RobotChild Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Alright, early today I rushed off to a Garage Sale to pick-up a Radeon 9800 for 15$ :shock: I got the card, but the person selling the stuff was an ecenctric 85 year old computer geek. I ended coming home with a Wal-Mart bag full of Molex's and a shit load of other cables. 15 1-5GB HDDs. 8 tiny speakers. 3 heatsinks. 3 80mm case fans, and 2 92mm fans. 4 old motherboards. (I'll look at those for specs and such later) And a ton of shit that was before my time. (SCSI HDDs? Sure their 10,000rpm but I don't want them) So, does anyone know of any cool mods I can do with them, Rather than just giving them away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 You could get a raid controler and RAID all the hard drives together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 make some geek computer artwork Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotChild Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 That's what my Grandma told me to do. I guess it's the best idea. I'm thinking of building a "Robot". Not functioning or anything. Just for looks, 'cause I have no use for any of it besides the two 20gb HDDs, and the 17" monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 MAME Box, File server, Cluster, Firewall, NAS, web server, Terminal Server, Router, Honeypot, Virus lab, Asterisk server. It’s really not hard to come up with ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotChild Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 Those would all be good. I just checked but none of them have processors. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Stick them on EBay, people will buy anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 I wished that people like that lived near me! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobotChild Posted August 13, 2006 Author Share Posted August 13, 2006 I wished that people like that lived near me! :-)Haha, just before I was going out to buy some stuff. I decided to pst on my hometown's Freecycle page asking for semi-junker computers for Linux.The bulk of the stuff was from some 30-something year old who was amazed I liked using Linux. He even had a shirt that had Tux on it. The other stuff I got today from an ecentric 80year-old guy. When I asked what his name was he said, "Uhh..... Shoot! I know more about computers and the command line then about myself". I just laughed, he had an amazing work area though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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