What to do with an old PII 450

snowdog · 13 Mar 2007 at 09:59

28ten said:
Bin! we've just been chucking out old 2 gig p4's, nobody wants them.

Lol you haven't even tried, people here pay 35€ for such a cpu and they're becomign more expensive by the day.

Ontopic, my mate has a 64mb ram pII 500 mhz pc and still uses it as his main pc, runs age of empires, moedal of honor and older games no probs (well no probs... loads abit long... but plays fine) on windows ME...

The pc you have can easely be a downlaod server or workstation for email&office etc..., but renember no winxp lol, u need more ram for that.

steve258 · 13 Mar 2007 at 10:13

melbourne720 said:
Some of our office machines are 2gig P4s, and they are the good ones LOL!

My office machine is a IBM NetVista with P4 1.6Ghz Williamatte and it's among the best ones! Before that I had an Athlon 800!!

OspreyO · 13 Mar 2007 at 10:14

A NAS is the only thing I think its worth using as.

With Windows 98 it would run a word processor fine. Who only does that though?

28ten · 13 Mar 2007 at 10:55

GuruJockStrap said:
Those would still make a decent second machine or server! Why didn't you donate them to a local kids hospital or charity? I'm sure they'd be well recieved there.

Company policy, if they can't sell them to employees they are destroyed, don't ask me why cos I haven't a clue. I was suprised that nobody was interested in them.

melbourne720 · 13 Mar 2007 at 11:02

steve258 said:
My office machine is a IBM NetVista with P4 1.6Ghz Williamatte and it's among the best ones! Before that I had an Athlon 800!!

Okay, gloves are off :cool:

I can beat that, worst office PC currently in use: PIII 500MHz, 256MB of RAM. Anyone else?

moid · 13 Mar 2007 at 12:45

We have a winner - the bin!

Will strip for parts and fleebay them - the money can pay for the petrol to get to the local recycling plant

Chaos · 13 Mar 2007 at 12:58

Buy cheap ram on ebay and stick linux on it to learn.

PhillyDee · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:17

melbourne720 said:
Okay, gloves are off

I can beat that, worst office PC currently in use: PIII 500MHz, 256MB of RAM. Anyone else?

On the shop floor, ours are pentium 2s . . . . But they are only used for uploading/downloading CNC programs. Simple RS232 jobbie.

So

ALienBC · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:38

There are charities that'll take it off yer hands. I mean, rather than setting fire to it or whatever

abc

Deiwos · 13 Mar 2007 at 13:46

We have a 166Mhz with god knows what RAM as a test machine for windows 95 at my place haha.

A[L]C · 13 Mar 2007 at 14:33

28ten said:
Bin! we've just been chucking out old 2 gig p4's, nobody wants them.

now that is shocking. take it home at least!

tommy_knockers · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:05

lol

@ my schoolplace they threw out some machines. Nothing special, but i picked them out of the skip.

AMD Atholons 2400+
256mb (Some 512mb) Ram
40-80Gb Hard Drives
Nice cases though

Got like 20 of them in the attic.

Do **** all though....

melbourne720 · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:17

I made keyrings out of a PIII and some celerons, quite easy and fun. If you're going to do athlons though, you need a diamond tipped drill :cool:

Mr. Brightside · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:38

BillytheImpaler said:
4th or 5th (whatever the count is these days).

In addition to Monowall, you might consider pfSense.

pfSense was a little buggy last time I tried it, made logging of web traffic on my server very interesting - all the traffic was being reported as coming from 192.168.1.1 :eek:

Might have been fixed now but I haven't tried the newest version.

Seems such a waste to chuck machines out but if you have no need for NAS/firewall etc. it seems like pretty much the only option. I've got a dual PIII lying about that I need to get rid of, waiting to stick it on eBay but I cba

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28ten · 13 Mar 2007 at 15:58

tommy_knockers said:
lol

@ my schoolplace they threw out some machines. Nothing special, but i picked them out of the skip.

Do **** all though....

I seems that a lot of organisations prefer to dispose of machines rather than donate them to charity, possibly beacuse of the cost of cleaning drives etc or the worry of data falling into the wrong hands? although if you can pick them out of a skip it's hardly secure!!

pl2k1 · 14 Mar 2007 at 23:35

my old workplace used to wipe the hard drives and donate them to charity!

It was quite funny because the head of the company went on a 'business' trip abroad and it informed the local authority that we had 250 computer waiting at our offices, what she didn't tell us that she had told them.

Suffice to say they turned up with a mini lorry to take all of those computers and we had already disposed of them! The look on her face was priceless!

bfar · 14 Mar 2007 at 23:57

It'll play the likes of UT, Halflife, Deus Ex and system Shock2, along with any old emmulators you might have knocking around.

Truth be told, its good enough for basic home use, i.e. surfing the web, playing mp3s, MS Word etc.

My old man still uses one.

I still remember the day ours arrived from Dell. It was the best money could buy at the time - an absolute beast! Couldn't wait to get home and have a go at it!

masslac · 15 Mar 2007 at 00:01

masslac said:
Dump it in a skip.

Jumblemo · 15 Mar 2007 at 10:24

I tried to offload an old PC at 2 local charity shops last year and they turned me away due to something about legal liability for faulty electrical goods if they resold them. So I offered them to the local school and they said they really wanted the latest spec systems...lol seems like you cant even give old PCs away.

I ended up taking it to the local council refuse site where they added it to a mountain of other beige boxes. Also noticed the huge pile of seemingly modern CRTs presumably being displaced by new LCD and plasma TVs

mishima · 15 Mar 2007 at 10:29

tommy_knockers said:
lol

@ my schoolplace they threw out some machines. Nothing special, but i picked them out of the skip.

AMD Atholons 2400+
256mb (Some 512mb) Ram
40-80Gb Hard Drives
Nice cases though

Got like 20 of them in the attic.

Do **** all though....

£50 x 20 = £1000 = New rig!!