QOTD: What Do You Do With Your Old PCs?

[Onus]

When I wanted to build a new rig, I'd find a family member who could use the old one. I've run out now though, so it's a good thing my current rig(s) should still have a few years left in them (with upgrades, of course). Parts from upgrades accumulate until there's [almost] enough to build a new one, then I buy whatever's missing, build the rig, and give it away. The last one went to the Shelter Animal Rescue Group from which my wife and I got two excellent kittens.
Anything broken or useless I take to a recycling place.

 

[jeffredo]

Build for relatives off my cast-off parts. Mom's got an Athlon64 3700+ on a socket 754 with a Radeon X850 XT AGP. Perfect surfing the internet rig for her.

My ancient Windows 98 box is still in the closet. It has a 3dfx Voodoo5 PCI card in it and I don't have the heart to get rid of it. Still fire it up once in a while to play Diablo II (nothing better than Glide for that game!).

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

It usually is just old parts that I sell or give away, being as I build my own. The case stays the same. I usually sell or give the old parts away. I am giving my friend 2x 8800GTX cards next week when I seen him in LA (he is bying me and my wife dinner).

 

[Dave_69]

Trash. Although I still have my first 3.5" floppy drive from 20 years ago, and I keep rolling it over into my current builds. It's an antique, and I like it that way. I'm not even sure it works.

 

[rooket]

3dfx cards hold their own ground. I looked at both of mine and they have no capacitors on them which means they could quite possibly live ~30-35 years.

I also have a P233mmx system but it rarely ever gets turned on. When you own two core2duo systems, anything below core2duo is so obsolete that it is difficult to use. With the P4 I just put back together, I am having issues getting accustomed to the loss in speed. It seems to work ok now though since I disabled the onboard sound for windows 7.

 

[rooket]

Oh and yeah I did find both my 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives from my 386 built in 1989 and they both still work. I tossed everything below pentium mmx m/b+cpu in recycling several months ago. For some reason I managed to save two 166mmx m/b and cpu no idea why, I have no use for those.

 

[leafblower29]

Garage sale. I wanna sell 2 old machines. Unless I find some other use.

 

[yrmoma]

Two words:

Trebuchet ammunition.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

@ work we sell old computers to some recycling company for approximetly $15 each. Privately I just dump em @ the local recycling center

 

[puddleglum]

I donate it to intel for them to analyze and see how to make their next generation business chips.

 

[bildo123]

I keep an old pentium II based tower under my bed for self-defense.

 

[nukemaster]

I keep an old pentium II based tower under my bed for self-defense.

Post of the day!!!

 

[toze]

Since computers are my hobby, I try to keep them up and running. Some friend might need one or someone else. For some reason I like to keep them for long periods of time because:
1- They were hard to buy, assemble, test and use. Some hardware was very expensive at the time, compared to what we have now.
2- For some reason I can not even explain, I like to costumize, format, try different (new) OS's to see how the (old) machines behave.
3- Well, don't want to forget the headaches they gave me when something went wrong! Or setting up the drivers one by one!

Cheers.

 

[toze]

Since computers are my hobby, I try to keep them up and running. Some friend might need one or someone else. For some reason I like to keep them for long periods of time because:
1- They were hard to buy, assemble, test and use. Some hardware was very expensive at the time, compared to what we have now.
2- For some reason I can not even explain, I like to costumize, format, try different (new) OS's to see how the (old) machines behave.
3- Well, don't want to forget the headaches they gave me when something went wrong! Or setting up the drivers one by one!

Cheers.

 

[vectoravtech]

I stuck two nic cards inside it and created a pfsense firewall/ router box for my regular pc to pull the internet from.