I've got some parts from my old 1.8ghz 478 Pentium 4. I've got old RAM, Cpu and an IDE hard drive. Not only have I switched from Intel to AMD, but furthermore I can't see any circumstance in which I'd actually use such old crap. I have no use for a home server. I'm thinking it's about time to junk this stuff. What do you guys think? Still worth keeping?
i am currently collecting similar machines, reinstalling Windows Xp LITE, and giving them away to yonger/older family members, or donating them to old folks at my grandma's independant living/nursing home(some of the old folks have PCs sold old, the comps lay down on their sides.....486 style!)
I still have a bunch of redundant P4 / Socket 478 / AGP / DDR1 era stuff just lying around. The only thing I took from that rig was the 80GB IDE hard drive, which is now running as a secondary drive alongside my main 250GB SATA drive.
Don't know why I still have it personally, it's just sitting around not doing anything. Just haven't gotten round to geting rid of it. There's no point in me building another system with it, I don't really have the space, or the money for a monitor/keyboard/mouse etc.
So unless you want another system for non-gaming use for some reason (folding@home? media server?) I don't see how it could be useful. If you know a friend or relative looking for a cheap basic system, I guess you could hand it down to them.
That thing is going to be sluggish even surfing the web.
SinfulPotato
Got a pentium 4 2.2ghz w/ 512mb RAM running ubuntu and it actually isn't that bad at web surfing. Use your old computer as a firewall, a web server, or a basic web surfer (perhaps one to do online banking with?)
That thing is going to be sluggish even surfing the web.
SinfulPotato
Mostly because of all the Web sites with those inefficient Flash applets and whatnot. Anyway, my recommendation is to keep that system around as a legacy gaming machine. (Old games from the Win9x era tend to throw fits with newer hardware, drivers for that newer hardware, and newer OSes.)
I've got some parts from my old 1.8ghz 478 Pentium 4. I've got old RAM, Cpu and an IDE hard drive. Not only have I switched from Intel to AMD, but furthermore I can't see any circumstance in which I'd actually use such old crap. I'm thinking it's about time to junk this stuff. What do you guys think? Still worth keeping?WindWalkerX
You could keep it for a server or downloading computer or something. At least don't junk it. Give it away to someone who would use it like computers for Africa or sell old parts on Ebay.
itd do well as an office of folding pc i agree. however you could move the HDD over for added storage .. its not the bets use for it of those three choices but it is an option.
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