What do you do with all your old PC kit?
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What do you do with all your old PC kit?
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***EDIT - FULL List of all equipment in later post below ****
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Was going to hopefully clear out the garage over the weekend, if I can bring myself to get the energy together (stinking cold at the moment ). I know there are a lot of old PC parts out there and was wondering what to do with it all.
Is there any company out there that can make good use of this type of kit, or is it all destined for the tip?
I've grown out of having 3 or 4 machines set up at once and am happy just with my shuttle. I know this can all be built into something useful to run Linux or a firewall or whatever but just don't have the time or space any more (2 kids seen to that!). Some of it may be worth a few quid on ebay, but I can't bring myself to flog mobo's on there as they'll only end up haunting me coz some muppet can't get them working (though I know they're perfectly good working condition). Cases are too heavy to ship. Sold a few SCSI controllers on ebay a month or two back and for all the trouble it was, I only picked up about £20.
What do the rest of you all do with this type of stuff. Historically, I would hold onto it for another 2 or three years and then throw it away
Cheers
Joolz
***EDIT - FULL List of all equipment in later post below ****
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Was going to hopefully clear out the garage over the weekend, if I can bring myself to get the energy together (stinking cold at the moment ). I know there are a lot of old PC parts out there and was wondering what to do with it all.
Is there any company out there that can make good use of this type of kit, or is it all destined for the tip?
I've grown out of having 3 or 4 machines set up at once and am happy just with my shuttle. I know this can all be built into something useful to run Linux or a firewall or whatever but just don't have the time or space any more (2 kids seen to that!). Some of it may be worth a few quid on ebay, but I can't bring myself to flog mobo's on there as they'll only end up haunting me coz some muppet can't get them working (though I know they're perfectly good working condition). Cases are too heavy to ship. Sold a few SCSI controllers on ebay a month or two back and for all the trouble it was, I only picked up about £20.
What do the rest of you all do with this type of stuff. Historically, I would hold onto it for another 2 or three years and then throw it away
Cheers
Joolz
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I had a heap of stuff that I needed to get rid of when I left Austrlalia and I donated it all to this group that fixes them up and gives them to poor families and schools.
There has to be some charity like that here as well.
There has to be some charity like that here as well.
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Originally Posted by G-man.au
I had a heap of stuff that I needed to get rid of when I left Austrlalia and I donated it all to this group that fixes them up and gives them to poor families and schools.
There has to be some charity like that here as well.
There has to be some charity like that here as well.
Joolz
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I'm after some oldish memory sticks for an older pc!
But generally I would say the charity idea. I'm sure something will exist like that. Or maybe just hand them into a charity shop, I'm sure they'll take anything, someone will find a use for it.
Rich
But generally I would say the charity idea. I'm sure something will exist like that. Or maybe just hand them into a charity shop, I'm sure they'll take anything, someone will find a use for it.
Rich
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Originally Posted by jbryant
Was going to hopefully clear out the garage over the weekend, if I can bring myself to get the energy together (stinking cold at the moment ). I know there are a lot of old PC parts out there and was wondering what to do with it all. I'm thinking of
+old full tower cases (2 or 3 ATX boxes)
+several motherboards loaded with old CPUs and memory (think 500Mhz + 128Mb-ish)
+Old IDE & SCSI CD drives, PSUs and hard disks
Boxes and boxes of cables and connectors
Is there any company out there that can make good use of this type of kit, or is it all destined for the tip?
I've grown out of having 3 or 4 machines set up at once and am happy just with my shuttle. I know this can all be built into something useful to run Linux or a firewall or whatever but just don't have the time or space any more (2 kids seen to that!). Some of it may be worth a few quid on ebay, but I can't bring myself to flog mobo's on there as they'll only end up haunting me coz some muppet can't get them working (though I know they're perfectly good working condition). Cases are too heavy to ship. Sold a few SCSI controllers on ebay a month or two back and for all the trouble it was, I only picked up about £20.
What do the rest of you all do with this type of stuff. Historically, I would hold onto it for another 2 or three years and then throw it away
Cheers
Joolz
+old full tower cases (2 or 3 ATX boxes)
+several motherboards loaded with old CPUs and memory (think 500Mhz + 128Mb-ish)
+Old IDE & SCSI CD drives, PSUs and hard disks
Boxes and boxes of cables and connectors
Is there any company out there that can make good use of this type of kit, or is it all destined for the tip?
I've grown out of having 3 or 4 machines set up at once and am happy just with my shuttle. I know this can all be built into something useful to run Linux or a firewall or whatever but just don't have the time or space any more (2 kids seen to that!). Some of it may be worth a few quid on ebay, but I can't bring myself to flog mobo's on there as they'll only end up haunting me coz some muppet can't get them working (though I know they're perfectly good working condition). Cases are too heavy to ship. Sold a few SCSI controllers on ebay a month or two back and for all the trouble it was, I only picked up about £20.
What do the rest of you all do with this type of stuff. Historically, I would hold onto it for another 2 or three years and then throw it away
Cheers
Joolz
www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com may be interested. They are based in North London and provide container loads of refurbed PCs to Third World countries on behalf of the UN
Regards
Fox
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OK all money to charity - who wants some hardware?!
Originally Posted by Stueyb
Joolz,
Im after a cheap mobo ie a 400MHz upwards and i have the ram etc etc. Ill pay the postage and bung a tenner in the charity box if you want rid.
Im after a cheap mobo ie a 400MHz upwards and i have the ram etc etc. Ill pay the postage and bung a tenner in the charity box if you want rid.
I like the idea so I’ll leave this on trust – anyone wants any of this stuff then sort me out the p&p and put the rest to charity – just place appropriate amount in the next worthy collection box or donate it to the Scoobynet Tsunami appeal. If there's any postage cost for the heavier items you can paypal it to me or send a cheque.
SOLD to StueyB -
Athlon Slot A 600 CPU and heatsink + BCS754 motherboard
£4 p&p and a tenner to charity.
SOLD to Richard P
3 x PC100 RAM sticks
Free p&p and a fiver to charity
Outstanding hardware to go:
+SCSI CD-Rom Pioneer DRU-06S (32x)
+SCSI CDRW Yamaha 16x4x4
+K6-2 400Mhz(?) CPU and mobo
+QTec 400W Gold dual fan PSU
+ATX cases 2xfull tower with PSU (PC World £60 jobbies a year or two back – decent quality) (collection Reading only)
+SB Live card and minidisc optical accessory card
+SB AWE32
+PCI LAN card Dlink
+Matrox Mystique
+2 x Monster 12Mb cards (SLI) in case anyone is feeling nostalgic
+HP DDS-2 tape drive (runs very hot – not sure if all are like this or if it is knackered). I think just 2/4Gb capacity
+Adaptec 2920 SCSI adapter (PCI)
+ 2 x IDE removable hard disk caddy and enclosure (internal 5.25 bay fit, to hold 3.5 IDE drives and enable swap between machines)
I know much of this is junk but it seems people still need for spares/repairs.
Please PM or post here if you want anything and I'll let you know if it's still available and postage cost if applicable.
Joolz
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not so long ago i went out and baught a Qtec fan. But then again i find it rather loud, it wont be long till i rip it out and invest in a quieter one i think, then il be starting up my own scrap pile
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Originally Posted by ScoobyDriverWannabe
not so long ago i went out and baught a Qtec fan. But then again i find it rather loud, it wont be long till i rip it out and invest in a quieter one i think, then il be starting up my own scrap pile
So you don't want it then
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Originally Posted by jbryant
So you don't want it then
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But live in sunderland so miles away lol
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I hate to say, but all my old stuff goes in the bin Should I keep stuff back then? I didn't think, with the rate of acceleration of IT these days, that is was worth keeping old items. Am I wrong?
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Are you wrong? No not necessarily - just potentially wasteful
I'm still running old SCSI disks and controllers that are 7 or 8 years old, got network storage devices made up of PII 400s (with raid controllers), my main w/station is P3 800 with a number of old IDE drives etc etc.
There's no need to spend out all the time on the latest kit when for the majority of uses the older stuff works just fine.
Sure, I've got a good(ish) spec machine for games but the rest runs perfectly adequately on W2K with a good amount of RAM.
I'm still running old SCSI disks and controllers that are 7 or 8 years old, got network storage devices made up of PII 400s (with raid controllers), my main w/station is P3 800 with a number of old IDE drives etc etc.
There's no need to spend out all the time on the latest kit when for the majority of uses the older stuff works just fine.
Sure, I've got a good(ish) spec machine for games but the rest runs perfectly adequately on W2K with a good amount of RAM.
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Originally Posted by Soulgirl
I hate to say, but all my old stuff goes in the bin Should I keep stuff back then? I didn't think, with the rate of acceleration of IT these days, that is was worth keeping old items. Am I wrong?
I was gonna bin it all as it's too fiddly for ebay, but it's helped a few people on scoobynet keep old systems running a little longer, and got a few quid in the charity bucket so it's worth a little effort (not much, but a little )
Joolz
PS. Once the post dies, the rest goes in the bin
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I would rather give away local from my pocket that pi55 around posting etc for sure. You always get the gimps complaining it don't work when you know it does but they have borked it during their install or it's not compatible with their current setup. It just aint worth the crap really
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Originally Posted by Soulgirl
I would rather give away local from my pocket that pi55 around posting etc for sure. You always get the gimps complaining it don't work when you know it does but they have borked it during their install or it's not compatible with their current setup. It just aint worth the crap really
[edited to add - the gimps are on ebay, not here... I think most of the decent folk that frequent Scoobynet know the hardware is sold as seen and understand what that means. Anyone can see I'm not seelling shoddy old duff goods for a quick buck. I'm just losing a few components that were working fine pior to system upgrades and giving the cash to charity. If it doesn't work on their system then what do I do - ask the charity for the money back? I have some faith in the people on here, however miguided that may seem ].
Joolz
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You do gooder.. you just had to chuck the charity word in didn't you LOL
I spend my time working a full time job, and a part time 3 evening a week job, plus bringing up kids and juggling my car fanatacism, my soul fanatacism and my marriage.. plus I have to do the f ucking ironing... that's about as full as my life gets so no, I dont have time to wrap small parcels to be slagged off and complained at when it goes wrong their end coz they aint got a scoobydoo.
I spend my time working a full time job, and a part time 3 evening a week job, plus bringing up kids and juggling my car fanatacism, my soul fanatacism and my marriage.. plus I have to do the f ucking ironing... that's about as full as my life gets so no, I dont have time to wrap small parcels to be slagged off and complained at when it goes wrong their end coz they aint got a scoobydoo.
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.... I get enough crap from my customers I sell software to, who can't comprehend cut and paste, in the hours between what I mentioned above.
I need a bloody holiday!
I need a bloody holiday!
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Originally Posted by Richard_P
I'm after some oldish memory sticks for an older pc!
But generally I would say the charity idea. I'm sure something will exist like that. Or maybe just hand them into a charity shop, I'm sure they'll take anything, someone will find a use for it.
Rich
But generally I would say the charity idea. I'm sure something will exist like that. Or maybe just hand them into a charity shop, I'm sure they'll take anything, someone will find a use for it.
Rich
i have odd sticks lying around
also some laptop so dimms
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