What's the best deal you've ever had on computer part(s)?

[Amplifier]

My best deal was on a Dell laptop. $750 for a $1400 notebook. That was a homerun!

I'm curious what homeruns people on this forum have had. Bragging encouraged .

 

[Cawchy87]

I got 2 mx510's for a penny each. with a 150% pm with staples

 

[Nomada]

Celeron 633 with mobo out of the garbage. Sold for beer money. I find tons of equipment outside. Monitors, drives, mobos, etc. Great for file servers the older stuff.

 

[Brackis]

Made 100 dollars buying a Desktop from Dell....Sold off the LCD and an LCD TV that came with it. Pocketed $100 and kept a 3.0 ghz comp with 1gb of ram and a 160gb HD.

 

[jadinolf]

Nothing here. Price usually drops right after I buy.

 

[melchoir]

2 years ago, a new ATI 9700 Pro for $80. Recently, a Compaq laptop I bought for $250 and sold for $600. Not counting any freebies.

 

[Ionizer86]

1) Got the free XP1800+ and Gigabyte 7DX mobo from AMD.
2) Not counting promos/giveaways? Rebate/PM combo to get a Minolta laser printer for $20.

 

[essasin]

free ipod

 

[SKORPI0]

$5 Magic Spin 52x24x52x Internal CD-RW Drive clearanced @ Office Depot (Orland Park, IL). Walked in the store and they had 8 of them.

Currently sells for $39.97 here.

 

[slpaulson]

Nothing too crazy.
My 1800fp for $380 was hot at the time.
My Klipsch promedia 5.1 Ultras for $300 was decent.
My 9800 pro a little more than year and a half ago for $250 and free HL2 was pretty good at the time.

 

[Ronin]

Free:

FX55
FX55
4000+
3800+
3700+
3100+
3100+
A8N-SLi Deluxe
6800U
6800GT
6800GT
6800GT
6800GT
6800GT
6800GT
6800GT
x850 XT PE
x800 XT PE
x800 XT
x800 XL
x700
x600
x300

And the list goes on and on.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

My 6800GT for 377 when the average price was more like 425 in the end of January.

 

[globalcitizen]

$50 for that Seagate 160gb drive.

 

[Corporate Thug]

$179 retail X800XL PCI-E

 

[Otaking]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
My best deal was on a Dell laptop. $750 for a $1400 notebook. That was a homerun!

700m for me

I thought the coupon was $750 off $1500?

 

[Ketteringo]

AGP x800 pro for $270 like 6 months ago when they were impossible to buy for more than retail.

 

[EatSpam]

HP Color LaserJet 3550N for $250. Printer is around $1000 at most retailers.

OfficeDepot has them until May 7th for 50% off with instant and mail-in rebates. HP has a printer-recycling promo until June 24th that rebates $250 on the 3550N (other rebates for other printers.)

Its a sweet printer too and comes with a JetDirect box.

 

[roguerower]

Got a old 815 intel mobo, a 1Ghz p3, 512mb or ram, and a 20 gb 7200 ibm hd for FREE

 

[Kaieye]

I got a thinkpad x20 with broken keyboard and missing hard drive for $100 bucks, Athlon 64 3000+ socket 754(the first for $40 and the second one for $60) but it has to be a Dell Computer that was missing a hard drive but came with a geforce 4 ti-4200 128 meg video card, modem, dvd player and cdrw burner. Oh, and it came with a NIC card, floppy and 256 megs of Rambus memory. It was a 933 mhz speed p3 and I got that whole setup free almost two years ago...

 

[FoBoT]

3-4 years ago, i got ten NIC's for $0.99 each
NIC's were about $15-$20 each back then

 

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by: essasin
free ipod

that made me laugh .

 

[vegetation]

Only piece I still use from the dot com bust is my Nikon 950 2mp camera bought from Accompany for like $250 when it was going for two to three times as much.

 

[neonerd]

2x Free Asus K8V board from AMD
1x free 74GB Raptor from WD
1x free radeon from ATI (forget which)
1x free DVD-RW from AMD

 

[JonnyStarks]

My best buy was a $10 multi-card reader that was about 50 bucks... and it just stopped reading SD cards, which are the only ones I use.

 

[Triumph]

VALUE AMERICA! There's only one, maybe two other people in this thread that would even remember that. Practically unlimited 50% off coupons. I got my Voodoo3 3500 for $50 AR. That was the top card in town at the time.