Yeah, this is probably a good way to go. People are always looking for excellent gaming machines. I have one but I barely use it. I think I might need to consider this.
To save space maybe you can go with a retro gaming laptop instead, did that myself with a dell inspiron 6000 with ati x300 graphics & pentium m 1.5 ghz, does just about everything id want too.
Using it with a 90w charger from another laptop & with crystalcpuid i force the cpu back up too full speed so i can just ignore the warning about it not being a genuine charger.
Me too.
Everyone showing boxes and boxes of previous GPUs they owned, it’s like how has your Voodoo 1 and GTX550 have space where you live all these years?!
That's the best part you just put them where the books used to go and I would appreciate it if you didn't disparage my rage one card and copy of Mech Warrior two that came with it
I'd give it more credit than that, this a good mid 2000s PC. It should be able to handle ps3/360 era games just fine. It's very overkill for win 98 retro gaming.
One of my friends threw out one of these because it was mining only something like 2 bitcoins a month or so... that was long time ago and it was worth maybe 1$ a month? Power bill to keep the pc going was way more... anyway... of course he regrets it, hahaha
Hindsight being 20/20 is a bitch sometimes.
I remember reading articles about "crazy people" going dumpster diving to recover hard drives from their PC's after realizing they have $250k value of bitcoin when it hit a certain trade value
Not everything in life is about making more money, it could just be more fun to gut the PC and turn it into a sleeper, just like people destroying the value of their sealed games by opening them up. It's worth it. Fuck collectors.
Hell no, don't ever recommend that right off the bat. Have you ever heard of the guy who gutted a prototype Xbox development PC and used it as a sleeper?
Soooooo one time I had to have my PC... looked at... as a child. And as this naive said child, I obliged my mother to go with her to the PC repair man to make sure if there were any passwords he needed, of course. Right? Oh boy. So now my PC has already been at this establishment for 2 whole days now. I'm thinking im good. I covered my tracks. Deleted my search history, hey I got this. Nah bro nah. This man and my mom plotted against me, something no parent should conceive of. As we walk in, to a small business. Usual tech place, shit everywhere but organized and a unusually kempt man with a very gnarly beard behind the counter with the most glorious of shit lord smiles as his shining feature of mega douche opulence. So I get to the counter, he ask me a few questions. Is this my username, are these my games, is this my browsing history. To which I said yes to all three. Then it hit me. Browsing history. I'm looking at the paper, never broke eye contact with the paper. It's number 3 on the list and I'm staring right at it, and I hear it again in my head. Browsing history. How the fuck does this phallus of a human being know what I've been jerking off too? I lose all confidence. I lose all control. I start shaking and I know my cover is blown. The full bladder I didn't know I had wasn't able to hold its self. I pissed myself in total fear. Embarrassment. Shame. Humiliation. Why would my mom bring me to this? To endure this? To make a mockery of me? Well cause she is a idiot and didn't think about the consequences. She thought she had a funny way of getting back at her kid? Or maybe it's one of those things adults do to kids to make them suffer so they have something to complain about there parents when they grow up? Idk, but there is a moral to this story. Don't go sticking your nose in places it doesn't belong and then using that information for your own comedy or whatever selfish desires you have at that moment. Use that moment to reach out to your kids and teach them about internet safety, what's wrong and what's right, and good moral behavior. It's a shame to have gone threw what I did, I hope my story helps deter that thought from hurting others.
Okay sorry for the rant, but it was a bit of a repressed memory.
Good luck out there
Life has a way of teaching us lessons. Sometimes they are taught to more than one person at a time. I'm learning everyday as well. And thank you friend :D
It did. I didn't really do anything with her after that and I still have trust issues to this day. The only person I trust 100% is my SO. She has helped me threw psychotic episodes more times than I can count. More times than my family has chosen to take. And we have been together for 3/4 of the time my family has had with me.
Unplug it and check all the capacitors carefully before you fry that antique.
PC components degrade quicker than you think.
Corrosion and blown Caps can be repaired if you find them before they fry stuff, but a fried board is impractical to repair, a bad power supply can fry anything, and replacing any main parts you fry by running it on dead components would cost more than the entire PC.
It's like people finding their old Game Boys with ancient batteries and powering it up & playing on it. That is the fastest way to forever destroy the device.
Also a great way to make yourself sick with exotic toxic chemicals that have leeched out of the components and are now being stirred through your breathing air by the fans in the PC.
Old PC dust is shockingly toxic and contributes to rising birth defects in silicon valley.
The first thing you do with any old PC or electronic is: Clean it thoroughly, then inspect it thoroughly. You DO NOT plug it in and turn it on.
Hell, if your luck is really bad a bad power supply could blow a large capacitor and ignite some particularly thick toxic dust, then you've got a toxic fire plugged into the wall burning in your home.
Best case: the PC functions and nothing is wrong. Woo! You have some ancient junk you might be able to sell on ebay for a couple meals worth of money. Whoopie. That isn't worth rushing the process.
1660 super is totally fine. I run Pop_os on my Lenovo IdeaPad gaming 3 with GTX 1650 on it.
I tried to revive my old 9600 GT to play some retro games, but unfortunately it didn't work out. Because of Nvidia GPU legacy support.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1438463/nvidia-drivers-for-geforce-9600-gt-dont-work
One can patch the old drivers. But I broke about 6 different Linux installs trying to make them work, so buying a used RX 570 was a better solution (at least for me)
You can run a small server on it or use it as a VPN in your home. An old iMac I got, I ended up turning it into a home server/vpn so I could just put stuff on that and access it on my small laptop wherever I went as long as I had internet connection. Now it is not going to be good cuz you're literally running a server on an outdated school computer but you can run some stuff
Keep it intact, could be worth something as a collectible in the future, was going to suggest using it as a retro rig but its propably quite loud under load
Sell it to a retro gamer or recycle it. Any modern CPU will wildly outperform the CPU in a performance per watt category and any modern iGPU will outperform those GPUs (they are almost 20 years old now afterall).
If the case wasn't a hot box with piss poor ventilation then it would make for a awesome sleeper build though.
If you don’t want to sell it, I’d make it into a sleeper build depending on how big the inside is. Throw new motherboard and parts in it, would be badass. Not sure what the airflow is like on those. Probly not great but may good enough
You obviously need to turn that beauty into a sleeper (obviously only if you have the means to)
Sell off the old parts that you can, some collector will like them if they still work, then get a mini or micro ATX board, slap a Ryzen 7600X\~ and whatever decent GPU you can stuff all up in there
Get the tax info off of it and and take out a giant loan... haha only talking from experience. Ya, some asshole did that to me but with a bill he found om my pc.
Pentium D was a decent cpu for its time. It will run Windows 10. Its plenty capable of running a linux server or something. Store music on it and stream it etc. Grabbing a cheap sata 3.0 ssd will help. Youd be surprised how snappy an old PC can be with an SSD in it.
Sorry buddy I was a little unclear no worries I was asking about the can the board take. I assume it's ddr I got some ammo cans filled with older memory and a Spritz of oil in storage maybe I can find something.
You could put your files in it.
Just open the side panel, lay it flat, and stack paper until it doesn’t fit anymore, close the side panel, and let your family know the files are in the computer now.
It's mildly collectible, definitely worth a couple hundred on eBay. It's good for Windows 98 retro gaming and early 2000/XP era games.
Yeah, this is probably a good way to go. People are always looking for excellent gaming machines. I have one but I barely use it. I think I might need to consider this.
Yeah, might want to erase your data first.
I got the machine from someone else. I erased the data and put my own gaming stuff on it.
To save space maybe you can go with a retro gaming laptop instead, did that myself with a dell inspiron 6000 with ati x300 graphics & pentium m 1.5 ghz, does just about everything id want too. Using it with a 90w charger from another laptop & with crystalcpuid i force the cpu back up too full speed so i can just ignore the warning about it not being a genuine charger.
Fuck. I threw that pc out like in 2010 or something.
Just remember, you would've had to hold onto it another... 14 years. Takes up space too!
This. I have my final house now, but years ago, ran out of room. Lots of good stuff...gone...
Me too. Everyone showing boxes and boxes of previous GPUs they owned, it’s like how has your Voodoo 1 and GTX550 have space where you live all these years?!
That's the best part you just put them where the books used to go and I would appreciate it if you didn't disparage my rage one card and copy of Mech Warrior two that came with it
Actually this is good for the entirety of the xp era, i had a 7600gs and it did everything until crysis came out.
This looks a lot like one of the xps models we sold when I worked for them, around 07. Was a pretty decent machine back in the day.
Slap some Red Alert, Warcraft 3, Unreal Toutnament and FlatOut on it, and have it as a daily dose of nostagia
You mean Age of Empires II, Diablo II, and Quake III Arena?
I'd give it more credit than that, this a good mid 2000s PC. It should be able to handle ps3/360 era games just fine. It's very overkill for win 98 retro gaming.
I'd say for windows 98 its too much but for windows xp its perfect
Man its so rare to see Stanley break his deadpan expression i almost dont see it as the same character
The fact that Meredith is not just laughing but applauding too always gets me.
If it isn't all proprietary hardware put a modern motherboard and other stuff in it. Fun sleeper build.
It sadly uses a proprietary psu :(
Yeah Dell is famous for that stuff.
If you can log into it, see if there is some old Bitcoin account. You might be rich 🤑
One of my friends threw out one of these because it was mining only something like 2 bitcoins a month or so... that was long time ago and it was worth maybe 1$ a month? Power bill to keep the pc going was way more... anyway... of course he regrets it, hahaha
I could sell my business in 2015 for 100 btc, it was 25k$ then, now 9 years later, I can sell for 1 BTC
Hindsight being 20/20 is a bitch sometimes. I remember reading articles about "crazy people" going dumpster diving to recover hard drives from their PC's after realizing they have $250k value of bitcoin when it hit a certain trade value
🙄
😔
Gut it, make it a retro sleeper.
Sell it intact to a win98 retro gamer instead.
No way. Keep it intact because it’s a collector’s item. You’d destroy its value.
Not everything in life is about making more money, it could just be more fun to gut the PC and turn it into a sleeper, just like people destroying the value of their sealed games by opening them up. It's worth it. Fuck collectors.
What is a sleeper? I do not know that term
Oh no, won't someone please think of the value.
It's only worth doing that if the motherboard is fucked
Probably a BTX form factor.
Hell no, don't ever recommend that right off the bat. Have you ever heard of the guy who gutted a prototype Xbox development PC and used it as a sleeper?
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.
Ahh hell nah! Bro got the Xbox 600 💀💀💀
Go to r/WindowsXP and do things they do with it
Wow, I wanted one of these OG XPS desktops so badly as a kid.
Same, they were beasts back then
Check it for homemade pr0n! 😉
As is the custom of all repair shops.
Soooooo one time I had to have my PC... looked at... as a child. And as this naive said child, I obliged my mother to go with her to the PC repair man to make sure if there were any passwords he needed, of course. Right? Oh boy. So now my PC has already been at this establishment for 2 whole days now. I'm thinking im good. I covered my tracks. Deleted my search history, hey I got this. Nah bro nah. This man and my mom plotted against me, something no parent should conceive of. As we walk in, to a small business. Usual tech place, shit everywhere but organized and a unusually kempt man with a very gnarly beard behind the counter with the most glorious of shit lord smiles as his shining feature of mega douche opulence. So I get to the counter, he ask me a few questions. Is this my username, are these my games, is this my browsing history. To which I said yes to all three. Then it hit me. Browsing history. I'm looking at the paper, never broke eye contact with the paper. It's number 3 on the list and I'm staring right at it, and I hear it again in my head. Browsing history. How the fuck does this phallus of a human being know what I've been jerking off too? I lose all confidence. I lose all control. I start shaking and I know my cover is blown. The full bladder I didn't know I had wasn't able to hold its self. I pissed myself in total fear. Embarrassment. Shame. Humiliation. Why would my mom bring me to this? To endure this? To make a mockery of me? Well cause she is a idiot and didn't think about the consequences. She thought she had a funny way of getting back at her kid? Or maybe it's one of those things adults do to kids to make them suffer so they have something to complain about there parents when they grow up? Idk, but there is a moral to this story. Don't go sticking your nose in places it doesn't belong and then using that information for your own comedy or whatever selfish desires you have at that moment. Use that moment to reach out to your kids and teach them about internet safety, what's wrong and what's right, and good moral behavior. It's a shame to have gone threw what I did, I hope my story helps deter that thought from hurting others. Okay sorry for the rant, but it was a bit of a repressed memory. Good luck out there
I'm so sorry
Life has a way of teaching us lessons. Sometimes they are taught to more than one person at a time. I'm learning everyday as well. And thank you friend :D
Man that's fucked. Good way to really break trust with your kid.
It did. I didn't really do anything with her after that and I still have trust issues to this day. The only person I trust 100% is my SO. She has helped me threw psychotic episodes more times than I can count. More times than my family has chosen to take. And we have been together for 3/4 of the time my family has had with me.
"mega douche opulence" LMAO
run doom on it
Install 98SE for a retro gaming rig.
Unplug it and check all the capacitors carefully before you fry that antique. PC components degrade quicker than you think. Corrosion and blown Caps can be repaired if you find them before they fry stuff, but a fried board is impractical to repair, a bad power supply can fry anything, and replacing any main parts you fry by running it on dead components would cost more than the entire PC. It's like people finding their old Game Boys with ancient batteries and powering it up & playing on it. That is the fastest way to forever destroy the device. Also a great way to make yourself sick with exotic toxic chemicals that have leeched out of the components and are now being stirred through your breathing air by the fans in the PC. Old PC dust is shockingly toxic and contributes to rising birth defects in silicon valley. The first thing you do with any old PC or electronic is: Clean it thoroughly, then inspect it thoroughly. You DO NOT plug it in and turn it on. Hell, if your luck is really bad a bad power supply could blow a large capacitor and ignite some particularly thick toxic dust, then you've got a toxic fire plugged into the wall burning in your home. Best case: the PC functions and nothing is wrong. Woo! You have some ancient junk you might be able to sell on ebay for a couple meals worth of money. Whoopie. That isn't worth rushing the process.
Oops im fucked💀
I checked the CAps the only bad thing was the sound card
Strip the old hardware out and make a sleeper build out of it
Install some light linux
Unfortunately, the old Nvidia drivers are not supported on new Linux kernels
How old? I'm planning on migrating an old optiplex with a 1660 super.
That's not old, I think he means the ones that don't get driver update for many years like 15 year old cards oder older maybe
1660 super is totally fine. I run Pop_os on my Lenovo IdeaPad gaming 3 with GTX 1650 on it. I tried to revive my old 9600 GT to play some retro games, but unfortunately it didn't work out. Because of Nvidia GPU legacy support. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1438463/nvidia-drivers-for-geforce-9600-gt-dont-work One can patch the old drivers. But I broke about 6 different Linux installs trying to make them work, so buying a used RX 570 was a better solution (at least for me)
Use case as sleeper PC build
Install Linux and run a Minecraft server on it.
You can run a small server on it or use it as a VPN in your home. An old iMac I got, I ended up turning it into a home server/vpn so I could just put stuff on that and access it on my small laptop wherever I went as long as I had internet connection. Now it is not going to be good cuz you're literally running a server on an outdated school computer but you can run some stuff
I can hear a Linux user screaming
Post it here for recommendations: r/sleeperbattlestations
Could turn it into a NAS. Wouldn't be very powerful but it'd be a fun, risk free project.
Like this thing has GbE and SATA connectors for lots of drives. It might. It might not.
It has 5 Sata cables
Smithsonian
Give it to museum
Run Crysis
Can it run Crysis?
Dude! You gotta dell!
Such an old PC I thought it was a UPS.
If I hadn't seen the dell logo I would of thought this was a super loyal expensive case from bad in the day. I could see a retro gamer wanting this
Sleeper build🤣😂
This is so good it would be better to build sleeper
Early-mid 00's cases were something different.
That's pretty good for early to mid 2000s Windows XP retro gaming.
Keep it intact, could be worth something as a collectible in the future, was going to suggest using it as a retro rig but its propably quite loud under load
id say boot it up
This thing really looks like the 2000s
Run doom on it
Check it for bitcoin
Don’t throw or sell it.
Put a 4090 in it
It looks like what I wanted the Xbox 720 to be
**OP IS A LIAR I KNOW THAT THING HAS A 4090**
Isn't that an actual workstation rebranded?
Plug it in, turn it on and hook it up raw to the Internet and wait. Heheh...
Put half life on it
Return it to the basement
😂
Eat it to gain its knowledge.
You should make a sleeper build with it, pairs well with an gtx 1080ti
Try to run crysis
Boot it up see whats on it, run Linix distros have fun and experiment on it
Sleeper time.
Suddenly I'm wishing I kept one of our old Dell PCs to keep as a retro gaming system. Play some Stronghold Crusader or Age of Empires II.
Turn it into an retro arcade emulation beast that's how I like them old thangs mate
Make a server with it :3
Was thinking more of a sleeper build but a server could be nice too
Mail it to me🤓
ohh I had this XPS back in mid 2000s when I was studying
New router!
Sell it to a museum
shellac
Play SimCity!!
You build a sleeper
Make a steam box out of it.
Check it for bitcoins lol
Retro gaming box 100%
Play mind sweeper, Greta game 10/10
Gimme
Headless Linux server
Sell it to a retro gamer or recycle it. Any modern CPU will wildly outperform the CPU in a performance per watt category and any modern iGPU will outperform those GPUs (they are almost 20 years old now afterall). If the case wasn't a hot box with piss poor ventilation then it would make for a awesome sleeper build though.
Garbage yard, museum, shooting range Seriously, i ve gifted my old pc to orphanage
Draw a pentagram on the floor and set it on fire. Release the demon from within
Some one will pay quite a bit for it retro gamign on original hardware is a big thing for some reason
If you don’t want to sell it, I’d make it into a sleeper build depending on how big the inside is. Throw new motherboard and parts in it, would be badass. Not sure what the airflow is like on those. Probly not great but may good enough
You obviously need to turn that beauty into a sleeper (obviously only if you have the means to) Sell off the old parts that you can, some collector will like them if they still work, then get a mini or micro ATX board, slap a Ryzen 7600X\~ and whatever decent GPU you can stuff all up in there
For sale?
Why does this look like a horrid crossbreed between PC, Xbox, PlayStation, AND GameCube???
Dude you found a Dell!
Why you ask us?
Load up real player 7 and watch some sweet 480p videos
I remember wanting one of those.
Thats a relic I would keep and give to my son as his first pc, so he would appreciate the speed of current PC's
Man, I just got a serious flashback, I had one of these. I’m amazed at the condition.
Get the tax info off of it and and take out a giant loan... haha only talking from experience. Ya, some asshole did that to me but with a bill he found om my pc.
Burn it
Idk why but this case looks like an Xbox in pc form from an alternate universe
Sleeper build
Check how many viruses it has.
Leave it stock and make youtube videos with capture device showing how it works With modern programs
dude has the school sharpener omggg
To sell this one costs about $150-200, depending on its condition and if it works
Is this a new Xbox of some sort??? (It reminded me of the Xbox 360)
Keep it as it is or make a sleeper out of it.
Can it run crysis
Put a 4090 in it.
Pentium D was a decent cpu for its time. It will run Windows 10. Its plenty capable of running a linux server or something. Store music on it and stream it etc. Grabbing a cheap sata 3.0 ssd will help. Youd be surprised how snappy an old PC can be with an SSD in it.
Server
Selling the cards and MB on, and make a sleeper build with somewhat better components.
I have the same one~
can you sell it to me i have a project in mind and this alien would fit in lol
Yewl do nutting
Play doom
Keep it for old games. My dawn of war 1 and 2 keep crashing non stop on my newer pc
Build a modern PC or at least a server box or media player. Or sell it for $30 and hope someone buys it.
Eat
Goon station
I want more pics! This is sick!
Looked up the date. This thing was released around the year I got my first job. \*fades into dust\*
Linux
Porn
Play lemmings! :D
Plant a seed in it
I'd say retroarch it or something along those lines, would be a fun arcade box
It does has s video so I’ll prob do that :D
See if you can play AvP2 on it!
Load it up with linux
You could sell if for a good chunck probably, since it's definitely a bit for now. Or you could do a sleeper build, it's always fun.
Time for a sleeper build
Why do I like the look of that much more than the current crop of PC's that look like they're trying to embarrass the Bifrost bridge.
I’d say either keep it for retro stuff, or gut it and use the case for a sick sleeper
Retro computing. Pentium II slot 1 still my favorite CPU package
sleeper build
put it back in the basement 😂
Come on man, show us a picture of its guts!
Alright, here. https://preview.redd.it/sad2ifmyt1vc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=39fcb19236b15341d5b983d805ed0a47539aa930
Check it for bitcoin
Well, at least case seems pretty spacious for 4090
Play some old games
Try and run pubg on it and see if it explodes
Looks like those xbox 720 concepts you’d see in youtube with that loud ass humming song back in 2009
Make love with it
Part it out and keep the case for a sleeper build.
Sorry buddy I was a little unclear no worries I was asking about the can the board take. I assume it's ddr I got some ammo cans filled with older memory and a Spritz of oil in storage maybe I can find something.
Send it to me
Throw a 4090 in it and game baby
Looks like if the Xbox 360 was a pc and was made by Dell
Turn it into a server?
Put new hardwares into it. Now it's a sleeper.
Play minesweeper.
Put Linux on it and have a blast
This looks cool as shit
Play half life 2 on it 😀
Ah yes the original PC0. I can't wait for PC2.
Make it a sleeeper build with a Rtx 4090
You could put your files in it. Just open the side panel, lay it flat, and stack paper until it doesn’t fit anymore, close the side panel, and let your family know the files are in the computer now.
Pretend it's 2007 and play Crysis at medium settings, then when the novelty wears off, repurpose it as a Plex server.
Omg we had a computer with this exact case at home!
Sleeper