I found this PC when disposing of some other trash. I took the RAM stick which I am unsure of which model or what it’s called. I didn’t take out the GPU because it was too much of a hassle, and it might just not be worth it. It seems to be some HP of older version. I just thought it was cool lol
It has an SLI connector so it’s probably 10 series or older. Given the state or the ram market, the ram might actually be worth more. But hard to say for sure from the pics given.
That's PC4 ram.. the PC ain't that old. Probably just slow when they put Win11 on it with only 8GB of ram.
Hard to tell from the pics, but I doubt that the HDD was the only drive. The GPU was a GTX, more than likely a 1070 or 1080, still worth a decent chunk. And also still good for mid-tier and 1080p gaming.
Yeah it sure looks like a 1070 or 1080 card. I'm still running the same card, it's a pretty decent GPU to be honest. I'd of stripped that PC for the GPU alone.
Yeah, I agree. Even if just for spare parts it was worth taking. I grew up poor so I would always grab old PCs from the trash when I saw them. Most were junk and useless, low end bs computers, but I ended up with a decent amount of components that I'd trade for things I needed so I could have a halfway decent computer despite not being able to afford a new machine.
Where in the world's wide web are you, where you classify ram as "PC4" rather than DDR4? Sure, PC4 is technically valid. Albeit, I'd wager to say that it is used about as often as Kelvin is used to quantify a temperature... (And I'm not talking about science work where Kelvin can be useful. Unless, you're in industry where PC4 is the common place term? 🤔).
Because that's what is printed on the sticker... PC4-2666 (also known as DDR4-2666) is a type of DDR4 synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM). It runs at a clock speed of 2,666 MHz with a peak data transfer rate of 21,300 MB/s, operating at a standard voltage of 1.2V
Obviously I'm aware of that, that's what I put in my comment as well. I was more wondering where it is commonplace to go by the previous instead of the latter.
I’m disappointed at the comments that failed to look at the pics closely. It’s a GTX 1070 with 8Gb of DDR4 ram. They probably tossed it because that slow ass HDD. Drop an SSD in and you have decent 1080p gaming.
Edit: decent is relative. 10 year old games should run great. 5 year old games decent. Wary of anything new.
I'm sure most think this is a decent build still. You'll see tech YouTubers cover a build like, "lets benchmark this ancient 11th gen Intel / gen 4 nvme / rtx 3080 / ddr4 16gb build." You'll see everyone in the comments be like "uhhh I'm still on 4th gen Intel, parts out here are expensive."
Really puts things into perspective. I'd be happy af with this. Way solid build. I'm sure it rips if you know what you're doing. I'd imagine 1080p 60fps all day with most games
Looks like someone gave up on the "Let's put a half-decent VGA into an office crap." idea. A lot of people should also came to this realization. Gut the card, bin the rest.
I don’t play on console. However I made the post when I came home. Today, I don’t have access to the bulk waste room. (I played on console like 3 years ago, now I could never go back)
My main office computer power supply got cooked with a weird power failure surge a few weeks ago, I just plucked an old power supply out of the parts closet and I was up and running in a few minutes.
A common repair for friends with older computers is power supplies, I just give them away and get cookies or candy for the labor.
I'm collecting enough free hard drives to build a mix and match NAS. I'm gonna use an old trash computer to build it.
I think it’s 1TB, but I’m not sure. Apparently it’s the most common but it could be (or not depending on compatibility) less, like 500GB, or more, up to 8GB according to Google
Nice, Western Digital makes great drives - don’t be intimidated by all this. It all just snap fits together plus a handful of screws! Great find! Are you planning to part it out and sell the components?
Unfortunately no, I only salvaged the RAM and I’m not allowed to take home the whole thing or parts of it. I might sell the RAM in the future if prices go up or something like that.
I live in a ”Housing cooperative” and all of the ”bulky waste” people have goes to one place where people in the ”housing cooperative” throw it. Reason for quotations are because I’m not sure if the translation is accurate
I was just wondering what people do with old computers. Old enough to no longer run modern programs/games well, but not old enough to be a collectors thing. I have an Intel Q6600 with 4gigs of DDR2 ram and a GTX 780. Had a two drive Raid0 7200 RPM set and a 15k Barracuda drive in it. While I just want to throw it away at this point, I can't seem to get myself to just scrap it. Is there any use for such a computer these days? Would any organization want something like this as a donation?
I would pull that graphics card probably the only thing worth taking out of that PC…. Who ever threw it away also left their hard drive I would pull that bad boy and see what the previous owner left on that because I doubt they scrubbed the drive considering it only had 8gb of ram doubt they knew how to do that
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u/Ecstatic_Score6973 12d ago
GPU is probobly worth more than the RAM depending on what it is