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Originally Posted by jontz
I just "offer" to take peoples old computers from them so they don't have to recycle them. It is amazing what people think is an old computer these days. Someone gave me an Athlon XP 1700+ the other day. Too "old" for them  Sure makes for some nice computers laying around to put FreeNAS on though... |
That's probably powerful enough to make a pvr out of with KnoppMyth. There's always something to be tested where you don't want to alter your current running workstation and having something extra, even as slow as 450mhz is useful to try things out such as an os you want to try. I may just grab an extra 4100 or 705N to play with. The worst case scenario is having to desolder the flash drive and set up a jig to allow you to write to it on a desktop pc. Hmm, wonder if that ide header is to hook to an ide controller on another computer and reflash it that way? They had to have made a way so they could easily get the boards from mfr, flash the os into them and have someone fire it up after the entire box was assembled. I'm also wondering if the 10/100 realtek chip is pin compatible with their faster stuff.