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Are you supposed to throw your old hardware away?
In Japan recycling PC parts cost money.
Depends on what it is. I try to donate as much of it as I can, like slapping together hardware and peripherals to make basic Linux rigs. Super poor college kids use them for doing homework when they get off of work at crazy hours and the computer labs are closed/packed/far away/etc.
Busted shit can be "recycled" but that really means being shipped to Africa where the plastics are melted away by acid so the metals can be collected.
>>54410602
I'd buy one of these, not for the internals but for the case. It has aged well.
A powermac for just ¥1980? Fucking sold let's load this shit up
>>54410602
If it's still useful to you, why?
>>54411301
People do this all the time usually all the end up doing is destroying something cool and tossing it in the trash.
I've never seen a G5 case mod that doesn't look like hacked up shit.
>>54410602
If it does what you want and isn't falling apart, might as well keep it until it dies.
>>54410602
>throw away
>years go by
>buy one again because nostalgia and retro/collectors value
>>54411476
Not him but Google dude, even my friend did one and it looked amazing, like it was meant for the hardware.
>>54411476
What does it matter if it looks like hacked up shit on the inside or back? No one sees the inside or back of the case
>>54410602
Sht i'd buy one of those if I lived in japan and it was an intel architecture rather than powerpc. you can upgrade the shit out of them for very little.
![229921_orig[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3NcTC8q.jpg "229921_orig[1].jpg")
>>54411583
This is the best one I've seen so far and it still looks like shit.
The insides usually aren't any better, half the case is empty space except for some shitty mATX board they half-ass into it.
I'd rather have the original hardware that was actually something worth a shit and put my shitty mATX build in one of the many clone cases companies like Lian-Li put out.
>>54411614
Because the entire reason people do it is for the aesthetics? Why would you strive for mediocrity?
>>54411415
Thats like $20, right?
>>54411655
Exactly what they're worth
>>54411644
aesethics implies shit people can see, which as I said, you can't see it, so it has no aesthetic value.
I think the word you're looking for autistics
>>54411708
maybe if you keep it hidden under your desk where nobody sees it, but at that point, who's the autistic one here who half-assedly destroyed something interesting for "muh aluminum feels" that nobody will give a shit about ever?
there are people who actually want these things just the way they are and gamertards just want to turn them into another pedestrian i3 shitbox that will go straight to the trash the second something that runs their games faster comes along, it's kind of disgusting really
>>54411614
If you take pride in your work, you give as much thought about the internals and things that people don't see.
Never mind that you've already gone through the effort to convert a case not designed for the hardware you intend to install, and the only person who will see it 99% of the time is you alone. Why shouldn't you take the extra effort to make it look good inside and out? Why did you even bother to utilize the case?
>>54411415
says:
no hdd, no memory, mb is shot, case is damaged, missing psu cables. so mostly for parts.
Thinking about buying one of these and doing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7Y8TOSsmw
>>54414054
Looks good, until you see the back or the inside. It looked like he did such a fucking half added jib. Like what the fuck man, at least put some effort into it. I'd love to get one for myself, spend a few hours modding the case and putting my current build into one, but no. These faggots buying perfectly food G5 macs and then ruining them with their shitty builds and disgusting cable management always screw everything up.
I do, I destroy the hard drives and put the parts into the garbage. Recycling or giving it away is just too much effort.
I used to hoard onto old computers and hardware but found that its just my autism talking when I get the urge to store something away because it might come in useful, but in reality I never use those parts again.
>>54415013
OMG I'm the same way. We should like totally date <3
>>54415036
Screw the dating lets just meet up and fuck, we can cum all over the PC parts you have in the garbage.
>>54414054
>that shitty chink I/O panel
>no slot covers
>painted matte fucking black
>but nothing was done to the I/O shield
>that loose hard drive that's just hanging in the case with nothing securing it down
This is the cringy half-assed shit I'm talking about, right here.
Why the fuck do people destroy G5s for these shitty mods anyway? Mac Pros are plentiful and better for the job anyway. And if you aren't a gaymer and just want the aesthetics, you can just put Windows on them and use them as-is.
I'm having trouble throwing this away.
>>54415104
sell it or something then
kind of want one for a meme project
>>54415104
Take it apart and salvage the magnets, then destroy the platters. It will never work again so you'll have to get rid of it.
You guys should be ashamed of yourselves for hoarding all this crap http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/515356-kids-hoarding-computer-parts/
>>54415104
I know that feel...
>8.4GB
I also have one that's 170MB
I shall keep them forever.
>>54415227
>best condom drive
>>54415227
Never know when 170.6MB will come in handy.
>>54414054
if it was me i would of got AIO just becuase it would be cleaner also i'd get a HDD mount and mount it upside down.
>>54410602
Nah, you're supposed to sell it or give it away to someone who can find a good use for it.
>>54411301
Only use a broken one, nothing worse than retards destroying perfectly functional out of production hardware
>>54410602
Yes so I can have a neat case to build some sleepers in. Also need it for old tech communication.
>>54415257
>Only use a broken one, nothing worse than retards destroying perfectly functional out of production hardware
No problem, it's a Mac.
Anyone else can't even be bothered to sell stuff on ebay? It just seems like a good way to cause stress and get fucked over, I could have probably made some cash on the rubbish I've thrown out recently but was too chicken for ebay as I don't know anyone IRL who has sold stuff online.
>>54415281
epik meme
>>54415236
I sold a 2.5GB Caviar for $12 a week ago, so there's obviously a market, probably for ancient load-bearing AT setups
>>54415282
I just shipped $1000 stuff to Amazon and let them sell it through FBA. Creating the listings were annoying but that was it.
Too lazy to lug old towers and busted 19" 5:4 monitors to best buy. I keep saying I would use an old case for a kind of sleeper build.
Athlon 4400+ ain't worth selling right? Still have some DDR, DDR2, laptop shit.
Help.
>>54410602
Do they ship to south america?
>>54415335
Never heard of that before but it still sounds like a lot of work, to be honest I just wished there was someone else in my family that has experience with selling stuff who could show me the ropes.
I mentioned it to my dad once and he just dismissed it.
I've had a dell optiplex from 1999 sitting in my room for almost a year now and I have no idea what to do with it
>>54415397
Leave it on the curb for collection, its junk.
>>54415397
install windows 2000 and host a starcraft lan party
>>54415443
yeah but
the case looks vaporwave as fuck, maybe I can use it for something
it has a cd drive that may be functional, it even has a diskette drive
maybe some kids will want to look at it one day
>>54415397
peruse Winworld/abandonia/vetusware and find some old software that interests you
still does the same shit it did when it was new
>>54415443
you're junk
>>54415495
Keep it around and put some stuff on it.
I had a mint Dimension XPS and Gateway 2000 from 1999 that I donated years ago. Regretted it instantly and miss them now.
Now I look on eBay and all I see are garbage heaps that look like they've been through a natural disaster.
Look at the comments on this eevblog video about a guy who hoarded electronic parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8nbHYOc8ns
This is why I have monthly clear outs so I don't end up like that, I know all too well what its like when you prefer junk to people. Friends stop calling and your social life vanishes.
>>54415495
Hoarder detected. Just because something works and is a classic it doesn't mean you should keep it, trust me my dad is a hoarder and I was well on my way to becoming one too.
The space we have reclaimed was well worth the dumpster I hired last month.
>>54415397
When did you last use it?
>>54415536
from skimming it that's a pretty neatly organized collection, not hoarding at all, why does the idea of people gaining enjoyment from something other than video games and smartphones trigger you so much?
>>54415567
It doesn't trigger me, but that guy clearly devoted a lot of time to his collection when he could have been out with friends and living life to the fullest.
>>54415589
>walking around the mall eating fried shit and watching garbage movies
>living life to the fullest
>>54415563
Never, it used to be in my HS's library, but they were replacing it after over a decade of loyal service so it was up for grabs
>>54415589
what makes you think having a hobby that isn't living vicariously through others means you don't have any friends or spend time with them? there are lots of old technology enthusiasts that participate in all kinds of social events with other like-minded and non-like-minded people, balance isn't a difficult thing to achieve if you put your mind to it
what makes your definition of "living life to the fullest" everyone else's?
why do you care about any of this anyway? you're wasting your time on 4chan writing walls of text about people enjoying themselves differently than you on a Friday evening instead of going out and experiencing the world or actually learning something
>>54415628
do you even have a picture of it?
>>54415589
>that guy clearly devoted a lot of time to his collection when he could have been out with friends and living life to the fullest
Yeah because it's completely impossible to do both
>>54415702
it's 3AM, I'm not taking a pic now
4gb HDD in my R30
>>54410602
>throwing ANY of your old computers/parts away
>ever
Keep it if you've got room, give it away at the very least or recycle if it's broken.
>>54415742
Forgot pic
>>54415772
what is such an old drive doing in such a new system?
>>54415589
> could have been out with friends and living life to the fullest
>posted on a friday night
here's your (you) I guess
>>54415794
i really dont know, its the top tier one aswell, this was a fucking beast back in the day
must have been replaced with something spare lying around at some point
also the r30 is from 2002 mate, its 14 years old
thats not old to some stuff but its still nowhere near new
>>54415809
Its Saturday afternoon m8.
>>54415104
Don't.
?no
>>54415894
P4 tech is pretty modern really, still runs modern software and is still very usable, plus there haven't really been a lot of radical changes in tech since that era
>>54415937
>wasting a weekend afternoon complaining about hobbies you don't like because they aren't "living life to the fullest" on a gaming kiddo sub board of an anime website
>>54416114
Like I said its the middle of the day here and I'm just browsing on my phone during a train ride.
>>54416168
>wasting your time dicking around on 4chan alone with your nose in a phone when you can be living your life, taking in the sights and making new friends on the train
>>54416095
Single core is kind of painful these days. We're spoiled.
>>54416487
This, try watching a youtube video on a single cored machine and watch it stutter.
>>54416543
I watch YouTube on my PowerBook G4 regularly.
>>54416596
How does it handle 480p playback?
What should I do with a 1GB Pentium 4? No GPU so games are a no-go.
>>54415589
>>54415536
>linking to a faggots video
>having some obsolete computers is now hoarding
Said like a true macfag
>>54416641
Flawlessly
>>54415894
Install the GPU driver and set the colors to at least 16bit
>>54416543
Install a GPU driver, use flash, use another program
>>54416666
>games need advanced 3d gpu to function
>>54416805
99,9% of them actually do
cli roguelikes and the most basic games are pretty much the only exceptions
>>54416868
spotted the millenial
>>54416794
Nothing to do with drivers, the cpu usage would jump to 100% when watching youtube both flash or html5 versions.
As soon as I installed a dual core cpu the problem went away and I could watch youtube with no stutter.
>>54416931
You should stop using your browser to watch videos. There's this thing called a video player. It works pretty well for you guessed it, watching videos.
>>54416922
wrong
the first computer i bought with my earned money had a 486DX onboard, try again
>>54416931
Win7 and later support hardware gpu decoding
>>54416985
Too much hastle, I want it to just werk.
>>54416922
I'm willing to bet anything that you're also a millenial.
>>54417040
It was and still is running windows 7, but was originally designed for XP (2005).
>>54416666
>>54416805
>no GPU
Even the shittiest onboard gpu still supports early 3D games
>>54417045
Yeah, pressing ctrl+c, ctrl+n, ctrl+v is so hard
>>54417085
Why do that when I can just watch it on the youtube page on a modern system.
>>54417109
Because if I can still use my old hardware I'm going to. I use my video player to watch videos on modern systems as well.
>>54417213
Good for you.
>>54417261
The fuck is wrong with you?
>>54416487
>>54416543
Dunno, I can live with a single core if I really have to, I've done so in the past, even voluntarily. I regularly used a box with the slowest commercially available P4 through a lot of 2014. It was quite alright.
My Vaio R that's my current file archiver can handle a couple PuTTY sessions, Spotify, Steam and 360/480p YouTube reasonably enough, would probably be able to do 720 if I set up my browser to just download the video and play it in a real player instead of that bloated piece of shit excuse for a web player.
Standard resolution video isn't really that intensive, it's just the garbage sites that host it that use JS/Flash for every minor unnecessary function.
>>54417294
Why are you getting aggressive? Like I said most people don't want to mess around with alternate methods to watch a simple youtube video.
>>54417425
>do x
>ask why
>get answer
>cocky response
You're the one that asked, then you were an ass when I answered your question.
>>54416868
>99,9% of them actually do
You must be 18 years of age or older to browse 4chan.
>>54415227
Oh god. I lost count of how many of those I replaced. It was something like 5-6 a week working in a school district with ~750 PCs.
>>54417523
everything you said reeked of condescension and unnecessary sarcasm, it's not surprising he responded that way
>>54415236
>>54415315
sub-1GB drives are pretty hard to come by nowadays for stuff like restoration projects, since people are too lazy to wipe shit and just destroy them outright
>>54417847
post feet
>>54415257
>Only use a broken one, nothing worse than retards destroying perfectly functional out of production hardware
G5 PowerPC architecture is useless.
>>54419838
You're a retard. A G5 is still usable as a daily driver, hell a G4 is.
Pic related, my server
>>54415281
>hurr durr muh pc
>>54412162
fuarck thx weabboo-anon (at least some of your rune readers are ok) :)
>>54411708
>aesthetics implies shit people can see
not to steve jobs it didn't, that autist went REEEE for the insides of his boxes too
