Cruise lines would kill it in Australia if they brought a PC store on their ships. Imagine getting fair trade on parts and pay no sale tax on it, well that is until you pass customs, but in America that is a great deal with alcohol, because of the alcohol tax here.
Deal Hunts have always been amazing from you man! Doesn't matter where he does them, doesn't matter if he doesn't speak the language, he'll get them deals!
That PC Depot place looks so legit. I wish more large stores that carried used hardware in the states. I don't even know of any in the Seattle area, we have Fry's but they don't do used parts like MicroCenter does. Back to Craigslist it is :D
I'm current running a Optiplex 3020 with an i3 4130, 4gb ram and 500gb hdd that I got for $70. I then added another 4gb for $15 and swapped the psu to support a 7950 that I got for $90 a couple of years ago. It's a beast for playing Overwatch and WoW Legion, which is all I have time for these days. Love your channel bro, keep it coming.
The best deal i have ever gotten is this and I'm using it as a lan PC. Hardware: CPU: I5 2320 @3.0GHz, Turbo @3.41GHz GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 560ti Limited Cuda Edition with 1282 MB of GDDR5 RAM: 8 GB of DDR3 @1333MHz Storage: 1 x Intel 80GB SSD + 320GB HDD Motherboard: Medion MS-7728 PSU: Medion OEM 450watt Power Supply Case: Medion OEM Micro ATX inverted case. CPU Cooler: Brand New Intel Stock Cooler Full PC price: 400dkk~ 60.3usd And now for the benchmarks: 3DMark FireStrike: 2923 3DMark SkyDiver: 9350 Heaven Bench (medium preset): 43.4 fps 1100 score. Cinebench 4D open gl score: 71fps Cinebench 4D cpu test: 369 Average FPS in games: All in 1080p Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: Shadows: Low Texture: Medium Effect: High Shader: High Anti-Aliasing: 4x MSAA Anisotropic 8x FXAA Disabled Avg FPS: 171.442 Minecraft: Graphics: Fancy Particles: All VSync: Off Render Distance: 14 Clouds: Fast Avg FPS: 339.433 Tomb Raider: High Presets SSAO: Disabled FXAA: Disabled Avg FPS: 83.2 Black Ops 2: Texture Quality: High Texture Filtering: Medium Anti-Aliasing: 4x MSAA FXAA Disabled Depth of Field: Medium VSync: Disabled Avg FPS: 119,292 Rocket League: Anti Alias: Disabled Render Quality: High Texture Detail: High World Detail: High Ambient Occlusion: Disabled Motion Blur: Disabled Everything else: Enabled Avg FPS: 95.425 Battlefield 4: Medium Presets Ambient Occlusion Disabled FOV 90 Motion Blur Disabled Avg FPS: 85.642
Your awesome bro...keep up the good work. It's fun watching you find ways to get good deals. Also I'm learning a lot by watching how you pair each compatible computer parts together so that there's a least amount of bottleneck in each rig as possible. Also places you go to bargain hunt, brings back memories, cause I've been there as well... such as Pantip Plaza in Bangkok and MBK center. It's fun riding around in Tuk-tuks weaving through traffics, Ha-ha. I tell you shopping in Bangkok, you better know how to bargain, take couple of aspirins...you gonna need it. I use to get a biggest headache ever, at the end of the day from arguing with them merchants. They love to haggle and they're good at it too, they don't know what 'no means NO!' Ha-ha. It's funny after you finally thought you got a good deal, then in next shop you find the exact same thing that you bought for whole lot cheaper. Ha-ha. Anyway, I love how you find ways to make use of those older Intel Xeon processors. Yeah, you can find those processors for very cheap but in hind side; I notice those compatible motherboards are pretty expensive, e.i. X58 or X79 mobo. I want to build a Xeon E5-2670 and coupled that with a nice X79 mobo. I've been keeping close eye on eBay or Amazon. It's so weird those Xeon's processors (E5-2670) about like 4 or 5 years ago cost like over a thousand USD. But now you can find them so cheap like around $120 USD or cheaper. Also here is another good deal, I've been wanting to build. An Extreme i7-3960X Sandybridge-E, you can pick this up for pretty cheap like around $209-235 used. This item also few years ago cost well over a grand. However the mainboard "X79" will cost you around $250 give or take up or down. I guess that's the catch. These processors scored pretty well on Cinabench and Passmark performance test, just as well as Skylake or newer Kabylake's in high end i7 enthusiastic class category. If I find a reasonably priced MOBO, I'm thinking of building either Xeon E5-2670 or Extreme i7-3960X. Which one would you pick, if you only have one option? just curious...I just wanna pick your brain a little bit and make use of your expert advice. Sorry for this long comment Bryan:) Your the best tech review guy that I know of...because you seemed very global, Japan, Thai, etc...plus your home country Aussie. You really know your stuff and honest...that's why I like watching your UA-cam tech reviews... Oh BTW...you should go to Seoul Korea and do a bargain hunt there, you'll love it there.Ha-ha:) Have a soju on me...Gumbay! 'cheers mate' keep up the good show! I'm currently waiting on parts for my Ryzen build from Amazon (Ryzen 1700, MSI x370 mobo, and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 MHz) coming soon. I'm so excited:) ???Since when did Amazon start charging taxes??? Again I'm so so sorry for my really really long essay like comment...take care mate! -Drew
I got a 1 TB Samsung Evo, plus a 500GB Samaung Evo SSD's, for a total of $180!!!! got it locally; some woman was selling his son's computer stuff, though FB posts, and I soon as I saw it posted I msged her and drove for 15 minutes. totally worth it, happiest deal ever!
Picked up an i5 650 build for free! Chucked in an i7 860 i got for $50, works pretty well.... (also located on the gold coast if you wanted some 1156 chips for comparison in the next build ;-)..)
Hi Bryan, Love the vids! Always enjoy your bargain hunting and builds. Was hoping you could look at doing a vid on disgusting old PC's back in aus. Maybe filled with roaches, rodents spiders etc! Then giving it a complete brake cleaner level clean. PS. Bring back the Yes in tech YES city!
Amazing content Brian, keep up the good work man. Also, if it's possible some other time, i would suggest you to go to brazil and try to get some bargans here, it's pretty difficult.
Ihad luck one time or another but pretty much all the time people here still think that 775 dual core pc's cost more than 200 us Dollars, unbeliavable.
I found someone selling second hand parts from Warner Brothers Games in my area. They had family that worked there and promised me some great stuff. When I arrived, I was not disappointed, at least at first. I was given an Intel DX79T0 LGA 2011 Motherboard, an I7 3930k Hexacore clocked at 3.2-3.8ghz turbo, 8gb of Kingston Value DDR3 1333, and my beautiful baby, a Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 Reference 3gb card that had been installed for a week before the 980tis came out. It still had the plastic dust protector sheet on it. He also threw in a free case. This all was handed to me for $300 flat. Only catch was that he had not tested it. I picked up a Rosewill Hive 750w Semi Modular PSU and grabbed the Ram from my AMD Athlon 2 Dual Core rig and threw it together. Then came the pain. The motherboard gave me all kinds of errors. From not being able to read the HDD to not posting and just black screening to getting stuck in a recovery loop. I even had to downgrade to 10gb of RAM from 16 total because it just refused to accept some of my DIMMs. I cleaned every contact thoroughly. I replaced the Sata cables, I tested my PSU, RAM, and Processor in separate rigs, and finally just struggled to update the bios. Sometimes it would boot on the first try and sometimes I would have to fight with it for hours, but the payoff was worth it. I ran Bandicam, Pandora, Facebook, and Fallout 4 on Ultra all at once, only hitting a max of 60% CPU load when shit hit the fan in game. And this was while connected to a 1080p 60Hz 42 inch LCD TV. The board worked like a charm once booted. This motherboard continued to cocktease me clear until two nights ago when I popped it on a test bench for the last time and it booted fine on the first try. I was so excited that I bolted it into my only case and began working on it. It was able to defrag without crashing on reboot. It finally finished it's bios upgrade, etc. Just running like a dream. Then I decided to test my newfound success by a spontaneous restart and ran into the same slew of errors. I did extensive research on the cost of a new motherboard and I found one at about $200 and the rest of them that are available are about $500. Having a non V3 variant LGA 2011 is a deathtrap in 2016. In my anger, I took my I7 to a local PC shop yesterday that I've done some work for in the past. I was able to pick up an LGA 775 ASUS P5K Deluxe mobo and a 3.0ghz Core 2 Duo in trade. I told them my only stipulation was that if the parts didn't work when tested that I be allowed to get more. I just wanted everything to do with this mobo out of my sight. That extra value made them pretty happy and they said they would be able to make some Christmas money off of it. Now I'm not one to enjoy destroying things, but I was so mad at this motherboard and the literally days or weeks worth of time I wasted on it only to be constantly let down that I took a screwdriver and a hammer to it. Every workable port, slot, and even some resistors were ripped out or damaged beyond repair and it felt surprisingly good. I'll make about the same on it from the recycling place either way, but this board did not deserve to function any longer. I mounted the pieces of ornamental metal with the Skull Canyon and Intel logos to my case like the head of a trophy animal and it actually looks pretty neat. I'm still running my GTX 780 and I plan to buy an AMD FX 8350 with the new wraith cooler as soon as my student loans come in. But this was an absolute nightmare. Buy motherboards used only if you can afford to replace them I think. I love Intel, I'm not bashing them, and I've bought used all my life, but some builds can be a money pit if you don't really know what you're getting yourself into.
That cooler you have never seen before is a Pentium 4 socket 478 Stock Cooler. It's actually good as it was only really cooling single core CPUs. Brackets on then break easily as fuck though.
picked up a GTX 660 Ti SC 3GB version for 45 Dollars. hit the jackpot especially since Canadian deals on my area are pretty shit but pretty nice sometimes. got a 600w bronze plus PSU for like 60 bucks plus tax and ramped up my gaming and productivity for under 120 bucks, in Canadian! for comparison, a 750 ti SC used on newegg is 140 including tax, or 200 brand new!
yeah I thought so too. I remember in one of your videos you got one for around 60 bucks so when I picked this up I was sooo happy. BTW thanks for the help Brian, if it weren't for you I wouldn't know how to find good used parts.
The last ever hunt in Japan, end of an era Bryan. I wish we had places like those stores in England. Good luck with everything back in Aus brother, looking forward to those Gaamtree' bargain builds :P
Yeeees, Brian, you are the man. I love those types of videos, please keep making them. Anytime I am building a pc, I search for some two used parts, I would like to save money on. I usually don´t cheep out on the PSU and the GPU, but I like to buy my motherboard and CPU used, especially nowadays, when there are so many z68, p67 boards and Sandy and Ivy bridge i5s and i7s. (Currently looking for a cheap i7 3770k, but I am tempted to get an i7 2600´k, because, they are cheap as hell, like 130-140euros and those 3770ks go for like 180-200). P.S.: Keep up the good work :)
Those old Antec HE550s were Nice power supplies back in the day and they hold up well when abused unlike a lot of other supplies. Nice big caps and lots mass so they don't get hot.
Picked up a non-working HP Pavillion 17 laptop with an A4 apu for free at a garage sale. Turns out it had a nasty virus so it was put on a shelf and left. Nothing came with it. Picked up a nos dell power block from craigslist for $5 for it. Ordered the restore disk set from HP for like $30. Plugged it in, put in a USB drive with Dban on it, let it do its thing for a few days. The reinstalled windows 8, drivers etc from the factory discs I got. Upgraded it to windows 10 during the upgrade period for free, add 4gb of ram I got for $15 from a parts store for total of 8gb on it. Had it for about a year now and a nice solid laptop. Not much of a gamer, but does everything else well. See them listing for around $300 on reseller stores, so pretty solid deal I think.
Awesome vid! I just recently picked up a Parts dell computer from my local Flea Market missing a PSU but had a 4th Gen i5 and a nice 730 GT 😬 both working condition but bad motherboard for $5 bucks
My current build PC ( not done yet) Intel i7 3770 3,4Ghz up to 3,9Ghz with Stock Cooler 16GB of 1600mhz Ram 200GB SSD 2TB HDD Nvidia GT 640 included Win 8.1 with Key Upgraded to Win 10 Random Case ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. CM6340 Motherboard Prize about 100 Euros = 111 usd Have to upgrade the Case, the GPU and im ready to go for the newest titles :) Do more of Partshunting, this is what we all want to see! Your Tech Videos are the best on UA-cam.
I picked up a 780 and an i5 3570 for 350$ and then got the motherbaord power supply and ram for 160$ but forgot the case. Also was able to overclock the non k CPU to 4.15ghz from 3.4 for some reason the multiplier was freely changeable
When I was in Japan in one of my trips I got a Corsair K90 keyboard that was a display item, looked mint brand new, no dust, for 3000 yen. Also got an X58 motherboard that was untested for 1000 yen, board worked great after resetting the CMOS, just missing the IO shield. First one was from Janpara and the second deal was from Junkworld
these type of videos are always fun to watch =) just finished building my girlfriend's pc a few days ago $181 (she's not a gamer) specs: cpu: c2q 6700(used) mobo: intel 775(used) ram: 4x1gb kingston (used) hdd: seagate 7200rpm(used) psu: evga 500w(new) case: diypc diy-f2-p(new) gpu: amd radeon hd 5770(used)
I got a I5 2500k with a z68 mb for 70 bucks. A r9 280x for 75 bucks. Carousell is the best when looking for used parts in South East Asia (Singapore etc). But you goanna be fast
My best bargain was a AU$400 pc I bought in 2012. It was an i5-2400 (at the time Ivy Bridge was only a few months old), so it was still a very current cpu. The rest of the specs were bleh, h61 Mobo, 4gd 1333 ram, 500gb hdd but the kicker was it came with a free 24 inch 1080p monitor! Recent (then) i5 plus 1080p monitor, I couldn't pass it up. I chucked in a $100 Radeon hd7750 (this was before the 650ti, let alone the 750ti) for bus powered graphics. Got by with this for 6 months playing bf3, it managed mid 40s to low 50s after the big bf3 centred 12.11 driver pack, before it was low to mid 40s.
I got a decent PC pretty cheaply. AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3, motherboard, KFA2 GTX 570 MDT4, 500W CM B500 and a Antec p180 mini HDD i had laying around, All this for a total of 100 USD +/- a few dollars. Plays games OK for the money!
Best deal I received was an i7 4700hq 3.2Ghz, 16GB ram, GTX 760m, 1TBHDD laptop in working order for $30 (AUD). The only thing that was a wrong with it is that the screen didn't work.
my best find was a prebuilt pc with a i5 3570, 8gb ram, p61 mobo, hd6450 with a corrupted os and noisy psu for 20aud, slapped a hd7850 in there that owed me $50 and a spare psu
my best bargain find was a toshiba 17 inch laptop that i found at a dump, has an i5 2410m, gt525m graphics, 8gb ram and a 120gb ssd which is still in good condition. only paid $5 and it included the charger and battery so yeah i was all set!
Picked up a core 2 quad 9550 system for 80 bucks on ebay and ive got a 7750 just laying around. Bad thing is its a small desktop case so im gonna have to retro fit the graphics card. The graphics card will be sticking out of the side panel. Its gonna be a sweet little Frankenstein build. I aint scared!!!
Getting myself 2 660s for 30 dollars each tomorrow, Cant wait for this plus my second hand x4 845 amd cpu... Will be awesome for the low hand gaming I do :D But I dont have a case since there is none at my local jump/tech stores around with cases... EVEN MY NAN DOESNT HAVE A 2002 OFFICE PC CASE I CAN USE
scored a gtx 770 2gb $50 gigabyte 3 fans, great temperature, no dust looks brand new.. working perfectly, 91% asic will trying to overclock tonight and see how thiis bad boy go.
I usually am budget oriented when I'm building friends computers, there was this one deal where I picked up an I5 2500k, some cheap ass MSI motherboard and 4GB of ram for less than 200NZ dollars. the rest of the computer cost a little over double that. with a R9 290, free case, brand new SSD, FSP 750w power supply and an extra 4GB RAM. it was the best bargain pc I have ever picked up for no where near a 1000 dollars.
I got a working core i7 2600 for free from a pc in a thrift stores dumpster everything in the pc was fine but the mother board so replaced the board for $40 paid $20 for an r7 260x and found a broken external hardrive took it apart and found a working 1 terabyte hdd so all together a $60 build that is really a quite nice pc
a couple weeks ago i picked up two dell workstations that have intel i5 3550's 3.3ghz in them with 8gb ddr3 500gb hdd's and nvidia quadro 2gb cards got both of the towers for only $75 each
Hey Brian - just to let you know, the Patreon link in your video descriptions doesn't lead to your actual Patreon. I think it's just TechCity now - just wanted to let you know! Great videos :)
I5-3470, generic LGA 1155 mobo, 4gb RAM, 1TB HDD, Wifi card, 500 watt Antec PSU, r7 250x all for $100 flat. checked the pc at home. wouldn't post with the DVI slot. try the HDMI and boom signal.
You da man, Brian. Can you talk about buying computer parts from different countries and how that affects those countries respective voltages from the wall. Because not every country has the same powa.
Shame this arc is coming to an end. It's awesome. The deals are extraordinary over there. Here (southern Europe) everyone's usually want to rape prices. I managed to get a 4gb gtx 770 for 130€ recently though, which is considered a steal here.
Many year ago, group of my friend working temporary over there .....if they needs any game console or game cartridges, they just searching the neighborhood trash collection Station (very clean too )
Hard Off - is a mixed bag really .. my best place is in Akiba called "Shop inverse" it' a junk PC store .. you can pick up some deals if you know what to look for got a i5-2600k system with water cooler for 140USD with no drives .. they do let you check the systems but again no warranty no return .. normally its full of Chinese tourists who are buys 5-6 junk laptops each Good for the cheaper LGA 1156 socket but be warned you will have to filter a lot of junk to find the gems Oh and these guys don't want you to film or take pictures there
you are the reason i'm starting looking for used parts pc
Ardy Septian Too bad they are tricky to find for good prices here in Australia
Dankerino Nicherino why is that??
Ardy Septian Everyone overprices their shit.
NoWin ForYou Ok thanks! I'll have check it out.
Cruise lines would kill it in Australia if they brought a PC store on their ships. Imagine getting fair trade on parts and pay no sale tax on it, well that is until you pass customs, but in America that is a great deal with alcohol, because of the alcohol tax here.
Deal Hunts have always been amazing from you man! Doesn't matter where he does them, doesn't matter if he doesn't speak the language, he'll get them deals!
That cooler that you've never seen before is a socket 478 cooler that was used till 2002 ;)
That PC Depot place looks so legit. I wish more large stores that carried used hardware in the states. I don't even know of any in the Seattle area, we have Fry's but they don't do used parts like MicroCenter does. Back to Craigslist it is :D
Nerd on a Budget yeah, there's nothing around Everett either
love The Castle clips.
wish there were PC parts stores like Japan in Australia!
You are one of the best UA-cam Professional Presentable Personality.
Detail videos and awesome style.
Love it.
Keep up the good work. Sir
Thanks brother.
Those coolers for 1 dollar. damn man. they're pretty badass
pretty sure they cost more for the metal alone lmao. But for 2 bucks.. glue em both and get sub zero temps ayy.
It is impossible to cool anything using ambient temperature air below ambient temperature.
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really? omg
You can, but it requires input of work. It's called a refrigerator.
Filipe Amaral But I mean like using a heatsink and a fan.
I'm current running a Optiplex 3020 with an i3 4130, 4gb ram and 500gb hdd that I got for $70. I then added another 4gb for $15 and swapped the psu to support a 7950 that I got for $90 a couple of years ago. It's a beast for playing Overwatch and WoW Legion, which is all I have time for these days. Love your channel bro, keep it coming.
The best deal i have ever gotten is this and I'm using it as a lan PC.
Hardware:
CPU: I5 2320 @3.0GHz, Turbo @3.41GHz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 560ti Limited Cuda Edition with 1282 MB of GDDR5
RAM: 8 GB of DDR3 @1333MHz
Storage: 1 x Intel 80GB SSD + 320GB HDD
Motherboard: Medion MS-7728
PSU: Medion OEM 450watt Power Supply
Case: Medion OEM Micro ATX inverted case.
CPU Cooler: Brand New Intel Stock Cooler
Full PC price: 400dkk~ 60.3usd
And now for the benchmarks:
3DMark FireStrike: 2923
3DMark SkyDiver: 9350
Heaven Bench (medium preset): 43.4 fps 1100 score.
Cinebench 4D open gl score: 71fps
Cinebench 4D cpu test: 369
Average FPS in games:
All in 1080p
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive:
Shadows: Low
Texture: Medium
Effect: High
Shader: High
Anti-Aliasing: 4x MSAA
Anisotropic 8x
FXAA Disabled
Avg FPS: 171.442
Minecraft:
Graphics: Fancy
Particles: All
VSync: Off
Render Distance: 14
Clouds: Fast
Avg FPS: 339.433
Tomb Raider:
High Presets
SSAO: Disabled
FXAA: Disabled
Avg FPS: 83.2
Black Ops 2:
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Medium
Anti-Aliasing: 4x MSAA
FXAA Disabled
Depth of Field: Medium
VSync: Disabled
Avg FPS: 119,292
Rocket League:
Anti Alias: Disabled
Render Quality: High
Texture Detail: High
World Detail: High
Ambient Occlusion: Disabled
Motion Blur: Disabled
Everything else: Enabled
Avg FPS: 95.425
Battlefield 4:
Medium Presets
Ambient Occlusion Disabled
FOV 90
Motion Blur Disabled
Avg FPS: 85.642
The FrontStabber Wow, that's a great deal!
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I'm talking to dankerino. the slippery bugger came to the wrong place...
i was like wut when i do dat 😂
The final hunt before coming back to Australia where tech companies enjoy raping your wallet.
PooPipeBoy Yep, where a GTX 1070 will cost you more than a 1080 costs in the US.
dun worry its the same in Canada. i got a 1070 for $720 CAD lol
theyre like 550 euros where i live xd
550 euros is more than it costs in the US lol
Where do you live? In austria they are like 420€...
That A8N-SLI! What a cool find. I still have the A8R-32 which is the crossfire version.
I love watching your channel because you always look so happy and you look like you have fun with what you're doing! Keep it up!
Found a HD 7850 for 40$ and overclocked it to 1150 MHz without touching the voltage. Best deal I've got yet.
just recieved a R9 270x that i got for 50 , prices are LOW here , the 270x sofar is running at 1200mhz rocksolid right now
Justagermannerd makin' me jelly i see
i just have to be an ass and comment with my 2x Asus ROG Matrix r9 290x that i got for 220€ xD
and I got 2x gigabyte gtx 970 gaming g1 for 200€
Armas Paskiainen cool!
Your awesome bro...keep up the good work. It's fun watching you find ways to get good deals. Also I'm learning a lot by watching how you pair each compatible computer parts together so that there's a least amount of bottleneck in each rig as possible. Also places you go to bargain hunt, brings back memories, cause I've been there as well... such as Pantip Plaza in Bangkok and MBK center. It's fun riding around in Tuk-tuks weaving through traffics, Ha-ha. I tell you shopping in Bangkok, you better know how to bargain, take couple of aspirins...you gonna need it. I use to get a biggest headache ever, at the end of the day from arguing with them merchants. They love to haggle and they're good at it too, they don't know what 'no means NO!' Ha-ha. It's funny after you finally thought you got a good deal, then in next shop you find the exact same thing that you bought for whole lot cheaper. Ha-ha.
Anyway, I love how you find ways to make use of those older Intel Xeon processors. Yeah, you can find those processors for very cheap but in hind side; I notice those compatible motherboards are pretty expensive, e.i. X58 or X79 mobo. I want to build a Xeon E5-2670 and coupled that with a nice X79 mobo. I've been keeping close eye on eBay or Amazon. It's so weird those Xeon's processors (E5-2670) about like 4 or 5 years ago cost like over a thousand USD. But now you can find them so cheap like around $120 USD or cheaper.
Also here is another good deal, I've been wanting to build. An Extreme i7-3960X Sandybridge-E, you can pick this up for pretty cheap like around $209-235 used. This item also few years ago cost well over a grand. However the mainboard "X79" will cost you around $250 give or take up or down. I guess that's the catch. These processors scored pretty well on Cinabench and Passmark performance test, just as well as Skylake or newer Kabylake's in high end i7 enthusiastic class category.
If I find a reasonably priced MOBO, I'm thinking of building either Xeon E5-2670 or Extreme i7-3960X. Which one would you pick, if you only have one option? just curious...I just wanna pick your brain a little bit and make use of your expert advice.
Sorry for this long comment Bryan:)
Your the best tech review guy that I know of...because you seemed very global, Japan, Thai, etc...plus your home country Aussie.
You really know your stuff and honest...that's why I like watching your UA-cam tech reviews...
Oh BTW...you should go to Seoul Korea and do a bargain hunt there, you'll love it there.Ha-ha:) Have a soju on me...Gumbay! 'cheers mate' keep up the good show!
I'm currently waiting on parts for my Ryzen build from Amazon (Ryzen 1700, MSI x370 mobo, and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 MHz) coming soon. I'm so excited:) ???Since when did Amazon start charging taxes???
Again I'm so so sorry for my really really long essay like comment...take care mate!
-Drew
Every time i look at your Hunting Used PC Part, it excited me all the way to the end of the clip :).
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I got a 1 TB Samsung Evo, plus a 500GB Samaung Evo SSD's, for a total of $180!!!!
got it locally; some woman was selling his son's computer stuff, though FB posts, and I soon as I saw it posted I msged her and drove for 15 minutes. totally worth it, happiest deal ever!
Picked up an i5 650 build for free! Chucked in an i7 860 i got for $50, works pretty well.... (also located on the gold coast if you wanted some 1156 chips for comparison in the next build ;-)..)
Hi Bryan, Love the vids! Always enjoy your bargain hunting and builds.
Was hoping you could look at doing a vid on disgusting old PC's back in aus. Maybe filled with roaches, rodents spiders etc! Then giving it a complete brake cleaner level clean.
PS. Bring back the Yes in tech YES city!
Amazing content Brian, keep up the good work man.
Also, if it's possible some other time, i would suggest you to go to brazil and try to get some bargans here, it's pretty difficult.
Ihad luck one time or another but pretty much all the time people here still think that 775 dual core pc's cost more than 200 us Dollars, unbeliavable.
I found someone selling second hand parts from Warner Brothers Games in my area. They had family that worked there and promised me some great stuff. When I arrived, I was not disappointed, at least at first. I was given an Intel DX79T0 LGA 2011 Motherboard, an I7 3930k Hexacore clocked at 3.2-3.8ghz turbo, 8gb of Kingston Value DDR3 1333, and my beautiful baby, a Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 Reference 3gb card that had been installed for a week before the 980tis came out. It still had the plastic dust protector sheet on it. He also threw in a free case. This all was handed to me for $300 flat. Only catch was that he had not tested it. I picked up a Rosewill Hive 750w Semi Modular PSU and grabbed the Ram from my AMD Athlon 2 Dual Core rig and threw it together.
Then came the pain. The motherboard gave me all kinds of errors. From not being able to read the HDD to not posting and just black screening to getting stuck in a recovery loop. I even had to downgrade to 10gb of RAM from 16 total because it just refused to accept some of my DIMMs. I cleaned every contact thoroughly. I replaced the Sata cables, I tested my PSU, RAM, and Processor in separate rigs, and finally just struggled to update the bios. Sometimes it would boot on the first try and sometimes I would have to fight with it for hours, but the payoff was worth it. I ran Bandicam, Pandora, Facebook, and Fallout 4 on Ultra all at once, only hitting a max of 60% CPU load when shit hit the fan in game. And this was while connected to a 1080p 60Hz 42 inch LCD TV. The board worked like a charm once booted.
This motherboard continued to cocktease me clear until two nights ago when I popped it on a test bench for the last time and it booted fine on the first try. I was so excited that I bolted it into my only case and began working on it. It was able to defrag without crashing on reboot. It finally finished it's bios upgrade, etc. Just running like a dream. Then I decided to test my newfound success by a spontaneous restart and ran into the same slew of errors.
I did extensive research on the cost of a new motherboard and I found one at about $200 and the rest of them that are available are about $500. Having a non V3 variant LGA 2011 is a deathtrap in 2016. In my anger, I took my I7 to a local PC shop yesterday that I've done some work for in the past. I was able to pick up an LGA 775 ASUS P5K Deluxe mobo and a 3.0ghz Core 2 Duo in trade. I told them my only stipulation was that if the parts didn't work when tested that I be allowed to get more. I just wanted everything to do with this mobo out of my sight. That extra value made them pretty happy and they said they would be able to make some Christmas money off of it.
Now I'm not one to enjoy destroying things, but I was so mad at this motherboard and the literally days or weeks worth of time I wasted on it only to be constantly let down that I took a screwdriver and a hammer to it. Every workable port, slot, and even some resistors were ripped out or damaged beyond repair and it felt surprisingly good. I'll make about the same on it from the recycling place either way, but this board did not deserve to function any longer. I mounted the pieces of ornamental metal with the Skull Canyon and Intel logos to my case like the head of a trophy animal and it actually looks pretty neat.
I'm still running my GTX 780 and I plan to buy an AMD FX 8350 with the new wraith cooler as soon as my student loans come in. But this was an absolute nightmare. Buy motherboards used only if you can afford to replace them I think. I love Intel, I'm not bashing them, and I've bought used all my life, but some builds can be a money pit if you don't really know what you're getting yourself into.
Man Brian Looked the same 5 years ago, WTH do you eat mate.. Love your videos
This thumbnail and title has me so hype I'm commenting before watching the video.
I love these kind of videos
That cooler you have never seen before is a Pentium 4 socket 478 Stock Cooler. It's actually good as it was only really cooling single core CPUs. Brackets on then break easily as fuck though.
wish there was more like this on UA-cam, stuff like this proves you dont need a £1000 for a good gaming rig but about £100
picked up a GTX 660 Ti SC 3GB version for 45 Dollars. hit the jackpot especially since Canadian deals on my area are pretty shit but pretty nice sometimes. got a 600w bronze plus PSU for like 60 bucks plus tax and ramped up my gaming and productivity for under 120 bucks, in Canadian! for comparison, a 750 ti SC used on newegg is 140 including tax, or 200 brand new!
That's nice for a 660ti.
yeah I thought so too. I remember in one of your videos you got one for around 60 bucks so when I picked this up I was sooo happy. BTW thanks for the help Brian, if it weren't for you I wouldn't know how to find good used parts.
The last ever hunt in Japan, end of an era Bryan. I wish we had places like those stores in England. Good luck with everything back in Aus brother, looking forward to those Gaamtree' bargain builds :P
Yeeees, Brian, you are the man. I love those types of videos, please keep making them. Anytime I am building a pc, I search for some two used parts, I would like to save money on. I usually don´t cheep out on the PSU and the GPU, but I like to buy my motherboard and CPU used, especially nowadays, when there are so many z68, p67 boards and Sandy and Ivy bridge i5s and i7s. (Currently looking for a cheap i7 3770k, but I am tempted to get an i7 2600´k, because, they are cheap as hell, like 130-140euros and those 3770ks go for like 180-200).
P.S.: Keep up the good work :)
"A MANS HOUSE IS HIS FACKIN CASTLE" love that film mate.
These are the best types of tech vids! :)
Got an EVGA GTX 770 Superclocked ACX with a SLI bridge for $50 :) going to SLI with my MSI 770.
Those old Antec HE550s were Nice power supplies back in the day and they hold up well when abused unlike a lot of other supplies. Nice big caps and lots mass so they don't get hot.
Love this little mini series!
recently picked up an msi gtx 960 4gb for $150 aud. great condition too
You could be a James Bond.
I got an XFX rx 470 for AUD$165 off Gumtree. used for like a day. i also got the rest of my pc that way.
Picked up a non-working HP Pavillion 17 laptop with an A4 apu for free at a garage sale. Turns out it had a nasty virus so it was put on a shelf and left. Nothing came with it. Picked up a nos dell power block from craigslist for $5 for it. Ordered the restore disk set from HP for like $30. Plugged it in, put in a USB drive with Dban on it, let it do its thing for a few days. The reinstalled windows 8, drivers etc from the factory discs I got. Upgraded it to windows 10 during the upgrade period for free, add 4gb of ram I got for $15 from a parts store for total of 8gb on it. Had it for about a year now and a nice solid laptop. Not much of a gamer, but does everything else well. See them listing for around $300 on reseller stores, so pretty solid deal I think.
I've had one of those Antec NE550 psu's running in a pc for 9 years now, silent and hard as nails.
Also got a scythe ninja still rocking for about 9 years too!
Awesome vid!
I just recently picked up a Parts dell computer from my local Flea Market missing a PSU but had a 4th Gen i5 and a nice 730 GT 😬 both working condition but bad motherboard for $5 bucks
Love ur videos Brian! Keep up the good work! Love ur shopping vlogs!
My current build PC ( not done yet)
Intel i7 3770 3,4Ghz up to 3,9Ghz with Stock Cooler
16GB of 1600mhz Ram
200GB SSD 2TB HDD
Nvidia GT 640
included Win 8.1 with Key Upgraded to Win 10
Random Case
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. CM6340 Motherboard
Prize about 100 Euros = 111 usd
Have to upgrade the Case, the GPU and im ready to go for the newest titles :)
Do more of Partshunting, this is what we all want to see! Your Tech Videos are the best on UA-cam.
I picked up a 780 and an i5 3570 for 350$ and then got the motherbaord power supply and ram for 160$ but forgot the case.
Also was able to overclock the non k CPU to 4.15ghz from 3.4 for some reason the multiplier was freely changeable
When I was in Japan in one of my trips I got a Corsair K90 keyboard that was a display item, looked mint brand new, no dust, for 3000 yen. Also got an X58 motherboard that was untested for 1000 yen, board worked great after resetting the CMOS, just missing the IO shield. First one was from Janpara and the second deal was from Junkworld
Oh no way, you actually leave near the junkworld store? that would be epic.
It was in Akihabara but it's gone now. sucked!
Found a 7970 for $20, had artifacts. Chucked her in the oven, good as new for now!
these type of videos are always fun to watch =)
just finished building my girlfriend's pc a few days ago $181 (she's not a gamer)
specs:
cpu: c2q 6700(used)
mobo: intel 775(used)
ram: 4x1gb kingston (used)
hdd: seagate 7200rpm(used)
psu: evga 500w(new)
case: diypc diy-f2-p(new)
gpu: amd radeon hd 5770(used)
I've been waiting for this... You could do something like this in the UK and the US if you ever visit. I'm sure it would be pretty popular :)
I got a I5 2500k with a z68 mb for 70 bucks. A r9 280x for 75 bucks. Carousell is the best when looking for used parts in South East Asia (Singapore etc). But you goanna be fast
That's pretty good deal dude nice !!
thanks man ;)
True but I got an i7-3770k (used) for the same price $70 and I live in Singapore as well. I got the i7-3770k in a computer shop anyway lel
iTechyy Wow that's awesome! Where is the shop? haha if you dont mind
iTechyy
I made a build out of a lenovo matx case x5450 700w 80+ gold psu and a gtx 580 for 30€ with most parts out of the junk
YEEESSS BEEN WAITING FOR THIS :D
0:21 That is quite a nice suit, Bryan, especially the tie, for some reason I like weird designs on ties!
My best bargain was a AU$400 pc I bought in 2012. It was an i5-2400 (at the time Ivy Bridge was only a few months old), so it was still a very current cpu. The rest of the specs were bleh, h61 Mobo, 4gd 1333 ram, 500gb hdd but the kicker was it came with a free 24 inch 1080p monitor! Recent (then) i5 plus 1080p monitor, I couldn't pass it up. I chucked in a $100 Radeon hd7750 (this was before the 650ti, let alone the 750ti) for bus powered graphics. Got by with this for 6 months playing bf3, it managed mid 40s to low 50s after the big bf3 centred 12.11 driver pack, before it was low to mid 40s.
my best deal is my Xeon E5640 runs @4.2ghz stable on 1.26v !!!!!
Deals here in my country are either close to the original price more like 60-90% of the original or parts that are obsolete AF. Great video btw.
That Intel heat sink was for any P3 clocked lower than 1GHz. Had a dual P3 800MHz as the second computer I built. They came boxed with those coolers.
Also rare Williamette Pentium 4 systems ( I personally got one )
Ah, I didn't know that.
I got a decent PC pretty cheaply.
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3, motherboard, KFA2 GTX 570 MDT4, 500W CM B500 and a Antec p180 mini
HDD i had laying around, All this for a total of 100 USD +/- a few dollars. Plays games OK for the money!
Hard Off more like Hard On am I right! No one... I'll see myself out.
got a xfx r9 390 8GB for 168€ off of ebay last week :)
I once got a 750ti because I recommended my friend an RX 480, I got it for 30usd and it had been used for 1 month..
Best deal I received was an i7 4700hq 3.2Ghz, 16GB ram, GTX 760m, 1TBHDD laptop in working order for $30 (AUD). The only thing that was a wrong with it is that the screen didn't work.
This guy deserves more subs
i picked up a 4690k in michigan for $90, same area i also picked up an i3 6100 for $60
Looking dapper as all get out my friend!
Somebody get this guy on Scrapyard Wars.
So that he winns with ease?
my best find was a prebuilt pc with a i5 3570, 8gb ram, p61 mobo, hd6450 with a corrupted os and noisy psu for 20aud, slapped a hd7850 in there that owed me $50 and a spare psu
Was at a yard sale and scored myself an XFX 7770 for 25, love the thing
my best bargain find was a toshiba 17 inch laptop that i found at a dump, has an i5 2410m, gt525m graphics, 8gb ram and a 120gb ssd which is still in good condition. only paid $5 and it included the charger and battery so yeah i was all set!
Winning.
Picked up a core 2 quad 9550 system for 80 bucks on ebay and ive got a 7750 just laying around. Bad thing is its a small desktop case so im gonna have to retro fit the graphics card. The graphics card will be sticking out of the side panel. Its gonna be a sweet little Frankenstein build. I aint scared!!!
lol thats it brother, who cares if its ugly as long as it performs!
Getting myself 2 660s for 30 dollars each tomorrow,
Cant wait for this plus my second hand x4 845 amd cpu...
Will be awesome for the low hand gaming I do :D
But I dont have a case since there is none at my local jump/tech stores around with cases...
EVEN MY NAN DOESNT HAVE A 2002 OFFICE PC CASE I CAN USE
I scored a 7970 for $40 at PC Depot couple years ago and it still works.
scored a gtx 770 2gb $50 gigabyte 3 fans, great temperature, no dust looks brand new.. working perfectly, 91% asic will trying to overclock tonight and see how thiis bad boy go.
Daamn..That was so satsf.. watching
Good job.
Please make these more ofteen! the hunt beginss
I got an I7-3820 and Intel DX79TO Extreme series mobo + stock heatsink off Ebay for 250 USD total.
I usually am budget oriented when I'm building friends computers, there was this one deal where I picked up an I5 2500k, some cheap ass MSI motherboard and 4GB of ram for less than 200NZ dollars. the rest of the computer cost a little over double that. with a R9 290, free case, brand new SSD, FSP 750w power supply and an extra 4GB RAM. it was the best bargain pc I have ever picked up for no where near a 1000 dollars.
Hey bryan hope you got to meet up with your little boy bro. loving the new overhaul keep it up
Love these vids, bro keep it up.
damn i want that lga775 board.. i stupidly sold mine but kept the q6600.
they are hard to find here in perth.
peace
I got a working core i7 2600 for free from a pc in a thrift stores dumpster everything in the pc was fine but the mother board so replaced the board for $40 paid $20 for an r7 260x and found a broken external hardrive took it apart and found a working 1 terabyte hdd so all together a $60 build that is really a quite nice pc
EVGA 780ti Classified Hydrocopper for £150, was £800 18 months ago :-)
a couple weeks ago i picked up two dell workstations that have intel i5 3550's 3.3ghz in them with 8gb ddr3 500gb hdd's and nvidia quadro 2gb cards got both of the towers for only $75 each
i got a asus gtx 970 strix for 110£ a couple months back and it was a very good deal.
love these videos mate.
Hey Brian - just to let you know, the Patreon link in your video descriptions doesn't lead to your actual Patreon.
I think it's just TechCity now - just wanted to let you know!
Great videos :)
Thanks! I fixed it!
Love these kind of videos keep it up
Will miss this series.
Brian, you clean up pretty good mate!!!
Those dota references make me so giddy.
I5-3470, generic LGA 1155 mobo, 4gb RAM, 1TB HDD, Wifi card, 500 watt Antec PSU, r7 250x all for $100 flat. checked the pc at home. wouldn't post with the DVI slot. try the HDMI and boom signal.
cpu coolers and zipties work wonders, probobly :)
Where do you get your used parts in Australia other than Gumtree? I live in Perth myself and am planning a used parts build.
You da man, Brian. Can you talk about buying computer parts from different countries and how that affects those countries respective voltages from the wall. Because not every country has the same powa.
Every time you say Hard Off, I chuckle to myself haha
btw, if you're heading back to the Gold Coast, I'd love to do a hunt video or sometime.
Shame this arc is coming to an end. It's awesome. The deals are extraordinary over there. Here (southern Europe) everyone's usually want to rape prices. I managed to get a 4gb gtx 770 for 130€ recently though, which is considered a steal here.
Gaius Trollius Germany exists, doubt it's that hard on shopping
***** Shipping costs make this a no-go.
Best deal I got was a broken EVGA Supernova G2 850w for £40 and then I just RMAd it. Or the brand new Rampage V Extreme for £166.
best pc deal i got was an acer verition 4610 from local collage with i7 3770 8gb ddr3 1333mhz ram 500gb harddrive for $50 aud
Your style is so unique dude, so fresh for an aussie lol :D
loving the retro suit!
The heat sink at 11:16 is either a pentium 2 or 4 cooler, ive seen both. They also come in an adorable mini version.
Many year ago, group of my friend working temporary over there .....if they needs any game console or game cartridges, they just searching the neighborhood trash collection Station (very clean too )
Hard Off - is a mixed bag really .. my best place is in Akiba called "Shop inverse" it' a junk PC store .. you can pick up some deals if you know what to look for got a i5-2600k system with water cooler for 140USD with no drives .. they do let you check the systems but again no warranty no return .. normally its full of Chinese tourists who are buys 5-6 junk laptops each
Good for the cheaper LGA 1156 socket but be warned you will have to filter a lot of junk to find the gems
Oh and these guys don't want you to film or take pictures there