aimeeandbeatles
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When you upgrade your computer, what do you do with the old hardware?
Poll coming.
Poll coming.
What do you do with old hardware?
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Perfection
The Great Head.
Like any good geek knows it always depends on everything.
Aramazd
Deity
Perfy is 100% correct.
Mise
isle of lucy
I don't upgrade my computer often enough to know how to answer this question.
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
Some gets donated, most I disassemble and put away for storage. Who known, maybe ill find a way to put those 32 P3's to work someday. Would need a few new mobo's though...
GoodGame
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You could 'farm' on an @Home project. http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/articles/howto/FAH_Diskless_Farm_1.html
Or do the same for the Large Hadron Collider.
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/
Genocidicbunny
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My single GTX 260+ gives me more computing power than a farm of that size ever could. You have to consider how much power will be used and heat will be output. Id also, at best, need an additional 14 PSU's ( Dual Socket motherboards, so I can use half the mobo's and other components )
Im not certain, but that amount of PC's on a single circuit may also blow it. Not sure of the numbers here, but I think 1800 watts is max for a single household circuit, and having 16 pc's with 200 watt PSU's ( meaning they could potentially draw up to that ) sitting all on the same circuit would be bad.
It would have been somewhat economically reasonable and feasable 3 years ago, but at this point, 250$ will get me a second GTX 260+ and the same amount of performance as that power-hungry, house-heating P3 farm would.
Im not certain, but that amount of PC's on a single circuit may also blow it. Not sure of the numbers here, but I think 1800 watts is max for a single household circuit, and having 16 pc's with 200 watt PSU's ( meaning they could potentially draw up to that ) sitting all on the same circuit would be bad.
It would have been somewhat economically reasonable and feasable 3 years ago, but at this point, 250$ will get me a second GTX 260+ and the same amount of performance as that power-hungry, house-heating P3 farm would.
aimeeandbeatles
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Set them on fire and see what happens?
Genocidicbunny
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Probably not a very good idea, both for the environment, and for yourself if you're around.
aimeeandbeatles
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Not really.
On youtube, people often destroy old hardware for fun. One person attached a CPU to a lot of power and it went "BANG" and turned black.
On youtube, people often destroy old hardware for fun. One person attached a CPU to a lot of power and it went "BANG" and turned black.
Genocidicbunny
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That says nothing for the people being smart or anything at all. Plus, its YouTube
aimeeandbeatles
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Well, it was fun. For the moment.
Aramazd
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Well it's not wise, and I imagine in some places probably not legal either.
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Thus far, keep it in case the new hardware stops working. But I don't have a high enough turnover rate to have more than one backup of anything - if I had 32 Pentium 3's, I don't think I'd be concerned enough about 31 of them breaking to keep all 32.
Right now I have a backup set of memory modules and a backup set of half-broken headphones. Although I actually am considering giving the memory modules away to a friend. Only problem is that would leave me with no originals in case I ever had to send my computer in for warranty repairs.
Right now I have a backup set of memory modules and a backup set of half-broken headphones. Although I actually am considering giving the memory modules away to a friend. Only problem is that would leave me with no originals in case I ever had to send my computer in for warranty repairs.
MagisterCultuum
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You throw it off tall buildings.
Or, you could let it sit around the house for months or years until some charity (such as the American Kidney Fund) calls and asks for donations of random stuff they could sell, and is willing to come pick it up. That is how our family got rid of most of our old hardware. I think we just threw the broken harddrive away though.
Or, you could let it sit around the house for months or years until some charity (such as the American Kidney Fund) calls and asks for donations of random stuff they could sell, and is willing to come pick it up. That is how our family got rid of most of our old hardware. I think we just threw the broken harddrive away though.
Perfection
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GoodGame
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*pop* went my idealism.
Perhaps if you hooked the farm up to a large water pipe cooler you'd have a nice radiating heater for winter then.
Genocidicbunny
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I live in California. I dont need a heater*pop* went my idealism.
Perhaps if you hooked the farm up to a large water pipe cooler you'd have a nice radiating heater for winter then.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
I replaced everything in my computer (except sound card, dvd writer and dvd reader) a year ago, and I am reusing those parts to build a new computer for my mother (with some new parts that I didn't have spare).
I'm willing to give away/sell/trade/recycle old hardware though. My dad's really old windows 95 comptuer was turned into part of a sculpture by someone he knew.
I'm willing to give away/sell/trade/recycle old hardware though. My dad's really old windows 95 comptuer was turned into part of a sculpture by someone he knew.
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