What use a REALLY old system

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Having an office clearout and found a smart looking Dell Inspiron base unit lying around and I cant remember anything about it lol.

Its a lovely looking unit in RED and totally silent - are these worth anything to anybody these days - trying to figure out if its worth selling or re-purposing in some way. What happens to these old machines?


WIN 10 PRO
Dell Inspiron 570
Athlon II X4 635 @ 2.9GHz
4GB DDR 3 RAM
1 TB HDD
Ati Radeon 5450 graphics
 
Retro gaming, office work, internet browsing. Same kind of things you did with it when it was new really.

There's not really much resale value due to it's age but surely you could use it as a spare at least. I've got several computers I use for various purposes.
 
Chuck a cheap SSD in it and maybe upgrade the RAM to 8GB and it's still a decent enough machine for web browsing etc

Edit:
Probably more of a market for cheap PCs at the minute with people working from home, kids doing school work etc, Skype video calls etc.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Retro gaming, office work, internet browsing. Same kind of things you did with it when it was new really.

There's not really much resale value due to it's age but surely you could use it as a spare at least. I've got several computers I use for various purposes.
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To modern for retro gaming and too weak for modern gaming. Stuck in the middle with little worth lol. At least 1tb is still a decent size for storage so the hdd might be of use.
 
Don't chuck it, worse case stick it on eBay so someone can use it for basic home working.

Second alternative, is use as a basic HTPC in say a conservatory for watching YouTube.
 
JasonM said:
Don't chuck it, worse case stick it on eBay so someone can use it for basic home working.

Second alternative, is use as a basic HTPC in say a conservatory for watching YouTube.
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Definitely not getting chucked - will find a use for it somewhere
 
doopydug said:
now, THATS an idea !!
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We have an Amazon Firestick TV upstairs and down, I bought the video and music player called ViMu on my Amazon account so I can use it on both TVs. Its a no frills player but I use it everyday for streaming from PC's in the house.
It cost about £2 I think. VLC on amazon appstore will also do the same but slightly less gracefully.

On a side note, my son just bought a 4tb WD external drive (3.5inch desktop size) for £60 on, you guessed it, Amazon, and we stripped it out of the enclosure to use as a media drive.
 
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