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Yeah I was thinking around 5-550. I mean it's definitely old but still a really solid system I think.

For multiple reasons, I have decided that I want to sell my (older) custom built tower. The specs are most definitely dated at this point, but how much do you guys think would be fair to ask for it? Going to post it locally on craigslist/letgo. Corsair 600t graphite case Gigabyte 990FXA ud3 motherboard AMD FX 6300 cpu (stable OC at 4.4 GHz) Hyper 212 Evo cooler AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 gpu Asus Xonar DG sound card (it was a gift, I know I didn't really need it) WD 1TB Blue hard drive EDIT: 8gb Kingston Ram Around 4-5 years ago I remember the parts costing 800-ish USD so what do you guys would be reasonable now? Everything is still in really good shape, just kinda dusty.

I don't want a clean install, I need to merge my OS with the existing data on my hard drive. If only it were as easy as a clean install

That's what I was thinking but won't this require a format of my hard drive before copying? I'm just looking to merge the OS with the existing data on the drive

I currently have both an ssd (which has windows 10 on it) and a hard drive in my computer and to make a long story short, I need to get the ssd out of my machine to be used elsewhere. It seems everyone and their dog has an article about cloning windows from a hard drive to a new ssd, but I can't seem to find a single one about moving everything back onto the hard drive. Would it be as simple as copying the contents of the ssd and pasting it into the hard drive? I would rather not lose the contents of the hard drive either, so if anyone knows how to move windows back to my hard drive then I'm all ears.

Yeah mine didn't either. I mean everything still works fine after it's turned on, but I still can't explain the weird boot behavior

Mine started doing this too when I first started playing around with overclocking. Even after pulling the cmos battery and running everything at stock speeds it still is 'double booting' as I call it. This has been going on for over a year so if anyone has a solution I'm all ears.

Long story short, I am going to need a new laptop for college next year. I already have a custom build desktop so it would by no means be my daily driver-- just a note taking device. It needs to not chug and lag out when I have multiple applications open (chrome, word, eclipse for programming, etc) and have decent battery life that can last a work day. I want it to be snappy but I'm not going to kill it with any over-strenuous applications. I have no set budget, but I'd prefer for it to be pretty cheap since, again, I have a nice desktop at come home to everyday.

Yes

Shield tablet for sure

If you're really trying to cut costs then you could kill the aftermarket cpu cooler all together. That cpu isn't overclockable and the stock heatsink/fan will do just fine keeping it cool. I'd say pocket the extra $20 if you're really going for a budget build.

$150 new http://www.amazon.com/Fire-HD-Display-Wi-Fi-GB/dp/B00S5HFVGI/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1451084163&sr=1-1&keywords=fire+hd+8

I'd use it, like I said, for notes and it'd probably become my portable daily driver. I just don't know if I should use it or sell it and invest in a legit laptop with windows

For Christmas I got an unasked for Amazon Fire Hd 8 tablet (8gb). I don't currently own a tablet but I've never really seen myself to be a big tablet guy if I ever did have one. Don't like the idea of not having Google app integration but apparently there are work-arounds available. It would probably replace my junk netbook that I'm currently using at college to take notes. What do you guys think? Would you keep it or try and resell it unopened?

Yeah I saw that