I Bought a Cheap "Untested" Gaming PC on eBay, But Does it Work?
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- The word "untested" gets thrown around a lot online but it can sometimes mean "doesn't work". Today we're taking a look at an untested and cheap gaming PC I found on eBay that has a couple of nice components inside.
The question is, do these components work?
0:00 Intro and Condition
0:52 What's Inside?
1:59 Disassembly, The parts and WORM
5:41 Does It Work?
6:50 Gaming Tests - Apex Legends
7:31 CS:GO
8:03 The WItcher 3
8:41 Grand Theft Auto V
9:13 Fortnite
9:49 Crysis 2
10:27 Battlefield 3
10:58 Conclusion
Thanks for watching :) - Наука та технологія
That was a pretty big worm, wasn't it?
Made for perch fishing 🎣
the worm from Dune has been real quiet since yesterday's video dropped
it was a night crawler i used to farm them i gave some to a black lady at the lake she looked in and started yelling snakes snakes we were like no mam there night crawlers we farm in our backyard
@@truij6686 I'm not trying to just be "mine's bigger than yours" lol but that was not a very big worm at all.
Normally they're less than half the size! It would be perfect for a fishing trip as bait
I remember playing Planetside 2 with my brother on his powerful 560 Ti PC back in the day. The technology in this game blew me away back then, and it still kind of does. My old laptop with HD3200 couldn't run the game unfortunately, until in 2015 I upgraded to a 960M laptop.
He sold the 560 Ti at some point to get a 1080. Would be interesting how the 560 Ti holds up in Planetside 2 today!
Planetside that brings back memories!
I remember getting into Planetside 2 with my fx 8320 and 750 ti lol.
I still play planetside 2 today, and it got so much more demanding that builds that ran it fine back in the day would really struggle :(
@@RandomGaminginHD Steve you gotta build a PC that costs less than your usual benchmarking suite I will not leave you alone
I had a phenom 2 x6 1100t with a gtx 560 and loved playing PlanetSide 2 back in the day. Planetside 2 gave me so much hope for the future of gaming, sadly we don't have anything crazy like that now.
That HX850 is a very decent PSU. I am using the HX850i version since 2016 and it had no trouble pushing 400W ASIC power into my PPT modded Vega56 over just two PCIe power cables.
Corsair still sells cables (also full kits) for these, including the PCIe 5.0 power plugs needed for modern Nvidia GPUs. Btw, capacitor aging isn't much of an issue when you don't plan on putting 100% load on the PSU.
Same, great psu
Thanks for the informations nice to know for my next psu upgrade i will definitely look at Corsair HX PSUs (btw what is a ppt modded gpu?)
@@IWoVex Extremely high power limits
@@XxGorillaGodxX
🎩 Thanks for the explanation
🤌
In several cases when I had to perform PSU repair the only capacitor that failed was the little aux capacitor that sits across the vcc of the primary side control chip. It's absolutely TINY for an electrolytic, like something on the order of 10uF and 50V-ish rating. The thing about it is that this failure is fairly load independent, it's just age, and it's sometimes the shittiest cap in the whole PSU because nobody paid attention and it lasts upwards of 7 years anyway. Ambient heat would have been a contributing factor though, but most of it comes from a chunky bootstrap resistor right nearby.
Please only perform PSU repairs if you know and adhere to the safety procedures and know what you're doing and where every spicy bit is in the PSU and what it might do to you exactly. But do consider donating your faulty PSUs to someone who does and likes these sorts of repairs, perhaps a local electronics hobbyist.
Aah, what a lovely computer, home to a friendly worm who sleeps behind the power supply... :D
😂
The 3570k was an absolute beast back in the day, especially overclocked. I had two of them, got super lucky with both, with 4,5ghz stable oc on one and 4,7ghz on the other. I used one all the way to 2019.
here-here, I have a 3770K I was using until about 1.5 months ago.
I have mine at 5.1 ghz it runs extremely well
Not being able to overclock on Dell's shitty locked down BIOS on their shitty ass useless motherboards is the worst part about a full office PC conversion, it's because you can't overclock a 3570k or 3770k unfortunately. And also sadly for some unbelievably bizarre reason Z77 LGA1155 boards are expensive as heck even to this day we're talking like $120 for just a Z77 Extreme from ASRock to get shipped in from China. If I coulda found a 50 dollar board I'd buy it. It's worth it just to OC and be rid of the Dell BIOS
Hi randomgaming, I follow you since 1 year ago. I gotta say your vids are sooo relaxing and specific. Keep it up with the videos, you're awesome!
Thanks :) you’re awesome!
The LG is a BR-ROM/DVD-writer combo, still useful for ripping Blu-rays (and even transcoding to DVD's, which still have their uses).
Always a good time when you upload mate. Looking forward for the cpu and gpu benchmark. 👍
Based on the game tests this looks like a very good pairing. Maybe not ideal today, but clearly there was a lot of thought put into the hardware pairing. I like it.
sure, but a newer card would make that thing work way better for todays games.
I would say this PC is a beast!
Its so strong that it not only performs complex stuff and makes our life easier but also provides housing facilities!
Im sold.
😁
@@RandomGaminginHD 😂❤️
Jokes aside it was a great video! Loved that special 560ti gpu!
That is one good looking video card!
I really like the aesthetics of Gainward but they aren't that common and normally are more expensive than other brands.
Looking forward to that review.
Nice video. I absolutely love my Fractal Design R4 case I bought new for my 2015 build. I still have it along with all the components in a working system, including the GTX 760, as I cannot bear to upgrade it nor take it apart as it was my main system for 3 wonderful years which still works great for several games and it was my first new custom build with everything new since 1997. Shame the one seen here was neglected by previous owners.
LOL! Worms are about as harmless as it gets. 😄
That 560 Ti 448 was a bit of a beast in it’s day & a fun find, especially for somewhat older games. To my mind it’s the gem of the PC. personally I don’t risk using used PSU’s except in retro builds where you’re kind of forced to. How do you feel about that, @RandomGaminginHD
Yeah looking forward to seeing what else the 560ti can do in a more powerful system. Also I’ll probably sell the PSU on, but I’ll be sure to state it is quite old
Love the chassis of these Fractal cases for the shear amount of drive bays. Excellent for turning old hardware into a NAS.
Awesome video as always!
I can absolutely relate to keeping "useless" junk around lol. I have a drawer full of screws and bolts from assorted projects and Pcs from the past year's 😂 also a wood cut off pile
I think everyone who works on stuff has this. I have so many hobbies that I have multiple totes of spare parts for cars, motorcycles, dirt bikes, tractors, computers and whatever else I decide to tear into…
Add me to the list of people who are the same way! Shelves with old computers all over, drawers full of outdated PC parts, C13 power cables as far as the eye can see. I used to keep a big tub of all sorts of wires, in fact, odds and ends I always said I'd find a use for one day, but luckily I came to my senses and I don't have one anymore. I have several.
Definitely me too lol.
Dude I've been watching your videos for years I don't know what it is. I do the same thing for a living besides the videos and I don't know if it's the accent but I keep watching them🤣 thank you
My first GTX card was a GTX 570 which had the exact same design as the card shown in this video. I still have it sitting on my shelf for sentimental reasons and I really enjoyed gaming with it while it still worked correctly since it was paired with an i7 2600k.
Yeah I can’t wait to test this. I think the 560ti 448 and 570 were very similar
@@RandomGaminginHD i have a 560TI i keep it as a spare in case i ever need a temp gpu when my main gpu is being replaced with a new upgraded gpu
I really like those videos, kind of a surprise what you get for your money. Really similar build to an old one of mine too, I also had a 3570K with 16GB (1333) and a 560Ti 448 but the Zotac model. Sadly the GPU died after 2 years and took the mainboard with it. I still have it laying around somewhere though lol
It seems that the CMOS battery was depleted. Since CMOS couldn't hold settings anymore, the motherboard had to readjust itself until it finally started by showing the message you see at 6:18 mark. The battery is also used for RTC in the motherboard.
Yeah I've had to replace a couple. Bit of a hassle to lose cmos settings to a dead battery, but always nice when that's the only issue.
@@chloedevereaux1801 "BIOS has been reset" suggests either someone bridged the pins/hit clear CMOS button or the battery is dead. The system time was also reset to 00:00:00 on 01/01/2012, which is a dead giveaway.
on a build like this, I'd strip it down, clean it up and change out the MB to a AM4 platform and start the rebuild! I'd add in all the fans, order additional rails for the hard drives and max out the hard drives... add a bunch of them. The chassis can be turned into a "Super Server" and really be made into a nice computer! Nice video!
"The power supply is now covered in worm juice". That's the most hilarious thing ever! Great video!
That Corsair Vengence RAM has decent specs (esp. the timings). On my old Haswell system, I OCed the 4x4GB DDR3 from 8-8-8-24@1600 to 10-9-10-28@2133 which, along with Cache/Ringbus tuning provided a decent FPS improvement, esp. when it comes to min. and percentile figures.
how does timing affect the performance? I thought it was the clock speed that improves performance. Also does faster ram actually improve fps? According to benchmarks, I've never seen that happen.
@@LanaaAmor it depends on the game and cpu, but yes. Timings can be even more important than clock speed. Just like how different cpus at the same clock speeds aren't all equal.
@@LanaaAmor I think timings really help out with AMD CPUs.
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 it depends on the cores and architecture cause cpu doesn't have timings, and scheduling is the same for all cpu. CPU support also depends on cores and not speed or even architecture.
@user-gp6zo5en1s I never said cpus have timings, but it's the idea that not all memory sets are equal at the same clock speeds, just like not all cpus are equal at the same clock speeds. Also, in gaming, high core count doesn't matter that much. Even modern games don't really take advantage of that many cores. IPC, cache, and clock speed are more important. New games are made with a maximum of 8 cores in mind, but most don't even take advantage of half of that.
That build brought back some memories! It was around the time I built my first proper PC, using a Xeon E3 as a cheap Ivy Bridge i7 back in the days when Intel allowed their consumer motherboards to support server chips. And I almost got a 560ti, but held on a bit longer and went for a AMD 7850 instead. I was very happy with my choice as that thing was quite a bit faster. Can't believe that was all 10 years ago now.
I'm blown away on how close this was to my 1st build (looks wise). I had one of those blue colored motherboards from gigabyte, 870a-ud3 with a phenom 2 x6 1100t, gtx 560. I had the exact same wifi card! Janky wiring job like that, and a similar 1tb hard drive!
I've had that same case for almost 12(?) years.. It's served me damn well, although I recently took the side off and covered it with homemade mesh for lower temps.
Homemade *mesh"? What'd you use? My case is from this time period and i did the unthinkable on it. Side mounted AIO where the mesh was. Dropped temps considerably.
Awesome bro nice video 🔥👍
Define r3, great filters on it but cleaning it is such a hassle, specifically the 2 front fans, not to mention the drive cage is sideways so basically blocks most of the intake fans, had to clean mine out like 3 days ago
That fractal case aged so well!
Those fractal design R3 cases are the nuts.
I'm always happy to find Crysis 2 in a video. One of my favorite games, so underrated. Oh loved the video as always btw 😅
Crysis 2 was awesome I loved it and played it time and time again
Mine too!
It's an attractive game and I want to complete it someday. It's been so easy to run for a while.
It looked so good on the PS3. That was the way I experienced it lol
damn... what a nice winter you have there
Video was epic. But man why didnt you OC the cpu comon
Seeing builds like this makes me want to rebuild a i5 2400 build I had a decade back. 4GB RAM, 250 GB and 1tb hard drive and a GTS 450 that were eventually upgraded to 8GB, 250GB SSD, 1TB hard drive and a GTX 760 (That card was a warrior). Loads of things I could do with it too, maybe get a 2500K, upgrade the RAM further or see if I can source a GPU upgrade that I could've got as an "What if" upgrade path from the GTX 760.
These older Fractal cases are amazing for budget homeserver/NAS builds (if you get all the HDD-trays). But it looks like this one is missing all but one of the HDD mount-trays; shame! It also looks like an extremely early Fractal case based on the off-the-shelve-tooling look of the HDD/DVD cage.
I reckon it's a first or second generation "Define" case for the reasons you mentioned. Quite a shame that this one's been neglected and missing all but one of the drive trays. They indeed do make for excellent NAS/home server cases. I do believe that Fractal Design still uses the same drive trays in their more recent cases, so one could purchase more from them if need be. Might not be cost effective for a budget case, though.
I've been very happy with My Define R5, which has seen me through at least two complete system rebuilds/upgrades since I bought it in 2014. Very solid cases.
Almost 500K let's go!!!
Almost!
My second rig is an old sell optiplex 3020. Put 16gb of ddr3 in it as well as a sata ssd and gt1030 - it punches well above its weight., and quietly too (would recommend)
Great video as always! I remember my friend gifting me a EVGA Gtx 560ti 448 Core and it was my favorite card for years, such a classic
Yeah it’s an awesome old beast
Nice to see the previous owner kept this pc nice and clean!
Looked like my sisters old pc before i totally stripped it down and cleaned it....something very satisfying about cleaning a filthy pc mind and seeing the thing in prestine condition afterwards🙂
Seeing that BIOS screen brought me back to when I had a 3570 along with the z77x-ud5h, it held up quite well and I upgraded to a 3770 before finally recently retiring it and buying a whole new setup, i still have all the parts for it somewhere. It's such a shame to see the old 4 core 4 thread cpus are finally showing their age.
Yeah, that said 4 cores and 8 threads from the same era are still pretty good!
It's insane how long the q6600 held up for. Similarly sandy bridge and Ivy bridge processors. At least you know that they'll do fine in older titles. It's just the newer titles where they'll really show their age.
Im running a i7 2600 in a dell with a gtx 1650 as my htpc, still can get its game on when I want it to.
The worm spin-off was a great cliffhanger indeed
Keep rolling those dice on the "untested" machines......totally worth it for the gems that you find every so often.
Yeah absolutely
Some good parts in there so a good deal. i bought a pc a while back for $50 at a swap meet The mobo was shot but got a good 750 watt Corsair ps and 64 gigs of ddr4 out of it. Saved a few bucks on my 12100 build. Cheers!
the earthworm Jim cameo was priceless
Nice Silent Fractal Design Define case and modular Corsair HX power supply. Just a shame the case is missing all the unused hard drive bay trays and the modular power supply the additional unused cables. Though I get that's what you may need to expect when purchasing a computer with unknown specs.
I'm surprised the GTX 560 ti 448 GPU still holds up this well . Considering it's just over 12 years old and only has 1.2gb of VRAM.
you could say that this was one juicy episode
🤢🤢😂
My first computer has a 3550 and 560 ti, looking at this build, it bought back so much memory.
i love these types of budget builds, after all im a budget gamer😁
I used to have an Ivy Bridge i5 system and i really liked those gaming years with windows7 of course.
Those first gen HX PSUs are legendary.
Massively overbuilt for the wattage ratings, practically bulletproof.
I built 3 systems for my kids about 5 years ago. All were built with second hand parts, and all of them use i5 3570k's & 16GB of ram. They still use them for gaming today with no complaints at all. Still a solid CPU.
Pretty sure their days are numbered though. I have a feeling some 10th gen i5 systems will be required soon.
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Incidentally, their graphics cards are GTX970, RX570 and GTX1650 super. Still okay for 1080p.
Nice find! I have a 560TI running in my Windows 7 system with Intel Core 2 Duo q6600 & 4 Gigs RAM for some old school Games like FEAR, Dead Space, DOOM3 etc. works a treat!
Glad its not ewaste!!! These old comps and indeed this world deserves better than being sent to a dump...nice one!!!!!!🙂
That's pretty much how I'm using an fx 6300 and 750 ti. They're running some older games. One game I plan on running is a modded oblivion on Windows XP with that combination, just haven't gotten around to it yet.
@@ArtisChronicles I tried with an XP build but ran in to SOOOOO many issues, i think i installed the OS about 5 times before i gave up, so Windows 7 it was! Good luck!!
@@slob12 Yes indeed! It currently sits in a behemoth old NZXT case with removeable front fans i got from a parts deal a few years ago, i never throw stuff away haha!
Even if a part don't work still give it a deep clean cuz dust and grim can prevent Parts from not working. I've cleaned ram slots that weren't working that are now working and cleaning a socket made a unstable system stable.
first gen HX professional PSUs are beasts, I have a 750w from 2009-2010, and to this day it is still a very good PSU. From a 3sli 8800gtx, passing by a 3sli 480 and a titan Z to a 3070, this psu is not afraid of anything.
You should keep that PSU as it seems quite old and you can get a power meter and see if you can do an efficiency test. I do know a 10yr old PSU should be replaced as they lose capacitance.
Yeah I was wondering how efficient it would be these days
All depends on the quality of components used inside the PSU (mainly caps) and how the PSU was treated throughout its life, though saying that i’ve definitely heard a lot of horror story’s about corsair older power supply’s.
@@Joe-qs9fw Those HX V2 units are absolutely fine. It might even technically still be under warranty, given they came with a seven year one.
Man, I loved my i5 3570k, I had mine overclocked at 4.8GHz. It would do 5GHz+, but I was not willing to pump the voltage it was wanting through the chip to run those speeds. Surprisingly, at 4.8GHz though, it ran happy and stable for years slightly under volted. Then I got my current AMD Ryzen 5 1600X in 2019 for a great deal with a Zotac GTX 1070. Just recently found the limits, however, of the 1600X as it has met its match with the EVGA RTX 2080 Super I just upgraded to. Finding that the processor is holding back the GPU.
Haha, I instantly recognized this one from yesterday's worm video
😁
I have that exact case in my lounge, my colleague at work is into music production and just upgraded his music production PC. He gave me his old one. Hence those massive foam pads. They're to quieten the noise coming from the machine. Nice cases though and loads of drive slots.
Nice, a Fractal Design Define R2/R3 case, looks like :D
For these more educational videos it might be a good idea to mention the BIOS battery. Working with 10+ year old hardware often means that the battery needs replacing. They can usually last for around 10 years, so anything about that age probably need a new battery.
You can buy high-quality CR2032 coin-cells from GP in like 20-packs for cheap and it is a good investment since they will help the BIOS keep its settings even while unplugged from the wall socket. Need I mention that a dead BIOS battery can cause issues that might cause a buyer of these used PC's to actually throw it out, thinking that it is broken?
10 years ago I bought and build my first computer with that i5 and a ASRock z77 Xtreme 4 motherboard both still work and my sister currently uses it back in Portugal.... Love the motherboard 110£ I payed at the time I think, brand new and with so many features that on now days is only found on a 300£+ motherboard or more !
I'm surprised the lga 1155 boards are going up in price you can get new ones on aliexpress with nvme slots and usb 3 headers even bundles with ram and cpu for quite cheap
Nice one :)
Those components all worked, and performed so well that you'd probably be able to rebuild it into that PC and sell it as a working gaming computer! IMO, all it needs is a 128GB boot SSD (windows 7 would work OK on a hard drive, but 10 and 11 definitely prefer SSDs) and you're all set.
1:36 I bought a B550 motherboard for £22.50 that was sold as "untested" it was missing the PCIE x16 slot probably got ripped out on a mining rig but it still worked with onboard graphics and a 5700G.
Excellent find!!
Still have a system running a 3570k and Radeon 280X, which the grandson uses at our house. It might be almost 13 years old but still gets the job done even if the settings have to be dialled back a bit - quite surprising just how capable it still is, just a case of managing expectations really.
Yeah nice combination :)
Bahaha I got an old hp workstation with an i5-750 sapphire r9 280x and 24gb of visiontek ram that gets abused as a media tower mild 1080p gaming and serves triple duty as a space heater it's nice to crank her up for a movie marathon on cold nights 😁
I love your channel.
Watch out for that Worm lol
Still rocking my HX850, it powered a massively overclocked FX-8150 + R9 390 8GB combo for years without fail. Despite throwing away half of my parts bin recently I still have a 560 Ti somewhere :p
Try testing old power supplies like that Corsair HX850 from that PC with modern day powerful video cards, makes me wonder quite a bit about its functionality for high end loads even for power supplies with years in it.
That worm surprised me.
This man always give us new content then any other
@El Cactuar Grammer is not in my dictionary!
@El Cactuar Not Yankee nor French
@El Cactuar yes you can ! Because that's what you will be able to do right Now!
@El Cactuar I'm not just thinking of this ! If you think that I'm sorry for making you irritated!
good board to add a msata ssd.
I think i got myself also an asus like that, a few years back for a build. Sadly, it was broken.
"Use the work as thermal paste" a quote from a true unknown legend
The start/stop on first boot is memory training if there is a change detected or CMOS battery has drained. Quite unnerving for people doing new builds but perfectly normal.
560ti's were gems of a card. My buddy and I bought one, and we promised to give the other the card to SLI once it was time for one of us to upgrade.
I bought the 670, he got my 560ti for SLI. Same performance for both of us!
i actually have a Zotac version of that very same card! 560Ti 448 is such a cool gpu!
I just got to know is it really that nice outside there in the UK right now or is this video filmed in summer? I'm in Vermont USA and it's cold as heck.
This was amusing because the case looked a lot like mine, and of course it turned out it shared the i5-3570k as well! My HD 6870 seems to have given up, alas. The iGPU works a fair bit better than the 7300 LE I tried to replace it with, although I had to go back to XP drivers to get 32GB RAM working in PAE mode on 32-bit (seriously, it doesn't work in Vista?!).
The 3570k was legendary back in the day.... I still have on in the CPU drawer.
Played through crysis 2 first time round with my i5 2500 and a standard gtx560. At the time I really wanted this combo but the budget couldn’t stretch this far!
I think hard drives are still worth it especially since they're so cheap now. They're handy for files you don't access all the time.
Or backups
3:42 I'm convinced that the powers that be know all about your worm phobia and manifested that little guy. I mean, the way it all played out was just too perfect. The way it popped its head through the I/O panel (at least _I think_ that's its head) the very instant you removed the motherboard. Then the little fcker makes itself at home and slithers its way into the case like it owns the joint. C'mon now, you cannot tell me that wasn't planned! Especially considering that worms love dirt. Wouldn't you think it would move away the second it felt cold metal? Why would it journey any further?? I dunno, maybe I'm thinking about this way too deeply. 😂
Wait for testing ;-)!
So, that is PC which got that beastly worm in it. From short clip from yesterday it was - well, scheise, even I wouldn't do it again outside, back to garage when cleaning PC's it is.
3:16 it does look pretty cool!
Reminded me of my first PC with my GTX 570 Gainward with the same design. Was as loud as a vacuum cleaner and my CPU was an I7 3930k i think.
Never seen a gaming pc test turn into a Tremor's movie before
Great video, I managed to snag a i3 3rd gen Lenovo with 6gb ram and 500gb HDD for the bargain price of £23. I'm going to stick an i5 in it, upgrade ram to 8gb and hopefully make a small profit on it.
10:50 yup, had a 3770K and GTX570 back when BF3 released, i put more than 500 hours in it and almost all my money :)
Steve you could have used the worm to catch a fish, taxidermy the fish, mount it on the case, and sold the system as a bass pro PC. Missed opportunity 😂
Where do you sell on the parts? Do you have an Ebay store?
0:52 or you could buy some cheap vinyl, and make a custom case wrap! IMO parting out any PC should be only done as a last resort, as even the oldest 8088, if functional, still has some use, if only of the era.
Now that was a computer worm!
I don't know if it's just bad luck but me and a friend had our socket 1155 mobo dying around the same time last year. It might be related to prices going up.
"We'll meet you at the test bench" :P
Overall, a very nice system.
Speak about LGA1155, I recently played genshin impact, a preety graphics demanding game on just a lowest end gigabyte LGA1155 H61 motherboard, with 8Gb of DDr3 1600MHz and i3 3220 (without graphics card) and it's playable on intergrated graphics. I was suprised how powerful those old systems are
Mine struggles to run on 4x2 1600, i5 4570 and 750Ti on medium settings, it's pretty bad optimization at work here
You should have benchmarked Worms Armageddon, Worms World Party or any other worms game just for the meme. Missed opportunity.
These are nice worms, I like them. But I understand the discomfort since there are also parasite worms, very serious disease.
The worm adds an extra 5 fps
what are you usinging for benchmark?