Hello homelabbers,

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.

  • @jetAEnglish
    6•24 days ago

    It’s not power efficient, you’re better off buying a cheaper computer, that runs on far fewer watts

    If you want to run it as a museum piece, or for archaeological purposes, go for it.

    You could run it as a router, I question how much throughput you can get… But again, a cheap $20 off-the-shelf openwrt router like gli.net will be much cheaper on your power bill.