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This old office PC sitting next to my desk at work is calling to me like the green goblin mask

I know it's got an i5-4570 in it and that lines right up with my old GTX 970 I've held onto release date wise. Stick some DDR3, a new cooler (Cooler Master Hyper 212 for authenticity), and new thermal paste in there and you're pogging out in Splinter Cell: Blacklist or Assassin's Creed IV or whatever else we were playing in 2013

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If it's been there more than a few months you're probably golden. If you wanna be extra safe, move it to a closet for a couple months before taking it home, just in case.
Edit: actually, as someone who used to do deal with the old computers. If you wanna be super safe, find out what happens to the old computers. Is there a leasing program that will require them to hunt them down at the end of the fiscal year, do they auction them off, or do they just end up in a warehouse collecting dust until they get yeeted into dumpster /recycling truck? If there's no lease program, and it's been there since before October, you're probably good to go.
- The head of IT is pretty chill so I could probably straight up ask if I can take it should I desire
  
  Lol, that works too.

Do it. Do it do it.
Stirner teaches us that if you take it, it is yours.

Hell yeah do it. My games of choice back then were Gmod, Arma 2, BF3, and CSGO, so there’s no real way to recreate those experiences given they’re all online or patched into whole new games

Do the time honored tradition of moving the PC to an inconspicuous location to see if people look for it before moving it to the back of your trunk.
Take some of the parts home if you can't take the entire PC with you. You would have to spend money on a used case, which is like 20 bucks. Do note that the motherboard and PSU aren't completely internal components. What you can salvage home depends on the salvage policy of your IT department. Nobody cares about RAM or the motherboard lithium battery while people usually care about the storage drives because any semi-competent IT department would have policy stipulating that retired storage drives need to be sanitized or shredded.
Befriend people from IT or the warehouse and ask if they can "salvage" the PC by "disposing" it into the back of your trunk.

.... My previous rig was a 4460 with a gtx 960, I used it till last year without issue lol. Now it's my htpc.
- what OS do you run on that thing?
  
  Trying out Nobaru, but jellyfin playback is periodically stuttering so far. I did swap out the card to a RX5700 or 5600 that I picked up used. Nvidia didn't want to play well with low refresh rate on the TV. I might be moving it back to Fedora or mint if I can't work the kinks out. It pulls double duty of being a steam box too.
  Actual ability of the rig is perfectly adequate, I don't really go for AAA games now days. I have another system running an i5 4460 without GPU that runs my UnRAID server.

This was me and eyeing up a seemingly abandoned mac mini on my desk for 2 years. Never did build up the confidence to yoink it but I got a w520 and t480 from the job so wasn't all lost

Dew it. Move it somewhere still in the office first and see if anyone notices, then yeet it. Flash batocera on that thing once you get home and you're golden

AC black flag rules
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I've just bought a Xeon e3-1245 v3 to replace an i5 4440, and it was only £20 on ebay. Similar speeds, but with hyperthreading, so double the cores.
Might be worth looking at something similar if you do get it 👍

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