Computer parts donation request

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Hi all, friends and I are trying to put together a gaming computer for a friend’s kid for Christmas and their birthday. They had to flee a dangerous housing situation this year so can’t afford gifts. Wasn’t sure if this would be makers making change post or not so I just put it here. Anyways looking for following if anyone has kicking around would like to donate or knows where I can get. Thanks!

Case, motherboard (that takes an i5-4570) and power-supply to complete the box, a monitor, keyboard, mouse

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@davonna do you know what wattage power supply you need for the build? I have a 400 watt one here which I’m happy to donate although it might be a little underpowered.

Edit: here are a bunch of builds that use that chip. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/builds/by_part/wXK7YJ

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I’m nearby at 1st and Victoria and have one or two cases of elderly computers with ASUS i7 MBs, 8/16GB RAM, HDs and NVIDIA GTX GPUs. One’s very, very old but worked the last time I turned it on. The other has a Gen 4 i7, but won’t boot. I’ve never bothered to fix it. Would be happy to get rid of one of them after I wipe the drives and keep any SSDs. I’m too lazy to investigate them further unless you take one of them. Lemme know.

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The was a seemingly new PC power supply (in its box) in the FreeCycle pile a few days back… NO idea what shape it was in but it looked new…

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Sure that would be really helpful :slightly_smiling_face:

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Need some more power for the video card so that’s not quite enough

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@davonna also worth emailing the hackery to see if they’d donate. They have tons of parts come through.

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It’s not much, but I have the following I could give away:

  • Ryzen 3300X CPU (should work with any AM4 motherboard)
  • A random Asus 750Ti, 2GB VRAM maybe?
  • Likely ~8GB DDR4, possibly more
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I have another one of those Dell monitors. They can have that if you still need a monitor. Same as the other one.

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Ill take the CPU if davonna doesn’t want it.

I can probably get you a few parts.

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That would be great! I really am getting a ton of use out of the one you lent me. School is hectic

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Consider it yours and the other one going to your friend’s kid.

I’ll see what else from my boxes I can wrangle up; I might have a spare mouse and/or keyboard in a box.

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I have a mobo CPU ram combo and ssd you can have. Don’t have case or GPU or tower. Needs atx case . For a regular build 400w or 500 is usually ok.

Also have gaming style keyboard and mouse.

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They like stardew valley and genshin impact so far. Can definitely use keyboard and mouse, looks like they just got a monitor.

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All that would be great thanks :smile:

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Do they need a laptop also? Or just desktop?

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If anyone wants to meet up at vhs next week to drop off things let me know a time that works

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Just gaming desktop we are building

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That would be great! Let me know when around vhs next and will pick up

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Do you still need anything?