I'll just leave these here in case anyone is interested in buying one: Option 1 W/O HDD's: www.ebay.com/itm/253090423630?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Option 2 W 80GB HDD: www.ebay.com/itm/253090456260?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Option 3: www.ebay.com/itm/253090428332?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 I will be adding more throughout the week.
I am a computer tech and was doing the same thing. In my case all the PC's I had were wiped by the facility using Blanco (commercial license) and I cleaned, tested, and installed Linux on most and Windows 7 on some. I did very well for awhile right after XP terminated but then the market became flooded and they were harder to sell. So what I ultimately did was resided myself to the fact I more than my than my initial investment back, and that there was more money to made in their parts. The cases were not competitive enough so I let them go along with some motherboards, cpu's and psu's because of storage and kept hard drives, floppy's, ram and some specific psu's. There is just as good money in the parts left and I took the write off for everything else at current value. The smaller parts are easy to ship and take up less room. Just food for thought.
Yep, sometimes the parts are well worth just parting systems out. Someone may have an old system they want just for games, or a certain program they like that won't run on a new machine, so they're stuck using their old "clunker". Something in it fails, they gotta have parts, so some guy monkeying around their garage parting out old computers can make a great side job of parting out and selling parts.
Pull the drives, put them all on a shelf. Start with a couple machines and a couple of drives. Get the machines setup and sell them. Do a few at a time throughout the year. You'll thank yourself later. Saturate the market with them quickly and you'll forever be sitting on them.
Austin Petten - It starts at 3:23 and keeps happening every 5 or so seconds. At 3:57, it really starts going nuts like it's running around his garage or something! 4:36 it starts up again.
If you do pull the drives instead of wiping them don't do what most sellers do and take the drive caddies out as well. That is just bush league. Plus, without the drive they are only worth about $10 each. Since the original owner didn't bother to wipe them you shouldn't need to either as it was THEIR responsibility. They obviously aren't concerned that there is any confidential data on them. I would clean them up a bit (vacuum or blow them out), make sure they do run, them ship them out.
Most of the time on school computers the data is stored on the network's server, the hard drive in the computer is just the OS and software used by the schools. I know when I was working as a tech administrator we had a BAT file that erased files saved on various parts of the hard drive on startup, so if a student saved their work to the documents folder for some reason, as soon as the computer was rebooted the documents folder was wiped. This may have been the case with these machines as well, so there may not be anything on them at all other than the OS and required software for the schools. If we got rid of any computer systems the drives were wiped and kept for future use, and the rest of the system trashed, or the systems were rebuilt and put back into service somewhere else.
Something is just very satisfying seeing all those Dell PC's in once place :D I got one of those 755's right next to me, it was a blast updating it from the base specifications. Those old PC's sure make for great Linux PC's with a bit of upgrading. I managed to get it up to a Core2Quad Q6600 and 8GB RAM and have been wondering whether or not to get a GT 1030 and SSD in it, but it's been doing wonders for a few months now.
I got a free 745 minitower with a Pentium D that's missing its floppy drive, but it does have a little PCI "card" with an extra serial port and PS/2 ports, which is neat!
AA computer and technolory::i liked the video gives me encouragement to go out and going to auctions, been wanting to do that for some time just have to gather enough monies
the optimal solution would be to ask if there is sensitive info on the drives and if you have to pull them from the system then a big ass storage server would be ideal for you and for the channel
Dell Optiplex Desktop Computers I bought 7 of the Dell Optiplex 745 And 755 Desktop Computers a few years back from a local Business. I opened each one for inspection and blew all of the dust out with a low output air-compressor, then I added 8-GB of PC2-6400 Memory Modules to each unit and 240-GB PNY Solid State Drive. Installed Windows 64-Bit OS and sold every one for $289.00 Each.
I just picked up 25 Optiplex 760 sff Dual cores with 4 gigs from the CIA auction for $148.00 and got some quad cores and pci expansion ribbons from ebay as well as some GPUs from offer up and made some right decent low end gaming PCs. Now I have some entry level gaming PCs and some good office PCs for sale as well as some bare bones builders for random fun builds. My 13 year old son is using one of them to build a MWF3 themed console killer. He got a quad core and 1050 TI with a 400W PSU to make it happen. Hopefully it will punish his PS4.
Wipe a batch of computer's say 5, sell those. Wipe 5 more, sell those and so on and so forth, wiping them all at once would just be too much effort, unless you had multiple machines running with multiple copies of Dban running, because I honestly find that destroying hard drives rather than wiping, or even trying to wipe them is totally wasteful even if the drive is low capacity.
Furthermore, one can put a skimmed down version of windows (or Windows PE) and just load the low level format utility with the parameters in batch file and set them to silently wipe at startup and then shut down automatically after wipe to make the wiping process less tedious
You should always have something protective like styrofoam, pillows, cushions, anything if you're gonna risk breaking your windows (whether computers or something else).
holy shit!..and i thought i was the bad one to have stacks upon stacks of towers.. XD hope you get to flip them..cuz i did try doin that with old pcs and they had no demand for them.. but i would have fun goin through all of those
I have a 330 tower, I modded it to take a Socket 771 Xeon, it runs great with a C Stepping Xeon E5440 (SLANS) apparently the C stepping ones have a much better success rate. 4 cores, 12MB cache, it benchmarks the same as my Haswell core i5 laptop at work. Now it runs Plex and is used for general home network storage.
why would you trash free hard drives? thats dumb, more work for you and you have to buy more drives to replace them..... you dont have to whip them clean ether just run a fresh installment of windows on the computers and there good as new
We used to have cheat disks for this purpose. Insert the disk, start the computer, it would automatically format the hard drive and connect to our network and start downloading windows and run the install on its own. Sure saved a lot of time, we'd do 10-20 computers at once this way, it would bog down the server but nobody cared because it was summer and nobody was in the schools anyhow except us techies LOL.
Lol if I could I would come to your house and wipe all the drives for you. Great video tho by the way! Good luck cleaning the PCs and I hope you keep all the drives.
You could create a ghost of the Vista system on one computer, and then it would not take very long to shove that ghost into the other pc's. That would be legal on the units that had the COA for Vista. You could do the same for the few XP boxes you had in that pile, ghosting them with XP.
thats actually quite good! you can easily make some money out of them... 50$ a peace plus 10$ shipping cost, and you made about 4000-5000 profit, enough for your ryzen upgrade :D but without any doubt a LOT of work to prepare all of them (for 50$ they need to look very nice, so cleaning, wiping the HDD and shipping)
AA Computers and Technology Only 15? That's low...Here in Germany you could easily sell them for at least 30€ I think. And is shipping so expensive in the states? Here the cost for 1 PC would be about 9€(without packing material), but I guess its so cheap here because the country is quite small...
Seems like a good canidate to test bsel overclocking on one of these. (Pick out the worst one in terms of looks throw in a harddrive & give it a go.) Should support 1333 mhz fsb cpu's so a 95w core 2 quad is possible to use as well. with a bit of bios modding they also support the socket 771 xeons.
If you're checking each one, how much time would it add to line them up and DBAN the drives, I guess you could move the monitor to the next one once it's started - and modern drives really don't need the full whack super erase, one pass of fill will easily defeat software snooping.
Would it have been possible to wipe them by doing a network boot to a working 'server' and then just wiping the drives through a network switch? Or just get a bunch of CD-R's or thumbdrives, booting up and wiping the drives? Would probably be a while to get through all of them (maybe 5 at a time) but the customer would probably like to have a built in drive to get right into the system with.
I stick to flipping Dells that have 2nd or 3rd gen i5s as they seem to be the sweet spot in what people are willing to pay actual decent $$$ for and believe are worth buying used.
What's the maximum amount of RAM can you put in those machines? I'd love to buy a few, but I would need to get the hard drives as well. I'd wipe them myself.
Huh? Not without ram, but certainly without hard drive! You can buy a hard drive for less than 10$ with modest storage, I mean, just look it up on Ebay, plenty of 10$ 80GB SATA HDD with free shipping!
I am selling a lot with drives and a lot without drives. I almost always buy systems without drives off ebay. I replace them all with SSD's anyway :D !
They either keep them or they sell them separate to make more money. Everyone wants a hard drive, and memory, but not necessarily the whole computer. So you can make twice the money or even more by parting out the system's components. Hard drive, RAM, power supply, motherboard, etc.
You can take all the drives out of the computers, connect them to your personal one, then wipe multiple at a time. There is your solution for lack of man power!
Sure, wiping one might not be, but 91 drives definitely is. Besides, the Windows COAs on these computers were probably from a business volume subscription so they can't be used outside of the school. And buying a new Windows license for each of these would cost more than all of these computers are worth.
I still have an HP with a Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 and 1gb of ram since 3 of the slots have basically been fried by lightning. Works quite well for Linux with a Nvidia GT 220 for HDMI output. Basically used it as a HTPC for up to 1080p content. TH-cam playback on the other hand with the switch to HTML5 just went to shit. flash was much easier for the system to run. So just a heads up.
h264ify extension on Chrome, will force TH-cam to serve HTML5 using h.264 codec that your GT220 can accelerate. TH-cam defaults to VP9 codec on Chrome. It saves Google money on their data bill, but VP9 makes an older CPU run hot and the picture freeze/stutter. This is because both the onboard graphics and the video card lack hardware decoding for VP9.
thats what i do as a sideline, i started last year and i make decent profit atleast 50$ per pc right now, but i can sell 5 units a week and nothing for the next month,i'm buying from a pc recycling place, i always install Windows 10 Pro on them,i buy Windows 7 product keys from junk PC's for a very low price and activate Windows 10 legitimatly, i make money on extra's also i offer Microsoft Office 2013 installed with a legit product key for 40$,i only buy and Sell Dell,HP and Lenovo buisness class desktop'S.and i offer a 30 days warranty
Its a great side business if you can afford to do it, and you sell online. Where I live you could have a new laptop and people here would expect you to just give it to them because they're cheap asses and want nothing but handouts and everything discounted at yard sale prices. Ebay is a great place to avoid that type of handout crowd.
That's a good way to go, no ebay fees to mess with LOL. If you can sell them locally with local pickup that will help your profit margin a great deal. I'm surprised how well these machines work for the processors they have in them. Goes to show just because its an older machine doesn't mean its time to throw it away. For many users who do nothing but word processing, email and web browsing they don't need a quad core 3GHz processor LOL.
The certificate of authenticity and associated keys would be for old, outdated, and unsupported versions of windows. He would have to spend a lot more than he could sell the systems for to get a Windows license for them. That would be stupid on his part. I could see a stock install of say Ubuntu LTS, but why. Let the buyer install whatever OS they want.
That's a Myth. There are always problems with doing that. Plus Braxton is ethically opposed to doing that as he has stated on more than one occasion in his videos, something that I agree with. Even if he did do that, it would be a lot of extra work and only make the systems worth an extra $5 or so. I've installed Windows on systems like these and it takes an hour or two, maybe longer depending on the version you install. Sorry, but that would not be worthwhile. These are $10 to $20 computers. Anyone who pays more than $40 US shipped is crazy as you can easily find Sandy or Ivy Bridge systems for about $50 to $60 US shipped. If they had a C2D/C2Q (like an E8x00 or Q6600) things would be different.
mharris1270, that is incorrect. Windows 7 will install and run just like it was activated for 30 days without a product key. It's Windows 8 that won''t. Other than that you are pretty much correct.
Windows 7 Pro doesn't DEMAND a key upon installation, it only REQUESTS one. It will run just like it was activated for 30 days without entering one. This is to allow the installer a chance to set the computer up and make sure it was working before you activate it as it can only be activated a certain number of times. This is by design and is perfectly legal to do. Microsoft even allows you to extend that 30 day period three times for an additional 90 day evaluation period which is again perfectly legal.
My private school had the same computers and I broke one of them. Believe it or not one of them in the video is broken the same way. Then they got rid of them
Jan de Vries I've flipped machines with a low to gigahertz Core 2 Duo and 2 to 3 gigabytes of RAM Windows 10 and chrome everything works fine and I can usually get about 80 bucks from Lucky 5260 average
I would put linux mint or ubuntu on them and do about 5 at a time, that way you sell 5, get 5 more ready till they are gone and so on, at least with linux you can wipe them and put a os on them, if they all had windows 7 keys on them you could put windows 10 on them activated and you could sell them for more very easily
What pinned comment? There isn't any. That infor should be placed in the DESCRIPTION of the video anyway. I was interested in one or two, but since the "supposedly" pinned comment is no where to be found I guess I'll pass on that.
dont bother calling them!! As a small bussiness owner, it is your responsibility to wipe those drives!!!! wipe and charge it to the buyer. i am sure people would pay extra 2 or 3 dollars for a clean ready to go drive!!! I know i would... Well good luck my friend on your endevor. I got a 20 spot waiting for mine to be cleaned up... 2 for 35... 3 for 50... ???????
No it's not. It is actually their responsibility to remove any sensitive data before handing the systems over to a third party. I never signed anything saying I would wipe the drives for them, that is not part of the buyer agreement.
I'll just leave these here in case anyone is interested in buying one:
Option 1 W/O HDD's: www.ebay.com/itm/253090423630?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Option 2 W 80GB HDD: www.ebay.com/itm/253090456260?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Option 3: www.ebay.com/itm/253090428332?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
I will be adding more throughout the week.
uh oh, you don't ship to Europe do you?
do you ship to Canada ???
no
no
Only USA.
SO IT WAS YOU WHO BOUGHT ALL THOSE.......... I almost bought them XD
I am a computer tech and was doing the same thing. In my case all the PC's I had were wiped by the facility using Blanco (commercial license) and I cleaned, tested, and installed Linux on most and Windows 7 on some. I did very well for awhile right after XP terminated but then the market became flooded and they were harder to sell. So what I ultimately did was resided myself to the fact I more than my than my initial investment back, and that there was more money to made in their parts. The cases were not competitive enough so I let them go along with some motherboards, cpu's and psu's because of storage and kept hard drives, floppy's, ram and some specific psu's. There is just as good money in the parts left and I took the write off for everything else at current value. The smaller parts are easy to ship and take up less room. Just food for thought.
Yep, sometimes the parts are well worth just parting systems out. Someone may have an old system they want just for games, or a certain program they like that won't run on a new machine, so they're stuck using their old "clunker". Something in it fails, they gotta have parts, so some guy monkeying around their garage parting out old computers can make a great side job of parting out and selling parts.
Cop: what ya got in the back?
AA: 100 computers.
Cop: oh ok your good to go.
Pull the drives, put them all on a shelf. Start with a couple machines and a couple of drives. Get the machines setup and sell them. Do a few at a time throughout the year. You'll thank yourself later. Saturate the market with them quickly and you'll forever be sitting on them.
Of all computers out there, you got 91 of my favorite kind. I'm very jealous!
No offense, but why do you like this specific optiplex model over say, one of the newer ones with 3rd gen i5?
Anyone else hear that little Doom 3 robot when he was walking around the systems after he got them home?
Austin Petten - It starts at 3:23 and keeps happening every 5 or so seconds. At 3:57, it really starts going nuts like it's running around his garage or something! 4:36 it starts up again.
it's the camera's auto focus
yee
This has to be my fav channel right now
If you do pull the drives instead of wiping them don't do what most sellers do and take the drive caddies out as well. That is just bush league. Plus, without the drive they are only worth about $10 each. Since the original owner didn't bother to wipe them you shouldn't need to either as it was THEIR responsibility. They obviously aren't concerned that there is any confidential data on them. I would clean them up a bit (vacuum or blow them out), make sure they do run, them ship them out.
Most of the time on school computers the data is stored on the network's server, the hard drive in the computer is just the OS and software used by the schools. I know when I was working as a tech administrator we had a BAT file that erased files saved on various parts of the hard drive on startup, so if a student saved their work to the documents folder for some reason, as soon as the computer was rebooted the documents folder was wiped. This may have been the case with these machines as well, so there may not be anything on them at all other than the OS and required software for the schools.
If we got rid of any computer systems the drives were wiped and kept for future use, and the rest of the system trashed, or the systems were rebuilt and put back into service somewhere else.
their what! you got me hyped for a sec!
great for wasting time on
For anyone wondering he got these from Pitt County Schools judging by the domain name that he shows in the video
Something is just very satisfying seeing all those Dell PC's in once place :D
I got one of those 755's right next to me, it was a blast updating it from the base specifications. Those old PC's sure make for great Linux PC's with a bit of upgrading.
I managed to get it up to a Core2Quad Q6600 and 8GB RAM and have been wondering whether or not to get a GT 1030 and SSD in it, but it's been doing wonders for a few months now.
I got a free 745 minitower with a Pentium D that's missing its floppy drive, but it does have a little PCI "card" with an extra serial port and PS/2 ports, which is neat!
AA computer and technolory::i liked the video gives me encouragement to go out and going to auctions, been wanting to do that for some time just have to gather enough monies
I dreamt of this much computers.
the optimal solution would be to ask if there is sensitive info on the drives and if you have to pull them from the system then a big ass storage server would be ideal for you and for the channel
Dell Optiplex Desktop Computers
I bought 7 of the Dell Optiplex 745 And 755 Desktop Computers a few years back from a local Business.
I opened each one for inspection and blew all of the dust out with a low output air-compressor, then I added 8-GB of PC2-6400 Memory Modules to each unit and 240-GB PNY Solid State Drive. Installed Windows 64-Bit OS and sold every one for $289.00 Each.
Those computers look great!
And for 19 bucks each I'll take TWO!
[Or FOUR! two for me and one for bro and Mom!]
I just picked up 25 Optiplex 760 sff Dual cores with 4 gigs from the CIA auction for $148.00 and got some quad cores and pci expansion ribbons from ebay as well as some GPUs from offer up and made some right decent low end gaming PCs. Now I have some entry level gaming PCs and some good office PCs for sale as well as some bare bones builders for random fun builds. My 13 year old son is using one of them to build a MWF3 themed console killer. He got a quad core and 1050 TI with a 400W PSU to make it happen. Hopefully it will punish his PS4.
Oh my, when sold, this could make some nice pocket money :)
Well-done boy! Just be patient.
Wipe a batch of computer's say 5, sell those. Wipe 5 more, sell those and so on and so forth, wiping them all at once would just be too much effort, unless you had multiple machines running with multiple copies of Dban running, because I honestly find that destroying hard drives rather than wiping, or even trying to wipe them is totally wasteful even if the drive is low capacity.
KOSMOS1701A I hate when people destroy hard drives
Furthermore, one can put a skimmed down version of windows (or Windows PE) and just load the low level format utility with the parameters in batch file and set them to silently wipe at startup and then shut down automatically after wipe to make the wiping process less tedious
Why would anyone destroy a hard drive? They must be very ignorant.
You should always have something protective like styrofoam, pillows, cushions, anything if you're gonna risk breaking your windows (whether computers or something else).
holy shit!..and i thought i was the bad one to have stacks upon stacks of towers.. XD hope you get to flip them..cuz i did try doin that with old pcs and they had no demand for them.. but i would have fun goin through all of those
I would need one man! Hahaha! My brother's rig just screwed up and died.
I have a 330 tower, I modded it to take a Socket 771 Xeon, it runs great with a C Stepping Xeon E5440 (SLANS) apparently the C stepping ones have a much better success rate. 4 cores, 12MB cache, it benchmarks the same as my Haswell core i5 laptop at work. Now it runs Plex and is used for general home network storage.
I wish these weren't BTX mother boards as the case is really nice for mini build
Why'd they get rid of them? I installed Windows 10 on my Optiplex 755 and it ran almost perfectly.
why would you trash free hard drives? thats dumb, more work for you and you have to buy more drives to replace them.....
you dont have to whip them clean ether just run a fresh installment of windows on the computers and there good as new
These are awesome i found so many cores i7 i5 i3 and made alot of money of them
You could write a Script (or download one that already exist) that would wipe out the hard drive from a USB flash drive.
We used to have cheat disks for this purpose. Insert the disk, start the computer, it would automatically format the hard drive and connect to our network and start downloading windows and run the install on its own. Sure saved a lot of time, we'd do 10-20 computers at once this way, it would bog down the server but nobody cared because it was summer and nobody was in the schools anyhow except us techies LOL.
Great price! My mom may be buying one
Lol if I could I would come to your house and wipe all the drives for you. Great video tho by the way! Good luck cleaning the PCs and I hope you keep all the drives.
if u want to wipe the drives just take out the hard drives and have your desktop to format them that way
You could create a ghost of the Vista system on one computer, and then it would not take very long to shove that ghost into the other pc's. That would be legal on the units that had the COA for Vista. You could do the same for the few XP boxes you had in that pile, ghosting them with XP.
You could have pulled the hard drives and left them as backups. So, if you needed them, you could have wiped one and put it in the system.
thats actually quite good! you can easily make some money out of them... 50$ a peace plus 10$ shipping cost, and you made about 4000-5000 profit, enough for your ryzen upgrade :D but without any doubt a LOT of work to prepare all of them (for 50$ they need to look very nice, so cleaning, wiping the HDD and shipping)
I wish I could sell them for 50! These will barely sell for 15 and shipping is absolutely atrocious, waaayyyy more than 10 bucks XD
AA Computers and Technology
Only 15? That's low...Here in Germany you could easily sell them for at least 30€ I think. And is shipping so expensive in the states? Here the cost for 1 PC would be about 9€(without packing material), but I guess its so cheap here because the country is quite small...
aight bruh first thing you gotta do when you get a old system like that is clean it because that much dust can really mess it up or catch fire.
I think you can set up a PXE server so you can net boot the system to some form of Linux environment and wipe the drives that way.
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Seems like a good canidate to test bsel overclocking on one of these. (Pick out the worst one in terms of looks throw in a harddrive & give it a go.)
Should support 1333 mhz fsb cpu's so a 95w core 2 quad is possible to use as well.
with a bit of bios modding they also support the socket 771 xeons.
If you're checking each one, how much time would it add to line them up and DBAN the drives, I guess you could move the monitor to the next one once it's started - and modern drives really don't need the full whack super erase, one pass of fill will easily defeat software snooping.
I Have a Dell OptiPlex GX280 running Windows 7 containing 3 GB RAM, 200GB HDD.
Would it have been possible to wipe them by doing a network boot to a working 'server' and then just wiping the drives through a network switch? Or just get a bunch of CD-R's or thumbdrives, booting up and wiping the drives? Would probably be a while to get through all of them (maybe 5 at a time) but the customer would probably like to have a built in drive to get right into the system with.
I stick to flipping Dells that have 2nd or 3rd gen i5s as they seem to be the sweet spot in what people are willing to pay actual decent $$$ for and believe are worth buying used.
just a heads up if you get a load of pc's and they need to be wiped. PXE Boot them all and run dband that way instead of doing them one at a time.
How big are the hard drives? Are they SATA, and would you sell them separately?
What county did these come out of? From how far you traveled, it may be close to me.
Get your best pc and plug as many as you can in and wipe them through that cpu speed effects wipe speed
So crazy to think I subbed at 500.
Hey. Love the channel
I would used all of the computers for cluster computing
And what do you do with these ? Do you sell them? If so, to who ?
Check the video description, he has links to the ebay sales pages for you.
How did you hear about this auction? Craigslist? I want to do something like this myself
What's the maximum amount of RAM can you put in those machines? I'd love to buy a few, but I would need to get the hard drives as well. I'd wipe them myself.
Thinking 4gb total since they are DDR2 ram and running intel pentium dual cores.
I know the 755 and 380 can get up to 8 with the latest bios updates. The 620s prob only 4.
400$? That's very good! Here is the average price of 1 piece 200$...
I would never buy or even accept for free an old computer without a hard drive. Many people take the hard drives out and oddly enough the ram too
Huh? Not without ram, but certainly without hard drive!
You can buy a hard drive for less than 10$ with modest storage, I mean, just look it up on Ebay, plenty of 10$ 80GB SATA HDD with free shipping!
I am selling a lot with drives and a lot without drives. I almost always buy systems without drives off ebay. I replace them all with SSD's anyway :D !
They either keep them or they sell them separate to make more money. Everyone wants a hard drive, and memory, but not necessarily the whole computer. So you can make twice the money or even more by parting out the system's components. Hard drive, RAM, power supply, motherboard, etc.
You can take all the drives out of the computers, connect them to your personal one, then wipe multiple at a time. There is your solution for lack of man power!
Where in NC did you get these? They might have come from my school.
How much did it all cost?
400 for all pc he say
That’s really interesting, did you make your money back on them?
M computer is a i5 with gtx 1050 and its a dell 1010
It is not hard to format a hard drive. You may want to reinstall the OS anyway, so format during Windows setup.
Sure, wiping one might not be, but 91 drives definitely is. Besides, the Windows COAs on these computers were probably from a business volume subscription so they can't be used outside of the school. And buying a new Windows license for each of these would cost more than all of these computers are worth.
I still have an HP with a Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 and 1gb of ram since 3 of the slots have basically been fried by lightning. Works quite well for Linux with a Nvidia GT 220 for HDMI output. Basically used it as a HTPC for up to 1080p content. TH-cam playback on the other hand with the switch to HTML5 just went to shit. flash was much easier for the system to run. So just a heads up.
h264ify extension on Chrome, will force TH-cam to serve HTML5 using h.264 codec that your GT220 can accelerate. TH-cam defaults to VP9 codec on Chrome. It saves Google money on their data bill, but VP9 makes an older CPU run hot and the picture freeze/stutter. This is because both the onboard graphics and the video card lack hardware decoding for VP9.
How much will you charge for the monitors? (If you sell them)
Cluster computer coming?
holy shit!!!!! you can start your own Industrial Light and Magic. #im #jealous
thats what i do as a sideline, i started last year and i make decent profit atleast 50$ per pc right now, but i can sell 5 units a week and nothing for the next month,i'm buying from a pc recycling place, i always install Windows 10 Pro on them,i buy Windows 7 product keys from junk PC's for a very low price and activate Windows 10 legitimatly, i make money on extra's also i offer Microsoft Office 2013 installed with a legit product key for 40$,i only buy and Sell Dell,HP and Lenovo buisness class desktop'S.and i offer a 30 days warranty
Its a great side business if you can afford to do it, and you sell online. Where I live you could have a new laptop and people here would expect you to just give it to them because they're cheap asses and want nothing but handouts and everything discounted at yard sale prices. Ebay is a great place to avoid that type of handout crowd.
hahah i know people want everything for nothing,i dont sell online as of right now, i sell most of my PC thru Facebook sell&trade groups
That's a good way to go, no ebay fees to mess with LOL. If you can sell them locally with local pickup that will help your profit margin a great deal. I'm surprised how well these machines work for the processors they have in them. Goes to show just because its an older machine doesn't mean its time to throw it away. For many users who do nothing but word processing, email and web browsing they don't need a quad core 3GHz processor LOL.
you can upgrade them with a cheap Q6600 quad core and 4 GB of ram (in case of the 330)ad they make a reliable and cheap every day use PC
Are they all gone?
I would format and reput windows on them they would sell for around £30 on its own £40 with keyboard, mouse with the spec if they were here.
The certificate of authenticity and associated keys would be for old, outdated, and unsupported versions of windows. He would have to spend a lot more than he could sell the systems for to get a Windows license for them. That would be stupid on his part. I could see a stock install of say Ubuntu LTS, but why. Let the buyer install whatever OS they want.
cee128d you can use windows unactivated it works just fine
That's a Myth. There are always problems with doing that. Plus Braxton is ethically opposed to doing that as he has stated on more than one occasion in his videos, something that I agree with. Even if he did do that, it would be a lot of extra work and only make the systems worth an extra $5 or so. I've installed Windows on systems like these and it takes an hour or two, maybe longer depending on the version you install. Sorry, but that would not be worthwhile. These are $10 to $20 computers. Anyone who pays more than $40 US shipped is crazy as you can easily find Sandy or Ivy Bridge systems for about $50 to $60 US shipped. If they had a C2D/C2Q (like an E8x00 or Q6600) things would be different.
mharris1270, that is incorrect. Windows 7 will install and run just like it was activated for 30 days without a product key. It's Windows 8 that won''t. Other than that you are pretty much correct.
Windows 7 Pro doesn't DEMAND a key upon installation, it only REQUESTS one. It will run just like it was activated for 30 days without entering one. This is to allow the installer a chance to set the computer up and make sure it was working before you activate it as it can only be activated a certain number of times. This is by design and is perfectly legal to do. Microsoft even allows you to extend that 30 day period three times for an additional 90 day evaluation period which is again perfectly legal.
Where do you find your bulk lots?
Pxe network boot them (the wiping iso)
Do you still have any of these machines?
the amazon link doesnt work
sell thems as is i do computer flips if they want upgraded or new os then charger extra time consuming but pays out in the end but good haul
if i buy one could you sign the case?
My private school had the same computers and I broke one of them. Believe it or not one of them in the video is broken the same way. Then they got rid of them
format em and install windows with a server on em
you can save like 200 hours
What would these computers be used for? Would they still be able to run windows 7 well?
Jan de Vries if it's a c2d yeah it can even run windows 10 fine
How would the speed be when loading youtube or graphic intensive websites?
Jan de Vries I've flipped machines with a low to gigahertz Core 2 Duo and 2 to 3 gigabytes of RAM Windows 10 and chrome everything works fine and I can usually get about 80 bucks from Lucky 5260 average
Appreciate the answers, might actually pick one of these machines up!
they should be OK for sd youtube maybe 720p just.
Amazing ! :O :)
Any with windows 7 professional?
Where do you go to find these tech auctions?
how much for the hard drives and ram?
Install on one a drive image copy?
A fucking Prius..
Do you still have any for sale?
PC Gamer in 2018:
"Yeah, but can it play and livestream fortnite?"
I would put linux mint or ubuntu on them and do about 5 at a time, that way you sell 5, get 5 more ready till they are gone and so on, at least with linux you can wipe them and put a os on them, if they all had windows 7 keys on them you could put windows 10 on them activated and you could sell them for more very easily
Huh, can I buy any of these, if so, where can I?
look at my pinned comment
Hmm, it was un-pinned for some reason. All fixed now. Thanks!
What pinned comment? There isn't any. That infor should be placed in the DESCRIPTION of the video anyway. I was interested in one or two, but since the "supposedly" pinned comment is no where to be found I guess I'll pass on that.
do u make shipping to Macedonia Europe ?
OK dude you need to calm down with these auctions man I'm jealous XD
Good systems but these suffer from cap failure, think I can see one in that eBay listing. Though for $15 whatever :)
dont bother calling them!! As a small bussiness owner, it is your responsibility to wipe those drives!!!! wipe and charge it to the buyer. i am sure people would pay extra 2 or 3 dollars for a clean ready to go drive!!! I know i would... Well good luck my friend on your endevor. I got a 20 spot waiting for mine to be cleaned up... 2 for 35... 3 for 50... ???????
No it's not. It is actually their responsibility to remove any sensitive data before handing the systems over to a third party. I never signed anything saying I would wipe the drives for them, that is not part of the buyer agreement.
I hope you make a profit on this
Jesus, imagine him running a "super computer"
COMPUTERS IN SCHOOL ARE SLOWER THAN THE 330S
some how i don't think there's going to be Sensitive information y would there b with the kids playin on them
wipe the drives, don't just destroy them. even if they are pretty small drives it's enough for a lot of things.
Will the computer work in the uk
What are you going to do with so many pcs ? ilove this
Wipe the drives please! Much work, but it'l save you a lot of money. By the way, nice video!