Well, I was going through my garage to make room for another car now that I've had my driver's license, and found our old Dell Desktop computer. Apparently, it was a good bit older than I thought, because its the Dell Dimension e510 from 2005. The hard drive is broken, but I took it out and was surprised to find out that my 2017 120GB SSD I got for free (when I was the aide for the IT guy at my school, he got hard drive on accident through a mail error, and he never had anyone ask for it back, so he gave it to me ) actually had the same pinout and could then be plugged in, although I have no clue if it will actually work. The RAM in the computer was only 2, 256MB sticks, and I couldn't find the speed, but I looked up what the fastest RAM I could use for this motherboard is, and it's 533MHz DDR2 ram. Looking on eBay, I found a deal for 4, 2GB sticks (more than enough for something like this) for $16, (http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/3218737586 ... dispItem=1) although it looks pretty sketchy (lack of brand, Chinese seller). The processor is a shitty Pentium 4 processor, and although this motherboard won't work with an Intel Core 2 processor despite having the same pinout (?) I found it should work with a Pentium D, which I think should at least be decent, as all programs are optimized for two cores now. Even if the best Pentium D (945) is still underpowered, I was still shocked that you can get one for less than $4! http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1518574346 ... dispItem=1 I was just looking up parts out of curiosity at first, but damn, I might be able to make a decent machine and sell it and make a few more bucks than I would otherwise. It should then be good for most people, unlike before, mainly due to the originally small RAM. It's not going to have any trouble browsing the internet or making a Word document.
Really though, $4? Getting 100 of them would stomp a $400 modern day processor, if you could connect them all, anyway.
Really though, $4? Getting 100 of them would stomp a $400 modern day processor, if you could connect them all, anyway.