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Reusing old components

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  • 26-10-2012 12:39pm
    #1
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    I have an old Medion PC from lidl that I want to replace.

    I intend using it for programming and will probably be installing some flavor of linux on it.

    I upgraded (and massively overspecced) the PSU when I put a new graphics card in it a few years ago.

    I'm sussing out whether it's worth reusing old components
    I intend to buy a new mother board, CPU and memory (probably 16gig).

    I have a case, cd drive and hard drives as well as graphics card and PSU.

    Is it worth reusing old components in this way?


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    Fluffy88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Fluffy88


    It really depends on what the components are, the best way to know is if you post up details about the individual components here so that we know if they will be suitable to carry over to a new machine.

    CD drive can be re-used anyway and if your happy with the capacity of the HDD then it can be kept too.


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    IrishMetalhead
    Registered Users Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭IrishMetalhead


    not necessarly because if the dc drive and the hard drive are ide rather than sata then they'll be uselss too since newer motherboards don't support ide anymore


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    U_Fig
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭U_Fig


    IrishMetalhead wrote: »
    not necessarly because if the dc drive and the hard drive are ide rather than sata then they'll be uselss too since newer motherboards don't support ide anymore

    You can get adapters for SATA to IDE.. I have an old IDE HDD running off a sata port on the mobo via an adapter that cost 8 euro on eBay.


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Shouldn't be a problem especially if the PSU is working fine with the GPU already (I'd like details on the unit if you were upgrading).

    Aside from the possibility that the HDD is IDE (which is not a huge problem as mentioned above), if it is quite old it will be much slower than a modern HDD, and of course a semi new build is a great opportunity to stick an SSD in there :pac:.


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