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Sad day for hardware

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narsbars

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I am getting old. Selling the house (too big) and had to clean up. Drawers and drawers full of cables, connectors, thousands of motherboard screws, stand offs, and odd ball items all the way back to pci cards, ide cards, and boxes of spinnies. Look, an IDE cradle, an external sound card, a bag full of weird SD cards down to 128 meg. All in garbage bags. Even with the offer of free the only takers wanted to pick and choose. I estimate I have junked a hundred pounds of the last 20 years of PC leftovers. I just know I will immediately need one of those things I haven't touched in 20 years. Formatted the HDs, pulled the mem and HDs out of old laptops, waved goodbye to VGA cables. Next it is time to throw away all of my boxed games, blank CDs and DVDs. No H members in Maine I could ever find or I would have contacted them. I will build another PC at some point but it will be a P.I.T.A. to have to order a kit of screws, stand offs, or Sata Cables..............OOPS, I missed a sound card......open another bag.
 
I used to hoard all my extras too. I have moved around a lot and ended up throwing everything out a couple times. Never once did I think to myself that I needed something I threw away. Don't get too attached to useless junk, it will give you peace and freedom.
 
thedream829 said:
I used to hoard all my extras too. I have moved around a lot and ended up throwing everything out a couple times. Never once did I think to myself that I needed something I threw away. Don't get too attached to useless junk, it will give you peace and freedom.
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Really struggling over the room full of classic stereo gear with three or four hundred 60s and 70s vinyl. I hate selling on Facebook Marketplace and won't touch Ebay. I have a turntable that sells on Ebay for 1200 to 1500 regularly and around here no one recognizes it and want to pay fifty bucks.
 
I did a deep dive de-cluttering in my office this year. I think I filled up about 300 gallons of old computer cables and junk. Still have a lot of cables though. I neatly organized into piles by type and made sure to keep one of each. Serial cable? Still got ONE.
 
narsbars said:
I will build another PC at some point but it will be a P.I.T.A. to have to order a kit of screws, stand offs, or Sata Cables
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When you order the case, it's going to have all the screws and stand offs necessary to complete the build. The motherboard might come with enough SATA for your needs, usually 2 cables but they are very inexpensive to order alongside everything else.

Those old parts you kept might not be too relevant anymore. You likely won't need any of those 20 year old cables or equipment you had when you are working with modern stuff.
 
Dopamin3 said:
When you order the case, it's going to have all the screws and stand offs necessary to complete the build. The motherboard might come with enough SATA for your needs, usually 2 cables but they are very inexpensive to order alongside everything else.

Those old parts you kept might not be too relevant anymore. You likely won't need any of those 20 year old cables or equipment you had when you are working with modern stuff.
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I was selling some classic stereo gear and Star wars collectibles at a huge mark down, the only catch for the buyer was that he had to take all of the stuff I had been unable to get rid of. Gonna miss a lot of that stuff, but already enjoying all the floor space.
 
I will say… just check to see if anything has any value. I know you said you avoided eBay but I recently unloaded some 20 year old motherboards that went for a printer penny that I was literally going to send to the recycle center. Granted they were in good shape with the boxes but I was surprised.

Cables tho, those can be had cheap.
 
Dreamerbydesign said:
I will say… just check to see if anything has any value. I know you said you avoided eBay but I recently unloaded some 20 year old motherboards that went for a printer penny that I was literally going to send to the recycle center. Granted they were in good shape with the boxes but I was surprised.

Cables tho, those can be had cheap.
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Too late: The last hundred lbs. is in a trash bag ready to go. Need 30 lbs. of cables, 20 lbs. of various small power supplies, another 30 lbs. of adapters, old cards, and the last 20 lbs. of WTF is that!
 
I have collected a bunch of case fans over the years myself. Have a big tote of them now, and honestly they will probably be thrown out at some point. Probably de cluttering will be my project this winter.
 
thedream829 said:
I used to hoard all my extras too. I have moved around a lot and ended up throwing everything out a couple times. Never once did I think to myself that I needed something I threw away. Don't get too attached to useless junk, it will give you peace and freedom.
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I'm the opposite. I used to hoard everything, and then in my 20's when I had a series of apartments, moved frequently, and could no longer have infinite storage space at my parents place, I decided to become more efficient.

Every single time I threw something out that was now "worthless" i eventually came to regret. My old PC from the 90's would have been fun to have from a nostalgia perspective. I threw out my old Miro Hiscore 3d (6MB Voodoo1, luke Canopus Pure 3d) a voodoo 5. Lots of old hardware I would like to have still had.

So now I hoard again. If I cant sell something for enough money to make it worth my time (usually mt cutoff is at least ~$300) then it just goes into the box, and I keep it indefinitely.

I have learned the hard way that I don't ever want to throw any of this stuff out. At least if it is still working.
 
I just gotta know..... (as we all most likely hoard hardware, cables, adapters, etc..) Who is hoarding cases? 😁
That would probably be borderline hard stop there lol
 
jlbenedict said:
I just gotta know..... (as we all most likely hoard hardware, cables, adapters, etc..) Who is hoarding cases? 😁
That would probably be borderline hard stop there lol
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Uhhh, well that would be me.....yes I have a problem
 
jlbenedict said:
I just gotta know..... (as we all most likely hoard hardware, cables, adapters, etc..) Who is hoarding cases? 😁
That would probably be borderline hard stop there lol
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I probably would if not for the fact that I often customize them like a butcher with my Dremel.

Usually when I am done with them, those cases are done. Usually a bit wobbly and insecure because I cut away supporting sheet metal for fit something, and look a bit ugly without whatever I had in there covering up my butchery.
 
I have tried to get rid of some old stuff I just never going to need... I still have too much honestly.
 
jlbenedict said:
I just gotta know..... (as we all most likely hoard hardware, cables, adapters, etc..) Who is hoarding cases? 😁
That would probably be borderline hard stop there lol
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I may have a few. And I've been buying up nice cases from the PC recycler lately... Just wanted to have some home server ready cases with lots of drive bays. Hard to find those for less than $100 now, but $30 gets me something nice. I got one to have, but then used it for a desktop build where I had put in a fan too tall for the case I meant to use. So I had to get another one that I'll use when I upgrade my server that doesn't have a good case.
 
jlbenedict said:
I just gotta know..... (as we all most likely hoard hardware, cables, adapters, etc..) Who is hoarding cases? 😁
That would probably be borderline hard stop there lol
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That's the one PC part I'm least likely to hoard for many reasons.

1) They take up a lot of space.

2) You can put a retro system in a new case without trouble (unless you go all the way back to AT). But the reverse isn't really true. Older cases with 80mm fans won't have the cooling for anything but a low power build, and newer GPUs are too big to fit. I junked 2 generations of cases for those problems.

3) A collection of aluminum cases actually has a non-trivial scrap value, unlike ewaste that I have to drive across town to let best buy dispose of. It's not a ton of money, but a 'free' pizza is a 'free' pizza. And the same place I take my scrap metal to is also where I have to go to dispose of dead lead acid UPS batteries, so it's a few bonus bucks added to a trip I have to make anyway.



Maybe I'd feel sentimental if I'd bought fancy Lian Li cases 15 or 25 years ago, but I was poor and bought cheap functional ones that no one cares about. I live far enough in the boonies that I doubt I'd be able to sell them locally.
 
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