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Do any of you have any of your old components in your hope just sitting on a shelf or hanging on the wall as an display piece, or am I just weird?

 

I wouldn't have a super old one as that (green PCB), but if looks cool/have blue/black PCB.

 

I have my old 7970 GHz edition that died at some point hanging on the wall, without the cooler because that was not that good looking.

 

Also considering just having an old HDD with the lid off(so you can see the disks) sitting on a shelf, but not decided yet.

 

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Definitely. I don't have as much as I used to, but I've still got some stuff sitting around as decoration pieces. 

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Not PC components, but I do have some handheld gaming devices (like the GameBoy) as display pieces. They are sort of in the same realm of older PC components (as in I don't actually use the GameBoy, as the GBA is my preferred handheld for GameBoy games), but I suppose they are a lot more recognizable to most people.

 

The HDD without the lid does sound really cool, I have seen some HDD clocks too, which seem quite awesome!

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I did before I sold my collection

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if you’re gonna get into this, keep stuff around that’s actually interesting to you, rather than just whatever you have around

 

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This is my server and it's decorations. I dug in the spare parts bin for stuff I thought looked good a while back. You're not weird, I think a lot of people do this sort of stuff.

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On 3/22/2021 at 9:57 AM, Mihle said:

Do any of you have any of your old components in your hope just sitting on a shelf or hanging on the wall as an display piece, or am I just weird?

 

I wouldn't have a super old one as that (green PCB), but if looks cool/have blue/black PCB.

 

I have my old 7970 GHz edition that died at some point hanging on the wall, without the cooler because that was not that good looking.

 

Also considering just having an old HDD with the lid off(so you can see the disks) sitting on a shelf, but not decided yet.

 

In a way I used to have the Mobo of my vintage Tandy 1000 RL.  Until some traces got scratched I bet it'd still boot too.   It s fun to show people what we used to have to work with. 

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