Where to Buy Cheap, Cheap PCs?

[vern]

I need a really cheap PC to play around with. It doesn't need the best of the best. I'll probably only access it via console. I've looked at eBay, but haven't seen any great deals yet. Anyone know of a place that sells surplus PCs but don't require you to buy in bulk?

 

[Admiral Michael]

I find it best to keep an ear out for someone upgrading, just try to get there old PC. If not you may be able to find one at a thrift store.

May I ask what you're doing with it?

 

[ShepsCrook]

What sort of specs? PIII? P4? what? Or at least equivelant of what? I work for Directron.com and we do a lot of work for some school districts, and we buy back their old computers to sell off. A lot of PIII, 667, 733,933 machines around there. Not to mention I might have pretty much all the parts for a spare machine.

 

[Vanquished]

I need a really cheap PC to play around with. It doesn't need the best of the best. I'll probably only access it via console. I've looked at eBay, but haven't seen any great deals yet. Anyone know of a place that sells surplus PCs but don't require you to buy in bulk?

www.SlycePC.com
Thats my site
Or if you want cheap.
How bout TigerDirect.
This week they have a 299 dollar p4 with 512mb mem, 160gb sataII, etc.
Its a really nice computer for the price.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/wem1254.asp?CMP=ILC-FPM01

 

[kcnychief]

Something worth mentioning -

While we don't know for sure what you want to play around with, you could look for a Virtual Environment to run the software tinkering in. You could use your current hardware, and MS has a free download for VPC 2004 -

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

Other than that, I'd say Dell's refurb outlet is a good place to look for a whole system too

http://www.dell.com/content/segmenter.aspx?s=dfo

 

[vern]

I'm looking for something around the 1-2GHz range, 256-512MB ram. Video can be integrated, sound isn't important. IDE support ... SATA isn't required. Must have a NIC ... or a PCI slot so I can install a NIC. I don't need a monitor. Was looking at directron ... that 933MHz PC might work out. A little more processing power would be nice, but not required.

I also don't want emulation of any kind as this will eventually become a personal file server once I get done testing out what I want. I already have a file server running Slackware that has a bit over a terrabyte of data storage ... I just need another one, and while I'm at it ... try out something new.

 

[Vanquished]

I'm looking for something around the 1-2GHz range, 256-512MB ram. Video can be integrated, sound isn't important. IDE support ... SATA isn't required. Must have a NIC ... or a PCI slot so I can install a NIC. I don't need a monitor. Was looking at directron ... that 933MHz PC might work out. A little more processing power would be nice, but not required.

I also don't want emulation of any kind as this will eventually become a personal file server once I get done testing out what I want. I already have a file server running Slackware that has a bit over a terrabyte of data storage ... I just need another one, and while I'm at it ... try out something new.

IM serious my friend, grab the one off tiger direct.

 

[GhoulScout]

you should check out Fry's they have a "great quality" PC for under 200 last i checked, very cheap components but it works.

 

[ShepsCrook]

Well, Directron.com still has used systems. They might even have PIII 1.0ghz + systems there for around $100