What to do with a Celeron 500....

[FrustratedUser]

New stuff coming in, out stuff going out! That means I have a Celeron 500 rig left over.
Onboard sound has crapped out.

Here is the plan:

Use it as a MP3 player connected to the main HiFi setup. For this I need a new cheap (but still OK) sound card. Cheapest PCI video card availible with TV-out.

What do you think?

 

[Kalvin00]

I'm still using a Celeron 500....

 

[notfred]

Give it away or throw it out. That's what I'd do with it.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
I'm still using a Celeron 500....

I am posting from a Celeron 500 right now. I feel for you.
The new stuff is waiting to be picked up and hopefully it will be put together soon if my n00btastic skillz alow me not to burn any of the new components.

 

[Eli]

Don't throw it out....

Donate it to me.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: notfred
Give it away or throw it out. That's what I'd do with it.

:Q
That's harsh. It works.

 

[T2T III]

What do you think?

Overclock that beast!! You should be able to get a whopping 700 MHz out of it.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: notfred
Give it away or throw it out. That's what I'd do with it.

:Q
That's harsh. It works.

Seriously though, why start buying new stuff for it? If you're going to buy sound cards and video cards, just buy a DVD player that plays MP3s instead of wasting money on obsolete equipment. Either that, or just buy a cable to run from the new PC to the stereo for sound.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I tried a cable from this rig to the stereo but there is a low frequency humming because the stuff is not connected to the sama outlet.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Use it as a chance to see the Magic Smoke.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Maybe Linux.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Throw some thermite in there, and light it up.

 

[NetGuySC]

Join TeamAnandtech and let it crunch some numbers

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I have a Celeron 433mhz and 128mb of ram running apache, sql, perl, php, a thing to update dns servers with our ip, ftp software, the whole load of things for a few websites. As long as the websites are small, its more than enough. Even 128mb of ram for all those programs is more than enough because the things that happen a lot are in the cache, and others usually aren't needed. After a few days of running, I don't hear much if any hd usage at all.

I would reccomend an mp3 player or a web server.

 

[eakers]

donate it to a group home for less fortunate kids

 

[zimu]

Originally posted by: NetGuySC
Join TeamAnandtech and let it crunch some numbers

at 2 numbers per second... whooo!

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: eakers
donate it to a group home for less fortunate kids

Woah! I am not sure if I'm ready to be that nice.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: KraziKid
Throw some thermite in there, and light it up.

id make a firewall of it

my p2 rig broke before i could do such a thing with it, bleh, so much for learning anything now

 

[Platypus]

Make a really good linux multimedia box out of it. Or send it to me, I need another box for a project.

 

[Walleye]

i'd use it.

there's loads of things you can do with the older boxes.

 

[mpitts]

Linux server.

 

[midwestfisherman]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: eakers
donate it to a group home for less fortunate kids

Good idea........or you could glue te cpu to a stick and use it for a backscratcher.

 

[aircooled]

mount it in your trunk. car mp3 player

 

[Conky]

I've got a bunch of cpu's I can't use and yet I am scared of the FS/T forum. I have 2 366Celerons that will run at 566 forever. I also have 2 1.7GHz Celerons that I have no use for. And all kinds of Alpha heatsinks that were so darned expensive.

If anybody needs a cheap boxed 1.7GHz celeron then I am your guy.

Oh yeah, I have a 1GHz P3 if anybody needs that too.

 

[Parrotheader]

El cheapo system for one of your relatives in need of a decent computer. I'm about to give my mother-in-law my old Celeron 600@900 system to replace her old K6-2 350 system. For her needs (e-mail, surfing, MS Office, burning the occasional CD) it'll be more than adequate.

Granted, when you start building/donating systems for friends and family that's when you get sucked into the dreaded world of friend/family tech support.