older P3 hardware is it worth it?

[imperfectcircle25]

Ok so my job was throwing out a bunch of older P3 computers and i stripped some parts from them. I got the following

Asus CUV4x-dls motherboard
2xp3 1ghz/133/256k socket 370
4x256meg pc133 sdram
2x18gb 10k scsi harddrives
1x40gig ide harddrive
1xSoundblaster AWE64 soundcard

So I was wondering if it would be worth it to build a system out of the parts and what kind of performance i could expect from the system. I would only be using it for basic stuff, no gaming. My current computer is an old HP Pavilion N5415 Duron 900 256meg laptop and its quite slow.

I have an empty case, power supply, portable 100gig USB harddrive for storage, so the only thing I really need is a basic video card. The Asus motherboard is a dual P3 board. So I would basically have dual P3 1ghz 1gig ram and for hard drives I can either use the 18gig scsi drives I got or a regular IDE drive. Which would you guys reccomend?? Then I need a video card, what would be a good inexpensive card to use in an older system like this??

Finally what kind of performance could I expect from a dual P3 1ghz 1gig ram 18gig Scsi system running XP pro??
thanks

 

[daniel49]

would probably be a little sluggish but would run fine...tons of cards to look at on newegg agp 4-8X would not that be too hard to find or a pci 64 mb card can be had for as little as 30 bucks.
sounds like a good linux machine give pclinux os a shot good for a beginner.

 

[stardrek]

It is pretty much a workstation. Great for surfing the web, word processing or as a small server for you home network. You could also use it for all those programs you don't want to clutter your main machine with. It will be fairly fast and pretty stable, but would be as much as you can expect from a work computer.