What some people throw away

[screwballl]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Yup the good ole days, when you could buy a motherboard, and any CPU out there would fit in it. AMD sure kept that socket A alive for a long time.

you mean socket 7 or 370..... socket A was for the Athlon Thunderbirds and AthlonXPs.
Socket7 (and later some Socket370) was the socket that fit both AMD (K6, K6-2, K6-3) and Intel procs from around the 386 days until the release of Slot1 (Pentium2 and early PIIIs) and SlotA (the first Athlons) were announced.

[Beetle Bailey]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

Theres a couple more of these white little rusted cases that have popped up overnight, spring cleaning? Might take a look at those tonight or so, maybe make a keychain out of the processors.
I've pulled some great stuff out of the dumpsters around here, a toaster oven and food dehydrator that look and work like new, a room fan that lasted 3 years, a set of stereo speakers I use for my computer, a 20 gallon fish tank with all the equipment, a full size bed frame, refracting telescope and then a $200+ camera tripod to go with it. Lots of goodies to be had.

Any pics of these cases by chance? I might be interested. Got another couple of family builds possibly coming up. Thanks Bailey.

[Stormcrow]

The garbage folks have already hauled them off, but they were OLD, like around 95ish so by today standards a motherboard and components wouldn't fit in them. Also they had bad rust spots and the front panel was busted on two of them. I didn't even bother bringing them in. If you need some cheapy cases, I've used Raidmax and Foxconn in their $20 segment that fit the bill just fine. Avoid the PSUs though.