| RanAS Member Level: 55 Posts: 579/844 EXP: 1286472 For next: 27717 Since: 10-10-14 From: São Paulo, Brazil Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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So, my stepfather just brought in his old computer home, and it's old. Two decades old in fact. It's running Windows 7, but it's very clear that it was meant to run with Windows XP. It can be upgraded to 8 (why would anyone do that is beyond me) but it can't run 10. He pretty much considers this computer dead and he's ready to throw it away, but I kinda wanted to keep it, even though I have no idea what to use it for.
- AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @2.0GHz - ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard - 2GB DDR1 RAM - nVidia GeForce4 MX440 (AGP) - Seagate 80GB HDD (IDE) - IBM 20GB HDD (IDE) - CD Drive (no DVD support!) - Floppy Drive! yay! The CPU doesn't support SSE2 or anything above, which is required for most modern browsers. Many programs refuse to install OR run in it. But it does have 3DNow! Does your computer have that? Don't think so! Also, if I right-click any exectuable and then click "properties", Windows Explorer crashes. Wonderful. I'm wondering what to do with this computer. It's a shame to just throw it away because it's fully working and nothing seems to be shorting, unlike my old pre-2014 computer which had roughly the same specs, that one was barely alive. Maybe I could install some old operating system or use it to test how managing servers remotely via command-line work, like Debian. I named it the "Athlonic" (Athlon + Atomic). Obviously it's not going to be a desktop computer anymore, but still, I'm unsure what to do with it. Any suggestions? ____________________ "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass
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Definitely looks the part of a 98/2K/XP machine.
Maybe consider wiping the drive, dropping the original OS on there, instead of 7, and consider using it for retro gaming. That's not too terrible of a graphics card for the time. Not great, but not bad.
You could always get an IDE DVD drive for it too but I doubt that single core 2GHz is going to be able to go incredibly fast with it either. I remember I was -barely- able to make a lesser Pentium III do the same around that time...but you might be surprised.
Only other thing I can think of is a low-spec Linux build for some project.
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