Old blocks

Joe Jones · 30 Sep 2020 at 13:19

What does everyone do with their old water blocks?

I have some really old Danger Den motherboard blocks (probably from my Opteron days ~ 2003) and a Chrome Danger Den GPU block which seems just too nice to throw. Also have a Swiftech Storm just laying about.

I'd hate to just bin the stuff but it's been in boxes for 10+ years.

Bubo · 30 Sep 2020 at 13:39

Same with virtually all my old PC gear, I carefully store them in various plaggy bags and cardboard boxes and stash them in the loft or cupboards I never use, with the thought of "one day, I will build a retro pc/media pc/second pc for the sake of it (delete as appropriate) out of all this stuff".

Finners · 30 Sep 2020 at 14:56

Bubo said:
Same with virtually all my old PC gear, I carefully store them in various plaggy bags and cardboard boxes and stash them in the loft or cupboards I never use, with the thought of "one day, I will build a retro pc/media pc/second pc for the sake of it (delete as appropriate) out of all this stuff".

Haha, exactly this.

Bubo · 30 Sep 2020 at 15:00

Finners said:
Haha, exactly this.

I have one bag dedicated to IDE and old floppy drive cables. I kid you not. No, I really kid you not.

Radox-0 · 30 Sep 2020 at 15:00

recycle it or something? from images I seen lots of metal, better then chucking it.

I usually try to sell the bits on at same time I get rid of components for this reason, can get hard to shift otherwise.

MeddlE · 30 Sep 2020 at 15:09

Bubo said:
I have one bag dedicated to IDE and old floppy drive cables. I kid you not. No, I really kid you not.

Only a bag?

im4gine3 · 30 Sep 2020 at 15:25

fleabay... otherwise can't you use them to create something fancy like this:

Jay85 · 30 Sep 2020 at 16:25

im4gine3 said:
fleabay... otherwise can't you use them to create something fancy like this:

Mate that is cool, very creative!

Might try something like this with all my old crap that doesn't work anymore.

MikeTimbers · 30 Sep 2020 at 19:54

I'm the same with blocks but sadly the mounts stop being useful so you can't fit them. I have an original Cathar Whitewater on my desk as a paperweight.

Mr Mcgoo · 2 Oct 2020 at 11:08

I have a lot of old and new cpus, hdd's, ssd's, gpu's, motherboards and ram sticks from old systems in 2x4 drawer tower for safe keeping and built a rig from some of in earlier for the wife.

MikeTimbers said:
I'm the same with blocks but sadly the mounts stop being useful so you can't fit them. I have an original Cathar Whitewater on my desk as a paperweight.

I had one of these but lost it when i moved to this house