Note: I apologize for badly lit and/or blurry photos. The camera I use has awful autofocus, made worse by the darkness of my basement.
As mentioned before, my basement is a junkyard of computer parts. All the items are the product of neighbors & friends giving me this junk, with a couple eBay purchases as well. I've long forgotten exactly what has accumulated, so I went on an adventure to see if I could find anything interesting.
Here's a pile of assorted PCI cards, and a motherboard. All of these were pulled from various computers over the years. Nothing that's very interesting.
The motherboard is stolen from a Dell Inspiron 530 that I acquired around 2017. Still has the old Pentium Dual Core in it.
This motherboard is a Socket 754 MSI MS-7142 that I got from an already gutted PC. I can't figure out how to get the heatsink off (has some weird screws on it, I'll try and get a specialty screwdriver later) so I don't know if there's a CPU underneath. Also some assorted sticks of RAM to the side.
Without a doubt, this junk pile is the one I'm least proud of. One of the worst cable hay bales I've ever seen.
The only thing of mild interest that I found when I dissected the cable pile was this card reader. I have no idea where or when I got it.
These are all case fans & CPU coolers I've pulled from computers. Many of them have been destroyed for 4th of July, but I still have a decent amount.
I found these 2 laptop style 2.5" HDDs, and I'm not entirely sure where they are from. One is possibly from an Acer Eee PC I scrapped a couple years ago, but I have no idea where the other is from. Never checked either of their contents, I might make a page on that.
I've been well aware that I own this, but I still want to show this glowing blue case fan. One of the more unusual things I own.
One thing I've never had a shortage of is HDDs. The origin of all of these was a friend that gave me an old rack storage server with about 10 assorted hard drives inside. Other than the one with "BAD" written on it, all of them function.
The last thing of interest are these sealed Betamax tapes. I have a Betamax camera to go with these, but I've never got around to actually using it.
This might not be the end of the basement exploration series. I'll probably make a secondary page that's mostly just a photo gallery.