what should i do with my old mobo and PIII 700 chip that i wont use when i upgrade???

what should i do with my old mobo and PIII 700 chip that i wont use when i upgrade???

i currently have a mobo that i dont know the name of but it came in a Compaq 5BW160 and a PIII 700mhz chip and i want to upgrade to a 1.5ghz P 4 and to do so i need to get a new motherboard but then what will i do with the old one? Is there some place that takes in used computer parts? (i dont have a job or anything i just turned 15 so i dont have so much money, i only have about $180) any advice?

Donate it to a charity and have your parents take the tax writeoff, small though it will probably be.

Look here http://www.charityfocus.org/support/ways/p.php?pg=goods

Install linux on it

No I dunnow... you could probably sell it on ebay or something like that tho.


But you probably won't get much money for it, so don't get your hopes up

want to upgrade to a 1.5ghz P 4

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Get yourself a P4 1.6A Northwood! It's well worth the 8 bucks more Newegg.com wants for it.

Do not get the 1.5 gig P-4, get the 1.6a gig Northwood. You might consider selling your old parts on this forum's classified ads or eBay. The other problem I see is that you really don't have enough cash to build a P-4 system. In addition to a new P-4 CPU and socket 478 mobo, you'll need a P-4 compliant power supply and RDRAM or DDR memory (forget using the old SDRAM with the P-4). If you go with RDRAM, you need to buy the memory in pairs.

I'd suggest hang on to what ya got a little longer and saving up more cash for your dream P-4 system. Mow some neighbors yards or something. Or, if you "have" to upgrade, maybe investing in an Abit ST6 mobo, then overclocking the P-III 700 to at least 933 MHz for now. If you're a gamer, use the rest of the money for a good vid card. Later, when you have a little more money, you can get a 1.0a or 1.1a Tualatin Celeron that will overclock up into the 1.4+ gig range.