Bulding a computer with 0$

[ZetaDarus]

So hi mpgh , today i finally finished buiding my new computer , but a computer that costed me 0$

Im just a little 16 yo french kid and my mom doesn't want to spend money on a Gaming computer , so im left with a laptop ( i hate laptops ) that i got for free at school

its called the "POP" , basically you get a free computer running on ubuntu with a locked bios so you can work with it at your house ( obviously i cracked the bios and installed windows on it )


Basically what i do sometimes is get out to the town and try to find some PC's that peopole throws away , i got ask to their door if they do have an old computer , or i look into some grabage piles

i already built some computers from scratch and recovered parts , but they were alway shitty as fuck ( like 80 GB of HDD , 512 MB or ram , with no grpahics card and running on XP )

But later i found enought parts to make a decent computer ( still shitty )

Here is what i ended up with : https://valid.x86.fr/etu8i3 < Here is the precise references of the parts

Nvidia GeForce 210 ( yes this does exist )
8GB of DDR3 Running at 655 MHZ ( cuz this random motherboard only have dual channel slots , and i use two different RAM sticks yolo )
Intel Pentium 3GHZ ( 2 cores )
Some random Hitachi 500GB HDD at 7200 Rotations/min + another 320 GB HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate crac.... i mean activated

#Pure gaming PC case
And yes 1 ram stick actually does have glowing leds on it ( it is the Nanya ram stick , you can't see it but the stick itself is black/gold )


No this is not dust or whatever , this is anti-rust , cuz i live close to the beach , the air is salty as hell and computer always get rusty as fuck after 1 month


still really far from a gaming computer , but really decent for a thing where i didn't used any money on it

So i want to know if some popole there have done the same thing , if im not the only one , and what you guys think about it .

EDIT : I just reviewed the computer to know the aproximative price of all the stuff into this PC and i got a really big suprise! ; my motherboard it is the intel DH61HO wich is not a consumer grade motherboard , and costs 171$ and My hitachi HDD costs 230$

I didn't expected to see that i had parts with a so high value on my PC <.<

If this computer was new this would be it's aproximative value : 474$ ( the ram sticks , the second HDD and the case are unknown so for all of them you can add about 100 - 20$ to the value witch give us about 600 $ )

[wan]

Really impressive considering you made it yourself from spare parts and put no money into it. Good job, OP.

[EL Surenzo dA KK Caponeiyl]

you sir, you are a top genius

[ZetaDarus]

Really impressive considering you made it yourself from spare parts and put no money into it. Good job, OP.

you sir, you are a top genius

Thanks you two

[Default]

I mean that's genius... you'll be something big

[Degree]

Huh that's really cool man, nice work!

[Aborted]

Nice work kid, hopefully you can upgrade that baby in the future.
Welcome aboard to sort-of-not-shitty PC.

[Terror]

Nice work.

[`Rejected]

Thanks you two

If you really want to try get better parts for free I mean you can try to SE them, if that is within your morals. It is possible to SE all the parts to a computer.

[ZetaDarus]

If you really want to try get better parts for free I mean you can try to SE them, if that is within your morals. It is possible to SE all the parts to a computer.

SE them ? what do you mean ?

[`Rejected]

SE them ? what do you mean ?

Social Engineer, Basically manipulate the company you have their product and its broken in order for them to send you a free replacement.

[Nyssa al Ghul]

Amazing work, you'll be big one day

[Nyaro]

Social Engineer, Basically manipulate the company you have their product and its broken in order for them to send you a free replacement.

Yep
that actually works.
But i would be careful
sometimes it won't

[ZetaDarus]

Social Engineer, Basically manipulate the company you have their product and its broken in order for them to send you a free replacement.

yoIM ONLY 16 YO AND UR ASKING ME TO DO THAT ?! , cmon .................. ....... .... .....

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ill take a look into it .

[`Rejected]

yoIM ONLY 16 YO AND UR ASKING ME TO DO THAT ?! , cmon .................. ....... .... .....

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ill take a look into it .

Add me on skype if you would like and I can try to tell you about it and how to get into it. I got $150 speakers and a fitbit surge coming to my house within the week.

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Yep
that actually works.
But i would be careful
sometimes it won't

I ended up SE'ing 8 Fans from bitfenix and also a case from NZXT with little effort. I was trying to SE one of the new i7 processors but unfortunately they couldn't ship to me for some reason so I bailed on it.