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I have ~$130 left over from Christmas (maybe a bit more after some old parts are sold)

 

Should I:

 

A ) Buy a camera Slider (Don't have one, have been putting my camera on a skateboard. Have been thinking about a Glide Gear DEV-1000 or 33. $100 for that.)

B ) Buy a new hard drive, WD Caviar Green 3TB (current one is WD Caviar Black 1TB, 256gb free. Cost: $130)

C ) Buy cases for my servers (both of my servers are currently running off of the PSU box. Cost: $100)

D ) Buy a new PSU, eVGA Supernova 750G2 (current one is Corsair VS650, it is a bit loud. Cost: $145 (out of stock currently))

E 1 ) Fix ancient DVR ($5, Panasonic DMR-E85H, bad HDD flatflex.)

E 2 ) Gut the DVR and build a new HTPC inside it! (~$170. Destroys nostalgia and the unit. Current HTPC is an old Ath64 4400+ tower, 1gb ram, 80gb IDE bootdrive, 750gb WD Caviar Blue media drive blablabla.)

pc specs: 4 function calculator / 8 digit lcd display / colored numeric and function buttons

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Food

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Food

I've got plenty of that :P

pc specs: 4 function calculator / 8 digit lcd display / colored numeric and function buttons

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Save it. Might come in handy for later! ;)

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If you have to ask us, save it for later.

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

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Buy cases. You don't want you servers dead.

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Food

Sustenance is for the weak

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Buy cases. You don't want you servers dead.

How would them not being in cases kill them? Dust maybe (I do clean them, I promise!)? I've been running machines out in the open for a bazillion years fine. Its messy as hell though.

It would be nice having them in cases, though. More prettier and less space taken up because I can stack them.

 

If you game save up that cash for a new video card.  

don't need one, don't play games, but when I do, its CHIPS CHALLENGE!!!

pc specs: 4 function calculator / 8 digit lcd display / colored numeric and function buttons

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I have ~$130 left over from Christmas (maybe a bit more after some old parts are sold)

 

Should I:

 

A ) Buy a camera Slider (Don't have one, have been putting my camera on a skateboard. Have been thinking about a Glide Gear DEV-1000 or 33. $100 for that.)

B ) Buy a new hard drive, WD Caviar Green 3TB (current one is WD Caviar Black 1TB, 256gb free. Cost: $130)

C ) Buy cases for my servers (both of my servers are currently running off of the PSU box. Cost: $100)

D ) Buy a new PSU, eVGA Supernova 750G2 (current one is Corsair VS650, it is a bit loud. Cost: $145 (out of stock currently))

E 1 ) Fix ancient DVR ($5, Panasonic DMR-E85H, bad HDD flatflex.)

E 2 ) Gut the DVR and build a new HTPC inside it! (~$170. Destroys nostalgia and the unit. Current HTPC is an old Ath64 4400+ tower, 1gb ram, 80gb IDE bootdrive, 750gb WD Caviar Blue media drive blablabla.)

Not D and E

If you would get a lot of use out of the slider then I'd say go for that, but don't spend money for the sake of it (unless you are uber rich).

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I have ~$130 left over from Christmas (maybe a bit more after some old parts are sold)

Should I:

A ) Buy a camera Slider (Don't have one, have been putting my camera on a skateboard. Have been thinking about a Glide Gear DEV-1000 or 33. $100 for that.)

B ) Buy a new hard drive, WD Caviar Green 3TB (current one is WD Caviar Black 1TB, 256gb free. Cost: $130)

C ) Buy cases for my servers (both of my servers are currently running off of the PSU box. Cost: $100)

D ) Buy a new PSU, eVGA Supernova 750G2 (current one is Corsair VS650, it is a bit loud. Cost: $145 (out of stock currently))

E 1 ) Fix ancient DVR ($5, Panasonic DMR-E85H, bad HDD flatflex.)

E 2 ) Gut the DVR and build a new HTPC inside it! (~$170. Destroys nostalgia and the unit. Current HTPC is an old Ath64 4400+ tower, 1gb ram, 80gb IDE bootdrive, 750gb WD Caviar Blue media drive blablabla.)

Buy cases for those servers =D

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Give it to me

Main Gaming PC (new): HP Omen 30L || i9 10850K || RTX 3070 || 512GB WD Blue NVME || 2TB HDD, 4TB HDD, 8TB HDD ||  750W P2 ||  16GB HyperX Black DDR4

Main Gaming PC (old, still own) : Intel Core i7 7700K @5.0Ghz || GPU: GTX 1080 Seahawk EK X || Motherboard: Maximus VIII Impact || Case: Fractal Design Define Nano S || RAM : 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 

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SSD maybe?

“Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”

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Girls

A House

And Sexy Hardware!

I'm Batman!

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SSD maybe?

I have one already ;)

 

#buysomemoney

Good idea!!

Maybe I can download it? like downloadmoreram.com?

 

Girls

A House

And Sexy Hardware!

For this amount of money I could get this house

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Give it to me

u wot

pc specs: 4 function calculator / 8 digit lcd display / colored numeric and function buttons

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IMO. Save it for a rainy day.

 

Second choice would probably be homes for those servers.

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Invest it. Buy some stock. Put it in a Roth IRA. Save it for college. Whatever you do, don't spend it unless you find a reason to. Having money but not knowing what to spend it on is wholly the wrong way to look at it. Keep it. Invest it. Store it until you have a goal in mind.

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Save it for later.

 

@person_on_forum I know right! I made thousands this year selling ram off of downloadmoreram.com! I'm so glad my rich Arabian uncle from skype told me about it!

 

EDIT: So that tagged an actual person somehow.

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Don't buy a slider, build your own. Film Riot has a really nice how to video on how to make a nice one. Truthfully, I'd spend the money on really nice booze or maybe another hard drive for RAID 1 (you can never have too much redundancy) otherwise, I would save it. :)

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