I just got a Dell Optiplex GX270 (pic related) for free and idk what to do with it, specs are Intel Pentium 4...

I just got a Dell Optiplex GX270 (pic related) for free and idk what to do with it, specs are Intel Pentium 4, 512mb ram,20gb hdd. Is it worth re purposing or should I gut it and trash it? Maybe run Linux or a torrent box? I'm open for suggestions.

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Killer sleeper PC

p much this.

or shove it up your ass

throw them away. they are literally trash.

It uses a proprietary board, you won't be able to fit anything else in that case without heavy modification. The full towers used btx so you at least had a chance with them.

Gonna be some shitty torrent box with only a 20GB hard drive that's probably slow as fuck.

Honestly a pi3 is more powerful.

how can you make a sleeper PC with one of these? I have a similar PC and the motherboard is a proprietary design, so I can't get modern parts in it.

Maybe external hdds? Idk

Fuck! Dell stole 360 design.

By using another motherboard.

Put the guts in this.

Probably only uses for it would be to upgrade the hard drive and make it into a Linux seed box. The CPU for that thing is fairly low power so it shouldn't waste much electricity. Anything other than a seed box is probably a waste of time and electricity.

Compatible?

Sell it!

That dell is older than the 360.

Use it as a Tor node.

I have a HP Compaq D530 USDT (pic related) and it runs well as a Tor middle node on a 50/50 FiOS connection (when I have my apartment when college is in session). Don't have a GX270, but it might be similar in performance

Why is this pic in almost every thread? Is this some sort of summer meme?

>Optiplex GX270

That thing's a ticking time bomb. Dell went full chink on the capacitors for this particular model, and as a result they have roughly a 50% failure rate. Sooner or later those caps are gonna burst and render it unusable unless you know how to solder new ones back on.

Install Gentoo

Just trollin guy.
Gotta have my (You)'s.

Good idea, have any suggestions for stat to ide adapters?

Ya idk this one is stil going.

Add a cheap graphics card with hdmi like a nvidia 210 and turn it into a media center. The fans probably are a bit loud but you can disabld them or change them

i found an optiplex 760 the other day and i'm gonna use it as a seedbox+file server+kodi player+plex server for streaming to my other tvs in the house.

mine had a core 2 duo and i found 4gb of ram to put in it though so yours might not be able to handle some of that stuff

This computer has a AGP slot not PCIe. I opened one up at school

Any with good reviews will work I assume. Could just use a USB hard drive if speed isn't essential. Files would be easier to get off the machine as well if you don't want to bother setting up a network share.

cnet.com/news/bulging-capacitors-haunt-dell/

Who knows, though. Maybe you got a good model from after Dell wizened up.

Alright now to figure out what distro to use?

Something light to cope with that dated hardware. I've used Crunchbang before and that was decent for older hardware. It's pretty stripped down though. I think it's called BunsenLab Linux now.

If the promotional material is anything to go by as well, your machine should have one SATA port. Might want to check the board out.

YES

YES

thin client
web surfer/email checker
office/document processor
active directory server
DNS server
experimentation box
legacy software box
torrent box
old games
controller

it still does the same shit it did when it was new, get creative, learn something, old hardware is great to experiment with when you're not worried to shit about breaking it and its physical nature is a little more motivating than some shitty VMs you'll never have a reason to open

not even, those things can barely match shit low-end chips from ten years ago, not to mention their I/O is horrifying and pi setups are usually ugly as sin

post the service tag so we can look up what's in it
the 512 MB RAM compliment tells me it's not as shitty as thinks it is and probably will run fine with whatever distro you want

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Opening it up now.

>8ZJ4F41
wew
checking it out now

>DDR RAM
>P4 with 800 MHz FSB
>actually a 40GB disk
just avoid bloated cancer like Unity and you'll probably be just fine.

Oh well 40gb is better than 20gb, was just going by what the person told me.

It does have a sata port, I wonder why they chose ide over sata?

Cuz it's a nice case.

>Nvidia
>nice
nice try shill

>ricer shit is nice now

You could use it to lan old games like quake 3 or cs 1.6 if thats your sort of thing

nice, I have one of those, posted it in the battlestation thread. Use Lubuntu or Trisquel Mini and you'll have a decent machine for old games and general web browsing.

It's not good enough hardware to run Q3 or 1.6 on the thing. However it is good enough to run UR1 and the original Quake.

I used to have one of those, it was my dedicated space heater.

lol

Wow.

lol i have the same computer, sitting collecting dust. was going to use it as a "smart tv" for the living room but it cant play hd vids so...yeah

I'm not op but I have one to

a little off topic, but is it worth it to buy an old poweredge server on ebay for like $50-100 for some site/minecraft server/mumble host? been using a VPS offsite for like a year now, thinking to just grab one of those, toss debian and some extra ram and an SSD and have a new server basically.

something like this.

ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-1950-III-2x-Xeon-E5430-QC-2-66GHz-16GB-RAM-1x-250GB-Sale-/231958424446?hash=item3601ccab7e:g:GiUAAOSwY0lXSKFn

like are there any downsides?

trash, they cost more to run than they're worth, a raspberry pi could probably out-perform it.

Remember:node, not a exit relay.

Only real downside I could think of might be power consumption. Seems breddy gud to me.

how bad do you think it is? i leave my computer on almost always anyways.

Are you seriously comparing early 2000s Dell prebuilts with single core processors and barely any RAM to modern Pi's with quad core processors and up to 4gb of ram? No shit it's going to outperform the dinosaur you fucktard

I have no clue, just shitposting. Probably not super noticable, but I wouldn't know.

Ya the power is a bit more, heat and noise, I have a tower server that I love but I am sure it pulled more power than a simple desktop seeing as it run 450W PSUs(two but that's for redundancy mostly), and it sounds like a jet when working. But I wouldn't trade it in!

Not worh it, even for free. Got this at microcenter for $99 and does more + less power.

Nice, awesome. Yeah I live in a house where everyone has their own high end build, so I dont think another machine will be that crazy. I think it's worth it to have the constant uptime though.

There is a VERY small percentage of these that have good capacitors. The problem also extends to the GX260 and GX280 models, though not as severe as the GX270.

Most GX270s only have IDE on them. Most of the ones with SATA didn't ship with SATA drives. Dell is effing weird.

Higher-end GX270s support 4GB of RAM and Hyperthreading.

Other than it probably being cheaper, those boxes were usually used as public fleet boxes, kiosk systems, web surfers and other applications where disk performance wasn't really important.