- Aug 16, 2014
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Hello all. Looking for some advice and hopefully this is the right place to ask.
I started accumulating components for a custom PC build around 2004-2005. After getting a few parts, a unique career opportunity presented itself to me and my life kind of changed course very rapidly. I began traveling for work constantly and thus a new laptop became my primary system, and my new custom PC build became an afterthought.
Recently my life has been settling down a bit and I have been going through some old stuff and I came across these components, all still in perfect condition and virtually untouched in their original boxes. I do love playing with gear and I also love messing around w/ computers, and I think I would enjoy the process of building my own PC, the question is should I even bother using these old components that are almost certainly all obsolete by now, especially considering I don't have everything I would need and so I still need to buy some more parts before completing the build.
I haven't bothered to look up the parts that I still need so I'm not sure how much they would cost, but in my mind the question is is it even worth it to purchase those parts when I can just buy a modern pre-built system on Amazon or Newegg for $300-400 that would be comparable (or even way better) than my custom build.
For some details, here are the parts I currently have.
Praetorian ATC-201 Case
Asus PC-DL Deluxe Mobo (dual-Xeon / Intel 875P chipset)
*note I do NOT have the chips yet. Also, I looked this up on ebay and it seems like these sell for around $100, so I could sell this and put it towards the cost of a new rig.
Antec 500W Smartpower 2.0 PSU
Radeon 9600 Pro (256MB DDR)
There seem to be a few different versions of this GPU. Here's a pic of my box:
I also have some old I/O stuff that can be used in this system if I were to go ahead w/ it… Plenty of old HDD's, a monitor, keyboard, mouse… MAYBE some RAM, but I'll assume not for now.
So the stuff I definitely still need are the dual CPU's, RAM, and heat-sinks i think (?) - did I miss anything?
So what do you guys think? Are the parts I need available so cheap that I should just get those and build this old sucker? Or should I sell off the parts I can and then get something new & pre-built that would be much better than this could ever be? I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this (forget the build and buy something current) but I figured I'd put it to the experts.
Thanks for looking and if you have any questions I'm more than happy to answer.
I started accumulating components for a custom PC build around 2004-2005. After getting a few parts, a unique career opportunity presented itself to me and my life kind of changed course very rapidly. I began traveling for work constantly and thus a new laptop became my primary system, and my new custom PC build became an afterthought.
Recently my life has been settling down a bit and I have been going through some old stuff and I came across these components, all still in perfect condition and virtually untouched in their original boxes. I do love playing with gear and I also love messing around w/ computers, and I think I would enjoy the process of building my own PC, the question is should I even bother using these old components that are almost certainly all obsolete by now, especially considering I don't have everything I would need and so I still need to buy some more parts before completing the build.
I haven't bothered to look up the parts that I still need so I'm not sure how much they would cost, but in my mind the question is is it even worth it to purchase those parts when I can just buy a modern pre-built system on Amazon or Newegg for $300-400 that would be comparable (or even way better) than my custom build.
For some details, here are the parts I currently have.
Praetorian ATC-201 Case
Asus PC-DL Deluxe Mobo (dual-Xeon / Intel 875P chipset)
*note I do NOT have the chips yet. Also, I looked this up on ebay and it seems like these sell for around $100, so I could sell this and put it towards the cost of a new rig.
Antec 500W Smartpower 2.0 PSU
Radeon 9600 Pro (256MB DDR)
There seem to be a few different versions of this GPU. Here's a pic of my box:
I also have some old I/O stuff that can be used in this system if I were to go ahead w/ it… Plenty of old HDD's, a monitor, keyboard, mouse… MAYBE some RAM, but I'll assume not for now.
So the stuff I definitely still need are the dual CPU's, RAM, and heat-sinks i think (?) - did I miss anything?
So what do you guys think? Are the parts I need available so cheap that I should just get those and build this old sucker? Or should I sell off the parts I can and then get something new & pre-built that would be much better than this could ever be? I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this (forget the build and buy something current) but I figured I'd put it to the experts.
Thanks for looking and if you have any questions I'm more than happy to answer.
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