I had a dead CD drive. I blew it up. Fun. I use CD/DVD drives as paperweights and mousepads, have a literal pile of the damn things. Must have at least 12. All working.
That is wasting something though. Many parts from a laptop (hard drive, RAM) can be salvaged almost always.
I have about 10 floppy drives. 4 are sitting on a guitar amp, 4 are in a pile in the corner because they fell off a table they were on, one's in a parts machine, one's in my period-correct 2004 "gaming" rig. If only I had a use for them, or a PCI-e FDD controller, I'd actually use them for storage.
I have about 15 different CD-R disks laying around for when I need to install an OS on a computer. Comes in handy when you have 2 thrift store PCs waiting for software that they don't want installed.
I have a full spindle of DVD-R's dedicated to operating systems. It's got everything from Windows 95 to Windows 10. Also a few Linux distros and some Mac OS's. I don't know why. And I have motherboards and processors sitting everywhere. And an old 4.3GB Seagate Medalist PATA drive. Help, too much.
look its a page 700: a time for us to remind ourselves of this forgotten BMW 700 (imported from here)
I have several unused boards and CPUs. I even have an AMD K6-2/500 and a Pentium 2. No board for them though, but they work. ASUS board, socket 754 with Athlon 64 2800+ MSI board, socket A(462) with Sempron 2400+ ASUS board, socket 754 with Sempron 2800+ (board is dead) Intel board, socket 423/478(not sure) with Pentium 4 2.0 ASUS board, socket LGA 775 with C2 Q6600 (in my 2nd PC) Yep, that's about it I think. I also have some graphics cards, an ATI 9250, a Geforce 440MX, and a Geforce 9500 GT (dead). And a pile of DDR RAM. I just take any old PCs I can find for the mobo/CPU, and end up with a pile of CD drives and RAM as a result. And a bunch of old cases.
I have a full inventory of everything in a notepad. I'll attatch it (because why not) when I get home.
Strangely it turns out that totally wiping and reinstalling nvidia drivers has fixed the issue with firefox being quiet. wtf... Oh well, i can now listen to music properly again - - - Updated - - - I can now play assetto corsa at 60fps, driver install successful i guess. Dry Rock island still runs like arse though :/
I've taken a sledgehammer to an old laptop or two. And a couple screens. And a desktop. Fun. Have yet to smash a CRT though.
Yes, Señora Spanish Teacher, the file name of my project is, indeed, "Spico Watero Fisho". Got a problem with that?
This little HP Pavilion of mine... I think, if I can find a way to optimize the HD Graphics, it may be ok. It may be the only thing holding this back from being ok, not great.
So some kid late to the party at my school said "dudhudhuduhduh how didded someone break his leg turneeng left? lel" My comeback: "dudhudhuduhduh how didded someone get a concussion runeeng down a field? lel" Replied to an over-generalization with an over-generalization. Boom.
I've done it. I've figured out how I can fix AMD. Right, so, here it goes... 1. Mass produce to fill up warehouses to stay afloat on some profit during a shut down. 2. Shut down AMD. 3. If it isn't a GPU, kill that project. AMD's problems come from their CPUs, so thats where the focus lies. 4. Put together three teams, these teams must work together to solve AMD's biggest problem. 5. Produce new processors. The reason why the FX CPUs were such poor performers was down to Floating Point performance, or lack there of. These new CPUs will be broken down into three lines (hence the three teams): A. Phenom III: The goal is to bring back old, known good performing names. The new Phenom line features 6 and 8-core processors. There are no shared FPUs, each core gets its own. The Phenom line has an on-chip GPU. The GPU is similar to the current R7-250. B. Athlon III: These are dual and quad core CPUs. The duals are based upon the quads, just missing two cores. The high end quad cores feature the same on-chip GPU as the Phenoms. Low-end quads/all duals feature no GPU, this is for price point sake. Sempron II: These are under-clocked, low power, on-chip GPU versions of the dual/low quad Athlon's. They are mainly for low-end towers/HTPCs and do not natively feature overclocking. This is for price point sake. 6. Base everything around one socket. This makes upgrading cheaper and easier for the masses. 7. Remain cheaper than competition. This may be difficult to do, but even 5-10% less expensive means more business if performance is up to par. I don't know if this is feasible or not, but it's what must be done. My rig may be Intel based, but I'm still an AMD guy at heart. That's why I think about these things.
Isn't the whole point of getting an AMD CPU because of the big numbers and price/performance? That's why I got one anyway..
That image will still be captured. I'm sure that there's cartain manufacturing tech that makes it possible to still keep them well into the range of affordable to even cheap.
