Packard Bell 98 PC - Blow up? or something useful.

PC-M Vip3r · 2 Apr 2006 at 00:43

Alryt, i am sitting at my PC and i look over to my left i see a large white case of an old 98 Packard Bell. What could i do with it? Blow it up. Experiment with oil cooling (www.house117.co.uk/oilpc) or something else. Im in to servers BTW.

lemonkettaz · 2 Apr 2006 at 00:47

blow it up.

do some extreme testing, like setting it alight while playing quake2, or whack some magnets in it and supercharge them, see if you can transport your packard bell to the other side of the milky way.

semi-pro waster · 2 Apr 2006 at 00:49

The oil PC looks interesting, I'm not sure I'd be 100% happy about chucking any electrical components into oil but maybe I'm just a bit old fashioned like that.

What sort of specification is your old PC, from that someone might be able to suggest some uses i.e. if below a P166mmx say I'd be inclined to junk it as there aren't many uses for PCs slower than that as file servers etc work better with a little more power.

PC-M Vip3r · 2 Apr 2006 at 00:57

hmm that gets me thinking -

P3 600MHz
10GB HDD
128 SDIMM Ram
64 or a 32 MB GFX card im not entireley sure

Has no OS on it but can soon get 1, whats the best 1 to put on for this spec.

Its quite fast i turned it on b4 i wiped it and it seem to be running fine.

Thinking of running a few Team Speak servers on it but maybe this will send my Ping sky high.

semi-pro waster · 2 Apr 2006 at 01:25

With that sort of specification you could run it as a basic file server(get a larger hard drive if you want to stream music/films etc) or as a firewall very usefully with some version of Linux, Clark Connect was one that I had suggested for me before by a relative but there are probably better options around now.

Jimi · 2 Apr 2006 at 01:39

Turn it into something useful like a Linux firewall or something.

PC-M Vip3r · 2 Apr 2006 at 11:45

yeah these are good i deas, but my internet goes into a router. and last time i messed with settings i royaly read me it up.