anyone else have a ton of old CPU's, i wonder if there ever gonna be worth anything as antiques...

[zanejohnson]

i still have quite a few in use:

AMD Duron 650 SLOTA
128mb PC100
20GB hard drive
Trident 2mb 2d card
(pc runs win98se, and is only used for a program that teaches piano that my wife uses, and wants to eventually teach my daughter (despite us already having a real piano lol)

my fileserver/dns/dhcp/FTP server:
Dual Katmai Pentium 3 600/512/100
~600MB PC133 SDRAM cas2
20GB IDE, 40GB IDE (IIRC)
runs Win2k server SP4

just another computer that rarely gets used:
ECS K7S5A
Athlon XP 2400+ @ default speeds (2.0GHz/266fsb/512KB cacbe (its a thorton core and i did the pencil trick to unlock the other 256KB of cache
512MB PC133 SDRAM
20GB IDE

my wifes machine:
Shutle AK39N
Athlon XP T-BRED 2400+ overclocked to 2.25GHz (a little over 3200+ speeds)
1GB DDR2700 cas2.5
Radeon 7200 32mb (she doesnt play any 3d games)
40GB Hitachi Deskstar


and here's my collection of old CPU's not in use anymore...

from left to right, top to bottom:
Intel Pentium 90mhz, Intel Celeron coppermine 900/128/100, Athlon XP 2000+ 256/266, Intel Pentium MMX 200mhz, Intel Celeron 566/128/66, AMD-K6-2 333mhz, Intel Pentium MMX 200mhz, AMD-K6-2 533mhz, AMD-K6-2 300mhz, AMD Duron 600mhz

digicam picture

 

[olds]

Gonna sell them for drugs?

 

[meltdown75]

crush them up and snort them!

 

[Aikouka]

I eventually retire my old crap to el dump. The stuff I'm using right now is only a year old.

 

[frostedflakes]

Probably not. They make cool keychains, though.

 

[PottedMeat]

Antiques? The only cpu worth anything is a i4004 heh.

I have a stack of AMD and some Intel branded 80186s somewhere.

It's neat to take off the metal plate sealing the die in the ceramic package to look at on 486s.

 

[meltdown75]

one of the sections of my basement is the graveyard for old PCs... I have to get rid of some stuff for SURE... then there's always the ghetto duron 900 PC i have with guts all over the place. runs like a champ though

still planning on building an emulator setup with my junk... maybe a countertop-style gaming setup for the bench in the garage.

 

[0roo0roo]

good for a bit of nostalgia i guess.
piecing together a full working old geezer pc is somewhat difficult though

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Gonna sell them for drugs?

Maybe he took them in trade on a dope deal...

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Gonna sell them for drugs?

:laugh:

 

[Chryso]

That Athlon 2000+ would be an upgrade for me.

 

[Fritzo]

Who would buy them? It's not like they're desirable or rare.

 

[Jeff7]

Maybe in 200 years, when CPUs use diamond and superconducting ceramics in place of silicon and whatever metal they use now, then they might be worth something, assuming they still work.

 

[hanoverphist]

i just loaded up a pallet here at work of all our old puters. there is even an old PB100mhz machine in there that i finally replaced with a new system. lots of old pIIs and pIIIs in there too. we send them to a recycle company, they pay us for it in bulk. if it isnt over 500lbs they consider it a donation and dont charge us for the pick up. i talked them into not charging us for pick up any time, they always cave on that. i dont see anything being of noteworthy importance in the computer world anymore, beyond the ground breaking "first" systems stuff. i do keep the hard drives tho, they will be targets hung from trees on my next shooting trip.

 

[Jhill]

Originally posted by: Chryso
That Athlon 2000+ would be an upgrade for me.

Me too. I have a 1700+ than is running a 100 fsb because I don't have a good enough fan on it. So it's running a 1000.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Probably not. They make cool keychains, though.

I've got a Pentium 200 MMX I've wanted to turn into a keychain, but I imagine this shit will shatter if I try to drill through it. How did you?

 

[LordMorpheus]

boasting about old tech is a loser's game on this forum.

Someone will talk about the 286 box they still use for this and that, and then someone will show you a photo of the ENIAC equivalent that they use to do their personal finances.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Gonna sell them for drugs?

lmao

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I have three Pentium Pro CPUs.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
boasting about old tech is a loser's game on this forum.

Someone will talk about the 286 box they still use for this and that, and then someone will show you a photo of the ENIAC equivalent that they use to do their personal finances.

I have an IBM AT motherboard about two feet away from me. It has a 6MHz 286 CPU and was made to fit 256 or 512kB of RAM, but was modified to take 640kB by having 128kB worth of chips piggybacked onto the 512 that were in the sockets.

...and there's 36 sockets.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Hmm this might actually be one of those posts by zane that DOESNT get locked.

 

[Linflas]

Oldest CPU's I have sitting around:
486/33
486DX2/66
486DX4/99
P5133

 

[altonb1]

I have one of these. Hardware seems fine, as it still posts, and I have the manuals, but no software.

Any idea if this is worth anything?

 

[Eli]

You're all clueless, aren't you?

Some old CPUs are worth 5-7$ just in gold content alone......

 

[conehead433]

I have a Cyrix 166 laying around here somewhere.