PIII 500mhz Usage?

[lowndsie]

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.....

 

[Geoff]

You could use it as a file/web server.

 

[tweaker]

Or distributed computing.

 

[The_Other_One]

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

 

[lowndsie]

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

still a newbie here.

 

[34erd]

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

 

[lowndsie]

righty o then

 

[celsdogg]

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. . .