Nice find, eMacs are fairly good workhorses. Slap Tiger on it and it should run well. Leopard is a bit more taxing on the older PPC machines, mostly due to its being optimized for Intel macs. Install tiger and you could set it up as a file/print server. (obviously for file server you may want a few USB HDDS with it.) or you could use it as a download computer.
HP has always had horrible thermal design. What's the graphics card?HP-Pavilion p6228p
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
AMD Athlon II Quad core
8 gigs of RAM
600 gigs of Hard drive
Runs Half-Life 2 and episodes well, but cooling system bails under some dust and GPU overheats to 120* C, but easily cools when dust is removed.
My computer is a
Compaq
AMD Anthlon 64 X2 Dual
Core processor 4000+
2.11 GHz,4GB of RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4350(Upgraded Video Card)DDR2 512 MB
Was a Windows Vista but i downgraded it to Windows Xp Professional.
Based upon the specs, Vista should run just fine on it, Vista was only really bad during its tenure with only SP0 to SP1, since SP2 it's actually been pretty good. I'd wager Windows 7 would perform just as well as XP on that hardware.With how bad Vista is that could be considered a upgrade.
What model?
With how bad Vista is that could be considered a upgrade.
What model?
Provided the computer is not too old to handle it properly, Vista is far better than XP. Some people just can't cope with change or have an outdated system.HPs are awful at staying cool when the dust accumulates on the heat sink for the CPU. You get marked performance improvements with them just by simply cleaning the dust out of your HP system, even moreso than other brands or even custom rigs.
Unless it was a 64-bit version. Then there's also the drastic (albeit highly ineffective within 6-12 months of its initial release) security improvements in Vista that make using Vista better than using XP. AND VISTA WASN'T THAT BAD. SERIOUSLY. I don't see why people still hate on it. It's drastically more stable than using XP.
I would argue that point since i have a few games made for XP that refuse to run in vista/7 no matter what compatability options i use.
PC Specs:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67GHz (with coolermaster fan ready for stable 3.8 overclock)
6144MB RAM DDR3 1600mhz (Tripple Channel DDR3)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB
Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
500GB HDD, 2TB HDD
Build it myself, its getting almost year old so i think soon will be time to upgrade graphic card, i was thinking about ram memory as well, but even after using computer to edit videos and pictures i dint find need for more memory
You'll be pushing it to try and cool a 3800 MHz i7 on anything Coolermaster has to offer. They're great for cooler quads, like the i5s and Phenoms, but the heavily OCed i7s pump out some serious heat, especially with hyperthreading. Also, keep in mind that adding another 3 DIMMs of ram will stress the integrated memory controller, causing more heat again.PC Specs:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67GHz (with coolermaster fan ready for stable 3.8 overclock)
6144MB RAM DDR3 1600mhz (Tripple Channel DDR3)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB
Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
500GB HDD, 2TB HDD
Build it myself, its getting almost year old so i think soon will be time to upgrade graphic card, i was thinking about ram memory as well, but even after using computer to edit videos and pictures i dint find need for more memory
I'd update the graphics - everything else is killer.
Your bottleneck is the graphics card. The processor is overpowered, you're not going to be putting that thing to work for a few more years at least. An i5-750 would be a better fit for this build (760 wasn't out a year ago).PC Specs:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67GHz (with coolermaster fan ready for stable 3.8 overclock)
6144MB RAM DDR3 1600mhz (Tripple Channel DDR3)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB
Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
500GB HDD, 2TB HDD
Build it myself, its getting almost year old so i think soon will be time to upgrade graphic card, i was thinking about ram memory as well, but even after using computer to edit videos and pictures i dint find need for more memory
Laptop Specs:
Acer Aspire 5551-2384
15.6" HD LED LCD
AMD Athlon II X2 P320 @ 2.1ghz
4GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
Win-7 Home Premium (64-bit)
250GB HDD