11 year old thread... whatever, just finished this build a few months ago.
cooler master stacker 832 - war machine
seasonic focus 850 gold
evga 680i sli
core2 extreme qx6850
4 x 1GB ocz sli ready ddr 800
2 x evga 8800gtx ko acs3 edition
120GB ocz agility ssd
1TB wd blue
liteon dvd-rw
samsung...
Not all old video cards are valuable. Typically, the top model from a series will command a much higher price in comparison to lower models in the same series.
The ti4600 was the top geforce4 series card (the ti4800 is just an agp 8x of the same card) hence the high price.
Plus, this is one of...
3 available
open box, oem surplus, new, unused, mint condition
$125 OBO
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-Geforce3-Ti500-ASUS-V8200T5-64MB-AGP-x2-x4/264667128202
This auction is for 1 open box PNY Verto GeForce FX 5950 Ultra AGP 4X/8X 256MB DDR Video Card (VCGFX595APB). Includes gpu, box and accessories shown. Tested for functionality.
PNY Verto GeForce FX 5950 Ultra AGP
MSI GeForce3 Pro-VT64D (MS 8822). Used and in excellent physical and working condition. Offers accepted.
MSI GeForce3 Pro-VT64D (MS 8822) SOLD
The MSI G3 Pro-VT64D is based on the nVIDIA GeForce3 GPU, which has a core frequency of 200MHz. It features a 256-bit engine, 350MHz RAMDAC, 64MB DDR...
for that many drives, you don't really need an expander. raid or hba card with 2 external sff-8088 ports, run 2 sff-8088 mini sas cables to your external enclosure into a sff-8088 to sff-8087 adapter with sata/sas breakout cables at the end. that will run 8 drives.
you'll need an hba with external port or ports. i guess you'll have to first decide if you want 6g or 12g.
also, how many drives do you want to use?
http://www.sasexpanders.com/faq/
if you are using a vpn service and require port forwarding, this will have to be provided by your vpn service. the majority of vpn services i've tried do not provide port forwarding.
air vpn provides port forwarding and is the only one that i've used that provides this.
i personally wouldn't trust the os that's on there if it's already been used.
just install a fresh copy and use the product key that came with the laptop.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7
i also just rma'd my second h115i. first one made it from may to december 2016. second just died last week. 6-7 months before pump failure is not so good. :(
not going to give up on the aio cooler but, i am going to sell the h115i and try the evga clc 280 instead.