Asus M2N-MX
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (the 125W TDP one and not the 89W TDP one that was released just over a year later)
2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 (I think it was clocked slightly higher then the usual 667Mhz sticks)
500GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDD
1TB Seagate HDD
EVGA GeForce GT610 1GB
500W Akasa 80+ (in todays terms it would be the equivalent of an 80+ white) PSU
Crap Foxconn case that I salvaged from the system I used to have before building this.
To cut to the point (as much as I can) a majority of my system build plans have changed (with the release of kaby lake and the dual core with hyperthreading pentium processors one planned build has been scrapped and one system I've been working on upgrading has had its eventual use changed), it's put me to wondering if I should even bother doing any major work to this system and just leave it as a test system.
The only reason why I said that was because this was going to be the backup/general use system, but since the system I'm working with currently is going to become the backup/general use system there doesn't seem to be much use in keeping it in service even as some kind of test system considering how loud and power hungry it is (which is why I threw out any ideas of converting it into a file server).
While I could get DDR2 RAM cheaply on the second hand market (a little over £8 would get me a 4GB upgrade), the remaining components I'd need (case, PSU, CPU cooler, boot HDD along with any other accessories like extra fans and a fan controller) to get it back into a realm of silence would get the cost up to a point where it would have been better getting the remaining upgrade parts for what would be the new backup system since trying to find a CPU cooler (that is even if I can get the stock cooler off since it's been on there for around nine years, and I did have issues getting it on in the first place) is hard as air coolers that have data that shows that they can cool a 125W TDP processor and aren't crazy big are rarer then hens teeth (I even thought for giggles to put an AIO watercooler on, but again there's no max TDP information on any AIO CPU watercooler unless it's a moot point).
So, should I even do any work on this system (I had even thought about moving the 1TB hard drive over to the newer system once I'd gotten the backup data off of it), or should I turn it into an extremely long term renovation project (or should I just source as many of the parts from the B grade section as the first item to get would be the HDD as I want to say goodbye to the decaying XP installation on the samsung HDD) that would have it used as some kind of test system.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (the 125W TDP one and not the 89W TDP one that was released just over a year later)
2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 (I think it was clocked slightly higher then the usual 667Mhz sticks)
500GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDD
1TB Seagate HDD
EVGA GeForce GT610 1GB
500W Akasa 80+ (in todays terms it would be the equivalent of an 80+ white) PSU
Crap Foxconn case that I salvaged from the system I used to have before building this.
To cut to the point (as much as I can) a majority of my system build plans have changed (with the release of kaby lake and the dual core with hyperthreading pentium processors one planned build has been scrapped and one system I've been working on upgrading has had its eventual use changed), it's put me to wondering if I should even bother doing any major work to this system and just leave it as a test system.
The only reason why I said that was because this was going to be the backup/general use system, but since the system I'm working with currently is going to become the backup/general use system there doesn't seem to be much use in keeping it in service even as some kind of test system considering how loud and power hungry it is (which is why I threw out any ideas of converting it into a file server).
While I could get DDR2 RAM cheaply on the second hand market (a little over £8 would get me a 4GB upgrade), the remaining components I'd need (case, PSU, CPU cooler, boot HDD along with any other accessories like extra fans and a fan controller) to get it back into a realm of silence would get the cost up to a point where it would have been better getting the remaining upgrade parts for what would be the new backup system since trying to find a CPU cooler (that is even if I can get the stock cooler off since it's been on there for around nine years, and I did have issues getting it on in the first place) is hard as air coolers that have data that shows that they can cool a 125W TDP processor and aren't crazy big are rarer then hens teeth (I even thought for giggles to put an AIO watercooler on, but again there's no max TDP information on any AIO CPU watercooler unless it's a moot point).
So, should I even do any work on this system (I had even thought about moving the 1TB hard drive over to the newer system once I'd gotten the backup data off of it), or should I turn it into an extremely long term renovation project (or should I just source as many of the parts from the B grade section as the first item to get would be the HDD as I want to say goodbye to the decaying XP installation on the samsung HDD) that would have it used as some kind of test system.
