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JosephG0712

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What should I do with my old Asus essentio cg5275 desktop. I would Like to learn to build my own desktop. Was thinking of keeping this to practice on?
 
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Experience building. Take it apart, put it back together.
Now...take it apart again, put all the parts in a box. Leave it for 2-3 weeks.
Then put it back together.

Its easy if you take it apart, and have all the parts right there to reassemble.
If you leave it for a bit...then you get the moment of "Where did this go?"

A NAS, in this context, is simply a PC, attached to the network, with shared folder you can access form other systems. Doesn't have to be anything powerful, and storage size can be expanded as needed. Just add new drives.

My current house server runs on a Pentium G840, 4BG RAM, Win 10, and ~20TB in drive space.
And from your regular system, you can map drives with...
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Is it still functional? While you don't actually need to 'practise' building, it's not a bad idea to tear it down to get a feel for the internals of a setup.
Then you can rebuild & if it boots up, you pretty much know how to build a new one :lol:.

Sure, there may be the occassional different interface or connector, but the basics are the basics.

After that, you could repurpose it. The CG5275 has a 1st Gen i5 in there, which is still pretty viable for a lot of uses today.

You could sell it, donate it, or even use it as a media centre.
 
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First thing I consider with old PCs is turning them into a NAS. Usually doesn't work out because, depending on the application, a NAS could need a pretty robust processor. But, that desktop has one. So I say throw a couple 4TB hard drives in it, set it up for remote desktop, and make a NAS out of it.
 
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Both are pretty simple. There's only two cables to plug into a hard drive, power and data. And the NAS can be Windows-based, all you would need to do is share a hard drive over the network, which is a very quick thing to do and there are many guides available on the internet.
 
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HTPC, NAS, whole house firewall...
Experience building. Take it apart, put it back together.
Now...take it apart again, put all the parts in a box. Leave it for 2-3 weeks.
Then put it back together.

Its easy if you take it apart, and have all the parts right there to reassemble.
If you leave it for a bit...then you get the moment of "Where did this go?"

A NAS, in this context, is simply a PC, attached to the network, with shared folder you can access form other systems. Doesn't have to be anything powerful, and storage size can be expanded as needed. Just add new drives.

My current house server runs on a Pentium G840, 4BG RAM, Win 10, and ~20TB in drive space.
And from your regular system, you can map drives with appropriate drive letters.
My "music folder" is the M drive. The movie/video folder is the V drive.

Stuff to be "shared" is the S drive. I can tell the wife..."Just copy that to your S drive." Poof..it saves to the house server, and I can see it in my "S drive" (mapped folder).
 
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