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So about that pile of computers I rescued from the dump... eh, er... yeah.
After careful Googling I discovered that two to them could have their CPUs upgraded. One came with a 2.2 Ghz dual core and the other a Pentium D single core. Upgrade the first one to a 3.0 Ghz cpu - 5 dollars? Sounds good.
Swap the old one out and put that into the other one. Now it's rocking dual cores! Upgrade cost: 0 dollars.
Will these 10-12 year old machines ever run GAMES? You know... first person shoot 'em ups? Seems to be the only game type out there. Eh, maybe some older ones with the right graphics cards. And they'll be Linux systems because Windows is 100 dollars a pop. Gaming on Linux is a different discussion. But word processing, web surfing, audio editing, graphics, video editing... a little chancy on the last one but otherwise they'll be fine.
-m
After careful Googling I discovered that two to them could have their CPUs upgraded. One came with a 2.2 Ghz dual core and the other a Pentium D single core. Upgrade the first one to a 3.0 Ghz cpu - 5 dollars? Sounds good.
Swap the old one out and put that into the other one. Now it's rocking dual cores! Upgrade cost: 0 dollars.
Will these 10-12 year old machines ever run GAMES? You know... first person shoot 'em ups? Seems to be the only game type out there. Eh, maybe some older ones with the right graphics cards. And they'll be Linux systems because Windows is 100 dollars a pop. Gaming on Linux is a different discussion. But word processing, web surfing, audio editing, graphics, video editing... a little chancy on the last one but otherwise they'll be fine.
-m
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