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Old 04-19-2021, 03:44 PM   #14377
ptirmal
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Originally Posted by mhoward1 View Post
So this is pretty far away from a PC master build, but....

So we have a old I5 with decent hardware (for 8 years ago). It was running windows 8.1, but the OS files got corrupt.

It's really not worth upgrading, or buying a copy of 10 to fix things but I hate to just throw it away since it seems the hardware is just fine. I figure I can just install Linux and repurpose it.

Any ideas on what I can put this to use for? We already have media PC (Plex). I can make it a Arcade Machine, but in truth the stuff for the Raspberry PI seems to be much better sorted and the accessories are cheaper.

So what other ideas does the group have?
For real emulation an x86 machine is way better. It can also emulate much newer hardware than a pi is limited to. If it matters to you, which it doesn't sound like.

NAS?
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