McKantis_Mayhem
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THE BREAKDOWN
Soooo...
I was gifted a bunch of old Dells...

...and they are as follows:
Dell Dimension 4700 x 4
Dell Optiplex 160L x 2
Dell Optiplex GX280 x 5 (4 of the slim variety you see stacked on top)
Dell Optiplex 320 x 1
Compaq Presario 5r1z15cb x 1
According to the gifter, all 13 of these dinosaurs were fully functional before the HDDs were removed (they were former tax prep computers) and now they are taking up shelf space at my mother's house.
BRAINSTORMING?
So, the question is what to do with them all.
From my brief look inside, I'm fairly certain each is equipped with 2GBs of DDR, at least 1 SATA cable, and most have a Pentium 4 or Celeron D processor.
My friend's initial idea when he originally received them was to play Frankenstein and resell a few with windows 7 installed. Looking at them though, I'm not sure they can handle 7.
The GX280's I've had contact with somewhat recently were BARELY able to keep up with the XP that they had on them, though I'm not sure of their RAM situations at the time.
I love the Slim cases since they flip open, so I may keep those aside and mod the shells. The only problem with that is the cases use a case specific PSU.
Any ideas?
Soooo...
I was gifted a bunch of old Dells...

...and they are as follows:
Dell Dimension 4700 x 4
Dell Optiplex 160L x 2
Dell Optiplex GX280 x 5 (4 of the slim variety you see stacked on top)
Dell Optiplex 320 x 1
Compaq Presario 5r1z15cb x 1
According to the gifter, all 13 of these dinosaurs were fully functional before the HDDs were removed (they were former tax prep computers) and now they are taking up shelf space at my mother's house.
BRAINSTORMING?
So, the question is what to do with them all.
From my brief look inside, I'm fairly certain each is equipped with 2GBs of DDR, at least 1 SATA cable, and most have a Pentium 4 or Celeron D processor.
My friend's initial idea when he originally received them was to play Frankenstein and resell a few with windows 7 installed. Looking at them though, I'm not sure they can handle 7.
The GX280's I've had contact with somewhat recently were BARELY able to keep up with the XP that they had on them, though I'm not sure of their RAM situations at the time.
I love the Slim cases since they flip open, so I may keep those aside and mod the shells. The only problem with that is the cases use a case specific PSU.
Any ideas?