Would like to call the attention of local readers who might be interested to the notice I put up earlier today on a functional, older midtower PC and monitor I'm giving away; https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_etc
The MT PC is a Dell PowerEdge SC430 from circa 2005-2006 with 1.0 GB of RAM and described in Dell's
description/specs at https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/sc430_specs.pdf
Downloadable User guides at https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/poweredgesc-430/docs
Here is a more detailed rundown of what I'd like to giveaway
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# 'inxi -F' system specs....
System:
Host: PE-SC430 Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64
Console: tty 0 Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: PowerEdge SC430 v: N/A serial: JHQFQ81
Mobo: Dell model: 0M9873 serial: ..CN7082157L508F. BIOS: Dell v: A04
date: 10/06/2006
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 64 type: MT
L2 cache: 1024 KiB
Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2793 2: 2793
Graphics:
Device-1: XGI Z7/Z9 driver: N/A
* Display: server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: vesa tty: 80x28
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.
Audio:
** Message: No Device data found.
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
driver: tg3
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:12:3f:76:0a:c8
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 74.51 GiB used: 4.32 GiB (5.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST380013AS size: 74.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 33.24 GiB used: 3.75 GiB (11.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: /boot size: 476.2 MiB used: 49.3 MiB (10.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.01 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Info:
Processes: XXX Uptime: Xm Memory: 993.7 MiB used: XXX.X MiB (XX.X%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36
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Memory:
RAM: total: 993.7 MiB used: XXX.X MiB (XX.X%)
Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 4 EC: Unbuffered Single-bit ECC
Device-1: DIMM_1 size: 512 MiB PC2-4200, speed: 533 MT/s (DDR2-533MHz)
Device-2: DIMM_3 size: No Module Installed
Device-3: DIMM_2 size: 512 MiB PC2-4200, speed: 533 MT/s (DDR2-533MHz)
Device-4: DIMM_4 size: No Module Installed
Optical drives:
PATA-1: Sony CRX216E 48x24x48 CD-RW
PATA-2: LG GH22LP21 22x Super-Multi DVD ReWriter
Fully-loaded weight of PowerEdge SC430 system box: ~40lbs
Monitor:
Dell E171FPb 17" Flat Panel LCD / TFT active matrix
1280 x 1024 native resolution at 75Hz
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Note from the above that....
* the installed antiX-19.2_x64-full OS could possibly use some tweaking to ideally refine the vesa display server
** the PowerEdge SC430 doesn't currently have sound, although whoever takes this is perfectly welcome to install a soundcard into one of the open PCI slots and obtain sound functionality ;-)
Two power cables and one standard VGA cable are included with the system unit and monitor, however, a keyboard, a mouse and ethernet cable are not.
This PC and monitor combo are probably okay for performing resource-light single tasks such as copying files to/from media, reading documents that aren't too large, simple editing, burning CD's ... etcetera. There is another mounted partition on the hard drive called /extra (ext3 on /dev/sda6) which has stored on it ISO images of Finnix 120 https://www.finnix.org/ and various releases of Debian GNU/Linux https://www.debian.org/ , so with a bit more RAM added, the PowerEdge SC430 could run faster and better accommodate other installed Linux distros ;-)
-Aaron