What Free Computer parts have you gotten?

[Thavion Hawk]

I figure I'd make a thread asking people about parts or even systems they got for free. Cool stuff, really nice stuff or just odd stuff.

 

Examples for me would be things like my brother handing me a Geforce 4 ti4200 (A year old card at the time) because he thought he'd killed it.

Another would be the time my dad got 2 sticks of Crucial Ballistix 512MB DDR3200 from a Crucial Rep and because his computer couldn't run them I got them instead.

I grew up with my dad as a Computer Store Sales Manager so often old computer parts or even full systems would be left at the store by customers upgrading.

 

So how about you all? What sort of nice free second hand or even new stuff have you gotten for your computers?

[QuantumBit]

My father replaced his old 250gb scorpio drive with an SSD in a laptop, so I got it. Hoping to make a PC out of it.

[Ryujin2003]

Ive got an FX 8350, Asus FX 990 MB, x16 GB DDR3 (x2 8GB sticks), an older Dell case, x2 1080p 22 inch ACER monitors, fans, a couple PSU's. x2 500GB 2.5 HDDs. GTX 970

 

I've just been looking for a case, then I've got my kid a Minecraft PC with all of my leftoveres.

[Thavion Hawk]

14 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

Ive got an FX 8350, Asus FX 990 MB, x16 GB DDR3 (x2 8GB sticks), an older Dell case, x2 1080p 22 inch ACER monitors, fans, a couple PSU's. x2 500GB 2.5 HDDs. GTX 970

 

I've just been looking for a case, then I've got my kid a Minecraft PC with all of my leftoveres.

How'd you score all that?

[kelvinhall05]

20 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

Ive got an FX 8350, Asus FX 990 MB, x16 GB DDR3 (x2 8GB sticks), an older Dell case, x2 1080p 22 inch ACER monitors, fans, a couple PSU's. x2 500GB 2.5 HDDs. GTX 970

 

I've just been looking for a case, then I've got my kid a Minecraft PC with all of my leftoveres.

A 970 for free? can i haz?

[Zucchini]

i got 320gb hard drive from my old laptop my parents got me in intermediate.

and some old HP that is too old to salvage good stuff from. 

[terrytek]

I got a whole ass COMPUTER for free courtesy of my cousin. It had originally a Q6600 and an 8600GT with a 240GB sata drive, but since then, i've swapped the 8600 for a GT610 (not much better tbh) and a 2TB Seagate drive bc 240GB was sorely lacking.

[Ryujin2003]

54 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

A 970 for free? can i haz?

Haha, I gave it to my father in law. Retired his 460. It was garbage, and was causing artifacts. My buddy replaced his 970 with a 1070, and gave me all his old gear. Unfortunately, he still had the stock heatsink. So as of now, I'm two cases short of being able to build 3 more PCs, all AMD based. Phenom 1055t, FX 6350, FX8350.

[bleedblue]

Right now I'm using the brandless keyboard and 16' AOC monitor from my dad's old office computer. Not much, but helped me get a 1050ti instead of an rx 550

[asand1]

I was given my Asus Sabertooth X58 motherboard for free. Actually I gave a friend a mountain bike and he later gave me the mobo along with a bunch of "old" parts.

[IKnight]

My case, PSU, motherboard, fans, 2 of the HDDs were all for free. So was my old 2xGTX460s. 

[GrayTech]

I got a free laptop because it didn't turn on. The laptop has some haswell i5 i think and a GTX 750. Now the laptop boots again but the HDD has to be replaced, the battery is dead, and so is the HDMI port. The trackpad and one of the USB 2.0 ports sometimes doesn't work properly.

[Princess Luna]

Nothing but some old laptop 2,5 Hard Drives.

[Drak3]

I got a free GTX 1080 when I bought the box.

[TetraSky]

Got a 7970Ghz for free, from a friend because it "didn't work" in his PC for whatever reason. He didn't want to bother going through the RMA process and his basic troubleshooting didn't give any result, so he gave it to me, so I could check it myself, RMA it and then keep it.

So obviously the first thing I did was testing it and worked without any real issue right away, only problem was a fan that was faulty which I was able to replace easily. Friend was baffled, but since he had given it to me and it didn't work for him, that was that and it's been working hard in my PC since then.

[Ithanul]

Free parts from folding events:

ASUS 990FX R2.0 motherboard

FX8120 CPU

 

Free part from a folding friend:

GTX960 FTW (On condition the card is only used for folding)

 

Free parts from another folder:

Butt load of different fans.  (Individual just wanted them gone)

 

That the only free parts so far I have. 

[SmilesRising]

a 280x and 8gb of ram

[aconfusedpcgamer]

13 hours ago, Thavion Hawk said:

I figure I'd make a thread asking people about parts or even systems they got for free. Cool stuff, really nice stuff or just odd stuff.

 

Examples for me would be things like my brother handing me a Geforce 4 ti4200 (A year old card at the time) because he thought he'd killed it.

Another would be the time my dad got 2 sticks of Crucial Ballistix 512MB DDR3200 from a Crucial Rep and because his computer couldn't run them I got them instead.

I grew up with my dad as a Computer Store Sales Manager so often old computer parts or even full systems would be left at the store by customers upgrading.

 

So how about you all? What sort of nice free second hand or even new stuff have you gotten for your computers?

i got free pcie cords...

 

[Sauron]

I got a corsair H100 and an corsair obsidian 800D for free. That's about it if gifts don't count.

[flibberdipper]

Excluding gifts, I've gotten my 7950, GTX 480, LGA775 board, 1TB Barracuda, and some other random here-and-there parts.

[Aelita Sophie]

So uhm, I've got most of my hardware for free..

From a friend: i7 4770k CPU, MSI Z97 Gaming 7, 32GB DDR3 2133Mhz Kingston Savage, Asus Strix GTX 970, Asus Strix GTX 780, Corsair Obsidian 750D, Samsung 960 Pro 256GB NVMe, Thermaltake FrioOCK, Logitech G910 Orion Spark, Logitech G700s. All these were brandnew

 

From companies to "check out": Logitech G933 Headset, Sennheiser HD 380 Pro, 5x Intel Pentium G3258, Gamdias ZEUS P1 RGB, Gamdias Hermes Mechanical 7-color Keyboard. Some samsung soundbar. Some LG 46inch TV (really cant remember the model number). All these were brandnew

 

From random people: FX6300, KFA2 GTX960, 16GB DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaws 1600Mhz, Some ASROCK 970 motherboard (never took the time to check out which xD, it works, thats all i care about). HD 6990, HD 7770, HD 7870, GT 720. HD6350. GTX 560ti (or 550ti, not sure) Besides the GTX960, all used or in unknown condition.

 

 

[handymanshandle]

For my birthday this year, back in January I got an i3 6100 so I would be able to do something with the various parts I had.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I got a GTX 780 Reference card from a friend that upgraded to a 1080 SLI,

 

An old computer from my grandfather, runs an Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 1x256Mb + 1x512Mb DDR/DDR2 memory(probably DDR), 1x120Gb IDE drive, 1x240Gb SATA1 drive, some old power supply and motherboard.

 

A dead Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 motherboard from a friend

 

A Pentium 4 from a computer literally found at the side at the road, unknown memory stick(also from that computer)

 

Another old computer from my dad, runs an AMD Sempron of some kind, 512Mb DDR memory(gave that to a friend), scrapped the motherboard, gave the PSU to my uncle, and my brother has the case.

 

My mom's old laptop that didn't work properly, AMD Turion 64 I believe, 4Gb DDR2 SO-DIMMs, and no clue what happened to the hard drive. It had some form of Nvidia dGPU, not sure what model.

 

 

[minibois]

Most notably: Quadro 410. A very much budget GPU I got from a relative, who got it from his internship. It was a cool upgrade for my old PC..

 

Oh and I guess I got my previous for free I guess. From my parents for a couple birthdays.

[Lathlaer]

I didn't get anything for free but my brother is getting a 6700k, GTX 1060 Strix, 500GB SSD, some Corsair Vengeance 16GB RAM and probably some spare noctua fans when I finish building my hardline custom water cooled pc ;-)

 

He'll probably get a 1080ti as well when I upgrade to Volta Ti in the future :-)