Best deal you ever got on computer parts?

[Brian McKee]

Due to a rather long winded series of unfortunate events at newegg I got my acer laptop that's sporting a 5200 U and 940m for about 380 bucks.

[Bleedingyamato]

4 hours ago, DrM said:

g3258 for $45 at microcenter, and a g502 mouse for $40, all brand new.

I really wish there was a Microcenter near where I live or at least if they'd offer online ordering.  

 

I keep hearing about great deals like that and I keep missing out...  ?

 

I'd paid $70 for my G3258 from Amazon back in March.  $45 is a much better price.

 

Or like how @BingoFishy got a G3258 and a motherboard for $100 or so.

 

Why can't I be that lucky?  lol

[Bleedingyamato]

4 hours ago, Fooshi said:

Not really a computer part as it is the entire computer, but I bought a second hand ThinkPad X1 Carbon for 1/3 of the retail price. $780 vs $2200 for a 2015 model, i7 5600U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1440p IPS touch, 4G module, 3 years warranty remaining on the serialnumber and legendary ThinkPad build quality in 14" ultrabook form, not even a scratch or any marks of usage.

Wow that's a pretty good deal.  Did it "fall off a truck" or how did you get it for so much cheaper?  O_o

[GamerzCentralYT]

EVGA 500W $5 brand new

[ElZamo92]

I bought the Corsair H80i i have in my PC brand new for $40 US in Fry's just because the box was opened. I also got an unopened 1TB WD Black for $30 and three 1TB WD blues for $60. 

This all happened in December of 2014. 

[ManIkWeet]

I got my GTX780 for €60+my old GTX670.

 

How? I had issues with the GTX670 (static signals when using VGA) and the shop didn't sell the GTX670 anymore so this was the next best option  Turns out the GTX780 suffered the same static signals

Spoiler

 

I got my Asus PG278Q for €699,80 instead of €786,90 around launch day because the website made a pricing error

 

Yes, the PG278Q still is a very expensive monitor, yes I have had issues with it, no ASUS RMA didn't bother me in any way - it was fine, yes the power adapter of the display is broken - I switched it with the one from my laptop.

[manikyath]

someone told me they had an "old computer" i could have.

(mind you, this is 4 years ago by now)

 

upon arrival.. its a medion akoya.. runs windows vista.

closer investigation the guts are 3GB ram, an OEM as fuq 8800GTS, and a core 2 quad, strapped to a semi-decent but cringeworthy power supply from FSP group, and... a WD green as the boot drive.

the mobo was bent from the shitty ass cooler, the ram was a complete failure within months, and medion akoya's offcourse have that built in kill switch when warranty runs out. (i'm not tin foil hatting here, medions reliably die after 4 years, sometimes even to the day exact.)

 

still had my share of fun with it, and when it finally dunked out i traded with a friend for a working pentium 4 with overclocking motherboard. (he pretty much disposed of the ram sticks immediately, and found that the Q6600 was fine for what he could see, but the mobo has some IMPRESSIVE mood swings)

[CtrlAltELITE]

Cant remember exactly what I paid or what the bits where worth at the time but:
Bought a combo of 2x760s. They threw in an EVGA 850w supernova gold for free. PSU was worth about £80, gpus where both at normal market value.

[BingoFishy]

7 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

I really wish there was a Microcenter near where I live or at least if they'd offer online ordering.  

 

I keep hearing about great deals like that and I keep missing out...  ?

 

I'd paid $70 for my G3258 from Amazon back in March.  $45 is a much better price.

 

Or like how @BingoFishy got a G3258 and a motherboard for $100 or so.

 

Why can't I be that lucky?  lol

If it makes you feel better, micro center doesn't have very good deals on graphics cards.

 

However, I'd like to ruin that by pointing out they have price match.

[AlTech]

Got my Logitech G700s for $60 USD instead of $90.

 

And I got my Sennheiser HD518s for like $140 instead of $200.

[themctipers]

12 hours ago, GamerGuyEbby said:

I once went to my local flea market and saw a box with many computer parts worth probably around $80-$90 USD for $2, and pretty much all the parts I used worked. The two biggest parts were my EVGA 8800 GTS and ThermalTake Blue Orb II cooler. So it was one hell of a deal. So I was curious of what deals any of you guys have ever gotten regarding computer parts.

Well, I got my iPhone 6s+ ($1100 worth) for $850 CAD (64gb)

rogers op asf

 

i got my q9650 for $25

 

i got a devastator 2 but i think it was used before. $44.60 CAD.

[Skylake02]

I got an i7-6700K for 290 dollars at Microcenter. That was almost $100 of the original price there.

The i5-6600K was also marked down $50 or so.

[Bleedingyamato]

7 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

If it makes you feel better, micro center doesn't have very good deals on graphics cards.

 

However, I'd like to ruin that by pointing out they have price match.

It did until you told me that they price match things.  lol

 

It's still nice that somewhere offers good deals sometimes.  Not like Best Buy.  More like crap deal city if you ask me.  Awful prices.  Unknowledgeable employees.  I feel sorry for all the uninformed people shopping there.  

[Mark77]

Bought a fully-loaded top of the line Dell Latitude D830 laptop for about $1700.  With the Nvidia graphics chip that eventually ended up failing on most Dell/HP/Apples it was installed on.  Nvidia graphics failed 7 years later.  Participated in a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia.   Eventually received $2200 back from the lawsuit. 

 

So the laptop basically cost me -$500. 

 

What else?  $35 for a Supermicro server motherboard that still lists for $250 on Newegg ("broken CMOS chip" on eBay -- fixed by pulling the battery).  Watts-Up! .NET meter for $8 on eBay.   Almost brand new Dell U2410 24" IPS LCD screen for $150 from a Toronto "refurbisher".  A stack of IBM Model M keyboards for $5 a piece from a junk shop downtown on Queen Street before they cleaned that area up. 

 

As for cell service -- I am using T-Mobile's "Free Data for Life" which is great.   200megabytes/month which is more than enough for what I do. 

 

[Big Head Tech]

I got an i5-2400 with board i5-650 a 450 psu, r7-370 4gb and a gtx 660 3gb and 8gb of ram.for $150. The pentium g3250 and board did not work tho but I wasn't upset, I always assume something is bad when I buy used.

[Recker]

Got my i7 4790k for free as amazon fucked up hahaha can't complain 

[Guest]

the other day i saw a maximus vii hero on a garage sale for $100 but i didn't buy it because i only had 60 and the guy didnt trust me to go pay him later ;-; 

 

*cries* 

[NumLock21]

37 minutes ago, PeloyGeek said:

the other day i saw a maximus vii hero on a garage sale for $100 but i didn't buy it because i only had 60 and the guy didnt trust me to go pay him later ;-; 

 

*cries* 

Should have put like a $10 dollar deposit first, letting the seller know you want that board, so they can keep it on the side. Then run home and get the rest.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Should have put like a $10 dollar deposit first, letting the seller know you want that board, so they can keep it on the side. Then run home and get the rest.

i told him i'd give him the 60 and then contact him like next week to give him the rest, but he said no.

 

im  17 so thats all i had, even at home, and i don't live with my parents lol.

 

plus i was in another city like an hour and a half away, rip that mobo </3

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, PeloyGeek said:

i told him i'd give him the 60 and then contact him like next week to give him the rest, but he said no.

 

im  17 so thats all i had, even at home, and i don't live with my parents lol.

 

plus i was in another city like an hour and a half away, rip that mobo </3

Dumb seller don't know how to do business. He could have kept it on the side, so you can pay him next week and then give you the board.

[RollinLower]

I bought my current GPU (ASUS reference 980Ti) for 350 euros. Imo probably one of my best deals ever!

[masterkickass7]

On 7/21/2016 at 6:43 PM, GamerGuyEbby said:

I once went to my local flea market and saw a box with many computer parts worth probably around $80-$90 USD for $2, and pretty much all the parts I used worked. The two biggest parts were my EVGA 8800 GTS and ThermalTake Blue Orb II cooler. So it was one hell of a deal. So I was curious of what deals any of you guys have ever gotten regarding computer parts.

q6600 with board 8gb of ram and 80plus 600watt psu

[B33K]

On 7/21/2016 at 9:09 PM, Dan Castellaneta said:

$25 for my entire PC.

damn

[Virus__]

My previous PC before this, had an E6600 Core 2 Duo, 640MB 8800GTS Factory OC, 2GB DDR2 800MHz RAM, aftermarket cooler (might've been a coolermaster iirc), Antec 900 case, 2x lightscribe DVD drives, 19inch LG wide screen monitor, razer mouse, keyboard & mousepad. My mate sold it to me for $1000, he had it all for maybe 6 months and he paid something like $2,400 in total. All because he was bored of that rig and was getting something else with his stupid disposable income.

[TheCheesecake]

Just a couple days ago, was volunteering at a community "garage sale", organizing the electronics section and testing products people donated. After about 45 minutes, i come across a solid black NZXT Phantom 820 sitting on a shelf.  I asked the guy in charge about it, and he was like, "its just an empty case, i think" (he didnt know much about computers).  I picked it up, and it was really heavy, so i put it on the ground and opened it up.  

Inside the case was:

>i7 4770k (stock cooler)

>ASRock Z87 mobo

>32 GB of Patriot DDR3 1866 MHz RAM

>GTX TITAN

>700w Raidmax Gold 80+ PSU

>2TB HDD

 

I bought the whole thing for 20$.

 

What are some good deals you guys have gotten?