massahwahl
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A teacher friend of mine offered for me to come raid a collection of old desktops that the school had decommissioned in the last few years today. I went looking for a new mythtv frontend that I could rip apart and mount to my wall behind my living room tv. Anyway, I picked out a small form factor HP from 2006ish and saw this monster Dell sitting in the corner. I opened it up and was surprised to see that it had two processor slots and 8 DIMM DDR2 slots. Found out it is a Dell Precision 470 Workstation/Server PC. I ended up taking it too and was curious what in the world I should do with it. Since I got this thing for free I dont mind putting some money into it if I can find the right size processor for it. From what I have read with both processors and the memory upgraded this thing is supposed to be a beast. So is it worth it to do anything to this and use it is a home server? It came with two 250Gb hard drives which I also want to upgrade to some 1Terrabytes and maybe run them in raid. And upgrade the AGP graphics card to whatever the best card would be. What are your thoughts?