PIII 500mhz Usage?

lowndsie · 03-08-2006, 04:16 AM

I have my old P3 with 400mb ram and a 8mb monster fushion card in it. Just wondering instead of it just sitting there, if there was something more productive I could use it for. I thought of setting it up just for emulators but thought i'd see if anyone had any other ideas.....

[-0MEGA-] · 03-08-2006, 04:18 AM

You could use it as a file/web server.

tweaker · 03-08-2006, 04:26 AM

Or distributed computing.

**The_Other_One** · 03-08-2006, 04:37 AM

yeah...some sort of server...forget emulation, or anything too major.

lowndsie · 03-08-2006, 06:57 AM

Could someone please explain the concept of using it as a server???

still a newbie here.

34erd · 03-08-2006, 07:03 AM

Do some folding, save some lives http://folding.stanford.edu/

lowndsie · 03-08-2006, 09:33 AM

righty o then

celsdogg · 03-08-2006, 03:31 PM

make it a file server, or server for anything. 500mhz P3 is not too quick but. . .

you can set it up to serve all your media files. My old athlon xp is now a server, she has all the mp3's, movies, pictures, documents, etc on her, and she has the larger drives, while my other computers only have 60 or 80gb drives. i also run the printer off of her, and the slimp3 server. kinda takes the load off my main computer for more important things (like gaming

it also allows central storage of everything since i have several different computers. that way, i have access to everything.

if it was a little quicker, you could run a game server, streaming media, etc, etc. . .

03-08-2006, 04:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
lowndsie Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bathurst, NSW, Australia Posts: 37	PIII 500mhz Usage? I have my old P3 with 400mb ram and a 8mb monster fushion card in it. Just wondering instead of it just sitting there, if there was something more productive I could use it for. I thought of setting it up just for emulators but thought i'd see if anyone had any other ideas..... __________________ IBM ThinkCentre P4 2.6 Ghz 250 Gig Seagate HD 1 Gig RAM DVD Burner TV Mini Ter Tuner Card Radeon 9600 256mb Graphics Card 2.1 Logictec Speakers Logitec Media Keyboard and Cordless Media Mouse 19 Inch Dell badged Sony Trinitron

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The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 24 Posts: 12,388	yeah...some sort of server...forget emulation, or anything too major. __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

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lowndsie Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bathurst, NSW, Australia Posts: 37	Could someone please explain the concept of using it as a server??? still a newbie here. __________________ IBM ThinkCentre P4 2.6 Ghz 250 Gig Seagate HD 1 Gig RAM DVD Burner TV Mini Ter Tuner Card Radeon 9600 256mb Graphics Card 2.1 Logictec Speakers Logitec Media Keyboard and Cordless Media Mouse 19 Inch Dell badged Sony Trinitron

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lowndsie Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bathurst, NSW, Australia Posts: 37	righty o then __________________ IBM ThinkCentre P4 2.6 Ghz 250 Gig Seagate HD 1 Gig RAM DVD Burner TV Mini Ter Tuner Card Radeon 9600 256mb Graphics Card 2.1 Logictec Speakers Logitec Media Keyboard and Cordless Media Mouse 19 Inch Dell badged Sony Trinitron

03-08-2006, 03:31 PM	#8 (permalink)
celsdogg Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Maryland Age: 26 Posts: 306	make it a file server, or server for anything. 500mhz P3 is not too quick but. . . you can set it up to serve all your media files. My old athlon xp is now a server, she has all the mp3's, movies, pictures, documents, etc on her, and she has the larger drives, while my other computers only have 60 or 80gb drives. i also run the printer off of her, and the slimp3 server. kinda takes the load off my main computer for more important things (like gaming it also allows central storage of everything since i have several different computers. that way, i have access to everything. if it was a little quicker, you could run a game server, streaming media, etc, etc. . . __________________ VALERIE - AMD Athlon XP Palomino 1800+, 1GB DDR SDRAM, nVidia GeForceFX 5700 128MB DDR, two 160GB Seagate HDD, two 250GB Seagate HDD, WinXP Pro SARAH (Toshiba Laptop) - Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz, 512MB DDR SDRAM, Trident Cyberblade XP2 32MB, 60GB Samsung HDD, Ubuntu Linux 7.10 MARGARET - AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2GB Corsair XMS DDR400 Dual Channel, nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256MB GDDR PCIE, 80GB Seagate SATA, 60GB Maxtor PATA, 60GB WD PATA Ubuntu Linux 7.10 + WinXP Pro

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