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Your best freebee, from the purchasing and/or acquisition of computer hardware.
01Neptune01
Member UncommonPosts: 82
in Hardware
I once got a sticker from a BFG GTX 8800 that said "OMGWTFBBQSAUCE" I promptly put it on the side of my case, of which it remains to this day.
My brother also got a leather ASUS keyring from a Striker extreme motherboard which was fairly amusing.
So I ask, purely out of interest and boredom, what is the best freebee you have obtained unexpectedly through the purchase of computer wizardry?
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Years ago I got a free controller when I bought an MSI 5500. Was a very nice free bee I kept for years and it was a pretty good GPU at the time!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
Not so much of a freebie, but I once had a clan mate send me a new HD after the one I had went kaput. There are some very nice people in this world!
I bought an 80gig WD hard drive about 10 years ago. Inside the box was a card that said "Congratulations! You got more hard drive then you payed for". The HD was actually 100 Gig
3 weeks ago, I purchased a 500 GB WD hard drive. Inside the box was a card that said "Congratulations! You got more hard drive then you payed for". The hard drive is a 750 GB
Im not sure how to catch these, theyre not a sale or announced in any way. Im not even sure if all the HD's in stock were like this or of I just got lucky. All I know, is the two times I was desperate for a hard drive and had to buy from Best Buy.. I got lucky with western digital.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
I got a copy of World in Conflict with my core2quad. That's about it.
Now with 57.3% more flames!
Well I got a 4gb usb drive with my 5770. I saw a couple versions of Nvidia 9 and 200 series last week that including free nvidia 3d glasses which are pretty expensive so that woulda been an awesome deal. My buddy got a BFG also that had the OMGWTFBBQSAUCE sticker, and also had a bfg tshirt.