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I keep getting given old PC hardware, what to do with it all.

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So I have a slight problem/ nonproblem. My bosses keep giving me their old PC hardware. I love it for the most part as I used it to build my wife's current streaming rig and in general some upgrades to both of our setups. Here is a list so far of everything I've been given.

As a setup:

CM HAF X ATX Full tower Case

Rampage IV Extreme MDB

i7-3930K

Zalman CNPS9900 MAX-R Cooler

64GB 8X8 ddr3 1866mhz vengeance

GTX 680 Classified

 

Individual

2X burned up VRAM transducers GTX 980TI FTW ACX 2.0 working on repair

2X GTX 970 FE

3X LG Super Multi Blue blu-ray writers

Thermaltake Water 3.0 performer C AIO Water Cooler

Broken? Dell Alienware LGA 2011 AIO

 

Items that I had before

i7-6700

Stock cooler

Gigabyte h170 mdb

MSI GTX 970 4G

MSI Radeon 5700XT Mech OC

16Gb 8X2 DDR4 2133mhz

Hyper 212 black rgb

 

Current builds are

i7-6700 stock cooler

Gigabyte h170 mbd

GTX 970 FE

16Gb 8X2 DDR4 2133mhz

CM 750W Bronze 80+

Going to install a blu-ray player

 

i7-3930k @4.4Ghz, Hyper 212 cooler

Rampage IV Extreme mdb

64GB 8X8 DDR3 1866mhz

5700XT doing all game rendering

MSI GTX 970 4G video encoding

Silverstone 1000W PSU

Going to install blu-ray player

 

Left over

GTX 970FE

Thermaltake Water 3.0 AIO 120mm

Zalman CNPS9900 MAX-R

Blu-ray player

2X broken 980Ti's trying to fix

Maybe broken alienware aio may try to fix

 

I haven't tested the alienware cooler yet, I also want to see if I get any kind of performance upgrade with the Thermaltake AIO over my Hyper 212.

 

I'm running out of ideas and may just end up trying to find an old workstation and building a setup for a friend. Anyone else have any ideas as my wife doesn't get any happier when I come home with new parts.

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Use what you can find uses for, dump what's broken/not worth it, sell the rest?

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2 hours ago, ragnarok0273 said:

I wouldn't mind the 970 (still stuck with a GTX 650 Ti Boost)

Or you can take CircleTech's advice and sell it.

Second option is better.

Lol I have a GT 745m in a old 2013 Mac that I use for gaming and school. Count your self lucky.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Qm9Mwc

 

 

Main Project:

A desk that has a hatch that opens in the middle of it and then goes down flush with the desk. 

 

Other projects I am working on 

  • Sleeper TI-99 4A
  • Second Keyboard
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2 minutes ago, Frugivore8894 said:

Lol I have a GT 745m in a old 2013 Mac that I use for gaming and school. Count your self lucky.

And yes it’s a mobile chip. In a desk top iMac.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Qm9Mwc

 

 

Main Project:

A desk that has a hatch that opens in the middle of it and then goes down flush with the desk. 

 

Other projects I am working on 

  • Sleeper TI-99 4A
  • Second Keyboard
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2 minutes ago, Frugivore8894 said:

Lol I have a GT 745m in a old 2013 Mac that I use for gaming and school. Count your self lucky.

If you're close enough for shipping I could be persuaded to give up the 680 classified, no great raw performance but it can do some work

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15 minutes ago, Aaron_Hundlin said:

If you're close enough for shipping I could be persuaded to give up the 680 classified, no great raw performance but it can do some work

Wish I could but like I said it’s a Mac :(

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Qm9Mwc

 

 

Main Project:

A desk that has a hatch that opens in the middle of it and then goes down flush with the desk. 

 

Other projects I am working on 

  • Sleeper TI-99 4A
  • Second Keyboard
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1 minute ago, Frugivore8894 said:

Wish I could but like I said it’s a Mac :(

I realized that the moment I hit submit lol. Feels bad man

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39 minutes ago, Aaron_Hundlin said:

I realized that the moment I hit submit lol. Feels bad man

Welp some day I can upgrade to a pc. 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Qm9Mwc

 

 

Main Project:

A desk that has a hatch that opens in the middle of it and then goes down flush with the desk. 

 

Other projects I am working on 

  • Sleeper TI-99 4A
  • Second Keyboard
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Sell them. You can flip some of this for a good profit on ebay. 

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Build a super computer with all those parts

sell to NASA. 

 

? 

 

Profit 

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lol Make a ghetto Bitcoin mining farm? Or just a hobo server farm, and rent it out to schlebs on the internets.

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I usually sell my old gear if its worth anything significant or just give it to the kids of friends who want a machine or parts.

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Sorry, but we can't allow any sales/trades of hardware outside of our Classifieds section (100 posts required). Any such posts have been removed.

 

The discussion about general uses is fine.

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Take one of the machines and turn it into a NAS kind of deal. That's what I would do with my old machines if I didn't give them away. You can have backups, music, photos, videos ...anything you can imagine. If you don't care about that then why not a Steam cache server just for kicks?

 

EDIT: Of course you can give it away to someone who needs it.

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