I bought myself a new computer a while back and never got rid of my old one. It’s been sitting in a box in the office trying not to be noticed. It’s time to get rid of it. I would pass the whole thing on to someone but it wasn’t completely reliable (hence the purchase of the new one). I narrowed the search for the problem down to two suspects: the motherboard and the processor. Other than those two pieces, the rest of the computer is reliable and fantastic and it would be a shame to recycle it. So, if anyone is interested in any of the following computer parts, just let me know and they’re yours. Absolutely free! And that’s free as in beer, not as in speech. First come first serve…

Two Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drives (one 80 GB and one 160 GB)
Bought new, these puppies would cost you 50 and 60 euros, respectively.
Are you quickly running out of space now that your mp3 collection has spread like the plague since you discovered that new BitTorrent client? Maybe the videos of your kid are taking up 95% of your current hard drive and you don’t have any space left to download the newest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Or maybe you just want an extra internal hard drive to back up all the stuff you’ve already got. Sounds like you need a new hard drive.
Just make sure: your computer can use IDE hard drives and you’ve got an open connector on your current IDE cable or an open slot to add a new IDE cable on your motherboard.

Two sticks of Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Desktop Memory
I’m pretty sure you can pick these up new for about 25 euros each.
Is your computer slowing down now that the programs you’re running are getting more and more demanding? Does your desktop balk when you try to open and edit that huge video file of you dancing the Macarena? Maybe things slow down to a crawl if you’ve got 10 Firefox windows open while your mp3 player is randomly playing through your whole collection and you decide to open a 30 MB image for photo editing. Sounds like you need more RAM.
Just make sure: your motherboard accepts memory modules of this speed (333) and that you have an empty memory slot to accommodate them.

Club 3D GeForce 6600 GT AGP graphics card
Not exactly cutting edge anymore, this baby will see still cost you 100 euros in the stores today.
This one should be self-explanatory. If you’re a gamer or a video editor and you haven’t upgraded your graphics card in the past few years, you don’t know what you’re missing. I couldn’t even load Grand Theft Auto until I slotted this bad boy into my tower. Now I’m Quake fragging like a madman. And Madden Football? To die for.
Just make sure: your motherboard accepts AGP graphics cards.

DVD burner
I don’t know, maybe 40 euros.
Is it possible that you still don’t have a DVD burner in your computer? I highly doubt it. But if don’t, don’t tell anyone. They’ll just make fun of you. Tell me and you’ll be burning copies of your favorite DVD store rentals in no time. And I won’t tell anyone. Promise.
Just make sure: your computer isn’t running Windows 3.11 or earlier.

I’ve also got some other stuff that you might be interested in: a plain-as-vanilla CD burner, a nice ATX mid tower case with a pretty transparent side, a dirty old English language keyboard, a decent Thermaltake CPU fan, and the aforementioned dodgy motherboard and processor (but I wouldn’t recommend using them). So leave a comment, send me an email, or give me a call. You’ve got one week and then I start researching recycling centers.

[delivery, installation, and technical support NOT included]