Worthless LGA775 CPUs: Trash, recycle, donate, or list for free on Craigslist?

[waltchan]

I have a bunch of old, worthless LGA775 Celeron Prescotts and Allendale dual-cores that no longer sell on eBay anymore, even at less than $2.50 shipped. Ship one processor costs $2.54 minimum postage rate. Is it safe to throw them all into the trash can, donate to Goodwill, give away free on Craigslist, or drop them all into recycle can? I now only keep Wolfdales and newer.

What's right for the environment, and what you do?

CPUs do depreciate, #1 enemy in lowering computer's value.

 

[cbn]

I have a bunch of old, worthless LGA775 Celeron Prescotts and Allendale dual-cores that no longer sell on eBay anymore, even at less than $2.50 shipped.

Sounds about right when C2D E8400 starts at $6 shipped and E8500 can be had for under $9 shipped.

Is it safe to throw them all into the trash can, donate to Goodwill, give away free on Craigslist, or drop them all into recycle can? I now only keep Wolfdales and newer.

What's right for the environment, and what you do?

CPUs do depreciate, #1 enemy in lowering computer's value.

Sell them as a bulk lot on ebay?

 

[Arachnotronic]

I have a bunch of old, worthless LGA775 Celeron Prescotts and Allendale dual-cores that no longer sell on eBay anymore, even at less than $2.50 shipped. Ship one processor costs $2.54 minimum postage rate. Is it safe to throw them all into the trash can, donate to Goodwill, give away free on Craigslist, or drop them all into recycle can? I now only keep Wolfdales and newer.

What's right for the environment, and what you do?

CPUs do depreciate, #1 enemy in lowering computer's value.

Put 'em all in a box and send them to me. I'll pay shipping.

Or, probably a better idea, sell them as a bulk lot on eBay as cbn suggests.

 

[waltchan]

Put 'em all in a box and send them to me. I'll pay shipping.

Or, probably a better idea, sell them as a bulk lot on eBay as cbn suggests.

What do people use them for? There are more CPUs than motherboards out there.

Right now in my small trash can, I tossed in 2x Celeron E1200 1.6GHz and 1x Celeron E1400 1.8 GHz. Nothing special here. All are untested and in scratchy condition. Should I take them back out?

I wonder whether E1200 has the lowest power consumption, due to it being the slowest and cheapest Allendale, and is it worth saving for file server?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Serves you right, LOL. You buy CPUs that are ever closer to being totally obsolete, and then you wonder what to do with them when they ARE obsolete. Well, you put yourself in that position. Try buying newer CPUs, then they won't become obsolete as fast. (And you wondered why I would rather have a $39 Haswell Celeron, rather than the slowest of the slow FM1 APUs.)

 

[waltchan]

(And you wondered why I would rather have a $39 Haswell Celeron, rather than the slowest of the slow FM1 APUs.)

Haswell Celeron is 5 times more-expensive than FM1. I'll take A4-3300 again as always. Oh, Windows 10 is faster and helps old CPUs run faster.

 

[NTMBK]

Haswell Celeron is 5 times more-expensive than FM1. I'll take A4-3300 again as always. Oh, Windows 10 is faster and helps old CPUs run faster.

It's $39. Skip a few fancy lunches and you can pay for it.

If it means your computer lasts 5 years instead of 2 years, it's money well spent.

 

[PingSpike]

I think I sold a s775 pentium e2160 for $15 5 years ago.

Celeron prescotts are like expired fruitcake. No one ever wanted one of those, even when they were new.

Anyway, CPUs are so small I just put all my old crappy ones in a single motherboard box with my obsolete ram and keep them.

 

[SPBHM]

yes those low end 775 CPUs are totally worthless,
I think I have a Celeron 430 and Pentium E2140 alongside my K6-2s somewhere lol

 

[cytg111]

I have a Q9450 that is borderline nostalgic to me, cant put a price on that.

 

[Denithor]

www.scrapmetalforum.com

Go look here, you'll find somebody willing to pay a tiny amount for each and several will also pay the shipping charges on top of this price. This is how I cleared out a whole box of ancient CPUs/RAM/laptop hdds like a year ago. Everything fit in one USPS fixed cost box, easy and best yet, done with all that old crap.

 

[Raduque]

Heh. I have 3 unused Conroe/Allendale c2ds, a couple unused 775 Celerons and even one 775 Pentium 4 somewhere! It's a Cedar Mill, I think.

Edit: I have hardware even older than that back at my other house. A dual-socket board with two P3-933s! I may even have some of my old slot Pentium IIs and one of those old Celeron 300a overclocking beasts too.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I have a Q9450 that is borderline nostalgic to me, cant put a price on that.

Q9450 is still a viable chip today, too...

 

[dark zero]

Those Allendale are still useful.. Sent them to Africa!

The Presscots on the other side... Burn it before it lay eggs!

 

[poofyhairguy]

Build them into your desk:

 

[2is]

Serves you right, LOL. You buy CPUs that are ever closer to being totally obsolete, and then you wonder what to do with them when they ARE obsolete. Well, you put yourself in that position. Try buying newer CPUs, then they won't become obsolete as fast. (And you wondered why I would rather have a $39 Haswell Celeron, rather than the slowest of the slow FM1 APUs.)

I find this comment hilariously ironic considering the source lol

 

[Arachnotronic]

I find this comment hilariously ironic considering the source lol

My thoughts exactly

 

[waltchan]

Heh. I have 3 unused Conroe/Allendale c2ds, a couple unused 775 Celerons and even one 775 Pentium 4 somewhere! It's a Cedar Mill, I think.

If they are brand new, unopened in box, they're always saleable between $8-$10 shipped, regardless of what processor model. Used, forget it.

 

[Raduque]

If they are brand new, unopened in box, they're always saleable between $8-$10 shipped, regardless of what processor model. Used, forget it.

Who has BNIB unopened 9 year old processors?

No, they're all used.

 

[waltchan]

It's $39. Skip a few fancy lunches and you can pay for it.

If it means your computer lasts 5 years instead of 2 years, it's money well spent.

Had I knew A4-3300 already depreciated down to $8.55 shipped each, I would NEVER bought any of LGA1150 and AM3/AM3+ processors in first place.

Oh, the ECS A55F-M4 V2.0 board is capable of bus-overclocking, and I'm at 3.1 GHz right now. That's about 1125 single-thread score, exceeding Celeron G470 that still sells for $27 shipped on eBay.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Oh, the ECS A55F-M4 V2.0 board is capable of bus-overclocking, and I'm at 3.1 GHz right now. That's about 1125 single-thread score, exceeding Celeron G470 that still sells for $27 shipped on eBay.

I was going to ask if that combo could do any overclocking. That's good to hear. I had a 3650K (I think that was it), that I overclocked to 3.0, from 2.7. At least, I think I did. There was some talk about LLano being able to increase the multiplier in BIOS, but it didn't actually clock the chip up. But that makes kind of no sense, if they are sold with unlocked multipliers. If they are sold that way, then they should work.

What does CPU-Z 1.75 benchmark give you for scores, @ 3.1?

Edit: I don't know if this FM1 business is one big elaborate troll or what, but I contemplated it, and I was looking at motherboards and stuff on Newegg's ebay store, and came to a final conclusion that this FM1 deal wasn't so bad, price-wise, and if everything works in Windows 10, it might be a worthwhile purchase, for a limited-usage box.

I really only had one client in mind for the rig, but I bought three of them.
(That client has an E5200 with a G41 GMA graphics onboard, no HDMI, no AHCI either.)

Too bad that these FM1 boards don't have SATA6G ports, that's my only disappointment. They have HDMI and USB3.0, I think, and if they have UEFI, then I suppose that they're modern enough for modern OSes like Win10.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I find this comment hilariously ironic considering the source lol

Irony noted, but while I buy lower-end equipment, it's new and currently marketed, it's not three years old by the time I buy it.

Granted, some of the three-year old equipment (waltchan's FM1 A4-3300) is probably faster than my current-gen Z3735F Atom laptop.

(I know this, because I recently refurbished an E5200 rig, and installed Win10, and then proceeded to install a 120GB (refurb) SSD into it, and ... it's pretty speedy. Surprised me, for 2007-era technology. I guess I've gotten accustomed to these Atom CPUs.)

 

[waltchan]

I was looking at motherboards and stuff on Newegg's ebay store, and came to a final conclusion that this FM1 deal wasn't so bad, price-wise, and if everything works in Windows 10, it might be a worthwhile purchase, for a limited-usage box.

Exactly. While I don't care about motherboard prices, A4-3300 processor for $8.55 gains a lot on this combo deal. This A55F-M4 V2.0 board is the entrance to the Windows 10 world. 95% of other FM1 boards lack secure-boot mode, so they are not Windows 8 certified.

 

[waltchan]

Who has BNIB unopened 9 year old processors?

Some are still around today even after 10 years unsold. Here's a Celeron D 326 2.53GHz Prescott, the slowest 64-bit LGA775 processor

http://www.ebay.com/itm/191167152611

I wonder how Celeron D 326 will handle Windows 10 64-bit?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Build them into your desk:

That's pretty cool :thumbsup: