Would Like Some Uses For Older Computers

My suggestions for the boxes are as follows:

The C2D E7500 still has enough oomph (technical term for ZOOM ZOOM) to run Win7 or 8 if so desired. One might load it up with a Linux flavor as darn near everything in the box SHOULD be supported. I would keep it as a desktop wherever it ends up. Nice for give away.

The X3700+ with maxed RAM says 'Server' to me. The 85 to 90 W TDP makes me shudder especially as newer CPUs and APUs absolutely kill these old S939 chips. Too bad as a full time box but for long term storage that you shut off after a back up, maybe, YMMV.

The X2800+ is simply too little performance for too much power consumed(1.8GHz @ 89W TDP). I am sorry but the time for this over. The only thing I can think of for it at all is as a firewall but for that you would need two NICs.

BTW I have my full time server running on an Athlon II 255 (3.1 GHz @ 65W w 5 GB DDR2 and 4 1TB drives non RAID). I use a old X2 3600+ AM2 (1.9 GHz @ 65W TDP) for a once a week back up location. Slow and old but fast enough for my needs.

My suggestions for the boxes are as follows:

The C2D E7500 still has enough oomph (technical term for ZOOM ZOOM) to run Win7 or 8 if so desired. One might load it up with a Linux flavor as darn near everything in the box SHOULD be supported. I would keep it as a desktop wherever it ends up. Nice for give away.

The X3700+ with maxed RAM says 'Server' to me. The 85 to 90 W TDP makes me shudder especially as newer CPUs and APUs absolutely kill these old S939 chips. Too bad as a full time box but for long term storage that you shut off after a back up, maybe, YMMV.

The X2800+ is simply too little performance for too much power consumed(1.8GHz @ 89W TDP). I am sorry but the time for this over. The only thing I can think of for it at all is as a firewall but for that you would need two NICs.

BTW I have my full time server running on an Athlon II 255 (3.1 GHz @ 65W w 5 GB DDR2 and 4 1TB drives non RAID). I use a old X2 3600+ AM2 (1.9 GHz @ 65W TDP) for a once a week back up location. Slow and old but fast enough for my needs.

silverstormz said:

madcratebuilder said:

Gift or donate is good karma. I have my second desktop setup as a email server, 4 personal and one business account, and I use it for all down loads hoping to reduce the odds of a virus. Older boxes still surf the web pretty fast. I have a third box mining bitcoins and alt coins.

Not to derail but are alt coins realy worth it?

$2 a day in electric cost = $6 in cryrpo coins. It was significantly more profit but the difficulty number has rolled over so many times you can't really see a ROI if you are just starting. Alt coins have a fairly low value and it fairly steady. BTC's can change $100 in a few days, it's the wild west with them. I bought 4 BTC's when they were $25, now they are $200. If I sell them they well go to $400, if I keep them they well drop to $12.

I got 2/3 of my equipment investment back in the first two months, I'm still working on the last 1/3 three months later. The Bitcoin ship has already sailed.

I live at a state veterans home for disabled Veterans Veterans day is November 11th the state home is in Boise, ID. . We sure could use some donated computers or CPU's that work well, not many but two or three max.
Brian-basky01@hotmail.com