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Garage Sale jackpot

elcamino74ss

Senior member
I had a neighbor moving to Georgia that had a garage sale this weekend. He had his own cell store business and used to build his own pcs. He was just trying to get rid of stuff to not have to move it. Here's a partial list of the loot

Albatron Socket A board with a Athlon 2500
ECS Socket 478 with a Celeron 2.0a
Kingston value 512mb ddr 400 stick
Corsair 256mb 2700 ddr
ATI 64mb 7000ve dual vga agp card
ATI 32mb V100 agp card
a new noname $30 Fry's cheapo case/ps
linksys pci wireless G card minus the antenna
linksys wrt54g minus AC adapter (untested so far)
Several PCI nics, some partial cases, cdrom drives, modems, etc

It also came with a gigabyte socket a with another 2500 amd but so far havent been able to verify either of those as working.

And for all this I paid a whole $20... but it was all loose and none was known for sure to work or not. He just said there was probably enough for 2 pcs out of it and so far I have put together two boxes out of it and the 2500 will clock to 3200 and the Celeron will post at 3 ghz.
 
wow that sounds like a sweet deal!
The closest to that I ever come was a school auction. I bought a lot of about 15 motherboard boxes because they had SATA cables and oem Nero in them. I ended up with about 75 SATA cables and 25 Nero CDs and 3 sealed OEM Windows XP Pro for a grand total of $5
 
I just happened to be in the right place at a good time. He had a garage full of stuff and was going to have to pay to move it to Georgia from Texas. The wife handled me putting all the stuff in the garage pretty well then taking over the kitchen table to test it all out.

I'm starting to get a full house now though.

The box in the sig is my main rig, the wife has a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop and my kids also have a 3100 sempron box and I also have a 2800 athlon win2k3, dc, iis, sql 2k5 box.
 
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