No.543182
So I just got through finding parts for a new rig, and I feel pretty damn proud that I found what I found at the prices I found it at.
Here's the specs:
Dell Optiplex with an i5-2400 3.1ghz and a 250gb HDD (no ram) [$155.00]
2x4gb DDR3 1333mhz RAM [$30.00]
8gb SSD [$7.00]
and i have an old Radeon HD 3450
Grand total: $192
So thats a lotta hardware for a little bit of money, and I guess the point of this thread is:
What is the best possible PC you can frankenstein together for under 200$?
No.543217
No.543236
>>543182
>8gb SSD [$7.00]
Do you mean flashdrive?
No.543401
Got an i7-920 with an EVGA board that had some bent pins, bent em back, and it works. $40 off craigslist. Found an RM850 for $50 too, and traded some CSGO skins for 4gb of DDR3. Then found a 780ti that was "broken", figured I'd reflow it, but apparently it was just driver issues so I got that for $60. Got a 120gb ssd with a slightly damaged sata port for $20.
No.543407
>>543182
>that image
90s computing had soul
No.543409
>>543407
man i miss beige cases and green pcb
No.543456
Good deal. Anyone looking to score cheap systems should hit up TXMicro. Under new ownership, but they still have good deals on Dell Optiplex and HP office computers with more power than is needed for basic IE and office bullshit.
Too bad thrift stores want a fortune for shitty 1024x768 LCD monitors of dubious functionality.
IMG: System that will no longer let ANY Soundblaster cards work in it, throwing fucking IO errors constantly. I think I will take a shotgun to it soon, if a reformat and SHOVEL EVERYTHING BACK ONTO IT WITH FUCKING FLOPPY DISKS doesn't work, as I was running on borrowed patience as it was.
No.543463
>>543401
Reflowing is a meme
No.543627
>>543401
Reflowing will 99% of the time NOT work and will kill your card for good
No.543629
No.543687
>make $55 an hour because I actually got good at programming instead of watching talmudvision/anime, installing gentoo, editing config files in arch, and insulting windows users on imageboards all day
>can easily afford to buy the newest, most powerful computer hardware every year
>tfw 128GB of DDR4 RAM
>tfw over 50TB of storage
>tfw fastest SSD on earth
>tfw quad-SLI GTX Titans
>tfw water cooling
>tfw liquid nitrogen cooling system for special occasions
>tfw enough powerful CPUs and motherboards laying around to build a mini supercomputer
>tfw seeing this thread about poorfags resorting to dumpster diving for their hardware
lmao
No.543688
where did you find that 8GB SSD !? never heard of that
nice find on the optiplex though. sandy bridge i5 is a winner. cases of those are hella goofy though, could swap that. also your power supply might die sometime. don't replace with a cheap one (read amazon reviews of fires and smoke).
run
smartctl -t long
on the hard drive
you could easily not bother with the GFX card if that processor has onboard graphics, it's good enough for a GUI
No.543690
>>543687
>mfw well paid engineering but i still dumpster dive to find entreprise grade components
Off the high horse and in with the spirit.
No.543726
>>543182
>saitek eclipse
I had one of those and it started typing on its own after 4 years
No.543766
>>543690
tfw me too.
I did it when I was a student.
I did it when I made £30k/ year (starting salary)
I do it now when I make £80k/year
I will do it for as long as there's something interesting to find in those dumpsters.
No.543788
>>543627
I've "reflowed" two motherboards and they both works. I think it has to be the kind of vibrationdamage you'll only ever see in laptops. And you should not get it hot enough so to actually reflow it, because that will fuck everything up. Just warm enough to make the solder slightly soft so it might fix a loose connection.
However I would only ever do it again on a board I don't care about fucking up. If it's worth sending to a repair man after I fucked with it then I wouldn't ever touch it. More a test to see if it works before it goes in the trash either way.
No.543835
>>543687
Pretty good bait.
No.543955
>>543726
>I had one of those and it started typing on its own after 4 years
I'd be concerned if my hardware became sentient.
No.544055
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For 80$ total i got a ThinkCentre A50 with a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
>thinkcenter itself was 20$
>monitor was 30$
>keyboard was 20$
>mouse was 5$
>extra ram was 5$
all with free shipping
Pentium 4 @2.8ghz
2gb of shitty DDR2 ram
80gb 5400rpm HDD
radeon hd 6530
sick ass radial heatsink
The monitor is an old 15" IBM flatscreen, keyboard is an IBM KB series rubber dome, mouse is a lenoovoo standard one with a really annoying push scroller instead of a scroll wheel
Also got a T42 for 60$, an R30 for 6.50$ and a R52 for 25$.
Pic related, cheap as shit working r30 with windows 2000, ordered more ram earlier today.
No.544097
>>543687
>tfw not a poorfag
No.544231
>>544055
$6.50, but $20 shipping?
No.545558
the Case is from a Compaq 6000 series PC
CPU: Athlon II X2 220 (OC'd to 3.1 ghz)
Mobo: eMachines 1352 Mini-ITX
Ram: 2x2gb DDR3 running around 1600 mHz
GPU: Zotac 630GT 2gb GeForce
HDD: 500 gig WD Blue 2.5" from laptop i swapped out (replaced with an old Seagate 120 gig - the old Gateway NV53 to right in pic, my shitposting rig)
DVDRW-old BenQ multiRW
PSU - Kenntek 680w
also put three fans inside to make this thing rather cool - average temp on CPU & GPU is around 55C. Running Window7-64 bit. Able to run Fallout 4 on about medium. All parts were salvaged or trades from salvaged parts, besides the PSU ($60 eBay, brand new), originally from a Dell i had rebuilt, then raided for parts
No.545559
>>543463
gf's dad's laptop works now after i reflowed his GPU in my toaster oven - Aspire 5920 that was whitescreening - baked it for 15 minutes at 380F, and then every 5 minutes turned the temp down 50 degrees. then let it cool and popped it in. Worked first try.
No.545572
>>545559
You should try it in a microwave oven next time.
No.545713
OK, I understood that plastic shouldn't melt completely, but what do you guys use to protect your oven in case it happens?
No.545780
>>545713
put blue tack, then tin foil over the plastics and capacitors if you reflow anything, exposing only the items you are trying to reflow, like the GPU etc. the card i did was easy as there wasnt too many caps, and weren't the electrolyte kind (ie liquid inside) and instead were the solid black ones.
No.545827
Used rackmounts: where $550~ gets you dual quad xeons, 48GB of ram, and 3 15k SAS drives to get you started, room for 6 SATA drives. if you can put up with the noise, heat, and power consumption http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-Virtualization-Server-8-Core-48GB-4x300GB-15K-1-2TB-PERC6i-/171307537270?hash=item27e2b99376:g:VO4AAOSwoydWtO8l
No.546043
>>543687
>tfw make a living selling overpriced garbage to nigger-rich, meme language "programmers" who will be phased out by computers in a decade
No.546337
>>545827
Don't forget all the used workstations out there that have the same thing but with better expansion options
No.546529
>tfw work a shitty job but still in last year of high school
>tfw no rent so I can do what I want with my money
>have been building and upgrading a sweet rig for all of highschool with flame decals for more horsepower
>tfw got a dank LG 25UM57 widescreen IPS panel monitor
>currently running a gtx 970 and about to cash out on whichever gpu wins in the upcoming Polaris/Pascal showdown
>i5 4690k OCed with water cooler
>16gb of the rams
>own a few extra computers that I salvaged
>made some sick homemade desks
>still living here for 2 more years during college
Don't worry I'll be dead inside like the rest of you in 4 years.
No.546540
>>546529
>Don't worry I'll be dead inside like the rest of you in 4 years.
Speak for yourself, i am beaming with life.
No.546566
>>546337
i dont know many workstations that have 18 ram slots anon
that server also have 4 pcie 16 slots
image 288gb of ram with 4 firepro w9100's and two xeon e7 8890's
now imagine 8 of these setups in a rack
oh my god my dick
No.546569
>>543690
Cheap asses are the ones who have money to retire and play with. So, it is all good.
No.546603
>>546566
Is there something like that rackmount in a tower form factor that isn't just the case?
Are those pcie slots full size of low profile?
No.546617
>>545713
"Don't put computer hardware in a cooking appliance of any type" sounds like a smart idea, maybe you should try it.
>>546529
>only a 970
Should've sprung for a 980Ti.
No.546680
>>546529
Those cheap tables from Ikea work perfectly for 2U servers.
No.546729
Phenom II x4 920 - 28
MA770-UD3 - free
8 GB DDR2 - 30
Radeon R9 270x - 70
Case - free
PSU - 19
Cooling - 20
1080p screen and peripherals - free
Prices include postage
I would like a reason to upgrade but as of now I simply cannot justify it. Does everything I want it to.
No.546734
>>546680
Damn those tables look fine with a server in them.
>>546617
Na I'm waiting for a 1080ti/1090 or r10 fury later this year
No.546840
>>546729
Looks fine to me. Only reason to upgrade would be to replace your Mobo + CPU.
No.546863
>>546680
what do those servers even do?
No.546870
>acquaintance who i barely know total bitch brings a T60 to me
>says she found it in her basement cleaning up, thinks that old houseowner left it there
>says the screen is "booting to a black screen with weird text"
>boot
>no fucking HDD
>"yeah sorry the gpu is fried, if you look up T61p nvidia defect that's your problem, i'll take it off your hands to dispose of it :^)"
>take it off her for free
>insert 64gb hdd
>install GNAA/Lorax
>enjoy 4:3 north korean flipnote shitposting
>becomes daily driver because i'm low maintenance and really only need something to code on
No.547727
>tfw i pulled a pentium D optiplex out of the trash and its my main workhorse
No.548144
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>>547727
>tfw i pulled an two i3s and 16GB RAM from a batch of some school computers that were getting thrown out
No.548353
>>546863
They serve internets.
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No.548361
>>546863
Personally? ESXi on the bare metal, a VM with deluge/couchpotato/sonarr installed (all traffic VPNed), a VM with Plex and 5TB of storage. I could use some suggestions for other VMs, I've been thinking i2p router/proxy, maybe a tor relay?
No.548381
>>543182
Man, I miss runescape. Those were good times.
Pretty good find there with that optiplex I suppose.
I wouldn't trust that HDD, I'd probably grab a few 250GB refurbs and raid1 that shit up over several disks.
No.548691
>tfw live in Canada
>Main rig is a used dell precision workstation
>tfw barely any listings for socket 771 xeons to upgrade it with
No.548935
>>548144
Where the fuck do schools get rid of old computers? My local highschool got new computers recently and the old ones just fucking vanished. Not even the IT guys know, the were just told to unhook them all and cart them into storage then the next week they were gone.
No.548958
>>548935
Probably recycling, like the stupid fucks they are. Old computers sell pretty well on eBay. Fuck, I buy them myself
No.548959
>>548958
I have a hard time sleeping thinking this, but knowing the level of tech knowledge where I live makes me think they might have literally thrown them away. I don't want to believe it but I'm too scared to find out if its true
No.549385
>>543182
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7RB38R5907
>Core 2 Duo 64 bit Dual Core Processor E8400 (3.00 GHz)
>Intel GMA X4500 GPU
>RAM 4 GB DDR2
>HDD 80 GB
>DVD+R/RW
>ports: 8 usb, 2 dvi, 1 e-sata and 1 rj45
I installed linux mint 17.2 on it
55
No.549396
>>549385
oh yeah, and it's quieter than my loud ass speaker humm
No.549401
>>546529
>be 29
>2 years ago get job as night auditor
>tfw no rent because parents because going to school on the side
>drop about 1k on an i7 tower with 32 gigs of ram and a 650 GTX
>tfw I finally got around to learning programming and I like shitpostign and coding on an old core 2 duo more
see >>549385