Ideas for use of this pc?

[Cheetah Designs]

Afternoon all,

I have just found an old PC I can use.

Its a P3 600Mhz with 512MB RAM and a 20GB HDD (Can add another 20GB).

I have installed XP on it and taken away all the crap and its actually running ok with 18 processes and 90.6MB RAM usage (including NOD32 and windows firewall).

What could I do with this PC, any ideas? It's quite an old motherboard so i don't believe it will be upgradable.

I have it set up next to my current PC on another monitor, so I could probably just use it for typing stuff but that seems a bit boring

Thanks.

 

[Trifid]

Folding at home tbh.


Otherwise Members Market if you don't need it.

Edit: Was this the kind of answer you are looking for?

 

[Cheetah Designs]

yeah thats a good idea, i may try folding......any other ideas? I was thinking of using it as some sort of file storage or backup, does anyone do this?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

You could use it as a server for files, the web, iTunes, pretty much anything.

You could experiment with Linux on it without the fear of accidentally wiping off your XP installation by flubbing the partitioning process.

Do Folding@Home no matter what.

 

[comp builder]

what does folding at home do?

sorry for stealing thread

 

[Zefan]

what does folding at home do?

Click me

 

[comp builder]

wow you wrote all that
why not write it all in one post instead of like 8 or 9?
i read that folding@home uses unused processing power, will this slow my comp down?
also when all the cpu is in use then what will folding@home use?

 

[Zefan]

wow you wrote all that
why not write it all in one post instead of like 8 or 9?
i read that folding@home uses unused processing power, will this slow my comp down?
also when all the cpu is in use then what will folding@home use?

READ IT. It tells you everything there.

No I didn't write it, and it's in many posts to attempt to section it out properly (As well as the fact that you can't have more than 4 images per post)

 

[BillytheImpaler]

wow you wrote all that

I wrote most of it and thefted the rest from reliable sources.

why not write it all in one post instead of like 8 or 9?

Zefan got it right. The forum software only allows 5 images per post. Dividing it into sections makes it easier to write a table of contents that links to the relevant bit.

i read that folding@home uses unused processing power, will this slow my comp down?

Nope, that's the beauty of it. It only gobbles up the cycles that no other processes are looking to use. If you've got sufficient RAM you'll never even notice it.

also when all the cpu is in use then what will folding@home use?

FAH will drop down to whatever is left, even if that is 0%.