Frankenputer

A friend of mine who’s really into gaming, came to me with a dead system a couple of weeks ago. He’s got no money/income/job and his system is not working. Well, he’s in luck, to some respect, a roommate moved out leaving him his old system. Problem was, the friends system is a hard core gaming system with a graphics card and 600w power supply (which is just what was wrong with it) that would take upwards of $40 to replace, and the old system had a 300w which would not power the graphics card.
Problem (unusable system) solved (without the graphics card) by removing the GC, replacing the PS with the 300w (powering the board & drives) and the system becomes usable with the on-board video.
My friend named it “Frankenputer” 😉