New To Me Computer Parts

Published by Sean December 9th, 2005 in Computers.

I’m not usually into dumpster diving, but when I was taking the trash out a few hours ago, I noticed somebody had threw away a computer, but left most of the parts in it. The case was beaten up pretty bad, but I was able to salvage the following:

an MSI 865PE Neo2-P Platinum Edition Motherboard,
an Intel Pentium 4 2.40 GHz w/ HT Technology (800 MHz FSB) CPU w/ 512 kB cache,
CPU heatsink with fan,
one 80 mm fan,
two sticks of 256 MB DDR466 RAM,
one 3.5 inch floppy drive,
a Magicspin DVDRW 1008IM DVD drive,
two round IDE cables,
one round floppy cable,
and an ATX power supply.

The only part that was damaged was the DVD drive, because the tray was broken. I could probably “hack” it into working, but it’s probably not worth the trouble.

I put the new mainboard, CPU, RAM, and ATX PS in my system, since the components were faster than I what was currently using, which was an Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 MB DDR266 RAM. I had to reinstall Windows, since switching out the motherboard is a pretty major change in the system, and of course had to reactivate. So far, it appears to work without any issues.