Upgrade help needed! Compaq AP500 Workstation

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I've got a Compaq AP500 professional Workstation with the following
specs:

Dual PII 400Mhz processors
512MB RAM
Two 4.3GB Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 drives
ELSA Synergy II AGP video + onboard video
32X IDE CD-ROM
325 watt Compaq proprietary power supply (1 year old)
One honkin' huge, heavy tower case

I'm wondering what, if any, upgrade options exist for this system. I
was thinking of turning it into a Linux media server, but from what
I've found so far it would be a lot cheaper to abandon this system
(either part it out or toss it off a cliff) and start with a more
modern machine.

Any good options out there to rescue this system?

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....in other words Katmai PIIIs, the ones with the half-speed 512K L2 cache.
A pair of 600s would speed up the old workstation nicely.
HH

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:417c66da.36665174@news.charter.net...
> The AP500 is pretty proprietary. Upgrades? Bigger SCSI drives. Dual
> 550MHz
> or 600MHz Pentium 3 processors, which MUST be the ones designed to operate
> at
> 2.0v with 100MHz front side bus. More memory. That's about it... Ben
> Myers
>
> On 24 Oct 2004 18:16:51 -0700, trashacct2@yahoo.com (Mark) wrote:
>
>>I've got a Compaq AP500 professional Workstation with the following
>>specs:
>>
>>Dual PII 400Mhz processors
>>512MB RAM
>>Two 4.3GB Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 drives
>>ELSA Synergy II AGP video + onboard video
>>32X IDE CD-ROM
>>325 watt Compaq proprietary power supply (1 year old)
>>One honkin' huge, heavy tower case
>>
>>I'm wondering what, if any, upgrade options exist for this system. I
>>was thinking of turning it into a Linux media server, but from what
>>I've found so far it would be a lot cheaper to abandon this system
>>(either part it out or toss it off a cliff) and start with a more
>>modern machine.
>>
>>Any good options out there to rescue this system?
>