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To what use would you put a machine of such specifications ? (media.piefed.ca)
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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ultra high-end gaming machine from the 90s. Play Rainbow Six, Diablo, and others from that era on an impossibly futuristic machine (in 1996). Might need to buy on GOG instead of Steam -- can Steam run on this? I think it's 64-bit only nowadays. I'm guessing this has a 32-bit CPU.

I was also going to say that you could run something that is useful on a selfhosting setup. Garage, an S3 server, has low RAM requirements. But the GPU would be wasted there, and an SSD would be really nice for that use case.