What do with old computer?

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>have old computer
>has no use anymore
>amd a10 5800k and 8gb RAM

I have no idea what to do with it
-maybe a NAS

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Sell it for $100 to some poorfag.

100$ would be a lot but I could give it a shot

you lack creativity and imagination, sad.

PLEX server

really appreciate ur help user

setup sonarr, radarr and jackett with your torrent client of choice, change it into a media server/ nas.

also happy panda x or lanraragi if you like doujins

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Install gentoo right? Just create a mobile device to connect to remotely.
U can also use some of the bsd distributions and use an old networking device to make your own access point for people to connect to for a mitm attack. From there u could spoof other peoples wifi and get their login credentials

now this sounds like fun

Connect with your living room TV and get a wireless keyboard.

>What do with old computer?
toss it away obviously, why would you stale the economy and not replacing your hardware every time something new is on the market?

If you want a NAS it's cheaper in the long run to buy newer hardware because it uses less power.

Undervolt/underclock it to save some power, and then run it as a torrent slave, NAS, HTPC, or similar.

Install Openmediavault with Duplicatti, Sonarr, Jackett, Deluge and Plex in it.
Use it as a file-server, with auto backups to MEGA and Hubic, and as a media server trough DLNA and Plex clients.

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NAS
Media Server/Plex/Kodi
Steam Box
Testing box for Distros/Servers/etc
NVR
Home automation server, assuming you own a home

"Old computer" only means "something that can't run latest Windows or Linux.
Thus "old" is anything with less than 8 Mb RAM, since a 16 Mb RAM machine can happily run Windows XP with Word '97, or Linux Slackware 1996 and Netscape Navigator.

Any recent Linux server can run in 256 Mb RAM. As long as you love text mode, you're go. Most distros stopped supporting 32 bits processors, tho.
Lubuntu 16.04 can run with 256 Mb on a 500 MHz processor; performance won't be stellar, but at least you have a graphical desktop.

In order to set up a workstation you need:
- enough RAM and enough disk for the selected operating system
- a boot drive (old motherboards/BIOSes don't support USB boot, old CD drives may not be friendly with cheap compactdiscs, very old boards from 1990's don't support CD boot)
- a graphics card, if the mobo doesn't feature an on-board one
- keyboard and monitor
- the speaker/buzzer has to be connected because boot beeps will tell you if anything is wrong. BIOSes do something like 1 long + 3 short beeps to tell you the graphics card is not working, etc.

You may need to switch the RAM sticks until your computer doesn't freeze/bootbeep anymore.
You may need to switch the disk cables until your BIOS can recognize the hard disk. Also check the drive jumpers (a drive I salvaged was configured as "secondary only", I only noticed it after a lot of frustration).
Also watch out for power supplies, 200 watts rated ones should be always enough; older boards demand an AT supply instead of an ATX or extended ATX.
Reset BIOS variables to defaults, and then start checking the most important ones.
Don't put new boards (soundcards, etc) until you're sure you're actually able to boot the installation disk (be ready to reinstall everything again).

If you can add a working network card (maybe you want to use instead a serial port with pppd, but this requires a bit of wizardry), then your workstation/server is complete. Hope it's worth the electricity it requires.

build a sleeper

You can use it to spam slow-loris in every website.

That's a good post here.

NAS
HTPC
Emubox

Trash it. Old computers are clutter, when you can buy an equally performing SOC/mini that uses WAY less electricity therefore making you money in the long run. Don't horde old garbage that will never be useful.

>worth the electricity it requires.

Yep, it's hard to find some good reason to use old hardware. Why should you waste 100 watts on a noisy machine sporting half the computing power and half the memory of a $10 rasp zero living off a couple watts?

Also, a lot of things grew exponentially. Multimedia, streaming, gaming, do you really have enough time to watch all those shows, waste all those hours playing videogames, demand an entire server to take care of your voip calls while you have no less than a dozen voipcalling apps on your cellphone?

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Install Haiku

cuz it has ISA slots and AGP and you want to fizzbuzz triangles on your voodoo banshee

personally I would turn it into a NAS. the CPU and RAM should be more than enough.

I literally have OP's pic at work as my workstation computer. Tech guy bought one off ebay and shoved a nvidia cuda graphics card and it destroys at CAD.

I mean you can literally do anything with a computer from 2010- on; unless you want to play unoptimized gaymer games.

How the fuck is Q4 2012 technology old again?

>horde

Ignore the other retards ITT. Just use it for target practice.

The case maybe, after taking all the guts out. Shooting metal boxes is good fun, but it's rude to shit up the woods with toxic debris and leaving trash behind is a good way to get your shooting spot closed down.

Use it to stake Ethereum.

no. he rack disciprine.

>The case maybe, after taking all the guts out
You cannot even call those specs guts, it's actual trash, might as well get entertainment out of it
>shit up the woods
What? You don't have a garage? I guess you could use your bathroom.
>leaving trash behind
You're really getting some weird ideas even though I only said target practice.

That case is actually pretty nice looking. I'd gut it and put newer parts in it. Beats the hell out of the gaudy gaymer garbage full of LGTBBQ pride lights that all the kids seem to like.

yea but the power button is flimsy as heck

As already mentioned, NAS is the default thing to go for. Personally I think having a NAS is extremely useful and I wouldn't want to live without one anymore.

NAS
HTPC (jellyfin to stream your media to any device)
Minecraft server for you and your friends

Or if you want a big list of cool things you can self-host check out github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

your possibilities are endless! have fun

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You can do anything with that besides shitty zoomer games.

>Minecraft server for you and your friends
based

I have one of these setup as a HTPC for my mum
Get a cheap old GPU and stick it in, you have a very capable under tv thing for playing old console games and watching muh animes

windows xp requires 64 mb minimum with no service packs installed. did you ever get it working with 16? I once had a laptop with 128 mb and that was cramped enough.

>-maybe a NAS
Yeah a 100W NAS, great idea.

Cannibalize parts. Install the RAM in your newer computer. Install the hard disk in the newer computer and use it for extra storage. Sell anything you can't install in your newer computer.

Is that chip what they called the bulldozer series?
Should be good enough for shitposting.

kys

kek and this

Anyone able to comment on their experience buying a Dell Poweredge 710 or 720 from Ebay?

Thats what i did with my Haswell i5 and 8gb of ram. Works fine for like 6 1080p streams(though i never use more than 1... So lonely...)

give it back jamal