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lol - upgrade much?
I am a pack rat so I keep everything. My New Years resolution is to start cleaning and organizing my junk. Normally I use the boxes to store extra cables, paper work and manuals for that item. Then if I update I place the old unit back in the box. Someday they may be worth a lot of money as antiques.
Jim
Some of the video card boxes are from customer builds but all the Asus mobo boxes are mine.
I usually do a major upgrade every 3-4 years.
In the past 2.5 years I did a few major upgrades back to back to my main rig since it didn't cost me that much.
Started with a P4 3.4Ghz, 2GB, X1950Pro
to
Core2duo E8400, 4GB, 9800GT
Swapped the E8400 for a Core2Quad 9400.
Sold the Q9400 and 9800GT and bought a Q6600 and GTX260
added 4GB more ram for a total of 8GB
upgraded the GTX260 to a GTX285
Sold the GTX285 and got an HD5850
Sold the Q6600/mobo/4GB DDR2 800 ram and bought the corei7 870, mobo, 8GB DDR3
Sold the original 8GB of ram from the Q6600 setup which was DDR2 1066.
I save boxes until the item is past the date I can return it to the store, then I pitch them.
Exceptions would be for things like a Monitor box, which would be handy if I need to make a long-distance move or sell the item and need to ship it somewhere.
LG monitor packaging is pretty good, as well as the ease of taking it apart to rebox it. I had to send in my LG 19" a year and a half ago and just took a couple of minutes to box it back up.
They replaced it for free with pre-paid label to get the old one back to them.
3 year warranty and mine failed after 2 years and I was pleased with the service.