First post, by Skyscraper
I am at my parents place.
I just found alot of hardware that I thought was thrown away a long time ago.
I moved from my parents place at the end of summer year 2000. I had finished school and found a job in a town quite a distance from my parents who lived in the country side.
After I got my new job I diddnt visit my parents more than on holidays. I was buisy tuning cars and chasing girls so altough computers had been my main intrest since I was a kid I diddnt care much what happend to the piles of hardware I had gathered at my parents place. I brought a few pieces with me, my Abit BP6 system and my Epox KP6 system both more or less new, my abit BH6, a nice 486 and the Soyo sy-5eas motherboard that I use in my retro build but not much more. From late 2000 to early 2004 (when I moved again to a more nerd friendly environment) I diddnt spend much time tinkering with computers. I still collected new junk though from the scrap containers at my work, the case im using in my retro build beeing one example.
Sadly most of my old stuff (some not that old) got thrown away soon after I moved out since my parents dosnt like having lots of junk filling their house.
But today I found 3 boxes! 2 AT systems built in late 1999 or early 2000 recycling old cases but with new motherboards and CPUs. At least the motherboards was bought brand new. One is a pc-chips Slot 1 the other unidentified super socket 7, but its probably another "no name" brand since I wanted to spend as little money as possible.
The plan was to sell the systems but for some reason it diddnt happen, perhaps the memory was needed for something else since nither of the systems had any when i found them. The third box was a p2 box which I really cant understand why I left behind. It has a QDI legend motherboard in it that I got from a friend who I helped upgrade to an athlon classic system. The case is a combined AT/ATX case which i bought new with the Soyo motherboard in 1997. No memory in the third box either but otherwise complete.
I found the boxes in a shed that dosnt even have a door but it has a wooden floor and the roof is sound
The boxes were closed and there are no signs of rust, inside or out exept on some screws. Lots of spiderwebs and dead butterflies though.
The caps on all boards looks perfect, no leaking from the button cells and exept for the dead insects all 3 boards looks brand new.
My parents diddnt even remeber that the boxes were in the shed, they have quite a few buildings and sheds on their estate and doesnt really use this one other than for storing some of mine and my brothers old junk but they insist that the boxes must have been there since fall 2000.
Since this is Sweden the temperature is ranging from under -20 degrees celsius to over +30 degrees celsius.
Its dry in the winter but humid in the summer.
Can computer componets survive such conditions for 13 years?
I dont have a camera with me exept for my phone which i cant connect to my parents computer but I will post pictures when I get home tomorrow evening.
It will be fun to test stuff that is more or less new but has spent more than a decade in a shed!
Im not sober so spelling and stuff will be even worse than usual
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
