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.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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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