What do you do with you're old computers?

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Suki243

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I have an extra gateway lying around, its a amd 1ghz, awk mb of ram, and a ati 7200 graphics card. All it needs is a new hdd. I was wondering what do you guys do with you're computers that are just collecting dust.
What would i need to make it into a server?
 
I give away the good parts to friends, junk the rest.

Don't see any reason to burn more electricity and introduce more heat into my apartment just to keep on obsolete computer in some semblance of service.
 
There have been a few threads on this not that long ago. A forum search should pop the answer up........but a hardware firewall, or file server are a couple of popular choices. A couple more: a "classic game" rig for dos games, or ones that wont run in a nt/xp environment, a rig to "mess around" with linux, a "test rig" for apps/p2p content/hardware.
 
Monkey34 said:
There have been a few threads on this not that long ago. A forum search should pop the answer up........but a hardware firewall, or file server are a couple of popular choices. A couple more: a "classic game" rig for dos games, or ones that wont run in a nt/xp environment, a rig to "mess around" with linux, a "test rig" for apps/p2p content/hardware.
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he hit the big ones!
edit: my X2 desktop got downgaded, lost a core (exactly, same speed/cache, just single core now), lost the 7800GT, etc. Turning it into a high power fileserver. I think thats the most common home use for an old computer these dats, fileserving. The others are just enthusiest uses.
 
you can donate them. I'd say call a library or school - they might be able to point you in the direction of organizations that accept/need donations of working computers. The neat thing about donating something like a computer is you can basically write whatever you want for worth... thus as a tax write-off...
 
I always keep at least one old machine around in case I need to test some hardware, otherwise I give stuff to my parents/friends.
 
perfect timing..

my mobo just died, so i'm gonna use my old 1.3 ghz dell for a month

keep it for backup !
 
darktiger said:
Give it to the less fortunate like janitors....
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Those janitors are probably getting more ass than most of us.. so are we the unfortunate ones? =D
 
Dontate that old puter to someone in the Distributed Computing section who will put it to use curing cancer.


 
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