My son was bored last night, so decided to do a bit of skip diving.
Result. An older PC with a 6 core 12 thread 3960X processor on a workstation class motherboard (X79), with 8 memory slots populated with 16GB of memory and an Nvidia GTX 970 GPU. In a decent case able to hold 9 hard disks.
Best thing is it all works, My server has been upgraded now populated with 40GB memory, And can now stream 4K video from Plex without buffering.
And my son will have a bit of extra pocket money selling the GTX in these times if GPU shortages. The whole thing scored 10,500 in Firestrike benchmark.
A high-end motherboard can certainly improve disk and network performance, as on paper it should have only been a minor upgrade (original server had an i7 4770S
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The only time I ever did any skip diving I was very drunk and got a broken nose and dislocated finger.
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We had a skip at the front of our house which unfortunately overhung the pavement slightly, big skip and slopping garden means the offending corner was roughly head height. Our next door neighbour expressed his concerns to us 'that could have a blind man's eye out.'
So, if we see a skip now we often have a little family chorus of 'that could have a blind man's eye out.'
Well done to your son, although I'm with @McToot in not understanding the detail.
It really is amazing what people throw away.
I reckon half the 58 Les Paul Bursts have been scavenged from skips.
Don't fall asleep in a skip. Sage advice that.
It sat, unused, in my Dad’s garage for about five years until I got my own house. Then I sawed it in half and made it into a cooker hood. Boom boom!
He sold an AMD 470 during the first mining craze for £300.
When you work somewhere like that you can literally make anything for nothing as eventually all the parts you need will be thrown away. We all rode amazing bikes for the time and had expensive Hi Fi's and Sony Trinitron TV's ... which were considered the best available for many years. A TV was quite easy to fix back then, most faults being bad joints on the flyback transformer and blown bridge rects. Once I was decked out myself I still repaired the stuff but sold it on. I still miss that job.
These days I can't walk past a skip without having a good look in it.
There's Always a mattress in every skip.