Uses for old PC?

Randomface74 · 7 Jul 2010 at 19:07

I've just got a new machine.

That means I have an old dual-core machine sat here doing nothing.

What should I do with it?

Boozebeard · 7 Jul 2010 at 19:10

Sell it?

keep it for spares?

Keep it for trial and erroring faulty hardware in?

DireEmblem · 7 Jul 2010 at 19:12

Midnight torrent box/home server/backup system.

Sorted.

Thekwango · 7 Jul 2010 at 19:15

possibly give/sell it to someone you know who can't afford a new system?

use it as a htpc?

strip out the components and sell them on MM and turn the case into a window box.

or my favourite

change out the mountain dew for BEER=sorted

VonScar · 7 Jul 2010 at 20:38

My use for an old PC is

1) Vacumn/Dustbuster

2) Garage heater...?

3) Annoy wife with loud fan noise machine...

Seriously though, a lot of people use old p's as servers for music storage, or website server.

Or if you want a nice electricity bill, Folding At Home.

Cheers

Von

perry081064 · 7 Jul 2010 at 20:40

i usually store old parts untill ive got enough to build another system.
just sent one to my son in essex, does him a treat and cost me virtually nothing.

randal · 7 Jul 2010 at 20:41

Load up full of your old hard drives, install FreeNAS to a USB stick. Immensely configurable NAS setup.

Or get hold of a free copy of VMWare server, and have a play. It's pretty neat.

PhillyDee · 7 Jul 2010 at 23:45

How old is old? P4 dual core? Core2Duo?

The latter is still worth something. The former, well I have 2 sitting doing nothing at all.

Randomface74 · 8 Jul 2010 at 17:57

it's a perfectly working core2duo. i just upgraded is all.