Building With An OEM Motherboard + Selling My Stuff

To pool some money for the channel, I'm undergoing selling my old computers. With my spare parts though, it'd be a bit difficult to sell everything, so I decided to build a system out of them. I'll tell you now that it's been great fun, thank you very much.



Parts -
Intel Core ̶i̶2̶-̶2̶1̶2̶0̶ i3-2120 - £5/$6.30
Dell MIH61R motherboard from Optiplex 390 - £15/$19
8GB Corsair Valueselect DDR3 1333MHz - £13/$15.20
EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC 2GB - £50/$63.30
Dell 265W power supply - £10/$12.70
EG MN25 case - £21/$26.60


Total - £114/$144
Sold for £120/$163

A pretty paltry profit margin, but I'm more than happy to have sold my spare parts.



 Sources (Optiplex 390 does not support Ivy Bridge) -



An amazing thread that describes in detail the ways of bypassing error codes in Optiplex 7010 and 9010. It really shows how horrifically proprietary these systems are -

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