Look at this free PC I found at the dump!

[2many_jnmaes]

[2many_jnmaes]

It has a i5 6500k in it

[OhYou_]

yea i mean it has a great psu too and also a gtx 1070, that card alone goes for a hunge used.

does this thing work? any storage drives were left in it?

[aisle9]

Jesus Christ, an H5 Ultimate. What I wouldn't give to have one of those cooling my rig again.

[flibberdipper]

Not a bad find, especially for free.99.

[Caroline]

Bro that's sick. I only find rusty prebuilts with bullet holes in them

[2many_jnmaes]

21 hours ago, OhYou_ said:

yea i mean it has a great psu too and also a gtx 1070, that card alone goes for a hunge used.

does this thing work? any storage drives were left in it?

Yeah, i just got it to boot, the cpu and dram lights were on, but I just reseated them and it works fine! It didn't have any storage drives in it.

[CoveWolf]

1 hour ago, 2many_jnmaes said:

Yeah, i just got it to boot, the cpu and dram lights were on, but I just reseated them and it works fine! It didn't have any storage drives in it.

Pretty good for $Free

[StarsMars]

Cryorig, 1070, evga psu. That's a really solid find. Why would someone dump that?

[tkitch]

buy yourself 2x8gb sticks of DDR4 and get dual channel out of it, and a cheap SSD, and you'll be running fine.

 

My suggestion:  Other than RAM and a SSD, don't sick money into upgrading this.  Any more than that and you'll be wasting it on money that could go towards a better PC.

[PowerPCFan]

On 4/19/2024 at 11:31 AM, StarsMars said:

Cryorig, 1070, evga psu. That's a really solid find. Why would someone dump that?

Someone probably wanted an upgrade so they can get 360 fps on their 10 year old 60hz office monitor and didn’t know that there is a website called eBay where you can sell things. 

[Muuh]

PCI-E 3.0, DDR4 and NVMe for FREE? lucky you ...

either the previous owner just did not care - or wasn't aware of that this still has some value for home lab

[Kisai]

6 hours ago, Muuh said:

PCI-E 3.0, DDR4 and NVMe for FREE? lucky you ...

either the previous owner just did not care - or wasn't aware of that this still has some value for home lab

Probably wasn't worth it to them.

 

I see a lot of "usable PC's" from time to time either in the recycling room or at the Encorp recycling depots, and really anything older than a 8th gen is probably "too old" to salvage unless you want to make a Linux box with it.

 

[Neroon]

10 minutes ago, Kisai said:

Probably wasn't worth it to them.

 

I see a lot of "usable PC's" from time to time either in the recycling room or at the Encorp recycling depots, and really anything older than a 8th gen is probably "too old" to salvage unless you want to make a Linux box with it.

 

I definitely get that feeling of not being bothered to sell old(er) stuff, but at that point I just gift it to someone who can use it. Throwing it away is just weird imo.

[atarione]

It is a nice find, but I can also see where someone would just dump it rather than sell it ....  I don't want to risk getting murdered for a couple hundred dollar facebook market place pc sale personally.

 

I would have dropped it off at goodwill or something..but I can see someone just not wanting to deal with it.

[Erioch]

8 hours ago, atarione said:

I don't want to risk getting murdered for a couple hundred dollar facebook market place pc sale personally.

Plus they'll want you to support it afterwards.  I'd rather dump or donate as well.