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Retro6

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Why an earth would somebody chuck this out? I picked it up from an office as a computer that was going to be chucked away and it was free so I thought it will be good for some parts.

When I first saw it in person I was a bit doubtful whether it would work. It has no hard drive and full of dust. Its got a LGA1150 board in there and has a quad core with 8 GB DDR3 Ram.

I took the cover off and set it up when I got home to see if it turns on and what the problem might be but it seems like its in good working order and has a nice looking BIOS. This computer looks like a good one for Windows 10 and its got the Windows 10 license key on the side as well as an MS Office key.

I haven't tried a hard drive in it yet but it looks like a runner so far.

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Same reasons you see local council recycling places with large flat screen TVs.

people get a newer thing and chuck the old one out ASAP even if it's still working. It's worth with computers obviously as the software can well be at fault while the hardware is fine.

Go to a car auction you'll see mechanics buying cars on the cheap to flog knowing they likely only have to put a bit of elbow grease and a couple of hours work into them to turn a decent profit. Our society is lazy.
 
Why would someone chuck it out? Because it's a near enough decade old PC and virtually no one wants it

Do you actually have any use for it or is it just going to be clutter until you in turn eventually throw it out?
 
Kenai said:
Why would someone chuck it out? Because it's a near enough decade old PC and virtually no one wants it

Do you actually have any use for it or is it just going to be clutter until you in turn eventually throw it out?
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My brother still uses my 2500k system from about 2011. I put a 970 in it and it still does a bit of decent 1080p gaming.
 
robfosters said:
My brother still uses my 2500k system from about 2011. I put a 970 in it and it still does a bit of decent 1080p gaming.
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I still use the PC I built in 2013 but I wouldn't go out of my way to find an old beat to death office machine from the same era if I needed another machine for something now
 
As a retro guy this computer is like last years tech to me far from obsolete lol.

Computers don't contain much gold if any at all. I remember youtubers buying up old PC's 486's etc to trash them for there 1 pence worth of gold content. The amount of work it takes to separate the gold from all the other metals is not worth it for a few tiny blobs of gold worth less than a few pence.
 
robfosters said:
My brother still uses my 2500k system from about 2011. I put a 970 in it and it still does a bit of decent 1080p gaming.
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Many people are still using that era of CPU, probably the best pound for performance CPU’s you can buy. My dad is running a 2700k with a 1060 6gb and it’s absolutely fine for 1080p.
 
savagesam117 said:
Many people are still using that era of CPU, probably the best pound for performance CPU’s you can buy. My dad is running a 2700k with a 1060 6gb and it’s absolutely fine for 1080p.
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My 2 favourite ever CPU’s are the 2500k and the Q6600. Probably the best ever bang for buck.

I remember paying about £250 for a brand new Nvidia 8800GTS too. Oh those were the days. Life was so simple. No covid, mining or wars to bleed your wallet dry.
 
robfosters said:
My 2 favourite ever CPU’s are the 2500k and the Q6600. Probably the best ever bang for buck.

I remember paying about £250 for a brand new Nvidia 8800GTS too. Oh those were the days. Life was so simple. No covid, mining or wars to bleed your wallet dry.
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i7 920 DO for me.. 10 years that run solid before i upgraded!
 
Still rocking a 2500k from release and SLI 670's.
Shows its age in newer titles but still chugs along.
Will be upgrading when GPU prices come down (one can hope) or I'm forced to. The only thing decided is I will be using a silverstone Sg13 case as I love its design.
 
Still using a CPU from 2013 here for the machine I use most - until the release of the AMD 5000 series CPUs and the newest Intels it still held in pretty well with an overclock.

I wouldn't really stick with it though if it wasn't for Windows 10/11 being pants on head levels of badly designed.
 
People are so wasteful these days,Chuck in a SSD,another 8 gigs of ram and a low profile GPU and a pretty solid system.

The only downfall to 1150 IMO is the used CPUs,Anything upwards of a 4670S on the auction site tend to get too expensive quite quick..same with LGA 1155 platform,Prices are too high for the age of the CPUs.
 
robfosters said:
My brother still uses my 2500k system from about 2011. I put a 970 in it and it still does a bit of decent 1080p gaming.
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I'm still rocking an i7 920 from 2009/2010? on a LGA 1366 mobo with 6gb of Ram,
it started out with an HD5870, then a 7950 and now an rx580 nitro, it plays GTA5 online at 1080p fine so i'll upgrade when GTA 6 comes out in several years :p
 
cainer said:
I'm still rocking an i7 920 from 2009/2010? on a LGA 1366 mobo with 6gb of Ram,
it started out with an HD5870, then a 7950 and now an rx580 nitro, it plays GTA5 online at 1080p fine so i'll upgrade when GTA 6 comes out in several years :p
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I know you prefer to spend your cash on fishing gear and take aways :p
 
If it has a windows 10 sticker on it I'd still describe that as 'modern'
Moore's law is long dead the difference between a 10 year old PC and a new one really isn't that much in most usage circumstances.
 
Tom_ed1987 said:
If it has a windows 10 sticker on it I'd still describe that as 'modern'
Moore's law is long dead the difference between a 10 year old PC and a new one really isn't that much in most usage circumstances.
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Thats what I was thinking because back in 2013 people were using Windows 7. Windows 10 wasn't on the market yet.
 
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