Hey Community,
I've dug up some old parts from a computer I was using to limp along while I had my main system's parts RMA'd, and now I really don't know what to do with this one. It's normally just my office work/ web browsing PC but I think I could do more with it.
It's a i3 2100 with a MSI H61M-E33/W8 with 4 GB of DDR3 1600 (cheap Kingston stuff, the kind Fry's sells for $25 a pair) but it seems the H61 can only run it at 1333 with a Sandy Bridge CPU. Go figure.
It also has a 1 TB Toshiba 7200 RPM Sata III drive (wasted, I know. The H61 can only support Sata II.) I had a spare PSU laying around, so I put it in (Corsair HX1000W if you wanted to know). I was running it with a Zotac GT 610 2GB "Synergy" edition video card, since the drivers for the integrated HD2000 are a complete damn nightmare (driver crashing on a fresh install of Windows 7 AND 8) and considering I got the Zotac brand new for $15, I wasn't worried about it.
It's all crammed into a Antec 300 case, and a generic DVD burner. I was going to make it my dedicated Ubuntu machine, but I've had mixed luck in the past with Ubuntu 12.04 and I don't want to run any non-LTS releases. Also, for whatever reason Windows XP is slow as hell on this machine.
I would sell it, but honestly it's probably only worth about $300 at most, and I'm not quite that hard up for cash.
Any suggestions as to what I could do with this machine? I'm not looking to spend money on it, as I have a nice main rig. I was thinking about making this a Folding@Home or SETI machine, but the graphics card is just too weak.
I've dug up some old parts from a computer I was using to limp along while I had my main system's parts RMA'd, and now I really don't know what to do with this one. It's normally just my office work/ web browsing PC but I think I could do more with it.
It's a i3 2100 with a MSI H61M-E33/W8 with 4 GB of DDR3 1600 (cheap Kingston stuff, the kind Fry's sells for $25 a pair) but it seems the H61 can only run it at 1333 with a Sandy Bridge CPU. Go figure.
It also has a 1 TB Toshiba 7200 RPM Sata III drive (wasted, I know. The H61 can only support Sata II.) I had a spare PSU laying around, so I put it in (Corsair HX1000W if you wanted to know). I was running it with a Zotac GT 610 2GB "Synergy" edition video card, since the drivers for the integrated HD2000 are a complete damn nightmare (driver crashing on a fresh install of Windows 7 AND 8) and considering I got the Zotac brand new for $15, I wasn't worried about it.
It's all crammed into a Antec 300 case, and a generic DVD burner. I was going to make it my dedicated Ubuntu machine, but I've had mixed luck in the past with Ubuntu 12.04 and I don't want to run any non-LTS releases. Also, for whatever reason Windows XP is slow as hell on this machine.
I would sell it, but honestly it's probably only worth about $300 at most, and I'm not quite that hard up for cash.
Any suggestions as to what I could do with this machine? I'm not looking to spend money on it, as I have a nice main rig. I was thinking about making this a Folding@Home or SETI machine, but the graphics card is just too weak.
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