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This week has been a FREE hardware BONANZA!!!!!!!!

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Ronstang

Lifer
I received a call last week from a family friend who is a Dentist who is redoing his entire office network and he asked if I would like the old machines. I happily accepted figuring at worst they could be used by someone (I collect old equipment and build free PCs for people in my area who can not afford them). Sunday I picked up 4 complete systems down to the mouse and keyboard and 1 extra monitor. The monitors are rather old 14-15 inchers with the newest being from 2000 but the boxes themselves weren't too bad:

3 AMD Athlon 850 Mhz machines each with 128 megs PC133
1had a 15Gig WD HD and the other 2 had 20 Gig WD Hds.

1 Intel Pentium III 800EB with 256 megs PC133 with a 30 Gig WD Hd

All the machines are in very nice Enlight cases (w/drive rails) with each one including an AOpen 52X CD-Rom, NEC Floppy, Intel 10/100 NIC, and an S3 3D/2X AGP 4 meg video card and one of the AMD machines has a Seagate 8 Meg Tape backup in it w/tape. The AMDs also each have a legal copy of Windows 98 and I received the licenses also. Now the only thing to do is decide how to put these jewels to good use. I guess I will immediately replace the GF's 400 P3.

Anyway......fast forward to today. I get a call from my stepson in-law and in his back seat is a 24inch widescreen SUN Microsystems monito (he works for them and had two of them on his desk and didn't need both) that he is bringing home for ME!!!!! It is Sony built.....check out the specs HERE. Needless to say I am way excited as this beauty is going to be awesome to play games on.....it's HUGE!!!!!! It weighs 90lbs!!!!!!!!

You have to love FREE hardware.
 
I got a free keychain at work which made me really happy. I've been wanting to pick one up but never had the chance. Now, it came to me... 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
I received a call last week from a family friend who is a Dentist who is redoing his entire office network and he asked if I would like the old machines. I happily accepted figuring at worst they could be used by someone (I collect old equipment and build free PCs for people in my area who can not afford them). Sunday I picked up 4 complete systems down to the mouse and keyboard and 1 extra monitor. The monitors are rather old 14-15 inchers with the newest being from 2000 but the boxes themselves weren't too bad:

3 AMD Athlon 850 Mhz machines each with 128 megs PC133
1had a 15Gig WD HD and the other 2 had 20 Gig WD Hds.

1 Intel Pentium III 800EB with 256 megs PC133 with a 30 Gig WD Hd

All the machines are in very nice Enlight cases (w/drive rails) with each one including an AOpen 52X CD-Rom, NEC Floppy, Intel 10/100 NIC, and an S3 3D/2X AGP 4 meg video card and one of the AMD machines has a Seagate 8 Meg Tape backup in it w/tape. The AMDs also each have a legal copy of Windows 98 and I received the licenses also. Now the only thing to do is decide how to put these jewels to good use. I guess I will immediately replace the GF's 400 P3.

Anyway......fast forward to today. I get a call from my stepson in-law and in his back seat is a 24inch widescreen SUN Microsystems monito (he works for them and had two of them on his desk and didn't need both) that he is bringing home for ME!!!!! It is Sony built.....check out the specs HERE. Needless to say I am way excited as this beauty is going to be awesome to play games on.....it's HUGE!!!!!! It weighs 90lbs!!!!!!!!

You have to love FREE hardware.
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Um...someone gimme a cookie if I'm wrong...but I'm pretty sure you need a converter to use that monitor on your average PC.
 
Originally posted by: yoda291
Originally posted by: Ronstang
I received a call last week from a family friend who is a Dentist who is redoing his entire office network and he asked if I would like the old machines. I happily accepted figuring at worst they could be used by someone (I collect old equipment and build free PCs for people in my area who can not afford them). Sunday I picked up 4 complete systems down to the mouse and keyboard and 1 extra monitor. The monitors are rather old 14-15 inchers with the newest being from 2000 but the boxes themselves weren't too bad:

3 AMD Athlon 850 Mhz machines each with 128 megs PC133
1had a 15Gig WD HD and the other 2 had 20 Gig WD Hds.

1 Intel Pentium III 800EB with 256 megs PC133 with a 30 Gig WD Hd

All the machines are in very nice Enlight cases (w/drive rails) with each one including an AOpen 52X CD-Rom, NEC Floppy, Intel 10/100 NIC, and an S3 3D/2X AGP 4 meg video card and one of the AMD machines has a Seagate 8 Meg Tape backup in it w/tape. The AMDs also each have a legal copy of Windows 98 and I received the licenses also. Now the only thing to do is decide how to put these jewels to good use. I guess I will immediately replace the GF's 400 P3.

Anyway......fast forward to today. I get a call from my stepson in-law and in his back seat is a 24inch widescreen SUN Microsystems monito (he works for them and had two of them on his desk and didn't need both) that he is bringing home for ME!!!!! It is Sony built.....check out the specs HERE. Needless to say I am way excited as this beauty is going to be awesome to play games on.....it's HUGE!!!!!! It weighs 90lbs!!!!!!!!

You have to love FREE hardware.
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Um...someone gimme a cookie if I'm wrong...but I'm pretty sure you need a converter to use that monitor on your average PC.
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I do believe you're correct
 
Originally posted by: KingNothing
Didn't need both? How can you have dual monitors and not need both?
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Only an idiot would question this decision. Accept the free monitor before he has any second thoughts.
 
Originally posted by: yoda291
Originally posted by: Ronstang
I received a call last week from a family friend who is a Dentist who is redoing his entire office network and he asked if I would like the old machines. I happily accepted figuring at worst they could be used by someone (I collect old equipment and build free PCs for people in my area who can not afford them). Sunday I picked up 4 complete systems down to the mouse and keyboard and 1 extra monitor. The monitors are rather old 14-15 inchers with the newest being from 2000 but the boxes themselves weren't too bad:

3 AMD Athlon 850 Mhz machines each with 128 megs PC133
1had a 15Gig WD HD and the other 2 had 20 Gig WD Hds.

1 Intel Pentium III 800EB with 256 megs PC133 with a 30 Gig WD Hd

All the machines are in very nice Enlight cases (w/drive rails) with each one including an AOpen 52X CD-Rom, NEC Floppy, Intel 10/100 NIC, and an S3 3D/2X AGP 4 meg video card and one of the AMD machines has a Seagate 8 Meg Tape backup in it w/tape. The AMDs also each have a legal copy of Windows 98 and I received the licenses also. Now the only thing to do is decide how to put these jewels to good use. I guess I will immediately replace the GF's 400 P3.

Anyway......fast forward to today. I get a call from my stepson in-law and in his back seat is a 24inch widescreen SUN Microsystems monito (he works for them and had two of them on his desk and didn't need both) that he is bringing home for ME!!!!! It is Sony built.....check out the specs HERE. Needless to say I am way excited as this beauty is going to be awesome to play games on.....it's HUGE!!!!!! It weighs 90lbs!!!!!!!!

You have to love FREE hardware.
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Um...someone gimme a cookie if I'm wrong...but I'm pretty sure you need a converter to use that monitor on your average PC.
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Notes This monitor is PC compatible.
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HD15 Connector
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Although, those refresh rates blow goat
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Although, those refresh rates blow goat
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I was waiting for that respones. All I can say is I have seen it in action and it looks terrific and it was FREE!! BTW, Sun sells them for $1900.
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Hey I'm happy that you'll like it, and I wouldn't mind having it either just to screw around with, but even refresh rates as low as 85 bother me...I run my 19" at 120Hz

 
Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Although, those refresh rates blow goat
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I was waiting for that respones. All I can say is I have seen it in action and it looks terrific and it was FREE!! BTW, Sun sells them for $1900.
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Hey I'm happy that you'll like it, and I wouldn't mind having it either just to screw around with, but even refresh rates as low as 85 bother me...I run my 19" at 120Hz
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I guess my eyes are a lot better than yours since the 19" flat CRT I have now only does 75hz at the resolution I run and I have been staring at it all day for 2.5 years without any problems whatsoever so I AM happy. If most people would stop being specification snobs they would actually enjoy life a lot more since I bet most of the times people only think they are adversely affected by a certain refresh rate because they are told it is too low......but to each his own.

 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Although, those refresh rates blow goat
Click to expand...
I was waiting for that respones. All I can say is I have seen it in action and it looks terrific and it was FREE!! BTW, Sun sells them for $1900.
Click to expand...
Hey I'm happy that you'll like it, and I wouldn't mind having it either just to screw around with, but even refresh rates as low as 85 bother me...I run my 19" at 120Hz
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I guess my eyes are a lot better than yours since the 19" flat CRT I have now only does 75hz at the resolution I run and I have been staring at it all day for 2.5 years without any problems whatsoever so I AM happy. If most people would stop being specification snobs they would actually enjoy life a lot more since I bet most of the times people only think they are adversely affected by a certain refresh rate because they are told it is too low......but to each his own.
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Well, a lot of people actually can tell the difference in the refresh rate. If you used a monitor with a high rate and then went back to the 75 hz, you most likely would notice. Once I got a 19" Samsung a couple years ago with a 100 hz refresh rate and then when I looked at my old 17" Trinitron, I noticed the flicker.
 
Damn, lucky!!! I would love to be given a computer of that class. I'd be happy with a Slot-A Athlon 500.

I'm still using the K6-3/400 that I built 3 years ago. :frown:
 
Originally posted by: Dudd
Originally posted by: KingNothing
Didn't need both? How can you have dual monitors and not need both?
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Only an idiot would question this decision. Accept the free monitor before he has any second thoughts.
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he's talking about the stepson in-law who originally had the dual monitors, but didn't need both of them.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Although, those refresh rates blow goat
Click to expand...
I was waiting for that respones. All I can say is I have seen it in action and it looks terrific and it was FREE!! BTW, Sun sells them for $1900.
Click to expand...
Hey I'm happy that you'll like it, and I wouldn't mind having it either just to screw around with, but even refresh rates as low as 85 bother me...I run my 19" at 120Hz
Click to expand...
I guess my eyes are a lot better than yours since the 19" flat CRT I have now only does 75hz at the resolution I run and I have been staring at it all day for 2.5 years without any problems whatsoever so I AM happy. If most people would stop being specification snobs they would actually enjoy life a lot more since I bet most of the times people only think they are adversely affected by a certain refresh rate because they are told it is too low......but to each his own.
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Yeah, I'm being such a specification snob with my bleeding edge tbird 1.4, geforce 2gts, and dialup...maybe your eyes actually suck if you can't see the scanlines at 85hz. Personally it gives me a headache.

 
Originally posted by: Eli
Damn, lucky!!! I would love to be given a computer of that class. I'd be happy with a Slot-A Athlon 500.

I'm still using the K6-3/400 that I built 3 years ago. :frown:
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If I ever get rich, I'll buy you a new system 😀

As for refresh rates, it might depend on the monitor, but anything less than 100Hz hurts my eyes. 120 is better, but I'll take 100.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: Eli
Damn, lucky!!! I would love to be given a computer of that class. I'd be happy with a Slot-A Athlon 500.

I'm still using the K6-3/400 that I built 3 years ago. :frown:
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If I ever get rich, I'll buy you a new system 😀

As for refresh rates, it might depend on the monitor, but anything less than 100Hz hurts my eyes. 120 is better, but I'll take 100.
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he's in line for any free systems that come my way after i get one for my car... and one to go to some girl in arkansas, then i might give Eli a free computer 😛
 
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