What to do with this?

DELETED_63775 · 29 Nov 2011 at 12:37

Took this off a friends hands back in the summer thinking i would make use of it someday. It's been sat in my utility room since

What would you guys do with it? Is it worth selling?
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stulid · 29 Nov 2011 at 12:40

Scrap it? sell any useful parts such as drives/CPU?

Buchanan0204 · 29 Nov 2011 at 12:42

Dell mothersboards are funny and don't allow you to connect normal case headers into them. Which means your stuck with that case. Their PSU's are also the same, either screw holes don't align or it's a strange form factor.

Best thing you can do. Is either, give it all a good clean... reinstall Windows and sell it as is.

Secondly... you could strip out the CPU, ram, hard drive and optical drive. Buy a brand new case, PSU and motherboard. (100 quid new) throw it all together, install windows on it and sell it for profit.

Job done

DELETED_63775 · 29 Nov 2011 at 12:56

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Buchanan - The only things i can salvage from it are the cpu and optical drive, the hdd's and ram were taken out before i got it.

Just had a quick look to see what cpu is in there and it's a xeon 5160, do you know if this would work in a p5k deluxe?

stulid · 29 Nov 2011 at 12:58

It wont work, different socket.

The XEON is 771, your board is 775.

DELETED_63775 · 29 Nov 2011 at 12:59

Ok thanks, i guess i'll just put it on the bay then.

Thanks again guys.

Buchanan0204 · 29 Nov 2011 at 14:16

Raz84 said:
Ok thanks, i guess i'll just put it on the bay then.

Thanks again guys.

Or add a second hand HDD and some cheap DDR2 memory (second hand) then sell it. You will get more for it than you would selling the cpu.