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Give it to a tranny, but make the password for everything "youwillneverbeawoman".
What To Do With My Old Desktop?
- Thread starter The Ugly One
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I've been thinking about it for a bit now. Forget the future upgrades and shit. Work with what you have now. We talk about all this shit because we have the knowledge and machines to do it and love it. It may not even be for you and your Blink 182 CD's. Don't spend any money. Jellyfin is free and you can get plex for free without full features. I tried Jellyfin first and settled on paying for Plex, but I'm weird. Clear your drives and move all of your shit to your new pc and then work on your media server from there. If you love it and run out of space we can talk more. If the media server isn't worth your time you haven't wasted anything but time. You have a good cpu and gpu for a media server, but I feel like we might need to upgrade every fucking thing else in your box to get extra storage. At that point why dont we just build a server? Try it out. If you love having your own netflix hit me and the community up.
TheBigZee
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Gift it to a nerd/gamer niece/nephew if you've got one that would use it.
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NAS = Network Attached Storage
Generic name for some computer that makes its storage network accessible. Often used for backups and media servers.
2 SATA drives isn't much for a NAS but you can add more using a PCIe to SATA card. If you don't care about backups then you could just keep it as is and use it as generic backup that lacks redundancy. The graphics card wouldn't be doing anything here so you could remove it to make space or sell it.
If none of this sounds interesting then I don't know. If you have computationally intensive tasks you could run them on there.
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2001 me is highly insulted that you think I'm listening to Blink 182 and being normal and hanging out with girls instead of listening to Iced Earth and shredding on my guitar and not being invited to parties. But anyway, more or less.
So my thought is, my whole CD collection should be able to fit uncompressed into under 500 GB. And I'm still going to compress it because I'm going to be streaming this shit over the internet. Basically literally the use case is the fraction of my CD collection that niggers did not steal in 2002 (I am still fucking mad) will be listenable again. So what I would like to do is be able to take my phone, connect it to the Bluetooth speaker in my garage, and just stream an album.
I don't watch things. I'm too busy calling people NIGGERFAGGOT on Kiwifarms.
Anyway, I'm going to crack at it this afternoon. My plan:
- Install NoMachine so I don't need to have a monitor plugged in
- Install Jellynig or whatever
- Uninstall the 500 GB of games I have, 499 GB of which are just Modern Warfare 2019
- Rip my CDs
- Profit??
My nephew went into a screaming, crying tantrum when his mom made him get off the computer and come have dinner. Like full on tears, kicking his feet, losing his shit. He's 10.
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Dedicated emulation machine hooked to your tv or just sell it.
Is stupidly overpowered to be used as a NAS, htpc, etc.
Is stupidly overpowered to be used as a NAS, htpc, etc.
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My consoles are all hooked up to a TV in my office, except the PS4 because that system is useless if you have a PC. I might give away the graphics card just so it's not drawing unnecessary power. The CPU is only a 65W job.
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Remove the graphics card, the onboard graphics in your processor is plenty for a network storage/media streaming device, this will reduce power consumption and keep it cooler when its locked in that closet.
Be sure to check BIOS is set to Auto for preferred graphics device (the options should be something like Auto, iGPU, PCIE)
Do you want to use the operating system that is already on there? Windows 11 is not really ideal for a network appliance. Something like truenas is a better free solution (other kiwis will be better to advise on configuration for that as I use unraid for my home server which costs money and runs from USB which I'll happily give you a crash course on setting up/nomencalture in the UI). Both of these operating systems are configured from a webui after install.
How many extra 3.5 inch bays are in your existing case? As @Catgirl Enthusiast said, NVME is overkill in speed and cost for a media server. This will let you know the limit on expansion for your current setup.
You have mentioned 2 SATA ports, does the motherboard have any more or is that it? Also what model motherboard is in the computer?
edit- spelling, grammar, and some extra fluff. don't drink and type kids.
Remove the graphics card, the onboard graphics in your processor is plenty for a network storage/media streaming device, this will reduce power consumption and keep it cooler when its locked in that closet.
Be sure to check BIOS is set to Auto for preferred graphics device (the options should be something like Auto, iGPU, PCIE)
Do you want to use the operating system that is already on there? Windows 11 is not really ideal for a network appliance. Something like truenas is a better free solution (other kiwis will be better to advise on configuration for that as I use unraid for my home server which costs money and runs from USB which I'll happily give you a crash course on setting up/nomencalture in the UI). Both of these operating systems are configured from a webui after install.
How many extra 3.5 inch bays are in your existing case? As @Catgirl Enthusiast said, NVME is overkill in speed and cost for a media server. This will let you know the limit on expansion for your current setup.
You have mentioned 2 SATA ports, does the motherboard have any more or is that it? Also what model motherboard is in the computer?
edit- spelling, grammar, and some extra fluff. don't drink and type kids.
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This is a midrange, prebuilt gaming machine from about 5 years ago. There are no bays in the case at all. I don't think I need extra space right away. Jus thinking in the future. My options are USB ports and PCIe for expansion. It also already has Windows 10 on it (7th gen intel, so Win 11 is not an option), and I'm not really looking to change the OS unless I need to for some reason.
It's way too underpowered to do big boy compute work. At this point, though the primariy question I have is what could I do with it that would not make more sense to just do with my destkop. The case is way too big. It looks like it was designed to look like it exudes big dick gamer energy instead of be functional. I could maybe get a smaller case and put it under my TV.
skykiii
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If I had any interest in modern PC gaming I would offer to buy it off you.
Thought is still tempting though, maybe I could start a streaming career playing horror games and talking about how boring they are, get a few friends together and make it sorta like a second coming of Retsupurae.
Thought is still tempting though, maybe I could start a streaming career playing horror games and talking about how boring they are, get a few friends together and make it sorta like a second coming of Retsupurae.
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I don't need the money.
Current status:
- Installed NoMachine
- Set up port forwarding
- Got my USB DVD drive
- Unplugged the temporary monitor and KB/M
- Am now ripping CDs
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If you run it as a headless server you can probably just pull the graphics card out. The computer should be able to boot without GPU. Might need an UEFI setting changed though.
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Fill it with rocks and smash it against the head of a homeless person in New York City while cosplaying as Patrick Bateman
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Manul Otocolobus
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Sorry for being a normie in 2001. I can assure you than I am now also a unfuckable weirdo.
I built each of my children their own gaming rigs. The only problem I have is when they start yelling at each other over who's fault it is that they lost that round of Fortnite or whatever. I punish them by making them get off the computers and go to the living room to watch youtube on the big tv. I know that doesn't sound like much punishment, but to them it is. They will beg me to let them back on their computers. I laid the foundations with my kids early and often. Despite my avatar, I'm a big burly mother fucker and you wouldn't want to piss me off. My kids would never act like your nephew because they know what a real spanking is. I don't like spanking them, and I rarely have to do it now days, but the "your ass is lava" option is there and they know it.
For his use case of streaming his Blink 182 CD's sure, but when it comes to transcoding video that is a whole other story. Stick the biggest GPU you can afford in the fucker unless you are a poor fag that likes looking at the loading circle thing.
Get too far into computer autism and you will wonder why they don't make more biggerer computer cases to house all the shit you want to throw in it.
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Gibs 2 me. My potato is dying. 
Anyway, maybe you could donate it to some organization. You probably should just keep it around just in case. You never know when you might need something.
Anyway, maybe you could donate it to some organization. You probably should just keep it around just in case. You never know when you might need something.