OT: Worst PC Decision

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
Atrocities, If any diety exists and shapes the future of the cosmos we've determined one thing from this story...

He's a MOO3 Fan

LOL Very true

And thanks Rag-X

[dogscoff]

I've built a few PCs over the years, but always from bargain second hand parts. The trick is to know someone else with more money than you who upgrades often. then blag all their castoffs for a low price/ a few beers. Sure, you don't get up to the minute hardware, but it'll run se4 nicely and you'll be able to save your pennies for the occasional killer graphics board/ ram upgrade.

[Unknown_Enemy]

From your story I am convinced that the lawyer's way is just a waste of time and money. Firms will always have more money than the casual joe.

I would say phone to the client services of computer magazines until one home a phone call to the shop. That will do wonders beyond your wildest dreams. It's the way it works here, that is.

[Atrocities]

I took the parts the shop swapped and used them in my old computer. I picked up a cheap MB for the AMD 1.0 and used all my old parts to make a fairly good second PC. The GeForce 2 card they game me was better than the one that was in the computer so I scored there. I sold this second system for about $500.00 bucks to a co-worker.

The old parts from that computer I put in my P2 300 and sold to my brother for $200.00.

The old parts from the P2 300 I sold to my neighbor for $100.00.

He then paid me $200.00 to rebuild his PC. (A 20 minute job.)

So I made near around $1,000 dollars to offset the cost of the Blue Box.

When my rebuilt computer* was stolen at TribesCon3, the insurance company, minus my deductible, paid me at replacement value. I used part of that money to rebuilt my p2 400 which I used as a back up for a year before it finally died and I ended up with this HP POS as a gift.

And then we get into the HP story which I will leave to you forum minors to find the thread on.

*A compac AMD 750 that my mom gave me that I cleaned up and put a cheap Geforce 2 card in. ran great up until it was stolen at TribesCon while I was in my room sleeping.

[ May 17, 2004, 21:03: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Raging Deadstar]

Tribes Con Sounds like a very nice and honest place....

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
Tribes Con Sounds like a very nice and honest place....

Well aside from the hackers, thieves, and arseholes, it was a pleasent enough experience. The west coast largest lan fest to date.

When you go to events like this 90% of the time your equipment is safe. But given the rabbel and dregs of the universe that this particular event drew in, I consider my loss cheap compared to some.

There were hacking parties where Groups of scum actually hacked into other peoples computers over the lan. They say it was ok because everyone should have had a firewall. Riiiiiiiggghhhhhtttttt.

I did meet a lot of great people there and many people I did meet played hot seat SEIV with me so the loss of a free computer with a $150.00 card in it was well worth it.

I hope I generated a lot of sales for SEIV that day.

[Raging Deadstar]

Unfortuantly this is true i guess. I personally like to think that if there was a dedicated SEIV Convention that everyone could make it to (Hey it only takes a month to build an escort ) there wouldn't be any sort of problems like this but i'm probably delluding myself. Althought the majority of everyone here seem like genuine nice people.