Boxes of parts and the elusive "known good"

[ddrueding]

I'm sure quite a few of you have boxes of comupter parts lying around; either pulled from customer's machines, personal upgrades, or whimsical buys still sitting in their packaging. I have a 10'x10' spare bedroom that I can no longer navigate. I think it's time to start cleaning. I've already disposed of everything that isn't P3/Athlon or better. Also 'nixed everything that wasn't ATX, all Hard Drives under 6GB and all RAM under 64MB.

The problem is: How do you go about identifying what is good and what isn't? Does anyone have a good strategy for this? Or should I simply put the whole room on E-Bay "as is"?

 

[Jimshady]

I've had the same problem. You got to ask yourself, what' more valueable to you, all that junk, or the space it occupies. I was holding all this stuff until about a month ago when I was like, damn, if a computer is not a 2.4Ghz or more, I want nothing to do with it. So I turfed all my junk that I wasn't going to use in the immediate future.

Sell as is, grouped by part type. "Heap-o-ram" etc

 

[CougTek]

Send it to schools or social organisms. Many of them use old computer stuff to allow poor people to do basic computer tasks.