What do you do with your 'old' pc equipment??

shaank · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:11

As title really?? Do you try and flog it to friends / ebay / some forum or use tradein sites like CEX ? Or do you just bin the stuff?

Hotwired · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:12

I stuff it in a cupboard and try to forget how much I wasted buying it.

Maybe I should stick it on MM ^_^

SfnX · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:14

recycle?

or trade?

freddie64 · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:41

I tend to hoard it, thinking best keep it just in case.

JonJ678 · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:43

I generally try to sell it on, normally through MM on here.

I've got a couple of boxes full of pieces of computer which suggest I don't try hard enough.

Phatzy · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:46

i keep the most important stuff like cpu and mobo, if my new gear breaks down.

randal · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:46

MM or eBay, depending what it is. Or donate it to my little bro if his machine needs an upgrade.

cmndr_andi · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:47

I give it to my sister.

She currently has a Q9550, 9800GTX and an IPS monitor. It works pretty well with her heavy workload of Sims 3 and Word.

ran_out · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:51

I give it away if it will be of use to a friend or if they can be bothered to ebay it, or put in my drawer if i might find a use for it again, or it goes in the garage to be chucked. Stuff like old RAM sticks i keep for a while as you never know when you might need a spare and I keep an old psu spare in case my main one goes. Sometimes i'll put something on ebay if it's gonna sell for >£40, but i've stopped using that site to sell recently as it just isn't worth the hassle with what you have to put up with.

Eat_My_Brains · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:52

Hoard it all, even years old driver cd's.

shmacks · 14 Jan 2010 at 15:59

Give it away to friends and family and use the GOB Bluth tactic to forget how much i paid for it.

shadowscotland · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:22

MM for quality stuff - usually sell unused stuff for a new upgrade.
So part exchange by proxy - but like many I have a bit box of 'spares'

MeMeMeMe · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:34

What is MM?

Simon42 · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:34

Hotwired said:
I stuff it in a cupboard and try to forget how much I wasted buying it.

^^ Same here for most items.

Then when it's really old I seem able to justify throwing it away.

Not ideal - I must make more effort to sell, give away etc.. The only problem with giving things away is that there seems to be some implied long term technical support thereafter :eek:

PapaLazaru · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:37

Flog it all as I have realised that some people just love paying over the odds on certain bidding sites.

I do keep a spare PC for internet and the basics, in case mine blows up. It cost me nearly £2000.00 in 2004 and all it is good for now is the internet. :rolleyes:

macca672 · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:40

mines currently sat on my desk after I broke my motherboard trying to BIOS update, the case and mobo got a size 11 stomped thru it but pulled the HDD ram and gfx first lol, and also have a massive storage crate under the desk full of cables, network switches etc

Uriel · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:40

Keep some of is as spares, to have a reasonably up to date second PC but the rest goes on MM or the bay.

Simon42 · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:41

MeMeMeMe said:
What is MM?

Members Market. I don't have enough posts yet to access it but you do but I think there's also a minimum time which I believe is 3 months forum membership.

Admiral Huddy · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:44

I tend to keep it things just in case. I've actually mamanged to build a few PCs out of spare bits etc which I've encased in a few of these tasty cases:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-160-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29

Sell them off to clients as and when they need replacment units. Works quite well.

MikeRossyBoy · 14 Jan 2010 at 16:45

Leave it in a dark corner and tell yourself that one day, god willing, youll have time to install Linux Mint to have a mess around.

Least thats what my P4 machine is doing right now...