I got me a spare toy.

[jaguarking11]

Well my buddy gave me an old dell gx150. I searched through my crap and upgraded the chip from a 1ghz p3 to a 1.4ghz tualatin celeron. I then tripled the ram from 128 to 384mb of it. Then I swaped the 20gig hdd for my samsung spinpoint 160gb unit.

Suprisingly this machine is very responsive. Among the crap that I put in this thing, an old tv tuner card and an old wireless pci nic.

All in all its very decent. The only thing I need is a low profile ati or nvidia card to fit in the agp slot. (I was suprised that there is an agp slot in this thing too)

For now I am evaluating linspire as an os and xp as well, both seem to respond well in dual boot. Everything seems to be working nicely. If I can get a agp card with tv out this thing should be a decent little media center pc.

Any sugestions for this box? On the other hand im thinking of turning it into a server for my files.

[Stalwart]

I don't see what else you could do to it, unless you want to mod it or something.

[jaguarking11]

I don't see what else you could do to it, unless you want to mod it or something.

I may slap some paint and maybe bondo the dell sigma out.

[2JSC]

ever think of Ubuntu Linux? My friend has it as a server at his house running Hamatchi... think he has a setup close to what your running, but more HDD room. Works rather well for a system thats on 24/7 in the closet.

[jaguarking11]

ever think of Ubuntu Linux? My friend has it as a server at his house running Hamatchi... think he has a setup close to what your running, but more HDD room. Works rather well for a system thats on 24/7 in the closet.

I find ubuntu to be quite heavy. Its one of the heaviest debian based linux distro. I may go for just straight up debian or maybe slackware.

In any case im talking with my buddy about getting 2 or posibly 3 more of these. Should make a nice setup I think.

[Fibbles]

I just paid $35 for a Gigabyte GA6RX-1 (maybe, can't remember exactly). It's a VIA Apollo Pro s370 chipset for a P3 or compatible chip (up to a 166 FSB) with PC2100 support and a 4x AGP Pro slot.

I'm going to order a gig of Corsair/Mushkin memory for $40 and then couple my 1.4ghz Tualatin (the previous owner said it worked fine with his 1.2), Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 Ultra and pair of Canopus Pure 3D 2's (Voodoo 2's in SLI) for an older gaming system, primarily for Glide games.

It sure beats having to pay out my @$$ for quality PC133 cause I recently realized I sold my 512mb of Mushkin Rev2 some time ago :-(

[lbreevesii]

i know what you should do....

LINUX CLUSTER!!!

[PrinzII]

Jaguar: I have a spare toy of my own. I bought a Dell OptiPlex GX110 667 for $50 from a friend of mine and did the following to it:

- Upgraded the RAM to 512 MB
- Installed a 64 MB Gigabyte Video Card (ATI Radeon Based)
- Installed Windows 2003 Server

Currently, it's on loan to a friend of mine for a project. Before I loaned it out, I wiped out W2K3 Server, Installed XP Pro, and decreased the RAM to 384 MB. When I get it back, I am going to shoehorn a 40 GB HD in it and increase the RAM back to 512.

Why? This is my MCSE practice box. :D

[jaguarking11]

I just paid $35 for a Gigabyte GA6RX-1 (maybe, can't remember exactly). It's a VIA Apollo Pro s370 chipset for a P3 or compatible chip (up to a 166 FSB) with PC2100 support and a 4x AGP Pro slot.

I'm going to order a gig of Corsair/Mushkin memory for $40 and then couple my 1.4ghz Tualatin (the previous owner said it worked fine with his 1.2), Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 Ultra and pair of Canopus Pure 3D 2's (Voodoo 2's in SLI) for an older gaming system, primarily for Glide games.

It sure beats having to pay out my @$$ for quality PC133 cause I recently realized I sold my 512mb of Mushkin Rev2 some time ago :-(

I love the apollo pro chipset. Best chipset ever. My soyo could get my 1.4celeron to 1750. Its the only chipset that I know of that suports 3 generations of cpu's (4 if you include the c3) and two totaly different ram standards.

[jaguarking11]

Jaguar: I have a spare toy of my own. I bought a Dell OptiPlex GX110 667 for $50 from a friend of mine and did the following to it:

- Upgraded the RAM to 512 MB
- Installed a 64 MB Gigabyte Video Card (ATI Radeon Based)
- Installed Windows 2003 Server

Currently, it's on loan to a friend of mine for a project. Before I loaned it out, I wiped out W2K3 Server, Installed XP Pro, and decreased the RAM to 384 MB. When I get it back, I am going to shoehorn a 40 GB HD in it and increase the RAM back to 512.

Why? This is my MCSE practice box. :D

Actualy ive settled in using this current one as a mini mce box for the downstairs tv and stream some videos over with a downgrade of putting the 20giger back in and using my spinpoint somewere else.

There will be a second one of these running 256ram and my spinpoint running some sort of server os and or servers aps such as ftp services etc.

and there will (hopefully if I win this) a pc inside a little g4 case with lots of little goddies as a second box.

For a grand total of 7pc's in the house. Great im outnumbered by my machines. I can see my father fuming over the power bill.

[PrinzII]

When I am done with this build, I may move my CD-RW from my PII350 to the Dell.