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EmmaWilliamson688

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hey guys, how do you dispose of your old desktop? im just curious, i have thought about selling it on ebay but id be concerned it would cost a bomb to ship. Its super old so maybe someone 'might' want to use it as a modding experiment i guess. Its an old HP media machine. Has a q6600 processor, I last upgraded it with a gtx 470, 60gb sata 2 ssd, 500gb hd , 8gb of ram and a 700w power supply. Otherwise i assume i would just leave it at my local refuse where household appliances/ electronics are disposed of?. Is it possible i wonder for me to take the ssd and the hdd thats in it and re-use them? they would certainly be slower than todays standards but might be worth using as a backup drive in a dock or enclosure.
 
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EmmaWilliamson688 said:
hey guys, how do you dispose of your old desktop? im just curious, i have thought about selling it on ebay but id be concerned it would cost a bomb to ship. Its super old so maybe someone 'might' want to use it as a modding experiment i guess. Its an old HP media machine. Has a q6600 processor, I last upgraded it with a gtx 470, 60gb sata 2 ssd, 500gb hd , 8gb of ram and a 700w power supply. Otherwise i assume i would just leave it at my local refuse where household appliances/ electronics are disposed of?. Is it possible i wonder for me to take the ssd and the hdd thats in it and re-use them? they would certainly be slower than todays standards but might be worth using as a backup drive in a dock or enclosure.
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I take any old electronics to the dump as they have proper weea recycling areas
 
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Steveyg

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If it's still usable and not completely trashed there are often places that you can donate them too

But if it's a brick then generally your local dump is the best bet, they all have sections for electronics these days
 
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I doubt the SATA II SSD would be useful for much: it's terribly slow, barely faster than a hard drive. The hard drive is probably worth keeping, if you have room for it in the new case. Depending on condition the power supply (presuming it's a standard ATX one) and graphics card might have some resale value, perhaps £25 for the PSU and £50 for the GPU, looking at eBay. Maybe you could get a tenner for the RAM as well, but I'm not sure about that.
 
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DarTon

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I've always found it difficult to shift an old desktop on eBay/Gumtree. You're in competition with all the outlets that refurb PCs. They get masses of old Dell Optiplex and HP EliteDesk type PCs from offices at very low prices. They spruce them up, add in a new small SDD, fresh Win 10 install and provide 3-12 month guarantee.

I've had more luck with selling the component parts to people who just want a replacement for something that has gone wrong. Got rid of RAM, PSUs, HDDs, MB+CPU, Cases etc. I'm skeptical though that it's worth the time and trouble.

Instead I often just give standard desktop PCs or laptops away. Either to a somebody we who might need one or a charity like the TuringTrust. I just gave away an old HP i5-4590/8MB RAM/500GB HDD/FireProGPU (512MB Ram!) that my kids were using for home schooling last year. I'm sure I could have got £50 but once you take account of the effort it's less than the minimum wage.
 
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EmmaWilliamson688

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thanks guys, i might take a look at the parts resale value then , may aswell let someone use them if it will be easier to post parts than the full pc. I dont think anyone would be using it because they would need to install windows, it has an old cracked windows 7 ultimate on it so as soon as it goes online it would need updated. The other thing il have to do is wipe c drive , is it easy to do a full wipe on it so it can be used for storage only?
 
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EmmaWilliamson688

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DarTon said:
I've always found it difficult to shift an old desktop on eBay/Gumtree. You're in competition with all the outlets that refurb PCs. They get masses of old Dell Optiplex and HP EliteDesk type PCs from offices at very low prices. They spruce them up, add in a new small SDD, fresh Win 10 install and provide 3-12 month guarantee.

I've had more luck with selling the component parts to people who just want a replacement for something that has gone wrong. Got rid of RAM, PSUs, HDDs, MB+CPU, Cases etc. I'm skeptical though that it's worth the time and trouble.

Instead I often just give standard desktop PCs or laptops away. Either to a somebody we who might need one or a charity like the TuringTrust. I just gave away an old HP i5-4590/8MB RAM/500GB HDD/FireProGPU (512MB Ram!) that my kids were using for home schooling last year. I'm sure I could have got £50 but once you take account of the effort it's less than the minimum wage.
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i have never heard of turing trust, do they pick the pc up free of charge? bearing in mind im in northern ireland so i dunno if they can. I think when i checked their site tho they said they cannot accept equipment more than 6 years old either so i dunno if this dinosaur is donatable. It works fine, would easily do someone for school work but you defo wouldnt be playing newer games on it. The other problem ive always had with it , was when i added in the beefier psu to power the gpu, the cables are so thick i couldnt close the case side easily , id have to remove the hdd cage dock for the other hp personal media drive it came with. I was going to keep that hard drive, i just have to find a usb connector for it.
 
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DarTon

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@EmmaWilliamson688. I'm not sure. The business I'm in get through an awful lot of PCs and IT equipment so we have a list of charitees that accept old IT including TuringTrust. I just send mine with the business stuff. I'm sure though there may be some org in your area that would accept it if it's in decent working order.
 
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