to take parts from one machine to upgrade another. Now both of these
machines were gonna get thrown out so I decided to grab them for this tutorial
specifically. So I'm gonna just over a couple different things you can check in
a couple of different things you can do to actually take two really old machines
and make a halfway-decent current machine. The first thing I did was I
opened up both cases to see if they had the same motherboard different
motherboards same parts different parts whatever the case may be. They actually
do have two different motherboards one has a motherboard from 2004 and the
other one has a motherboard from 2005 now just because they're a year part
doesn't mean one is better than the other I mean usually it's going to be
the newer one that's better but you always want to check the motherboard
number and google it and actually get the actual specifications to see which
board is better now in this case it did just so happen that the motherboard from
2005 is better so that's the one we're gonna go with. So let's crack them open
and show you what we're gonna be doing so the first thing you're gonna want to
do is pick which case you want to use and which motherboard you're gonna use
since I don't care about how it looks so much I'm not too worried about this
little dent and this is where the 2005 motherboard actually is. I'm gonna
crack this open I've already gone ahead and taken all the RAM out because I want
to decide which Ram is the best for it. So hopefully we can maybe even take
advantage of the dual channel that the motherboard does have already. I've already Gone ahead
and disconnected the side fan as well so I went ahead and did open the case just
to see what we're working with here we do have four ddr2 slots and luckily only
two slots were taking up in this board and two slots were taken up in the other
system so I'm literally just gonna be taking the RAM from the other machine
and adding it to here. Now the downside that I noticed was this machine came
with two gigs of RAM the other one from 2004 only had one gig of ram so I'm
gonna be putting the matching Ram in each slot so we can take advantage of
its RAM configuration now a couple different things I've
noticed here is one it's got a 56k modem that we can most certainly take out we
are not going to be using that that is just going to be wasting space here and
that I can go ahead and recycle also this has a floppy drive and an IDE CD
drive I'm actually going to take both of those out because I am NOT gonna need
them. Now I am going to use a CD drive to get the operating system on here but I
can always plug that up separately or use an external USB if need be
so since I'm removing these I'm kind of configuring it for a more modern machine
Also gonna take the CD drive out so now we have these big gaps that look kind of
tacky so another thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take plates from the
other machine and move them over to here as well so let's go take some usable
parts out of the other machine. So from the machine from 2004 I'm gonna go ahead
and grab the hard drive some front plates and the RAM. Probably should have
disconnected it before doing that but hey it happens. As you can see we've
added the extra plates and it looks a little nicer and more professional
obviously we can take this out and realign this one give it a nice clean
try to get some of the staining off etc but for the most part this looks like a
very professional looking machine and what we're actually going to do is we're
going to take the hard drive we took out of the machine from 2004 and we're gonna
actually put it directly below this and connect it via a SATA cable
both had 80 gig drives in there so now it has two 80 gig drives and what I intend
to do is actually set it for raid zero so it's using both drives and the speed
of both drives to run the operating system so we've boosted the performance
with raid and two hard drives and we also boosted the performance with
combining the RAM we also took out parts that are no longer used so it doesn't
really take up any space or any memory whatsoever we took out the CD drive we
took out the floppy drive and we took out the 56k modem so in all honesty I
would deem this machine set to go I mean obviously before doing anything like
this I would recommend making sure you dust it out now as far as talking
operating system that's entirely up to you if you're just using it as a web
browser machine windows is generally fine especially since we just added four
gigs and it does have a three gigahertz processor you can probably get away with
seven windows 7 on it if you want to do a couple of more modern things on an old
machine there are plenty of Linux distros I know there's a lot of Linux
lovers out there which is awesome but as far as which the Linux version is
best for you I would try a couple different distros just to see which
which you prefer I mean Ubuntu is kind of always the default and this
machine's not too old to where it would need something like Puppy Linux or damn
small Linux not trying to swear if there's actually an opera Linux distro
called damn small Linux another thing you may want to do is check the wattage
of the power supply see if you see if the power supplies are any different see
which one's a better power supply also you may want to turn both machines on
and check the fans for noise because you most certainly would want to take the
least noisy fans and put them in the machine you're gonna keep and as I said
depending on what operating system you go with will kind of determine what you
can do with the machine this really isn't gonna be for gaming however if you
do throw a decent video card in there you may be able to do a couple of things
on low settings or medium settings it all depends on the game also we took out
hardware we no longer need such as we I decided you know what for this I don't
want CD Drive, I don't want the Floppy drive and most certainly not
going to use the 56k modem anymore thank you for watching this information peace
kind of a tutorial kind of not on how to take two old machines and combine their
resources to make a halfway-decent machine if you have any questions
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