What to do with old hardware when you upgrade?

[Glaith]

I have a Radeon 9200(I think it was 2003?) hanging on my door as a door sign.

I use a Radeon 9600 as a door stop lol

[Glaith]

Heres a tiny bit of my random crap.

Need some ram??? haha

[rainbrodash666]

I have a Complete in box commodore 64 somewhere, it is a 1983 model,

Yeah, I even have the mail in warranty and brochures and stuff, It has a sticker from a thrift store on the box for $19.99, and I got it for free.

[rainbrodash666]

Heres a tiny bit of my random crap.

Need some ram??? haha

any of those 775 boards? and do they support the wolfdale Pentium dual core cpu's because I am trying to put my oil pc back together from a failed ecs mobo

[Glaith]

I have 3 one is Asus mx series, but ome pins are bent if u had patience u can bend them back. And a gigabyte one that would be the best one, then a old skool one that uses DDR1

Asus

Gigabyte

Gigabyte DDR 1

[IdeaStormer]

I have 3 one is Asus mx series' date=' but ome pins are bent if u had patience u can bend them back. And a gigabyte one that would be the best one, then a old skool one that uses DDR1 Asus [/quote']

E-Bay called, they want their used computer inventory back :p

[rainbrodash666]

I have 3 one is Asus mx series, but ome pins are bent if u had patience u can bend them back. And a gigabyte one that would be the best one, then a old skool one that uses DDR1

Asus

Gigabyte

Gigabyte DDR 1

well looks like none of those would work, needs to me m-atx, and I already have 8gb of ddr2 for whatever I get.

[Glaith]

I have 3 one is Asus mx series, but ome pins are bent if u had patience u can bend them back. And a gigabyte one that would be the best one, then a old skool one that uses DDR1

Asus

Gigabyte

Gigabyte DDR 1

Sorry man :( I'll rummage through my death cupboard of storage and see what i can find. (shutters)

[Glaith]

Ok ive been through deathcupboard and i only got one more socket 775 but its in a compaq and one of those lame unique boards sorry dude, i will ask my fellow recycle friends and see if i can round one up for you.

Here is death cupboard by the way, i had all the keyboards fall on my headright at the end just as left the cupbaord, man did it hurt lol.

[IdeaStormer]

Wow, that's a clear sign of a problem. The solution is, gather all the aluminum parts as best you can and recycle them! You'll get some good hard cold cash for it! Then find the local electronics disposal place and dump the rest there, remember those heat sinks are mainly aluminum and copper (also recyclable). One mans junk is an others gold.

[Glaith]

Wow, that's a clear sign of a problem. The solution is, gather all the aluminum parts as best you can and recycle them! You'll get some good hard cold cash for it! Then find the local electronics disposal place and dump the rest there, remember those heat sinks are mainly aluminum and copper (also recyclable). One mans junk is an others gold.

I wouldnt call my self a recycler if i didnt know that :P , this is a months worth of bounty soon to goto the E bin, I drive around and pick up what i can find, strip it if its good it goes to the box (pics before) of its bad it goes to deathcupboard for E waste

[Glaith]

sorry ideastormer that sounded rude, i didnt mean it to come out like that, Thank you for your advise man :D

[Raidorz]

I have a friend who makes keychains out of old CPUs. LOL

[vanwazltoff]

dont have the room, i do collect new things to upgrade and sell my old stuff to help fund the new stuff haha

[dgtL]

ive got a pretty good stash of old parts. pretty much anything pcb. planning on some kind of project to come out of it all.

[rainbrodash666]

my friend just bought a brand new 4870 for his gaming pc for the same price as a brand new HD7770 and he can't give me the reasoning behind why he did it.

and another person I know bought a brand new gtx 460 three days ago, I am so confused.

[christoi]

Just because someone buys a product, it doesn't mean that it was a good choice. Unless he manged to find a good deal on the card (ie; very low price), the price/performance of the card would probably too high to be worth it (especially since old hardware typically goes up in price, due to limited stock).

[deafboy]

Depends on what his goals are... I'd imagine for many out there it's just the lack of knowledge on the differences of old vs new. I see people up selling old junk on craigslist all the time.

I've bought old hardware though in comparison to newer options but because of the price/performance difference. Sometimes the older option is the better option. And sometimes it's fun to buy old hardware and reminisce about the good ol' days. Also, for older games the 4870 is still a very solid card, even compared to a 7770.

460s can be had for cheap, overclock like crazy, and can perform very well for the price. The only downside to them these days (in SLI configurations anyways) really is the 1GB buffer.

[Salmiakbal]

Sometimes it's justifiable, like if it's really cheap and you don't have a lot of money. You need to know though that the 4870 was the 7970 of it's time, x870 used to be top end, then with the 6000 series x870 was mid-top end and x970 became top end.

Still though, he probably should have bought a 7850 or something.

[rainbrodash666]

I know that the x8xx series used to be top end single gpu, same for the 3 & 5 series too, I ran 4850 crossfire for a while. and I just found out that my frien didn't buy the 460 it was given to him by his boss at bestbuy. so thats kinda cool, the reason is they are in the same guild on lol and his gpu went out.

[dgtL]

just sounds like people buying stuff when not really understanding what they need and/or whats a good deal. just take a look at craigslist computer section. it blows my mind the prices ppl ask for old pc's and pc parts.

[Glaith]

just sounds like people buying stuff when not really understanding what they need and/or whats a good deal. just take a look at craigslist computer section. it blows my mind the prices ppl ask for old pc's and pc parts.

To be honest you should have tied him down slapped him took his wallet bought the card for him throw it at him and go THERE USE A PROPER ONE!. i mean oh what a shame he did that. :( .

I think it all falls down to it used to be a good way to go when pcs were dam expensive walk into a recycle shop get an upgrade, but now its walk into one get a downgrade.

[Glaith]

Check it out guys got a pentium 3 today, and guess what turns out Pentium 3s also came with a cartridge i thought it was just pentium 2 from last comment, But when i pulled it out i remebered i had one of these back in the day. Gona build this system to just for poops and giggles.

[Glaith]

I have a Complete in box commodore 64 somewhere, it is a 1983 model,

Pics please I want to see this amazing machine! will bring back so many child hood memories :P

[phillychuck]

When I lived at home I kept all my old stuff, passed the usable PC stuff to my dad, but in the house we have most of my original Commodore 64, 128, Apple IIgs, Mac Classic, Mac Quadra 660AV, I think my dad even has his original Zeos branded PC he paid an arm and leg for. Not sure how much of the stuff works, but we never sold or threw it away.

Believe we still have the Atari 2600 and 5200 floating around somewhere.

Since I moved out, I don't have any space to save stuff, I try tho.