Comp geeks help needed

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:48 pm

OK guy's and gals. I've been out of the IT field for a bit. Looking to build me a cheap desktop as my server died and my main desktop was donated to my kid.

I found this board, but I can't find any info on it at all. Is this thing real!!! I don't need anything bad ass. Just gonna use it for guitar pro and recording.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:26 pm

You can get a brand new mobo + CPU at newegg for a little over $100. We're talking Asus board and new AMD CPU. Stuff is too cheap to be cheap these days.

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:27 pm

UOD wrote:You can get a brand new mobo + CPU at newegg for a little over $100. We're talking Asus board and new AMD CPU. Stuff is too cheap to be cheap these days.

agree!
go asus and amd = cheap n good

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:30 pm

Found some reviews http://www.google.com/search?q=K8T800A+ ... =firefox-a

but UOD has a good point.

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:46 pm

Guys, I'm unemployed. Looking to spend as little as possible and use older hardware.

If ya got something for sale then yell at me. It doesn't need to be state of the art.

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:48 pm

Just got mail from seller stating the board is no longer available. go figure.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:21 am

Qty. Product Description Savings Total Price
1
Rosewill R101-P-BK Black Computer Case
Item #:N82E16811147112
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
-$8.00 Instant
$29.99
$21.99

1
CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W Power Supply
Item #:N82E16817139003
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
-$10.00 Instant
$10.00 Mail-in Rebate
$79.99
$69.99

1
GIGABYTE Radeon HD 4670 GV-R467D3-512I Video Card
Item #:N82E16814125244
Return Policy: Limited 30-Day Return Policy
-$6.00 Instant
$20.00 Mail-in Rebate
$80.99
$74.99

1
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor
Item #:N82E16819103211
Return Policy: Processors (CPUs) Return Policy
$52.99

1
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Item #:N82E16820145184
Return Policy: Limited Non-Refundable 30-Day Return Policy
-$10.00 Instant
$30.00 Mail-in Rebate
$64.99
$54.99

1
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Item #:N82E16822148288
Return Policy: Limited 30-Day Return Policy
$64.99

1
ASUS M2A-VM Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Item #:N82E16813131172
Return Policy: Limited 30-Day Return Policy
$64.99

1
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DH-20A4P-04
Item #:N82E16827106228
Return Policy: Limited 30-Day Return Policy
$19.99

Grand Total: $424.92

Beats the crap outa my rig.....dual core, 4GB of ram, top of the line power supply, great vi card for the money, new DVD/CD burner, new case, new mobo, brand new 500GB Seagate hard drive.....all name brand stuff.

I actually may click buy on this myself.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:25 am

Sid wrote:Guys, I'm unemployed. Looking to spend as little as possible and use older hardware.

If ya got something for sale then yell at me. It doesn't need to be state of the art.

gotcha....missed this while I was making the list.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:29 am

I have two 2 gig sticks of Crucil Ballistix Tracer 800 Mz I'll donate, Sid. Let me know.

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:54 am

I've got a case, PSU, some ram(may need something newer), HDD's, sound card. Basically, I'm gonna take the server apart and strip the bad parts out and use it.

Been bidding on a A7V600 board. Yeah its old but if I throw a Barton core and my SCSI Cheatah's in it I should be fine. I REALLY don't need some bad ass system, I'll never use it's power.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:04 am

Sid wrote:I've got a case, PSU, some ram(may need something newer), HDD's, sound card. Basically, I'm gonna take the server apart and strip the bad parts out and use it.

Been bidding on a A7V600 board. Yeah its old but if I throw a Barton core and my SCSI Cheatah's in it I should be fine. I REALLY don't need some bad ass system, I'll never use it's power.

Yeah.....but you could FEEL the power.

Decisions decisions decisions.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:10 am

Sid I have a few components I "cleaned up" from doing a bunch of relacements at a place that does custom fabrication for the military. They guy that did the prior IT for this business used a lot of cloner parts...I can ship something your way such as
Biostar U8668 D motherboard, for Celeron/Pentium 4. It has a big HSF on it, I haven't peeked at the processor. Also has RAM. Not a fancy board, but for the price under current XMas rate of "free"....it can be on its way to you.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:16 am

You can get DDR2 ram for way cheap..I'm talking about less than 15$ a 1gig stick if you look good enough. You can likely find a cheap 8600GT 512mb card that will play just about everything there is right now for prob less than 50$ after rebates of course.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:53 am

total will be ~$55-60 and i'm sure someone has a cheaper processor that will work...but that board is descent for the price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 13-186-157

couple of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820134044

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Pentium-4-Hyp ... 240%3A1318

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:41 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Sid I have a few components I "cleaned up" from doing a bunch of relacements at a place that does custom fabrication for the military. They guy that did the prior IT for this business used a lot of cloner parts...I can ship something your way such as
Biostar U8668 D motherboard, for Celeron/Pentium 4. It has a big HSF on it, I haven't peeked at the processor. Also has RAM. Not a fancy board, but for the price under current XMas rate of "free"....it can be on its way to you.

Wow Brian, that would be cool. Let me see if I can back out of the bid I'm winning on Ebay. Also let me make sure I'm not going to have any compatabilty problems as the cards don't like to play nice.

E-MU 0404 sound
Adaptec 29320 scsi
Linksys wireless

Edit: Send it man. I find no issues at all and the ebay is only $11.00 so even if I win it I can get it and use it anyway in my duagters system that's dying.

Send my info on paypal for shipping.

Thanks man and merry X-mas to all

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:08 pm

i also wanted to offer a few things to ya Sid, i have 2 amd xp2400 n-force 2 systems i rarely use, just need HDD and they can be yours if YOSC's systems do not work for ya.

i have a bunch of spare parts from systems i have gutted as well, just let us know what ya need.

i will be away this weekend but will check back sunday nite.

*probably too late, but thought i would offer*

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:30 pm

Wow, thanks Mark. I'll keep in touch.

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 6:27 pm

Hey guys. I'm finally getting my last paycheck and christmas club money rom my old job. My bud has some stuff he is going to give me and I just ordered

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 813135075R

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820104037

So hold off before anyone sends me anything.