[jr2]

I have some of said adapters, they are cool.  Oh, and those things on top of the processor with tubes?  That end in a miniature radiator?  Those are called heat pipes or somesuch, they're quite nifty.

[S-99]

i just recently sold 640mb of ddr from a laptop. It was from an old dell from 2003. The first laptop i ever got to own as a graduation present. And from the moment i got to look at its configuration, i knew it was a piece of ****. Celeron 2ghz is fine, but the 256mb of ddr it only had, and 20gb hard drive, sprayed **** on my dreams for owning a laptop. Hell, my ****ing desktop was only 1ghz, but it was way faster than the budget 500$ laptop my parents got me and way cheaper. It went on a missionary trip with me where all my friends used it more than my occasional checking my email. And it was a slow experience with the 256mb of ddr, and not much to store on the 20gb hard drive either. Then i traded it to my dad if he would buy me a ****ing desktop, oh man that desktop was so much better. Well that dell recently died, i popped its desktop 1.7ghz celeron from it into another machine and got it to go 2.6ghz, and barely sold its memory. At least sometimes with laptops with how ****ty they are, SALVAGE WHAT LITTLE HARDWARE THEY HAVE!!!

[Unknown Target]

I always get a stockpile of computer **** every year. Last year it was p3 machines and i put them together and sold 6 complete computers. This year i'm getting over run with a lot of p4 equipment and processors.

What i'd say is build them into computers and see if you need a file server, or any other kind of server for that matter. Or if you need a **** computer for extreme backup purposes (my dad's old pentium 120 lasted me until 2002 for a backup machine, it was a little slow, but good for everything except games).

But, you could always do what i do with hardware. Of course i do this for old hardware and malfunctioning hardware, and that is to chuck it in the forest. Most of the time i'll find a 20gb hard drive that'd be great for someones machine or my own backup, but chances are i find out quickly why the hard drive was free as my bios wont detect it. So, what i do as not to confuse somebody else with something tempting that wastes their time. I chucked that 20gb fried hard drive deep into the alaskan forests for no one to be fooled by it ever again. I also chuck obsolete hardware into the forest. And yes, have fun with this old **** of yours. Most of my other stuff went to the top of the local water tower and said hi to 100ft drop, and a nine iron as well.

EDIT: Slow down skippy on destroying the laptops. That thing has an xp sticker on it which means two things. It's powerful enough to run xp so you could probably sell that laptop for some good mulah with a legitimate copy of xp included in the price. Secondly, at least make sure to keep the xp cd, up here where i am, there not so easy to come by, and then you can at least sell xp for a good 75$. Damn, i wish i could get a free laptop.

I got the laptop for free from someone who gave me another laptop of the same type - so no XP CD, and the key for this laptop was lost. Both didn't work, but she said if I could fix them, I could have them. Thing is, this little guy's keyboard socket was fried, so i couldn't use laptop keyboards. On top of that, later the monitor died, and without a laptop keyboard, I couldn't plug it into a different monitor because I had no switch monitor key. I did save the RAM and HD though

[jr2]

'atta boy. 

[Nuke]

theres a good possibility your cpu still works, that is if you can seporate it from its cooling unit. they usually paste em on.

[Kosh]

theres a good possibility your cpu still works, that is if you can seporate it from its cooling unit. they usually paste em on.

I remember once upon a time you didn't need a cooling unit for a CPU.......

[Nuke]

you needed a heat sink, which is technically a passive cooler. though im sure some older cpus didnt need them. computers have always needed some form of cooling, which used to be provided by a single ultra silent fan (in the psu).

[jr2]

prolly 8086s didn't need heatsinks... not sure, though.  The thing to miss about passive heatsinks is their quietness.

[S-99]

I remember processors all the way up to the 486. The 486 was like the first processor i saw that had a heatsink on it in the least, i'm sure the 100mhz 486 had a fan also.

[Excalibur]

If they used bigger heatsinks, would that be a solution to the noisy fan problem?

Or do the CPUs now days just get too hot?

[ZmaN]

If they used bigger heatsinks, would that be a solution to the noisy fan problem?

Or do the CPUs now days just get too hot?

well yeah thatd be a solution...  If youre heatsink was THIS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835154001

[jr2]

If they used bigger heatsinks, would that be a solution to the noisy fan problem?

Or do the CPUs now days just get too hot?

Slot-1 Pentium II 233 Mhz, there are some versions that don't have a fan.  I have one lying around if you want me to post a pic.

[castor]

If they used bigger heatsinks, would that be a solution to the noisy fan problem?

Sure, but then your PC could look like this

(probably not cost as much though ).

[Nuke]

i dont think 386es had heat sinks. i remember seeing them in an alluminum plated die to help dissipate a heat. such a heat spreader is still technically a sink, because it increases the surface area for better heat disipation.

anyway somone posted this mod awhile back. a somewhat modern computer with zero moving parts.

[Excalibur]

If they used bigger heatsinks, would that be a solution to the noisy fan problem?

Sure, but then your PC could look like this

(probably not cost as much though ).

I actually like the look of those PC's

[castor]

Yea, I' d verymuch like a couple too
But in actuality they are audio power amplifiers ($33,000/pair).

[S-99]

If they used bigger heatsinks, would that be a solution to the noisy fan problem?

Sure, but then your PC could look like this

(probably not cost as much though ).

I actually like the look of those PC's

You have fun trying to put a floppy, cd, or dvd inside that thing then

[jr2]

Hmm.  Esp. floppy, hard, zip, or any other magnetically based media...

[Nuke]

removeable media is for loosers
runs...

[jr2]

Hmm.  Not HDD-based removable media.