What tech stuff have you found laying around?

[Brian McKee]

I just found me my old Phenom II 965 BE, gonna drop this puppy into my small OEM theater computer once the thermal paste comes here

 

What neat little surprises have you found?

[elago]

An old PS2 mech keyboard, some wireless mice and a trusty GTX 480 on a shelf behind me  for troubleshooting purposes. 

[christianled59]

16 mb of ram laying in a closet I found back in highschool.

[Bananasplit_00]

well one day i found a sound card on the floor of my room, like a year ago or so, and then i shoved it into my PC, then a while later i found the extention for it and this has all ended up in a ~50W speaker system that i am currently using lol. cant think of much else that fits the neet find catagory other then that tho, does my 2x160GB raid setup count? they were just on my table so i shoved them into my computer and set up whats probably the worst preforming RAID 0 config ever created lol

[Lurick]

Older HP Server with 8x8GB of ECC RAM was my latest find but I've also run across a bunch of various networking gear over the years.

[Brian McKee]

1 minute ago, christianled59 said:

16 mb of ram laying in a closet I found back in highschool.

Wow and I thought my recent discovery of a stick of 256 mb ram was cool.

[Hero7750]

Two dell optiplex 3010 machines a catholic school in my area had forgotten about and were getting rid of (they had i5 3470's and 8gb of ram a piece, along side radeon 7470's)

[Trav_X]

I found one of the older iPod Shuffle models on the sidewalk downtown Chicago once. 

 

As well, I have found quite a few mice that were abandoned/thrown out that were just laying on the ground around the side of my local MicroCenter.

[Brian McKee]

Just now, Hero7750 said:

Two dell optiplex 3010 machines a catholic school in my area had forgotten about and were getting rid of (they had i5 3470's and 8gb of ram a piece, along side radeon 7470's)

Damn that's an awesome find. What'd you end up doing with them?

[espurritado]

once a year my uni gets rid of the OLD stuff but first they leave it next to the entrance for a day so anyone can take home whatever they want. It's mostly broken chairs, miss matched case parts and obsolete peripherals, but if you are lucky you might find something, not that I've ever looked too much 

[Hero7750]

7 hours ago, Brian McKee said:

Damn that's an awesome find. What'd you end up doing with them?

Sold one paired with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for $275 and then took the motherboard, cpu, and RAM out of the other, put them in another case, put an r9 290 in the build, and sold it as a gaming computer. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

The best I have is a RaspPi and a STM32L dev board.

 

As far as random knick knacks go.

[thatboyDRew]

I found some REALLY expensive dell mouse thats like 7 years old/

[BDMGuy]

graphics card, some RAM, keyboard, dvd rom drive, a scrapped computer, and that's about it

 

[Magnetorheological]

A 256mb iRiver mp3 player from my middle school days.

[Sors]

 

Found it inside a plastic bag, in a room I was cleaning.  

[xentric]

I got 3 extra keyboads: logitech g15, g19, and K95 RGB

Asus GTX 680 directcu TOP card

Some random mouses

An original PSP still in box

Nvidia Shield

[caveslemons]

A Thinkpad x61 Tablet with the dock. core2duo 4gb. Use it every day now.