Annnd as I say this, I found someone selling a working GTX 980m MXM for like $115 sooooo...I bought itNew acquisition I bought from work, can you believe someone would abandon this thing??
That sexy beast is an Alienware M18x R2. This particular one retailed for around $3k or so back in 2012 when it launched. Came in months ago for overheating issues, bad battery life, and random shutdowns, and the guy never came and picked it back up. Overheating is because one of the three fans died, which I need to replace, and one of the two GPUs died which was causing weird power issues. Also has some weird keyboard issues, which I'm replacing as well.
Specs:
i7 3840QM
16GB (4x4GB DDR3)
2x Radeon HD 7970ms (or it would've, if one of them hadn't died )
A 1TB SSD that I shoved in one of the three internal SATA ports
An 18.4" 1080p screen.
And if that's not enough, it has a BD ROM drive, an HDMI-IN port, and of course is RGB'd out the ass. And all it cost me was $150 for the laptop, and another $60 for the fan and keyboard. At some point in the future I want to slap some other GPU in this, because apparently people have had success shoving 1060s and 1070s in this thing but I'll probably just stick with a 900 series or something, to keep costs down ._.
Also it weighs like 13lbs.
Rather than the number of copies, the most disturbing thing about this (for me) are the missing boxes. Why did so many people throw away the original packaging? I can't stand this.So I just bought one of these to hold 56 DS cartridges:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/587416555/3ds-ds-cartridge-display-tower-store-and
My goal is to fill it with copies of Harvest Moon DS. Only 40 more copies to go lol
To be fair only one or two are missing boxes. I just keep them out of their boxes because boxes are bulky and DS cartridges are less so. I actually store them in a little glass pot.Rather than the number of copies, the most disturbing thing about this (for me) are the missing boxes. Why did so many people throw away the original packaging? I can't stand this.
The cardboard boxes Game Boy, (S)NES, N64 had to be treated with care to not destroy them (and most people considered them to be waste anyway), but the strong plastic DS packages?
To be fair only one or two are missing boxes. I just keep them out of their boxes because boxes are bulky and DS cartridges are less so. I actually store them in a little glass pot.
NiceBought a red wii from goodwill for 20 bucks.
Also got a old Graphics card for a Core 2 Quad PC for 5 bucks, Mario Kart Wii for a dollar, as well as a wavebird for free