Anything on my old computer good?

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So, my first computer ever was some "e-star". Before we got a new computer, this thing was just about dead. So some guy re-formatted the whole thing I guess. I eventually powered it up, and all I saw was the recycle bin. Idc. I was wondering if there is anything worth it on there? It was pretty crappy a few years ago..but hey you never know. Was wondering if I can use any of the parts..heh. Here's a vid off my phone..couldn't find my digicam lol.

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Actually knowing the specs of the computer would help but all I can see that you can salvage are some of the cables and the HSF...even then I'm not sure.
 
Boot the computer back up and type "dxdiag" into the run box in start, that should give you small idea of what's on there.
 
u can try selling the ram, can't really tell the rest unless you go and expand the device manager or something or try selling it as a whole or just keep it as an antique, you'll never know when the new computer has problems and u'll be using it to surf the net for answers XD.
 
Hehe, I think you about got it, Yasu ;P You have a decent looking fan on that heatsync, but it's rather small(60mm I'm guessing) so it'd be hard to use. The video card's PCI, so that's basically junk. The RAM appears to be SD-RAM. If it's PC133, there is a small market for that on ebay and around the forums, but not if you plan to use it in a future machine. Cables are ok, and it seems you might have an 80 conductor cable in there, so you can use it on higher performace IDE drives. Any drives in it should be good for other computers...but you didn't say how small/large/fast/etc they are...

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Wait wait...I see that's not a video card there ^^; I guess a networking card? With onboard video. *cough* even worse :P
 
You could try and see if you could get it to fold or something. I have a question though. What phone takes that high of a resolution pic!!??
 
I know they say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this case a few words would be worth a thousand pictures. I.E. In order to find out whether the parts would be useful, it would be useful to have the full specs of your system, since you can't tell very much about the specs from that picture.

Fresh Diagnose will give you that info, but off the top of my head, I would say the pc doesn't look too ancient, possibly you could salvage the RAM, depending.

Another option would be to make use of the whole thing and turn it into a hardware firewall. Kinda like using the guys at the old folks home as cannon fodder in WW3. (I hate myself for having an imagination lol). It'd be a lot cheaper than a router would be, and would give you better internet security.

Just a thought.
 
Haha havn't heard of 64MB modules... must be very old.

I'd take out the network card out and sell it for the 50 cents its worth (nah I'm JK'n... you can probably sell it for like 4-5 bucks to someone who needs one.)

Take out the RAM and sell that too, but you might just get a couple quarters for that stuff :(
 
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Yeah, Ima video tape it.
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Are you throwing it onto pavement or a hard surface?

I always wanted to throw a video camera off the roof while it was recording, and watch what happened on the TV :P
 
send it to me! i need it for my project =) lol Jk, but you could do fun things with it. I'm trying to rebuild a computer in a suitcase right now...if i can only get my hands on a working computer...
 
nothing, it has to be usable for something, just set it up a back up server, or printer server, or web server, or central hard drive/media server. Or all of the above.

The is so much you can do with an old machine, with 256mb of ram you can even run xp (cut it down with xp lite to save space)

edit: @ liuliuboy, that was going to be my next suggestion :)
 
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Looks like I am going to throw it off my roof. Seriosuly.
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god, i cant stand people who waste computer parts. for some reason i just hate throwing them away, i have a couple of dos computers and win 95 computers that i Do Not want throwing away :P
 
Dropkickmurphys said:
god, i cant stand people who waste computer parts. for some reason i just hate throwing them away, i have a couple of dos computers and win 95 computers that i Do Not want throwing away :P
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I threw two hard drives up in the air, and i was trying to get them to fly apart, those things are pretty strong :P
 
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