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First post, by Kahenraz

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I had to stare at this long and hard. I don't remember ordered an LED landscape light. I live in an apartment and don't even have a lawn.

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Oh there it is! Inside was not an LED lamp but the video card I ordered.

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Reply 1 of 8, by BitWrangler

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That's weird, thought they needed the rage theater chip for composite out.

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 2 of 8, by retardware

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🤣, I often sent stuff packed in cat food boxes.
Personally, I'd feel more annoyed by the highly-static blister foil.

Reply 3 of 8, by Kahenraz

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I have a monitor with composite in that I can test this with for you. There was a lot of rust by the video out connectors so I have it in a vinegar bath for cleaning at the moment.

This is a Radeon 9200 LE.

Reply 4 of 8, by Repo Man11

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The last video card that I received packed that way did not work; considering the amount of static electricity that stuff can generate, I wasn't at all surprised.

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?

Reply 5 of 8, by BitWrangler

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Kahenraz wrote on 2021-10-04, 22:45:

I have a monitor with composite in that I can test this with for you. There was a lot of rust by the video out connectors so I have it in a vinegar bath for cleaning at the moment.

This is a Radeon 9200 LE.

Oh right, I thought it was a tad earlier, they might have coalesced it all into one extra smart rock by then.

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 6 of 8, by Kahenraz

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Smart rock? Haha. 😀

Reply 7 of 8, by Kahenraz

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-10-04, 23:07:

I thought it was a tad earlier.

I made a mistake when I gave you the model number earlier. It's actually a Radeon 7000.

Reply 8 of 8, by Joseph_Joestar

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You might want to create a single, dedicated thread for "Hardware I received in weird boxes" instead of opening new topics for every random box that you seemingly get on a weekly basis.

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