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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!

Original question by @bpt11@sh.itjust.works

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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I bet with 60 GBb RAM it could run Android Studio with almost no lag.

almost no lag.

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Download Wikipedia, seed Anna's archive for a ratio of 2.1+ and then turn it off.

Turn it on again in 2 years time and observe.

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like there's a story behind this, where could I read more?

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 15 hours ago

It's about the current (threat?) of purging Wikipedia from articles not fitting into the MAGA mind, e.g. climate, gender, race and others, as well as 'cleaning' the inventory of public libraries accordingly.

[–] Dasbootner@programming.dev 3 points 16 hours ago

Run a homelab/server and do random stuff with it. Maybe even run a small LLM for the funsies. But it’s perfect for tinkering for sure!

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Why re-post this? I hope bpt11 reads the answers here or it's kind of a waste of time.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Bit of an experiment on cross-posting discussion based posts to hopefully encourage more discussion type posts on !linux@programming.dev over !linux@lemmy.ml

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I kind of dislike it. I mean it's a good thing if they read it. If not, it just takes 5 minutes out of my day if I come up with a good nuanced answer here, and that's time I'm not going to spend answering other people's Linux questions. But it's alright, you made it completely transparent that this is a re-post. And it's a good thing to diversify. People often just ask in one big community, or even discuss everything in the super big technology communities even we have dedicated ones for certain specific tech topics.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah true, but don't feel discouraged if OOP never reads it in similar situations, a good answer is a good answer somebody will read and appreciate it, especially for this common-ish "What can I do with X old hardware?" type questions lol

I can't tell you how many times I myself was able to glean some insight from ancient forum threads where I was never the OP lmao

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 20 hours ago

Fair enough. I'm a bit unsure whether that happens on Lemmy. My old posts and comments rarely get any votes, interactions or corrections after say two weeks. These people must either be completely passive, or no one reads it after that. With a few minor exceptions. But you're right. This has happened to me, too. So you have a point here.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's overpowered for just simple network services, and underpowered for gaming. GPU lost driver support a many releases back as well.

CPU will draw a lot of energy just sitting idle, so if you don't have something solid to throw at it, just leave it.

Could be used for something like a Batocera console I guess, but I wouldn't leave it running 24/7.

[–] Waryle@jlai.lu 4 points 20 hours ago

CPU will draw a lot of energy just sitting idle, so if you don't have something solid to throw at it, just leave it.

Where did you get that idea from? i7-6700k can idle at lower than 4W

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

@bpt11@sh.itjust.works hmm it's got good amount of RAM, id probably throw Proxmox on it and run it as a server

You could also do some light AI stuffs, but iirc you'll need to upgrade the GPU to at least the 10xx series for CUDA

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Thats my secondary/backup Proxmox server (but don't rally need that nVidia gfx card).

For the actual (and off site) backups backup server I have an even older one.

The old PCs I don't gift away just join the homelab, and homemuseum eventually.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

My daily driver is a 6500T with 32GB RAM running Mint.

Pycharm, Lemmy, FF and Godot runs like a charm.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 21 hours ago

Guest computer?

Dedicated server for multi-player games?

Retire the Nvidia card, put the rest in a small case, and make it a Kodi box?

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 1 points 20 hours ago

I’d add it to my proxmox cluster and start getting services setup on it. Plain and simple.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

Run BOINC! Moo wrapper will happily serve GPU work units for a GTX 745

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

A graphics card that old isn't really useful for modern applications (not even AV streaming since it doesn't support modern codecs and therefore would be slow). So I'd have no use for it myself.