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What's your latest tech Freebie?

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As the title says, wht's your latest tech Freebie (must have cost nothing) be it found, gifted or given. Let's see them awesome freebies.

I'll start with this nice LG 3D Blueray player, with a built in recording, onto a WD 1TB HDD, and a twin tuner, for watch one and record another channel. Just popped the top off in case it needed a clean inside. It's playing a DVD at least fine with no skipping.
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A 14¨ Sony Trinitron crt TV for retro CD-i gaming.
 

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A red transparent OEM Sony PS2 memory card and a PS2 DVD remote from my brother. :)

edit: And the remote works flawlessly on my SCPH-50004 silver console. :toast:
A 14¨ Sony Trinitron crt TV for retro CD-i gaming.
Damn, a CRT that small would still fit in my apartment and NES & PS2 gaming would be way better than on my modern flatscreen.
 
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Edit- yeah, I'm the one that gets to throw away all of the families tech crap...cuz I'm the IT guy!
Edit#2- but most aren't bright enough to bother consulting the IT guy prior to making a purchase...hence the above tech jalopy.

I apologize. I'm really not as jaded as I seem :p
 
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Uncle gifted me a non functional 990x evo r2 (with an 8350 black box) and repaired it.
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Found an Asus Z170-K with a 6600K & GTX 960 Strix 4GB in the trash. Need to check them later. :toast:

edit: Found also a Thermaltake tower cooler (+fan clips) in the metal recycling bin. Only few fins bent.
edit: Currently updating the board's BIOS, POSTed fine immediately. The socket was also on perfect shape.
 
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The "Kogan" branded 34" 3440x1440 144hz Ultrawide I used to own that I sold to a mate cheap some 2.5 years ago has been gifted back to me. It developed an issue and he's already upgraded to a 32:9 bohemoth and gave this one back in case I can fix it.

There's an obvious edge lit backlight issue, but otherwise functions exactly as expected. It owes me nothing now so I'm considering either repurposing it as is, or opening it up and trying to repair the edge lighting.

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Found this in the trash at work, it works when plugged in but the battery won't hold charge and new maps for it cost 4 X as much as these currently sell for :laugh:
Garmin Nuvi circa 2011
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My current Z790 motherboard doesn’t support PCIe Gen5 performance so will get maximum Gen4 speeds out of it when I get round to adding it into my main rig this week sometime.

Now I wonder if I have any friends that are willing to arrange a Nvidia RTX4080 Super or 4090 to be sent to me
 

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Found this in the trash at work, it works when plugged in but the battery won't hold charge and new maps for it cost 4 X as much as these currently sell for :laugh:
Garmin Nuvi circa 2011
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back 2011 it "could be useful" as phone screens were smaller. But, useful for cars of course. One could succesfully roadwalk with some Nokia Nseries and use GPS&3G lmfao.
Who use offline maps in 2k24 (and "buy" actually maps for cars built-in navis - dumba**es. sorry.)
 
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I picked up a working PS4 with 2 controllers so I'm pondering what I should do with it.
 

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I picked up a working PS4 with 2 controllers so I'm pondering what I should do with it.
Play of course! I bought mine last year from my little brother and with PS+, there's a pretty good game library to play.
 
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