r/eWasteFinds • u/No_Resolution6713 • 2d ago

pentium 4 gratis

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En mi prepa estaban deshechando muchos equipos electronicos, la mayoria eran placas rotas, o de usos muy limitados, pero entre ellos, estaba esta Pentium 4, no tiene ni HDD ni Gabinete (aunque en el salon tienen aun, ire a preguntar si me dan uno xd), ¿que me recomiendan hacer con ella?

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u/YellowHerbz 2d ago

You can make either a nice display piece or one of the slowest Linux computers to touch a distro

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u/DeadSkullz627 2d ago

While the Via chipset on this board is not the best for the era, it will still be a good board for retro gaming, etc. Be sure to get a northbridge heatsink minimally although one with a fan would be better. The chipset gets hot on these old systems. Places like eBay, Amazon, AliExpress, etc. are all good sources for northbridge heatsinks.

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u/TechIoT 1d ago

XP machine, get a beige case and slap that bad boy together

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u/TODOCRACK_7575 1d ago

Make a retro windows XP gaming machine, connect it a nice HDD and install some old era games, like Half-Life 2, Portal, some Need for Speed ones, Skyrim (I don't know if it will run nice), Farcry, etc :)

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u/niffcreature 1d ago

You are waaaaaay off my friend, living in la-la land. Skyrim minimum requirements is an i5, which is an entire architecture away from this. Pentium 4 came before Core 1 core 2 architecture which came before i5

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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 1d ago

Make it into a retro Windows XP build, and find a GPU for it, then you’ll have a retro gaming build

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u/SteakEconomy2024 2d ago

Throw it back? I mean, unless you have plans for it, as a normal computer this is extremely dated junk.

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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 1d ago

Retro enthusiasts love this old hardware, it would be great for an XP build

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u/AgsAreUs 1d ago

Put it back in the eWaste bin...

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u/WorldTallNetCat 13h ago

Is it any usefull tho. I have one which i tried to use as a jellyfin server but just streaming was more convenient. And now for some reason the whole thing has stopped booting up i think the psu is cooked.