excellent deals!

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:18 pm

I just got two excellent deals in a row, and I thought, why not make an excellent deals thread. My deals were.

A Compaq Presario SR1305WM with an AMD Sempron 3200 precessor, 512mb ram, and a 40 gig hdd. The motherboard has an agp slot for expandable graphics. It came with a Microsoft Wireless multimedia keyboard and mouse and a 15" Samsung flat panel display. this whole setup was only $60.

My second deal is complicated.
I have a Geforce 6200 256 mb. This card is ok, but it just can't get the performance that I need to play Quake 4, Doom 3, F.E.A.R. etc. comfortably. But it plays Half Life 2 beautifully. My friend is having trouble with his ATi Radeon 9250. it's giving him serious artifacts on all of his games, and all that he really wants to play is Half Life 2 and Call of Duty 2, so I told him that if I could get a new graphics card that I'd sell mine to him for $35.

So I was on ebay Sunday night and I won a Geforce FX 5950 ultra 256mb card for, guess what, exactly $35. So I got my upgrade for free, and I score 2000+ points higher in 3dmark03 and 60fps higher in the CounterStrike video stress test. It was the greatest free upgrade ever. I would really recommend the FX 5950 ultra to someone on a tight budget. It is not plagued by any of the problems of the early FX series cards, it outperforms the 6600 gt any day.

So any body else get any sweet deals lately?

So Many Kinds of Bagels · Fri May 18, 2007 2:02 pm

A clever excuse to brag. >:D.

I just got a "Melon" colored N64 with Banjo Kazooie, Mario Party 3, Ocarina of Time, and Goldeneye for $35.

OAtH_OS · Post by **OAtH_OS** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:07 pm

I got a Dell Inspiron 5100 Laptop 2.66 p4, 256mb at the time, working battery, with a fried hard drive for $30. I then bought 768 mb of ram (a 512 and 256) off of geeks.com, but only the 512 worked

. 30 day warranty though. I put in a 20 GB HDD that my uncle had in his office. So far, this laptop cost $82 and can play WoW, HL2, Halo... It's good for a laptop.

Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:54 pm

I got a Lowrey organ for $125. It's not pro but it's pretty fun and I can't play so it's good enough for me.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sat May 19, 2007 3:45 pm

I got a P4 2.40Ghz computer with 256MB of RAM, two hard drives (20GB and 40GB), and two optical drives (DVD-ROM, CD-RW) for free. No operating system though, and it is really noisy.

I'm in the process of making it into a FreeNAS video server for my network. When I open it up to put a big-ass hard drive in, I'm taking out/replacing some fans to quiet that damn thing down.

So Many Kinds of Bagels · Sat May 19, 2007 4:41 pm

I don't know if this is a good deal or not, but I just got an Atari 2600 w/ joysticks and paddles and 30 games for $30, $15 shipping.

Lagonium · Post by **Lagonium** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:57 pm

I got an Apple Powerbook 2000 Firewire (AKA Pismo) for $25 total, including shipping, from a guy on ebay who had no idea how to fix a PRAM issue. It only had 128MB of RAM and a 6GB hard drive, but a similar one costs $225 on ebay.

Now it has 384M of RAM, os 10.4.9, an 80GB hard drive and an internal DVD burner. Basically, I used the money I planned to spend to get the thing in the first place on upgrades.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:27 pm

This really belongs in the Trading post.

Moving...

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:47 pm

Ummm... Why the heck did this get moved to the Trading Post? It's about deals people got, nothing's for sale.

CTFan

Post by **bicostp** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:48 pm

That's what I'd like to know. Nothing's for sale; this is a brag thread...

Moving back...

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:14 pm

Um...I just got....

A model 2 NES, 4 or 5 controllers for it (some don't work)...a PILE of games.

An atari 2600 and 7200, with AN UNHOLY LOAD of games (two large suitcases full!)

A Sega Genesis, and ANOTHER PILE of games.....along with a 6-button Turbo controller, and 2 of the not-so-six button turbo controllers.

Ooh, and a game genie for the Genesis too...

All...for....FREE!!!!

Man I love the junkyard!

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:26 pm

Just grabbed up a "broken" Gamecube for $15! Pot tweaks rock.

Oh, and a free NES controller from a friend who had no use for it.

CTFan

Lorelis-san · Post by **Lorelis-san** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:35 pm

Got a DS, fully working, a bit damaged but otherwise great, in exchange for an account for an online game. A free one.
So basically got a DS for free! :wink:

Reaperman@home · Post by **Reaperman@home** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:53 pm

I just got two more GBM systems new for $30 each from walmart. They were red tag clearance, so if there's anybody out there near a walmart which, for whatever reason, still has some Gameboy Micros left, it might be a good idea to go back and check on their price.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:32 pm

LOl, I may be getting a 360 with 2 games for $100. they are going to "fall off the back of the truck".

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