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ideas for a spare computer?
i just built a computer with parts my computer teacher was giving away and i have no idea what to do with it. i was more interested in the act of building than actually having a computer around (i love working with that kind of stuff). so right now i have an extra computer sitting in my room with no real idea what to do with it. really the only thing i thought of doing was selling it craigslist because i owe my parents a LOT of money (my last computer endevour got really out of hand and i owe about $460), but i'm not sure how much i can get for it. anyway, here's the specs if that helps anyone's suggestion:
3GHz Pentium 4 (possibly a dual core, i'm not sure)
2GB DDR-800
GeForce 8600 256MB
120GB IDE hard drive
the one thing is that it doesn't have an optical drive. originally, my teacher was only giving out cases and didn't want us to take any other hardware like drives. he eventually decided to give out more stuff, but i was out sick that day and kind of had to bug him a bit to let me take a board and cpu and i had the other parts except a DVD drive. so if i want to put Windows on it, i gotta find some way to install from USB. otherwise, i might put Ubuntu on it since that's easy to install from USB. not sure why i went ahead and typed most of that since it turned into a rant, but whatever lol. thanks in advance for your suggestions.