Yay garbage day finds!
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Topic: Yay garbage day finds!
Posted By: Darur
Subject: Yay garbage day finds!
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 11:45pm
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So I've been eyeing this CPU for a few days now. Its been sitting on my neighbor's driveway with a monitor (thankfully no rain and not that much sun, mild temps up here). I was optimistic and today I snagged it. Looking at it from the outside I may have lucked out! No rust or corrosion on the outside. Its an eMachine with a Celron D inside with Windows XP Home edition and the CD key on the outside.  Opening it up its better then I hoped. The thumbscrews felt like they were still factory tight. Its perfectly clean inside as well, still has a hard drive too.  I'm hoping it just has a virus or driver issue and they didnt know what to do, or they decided to upgrade and thew it out. I'll report back once I've tried to start it up. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 11:46pm
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Great find. I'd look at their HD and look through emails and such.
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Posted By: paintbusta
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 11:47pm
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thats the same comp i have ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 11:48pm
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Damn. Who just throws out a *decent* PC like that? I'd make it into a CS server. It would definately put my 262 MHz CS server to shame.
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 11:52pm
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run a dedicated source server
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 22 August 2006 at 11:52pm
| thats pretty awesome...i agree with ced, check out their emails, that should be fun. |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 12:13am
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Well, shes running beautifully, save for the graphics. Looks like some brillient person decided to mess with the drivers so its all in 16 color mode. Its also loaded with kid games, AOL crap and random junk. I'm debating between a server or a few other options right now, I'm still amazed they threw this out. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 12:17am
| I have an option for you. Send it to me. |
Posted By: ¤ Råp¡Ð F¡rè ¤
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 12:27am
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I wished my neighbors threw out expensive trash... All we've ever snagged was a couple Tykes (sp?) cars (for little kids) ------------- 
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Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 1:42am
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Try to sell it back to them.
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Posted By: blackdog144
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 1:52am
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awesome
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 5:23am
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You lucky mother...
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Posted By: Farcry0092
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 7:05am
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funny. its the same one i have too |
paintbusta wrote:Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 7:29am
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i got a free hp that someone thought was broken, and im stripping the hard drive of programs and running t1 cable thorught it, and itll be a mad internet machine ------------- 
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Posted By: God Of War
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 8:20am
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unless they have their passwords saved onto the computer...you cant do that ------------- Semper Fi 98custom 14" Proggressive barrel 20 oz C02 tank R/T kit EmpireII auto hopper |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 8:32am
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 9:07am
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Thats a good find. I found a desk chair once dumpster diving, but we left it on my friends front porch because he was always complaining he needed a new chair.
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Posted By: f3lix
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 9:10am
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 10:50am
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That was my first thought as well. We are bad people. |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 11:33am
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hmmm... dumpster diving has brought me many cool things. beavis and butthead slippers, 4 wheelchairs, and a few other little things
finding abandoned buildings is where it's at. office chairs and whiteboards the size of an entire wall. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 1:24pm
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The only thing ive found garbage picking is bikes...... A few of which are accually worth something. Not much mind you, but somethign
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Posted By: God Of War
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 1:44pm
where do u all go garbage divin..my fav is the neighbors ------------- Semper Fi 98custom 14" Proggressive barrel 20 oz C02 tank R/T kit EmpireII auto hopper |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 2:21pm
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I did some stuff for my church and wound up with a ton of free "garbage". I offered to help them clean out the church owned coffee shop that just went out of bussiness. It shared this building right across from the church with this old card store (baseball, football, hockey...). So as we're cleaning this place out, me and my friend find a few boxes with some baseball cards and stuff in them. We didn't really think anything of it at first, but when we got a break, we sat down and started going through them. We found about $2000 worth of rare cards and signed pictures.
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Posted By: rossy11223
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 3:19pm
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My aunt's monitor broke so she decided to give me her whole computer so she could get a new one. Only thing is, the hard drive was taken out to transfer to the other computer. Once I get my hard drive I'll make it into a CS server or something. |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 4:15pm
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that's how i got my extra monitor
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 23 August 2006 at 4:45pm
| Damn, I wish I could find a game-worthy PC... |