hotrod
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Sep 11, 2006, 11:51 PM
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I have to share another best deal find. This gets better and better. Due to my girlfriends car being in the shop for repairs I had to take her to work. On my way back I stopped and got some breakfast and decided to go into the local GoodWill and check out the electronics area.
To my amazement I saw a very nice PC case that was black and silver and looked to be in mint condition. It was a Compaq Presario 6010US which later I discovered had an AMD 1600+ processor. I was in total shock when I saw the price that was written on it... It was only 10.00. Without even worrying about opening the case and investigating further I decided it was like getting one of those grab bags that you dont know whats inside of it and my anxiety was almost unbearable to get home and open it.
Once I got it home I opened the case and found that everything was inside of the case as it was new. It had the following:
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ Processor
DVD Drive (no burner)
CD Rom
256MB memory
Hard Drive (had to be replaced, I had a spare 30G) 
PCI Sound Card
56K fax Modem
There is also the Windows XP Home Edition Keycode Label on the top rear of case. With this I plan to contact Microsoft and pay a few bucks to get the CD mailed to me.
For now I installed Windows XP Professional and I had a couple of 512MB sticks of memory lying around so its pushing 1G now. This little machine runs very well and for only 10.00, who can complain. Not me...
It pays to look around, you never know what you will run across.
Rodney
(This post was edited by hotrod on Sep 12, 2006, 12:31 AM)
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