How many PC's you have lying around

[PeteRoy]

So many people upgrade their machines so often they must have a lot of PC boxes just lying around.

What do you do with your old hardware? Or how many boxes you have collecting dust?

 

[Rike]

3 active boxes
0 in garage. Any that had been there have been striped of useful parts and junked or found new homes.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

7 active boxes
2 machines standing by
no garage

And all machines I have crunch so long as there is a place for them, and the room they are in can handle the additional heat.

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

Have the following that are NOT in active use (tucked away in boxes - all in anti-static bags):

mobo + Athlon XP 1800+
mobo + Pentium-D 805

A really old IBM with 533MHz Slot A AMD --> works okay, but usb is shot, collecting dust
A really old HP with 533MHz Celeron --> works fine, collecting dust
A really old Dell with 733MHz Pentium III --> works fine, collecting dust

The Pentium-D will definitely be turned into another desktop when I have the time. All the components are available, but time has been an issue (+ laziness doesn't help).

 

[PeteRoy]

I have 4 pc's at home, one of them is my main Pentium 4 2.8Ghz, the second in my room is P3 733Mhz which I use few times a week, the 2 others are in another room sort of collecting dust, but their working, one of them is P3 600Mhz and another is a P2 350Mhz.

 

[Blain]

Are you asking specifically about working systems or cases?

 

[aCynic2]

I have:

3 dead PCs of old (486, PPro200, Athlon 1Ghz).
1 old Linux server.
1 dead Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop (gonna buy a working one off ebay after I settle into the new house).
1 active windows.

 

[JWade]

7 desktops

1 my quad core
1 my wife's e6550
1 two of my daughters share, amd x2 6000+
1 my oldest uses, e6550
1 sff backup system, amd xp 2000+
1 system not sure why I have it, e4300
1 old P3 for testing older parts on, P3 933mhz

that doesnt count my wife's laptop and my laptop

 

[MetalMat]

1 laptop and 1 desktop.

 

[PeteRoy]

Originally posted by: Blain
Are you asking specifically about working systems or cases?

Whatever you want to share, reason I made this thread is that I see that over the years im starting to collect old pc's.

All the boxes I mentioned in my second post were once my main pc.

I also have a more computer stuff in my closet, few 56k modems, old video cards like the Cirrus Logic, ATI Rage 2 with 8MB, voodoo 3 2000, pentium 2 233mhz, 100mhz 32mb ram few dead hard drives, few dead cdrom's, power cables and probably more crap.

 

[Paperdoc]

8 if you like my counting.
Newest is my Athlon 64 X2 4400+ on an ASUS mobo running XP Pro.
My son has a P4 overclocked to 3.2 GHz in his Linux machine. (Oh, and an XBox 360 I'm not counting)
Then he has an older P3 at about 1.5 GHz - my grandson's game unit when he's over.
Plus an old Socket 7 unit with an AMD K6-III+ CPU at 550 MHz
Those 4 are running on a network at home.
Then I have all the parts to assemble another K6-III+ 550 MHz Socket 7 machine when there's time.
At our retail store we run an Athlon 64 CPU in an Abit mobo I built last fall for a point-of-sale machine.
So that's 6 PC type machines. Then we still have kicking around a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 128, both functional.

 

[Modelworks]

I have a couple p3 cpu based pc that are in the closet.
I have one p3-900 that I still use as a router/firewall/nas, it also powers the voip modem, cable modem, cordless phone.

 

[citan x]

I have 7 in my room:

current one: e6550
past current one: sempron 2000, still use some times

Not used anymore:
a P4 2.8 GHz
a celeron 400
a P3 1000

Also have P3 1GHz and 600MHz laptops.

I need a new laptop. Also, been feeling the urge to get a quad core and a 3 GHz cpu.

 

[Winterpool]

At my girlfriend's: an old Gateway desktop (Pentium 4, 2 GHz) collecting dust. Also the server I built for her (Celeron 800 MHz) failed to POST earlier this month, may be dead dead. Not sure what I'll do to replace it; the P4 seems too wasteful, especially of energy, to run as a file server. Girlfriend uses a MacBook (Merom) as her primary computer now.

At my parents' house: an iMac DV (G3 400 MHz), Apple //c, homebuilt K6 III 400 MHz, and an exceedingly crappy Compaq (sub-1 GHz Celeron) that haven't been powered on for a year or more. My old Red Hat server, an overclocked Celeron 366 at 550 MHz, won't boot -- I think the power supply has gone. My very first Linux server (Celeron 333 MHz) didn't die, but it too hasn't been powered on for... two or three years? Am still running a Pentium II at 450 MHz as my main file server there. I think we've an ancient 486 machine sitting in the office. Oh, my girlfriend's old Gateway notebook (Pentium 4, hot!) stays in my old bedroom. Sometimes I use it when I'm at my parents' house. I think my old Apple PowerBook 165 might be in a closet somewhere too, along with my sister's ThinkPad from the mid-'90s.

Chez moi: my parents' old Dell Dimension 8200 (P 4, 2 GHz Northwood... Rambus memory!) in the basement. Two of my servers recently died (jah, when it rains, it pours...) -- the fan failed in my OptiPlex GX110 (PIII 866 MHz), then my Athlon XP 2500+ stopped booting. Haven't diagnosed properly yet. That leaves another, identical OptiPlex and another Athlon XP 2500+ running as servers. The Athlon puts out a lot of heat and is probably untenable as a server in the summer.

Ach, I forgot another dormant server, Athlon 800 MHz, at my parents' house. So much junk! Perhaps some people could suggest what to do with old components. Disposal can be costly (and feels wasteful so long as the components still work). How old a system will charities still accept? Which charities operate in my area (New York metro) and are trustworthy?

What I'd really like to find is a charity (or even a flea-market type) who will take raw components. I've plenty of half-functional systems which aren't worth my time to rebuild, especially if I must purchase replacement parts. So I'd very much like to find someone who would be willing to take partial systems, discrete components, etc. This feels less wasteful than simply tossing everything, whether in landfill or environmentally responsible disposal.

Edited: bloody hell, four systems in partial use or repurposed as servers, fifteen systems dead or in complete disuse. That can't be right...