Pre-builts aren't bad for normies and a cheap Linux box. I've got a few prebuilt refurbs, my main 2 being a Dell Optiplex 755 I got for £150 (quad-core) and a Dell Optiplex 780 I got for £35 (the Pentium model)
Post your pre-built PCs and their stories of how you got them. No custom built people, fuck off to your own threads
Don't think there's much love fore Pre-built PC's here.
Especially if you're actually buying them.
Now a dumpster dive thread, that might pull in some people.
>>54322306
Optiplexes are the desktop equivalent of thinkpads. Had a 755 SFF as my main computer for a while back in high school. Now its a mediocre file storage/ stream watching pc. Would upgrade it, but fuck ddr2 prices.
>>54322548
I thought Thinkcentres were the desktop equivalent of Thinkpads. I got a M82 with a i3-2130 for $100 USD. Not a bad deal. Put an SSD in it and sold the HDD for $20. Got a GT 720 for it, too. Runs pretty well.
>>54322578
You never see thinkcentres though, its all dell, at least where i live.
It's better if normies buy prebuilts instead of invading yet another facet of tech culture that they would ruin.
>>54322598
I got mine off eBay.
>>54322548
>Would upgrade it, but fuck ddr2 prices
Literally why is DDR2 still expensive.
>tfw ECC DDR2 from a dumpster find server doesn't work with regular boards
>>54322473
I thought you poor slavs are crazy for pre-built PCs because buying overseas will rape you by the import.
>>54322732
I don't think there's a general opinion on pre-built PCs.
As far as importing goes, we're in the EU, so we're just as fucked by the import jew as everyone else.
Only pre-built desktop I actually had was our old 386 machine.
Everything since then was custom.
>>54322599
>>54322473
>Don't think there's much love fore Pre-built PC's here.
Yeah, NEETs don't get tax refunds.
Professional users however just buy a prebuilt and deduct it from their taxes, saving time not only for the build, but also for eventual repairs. Customers don't pay you for assembling your own workstation. They pay you for what you accomplish with it.
>>54322713
Because all the sellers on ebay know that they are the only option.
>>54322764
>Professional users however just buy a prebuilt
Well obviously.
Professional users also get much better deals if they're buying 100 office machines from a single supplier as opposed to your typical NEET buying a pre-built at your equivalent of Best Buy.
>>54322764
Is your definition of "professional" just "self employeed"? When you deduct whatever tax you had to pay, you at best got at the price that it would cost you to get these components separately. And buying them by itself results also usually in higher quality for the same price.
>>54322835
>When you deduct whatever tax you had to pay, you at best got at the price that it would cost you to get these components
False. You can deduct the full price for the prebuilt.
"professional" means you're making a living with it.
You have you be a retard to buy business PCs, everything, especially SFF models as everything is proprietary.
There's some good deals on used/new workstations from time to time though
prebuild is fine if it has a good mobo
HP elite 8200 small form factor with I7 2600 for $50. My wife's credit union where she works sold them for $50 a piece. Wish I bought more than one.
What is a cheap prebuilt with an i5 that i can drop 2 graphics cards into for a lot of screens? Not for gaming, just shitposting and watching youtube.
It looks like i can get a optiplex with a 3rd/4th gen for kind of cheap.
>>54322869
Typically they're being bought refurbished for dirt-cheap as use as secondary PCs, media players or cheap servers. Don't think anyone actually expects to upgrade or repair them.
I was thinking of maybe getting an older prebuilt server that can handle between 32-64gb of ram for a linux machine from ebay, but the servers are extremly expensive (over a thousand) but the components are dirt cheap, about $150 for 2 xeon x5460, ram and server board,
I'd rock a ThinkCenter
>>54322979
looks pretty shit
>>54322921
How horrible do you think it might be to fit a generic server board into an older prebuilt server case?
Because Netburst era servers are dirt cheap.
>>54322998
>those pigfat boxes look better
>>54322306
>Pre-builts aren't bad for normies and a cheap Linux box.
. They often end up buying Alienware crap. Consumers are better off with AIO or SFF pc(gigabrix, imacs,etc) since those have practical form factors.
>>54323000
pain in the ass
>custom motherboard sizes
>custom power supplies
LG Chromebase
it's an all-in-one computer that looks like an imac but runs chrome os
specs are like a cheap laptop
no customization whatsoever
can't install software except for chrome extensions
perfect for email and office work at only 250 dollars
oh and the screen is fucking nice
Some deals on prebuilts are incredible and I'd much rather deal with a warrenty from Lenovo than RMAing ram from some Thai Jews.
>>54323030
I'd be amazed if you can't run Linux on it.
If you can't, it's just a matter of time.
>>54323030
thanks google
>>54323011
>some generic office shitbox built down to be the cheapest pc
>a real workstation designed for reliability
>>54323033
>rather deal with a warrenty from Lenovo
no you wouldn't unless you had nbd business support
>>54322473
>Don't think there's much love fore Pre-built PC's here.
BRRT. Wrong.
Everyone loves an Optiplex, little bastards multiply if you too many of them together.
Also the thinkpads people love so much are also prebuilt.
Lastly, nothing can beat the price of the used DL380 G6/G7, it's a shitload of computing power for fuckall money.
Just gotta live with 70dBA fans.
>>54323062
>Also the thinkpads people love so much are also prebuilt.
No shit dumbass, 99% of laptops are prebuilt, we're talking about desktops here
>>54323046
It already runs Linux.
If you mean Ubuntu and shit, it can also run this but if you install it to the hard drive it voids the warranty.
>>54323075
>It already runs Linux.
Ironically a modified version of Gentoo.
>>54323062
>Also the thinkpads people love so much are also prebuilt.
Somehow I don't really consider laptops to be under the 'prebuilt' category. I'm posting from a laptop right now.
>DL380 G6/G7
Can't wait for people to start throwing those away. Want to score a dumpster dive one if possible.
I have a G4 sitting under my bed, but don't really have any uses for something that old.
>>54323104
>>54323104
I've been suggesting them to /v/ in the stupid bait threads where sony fanboys try to prove you can't build a 'PC' that will last an entire generation (lifespan of PS4) for the price of a PS4.
Found a G6, fully loaded out with 16GB DDR3/ 2x X5550, 4x 73GB 10k SAS drives for $149
Added a $200 used R9-290 to the build config and done.
I didn't tell them about the noise though, that's the spicy surprise!
>>54322306
I have a desktop optiplex 755. Upgraded to a cheap xeon 3363 using those socket 771 to 775 stickers. Put a tiny ssd in it for faster OS operations. Then got really bored and put a gtx 590 and a big PSU in it. Kicks major ass in my CUDA workload, but gets choked by the CPU and memory in pretty much everything else.
Trying to figure out upgrade paths from here. Might just go to a dual LGA 1366 board since I have a few xeon x5690s lying around.
Im using a prebuilt now, i7 2600k, 9602gb, 16gb ram, 120gb ssd and 2tb storage drive, was 900chf, which isn't bad in switzerland for an expat.
I've tried the self build route, and here it's bloody awful, components can be had cheaply, but there is no after sales support (warranty, RMAs etc.) available in English, so fuck that.
i downgraded from a 2700k 7970 system to an hp 5800 sff. It has an e8400 and 4gb ram with an ssd. The thing flies under normal usage. I don't game anymore i have a ps2 and 360 for that. This cost me £27.50 delivered off ebay
>>54322306
I've got eight of those (ranging from 745 to 780) sitting on my bench at work. No idea what to do with them.
>>54323486
stick them up your arse
>>54323486
Prebuilts should have at least a 2nd gen core i3 or they are just gimped shit. Suggest using them as target practice.
>>54323464
i also installed the latest ubuntu that might have something to do with it
I got a Dell XPS 420 with everything working, had a CD and DVD drive, q6600, 8GB ram, hd 3650 (which I may upgrade soon).
I got it from the garbage dump. I went out to eat with my family at a restaurant and I saw this on the ground next to the garbage bin in the parking lot. Took it home, all it needed was a hard drive. Literally everything works.
Even the PSU wasn't that bad, I was doing stress tests for hours and playing certain games for a long time, and the computer always kept up. I even did the q6600 pin mod with electrical tape and bumped it up to 3ghz, still works perfectly fine.
Sometimes, people throw away some good stuff.
Pic related, it's the XPS 420.
>>54323504
Already got a few up there.
>>54323522
They were recently decommissioned, I just hate sending perfectly good hardware to salvage.
>>54323572
Donate them to goodwill or Sell them for $25 a pop on cl.
Here's my prebuilt, an optiplex 745.
Q6600, 8GB, and HD7750.
I was thinking that one of those flat laying Dell prebuilts could make a nice media PC but I have no idea idea which models are which
Are they any I could find for around or under $150 on eBay that would be able to play 1080p movie files without stuttering or massively overheating?
>>54323731
Get the optiplex 745 and a GT610 gpu, it'll handle it and be cheap.
>>54323762
Thanks this seems like it should be perfect
>>54322306
I like pre-built business-grade small form factor machines myself, never had problems with ThinkCentres or HP SFF machines myself, they are small and quiet and work great for desktop usage. They are so cheap that for desktop usage, I wouldn't build one probably, just would get an used good-condition thinkcentre and call it a day
>>54323180
>I didn't tell them about the noise though, that's the spicy surprise!
You could just use a workstation to achieve something similar too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95j7GRn_MFk
If we're posting build pics, then here's >>54323235
>>54324098
Fucking mobile didn't attach pic
>>54324110
neat
>>54323056
>a real workstation
a dell in a fancy case with a xeon is not a "real workstation".
/g/ really needs to get over this word "workstation". There haven't been any "real workstations" made since the 90s.
>>54324722
I remember you.
You're the guy who kept spouting shit about 'real workstations' only having RISC CPUs inside running some flavor of proprietary UNIX.
Eat shit, the market moved on from having to pay 20k for a entry level workstation.
>>54322599
>Snapping together large electronic legos
>arguing on forums about which brand is better suited to your epik gamestation
>"tech culture"
>>54324842
This. if anything normies should be encouraged to build their own and have better specs.
>>54324776
That might have been me or it might have been any number of other people who told you the truth.
The thing that defines a "workstation" as opposed to a "personal computer" is that it has proprietary hardware and software and it's obscenely expensive. Most "workstations" as you call them today are no more expensive than a business PC from the 80s and 90s.
I just wish there were more half height gfx cards. 750ti is the best one right now, and it's awesome but amd's fury nano had me hoping they would try to make one. can make a much smaller case more easily usable with half heights.
>>54324722
If it's got a xeon, ECC RAM, and a TPM. it's a workstation
>>54325434
This. yes they use the same architecture, but you can't have two i7s.
>>54325340
>The thing that defines a "workstation" as opposed to a "personal computer" is that it has proprietary hardware and software and it's obscenely expensive. Most "workstations" as you call them today are no more expensive than a business PC from the 80s and 90s.
what a shit definition
let me guess real computers don't exist any more because they don't take up an entire building and require a nuclear power plant to run
>>54325434
No it isn't. It's a PC with a xeon, ECC RAM, and a TPM. Those are just parts.
Workstations are not produced anymore.
>>54322306
I have always bought prebuilt. AMA.
>>54322473
but that's wrong, faggot.
People are always going on about used workstations.
>>54325490
Based on your arbitrary definition of a workstation?
If you want to make the argument current workstations are very similar to consumer systems compared to the RISC based workstations of the past, sure fine whatever. But your personal feelings on what defines a real workstation don't matter. The current industry definition for a workstation (as in what Dell/HP/Lenovo etc market as workstation class) is ECC buffered RAM, multi socket xeon or occasionally opteron CPU, quadro/firepro GPU.
>>54325496
are you a cute trap?
>>54325477
The term workstation was coined by Sun Microsystems, who sold the first unix workstations. Workstations were defined by the characteristics of those Sun workstations, and their competitors. Workstations were undercut out of existence by the increasing performance and flexibility of PCs, just like Lisp machines were undercut out of existence by the increasing performance and flexibility of workstations.
There's a reason that the only companies selling "workstations" are PC first companies, Dell, HP, Apple, rather than the old workstation companies, Sun, SGI, NeXT, all of which are long gone.
Calling your modern xeon quadro PC a "workstation" is just pretentious and arrogant. The fact that you spent twice or three as much for a slightly different feature set compared to a conventional PC, that doesn't place it in a seperate category. Workstations were in a completely different league.
>>54325658
Fun fact: definitions change
Gay used to mean happy, now it refers to homosexuals (such as you :^) )
>>54325594
>The current industry definition for a workstation (as in what Dell/HP/Lenovo etc market as workstation class)
Those are the companies that helped kill the workstation market category, in part by selling gussied up PCs as "workstations". I'm not really complaining about that, but there's a difference between marketing terminology and "industry definition".
>>54322548
I'd only consider the bigger Optiplexes as equivalent to Thinkpads. The SFF cases are just too cramped and hot.
>>54325658
>can't deal with changing definitions as the market matures
Senpai, there is a reason those big companies like sun, IBM, HP, etc stopped making UNIX/RISC workstations.
X86_64 won and just because you get your panties in a bunch when they're now being used to make the current generation of workstations doesn't make them any less a workstation.
>>54325642
Fuck no.
>>54325748
Bitch please, i run SFF optiplex 990, i7-2600,
With tripple monitor shittier ATI card.
It's super silent and barely go above 47 deg. C
My main PC is a Lenovo Ideacentre K320 I picked up at a thrift shop for $30.
It was completely unused and still had its recovery partition and a fresh install of win7.
Originally came with an i3-530, dropped in an i7-870 and a GTX 760 as well as an extra 2 GB of RAM (came with 6).
It's a very fast, solid and reliable machine. I love it to bits.
I also have a Sony Vaio PCV-12CL with a P4HT and a turn-of-the-millenium Compaq Presario 5000 with the based 1GHz Athlon, running Win98.
I built my first two computers, but I gave my last handbuilt machine to a friend after purchasing the Lenovo, as it was far superior to my old C2D.
The notion that you must always build a custom PC because it is cheaper or more powerful is a meme. There are some pre-built PC's out there from the major vendors which offer excellent performance, and you can come across a good deal on one there's no reason to spend more to build your own.
This concept doesn't get mentioned too much on /g/ and the meme of being a cuck if you don't build it yourself is perpetuated because people like me don't want teenagers and college students to catch on to the good deals that might be had.
>>54325750
Yeah, I know there's a reason companies stopped making workstations. It's because PCs surpassed workstations in performance and practicality. But the fact that those PCs beat workstations does not mean that PCs are now workstations.
>>54325828
>and you can come across a good deal on one there's no reason to spend more to build your own.
http://slickdeals.net/f/8384991-hp-envy-750se-desktop-with-geforce-gtx-980ti-16gb-ddr4-and-i7-6700-1075
>tfw didn't go for this deal
![dell_optiplex_990_888738_g3[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MOe8gzF.jpg "dell_optiplex_990_888738_g3[1].jpg")
>>54325775
looks like that model has a big blower fan on the CPU and a lower TDP. A big change from the P4 optiplexes I used...
>>54325852
and yet their doing the same tasks as a workstation s but at a mere fraction of the cost
50% of supercomputers now run x86-64
but they're not supercomputers because they run x86-64 + linux and not some obscure proprietary cray shit
>>54325852
Anon your autism is showing, seriously if you can't accept that definitions can change as time goes on you're literally a bit autistic.
>>54325900
sorry, I fucked up, it's 80% of the top 500
>>54325875
I remember seeing a thread about this and anons were trying to attack it from all sides, mostly claiming the PSU would fail. That's another myth, that you need a fuck-huge PSU for a top tier GPU.
It was a good deal, if I had the need for it I would have jumped on it.
>>54325944
>mostly claiming the PSU would fail
I did some research in to this, HP put a quality Delta PSU in to that machine.
what the hell can I do with a half-height Optiplex 755? It's only got 2 gigs of ram and holy shit fuck those DDR2 prices
>>54322578
That sounds really nice tbqhf
>>54325900
It's not because they run on x86 that they aren't workstations. Your analogy actually works the other way. A modern PC is tremendously more powerful that a supercomputer from 30 years ago, so does that then mean that we should be calling modern PCs "supercomputers"? Of course not.
>>54325905
It's not about definitions changing. There is barely any practical difference between what people call "workstations" now and PCs. Differentiating them is pointless because they are not different.
The term workstation came into use because the thing it described was drastically different from the thing the term PC described.
Keep in mind that my first response was to some guy talking about "shitty consumer PCs vs a REAL workstation". It's obvious that the delineation is motivated by arrogance, and not practical description.
>>54326017
I have 4x2GB DDR2. is it worth something?
>>54326105
We understood your argument 20 minutes ago, we think you're fundamentally wrong. No amount of further explaining by you is needed.
>>54326120
4x2gb 800mhz sells for around $20 to $40, what speed and brand do you have?
>>54326234
It's an older dell workstation, I'll need to look later but pretty sure it's 4x2GB PC2-6400
>>54325748
they started making the chips thinner a long time ago so heat is a nonissue unless gayming
>2009 ish
still using a single core sempron system my dad had bought in ~2005. Super slow super bad.
Find a $230 refurb box with a Core 2 clocked @ 2.3 ghz. Bought it an threw in a Radeon hd 6450 my dad bought me for a birthday.
That POS carried me through to december of 2014.
>>54325658
Autism, the post.
>>54325796
First gen core i7's were trash, though. I had one. It was terrible.
>>54325658
Looks like this thread just got Interjected
>>54326120
DDR2 is going the way of DDR1 did a few years ago in which there is still a need for it but nobody is making it anymore and businesses with old stuff need to upgrade any way they can. I had an ex-boss that was staunchly, hideously anti ebay and amazon and all online sites but when it came to DDR1 at the time he would instantly switch and say to find it online.
If you can find some businesses in town that are letting go of their C2D workstations and think they're being clever by offloading them off to you, you can make quite a lot of money. There was a dental office at that same job that was getting rid of 28 C2D assembled workstations that all had 2x2GB DDR2, took as many as I could carry that day because they said they had contacted a recycling center that was coming in less than an hour. Went home with a trunk full of 7 of them and sold all the memory and made about $300 iirc.
>>54325572
Workstations don't contain the cheapest possible hardware
>>54326540
Damn I really should go parts hunting sometime.
>>54326317
The problem with 640mhz is that it is harder to overclock, which limits most cpus from staying competitive to modern cpus, although I would love to have that ram.
>>54322998
>>54323033
These look better than 99% of all custom cases
>>54326624
Working at mom and pop computer stores did have a few benefits. Another business entirely had this printer, an HP 5550 series. It no longer worked and they said they had been on the phone with someone from HP on it and he said it was "the gears". Never checked if it worked or not since I already have three great laser printers (that even other businesses threw away because they ran out of fucking toner lel) and took it at face value assuming that the gears were broken or whatever and took out all the transfer / imaging kits etc, and I made another $500 by selling them.
There is probably already competition for you if you're just going to call up everyone in town, you have to get lucky and have a business that had the shit in the backroom waiting to be dropped off. The difference is you're driving out and picking it up while most recycling centers require you to drive out, which is what you can say. The fucking problem is that you'll never get the business owner who will know that there is indeed a pile of shit in the back he wants out, and all the employees will assume that pile of shit was necessary to keep and won't let you take it and it will stay there for a decade.
I was at a library the other day and I just so happened to get one of the administrators there and bring up a small pile of thinkpads they had in the corner. They were all T61s and C2Ds but again they were flawless and looked like they hadn't even been taken out of the box
>>54326479
Still using an I7 920...
Everything is still fine since 6 or 7 years...
>>54326657
How well does your i7-980 hold up with video re-encoding and memory performance?
>>54326836
I'm still using a Q6600 and it kicks ass.
>>54326836
That is the exact one I had and it sucked. I was so glad to get rid of that fucking thing. The single core on it is so fucking bad. https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-920+%40+2.67GHz&id=834
>>54326887
And it's housefire as fuck, too.
>>54326851
nowhere near todays levels im sure, gimme 10 min, running cinebench
>>54326860
I just upgraded my q6600 to a xeon x5460 using the 771 mod for $20, I am hoping to overclock it to 4.5ghz, you might want to do the same if you ever run into the q6600's limitations like I did.
>>54326972
Sweet upgrade, Q6600 still handles my sony vegas fine.
>>54326887
>That is the exact one I had and it sucked.
You had probably a bad one, because I can stiil work on my station with it (Digital compositing. VFX ) And I m considering upgrading in the next months.
>The single core on it is so fucking bad
I7 920 is a 4 cores processor with hyperthreading. (8 virtual cores)
So.... Are you sure you had this one ???
>>54326957
I just noticed that an FX-8350 is a slight upgrade from the i7-980k in both single and multi-threaded performance. So it's about FX-8350 level of CPU performance, but the memory controller in the 990FX chipset should give it the edge.
>>54323097
I'm surprised about how many autists here don't know that
>>54323564
the nostalgia, still using the 200GB western digital HD from one of these I had 10 years ago
>>54327024
I bought a gtx 970 to replace my old gtx 480 when I realized it was costing me $4 a day in electricity, but then the q6600 was bottlenecking the 970
>>54327111
>costing me $4 a day in electricity
Hyperbole I'm assuming.
My current PC uses ~$3.50 of electricity per MONTH and my area has fairly high $/kwh rate.
>>54327111
>$4 a day in electricity
Holy shit, I've only got an HD7750 in my OptiPlex that runs off the PCI, (only 55w) and the Q6600 can push it.
>>54327052
core i7 980 3.33 (stock clock)
6GB ram (1866mhz)
x58 chipset
asus rampage 3 black edition
she overclocks nice, ive been stable @ 4ghz, but one of my case fans died and it gets a little too warn after a while for my tastes
>>54327111
such a waste for a fast card...
>>54327044
Yes I'm sure and the benchmarks line up with my experience with the thing. Awful single core, housefire multicore.
>>54327135
I realized the days when I turned the pc off it was much cheaper, 2 days ago I recieved the 970 and the left the pc on and check my power usage online and it showed a savings of $4, granted I need to watch it a few more days, but I am assuming either the 480 is an expensive card to run or something is wrong with it.
>>54327245
480 was a beast for it's time but it is a space heater.
>tfw a new mid-end AMD CPU has the same performance as a core2 quad from 9 years ago
I'd go prebuilt again but while low-mid tier stuff is reasonably priced all the high end stuff is in the overpriced gamer or workstation tiers. Plus all the associated bloatware preinstalled is a pain.
Fuck building your own server. Buying a prebuilt poweredge server off ebay is amazingly cheaper
>>54327297
That's more impressive on the Q6600's part, optiplexes and quads cost next to nothing.
>>54327245
It's very unlikely the 480 was all of it. The GTX 480 only pulled ~350w.
Even assuming 24/7 100% load at a very expensive $0.15/kwh rate you're only looking at $1.27 per day.
>>54327210
x5460 overclocked would be the equivalent to an i5 at stock speeds and many of the gtx 970 buyers are using i5's at stock speeds without issue
>>54327441
>x5460 overclocked would be the equivalent to an i5 at stock speeds
Not any current generation i5. Even overclocked to 4.5ghz+ the x5640 would show its age against any current i5 because of the massive IPC differences.
>>54327323
What does one do with a server? I see those things fairly cheap, will I be able to shitpost and watch movies like on average PC? What OS is needed?
>>54327785
Put hard drives in it and use it as network storage, I have a barebones dual core optiplex 745 for this reason, just look at that heatsink, the thing barely gets warm.
>>54327828
But what about everyday tasks?
>>54327917
I would recommend the Optiplex for a machine that can run and run as a serve and do everyday tasks, the server can't have anything more than it's integrated VGA, and it sucks for anything other than processing.
>>54326614
so?
They're prebuilts all the same.
>>54328045
>They're prebuilts all the same.
Cracker, do you even business class?
>>54325960
and here a while back I was posting my delta PSU on /g/ and people called it "cheap chinese shit".
Bit of googling reveals to me Antec power supplies are manufactured by Delta, and Delta is a very well respected brand.
>>54326105
For me they can still be called workstations if they have some proprietary components, even if the architecture is x86.
My z800 for example needs a specific power supply that was designed for it, and there is no 3rd party alternative. The fans also need some specific models or you'll get errors.
>>54325658
> The fact that you spent twice or three as much for a slightly different feature set compared to a conventional PC
also, nobody here is doing that. Everyone buys them used for a few hundred bucks or less.
>>54326767
>I was at a library the other day and I just so happened to get one of the administrators there and bring up a small pile of thinkpads they had in the corner. They were all T61s and C2Ds but again they were flawless and looked like they hadn't even been taken out of the box
This annoys me because you can never get anyone to take responsibility for machines like these. They're always wrapped in bureaucracy and you have to wait for them to be sold at a surplus auction or something like that after they've been manhandled by the idiots working at such places.
Friends father gave me an old HP server. Had quad hot swap SAS 15k rpm 120gb hard drives. Dual Pentium D cpus in a Btx dual socket motherboard. 4gb DDR. It was in one of the coolest cases I've ever seen too. Had to get rid of it though. Too big, loud, hungry for my needs.
I do however remember "building" one of my first PCs with a buddy. Got himself a pre-built Dell desktop with Athlon X4 cpu for less than $300 which at the time a standard quad core model anything was going for $500+. We then bought a radeon 5750 for $80. It was a HUGE step up from the Pentium 4 igpu we were using to playing world of Warcraft.
>>54328058
you're making distinctions which are unnecessary. The notion put forward is /g/ doesn't like prebuilts. That's false because /g/ does like them, only they are picky about which ones or the price.
$699 + $5 shipping for a refurbished HP Envy with:
i7 6700
2x8GB DDR4
980 Ti
2 TB HDD
>>54322473
I'll take a nice OEM workstation over some ugly gamertard shitbox any day.
I got a Dell Optiplex with a i5 3470.
I had to replace HDD, PSU, RAM, and added a GPU.
Got the built for 300, yea I know I fucked up.
Now it has 16GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, and GTX 970
The only thing left from my pre-built is the mobo and hard drive. Everything else was replaced.
>>54330971
This is a Nice thread.
