[rescue] Recycled P4 machines - Re: Fixed LCD's?

[Toby Thain]

On 13/02/14 9:19 AM, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> So, if these LCD's are so common and easy to fix, does anyone have one they
> can send me? The last screen I got was a $20 CRT off craigslist. :(
>
> As an aside, I did rescue a perfectly fine if slow by modern standards Dell
> GX260 from a dumpster recently. Put in 2gb of RAM, a bigger disk,a Dell OEM
> Nvidia card (with the aforementioned CRT) & OEM XP Pro makes my son happy.
>
> William
>

P4 is quite a capable chip; my "gaming" machine is a 3.4GHz P4 rescued 
out of spare parts that were lying around in my neighbour's apartment (I 
traded for a couple of fixed LCDs and a whole as-new Shuttle PC out of a 
dumpster that he uses for a media player).

The P4 plays Crysis 2, Portal perfectly happily (with a decent video card).

--Toby