I Bought An Old Computer For 10$!!

jimbo45 · Sep 15, 2023

Berton said:
I can sympathize with that, reading some of the articles that appear on the Widgets shows that 'youth' attitude to be prevalent in business now. I also don't have as much business in the last couple years. I attribute some of the situation to the problems, with any tech, if a product has issues and I fix it to where I would want to use it the client will want to use it but the downside is if I do fix it that good they don't have to call me back.

Hi there
didn't the legendary Henry Ford invent "Planned obsolescence" !!!!

I used to think US cars after you'd used them for more than 6 months would come up with things like aircraft warning signs to pilots with all sorts of lights and alarms indicating " Hey ---you're cheating -- you've got 3 days left to buy another car before this one stops working".

cheers
jimbo

Lance1 · Sep 16, 2023

Well! I went garage saling again today... I hit this one sale with a dozen or so boxes with FREE on them. Free is good... I started opening boxes and rummaging through them until, "And this is the OMG moment!" One had a tune of Corsair fans, some with RGB. Yes they will come in handy. But underneath I found these... An Asus EN8800GTS 640MB and an Asus R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 "FOR FREE!!" I Grabbed the box and into the car it went. The wife found some shi.. I mean nice stuff too... I put the R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 in my main system and the EN8800GTS 640MB in my 32 bit system, "Still a work in progress mind you. YA! I'll get to it". I Installed the drivers in both systems and both work fantastic! I used AIDA64 to ID the exact model for both. It was a good day. I'm feeling good.... Here's some pics.

Ghot · Sep 16, 2023

I guess the question is... will a $10 computer run Windowes 11?

Lance1 · Sep 16, 2023

Ghot said:
I guess the question is... will a $10 computer run Windowes 11?

NO... As you know Win 11 is 64 bit exclusive and My System is 32 bit. So it's stay with Win 10 32 bit or go Linux.

Lance1 · Sep 16, 2023

I just checked temps on the EN8800GTS 640MB and its idling at 57C. Thinking I'll pull the card and disassemble and apply fresh past. It is old and most likely never disassembled. I shut the system down and will work on it in the morning. I'll post the results. I hope it's in the higher 30's. My R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 is idling at 36C.

Ghot · Sep 16, 2023

Lance1 said:
I just checked temps on the EN8800GTS 640MB and its idling at 57C. Thinking I'll pull the card and disassemble and apply fresh past. It is old and most likely never disassembled. I shut the system down and will work on it in the morning. I'll post the results. I hope it's in the higher 30's. My R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5 is idling at 36C.

Maybe set a fan curve with MSI Afterburner or similar.

I use EVGA Precision (EVGA vid card), and have set fan curves for the fans on my RTX 2070...

retiredat44 · Sep 18, 2023

I have 1 win11 (combat flight sims), 2 win10 (pc) our home computers, 1 win10 (laptop), 1 linux (Ubuntu) I like it for being able to read documents and help when I am flying so many aircraft, I fly a hundred or more easy, with all my flight sim aircraft, and ground vehicles.. I also still have a very old win98 computer, it can still run SCSI, for an old HP photo, slide, negative scanner. I have been building electronics and computers since 1980. My only issue is the linux connecting to windows networking is a PIA.

Berton · Sep 18, 2023

retiredat44 said:
My only issue is the linux connecting to windows networking is a PIA.

Have the same issue with Linux accessing my Buffalo LinkStation NAS [2 x 2TB RAID 1], doesn't seem to be supported. Didn't have that issue with 2 x 1TB WDC NAS drives but they were old and had security issues with no updates, the drives are good and living in computers now as secondary Data drives. The Linux issue is not important as all the computers of clients are Windows and I can access the NAS for data storage, backups, file access, etc., whether wired or wireless.

Lance1 · Oct 2, 2023

OMG another 10$ find!! I found this last Saturday. A Dell Dimension 9200. The seller wanted 20$ I said 10$ and he said OK! Installed Win 10 Pro. Installed an old Radeon HD 5770,. It came with 4 GB DDR2 and I'm golden...

Berton · Oct 2, 2023

Lance1 said:
OMG another 10$ find!! I found this last Saturday. A Dell Dimension 9200. The seller wanted 20$ I said 10$ and he said OK! Installed Win 10 Pro. Installed an old Radeon HD 5770,. It came with 4 GB DDR2 and I'm golden...

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Good bargain. I've an older Dell that has 2GB DDR2/PC2 RAM but it will only take 4GB Max, unfortunately that type RAM is getting hard to find new. Even Crucial doesn't have a lot of DDR3/PC3 RAM. But mine has WinXP and really doesn't need more, only keeping it for occasional refernce.

Lance1 · Oct 2, 2023

Berton said:
Good bargain. I've an older Dell that has 2GB DDR2/PC2 RAM but it will only take 4GB Max, unfortunately that type RAM is getting hard to find new. Even Crucial doesn't have a lot of DDR3/PC3 RAM. But mine has WinXP and really doesn't need more, only keeping it for occasional refernce.

Thanks. 4GB runs Win 10 nicely. I think this is one of DELL'S better looking cases. Love IT! And it's heavy! I feel I'm lifting two PC'S at once! Maybe another month of garage saling left. Maybe I'll find another one. Do you think my luck will hold out?

Berton · Oct 2, 2023

Lance1 said:
Do you think my luck will hold out?

Fingers crossed.

Lance1 · Oct 2, 2023

Berton said:
Fingers crossed.

Lets hope... My wife hates I collect PC,S...

Berton · Oct 2, 2023

Lance1 said:
Lets hope... My wife hates I collect PC...

I'm lucky, my wife was driving 35 miles for work [nurse in hospital] and I was retired. She 'lied' to me saying she didn't have drive winters, we should move, but what she really wanted was a double-wide mobile home she'd found. It did work out and I got my own computer room and she got a room for her quilting 'hobby'.

Scannerman · Oct 2, 2023

That's a sweet find and you are to be congratulated. I love seeing older PCs put back to use. I have an old Dell Inspiron 530 that runs Win 10 just fine. I liked it so much that I hung onto it just for kicks.

Berton said:
It did work out and I got my own computer room and she got a room for her quilting 'hobby'.

My wife has a yarn addiction. Her side of the basement is all yarn and my side is all PCs. I suffer her yarn and she suffers my PCs. Even our perfectly working fridge in the basement is full of yarn. The middle of the basement is our computer room She keeps yarn there too, above and beside her desk. I keep PC components above and beside my desk. An additional four desks forming a U are for the girls who also love to use the network.

Berton · Oct 2, 2023

Scannerman said:
That's a sweet find and you are to be congratulated. I love seeing older PCs put back to use. I have an old Dell Inspiron 530 that runs Win 10 just fine. I liked it so much that I hung onto it just for kicks.

My wife has a yarn addiction. Her side of the basement is all yarn and my side is all PCs. I suffer her yarn and she suffers my PCs. Even our perfectly working fridge in the basement is full of yarn. The middle of the basement is our computer room She keeps yarn there too, above and beside her desk. I keep PC components above and beside my desk. An additional four desks forming a U are for the girls who also love to use the network.

Don't know about you but I pity our kids in getting rid of all the 'stuff'.