And yet this dweeb scoffs at the lot of them. If the significance of a core2 duo does not trip a persons trigger, they need to turn in their enthusiast badge.
I still remember the days of harvesting parts from dumped gear and i still do it now. I pull stuff from the bins repair and send it on its way renewed. Gives me a nice feeling. But sadly not as often as it was.
Easy enough to go grab one of the others in the same case, and swap power supplies, likely thy are identical in spec, and you probably will not even need a screwdriver to change them out.
@@EEVblog A lot of the better designed computers are like that, no tools needed to change the parts that are likely to need upgrading or changing in the machine life. Memory, drives, power supply and cards no tools needed, though you will need tools to do a CPU fan or upgrade, or a motherboard, which in most cases is a new computer already. Great for most manufacturers though, as you have to buy the spares from them ( FU Hell) at a premium for power supplies and boards. Using an old Fujitsu, and can do almost all work without tools, though I did need to do some creative cable ties and an extra fan, because it came with no extra hardware for the second SSD I put in, and it ran hot in the bay. One cheap Corsair RAM cooler, repurposed to get the fan, running off 5V, and it is 20C cooler.
@@SeanBZA Still need to use a tool to change CPU and motherboard? How tedious! I've worked on a number of systems where the motherboard can just be removed with thumbscrews. However many of these still have screws on the CPU heatsink, so you'd need to swap CPU and mobo at the same time if you don't have a screwdriver. I have an HP server where almost every field replaceable part is toolfree. For the other parts a tool is supplied which clips into the back of the server for storage. Of course mine is missing, and some unofficial tasks require tools.
We use similar PCs as media servers and 3 days ago I had one with a noisy PSU fan. Instead of opening the PSU, I simply changed it from another machine. No screwdriver needed!
My employer uses software and back end infrastructure for 10-20 years, but we change out client desktop and laptop hardware after 3-5 years. HDDs get shredded, the rest is auctioned off by the pallet.
All our monitors at the office are DVI and all our PC's are DisplayPort. You can buy DisplayPort to DVI and DisplayPort to HDMI adapters dirt cheap off Amazon/eBay. DisplayPort is backwards compatible with DVI & HDMI, so a simple adapter works perfectly fine.
I went dumpster diving behind a school and scored 2 hp elitedesk 705 g3 sff pc's with a6-8570 cpu's. They had no hdd or ram :( but I tested them with ddr4 ram from my daily driver and they work ok.
Still running i7-3770 as my main desktop here at home and just moved it from Western Digital Black spinning rust to SSD. :) Oh, I am on my 3rd laptop since then so there's that.
Same CPU and I switched to SSD with Ubuntu and the only difference I could notice was faster booting (yay, I save 20 seconds every three months I reboot) and applications start up much faster.
7:00 I have one of these but has bad burn in, was a ex-railroad station lcd. Think I'll toss it in the bin, can't believe I purchased it for like $120, got had! _(I've tried replacing some caps and the signal cable, didn't seem to help much)_
Windows 8 was actually really good, everyone just hated the start menu. The only difference in Windows 10 is they put the start menu back to the old one.
Hmm... ideas for spare monitors... maybe pull the panel out and rig it up with a Pi to make an animated "stained glass" window? Use two and a touch screen to build a giant nintendo DS?
Probably tax purposes, write them off and say "dumped" will allow them to claim full depreciated value off tax, and no dealing with any other party. Disposing by giving means a lot of extra paperwork and hassle, plus you have to declare a value then of the disposed of asset, and this means you pay tax on it.
@@benbaselet2026 No, they put them in the dumpster room. Dave is going to give them away, but that's different. These companies couldn't care less about helping people less fortunate, they just want to offload them as easily as possible.
@@benbaselet2026 'They' didn't- it would take effort to organize collection of the old PCs and monitors in order to donate them, and the companies ion the office building really can't be bothered with it. Dave on the other hand realizes that there is value in even 'old' PCs so is willing to put the relatively small amount of effort into cleaning them up a bit and donating them to good causes. I knew a guy many years ago that collected old PCs, cleaned them and and donated them to Woman's Refuge charities- even low end hardware is perfectly good for basic web browsing and word processing duties.
I totally understand that you don't want to get bogged down with refurbishing. You need to find someone local you can call who can take this stuff off your hands. The local library could host a drawing. Talk to teachers and have them offered to students in need. A tech teacher might want to make the refurbing a class project. No doubt a retired techie will want to do some refurbing. Either ones looking to save the Earth, ones looking to help those in need, or both.
Hell, I'm watching on a machine very similar to the lower spec ones in that stack (although I've maxed out the RAM, added a second HD, and put in a decent graphis card). Now, I couple years back I built myself a MUCH better gaming rig that's on the OTHER desk (6-core Ryzen with SSD, nice graphics card I can't be bothered to look up, 64G RAM, only downside is Windows 10).
I upgraded to an i7-3770 SFF machine last year for $100. Finally I could play x265 movies. DP is such a pain, try finding a converter that outputs 2k DVI for under $100.
i wish i could find one of them kind of towers last time i think i found something decent was when i picked up a Dell PE T320 out of a dumpster of a closed down video rental business
Holy Hell you'll in computer heaven i wished my workplace was there it would save me 1000's of dollars. But Mate to be honest Desktop pcs are on the Nose! everywhere now we are working from home and the laptops the flavour of 2020-21 for all staff including Admin staff. Desktop Pc's like these become P&O ship Anchors
Dave If you donate a computer make it the best PC you can with the available parts . Move the I7 cpu into the I5 case then max out the memory . Or just fill up the slots with the same size ram modules & fit 2 hard drives . Storage is more important than a video card . A 5 or 6 year old computer with on board graphics should work ok for video & surfing the net !
Hi Dave .... Why dont you leave a notice on the dumpster room door or inside the room asking people to contact you if they intend to throw away any electrical/electronic stuff ....... you may get your hands on kit direct from the office they were used in before its trashed in the dumpster room. Regards
mobo isn't standard either. Most of these smaller form factor PC's from Dell/HP use a custom layout. If Dave were to bother the only shit worth pulling to resell these days would be the CPU.
Not worth it AT ALL. You forget the labour to test, disassemble, photograph, create listing, package... then deal with refund claim for that parts "didn't work". These machines are trash, which is why the are in the bin rather than sold. OK for hobbyists, but totally non-viable for Dave to resell.
@@johncoops6897 If it's listed as 'For parts or not working' you shouldn't need to worry about complaints of parts not working. Then you can also skip the testing. Having said that I agree it's not worth it. If he wants to make a few Aussie bucks from them a better option would be putting an ad up on whatever Craigslist equivalent is used there.
You should make a Folding At Home cluster computer that runs off your solar system when you're away or not using all of it's capacity until you get some energy storage.
It is amazing how much more a modern desktop can do for the same power, compared to something 8-10 y old. A modern graphics card can do even more than that. But yes if it is energy that would otherwise go to waste, you could run the old hw cluster...
@@rkan2 yes and the Motherboards are great for Parts! You get some nice ultra low ESR Polymer caps and some great (SMD) MOSFET. Though some are power stages (=MOSFET with Drivers), so they might not be that easy to use....
I’ve never had a gold mine of a dumpster room to plunder. But I’ve struck lucky once recently..... lol....🤪 well I say recently! But time passes sooooo fast. Tbh? It was pre Covid. So I stumbled upon a skip. Not expecting anything good. Then shining at me......gently placed .... was a Acer Aspire laptop... then after half hr... my transit was full . HP Monitors, hard drives , basicly all office supplies. How can commercial places just chuck out gear? Beyond me
It's trash... old, used, superseded and already written down and written off for Tax purposes. They cannot (technically) sell it, and donation causes accounting issues. Even if they could sell it, the cost of labour (and lost time doing core tasks) to manage that would be far greater than any profits made.
The computer on which I am watching this video is older than all those dumped stuff! A first gen I3... Things of third world... Nobody here in Argentina would dare to discard a computer with a microprocessor newer than a Core 2 Duo (my other pc)...
Do you not have any "PC's for disadvantaged people" charity places, or even a bog standard charity shop, local to you for all these computers (assuming you don't sell them locally)? There used to be a guy I knew ages ago who used to repair and install linux (and a modem, to date how long ago it was) on scrappers like these for disadvantaged kids to allow them to study on line and have access to standard office apps. For running linux and basic suite programs the low end pc's are more than useable (heck my grandkids now use my old z87, x58, and Q43 based pc's for the usual youtube, vlc, and linux games which has given them a new lease of life).
@@DONK8008 Not quite. The factory install of Windows will be done with a special manufacturer key and the sticker key is only there for reinstallation. Since the sticker reinstallation key is probably unused I don't see how they could tell if it's being used on the machine or not. If you are reinstalling on the same machine, the sticker key is _always_ unneeded on these systems as it's possible to reuse the original manufacturer's key of 74T2M-DKDBC-788W3-H689G-6P6GT after installing a certificate file.
@@EEVblog2 unfortunately the chip shortage has driven up ddr3 prices .. I kid you not 8gb goes for 60 dollars and 16gb got for 100 … that’s second hand
wouldn't it be worth it to take out all the CPUs and maybe do a draw once in a while? along with the RAM. might be worth it for some, and maybe shipping is more accessible than for the whole chassis.
@@EEVblog2 finding a case and power supply is easy. If you sold the motherboard, CPU, heatsink, and ram as a package, it would be worth the shipping cost, since you've ditched most of the weight and size.
Take how much You can from these dumpster PC's.. One not working, that's mean's You need to get another one with i5, to bring back to life i7.. Then give away locally for school's, donations (as You do), etc.. Not just for fun there's phrase: "One man's garbage, another man's treasure.." 😊 Love Your dumpster.. My closest dumpster very rarely gets fill with something good.. 😂
And someone to pay min wage for the time when the house needs repairing but you are fixing computers all day (even cleaning takes time, and needs space).
If only if dumpsters and landfill are proper public spaces where people could visit and take away stuff. lol my brain aren't making sense. IDEA: 🤪 charge people a fee to visit The Dumpster and find treasure!
Ah yeah sff business pc's. I see them in the ewaste often in numbers optilex, thinkcenters etc... I always liked the cases. They're hard to flip though in my experience anyway. I think people buying desktops are gamers mainly and sff not really flexible for gfx cards and storage options etc.
@@Glenjimen I found an m73 Lenovo a while back 4th generation i3. A pretty good machine I'll end up sticking a 4770 in it but yeah hard to flip. I wouldn't bother transfering it to another case just wouldn't make sense as everything is kinda made to fit. The case is actually the best thing about it that it slips under a hutch etc. Though by today's standards it's still pretty big. Development of mini PC's, raspberry pi etc is pretty cool imo. We'll end up being able to vesa mount a little box on the back of the monitor soon. You already can but they'll get way better, substantially more powerful once we get beyond shortages and slowdowns of semi conductor components etc...
Schools don’t want them, charities will take complete PCs for low income/disaster families. Otherwise they’re ewaste. Schools have really embraced uniformity to reduce IT as they cost more than the equipment. Also it’s harder for students to really mess up a chrome book/iPad.
@@peterg.8245 Other organisations would love them though. These would have been ideal workstations for the community radio station I used to run all tech for.
@@peterpv0001 Actually that's not the case. Windows 7 preinstalls use a special manufacturer preactivation key tied to a hardware certificate (in this case probably 74T2M-DKDBC-788W3-H689G-6P6GT) instead of the sticker key. So the sticker key will be entirely unused in most cases and not tied to a specific piece of hardware. Microsoft could only check which manufacturer the key is from but AFAIK they don't even do that. With Windows 8 and 10 there isn't a sticker key and instead a unique key stored in the BIOS is used.
Such a waste during pandemic. Lots of people stuck with much less powerful hardware, and the prices are so high, so upgrade is not viable. And same time some idiots decide to toss a few fully operational sets of hardware just because??? I don't understand this
Donate to low-income child families .. 🥰 i donated work laptops which companies throw in recycling i3 / 8gb 120gb SSD 15.6 "👌 Dell / Lenovo / hp pro..🥰🥰
Dumpster treasures still better than what a lot of people use now!!
Sure they are much much better than any newly made ...
Use Puppy Slacko7 64bit from a 4gig flash drive and off you go.
And yet this dweeb scoffs at the lot of them. If the significance of a core2 duo does not trip a persons trigger, they need to turn in their enthusiast badge.
Yep. As I am typing, my everyday computer runs a Q9550 with 8gb of ram and a decent graphics card. Runs like a charm.
I still remember the days of harvesting parts from dumped gear and i still do it now. I pull stuff from the bins repair and send it on its way renewed. Gives me a nice feeling. But sadly not as often as it was.
I suppose with the pandemic a lot of staff who had desktops will have been issued with new laptops so they can more easily work from home...
It's probably cheaper to rent an office in that building and loot the dumpster room than to buy those electronics yourself.
Easy enough to go grab one of the others in the same case, and swap power supplies, likely thy are identical in spec, and you probably will not even need a screwdriver to change them out.
Yep, did that, the 3rd i7 works great now! And yes, no screwdriver required to open the case, remove the supply and reinstall, amazing design.
@@EEVblog A lot of the better designed computers are like that, no tools needed to change the parts that are likely to need upgrading or changing in the machine life. Memory, drives, power supply and cards no tools needed, though you will need tools to do a CPU fan or upgrade, or a motherboard, which in most cases is a new computer already. Great for most manufacturers though, as you have to buy the spares from them ( FU Hell) at a premium for power supplies and boards. Using an old Fujitsu, and can do almost all work without tools, though I did need to do some creative cable ties and an extra fan, because it came with no extra hardware for the second SSD I put in, and it ran hot in the bay. One cheap Corsair RAM cooler, repurposed to get the fan, running off 5V, and it is 20C cooler.
@@SeanBZA Still need to use a tool to change CPU and motherboard? How tedious! I've worked on a number of systems where the motherboard can just be removed with thumbscrews. However many of these still have screws on the CPU heatsink, so you'd need to swap CPU and mobo at the same time if you don't have a screwdriver.
I have an HP server where almost every field replaceable part is toolfree. For the other parts a tool is supplied which clips into the back of the server for storage. Of course mine is missing, and some unofficial tasks require tools.
We use similar PCs as media servers and 3 days ago I had one with a noisy PSU fan. Instead of opening the PSU, I simply changed it from another machine. No screwdriver needed!
im on a 3770 i7 as we speak, still very functional, worth cleaning up and donating
i m really happy you are giving them away instead of letting them go to the landfill or recycling. keep it up
The dumpster, one of Dave's best friend in the world and we get interesting videos out of it.
My employer uses software and back end infrastructure for 10-20 years, but we change out client desktop and laptop hardware after 3-5 years.
HDDs get shredded, the rest is auctioned off by the pallet.
An normally ends up in Africa
Next week; Deep Dumpster, the supercomputer I built from parts left in the dumpster room.
Dilbert cubicles are the original Wage Cage.
All our monitors at the office are DVI and all our PC's are DisplayPort. You can buy DisplayPort to DVI and DisplayPort to HDMI adapters dirt cheap off Amazon/eBay. DisplayPort is backwards compatible with DVI & HDMI, so a simple adapter works perfectly fine.
Yeach, I just don't have spare DP cables or adpaters, but tons of DVI cables.
That's awesome of you to take these machines, which actually can still do some good things and donate them to people who could use them.
Dilbert Cubicles! 😂🤣
I went dumpster diving behind a school and scored 2 hp elitedesk 705 g3 sff pc's with a6-8570 cpu's. They had no hdd or ram :( but I tested them with ddr4 ram from my daily driver and they work ok.
Have 'Tech Yes City' take a look at taking them off your hands !
Still running i7-3770 as my main desktop here at home and just moved it from Western Digital Black spinning rust to SSD. :) Oh, I am on my 3rd laptop since then so there's that.
Same CPU and I switched to SSD with Ubuntu and the only difference I could notice was faster booting (yay, I save 20 seconds every three months I reboot) and applications start up much faster.
I have FX 8300 that still sucks compared to i7 3770k
7:00 I have one of these but has bad burn in, was a ex-railroad station lcd. Think I'll toss it in the bin, can't believe I purchased it for like $120, got had! _(I've tried replacing some caps and the signal cable, didn't seem to help much)_
I love your dumpster finds.
staff issued laptops and now wfh - so desktops get binned. You can run the free edition Sophos XG firewall on them.
Windows 8 was actually really good, everyone just hated the start menu. The only difference in Windows 10 is they put the start menu back to the old one.
Hmm... ideas for spare monitors... maybe pull the panel out and rig it up with a Pi to make an animated "stained glass" window? Use two and a touch screen to build a giant nintendo DS?
Why don't they donate these PCs and monitors to charities which refurb computers and give them away?
because they know Dave will dive in the dumpster.
They just did?
Probably tax purposes, write them off and say "dumped" will allow them to claim full depreciated value off tax, and no dealing with any other party. Disposing by giving means a lot of extra paperwork and hassle, plus you have to declare a value then of the disposed of asset, and this means you pay tax on it.
@@benbaselet2026 No, they put them in the dumpster room. Dave is going to give them away, but that's different. These companies couldn't care less about helping people less fortunate, they just want to offload them as easily as possible.
@@benbaselet2026 'They' didn't- it would take effort to organize collection of the old PCs and monitors in order to donate them, and the companies ion the office building really can't be bothered with it. Dave on the other hand realizes that there is value in even 'old' PCs so is willing to put the relatively small amount of effort into cleaning them up a bit and donating them to good causes. I knew a guy many years ago that collected old PCs, cleaned them and and donated them to Woman's Refuge charities- even low end hardware is perfectly good for basic web browsing and word processing duties.
Thumbs up for the first 30 seconds ! Funny Dave .
The computers I use to score in the WEEE bin at uni were realy dead. I use to get so meany I would fix them up & give them to class mates.
My home PC has I7-3770k!
I totally understand that you don't want to get bogged down with refurbishing. You need to find someone local you can call who can take this stuff off your hands. The local library could host a drawing. Talk to teachers and have them offered to students in need. A tech teacher might want to make the refurbing a class project. No doubt a retired techie will want to do some refurbing. Either ones looking to save the Earth, ones looking to help those in need, or both.
If 1,000 people haven't already told you, there's a strong chance those DisplayPort connectors will supply HDMI with a cheap passive adapter.
Also VGA until recently (Nvidia until 9xx)
Decent machines. You can do almost everything with those.
Expect put very good gpu, since they're SFF.
@@coffeemakerbottomcracked what is SFF?
Here I am still rocking an i7-2600k and people are throwing out newer pc's.
And I'm using Intel Core i5 M520 @ 2.40GHz !!
Hell, I'm watching on a machine very similar to the lower spec ones in that stack (although I've maxed out the RAM, added a second HD, and put in a decent graphis card). Now, I couple years back I built myself a MUCH better gaming rig that's on the OTHER desk (6-core Ryzen with SSD, nice graphics card I can't be bothered to look up, 64G RAM, only downside is Windows 10).
Thank you for doing one of the R - the reuse by donating these to people in need
I upgraded to an i7-3770 SFF machine last year for $100. Finally I could play x265 movies. DP is such a pain, try finding a converter that outputs 2k DVI for under $100.
Easier and cheaper to just buy a decent monitor or TV that has HDMI inputs. Something from, what, year 2000 or so.
@@johncoops6897 I didn't know there were 2k+ DP converters under $100. The only cheap ones are passive or don't work with older DP computers.
i wish i could find one of them kind of towers last time i think i found something decent was when i picked up a Dell PE T320 out of a dumpster of a closed down video rental business
Holy Hell you'll in computer heaven i wished my workplace was there it would save me 1000's of dollars. But Mate to be honest Desktop pcs are on the Nose! everywhere now we are working from home and the laptops the flavour of 2020-21 for all staff including Admin staff. Desktop Pc's like these become P&O ship Anchors
This is good find and good money .
700 euros earned.
Dave
If you donate a computer make it the best PC you can with the available parts .
Move the I7 cpu into the I5 case then max out the memory .
Or just fill up the slots with the same size ram modules & fit 2 hard drives .
Storage is more important than a video card .
A 5 or 6 year old computer with on board graphics should work ok for video & surfing the net !
Why go to all that effort? A donated PC is a donated PC - they get what they are given.
Such a shame for perfectly good hardware.
It would do a few years of good service in a low income country.
Wish I could go dumpster diving in Gujarat, India.😭
Would be very much excited...
Hi Dave .... Why dont you leave a notice on the dumpster room door or inside the room asking people to contact you if they intend to throw away any electrical/electronic stuff ....... you may get your hands on kit direct from the office they were used in before its trashed in the dumpster room. Regards
The i7 PCs and 8G ram are great for a Jellyfin server
You had the DVI AND VGA plugged in. That was the problem most likely.
What was the round topped thing?
I was wondering the same thing. I think it requires further investigation.
well done eevblog2 keep up the great videos
Take out the mobo + cpu + ram + psu and put them on ebay as a kit ... or even without psu if it's standard atx psu. Worth it.
mobo isn't standard either. Most of these smaller form factor PC's from Dell/HP use a custom layout. If Dave were to bother the only shit worth pulling to resell these days would be the CPU.
Not worth it AT ALL. You forget the labour to test, disassemble, photograph, create listing, package... then deal with refund claim for that parts "didn't work". These machines are trash, which is why the are in the bin rather than sold. OK for hobbyists, but totally non-viable for Dave to resell.
@@johncoops6897 If it's listed as 'For parts or not working' you shouldn't need to worry about complaints of parts not working. Then you can also skip the testing.
Having said that I agree it's not worth it. If he wants to make a few Aussie bucks from them a better option would be putting an ad up on whatever Craigslist equivalent is used there.
What is junk to you is better than most of us peasants have to make do with.
You should make a Folding At Home cluster computer that runs off your solar system when you're away or not using all of it's capacity until you get some energy storage.
It is amazing how much more a modern desktop can do for the same power, compared to something 8-10 y old. A modern graphics card can do even more than that. But yes if it is energy that would otherwise go to waste, you could run the old hw cluster...
Why my dumpster looks more like stinky fish heads and normal garbage? Where is your dumpster located? 😂
Commercial Office complex. Not domestic or restaurant trash dumpsters LOL
@@johncoops6897 Lol So not my local Vietnamese restaurant dumpster?
@@NathanChisholm041 - nah, your hands will get messy when you dig under the cat and dog carcasses ROFL
those i7-3770 are pretty expensive on eBay and co, a while back they were 150€+ or more...
Yeah, a lot of the cpus and ram would be worth reselling... 10x 3470 would be like at least a few hundred bucks still.
@@rkan2 yes and the Motherboards are great for Parts! You get some nice ultra low ESR Polymer caps and some great (SMD) MOSFET. Though some are power stages (=MOSFET with Drivers), so they might not be that easy to use....
They should be. I've got 3770k and it can run most modern games just fine.
@@SurajGrewal well, yeah, but the days of Quad Cores for gaming are numbered...
I think some of those people who work there know about you and are being nice.
I wish I could get a few to play with
The broken one - does it have a power switch at the back? Or maybe the front on/off switch is broken?
I suspect something broke loose inside the PSU due to rough handling when it was being thrown away. It isn't like they would have cared at that point.
He swapped the psu from one of the i5s and it is a bobby dazzler
"Windows 8"
Ah, that's what's wrong with them! Easy enough repair...
Hay you are keeping that stuff out of landfill, keep up the good work.
Well, I try, but I only have so much space and time. Hoping that will change shortly on the space front...
@@EEVblog2 You should hire some teenager to run a "Dave's Dumpster Room Intern" channel :P
I’ve never had a gold mine of a dumpster room to plunder. But I’ve struck lucky once recently..... lol....🤪 well I say recently! But time passes sooooo fast. Tbh? It was pre Covid. So I stumbled upon a skip. Not expecting anything good.
Then shining at me......gently placed .... was a Acer Aspire laptop... then after half hr... my transit was full .
HP Monitors, hard drives , basicly all office supplies.
How can commercial places just chuck out gear? Beyond me
It's trash... old, used, superseded and already written down and written off for Tax purposes. They cannot (technically) sell it, and donation causes accounting issues. Even if they could sell it, the cost of labour (and lost time doing core tasks) to manage that would be far greater than any profits made.
How much the dumpster charged for the I7 and the big monitor?
The computer on which I am watching this video is older than all those dumped stuff! A first gen I3...
Things of third world...
Nobody here in Argentina would dare to discard a computer with a microprocessor newer than a Core 2 Duo (my other pc)...
The mac M1 chip is a game changer mate, you should look into it.
Do you not have any "PC's for disadvantaged people" charity places, or even a bog standard charity shop, local to you for all these computers (assuming you don't sell them locally)? There used to be a guy I knew ages ago who used to repair and install linux (and a modem, to date how long ago it was) on scrappers like these for disadvantaged kids to allow them to study on line and have access to standard office apps. For running linux and basic suite programs the low end pc's are more than useable (heck my grandkids now use my old z87, x58, and Q43 based pc's for the usual youtube, vlc, and linux games which has given them a new lease of life).
DOH! I should have kept watching till the 7:13 mark before pressing send. Seems you already forward some to disadvantaged kids.
They have got to be worth something to a community house or school.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Were they smart enough to remove all the hard drives before dumping?
In this case, yes. But not always, I find heaps of hard drives.
@@EEVblog2 Quicker if you dont mind the spend to change for a low-spec to some kind of SSD stick drive- less weight !
Meanwhile, I'm curious as to what the jukebox-shaped thing was? Looked interesting to me, but then I find all kinds of crap interesting... :P
I also want to see what that's about!
Cool donations. Did you swap out the psu from an i5 into an i7?
Yep, the 3rd i7 works great now!
You could turn the monitors into a really crappy solar panel.
Whatever you don't need can probably be "dumped" on a local charity thrift store.
I have some weird mild addiction for HPs, I own 3.
I'd go peel those product key stickers off the rest if it were me.
OEM keys get locked to the hardware. So pretty much useless unless you reinstall Windows on the same machine.
@@DONK8008 Not quite. The factory install of Windows will be done with a special manufacturer key and the sticker key is only there for reinstallation. Since the sticker reinstallation key is probably unused I don't see how they could tell if it's being used on the machine or not.
If you are reinstalling on the same machine, the sticker key is _always_ unneeded on these systems as it's possible to reuse the original manufacturer's key of 74T2M-DKDBC-788W3-H689G-6P6GT after installing a certificate file.
donation is a good idea 💡
Dang it, these videos look completely different when your own trusty machine decided to die at the worst of times...
Mate the DDR3 ram is worth pulling as it’s gone up in price big time
Really, why?
@@EEVblog2 unfortunately the chip shortage has driven up ddr3 prices .. I kid you not 8gb goes for 60 dollars and 16gb got for 100 … that’s second hand
wouldn't it be worth it to take out all the CPUs and maybe do a draw once in a while? along with the RAM. might be worth it for some, and maybe shipping is more accessible than for the whole chassis.
That's possible. But who'd want a bunch of old Gen3 i5's?
@@EEVblog2 people buy them on eBay all the time
@@EEVblog2 finding a case and power supply is easy. If you sold the motherboard, CPU, heatsink, and ram as a package, it would be worth the shipping cost, since you've ditched most of the weight and size.
swap the i7 to a working i5, easy peasy
I wonder if anyone in the building watches your content and leaves stuff out for you.
Several people know what I'm up to.
Your lucky one, nice video.
You know you're spoiled when you complain about whats free in the dumpster room... :)
Intel is struggling, AMD mostly rules the roost these days, if you can get them. Good find, free is good, most of the time..
My favourite kind of videos btw...
Try robbing the power supply from one of the other dumpster PCs for the i7
Like Derrrr. Dave already replaced the PSU in the faulty machine.
Take how much You can from these dumpster PC's.. One not working, that's mean's You need to get another one with i5, to bring back to life i7.. Then give away locally for school's, donations (as You do), etc..
Not just for fun there's phrase: "One man's garbage, another man's treasure.." 😊
Love Your dumpster.. My closest dumpster very rarely gets fill with something good.. 😂
And someone to pay min wage for the time when the house needs repairing but you are fixing computers all day (even cleaning takes time, and needs space).
If only if dumpsters and landfill are proper public spaces where people could visit and take away stuff. lol my brain aren't making sense. IDEA: 🤪 charge people a fee to visit The Dumpster and find treasure!
Ah yeah sff business pc's. I see them in the ewaste often in numbers optilex, thinkcenters etc... I always liked the cases. They're hard to flip though in my experience anyway. I think people buying desktops are gamers mainly and sff not really flexible for gfx cards and storage options etc.
Some people transfer into fancier cases add some RGB, SSD , GPU and sell but sometimes HP/Dell/Acer use proprietary components
@@Glenjimen I found an m73 Lenovo a while back 4th generation i3. A pretty good machine I'll end up sticking a 4770 in it but yeah hard to flip. I wouldn't bother transfering it to another case just wouldn't make sense as everything is kinda made to fit. The case is actually the best thing about it that it slips under a hutch etc. Though by today's standards it's still pretty big. Development of mini PC's, raspberry pi etc is pretty cool imo. We'll end up being able to vesa mount a little box on the back of the monitor soon. You already can but they'll get way better, substantially more powerful once we get beyond shortages and slowdowns of semi conductor components etc...
Take all pcs upgrade them with ssd install windows and sell it. This is what i call easy money ;)
Fix em up and give to a local school.
Schools don’t want them, charities will take complete PCs for low income/disaster families. Otherwise they’re ewaste.
Schools have really embraced uniformity to reduce IT as they cost more than the equipment. Also it’s harder for students to really mess up a chrome book/iPad.
@@peterg.8245 Other organisations would love them though. These would have been ideal workstations for the community radio station I used to run all tech for.
@@peterg.8245 let the kids mess em up and then fix em up. They'll learn something.
@@peterg.8245 Correct, schools won't touch them.
The students bring their OWN laptops and iPads to school. There aren't computers in schools now says, and certainly not desktops.
Ben from Ewaste Ben always after PC's.
He is in Melbourne, Dave is in Sydney, and there is a fair bit of travel time between the 2 places.
I would love a dumpster room. But then again.. we throw out a lot of stuff people may want..
What are you doing with the Windows keys? :D
The Windows keys that come with these type of machines are coupled to the hardware so you can't use the key on another machine.
@@peterpv0001 there is a loop hole just tell them the main borad aught fire
Peel the stickers off and install Linux.
Just buy $2 keys off AliExpress or Ebay or Reddit. Just as legit.
@@peterpv0001 Actually that's not the case. Windows 7 preinstalls use a special manufacturer preactivation key tied to a hardware certificate (in this case probably 74T2M-DKDBC-788W3-H689G-6P6GT) instead of the sticker key. So the sticker key will be entirely unused in most cases and not tied to a specific piece of hardware. Microsoft could only check which manufacturer the key is from but AFAIK they don't even do that. With Windows 8 and 10 there isn't a sticker key and instead a unique key stored in the BIOS is used.
I have exactly same Samsung monitor bruh
scammer call centre busted hahah
Give them a good what?!
Such a waste during pandemic. Lots of people stuck with much less powerful hardware, and the prices are so high, so upgrade is not viable. And same time some idiots decide to toss a few fully operational sets of hardware just because??? I don't understand this
ffs, dumpster diving / mentality to write off old hw doesnt exist where i live...big sadge
3:37 ;)
that's ecology...better dump things that still works...give them to schools or poors...crazy world
xD Just bought a i7 3770..
Donate .. to a private school
One free advice ; Put all your dumpsters stuff in one container and ship to Jebel Ali - UAE and sell to Iraqis , there you will win in GOLD !!...
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Pay attention. The Power Supply was dead. It';s been swapped out and machine works.
@@johncoops6897 I might be mistaken but that seemed like a bot comment to me.
Please send ram and one monitor my way 🥺 need ddr4 ECC dual ranked 32-64 gigs 2 or 4 sticks
Well these are 4GB non-ECC DDR3 so not what you're looking for.
@@eDoc2020 darn
Donate to low-income child families .. 🥰 i donated work laptops which companies throw in recycling i3 / 8gb 120gb SSD 15.6 "👌 Dell / Lenovo / hp pro..🥰🥰