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yotsuya:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 13, 2012, 10:48:31 pm ---Don't get me wrong, this thing is a crummy single core Celeron D (with "Connie's Computer - DON'T SELL" written on the side in marker)
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 :laugh2:

xefned:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 13, 2012, 10:48:31 pm ---I've actually done fairly well raiding whatever is on clearance.  The LCD I'm currently using was $20.

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I like your style. That's how I roll with vehicles: buy the cheapest thing that runs. Drive it into the dirt. Rinse and repeat. A strategy that's served me well since 17.


--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 13, 2012, 10:48:31 pm ---Don't get me wrong, this thing is a crummy single core Celeron D (with "Connie's Computer - DON'T SELL" written on the side in marker)

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I'm with yotsuya:  :laugh2:
"Don't sell" = BUY!


--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 13, 2012, 10:48:31 pm ---done over 100 updates as soon as I got it online, though.  Yeah, you read that right.  100+.  It spent 2 hours shutting down earlier today.

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Might be a good candidate for Tiny XP. I installed Superior XP 64 on aforementioned cocktail cab and it's quite sprightly.

I recently started season 1 of Dexter incidentally. Rita FTW. 

Yenome:
ill make you a parts list in the morning when i get off. ill just send you the list of what i would build for my next rig if i was to build one now.

pinballjim:

--- Quote from: xefned on October 14, 2012, 06:59:17 am ---I like your style. That's how I roll with vehicles: buy the cheapest thing that runs. Drive it into the dirt. Rinse and repeat. A strategy that's served me well since 17.

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Yeah, when I was 17 I ended up with a $800 Grand Am.  The previous owner had gotten smashed and driven it into a palm tree 2 days before I was slated to buy it (for $1,500).  Oh, no big deal it still starts.  Yeah, and, no paperwork so that was a $150 bribe to get an official title.  Spent another thousand, easily and not counting parental contributions, on parts and repairs.  Engine only had to be pulled three times with my shiny new engine hoist.  By the time I graduated high school, I was good friends with everyone at Western Auto.

When I was 25, my dad admitted he had planned on buying the jacked up $2,000 Bronco that weekend and my mom freaked.  Hooray Grand Am!

Last I heard it was still running like a champ.  Ought to be good forever at this point.  (Previous owner joined the Navy, got some Chinese girl pregnant, and then decided he was gay and went AWOL)

Anyway, I like cheap cars but the instant I can't count on it it's toast.  I've been driving my F-150 for 11 years.


So, I've bought more DDR RAM, an old PCI video card (for just as much as I paid for a 2GB super duper one last week), and a bunch of SATA->IDE converters.  Here's to hoping I can read all my old hard drives without formatting.   :P


Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on October 13, 2012, 11:33:17 pm ---I upgraded my rig not to long ago with an AMD FX 4100 AM3+ processor and asus board combo and 4 gb ram...reused everything else... was about 100 for the CPU and about 100 for the board and 40 for ram.

i splurged a little on the board (could have bought one for 58) so i can upgrade to an 8 core processor later by just dropping it in. so about 250+tax and i'm rollin.

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I've got the same processer and similar mobo sitting out in the garage along with 8gb ram and a new shiny graphics card.  Haven't put any of it together yet to start testing.  What're you able to run, where do you stall out?  Blitz doable?  How's supermodel shizzle?

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