I got a voodoo 5 5500 pci in my garage, I gave away all the other 3dfx cards though. This card I am keeping.
At this point in time a system will be a good 8 years old, so I highly doubt anyone has any use for it. Will get recycled I imagine.
Even old hardware can still be put to a good use, kids don't need Windows to learn about computers so install a low resource Linux distro & give it to a family member. http://lxde.org/lxde/ https://www.linux.com/news/software...ent-lightweight-linux-distros-for-x86-and-arm
I fill the front room with it until I need it for a repair, or someone needs a basic build - despite the gfs efforts to hide it all in 'tidy boxes' where I never see it again
I have donated old laptops and desktop to "Operation Kindness". It is a no kill shelter for dogs and cats. They are non profit and for every donation like this, they can use the $$$ that they would have spent on computers and equipment on the dogs and cats. Does a heart good to help our furry friends.
Exactly! That's what I tell some parents and the second they hear "Linux" they shy away :bang: Some even replied with "isn't that what hackers use" or "but that way they never learn how to use Windows" :bang:
I just keep everything, I like to have a collection of old parts, it just feels so satisfying I don't know why. My best parts I have had spare to this date are a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz, I actually have a Pentium 4 2.66Ghz too, both of which came from two old office computers from my dad's garage. I also got two sticks of 2GB Kingston memory from one of those PC's, doesn't specify the frequency on the labels though.
i try always to reuse what i have. re-purposed a old Core2Duo computer to a Ubuntu 14.04 server and sold it back to its previous owner who gave it for free as trash.One man's trash is another man's treasure,right?
Either keep it if it's still relatively current gen, like my previous graphics cards (GTX 560 Ti), or take the parts to be recycled if they're truly old. Sometimes I may try to work out a trade-in bargain with a shop if they have something interesting for the right price. Though this happens less nowadays as I do most PC part shopping online. Plus the shop in question is becoming more reluctant to do trade-ins these days (used to be known for it). Ofc if someone I know has use for any old parts I have then I give them away.
There should be another catergory for people that scrap or recycle. I do that with alot of older motherboards, cpus, memory etc and the amount you can get for a lot of old stuff is quite surprising. I got £100 once for scrapping a total of around 40 old pc towers (P2 - P4 spec). Which is nothing really considering i was only going to throw it all away. Thats for just the components too, not the case etc.
Sell it for a small price. Some parts I keep for testing/backup. I still have my 8800GTX as a backup PCI-E just in case a GPU would die on me.
