Cheap kids / grandma / NAS PC - C2D E8400 $38 shipped

Jorona said:
Bah, Win 10 runs fine on them. I have two trash old C2D Laptops on Win 10 right now and they usually boot faster then my 6th gen i5 lappy. A Jetta Jetbook 9722P (Bet most of you have never heard of them) and a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 vs my Thinkpad Edge E560.

Make sure it has 3gb or more of ram and it'll be fine.

I again caution people against this board. That chipset heatsink is prone to failure.
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Is it an overheating issue? I'm putting it in my garage so this is relevant to me, lol.
 
Vicinity said:
Is it an overheating issue? I'm putting it in my garage so this is relevant to me, lol.
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SUPPOSEDLY the retaining clips fly off and magically float into the power supply and cause satan to emerge and kill your puppies, kittens, children, etc.

I've worked with the same board often and never have seen this issue.... but maybe that's just me.
 
Jorona said:
I used to use those boards at my shop. They failed more often than my old Foxconn Cap Plague boards. The chipset heatsink mount is GARBAGE. The plastic cracks, the metal clip pops free and the heatsink tilts off. Best Case, the chipset dies overtime from heat. Worst Case, that clip flies into the PSU and fries everything.
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Vicinity said:
Is it an overheating issue? I'm putting it in my garage so this is relevant to me, lol.
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Make sure to lay the case down, so the mobo is flat, and you're probably fine.

We had them all in towers. Worst one was in an Antec 300 case with the PSU at the bottom. Metal clip popped off and fell directly into the PSU. Took all the drives with it. The file server that ate all the files.
 
NoxTek said:
SUPPOSEDLY the retaining clips fly off and magically float into the power supply and cause satan to emerge and kill your puppies, kittens, children, etc.

I've worked with the same board often and never have seen this issue.... but maybe that's just me.
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I can't even GET the fucking heatsink off of the one I wanted to put a new pad or paste on. I can't see it breaking personally.
 
Trust me. The black plastic retainer for the metal spring cracks.

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The black plastic bit cracks right at the "feet", at the base of the heatsink where the mobo mounting hoops are. It then pops up, allowing the spring to dislodge, either providing no pressure or coming free and falling into something else shorting it out.
 
I think your total thermal nuclear meltdown was an isolated case, but I can see where this could be a reliability problem.
Especially on these old machines. If you did build a firewall and use it in a business environment, it makes sense to give this some attention.

At this price, there is some room to spend a couple of bucks on a fix.

If I couldn't find a way to fix it mechanically, I'd use some thermal epoxy on the stock heatsink and put it back together.
That way if the clips break it's still stuck on there pretty well.

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Spartacus said:
I think your total thermal nuclear meltdown was an isolated case, but I can see where this could be a reliability problem.
Especially on these old machines. If you did build a firewall and use it in a business environment, it makes sense to give this some attention.

At this price, there is some room to spend a couple of bucks on a fix.

If I couldn't find a way to fix it mechanically, I'd use some thermal epoxy on the stock heatsink and put it back together.
That way if the clips break it's still stuck on there pretty well.

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Oh, no doubt the clip in the PSU was an isolated case, but the clip breaking and pulling the heatsink free of the chipset. That happened to at least 1/3 of the boards we installed with that mounting mechanism. It was mostly the 945 boards, but we had a few G31 and Q33s fail too. That mount is just iffy at best. We changed to Gigabyte boards for the 4 series chipset and so on.
 
Jorona said:
Oh, no doubt the clip in the PSU was an isolated case, but the clip breaking and pulling the heatsink free of the chipset. That happened to at least 1/3 of the boards we installed with that mounting mechanism. It was mostly the 945 boards, but we had a few G31 and Q33s fail too. That mount is just iffy at best. We changed to Gigabyte boards for the 4 series chipset and so on.
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From listening to this, I'm tempted to just buy some AS thermal adhesive, take the clip off, and glue the heatsink down.
 
jpnelson said:
From listening to this, I'm tempted to just buy some AS thermal adhesive, take the clip off, and glue the heatsink down.
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The funniest thing about this, is when its not broken, that mount is SOLID. If its in one piece, leave it be. If you make sure to lay the case down, so the mobo is horizontal, I doubt you'll ever have issue with it.
 
After getting it up and running I am very pleased with this PC. Everything worked and it just needed a new cmos battery.
 
d8lock said:
After getting it up and running I am very pleased with this PC. Everything worked and it just needed a new cmos battery.
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Yeah, that's about the only legitimate complaint I've been hearing. These machines have been sitting for so long a lot of them have dead or dying CMOS batteries. Good brand name CR2032 batteries can be had by the dozens for a couple bucks on Ebay or Amazon.
 
Hmm....Would one of these be enough to run emulators up to a Playstation?
 
chaikovski2002 said:
Can you throw Plex on there with XPEnology? That CPU, C2D E8400 can it Transcode 1080p on LAN and remotely?
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E8400 should be able to transcode one 1080p stream, but that would be it. If your clients can direct play without transcoding, then this isn't an issue.
 
So I ordered one this weekend along with a Q9450, lets see what it can do. I have some spare HDD's laying around.
 
For the folks complaining that a Raspberry Pie won't run PS1 or N64 games well this may be a good alternative. Retropie should run on PC hardware from what I've read.
 
anyone find some cheap ram for this? I'd love 8gb in it if possible.
 
swetmore said:
To each his own, but I wouldn't do this. I dumped my overclocked Q6600 I had for many years (with 8gb ram ) because it just wasn't an enjoyable computing experience anymore (not even gaming). Also all the heat and power consumption the thing was a dog. Dumped the mobo, ram, and CPU on Craigslist for $40 and spent $100 on a lease return Dell optiplex 790 with a core i5 2400 / 8gb ram off Ebay, and threw in my drives (SSD and HD) .. Very capable / cool and quite rig for my daughter. It really isn't a good idea to waste your time on anything less than a 2nd gen core i5 anymore (as it is only slightly more expensive), unless you are purposing a rig for really light loads / linux etc.
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I'm not sure if you're serious.

I had a Optiplex 330 with an E8400 and a GTX 750TI.

Played overwatch / league of legends just fine at 1080P with no stutter.
 
Replaced CPU, replaced RAM, gonna add a few mechanical drives for storage and 1 small SSD as a cache? now what to do? XPENOLOGY, PLEX?

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