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[Xavier]

I've gone over all these with a fine tooth comb and got them up and running and optimized (running like new, with no bloatware) w/ no conflicts in device manager for major things like video/sound/networking. Your on your own for old legacy like infared/serial ports though.
They should all have the last service packs unless other wise noted but I haven't upgraded them past that and I should have turned off any future/automatic updates. Also turned off any asking for logins credential and I updated the bios on many all in a bid to get these from power on to prompt as soon as possible.

If you've got a $1k graphics card that's pretty awesome but please take it to another thread.

No Roms, you on your own for that and future pimping/upgrades but I've done alot of the initial legwork for you and this should save you tons of time energy and resources.

Dell Optiplex 755 Mini Desktop #3 $45
Core 2 Duo E8500 3Ghz Bus 1333MHZ L2 Cache 6Mb
Ram 2Gb DDR2 667Mhz 618 OSU 1189 Free
HD Esata 80Gb/74.2 16.9 Used 57.1 Free
Windows 7 Sp1 64x Ultimate
Intel Q35 Dvi (Hdmi)
DVD-Cd/Rw
New Cmos Battery / ugraded bios from A17 to A22
Notes: Rear fan error

Dell Optiplex 755 Mini Desktop #2 $68
Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz Bus 1333MHZ L2 Cache 6Mb
Ram 4Gb 3.86 Useable DDR2 667Mhz 1GB OSU 2630 Free
HD Esata 80Gb/74.2 16.9 Used 57.1 Free
Windows 7 Sp1 64x Ultimate
Intel Q35 Dvi (Hdmi)
DVD-Cd/rw
New Cmos Battery / ugraded bios from A11 to A22

Dell Optiplex 755 Mini Desktop #1 $78
Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz Bus 1333MHZ L2 Cache 6Mb
Ram 4Gb DDR2 800Mhz 1Gb OSU 2.9 Avail
HD Esata 80Gb/74.2 17.7 Used 56.7 Free
Windows 10 64x Pro Office 2016
Intel Q35 Dvi (Hdmi)
DVD-RW Multi
New Cmos Battery / Ugraded bios from A12 to A22
Notes: Takes a minute longer to boot in bios than the others, think itç—´ because of the ram.

Dell Inspiron 531 Tower $140
AMD 3Ghz Dual Core 64 X2 6000+ L1 Cache 256kb L2 Cache 2x1Mb=2Mb
Ram 8Gb DDR2 800 Mhz Dual Channel 1Gb Osu 7Gb Free
HD Sata 160GB/148 129 Free
Windows 10 Pro 64x Office 2016
Nvidia 512Mb S-video DviX2 (Vga Hdmi)
DVD RW Multi
Memory Card Reader
New Cmos Battery

Dell Optiplex Gx280 Desktop $50
Intel Pent 4 2.8Ghz w/ Hyperthreading Buss 800mhz L2 cache 1Mb
Ram 2Gb DDR2 533Mhz 283 OSU 1755 Free
HD Esata 3.5 40Gb/37.2 3.74 Used 33.2 Free
Win 7 Ultimate 386x (No Sp1)
Video 8mb Vga
Slots PciE, Pci
Cd-rom
Upgraded bios from A00-A08
Notes: Needs video card, 8mb Vga is horrible. Shows conflict in device manager 800x600 native only

Dell Optiplex Sx270 Micro $35
Intel P4 2.26Ghz Buss 533Mhz L2 Cache 512Kb
Ram 2Gb DDR1 333Mhz Dual Channel 117Mb OSU 1.82 Avail
HD 2.5 Ide 40GB/37.2 3.69 Used 33.5 Avail
Win Xp Pro SP3 386x
Intel 82865G Dvi(Vga-Hdmi)
Dvd/Cd-Rw

Dell Dimension 4600i Mid/Fullsize Tower $45
Intel P4 2.8ghz Hyperthreading Bus 800mhz L2 Cach 512kb
Ram 3gb DDR1 333mhz single channel 600 OSU 2.3 Avail
HD Eide 3.5 40Gb/37.2 24.7 Free
Windows 7 Ultimate Sp1 386x
128Mb Nvidia Geforce4 440 S-video, Vga, Dvi (Hdmi) Passive
Slots PCiE, PCIx2
DVD/Rw Multi / DVD Rom
New Cmos Battery Upgraded Bios A09-A18
Notes: Onboard network adapter burned out, network card in one of the Pci slots. Nwiz Nvidia drivers do not start in the systray after WinXp. Shows as Win generic graphics card, no conflicts and adjustable.

Red Jamma Gamesbox 2012 DosBox 450-1 $120
(Think I paid $400 for these when new after shipping, current models are about the same)
Basically and old computer attached to a Jpac and sound amp.
Plays late 80ç—´ to mid 90ç—´ horizontial arcade games in Dos Mame like SNK, Capcom, Konami, Sega
Nice selection of titles. Cool interactive GUI.
It does a decent job, better than any of the other board of that gen+, I致e heard the current Pandora and such are decent though. You can take the cover off and attach a ps2 keyboard hit tab and adjust the settings to make it run even better.
Think the specs are 900mhz 256Mb ram 80gb Eide 7200 rpm HD but its mostly empty.

Dimensions & pics Asap (I知 just going to attach a pdf file)

Coming soon are some Dell Optiplex Desktop CCUYç—´ and old pimped out Windows 3.1/95/98 computers but theyæ±♥e going to be much more expensive.

Linux Systems!

 

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Bump, found missing power supplies for mini desktops raised prices $5.

Upgraded the ram on one of the mini desktops to 4gb raised it $10 or something.

I ordered a bunch of e8400-e8500's for cheap on Ebay, Gonna upgrade a bunch of the Lga 775's they'll be about another $7 or so.

Heads up also I see Amazon has some refurbished 2tb HDs for $45. (that's a common size for pre-done Hyperspins)

Edit 1/15/17
Upgrade all the minis desktops to E8400's
Think I'm going to send mini desktop #1 to my moms.
Maybe some other the others I'll upgrade to e8500's 8gb ram maybe gets some graphics cards and send them to other members of my family.

Maybe also do social experiments and find local yocal derelicts with a hdtv's but not a decent PC, follow up a month later and see if they use if for upward mobility or if they tried or were successful at pawning them.

 

[Xavier]

Bump I gave out about 15 computers for free, didn't work out too well.

For some reason people seem to resent you when you do nice things for them, who would've thunk it?

These people without PC's are that way for a reason, I'd frequently check back with them weeks later and usually they hadn't done anything with it because they still needed a HDMI cord and a keyboard and a mouse. Then I'd have to get that stuff for them and hook it up and then they hate me for some reason.

Anyways I've got about 50 Dell Optiplex's left over.

I'm thinking $40 each for as they sit or around the $225 range pimped out.
IRC there's two models:

one has slower ram and should go up to 2.66ghz core to quad (typical processor it comes with are 2ghz core to duo)

and the other up to 3.16 ghz core to quad (will come with at least 3ghz core to duo)

Pimped out models will come with the faster processor in the case of the older ones, 8gb of ram, a 2tb HD and a tb hdmi graphics card.and

Computers will be cleaned inside and out, updated with the latest bios and a new RTC battery.

Love these computers, my only complaint is I don't see a way to make them USB 3.0 or any common cheap multi memory card readers for them.