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papasmurf   10-25-2002 at 01:01:28 AM

I have a box of dead video cards, a pile of ruined mobos and a necklace made from burnt cpu's and I am planing to make case feet from my dead hard drive platters any suggestions on what to do with my video cards? maybe a moble hanging from my ceiling...I am gonna thermal epoxy all my stock heatsinks to my case lol it is gonna look sweet. hey maybe I could make a case from dead parts! mobos could be the walls and the front bezels could be pieces of video card... that could OWN! besides duck tape I dont know how I could connect them, maybe v shaped rails and pop rivits, I could use a mobo tray from my old atx case, lol I could have connections on the outside of the case that work, I got sodder! a few wires from my usb two connector to a defunct mobo and presto. this actualy could work, it is original and it could be cool! I am gonna start the planning now

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icy_oblivion   10-25-2002 at 01:14:39 AM
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Let us know how it goes. It sounds like a great idea!

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pike   10-25-2002 at 01:45:39 AM
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yep, lot's of toxic metals in there

ummm...not the best for household garbage for sure

:(



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lhgpoobaa   10-25-2002 at 02:25:48 AM
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I find certain things are reusable.
Remove and reuse heatsinks from graphics cards. Chop them up to make ramsinks or southbridge heatsinks.
the pins on the CPU make great scalp massagers. just need to attach the front of the cpu to some handle.

I also have a number of broken bits... and have found it useful for training purposes for other newbie friends.

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dhlucke   10-25-2002 at 06:36:54 AM
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Quote :

I also have a number of broken bits... and have found it useful for training purposes for other newbie friends.



That's awesome

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jihiggs   10-25-2002 at 08:10:35 AM
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hammers are fun. theres also free way over passes.

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Crashman   10-26-2002 at 06:13:35 AM
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Send them to me, I rescue abused hardware. BTW, I've already reported this to the APPCA (Association for Prevention of PC Abuse).

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papasmurf   10-26-2002 at 07:38:30 AM
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woot I managed to yank the aluminum heatspreader out of the core of my dead geforce 2, it makes a wonderfull case badge! I always wondered why the core was all shiney silver, now I know

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icy_oblivion   10-26-2002 at 07:47:08 AM
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I know a guy who took an old Mobo and cut a guitar pick out of it. He then filed the end some and it is a beastly guitar pick. I plan on doing that when I have a trash board.

Hey, maybe I could start a new line of guitar picks! Just think of all the computer nerds that play guitar that would not be willing to cut and file their own guitar pick, hehe.

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melb_angel19   10-26-2002 at 10:06:21 AM
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Thats pretty cute.
as for my stock of old hardware i have.
1 crappy 80mm casefan
1 fop32-1
1 excessivly overclocked 1200C (dead L2 cache)
1 spare 80mm delta fan
2 kt133a mobo's, an a7v133 and iwill kk266
1 300W crapass generic psu
far too many floppy and ata33 cables
just recently dead pioneer 106S (still plays CD's thou)
few spare stick on heatsinks
various northbridge fans and heatsinks
1 stick of dead PC150 sdram
and so on :smile:

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eden   10-26-2002 at 05:25:21 PM
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I thought I had created the TCPA for Computists.... :frown:

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svol   10-27-2002 at 03:28:45 PM
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You get PooBaa's broken stuff?
Or are you two mixing accounts?

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svol   10-27-2002 at 03:29:54 PM
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Sounds cool... I think I'm going to use old hardware as decoration for my room.

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melb_angel19   10-27-2002 at 10:52:46 PM
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No, I was at his place on the weekend and signed into THGC. He musn't have realised that I was still signed in.

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Yahiko81   10-28-2002 at 05:11:57 PM
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heh... so maybe poohba just has a split personality!

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svol   10-28-2002 at 07:02:24 PM
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I was thinking about that too.

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eden   10-28-2002 at 11:55:35 PM
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But look at him, he's so innocent!

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lhgpoobaa   10-29-2002 at 12:36:58 AM
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Well that would make 3 then wouldnt it?
:smile:

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svol   10-29-2002 at 07:45:42 PM
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Looks like your creating more of them.

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lhgpoobaa   10-29-2002 at 11:50:10 PM
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yerp.
Moooooo

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svol   10-30-2002 at 03:46:05 PM
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That makes four.

My CPU runs so hot the arctic silver undergoes nuclear fusion :eek: .

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