best cheap/free scores 1.1

[shovenose]

Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1

Motorola D3 Cable Modem will save me $7/month for the Comcast supplied one (even though when the first one, an SMC died, they obviously traded it out for another at know charge for another one, Arris this time, so I no longer get to get new ones for free). but come on it's a cable modem I got it for $15+tax

Also some decent Sony headphones for $5+tax

[momaka]

Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1

The other day, I got a big lot of various PC100 SODIMM RAM modules from a fellow Craigslister (thanks Eric). Among the bunch are 2x 256 MB low density sticks, which is exactly what I needed to bring back my laptop to 512 MB of RAM. The 384 MB I have in it right now is really hardly cutting it. Can't wait to turn it off tomorrow so I can install the RAM in it.

Motorola D3 Cable Modem will save me $7/month for the Comcast supplied one

$7 a month??? Ridiculous! That's $84 in a year!!
These guys really must've had you bend over hard!

[kc8adu]

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got a free samsung 27" 1080p monitor off cl.
needs work of course.
a friend got a free igt "draw poker".
complaint was wont boot.dead monitor.i rebuilt it and reinstalled this evening.fired right up.

[momaka]

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got a free samsung 27" 1080p monitor off cl.
needs work of course.

Seems like the local craigslist here is filled with TVs now after Black Friday, especially CRT TVs in the free section. I think there's at least 20 or so postings for the CRTs just in the last 2 days. I pity the fools who went out on Black Friday and bought the cheap low-end LCD TVs on "sale". Pretty sure their old CRT TVs had better picture.

[kc8adu]

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whats funnier yet is i got a free 40" 1080p in the box saturday.
poor gal had just bought it and her 3 year old nailed it with a wii remote.
good for parts.

Seems like the local craigslist here is filled with TVs now after Black Friday, especially CRT TVs in the free section. I think there's at least 20 or so postings for the CRTs just in the last 2 days. I pity the fools who went out on Black Friday and bought the cheap low-end LCD TVs on "sale". Pretty sure their old CRT TVs had better picture.

[momaka]

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whats funnier yet is i got a free 40" 1080p in the box saturday.
poor gal had just bought it and her 3 year old nailed it with a wii remote.
good for parts.

lol
now try that with a CRT. *bonk* and the wii remote shatters instead .

[Agent24]

Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1

And the CRT will last longer probably. Unlike the cheap LCDs with Fuhjyyu capacitors!

[goodpsusearch]

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And the CRT will last longer probably. Unlike the cheap LCDs with Fuhjyyu capacitors!

Capxon and Samwha/Samyoung probably

[Agent24]

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Capxon and Samwha/Samyoung probably

Well CapXon are just as useless...

[gilly1984]

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Just bought this off ebay, all working.

Samsung PPM42M5SS 42" Plasma Display Panel

£10

[senndogg]

Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds

AG Neovo has been popular in europe years ago. 4 years ago a my friend bought a full hd AG Neovo 22", it had a good price and overall good quality in respect to samsung similars.

1 year ago i have found an AK-47 when cleaning the new store where i am based. for sure i took it to the police station.

[ratdude747]

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Scores this week:

$2.50- dell bluetooth keyboard. Clicky. Has some shortcut keys. Solid construction.

$10- a bunch of mobo cables:

- 8 18" sata cables
- 3 2 port molex to sata adapters
- 2 9 pin component/svideo adapters (one was found in my old garage, same as the other one)
- a single 1394 header bracket
- a single two port USB 2.0 header bracket (the kind that fits in a 25 pin hole).
- an ASUS two port external Sata (not esata) adapter:



Most of those I don't have a use for but if anything its trade sweetener...

Also found a like-new Asus radeon 9550 agp card with a fan mod I forgot I had... kinda free I guess?

[shovenose]

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This week?
$29 dual CPU motherboard from Topcat
2x: https://www.datashack.net/cart/?id=192
And I got $20 for some random old AMD dual core CPU I didn't need so that's a good score I guess

[ratdude747]

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The 9550 ended up being a dud.

[kc8adu]

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sansui 1000a tube stereo dropped off for recycling.
that is getting a tune up and coming home with me!
also a video microscope,several cameras,and a video effects box.

[SuperDuty]

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Just bought four non working computer with no RAM or HDD.
Acer Aspire 5500 : burnt chip on the motherboard
Packard Bell SL65 : badly broken flat panel, exterior is broken, runs for about 15 seconds and then stops.
Packard Bell LJ65 : slightly broken exterior...but works ! The laptop must have felt on a corner and broke on the hinge which cut the power switch wires. Very simple repair
HP 620 : It did start but nothing was showing on the screen. I noticed some make up glitter was spilled all over the keyboard and underneath, I had a hard time cleaning this mess. Worked immediately upon reassembly.

All of this for 40€ !

That makes two fairly recent computers for about 20€ each, and I haven't tried repairing the Acer. I'll go get some DDR3 tomorrow for the HP and the Packard Bell.

[ratdude747]

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bought two linksys wpc54g v1.2 pc cards for 3 bux a pop. They even still had the film on the linksys badges.

Edit- one of them actually is a wpc54gs v1.0... even better!

[ratdude747]

Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1

Here's whats inside the cards from ^: (from lspci)

WPC54G V1.2:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)


WPC54GS V1.0:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

Yes, they are internally the exact same card. Who would have thought?

[Phaihn]

Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1

Got from a customer she got a new one so she gave me Sony VGN-NS135D and a Dell tower all gota do is pull files off.

[Gabriel]

Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds

Found a 4870x2 2G a few days ago, tested it using 3Dmark without any problems several times on both dvi outputs.

Working just fine.