Once I found an empty disk on my way home from school.
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[QUOTE=GameDev;31269442]Yeah? Well I found a Kidzbop 3 CD face down on the curb without the case and it [u]worked[/u].
Fuck yeah Kidzbop [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/rock.gif[/img][/QUOTE]It was on the curb for a reason....
[QUOTE=Warship;31265671]Also reply doesn't want to work[/QUOTE]
If you click it a second time it takes you to a page that looks kind of like the "New Thread" page.
I was at a Goodwill at Atlanta Georgia once and they were selling a Windows 95 Computer for about 200 dollars, was able to boot up and everything but not worth the two hundred they were asking. You can find some really nice computer stuff at Goodwill and at the dump, just for the sole reason people not knowing any better that their computer might just still work.
I've gotten a few free machines that were very decent before.
I've gotten multiple machines from a guy I know that has another job MCCoys as an internal support tech. The two best machines I got from him were an OptiPlex GX280 SFF (P4 3.0 GHz, 512MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, WinXP Pro sticker) and a Dimension 745 (Core 2 Duo E6300, 1 GB RAM, Radeon x1300 and WinXP Pro sticker) Both machines were free.
I got 3 more machines from a friend for free. One was an Antec ARIA with a Sempron 2400 system. I gutted the sempron out and put my router in it, which was in a much larger case. The second was a Compaq something with an Athlon XP 2000+ and the third was a Dell Dimension 8400 (P4 3.4, 512MB RAM). All 3 of these machines had issues with blown capacitors, but only cost like $20 total to fix them all.
And one I got the other day for $7 was a Dimension E310 which has a P4 2.8, 1 GB of RAM, MCE2005 and Office 2003 Basic.
[QUOTE=PJAMA;31252826]There's nothing wrong with that Dell! It just needs a new monitor.[/QUOTE]
Maybe they were getting a new one anyway.
[QUOTE=Terpak;31252982]:O amazing O.O! Lucky finds :3! I cant tell if ide rather find a new computer, or an old one and explore the technology =_=[/QUOTE]
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Using any old computer as a server, router or anything isn't really worth when you consider the power consumption and heat they put out. A cheap dual core atom board will be faster than quite a few older P4s and doesn't use a lot of power (And thus heat).
I used to have a bunch of P2 and P4 machines around here, though got rid of them since they were slow and since I built my server containing my old Core 2 Duo left over from an upgrade. Since I actually have a fast server now, I don't need a computer dedicated to game servers and another for web servers, IRC server, ect.
To keep the current theme of "Stories of stuff I found", I volunteered at my school's eWaste pickup day. Besides the mountain of CRT monitors and TVs, there was a ton of older computers, mostly P2 and P4 era stuff. Since it was going to be recycled anyway, we were allowed to grab a few things if we wanted. I managed to snag a pair of LCDs (One went to my friend and the other replaced my mom's failing CRT), a Model M keyboard, some Ethernet cables, a P4 eMachines box that I parted out for the RAM (Again, for my mom's computer), the aftermarket PSU and the 160 GB hard drive (Needed to replace the boot drive in my server).
[QUOTE=benjgvps;31328005]Using any old computer as a server, router or anything isn't really worth when you consider the power consumption and heat they put out. A cheap dual core atom board will be faster than quite a few older P4s and doesn't use a lot of power (And thus heat).
I used to have a bunch of P2 and P4 machines around here, though got rid of them since they were slow and since I built my server containing my old Core 2 Duo left over from an upgrade. Since I actually have a fast server now, I don't need a computer dedicated to game servers and another for web servers, IRC server, ect.
To keep the current theme of "Stories of stuff I found", I volunteered at my school's eWaste pickup day. Besides the mountain of CRT monitors and TVs, there was a ton of older computers, mostly P2 and P4 era stuff. Since it was going to be recycled anyway, we were allowed to grab a few things if we wanted. I managed to snag a pair of LCDs (One went to my friend and the other replaced my mom's failing CRT), a Model M keyboard, some Ethernet cables, a P4 eMachines box that I parted out for the RAM (Again, for my mom's computer), the aftermarket PSU and the 160 GB hard drive (Needed to replace the boot drive in my server).[/QUOTE]
I'm running my old AMD K8 rig as a web, IRC and Minecraft server. I have to keep my fan on most of the time as my room really does heat up. When I get £40 I will replace the motherboard and processor.
You know, I almost had a Packard Bell iMedia earlier in the year. I used to own the exact model I saw sitting on a porch, and was thinking of offering to take it away and fix it up for myself. P3 (like 800MHz or something?), 256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, the works. Good enough for a shitty little file server, but there is nowhere to keep it in my house.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;31332226]You know, I almost had a Packard Bell iMedia earlier in the year. I used to own the exact model I saw sitting on a porch, and was thinking of offering to take it away and fix it up for myself. P3 (like 800MHz or something?), 256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, the works. Good enough for a shitty little file server, but there is nowhere to keep it in my house.[/QUOTE]
You'd be better off with a D510 or D525 Intel atom MINI-ITX board.
They're ridiculously cheap anyway and they use close to zero electricity.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;31328005]Using any old computer as a server, router or anything isn't really worth when you consider the power consumption and heat they put out. A cheap dual core atom board will be faster than quite a few older P4s and doesn't use a lot of power (And thus heat).[/QUOTE]
It really depends on which Pentium 4 you have. Intel made a few Pentium 4 core revisions that had a 65W TDP with Speed Step and those hardly use any power, or produce much heat. The D0 core revision on the Pentium 4 HT 6x1 series is an example.
And the problem with the Atom, while it may have low power consumption, it also has awful performance. The Atom is based on the old P6 architecture, and has half the performance of a Pentium M at the same clock speed. And while it may make a decent router, if you want to do more with it like run a basic web server with Apache, PHP and MySQL, you're going to get awful performance.
An old machine at most is going to use a couple bucks of electricity or less per month, since you're taking the GPU out which sucks the most power.
The real question is
Did you find any good porn on it?
[QUOTE=Van-man;31347335]You'd be better off with a D510 or D525 Intel atom MINI-ITX board.
They're ridiculously cheap anyway and they use close to zero electricity.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I started to think about the power draw after it was gone anyway, we have a hard enough time paying bills as it is, and it wouldn't really help me keep my accommodation at Uni if I took it there either.
[QUOTE=bohb;31323511]I've gotten a few free machines that were very decent before.
I've gotten multiple machines from a guy I know that has another job MCCoys as an internal support tech. The two best machines I got from him were an OptiPlex GX280 SFF (P4 3.0 GHz, 512MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, WinXP Pro sticker) and a Dimension 745 (Core 2 Duo E6300, 1 GB RAM, Radeon x1300 and WinXP Pro sticker) Both machines were free.
I got 3 more machines from a friend for free. One was an Antec ARIA with a Sempron 2400 system. I gutted the sempron out and put my router in it, which was in a much larger case. The second was a Compaq something with an Athlon XP 2000+ and the third was a Dell Dimension 8400 (P4 3.4, 512MB RAM). All 3 of these machines had issues with blown capacitors, but only cost like $20 total to fix them all.
And one I got the other day for $7 was a Dimension E310 which has a P4 2.8, 1 GB of RAM, MCE2005 and Office 2003 Basic.[/QUOTE]
Nowadays I don't buy a used PC unless it at LEAST has a Vista sticker...
Today i found a case with some parts left in it
It was new enough to have one of these in
[img]http://www.markit.eu/images/original/78/fe/78feedf3c29680ee3fa30db1dc07ae85.jpg[/img]
The case was a right off but the board needed a small soldering job and it was working nice and stable
It also had a SATA DVDRW which was practically new as well as the heatsink which was knackered apart from the fan
good find?
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;31358011']Today i found a case with some parts left in it
It was new enough to have one of these in
[img]http://www.markit.eu/images/original/78/fe/78feedf3c29680ee3fa30db1dc07ae85.jpg[/img]
The case was a right off but the board needed a small soldering job and it was working nice and stable
It also had a SATA DVDRW which was practically new as well as the heatsink which was knackered apart from the fan
good find?[/QUOTE]
It's free and works. Of course it was a good find.
If it's really stable then I might try OCing my e4600 on it
Somebody gave me a HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop.
The DC power jack doesn't seem to work though. So I'm going to see if I can solder on new power jack, and ghetto rig it.
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