Should I buy it?

[The VCR King]

At the thrift store, there is a bag of computer parts for $5 that I want to get. It contains an old motherboard, 2 Pentium II processors, one with a fan attached to it, and some PCI cards and two Cooler Master heatsinks with fans, still in box.

 

[C4C]

At the thrift store, there is a bag of computer parts for $5 that I want to get. It contains an old motherboard, 2 Pentium II processors, one with a fan attached to it, and some PCI cards and two Cooler Master heatsinks with fans, still in box.

If you really want to spend that $5, go ahead. Just remember that you could be putting that money potentially spent on ancient components, into a piggy bank to upgrade your system in the future.

 

[The VCR King]

I already have a 6-core Phenom, a Radeon 6950, a 1000-watt powersupply. What else could I possibly need?!

 

[salvage-this]

A savings account.

 

[Darren]

A savings account.

Or common sense.

It's your 5 bucks but those parts are useless except maybe the fans.

 

[Troncoso]

You honestly needed a thread for advice on this? And seriously, why can't people give their threads at least half decent titles??

 

[voyagerfan99]

What else could I possibly need?!

A savings account.

Or common sense.

It's your 5 bucks but those parts are useless except maybe the fans.

You honestly needed a thread for advice on this? And seriously, why can't people give their threads at least half decent titles??

All the above.

P.S. you're wasting $5 you can spend on delicious food instead.

 

[just a noob]

sli the pentiums

 

[ninjabubbles3]

Buy yourself an ice cream or a bag of candy.

You will be much happier

 

[Darren]

sli the pentiums

Oh man I didn't even think of that. Yeah if you're gonna SLI the Pentium's it's probably worth it. Those things can crank out mad frames when coupled with a nice heatsink from Cooler Master.

 

[ninjabubbles3]

You can SLI Pentiums?

I'm not joking

 

[C4C]

You can SLI Pentiums?

I'm not joking

But they are

 

[Darren]

But they are

Yeah, everyone knows you can only SLI AMD Processors.

 

[just a noob]

Yeah, everyone knows you can only SLI AMD Processors.

No that's crossfire

 

[voyagerfan99]

You can SLI Pentiums?

I'm not joking

No, you can't. They're making a joke. The only thing you can SLI are nVidia GPU's.

 

[Troncoso]

No, you can't. They're making a joke. The only thing you can SLI are nVidia GPU's.

I thought you were going to run with it...

 

[NerdGirl1313]

At the thrift store, there is a bag of computer parts for $5 that I want to get. It contains an old motherboard, 2 Pentium II processors, one with a fan attached to it, and some PCI cards and two Cooler Master heatsinks with fans, still in box.

It seems like a good deal, but be careful who you buy from. If it was me, I would not do it. I would use the money for something else.

 

[Geoff]

I already have a 6-core Phenom, a Radeon 6950, a 1000-watt powersupply. What else could I possibly need?!

Why do you have a 1KW power supply?

A savings account.

+1

Instead of spending $5 here and $10 there on useless crap that you can get for free elsewhere, you should save it up to buy something you actually want or need.

It seems like a good deal, but be careful who you buy from. If it was me, I would not do it. I would use the money for something else.

It's not a good deal, but I agree, he should not do it.

 

[beers]

Have at it. You aren't going to be happy until you do, and then you aren't going to be happy having problems with a retro build running like crap or if at all. At the end of this scenario you'll also be unhappy that you don't have $5.

Is $5 worth the wave of disappointment? Only you can be the judge.

I already have a 6-core Phenom, a Radeon 6950, a 1000-watt powersupply. What else could I possibly need?!

At least you've settled on your system. Some people wouldn't consider that as sufficient, and there's plenty more what you could do with it upgradewise.

 

[voyagerfan99]

At least you've settled on your system. Some people wouldn't consider that as sufficient, and there's plenty more what you could do with it upgradewise.

I'm not happy with mine. I can't run Watch Dogs on max settings. Need a new mobo, CPU, and video card with more vRAM.