What to do with an old CPU?

Gundog48 · 24 Mar 2011 at 18:50

Rummaging around my room yesterday and I stumbled across a very old CPU that I had neatly bagged up with it's foam padding for the pins. It is an AMD Sempron of some variety (can't remember the specs from when I used it) and I think it works considering I bagged it up properly. Question is, what do I do with it? I could try to get people to donate some ancient hardware that is compatible with it and put together an antique build with Win98. I could take an idea from OC3D's book and make a key fob out of it as it looks cool, but I would feel a little sad drilling a hole in such a feat of engineering, especially considering it's age. Ideas?

smiley1987 · 24 Mar 2011 at 19:02

Em put it in a small box with a glass front and use it as on ornament .

Muzza1875 · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:07

Build a server,make a key ring perhaps? I have the same dilemma,don't know what to do with a couple old motherboards and a old intel dual core.

bobbydigital · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:15

I built a socket a system the other week there out of old parts in my house, nobody seemed to want it even when I was trying to give away! So I put a label on it saying free to good home and put outside, went very fast!

Either find someone who likes free stuff, or make a novelty item out of it. Got an xbox360 gpu as my key ring at the moment

Gundog48 · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:20

Yeah, the key rings are pretty popular! I'll see if I can get some old parts in, if not I'm reaching for the drill! Found out it is a socket 462 CPU, it's a AMD Sempron 2400+ and runs a 1.66GHz which isn't half bad! Better than my laptop at least! Would do for a file server if I can find the rest of the parts.

Muzza1875 · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:49

I seen in the papers there is a charity that takes in old computers and parts and donates them to the less fortunate in third world countries,think they mainly go to schools to teach kids how to use a comp.just make sure your hard drives are wiped clean

richb93 · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:53

Put a HDD in (or if you have one full of stuff already use that) and install TurnKey File Server onto a memory stick. I did that (with an old sempron too! although it was a 754 chip) and it makes a nice little fileserver.

koolpc · 24 Mar 2011 at 21:00

Make it into a paper weight!!

Thekwango · 24 Mar 2011 at 21:14

koolpc said:
Make it into a paper weight!!

this.....

have a google and find a company that will set it in a clear plastic/glass block. this would be rather fetching. even get the paper weight laser etched with the pocessot make and socket type