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One mans trash

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Bloefield

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Is another mans treasure.
Tonight I got running the 2nd box someone threw out.
This one's an Asus P3V4x mobo inside a sturdy case with an Asus badge on it.
The power supply was burnt, you could smell it, awful! and the 10 gig Quantum Fireball was loaded with spyware and probably viruses too.
I put an IBM 13.4gb hdd in it and Windows 2k pro, sp4
It had a working 466 Celeron that I swithched out for a P2 450, plus 128mb ram, floppy, 40xcd rom.
I took out the ATI 8mb agp card and installed my trusty old Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra!
Just got done updating and defragging.
Thing runs like a top!
The other box from the same place has an Abit 440bx and a P3 650.
The previous owner said it was a 233 something[ it had defaulted down to that ] :)
 
I found a P4 2.4 shuttle system tosed out once. The CD-ROM, Floppy and RAM had been stripped out, but the CPU, MOBO, 18GB HD, and CASE were intact. The Power supply was dead so I bought new PSU and 512MB and had a nice little system.
 
ImLazZzy said

where is that place, I am in ma too mind me joining the party
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It's my son's workplace.
The owner of the company told him to throw out these " worthless" computers.
They were on my back porch when I came home, :p
The guy went out and bought two Dells
 
JustLong said:
I found a P4 2.4 shuttle system tosed out once. The CD-ROM, Floppy and RAM had been stripped out, but the CPU, MOBO, 18GB HD, and CASE were intact. The Power supply was dead so I bought new PSU and 512MB and had a nice little system.
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pics of it's condition? :D

That's a hell of a find.
 
A relative found a Compaq on the curb once. 1.1GHz Athlon rig, 128 ram, 60GB HD, fully intact. The catch is it had stability problems, and as best I can tell the chip fried when I tried to run prime95 on it after swapping the ram for a 256MB Kingston module I had lying around. The DVD-Rom drive was also fubar, but those are cheap.
Someday I'll get my hands on a 100 fsb Athlon for it...
 
isp said:
pics of it's condition? :D

That's a hell of a find.
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Shuttle.jpg

I added a DVD drive and a CF/SD/MMC reader and the Xbox background.
 
JustLong said:
I found a P4 2.4 shuttle system tosed out once. The CD-ROM, Floppy and RAM had been stripped out, but the CPU, MOBO, 18GB HD, and CASE were intact. The Power supply was dead so I bought new PSU and 512MB and had a nice little system.
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nice.. you lucky b... :p
 
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