What to do with a cheap PC !

[BoneMonkey]

well i was recently in a computer show and i bought a refurbished pc FOR 80 bucks !!!!!!! and its pretty nice here are the specs

Compaq EVO D300
Intel Celeron 1.3GHz
256MB DDR Memory
20GB IDE Hard Drive
CD-ROM
10/100 LAN Ethernet Networking and Internet
Professionally refurbished at our facility
4 USB Ports
Floppy Drive
Windows XP Professional Pre-Installed and Certificate of Authenticity included on bottom of machine
Office Suite also preinstalled (Open Office) (compatible with Microsoft Office)
PS2, keyboard ports, and video output

now the thing is this i wanna see if i can turn this PC into a semi decent gaming rig !!!!!!!!!!!!! lol its socket 478 what do you guys think ?


im thinkign getting a cheap 478 CPU 1 gig of ram and maybe a 7600 gs ?

 

[dbgtdob]

well i was recently in a computer show and i bought a refurbished pc FOR 80 bucks !!!!!!! and its pretty nice here are the specs

Compaq EVO D300
Intel Celeron 1.3GHz
256MB DDR Memory
20GB IDE Hard Drive
CD-ROM
10/100 LAN Ethernet Networking and Internet
Professionally refurbished at our facility
4 USB Ports
Floppy Drive
Windows XP Professional Pre-Installed and Certificate of Authenticity included on bottom of machine
Office Suite also preinstalled (Open Office) (compatible with Microsoft Office)
PS2, keyboard ports, and video output

now the thing is this i wanna see if i can turn this PC into a semi decent gaming rig !!!!!!!!!!!!! lol its socket 478 what do you guys think ?


im thinkign getting a cheap 478 CPU 1 gig of ram and maybe a 7600 gs ?

it depends on how good a cpu you get, and you said nothing about a graphics card, 1gb of ram is ok, but as of right now you can play older games, since most need more then 256mb of ram to play.

 

[Kyoji]

Lmao, I've got the same PC running in my family room, it causes nothing but problems

Good luck getting it to "gaming rig" status, you're going to spend more money than its worth to even get close to that mark. Not to mention the outdated standards and shoddy Compaq parts, you've bought $80 worth of headaches!

 

[BoneMonkey]

ROFL oh no are you serious ! lol

i was thinking of this CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819116031

38 bucks and it will bring the CPU to 2.5 GHZ

and then 1 gig stick for 57 bucks

and a Nvidia 7600 gs 90 bucks

 

[cory1492]

If nothing else it would make an excellent linux box...

 

[BoneMonkey]

ewwww you said linux lol

ack its has a 250 watt PSU ! lol that might be a problem

 

[sage_inferno]

check the cpu support the evo series, looks like early p4 generation
prescott based cpu needs compatible boards.

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Compaq Evo Desktop D300 Series with 845 chipset
Processor and Speed Intel Pentium 4 Processors Standard L2 Cache 256-KB Integrated ECC
One of the following 1.5-GHz Front Side Bus 400-MHz
1.6-GHz Maximum Memory 1.5-GB
1.7-GHz
1.8-GHz
1.9-GHz
2.0-GHz
2.2-GHz

 

[Azimuth]

freenas.org
or install LAMP and torrentflux and turn it into a torrent server.

 

[BoneMonkey]

i dont know with a limited 250 watt PSU i dont think i can add a 7600 gs lol

i really wanted to turn this into a comand and conquer 3 box

 

[tshu]

I had an old laptop that kinda of looked like something similar to this:

It was great for playing games like Hugo's House of Horrors in the living room!

 

[BoneMonkey]

my god ............ never post that again tshu

 

[outphase]

As stated earlier, this would make a great Linux box for casual use. That said, it would then be the exact opposite of what you are looking for.

 

[legendofphil]

I dismantled one of those lugabouts once, just to find the hamster that it ran on. But it was much larger than that one in the picture and damn was it heavy.

 

[crafton48]

use it as a web or games server, or it would be perfect for a media center,
check out http://www.linuxmce.com
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...477313460&hl=en

 

[iamwhoiam]

Rip it out and media center it

 

[shakirmoledina]

Here to buy a PC u would need 400 dollars for a regular pc simple VGA, ram etc but upgrading is total disaster if don't find the right shop. Upto 300$ maybe for a good PC 1gb ram 256 mb card + 3ghz CPU

 

[lagman]

2 words for you: MAME cabinet.

 

[BoneMonkey]

dam how can i tell if this processor will be compatiable with this PC :-( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819116035

i already upgrade the ram today to 1 gig :-)

 

[Hitto]

MythTV is good enough for your stuff. It combiçnes the media center, MAME cabinet, and it runs on linux, so your hardware will feel rejuvenated. (try beryl on a 1GHZ PC with 256 megs of ram and an old 3D card => happiness)

 

[BoneMonkey]

i dont want a media center i have decided to make it into a gaming rig lol