Computer necromancy

[malada]

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

Comments

[marahmarie]

I talk to dead computers

Yeah, me too - also cell phones, laptops and tablets. Like malada a lot of the stuff we have around here didn't cost us anything (besides parts: the kitchen laptop has a new charger and has chewed through two keyboards but seems OK with the third; the Surface has a new charger, too, but otherwise cost only what it took to drive it home from the curb). Oh, and (edit) my cell phone has a new USB port board, case and glass, but was otherwise no cost, as well.

[siliconshaman]

Well, technically, anything with a cpu is a computer... and that's my thing. You know what they say; Repair, Reuse, Resurrect!

[marahmarie]

I get confused about that really easily because I'm used to back in the day when someone said "computer" but they meant "that tower over there"; if they had something else they'd say so, back when towers were still the default. I never know who defines computer as the old-timey tower over there, alone, and who defines it as we do (anything with a motherboard, basically) so I tend to default to elaborating!