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My GTX 480 Engineering Sample. @vinyldash303

Main rig on profile

VAULT - File Server

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Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 3x 1TB Seagate Barracuda (dumping ground), 3x 8TB WD White-Label (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education

Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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Wow, thats pretty epic.

Love your profile pic btw :D

yeah like half the people that quote me do

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.1 Corinthians 13:4

 

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A Nokia N97, it was my daily driver for half a year. Still works to this day.

Asus B85M-G / Intel i5-4670 / Sapphire 290X Tri-X / 16GB RAM (Corsair Value 1x8GB + Crucial 2x4GB) @1333MHz / Coolermaster B600 (600W) / Be Quiet! Silent Base 800 / Adata SP900 128GB SSD & WD Green 2TB & SG Barracuda 1TB / Dell AT-101W / Logitech G502 / Acer G226HQL & X-Star DP2710LED

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Waaaahh!? Your sources please!

 

A friend of my uncle didn't need it anymore and just gave it to him ^^ my uncle had no use for it and figured I could take it.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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nothing

shit dont come free in this day and age.

4690K // 212 EVO // Z97-PRO // Vengeance 16GB // GTX 770 GTX 970 // MX100 128GB // Toshiba 1TB // Air 540 // HX650

Logitech G502 RGB // Corsair K65 RGB (MX Red)

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Well if you count paper as tech...

I got about 18k lbs. worth of paper from an old real estate firm. They were super wasteful and my mom worked there so when they finally shut down she took home a lifetime supply of paper. This paper is from 1994 and I still have boxes of it left in my dresser....

 

I also got the motherboard, CPU and CPU cooler from my Dad's old desktop. He gave me the whole thing and I ended up cannibalizing it into a pretty decent machine.

 

My laptop was a Christmas present, if that counts. 

|PSU Tier List /80 Plus Efficiency| PSU stuff if you need it. 

My system: PCPartPicker || For Corsair support tag @Corsair Josephor @Corsair Nick || My 5MT Legacy GT Wagon ||

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Well today I got 8GB DDR2 RAM and a barely used 500Gb WD blue hard drive from the company I do work experience with! 

Main Rig:

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AMD FX 8320 @4.5Ghz  8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blu 1600Mhz Sapphire Vapor X HD 7950 3GB 120GB Samsung 840 Evo  Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 

Corsair 600T Graphite Corsair H80i Corsair CX600 2x LG 24 inch LED @1080p Logitech G700s CM Quickfire TK (Brown)

 

Home Server:

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A4 6300 @3.7Ghz 5GB Kingston/Crucial DDR3 1600Mhz 1TB WD Green 2TB Seagate Barracuda

500GB WD Blue 2x Gigabit NIC Antec 300 OCZ 500w PSU Gigabyte F2A68HM-HD2 R1.1

 

 

 

 

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Dxracer chair.

:o nice

Specs: 4790k | Asus Z-97 Pro Wifi | MX100 512GB SSD | NZXT H440 Plastidipped Black | Dark Rock 3 CPU Cooler | MSI 290x Lightning | EVGA 850 G2 | 3x Noctua Industrial NF-F12's

Bought a powermac G5, expect a mod log sometime in 2015

Corsair is overrated, and Anime is ruined by the people who watch it

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Since McDonalds meals use tech to make - 

I once got 2 happy meals with 6 chicken nuggets for nothing. A woman just came up to cashier, cashier gave her the food and she gave it to me, I just said thanks and walked to my class (we were on a trip)

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I got a free 770 engineering sample. It is a big upgrade from my 750 ti.

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the first unibody macbook pro :wub: from 2009 or 2010 (I dont know) But a lady gave it to me because it was to heavy and slow for her now.

My Main Build: NZXT S340 - NZXT Kraken X31 - Crucial MX100 256GB - i5 4460 - Gigabyte Z97P D3 - Kingston HyperX Red 8GB - MSI Nvidia GTX 780 3GB - Corsair LL & HD RGB Fans, Corsair Lighting Node Pro. 

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the first unibody macbook pro :wub: from 2009 or 2010 (I dont know) But a lady gave it to me because it was to heavy and slow for her now.

 

Wow, some of you guys have got some crazy things for free!

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I won an anandtech giveaway once. It was a computer with 4670K and R9 290. Specs here. I've since added more hard drives.

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honestly the only thing i got free was an old 512MB stick of 133Mhz ram for my Pentium 4  lol. at the time i thought it was so beast finally put me at 1GB in my system.

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An entire Pentium 4 PC from 2003. Was in good condition, didn't have hard drives. 

 

Actual specs then:

Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz w/ Zalman CNPS7000 cooler (damn, so big)

Asus P4P800-VM ATX mobo

1.5GB DDR RAM (3x 512MB)

no HDD

GeForce FX 5200 128MB

AOpen 300W PSU

AOpen ATX Mid Tower Case

 

I might actually pop in a 6600 GT, maybe upgrade the power supply, and either use it myself, or put it online for someone to buy.

 

Oh, and I got a free Iiyama ProLite E1700s as a replacement for my CRT which burned out. 17" 1280x1024  4:3 goodness, the real show here is the 2ms TN panel!

Laptop: Intel Core i5-4200H, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, GeForce 840M

Desktop: Intel Core i3-6100, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, GeForce GTX 750 Ti

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Nothing except my first pc which I was using untill I built my own system a month ago

Longboarders/ skaters message me!

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Nothing and for some reason I ain't even mad.

 Asus M5A99X Evo  - AMD FX-8350 - 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz - Corsair 120mm Quiet Edition Fans - BenQ XL2411Z- EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked - Fractal Design Define R4 - Corsair H100i - 2 TB 7200rpm HDD - Samsung 840 Evo 120GB - Corsair RM750w PSU - Logitech G502 Proteus Core - Corsair K70 RGB MX Red - Audio Technica M50x + Modmic 4.0 - LG 23EA63V x2


Spinthat Spinthat Spinthat Spinthat

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This thing has saved me many times when at school, it was my brothers's netbook that he got for free so i got it for free and it still runs like a champ with linux:

 

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Main PC:

ASUS F1A55-M LX, AMD A6-3500, (2x2)gb Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 1600mhz, Seagate Barracuda 500gb 7200rpm, 
 Corsair CX430M, Cooler Master Elite 343, Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

Netbook:

Lenovo Ideapad S10-2, Intel Atom N280, (1x1)gb DDR2 667mhz, WD Scorpio Blue 250gb 5400rpm, Zorin OS 9 Lite
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Do gifts from grand parents count? If so then that would be 2 780tis. 

My Pc: Cpu: I7 4790k @ 4,8 Ghz @1,25 volts, Motherboard: Maximus VII Formula, Graphicscard: 2x Titan X @1,4 at stock voltage (soon to be replaced), Ram: 32 gb Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133 Cl 9, SSD: 2x 850 Pro 1 Tb in Raid 0, 2x Samsung 840 Evo 1 tb raid 1,, PSU: Corsair HXi Series 1000W 80+ Platinum, Case: H440. Soon to be watercooled again, maybe, probably, the Titans are too loud. 

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western digital external 4 tb raid storage (somone thought it didnt work , but he was just missing a single cable #win) , amd r9 290x , hd 7950 

Please quote me or tag me if your trying to talk to me , I might see it through all my other notifications ^_^

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 Achyls: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/TheGingerKid/saved/D4z9cf

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the current list of dead cards is as follows 2 evga gtx 980ti acx 2.0 , 1 evga gtx 980 acx 2.0 1600mhz core 2100mhz ram golden chip card ... failed hardcore , 1 290x that caught fire , 1 hd 7950 .

may you all rest in peaces in the giant pc in the sky

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