[Atomichearse]

I have this old computer that I found laying around the other day. Opened it up, took it apart, realized that most/all of its components are obsolete for any purpose I might have for it. I want to keep the case since it has a mATX form factor, and I'm thinking about painting it for another build.

It is a socket A Mobo. Athlon XP 2200+. IDE hard drive, CD, DVD, Floppy Readers. 512 MB of DDR PC266 RAM. 250W PSU.

I thought about parting it out on the forum or Craigslist or something, but I figured no one would want any of these parts. Is it worth posting up in the Classified? Should I recycle it? Light it on fire? I just want to get any use out of these parts that I can, but I don't want to keep them around.

[compdewd]

You can use it to contribute to Folding@Home but since you don't want to keep it, I suppose that isn't the best option :/
PSU, CD and DVD drives, and HDD are probably worth posting somewhere.

[ihrsetrdr]

Originally Posted by Atomichearse

It is a socket A Mobo. Athlon XP 2200+. IDE hard drive, CD, DVD, Floppy Readers. 512 MB of DDR PC266 RAM. 250W PSU.

Is it worth posting up in the Classified? Should I recycle it? Light it on fire?

There are people on this forum(like myself) that buy/sell socket A systems still.

If you have access, list it up in the forum classies and see what happens.

[xK1LLSW1TCHx127]

Save up a couple of old PCs and cluster them. As far as I know all you need is a network switch, a couple of PCs and a specialized OS, then you can do cool stuff like fold proteins and do fun astrophysics calculations. I'm sure there are sketchy applications too, but stay away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

Working on one myself to run a minecraft server for a friend