i have a question

[joeyd]

well actually more than one

you guys that keep updating cpus and mobo's and crack racks what do you do with the old parts if you have no room for them ?

i was thinking if you just toss them or something mabye we should start posting on the board what we are getting rid of and sell it for a cheap price to other members , so that we don't loose any cpu power. I know i can't afford to build more than one pc but if i can get an older celeron say 300 i have room for it in the basment and can have it running 24/7 where as the person who had it before might not have the room for it. I was just thinking of this because in another post someone said they were replaceing all their cpus with 1gig chips , well if he is just getting rid of those chips mabye someone else could use them and will pick them up off of him cheap

just a thought ignore me if i'm dump

 

[Russ]

<< what do you do with the old parts if you have no room for them ? >>



Make more room.

Russ, NCNE

 

[BrammeS]

mostly these parts don't get just trown away. the go to other departments overhere like schools and stuff!

 

[Wiz]

I go to the For Sale forum here on Anandtech and part the stuff out.
Usually whatever I am upgrading from, someone else wants to upgrade to.
It takes a little of the sting out of the cost of new stuff.

 

[Viztech]

There is certainly some buy/sell/give away of parts from time to time. Several TA members have donated slower components to the school where I volunteer. I even have a few 486s left in service there, still cracking for TA.

I recently found a local outlet for the machines that I have taken out of service at the school. They are going to be shipped to a mission in Mexico where they can get even more use.

Perhaps it's time for another one of those threads.

viz

 

[Jarhead]

Oh, if your married, take over the wife's spare room, starting with getting her a computer (out of room in my spare room), and taking over the kitchen table.

But the toilet is off limits!!!

(You can only fit one, maybe two on it anyhow...)

Now if I can just keep the cats off of the warm motherboards during the winter!!!!

(Blew a Super I/O chip when the cat pushed the hard drive into it, hopefully I can get a new chip soon. Boy, could you imagine sleeping on a hard drive and then having it spin up to fetch more blocks??? Especially those old, noisy, vibrating Maxtors of ages past!!!)

 

[joeyd]

jarhead i think the cat might actually like that ... i just finished building a wooden stand in my basment for 15 p3 450s that i got extremely cheap. stacked them right up , i can't wait to finish building and setting them up .