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What can I make out of a Old Pentium D desktop? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello homelabbers,

Recently I came into possession of an old Desktop PC. Its configuration is,

Pentium D 820, 2.8 GHz dual Pentium 4 core processor, supports 64 bit.
512 DDR 333 memory
90GB HDD
no graphics card
3 PCI and 1 AGP slot

I was planning to put a ethernet card and use it as a router. It was to theown as garbage. Is what I am planning feasible or a good idea. Or it would be better as trash.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does it have onboard graphics? It will be hard without that. If it has, you can make a vintage arcade machine, but with multiple games. You could, for example, run linux with OpenTyrian on it, which is one of my favorite games. Xgalaga++ and a lot of old games with DOS emulation should also be possible. You can strip down the OS, so only the barest minimum runs; should save some RAM and CPU.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It has intel graphics.

That is a cool idea, perhaps a project of router thing doesn't work out.