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Thelilnick29
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So recently my dad has been finding old computers and letting me take whats decent out of them (ram, hard drives, CPUs, and other random PCI cards)

and was wondering am i just wasting my time holding onto these parts?

i did find a old amd gpu once which was cool and i think i still have somewhere :P

 

if anyone wants ill throw up some pics of what i got here but certainly no mind blowing things, haha

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They may come in useful, if not, having a collection is nice.

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Keep 'em... build PCs out of them... sell off or donate the PCs...

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Ya never know whatchu need em for, whose the winner then.. huehuehue

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So recently my dad has been finding old computers and letting me take whats decent out of them (ram, hard drives, CPUs, and other random PCI cards)

and was wondering am i just wasting my time holding onto these parts?

i did find a old amd gpu once which was cool and i think i still have somewhere :P

 

if anyone wants ill throw up some pics of what i got here but certainly no mind blowing things, haha

Keep 'em. I've actually been collecting a ton of old computer parts by putting up a Craiglist ad for a few months now. I'm working on putting together 5 or 6 Pentium/Celeron/Athlon systems right now for kicks. You never know when they may come in handy.

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Think this is some old ram i found in a server.

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Some old processors i think the  intel core duo pic was too big to post :/

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Old celeron processor

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AMD Athlon processor with heatsink

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Some server heatsinks

 

Also got a raid controller and a couple other pci cards that idk what they do and couldnt post the pic of em for some reason

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Keep them. Just because. It's good to have things from the past, you know? Otherwise people will forget where their computers came from.

And playing around with old hardware that still works is a lot of fun.

Seriously, if you bury something in the ground for long enough, it becomes priceless.

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I dunno, I usually just collect them for fun then realize how useless they really are

 

Up to recently I had a Pentium Pro and a Pentium II which I got from my granddad who used to work at IBM donkeys of years ago, he has lots of other cool stuff, I'll see what else he has and snap some pics, my old CPU cooler (Rocketfish Universal Heatpipe Cooler, when funds were tight) was basically run with two 23 year old fans lol

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I used to keep a bunch of my old parts in case I ever needed to troubleshoot something...

I nver ended up needing them and I decided to sell them to get money for newer components.

IMO its not worth it unless you have issues very often with PCs

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