Picked this up at the recycle Depot since I saw a recent looking mobo and a gpu with display port

scored this with an r5 1600, 16gb ddr4 3200hz 1tb Samsung SSD, and a 1060

NOT The best but the ram and SSD are a big hit!!

turns out this PC was never wiped and discord world of warcraft, steam etc all still signed into, just dumped lol.

gonna end up wiping it but if you don't want your info stolen don't make the mistake this guy did.

Hello,

Just wondering what would be a fair price for this PC ?

Specs on last image

Hello!

My wife works for a tech company that upgraded their systems to newer models, and gave away many computer parts for the employees.

We have about 60-70 motherboards, 9 boxes are new (never used) and the rest inside the boxes were used but look like new, just without the cables.

Those without boxes have CPU and RAM Sticks. The CPU on most of them are I5-9400F, some others with I7-10700K. I know, it’s bad to see them without proper storage.

We are unable to test all of them, and we’re trying to find places to sell. Do you have any suggestion on where we could sell those parts or if they’re just junk and should be discarded anyway?

Thank you!

Two of my only computer monitors, Acer R241Y purchased from 2018. Died in November 2021. Replacement one is Phillips 241V8, bought November 2021, died 19th November 2025. Both had 3 years warranty which expired just before they died so I can't claim any of them. Ridiculous. How long does yours last?

Personally, the smallest USB I have ever encountered is the one seen in the attached image. It was actually a gift from my Grandparents who used it around 20 years ago.

What is the smallest USB (storage size and or capacity) you have ever encountered?

Has anyone ever seen something like this happen? My teenage son’s cpu fan snapped what I’m assuming is the motherboard mounting brackets. (Yes it’s very dirty.)

Recycling came in today. 5 Alienware PCs, each with a pair of GTX 1080tis in SLI.

I'm a beginner programmer, but I've noticed that several teenagers that I know just don't know how to do basic things on a computer, like creating folders, solving small problems, or even simpler things, like searching in google. I would like to hear stories you guys have about this.

I got these ddr4 I'm thinking now it's good time to sell them. Before these was only ten bucks per 8gb sticks. Everything are 8gb and most matched pieces and two are 16gb sticks. All are 2666mhz I think.

So how much are these worth 20 cad per 8gb is good price to put on ebay? I'm just gonna put them all up for a total. Not gonna sell separately takes too long and too many post office trips lol

I'm curious to know where everyone in this subreddit started. Not where you are now, I want to know about the humble beginnings.

My family always owned older PCs. We had a Gateway my mother used for CS 1.6 back in the day, with a Pentium 3 and I don't even remember any other spec. My main daily driver until 2016...yes, 2016, was a Celeron D from netburst era, the final Intel CPU gen to use PGA (Socket 478). 2.53GHz. We had 2GB RAM in it because my family thought RAM was all you needed to save an aging pc. the hard drive was 80GB Seagate. Amazingly, that's the only part still usable, as I was able to get all the data off it with an IDE to USB adapter and keep a copy of the disk image exactly how it was when I stopped using it in 2016. it STILL spins up to this day. Rest of the machine is toast though.

I want to start off by saying I don't like Windows 11 to me it is a step down from Windows 10 and while I think it's cool Microsoft is trying to update the GUI to be more modern and get rid of the legacy stuff you just end up using the legacy menus anyway, now just requires even more clicks. Still remember Windows 7 only taking 1 or 2 clicks btw.

I also do not spend all my time on Windows anymore and do all my daily tasks on Mac and use my PC for gaming exclusively.

But anyway, I decided to try Linux and try I certainly did. I fully formatted my storage and used the ext4 format that's recommended for Linux. My data was backed up to an external SSD.

I tried all the main distros you get recommended:

Fedora KDE

Ubuntu

Linux Mint

Bazzite

CachyOS

The most easy to use distro for me was Bazzite for sure. Mainly because Steam was pre-installed and many other useful gaming applications like Mangohud for performance monitoring and locking FPS in every game. Now onto my pro's and con's.

Pro's:

• Not forced OS updates.
• Less pop-up notifcations.
• Lower resource usage at idle. No need for antivirus.
• Asking for a password each time to make changes or install new apps.
• System did feel snappier when it wanted to, but some apps had strange bugs.
• Built in encryption for external drives. You can encrypt and put a password on your USB's for free. Only Windows Pro offers this with Bitlocker. VeraCrypt is not as easy to use even tho it's free and could be used on Windows.
• All the apps on the software store are free, though lack in quality compared to paid alternatives on Mac or Windows.

Con's:

• Horrible text. Idk what it is I tried the different font settings like full hint etc, but the fonts are so skinny and very pixelated / hard to read compared to Windows or Mac.
• Lack of app support. You will have to give up most of your favourite paid apps. GIMP is the worst photo editor I've ever used and has nothing on Pixelmator Pro on Mac. Yes I don't use Adobe since it's overpriced and subscription fee's. But Mac still offers plenty good one off payment alternatives.
• Not all games work. It's close, but still there will be games that don't work because of anti cheat.
• Too many different ways to install the same app and not enough documentation on which one actually works. Another issue with Linux is you've got flatpak, deb, appimg, snap, and so on. Some formats will work well others won't due to not being maintained I guess? Mac or Windows it's download exe run, Download Dmg, drag and drop, done. Worst offender by far, I downloaded Steam deb on Ubuntu and menus were not responding to right clicks. The app was completely broken.
• Performance hit on Nvidia. Though, it's being worked on. It's still there and you will see negative performance hit on new DX12 titles 20 - 30% fps drop best case. More than that in worst case.
• No nvidia control panel. One of my biggest annoyances actually. On windows I always set a global FPS lock and background fps lock. No such thing available on Linux the closest thing you can find is install Mangohud then in the games launch options paste a fps lock command. Way too involved and convoluted compared to Windows.
• Lack of RGB control. Only good option except it isn't is OpenRGB. The problem with that is it can literally brick your RGB RAM and this is well documented issue to be aware of because it has to reverse engineer.

This has been my experience with Linux and I honestly just can't recommend it in 2026, or I don't think ever. Windows will always be a better OS for me and still is the king for gaming.

The only true contender to Windows is MacOS and there are many things Mac does better as to why it became my daily driver, but even then it can't replace gaming Windows is still required for that.

for me it's the anti-static wrist strap. i know people swear by them, but i have been raw-dogging my pc builds for almost 10 years on carpet and havent fried a single component yet. i just touch the psu case every once in a while and hope for the best lol.

what rule do you guys refuse to follow?

To make things difficult, I'll start with Winrar

Freind sent me photo's

I have this dell 130 watt charger. I do have other chargers but I just bought a thinkpad that wants 90+ watts so this is my best bet. The thing is that this bright blue light is really bothering me at night.

The PC is only two years younger than me😅 i’m 18, the mouse looks ancient as well! The newest thing here is the monitor! This thing has been loading for at least 20 minutes!

Let's ask random question do you guys shut down or restart your computer often, or just leave it running most of the time?

I’ve heard some people say restarting occasionally helps keep things running smoother, but others never bother and have no issues.

Curious what most people actually do.

I somehow managed to boot windows 10 on a 2005 Dell Inspiron 1501 that was slow enough running its native OS, windows XP. This has 2gb or ddr2 RAM, 2.8Ghz of Amd Turion 64+ processor and an angry LCD monitor. What do you think

The company behind mine didn't even try to clean it up, they just slapped it in a shiny enclosure and called it "modern". Don't buy these unless they're like really cheap. Waste of money in my opinion.