what to do with retired systems?

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nathan8856

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hey guys i retired my first gaming pc a week ago and it makes me so sad to see it collecting dust on the floor.its a very nice system for its time heres the specs motherboard: asus p5g41t-m lx plus cpu: intel core 2 duo e7500 overclocked to 3.6ghz ram: 4gb ddr3 ocz psu: 422w tiger pro case: achilles (not sure the number but it has a dragon design on the side) gpu Nvidia geforce 9800 it also has 3 dvd burners a 400gb hard drive and an sd card reader. its been a very good system i only replaced one part since i built it and that was the motherboard 1 year ago because i wanted ddr3, anyone know what i should do with this old pc? i dont have the heart to sell it but it makes me sad to see it go to waste. some pics there a bit outdated from when i was still running a geforce 8400gs:
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pull the HD and donate it... OR turn it into a NAS:

http://www.freenas.org/

I just did this to an older PC... what an awesome reuse...
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festerovic

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Are you telling me you don't know a single person that would want it? With a $100 graphic card that thing can still be used for low-mid gaming. Seems perfect for the 10+year old kid...no nieces or nephews?

You could keep it and make it into a nice media center rig with a case change.

Also, I don't think I ever retired a computer so much as retired parts. When I upgrade I usually take critical parts from the old one and build it into the new.
 
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nathan8856

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ok i do like some of these suggestions but i could never give it away or sell it the whole point is to find a reason to keep it. my brother does want it but he certainly doesn't need it. maybe i could make it be my video editing rig on my second monitor and have my new pc be my gaming rig on the other monitor
 
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I've kept all of mine around, old parts especially PSUs sometimes come in handy if something on your new system should break forcing you to troubleshoot hardware. Plus its somewhat cool having an old intel pentium 700mhz single core PC that I bought back in 99/00.
 
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nathan8856

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agreed old pentiums are definitely cool im starting to think maybe it would be awesome if i could set both pc's up on my desk so me and my bro could play bf3 online
 
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