What do you do with your old tech /g/?

shitpost on /g/ and pretend it's still usable
>haha y-you can totally get by with a c2d on the modern web guys!

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>>57329662
Either sell or keep to tinker around with.

>>57329662
run servers.
plex server, game server, website, etc. are some good ideas.
just install linux tho so you don't burn power

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>>57329714
This to be quite honest

>>57329742
That an original Core Duo. C2D's are still fairly usable if you give Chrome/SJWfox enough RAM to chew on.

>>57329762
Even this machine is still usable with chrome. Probably because it can use some GPU acceleration.

>>57329662
clean it up and donate it to people with less taxing usage requirements than I do.

What do I do with a Celeron M 370 laptop?

>>57329801
>donate
You can't sell them? I ripped off...I mean sold a PDC desktop to a college kid for $100. With monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

>>57329813
Upgrade CPU. Fastest CPU for Pentium/Celeron M systems is the Pentium M 780 2.26GHz.

>>57329762
no they aren't you can't even play youtube videos without stuttering

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Put it in the fridge.

>>57329920
Y'know, I should dig out my E6600 box to see if this is true. But my father has a T7200-based Thinkpad T60 and he hasn't complained of it not playing YT. Perhaps he doesn't use YT as much as I think.

>>57329838
>tfw had a HP with the Pentium M 770

Literally a housefire

>>57329956
youtube uses vp8/vp9 for everything now, there's no hardware accel

>>57329920
I can, here are the specs
>>57329742
If you only have an intel GPU, you're probably fucked though

put it in the trash

Put it in acid until it's fully dissolved so the botnet won't datamine it.

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>>57329920
Werks for me

sell them or make servers, media centres. spear pcs. or dismantle them for spear pars

>>57329662
>take shitty old laptop
>install gentoo on it
>change desktop background to le funi trol maymay
>stick wires and shit to it
>leave at a very public place

>>57329920
That's absolutely wrong. Even my old low voltage Core2 laptop doesn't stutter at 1080p yt

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Continue using it forever.

>>57329920
I can play youtube videos on a pentium 3 without stuttering. Could probably pull off a pentium II if I wanted.

>>57329662

i use it as a fap machine. i bust nuts on the screen

>>57330184
>pentium 3
Holy shit. What browser do you use to accomplish such feats?

>>57329662
Sell them.

>>57330198
Chromium. Nothing special. Remember there are Pentium III's that go over 1ghz. Mine is 933mhz.

Didn't say the resolution. It's 360p.

I can do 480p if I play the video through MPV or VLC.

>>57330198
I used to watch youtube videos via an old version of Opera on a 500mhz Pentium II laptop last year.

SMASH IT

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>>57329662
try to get it to do things for the keks.

>>57329662
Keep it around until it gets old enough to be valuable.

My old box of keyboards are each selling for about $50 on ebay.

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>>57329662
and, play old games from my youth.

Store it in plastic containers if it's still in prime condition. If it's beyond repair, I send it to electronics recycling.
>>57329714
Depends on the C2D generation. The later ones are close to Nehalem.

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>>57329662
come back to me bb

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>>57330317
second and third gen are still totally okay for keeping around if it's a laptop and isn't nvidia-based for the NVS 130/135M/140M chips. fuck those shits. so long as you have at least a T8300 2.4 or a P8600 2.4, you're golden. but once you get to the third gen laptops, you may as well keep going for finding the fastest P8x00 or P9x00 chip you can afford-- the 9000 series has 6MB of L2 and the P series only has a 25W rated TDP across the board, give or take a few watts depending on clock speed.

pic related.

watch Homestar Runner on IE5

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>>57329662
Mostly for servers n stuff.

>>57330152
>motherboard: url

>>57329662

Damn, that was my first laptop I got for university over 10 years ago now. It seems your one had the same problems as mine, mainly every key broke/fell off by the end of the second year of use. Hard drive went kaput maybe 4 years in when it was being used as a Linux shitposting device. I remember the battery was fucked like a year in and was almost unusable. Laptop weighed a fucking tonne too. Cheap as hell though.

>>57329920
The 3.06Ghz C2D iMac I have as a spare at work does just fine.

>>57330593
Pretty convenient, isn't it?

Play around trying to do extreme shit, like installing unstable stuff or even screwing around with the BIOS or hardmodding.

If it's been getting dust for quite a while I scavenge the components.

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>>57330020
Fight me.

I'm trying to revive a old laptop, but apparently the BIOS is corrupted.

I downloaded a .BZ2 from AMD, what now?

I don't even know how to make a bios bootable flash stick

>>57330194

thats actually the best answer in the thread....

>>57332230
why nobody won't give me some light on this?

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>>57330593
Speccy doesn't understand that my 13 year old motherboard was made by defunct motherboard manufacturer "Abit".

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>>57329762
>tfw still have a core 2 duo on my main machine

...it works fine guys

>>57329662
I send my old phones and laptops to my home country.

Yes, [spoiler]I'm indian[/spoiler]

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Sell it one craigslist and buy new tech.

Or give it to someone who's behind me tech wise.


My Dell E6400 was useless to me. It was however life changing to a poor friend of mine who didn't have a computer, and now has things like Netflix and online bill pay because of it.

Holding on to it is pretty pointless unless you're holding parts for spares for repairs. I have stacks of old hard drives, and ram, and stuff for people who have old pcs and cant afford repairs or new systems

Shoot it in the desert

>>57329762
If you have a dedicated GPU from around that time, then yeah they're fantastic.

If you're like me who has no such part, then they're absolute shit.

Also, these skeltals are fucking sp00ky.

>>57330284
>black watercolor theme
Man, I miss XP ricing. Wish there would be a resurgence so we can have half decent UX/UI designs again.

>>57330723
Same. My battery was shit within a year, hard drive died a few years ago

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>>57329662
I tried to keep this shitbox running but I think it deserves a retirement. It draws more than my 5820K main system when doing basic tasks.

I thought about making it a 24/7 download slave but it would be inefficient due to its high power draw and noise, I use a rPi instead.

I thought about making it a lowend guest PC that even does light gaming, but I think I would be better with investing 50 € in a i3 bundle.

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>>57332982
wrong pic, i upgraded it with a Phenom II I got for 20 €
Performs well but draws a lot of power and I can't even OC on that shitty board and 300W LC Power PSU

I have an older Latitude that's held together with tape, duocore with 2 gigs of ram. Still capable machine but it's been replaced. after I get the massive music collection transferred to my desktop, I want to put Linux on it. The first (you) i get determines what distro. no gentoo

It sits in my closet waiting for a chance to serve again. You never know when you'll need some DDR2.

>>57329714
You serious? C2D is more than enough for anything web.

I recycle it.

Old tech is laughably inefficient. When you use it, just picture your processor literally being coal-fired, because it pretty much is. Old tech is the nerd equivalent of rollin' coal: being a faggot and ruining the environment just to show them there librul pantywaists in their Priuses how a REAL MAN computes.

Put it in a closet or drawer until I pull it out for one reason or another

>>57333816
This. I'm using a Core2 Duo right now and the only reason I'm upgrading is that it's been over half a decade since Core2's successor hit the shelves and it's just time to upgrade. And hell, this is just a mobile version. People with C2D desktops are even better off.

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>>57329662
shoot it typically , or just keep it to fuck around with/give it to friends

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I dedicate it to finer pursuits.

>>57333471
GuixSD

>>57334150
>it's been over half a decade since Core2's successor hit the shelves and it's just time to upgrade

man its been almost a decade since the corei7 dropped - i know - 920 owner here - OC to 3.3 stable for a decade - best tech purchase of my life...

>>57329714
>shitposting from a 2.6ghz c2d
>4gb ram
>ssd

works fine tbqh

while we're on the topic, why the holy fuck does the web require so much power today any way???