Did I get a good deal on this? Or should I have resisted...

[Terry]

Well I was surfing around Fleabay this afternoon and saw this...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140236012429

So I figured what the heck. The auction only had a few hours left and the starting minimum bid was $75 with no reserve and no bids yet. So I put $101.03 as my maximum bid in. I figured it would go for a lot more and I guess I was fooling around more than anything. So the wife and I were outside doing yard work and later when I came in and turned the PC on I about died when I saw I won it for only $78 + $50 shipping.

Whatcha think? Deal or no deal???

 

[Springbok]

Pretty decent, you really wont' know until it arrives and you can test out those parts. The dual raptors would make it worth it, but I've had such a power surge happen to a system and it killed every part including the optical & hard drives.

 

[Terry]

I just emailed him and he is (appears) somewhat naive about PCs. He had it built for him and when it died he took it to a shop to have them look at it. He said it will be shipped complete with nothing removed from it. I asked him if the X2 4800+ was a S939 or an AM2. He says he does not know. If that is true he probably does not know the value of the componets left that are perhaps OK.

We'll see when it gets here. Suppose I am gettin ants in my pants since I have not even got it yet. I guess I have always been 'lucky'. meaning I have fixed several PCs where the power supply went bad.
Somtimes the PC just needed a new PS
Somtimes the PC just needed a new PS & motherboard
Somtimes the PC just needed a new PS & motherboard & memory

I personally have never seen a HDD/CPU/Optical drive go bad after a PSU went out. BUT I was just thinking. Maybe the PSU had a little help... like a lightning hit or something

 

[4GHZ_or_bust]

May the luck favor you and you get a real nice AM2 CPU and a pair of working raptors. Do post details here when the system arrives and what works or not.

If it was lightening that killed the PC, show pics! I've seen PCB with traces peeling away like cheap stickers.

 

[asusradeon]

Looks like a good deal, i think it would be unlikely that everything is knackered.. :S

 

[theELVISCERATOR]

case alone is worth the price..

Lesson is dont go cheap on a PSU KIDS!

 

[Omsion]

case alone is worth the price..

Lesson is dont go cheap on a PSU KIDS!

Well, it apparently wasn't hand-built by the seller anyway.

 

[Hardin]

Well it looks like the psu is an antec truepower but I can't tell what its rating is.

 

[Trap05]

Looks like a decent deal to me

 

[Terry]

I'm back and pumped up! Man... It is a S939 setup! I got it today and it weighs a ton. Anyway I stripped it down. Have not tested any parts yet but gonna pull apart my Opteron 180 setup to test the componets on.

So a list of what I got:
S939 Athlon 64 X2 4800+. I just checked on Ebay and a guy has 4 hours to go on his auction and his X2 4800+ is up to $250!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Used-AMD-Athlon...kparms=72:392|39:1|65:12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

AMD factory heatpipe version heatsink/fan
2x1gb Corsair XMS3202v2.2 CL2 PC3200 Platinum Series DDR
Asus A8N-SLI Premium S939 board
Antec P180 case
2x74gb Western Digital Raptors
Antec TP 2.0 550w PS
PNY 7900GS 256mb DDR3 PCI-E video card
Creative Soundbalaster Live! #SB0410 24bit soundcard
Seig 4 port USB 2.0 card
Ratoc 2 port firewire card
Black floppy drive
Sony DRU-810-R DVD Burner (same as a BenQ DW-1650) OH YAAAAA!!!!
Sony DRU-820A DVD Burner (same as a BenQ DW-1670) another great burner
Vista Home Premium 64bit OEM with factory case and COA
All the software CDs for the cards and stuff that were installed

Even if JUST the 4800+ is good I almost doubled my investment. The rest, whatever is good, is all freebies! If good, I'm goona Ebay the 4800+ and heatsink. Sell the memory if good. By a Q6600 and a board and build another Quad setup. Hope the Raptors are good, I'll put em to use.

P.S. looks like it was not lightning damaged Actually I can't see ANY visable damage.

 

[Trap05]

Best of luck testing. You can't always see damage but lets hope for the best until you get all the bits tested.

 

[Terry]

Here's a couple pics...

 

[Hazaro]

Pretty nice score if 40% of it works

 

[Terry]

This is getting better by the minute. I'll test the rest of the parts tomorrow but for now I was looking at the power supply. I didn't pop it open or anything but I gave it the old sniff test. Hmmm... nothing SMELLED burnt. So I have a power supply tester for 20 pin power supplys. I unhooked the extra 4 pin plug off the 24 pin plug and connectedit to the tester. WTF??? It tests good. So I checked the unhooked 4 pin plug with a digital multimeter. Voltages are good. Then proceeded to check every single connector on the PS with the multimeter except the SATA connectors. All are good! Voltages are spot on. Ya know what? I think the power supply is good. This has me bugged. Time to put the vid card/memory/cpu/heatsink back on the board and see what gives here before I strip my Opteron setup apart tomorrow to test stuff. Weird!

 

[Ashura]

Wow, crazy deal! Really nice catch Terry.

 

[Terry]

LOL.... that Ebay auction is over... the X2 4800+ sold for $280!

 

[hank123]

sonbitch u stole this!

 

[Omsion]

I'll be watching them classifieds

 

[4GHZ_or_bust]

Very good score if the CPU works 100%

 

[Terry]

I couldn't wait. Found out the video card is FINE! I put the CPU/Heatsink/Memory/Vid card/1 Raptor in my Opteron system. Ran Western Digital Lifeguard tools. No errors on that Raptor. Then I wrote zeros to the entire drive. Installed Windows XP with no problems. Spent all night running memtest/Everest Stress Test/OCCT/3DMark2003/and HD Tune. The CPU/Memory/Video Card/and that Raptors all passed everything I threw at them. This is incredible!
What I discovered so far: The CPU Heatsink/fan was clogged solid with dust and so was the Heatsink/fan on the video card. A couple minutes with my air compressor fixed them right up. The CPU does get 65c using OCCT. That stock heatsink would not cut it for any overclocking (which I did not do). Is it possible that was what was wrong with that computer??? Later today I'll check the other Raptor out and the DVD burners. I do not have a power supply on hand that has an 8 pin power connector so guess I'll try the Antec PS that came with it. The way this is going the board MIGHT be good :\

Couple more pics...