

Security system?

 

iSpy for security (with cameras sold separately, however webcams work too) or alike software.

 

4 minutes ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Like this @Egg-Roll.

[Salacious B Crum]

Build a NAS install plex and create a file server

[Canada EH]

Porn download pc

P2P torrenting pc for music and movies and porn vids

crypto currency mining

NAS

file server

[Bhav]

But how does one make a NAS?

 

I could shove a couple of high capacity drives in with my G4400 if I could figure out how. Maybe I need to ask in the storage section.

[Majinhoju]

Unraid is a good OS to make a NAS.  You can also run docker and VMs along with it.

[Bhav]

23 minutes ago, Majinhoju said:

Unraid is a good OS to make a NAS.  You can also run docker and VMs along with it.

Yea I watched that video with Linus setting one up for iJustine and I'm interested in that, but I don't need to for now as my raid 1 6 Tbs are plenty.

[Grimfrost769]

If you have room in your house make it a guest pc.

[Salacious B Crum]

18 hours ago, Bhav said:

Yea I watched that video with Linus setting one up for iJustine and I'm interested in that, but I don't need to for now as my raid 1 6 Tbs are plenty.

Consider that those drives in your system produce heat putting them in a NAS lightens up your daily driver and allows other computers on the network to share resources on the NAS

[Canada EH]

CNC Machine PC

[moderategamer]

On ‎16‎/‎01‎/‎2018 at 9:13 PM, Cupar19 said:

What would be the best used for a second desktop pc,without a video card,other than selling/donating. I would like to know what I could do with one so would build it around what its for.

Server would be my first go to following that I guess media computer for the sitting room.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

You can do a pfSense router-firewall.

 

You can install other OSs and play around with them, learn about them, maybe find one you like (like a Linux distribution, Qube OS...)

 

If the hardware is old enough, you may install an older OS and play older games that don't work well with modern OS/drivers.

(I'm assuming it has at least an iGPU you can hook a monitor to?)

 

[Drak3]

On 1/16/2018 at 4:08 PM, Bhav said:

But how does one make a NAS?

 

I could shove a couple of high capacity drives in with my G4400 if I could figure out how. Maybe I need to ask in the storage section.

FreeNAS, there's good documentation on setting it up.

[Hugh_Mungus]

On 1/16/2018 at 1:13 PM, Cupar19 said:

What would be the best used for a second desktop pc,without a video card,other than selling/donating. I would like to know what I could do with one so would build it around what its for.

Well you could also use it as a dedicated encoder if you stream to twitch

 

[Cyronetic]

On 1/16/2018 at 9:13 PM, Cupar19 said:

What would be the best used for a second desktop pc,without a video card,other than selling/donating. I would like to know what I could do with one so would build it around what its for.

You could just purely use it for editing and rendering, if your CPU in your main PC is not up to par, there's a lot of things that you could do.

[michaelocarroll007]

Old School Games.

 

Get like an 8bitdo Controller and load it up for emulators and such