What do you do with your old hardware?

I have a Gigabyte gtx 670 I'm wanting to sell. None of my friends are needing an upgrade at the moment and I have not sold anything on ebay in years. Not sure what to do with it...it's a great card and has been kept in a very clean case with good cool temps. I'll let it go for $125 if you pay shipping...I'm just trying to recoup some of what I just spent on my upgrade.

What do you guys do with your stuff after an upgrade? Any ideas for me because I don't want it to sit in a box......

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I normally upgrade my parents or sell it to friends. If not, I go straight to eBay.

i like to save my hardware. I still have my very first GPU a voodoo 2. Of course other than sentimental reasons is good to always have some backup parts in case something breaks on your pc

Well if it gets to old and no one wants it any more. There are a lot of e-waste company's that will send you a box and pay for shipping.

But if you have some thing still valuable and no one local wants it... Just stick it on an action site and set it at $1 starting bid. What ever it ends up at... Is the true value.

Craigslist. Yeah it can seem a bit sketchy sometimes, but I've never had a problem with a sale.

We use a site called Kijiji. But any free classifieds site will do the trick. Though me personally, I'd save the old parts and over time build a second rig with left over parts from old computers that are selling for cheap, for the ability to LAN and have a separate system for others to use so as to not **** up yours.

I keep most of my old parts, generally for a backup purpose should something break, but for doing hand-me-downs to family.

5 years back I handed down my Athlon x2 5800 Brisbane chip, MB, RAM and 8800 GTS 640MB GPU to my younger brother - he had a shady PSU and kept the tower tucked in an enclosed section of his desk and the PSU went....taking the MB, RAM and CPU with it....

Now that I moved from the Phenom II x4 940 to an i5-4670k, I built my 6 year old daughter a computer with the Phenom II, a spare 320GB HDD, 4GB DDR2 and picked up a GT 730 for the GPU so she can watch videos and play Track Mania2 (as long as she behaves and asks permission to play).

Long story short, I generally keep my old hardware for hand-me-downs. I have sold a few things, but mostly leftovers sit in my closet until they're needed for someone else in the family. Right now I've got a Cooler Master V8 and Evo 212+, 4GB DDR2, GTX 280, an old IDE DVD-R from about 12 years back, a couple of older Sound Blaster audio cards (one has a DB9 - I think it's DB9 - port on it that my Gravis Game Pad can plug into), an old AGP GPU (think it's a FX 5200 - I'd have to double check) and a couple other things that'll probably never be used again.....I just can't throw them away.

I keep some. Others I give away. I gave away my HD 5770 and GTX 560 Ti to friends who can make use of them. I also gave away my old Athlon II X2 270 CPU and mobo (RAM included).

My old ASUS A7M266 mobo and AMD Athlon XP 1700+ I kept. I'm now using it to assemble a retro Win 98 PC. I'm using and old AGP FX5200 and 4gb IDE hard drive and CD writer.

I still have my Phenom II X3 720BE as a spare PC. I'll probably make it my retro Win XP PC.

Other hardware such as my 8600 GT and Celeron dualcore are still being used.

I still have cards such as Hauppage WinTV PCI and SB Audigy. I just keep them for keepsake.

i use old hardware for spare parts or put it in a test system. if they have little value i just give them away.

Some other stuff I keep around are PS/2 keyboard and mouse. The PS/2 keyboard is especially handy should there be BIOS problems because often times the USB ports may not work, making USB keyboards unusable.

i sell it or recycle it in the case of really old stuff.

Once I upgrade my gpu I will use my current one for folding.

Craigslist. I sold a bundle including a case, mobo, HDD, and a stick of RAM to some dude the other day. I haven't had a problem with it yet.

I give it away... Do you have any friends or teenage relatives?... Give it to them.

@BSC14 said:

I have a Gigabyte gtx 670 I'm wanting to sell. None of my friends are needing an upgrade at the moment and I have not sold anything on ebay in years. Not sure what to do with it...it's a great card and has been kept in a very clean case with good cool temps. I'll let it go for $125 if you pay shipping...I'm just trying to recoup some of what I just spent on my upgrade.

What do you guys do with your stuff after an upgrade? Any ideas for me because I don't want it to sit in a box......

I'll give you $100 & pay for shipping...

@zaku101:

sold and shipped already. :)

unless its really old and junk I'll keep it, for either spares or to build another system down the line.

My old hardware is usually dead. I usually use my stuff until it dies. I usually never upgrade.

My hand-me-down parts go from:

Main rig > HTPC in living room > friends/family > garbage

Save the video cards as backup. I've had to RMA hardware plenty of times in the past and it's damn handy having a backup

I keep old hardware around to test other pcs if i need to. I don't really have the motivation to sell anything cause I don't think it'd be worth my time.

Also if its not that out dated i'll use it to upgrade someones pc for free. But mostly I keep all hardware as things to test other pcs if i have a problem with.... its really hard to test your PC for problems if you have no alternative hardware to use in its place.

I recently have a 680 gtx now just sitting around and no place for it... no clue if it'd be worth selling or keeping as backup. I may just toss out an old ati 5970 i have in an older pc and put the 680 in its place.

I usually sell it for real cheap. I just sold a GTX 690 on ebay for $400. I currently have a i7 3770K and a Gigabyte UP7 mobo that I'm not using but I may build a "1080p" rig and hook it up to my T.V. that all my current gen consoles are on. I have over 64 GB of DDR3 that I'm not using too. I can only use 32 on that spare mobo so who knows what I will do with it.