Buying My Old PC Back From a Scammer...
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- A while back I sold an old PC online and recently discovered it had been put up for sale again; though this time it seemed to be advertised slightly differently...
Stated as featuring an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX graphics card, it sounds as though my old system has been put through quite the upgrade process, though it seems these specs weren't quite accurate.
Thanks for watching :)
"Its a GTX Card".... Bruh. Thats like "Hey what car do you have?" "A black one"
but it wasnt even GTX it was a GT like a half black car???
More accurately: bro what car you have? A sportscar. 1.6 mx5 stock intensifies
@@GhostvaperYT A poorly resprayed black car.
@Dino Rexy wow weird card. What's it like?
@Dino Rexy what settings though?
File a claim with PayPal for "item not as described". Get your 💰 back, and come out ahead.
Its best to make a claim with ebay first. If you start with paypal and lose for whatever reason that is the default decision of both sites with NO recourse.
@@UKgamer87 the problem is ebay is useless. Paypal pretty much garuntee a win. I bought a fried r9 furyx and called pp immediately and in just one and a half week pp refunded me the money
@@yufanchen6072 In my situation a seller sold me a game key. He lied about sending it and paypal sided with him.
All the seller has to do is provide a prepaid return label and if you don't send it back you don't get a refund. That's how the policy works so keep that in mind.
I sold a GTX770. User got it and claimed it was faulty. Got it back and was completely fine. I made a case with eBay and I was forced to pay all fees including the fees for delivering even though I had proved the product worked. I've since stopped using eBay.
"It will run anything m8..."
"Nice, I'll use it to run you over then"
noice
Lmao
😂😂
XD
😂😂
If you bought it via ebay start a not as described claim.
He did buy it on eBay. That screen shot at the start is unique to eBay.
He has the serial number from before and has a credible UA-cam channel to prove it. Case closed
@@ThePuffamanChannel Case closed indeed. So closed, in fact, it is welded shut.
Holy shit its john doe
@@VirgoSquawks :-)
It's sad when this happens to new PC builders/buyers who really don't know any better. Occasionally I'll receive e-mails and tweets of new builders that received fake pc parts ):
It sucks that it happened to you, but the silver lining is that you caught it very early and still have the opportunity to make a claim. Also - that intro is soooooooo good!
Now this makes me more worried buying off stuff online
@@vampy625 conversation of trading could be online but trading parts should be like face to face then u can check whole components at least
Hay OZ love your videos
OZ I watched all of your GT 1030 vids cuz I used to have one, but then I upgraded to a gtx 1060.
@@Plxon upgrade to 980ti
its worth it
>It will run anything m8
>gpu has a vga output
Ok
My old 750Ti has a VGA output and runs well.
@@vicariouschism86 You really don't need to search out each and every comment that mocks the VGA output and tell them about your 750...
@@MegaHellstrike That's the beauty of the internet, I can!
And you can choose to ignore it, or not.
Just saying that a 750Ti is a decently capable card with VGA out.
@@MrEWhiteYT Not really.
@@vicariouschism86 I had gtx 1060 3gb and use hdmi to vga for a second monitor - Asus IPS 22'' 2ms with only VGA input. And graphics are close to DVI-D Asus 24'' IPS 1ms. Well VGA is not that sharp and lil bit less contrast - but it is still realy good at NFS Payback and last 3 Tomb raiders.
Will run anything (uses a vga output)
...in your imagination XD
My old 750Ti has a VGA output and ran everything I wanted at decent framerates.
Sadly, I wanted to run my VGA monitor with my Titan Xp, and it couldn't.. It comes with a DVI adapter in the box (digital pins only), but no VGA... My old ATI (yes, before RADEON) came with 3x VGA adapters, 2x Molex to 6 pin adapters, this really cool VGA/DVI to RCA Red/Yellow/White analog TV adapter (It had like 5 switches on it, I think it also did some other stuff). Why can a $1200 GPU not have a sub $10 adapter cable? Mind boggling... Comes with a display case, but no way of running a VGA monitor... At least I can imagine at 60fps
More like "Will ruin everything" haha
@@jakegarrett8109 There are actually HDMI to VGA+3.5mm Audio adapters on eBay from China and they kinda work... I used one to hook up a old DVD Player to a old 5:4 Monitor... because why not watch Anime while cooking...
It will run anything.exe
Exception for shutdown.exe
Lol so many idiots say that online they say a core 2 duo is fast and runs most modern games well I’ve even seen people sell a quad core cpu pc in an rbg case with words like fast and gaming pc for like 1k hoping someone that doesn’t know tech will buy it thinking it’s a good pc
The funny thing is that is a virus
@@n0pe-648 I just report them and get them taken down
Here in Brazil, at least where I live, theres a lot of people selling pc like that guy...
"Its a 2gb GTX card"
Brazil is what it is, u guys are surviving between robbers and corrupt politicians
I once saw a facebook listing here where it said it had a GTX 730
Neil Bas i mean at least the 730 is better than any intel hd they’re forced to use
@@Meansoduck yeah, but it's false advertising to say it had a GTX 730 just to help it sell
To be fair, the "GTX 730" thing sounds like the seller has no clue about PC's themself. Its not too hard to imagine somebody getting "GT " and "GTX" mixed up if all they know about computers is brand names.
Nvidia is pretty synonymous with GTX at this point, to some people it might as well be all the same thing.
So I guess its a case of the blind leading the blind.
This is the kind of content I like :)
Now sell it again, he might buy it again and now you buy it and do the same video. Repeat infinitely
The potential ad revenue is unlimited.
@@BaronVonQuiply Don't even have to reedit/make another video, just upload parts of the video with new games/dates.
MarshallRawR unlimited money glitch irl lol 😂
*Soo welcome guys to series 10 episode 359 of I sold my pc and buying it again from the same scammer over and over again until he finds out*
Infinite content
what i find funny is when someone scams people online they forget we can always get our money back at this point because alot of online exchange places have a no scam policy that always protects the buyer and if you scam the wrong person in the united states and the uk you can be sued
Not some sites, like olx. They are not responsible for you being scammed. Its your responsability.
@@user-sf5iq2fl1l yeah i have to agree here, olx is full of scammers, just like facebook marketplace
That's only really true for ebay
Nahh AliExpress too, got scammed for $24, got full refund, plus got to keep the action figure lololol
But the scammer still keeps the money I think
I imagine that scammer as a typical Chav from Birmingham lol
What the hell is burningham??
Brumenhem is a place in the UK.
What's a Chav
John Squarez your nan
having a lucozade while putting that ting in
I remember upgrading my Pentium 4 to an E8400 and getting from 1GB to 4GB of ram. What a day! I actually also had the GT 240 (It was a GT card in the 200 series but not for sure it was a 240) and that baby ran Minecraft at 60FPS fullscreened!
You will not get 100 likes, you are an apple fanboy.
Thats so fuckin powerful
@@crossetta what
@@theminec yes
I'm in the process of selling my collected PC/Hardware because I don't have the time/space for the hobby anymore... and I run into one scammer after another.
1. People love to reserve stuff, sometimes even ask for multiple weeks... at least 9 out of 10 times, they'll never get back to you and if they do, they offer a different price.
2. Somehow, about 50% of the items I send (more for GPU) seem to arrive defective, even when packaged in their original or comparable packaging. Oddly enough, the people claiming to have gotten defective stuff never manage to report it within a week in order to make use of the shipping insurance and instead ask me to refund part of the price without sending anything back or other shady things (like I wouldn't know of the option to replace your broken GPU with a working one from me...). Obviously I do take serial numbers and screenshots of benchmarks etc.
3. A lot of people seem to just write everyone with a PC add and make hilarious offers (I've been offered less than 100€ for a PC with i5 3470, GTX960 2GB, 8GB RAM, 250GB HDD and Win 10) in hope to screw someone over... it's especially awesome when people try to talk down the PC I offer while at the same time having a weaker one for sale at a higher price. xD
Yeah, I think I'm just going the route of giving away parts to friends or frying them on liquid nitrogen... That sounds way easier. Now the question is, do I curse someone with a Titan Xp collectors edition (Nvidia drivers suck), or do I fry it on LN2? I'm thinking it deserves the death sentence for a the crap drivers and non-existent support its seen. Nvidia owes me a good $800 in diagnostic labor charges plus a refund... They won't pay, so screw them. I think giving my friend an RX 470 would be much nicer, I don't want them stressing so much they loose a ton of hair and sleep like I did, its not worth it... The RX 470 is very capable anyways. Its just not worth my time selling things at sub $100... I could probably make $800 on the Titan like most are going for, but honestly I hate that piece of $hit more than any other hardware I've ever owned (including a GPU that blew up my dad's TV arcing electric out the HDMI that lit up the room. Also more than the first GPU I fried on sub-zero on a daily system that I actually cried over, I had to use a 10 year old ATI for almost a year since I couldn't afford anything else). The Titan has been the worst, so it deserves no less than to go up in flames on nitrogen and freeze to the death in the bitter cold...
Do you get that I hate Nvidia? Its mostly that they treat customers like trash. I actually recently bought a laptop with a GTX 1070, but that's cause I can send it back to MSI if it has issues, they will probably be better than the scum I dealt with from Nvidia. However, I'm not mad my Radeon cards outweigh Nvidia about 6:1... (Die hard crossfire fan)
@@jakegarrett8109 I sure wouldn't mind being cursed with a Titan XP, and be it just so I could rant on Star Citizen's "spectrum" about the framerate still sucking even with it... xD But yeah, Nvidia has completely lost out to AMD in terms of sustained performance... on release the 480 (= 580) was about even with the 1060, now even the 570 seems to beat the 1060 in a fair amount of games while even the 580 8GB is priced below the cut-down 3GB "1060"... and the best joke is, that Nvidia wants to bring a RTX2060 while even the RTX2080Ti struggles with Ray Tracing enabled.
10 year old ATI GPU? I keep going back to the HD4870 1GB whenever I happen to sell one of my other cards with a different PC or something... xD
As for the MSI Laptop: do they still stuff those things with a hilarious amount of bloatware?
MadIIMike tru
@@MadIIMike Compared to Windows bloatware, no barely anything really, like maybe 4 apps, and they were actually useful unlike Candy Crush/OneDrive/Groove Music (seriously, I have never met a soul who uses Groove Music to this day...)/Edge (only useful for getting Chrome/Firefox)/Cortona/all the useless bloatware a fresh install of Windows will cram into your system.
It had a custom MSI overclocking app pre-installed (it did other things like RGB keyboard, fan control which is awesome that I don't have to hunt that down to control CPU fan speed, and "pre-overclock" settings). It also had a backup utility (not a bad idea, don't know as that I'd use that one though). The one offender was Norton... Wow... That one is like "sunshine and daises... Wait what is that mushroom cloud in the distance? AHHHHHH!!!". But other than that monstrosity, I can actually only think of those 2 "bloatware apps", that were actually super useful.
Nice! I was rocking the last pro series Terra-scale, its the 2 GB FireGL-V8650 (retail at $2,799 as the worlds most expensive card back then, and by far the most Vram). I had bought it brand new, mint in sealed box for a whopping $40 (shipping included)... Man how those things didn't hold value, its probably a collectors item, haha! 32 ECC GDDR4 Vram modules coating the entire card front and back for its 512-bit bus, full copper heat-sink with copper heat-pipes, a ridiculous jet engine (I mean fan, definitely a fan, though sound is debatable). Haha, its kind of a fun card, I had it overclocked ~25%, though due note the temps were insane, like 70c at idle and still pretty loud... Haha, fun for occasional use, but you'd probably lose your hearing if you used it all the time (I wore hearing protection when overclocking, it makes a loud vacuum cleaner sound like a kitten purring). But I will say, it also doubled as the coolest hand drier ever (I kept my computer by the sink, and man Furmark would dry your hands off so fast!). Its a pretty cool retro card, if I found a second for like $20, I'd totally get it for a thermo-nuclear crossfire Terra-scale build.
@@jakegarrett8109 Glad to hear MSI did learn something, not too long ago they shipped "Gaming Laptops" with so much crap the thing would barely boot (Steve from Gamer's Nexus made a vid about it).
If you happen to be in the UK, there would possibly be a certain someone that would love to lend the FireGL card for a video...^^
Request a refund through eBay. eBay will force the money back to you from the scammer!
“The same guy -2018”
269 likes lmao
What even was I saying, who am I quoting?
Does anyone wonder where he stores all these computers and parts? This guy must have one hell of a storage facility. XD
Makes videos then sells them, so he can continue to make more videos for us.
All his parts would fit in a closet.
@@piovo5222 In some videos he says "this will go into my collection." So, some parts at least are not sold.
@@robertt9342 Actually, I was thinking the basement or ceiling space.
Hi, this HP cases have a electric lock. You can go to bios and unlock the side panel. That is probably why you can not open the panel.
Was thinking the same. A lot of Compaq and HP business systems had (still have?) this.
I have a xw4600 just like it and it doesn't have any kind of electric lock. There is however a unconnected "hood sense" header on the motherboard.
So scammer get scammed?
Lol no he got paid. It worked.
@@Nik-ff3tu he can file a claim and get his money back
@@Nik-ff3tu eBay gonna give RGHD his money back. gg
@@triniking1234 he will neither file a claim nor receive his money back, it was just done as a purpose to showcase scammers, however I personally believe that he didn't even want to bother with him. (It was just done for the pure commentary purpose of a showcase)
*_It would be better if you said "Can it run Coolmathgames" im sure the seller will be shocked_*
"It's a GTX card" is like saying "It's an 80+ rated power supply." It tells us it's from the last ten years, but it doesn't tell us that it's not going to explode.
Well, I ordered a TP-Link TL-SG1005D on eBay, and received a better TL-SG1008D instead, even though the seller said that what was in the pictures would be what I would get. So I thanked the seller for the upgrade by eBay's messaging service, offered to pay any difference in value, and wished the seller a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Not feeling scammed for some odd reason. ;-)
I ordered a picture frame that included a spy camera inside, and when I reveived the order, I had what I ordered plus an amazing bluetooth speaker. I told the seller that I suspected that I'd received the wrong item, and he said don't worry it is a free gift. The speaker alone is worth double the frame. There are good stories to ebay too.
@@EnglishLaw The seller came back to me today and said I could keep the upgrade at no extra charge, then wished me a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Good eBay stories all round here! :-)
Outtheredude that's awesome man!
I ordered a blue tooth speaker and what I got instead was an elephant. the seller said just keep it and I said WTF
I ordered a pizza from ebay but received a shitload of chicken feet
I have a GT 210 here. Wanna put that in the PC and sell it for 150? ;D
GTX 1080 TI here.
@@ape6095 500 pounds? That's rookie numbers!
Try 1000.
I have gtx 1050 and it has been 2 years in usage :(
@@slure_ that shit trash
Titan V here
i would have been like "are you interested in a GTX 1050 ti?"
**pulls out fake 1050 ti from eBay**
wait...so you bought it back, and didn't retaliate in an way, thus proving to this guy that scams DO work
I think he didn't mention it so he doesnt get linked to the murder
exactly! Thank you.
this is why we need more videos like this so we don't end up getting scammed on stuff during the holiday season.
Use logic and basic, common sense. Works perfectly
wow thats fraud if the person continues doing that they could get a knock on the door and a knock on the head
@@mamupelu565 wut
@@mamupelu565 I can understand a knock on the head, but the cock in the ass, that is gay.
I haven't been scammed on eBay yet. As both a buyer and seller it sucks to see people like him ruining the experience for users who don't know much about the site or electronics in general.
Had one of these as a kid, and still do. Fixed over the Christmas holidays and it runs like a charm!
ironically the video buffered on the "starting windows" screen
You're comedy gold. One of the best, if not *THE* best tech channel on UA-cam, you always find a way to make us interested in the same things you find interesting, your reviews are concise, extensive and easy to understand. I just can't stress enough how much I appreciate your content. Keep on teaching us, RGIHD!
Maybe the sellers wall port is more compatible with 2gb gtx cards then yours is,
Report him and get your money back and the machine
“This will run anything”
Opens it up to find a potato hooked up to a salad with Caesar dressing
ceasar salad is OP
Hey random I watch all of your videos and I’m a huge fan and happy that you got your pc back I’ve been here since 1k subs and you even inspired me to make my own channel
he was my deskmate 😭
Oof
*He was the chosen one, it was said he would have accurate specs, not leave them to scam!*
To remove a stuck side panel on an older non valuable pc case.
Step 1 Grab a largish flathead screwdriver.
Step 2 Insert in between the stuck panel and the case.
Step 3 Holding the case lever in the open position pry at several spots until the panel opens.
I have people like that, it infuriates me that they've barely spent a cent on the item
They spent nothing
This sucks, and I don't even know why would people do this kind of thing. What kind of person are you? The main and only thing anyone buying anything used is to get all the info they need in order to recognize that the part is working and the specs match. Like buying an used car, you would bring a mechanic or someone who can check the essential things on it.
Great video man, I know I am kinda late, but I just subbed and I'm loving the videos. Keep them coming!
Well of course it wasn't a kid, you have to be 18 to use eBay. Next you'll be trying to tell us people under 18 in the UK drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes!
i was using Ebay at the age of 17 but i have only had one miss-step, i was in hospital so i couldn't pay for an auction i had won
Thank you @@obp8390, very cool
As long as you have a credit card that you stole from your parents (or have one already), I’m pretty sure people can already sell things at a younger age. Not everything has to be 18 and over, some people avoid that rule.
@@complicatedeggclips5635 I'm not 18 I sell and buy stuff on Ebay and Amazon
18 years old is a kid they have fuck all life experience and are most likely still living with parents thats not an adult its just a more socially accountable kid.
One thing I hate as a pc builder and amateur electronic engineer is a scammer.. thanks for showing this vlog if it helps one person it was well worth the effort mate 😁😁😁 Kim 😁😁😁
Surely not actually a gaming system. While watching I decided to bench a bit on my own Core 2 system that has an actualy GTX with 2 GB in it (660 Ti to be precise) and it runs GTA 5 and Doom pretty nice for the old hardware.
@@React2Quick clearly you didn't understand his message.
almost makes me want to take out my old C2D e6400 + 8G ram + 660ti.....
but i already have a ryzen R7 1700X / 32G / 1080 (running win10) or a X5675 / 24G / R9 290 (running MacOS) out :p
(edit : 660ti ? 660 GTI ? GTX 660ti ? can't remember the exact name :( )
I really hope you disputed this. This seller needs to be stopped and you have a lot of proof to do so. Save others from being scammed!
He said it’ll run any thing. He never said how good it will run anything.
Yeah but it clearly doesnt run anything lol, tomb raider wouldn't even launch
He said high settings on Fortnite and gtav and 60 fps
Bro i think u should report them!!
These scammers will be encouraged on seeing such videos if no action is taken!!
Thats exactly like my grandma's pc :D
The sad thing is some mum / dad with not enough cash for a good PC, will fall for this kind of trick and get ripped off, and not really realise it, and all in time for Christmas. The even more sad part is, I'd be guessing the seller really doesn't care. Some people are not wired the same as everyone else and have little or no empathy toward others. Perhaps through upbringing, or some self justification, but in some cases, simply because they just dont "feel" the way we do. Although I like to believe that deep down everyone knows right from wrong.
Did you ever figure out what happened to the side panel and did you get the side panel to come off? It would be a shame if a 'damaged' side panel rendered this machine non-upgradeable. Doing an actual upgrade (that is cost effective along with being within scope of the machine's price range) and selling that machine for a profit to show what the seller could have done would be the ultimate form of revenge.
I had one of these PC's, they have a side case lock that can be unlocked via bios, that's probably what's happened.
Will Graham intrusion detection sort of thing. interesting to know.
"I opened with "Hello"..." - That's a Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch right there...
@Garrington Levy Provocative!
@Garrington Levy Don't you urrrgh at me, mate!
T W O G I G
N V I D I A G T X C A R D
IT WILL RUN ANYTHING
I've seen numerous "gaming pc" titles for ads on Facebook. Trying to sell a PC that's probably worth about £100 for £300. Had a conversation with one of them once and when I called them out on the specs and price apparently they had been scammed by someone and were just trying to get their money back.
oof, a gt 240
use this as my main gaming card.......
@@davidrajchman7162 im sorry
@@davidrajchman7162 Just buy a gtx 650. Its around 30$ and its actually good
@@bestedgarr523 Yeah but its 10/15 dollars more but whatever
The HD 7770/R7 250X is in a similar price range. (Mostly below 25€ on a quick look)
R7 360 for about 30-35€
Yes, team red had also got cards in the price range.
Omg! I got scammed like this on the app called shpock! I bought an pc with gtx 1060 , 16gb ram, pentium processor. When I had to meet with that guy I saw a really nice red led case, the case door was glued in too,he said the pc will work fine, and when I got home the pc didn't had a graphics card, it has 8gb of ram and an old amd processor, all this components in a nice case. That guy never answered to my messages and calls, and that's how I ended up paying 180£ (saved up as an 13 year old kid) for a scam pc. Anyway, 2 years later I bought an i7 4770k and gtx 1050ti pc...
"It will run anything m8... "
Me: But can it run Crysis?
All you need to do is stick a cigarette in the computer, and this is a Green Ham Gaming intro
Just when you think you've heard them all.... I had a PC listed solely for sale on gumtree a few months back. So imagine my surprise, when I found it for sale on ebay for nearly £100 more when it was still sitting in it's box in my spare room. When I confronted the seller and asked why he was selling my PC using my pictures, he said that if it sold on ebay then he would come and buy it from me and it was a win win. I said you wont because I have now broken it down to sell as parts.
Honestly you ought to put his information out so he can't scam other people.
Sort of irresponsible to not do it if I'm being honest, especially since you know for a fact that he's a scammer.
Yeah like a lot of them though it's usually a new account that pretty quickly disappears after doing something like this. Most companies are very good at quickly refunding and dealing with this sort of thing though.
@Jay Arre You're a moron. Truth isn't slanderous. How the fuck could the guy who scammed him sue him?
beautybymelxoxo Seriously crazier things have happened, very often. Anyway doxxing is fucked up. The more people try and justify it, the thinner and thinner the justifications will get. Just because someone is a scammer doesn’t mean you should stoop to their level and dox them. Don’t be dense.
@@wollsmoth69 It isn't doxxing if the information is public.
Also, when you're a criminal, you don't have the right to call foul when someone outs you.
That's like saying you can't ID a rapist or you'd be doxxing them.
That's absurd. Your right to anonymity ends when you've put the spotlight on yourself by doing something stupid and illegal.
beautybymelxoxo Maybe in a perfect world, but that’s simply NOT at all how it works. There’s precedent for far crazier things in court.
I had this PC, Pentium HT 630 3.4 Ghz, 3 GB RAM. GeForce 210 unfortunately, the caps on the mobo swallen and It didn't deserved to be fixed.
WHAT!!!! I HAVE THE SAME PC IN MY ROOM
it still have windows xp lol but it is like a monster when it starts op
Shutup
I'm not entirely sure why you:
a) Bought this PC back, knowing it was a scam
b) Uploaded a video about it
c) Didn't contact the seller (that you knew), and discussed it with them 1st
If you actually wanted them to know this wasn't on, why not sort this out person to person, without dragging the world into?
Kids are kids (you seemed to indicate this), but regardless of that, people are people. You had an opportunity to help someone correct their ways, but you choose instead, to promote your YT channel, and expose them publicly, without a response from them.
I'm not sure who the scammer is here. I know that might sound harsh, and you seem like a decent person, however life tends to present us with mirrors. Just like me posting this. I could/should contact you directly with this message, and encourage you to reach out, and attempt to help/guide this person, rather than make a public post.
Some people can't be helped, but why not try? THAT'S a video I'd rather watch, and that's the world I want to live in.
Anyway, take care, and I wish you all the best with your channel. Again, you seem like a decent person. I'm not sure why I interpreted your video like this, I guess I've had enough experience with people to know that, good people do bad things, but it's the bad people who do good things you need to watch.
Having said ALL that, they are out there :)
This is a beautifully edited and fun video. What I really love is the thumbnail and beginning of the video. Man, I think it's funny how he sold this as a lie and from the same seller as before.
Okay nobody has to read this, but if you want to hear a similar story.
Same happened to me before. but not a complete lie. It was a honest mistake by the seller, cause I bought a PC with an ASUS Z68V-Pro motherboard with an i5-2500k, ASUS GTX 560ti video card(in fact I enjoy this card), an ASUS Essence STX II sound card(which I'll use eventually on a sound board), a very large ATX Corsair case, Corsair Vengence 4x4gb 1600mhz ram, a Corsair 250gb SSD, and a Corsair AX750watt Fully-Modular PSU(I have a ton of extra cords). All the items were a little dusty, but I took most the items into building my brother's editing/workstation pc. I gave my brother my ASUS Strix GTX 1070, i3-8350k(edits almost exactly like a Ryzen 3 1200 and is much better than a i3-8100 and at 4.0ghz at the start), GSkill 2x8gb 3600mhz ram, MSI SLI Plus motherboard, Enermax Air Cooler, and Seagate 3tb hard drive with Intel Optane. I know it's a lot, but I wanted him to have a much better computer for working and editing.
Anywho, I wanted to keep the video card, cpu, ram, and motherboard from the seller for myself. Before purchasing, I asked the seller if the motherboard could possibly be overclocked. He was very friendly(and still is) and said he owned the computer for years. Yet, he never heard of overclocking before because somebody else put it together for him. So, I showed him some tutorials online and said this is how. He unknowingly and accidentally thought that the turbo boost was considered overclocking and told me it could.
So, when I bought the computer for $200 and did the exchanges between my brother and my new one and do my usual build, I decided as a last step to overclock the processor. I discovered that the version of the motherboard he had was some kind of early version that honestly doesn't have an original ASUS bios for the motherboard. It was an Intel Z68 bios! I first contacted him honestly laughing to myself cause I wasn't angry but legitimately confused. He said that he thought that is what it was and that I could get a full refund. But, spending $200 on a computer with all other parts perfectly fine was completely okay with me keeping it, and I told him no refund. I eventually got in contact with ASUS employees, and they discovered that early builds used a tested bios before eventually settling on the ASUS Bios for the original chipset. It could've been mistakened as a selling product, or it could've work it's way into the used market by a previous employee. Either way, it was in my hands. And, I was an idiot cause curiosity got the better of me and I tried overclocking on it. Oh boy, immediately when I tried it crashed and suddenly stopped working altogether. I then took it to the ASUS employee, and he tried forcing an original bios onto it. By this point, I was more interested in seeing if it would work and honestly didn't care if it would brick. Which as it turned out, got bricked even more and killed the majority of the functions and a i3-2100 the employee had around. So, I'm still sitting on an i5-2500k and an interesting but completely dead motherboard that to me will go down as my most interesting experience ever in tech.
Dang I talk too long. Sorry for anybody who read this. I just have had this on my mind for three months now ,and ,man, it was crazy but a fun experiment for me and that employee. It just seeing this video/story from RandomGamingInHD reminds me of my story. I love sharing it though cause of course I'm a single, stupid idiot that puts extremely long comments in the comment section. Honestly, I love the video. I love tech. And, this world is crazy when it's fun.
Processor: Intel(R) Xenon(R) CPU E3-1225 V2 @ 3.20GHz 3.20GHz
Installed memory: 16.0 GB
System type: 64-but
Current graphics card: GeForce GT 420
Is what I have I’m not sure should I get a new graphics card? If so which one?
lolingtonn789 gtx 750 ti oc 4g ddr5 will be perfe
Greed thank you
i hope you can have the same luck of linus!!!!! gg brother!
Are you still working on the Xbox to PC Conversion project you showed a few videos back?
2:32 Thumbs Down!
You need to report if you haven't. The next scam may hit a pensioner who doesn't know better or a kid who doesn't know how to fight back properly
what did u pay to buy it back?
120, there's an image.
Most people selling stuff on eBay censor the serial number because of the urban legend that people can use it for something shady. But it's the opposite: Scammers should hide the serial numbers, not honest sellers.
So unfortunately this will not work often.
You bought it back for how much?
£120
@@kwf9225 what a waste of money
@@kitecattestecke2303 He saved someone from getting scammed
@@Dwhifwhidwhiqdn12 ?? is this how things work ? you see someone trying to rob an other so you offer your wallet ?
@@sermatimohend2707 Well i didnt mean it like that i meant well he saved someone from getting scammed he didnt have to
We used to run those in the PC classes in a school I used to work at in Oxfordshire (Didcot).... 8 YEARS ago.... 8 YEARS!!!! Highly upgradable for their time but.... It WON'T run 'anything' mate. Well, anything from 2013 and before maybe.
BTW, I LOVE the Mightnight Special intro music :)
1 dislike from the scammer
"Will run anything."
PC: *Has LPT port*
Wait a minute.... Why did u buy back again?
Just to see if I was being lied to
RandomGaminginHD as good a reason as any!
@@RandomGaminginHD dam.... Ok ok
Just for shits and giggles.
@@RandomGaminginHD youre rich? 120p for that? Scam pc.
If you look it shows a little metal welding on the door
Who still uses VGA? i use DVI it's far better quality
@@hungryfart /r whoosh
>not using SCART
@@djenson stop. Its overused
@@djenson that's not how you do it you uncultured swine r/woosh there
I have vga monitors.
Unfortunately I don't have enough analog outputs
Question...why did you buy it?
Yea this video is stupid. He's talking like there's some real mystery to be uncovered. It's obviously it was a scam just stay away from it 🙄
You are a young man but seems like you know much more important things of life. Great video ~!! :D
Had it yesterday. Guy asking me when the 1060 i sold was going to arrive. Sent him a screenshot of his signature from Royal Mail. Always send signed for, saves you in these situations. Although I no longer sell PC parts on ebay due to 3 consecutive "scam" attempts in 1 week. Although 1 did succeed in screwing me over £190 due to ebays automatic return accept, within 14 days of sale. Took a mixing desk i sold, destroyed it by taking it apart, then complaining it didnt work and sent it back. Thanks ebay.
I hope he steps in a puddle with socks on.
The fact you bought it just to prove a point is ridiculous. He won, well done. *face palm*
At least you prevented someone being a victim.
The jamming side door it a common problem in these specific workstations. I have a couple of these and the other workstation had the same issue. After a while of wiggling it it finally came off.
If you think it was purposely welded shut, would you please elaborate how this was done? Thanks!
Always have tracking on items because you'll have proof it arrived and they'll have a harder time screwing you over. Also if buying locally always test before you buy, if they say they can't test say you can only spend x amount untested with no return policy.
Now we gotta have a look inside, man! I've watched enough Clickspring to know that a gentle heat (from a blowtorch, of course) will loosen superglue, if it is superglued...
Did you ever get back to this PC and do any other upgrades? Kind of curious what you can do with this rig in 2022
Old memories are resurfacing in my recommended...
Make sure that you report them and file a eBay Moneyback Guarantee claim on this.
gotta say cat your vids have been getting better and better your vids are like cocaine 10/10
Bruh... The core 2 duo e8400 is clearly the best cpu ever
Lol love your channel every time I see a questionable pc/parts on ebay I think of our man RandomHD. Please don't change so much more interesting finding out the unknown's of testing older or cheaper parts. Seriously its boring watching some elites build mega pc all using parts most of us cannot afford. We all know a top end system will do great way better seeing if an old office pc can still game! My niece wanted a gaming pc and only had 300$ was going to do a bare bones APU build. Until I found a free office pc with a bad PSU it had an older i7 ordered her a good used rx 580 for 50$ ,psu , 3tb hdd, 250gb ssd, couple of fans and ram upgrade now she can play anything on high/ultra @ 1080p. Wish I could do more emergency awesome builds but for now will just watch this guy do it thanks to him I know how these older parts will fair.
So my niece thanks you RandomHD!
Plot Twist : The seller was RandomGamingHD himself
*Before he sold it to the other seller*
We definitely need a follow up video here. Make the claim and get the money back.
Reminds me of a scam i seen on Gumtree, some guy had a i7 3770K CPU advertised and i was looking for one to upgrade my motherboard from the i5 3570, i agree to meet the seller and he tells me to meet around the corner from his place so i rock up and see him standing on the corner, he runs up to me with the CPU sitting in the plastic cover absolutely covered in thermalpaste as if someone was decorating a cake thats how thick it was, he told me he'd only just pulled it out of his PC which was strange as the CPU was cold to the touch, if it was being used as he claimed it would have been still abit warm. Luckily i carry a box of tissues in my car, i quickly wipe off the thermalpaste and notice on the IHS that it says "Intel Celeron G440" im like wtf single core 1.6ghz cpu, i confront the seller and say "buddy this isnt a i7 3770K, its a Celeron G440" he's like "bro let me check, ohh this cant be right, if you want i'll go home put it in my PC and get a screen shot" so he runs off and dissapears down an alley way, 30 secs later he comes back holding his phone and says "heres the screen shot bro" and just looking at it i could tell he'd downloaded an image off the internet and was trying to pass it off as his own, im like "dude im not gonna buy this, i cant trust you or your crappy CPU, next time dont try scamming people and you'll go far in life" and with that i left lol he was looking pretty down since he was trying to sell me that crappy CPU for $300 and failed
The music from 0:48 sounds like a reworking of the Poddington Peas intro theme.
I had a machine like this once - it had a Core2 Quad of some sort, 4GB of RAM, an 80GB Seagate hard disk, and an nVidia Quadro FX1700. Computer is long since gone, but I kept the ram and video card.
I just deal with a scammer on a local selling site, he was selling malfunction gtx 1070/1070ti/1080's as barely used, I didn't buy anything from him but I did post proof including our conversation, a couple of dozen people people responded, most had been scammed. The selling site then banned him.
Wow. The things people get away with... but not for to long I'm sure. Goodwork keeping those records. Liking the content keep it up.
Sorry that happened man I just bought a Lenovo and it was being sold as i3 with 4 gigs of RAM but the surprise me with 6 gigs it's always nice sometimes eBay gives you a bonus
I recently sold a 1050ti on ebay - the buyer took ages to pay then when I sent it he said it was damaged in transit. i asked for proof and the notes it was damaged to the courier company when he signed for it. No reply. 3 days later a paypal claim came through. I responded with pictures of all our correspondence and needless to say he lost the claim. What makes me laugh through all of this his claim was not as described :D Good luck with your refund on this