Had to share my lucky story...

Last week, I found an Intel DG41TY motherboard open for bidding on Overstock.com auctions. I came out with the winning bid, $35.55.

Today I get the package and took a look at the contents. Just a motherboard. I thought, "Where's the I/O shield?" I went to Dealtree.com to begin what I thought was going to be a complaint about missing items. But, I thought, I need to go back to the auction listing first to find out what was supposed to be included or not. I found that the I/O shield was not going to be included. Oh well, no big loss I guess.

I took a look back inside the box to look at the motherboard again. Sitting in the socket is a Pentium dual-core E5300. The processor was not supposed to be part of the package!

Somebody's oversight is my gain!

mpcrsc562 said:

Last week, I found an Intel DG41TY motherboard open for bidding on Overstock.com auctions. I came out with the winning bid, $35.55.

Today I get the package and took a look at the contents. Just a motherboard. I thought, "Where's the I/O shield?" I went to Dealtree.com to begin what I thought was going to be a complaint about missing items. But, I thought, I need to go back to the auction listing first to find out what was supposed to be included or not. I found that the I/O shield was not going to be included. Oh well, no big loss I guess.

I took a look back inside the box to look at the motherboard again. Sitting in the socket is a Pentium dual-core E5300. The processor was not supposed to be part of the package!

Somebody's oversight is my gain!

Congrats!

Question is does the board and CPU work? If so then your right you got lucky.
Fabe

thefabe said:

Question is does the board and CPU work? If so then your right you got lucky.
Fabe

It is not outside the realm of possibility that either or both of them are defective... But I haven't been burned by Overstock auctions yet...

I'll let ya know when I get a chance to check them out.

If they are both working, I'll take a free processor in exchange for the I/O panel any day.

LiquidSnak said:

If they are both working, I'll take a free processor in exchange for the I/O panel any day.

Yes indeed!
(I won't have a chance to check it out until Saturday )

I will call that about as lucky as my finding a working desktop in the dumpster. The thing that got it thrown away? The DVD drive didn't work lol.

So I got a heatsink / fan this morning. I plugged up just enough to see if I could POST and enter BIOS.

...

Sure enough, everything worked.

LiquidSnak said:

I will call that about as lucky as my finding a working desktop in the dumpster. The thing that got it thrown away? The DVD drive didn't work lol.

Yeah, that was a very good find for you!

mpcrsc562 said:

So I got a heatsink / fan this morning. I plugged up just enough to see if I could POST and enter BIOS.

...

Sure enough, everything worked.

Awesome Now for a frankenputer!