So I live in Chico California and for those unaware the town of Paradise has been completely wiped out by the Camp Fire. Several of my coworkers (and my in-laws) have lost everything they own. What I would like to do is gather some older but still decent hardware so I can put together some some budget gamer builds for my gamer coworkers so they at least have a system to get back up on their feet. My goal is to build 10-20, I have enough parts out of my own current collection for at least 4-7 systems.
The local news did a thing on me
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/conte...omputers-Lost-during-Camp-Fire-503689431.html
Ideal parts: (**FOR DONATION PCs**)
- Socket 1150 Motherboards with z97 chipset and m.2 support (partial to Asus, m.2 support because I have a supply of 970 Evo 250GB drives from a liquidation lot I purchased)
- AMD 970 Chipset Motherboards with m.2 support
- i5 or i7 CPUs of the Socket 1150 Variety - Preferably 5th Gen
- FX-83XX CPUs (like the 8350) cause they good and cheap performance
-4GB/8GB sticks of DDR3 1600mhz or higher (prefer 8GB to give people expansion option) Good on ram for now
- GTX 970/RX 570 graphics cards (or better, but I am on a limited budget)
Things I'm looking for PERSONALLY: (**NOT FOR DONATION PCs**)
- 1070Ti or a 1080 Blower card, for an ITX build I'm working on
My prayers go out to anyone else in this community that's been impacted by the fires up here and in Southern California.
Edit: 12/12 Update: Deleted previous updates, cause it was becoming too much to read.
Thank you to Jeffredo (who I met in person!) for his generous contribution of a Z97 board, processor, and motherboard. Was great meeting you!
Edit 12/26 Update: NZXT is finally shipping cases and coolers, which is good because I just ran out of cases and have 5 systems waiting for a case! Christmas was productive, attached a photo of one of the PCs I built that I ended up replacing the old acrylic window (it was a free donation and was scratched pretty bad) with a custom cut smokey acrylic window...and damn does it look good.... if anyone is interested, I can post an imgur gallery of all my builds I've done for #PCsforParadise initiative. Also, people can check out my Twitter feed, @semperfio6, I post them there as well.
The local news did a thing on me
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/conte...omputers-Lost-during-Camp-Fire-503689431.html
Ideal parts: (**FOR DONATION PCs**)
- Socket 1150 Motherboards with z97 chipset and m.2 support (partial to Asus, m.2 support because I have a supply of 970 Evo 250GB drives from a liquidation lot I purchased)
- AMD 970 Chipset Motherboards with m.2 support
- i5 or i7 CPUs of the Socket 1150 Variety - Preferably 5th Gen
- FX-83XX CPUs (like the 8350) cause they good and cheap performance
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- GTX 970/RX 570 graphics cards (or better, but I am on a limited budget)
Things I'm looking for PERSONALLY: (**NOT FOR DONATION PCs**)
- 1070Ti or a 1080 Blower card, for an ITX build I'm working on
My prayers go out to anyone else in this community that's been impacted by the fires up here and in Southern California.
Edit: 12/12 Update: Deleted previous updates, cause it was becoming too much to read.
Thank you to Jeffredo (who I met in person!) for his generous contribution of a Z97 board, processor, and motherboard. Was great meeting you!
Edit 12/26 Update: NZXT is finally shipping cases and coolers, which is good because I just ran out of cases and have 5 systems waiting for a case! Christmas was productive, attached a photo of one of the PCs I built that I ended up replacing the old acrylic window (it was a free donation and was scratched pretty bad) with a custom cut smokey acrylic window...and damn does it look good.... if anyone is interested, I can post an imgur gallery of all my builds I've done for #PCsforParadise initiative. Also, people can check out my Twitter feed, @semperfio6, I post them there as well.
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