>>107590745Why?
>>107590966Don't ask why. Invest in older PCs now or remain poor forever.
>>107590966Having nonpozzed CPUs I suppose, and also just cause retro tech gets more valuable with age
>>107591124>retro techvaluable retro tech means a solid beige case and parts that were hard to find, not a bitchass celeron system in a shitty plastic case sold for $399 you found in a bargain bin in 2004
>>107591147Unironically even those are raising in price.
>>107591147Anything older than Pentium 4 goes for a lot on ebay even if it's shit
>>107591124just turn off the Internet? Does your router run on open source verifiable software? Does your modem? Does the Cisco ingress routers? How about the fiber networks connecting you?
lol @ above
yet another thing ruined by late stage capitalism
>>107591182calm down, I'm just talking about the Intel ME
>>107590966Hardware locks.
>>107591152They're really not. I passed on paying $15 for some early 2000s Dell shitbox just yesterday, since there was nothing of value or interest about it. You're always going to have some "I KNOW WHAT I HAVE NO OFFERS" types making listings, but nobody is actually buying them. The problem with early XP-era stuff is that it has no real use case. People don't want it for their Windows 98 or DOS build because it's too modern, whilst if you were building an XP gaming rig you'd skip ahead at least a couple of generations to a better, easier and even cheaper Core 2 or Phenom II setup. Socket 478/462/754/939 stuff isn't desirable for anything, which is why I have a bunch of Socket 939 boards that I picked up for next to nothing (and have never done anything with).
>>107590745i have a kino olidata case with a 775 mobo, core 2 duo 3.00ghz, 4gb of ram ddr3 and a gtx 1060 6gbi'll sell it for $1k in 2026
>>107590745No. They have no use case. They don't support modern web. Anything that ran on it could be easily emulated on a newer hardware. All the quirky le epic reddit stuff that fatcelebs like lgr review has already been scalped. Only stuff like>bitchass celeron system in a shitty plastic case sold for $399 you found in a bargain bin in 2004this is left.
>>107592032impressive, very nice
There's gonna be a crisis when old ram starts going the way of all tech. Old CPU's are virtually eternal, and every other part can be serviced, but something like a gig of ddr ram, once it's gone, it's gone.
>>107592270I remember reading about some way to use FPGAs as a way of using more modern RAM on pretty much anything.
>>107591152Sounds like /g/ needs to invest even more heavily into Ivy Bridge components in order to be ahead of the next hardware fad.
>>107592291That should work.
>>107590966XXX class solar flare hits earth and fries all electronics below 65nm
>>107592270You'll be long dead before that day comes. DDR isn't even that old, relatively speaking. I have enough old RAM to build a fort with ranging from SIPPs and SIMMs to DDR3, and out of all that I've found precisely one faulty stick which was half of a DDR3 kit.
>>107592291I'm retarded and don't know what I'm talking about but this should be possible right? Presumably you'd just need an interposer with some chip on it to translate the signals?
>>1075923382 more weeks.
>>107592338not how it works
>>107590966>>107591114
>>107590966Retro gamers
