How do you deal with parts that is not resellable?

[maxtch]

4 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

Yay, bug fixes that will cripple the compute capability of the CPU for the sake of patching bugs I'll probably never fall victim to. Also I'll probably never need NVMe support on this platform. I have a retired 5960X rig.

I am using NVMe in my dual C602 board as its boot device, so I need the NVMe boot patch.

 

That is also me development VM host where both untrusted code and code with dubious quality would run inside VM’s, so I need Meltdown/Spectre patches.

[Kisai]

6 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

“Free” on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace is a good one.

I believe there’s a video around somewhere on how to make “techie” Christmas wreaths out of old ram.

One option is Donate it to freegeek if there is one in your area and they want it (that may not).  Some charities take computer parts and resell them online as well like goodwill.  Find out if they want it first too.  

UGh, I hate seeing electronics "recycled" into art projects, particularly electronics that aren't even broken.

 

You watch, in about 3 years when NVMe drives that are too small or worn out become eWaste, there will be people making charm bracelets from them. They're small enough to do so, but too fragile to actually do that with since the chips will break off. But yeah, anything that already has holes in the PCB automatically becomes something that could be put on a keyring to make it easily identified among all the other keyrings. However the exposed contacts and stuff on it makes it impractical since it will shred clothing it gets placed in.

 

Most electronics that are older than 5 years but younger than 10 should be sent to places that can upcycle them (eg reuse) , but anything that isn't a vintage 1979-1989 complete PC/XT/Tandy 1000/Apple II/Amiga is probably not valuable except to people who are trying to build a vintage gaming box, and because of the rapid decay rate of CRT aging, many of these vintage systems have no means of driving a HDMI monitor without another $500 scandoubler/upscaler. So there are FPGA projects out there or in the works to replicate the 8-bit and 16-bit machines that may eventually allow people to play/use old software the way it was intended. 

 

Only some very specific old devices have value (like a much wanted Roland MT-32) because of the rarity, despite there being all sorts of other MIDI devices that should be worth more. Honestly I'm surprised Roland hasn't just made a "MT-32 mini" themselves.

[Windows7ge]

6 hours ago, maxtch said:

I am using NVMe in my dual C602 board as its boot device, so I need the NVMe boot patch.

 

That is also me development VM host where both untrusted code and code with dubious quality would run inside VM’s, so I need Meltdown/Spectre patches.

I just have a pair of RAID1 SATA SSDs. VMs run on a 8 drive RAID10 pool with a PCI_e SSD Read/Write cache. So it doesn't need NVMe boot either.

 

BIOS security patches were released for my C602 board which I did install because of the servers application but a very old X79 rig reserved to BOINC on Ubuntu Server I don't think I have to worry about bugs that inflict mainly hypervisors.

 

Besides it looks like Spectre and Meltdown patches were never released:

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I can install up to 128GB of RAM though with the BETA BIOS 

 

[maxtch]

15 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

Besides it looks like Spectre and Meltdown patches were never released:

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I can install up to 128GB of RAM though with the BETA BIOS 

 

Those has to be patched in using a BIOS modding tool, starting with the latest released BIOS and use a tool to upgrade the built-in CPU microcode.

[Windows7ge]

24 minutes ago, maxtch said:

Those has to be patched in using a BIOS modding tool, starting with the latest released BIOS and use a tool to upgrade the built-in CPU microcode.

Eh, if the manufacturer didn't bother pre-compiling a BIOS package with the patches I'm not going to do it manually for a system like this. It's not worth it to me.

[RonnieOP]

Trash or recycle them.

 

A couple months ago i got tired of the clutter in my shed and didnt feel like taking the time to list old pc parts online. Ended up just taking a truckload to the dump.

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, RonnieOP said:

Trash or recycle them.

 

A couple months ago i got tired of the clutter in my shed and didnt feel like taking the time to list old pc parts online. Ended up just taking a truckload to the dump.

Computer parts sometimes have valuable metals in them.  Like gold.  Dump might do electronics recycling in which case it’s the way to go.  If they don’t there may be an electronics recycler in your area.  Sometimes they pay money for electronics scrap.  Not much.

[circeseye]

there are electronic scrap places that pay 10 cents a pound..tv's, computers, and the like (at least we have them here in central cali) not sure if its in other states

[RonnieOP]

Just now, Bombastinator said:

Computer parts sometimes have valuable metals in them.  Like gold.  Dump might do electronics recycling in which case it’s the way to go.  If they don’t there may be an electronics recycler in your area.  Sometimes they pay money for electronics scrap.  Not much.

Yeah theres a few in town but it would cost me twice as much in gas then what they would give me and they dont take alot of the parts i needed to get rid of.