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Best thing you've bought for under $150

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Original PS3 Fat off craigslist. Installed custom firmware and It's a neat little linux box + I can play all the game ISOs I want (mostly exclusives).

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Likely my Samsung 850 Evo 250GB, amazing SSD, definitely would buy again if I were to need another.

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An EMC UPS and disk processing unit from a VNX5300 SAN (storage cabinet).

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4 hours ago, MarcWolfe said:

Is that a fucking NUC or Brix with a graphics card? M.2 to PCIe adapter? I've wanted to do that too, but the price of the shit....

Nope, full mini ITX motherboard with an SFX PSU and no PCI-E riser cards or anything. Just a short GPU.

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On 7/4/2016 at 10:16 PM, Minibois said:

6GB? o.O The GTX 970 only comes in a 4GB variant (or 3.5GB+0.5GB) and not anything else.. Unless you are talking about the the GTX 970M (a laptop GPU, so doubt it) that does have 6GB VRAM... Also, the RX 470 will likely not perform as good as the GTX 970, considering the RX 480 performs on GTX 970 level.

Lol... First I'm a programer and learning for doctorate in computer engineering and second I was lucky in my trys to switch the 2 of the 0.5gb modules to 1gb once so... Its now 6gb's of vram... I'm noticing a bit of bigger frame buffer than I expected but it BC I did some more tweaks like switching all of the card from.copper wires to silver once...

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I got an AMD FX 6300, 8GB RAM and a Mini ITX MB for $130

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Samson Meteor Mic. $67. Only worthy thing in my setup

Nothing.

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My brother bought a used pair of Sennheiser HD650, and a new modmic for $80 + 60.

 

So probably that?

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I got a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD at Micro Center for like $90.  They usually go for $99.99, so I saved $10.

Currently focusing on my video game collection.

It doesn't matter what you play games on, just play good games you enjoy.

 

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I got my current case, Corsair 350D windowless version for 30 bucks a couple weeks after it was released. Newegg priced it wrong, when it should have been retailing for around 80-90. I still love it 2 years later.

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Keyboard Logitech G710+ MX Brown Mouse Logitech G502 (my review on it http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/299464-logitech-g502/ )

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My beloved Samsung S1 Mini, for like $30.

 

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Target was closing down (Canada) and they had an insane sale.

I got an LG Flatron E2442TC 24 inch 1080p for $60 CAD Brand new. :D 

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5 minutes ago, Eredian said:

Target was closing down (Canada) and they had an insane sale.

I got an LG Flatron E2442TC 24 inch 1080p for $60 CAD Brand new. :D 

I don't remember that sale, but I remember the news coverage talking about how most people weren't buying anything because for a clearance sale, it was pathetic how little they had knocked off of everything.  Glad to hear at least one person got a good deal that day xD 

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O2 Hurricane canless air system

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It might blow out your eardrums, but it has a lot of benefits compared to canned "air".

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My logitech G502 which I paid $30 for last black friday. Would happily pay retail for it though.

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Definitely the 240GB SSD @ £45 for my aging laptop. Has breathed new life into it and has cooled it too after it had a "very" hot Momentus XT in there for a while. Ouch!

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My AZIO MGK1, it has less key variance than a K70. It's just not RGB :( 

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My GameCube for 15 euros and Melee for 1 euro B|

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

 

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My Audio Technica ATH-M50x's, May not be the best according to some reviewers but i quite like them.

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i got a used r9 290 reference early this year for $185. it died 4 months later and i had to RMA it. ended up with an r9 390 strix BNIB as a replacement :D

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Adesso MKB-135B, 500GB SSD, Viewsonic Monitor (A full adobe-rgb certified one), My 1990s era computer (I play old DOS and early GUIed Windows Games on it... Through Linux of course),

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