 dolphinsClean Up Our OceansPremium
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| How big is your parts heap With technology moving at such a fast pace, what do you do with all of your older but still in perfect working condition hardware?
I'll bet if we put are piles together we could build an awesome robot. 
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 El QuintronResident Mouth BreatherPremium
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| said by dolphins:With technology moving at such a fast pace, what do you do with all of your older but still in perfect working condition hardware?
I'll bet if we put are piles together we could build an awesome robot.
If my less tech-savvy friends can't use it, I usually give it to a local charity that builds PC for kids that can't afford them.
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dolphinsClean Up Our OceansPremium
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| I'm glad you brought that up. I would like recommendations as to what charity honestly gives 100% to the schools?
Most charities I've ever been involved in turned out to be less than honest. I found that they often cherry pick and then distribute the rest. I also don't want to give to a 'so called' charity that sends parts overseas to be reconditioned and then sold back to the US.
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| When I give; I give it here:
»freegeektoronto.org/ (there might be one in your city)
They take pretty much everything, build a working machine, install either XP or Ubuntu and sell it at rock bottom prices (eg: anywhere from $10 to just under $100)
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to dolphins
a gtx 460, that I'm considering turning into a physx card. a 1045t + 4gb ram and am3+ mobo and 500GB hdd for my 'server' that I dont use much. c2d+mobo and hdd and 7800 gt I dont use, old pentium d box.
Yep I dont throw stuff away. |
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 signmeuptooThank you YankeesPremium
join:2001-11-22
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I lost my parts heap almost exactly 2 years ago when I had to move suddenly and had to abandon so many of my prized things. Lost all my tools and meters and scopes and car tools and computer parts and so much! Lost all my personal records too. |
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 jadinolfI love you FredPremium
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My parts heap is off to the hazmat people.
Here in Leftyfornia, we can't give our stuff away (except to real people)
Thrift shops and other charities won't take the stuff. If I call hazmat to take a piece of computer equipment, they arrive in their hazmat gear, pick it up and cart it off to their protected vehicle.
You think I'm kidding? Never been to Leftyfornia, eh?
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| Wow, that sucks. Up here, I just take it to the dump. They have a electronics recycling section. The stuff gets put on a pallet, wrapped, and shipped off somewhere. They also take most kinds of batteries.
As for my collection, I have a few old PCs and random parts in the closet (Packard Bell from 1997, Sony Vaio from 1996, Mac G3 all-in-one, assorted Socket 7 and 370 boards, dead Radeon X1900XT, stack of CD/DVD drives). I use my old dresser as my work bench and main parts storage. One drawer is packed with various cables, one has CPUs/hard drives/RAM/video cards, one has power supplies and power adapters, and one has cooling stuff (heatsinks, fans, waterblocks, tubing, fittings, clamps).
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 rusdiAmerican VPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-28
Flippin, AR
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I've culled down a BIG bunch of my "spare pieces" lately. Threw away all but one, or two IDE ribbons. Some ancient sticks of PC133 RAM, (I even found a couple of RAMBUS modules I tossed!!). 
Not to mention a half-dozen internal dial-up modems. |
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I took it to work and gave it to the IT staff...
They think I'm wierd.... Throwing away operational gear....
But if it doesn't have the bandwidth for editing, It gets pulled out...
Nice thing is: This happens less and less, as overall gear speeds up more and more....
Way back when (W95-R2 & W98) this became a quarterly occurrence.... Drive Controllers, Display Cards, drives, Ram, motherboards... Not so much now.... Depends on your core system if it can be 'massaged' with an upgrade...
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