Wish I could find the time to post on this thread more, because I get some kind of interesting computer related stuff every few days at least. At any rate, as far as the last two buys are concerned, last Friday I nabbed two HP Compaq LGA775 Pentium 4 3ghz HT towers. They each had sata 80gb hd, 512 meg DDR2, and a standard cd burner. Paid 10 bucks each.
Today I nabbed a Saitek X52, some older HP tower with a slot A/Athlon 850 motherboard cpu combo, with a Soundblaster 128 and TNT 2 card installed also, and a loose Gainward Geforce Ti 4200 128meg (cant remember if this is the golden sample version or not, need to look it up). The Saitek ran me $4, the Ti 4200 $2, and the HP tower $8. Here are some pics of the Saitek both before and after the software has been installed:
Just to note, the Saitek looks and feels totally unused. Other then a little dust from sitting on a shelf, it is near mint condition.
EDIT: Silly me, I should have looked at the sticker on the ram on the TI 4200. It is indeed a Golden Sample.