What to do with old hardware when you upgrade?

[xx-Grim-One-xx]

I have lost MANY items in the last 25+ years of computers, but the one i miss most is my Alienware Area 51 desktop from 1999 with a killer Pentium 3 550Mhz CPU :o , 22GB HDD, 250MB iomega zip drive and a 3.5 inch floppy drive. It went back to the mothership in 2010  :(

[Tapoculos]

Ah those good old daughter boards. I was shocked to see them come back with the popularity of the M-itx boards. 

[rashdanml]

I have a Q6600 that's still running. It's been nearly 6 years. Still a champ.

 

It will need a proper send-off once it finally dies :(

[Ryan Leech]

Most people have abandoned their Core 2 Duo's and Quad's by now, but my QX9650 is still truckin' along at 4.9GHz and my GTX 465 is actually the bottleneck in every game. I don't see myself upgrading for another 2-3 years.

[AdamG1401]

Most people have abandoned their Core 2 Duo's and Quad's by now, but my QX9650 is still truckin' along at 4.9GHz and my GTX 465 is actually the bottleneck in every game. I don't see myself upgrading for another 2-3 years.

 

4.9? neat man, I had a quad at 3.7 and i thought i had a decent clock! What cooling are you running on that, custom loop?

[Ryan Leech]

4.9? neat man, I had a quad at 3.7 and i thought i had a decent clock! What cooling are you running on that, custom loop?

I won the silicon lottery back when I bought this thing, I only run at 1.42v and I cool it with a Seidon 240

[InfinateX]

I have a 250 GT series video card in my computer that still works. Quite surprising actually. It's not entirely compatable with the new drivers though, so I get BSODs sometimes. Gonna have to replace it soon.

[Hoppa]

I just brought back my old GTX 295 from the dead just the other day, after having it dead for about 1 year =]

[Fetzie]

When the 9800GTX+ in the old computer dies, it is getting a plinth and a space on the trinkets shelf.

[Tapoculos]

Im making a display case for my old 8800gt i will post pics later tonight. 

[Tapoculos]

Just posted the case mod for this old gpu 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/40952-the-gpu-tomb/

 go check it out.

[heineygoat]

This is my old rig, such a beast back in the day, still use some of the parts.

Galaxy GTX 460

AMD Phenom X6 1090t

8GB Corsair Vengeance 1333 and Airflow fans.

Some IDE hard drives lol.

[APersonWithABrokenChair]

Title

 

An example is that you upgrade from a core i5 to an i7.  What do you do with the i5?

^this is an example.  It didn't actually happen

[Klerk]

Sell it

[Imabigmac]

You don't want to open the drawers under my bed.... 

 

I would sell the i5 or build a second rig - maybe a LAN rig if your into that. A CPU of some value is not worth keeping IMO. Keep the old pentium who cares no one is going to buy, but a still relevant i5 thats maybe a few months - there is a buyer somewhere. 

[Mushious]

Make a keychain, build a HTPC or DVR, frame it and put it on the wall in honor of the years of service... stuff.

[AMICLG]

Build another computer or sell it or keep it as a back up.

[AlwaysFSX]

Break it.

[RevoltTrain]

Build another rig, a LAN rig

[s3ns3]

Sell ofc

[Shally]

You guys are missing the point

[LapX]

It goes into my parent's rig.

[givingtnt]

like with any pc parts. make it a keychain.

I love my ahtlon 64 keychain

[Geekazoid]

Store it somewhere for use later.

Just to note, I'm now at 9K posts.

[SamuraiBrah1]

I try to donate my old parts to friends trying to get into computers, as that is how I first got started into PCs.