2013-12-09, 04:42
A couple of years ago I was given an old HP Pavilion T3620-uk and the only reason I took it was the front panel break-out, which I thought would be useful. The owner told me the PC was scrap, otherwise. Much to my surprise, only thing wrong was a loose CPU heatsink and it worked fine.
Specs are - Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 1.86GHz, 1GB 3200 DDR2 RAM.
I've added a GF-210 1GB for cheap and am using converters to run the old spare IDE drives I have on the SATA-only motherboard.
I've had several CD-only trials of Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, etc) runing for hours, just to test it and it's been a champ.
I'm wondering what would be the best way to go with this - install Ubuntu and XBMC on that, or simply go straight into
XMCBuntu. I'm assuming that the linux flavours might be a lesser demand on the system than a full-blown W7 (32 or 64) then XBMC on top.
Memory is restricted to a max of 4GB, as two of the slots are dodgy, so only leaves two which can take a max of 2GB each.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docum...itle_r0002
Any opinions?
Specs are - Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 1.86GHz, 1GB 3200 DDR2 RAM.
I've added a GF-210 1GB for cheap and am using converters to run the old spare IDE drives I have on the SATA-only motherboard.
I've had several CD-only trials of Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, etc) runing for hours, just to test it and it's been a champ.
I'm wondering what would be the best way to go with this - install Ubuntu and XBMC on that, or simply go straight into
XMCBuntu. I'm assuming that the linux flavours might be a lesser demand on the system than a full-blown W7 (32 or 64) then XBMC on top.
Memory is restricted to a max of 4GB, as two of the slots are dodgy, so only leaves two which can take a max of 2GB each.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docum...itle_r0002
Any opinions?