Jeremiah Hoyet

Sorry for the absence from blogging the past week. I had a break from school and took the oppritunity to make the trip to Virginia to see my girlfriend. It was quite fun spending time with her and getting out of this little mountain town for the week. I got home yesterday afternoon and took some time to relax after driving for 4 hours.

I should be back into full swing by mid-week. Right now I’m just catching up on some school work and reading what went on last week in the world of tech while I was away :]

Best Buy has officially launched a couple new services, one of which is a new online trade-in center for your old PCs, Game Consoles, and more. When I first read about the service, I thought to myself “This is a great idea, maybe I won’t have to worry about reselling my old hardware on Ebay anymore!”. Boy, was I ever wrong.

Here’s what my setup includes:

• EVGA 680i Chipset motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.6ghz
• XFX GeForce 8800GT
• 500GG+ of Hard Drive Space
• A Very Freaking Expensive Watercooling Setup
• 2GB of OCZ DDR2 800

That’s just a quick run-down of what I have in my PC, here’s what the configuration on the Best Buy Trade-In center website looked like (click for full size):

Yeah, for all that hardware, they wanted to give me $400.96. Not even enough to cover the resale value of my video card, motherboard, and memory; much less the entire PC. . . .