Use for old CPU's?

[C6ckneyGeezer]

I went through a box of old stuff yesterday, chucking loads of old junk away. Anyways, I came across a box with my old CPU's in. Ive checked eBay, they are worth pretty much peanuts? Anybody got any ideas to put them to good use? Or what do you all do with old parts? Feels a shame to just put them in the bin!

Not sure if any of them are worth anything to any overclockers out there? Maybe one has a good batch?

Other than that, may aswel keep them in a box still lol

List as follows;

Intel Celeron D 2.8Ghz '03 Socket 478 PHILIPPINES / Batch 7502A901
Intel Pentium 4 560 3.6Ghz '03 Socket 775 CHINA / Batch 5430B53M
Intel Pentium 4 660 3.6Ghz '04 Socket 775 COSTA RICA / Batch 3540B484
Intel Pentium 4 661 3.6Ghz '05 Socket 775 CHINA / Batch 5621A908
Intel i5-3570K 3.8Ghz Socket 1155 COSTA RICA / Batch 3338B716 (Just put this on ebay tbh for £90 posted)

 

[Jumper118]

Idk if they are good batches, but they would be fun to mess around with on a p965 chipset board if you had one. I have 100ish of those old pentiums and celerons, but they take so long to bin I cba .

For anyone starting out and wanting to do some super cheap oc they would be fine though.

 

[Minibiker]

I still see a lot of people interested in the older chips like the 3570k so I'm sure that will sell soon bud

 

[AiiR]

Find a board and see how much voltage they will take before popping.

Or make them into keychains and sell those for £££

 

[danlightbulb]

Daisy chain them together with power and wait for them to become self aware.

 

[almoststew1990]

Retro gaming PC? Retro gaming PC.

 

[DragonQ]

Retro gaming PC? Retro gaming PC.

Would probably still be cheaper to use new components due to power consumption differences.

 

[Krokosh]

I still have an old Slot A motherboard with a Voodoo 5 that I had set up for all those legacy games that hadn't quite migrated to 32 bit enough to work with Windows 7. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have survived my recent house move; it failed to POST when I tried to power it up yesterday. Still, if it's not recoverable, I have a couple of 440BX motherboards as backup!

 

[eddiew]

Frame them and put them on the wall

 

[C6ckneyGeezer]

Loads of creative ideas! I would love to setup a 755 rig and see how far I could push them....a pointless exercise, however! Them old 775 socket chips could cook eggs at stock anyways lol

 

[jennidc]

Dedicated emulation box or mame machine.

Or use free NAS OS to turn them into NAS boxes.

Media boxes or servers.

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Make them into Keyrings.

 

[DragonQ]

Or use free NAS OS to turn them into NAS boxes.

Media boxes or servers.

Again, that's a bad idea. Anything that's on 24/7 shouldn't be using such old tech - buying brand new stuff would pay for itself in a few years with current electricity prices.

 

[sockky]

I'm all for the idea of a dedicated emulation box for retro games. Not needed, but fun

 

[Devrij]

3570k is still a great chip. Build an htpc with it

 

[Fishpan]

Chuck them into the smallest mini-itx you can find and you've got yourself a potential retro gaming station or a media player to hook up to tv.