Has Anyone Built There Whole Computer System with parts from the For Sale/ Trade Forum?

OVERKILL

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There seems to be some good deals in the For Sale forum.
What parts did you guys buy from the forum to build your rig?
 

Red Dawn

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Yes many times. What parts? Well if I built whole systems from parts I bought at the FS forum wouldn't it be all parts?
 

Spikesoldier

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the only part in my system from FS/FT is a lite-on 16x dvd and an 80gb wd se hdd

i had a multitude of parts running when i started this system though, but i have upgraded many things, and resold a few.
 

Baked

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Never. Used parts from the FS/FT forum smell like... fish. I buy all my parts, new, from newegg. Those smell like... ham.
 

pancho619

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Yes, my first computer actually, everything from motherboard to the Inwin case. I bought mostly new or lightly-used parts from the For Sale/Trade forum. BTW, that was 5 years ago and that computer is still alive and ticking. Check my heatware (140+).
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: pancho619
Yes, my first computer actually, everything from motherboard to the Inwin case. I bought mostly new or lightly-used parts from the For Sale/Trade forum. BTW, that was 5 years ago and that computer is still alive and ticking. Check my heatware (140+).
Back then it wasn't such a gamble as there weren't as many trolls ripping people off.

 

cain

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i came pretty close. for my current computer, i got everything off of FS/FT forums on AT except dvd-rw, cd-rw, the hd's hs/f and case.