Hardware for cheap through liquidation auctions?

[bitcoin0918]

I occasionally come across ridiculously low prices on software/hardware when browsing local liquidation auctions - e.g. a couple copies of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 selling for a few dollars, which could then be flipped on eBay for several hundred (assuming the licenses weren't used).

I have my eye on a low-level Radeon at a local consignment auction that is currently selling for a couple dollars. I know there is a risk that it doesn't work, but if the investment is small, so is the loss.

Has anyone scored anything with this route?

[Skunkworks]

I got thousands (to tens of thousands) in hardware for a couple hundred when my local circuit city liquidated a couple years back. Mind you most of this stuff was stuff that wasn't selling otherwise, high current 12V PSUs, huge runs of CAT5 or RG6, cash registers and other POS stuff, etc

The day after it closed they invited me in to take whatever I wanted free before the garbage crew came in, I ended up with a ton (actually a few tons) of random electrical crap, some of which I sold as scrap.

[bitcoin0918]

I know others who likewise benefited from Circuit City's demise. I can't wait for Best Buy to go down - then their prices will finally be reasonable! 

[bullox]

Honestly you'd have to be very lucky to find radeons and the like in these.

However, older towers in a junk pile somewhere might be a treasure trove for mining operations.  Mining activities really do not require almost anything as far as hard drive space, motherboard specs, processor specs, or RAM.  Old discarded stuff is a great candidate for a rig.  And hey, free case 

[tito13kfm]

Honestly you'd have to be very lucky to find radeons and the like in these.

However, older towers in a junk pile somewhere might be a treasure trove for mining operations.  Mining activities really do not require almost anything as far as hard drive space, motherboard specs, processor specs, or RAM.  Old discarded stuff is a great candidate for a rig.  And hey, free case 

What's a case?

http://imgur.com/gOrJH

Doesn't everybody run their motherboard on top of a cardboard box with a tube of carmex and a spliced xbox360 fan to promote better cooling?

[eturnerx]

I'm looking at a bunch of cheap ex-lease machines for rigs. Just gotta check the power supply is up to it, they have PCIe slots I can use and I can fit a card in the case.