First post, by mr_bigmouth_502
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I decided to take apart my old power supply recently, after finding it in a random bin of stuff, 🤣 and so far I've gotten a few great parts from it, namely a nice 120mm fan which I currently have rigged up in my 5 1/2inch bays as an extra intake, and some cables including a P4 auxiliary that I've been badly needing (makes me regret hacking up that other working one I had, oh well at least that power supply still works fine in the A64 box it came from 🤣). What else do you think could be salvaged from this? I have no idea what most of the ICs are, and as for the caps I've noticed that a few of the smaller ones have bulged pretty badly (probably explains why this thing started crapping out 😜).
I was almost thinking of maybe stuffing an entire computer inside the case, but what computer would fit in there? A Raspberry Pi? An Atom-based file server with an eSATA enclosure might be cool.
Or should I just bin this thing and not worry about it? I'm moving out and getting my own place some time soon, and I'm actually planning on getting rid of some of my random computer junk.
And yes, I am aware that disassembling PSUs is dangerous, yada yada. This thing was in storage for a few months, and I always power-cycle my systems whenever possible before I put them into storage or take them apart.