I go dumpster-diving. I found a newish PC with Bluray drive,
TV tuner, DDR2-1066 RAM, 600 W power supply et cetera.
Now the garbos had been on strike, and this bin had been
there for a week longer than I thought ... and it had
rained all last week.
So, I stripped it down and tested each component. All was
kaput, except for one item: the Phenom X3 CPU!
I can even overclock it 3% with air cooler and it is
stable.

On 9/28/2011 2:56 AM, Anonymous wrote:
> I go dumpster-diving. I found a newish PC with Bluray drive,
> TV tuner, DDR2-1066 RAM, 600 W power supply et cetera.
> Now the garbos had been on strike, and this bin had been
> there for a week longer than I thought ... and it had
> rained all last week.
> So, I stripped it down and tested each component. All was
> kaput, except for one item: the Phenom X3 CPU!
> I can even overclock it 3% with air cooler and it is
> stable.
>

The CPU is a hermetically sealed unit, water won't get into the guts.
The only problem is corrosion on the connector pins, but can be cleaned
if not severe.

You possibly threw away a bunch of good stuff tho.

If that PC was basically wet from clean rainwater only, much (if not
all) could have been saved with a good dry-off and a denatured alcohol
bath.

But if the tip was full of other stuff, the water was probably somewhat
corrosive.

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On Sep 29, 9:41 am, "Orson Cart" <ex-pri...@parts.org> wrote:
> The O.P. seems to assume that the "newish" PC was mostly good when discarded.
> I have found corporate workstations with Windoze 7/Vista stickers on them,
> and they were nuked as if hit by lightning. And I found ten-year old relics
> that work, but were just too slow.

Slow has always been relative. I recall changing arc formats to zip,
on a 20M HD, and batching it over a day or two. Picked up a Pentium 4
800, 650 series, which hopefully means chip-stepping into another
nightlight for RightMark. Haven't gotten into it yet, but they're as
low a $13, which doesn't seem bad for 3.2Ghz at 70-80ish watts
flatout. Just need some old DDR/233/333/400 and to differentiate
successions of AGP cards on a MB for .8/1.5/3.5V at the
vidslot. ...ATI/Saphire Radeons spec as auto-switching, and I've got
both a 8500 and 90xx series. Hm. Close, not quite 10 yrs, for old
home-grown leftovers. Reminds me of an ungodly pile of early circa
586s or Pentium 90s some supervisor unknowingly requisitioned, left
from County IT and the Sheriffs Office after rough-house corporate
usage. Strange, kicking a few of them like underinflated tires on
some abandoned carlot, how those things work -- tax-base budgets and
the clamor to a public outcry. He may have been planning a church
thing for computers for the underprivileged, but I'd bet he ended up
with a mess of job for attempting after all to call in recycling
interests.

Anonymous <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> I go dumpster-diving. I found a newish PC with Bluray drive,
> TV tuner, DDR2-1066 RAM, 600 W power supply et cetera.
> Now the garbos had been on strike, and this bin had been
> there for a week longer than I thought ... and it had
> rained all last week.
> So, I stripped it down and tested each component. All was
> kaput, except for one item: the Phenom X3 CPU!
> I can even overclock it 3% with air cooler and it is
> stable.

Cheapskate. Get a job and buy your components.

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