The Elmdor-Appreciation-Out - Number of practitioners: one.

[deadlegion]

Was given a couple of desktops and a monitor that are ex-business gear.
Not new of course, Win10 machines.
Haven't tested anything yet... but imagine my surprise when popping open the cases I spot SSD's and dedicated graphics cards (that aren't low profile and actually take up 2 slots).
Both tower cases are tool-less.

Might have time on Sunday to investigate further.

[Grouch]

Was given a couple of desktops and a monitor that are ex-business gear.
Not new of course, Win10 machines.
Haven't tested anything yet... but imagine my surprise when popping open the cases I spot SSD's and dedicated graphics cards (that aren't low profile and actually take up 2 slots).
Both tower cases are tool-less.

Might have time on Sunday to investigate further.

nice. the card itself could be worth $150+ easily.

[deadlegion]

nice. the card itself could be worth $150+ easily.

They're 2x gigabyte cards but idk what ones exactly yet. One mb has 2x ssd on board the other has sata ssd.
PSU's are corsair. These honestly don't look like business pc's they look like older gaming rigs (probably not high end for the time though)... to me anyway
One case has i5 sticker on it and I'm guessing nothing has been changed/swapped out since they were built.

[deadlegion]

I have a BD burner sitting here for ages now so hopefully one of these rigs will end up with that (they both have multi DVD burners atm).

[deadlegion]

Ram slots aren't fully populated.

[deadlegion]

The lenovo monitor might be junk, person I got it from isn't sure.
Whatever

[Slacker Magician]

nice. the card itself could be worth $150+ easily.

They would need to be newer (e.g. RTX 2070 or RX 6600XT) to pull that.

[deadlegion]

[Till]

Free monitor is good monitor.

[Zaladane]

Unless is monitor lizard and it bites your face!!

[Till]

Unless is monitor lizard and it bites your face!!

I used to be manager at a pet shop, hamsters do most of the biting and monitors are better pets.

[Till]

My blood sugar has been going for high scores the past four days. Diabetes is why I'm nearly blind and feel compelled to do art while I can still see.

[Slacker Magician]

Unless is monitor lizard and it bites your face!!

[deadlegion]

Poo

Both graphics cards are GTX 950.
Both psu's are crappy Corsair VS550


Both cpu's are i5 6500 and appear to have stock coolers

I've got 2x WD PC SN520 SSD's and 1x Kingston 480GB sata SSD

16GB ram on each mb... one pair is obviously Corsair with hs, the other pair idk (no hs), I haven't pulled any of them. I think all of them are DDR4?
Both mb's are asus but they're different. 1x asus B150M-A, idk about the other yet but it is asus too (one ssd is covering the board info).

The small case is Fractal Design, has 2x case fans (large back, small front) and both are quiet. Tool-less. This case has Win10 Pro OEM serial sticker on it.
The large case is Antec Design, 1x hueg fan at rear. Tool-less. This rig has Win10 Pro activated but no serial sticker.


Both optical drives are asus DRW-24D5MT

[deadlegion]

I have a spare MSi N750 Ti-2GD5/OCV1 sitting around here but idk if I can run it on either of these rigs anyway. Recommend psu for that is 400w vs GTX 950 recommend psu being 250w.
Yeah the psu is 550w rated but they're notoriously unreliable. I mean they do work, but don't expect them to sustain 550. Also the fans are prone to failing after 3 or so years... these rigs I have are older than that and idk how many hours they've had.

I guess I could maybe sorta try to figure that out by pulling the ssd's and running tests. I'd still be guessing though.



The monitor still works, but after being on for about 30 minutes I can see backlight bleed around the edges. Still usable for me anyway, for hardware testing purposes, as it's perfectly fine for about 10 minutes.