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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

It's not power efficient, you're better off buying a cheaper computer, that runs on far fewer watts

If you want to run it as a museum piece, or for archaeological purposes, go for it.

You could run it as a router, I question how much throughput you can get... But again, a cheap $20 off-the-shelf openwrt router like gli.net will be much cheaper on your power bill.