kupocake
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I'm looking to get rid of my old (nearly 5 years old) PC now that I've upgraded, but I'm unsure whether it's worth selling on, giving away or simply chucking. Firstly, the specs:
- AMD Athlon XP 2600+
- MSI K7N2-Delta-ILSR Motherboard (Including onboard 6.1 Channel Sound, 10/100 Network, Firewire and USB2 Support)
- OCZ ModStream 450w ATX2.2 Power Supply
- Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (Crucial Mem branded)
- 1GB Ram (2x 512mb 3200 DDRAM)
- Seagate Barracuda 60GB (actually, this is older than the rest of the components)
- AOpen 16x DVD (I believe this is a holdover as well)
- MSI 12xDVD/8xDVD-R
- 3 1/2 Floppy
- Cooler Master ATC 210 Case
The Twist in the tale is that even if it's currently worth it, I can't simply sell this lot on as is, as it started to manifest a bunch of infuriating hardware problems in its final half year of use:
1) The Graphics card is almost certainly unsalvageable. It paints garbage across the screen even in 2D applications, and becomes some kind of experimental 80's electronica video in 3D, rendering the screen mostly unreadable, and all games completely unplayable.
2) The HDD occasionally locks up, probably due to something physically wrong with the disk itself, since formatting did nothing (and took several attempts because of the lock ups that access typically caused.)
3) With increasing regularity, the machine would just suddenly dump itself all the way back to boot up. I am unsure whether this was a PSU problem or something to do with the above problems, though it is notable that of all the components in the machine, the PSU is easily the newest, at under 2 years old.
What should I do? I suppose I have a few options:
a) Replace the GFX card and HDD in order to sell it all on (assuming that the PSU doesn't prove itself unreliable -The problem with this is spending money to make what will probably be very little money).
b) Sell all the components I currently have no suspicions about, hoping that they weren't actually responsible for my PC's failure. (I suppose what i'm asking here is: is any of the above hardware likely to be worth anything to anyone?)
c) Throw away the bad stuff and give away the good stuff (if someone can be found).
Apologies if this comes across as advertising, but I'd be surprised if anyone here wanted stuff this old
- AMD Athlon XP 2600+
- MSI K7N2-Delta-ILSR Motherboard (Including onboard 6.1 Channel Sound, 10/100 Network, Firewire and USB2 Support)
- OCZ ModStream 450w ATX2.2 Power Supply
- Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (Crucial Mem branded)
- 1GB Ram (2x 512mb 3200 DDRAM)
- Seagate Barracuda 60GB (actually, this is older than the rest of the components)
- AOpen 16x DVD (I believe this is a holdover as well)
- MSI 12xDVD/8xDVD-R
- 3 1/2 Floppy
- Cooler Master ATC 210 Case
The Twist in the tale is that even if it's currently worth it, I can't simply sell this lot on as is, as it started to manifest a bunch of infuriating hardware problems in its final half year of use:
1) The Graphics card is almost certainly unsalvageable. It paints garbage across the screen even in 2D applications, and becomes some kind of experimental 80's electronica video in 3D, rendering the screen mostly unreadable, and all games completely unplayable.
2) The HDD occasionally locks up, probably due to something physically wrong with the disk itself, since formatting did nothing (and took several attempts because of the lock ups that access typically caused.)
3) With increasing regularity, the machine would just suddenly dump itself all the way back to boot up. I am unsure whether this was a PSU problem or something to do with the above problems, though it is notable that of all the components in the machine, the PSU is easily the newest, at under 2 years old.
What should I do? I suppose I have a few options:
a) Replace the GFX card and HDD in order to sell it all on (assuming that the PSU doesn't prove itself unreliable -The problem with this is spending money to make what will probably be very little money).
b) Sell all the components I currently have no suspicions about, hoping that they weren't actually responsible for my PC's failure. (I suppose what i'm asking here is: is any of the above hardware likely to be worth anything to anyone?)
c) Throw away the bad stuff and give away the good stuff (if someone can be found).
Apologies if this comes across as advertising, but I'd be surprised if anyone here wanted stuff this old
