What do you do with old hardware?

What do you do with old hardware?

  • Put it away

    Votes: 20 28.6%

  • Use it in another computer

    Votes: 42 60.0%

  • Sell it/Trade it

    Votes: 23 32.9%

  • Use it in an imaginative way

    Votes: 16 22.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • Total voters
    70
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Gary King

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My current computer is 3 years old, exactly to the day, by tomorrow. Will it be better for me to get/build a new computer, or to upgrade my current one?

These are my current specs:

ASUS P4S333-VM DDR 3PCI AGP Audio LAN VGA ASUS
Intel Pentium 4 - 1.8 GHz
512 MB DDR RAM PC2100
Maxtor 60 GB 7200 RPM
Maxtor 80 GB 7200 RPM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128 MB

I guess after a while, you cannot expand a computer any further? And I guess I should get a new case as well?

My current case is better suited for older computers, I suppose you could say. I only have 2 USB slots in the front, for instance.
 
You could definitely upgrade one or two parts at a time, that's what I would do anyway. I suppose it depends on your budget. If you can afford to build an entire new system, more power to you. But if you only want to spend a little right now, getting a new video card and some more RAM would breathe some more life into the computer. Then for the next ugprade you could plan on a new CPU and motherboard. By then you'd pretty much have a whole new computer, just have it done in phases.

You can obviously keep the harddrives, I don't know, do you feel that you have enough space? And case is completely subjective. Older beige cases with killer machines inside are kind of like Sleepers when they show up at LAN Parties. I've always thought that was kinda cool.
 
Well you are the only person who can answer that question. If your system works fine for you, than leave it alone. Upgrading that old of a system is a waste of money.

On the other hand if you are lacking in a couple of areas, you would be better off building a new system from scratch (AMD socket 939 & PCIe bus).

Then take one of the hard drives out of your old system and start it Folding 24/7.
 
What do you do with old hardware? This pretty much covers all hardware that you are not using in your primary computer, I suppose. Such as components that you take out of your primary PC to upgrade that component.
 
No offense Gary, but you seem to be beating a dead horse with these multiple posts. First the USB thread, then the upgrade thread, now followed by the poll thread. It may be time to accept that you should start considering what you want to acheive with a new system and just let old hardware find some other use.
 
what are you using it for? Games, photoshop, what? If you just use it as a workstation or something, then what's the point of upgrading?
 
Where's the "my hardware never gets old because I burn it up" option? :p
 
I sell most of it, but im setting up a fake computer in this glass top coffee table i have...all hooked up and everything, just doesnt work, because some parts dont work.
 
I usually find a way to use them in another PC or I donate parts to friends in need.
 
I use old computer parts to run a cancer research program called Folding at Home. You can read more about it in our very own forum Distributed Computing . Your computer would work awesome for that.

Fold On!

-MN Scout
 
i have a tendancy to simply collect stuff

cpu's:
p3 733mhz
athlonXP 2500+
athlon64 3200+ clawhammer
a64 3700+ newark

ram:
128mb pc800 rdram + 1 c-rimm
128mb crucial value, micron 5b C
256mb of pc2700 corsair, uses ch-6
2x256mb of pc3200 hyper-x, bh-5
2x512mb crucial ballistix, 5b G
1x1024mb crucial value, 5b D

mobo's:
intel i815 (iirc, i know it has rdram)
asus a7n8x
msi k8n neo platinum
dfi lanparty nf3-250gb

lots of fans and monitors, some old keyboards and a 5.25" floppy :p
all this is just from the last 4 years. older stuff gets dismantled or donated
 
My old stuff just goes into storage. Past graphics cards, drives, cases, ram, and an Intel 486 somewhere in my closet.
 
if it is still usable, i'll put in another computer, otherwise i will try to use if for parts for modding (i.e. custom ramsink from old cpu heatsink, reuse old psu fan, etc)
 
i usually alway have like 6 or so computers running at one time just for shits and giggles... so I thow all the parts I can in a machine, if I cant use it it goes in the "Computer" box
 
I keep it all, as ultimately someone brings me a computer that needs a part. So I hook them up with it.
 
Throw it away, put it in my parents' computer, sell it, give it to girlfriend...

Depends on what it is.
 
USMC2Hard4U said:
i usually alway have like 6 or so computers running at one time just for shits and giggles... so I thow all the parts I can in a machine, if I cant use it it goes in the "Computer" box
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Exactly QFT... Uprade the main box and the part I took out gets passed to another computer on down the line...
 
i put down 'use in an imaginative way.' every time i stumble across some old, POS i come up w/ imaginative ways to destroy it :D
 
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