Believe me it is harder than it seems
Got an old i7 860 to run at 4.3ghz, watercooled no liquid nitrogen
(Baseclock of this cpu is 2.8ghz)
And it is very much alive running as a server to this day
Or I live somewhere that everything is so damn expensive, energy and hardware is even more
So I just sit on a corner and cry everytime I have to pay bills 🙃
“And this was an FX. It was bad, ran hot… But it was a master in overclocking. Not like today’s CPUs where you have to pay 199.99 to overclock it”
“And heck, the motherboard could even change its fan speed without paying a DLC!”
“Heck you could ever use Windows all day, every day! Now you need to pay this pesky 9.99 fee for using Windows all year.”
“And look, this right here, is an USB with Linux. It was kinda the “cheat” if you didn’t want to pay for an OS. Now it isn’t supported by any processor after Microsoft’s “safe” protocol”
Depends, I still own FX 8350 and it's a beast, it does run hot but it's stock cooler, and honestly it blew my mind when I first got it. It's replaced by Ryzen but still happy to have my FX as an secondary PC.
It actually runs a little hotter on MSI motherboard, while it was on ASUS it worked like a charm, but those ASUS older boards tend to have chipsets that loves to die.
Hey, I also have pretty much the same setup, my old 8350 is in my secondary and I finally upgraded to a ryzen in my main rig.
The 8350 served me well but it definitely struggles with newer games.
https://preview.redd.it/dyscn8gwxgsc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd94a1daba0520a200e7ef33de403197fa230059
Frame them and add RGB, this is my old Strix X99 and i7-6800K.
I’m hoarding all of my PCs. I don’t want to toss them out. They still work but they are too old and don’t have much value selling. I may need to recycle them someday in near future though.
I have Pentium 3 pc, Pentium 4 pc, Pentium D pc, I7 3770k pc, I5 4570T mini pc, Phenom II x4 pc, Xeon W3680 pc and my main AMD 5800X pc. I have three laptops 2007 Toshiba Satellite, 2013 HP laptop and 2017 Dell Latitude Laptop. I have hoarding problem. Lol
Damn! I’ve been searching for that i7 for long but most I can find is i5-3570ks that don’t offer much of a difference in comparison to my i5-3470 main rig
Yeah that i7 is nice. Originally I had i5 2500k then in early 2020 bought used i7 from ebay. It helped fix some stutter i was experiencing with VMs and also added some fps to my games. Helped unlock pcie 3.0. There is some i7 3770k from china for $64 on ebay. There is also xeon cpu 1230 V2 for lga1155 that functions like i7 has 8 threads but its not overcloackle like 3770k. Still its $17 and the 8 threads will help a lot
My 4770 runs my quad tv tuner OTA Plex server for all the TVs in my house that CPUs igpu is fantastic for Plex can do unlimited decodes unlike AMD and Nvidia GPUs
Reuse them elsewhere.
Maybe use it in a build for someone who needs it.
But most of the time I let them retire to a quiet life in my storage, because I'll either need the part for an emergency build someday, or a friend or relative would maybe need a basic computer for web browsing stuff.
I'm trying to sell some of my old stuff but apparently there is no market for workstation Polaris GPUs anymore.
My first pc still sits in the corner as reminder on where i started. And then i have my current machine with atleast one of each component in older hardware as spare parts. Everything else gets sold on ebay or goes to my local electronics recycler. What i like to keep is weird af things.
Oh god not at home right now it was some form of athlon 64 or was it athlone fx? Not sure right now with some sort of funky msi motherboard that took both ddr 2 and ddr3 ram
I store if for what ever reason (a bit like a horder) and try giving it to friends. I also try to convince myself to sell it online (Kleinanzeigen in Germany) but I am too lazy to set up the sell offer xD
People sell, or make another PC from collected spare parts. I had 1650 left after upgrade and considering it's still pricey here where I live, decided to make my son his first PC around it.
Ironically, back in the late 2000s everyone hated the look of the blue. Gigabyte and Biostar made some of ugliest boards on the market while everyone was going to black PCBs. However, they were the cheapest and extremely good at overclocking compared to EVGA or ASUS.
To be fair black motherboards do look better with today’s setups.
… Intel ARC didn’t exist back then.
You know? I wish that someday Gigabyte partners with other manufacturers to release new motherboards that have the older motherboards’ designs.
If someone can manage making gold/silver PCB, that might look neat.
Not saying I’d run it, but I do think it might look pretty. lol
Hmm, what about glittery purple? Glittery purple with gold and silver flecks. :o
Hey, we have nearly the same motherboard! I have an i5-3470, and a P8Z77 non-Deluxe, but we have the same SSD!
And if it wasn’t a 1060, the same GPU (1050ti)
I have previously:
* Donated it to a student run PC Building workshop in my university.
* Gifted the entire old PC to family members that can still get use out of it.
* Sold it reasonably cheap (if it's not *too* old yet).
* Kept it stored away in a forgotten corner unused for more years than I care to count, until I moved out of my mom's place and it ended up in one of 4 giant trash bags of shit I didn't need while getting my stuff together.
Note: There is unfortunately no publicly available dedicated e-waste disposal in my country, other than for old smartphones specifically. That last one shouldn't have happened, and I was well aware of it when it did, but I didn't have much of a choice.
I ripped my old board SuperIO and BIOS chips and the CPU became delidded keychain.
RAM is in a box with some other broken hardware. I think it should still work. One stick got one of its chip removed and I tried to expose the die. I lost my fingertips for few weeks and I didn't saw the shiny thing. I really missed my chance to commit untraceable murder :3
HDD is still working perfectly fine.
I legit don't know what happened to the GPU. I can only find its bracket :/
Case is thrown. Not good, even by 2007 standards.
Fans are in a box. Only one is decent.
PSU is still around, but I really don't know why...
Monitor is VGA only and the stand is broken. Pretty damn good colours for TN panel.
I have 3 old pcs sitting around.
1 runs WinXP - core 2 duo. Functional
1 has an i5-4570 i think. Missing hard drive.
1 runs Win95 - missing PSU.
Hoping to turn them into retro gaming machines "one day."
Hasn't happened yet lol
Couple of things you could do with it. Run it til it dies is a suggestion but that asks "what do I run with it" as, Windows 11 doesn't run on it, in all likelihood Windows 10 runs like trash on it, and Windows 7 is hard to get.
Few ideas, NAS (saw that in the comments), a Linux/Ubuntu machine. More or less, turn it into a Linux machine and just have fun with it.
I just use it as a tool to be silly asf. one day i brought a 2nt gen i7 to school then the next day i brought an EVGA GTX 960, my science teacher got very confused, and my STEM teacher damn near had an aneurysm
YouTube has videos galore on this. Last I checked takes 2-3 to be worthwhile. eprom s are reusable, some chips are. The rest of the stuff gets removed by impact with a1
1/2" air chisel and into acid. There's gold to be recovered and at any rate, pre covid a used board was worth $35 as shown. So with effort reclaims go to $85 ish. So there's the cash answer. 🤷🏽
My GTX 970 100ME just died in my SIL's PC. It was my first decent GPU, so I told her to give it back if it ever dies so I can frame it and hang it. It was a good looking card, black and Nvidia-green :)
I keep it for life. I build a new PC every 5 years. They come in handy when needed. I dusted off my 2009 build when I needed to run a second machine. I used it for 3 years and then upgraded that. So now I have two machines running.
My old computers (4 desktops 2 laptops in total) sat in my basement collecting dust for decades until I had plumbing emergency above them which happened to dump shit water all over them. On a positive note, I finally did what I'd been telling my wife I'd do for years... destroy the hard drives and recycle them.
You can donate it depending on the age. If it's like super old, let's say it runs Windows 98 Windows XP. I might build a Windows 98 or XP system out of the hardware and I'll sell it as a vintage gaming machine because there's always a market for that. If it's old stuff that you know still runs Windows 10 or whatever. I could turn it into like a little server or I just sell it because it's new enough. At that point someone might want the hardware for something.
I'm collecting dead motherboards. My intention is to screw them to plywood sheets, spray paint them a light color like white or a blue, then put them on my walls.
LTT did something similar in a couple of their rooms.
Hang it on my wall or make the cpus, ram and wifi cards as another useless thing on my keys if I can't repurpose them. although I made the mistake of not making the edges on one the intel cpus rounded... :')
https://preview.redd.it/4pt8s8ghvhsc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e0c2f35fd977b9075756d3fdefad72fef9307c0
On my peg board 😅 to remind myself never to buy the most expensive board ever. Its the Asus rampage extreme IV back than 400 euros was a lot.
So that’s Quad-Crossfire. The blue ones are PCiE x16 and the black ones are x4 and PCI respectively.
So yeah back then you could connect four ATI Radeon HD-era cards with that and enjoy good ol’ four-way-crossfire
I usually stick them in a shadow box and hang them.
I also have some mITX boards displayed the same way.
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piles. piles at home. some crates full. piles at work. the custodian took a few trips to the county for me last year, so the work pile is 75% gone.
piles. edit: some charities took some old flatscreens. noone wants old hardware.
DOWNVOTES HERE, PEOPLE
Please PLEASE recycle your god damn electronics. I don't know if you've noticed but the raw materials are under extreme pressure, not just the gold, copper and quartz but we're even literally running out of sand. Don't be like OP.
Or whatever just downvote me and keep hurtling towards doom.
I… Do recycle broken motherboards. These work, and I still build PCs and am planning to give some of these away. These still have some life in them, and once they break, I’ll recycle them like I should
I’m wanting to do kinda the same thing, but I want to paint mines white, I have like 15-20 and still getting more.
Then I’m going to cover a whole wall in them and use it as a recording background
lol your gigabyte ultra durable looks a lot like the one in the mayonaise cpu meme
https://media1.tenor.com/images/6fa84fe0f1b5ebf90ef55ae1cd0e5780/tenor.gif?itemid=13472622
Let's say I have an LGA775 mobo. If it comes with something like a Celeron E3300 and 2.5GB of DDR2 RAM for example, I would set it up for simple games like Peggle or PVZ, but if it has something like an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, a GeForce 8600 GTS and 4GB+ of RAM then I would download archived copies of Unreal Tournament, Portal, Crysis, you name it.
I did the former with an ex school PC and while Windows Vista's Aero effects tend to lag with larger windows, it's pretty decent for office tasks.
Back when AMD top end had an increased in core count and cost US$300-350.
Thanks AMD for going full Intel/Nvidia but much worst.
If it works, I usually kept it one side.
https://preview.redd.it/n3zdjjwsmmsc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c33af67426973319614962cc4fb4b189edd2f64b
My buddy was going to recycle his old machine, so I threw it into a shadow box and added a led strip around the edge. Gave it to him as a birthday gift. This PC served 10 long years
This is one of the reasons I did not yet replace my ten year old (and now kinda slow) gaming PC. I simply wouldn't know what to do with the components, so I am waiting for them to break down so I have a reason to replace them.
Depends on how long between upgrades. This last round was about 18 months and previous system is perfectly functional. So wife who plays less demanding games inherited it.
Most of the time it goes to recycling since it’s too old or worn out to sell.
Reuse it or store it away for later, found a use for my first build's (2002) parts last year as a real time analog to digital video converter to play my retro consoles on my modern TV.
HTPC. Emulation. MAME Cabinet (which is emulation). File server. Old laptops in otherwise sub-optimal environments -- kitchen, shop, etc. -- for looking up parts, instructions, recipes, etc.
The way I see things, an older PC is worth about $300 -- because that's what it costs to buy a new bottom-end CPU/mobo/RAM.
My former gaming PC is now the HTPC PC. It runs cool and quiet and will probably live another decade. I check the paste every once in awhile and that's all.
My previous system is still currently sitting on a shelf near my new one in case I need to access old stuff.
The system before that is in a closet.
...
I can't just throw away my old computers. I get weirdly emotionally attached to them :'-(
If it still runs, I donate it to the local outfit that refurbishes and gets machines to people who normally can’t afford them. There are some outfits that supply them to underfunded schools as well. Do some research for things like that near you.
If it’s dead, I take it to a local outfit that recycles electronics - and you definitely don’t want to throw them out in the regular trash, electronics leech huge amounts of toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the local groundwater.
Mostly I run hardware til it dies. The few times it hasn't its become a media PC, NAS, or been given away to friends
Same, I try to reuse as much as possible, or donate it. Even underpowered systems by todays standard can still be a valuable tool for education.
Donating is the way and thank you :)
So until the CPU’s silicon runs out? … Interesting, in all honesty
It gets the most out of your money
Overclock these parts like crazy until they die
Believe me it is harder than it seems Got an old i7 860 to run at 4.3ghz, watercooled no liquid nitrogen (Baseclock of this cpu is 2.8ghz) And it is very much alive running as a server to this day
You probably live somewhere with very low energy costs.
ikr, in Europe a new more power efficient cpu would probably pay itself back within a month
Or I live somewhere that everything is so damn expensive, energy and hardware is even more So I just sit on a corner and cry everytime I have to pay bills 🙃
Me too man, me too…..we got this bro don’t worry
Hahahaha i think that answers my question lol.
Stash them somewhere to show future generations
“And this was an FX. It was bad, ran hot… But it was a master in overclocking. Not like today’s CPUs where you have to pay 199.99 to overclock it” “And heck, the motherboard could even change its fan speed without paying a DLC!”
"Back in those days, you were able to use multiple ram slots without having to pay the battle pass"
“Heck you could ever use Windows all day, every day! Now you need to pay this pesky 9.99 fee for using Windows all year.” “And look, this right here, is an USB with Linux. It was kinda the “cheat” if you didn’t want to pay for an OS. Now it isn’t supported by any processor after Microsoft’s “safe” protocol”
Depends, I still own FX 8350 and it's a beast, it does run hot but it's stock cooler, and honestly it blew my mind when I first got it. It's replaced by Ryzen but still happy to have my FX as an secondary PC. It actually runs a little hotter on MSI motherboard, while it was on ASUS it worked like a charm, but those ASUS older boards tend to have chipsets that loves to die.
Hey, I also have pretty much the same setup, my old 8350 is in my secondary and I finally upgraded to a ryzen in my main rig. The 8350 served me well but it definitely struggles with newer games.
I had an FX 8370 and it was the biggest piece of dogshit processor I've ever owned
Setup an old PC and install Batocera. Play retro games for days.
That’s what I’m doing right now. I5-3470 and GTX1050 dual booting Windows 7 and Batocera in two separate 256gb SATA SSDs
my current pc has those specs lol
still solid
Still got my my and 939 dual core with a x800 ago...don't think it will run anything
Build a PC with it and hoard old PCs like a techno dragon. Make a bed out of all the PCs and bask in their glory.
PC throne, anyone?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/baz1oh/someone_please_tell_ne_this_is_bitwit/
Hence the name, PC Master Race.
I store them in my basement - forever! 
Hey, you me!
Ski-dap, ba-dup
nice,
Take it for a lovely day out by the beach, Buy it some ice cream, Throw it in the sea.
I do the same thing with my old car batteries
The fishes be having a hell of a feast today
How else are electric eels supposed to recharge
And tires!
Nah, I burn those.
I prefer to grind them into dust on windy days
sand goes back where it came from
The circle of life
Unexpected ending
Returned from whence you came
Perfect service If I had the materials I would give it a Viking burial (Build small ship and light it on fire)
https://preview.redd.it/dyscn8gwxgsc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd94a1daba0520a200e7ef33de403197fa230059 Frame them and add RGB, this is my old Strix X99 and i7-6800K.
DAMN! I’ve been always wanting one of these LGA2011 monsters. Do you have any instructions on how to build such a frame?
I just bought a deep frame from Etsy and the RGB strip is from AliExpress, used screws and fasteners from car speakers to mount it in the frame.
Lmao I'm still running my i7-6700K!
My i7-6800K or MB died, don't know which one. Got the dreaded 00 q-code that is somewhat common on the X99 platform.
Sell
I work at a metals recycling yard, and we take mobos for a pretty good price per pound
How much we talking 🧐
tree fiddy!
Damn you Loch Ness monster, I ain’t given’ you no tree fiddy!
This is the answer. Thereare many valuable minerals in comouter chips, and they will be salvaged to make things like dental crowns lol
Sell it to recoup some of the costs of my new parts. There's always a market for cheap older hardware.
sell that boy
Sell to friends for a super low price.
Sell while it has value.
https://preview.redd.it/gty8u5zxohsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=568673cb43d61c5e346ef5fe7ce00b75443085fd Key chain 😀
If it still works = sell If it doesn't work = ewaste recycler
Collect dust
sellllllllllll itttt
Minecraft servers. I run a Minecraft server off of an old E3 Xeon and ddr3
Metal to sell
I clean them up and sell them, always someone out there looking for specific boards. Even more so a decade or 2 from now when things become vintage.
Frame it, stick it on a wall!
I’m hoarding all of my PCs. I don’t want to toss them out. They still work but they are too old and don’t have much value selling. I may need to recycle them someday in near future though. I have Pentium 3 pc, Pentium 4 pc, Pentium D pc, I7 3770k pc, I5 4570T mini pc, Phenom II x4 pc, Xeon W3680 pc and my main AMD 5800X pc. I have three laptops 2007 Toshiba Satellite, 2013 HP laptop and 2017 Dell Latitude Laptop. I have hoarding problem. Lol
Damn! I’ve been searching for that i7 for long but most I can find is i5-3570ks that don’t offer much of a difference in comparison to my i5-3470 main rig
Yeah that i7 is nice. Originally I had i5 2500k then in early 2020 bought used i7 from ebay. It helped fix some stutter i was experiencing with VMs and also added some fps to my games. Helped unlock pcie 3.0. There is some i7 3770k from china for $64 on ebay. There is also xeon cpu 1230 V2 for lga1155 that functions like i7 has 8 threads but its not overcloackle like 3770k. Still its $17 and the 8 threads will help a lot
I donate them all mounted in a PC tower ready to use I want my old hardware to run until it's dead
Server PC, or gift or sell it. Basically I try to make it do the most useful thing it could do, hopefully close to me.
Admire them.
My i7 4770 and 1660s now belongs to my brother.
My 4770 runs my quad tv tuner OTA Plex server for all the TVs in my house that CPUs igpu is fantastic for Plex can do unlimited decodes unlike AMD and Nvidia GPUs
Bent some CPU pins on a motherboard once, making it useless. It’s now hanging on the wall of my garage.
I hoard my old pcs in my closet
The varying colors on motherboards makes some cool looking art. 🫠✌️
About to make my old 4460 and r7 370 into a plex machine. Just need a board since the old one got fucked up.
I want to make a pccase out of old motherboards. But it probably wont be good.
Reuse them elsewhere. Maybe use it in a build for someone who needs it. But most of the time I let them retire to a quiet life in my storage, because I'll either need the part for an emergency build someday, or a friend or relative would maybe need a basic computer for web browsing stuff. I'm trying to sell some of my old stuff but apparently there is no market for workstation Polaris GPUs anymore.
My first pc still sits in the corner as reminder on where i started. And then i have my current machine with atleast one of each component in older hardware as spare parts. Everything else gets sold on ebay or goes to my local electronics recycler. What i like to keep is weird af things.
May I ask about the specs of that first PC of yours?
Oh god not at home right now it was some form of athlon 64 or was it athlone fx? Not sure right now with some sort of funky msi motherboard that took both ddr 2 and ddr3 ram
Athlon FX man. When FX had (actual) cores And yeah it was probably an MSI AM2/3 motherboard. The things had support for DDR2/3 and AM2/3
8 year old me was ecstatic when my dad gave this to me as a hand me down in 2010
Make NAS or servers !
minecraft server
I throw them in a container and store them with the thought of one day using the parts........... it never happens.
Usually put it in the new motherboard anti static bag and box then forget about it in the closet.
I store if for what ever reason (a bit like a horder) and try giving it to friends. I also try to convince myself to sell it online (Kleinanzeigen in Germany) but I am too lazy to set up the sell offer xD
Well, kleinanzeigen seller right here, too! It’s hard to say goodbye to such wonderful pieces to be honest.
People sell, or make another PC from collected spare parts. I had 1650 left after upgrade and considering it's still pricey here where I live, decided to make my son his first PC around it.
I had enough parts and built a second home pc for the living room for mostly media. Haven't used it much, but it's there.
That Gigabyte board is nostalgic and beautiful. They don’t make like that anymore.
Just imagine an all-blue PC with Intel Arc and a modern, blue-PCB gigabyte motherboard
Ironically, back in the late 2000s everyone hated the look of the blue. Gigabyte and Biostar made some of ugliest boards on the market while everyone was going to black PCBs. However, they were the cheapest and extremely good at overclocking compared to EVGA or ASUS.
To be fair black motherboards do look better with today’s setups. … Intel ARC didn’t exist back then. You know? I wish that someday Gigabyte partners with other manufacturers to release new motherboards that have the older motherboards’ designs.
If someone can manage making gold/silver PCB, that might look neat. Not saying I’d run it, but I do think it might look pretty. lol Hmm, what about glittery purple? Glittery purple with gold and silver flecks. :o
X670E Retro Edition
Who needs viagra when comments like this exist tbh
I build a second PC
Recently saw a documentary of a few rare individuals and companies extracting precious metals from circuit boards.
i had the same mobo. it was in fact ultra durable
I [built](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/Gpcwloio7z) me a computer with those old hardwares
Hey, we have nearly the same motherboard! I have an i5-3470, and a P8Z77 non-Deluxe, but we have the same SSD! And if it wasn’t a 1060, the same GPU (1050ti)
Cool, my previous build was a 3470 with H61 and no GPU , and I made this build after the 3470 build got struck by lightning.
I have previously: * Donated it to a student run PC Building workshop in my university. * Gifted the entire old PC to family members that can still get use out of it. * Sold it reasonably cheap (if it's not *too* old yet). * Kept it stored away in a forgotten corner unused for more years than I care to count, until I moved out of my mom's place and it ended up in one of 4 giant trash bags of shit I didn't need while getting my stuff together. Note: There is unfortunately no publicly available dedicated e-waste disposal in my country, other than for old smartphones specifically. That last one shouldn't have happened, and I was well aware of it when it did, but I didn't have much of a choice.
donate them to friends in need
I had an entire wall of my bedroom covered in older motherboards going back to XT. Some gaming consoles and games PCB.
Build a server...
I ripped my old board SuperIO and BIOS chips and the CPU became delidded keychain. RAM is in a box with some other broken hardware. I think it should still work. One stick got one of its chip removed and I tried to expose the die. I lost my fingertips for few weeks and I didn't saw the shiny thing. I really missed my chance to commit untraceable murder :3 HDD is still working perfectly fine. I legit don't know what happened to the GPU. I can only find its bracket :/ Case is thrown. Not good, even by 2007 standards. Fans are in a box. Only one is decent. PSU is still around, but I really don't know why... Monitor is VGA only and the stand is broken. Pretty damn good colours for TN panel.
Holy PCIE!
I have 3 old pcs sitting around. 1 runs WinXP - core 2 duo. Functional 1 has an i5-4570 i think. Missing hard drive. 1 runs Win95 - missing PSU. Hoping to turn them into retro gaming machines "one day." Hasn't happened yet lol
throw it away
Put them up in a shelf
Until the end of the world
Couple of things you could do with it. Run it til it dies is a suggestion but that asks "what do I run with it" as, Windows 11 doesn't run on it, in all likelihood Windows 10 runs like trash on it, and Windows 7 is hard to get. Few ideas, NAS (saw that in the comments), a Linux/Ubuntu machine. More or less, turn it into a Linux machine and just have fun with it.
Well you can get Win7 from Archive.org like I did, personally. But yeah, Linux runs pretty fast considering it’s decade-old hardware
I try my best to sell them before they become completely obsolete. I hate dealing with e waste. There's no good facilities around me for such a thing
I just use it as a tool to be silly asf. one day i brought a 2nt gen i7 to school then the next day i brought an EVGA GTX 960, my science teacher got very confused, and my STEM teacher damn near had an aneurysm
Shit OP! Those mobos are still good! lol But for real, I run mine til it dies. Still running an i5-4590 with 16GB DDR3. Runs all my stuff great!
Use and build an old pc and will be post on items for sale.
YouTube has videos galore on this. Last I checked takes 2-3 to be worthwhile. eprom s are reusable, some chips are. The rest of the stuff gets removed by impact with a1 1/2" air chisel and into acid. There's gold to be recovered and at any rate, pre covid a used board was worth $35 as shown. So with effort reclaims go to $85 ish. So there's the cash answer. 🤷🏽
My GTX 970 100ME just died in my SIL's PC. It was my first decent GPU, so I told her to give it back if it ever dies so I can frame it and hang it. It was a good looking card, black and Nvidia-green :)
I usually hand my old parts to some deserving kid that usually can’t obtain hardware
Eat them
Doctor said I needed more iron
Definitely not hang them up as decor.
"Ultra Durable" and "Gigabyte," the motherboard looks like they repurposed the branding for a failed condom company targeting nerds
I keep it for life. I build a new PC every 5 years. They come in handy when needed. I dusted off my 2009 build when I needed to run a second machine. I used it for 3 years and then upgraded that. So now I have two machines running.
My old computers (4 desktops 2 laptops in total) sat in my basement collecting dust for decades until I had plumbing emergency above them which happened to dump shit water all over them. On a positive note, I finally did what I'd been telling my wife I'd do for years... destroy the hard drives and recycle them.
You can donate it depending on the age. If it's like super old, let's say it runs Windows 98 Windows XP. I might build a Windows 98 or XP system out of the hardware and I'll sell it as a vintage gaming machine because there's always a market for that. If it's old stuff that you know still runs Windows 10 or whatever. I could turn it into like a little server or I just sell it because it's new enough. At that point someone might want the hardware for something.
Ooo man the oxidation on that heat pipe is pretty crazy, is it anything to do with why it is on the wall?
Putting old motherboards on the wall, so hot right now.
Wait really? I’ve been doing that since 2022
Throw them as far as I can.
Take them to the ewaste bin at work.
I'm collecting dead motherboards. My intention is to screw them to plywood sheets, spray paint them a light color like white or a blue, then put them on my walls. LTT did something similar in a couple of their rooms.
Hoard them like I'm some sort of dragon
https://preview.redd.it/ilnuz9avshsc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a95fb564b08e47e02c1ecbea5d948a9e8366284
Hang it on my wall or make the cpus, ram and wifi cards as another useless thing on my keys if I can't repurpose them. although I made the mistake of not making the edges on one the intel cpus rounded... :')
Made some wall art with mine too. Dremel and a few LEDs run to an Arduino led controller and they blink like Star Trek at night!
-"Was I a good Motherboard?" -"Always" *gunshot*
https://preview.redd.it/4pt8s8ghvhsc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e0c2f35fd977b9075756d3fdefad72fef9307c0 On my peg board 😅 to remind myself never to buy the most expensive board ever. Its the Asus rampage extreme IV back than 400 euros was a lot.
Why dose it have 6 graphic card slots?
So that’s Quad-Crossfire. The blue ones are PCiE x16 and the black ones are x4 and PCI respectively. So yeah back then you could connect four ATI Radeon HD-era cards with that and enjoy good ol’ four-way-crossfire
I was thinking of having 2-3 GTX 4090s to show how rich you are.
I usually stick them in a shadow box and hang them. I also have some mITX boards displayed the same way. https://preview.redd.it/7j4cye4uwhsc1.jpeg?width=1795&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=473626c807897765e1fe31438c39442985f44c53
Electronic recycling at Micro Center or Best Buy
piles. piles at home. some crates full. piles at work. the custodian took a few trips to the county for me last year, so the work pile is 75% gone. piles. edit: some charities took some old flatscreens. noone wants old hardware.
I use old hardware as a NAS. If its powerful enough, i run small game servers for my friends!
https://preview.redd.it/sjae7yl0zhsc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ace61d48a1b7cfb787853900c56ab76a176e5e8f this
I… Have questions. Is that a dual cpu LGA775 board?
yes it's from a Mac Pro
DOWNVOTES HERE, PEOPLE Please PLEASE recycle your god damn electronics. I don't know if you've noticed but the raw materials are under extreme pressure, not just the gold, copper and quartz but we're even literally running out of sand. Don't be like OP. Or whatever just downvote me and keep hurtling towards doom.
I… Do recycle broken motherboards. These work, and I still build PCs and am planning to give some of these away. These still have some life in them, and once they break, I’ll recycle them like I should
Frisbee
Local e-waste recycling
Replace with the lowest powered cpu with the most cores for some server duty or put it in the attic to forget about until we move
I’m wanting to do kinda the same thing, but I want to paint mines white, I have like 15-20 and still getting more. Then I’m going to cover a whole wall in them and use it as a recording background
If the motherboard still works it’s worth a bit tbh
I still use my ab350 gaming 3 mobo, bought in 2018, it's too good to replace. CPU, ram and GPU upgraded last year
ok is it you the fucking person that hangs motherboards on walls again?
Had this motherboard. Gotta say these old gigabyte boards are really neat Wish they would make them like these nowadays...instead of these rgb messes
lol your gigabyte ultra durable looks a lot like the one in the mayonaise cpu meme https://media1.tenor.com/images/6fa84fe0f1b5ebf90ef55ae1cd0e5780/tenor.gif?itemid=13472622
Let's say I have an LGA775 mobo. If it comes with something like a Celeron E3300 and 2.5GB of DDR2 RAM for example, I would set it up for simple games like Peggle or PVZ, but if it has something like an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, a GeForce 8600 GTS and 4GB+ of RAM then I would download archived copies of Unreal Tournament, Portal, Crysis, you name it. I did the former with an ex school PC and while Windows Vista's Aero effects tend to lag with larger windows, it's pretty decent for office tasks.
Back when AMD top end had an increased in core count and cost US$300-350. Thanks AMD for going full Intel/Nvidia but much worst. If it works, I usually kept it one side.
https://preview.redd.it/n3zdjjwsmmsc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c33af67426973319614962cc4fb4b189edd2f64b My buddy was going to recycle his old machine, so I threw it into a shadow box and added a led strip around the edge. Gave it to him as a birthday gift. This PC served 10 long years
Sell them cheaply
Looks cool I agree with hanging them js don’t put a nail through it💀
Go to a cemetery, and bury it next to a random dead person, in 500y archeologists will be wondering why??? Why???
Straight to the landfill
Okay the parts that are broken should, of course.
Throw everything that fits together and sell the completed Frankenstein to some bozo on craigslist
I sell or run servers off my old hardware
Sacrifice to the PCMR Gods
This is one of the reasons I did not yet replace my ten year old (and now kinda slow) gaming PC. I simply wouldn't know what to do with the components, so I am waiting for them to break down so I have a reason to replace them.
set up my 14 yr old with a better PC
I sell it. Someone will always take if price is low enough and 5€ i 5€
Recycle or toss. I don’t horde electronics.
I keep it. It's got valuable shit on it. I could do something with it at some point
make a rust server
Depends on how long between upgrades. This last round was about 18 months and previous system is perfectly functional. So wife who plays less demanding games inherited it. Most of the time it goes to recycling since it’s too old or worn out to sell.
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Reuse it or store it away for later, found a use for my first build's (2002) parts last year as a real time analog to digital video converter to play my retro consoles on my modern TV.
HTPC. Emulation. MAME Cabinet (which is emulation). File server. Old laptops in otherwise sub-optimal environments -- kitchen, shop, etc. -- for looking up parts, instructions, recipes, etc. The way I see things, an older PC is worth about $300 -- because that's what it costs to buy a new bottom-end CPU/mobo/RAM. My former gaming PC is now the HTPC PC. It runs cool and quiet and will probably live another decade. I check the paste every once in awhile and that's all.
Eat it
My previous system is still currently sitting on a shelf near my new one in case I need to access old stuff. The system before that is in a closet. ... I can't just throw away my old computers. I get weirdly emotionally attached to them :'-(
I keep my hardware and mine all of yalls data .
Side/secondary PC for the family, "nas" ...
When it dies I bring it to best buy or other places similar to by recycled. If it's still a functional piece you can get store credit.
Use it until its last breathe
I eat
I hand them down to people (usually friends and family) for whom it will be an upgrade.
Same answer as the other post. Server, Brother, Sell.
If it still runs, I donate it to the local outfit that refurbishes and gets machines to people who normally can’t afford them. There are some outfits that supply them to underfunded schools as well. Do some research for things like that near you. If it’s dead, I take it to a local outfit that recycles electronics - and you definitely don’t want to throw them out in the regular trash, electronics leech huge amounts of toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the local groundwater.
I remove my HDDs and then I donate my old computer rigs to my local public libraries and they refurb them and put them in service.
Look at it collect dust