My aunt gave me a new computer. It is a Pentium IV at 1.7ghz with 128mb RAM not sure what to do with it. It has a 37gb hard drive with 4gb used up by windows xp. before I saw the RAM I was thinking of running it with VNC so I could access my computer and files from wherever I was with internet, but then I went and looked at the RAM. Its disk drive is only for CD's says CD-ROM but I'm gonna try it with a CD-R in a bit to see if that would work. So what do you guys think I could do with this? I want something interesting/fun to do with it. I will be able to assure it continuous Internet(wired it seems to have two internet access ports according to windows as it shows two different network connection but I only see one on the back) access as of this weekend. It also came installed with Windows XP Proffesional.

CPU Pentium IV 1.7ghz
RAM 128mb
graphics rage 128 pro ultra gl agp (reports as 350mhz and 16 mb memory)
hard drive 37gb
OS Windows XP Professional

EDIT: Looking somemore this is the model of computer http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx240/en/ug/specs.htm

Specs I found said that it was SDRAM
Its not great but I'm sure it can do something interesting just not sure what to do with it yet

that would be great and yeah im in texas

not sure I'll have to open it up and check. I could probably go do that in a min

I don't need the hard drive I have a 1tb external I can hook up if I want more space. for the RAM I'm pretty sure that will depend on how many slots I have open. I'll open it up and check tomorrow afternoon after my physical which should end around noon. I'm too tired today to move it to somehwere I'd feel safe opening it up(mainly away from the carpet its on right now).

Sure just give me a sec to figure out how to find out. and wow that is expensive thx a lot for this. If i need it I'll pm you my address. How could I get you the money for shipping?

The website with specs says that it uses sdram and can have up to 1gb so I'm pretty sure I will be able to use it.

EDIT: most sites I've looked at tell me to go to the manufacturers page to find out the type and the manufacturer says SDRAM so without openign it out thats the best I can do I think. If you know a better way to check the type without opening it please tell me

thanks I'll pm you my address tomorrow if I see there is room to add more. There should be though since the manufacturer page says max memory of 1 gb in what I'd guess would be 512mb chips
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Any idea what I could do with this comp. I'm thinking maybe a file server/basic testing for web dev

Yeah you might want to make it a server, maybe even switch to Linux, but XP might do as well.

That's what I'm doing with a broken laptop with Linux on a external HD, it acts as a router (gets internet from wlan0, feeds it in eth0), a web server and a media center (plugged with HDMI on the 40" TV). Might do the same with a Pentium 4, prolly making it boot on a NFS share.