what to do with my old pc?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

so i've got my old pc sitting here, and i haven't used it since i built my current pc. 

 

my old pc is a HP server, specifically a ProLiant ML350 G6. 

the specs:

2x Xeon L5630 (8 core/16 thread total) 

10GB ECC DDR3 (can upgrade that to much more if i shop around for some cheap used ram, it has 18 ram slots)

2x 460W PSU's (can use for redundancy, or use both for 920W total)

i have a few GPU's spare that i could put in it, namely an RX560 and GTX 1050. 

 

that's basically it. i don't know what to do with it. and i don't want it to just lay around because it's very big and heavy...

i've considered using it as a file server but it's way overkill for that and uses way too much power. 

 

i can't sell it, because i've modded it. it has a big hole in the side panel to fit a hyper 212 evo... mounted with zip-ties... and i've completely redone the cooling to make it quieter. 

and it has a really stupid problem: i always had a temperature monitor app open on a secondary display because it would think it's overheating if for example i was playing Overwatch for a long time on a hot day. and i'll explain thinking it overheats: basically it has a broken temperature sensor. so it thinks a harddrive that's ice cold to the touch is 60 degrees celsius. so it very easily thinks it's way too hot and turns off even though nothing is going on. i can deal with it but it makes it totally worthless. 

 

any suggestions about what i could do with it?

[emosun]

dedicated stream pc?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

4 minutes ago, emosun said:

dedicated stream pc?

i don't stream... good idea though  

[kelvinhall05]

Gimme gimme.

[That_Dutch_Guy]

Well, I would say, there's a buyer for everything.

But if you're not going to sell it, I would just use it to offload work from your new rig to it.

[whoisjaya]

What about using it for Steam's in-home streaming?

[That_Dutch_Guy]

1 minute ago, That_Dutch_Guy said:

Well, I would say, there's a buyer for everything.

But if you're not going to sell it, I would just use it to offload work from your new rig to it.

I just noticed you live in the Netherlands, how much you want for it?

[EPENEX]

Sell it, plenty of people will buy it as they can find a use for it.

[emosun]

capture pc

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

3 minutes ago, Jonas_2909 said:

What about using it for Steam's in-home streaming?

you mean as a server? with a few clients around the house? that's a pretty cool idea actually. 

 

6 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Gimme gimme.

it's crap for gaming.. those Xeons have pretty terrible singe core speed. i don't know what you'd want to do with it... 

 

5 minutes ago, That_Dutch_Guy said:

Well, I would say, there's a buyer for everything.

But if you're not going to sell it, I would just use it to offload work from your new rig to it.

i don't really do stuff i can offload.. or that i need to. i never max my current machine. 

 

6 minutes ago, That_Dutch_Guy said:

I just noticed you live in the Netherlands, how much you want for it?

i don't want to sell it. 

 

6 minutes ago, EPENEX said:

Sell it, plenty of people will buy it as they can find a use for it.

i don't want to. 

 

look that overheating problem is quite bad. i had to point a fan at the raid controller that holds all the drive's so it would get the faulty sensor to behave.... i don't see why anyone would want to have it. 

[That_Dutch_Guy]

6 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

I don't see why anyone would want to have it. 

Because something is better than nothing,

besides, you can deal with it, why wouldn't somebody else aswell?

[kelvinhall05]

18 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

it's crap for gaming.. those Xeons have pretty terrible singe core speed. i don't know what you'd want to do with it..

Oh, I was joking. But if you wanna give it to me I'll gladly take it.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

2 minutes ago, That_Dutch_Guy said:

Because something is better than nothing,

besides, you can deal with it, why wouldn't somebody else aswell?

you have a point. but still selling it isn't an option. i paid €75 for the chassis with the psu's, a quad core xeon that was quite slow, and 6gb of ram. 

 

i paid €50 for the L5630's and i think €25 for the 10gb of ram, which is a different type so i had to take out the 6gb that was in it.  

 

it really isn't worth selling at all, because it was in pretty good condition (apart from the broken temp sensor which the seller didn't tell me about ) when i got it seeing as the front bezel is missing...  now that i've modded it it's really not worth anything. 

 

it's just not worth it to me to even bother to sell it. if i really can't find a good use for it i'll give it to a friend who said he might want it. it'll be an upgrade over his current pc anyway... 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Oh, I was joking. But if you wanna give it to me I'll gladly take it.

nah if i'm gonna give it away i'm gonna give it to a friend of mine. besides sending around something that heavy isn't worth it. 

[That_Dutch_Guy]

4 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

you have a point. but still selling it isn't an option. i paid €75 for the chassis with the psu's, a quad core xeon that was quite slow, and 6gb of ram. 

 

i paid €50 for the L5630's and i think €25 for the 10gb of ram, which is a different type so i had to take out the 6gb that was in it.  

 

it really isn't worth selling at all, because it was in pretty good condition (apart from the broken temp sensor which the seller didn't tell me about ) when i got it seeing as the front bezel is missing...  now that i've modded it it's really not worth anything. 

 

it's just not worth it to me to even bother to sell it. if i really can't find a good use for it i'll give it to a friend who said he might want it. it'll be an upgrade over his current pc anyway... 

Alright, should you ever change your mind, I'm willing to pick it up.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, That_Dutch_Guy said:

Alright, should you ever change your mind, I'm willing to pick it up.

honestly you'd be better off looking for a similar machine.... old server stuff in this country can be really cheap if you wait a while for something good to pop up. 

[That_Dutch_Guy]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

honestly you'd be better off looking for a similar machine.... old server stuff in this country can be really cheap if you wait a while for something good to pop up. 

probably, but I like a challenge, plus I've already got your attention

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

3 minutes ago, That_Dutch_Guy said:

probably, but I like a challenge, plus I've already got your attention

well... i'm pretty sure that friend of mine wants it. it'll be a nice upgrade over what he currently has. 

[DimasRMDO]

Make a gaming server, or maybeeeee NAS????

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

57 minutes ago, DimasRMDO said:

Make a gaming server

never heard of that.. what do you mean exactly?

 

57 minutes ago, DimasRMDO said:

or maybeeeee NAS????

it consumes way too much power for that. 

[DimasRMDO]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

never heard of that.. what do you mean exactly?

Servers for game, like Serious Sam server, Minecraft Server, etc. I don't know maybe TeamSpeak server too.

To be honest I'd sell the PC if I were you, but selling isn't an option apparently.