Not sure what to do with one of office PC's.....its 3 1/2 years old, sporting a Celeron 2.0 ghz CPU, 512 MB SD-RAM (not the latest memory format either), 32 MB shared onboard graphics, ....thats it really. Oh its got Bluetooth dongle, Firewire card, 200 GB HDD and various add-ons but all transferable to newer machines. It works, but not very efficient when under a lot of pressure from simultaneous users, it serves mainly as a shared LAN resource, filestore, etc, having been retired as a main user PC.

Its already got the max RAM it can take. IS it worth spending cash on upgrading the CPU to say a Pentium 4 2.4 (max speed it will take), or starting with a new mainboard and CPU and faster RAM. Dont want to upgrade the CPU if its considered to be a museum exhibit.....

may as well spend the extra dollar and get something more up to date

Are you planning to use it for anything more than network storage? I wouldn't have thought a 2 ghz celeron should be too pushed just doing that.

Originally posted by Nazo
Are you planning to use it for anything more than network storage? I wouldn't have thought a 2 ghz celeron should be too pushed just doing that.

Also doubles as a "spare" emergency PC which I always like to keep available. It is OK unless it gets a lot of network requests to do in one go...then it falls flat and chugs away for ages trying to process all the requests..what I dont want to do is spend much money on an old mainboard, ie CPU upgrade, only to have the thing (board) die of old age in 2 months time anyway and with no other PC's here that now take that old RAM format, its not useful for any board based spares either.

I did think of slotting in a nice AGP graphics card and bypassing the horrible 32MB shared graphic memory system, but now its more or less just a file server, no point at all....

All our other machines are Pentium 4's 3 GHz with 1024 MB OPC3200 400 mhz DDR RAM, and most with Geforce 6200 turbocache, so it kind of stands without any "friends" as it were.....I just HATE to bin anything just as its a museum candidate...

Sounds like a reasonable spec to me for what it's doing. How many users are there on it? Maybe time for a tidy up and reinstall, or even stick a tailored Linux distro on it, like SME server or something of that ilk?

I'd also stop using as a PC, if it's a server and you haven't got enough PC's, buy another PC. :wink: