Rust!
A client came to dispose a PC at my place as he couldn't find an e-waste recycling place that would dispose of his old PC for free. He lives in an upmarket and expensive house which is about 800m away from the beach and the ocean.
Externally the case looks like it's in good condition, but once I opened it up to strip it down for parts, I was shocked to find that the chassis had rust everywhere and the fan outlet in the rear has rust all around it. I think the case is an Antec one because it is decently built with 0.8mm steel and has the Antec style bezel.
Anyway the components inside seem to be ok except for the RAM which seems to be bad. The Gigabyte (forgot model) based AMD athlon XP motherboard with a VIA chipset seems to work fine and is filled with Rubycon, NCC and Sanyo caps. The AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU seems to work perfectly as well. The 7200.7 40Gb Seagate Barracuda IDE HDD has no bad sectors and no rust either so that's going into my media center PC.
But yes, I am quite shocked to have found a PC which has a rusted chassis. This PC is positioned indoors and under a table as well, so it had decent protection from the ocean breezes that contain salt etc.
It makes me wonder how the house, the car and whatever else metal outside the home would feel like.
Since it is a decently built case, I have to sand all the rust off tomorrow and probably give it a coat of white paint on the chassis.
Thanks.
Externally the case looks like it's in good condition, but once I opened it up to strip it down for parts, I was shocked to find that the chassis had rust everywhere and the fan outlet in the rear has rust all around it. I think the case is an Antec one because it is decently built with 0.8mm steel and has the Antec style bezel.
Anyway the components inside seem to be ok except for the RAM which seems to be bad. The Gigabyte (forgot model) based AMD athlon XP motherboard with a VIA chipset seems to work fine and is filled with Rubycon, NCC and Sanyo caps. The AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU seems to work perfectly as well. The 7200.7 40Gb Seagate Barracuda IDE HDD has no bad sectors and no rust either so that's going into my media center PC.
But yes, I am quite shocked to have found a PC which has a rusted chassis. This PC is positioned indoors and under a table as well, so it had decent protection from the ocean breezes that contain salt etc.
It makes me wonder how the house, the car and whatever else metal outside the home would feel like.
Since it is a decently built case, I have to sand all the rust off tomorrow and probably give it a coat of white paint on the chassis.
Thanks.
The case is a mess but the parts that I wanted from it are still good. I moved that one so now he has started on a home built fast AMD PC that also has its cover off. Most of the stuff in that one I'm sending to RatDude after I clean and dry it. Got to clean up the case too as I'm going to build an AMD K6/2 450 mhz in it.
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