Lucky bastard... *looks at tiny 120gb unit in laptop, feels sad and poor* Good score.
I rarely use any of my laptops so they're not worth much to me. Instead, I'll use them as "party favors" (I'm headed out to an extended off-site with colleagues). They'll fit nicely in my carry-on. "Share the wealth"
Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
The "Supermicro Tree" dropped 2x brand new X7DAL's and 1x X6DAL on me. This makes 3 X7DAL's they've given me. I've never messed with the X6DAL, I'll have to research what chipset it is...maybe more paxvilles will find homes.
Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
I rarely use any of my laptops so they're not worth much to me. Instead, I'll use them as "party favors" (I'm headed out to an extended off-site with colleagues). They'll fit nicely in my carry-on. "Share the wealth"
I'll need to keep my eyes open then for a deal like you found... all of my laptops are spinners minus my nicest one with has a dualbooted peanut sized 120gb drive. Last I looked intel ones still sold for a pretty penny even when used .
The "Supermicro Tree" dropped 2x brand new X7DAL's and 1x X6DAL on me. This makes 3 X7DAL's they've given me. I've never messed with the X6DAL, I'll have to research what chipset it is...maybe more paxvilles will find homes.
Should be the same as the other irwindale boards we have. That chipset came in both DDR and DDR2 boards. The DDR version only can do 333 but can do more RAM (8x 4GB, good luck finding the modules). IIRC the X6DAL only had a -G variant (1 NIC,, DDR) and no -G2 variant (2 NIC, DDR2).
Road side garbage pickup find of the year for me MacBook Pro 13" 2011. It was in the rain but the angle it was on it didn't get any water in it thankfully, it runs, only thing was the optical drive didn't read discs (replaced with a spare I had) and both USB ports didn't recognize any device, I recently fixed it with help from badcaps, both USB data line filters were faulty (fixed from a donor board) now she runs great with a 250GB SSD split half n' half with OSX High Sierra and Windows 8.1
More free road side garbage pickup, working HP workstation with an intel Xeon (not sure which one), dual CPU sockets, Nvidia Quadro and I think 8GB ram (4x 2GB) damaged Win XP install or faulty boot drive, they removed the PSU however it was sitting next to it and it works fine. Next a perfectly working intel 530 480GB SSD, the things people throw out!
It's a large spread out area with a well populated mix of society levels Each have their own level/type of items
Dumpster diving in the richest postal codes is likely to yield some good scores.
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So it's garbage month where i live so that means i'm going to be finding a bunch of random free stuff on the side of the road over the next few weeks.
Here is some stuff i found so far........
1 APS UPS, I don't remember what model it is nor have i tested it yet.
1 Dell LCD Monitor, someone removed the sticker on it with all of the info but the LCD does work.
And 1 PowerSpec PC, I have not tested it yet because both the power supply (some FSP unit) and the motherboard are covered in dead capacitors.
Here are some specs of the PC....................
The motherboard is an ECS mcp68m-m2 with about 4GB of DDR2 RAM.
The Hard Drive is a WD Raptor 36.7GB HDD.
The PC has one DVD/CD drive and one floppy drive.
The power supply is an FSP300-60BTV 300w PSU (the power supply appears to not be original to this PC).
2x Gigabyte GV-NX84G256H - one dead, one had artefacts but now works
1x WDC WD1600AVJS SATA HDD
and a PC with:
ECS Geforce7050M-M (AM2)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
A-Line PX-450 "450W" PSU (K-Mex's POS line of units)
Deer "TAC" case (strange how they paired a Deer case with a K-Mex unit.)
H-L DVD-RW GSA-H58N
1GB DDR2
Hitachi 160GB SATA HDD
Tossed the PSU because it was a piece of crap and same route went the front panel of the case, in its place sitting a white JNC RJA-52 front panel.
Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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