Spare computer

[Eddieb]

I have a spare desktop thats sat in my room and is taking up space which i need.
I'd use it as a server but my dad won't be happy at leaving it on 24/7 as its a fire risk.

Specs:

1.3 ghz amd chip
128 DDR ram
2 * 40gb hd
64gb graphic card

I'm thinking of just taking the HDs out and then just scrap the rest of it. Then just wack the hds into a new desktop in the next few months.

 

[ViolentJ]

fire risk? lol

I've left mine on 24/7 for years.

Stick linux on it and have a play?

 

[Eddieb]

Yeah, but I can understand when one of his close mates house burnt down 6 months ago due to an electrical fire. Luckily everyone was ok!

 

[Adams_16v]

mines on 24/7 too and no probs!

understandable tho if thats whats happened!

you could play with linux on it, or make a hardware firewall (smoothwall or something), or make it a XP media station!

 

[Eddieb]

Yeah I had thought about the latter. What sort of things would I have todo to turn it into a media station?

 

[Adams_16v]

ud need a gfx card with tv out! at least 512mb ram, lots of HDD space, a didigtal tv tuner card, and windows media centre edition!

iv just built one the other week, not got the DVB card yet tho

 

[Eddieb]

ah well screw that sounds likr £££.
Think my bros got linux so on with that.

 

[TELFORDS_LURK]

Even if you put Windows XP on it you can still use it as a sort of Server on the network although technically XP isnt a server, it will still be able to do File sharing, print sharing, content backups (to an external drive or dvd etc) and to some extent even Web Serving.

I have a Windows 2003 server setup doing all of these, allowing me to access my tunes, mail, files and my shared printer from any PC. It also hosts my own website that is available to the internet.

Have a play.
Chris

Oh yeah forgot to mention, I am doing all of this of an old Compaq PIII 733MHz, with 512Mb Ram, 2 HDD's ( 1 20GB - System disk & 1 80GB - Data storage) and an external 250GB mirrored network hard drive for backup storage.

 

[Nightfire]

Only thing I can think of that the system could be used for, which won't mean upgrading parts is using it as either a mail server, or just something as simple as a media/file storage server.

If you're going to be using it for a web server, then chuck linux on. It handles multiple users alot better than windows does... but you need to have a good connection and plenty of memory, decent cpu, for 32+ users to not get any lag