what do you with your old pcs?

magick

well with my old one, just as a server , though when my current pc goes out ,ill probably use it as yet another server since its kinda too big to be a media center for the sitting room

po0k

Media boxen, routers, file servers, messing about with clustering, networky type stuff.

Ri_Nollaig

you could always bring them into a 2nd hand shop and get a few euro or give them to charity or make a nice foot rest

gline

linux box is a good idea, learn how to use it if you are not a user already

The Real B-man

hostyle

The Real B-man wrote:

I second that: I do that with all my old gear.

airetam_storm

hostyle wrote:

I second that: I do that with all my old gear.

Ha that smokey stuff comin out is gonna teach u

masteroftherealm

Server, Linux Box, Renderers if you do after effects work, hardware firewall, MAME machine, SO so many things. Go look around skips in Dublin, I've got 3Macs and 2Pcs from them, you'd be suprised what people throw out!! "One mans rubbish is another mans riches"

Capt'n Midnight

Everyone knows it's smoke that makes electronics work. And that man has let all the smoke escape.

Seriously if a monitor tube breaks open the windows and leave the room, phosphors on the inside of the tube are really nasty. BTW fluorescent tubes have mercury vapour and might also have a beryllium coating neither of which you want to breath in.

You could refine your data recovery techniques !


Anyone got a pic of that Swedish? guy who used to use quantum hard drives for target practice ?


Link to a very dead drive http://www.technoa.co.kr/content/lecture/2003/07/18/hdd_damage.jpg 80KB

The Real B-man

good idea for all you poor students out there just get one out of a skip

Sparky

well i used my old one purly as a DJ system with the 40gig HD it had in it, i have Virtual DJ on it and put 2 CD drives in it and a 6.1 Chnl sound card, it work's wonders.
It only cost 70 quid to bring it back to life.
But recenly im using it as a house music server, its home is the warm attic.

mukki

The Real B-man wrote:

good idea for all you poor students out there just get one out of a skip

thats cant be safe

quarryman

why? that's operating temp for a prescott.

Khannie

quarryman wrote:

why? that's operating temp for a prescott.

ROFFLES.

Sparky

The Real B-man wrote:

good idea for all you poor students out there just get one out of a skip

Jesus he's going to need some cooling for that rig

Redrocket

i converted an old computer into a bin!!! took out expansion cards left mobo in and thats the new bin

mp3guy

Sparky_S wrote:

Jesus he's going to need some cooling for that rig

Overclocking: Gone wrong

SouperComputer

@ the real B man: id be worried about lead poisoning and all that jazz with that rig.

I usually dispose of mine in a green and eco-friendly manner, but that can get boring so I do this 1st

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01383.zip

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01386.zip

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01387.zip (I am personally responsible for this one, this VCR that ate my Die Hard tape!)

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01399.zip

The "white thing" is a 286 laptop with 20MB HD, 16mb RAM, red screen and a lead-acid battery. Complete with windows 3.11 for workgroups.

Took those vids when moving out of the family home about 2 years ago.
Thanks to my trusty assistant for risking life and limb for these vids, espcially with the TV.

Sparky

SouperComputer wrote:

@ the real B man: id be worried about lead poisoning and all that jazz with that rig.

I usually dispose of mine in a green and eco-friendly manner, but that can get boring so I do this 1st

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01383.zip

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01386.zip

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01387.zip (I am personally responsible for this one, this VCR that ate my Die Hard tape!)

http://members.boards.ie/soupercomputer/mov01399.zip

The "white thing" is a 286 laptop with 20MB HD, 16mb RAM, red screen and a lead-acid battery. Complete with windows 3.11 for workgroups.

Took those vids when moving out of the family home about 2 years ago.
Thanks to my trusty assistant for risking life and limb for these vids, espcially with the TV.

You should never run an angle grinder back towards you, because sometimes it will kick back at you, but other than that you must love the destruction.

SouperComputer

Sparky_S wrote:

You should never run an angle grinder back towards you, because sometimes it will kick back at you, but other than that you must love the destruction.

hehe, yea. I was merely observing

Sparky

SouperComputer wrote:

hehe, yea. I was merely observing

Its also a great stress reliever

po0k

www.smoothwall.org

Tis very easy to setup, no matter who you are.

DonkeyStyle \o/

I keep my old PCs.
Or more accurately, I don't get new PCs... I just keep upgrading my current PC and use the older parts to make old PCs when I have enough of them
I think I'm still using the case from my old Duron for my AMD64... I should probably change it out... this case is falling to bits.
More often than not, I don't let it get to a stage where I can build yet another PC from all the parts I have lying around... so I give them away to people I know while the parts are still reasonably new... give them a good home

whizzbang

I turned one of mine into a book shelf.

http://www.iol.ie/~thedeans/reversemod/

has since been retired due to excessive sharp edges on the thing.

airetam_storm

SouperComputer wrote:

hehe, yea. I was merely observing

That makes it alright then

po0k

whizzbang wrote:

I turned one of mine into a book shelf.

http://www.iol.ie/~thedeans/reversemod/

has since been retired due to excessive sharp edges on the thing.

You fiend! Tearing apart a perfectly good Dual Slot1 motherboard...

I'm currently looking for one of those now!

whizzbang

it was broken! and I sold any working bits on ebay, they all went to good homes!

SyxPak wrote:

You fiend! Tearing apart a perfectly good Dual Slot1 motherboard...

I'm currently looking for one of those now!

Redrocket

nice! i like that!

SouperComputer

SyxPak wrote:

You fiend! Tearing apart a perfectly good Dual Slot1 motherboard...

I'm currently looking for one of those now!

i had one up on boards a while back, but decided to keep it.

What about good ole ebay?

rcaz

I salvage parts from it, and put them in my main rig. Mainly because my main rig is pathetic. I'm off to check some skips.

I'm also going to make a barbeque out of the case

Prosta

Am I the only 1 that flogs my old PCs to some unsuspecting "user" (1 of my in-laws if I can swing it) for way too much money to fund my new PC?

whizzbang

Prosta wrote:

Am I the only 1 that flogs my old PCs to some unsuspecting "user" (1 of my in-laws if I can swing it) for way too much money to fund my new PC?

1. Thats evil
2. You are also selling them free support for life!

J

Prosta

whizzbang wrote:

1. Thats evil
2. You are also selling them free support for life!

J

Na - support only for a year or so. then I tell them they broke it and would be better off buying a Dell.

Its their own fault for either
1. putting in CDs up-side-down or
2. using the power button to turn it off instead of Start > Shutdown.
That'll kill any computer

jc94062

2. using the power button to turn it off instead of Start > Shutdown.
That'll kill any computer

Remember that used to be the only way

Well, there was "park" to sort it out, but hardly anyone used that.

Ahhh, the good old days, when qbasic would overload if you went over a few thousand lines

Capt'n Midnight

jc94062 wrote:

Well, there was "park" to sort it out, but hardly anyone used that.

I used to use on new fangled IDE self parking drives, couldn't be too careful

unkel

jc94062 wrote:

Well, there was "park" to sort it out, but hardly anyone used that

I did

But only on my first ever PC with, wait for it, a 10MB hard disk

rcaz

unkel wrote:

I did

But only on my first ever PC with, wait for it, a 10MB hard disk

Nice...Hehe, the CD-R I'm holding right now can store 70 times that.....Sucky

davie_b

i use my main rig 2 harbour terroists maybe if your old rig has as big a case as mine maybe you could do the same!!!!!!!
thermaltake xaiser3
gives them plenty of room 2 hide in!!!!!!!!!

Sparky

yeah i remember having to type "park" into the old IBM we had it was a real preformance horse, it had wordperfect and an old line drawing program, and a 12mb HDD, it even had a key to lock the computer, powerfull stuff i tell ya, we even got a dot-matrix printer with it, boy was that some fast printer