Are you a thrower? Or a hoarder? Re: pc hardware

Black Panther · Oct 28, 2008, 11:27 PM

When you decide to upgrade, and you buy the necessary parts, what do you do with what you don't need anymore? What happened to that computer your dad bought you 10 years ago?

I'm a serial chronic hoarder. I even keep my defective motherboards, old pci internal modems which I'm sure I won't be using anymore. I have my own house and inside I have all the pc's from 386 onwards which my family had bought (and now scrapped). I have a dozen by now. And I'm working to try to get them to work without spending any money as much as possible...

Once I went to an office and they had a whole mural with bits and pieces of hardware glued together. It looked really neat and I plan to do something similar in the future with the dead hardware I have on the shelves....

So I keep everything. Apart from the whole and half-whole pc's I have all hardware sorted in shelves: those working on one side, and faulty/rubbish on the other side (one day the rubbish will form the mural...)

What I plan to throw away are a couple of beige cases which are rusted beyond repair.

I never sold any hardware so far. I 'gave' my 8600GTS to my brother (and my dad in return paid my desktop monitor) because he really needed a dedicated graphics card and it would have been a pity to leave it wasting on a shelf, and I wouldn't sell it for crap.

But what I described so far is nothing.

Because I don't only hoard what I have... I also pick up what isn't mine. Nope I don't steal, but I do pick up what others throw out.

My addiction started like 8 years ago, I passed a bank which was refurbishing and saw these 2 apparently new dot-matrix OKI printers in the rubbish. Picked them up.... and we're still using them to this day. They're very economical because the cartridge is cheap, it lasts more than a month of printing 100 pages per day..... and not only they were free but they never ever needed any repair!

After that I didn't stop. If I see anything, I pick it up. If it works I try to put it to good use. If it doesn't.... it stays on a shelf.

Around 6 months ago I opened my front door to find a pc tower next door, very obviously waiting for rubbish collection. I picked it up, the only functioning parts were motherboard, cpu and hard-disk. The CPU was a 333Mhz Celeron. Thanks to my 'repertoire 'of hoarded stuff I took a sound-card from one 'dead' pc, RAM from another, and an ancient GPU from another.... and it's now working as an office pc in our office. (And I took the better office computer home in return for my kid to game on). The office computer having an Athlon 1.5Ghz and 512MB RAM isn't that great for gaming, but adding an FX5500 256MB makes it more than enough for a little six-year old kid's games. Much better than a Celeron 333Mhz with 128MB RAM, Nvidia Vanta 16MB GPU and an ISA bus sound-card! And since that particular pc at work only needs to run Office and Excel, the 333Mhz is just great.

Now last week the same incident happened. I was driving, and a few blocks down the road from my workplace I saw a complete pc system on the pavement. Complete minus desk and chair, lol. I picked up tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, all cables, cd case and even desk-lamp...
Plugged in everything and powered it up,

I was surprised to hear no beeps and Win 98 booted up on some 300Mhz processor and 32 MB RAM. I haven't yet opened it up to check what there is inside. I'm just happy that I obtained a functioning pc which can play all my old games - which obviously I have still hoarded up from the 90's - can't wait to install Tyrian, Entomorph, Jill of the Jungle, Prince of Persia I and II..

Plus I got the bonus of some entertaining reading of a teen-age boy's diaries and love letters...

das müffin mann · Oct 28, 2008, 11:32 PM

hoarder
can't help it, i love tinkering with old parts
and i to am guilty of picking up curb side components(it's like finding buried treasure, and i;ve gotten some NICE stuff over the years from stupid people trowing away easily fixable stuff, but then there are those things that really are broken)

ShadowFold · Oct 28, 2008, 11:45 PM

I sell all my old crap. The only thing I still have from my old build is my 4200+, but my dad uses it.

mlee49 · Oct 28, 2008, 11:48 PM

I try to sell most my old equipment. Sometimes I hoard some golden oldies. I have a 386 cpu and a 1 GB HDD from over 10 y/o.

blkhogan · Oct 28, 2008, 11:56 PM

I trade all my old hardware for crack.

farlex85 · Oct 29, 2008, 12:36 AM

So far a hoarder, but I'm new to the game. I would be a seller if I could bear to part w/ hardware at such a low fraction of what I paid for it, but it usually doesn't seem worth it, but eventually it probably will.

lemonadesoda · Oct 29, 2008, 12:47 AM

I'm a terrible hoarder. I intend to sell a lot of stuff... but never get round to it.

mc-dexter · Oct 29, 2008, 01:37 AM

well... i've had 4 diffrent setup's in the past 2 years, my brother has always been the unlucky one they've stopped working on, and they're all from diffrent era's so i can't even fix one with another, even more so cause people are tight round here, they keep the part's themselfs or already know someone to pass them onto

Black Panther · Oct 29, 2008, 01:40 AM

Really guys thanks for your replies and votes. I had been thinking I had some OCD (obsessive-compulsive-disorder) for filling up my room and gathering up thrown-away stuff... :/

JC316 · Oct 29, 2008, 02:26 AM

Sell Sell Sell. I don't have the space or the need for it, sell it and get cash to buy more stuff.

aximbigfan · Oct 29, 2008, 02:31 AM

Horde. I need to sell some stuff...

flashstar · Oct 29, 2008, 02:41 AM

Once I get my car, I might start selling stuff. However, right now I mainly throw out old stuff (or hold onto it- for example my Compaq Portable 286

)

Kreij · Oct 29, 2008, 02:56 AM

I didn't vote because you don't have a category for me.
I keep everything. Then give it away when I find someone who needs it.

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Solaris17 · Oct 29, 2008, 02:59 AM

o man i keep EVERYTHING im going to have a sale soon but thats because i am now out of space......but the n ill just collect again

imperialreign · Oct 29, 2008, 03:01 AM

I fall into that category willing to take freebie-obsoletes off of others. Hell, even if I never have a use for it, I find some strange joy in saying "Dude! I've totally got a Creative Banshee laying around!"

Some, though, just deserve so much respect, I can't bear to give them up - a certain VooDoo 3 springs to mind . . .

Kreij · Oct 29, 2008, 03:08 AM

I just opened the drawer where I keep boxes of Christmas cards.
I found an ATI 9800 AGP card (I think). Cool! Worthless, but Cool!

imperialreign · Oct 29, 2008, 03:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kreij

I just opened the drawer where I keep boxes of Christmas cards.
I found an ATI 9800 AGP card (I think). Cool! Worthless, but Cool!

I echo that sentiment!

Steevo · Oct 29, 2008, 03:43 AM

I am a collector.

I hav a windows NT Compaq server with the old style SCSI drives and the BIOS on them I bought for $20 back in the day off a auction. Came loaded with a unlimited client licanse and lots of customers personal info, worth a few hundred bucks to the insurance company for me to delete.

Old HP with the speakers mounted to the monitor and all the controls on the monitor for the sound, has a rage card.

Well, just lots of old stuff, but I trade up my computers, my second one I built is still running at another store location. My first has been passed back to me.

But I currently have 7PC's here. five of which work or could work if I put hardware I have pulled back in them.

btarunr · Oct 29, 2008, 04:18 AM

Hoarder

I think I still have an Intel Overdrive (the name of a 486-derived CPU) my Dad gave me, at the parents' place.

_jM · Oct 29, 2008, 04:59 AM

It depends on how old it is and how good it still works. I usually keep it if its good and end up selling it or using it to fix up friends machines.

Error 404 · Oct 29, 2008, 06:06 AM

I currently have 5 PCs in my house, 4 of them belonging to me.
I hoard everything, keep everything, and try and upgrade everything to working order!
I'm currently eyeing my friend's 486 based Compaq laptop and another of my friend's 286 desktop.

I have a 10 mb/s Ethernet card, an S3 Trio 2D/3D, a 16 MB SDRAM 6 stick, a 486 and a Pentium CPU, as some of my favorite parts.

Wile E · Oct 29, 2008, 07:23 AM

I hoard. In the end, I usually give my leftover stuff away to friends/family that need it.

Frick · Oct 29, 2008, 08:18 AM

Same as Wile E for me. Sometimes I have to sell loads of stuff just to free up some space.

FordGT90Concept · Oct 29, 2008, 11:02 AM

I recycle it.

DanTheBanjoman · Oct 29, 2008, 11:35 AM

I tend to keep a lot of junk, I have no issues giving away things, throwing away is harder

Things with little or no value are a waste of time to sell, things that can get me some cash I do sell.

View Poll Results: What do you do with hardware you don't use anymore?
Throw away - the cheap price is not worth the hassle to sell!	3	6.82%
Sell - even $1 makes it worth getting rid of stuff I'll never use!	7	15.91%
Keep - might come useful later!	20	45.45%
What? I actually collect other people's obsolete hardware!	14	31.82%
Voters: 44. You may not vote on this poll

Oct 28, 2008, 11:27 PM	#1
Black Panther Senior Moderator™ Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 7,057 (3.23/day) Thanks: 2,167 Thanked 1,837 Times in 1,103 Posts System Specs	Are you a thrower? Or a hoarder? Re: pc hardware When you decide to upgrade, and you buy the necessary parts, what do you do with what you don't need anymore? What happened to that computer your dad bought you 10 years ago? I'm a serial chronic hoarder. I even keep my defective motherboards, old pci internal modems which I'm sure I won't be using anymore. I have my own house and inside I have all the pc's from 386 onwards which my family had bought (and now scrapped). I have a dozen by now. And I'm working to try to get them to work without spending any money as much as possible... Once I went to an office and they had a whole mural with bits and pieces of hardware glued together. It looked really neat and I plan to do something similar in the future with the dead hardware I have on the shelves.... So I keep everything. Apart from the whole and half-whole pc's I have all hardware sorted in shelves: those working on one side, and faulty/rubbish on the other side (one day the rubbish will form the mural...) What I plan to throw away are a couple of beige cases which are rusted beyond repair. I never sold any hardware so far. I 'gave' my 8600GTS to my brother (and my dad in return paid my desktop monitor) because he really needed a dedicated graphics card and it would have been a pity to leave it wasting on a shelf, and I wouldn't sell it for crap. But what I described so far is nothing. Because I don't only hoard what I have... I also pick up what isn't mine. Nope I don't steal, but I do pick up what others throw out. My addiction started like 8 years ago, I passed a bank which was refurbishing and saw these 2 apparently new dot-matrix OKI printers in the rubbish. Picked them up.... and we're still using them to this day. They're very economical because the cartridge is cheap, it lasts more than a month of printing 100 pages per day..... and not only they were free but they never ever needed any repair! After that I didn't stop. If I see anything, I pick it up. If it works I try to put it to good use. If it doesn't.... it stays on a shelf. Around 6 months ago I opened my front door to find a pc tower next door, very obviously waiting for rubbish collection. I picked it up, the only functioning parts were motherboard, cpu and hard-disk. The CPU was a 333Mhz Celeron. Thanks to my 'repertoire 'of hoarded stuff I took a sound-card from one 'dead' pc, RAM from another, and an ancient GPU from another.... and it's now working as an office pc in our office. (And I took the better office computer home in return for my kid to game on). The office computer having an Athlon 1.5Ghz and 512MB RAM isn't that great for gaming, but adding an FX5500 256MB makes it more than enough for a little six-year old kid's games. Much better than a Celeron 333Mhz with 128MB RAM, Nvidia Vanta 16MB GPU and an ISA bus sound-card! And since that particular pc at work only needs to run Office and Excel, the 333Mhz is just great. Now last week the same incident happened. I was driving, and a few blocks down the road from my workplace I saw a complete pc system on the pavement. Complete minus desk and chair, lol. I picked up tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, all cables, cd case and even desk-lamp... Plugged in everything and powered it up, I was surprised to hear no beeps and Win 98 booted up on some 300Mhz processor and 32 MB RAM. I haven't yet opened it up to check what there is inside. I'm just happy that I obtained a functioning pc which can play all my old games - which obviously I have still hoarded up from the 90's - can't wait to install Tyrian, Entomorph, Jill of the Jungle, Prince of Persia I and II.. Plus I got the bonus of some entertaining reading of a teen-age boy's diaries and love letters... __________________ *My Great White Bengal build* Join the techPowerUp! Official Group on Facebook. Last edited by Black Panther; Oct 28, 2008 at 11:35 PM.

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Oct 28, 2008, 11:32 PM	#2
das müffin mann Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Appleton, WI Posts: 1,749 (0.87/day) Thanks: 353 Thanked 337 Times in 296 Posts System Specs	hoarder can't help it, i love tinkering with old parts and i to am guilty of picking up curb side components(it's like finding buried treasure, and i;ve gotten some NICE stuff over the years from stupid people trowing away easily fixable stuff, but then there are those things that really are broken) __________________ If you can't do something better than everyone else, do it so poorly it's funny. Polaris573-Guns are metal penises.

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Oct 28, 2008, 11:45 PM	#3
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Oct 28, 2008, 11:48 PM	#4
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Oct 28, 2008, 11:56 PM	#5
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Oct 29, 2008, 12:36 AM	#6
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Oct 29, 2008, 12:47 AM	#7
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Oct 29, 2008, 01:37 AM	#8
mc-dexter Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: England Posts: 936 (0.56/day) Thanks: 63 Thanked 97 Times in 93 Posts System Specs	well... i've had 4 diffrent setup's in the past 2 years, my brother has always been the unlucky one they've stopped working on, and they're all from diffrent era's so i can't even fix one with another, even more so cause people are tight round here, they keep the part's themselfs or already know someone to pass them onto

Oct 29, 2008, 01:40 AM	#9
Black Panther Senior Moderator™ Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 7,057 (3.23/day) Thanks: 2,167 Thanked 1,837 Times in 1,103 Posts System Specs	Really guys thanks for your replies and votes. I had been thinking I had some OCD (obsessive-compulsive-disorder) for filling up my room and gathering up thrown-away stuff... :/ __________________ *My Great White Bengal build* Join the techPowerUp! Official Group on Facebook.

Oct 29, 2008, 02:26 AM	#10
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Oct 29, 2008, 02:31 AM	#11
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Oct 29, 2008, 02:41 AM	#12
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Oct 29, 2008, 02:56 AM	#13
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Oct 29, 2008, 02:59 AM	#14
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Oct 29, 2008, 03:01 AM	#15
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Motherboard:	ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi; X38 NSB, ICH9R SSB
Cooling:	Delta V3 block, XPSC res, 120x3 rad, ST 1/2" pump - 10 fans, SYSTRIN HDD cooler, Antec HDD cooler
Memory:	Dual channel 8GB OCZ Platinum DDR3 @ 1800MHz @ 7-7-7-20 1T
Video Card:	Quadfire: (2) Sapphire HD5970
Hard Disk:	(2) WD VelociRaptor 300GB SATA-300; WD 320GB SATA-300; WD 200GB UATA + WD 160GB UATA
Optical Drive:	(2) I/O Magic "LightScribe" SATA DVD ± R/RW
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung Syncmaster T240 24" (16:10)
Case:	Cooler Master Stacker 830
Sound Card:	Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro PCI-E x1
PSU:	Kingwin Mach1 1200W modular
Software:	Windows XP Home SP3; Vista Ultimate x64 SP2
Benchmarks:	3m06: 20270 here: http://hwbot.org/user.do?userId=12313

Oct 29, 2008, 03:08 AM	#16
Kreij Hardcore Monkey Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Cheeseland (Wisconsin, USA) Posts: 12,112 (5.28/day) Thanks: 591 Thanked 5,490 Times in 2,934 Posts System Specs	I just opened the drawer where I keep boxes of Christmas cards. I found an ATI 9800 AGP card (I think). Cool! Worthless, but Cool! __________________ Cloud (noun, singular): A dynamic arrangement of multiple potential single points of failure, with a user at one end and their data at the other. Get more tech news on a wide variety of topics at NextPowerUp

Oct 29, 2008, 03:43 AM	#18
Steevo Eligible for custom title Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 5,567 (2.02/day) Thanks: 238 Thanked 979 Times in 729 Posts System Specs	I am a collector. I hav a windows NT Compaq server with the old style SCSI drives and the BIOS on them I bought for $20 back in the day off a auction. Came loaded with a unlimited client licanse and lots of customers personal info, worth a few hundred bucks to the insurance company for me to delete. Old HP with the speakers mounted to the monitor and all the controls on the monitor for the sound, has a rage card. Well, just lots of old stuff, but I trade up my computers, my second one I built is still running at another store location. My first has been passed back to me. But I currently have 7PC's here. five of which work or could work if I put hardware I have pulled back in them. __________________ “it would have been perfect....its got trains and the line"tech your kids not to do what iv done"(or similar) because i had obviously done something to warrent 2 e-thugs to come 4000miles out of their way and kill me.” -Solaris17 “yeah i failed. i noticed the "coming soon" part after i posted.” -Mussels “people are just stupid.” -W1zzard Yes I am evil, yes you can have some.

System Name:	MoFo
Processor:	AMD PhenomII 1100T @ 3.7Ghz/4.1Ghz Turbo
Motherboard:	Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe 2202 BIOS
Cooling:	Swiftec 655 pump, Apogee GT, MCW60-R GPU, MCR360mm Rad, 1/2 loop.
Memory:	G-Skill 1200Mhz 5.5.5.15 2T
Video Card:	HD5870 1Gb HIS custom BIOS watercooled & VRM-R4
Hard Disk:	2 Agility 3 SSD RAID 0 on highpoint 640, 2 3TB RAID 0, 1 2TB and one failing 750Gb
Optical Drive:	Lite-On DL DVD
CRT/LCD Model:	Asus 1920X1200 60Hz 25.5" LCD, 46" 1080P Toshiba LCD
Case:	Rosewill R6A34-BK modded (thanks to MKmods)
Sound Card:	On Board
PSU:	750W PC Power & Cooling modded (thanks to MKmods)
Software:	Vista X64 Ultimate/Win 7 Ultimate
Benchmarks:	780 MBps read on HDD's 1052 core on 5870.

Oct 29, 2008, 04:18 AM	#19
btarunr Editor & Senior Moderator Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Hyderabad, India Posts: 14,982 (7.30/day) Thanks: 788 Thanked 12,896 Times in 5,648 Posts System Specs	Hoarder I think I still have an Intel Overdrive (the name of a 486-derived CPU) my Dad gave me, at the parents' place. __________________ Gadgets, Phones, Tablets, Cameras, TVs, HiFi...NextPowerUp

System Name:	Blackbox
Processor:	Intel Core i7-950
Motherboard:	Intel Extreme Series DX58OG
Cooling:	Xigmatek Aegir SD128264 with IC Diamond 24 Thermal Compound
Memory:	12GB ADATA Premier (3x 4GB) DDR3-1333 MHz
Video Card:	Palit GeForce GTX 680 JetStream 2GB outfitted with IC Diamond 24 TIM
Hard Disk:	Samsung 840 Series 250GB, Random 8 TB storage
Optical Drive:	HT-LG DVD-RW
CRT/LCD Model:	ViewSonic VX2450wm-LED
Case:	Cooler Master CM690 Window
Sound Card:	Creative SB Recon3D
PSU:	Corsair HX850W
Software:	Windows 8 Pro 64-bit

Oct 29, 2008, 04:59 AM	#20
_jM Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ocala,FL Posts: 1,076 (0.59/day) Thanks: 309 Thanked 174 Times in 157 Posts System Specs	It depends on how old it is and how good it still works. I usually keep it if its good and end up selling it or using it to fix up friends machines. __________________