I'll be in San Diego from Sunday night until Monday (the 8th). Any chance of meeting up at some point next week? I might be heading up to LA next week also.
I have a whole bunch of the army 1's back at my parent's house. They were darn expensive back in the day. Even had an aircraft carrier to transport them in.
Last month when I upgraded to a Sandy setup I sold my 920 for $215, motherboard for about $100, and 6GB memory for $90.
It takes awhile for cpu, motherboard, and memory prices to go down. They aren't like hdd's or video cards (that lose 30-50% of their value in 1-2 years). Hell, sometimes...
I have my not-so-old old (about 6 months old for the most part) gaming rig FS/FT since I just built a new system (just a little better). Here's the specs on the system FS/FT:
Antec P180 (Grey/Black case, newer P180 style w/ the water-cooling holes) - still has the plastic film over the sides...
I've got a Velocity Micro L80X Ultra I'd sell for $950 shipped. The laptop is based off the ever popular Compal HEL80 base, and is upgraded to the max. I have all the paperwork and software in the Velocity Micro blue plastic folder, and even the new (unused) t-shirt that came w/ the laptop...
just for reference I sold my E1705 that was modded to an M1710 (T7400, 7900GTX 512mb, even the M1710 palmrest & lcd cover) w/ Vista Ultimate for $1600 on ebay 2 months ago.
I might be interested in the case in a week if it's still available (I loved my Antec Soho from 3 years ago, looked exactly like this but with a window panel).
would probably help if you stated it was an XPS M1710. What specs are you looking for in a desktop? I have a Core 2 Duo w/ 8800GTS 640 gaming system I'm selling/trading (Link), and would be more than happy to trade you for that, infact I would install my Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0) that is arriving...