you really are limited to how much you want to spend or replace.As long as the case can fit all the new hardware and if you dont plan to replace the motherboard you will be limited to how much you can do.
Chances are though with a computer that old you will spend more money than its worth to get it relatively current whereas you could go out and buy a celeron or something for less money. I only plan to do it to learn how and as a project for something to do. Since I am retired I need to find ways to waste time.
I plan to replace the motherboard, processor, ram, video card and add a hard drive
I figured it would be cost prohibitive, but like you I am doing it mainly to learn and not be afraid to go rooting through the tower and see how things hook up. Just looked on Ebay for what I am missing, most of what I am missing can be had for under $100.
Earlier I took the cooling fan off and discovered someone already yanked the CPU LOL. I'm not retired just looking for something new to exercise my brain. Got this tower for nothing, so it doesn't owe me anything LOL.
I still have an old PC (from '96) that is still useful as a test machine as well as a file server. I'm surprised that it has no trouble handling large files, and can sustain FTP transfer rates of about 5 megabytes per second over my local network. It is a 200 MHz Pentium 1 with 64 megabytes of RAM and an 8 GB hard disk.
If my cable provider allowed me to run a server, I would use it to host my website instead of paying a webhost.
since I know you arnt on Rogers, since its our Canandian cable monopoly
so there lololo
although I think most if not all cable companys have pretty much the same rules..
argggg
post is in reply to Alex didnt quote him, since i thought I could slide my post in before trigger be me to it making me look like I am reply to the post above this one lol
Originally blurted out by Bromy Actually I was talking to Nav lol
since I know you arnt on Rogers, since its our Canandian cable monopoly
so there lololo
although I think most if not all cable companys have pretty much the same rules..
argggg
post is in reply to Alex didnt quote him, since i thought I could slide my post in before trigger be me to it making me look like I am reply to the post above this one lol
Rogers can't be half as bad as Cablevision. CV has complete control over cable TV and internet. Optimum Online used to be $29.99 USD per month, but it is now $45 per month. That has to be more than what you're paying.
sounds about the same actually, Rogers controls all cable tv and cable internet here, and I pay the same as you. Now if you converted your $45 US to Canadian then it would be almost 100 bucks. So yeah I guess when you take currency conversion into effect you are paying double than we are.
The cable companys know they have us by the balls so they can do as they please and charge as much as they want or we can go back to dialup. Its that monopoly attitude that I got a satellite dish and cancelled my cable tv just to protest lol. If my dish provider supplied internet connection I would probably do away with cable completely.
although they have hispeed lite for 29.95 a month but its capped and speed is slower and I wont go for that. Right now my connection is already too slow, the network is congested.
I want to get one of them DOCSIS modems, they just started with them and not many people on the network and they are very fast. JMD has one and he says the sppeds are amazing
