Hey Tek Syndicate,
I recently acquired a working Dell PowerEdge 2500 with a 1GHz P3 and 1GB of ram. Not sure if it’s actually at all useful. It does not have a DVD drive, only CD and can’t boot from USB.
Any ideas what I can do with it?
Nick
Well its a giant pentium 3 PC.
............................Make it run minecraft.
Edit: How many CPU's does it have
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1 lol
Doorstop? Under desk heater? As far as anything computing goes a Raspberry Pi 3 would give more CPU grunt and modern connectivity.
Progress, it's great :-)
Well shit.
Mail server.
Or a badass quake machine.
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Quake 2 server!
It can do quake 3.
I'm partial to 2 :)
I played 3 competitively for 2 years :P then other stuff happened
Honestly, that thing is just going to be very costly to run, as far as your power bill is concerned, and you can probably find a $40 machine that's got a core2quad on craigslist if you're looking to do some server stuff.
I would recommend selling it for scrap metal and surfing craigslist for a C2Q era machine that you can nab for a decent price.
On the topic of being helpful, let's look at what we can do with this machine though.
- heater
- art? (missus might not like it too much)
- quake/ut2004 server
- not even a minecraft server (for a decent one that doesn't lag I'd recommend 2 threads and 2GiB of ram at minimum for 3/4 players)
If you get a more powerful rig, you can follow Wendell's Your Linux Server tutorial/guide/whatever you wanna call it thing that's going on over on the Linux category.
Only claim to fame is the #1 Q2 player in the world for 1 week. I was young and did nothing else that summer.
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Neat. I think I got as high as like 15th lol