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First post, by DreadStorm

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Might be on the wrong spot, but I suppose someone will tell me.

I'm a retired hardware tech. Forced into retirement due to a cardiac event that's limited my lifespan. In short, I don't have much time left. So I'm consolidating my collections, and will be offloading everything I won't actually be using. The first group of systems is my current network that I will actually use. The 2nd group will be offloaded. But for now, this is my collection:

1) HP Elite 8300 i7-3770, 32GB, 8x2TB HDDs set up in a 4x2TB Raid-1 array.
2) ASRock P67 Pro3 i7-3770K, 32GB DDR3-2400, GTX970, multiboot XP/Win7/LMDE6. (General-use)
3) ECS PT800CE-A P4 3.4GHz, 512MB DDR-400, Ti4400, Win98a only. (General-use)
4) ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro i7-3770K 32GB DDR3-2400, 980Ti, multiboot XP/Vista x32/Win7U x64 & 8 flavors of Linux.
5) ASRock P4V800+ P4 3.8GHz, 2GB DDR-400, 6800GT AGP, multiboot all Win9x/NT4/2Kpro/Mandrake10.1
6) Soyo SY-7VBA133U P3-1.4GHz, 384MB PC-133, MX4000 AGP, multiboot WFW 3.11/WinNT 3.51ws
All share monitor/keyboard/mouse (Except P3 which uses a 4:3 LCD) using an Asus 1080p monitor. These are the machines I'm keeping until the last minute.

These are the ones I plan to offload, as soon as I'm done testing them to ensure they still work after being put up for about 7 years since my 'event':
1) Amptron DX9200i, 80486-DX/4 100MHz, 128MB EDO (4x32MB), Genoa Phantom 64 2MB VLB, Adaptec SCSI/Floppy VLB card, SB16, 3COM 10/100 ISA, Y2K card.
2) Morse KP386T, 80386-DX 33, 80387-DX 33 FPU, 8MB FPM, standard Oak 256K VGA, standard 2F/2H IDE card.
3) Unidentified 80386-DX 25, Cyrix 387-25, 8MB FPM.
The following have been tested and are working fine.
4) AOpen AX63 Pro motherboards (2), and I have 4 CPUS that all work in them (already tested): 2x P3 1GHz 100MHz 256k, a P3 733MHz 512k 133MHz, and a P2 450MHz.
5) About a dozen video cards, PCI/AGP/PCIe of various ages, including Voodoo3 3000, GeForce2 MX200, TNT2, Vanta, a pair of Radeon 5770 1GB cards, a pair of GTX650 1GB cards, many others.

I think that's enough for now. There are a ton of other parts and pieces, but I won't bother listing here. Suffice it to say, my dream of having a "one of every generation Intel/Nvidia network" is pretty much pointless now, given the limited time, so I just focus on the upper 6 machines that I actually do use regularly. I'm a firm believer that if you don't use it, you lose it. So when the time comes and I can offload those others, I just hope they would go to someone that would actually appreciate them, and USE THEM. Sitting around, things will die.

Well, that's me and my stuff. Lemme know what you think.

Reply 1 of 3, by lolo799

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I'm a firm believer that if you don't use it, you lose it.

That's a good rule to go by.

Windows 3.xx on a P3 with all that ram, what do you use it for?

Also, you can't sell stuff on vogons, but there's vcfed, amibay, and depends where in the world you are, craigslist or similar.

PCMCIA Sound, Storage & Graphics

Reply 2 of 3, by DreadStorm

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No, not intending to sell here, just describing what I have. My original plan was to eBay them. Of all the hardware I listed in the 2nd group, I already got rid of the 286 I had. Since I don't really have time to keep building up this collection, I consolidated everything into the upper group, maxing out the capabilities as much as I could.

The Win311FWG only uses 64MB of it. It's mainly for the NT 3.51 to use it all. Typically program development, some hardware tinkering. Used to have 96MB installed on it, but I wrote a program once in VB and ran out of memory, so since then I overkill RAM. heh
I don't have much in the way of resources for 3.11, so I rarely use it. Stuck on the NT side of things mostly.

Reply 3 of 3, by chinny22

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You're offloading all the more interesting earlier stuff! Although this shows what I find as well, the old hardware is more fun to tinker with but if I'm just wanting play a game I use more modern and "boring" hardware.

I've quite a nice collection of old hardware that all up is worth a bit of money. It would be a shame for my family who has no interest to simply throw everything out or give it away.
So what I did was leave "selling notes" inside each PC for my brother. Something like a 486 I just listed the hardware and said sell complete.
But something like my P4 (which isn't worth much) I've said to remove the GF6800 Ultra and sell separate as that's worth more then the rest of the PC.
I'm not trying to squeeze every penny out of selling, no one's going to that much effort once I'm gone, but still be nice for my family to get something back after I'm gone and better chance the hardware ends up with someone who actually wants it.