Just wondering, How did your PC come to gether? (Only used Builds)

[PartyWire]

Hej, so i was really bored and i was thinking about my PC and i noticed. My Pc is 90% Used parts, and 50% of that 90% is stolen from my school. I was wondering how some of the used builds have come together. Give me the most interesting ways you got a PC part. I got My GPU as a dead one, but got it fixed 4 months later.

[IKnight]

Case+MOBO+GPU+PSU+the HDDS- Found in dumpster. 

CPU, Cooler, RAM- Bought used

SSD- Bought new 

 

[PlayStation 2]

My PC basically exists because I helped my brother build his current rig.

[Magnetorheological]

Bought a big box tower in 2007, and gradually upgraded that thing into what it is today. The only original part that remains is one of  the hard drives.

[RGProductions]

Built it in March 2016, with no gpu. Added 660 in October, bought Rx 470 in February. Sold 470 to the miners in July. Put 660 back in. Still waiting.

[tatte]

My second hand Mac Pro 1,1 came with 6 GB of RAM, 8800 GT, ancient 160 GB HDD and two dual core Xeon 5150s. I upgraded it with 32 GB of RAM (eBay), GTX 660 (Finnish reseller), new 120 GB SSD, 1TB HDD from a prebuilt AMD PC that was dumped to rain by a random teenager (he hopefully ascended to a proper custom build) and two quad core Xeon X5355s (eBay). I also had to order a second power cable for the GTX 660 (eBay) and additional heatsinks for the RAM, as the basic spreaders aren't adequate to allow the Mac stay quiet. The overall cost ended up somewhere around 350 euros, of which 165 euros is the initial cost of the Mac.

[PartyWire]

24 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Frankenstein is mostly used parts.   Was moving, and got a free Athlon II crap build.  Replaced essentially ended up being a 1055 ti + 770 rig.

That's a Nice name for your PC, my PC's name is quite similar. Her name is Frankenator

[PartyWire]

24 minutes ago, tatte said:

My second hand Mac Pro 1,1 came with 6 GB of RAM, 8800 GT, ancient 160 GB HDD and two dual core Xeon 5150s. I upgraded it with 32 GB of RAM (eBay), GTX 660 (Finnish reseller), new 120 GB SSD, 1TB HDD from a prebuilt AMD PC that was dumped to rain by a random teenager (he hopefully ascended to a proper custom build) and two quad core Xeon X5355s (eBay). I also had to order a second power cable for the GTX 660 (eBay) and additional heatsinks for the RAM, as the basic spreaders aren't adequate to allow the Mac stay quiet. The overall cost ended up somewhere around 350 euros, of which 165 euros is the initial cost of the Mac.

That's a really interesting build, I'd love to build in a mac, but i can't due to the lack of Mac pro's in my country.

1 hour ago, RGProductions said:

Built it in March 2016, with no gpu. Added 660 in October, bought Rx 470 in February. Sold 470 to the miners in July. Put 660 back in. Still waiting.

That's really great, I like that you kept the 660.

[System Error Message]

from the various atoms resulting from the big bang, forming dust clouds to a planet, then mined and refined, turned into various components at the factories and into a finished product.

[RGProductions]

8 hours ago, PartyWire said:

That's really great, I like that you kept the 660.

And I will until I find a game I want that I just can't run.

[kelvinhall05]

20 hours ago, PartyWire said:

90% is stolen from my school

 

Still, only 45% total is stolen but still.

[kelvinhall05]

Anyways, my PC came together like this:

1. Bought a used i5-750 Dell

2. Bought it a new HDD

3. Bought some new RAM

4. Bought a used 7950

5. Bought an RX 470

6. Sold RX 470 for $300 because miners

7. Back to my 7950

8. 7950 started to die, used the OEM HD 8490 the Dell came with

9. Bought a used 5870 1gb on vacation

Next step will either be a 970 (might have my hands on one soon, we'll see) or Ryzen 3 (or both or neither, I don't know yet).

[PartyWire]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

4. Bought a used 7950

Ohh, Nice. I have modded the Hd 7950's Vbios to have a Hd 7970's clocks, what Card do you have maybe the Vbios will come of help? The mod gave me a incease of about 20% in performance for free. Ohh, and maybe i can help you fix it, Because the DH 7950 i had, it was kinda on it's last legs but i got it working again like it did before.

[PartyWire]

6 hours ago, CK1968 said:

it's like Borrowing, Just Without the Giving back part.

[PartyWire]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Still, only 45% total is stolen but still.

and i said 50% of that 90% is stolen.

[PartyWire]

3 minutes ago, CK1968 said:

Which means theft, punishable by a prison sentence

Pfff, If Nobody sees it, then nobody knows about it.

[PartyWire]

Just now, CK1968 said:

and now everybody knows

Nah, you couldn't PIn me down, so i ain't got anything to worry about.

[kelvinhall05]

45 minutes ago, PartyWire said:

and i said 50% of that 90% is stolen.

45% out of the total.

[kelvinhall05]

46 minutes ago, PartyWire said:

Ohh, Nice. I have modded the Hd 7950's Vbios to have a Hd 7970's clocks, what Card do you have maybe the Vbios will come of help? The mod gave me a incease of about 20% in performance for free. Ohh, and maybe i can help you fix it, Because the DH 7950 i had, it was kinda on it's last legs but i got it working again like it did before.

No, it's not the performance that killed it. Maybe it was my overclock (even though I didn't touch anything voltage related) or just the worst timing possible, but it now artifacts and is super unstable when under heavy load. It's a Sapphire Dual-X card, that's all the info I have.

[Jito463]

23 hours ago, PartyWire said:

Just wondering, How did your PC come together?

Well you see, when a momma PC and a poppa PC love each other very much.......

[Ithanul]

Good chunk of my hardware is used parts bought off tech forums boards.

To give a simple run down.

None of CPUs where bought new.

Half of my GPUs where bought used.

One of my PSU was bought used.

Half of my HDDs and SDDs where bought used.

Only one case I have was bought new, the other six where bought used.

All my motherboards where bought used.

Most of my RAM sticks where bought used.

Half my water cooling hardware was bought used.

 

I just don't like paying full price for hardware.

[Kamina]

Some came from my old PC and my step father's old PC.

 

The rest were new parts. 

[PartyWire]

16 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

No, it's not the performance that killed it. Maybe it was my overclock (even though I didn't touch anything voltage related) or just the worst timing possible, but it now artifacts and is super unstable when under heavy load. It's a Sapphire Dual-X card, that's all the info I have.

ohh, you could underclock it. or maybe your PSU isn't powerful enough for it.

[kelvinhall05]

4 minutes ago, PartyWire said:

ohh, you could underclock it. or maybe your PSU isn't powerful enough for it.

Maybe the PSU isn't good enough, but I'm not quite sure.