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[pcm81]

This thread is just for fun. I am curious what were the hand overs you ever gave away to your parents, friends, children in terms of your old rigs.

Currently my parents are running my old rig with Core2 8600, 8GB or RAM and a 4870X2. Basic office usage lol...

When i build a new computer, in probably 3-5 years in the future they will get my current PC. See Sig.

 

[Grooveriding]

I just passed off a e6400/4gb ram/gtx570 rig missing a power supply and hdds to a friend after upgrading my wife to a 2500k/7850. After using my water cooled system she wanted a silent pc too. :|

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I parted out my old rig and sold it to my nephew at a discount so he could upgrade his computer. Last month I gave him my old 5870 as a sort of "icing on the cake" completion piece (also an extra 4 GB of RAM and a 300 GB VelociRaptor). Better than having it collect dust in my basement.

 

[ShintaiDK]

In terms of tickledown. I buy and GF gets old. If anything from the GFs can be used for HTPC we do that, else it jumps the HTPC chain and goes to collegues or friends for free. It also removes any kind of obligation when its free.

 

[nitromullet]

I learned a long time ago that selling/gifting old PC stuff to family just means I have to provide tech support for the life of the hardware, so I don't do it. I sell all my stuff on ebay, CL, or here.

 

[MrTeal]

I learned a long time ago that selling/gifting old PC stuff to family just means I have to provide tech support for the life of the hardware, so I don't do it. I sell all my stuff on ebay, CL, or here.

This.

Gifting or selling equipment to friends and family is like signing a perpetual support agreement. F&F who aren't considered to be very computer savvy get recommended an appropriate Dell with a nice service tag number of the front. Otherwise you end up having to try and telephone troubleshoot your father-in-law's non-functional Windows install after he speeds up his computer by deleting random files in the Windows directory.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Exactly. Thats also why besides the GF. It goes out of family. And for free to avoid bad situations.

 

[BD231]

Before the NTFS file system I might have thought twice about handing hardware off, nowa days everything is plug and play. Last comp I gave away was a Core 2 duo to a family member, it was actually in an HP sold to my friend as dead for $50 bucks. Turns out the thermal paste on the chipset dried up, easy fix, bought some DDR2 for it and a video card. She was using an athlon xp before that so it was a massive upgrade.

Gave away a lot of Dell P4 systems I'd gotten from a previous job that had upgraded their computers and gave the old ones to employees. I still have three of them ... all running xp. I might give them to a community center.

 

[SZLiao214]

I've given away or sold quite a few parts to the kitchen/sushi bar employees where i work.

23 inch dell 1080 monitor for 50.
500 watt psu for 30.