Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
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So i been staring down craigslist for the past month or so trying to find some hardware for cheap. despite all my high end hardware i've had over the years, im frugal as hell and kind of a cheap ass haha!
anyways, i found a gigabyte h55m-ud2h board for only $30 which i thought was a decent deal.
i picked up a i5 655k this guy who works at a computer recycling center "found in a computer" his work was given. im going back for the rest of the computer tomorrow to see what kinda gems i can get for next to nothing. i only paid $100 for the 655k.. not bad.
someone keeps dumping LCDs and other stuff in my trashcan here at the apartments. last week i found a nearly new samsung 22" LCD. it only had 2 bulged caps in it which i replaced with some from my collection over the years. free LCD
i found a guy on craigslist with an evga 8800gts 512mb card... MINT for only $35 but i ended up trading him the LCD i fixed..... so free video card ha!
a few months ago a good local friend of mine had a machine gave to him that was "no longer working" it had a dead motherboard so i parted out the cpu(q9550), ram(4x1gb ddr2), and video card(4850). got $160 for all that.
so i threw all this stuff i got into the case... which is a gateway f6000 case, meh.. not great but looks pretty decent for a free case... and for gateway.
so after doing the math, i ended up with a half way decent machine... and still have some money left over to get a decent 8gb kit of ram or.. im thinking about picking up this gts250 i just found for $25 on craigslist. i still need a better cooler though.
moral of the story is... craigslist is half way decent, just really dig for those deals and try to negotiate with people. i've never paid full asking price for anything. hope to see you guys have similar luck
i'll grab some pics but heres a quick shot for now....
anyways, i found a gigabyte h55m-ud2h board for only $30 which i thought was a decent deal.
i picked up a i5 655k this guy who works at a computer recycling center "found in a computer" his work was given. im going back for the rest of the computer tomorrow to see what kinda gems i can get for next to nothing. i only paid $100 for the 655k.. not bad.
someone keeps dumping LCDs and other stuff in my trashcan here at the apartments. last week i found a nearly new samsung 22" LCD. it only had 2 bulged caps in it which i replaced with some from my collection over the years. free LCD
i found a guy on craigslist with an evga 8800gts 512mb card... MINT for only $35 but i ended up trading him the LCD i fixed..... so free video card ha!
a few months ago a good local friend of mine had a machine gave to him that was "no longer working" it had a dead motherboard so i parted out the cpu(q9550), ram(4x1gb ddr2), and video card(4850). got $160 for all that.
so i threw all this stuff i got into the case... which is a gateway f6000 case, meh.. not great but looks pretty decent for a free case... and for gateway.
so after doing the math, i ended up with a half way decent machine... and still have some money left over to get a decent 8gb kit of ram or.. im thinking about picking up this gts250 i just found for $25 on craigslist. i still need a better cooler though.
moral of the story is... craigslist is half way decent, just really dig for those deals and try to negotiate with people. i've never paid full asking price for anything. hope to see you guys have similar luck
i'll grab some pics but heres a quick shot for now....