What do you do with your old components
 

..after you have upgraded? I used to build a system to sell, or sell components. Now because everything is so cheap it makes me cry to see the prices bits are selling for on ebay and I know thats all i'm going to get. I think I may as well keep them, but they really are no good to me either.

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Once i get the new core 2 duo CPU and re-built my PC, I'll re-use most of the stuff from the old motherboard (USB2 bracket, hard drives, PCI cards, CD/DVD drives) in the new PC.

The rest will be rebuilt in to a lower powered stand alone PC which may have Solaris 10 Unix or Windows ME on it.

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No good keeping them mate.
Any useful bits, I pass on to anyone who can use them, for nowt.
It makes me feel good, knowing I've done someone who can't afford much, a favour. Er, I'm not being patronising, it's just better than binning it :smashin:

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I try to recycle what I can in other PCs and then I will just give them away - it's hardly wirth the effort in selling them. I never give hard drives away though, I tend to buy a cheap enclosure and use them as external backup.

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hi
i think my last 3 or 4 upgrades have been good to my m8 as he recieved all my old bits and pieces i.e mobo,cpu and various other parts ....but as hes spalshed out on new stuff i may sell my old stuff from now on....who knows .

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I might try to build a media centre if I can be bothered. I was in the process of a couple of years ago but found it not quiet enough for my livingroom.

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Apart from building my ultimate weapon for world domination? :grin:

Should be in multiple boxes in the loft actually - could probably scrape together a PC from the parts but it might be depressing to see how slow it would be. Might even have a full P133 in the loft as well ...

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Various bits go to friends, normally people from a folding team I'm in and other bigger stuff, old crt and case etc has gone to the council recycling center.

Curly

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I usually just give stuff away to family and friends, gave a CRT to my cousin and and built a computer out of parts and gave it to my aunt. Otherwise it goes in the bin.

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I flog my old stuff on eBay. Made almost a hundred quid for my old AMD 3400 processor last year I was well chuffed. Sold the mobo for 25 quid, hard drives I keep until they wear out I just slave 'em in my new build PC's. Re-used the cables and case or threw away if unusable/unsellable. I kept the PSU as a spare backup as it was too heavy to get a decent price for once postage was taken into account. Sold the twin 512mb PC3200 Corsair XMS Ram sticks for £25 each. Sold the CRT monitor for £20. Re-used my copy of XP Pro as it's Retail.

So made nearly £200. Not bad at all. :smashin:

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Goes in the classified section of this site ;) Did throw out an old PC case lately though, bought it for about 20 quid 6 years ago so I got my money's worth!

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If they are still going for a fair bit Second hand online I'll sell em if not I'll keep em in a box and donate them to someone I know if they mention they happen to need a certain component.

Remember when I sold a AMD 3500+ last year for £105 which I was amazed at! Though now they go for like £20-30

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depends on what... I normally fob them off to mates :D

older machines make great file servers, playback machines or even backends for things like mythTV.

how about a firewall / router box ??

parts are basically so cheap giving them away or flogging for like a tenner here and tenner there are the only options... You can get a new Core 2 Duo processor for £70 odd ..... so how much would you pay for an old one...

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I;m going to plan to keep them for a second PC , maybe a small form factor PC, that would be a challenge.

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Depends on what model the 2nd hand E6600 i got with no fan cost me £74, E6700 and E6850s are going for around £80-£90 2nd hand so its not as cheap as you think and all these CPUs can beat a new £70 core 2 duo.

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Fleabay or Family .. period.

else file under B............... bin:grin: