What to do with old PC?

[HAL9000]

Media / Downloads server. or HTPC

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Lol leave it to a tech site to call these computers old. I have an a64 3000+ set up as a server and I feel it's adequate for most server functions. Just can't run a bf3 server. (they're locked down anyhow)

Well, the E6600 and G80 8800GTS are 6+ years old at this point, though admittedly still very adequate for a lot of purposes.

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Well, the E6600 and G80 8800GTS are 6+ years old at this point, though admittedly still very adequate for a lot of purposes.

More than adequate for the vast majority of people. My sister is still running an Athlon XP machine as her main box. I'd snap it up and give it to her in an instant, provided the right price.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

More than adequate for the vast majority of people. My sister is still running an Athlon XP machine as her main box. I'd snap it up and give it to her in an instant, provided the right price.

Heh, the grad students in my department aren't in any better shape. We're still using hand-me-down Northwood P4 Dells

The only deparment property I'm using are the monitors and power cords

 

[MustangSVT]

porn station.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

porn station.

+1 lubercation station

 

[Atty]

What would you all say is a good selling price for it?

Expanded Specs: E6600 W/ aftermarket heatsink (best of the best when I got it), ASUS P5W DH Deluxe, 2GB Corsair DDR2800, I think 640GB of HD space, 8800GTS 640MB, X-Fi Xtreme something or another with 5 1/2 inch deck audio input controller (used for recording guitar and other random stuffs), Thermal Take Armor TT case, DVD drive, Floppy drive (that might not actually work anymore, haven't used it since I built it). And some dust, but I'll throw that in fo free.

 

[Zeze]

Sell it on CL for profit.

I sold this very old first-gen dual core PC (complete with 2 CPUs/2 Heatsinks) that I got from work. I sold it for a whopping $250 cash on CL.

That was half the budget towards my new PC- Phenom X3 unlocked 4th core @ 3.2Ghz, HD4850, 4 gigs ram.

 

[HAL9000]

http://lifehacker.com/5888227/top-10-ways-to-make-the-best-of-an-old-crappy-computer

 

[Jeff7]

Serious question: can an old spec PC like that actually command a decent paying price on the local market (read: duping the lesser informed).

I'm not one to go out of my way to dupe people, but if I could get more than a hundred or two for my old build (similar specs to the OP), I might also just do that.

I know they're listed for that. What they sell for though...don't know.

I saw that in the newspaper classifieds years ago too: Small computer shops or individuals were trying to sell ancient PC hardware for very close to MSRP.

 

[destrekor]

http://lifehacker.com/5888227/top-10-ways-to-make-the-best-of-an-old-crappy-computer

Sweet jesus. Only one section of that entire list was even dedicated to re-purposing. And they gave basically one example. Yeesh, terrible. I usually love livehacker.

My recently replaced build? Overclocked. Upgraded. Decently maintained. Fed some old programs.
And now ignored.

 

[cronos]

Heh, the grad students in my department aren't in any better shape. We're still using hand-me-down Northwood P4 Dells

The only deparment property I'm using are the monitors and power cords

I had been using my Prescott P4 Dell up to a couple of weeks ago in my office. They finally upgraded me to an i7

 

[Jeff7]

Sweet jesus. Only one section of that entire list was even dedicated to re-purposing. And they gave basically one example. Yeesh, terrible. I usually love livehacker.

My recently replaced build? Overclocked. Upgraded. Decently maintained. Fed some old programs.
And now ignored.

That's what I was thinking too.
A lot of it amounted to, "Your computer's old. That sucks."

 

[ElFenix]

find it buried in a closet 10 years from now and then be shocked at how much power the killawatt says it's drawing.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

find it buried in a closet 10 years from now and then be shocked at how much power the killawatt says it's drawing.

Lol

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Ubuntu
Apache/MySQL/PHP
Torrentflux
SABnzbd+
CouchPotato
SickBeard
Samba

= Media monster.

You could probably use your machine for playback as well, but I chose to keep the downloading and processing separate, streaming my content from the media server to the playback machine over my network.

 

[ElFenix]

Lol

i dug my pentium pro out the other day. hooked up to a corsair cx430 it draws 54 watts on the bios post screen.

54 watts.

with no hard drive, sound, usb, big video card, etc.

there are i3 systems that don't draw that much at load.

i'm going to hook an SSD to it and see if it'll load windows 7.

exactly

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[coloumb]

find it buried in a closet 10 years from now and then be shocked at how much power the killawatt says it's drawing.

LOL too...because it'll be true.