Suggestions for spare PC?

[adit_sen]

I currently have a spare PC with me, a 2.4Ghz P4 with 2GB RAM, a 40GB HDD, nVidia geForce 4 graphics card. Now this is not currently in use, as I'm making use of a Compaq Laptop, a Dell Laptop and a fairly powerful AMD based PC. Now I'm wondering what to do with the spare PC. I thought of setting it up as a server, but any suggestions on how that would be useful to me? What else cud I do with it? (I'm not selling it...) Any way to use the processing power of that PC in addition to my present desktop?

 

[MetalheadGautham]

reduce the ram, use onboard(if available) and use it as a download rig.
Or, you can make it a linux based headless remote desktop operated server.
you can also try doing time consuming tasks like DVD ripping, CD/DVD writing, etc which you wouldn't want to do on a high end system on that computer.

and as you have 4 systems now, try in-house lan gaming with family/friends.

 

[adit_sen]

I was planning on installing windows server 2003 on it, and setting it up as a file server for all my other computers. but I don't get how reducing the ram would effect its usage in any way?