Pentium 4. If it has a half decent board, it's good for one thing: Maximum OC. If the board is crap and doesn't allow overclocking, then it's useless other than build practice.
Or make a Linux installation disc and run it from the CD. Ubuntu has that feature but won't run on a P4.
Open it up, google every long number you see in the motherboard until you come across a model. Probably an Intel board. From there you can get the socket, if you manage to boot it up you can see the CPU speed, with that you can search for the CPU model. If it has a graphics card it will have a model number, look it up.
I have several unused hard drives. Right now I have two 40GB PATA, one of which is a 2.5", and a 120GB SATA 2.5". I've got an 80GB PATA 3.5" in my second PC completely unused, should take it out. I think the 40GB 3.5" has XP installed in it. The 80GB has Win10 preview.
They might let you take a picture of the inside of the PC. If they don't, well, no way of knowing what's in there until you get it.
Vivaldi added a bookmarks bar and now the MMB opens new tabs and will open links in a new tab, so I think I can make the switch now and not suffer XD thanks aljowen for informing me of this interesting browser.
I've got enough that I'm going to install (along with Windows 7/10) several other OS's on my gaming computer when it is finished. For my current miracle machine, check my sig. It manages to run BeamNG, World of Tanks, and a ton of other games.
My school macbook is currently out of commission due to hard drive problems. I've now realized that it was the only computer in this house that isn't a complete piece of shit. I want it back, now. ;_; I also really hope that the hard drive didn't completely fail, because I kept all of my pictures and videos on that thing. And if it did fail, I hope I can get hold of it before the tech guy throws it away or whatnot, to try and salvage what I can off of it.
Apple is about the smoothest running os out there...when it's new. The macbooks this year are slow and unreliable. Last year they were damn impeccable. I don't think the thing locked up on me or even acted funny the whole time I had it. This year they suck. Constantly freezing up and becoming unresponsive and stuff. I assume that the school loading them up with a ton more stupid programs running in the background is to blame. And the computer isn't even a year and a half old. A little young for a hard drive to fail. And I am trying to build a computer. I have all the parts but the OS DOESN'T WANT TO FUCKING WORK. I HAVE THROWN SO MANY GODDAMN HARD DRIVES OUT OF MY WINDOW BECAUSE OF THAT THING.
if you wouldn't throw stuff out the window, you wouldn't have as many problems. that doesn't solve anything. it only breaks stuff even more. oh look, johnny broke his leg. maybe if i throw him out the window, it'll fix his leg. oh shit johnny isn't working now. etc
(imported from here) (imported from here) Lapped it and figured out a way to mount it with pressure on the middle of the cooler. Ran cooler even before I put thermal paste on it. - - - Updated - - - HDD was broken before. (At least one of them was.) He's too dumb to figure out how to install XP from a thumb drive and the 7 disk (Probably from a laptop or something) he tried doesn't boot.
So Harrison Ford was in a plane crash.. Apparently its engines shut off & they tried to get back to the airport but came down hard in a golf course. Harrison himself is relatively ok.
You think I'm stupid enough to throw working parts that I'm using out of my window? It's all old HDDs that aren't working anymore. They make surprisingly good frisbees. You see, this is my situation. I installed windows 7. It won't boot. It just shuts off at the "starting windows" screen and I have to flip the power supply off for a minute or two to get it to even turn back on again. I reintstalled multiple times and the same exact thing happens. I got tired of messing with it so I turned it off and didn't touch it for a few weeks. When my macbook borked the other day, I needed a decent computer to use so I decided to try and make this one work. I decided that I'd install xp from a thumb drive just so I had something to work with. I turned it on and let it boot just to see what it would do, and the damn thing worked. Started windows seamlessly, I typed in the key and everything was working fine. To see if it had actually somehow fixed itself of the problem, I decided to restart it. It froze on the shutting down screen, and when I tried to start it again, it was doing the same exact thing. Then I proceeded with the plans to install xp from the thumbdrive, and I somehow fucked that up too. I don't get it. It worked fine. Just...WHY? I hate computers so, so much.
