What do you do with the old PC

Posted by Philthy_habits@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 14 comments

Just built a new machine and have a prebuilt from 2013 that I have no clue what to do with. I can’t imagine it’s worth much money and I’d have to wipe all confidential information off it. It’s also too big to use as a homekit server or media player. So what’s the solution then?

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Born_Cow_9649@reddit

Just keep it.

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Regular-Mechanic-150@reddit

Keep it for bad times

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ImSoberEnough@reddit

lol - yeah - like: fuck lost my job, gonna sell the thing I put 4k in for 1.8 and cry a litttle... then tell myself the graphics from the 1050ti aren't that bad compared to the 3090.

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alphaevan@reddit

Sorry to hear my guy hope a 4090 falls into your lap for free some how one of these days 🙏

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ImSoberEnough@reddit

Noo that was an hypothetical! Im doing just fine.

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ClassVirtual9763@reddit

are you sure your sober enough to be saying that?

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motoracer142@reddit

Plex server

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Faruhoinguh@reddit

I was wondering, does the server itself have to do the video decoding, or does that part happen in the smart tv/chromecast/whathaveyou. Because I would love to set up an old pc without gpu as plex server but haven't so far because I don't think it would handle for instance 4k

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thebobsta@reddit

I have a 10-year old i7 4770k running my Plex server (and Minecraft server, a bunch of other services, and a bunch of hard drives as a NAS) and with 1-2 streams it has been fine without a GPU at all. Newer Intel CPUs can transcode on iGPU which is even better.

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thatoneswitchguy@reddit

im running mine on a rasberry pi

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The_New_Clover@reddit

I have a upgrade system:

Gpu's every generation CPU every other generation Mobo's every other generation PSU's Every 5-10 years Cases almost never

Whenever I do an upgrade I always move the PC down a slot.

PC 2: TV PC for games like GoW, Tomb Raider, Etc. Anything with a controller

PC3: Alt gaming PC for Lan

PC4: Unraid

PC5: Surveillance PC

PC6: Piano PC for Synthesia.

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