Best deal you ever got on computer parts?

[samcool55]

Umm free 1.5TB drive, free 1TB drive, free 500Gb drive, free monitor (it's a 4:3 one but it has an usb hub and nice as a secondary one, it derped in the beginning but it's fine now) 32 bucks for a brand new tablet, 25 bucks for a brand new phone (both were from a cheapo brand but it's quite good).

 

Free blu-ray sata drive, no idea how i got it tbh, it was suddenly in my closet of pc stuff, awesome thing tho

 

And i got my i5 notebook with a 610M i use for school for 350 euros  It wasn't new but there were like 0 marks on it, if you told me it was new i would believe it, perfect condition.

[Go_On_Shadow]

$70 for a gtx 560 ti classified

[Harvey-Specter]

19 hours ago, CostcoSamples said:

a community garage sale is not necessarily a charity.  More likely it's just a bunch of neighbors who got together to sell their junk.  The original owner of the PC is probably pissed that the organizer let it go for $20.  

 

 

That doesn't even make sense. OP claims people donated their stuff for this garage sale, who are they donating to if not a charity? At the very least the procedes would go towards some community project or something.

 

More likely though, none of this happened.

[themctipers]

3tb wd green for $80 a pop

 

and that, is how my dad has 12tb of storage and i have ~10.  

 

also i went from a $200 760 to a $200 380 (4gb)

[WkdPaul]

12 hours ago, Go_On_Shadow said:

$70 for a gtx 560 ti classified

depends WHEN you bought it ... if it's recently, then it's not that good of a deal!

[WkdPaul]

7 minutes ago, ninninon said:

In the UK it sadly is... 

that's just sad, those are around $40 (CAD) locally (at least for me!)

[bladeguardian]

I PC with an 3770k with an AIO liquid cooler (owner never overclocked for some reason), 16gb of ram, gtx 660ti along with a monitor and a mechanical keyboard for 600$ CAD 

This was found on Kijiji, the crazy thing was my offer was the highest!

 

[Julian5]

2 years ago I got 4gb of ram, an i3 540 and an ASUS p7h55-m lx board with PSU, 500gb and case in exchange for 2 pentium 4 computers I got for free, a PC with a dual core and 2gb of ram , a couple 200gb ATA HDDS as well as 200w PSU's. Deal was all I said before and 1 hour of labour at theyre tech store as well as me picking the parts for the build and building it. So abour 40€ worth of crap and more or less 5 hours of work to get the pc's for a PC Im about to sell for 300€ (added a GTX 660, SSD and 8gb of ram)

[WkdPaul]

18 hours ago, Xizerz said:

I got a 1tb hardbdrive for free

100% off lol

Free storage is always nice!

 

I got 4x 500GB Wester Digital 7200RPM for free!

 

Using 1 in my gaming rig, 2 in my NAS and the 4th one died not long after I got it.

[malon]

i think my best deal was getting a 300 euro refund for a 2 year and 9 months old gtx 680 with a busted fan and buying a rx480 for it 

[Gravemind]

I had an interesting experience with somebody from Craigslist, and felt I should share it. And I encourage you guys to share any good stories you guys may have.

 

So I saw this awesome AMD chip for about 1/3 the price of new, emailed the guy and found out we only lived a mile from each other. Small world am I right?

So the following day we decide to just meetup at this fountain, a nice and open public place for obvious reasons. I see somebody matching his description, I introduce myself and so on.

 

When I ask "Do you have the CPU in your car or something?", he does more or less the unthinkable.

He reaches into the same pocket his phone is in, and pulls out the CPU, completely bare and not even in a package. It was just loosely floating in his jeans, and he holds it out to me, with the pins facing up.

 

Now, as somebody who's incredibly anal-retentive about taking care of hardware (I've been gaming on the same laptop for 8 years)... I was mortified at what I saw. A good half of the pins were either bent or broken clean off, and there was what I could only described as the result of a thermal paste BBQ on the opposite side. Either that or something's soul died there, because it looked like some sort of evil black stain on the cooler-side. So I admit I may have lost my cool and chewed him out for destroying what would sell new for $300+~, a pretty high end CPU. He walked away legitimately confused about what the problem was no matter how many times I described it to him.

 

I think he just ripped it out of a stolen computer or something. I mean, come on.

 

 

Any of you guys have any good stories about buying used hardware? Any other great tech stories are welcome.

[another random person]

So basically every so often I scroll through gumtree (Australian used online marketplace) looking for deals and I come across this ad saying that they were selling 12 Lenovo IBM desktops, 2 Optiplex's and a few other pretty decent computers for about $150 AUD, which is an absolute bargain. Counting it up I figured that if I refurbished those desktops I would get a pretty good $500 AUD net profit off them. Well, I went to pick them up and I didn't notice at first so after I paid the guy, loaded the lot into my car and drove home, I realised that they were left in an unsealed dusty roof space, no not the attic Americans have, it's just literally the space between the ceiling insulation and roof tiles. so basically the first thing I did was pop all of them open and I swear I have never seen so much dust caked up in one spot before. It was as if the guy had used the desktops as a dustpan from sweeping the floor for a decade. Well, let's just say it took me about 5 bags full of dust before I could even get the desktops into an air compressor cleaning state. As it turns out the desktops worked fine (phew) and I managed to make around $650 net profit off the sale of them. 

[kaiju_wars]

Paid about $150 for my 780

[D148xZ]

I paid €1.50 for a sapphire HD 5770

and €36.50 for a Msi R6970 lightning edition (the guy who sold it thought it was broken cuz he couldn't find the drivers)

2x Zeeksys 120gb ssd €16.50 per piece from Aliexpress (the seller put it on there for the wrong price, the day after I bought it the price was €60 per)

[Wed15septoid2]

I got a asus z77 board and an i5 3570k for $15

[DragonTamer1]

I got a 2500k, motherboard, 16GB of RAM 600W PSU and GTX760 all for free. 90% of my current system cost less than the remaining 10%.

[toms94z71]

I got a cooler master gx450 psu from a thrift store brand new for 5 bux.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Hard to decide as I'm always scavenging  

But the two at least subjectively I value the most are two ebays:

 

- FX-9370 + H80i for €160, both new (sealed CPU box, cooler open but pre-applied TIM still there), from some guy.

- Corsair Carbide 500R for € 40 (+€5 shipping) from a retailer, due to a dent in the right panel. The dent was visible in the picture, not a big deal I thought, the case was brand new, probably transportation damage. But when I got it, I found no signs of the dent. Not even a trace that it was there but got "un-dented" from another bump or something. I won't exactly complain about it... 

 

Honorary mentions would go to a used SeaSonic M12 SS-500HM for €16 (+7, so €23), really nice, too bad I go for global warming hardware so often  but it's still my backup, and a used Cooler Master V10 for €25.50 (+7, so €32.5). Not the greatest cooler, but I wanted to see it in action, and it's too old and overpriced to consider getting it new.

[kaiju_wars]

I just bought an Intel Core i5-760 for $35 at my job.

[Julian5]

1 minute ago, kaiju_wars said:

I just bought an Intel Core i5-760 for $35 at my job.

You willing to ship it? its 1156 right?

[kaiju_wars]

Just now, Julian5 said:

You willing to ship it? its 1156 right?

I'm going to make a build out of it.  We have just a box of used processors, all have been tested from what I was told.

[Bhav]

I just got a free flawless Asus Rog Swift PG278Q ......

 

Well, not really free cos I had to give my buggered up one back.

[bones369mc]

6700k for exactly $300 US 

[AstroBenny]

Um..Kinda got a free GTX 970 from OCUK. I originally cancelled my order and they didn't charge me for it but the card still turned up a day later ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[ConnorDahne]

Traded my msi 970 for a msi 390x..
Craziest part is, I got on the forums later that day and the guy I'd traded with had posted about it on here.

Not a huge steal, but it benefited both of us for our use cases.