Loads of old bits... What would you do?

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Ok so the folks have insisted I tidy up the warzone that is my room...focusing on my collection of old PC parts that seems to grow...lol!

Problem is I'm finding it hard to decide what to do with them. Mum points to a well know auction site, although I'd much rather Frankenstein something up and see what it goes for.

Think the parts would probably fetch more... but I just want to scream "IT's ALIVE"....Whoaahaahaha

This isnt a sale, it's a weekend dilemma.

I have:

1 x Q6600 on an Abit IP35 Pro with 4GB of 8500 - An old OCUK 3.4 OC kit.
1 x Q9550 (C1) on an Asus P5QL Pro with 8GB of 6400
2 x 75GB Raptors and a 4 x 500GB WD Greens.
2 x Bitfenix Shinobi cases
1 x Sapphire 6970 2GB GPU
1 x DVDRW
1 x BR/HD DVD/CDRW
Various cables and fans
1 x H100
1 x H80i works, but damage to one fan header
1 x Turiq Tower 120
2 x COA for Vista Home Prem
1 x COA for Vista Ultimate
1 x COA for Win 8

No PSU, but thats quickly fixable...

So the question is...

What would you do with the above...or should I just hit the bay?
 
Well the Shinobis are great, classy cases, but you wont fit the h100 or the h80 in there- no room for a radiator up top, and the rear fan hole is only 120cm big when the h80 is 140cm i believe?

However, I can smell a Windows 8 Gaming TV PC thing coming on! I'd stick the 9550 'bundle' in a shinobi with the turiq with the 6970. Stick windows 8, and one or two of the WD 500GBs, and the blu-ray drive in there. The blu ray and 500GB of storage storage is good for films, windows 8 and the SHinobi both look nice on and next to a tv respectively...

The Q6600 and the raptors would make a surprising fast old set up, if you got a old mid/high end gpu in there too. You'd need a case though. I'd either go for a fairly expensive one that can take the h100 or as cheap as you want and put a £25 after market cooler on the Q6600.

With both of those set ups you will have a surprisingly good computers.

But I think you'd get the most money by selling as parts tbh.
 
Sell the bits on the bay is what I would do. People like parts so they can build their own systems, plus people looking to keep systems going that parts have broken etc.

Mark
 
Lol, sounds as bad as my weekend, spent with an old Asrock motherboard, Socket 462 CPU, PC3500LL and finding the Floppy drive would not work, and USB was not getting my BIOS update anywhere.

I want to sell some old bits too, but my son is now using one system, and I want to build a server and see if I get any use out of it.

If you do not need it I would say sell it individually, after building my new rig I am tempted to put a budget Haswell rig together for the boys, and was intending to use any funds from selling old hardware to build a simpler, quieter, up to date HTPC.
 
It may well be worth using the old bits to make a pc for HTPC use.

That way you can evaluate the amount of use it gets and therefore if it is worth investing in. My HTPC gets little use these days due to the prolific amount of movie channels, Tivo, Netflix and such available.

Hence my plan to build s server out of spares. If I rarely use it I will not bother with a server. If the HTPC has a decline in use and rarely streams from the server then the HTPC will most likely be dropped too.
 
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