Collection of old CPUs - any uses?

[jonesthewine]

These are laying around in a box - besides chucking them into the trash bin, are there any uses for these relics?

Intel:
E7200 Core 2 duo

AMD:
K6-2 (from 1st computer, 1998!)
Athlon xp 2500
Athlon 64
Athlon 64 x2
Phenom

 

[NTMBK]

Beowulf cluster.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Phenoms can be eBayed for a few dollars, depending on which model. I'm sure you could get some money for the E7200 as well. Maybe $10.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33

May be useful for someone here.

By the way, which Phenom is that?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

What Phenom is that? I know someone very personally that'd take it off your hands happily!

 

[Compman55]

These are laying around in a box - besides chucking them into the trash bin, are there any uses for these relics?

Intel:
E7200 Core 2 duo

AMD:
K6-2 (from 1st computer, 1998!)
Athlon xp 2500
Athlon 64
Athlon 64 x2
Phenom

Scrap the K6-2. Complete junk.

Keep the rest. The XP 2500+ barton is a classic.

 

[nickbits]

Harvest gold from pins

Or eBay them for a few cups of coffee.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

See? you already have TWO people interested in the Phenom
But I asked first!

 

[jonesthewine]

thanks all for the input - the Phenom was a 9750, had lots of bent pins, and I've decided to make a bit of art using the chips, 20 shiny reflective platters that I've harvested from old spinners,and some DDR2 sticks...a mobile for my office is in the works.

 

[Tsavo]

Harvest gold from pins

Or eBay them for a few cups of coffee.

There's not enough gold on those to be worth it.

I sold some old Pentium Pro and 1st gen Pentium on Ebay a few years ago, got a couple hundred for them. It didn't take Intel and AMD long to get to the point where they weren't using a lot of gold on CPU's.