What can i scavenge?

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I am building a new pc and I'm looking for any way to save money but not cut on quality. 

This is my build so far:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/EkJr

 

But my Dad has a office with computers and stuff and he has five or six old computers that over heated and stuff that dont work as a whole but have parts i can scavenge, i have looked at them but the only thing i see really worth scavenging is the optical drive and maby a CPU cooler.

these are some the computers:

Dell Presision 380

Dell Dimension 9200

and an old custom computer thats really just terrible...( not even listing specs for it its has 1 1g rams stick...)

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Salvage what you think you can save money on, doesn't matter what it is..Hell even scavange an old HDD to save buying an OS.

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Probably the hard drives. That's about it.

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there 80g a peice not really usefull for a gaming pc

 

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You don't NEED to buy Windows...

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HDD's and an Optical drive. Put what you save from using salvaged HDD's and the Optical drive into an SSD for boot. With the HDD's being storage.

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You could sell the ram, it might be DDR2 which goes for a bit now a days

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I might say you are kinda bottlenecking your CPU and Video Card. I mean you can get an 8350 for literally $60 more.

And one more thing.. Buying a $140 dollar Motherboard when you're on a budget? You dont need that at all. Buy something like an Asrock 970 Extreme4

And seriously a case for 30 bucks? If you want good airflow in your pc $30 wont do...