Salvation Diamond. A $40 USD Used PC

[DiamondRyce]

I can be in an episode of Scrapyard Wars now right? Lol 

 

Anyways, 

I was walking down a trail and decided to drop on by my local Salvation Army store just to search around and took a look in the electronics section. Staring at me on the ground was this black case and this nice looking front panel. Went over to it and saw the $40 USD price tag but I took a look inside and saw a GTX 460 was like damn.Opened up the side panel and saw a shit a load of dust but then I saw the Corsair Ram and CX 430 PSU. Just had to pick it up after that.

 

Took it home and cleaned it up and tried to fix the cable management. I popped in a spare 500GB HDD, installed Windows 7 and everything seems to be working fine.

 

Going to use this as a secondary rig for a little while and then maybe sell it to one of my friends who wanted to switch to PC Gaming or part it all out considering how rare LGA 1155 overclockable mobos are coming. 

 

Specs of the Build 

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 3.1GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($0.00) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3(R2.0) ATX LGA1155 Motherboard  ($0.00) 
Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($0.00) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SE 1GB Video Card  ($40.00) 
Case: Antec Three Hundred ATX Mid Tower Case  ($0.00) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($0.00) 
Optical Drive: Sony AD-7280S-0B DVD/CD Writer  ($0.00) 
Other: D-Link DWA-556 Wireless Adapter
Total: $40.00

 

More Photos Can be Found here Salvation Diamond Build
 

 

[The Sloth]

wow good find man

[Megah3rtz]

Might want to change the power supply, old and dusty doesn't look like a great outcome :P. Otherwise seems like a cool starter build! throw in an rx460 and you could potentially play some recent titles at 1080p 

[alphastrata]

sweet find!

 

wonder how it ended up there.

[DiamondRyce]

10 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

wow good find man

I know its awesome after some wiping and cleaning the entire pc. 

10 hours ago, Megah3rtz said:

Might want to change the power supply, old and dusty doesn't look like a great outcome :P. Otherwise seems like a cool starter build! throw in an rx460 and you could potentially play some recent titles at 1080p 

Oh look you should look through my imgur album, I cleaned out everything before trying to start it. Even did an external build before putting it back in the case. 

4 hours ago, alphastrata said:

sweet find!

 

wonder how it ended up there.

Thats what I was saying, I was just browsing the electronics section and on the ground was this big black case. Someone probably upgraded his entire PC or something idk. I was thinking to add a GPU but might just sell as is or part it all out. Already going to make a profit on just the z68 motherboard already but have not decided yet since I dont have any boxes to ship them individually yet.