Where's a good place to find used or older computer parts?

[Dis]

I want to build a computer for my mother. He computer is very, very obsolete. I was over her house trying to download adobe acrobat and I gave up. The computer is just too slow.

But she has no real need for anything fast. If I got to electronics places like Fry's I doubt I will find any cheap older processors.

What I'm looking to get is a motherboard (with onboard sound), processor chip, and RAM memory. That's pretty much everything I need.

Or would it be cheaper just to find a used computer somewhere. Who sells used computers? Pawn shops? Anyone see how much computers run in pawn shops?

[SlowwHand]

http://www.thescrapdoctor.qpg.com/

http://www.techsoup.org/products/recycle/index.cfm?cg=google&sg=randr

[Promethus]

Ebay

[SlowwHand]

EBay, nothing is guaranteed.

[centrifuge]

Try newegg.com With a little bit of shopping, they should have everything that you need.

[chequita guevara]

eBay. Newegg is good, but I've never seen them sell old or refurbished equipment. Then again, I haven't looked.

[General Ludd]

Look for some independantly owned computer shops (particularily ones that will buy old computers). All the ones I've been to have everything from 286s to the very latest.

[Tuberski]

Salvation Army or Goodwill.

ACK!

[Skanky Burns]

Just get a low-range new one, they should be cheap enough anyway.

[Dis]

I may just upgrade my computer and give my mom my computer stuff.

That was what I was originally going to do, but I wanted to wait to upgrade my computer. I just wanted to get more mileage from my ole P3 700 processor. And upgrade just before Everquest 2 comes out.

But I think I will just go ahead and upgrade my computer and recycle my old parts into her. I already have an old 6.6 Gig hard drive sitting around, and a Voodoo3 card collecting dust.

[Dis]

I was looking at an Intel Celeron 2.4 GHz for myself. It has 400 MHz FSB.

That seems like a pretty fast processor at a decent price (less than $100 at PC club website- though I'm also shopping around)

[tinyp3nis]

I'm not expert on celerons but I believe they are pieces of crap. You might wan't to get a second opinion thought.

[Sprayber]

give me your address and i can arrange for a truck to stop by with some merchandise. be prepared to pay cash and forget where you got it

[Dis]

What's wrong with Celerons?

[alva]

They're crap

Just as the GeForce mx's are.