02/09 - Fabulous Olympics Friday!

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I bought a refurbished (Microsoft approved) business machine, a Dell Optiplex. It came with a cheap new keyboard and mouse. Cost was $245, free shipping from the refurbisher. Ordered thru Amazon with all gift cards. I got it expressly for Turking. I've used it with no problems for the past 4 years. A work horse. Granted it's not for gaming, but I don't play anything but casual games and rarely. Best computer I've ever used. It has certainly paid for itself.
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8gb ram, great old i5 or i7, you have a great cheap work computer.
 

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I bought a refurbished (Microsoft approved) business machine, a Dell Optiplex. It came with a cheap new keyboard and mouse. Cost was $245, free shipping from the refurbisher. Ordered thru Amazon with all gift cards. I got it expressly for Turking. I've used it with no problems for the past 4 years. A work horse. Granted it's not for gaming, but I don't play anything but casual games and rarely. Best computer I've ever used. It has certainly paid for itself.
I did this, but for low spec gaming. I needed a windows box to stick with my Racing Simulator rig, and I went with a refurb business model HP, from newegg. About $250, and I only swapped out the GFX card, with one I had from a previous build. It's lasted for 2 years running Assetto Corsa, and other SIMs with no problems. I use it some days for supplemental purposes, when my macbook isn't enough for turking.
 

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I've never cared to keep up with the gpu prices until recently, or at least until someone I know dropped 5k on an MSI rig. 2 1080s, 64gb, RAID set up etc.. really curious what something like that would cost without those miner heathens. I felt a bit guilty dropping 1.5 on my msi but at least it was before the price increases started (or at the very least, got to the point they're at now).
 

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I was about to personally object to that picture and then I remembered I'm Beets now.

I have no real personality anymore, I'm just a series of characters.
Characters? Is that like the usual 300 characters in the box?....We've a long way to go then. Next time you may want to go for something unusual-- like a horseshoe.
 
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maybe not so good...25 minutes for $1 and sad to. Giving back
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Characters? Is that like the usual 300 characters in the box?....We've a long way to go then. Next time you may want to go for something unusual-- like a horseshoe.
Look I'm having a drink, don't introduce stupid ideas in my head or I will be a horseshoe by the end of the night.
 
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