When you upgrade, what do you do with your old stuff?

[whizler]

From the looks of things, most of us are on at least a 6-month upgrade cycle. I'm curious what you do with your old hardware.

 

[Vegito]

I gave a lot of my stuff away to the users here and auction off some stuff on e8ay and give some to local non-profit people who needs it.

 

[xtreme2k]

I have got a
C366 oc 567/103
Creative TNT2ultra
Quantum 6.4G 5400rpm
Sound Blaster 16
that is in my drawer

it is a waste, since i upgraded to a 700E, along with GTS and some newer IBM 7200

now i wanted to get some old BX mobo that will work with the chip as well as a new case,
then i might network the 2 together and have some more RC5 cracking 🙂

 

[ArkAoss]

keep the best stuff, its fun to have a second system around that's not as fast, but i can have friends over and play games vs em, or i can have one sys as a burner, and data storage, also good to have asys to test parts, test new proggies, or i sell stuff, or donate it to friends, but my recent set of "old stuff" got turned into the house server, so now i hafta find a p 133 or somthing to make into a linux server

 

[LarryJoe]

I sell most of my &quot;old&quot; (<6 months!) stuff here if there is a decent market for it. I only turn to e-bay if there is a big spread between the going rate here and there. For the most part, I hawk my video cards on e-bay and everything else here.

LJ

 

[Oyeve]

I usually intend to sell em or build another system but usually just have tons of stuff lying about. I really feel bad when I spend a lot of money on something and know deep down that its worthless but I cant part with my stuff. Like my 2 monster 3d2 cards, I spent 400 dollars and they are absolutely worthless now. My wife hates me.

 

[Viper GTS]

Hey, I still have my two Monster2 boards... Of course I only paid $75 for them...

😀

Eventually, most of my stuff gets recycled into systems of my family members. My sister has my old Pentium 100/64MB, &amp; my brother is in line to inherit my K6-2 @ 504.

Viper GTS

 

[Linh]

They become hand-me-downs. They usually go from me, to my younger brother, then finally to my girlfriend. The next time I upgrade, my current computer will then go to my brother, and his current computer will go to my gf.

 

[Noriaki]

my dad or my brother usually.
Or I sell it off if it's still halfway useful.

 

[whizler]

Hey Viper, that's kind of what's gone on with my stuff. Basically, my family has all my old computers.

Nonetheless, I still have some old junk lying around:

Diamond Monster 3D card (I guess I keep it out of sentimentality)
5 1/4 floppy drive (I never know when I might get a hankerin' to re-install X-Wing!)
256k video card (why I'm still hanging on to this, I don't know)
Trident 1mb video card (ditto above)
More junk I've forgotten about

Old software? Let's not even go there...

 

[thorin]

Normally it becomes hand-me-down(s) for my brothers or parents.

Sometimes I sell stuff, but not often.

Rick

 

[samgau]

I try to recycle them into functional computers...
But I do have stuff collecting dust, eg STBv4400, 4mb pci s3 vid card, lots of NICs, SB16 ISA with IDE and accompanying Creative 4x cd-rom drive, etc etc