Left over last gen hardware

bobbarley · 3 Oct 2011 at 15:03

What do you guys do with your old bits when you upgrade?

At the moment I've got the following bits lying around:

C2D E8400 (will o/c to 3.6Ghz)
Biostar T-power i45
4BG Corsair XMS memory (4x1GB)
GTX 260 896MB
8800GTS 320MB
80GB HD
40GB HD

I had a little look on eBay and the parts really aren't worth much at all. Probably around £100 for all of it. However they're not exactly slow, or all that past it I guess.

They might made a fairly decent HTPC, which could do some folding as well perhaps?

Can I run both the nvidia cards in the motherboard (which is crossfire) and have them both folding still?

Cupra · 3 Oct 2011 at 15:39

i stick my stuff on memebrs market on this forum

you could use it for folding and it doesnt matter if its an sli or cf mobo for folding iirc

Sin_Chase · 3 Oct 2011 at 15:41

Flog it on members Market.

I got rid of all my old S775 stuff

Jordan97 · 3 Oct 2011 at 15:43

I keep all my parts in case anything goes wrong with my main PC and I've got a temporary fix for it or I just need to do some troubleshooting.

You won't be able to run both GPU's in the motherboard at the same because they are not the same cards so will not run in SLI.

Predicament · 3 Oct 2011 at 15:44

I suspect you could get as least £130 on the Members Market if you are patient.

bobbarley · 3 Oct 2011 at 15:44

I don't have enough posts to use the market unfortunately. Bit annoyed that when I moved I had to throw a lot of stuff away, so don't have any boxes or manuals for any of the stuff.

Cupra · 3 Oct 2011 at 15:59

Jordan97 said:
I keep all my parts in case anything goes wrong with my main PC and I've got a temporary fix for it or I just need to do some troubleshooting.

You won't be able to run both GPU's in the motherboard at the same because they are not the same cards so will not run in SLI.

he doesnt want to run them in sli, he wants to fold with them so no sli bridge is needed and when folding the cards dont run in sli anyway
however im unsure weather different cards can work for folding on the same board

bobbarley · 3 Oct 2011 at 16:50

Cupra said:
he doesnt want to run them in sli, he wants to fold with them so no sli bridge is needed and when folding the cards dont run in sli anyway
however im unsure weather different cards can work for folding on the same board

Only one way to find out I guess

Tribune · 3 Oct 2011 at 16:54

It won't take you long to rack up the posts if you have the time to go through the forum. Just don't spam. I did it in a couple of weeks.

Cupra · 3 Oct 2011 at 16:58

didnt it used to be 100 posts and 12 monts membership aswell?

throw a don an email to ask

iostream · 3 Oct 2011 at 17:06

Cupra said:
didnt it used to be 100 posts and 12 monts membership aswell?

throw a don an email to ask

Apparently it used to be 100 posts, but it's now been bumped to 250 (I currently don't have access to the MM).

bobbarley · 3 Oct 2011 at 17:37

Guess 250 shouldn't take too long to accumulate.

Kobi · 3 Oct 2011 at 19:01

Deffo HTPC! Thats what im doing with my left overs. Just need a case, psu and im good to go!

bobbarley · 3 Oct 2011 at 19:25

I imagine the parts originally posted will be rather on the power hungry side mind you.

Xelene · 3 Oct 2011 at 19:28

But does it run Linux?

gothic_hobbit · 3 Oct 2011 at 20:04

Are the hard disks IDE or SATA ?