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What to do with old hardware?

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Stupid_Newbie

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Well I have some old hardware and an old PC. What does everyone do with thiers?

NIB Sound blaster x-fi with 64mb x-ram (ooo, ahhh) pci with front panel
Old PC:
S478 P4 3.0c under Thermalright SP-94
Asus P4C800-DLX
1GB (2x512mb) OCZ Platinum Rev. 2 DDR800 2-2-2-5
1GB (2x512mb) DDR-800 (cheap stuff)
80/160 IDE WD Cavier HDD
Audigy 2 PCI
Lite-on DVD Rewrite ATA
ATI Brand X850 Pro 256 (flashed to X850XT PE with Arctic Silencer 5)
Enermax 350w PSU


What do you do edith old hardware like this?
 
Man that is a serious list of memories. Platinum Rev 2 was the shit. Not much else was worth buying back in the day.

And that sound card is still useful.

And I miss when ATI direct sold their graphics cards :(
 
you can try selling it localling or if everything works find a place that takes donations that BUILDS systems for people that don't have them. you have to make sure they do otherwise all they do is ship the parts off to recycling places to have them melted down to make money off the material.

or the third option is if you have enough parts build a system and donate it to some one locally yourself. <-- this is what i do with all my old hardware when i have enough parts.
 
Make it a pfsense/untangle router or run a linux download and streaming box.
 
Which XFi is it?

As for the rest of the rig, see if you can donate it to a school or something. I'm sure that there's some organization that would still want it.

Or you could even try selling it on Craigslist for a couple hundred bucks. People would snatch it up for $100-200 (depending on where you live).
 
I have taken some old cases, bad motherboards, old systems like p2 and p4 celerons to Bestbuy for recycling.. along with monitors. So sad I got rid of my 19" trinitron. The image was so wack though. When you monitor starts to pop and flash, it is time for a new one. I have a box of old RAM and motherboards for another recycle run.
 
Some people will buy it just for the "history" of having old hardware like that.

If you don't want to sell it, then bring it to the local High School and donate it the computer class...assuming it all works.
 
Sell it if you can, if it is old enough give it away on CL or donate it to Goodwill and write it off. You can probably inflate the donated value to write off on your taxes. I doubt you would get audited. A normal itemized return can claim a deduction of up to 500.

Of course this is illegal tax advice :)
 
Yeah I only opened the front cover to see it the inside fold. Years ago I was gonna build a new rig, instead bought a new house, and from their the comp fell behind. As you can tell my old rig was slightly outdated.

Any idea of its rough value?
 
and I thought my socket 939 was prehistoric lol

I would just keep it around if you have the space to store it somewhere out of the way. Just imagine the trip you will have dusting it off 10/20 years from now and looking back with perspective on how far we have come in such a short amount of time. I always think of Moore whenever I watch Who Wants To be a Millionaire, it's always mind blowing how a measly $100 bill becomes a cool million in only 11 short answers.

But if space is an issue, donate it somewhere local. That would be a great fisher price pc for someone just starting out. If i had kids I'd probably get them something like that so they could learn the ins and outs before they move onto something more modern.
 
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