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They all checked out OK. I want to call out a great eBay supplier of used disk drives: harddrivesonly . See https://www.ebay.com/itm/185308822055 A pair of used drives came in at 4K and 6K power-on hours. These were the premium WD Black 500GB 2.5" drives. They were newer than my used Dell...

Dang. I gotta stop going by eBay. I won an auction today for 3 Optiplex 3060 micros for $200. That's $66 each. I'm going to fit them out cheaply. They come with 8GB RAM but no disk or WiFi. Optiplex 3060 Micro $66 External PS $10 Used WD Black 500GB disk $10 External WiFi dongle $10 Total...

So far I've bought 6 PCs to run Win 11. I have two clones for regular use with one as a backup. That left 4 that I really didn't need. I gave three to friends but today decided to use the last one as a HT PC. See my post in that forum.

It arrived today. As I suspected, I put in a SODIMM and turned it on. It passed all the tests, and I then quickly installed Win 10 Pro. The "micro" is an interesting packaging design. Cost for a decent Win 11 machine: $68 used 5060 micro $17 used 8GB DDR4 SODIMM $21 new-pulled 256GB NVMe...

I once worked at a company on Hamilton Avenue in San Jose that was a small defense contractor. When they moved on the buildings were taken over by a startup called eBay. It's as though I'm being haunted by the ghost of my old company. After my years at Intel I still refer to processors by...

This is like a gambling addiction. I just bought another one, this time for $68 on eBay. Same thing, seller says no ram or disk, "and no video comes out the ports". :rolleyes:

I have to cut the seller some slack. The power switch has two lights: yellow and white. I noticed the white one never came on. Fortunately the power switch/cable/connector assy. is available new off eBay for $5.50 shipped. For the benefit of others I mention for the SFF chassis it's Dell...

I find a certain amount of fun in scrounging for bargains on eBay. You should always try to find the "tag number" of a Dell offered in the seller's photos. Once you have that you can go to the Dell website and extract the original parts list from when the PC was first assembled by Dell. This...

I fixed up another used PC today. I bought an OptiPlex 7060 for $99 which was sold as "parts only" i.e. for scrap value. The eBay seller said disk and memory had been removed by the original owner and "it wouldn't turn on". Well dummy the video uses the first 177MB of RAM for its buffer so of...

Yes. Excess spare parts are sold off at close of model year to resellers, so eBay always has stock in hand. For example, I added the built in SD card reader to my two 3060 towers, which are available on eBay for $7. Dell got bad press a decade ago with cheap capacitors in power supplies that...

Hey I only have the two for myself. The rest are being fixed up for friends. The 3060 is still the cheapest reliable PC that runs Win 11. For about $200 used you can put in maybe $100 in parts to have a reliable PC going forward. $200 i5 3060 SFF with Win 10 Pro license $28 Second 8 GB DIMM...

I did my homework at the beginning of the year. You need 8th gen Intel processors for Win 11. Studying the list of Dell models I determined that the OptiPlex 3060 was the earliest (and thus cheapest) model with at least 8th gen processors. Not only is the 3060 listed on the Dell site as Win...

This was somewhat meant in humor, but used PCs in this condition tend to go from $250 to $450 on eBay individually. The CMOS battery is a cheap 60 cent CR2032 coin battery. Pallet delivery to a residence is around $500 (cheaper to a business) - that's what I paid for a Miata hardtop shipped...

This guy is selling a lot of 25 Dell Optiplex 3060 SFF computers, to be shipped truck freight. These are the oldest model compatible with the stringent Windows 11 requirements. www.ebay.com/itm/204075560149 You could clean them up, load Win 11, and sell them individually for about $300 each.