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Found PC in the electronic recycling bin, need help to determine if it is worth salvaging.

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Posted Jul 3, 2021, 8:12 PM UTC · edited · locked

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halleffects•

So the X79 Motherboard that is in there will be holding either a Sandy Bridge or an Ivy Bridge CPU 2nd or 3rd Gen Intel Core series chips they can be good but they are definitely outdated.

The HyperX Fury RAM will work but only if it is DDR3 as the X79 Chipset doesn't support DDR4.

The 30 series RTX cards will physically work in that system but as far as I know even with the highest end Ivy Bridge chips the 3060 would be held back so it's probably not worth it for that

For compatibilitys sake search for intel x79 compatability you'll find a lot of good info there

If theres multiple pictures upload them to Imgur and add the link to the body of the post

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Thanks a ton. I did upload some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/Xcl8ZUN

Is there anything I can use from this to build a better PC? Will the power supply be compatible with a new motherboard and CPU if I went that route?

Is the CPU cooler compatible with a new motherboard? I tried using partpicker to see what it was compatible with but I think it is old enough that it doesn't show up.

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halleffects•

If it was me and my money id try get like a GTX 1070 or 1060 6GB used for as cheap as possible and run that machine as long as possible it'll serve you better than you'd expect

Edit: just saw the pictures, what GPU is that? And try take a picture of the other side of those ram modules so we can see tha liable and let you know if they'll work for you

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omvOP•

It is GTX 1060 6gb.

I did find that the tip of one of the pins is damaged. You can see what I am talking about here: https://imgur.com/a/DBCdqSW

Do you think it will still work? Should I try plugging it into the motherboard and turning it on, seeing what happens? I'm guessing I need an internal harddrive first. Thanks again for your advice.

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RedditenmoMOD•

Sorry, I shamelessly tried to give myself 2 upvotes with another reddit account in a pathetic attempt to boost the visibility of this post. Anyway, that is why there are two different accounts commenting.

Your post has been removed for violation of reddit's vote manipulation rules.

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