A Tale of broken laptops, trades, and epic wins :D

[MIRTAZAPINE]

Gosh I love this thread so much. So much good hardware there! I am so jealous you got at a good price! I would love to fix all of that! There no such things in my area. To fix the front io I would just buy usb of the same type and and use glue to fit at that area. I have been planning to do this my faulty io for my pc.

A decent skill techie is able to fix all those hardware easily.


You are sure cashing in a lot on people ignorance. Sometimes it is just because of frustration that people would want to get rid of their computer at a low price. Even hardware with decent specs.

 

[remixedcat]

For fixing something that took me literally 2 minutes I got a netgear nighthawk R7000 as payment... ha ha... that's a 200 dollar router.

 

[Mussels]

had to get the air compressor into that i5 system - doing the windows 8 to windows 10 upgrade now (clean 8 install, it had no drive)

BIOS seemed to think it could OC the CPU to 3.7GHz, curious how fast it actually gets.

 

[Mussels]

ah lads, its happened again.

so, got given a box of random shit again - this time for helping someone choose an ISP.
40GB IDE hard drives, cables for PS2's, USB 2.0 wifi G adaptors, three pentium 4 CPU's...
Shitty iomega USB 2.0 enclosure with no power brick? better smash it open and laugh at the contents.

Oh.
Fucking score!

 

[Jetster]

Samsung Spinpoint 5400

 

[Mussels]

Samsung Spinpoint 5400

who cares, its 2TB

working condition too, full of their pirated movies and TV shows. at a guess they lost the power brick and assumed it was dead?

 

[Jetster]

Good find. Delete the partition before you fine something really bad

 

[Mussels]

Good find. Delete the partition before you fine something really bad

I found some very unflattering nudes on a galaxy S1 i bought for my mother, so i've fallen victim to that in the past XD

 

[Devon68]

2TB drive. You lucky bastard. Nice score.

 

[Mussels]

had another win today, went to the tip and got a bunch of stuff for $5 (as in, $5 total)

Wifi N600 dual band range extender repeater
i5 750 + motherboard + 2GB of ram
Intel N600 dual band wifi (for my laptop)
Q6600 + 8GB DDR2 800Mhz
Asus mATX case + thermaltake PSU

 

[Steevo]

Send me the Q6600 and 8GB you must........

 

[remixedcat]

damn I want that RAM and wifi adapter!

 

[Mussels]

damn I want that RAM and wifi adapter!

there was two of the wifi adaptors, one ran at 80C and invisible to windows so it met a hammer.

got some more ram but its untested hence the no pics:

7x2GB of DDR2 800Mhz
2x4GB 1333Mhz DDR3 SODIMM/laptop
so many 1GB/512MB DDR2 desktop sticks i'm tempted to throw them away.

 

[remixedcat]

DDR2 RAM is too freakin expensive and hubby n eeds moar and he's got a DDR2 amd mobo.

~$30 on ebay for 2x2GB. not cheap but definitely affordable if you got a 4 slot board.

 

[rtwjunkie]

there was two of the wifi adaptors, one ran at 80C and invisible to windows so it met a hammer.

got some more ram but its untested hence the no pics:

7x2GB of DDR2 800Mhz
2x4GB 1333Mhz DDR3 SODIMM/laptop
so many 1GB/512MB DDR2 desktop sticks i'm tempted to throw them away.

Trust me, DDR2 always sells on ebay. You'll be able to unload it all!

 

[jboydgolfer]

I found some very unflattering nudes on a galaxy S1 i bought for my mother, so i've fallen victim to that in the past XD

jesus....when i first read that, i saw "from", instead of "for".... thank god i was wrong, for your sake.

 

[Mussels]

jesus....when i first read that, i saw "from", instead of "for".... thank god i was wrong, for your sake.

hahaha, my mum has a filthy sense of humour so if she had more mobile data she'd throw some scat porn on for me to find.

 

[Mussels]

So...

I got this free.

 

[Sasqui]

So...

I got this free.

Hooopoly Christ, 62C @5 Ghz! Is 50x really the max multi on that chip?

 

[Mussels]

Hooopoly Christ, 62C @5 Ghz! Is 50x really the max multi on that chip?

its a K so it can go higher. 5Ghz i'm having a little bit of stability issues at idle, so i see no point trying above that just yet.

 

[cdawall]

I don't know how much I like this thread lol

 

[Toothless]

My turn.

While back in highschool learning advanced flight techniques, a friend of mine had a (at the time mind you) pretty decent laptop. Quad, APU, 500GB HDD and 8GB mismatched memory. It was a tad upgraded from stock but who cares, it worked.

Fast forward, he dropped it in the street, bent the VGA port, damaged case, and managed to make the screen a spider web of color-changing goodness. He was about to trash it.

Well I was using this little netbook with a N270 in it and goodness it was bad. Big kid with tiny pooter'.

He gave me his damaged laptop.

$70 for correct memory since it kept crashing the wifi (I had a thread about that) and $80 for a nice glossy screen replacement. Wonderful.

Same laptop that melted it's original power brick, heat issues (overclocked 1ghz over stock) and constant bsing. I still use it daily.

$400 laptop w/ decent overclocking at $150. Now runs a SSD for more speedyness. I love it.

 

[Mussels]

Oops i did it again, i necroed a thread, cause i got free/cheap shit:

Asus Xonar DG
AMD 5450 1GB - passive cooled
Galaxy Nvidia GT640 2GB
Pentium G620 (2 core, 2.6GHz 1155)
Asus P8H61 1155 mobo


$20
I'ma make me a file server, since my 4 bay E-sata enclosure died, but the drives survived.

 

[dorsetknob]

Should report you to the mods for repeatedly reviving necroed threads
Ps lucky B*****D some Cheap goodies there

 

[Mussels]

i'm short an 1155 cooler

booooo