Question At what point is your old CPU garbage?

[CuriousMike]

I was just throwing out an old Antec case / guts - I even left an ASUS B350 mobo in it.
I pulled out the Ryzen 1700, the 250GB SSD and the 16GB of DDR4 ram.

I have no idea why I kept those parts - the Ryzen 1700 is useless, the 250GB SSD is too small / useless and the ram... well... I have two other Ryzen 5x00 mini-itx builds that are already maxed on RAM.

But yet I kept these pieces.
I seem to always keep my old pieces ... they just sit in the garage for about 10 years until they're finally recycled.

What do you do with your old hardware? Do you hold onto it "just in case" ?

 

[mikeymikec]

Now Yorkfields were Ballerina's, if you give them too much voltage, they would die so fast, you wouldn't even have a chance to say OMG.
I remember mailing back my sponsor a tray of 8 cpu's i killed for him to send back to intel.
Intel really wanted the dead cpu's back. They actually begged there partners to please send the dead ones back, and they would get replaced with fresh ones.

I thought if you OC'd a processor then the warranty is void?

 

[igor_kavinski]

the cynic in me is whatever you buy is obsolete the moment you buy it.

That thought has saved me many times from buying stuff I didn't really need.

 

[aigomorla]

I thought if you OC'd a processor then the warranty is void?

When did things like warranty apply to validators who signed NDA directly with Intel and received intel ES chips?

 

[iamgenius]

I wish I can sell my old stuff on ebay. I always donate or give them to friends/family members. Not long ago I had a 60 GB maxtor drive still kicking it in one of my older machines.

 

[mikeymikec]

When did things like warranty apply to validators who signed NDA directly with Intel and received intel ES chips?

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