Business PC

ITT: We talk about cheap prebuilts and used business pcs

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If you're totally broke, you can get a fully working computer with a first or second gen i5/i7 and 8GB of ram for like $75.

The small form factor ones make nice HTPCs.

My man, you can get Haswell i5 office machines

I love supply-side economics

When MS drop support for Win 7 next January and a ton of companies will be forced to upgrade to Win 10 an absolute landslide of these old office machines are gonna flood the used ads.

have you tried dumpster diving?

I like these. The Optiplex is for 1080p gaming while the HP is intended for a home server. Need 2 more drives for it.

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Are those bezels on the Optiplex painted?

Shitty attempt at putting silver carbon fiber wrap. Terrible idea in hindsight.

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This. I used to build new gaming rigs like this. Spend on the GPU, then find something decent all round office PC. Saves on building if you are nervous too.

Any suggestions for a pre-built with a bunch of 3.5in drive bays? A cheap freeNAS would be awesome.

Most full height prebuilts can handle 3-4 hdds, more if you get zip ties, a sata card, and don't care about airflow

this, used optiplexes got me through uni as a poorfag, literally had a spare pc at all times for redundancy.

a quad core optiplex with a

bumping because fuck the rest of these threads

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you can also get a 5.25''/2.5'' hotswap cage

Won't do him much good if he wants 3.5" slots.
I'd suggest a rackmount if you can handle the noise, R510 and R710s are stupid cheap

I love fucking around with these old refurbs/business machines. If I can get one super cheap with W10 I just buy it for the hard drive and fuck around with the rest.

I am wondering if you take like ten of these processors if you could chain them up to be something greater than a modern i7

>Cheap w/ lot of HDDs
HP 8200 SFF is small, 2 3.5 bays, one 5.25 (2 2.5+3.5 caddy)
Second gen intel too, and can fit a bunch of 2.5 drives if you shove them in right

I own 10 i5-2500/8gbram no drive optiplex 790's from a bulk purchase for $700 but I haven't set any of them up yet. They're just sitting in my garage.

I wish I could give them to kids like me who had a poor family but really wanted a computer, but it's to much hassle to find them and screen if they even really want a computer.

of course but my assumption was that he didn't have the drives yet, you can get 2x5.25->5x3.5 cages too

where is the best place to buy these? ebay? craigslist?

there's a university surplus store in my college town. the issue with ebay is shipping, because these are big and heavy.

At a local recycling place I got a ThinkStation with a Xeon E3-1225V2 (2012) for $80

optiplex is cash but thinkpad is king

and the parents will probably think you're a pedophile.

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I'd play till I got one

Huh? They're simple and more aesthetic than 90% of the cases out there.