Hi All,
This is a rather difficult post to make, swallowing my pride and asking for help.
As of late, my family and I have been facing serious financial setbacks and challenges. A brief history, last year October 2015 my father in-law passed away from Cancer, unfortunately they (in laws) had no finances or medical aid to really cover the medical expenses and as such accumulated no small amount of personal debt.
After he passed, sadly he didn't leave the family with anything, so thus we sit with the financial issue. My family and I (My wife, my child) have been living with our in-laws for the last 4 years running, helping them out financially by renting a part of the house etc, anyone who's visited has seen the house and the state of it.
Thread here
Fast forward to June this year, 2 burglaries and 1 attempted burglary in the space of 4 weeks, left our family... devastated, financially and emotionally.
I've had to see a Trauma counselor (thankfully this is free, through Careways, with the company I work at), to try and mentally cope with the problem.
As a result of the 3rd attempt, and the police making 0 effort and 0 progress, I had no choice but to upgrade the security at home to try and stop another burglary happening, and to TRY and give my family and I -some- peace and security again. Unfortunately, I had to sell my Gaming Rig to cover the expenses as I simply do not have any loan/credit card finances left, struggling to make ends meet every month just covering the basics (food, rent, water & elec).
I even went as far as selling some of the insurance salvage that was not collected after our insurance claim from the 1st attempt, to try and get some cash back here.
Yesterday we found signs that another attempted burglary was made at our house, 4 holes in our outside wall, as well as some debris (bottom half of a opening umbrella, which was tossed against the electric fence to test it, no doubt) confirming another attempt was/will be made.
Needless to say, typing this from where I'm sitting, I've gone 48 hours without sleep, being physically unable to do so, and not being prepared to take medication to remedy this.
Normally I'm not the sort that looks for handouts or for others to fix my problems for me, I try and fix these things on my own, opting to work up to 30 hours overtime a week (when possible) and trying to run my side business to generate -some- income. I've gone on my knees, praying asking for solutions and a way out.
At this point in time, we are -barely- surviving and I can only pray and thank The Lord for our survival.
@Firestrm_ZA has been kind enough to donate a Asus Z170 Maximus Hero 8 to me which he got from his thread here however I do not know if the board works, nor do I have the equipment/hardware to test it. He suggested I open another thread similar to his, but I held off on this cause I tried to fix the issue on my own.
I managed to somewhat salvage a half modded/broken HafX which I got in a trade from Firestrm_Za a while ago too which I can use as a case. (I've decided to donate this to a modder for a project @SphinxMods )
My Gaming was the one part of my life I was passionate about, it helped me cope with stress and the day to day running of life. Not being able to game has had a tremendous impact on me and my family's life.
I humbly ask this of the community :
If you are in any way, shape or form, able to help me with some spare parts to try and build a gaming rig, please let me know.
I am prepared to do IT work to a degree (Network cabling, pc reloads/reformats, troubleshooting etc) to try and generate income/cover the cost of the parts if possible.
I can help out with New Hardware sales at a discounted price to try and generate -some- income, if you know of anyone that is looking for new hardware, please drop me a PM.
If you have anything spare lying around that you are not using, and are willing to help a Carbie out, please drop me a PM.
Thank you for reading.
[UPDATE]
Herewith the hardware and donations I've received so far, this is put here so people can see I'm not abusing their kindness.
@afw-ability - Offered 5% of profits from his game plus some hardware (to be confirmed)
@Leetpro - R1000 (Donation, put up a wanted thread for screen, gave me cash instead)
@Leetpro - HAF XB Evo Case (received)
@dash09 - Bought my Kingston Hyper X Cloud 2's and in return gave me a free set of Razer Electra's, 2tb hdd and a mouse (received)
@Jack_Bauer_ZA - R1000 (donation) and swapped the Asus board for a MSI Z87-GD65 board + 16gb DDR3 1333 mhz RAM (received)
@Miz3r - 60gb SSD and Creative Soundblaster USB sound card (received)
@Havoc1978 - Offered GTX 580 (not working 100%, might need to bake it) (not received yet)
@Hydnon - R1000 (donation)
@Redeye - R500 (donation)
@blogbytes - R300 (donation)
@Toady001 - R500 (donation)
@abs1 = 1000w Raidmax PSU (received)
@Ettienne - Rest of psu cables (received)
@Dewaldvv - Acer Laptop (received)
@D3TTOL - 2x2gb Memory + chip in on parts (not received yet)
@AJAY - 250gb Samsung 750 Evo SSD (received)
@snorlax99 - R500 (donation)
Anonymous - R1000
Total Donations Received : R5800
Here is what I've spent some of the money on so far :
1. KFA GTX 680 - R500 (bought bundle for R2k, sold other card for R1500, kept one).
2. Inkwe Security Services Armed Response (This includes a radio pad, installation, panic remotes and armed response service) - R3680.22
This is what I still need :
1. Screen
2. Socket 1150 CPU
This is a rather difficult post to make, swallowing my pride and asking for help.
As of late, my family and I have been facing serious financial setbacks and challenges. A brief history, last year October 2015 my father in-law passed away from Cancer, unfortunately they (in laws) had no finances or medical aid to really cover the medical expenses and as such accumulated no small amount of personal debt.
After he passed, sadly he didn't leave the family with anything, so thus we sit with the financial issue. My family and I (My wife, my child) have been living with our in-laws for the last 4 years running, helping them out financially by renting a part of the house etc, anyone who's visited has seen the house and the state of it.
Thread here
Fast forward to June this year, 2 burglaries and 1 attempted burglary in the space of 4 weeks, left our family... devastated, financially and emotionally.
I've had to see a Trauma counselor (thankfully this is free, through Careways, with the company I work at), to try and mentally cope with the problem.
As a result of the 3rd attempt, and the police making 0 effort and 0 progress, I had no choice but to upgrade the security at home to try and stop another burglary happening, and to TRY and give my family and I -some- peace and security again. Unfortunately, I had to sell my Gaming Rig to cover the expenses as I simply do not have any loan/credit card finances left, struggling to make ends meet every month just covering the basics (food, rent, water & elec).
I even went as far as selling some of the insurance salvage that was not collected after our insurance claim from the 1st attempt, to try and get some cash back here.
Yesterday we found signs that another attempted burglary was made at our house, 4 holes in our outside wall, as well as some debris (bottom half of a opening umbrella, which was tossed against the electric fence to test it, no doubt) confirming another attempt was/will be made.
Needless to say, typing this from where I'm sitting, I've gone 48 hours without sleep, being physically unable to do so, and not being prepared to take medication to remedy this.
Normally I'm not the sort that looks for handouts or for others to fix my problems for me, I try and fix these things on my own, opting to work up to 30 hours overtime a week (when possible) and trying to run my side business to generate -some- income. I've gone on my knees, praying asking for solutions and a way out.
At this point in time, we are -barely- surviving and I can only pray and thank The Lord for our survival.
@Firestrm_ZA has been kind enough to donate a Asus Z170 Maximus Hero 8 to me which he got from his thread here however I do not know if the board works, nor do I have the equipment/hardware to test it. He suggested I open another thread similar to his, but I held off on this cause I tried to fix the issue on my own.
I managed to somewhat salvage a half modded/broken HafX which I got in a trade from Firestrm_Za a while ago too which I can use as a case. (I've decided to donate this to a modder for a project @SphinxMods )
My Gaming was the one part of my life I was passionate about, it helped me cope with stress and the day to day running of life. Not being able to game has had a tremendous impact on me and my family's life.
I humbly ask this of the community :
If you are in any way, shape or form, able to help me with some spare parts to try and build a gaming rig, please let me know.
I am prepared to do IT work to a degree (Network cabling, pc reloads/reformats, troubleshooting etc) to try and generate income/cover the cost of the parts if possible.
I can help out with New Hardware sales at a discounted price to try and generate -some- income, if you know of anyone that is looking for new hardware, please drop me a PM.
If you have anything spare lying around that you are not using, and are willing to help a Carbie out, please drop me a PM.
Thank you for reading.
[UPDATE]
Herewith the hardware and donations I've received so far, this is put here so people can see I'm not abusing their kindness.
@afw-ability - Offered 5% of profits from his game plus some hardware (to be confirmed)
@Leetpro - R1000 (Donation, put up a wanted thread for screen, gave me cash instead)
@Leetpro - HAF XB Evo Case (received)
@dash09 - Bought my Kingston Hyper X Cloud 2's and in return gave me a free set of Razer Electra's, 2tb hdd and a mouse (received)
@Jack_Bauer_ZA - R1000 (donation) and swapped the Asus board for a MSI Z87-GD65 board + 16gb DDR3 1333 mhz RAM (received)
@Miz3r - 60gb SSD and Creative Soundblaster USB sound card (received)
@Havoc1978 - Offered GTX 580 (not working 100%, might need to bake it) (not received yet)
@Hydnon - R1000 (donation)
@Redeye - R500 (donation)
@blogbytes - R300 (donation)
@Toady001 - R500 (donation)
@abs1 = 1000w Raidmax PSU (received)
@Ettienne - Rest of psu cables (received)
@Dewaldvv - Acer Laptop (received)
@D3TTOL - 2x2gb Memory + chip in on parts (not received yet)
@AJAY - 250gb Samsung 750 Evo SSD (received)
@snorlax99 - R500 (donation)
Anonymous - R1000
Total Donations Received : R5800
Here is what I've spent some of the money on so far :
1. KFA GTX 680 - R500 (bought bundle for R2k, sold other card for R1500, kept one).
2. Inkwe Security Services Armed Response (This includes a radio pad, installation, panic remotes and armed response service) - R3680.22
This is what I still need :
1. Screen
2. Socket 1150 CPU
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