Beg, Borrow, Steal... Well not so much borrow or steal.

bondiablo · Post by **bondiablo** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:50 am

I'm trying to put together a tower for a friend who can't afford to buy a new system right now. She currently has an 8 year old Dell 4300 that's starting to die on her so just about anything would be an upgrade. I already have most of the parts including a socket 478 800MHz FSB 2.4GHz P4 and (2) 256MB sticks of 184 pin DDR 400 RAM but I need a motherboard. Anyone have a board they want to give away or sell cheap? I don't have a lot of money to spend on this project myself. An 865PE board would be ideal. I have a video card but it's pretty crappy so if anyone has a decent AGP card they wouldn't mind giving up that would help too. Thanks.

Gave in and got a board on ebay for a little over $40 shipped, not too bad, a lot less than what some of them were selling. Could still use a decent video card though. Was thinking something in the 6600gt, 7600gs or 6800gt range. Would like to spend under $30 including shipping.

Gojira-X · Post by **Gojira-X** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:59 am

What socket does the P4C use?
(423/478/775?)

bondiablo · Post by **bondiablo** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:22 pm

Socket 478. I'll edit the original post to include that. I would have added it before but I was thinking 478 was the only socket that CPU ever used.

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:23 am

If this board will work with your CPU & RAM, you can have it for the price of shipping.

The board I'll send you is the actual board I used in that review, and is effectively brand new. Comes with all original accessories and packaging, just as pictured in the review.

Please email me if interested, PMs sometimes don't work too well for me.

bondiablo · Post by **bondiablo** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:59 pm

Thanks but it looks like that board is socket 775. The CPU I have is socket 478.

Trav1s · Post by **Trav1s** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:45 pm

I have a 478 board that I was going to toss on eBay after Christmas. I pulled it from a working Gateway system. It is an Intel board.

Info:
intel model: d845grg
http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/rg/
Gateway PN 4000792
abrg22414936 aa a86577-202
Specs: http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/I ... 5sp3.shtml
1.8 p4/heatsink/fan
256 megs of ram
onboard video

Probably to slow. Yours for shipping in a flat rate USPS box (under $9) Let me know if you are interested.

bondiablo · Post by **bondiablo** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:58 pm

Thanks but I don't think that would work with the parts I already have since it's an 845 board and might be specific to Gateway.

bondiablo · Post by **bondiablo** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:08 am

ACK... I just lost all the parts I thought I had. I was supposed to be getting most of them from a dead computer at the office (bad motherboard) which I was told I could have. I FINALLY got my board from ebay, that I didn't think I was going to get because it took 3 weeks to arrive and the tracking information never changed from just showing a label had been printed. So I try to get the tower and am told I can't have it anymore and they want me to use the board I just bought to fix it for them instead.

Sorry, just needed to vent on that one.

vertigo · Post by **vertigo** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:20 am

To wait until you are stuck with a working mobo before asking for it to be fixed doesn't seem fair. A repair place would have charged them quite a bit to fix it.

bondiablo · Post by **bondiablo** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:44 am

What do you think a fair price would be to charge them for the repair, not including the part? Normally I don't ask for anything when I fix stuff for them but I usually get a little something anyway. This time I'm definitely asking and I'll use whatever I get towards something nicer.

ACook · Post by **ACook** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:03 pm

Given it'll take you at least a few hours to do the hardware and software side of it, 75$ would make a nice 'round' number.

that's still cheap.

(disclaimer: I'm unemployed, so any money ppl give me for doing something with their pc's that I like doing is a bonus to me, so I'm generally cheap myself.. )

Beg, Borrow, Steal... Well not so much borrow or steal.

Beg, Borrow, Steal... Well not so much borrow or steal.

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