More Hardware Follies: Another New Old PC

More Hardware Follies: Another New Old PC
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Well, it's a new to me. Old to everyone else... even to its previous
user.

Just another rig found and - ever-so-briefly - added to the herd.
Located in the usual way, and given the usual treatment. Found
abandoned, sitting lonely on the curb, I couldn't help but give it a
new home. Took it back with me, blew out the dust, took it apart, and
scrubbed every component clean. Then put it all together, benchmarked
it, figured out what every component was, and admired it in all its
shiny, freshly-cleaned glory.

Then I stripped it for parts and sent the refuse to eWaste, because I
/really/ don't need another old PC in the house right now. ;-)

But before that, it was a perfectly ordinary no-name 3.4GHz Intel Core
i5 with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard-drive. It probably dated to around
2012. It had naught but integrated video, and lacking anything but PCI
slots, it was NEVER going to be much use for gaming. It was an
home/office PC at its core, designed for basic word-processing and
e-mail, and not much else.

Its nameless mid-tower chassis did look sort of nice (black, of
course, but with some nice chrome highlights, and completely lacking
in unnecessary LEDs or windows), but I didn't really have the room for
even that, so to recycling it went. Shame, it was in really good
condition.

I did salvage the CPU, RAM, hard-drive and power-supply. I had to get
SOMETHING out of all my hard-work (the last two are likely destined
for the Win98 computer).

So, nothing exciting... still, I enjoy tinkering with old hardware,
and this gave me something to do. Although maybe the next PC I find
will actually be worth keeping. Here's hoping.