Quote Originally Posted by Dunemaul View Post
yup totally agree with you there. i got a spiffy new 4-1 inkjet printer today that goes for like 250 retail, gonna get that baby on CL for 50 bucks and see if i can get 4x what i paid for the entire lot. Also got some with weird light wand that says it kills germs. If i could figure out how to work it id resell it but for now i think its just gonna be my new light saber for now. What kind of system are you using to test ur drives? like just setting them into a test server workstation or they got a spiffy device to tell if they are still good. also anyone know a good way to test video cards? i hate that im scrapping 250$ cards that might still work. But i am super stoked that i got the Mobo i been wanting for my new gaming computer and it wasnt fired. now i just need 7 more gigs of ram 2 processors of the right size and i got my first trash built gaming system. thing would easly retail round 800$ when im done with it.
I use my desktop to check out drives. Use one of these and just plug them into your usb drive.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-IDE-...item2a09a0a1f8
Than I use diskwipe and HD tune to dod wipe and error check the drives. Both free programs. As far as video cards go I have an old AGP machine that my kids still use set up in my office. So i can test agp/pci/pcie video cards. I plan to build a test rack out in my shed with a few of the more popular motherboard sockets so I can test ram and cpu's. I can test ddr and ddr2 ram in my current 2 machines. As well as any pentium4 up threw quadcore preI3 I5 I7 stuff.

Now talking about trash computers I did a thread on this a while back but I still have this board that the guy just handed to me on a cl pickup. I got 3 or 4 towers from him then he hands me this thing. Got it all for free. Went home looked up all the resell value and he ended up handing me $200 bucks if memory serves me right.

Im an intel guy but im going to use this to build my HTPC. It has a amd athalon 64x2 6600+ cpu with 8gb of nvidia sli ready pc2-6400 ram. I cant wait to build this puppy and hook it up to the big screen and surf the forums on the couch.