Hello All. So I was wonder what do you guys do with your older CPU's?
Well this is what I have few Xeon E5345, E5405, 3000DP and the newest of the bunch are E5540. You guys think any of these are still useful for something?
Well I usually give them in a static free bag to a local electronic parts store or recycle area... We have one in the boise Area.. Its called the Reuseum
Hang them up on the wall or setup a beau wolf cluster just for funzies
I used a old dual core to make a junk box just to run windows xp and fallout 3 as windows 7 just dosent whant to play that game correctly.
I always played fallout 3 on win 7.
Completed it like 3 times on that OS.
No problems.
What does that have to do with the thread?
I was replying to cooperman .
It depends how old...
If they're part of a complete set (cpu, mobo and ram), I just keep using them. I've got an old pc running kubuntu to learn a bit about linux.
If they're really old, well, I just keep them, give them a nice clean and display them, as sort of a 'memory wall' :)
There are also many charities that need pcs or pc parts. But if you want to get rid of them, do as R00tz31820 said!
Bye!
Well i guess that if you have any other parts to build pc's it's a good option to just play around and possibly learn some things
Otherwise you can keep the more recent ones in case something appears in the future or as many said pot them in a display or fashion something cool out of it
Terve!
Well, just for the LOLs I store old PCs (a Win 95, a Win98 and a WinXP) in the bathroom. Especially on the XP PC I was able to live some nostalgia with old games I played.
I know this is the worst possible place to store the stuff, but it's also the only place I have the space to do so.
Some of the older parts are getting used to help other people in their builds. I am also building a NAS off of older things.
And I saved myself an Athlon for a key chain-thing. It must have been much more interesting to have competition in the CPU market...
Sayonara!
I usually save them in a box or something, experiment on them etc.
Try lapping them, delidding them (be careful about this tho, as most older CPUs are soldered to the ihs)
I got a box of old 775 socket ones, a couple of pentiums, pentium duo, e6400, a couple of e8400s.
a Q9550 as well, which isn't too bad even today, though I managed to grab a X5470 for dirt cheap that I now run in my main, and a couple of X5460s as well that I use in a dual xeon workstation I nabbed from scraps.
As far as I'm aware when looking at the baselines in passmark it seems like I have the fastest running none suicide run core 2 quad tested there, 24/7 at 4.2ghz, this thing OCs like a raped ape.
6271 points for a 07-08 era cpu is pretty nice.
yeah, i got my Q6600 @3,82GHz on 1.45v
very nice, atleast till i have enough money for a upgrade (thinking about a 6300 or 8320)
Legends about the Q6600 are still being chanted.
What do you use to cool that thing? and how does it handle the temps.
And what motherboard you running.
i use a aluminum car radiator with shitty fans, however a good 240mm radiator wil cool the thing as well.
i run it on a ga-ep45c-ds3r.
with some kingston DDR3 1600 Memory.
Temps are on hottest core (about 8 degrees difference between cores.
Idle 46 C
Load after 2 hours 65 C with some spikes to 70 C
system temp never go's above 40 C
if you have any more questions i'd be glad to answer them
I always wanted to try some kind of car or automotive radiator for cpu cooling :D
Also, that motherboard works with the 771 to 775 mod, so you could technically nab a 771 xeon from ebay as a minor upgrade.
Also putting a new heatsink or a fan on the northbridge for more cooling could be a good idea, and some small heatsinks glued onto the cpu fets could be a good idea as well.
Automotive heater core would probably be more suited to PC cooling than a radiator. (Smaller packaging) Heater cores are surprisingly inexpensive.
I don't use old CPUs really. I don't find the platforms that they run on useful enough.
Oldest CPU I have is an AMD Athlon II X4 630. I used it in a PC for my parents. Despite the age, it is a capable little machine. Paired it with 10GB of RAM (what I had laying around), and a GTX 650 Ti and an SSD. Pretty fast machine. Great for 1600X900 gaming and general use.