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.
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.