At the weekend we had an estate wide yard sale, too many sales to walk around in the supposedly five hours, although many of the houses packed up their stuff after noon, I suppose that is logical as the weather was very good, and sitting selling unwanted stuff for three hours was the limit.
When we were done, after four hours of walking, we walked over to a chap on our road and he still had an unwanted computer that he happily sold for ten bucks, he had already sold me an empty case and a fairly decent computer for thirty bucks, I may make a blog entry about that stuff, but this one will be about the last purchase we made on Saturday at the official end of the event.
Ten bucks.
The mATX case appears to be an early Antec unit, very well built and for this one, unmarked, no scratches on the paint at all, it had a 120mm 3 pin ANTEC fan at the back and an 80mm at the front, both being Tricool fans, 3 speed via switch, and both with ball bearing motor. The PSU in the case is a Sparkle ATX-400PN which has 24 pin and 4 pin motherboard power and 6 pin power for GPU along with various SATA and Molex connectors, it is a good power supply. It is an old power supply of course, but it will not be in my possession long as I plan to use it in the "upgrade build" for this case and I will also include the LG Multidrive DVD as part of that build, in the bottom left of the photo, that is another part of the case that I had to remove to gain access to the front fan.
The whole computer was packed with dust, so the cleaning process took a good hour, I used a dry paintbrush, rags and an air compressor, I also used some alcohol (not drinking alcohol as it is a Monday) for removing the thermal paste off the heatsink and CPU. The motherboard is an ASUS P7P55-M and the CPU an Intel i5-750 with a copper cored cooler. I will sell the motherboard, CPU, cooler, IO shield and 8GB of DDR3 1333Mhz on marketplace, enthusiasts will buy that stuff.
The last of the goodies is the GPU and it is a classic fanless design, the ASUS ENGT240 Silent DI 1GD3 which is an Nvidia GT-240 design with 1GB of DDR3. I expect this may also be part of the upgrade build unless I have a motherboard that has integrated graphics, after all, most of the time it is better to keep legacy PCIe video cards than sell them, although I do have quite a few "in stock" and perhaps I should try not to hoard as much...
That is it for now, I spent a lovely hour in the garage, garage door open, beautiful weather and cleaned this old ten dollar computer and then started the process deciding the fate of each part, they will of course be included in a spreadsheet somewhere, then of course will all be sold eventually, the circle of life from my point of view and of course because I like to generate more "free" money to buy more stuff to do the same with, clean, rinse, sell, recycle, repeat.
That sort of sums up my favourite hobby, been at it thirty-four years now and I cannot wait to see what is next.
