So my old, old PC of nearly 10 years finally cycled away. It's been on the fritz for the past few years (as least) and was definitely a cranky old lady for the past 12 months.
All things considered, I think it didn't do too badly. It's visited a number of countries, has spent time at sea and in planes. I've only had to replace the motherboard, but aside from that every other component has held out well.
Unfortunately, there's nothing much for me to salvage. I've taken out the hard disks. I'll throw them into the new PC, copy everything over, then bin them. The graphics card is ancient, the ram is old DDR3 with not particularly fast timings so I doubt anyone would want that. I'll give it to the local recycling centre and maybe they'll give me a fiver for it. That aside I don't know if there's much else I can do with it.
I was hoping it would last another few months until the new cpu's and cards come out, but things never really work out as planned. I have to save up for some life stuff in the next few months, but after that I should be able to get a decent PC. It'll be fun to catch back up on the games I couldn't play for the past few years, not to mention rendering out scenes in my little personal project will be about a bajillion times faster which is nice.
That's all future talk, however, so for the time being I'll just have to keep working hard so I can save up enough to buy the mystical future PC.