Cheap Part Stories!

[Rektagon]

This Thread is For Stories Only!!!

 

So today I was searching on eBay for a Dell 1950 low priced reduced  server and I came across the "ONE"! It was a dual quad core xeon server with 16gb of ram, 2 500gb hard drives in raid, 2 redundant power supplies and it all was packaged in a 1U form factor for only $60! It was to perfect to be true but sure enough I searched through the sellers history and ratings and he was legit! He sold 9 of the units in 1 hour and I was gladly 10 and final buyer! please share you're stories below! 

[manikyath]

those servers are stuff data centers need to get rid of, and they'll usually pretty much give them away at any price, because that's still better than having to pay for trash.

[reapersivan]

I bet that there will be a guy with the 980 from Micro Center Deal, or from wherever he got it price matched.

[Agent181]

The system I have now was all under $500,

All new:

My fx6300 was $35

The 280x was $100

The mobo gigabyte 990fx $50

And air 540 $80 bundle with 3 cougar fans

Psu evga g2 $60 750w (when it first came out they were super cheap

Plus everything else in there

3 dell monitors $100 1x 1080p ultrasharp and 2x 720p

All this because the wonderful holiday black Friday [emoji1]

The only thing I bought at full retail price was my white limited edition quick fire tk mx brown mech keyboard and a white puretrak mousepad

[Agent181]

Also checked eBay for those servers and I found a few under $30

[Rektagon]

Also checked eBay for those servers and I found a few under $30

Ya but they usually don't have hard drives or the amount of ram that I need. But thanks for sharing your story!

[WkdPaul]

recently aquired 2 Dell Optiplex with Core 2 Quads ... a 755 that was given to me (a friend got his hands on 3 Optiplex 755 and gave me one) and I found a Optiplex 760 on the side of the road for garbage collection, I usually don't stop to look at garbage but since I just had a 755 on the previous week I decided to stop and look at it ...

 

 

In the end I got myself 2 nice Core 2 Quad system for very cheap! lol

 

Tower I use for gaming ;

HP DC7600 Tower (was gathering dust in my storage unit)

Intel Q9400 (free ; gift, from the 755)

Asus P5W DH Deluxe (paid 50$ locally)

4GB DDR2 6400 (free ; from old build)

4GB DDR2 6400 (free ; from the side-of-the-raod Optiplex)

Orion PSU 585W (free ; from old build)

Sound blaster Audigy 2 Platinum (free ; from old build)

Asus HD7770 Ghz (free ; from old build)

1 Kingston 64GB SSD (free ; from the side-of-the-raod Optiplex)

2x 500GB WD HHD (free ; gift)

Chinese heatsink that looks a bit like the ARCTIC Freezer 7 pro with 2 Enermax 80mm in push/pull (free ; from old build)

 

The 760 SSF is plugged on the TV as an HTPC;

Optiplex 760 SSF case (free ; side of the road)

Intel Q6600 (free ; gift)

4GB DDR2 5300 (free ; gift)

1x 500GB WD HHD (free ; gift)

 

 

EDIT : had a friend working for a movie theater 3-4 years ago, they were getting all the trailers and ads on 3.5in portable drives that had to be "disposed of" when they were of no use ... lets just say the "dispose of" part was not really "secure" and I got 4 or 5 of there drives, when opened they all revealed WD5000AAKS, 3 of those are still working!

[dcb-z]

I had a friend dump a ton of IDE drives, RAM, and old power supplies at my house for free one time while she was taking care of my cats.

[Jlryan]

I was given this beast a few days ago. A few years ago this was my Gaming PC, but I sold it to a buddy of mine so I could upgrade. It conked out on him a few months ago but instead of repairing it he bought a new rig. Several months later he got in touch with me and said I could have it for free!

 

Specs:

Coolermaster CM690 II Case

MSI P45 Platinum Motherboard

Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 @ 3.7GHz 1.27v

4GB Kingston HyperX 1066MHz DDR2

EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SC EE FPB

Coolermaster GX750W PSU

 

I diagnosed the PC and found that the GTX 460 was knackered, but being me when I bought the card I registered it within the first 30 days, and thus got a 10 year warranty with it. I've RMA'd the card this week, it's currently in Germany, yet to reach EVGA hopefully today. I'll either get a GTX 460 back in return, or a nicer shinier newer GPU

 

 

[creeper287]

My system was a pretty good deal.(prices in CAD)

Antec 302(new, 55$)

Intel Core i7 930(free)

Asus P6X58D Premium(free)

6GB Corsair DDR3(free)

HIS Radeon R9 270X(refurb., bought locally for 105$)

500GB Seagate HDD(free, came out of my broken laptop)

eVGA 600B 600W(new, 54$)

Total cost: 214 Canadian Dollars.

[MEC-777]

My scrapyard wars inspired Frankenputer build. All of the following for $200:

 

AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE CPU

Asus M4A79T Deluxe (DDR3) mobo

4GB DDR3 1600 ram

Enermax Infiniti 720w 80+ semi-modular PSU

MSI Twin Frozr GTX 760 2GB

WD 2.5" 500GB HDD

Thermal Master TC-102 ATX chassis

2x Deepcool 120mm Blue LED fans

 

Parts of this have been since harvested to create Project Stalker - a build that ended up only costing me the price of the Pentium G3258 ($80 CDN).

[Shin-Gouki]

Found a dual P4 Based Xeon board with CPUs at Goodwill in Phoenix once for $15. 

 

Aside from that I once gutted a Sega Lindbergh Arcade Board after the thing fried and Sega just RMAed it without asking for the chassis back so I swapped out the dead MB and built a Media Center PC out of it. 

[atomiku]

A coworker of my Dad's was parting out an old homebuilt computer, and I picked up my i7-950, 12GB of Mushkin RAM, and an ASRock X58 Extreme for $200. When I looked into buying those parts individually on eBay, it totaled $550+, so I feel pretty good about the deal I got. It has served me well to this day.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Local "craigslist" style site:

dell poweredge 1950: $120

hp proliant DL580 G2: $120

Supermicro SuperServer 6014H-82: $125

dell poweredge 2950: $75

 

 

 

Hell, for $150 I can get myself a pretty nifty server. *ponder*

[nomenclature]

too many to count.... there is a reason why my name is Freebee on other forums

 

some various instances

 

1) ga-f2-a85x-up4, a10-5800k, xigmatek centaro 850w all free as school "personal interest project"

 

2) 2x amd hd4830, 1x 8800gt, 2x500gb hdd, given for free

 

3) 1xhd6950, 2xgtx460 (SOC) 1x hd6770, given for free

 

4) cm690 bought for $25... paid extra $5 for the hardware inside: ga-p55a-ud3r, 3x2gb ddr3, hd5770, i3-540,

 

5)bought gtx570 with WB for $20

 

6) bought HL sr1 480mm for $50

 

7) bought xspc ex 480mm for $40

 

8) found fx6100 and asus 880g board on the side of the road, worked fine

 

9) got msi x58 eclipse sli and i7-920 (d0) for free

 

10) got i7-920 (c0) and 3x2gb ddr3 for free

 

11) got i7-950 and ga-x58a-ud3r for $30

 

12) got 11x 128gb m.2 ssd'd for $35 ea. (onsold all but 4 to freinds for no profit - jut to get them a good deal)

 

all of these have stories, some more interesting and detailed than others... and thats not even the end of the list.. just the ones i can think of right now...

[carguy86]

an in-win case (from the OLD days) with 6x 2tb drives and no mobo. (a friend of mine gave up on his surveilance system pc) (payed 10nok for it 1~usd)

[spwath]

Free apple adjustable keyboard

Free 10 emacs, 2 PowerBook g3

4 Polk r15 55$

Sony 7.1 100w/channel receiver 40$

Aiwa sx-77 5$