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What can I make out of a Old Pentium D desktop (self.selfhosted)

submitted 6 months ago by reddit_sux to c/selfhosted

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Hello self hosters,

Recently I came into possession of an old Desktop PC. Its configuration is,

Pentium D 820, 2.8 GHz dual Pentium 4 core processor, supports 64 bit.
512 DDR 333 memory
90GB HDD
no graphics card
3 PCI and 1 AGP slot

I was planning to put a ethernet card and use it as a router. It was to theown as garbage. Is what I am planning feasible or a good idea. Or it would be better as trash.

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[–] BombOmOm 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Pentium D processors are pretty power hungry, so factor that into your thoughts. Also make sure you put a modern OS on it that is getting security updates. It probably has Win XP or Vista installed which isn't safe to connect to any network.

It should work fine as a router as long as you don't enable any of the packet inspection features. For basic routing and firewalling for a home network it should be plenty powerful. I would personally put a small SATA SSD in it as the main drive and ditch the 90GB HDD.

As an additional idea, if you put a larger SATA drive or two into it you could make it a NAS.

[–] reddit_sux 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks i was planning to put OpenWRT or DD WRT on it ditching Windows XP

[–] just_another_person 19 points 6 months ago

You do not want a 200W router, ma dood. This thing is ancient, and not going to be optimized for power usage whatsoever.