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[monster]

Just as the title says, what do you do with your gaming pc when you think "all of my upgrades are done, it's time to get a new system".

I've done this about 3 or 4 times. usually once or twice a year, I sell my system, and buy a brand new system.


The question is, what do you do with a gaming system that is still decent, but not top of the line?



Since I live in a city with about a million people, I first try to list it in the local bargain finder (classifieds). If all else fails (and I mean all else lol), I sell it on EBAY with no reserve, .01 cent listing.


As you all know, you can buy $2000 worth of parts, build it, and top dollar for your machine will fetch $1000 if you're lucky....


What do you do with your old gaming systems?

[wyte mafia]

use it as a server

[ShLoNkY]

My porn browsing rig has been sitting in the closet collecting dust for awhile now awaiting ebay. Then alls I need is a halfway descent mobo and i have enough parts to build a descent rig:

3200+, 1gb corsair, x800xt, 430w thermaltake psu, burner for my HTPC project. Gonna try and wedge it in a 2U server chassis with a little modification.

^^
Plenty powerfull enough to keep around forawhile and filter all my new old parts through it. I imagine itll be sporting an FX55 in 6 months or so

[The Drizzle]

I usually make it into another pc around here. One for my mom/sister, a HTPC, server etc. I also sell the stuff on messageboards, anandtech.com is my favorite. Next time I really NEED an upgrade, Im prob going to be swapping out stuff from the HTPC and ditching my trusty opteron. Thats still at least a year away though.

[sch3nk2k4]

yeah, make it into a server
you can never have to many servers or misc boxes
i use one of my old ones as what i call a media wh*re
which all i do is burn cd/dvd's on and do all my hardcore video encoding on that would normally slow down my main box
....or if you are cheap sell parts on ebay or to friends

[Ezekiel]

Sell it to computer illiterate friends.

[At The Gates]

I usually keep it as a back up rig, if somthing happend to my primary rig, or I mainly use it as storage

[Frag0holic]

keep em around the house until they cease to function
I still have a functional Pentium 133mhz HP Desktop (Win 95 ftw!!) packed into my closet at my dad's in Sweden. Don't get much use of it these days, but I still have it

[At The Gates]

I usually keep it as a back up rig, if somthing happend to my primary rig, or I mainly use it as storage.

[Justin Sane]

I've still trying to figure out what to do with my old PC that I replaced a year and a half ago now. Especially since I'm getting ready to gear up for another new PC sometime this summer. It's probably not even worth one hundred bucks anymore, and I paid like 1500 for it.

[At The Gates]

justin, name off what you have in your old one, i'm looking for a internet pc for my gf, and i am too cheap to give her my older rig.last time I did that my ex gf broke up with me..hehe.

[Justin Sane]

Uhhhh

It's a 2.2ghz P4, 768 MB RD-RAM, Radeon 8500 128MB Vid card, 60gig Seagate 7200RPM HD w/ 8MB cache, built in sound card to the mobo.

The PC is from fall of '02 as a late graduation gift. It still runs smooth and quiet.

[vvolfenstein]

Lol dam your GF left you after you gave her the PC? hahaha dam man I feel sorry for you but that's too funny not to chuckle first. But back to the subject yea I think that should be way sufficient for internet browsing.

[ghozy]

I installed freebsd and made it a printer/file server for the house.

[Lost]

I say use it as an HTPC.. I bought one specifically for it, but as soon as I upgrade my gaming PC. Those goods are going into my el cheap HTPC to speed it up.

[kidcapri]

Old computers make dandy christmas or birthday gifts for family members. Especially people that can't tell if it is a good computer or not and aren't going to use it for much. I gave my old one to my mom last year.