What to do with old computer?

[CZroe]

Legacy gaming computer FTW.

 

[sdifox]

I can has Voodoo and the memory?

<== posting from an Athlon 700

 

[nerp]

I tossed a second nic into an old 800mhz box and made a firewall/router that doesn't choke with lots of torrent sources. I used IPCop btw. I like it so far

And uses 100x the electricty of a flashable router.

 

[weirdichi]

Donate it. I donate all my old computers to former students who only needed a word processing machine to do homework on. I even gave away my 21" CRT that weighed 75lbs.

 

[eLiu]

I have a Barton 2500+ with 1GB sitting in my closet that I could do something similar with and get use out of it, but I wouldn't get enough benefit to justify the extra electricity and heat. I guess I should craigslist it.

LoL that is faster than my desktop D:

I need to upgrade soon so I can play SC2 at home... then I guess I'll craigslist the old one or something.

 

[chipy]

Jesus...a 500GB HDD on a P3? Epic bottlenecking right there.

it's been a while since i put together a system so can someone tell me why an old chip and a big hdd are a no-no? what's the correlation? thanx!

btw, i second the idea to donate it. if you don't need it there're a lot of people that aren't as fortunate that you could help out

 

[rudeguy]

I used to put stuff like that up on Craigslist. I stopped after people were insisting that I deliver or other stupid crap like that.

Computers go in the garbage can. TV's go beside it. There are people that go around the night before trash day looking for things like that.

 

[CZroe]

it's been a while since i put together a system so can someone tell me why an old chip and a big hdd are a no-no? what's the correlation? thanx!

btw, i second the idea to donate it. if you don't need it there're a lot of people that aren't as fortunate that you could help out

I totally support it but you'd have to work around a few limitations. For example, there are ways around capacity limits from the BIOS and motherboard chipset but, assuming it'll be 9x/ME and you want the full capacity as one partition, you'd still have to format it in another system due to FDISK limitations and the cluster size would be enormous and wasteful if you didn't split it up into multiple smaller partitions.

 

[OUCaptain]

And uses 100x the electricty of a flashable router.

And yet still not enough for me to care. I'm pretty sure mine will cache a few more pages than your flashed router. I'll also take the routing performance of a firewall box any day.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Wait another 1.5 months and then ask the same question again. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2099889

 

[nerp]

And yet still not enough for me to care. I'm pretty sure mine will cache a few more pages than your flashed router. I'll also take the routing performance of a firewall box any day.

I get 2.5mbit steady on my FIOS and I don't download torrents so enjoy your old PC. I can't imagine ever worrying about caching pages. Lollers.

 

[OUCaptain]

I get 2.5mbit steady on my FIOS and I don't download torrents so enjoy your old PC. I can't imagine ever worrying about caching pages. Lollers.

2.5 megabit on Fios? I didn't know they had packages that small. No wonder you're worried about the electric bill. I hope BYTE was the word you were looking for.

i do torrent. Packets coming and going from 600+ sources brings a linksys to it knees regardless of software. So yes... I will enjoy my old PC.