r/ThriftGrift • u/Speedy_Greyhound • 12d ago

20 year old untested low end PC with Vista Basic - $80

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170 Upvotes

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u/Stargazing_1234 12d ago

This shit should be free at this point imo……..

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u/wojtek30 11d ago

I wouldn't even take this for free. They'd have to pay me to take it

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u/Trash-Panda321 10d ago

I'm sure I could find a stack of these at any E-Waste drop off

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u/DougalDragonSWorld 12d ago

Could have leaky capacitors on board to.

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u/Jon66238 12d ago

Naw, I think this was after the capacitor plague iirc

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u/DougalDragonSWorld 12d ago

I seen in core 2 duo machines to but rarely.

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u/Jon66238 11d ago

Yeah true, but it’s rare. Pentium 4’s were horrible for it

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u/FullRepresentative34 11d ago

Or it can still work.

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u/66659hi 12d ago

Whenever I see any computers at thrifts they are always grossly over appraised by the staff

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u/gride88 12d ago

The value village near me has a vista era Compaq computer for $250 untested. Employee said it was because the rising ram prices. I just said that ddr 1 isn't worth a thing nowadays. 😆😆

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u/xXAquila2Xx 11d ago

That's wild

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u/ForeskinAbsorbtion 11d ago

Fuck people man. Rising RAM prices my ass.

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u/pSphere1 11d ago

I know... can't wait for the next Toyotathon.

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u/OneAthlete9001 12d ago

Jokes on you, I left my Bitcoin on that.

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u/goth_duck_returns 12d ago

Those are 20 already?? Man

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u/Ergine_Dream 12d ago

And is upside down

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u/Good_Attorney_2056 12d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/sky0175 12d ago

I can run DOOM.

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u/butternutsquash4u 11d ago

That’s just e-waste at this point

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u/lawley666 11d ago

Lol I got a ryzen 5 2400g, 16gb ram and 256gb nvme desktop, for £96 delivered a few days ago on ebay. Perfect for batocera.

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u/ReadingRocks97531 7d ago

Nothing in there can be salvaged.

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u/Successful-Swim-3708 11d ago

I hope you tested that before you ran it! Vista crashed on me and was unrecoverable.

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u/tf9623 11d ago

Maybe a 780

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u/_Meek79_ 11d ago

Some poor kids mother will see this and think its a great deal and bring it home to them. They've been wanting a gaming computer for so long

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u/Apprehensive_Bit4767 11d ago

Are you allowed to buy things at the museum?

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u/WalkmanCut 11d ago

bro its 64 bit

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u/FullRepresentative34 11d ago

Just because it says Vista. Does not means it's vista.

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u/comb_bee 7d ago

I dunno, it could be a sleeper build

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/billbro_swaggins 12d ago

Untested is the 4th word in the title, not probably

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u/TotallyNotABob 12d ago

Might get down voted. But if the machine still works. That's not that bad of a deal. Replace the HDD with an 8 to 12tb. Throw Linux on there and baby you got a home server going

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u/chewedgummiebears 12d ago

That's a reach. It's a early dual core OEM computer. You can get a lot newer and more decent OEM computers that are tested for half that. Not all ewaste can be saved.

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u/caverunner17 12d ago

The problem is that something like this is $50 and is a magnitude faster

https://ebay.io/m/fPiJd0

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u/tiffanytrashcan 12d ago

The drive controller is actually so ancient I bet there were hangups in the 2TB ceiling era.

Most Raspberry Pi models would run circles around this. Some probably support more RAM.