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My best deal to this day was a system with an i7-4790k, 24GB of RAM, 500GB SSD, GTX 1050Ti with a 750W Gold rated Corsair PSU. I got the system for $100 back in 2017. It was a big gamble because I wasn't able to test it before buying it and the guy had no idea of the exact specs it had. He just said it was an i7 and had a 2GB graphics card. Ended up selling it for $500 less than two weeks later which let me pay rent that month.
I assume you resold said Pc for $3500 mid 2020-2021 😂… I’m kidding but also that’s what everyone else did lmao
Also a crazy good deal honestly
Oh those times when $500 could pay a monthly rent😂
Where do you live that rent was 500 bucks?
@@kgrayman XD I think people are misinterpreting "let me pay rent" as "it paid my rent". It only paid half my rent. Either way, I wouldn't have been able to pay it on time without the $400 profit it gave me.
Yes, it always amuses me how people seem to think "I paid $1000 for this in 92 BC, so it must still be worth $1000 today"!
lol funy you say that a working 1992 PC might actually be worth a lot more than a working 2010 pc . hell a working 1998 pc tends to be popular too for that mattter , for those retro games provided it has win 98 2nd ed installed on it and not win 95 , or worse win millenium edition.
@@DenverStarkey You are right - a beige box retro PC is all the rage now, when people couldn't get rid of them fast enough in the early 2000's. I remember giving away by Amiga 1200 and Sega Master system to a jumble sale as I had just got a shiny new PC in 1999 and they were now worthless...... How I regret that!
@@DenverStarkey Not really, newer the system more parts we have, that's like with guitars, those from 50-60 may be worth a lot, those after 90-ties? Not really.
@@wiziek guitars and computers are a completely differnt thing ... myself being a muscian i can tell you about guitars . and i enver said teh computers after the 90's were worth any thing . late 90's comptuers are kidna saought after in the retro market adn really old computers like early 90's, 80's adn 70's have gotten valuble as collector peices . since so few comptuers from those tiems stil function.
with guitars (and bass guitars by extension) it is all about the "vintage label" . vintage is any thing older than 25 years. when a guitar hits vintage age it's value starts going up depending manufacture . for instance old fender and gibson guitars go up and up the older they get , while rickenbackers plateu at a certain age . this is because rics are a bitch to get work done on. and when they get old they (rics) all need work. so depending on brand and model , eventually even guitars from curent year will be extemely valuble instruments.
what i can't wait to see (and i hope i live long enough ) is (mass produced) electric guitars that finnaly get tha Antique label . antique being 100+ years old. the first mass produced guitars by fender and gibson were put out in the late 40's and early 50's , so we go a ways to go there.
that said comparing comptuers to guitars is still abit off , because even a 2005 guitar is 100% capable of doing every thing a guiitar from any other year can do. while a 2005 computer really can't do much more than browse the web today . you certainly won't be playing the latest games on it.
@@Tech-Nerdrome sadly my beige box from 1999-2001 (i had upgraded some parts in it before retiring it as my main), saddly it died a firey popping electronic death after serving as my brother's PC for 2 years (2002 and 2003). one day the PSU just made a series of pops then caught fire ... it didnt' burn the rest of the PC, but even after geting another PSU the PC was electronically fried. the only components that didn't completely crap out , was the ram , video card and the sound card . every thing else was fried , CPU , HDD and main board. which i dropped into my grandma's PC so i could game on it when i visited her.
that was the first PC i built myself and i still miss it to this day.
it's final specs when it died:
AMD Slot-A Athlon thunderbird @ 850MHZ
512MB SDRAM PC 133
XFX Nvidia Geforce 4 4600ti (128mb vram)
Sound blaster Audigy sound card
LG DVDread/ CD burner disc drive
two 20 gb Segate HDD 7200 RPM
Every time I come to this channel, Dawid hits me with a new and obscure description of noise and or connector... "18th century Canal Boat" was not a sound I thought I would relate to... but now after hearing that fan... yes. yes indeed, well done.
I come for his descriptions for everything 😂
I bought my PC from marketplace. 500 dollars for a 10400f, 16gb of 3200mhz DDR4, 850watt super flower PSU, 512 GB Samsung 980 pro nvme, 480gb sata SSD by Kingston, and a 1080ti. No issues, very happy with the deal
Where what store? What was the model? Send me a link😊
He said Marketplace....like Facebook Marketplace.@@MoralKombato
@@MoralKombatoIt's called Facebook Marketplace, probably wasn't a prebuilt
That's really not a bad deal.
😮
I bought the non-wifi of that Gigabyte motherboard that came with a Ryzen 5 2600 for $70 Cdn total on Facebook Marketplace back in Sept. The bios was never updated so ended up updating it to the latest bios and still works pretty well on my budget build.
The die on that is so large because some 60 series 20 series cards towards the end are actually failed 70\80 series dies fused off.
Yes it's a TU104 instead of TU106, they perform slightly better I think.
Not overclockable but had weirdly great workstation workload performance in some areas. Look up the RTX 2060 KO
Have you tried updating the motherboard bios and retest?
You didn't mention it, but updating the bios and resetting the cmos may solve the non-boost issue.
Mobo needs a bios update for cpu to run properly. Then RyzenMaster to tune. Going with 3200MHz ram or higher would help as well. Front fan is doing nothing but recirculating hot case air and would be better moved to the rear for a negative pressure setup. You'll get higher FPS and better lows with a slight undervolt on that GPU.
Not all Zen+ CPUs can do 3200 MHz, memory controllers on these things were pretty terrible, and there is a fair bit of silicon lottery involved. 2933 MHz was the max officially supported for that generation, a lot of them could go higher than that, but not all. I had a 2600 that was absolutely rock-solid at 2933 MHz, but would straight-up refuse to boot at anything higher than that, and I tested 2 different ram kits rated at 3200 CL16.
@@FloppaAppreciationSociet-ds7zf - The only time I ever saw an issue was using cheapo mobos (like an A320/b350) or using early DDR4 which was rated for intel but not xmp. - Also, using ram which compliments the infinity fabric is a considerable performance boost.
@@ghosttheoremproductions5469 IIRC Infinity Fabric always ran at half the DRAM frequency on Zen/Zen+ and couldn't be manually overclocked like on Zen 2/3, it was likely one of the reasons memory support was so shit on these early Ryzens, even if DRAM controller could handle the frequency, IF might have not.
Many X and B-series boards actually tried to "fix" memory issues by increasing the SoC above AMD-recommended max of 1.2 V, and it did work, but it could lead to CPU degrading over time, so personally I never tried it. I remember Gamers Nexus doing a video on that. At 2933 MHz the mobo was reporting only 1.05 V with SoC left at auto, and 1.2 V locked was still not enough to boot at 3200 without crashing immediately after, so I just gave up, and settled on manually tuning the timings instead.
I just finished a build in the exact same case. Rx 570 and Ryzen 3 3100. $25 tower cooler rather than the AIO. Cooling worked great with 3 intake fans in front and 1 exhaust at the back (plus the top fan position empty for passive exhaust). Got the case and a collection of 7 mismatched fans for $30. Didn't look too bad in the end with rgb fans to spiff it up a bit.
gpu temp?
Who is Craig?
Why does he have a list?
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that's it, you're on his list...
He is Schindler's brother
Should he be on one?
I remember when CL first came out. There was a news special on the TV about how people were using it to sell drugs and find hookers.
The one thing I sort of figured out here is whole system has an airflow problem. There is only one fan pulling air in, and the two pushing out are pushing through a rad. So while the CPU temps are okay (they should be better with that thing on it), the rest of the board and the graphics card is basically choking on it's own vomit. One more fan at the back to pull heat out would likely help quite a bit to keep the gpu temps more in line.
Also as someone else mentioned, if you didn't you may have wanted to do a bios update on the motherboard, and perhaps install the "correct" drivers from the USB and whatnot. That might also help out a bit. When you were playing with neither the CPU or GPU particularly working, it seemed like the system had just eaten it's tail. Weirdness.
And the little front fan is pulling through that awfully narrow slit in the front panel. A new case would drop gpu temps dramatically I bet. I don't know why canada computers uses those crap things.
I’m still using this case for my build and the airflow is awful no matter what you do with fans, currently running 3 front intakes without the hdd cage and 2 exhausts and it still struggles, only way I’ve found to make it any better is to pull off the front panel entirely (which thankfully because of how cheap it is you can easily remove it without opening up the rest of the case)
wonder why corsair ditched the bottom intake they had on the older spec-03, my 1080 went from temperatures in the 80's to 60's from going from 2 to 5 fans, with one blowing directly at the gpu from underneath
nah gigabyte is just sucks all arround except their top of the line model. i will never buy their product again
@@jonboy602 this is why I don't like those cases with almost no airflow at the front. I had one before and even with a stock cooler, Ryzen 5 3600 was hitting over 90 C.
I changed to a Phanteks Enthoo Pro (allowing for multiple optical drives) and immediately saw a difference by 10-15 C, then upgraded later to a Ryzen 9 5950X and AIO. The AIO makes the R9 even cooler than the R5 on its stock cooler!
I think the airflow in that case is not good. Also it doesn't have a back fan?
Well AIO fans are also working as an exhaust so not fully necessary to have rear fan.,
@@Rentta yea i guess. But the front fans with the front plate doesnt seem to get much air in either
When I was running Ryzen 2600X in a Gigabyte B450 board I had massive instabiility issues out of the box, took until a few BIOS updates were released before things would run at the proper speed. Might solve the CPU issues where it's refusing to boost. I've got a PC now with the B550 version of that board with a 5600X that's running at a good speed and perfectly stable so worth a try if you ever revisit it.
It might be risky to use *too* recent of a bios since some boards removed support for older generations of Ryzen in order to add support for the 5000 series.
@@yasu_red Absolutely not how that works. CPU support doesn't get removed from BIOS of any kind on any board... newer boards just don't support older architectures. There was plenty of this in the mid to late 2000's and on, starting with Intel LGA775. You can't use older processors on newer boards (and vice versa), even if the socket fits, because of architectures... not BIOS.
@@x8jason8x In this context, @XxGorillaGodxX is correct. Specific to Ryzen 5000 some BIOS were updated to remove support for older Ryzen due to the sheer limitations of storage on the board itself. You have to be very careful with BIOS flashing due to CPU support for Ryzen because AM4 was so long lived.
@@achaerna.6662 No, he isn't.
They never remove CPU support from ANY bios. _Period._ Some _updates_ remove support. Some are _sold_ not supporting them. They factually _never_ remove support.
@@achaerna.6662 ... and it factually is because of _architecture,_ not I/O coding. SMH
The power usage difference between the two systems is quite crazy. In TLoU Craigslist used over 250W and the new one only 130W. It's not even full system power usage, but certainly gives you a good estimation about it. Power efficiency has certainly come a long way with AMD over the years.
Not a craigs list deal but I did find a ASROCK Z97E-ITX/ac motherboard with a i7 4790S with a low profile cooler and 8GB of ram all included for just $112USD. It was just the motherboard, cooler, ram and cpu but still this thing actually surprises me a lot with how powerful it is. Added Intel AX210 wifi card, NVME M.2 2242 SSD, GTX 1070 a friend gave me, and it's actually an amazing little system.
I'm normally not a big fan of sponsorships, but Micro Center is fantastic. I bought an open box 750w PSU for $70, with the 2 year warranty.
man, inflation be hitting hard when even Mirco Center is changing their $100 first time customer discount on the Ender 3, up to $150, when it was $100 3 years ago...
it was still 99 bucks 3 months ago now bidenflation has it at 150
I am almost certain the BIOS on the motherboard needs to be updated. I have the exact same board and it's been through a 2600 and now a 5600, and I've had zero issues.
(I didn't upgrade the board when I upgraded to the 5600. I am a college student, PCI-E gen4 isn't that much of an improvement at 1080p; at most maybe 5 percent, and my systems works absolutely perfectly for everything I need right now. Also AM4 is on the out right now, really no reason to buy another AM4 board. At that point I was better off buying into AM5)
I knew exactly what was up, literally went back to rewatch all the craigslist PC videos yesterday 😅
My latest Craigslist deal. Full workstation system with an Asus c422 sage/10g mobo, Intel w-2255 (10c/20t), 64gb ecc ddr4, Quadro m6000 12gb, Corsair 1600w (!) power supply, and a whole smattering of ssds (totalling 4tb) and a dual Intel x550 10g card (to complement the dual x550 10g on the mobo...) for $500 USD. This Craigslist post sat around for weeks before I found it and immediately jumped on it. Oh, and it came with a NH-D15 and a lian li O11D fully filled with Noctua fans.
The time it spends listed doesn't automatically equal "trash." I sold a beautiful all new build with, yes, that "cheapo" motherboard, but also a 5700X, 32GB of 3600Mhz RAM, a 1TB NVMe drive, a 6600XT, and a 650 watt Corsair PSU and cleaned up nicely with Asia Horse extension cables...$750 USD.
It took weeks to sell. The market you are in matters.
I had that same Gigabyte 2060 some years back, and found that the plastic backplate restricted airflow through the heatsink. Once removed, my temps did improve alongside a re-paste.
the new system wasnt really out performing the creggs list one but it was consuming only half the power for similar performance.
These and new prebuilt videos are my favorites. It's always unique and surprising what you end up with.
Thank you for a renewed faith in comedic value generated by simple timing, good humor and sarcasm! Love it !
I had that B450M DS3H board in a 3600 16gb 5700 build from 2019, it had so many problems for e.g. it would only let the GPU run HDMI not DP which was just that particular MB as my B650 PRO RS WIFI lets it use both just fine, and the B450 also had the first RAM slot die so I had to swap the ram over to slots 2-4, and the HID was buggy and only let certain Mice work no matter the driver and to top it off even more the layout meant you couldn't occupy all the SATA ports because 1 of them was right under where the GPU would go, but yeah it got the job done if you can call it that.
That's an awesome video, so good to compare old vs new and bring light to these people trying to sell off old stuff at the cost of what new stuff is.
I recently bought my first gaming pc off Facebook marketplace since my current laptop dies within 5 minutes at full battery. It has an i7 4770 16 gb of ddr3 ram. 1.5Tb hdd gtx 1060 and 600 w psu. It costs me 150$ plus came with windows 10.
12400f, 16gb ram 3200, 1 tb ssd+ 256 ssd, 6700xt for $1000nzd last year. love it to bits
Just got a good deal on a Facebook Marketplace Deal as my 1st Gaming Desktop! 5600x, Radeon 6700, 32GB DDR4 3600MHZ, 2TB SSD, 2TB WD HDD, for $585 absolutely love it and can’t wait to re-case it and really give it a deep clean!
Would like to see another similar video doing a value/dollar analysis using a single budget (~$1,000) across three PC acquisition methods: used, pre-built new, custom new. Keep up the great work, Dawid.
1:06 This is exactly why I ended up building my PC new part by part rather than settle. I bought a component every month for 4months. I bought two components on the 1 month.
Dis is de way.
Should have put an exhaust fan in the back. I would have and it would have been interesting to see the results.
Let's go, ive got a dawid does tech stuff video to watch on my conveniently timed train ride
Yeah the 2060 super always ran a bit hot. I had it in a case with great air flow and unless you did a manual fan curve in afterburner it would run over 80c consistently under load.
I got an RX 6800 off my local online marketplace for 400 euros in December 2022.
It was from a panicked hobby miner. I managed to track his "mining" adventure online and the thing was barely used.
Now it's pumping out 4K 60fps+ like it's nothing. lol
I so love this card.
I use CL a LOT and have for years. You are absolutely correct that there are some decent deals and you have to jump on them IMMEDIATELY. However, I've had great luck buying parts, reconditioning systems and then selling them on at decent prices. I don't gouge people and provide limited post-purchase support. It's not going to pay all my bills, but I do ok with it.
We suffer from the same Craig's List (DSVS - Delusional System Value Syndrome) here in the United States as well. I don't even bother to try because living in a rural area, the idea of driving an hour and a half to be supremely disappointed in the results is not much fun nor is it cost effective. Although, I am finding here lately that resellers like E-Bay and Amazon aren't much better.
Pretty good comparison, but of course a pre-built with the same specs as your new one would probably be several hundred $ more expensive than you paid for its parts so the CL special wasn't that bad a deal.
That Mac post and your comment about it made me crack up, to tears!
I bought my first pc on my local , $450 for 12100f , 16gb ram 3200mhz , rx 6600 , 500w psu with 500 Gb ssd nvme and good thing this pc just build like 3 months with new parts and all came with invoice, im pretty happy with it since i also wanted to build the same system and i also pretty new on PC, this aslo helped me save a couple more bucks to get a decent monitor.. and seller also gifted me his used mice and keyboard what a nice guy..
I been using it for 6-8 month rn this pc run everything at 1080p
I happen to have that exact model of the RTX 2060 Super and I can tell you that, honestly, it kinda sucks when it comes to thermals. The only way I could get it to have reasonable temperatures was with a combination of undervolting and a custom fan curve. It's fine now, but for a card called the "Windforce OC" you'd think it would have a better out-of-the-box fan curve...
Ditchit has been amazing-my online shopping is finally frustration-free! 🌟
Really nitpicky about cabling are we?
I would never have bothered taking the time for that.
I got a used hp victus 5700g/32g ram/6600xt/512gb ssd for $450, which was a better deal than the 5600g/8gb ram/rx5500/ broken ssd system I bought after that for $200.
Best deal for me.... i9 10900k, msi meg z490 unify, corsair 360 aio,4tb ssd, 128gb trident z ram, 4060 ti gpu..... $350 usd and only thing wrong.... cooler was hooked up wrong. CHA CHING! Had about 7 diff steals like that too.
I wish Microcenter would open up a shop in new eastern PA. The closest one is 4 hours away.
And one in Seattle or Portland
dang the same board and cpu combination when i bought these in 2018, as for that board its pretty more capable for what it is, i still own it and just have a 5700G in place now and been stable over all
I got a $500 pc that had a 5800x with a white glacier one aio, paired with a white b550 motherboard from asus, with 32gbs of trident Z (3200mhz), a ventus 3060ti that was spray painted, white phanteks case, non-branded 1tb m.2, and a bomb for a power supply(swapped it out for a RMx 750w from corsair i hadn't used)
IIRC those lower end Gigabyte cards had a plastic backplate and when removed will actually help with temps.
That's the exact 2060 super I have, it's in a box somewhere, but it always made noise if the fans are running at around 70%, so I just ran them at full blast full time. I rigged it up with a water cooler for a while with some heat sinks on the chips, but I've since put it back together.
Old listings aren't always sketchy. Got a tmx wheel for $90 because the box looked like crap and it got pushed to the second page. Brand new
I had 2 really good deals back to back. The first was a Hp Envy with a i5-11400 and a GTX 1660 Super for $292 during February 2024 from eBay. Was my first desktop that I bought was going to keep for a solid year or put the good parts into a custom build. I even got 32gb ram for $35 for it. Then not even a full month later I found a computer at a pawnshop. It had all sorts of initial issues. I bought it for $340 after negotiating it down from the original price. After taking it home, I found that not only was everything good nothing needed to be replaced. Just a lot of help from Google. It has a Ryzen 9 3900x, RTX 3060 Ti Fe, 32gb of Ram and 1tb 980 pro (That I thought died). As well as an Asus Motherboard and Power Supply. Sold the first 1 to my brother. I really could not be any happier.
That motherboard is a micro atx version of what I used when I got a small inheritance from a dead grandparent and bought the new at the time 1080TI, so yeah that is a preeetty ancient board
I had one of those Gigabyte 2060 cards and the coolers are junk on them, they run hot as hell, the heatsink part weighs almost nothing. You can crank the fan speed right up but that does nothing to help and makes it very noisy.
Just after a year one of the fans blew up so I put on a cheap AliExpress replacement which actually looked 100 percent identical, this saved me the tech support hell and all the downtime that would have occurred with having to send the card in for RMA.
"Luckily, the previous owner graced us with a clean Windows install..."
When buying second hand, never trust the installed OS. Wipe the SSD/HD and re-install a fresh one.
fresh sounds so weird man
2:18 Dawid subtly suggesting he has the power and grip of a Greek mountain God
9700k Noctua cooler 64gb RGB Gskill Ram MSI 3080 12gb 1tb m.2 NVME 1tb 2.5in SSD around 850w white Rog Strix PSU in a full size Msi case with 4 200mm fans and a 120 or 140 in the rear not sure what motherboard but I know it's not a super budget one for $850 found on local FB marketplace it was fully disassembled and cleaned at least once a year and was super clean when I bought it as my brothers first PC
Could we please get a MicroCenter in South Texas...? Preferably in the little city of Harlingen, TX.
Picked up an MSI laptop w an 11th gen i5 and a 2060 for $300 last August. I use it when going out of town or playing in bed instead of at my desk on my desktop. I love it and could still sell it for more than I got it for.
you shoudl install a exhaust fan on teh back of that case. i noticed it didn't have one ... that can help pull some heat off the back of the video card.
Yooooooo, caught the video within the first minute! never done that. Love the vids Dawid, keep up the amazing content!
🙂 what I do is pickup the really cheap beater pc's that are listed, the ones that say broken or needs work, its usually something really old and slow, i mainly pick it up just to have a project to do, its not really my intention to resell them. As for cleaning me personally everything goes into the bathtub and gets a good hot soapy wash down, and when i mean everything i mean everything.
@EconomyBreadfruit950 sure, normally what I do is use a motherboard that has a green led light on it, the led light lets you know if the power supply capacitors are charged up, I then turn off the computer and turn off the power strip, I then check the green led and waits till it turns off, usually the led light stays on for maybe a minute more, then for good measure I hold down the power button for a minute. Then it should be good to go into the Tub. The lazy method is to take it outside and simply take it to the back yard and lay it on the ground, then bring over your garden hose, stand back and drench that bad boy down really good, the water willl naturally disipate any remaining charge. After you wash everything, make sure you dry everything with towels then let it dry overnite preferably with an oscillating fan, u dont want any water to linger around because it mite cause rust. Also if its a nice hot summer sunny day u can lay the parts outside on a table and let the sun bake it. I've done it both ways depending on the season.
@EconomyBreadfruit950 Your Welcome, now more than ever its important to wash pc parts due to germs, for example to clean the motherboard pickup some painters brushes, some toothbrushes, and some Barber Brushes or Automotive Detailing Brushes, they are all very useful to get into all the nooks and crevices. Yes I try to rescue old working computers.
How does germs effect a pc? I would only be concerned about the dust and other visible contaminants
God i missed your videos, yesterday I spent the night rewatching your old videos
I got my first decent gaming laptop pretty recently, like 1,5 years ago. It was "used" acer nitro 5 with rtx 3060 and i5 in it. I got it real cheap since it had no windows installed and dude was accused of stealing pictures because people were stealing his pictures for their sales. Dude was fed up with the BS and sold pretty much brand new (40 hours of work recorded on hard drive) laptop for literally half of the price. New one with 15 inch and 3050 or 3050 ti still costs around 1250 usd and I got my 3060 17 inch 144hz version for like 800 usd. BTW I got Acer monitor as well and I have to say, Alma is very chill nowadays, only few little kinks and overall very smooth experience on that acer setup.
I just checked my local Craigslist and the best deal was an Alienware R11 for $700. I7-10700F 32GB ram. RTX 2070S. 2TB SSD
Best buy open box deals are a far better deal than anything you'll ever get on Craigslist
I wish Micro Center (or Centre) in Canada, like BC in particular and not just on the mainland, but Vancovuer Island too....
I used this exact mobo for a build for a relative, and I ended up routing a 3 way fan splitter up through the top/CPU area, and tucking it behind the fan (when it felt like staying there, anyway), to hide it as much as possible. The mobo's choice of fan header placement is...not great.
About the CPU's low performance, I have the exact same CPU and had similar issues. I fixed it by changing Windows' power plan to "high performance" or whatever it's called. It was a night and day difference.
That Antec Case in your intro. I have one of those in my closet.
I have that case. Glad to know you consider me, a complete stranger, a Greek mountain god since I always undo those by hand. I accept the standard gamer offerings of Doritos and Mountain Dew. Off brand is fine if you're in a pinch.
The AIO needs to be in the CPU header. It's the only one the bios won't set to idle.
Repasting a GPU because the case has inadequate cooling is unusual. Improving airflow would be the best first step.
The PC I built for my brother back in 2022 cost me $850 roughly. Specs were:
Ryzen 5 5600
32GB DDR4 3200
ASRock B550M Pro4
2TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 NVMe
RX 6600XT
Seasonic GX550 PSU
Gamemax M60 mATX case
So yeah your own new machine was fairly comparable. It's absolutely wild what you can do if you deal-shop for the holidays. Finding the board and CPU in a combo for $200 was... kind-of why I didn't go Intel? Kinda hard to beat. :P (otherwise it'd have been a 12600KF system)
9:09 after it's mild WHAT☠️
I consider it a deal, I had one of those AIOs with the pump in rad that clogged up after 6 months. So, rather than overheat my I7-11700F repeatedly, I got out my ancient laptop and prowled Craigslist for CPU coolers. I was kind of in a hurry.
I picked up a LNIB Scyth Fuma 2 Rev, B for $25. It's been doing a solid job for more than a year now.
I also had a situation where my roommate and I had to move, and I ended up helping him get a room for rent for less than half of what I was going to be paying at my new place - with a same day move in! Important, given that he waited until the last week of moving to even look... 🙄
That motherboard is used in prebuilt PCs often. Oh, the joys of Craigslist... Great video...
I've got that same gpu and a friend has the non-super version (for my hardware junkie testing pleasure) and even on an open air system, you won't get much better temps. not without some creative mods. that insulating plastic backplate combined with gigabyte straight up repurposing the exact same cooler from the non super (which doesn't have nearly the same struggles) I mean it's the same cooler. I've swapped them back and forth with unchanged results. still, the super isnt bad at all. I'm still impressed by the massive improvement between the two versions. same goes for all the 20 series "supers"
8:00 YES!! Lupus Nocte music!!
I got a fairly good deal, just after Christmas 2023. Hp prebuilt that had been upgraded. R5 3600/1650/1tb m.2 for a whopping 75$. Cleaned, and repasted sold for 350$.
I have the same motherboard Dawid! It can properly support the 2700X! You just need to do a BIOS update!
Most people in my area stopped using Craigslist to shop. I've tried to sell multiple PCs on there, and cross posted on Marketplace. The result was scammers were the only people responding on Craigslist while the PC sold quickly on Marketplace. Except in the last 4 months due to more economic owes the speed in which they sell is not so quick anymore.
All the PCs I sold in the last 4 years has either a 1TB to 2TB NVME SSD standard. The main problem I see with that PC besides storage issues is the lack of proper air flow for the GPU. That lone (cheap) intake fan up front is highly ineffective for a case with poor air intake that is why the GPU is running so hot.
i5-9600K, 2070 Super, Z390 Edge board, 32GB 3200Mhz.... $50. Seriously. Claimed it didn't work, he replaced PSU (so has a brand new CX750 in it) but said it would immediately shut down when powered on. He removed his various hard drives and sold it to me.
Took it home, plugged it in, works fine. I think it was one of his drives!
Nice find.
Maybe it's the steampunk in me, but that cabling looks lovely.
To be honest, they are on par with each other. If you call it a ripoff because it cost the same because it is used, I guess you have a point. But then again, everything worked right out of the box. If you like the aesthetics more with the system, I guess that would be a win.
I bought a wood chipper for $75 three years ago. A $600 unit that had a clogged jet in the carb. 20 minute fix. I use it quite a bit.
Oh, you mean tech on craigslist? The closest I get to that was an original IBM 5150PC that I bought last year for $100 from the original owner. Works fantastic and was kept like new with printer and color CGA monitor. I am a collector and thanked the guy profusely for the price and the condition.
Dawid doing Craigslist PC on video sponsored by Microcenter is the most Canadian thing ever (we don't have microcenter up here and we're jealous)
I had that model of 2060 Super for a short time. The card's shroud vibrated like crazy when the fans spun up, so I promptly returned it.
Canadian adventures in CraigsList.
BRO!!!! Location in my area?!?! FUCK YES MC! FUCK YES!
I cannot fucking wait and I’ll be sleeping on the sidewalk for that door buster! Excellent!
Love your videos bro! One of my favorite channels. I’m super stoked to see you really killing it.
Cheers!!
aww yeah a craigslist backyard alley knife battle video. 😁
I know a lot of people buy second hand, but I was burned twice. First, about 8-9 years ago, I bought a 560Ti. It was dead on arrival, but a friend baked it in some special oven and fixed it (I wish I was joking). Then, last year, i bought a used 3080 for $550. It died in around 11 months. Now, I traded in my old PC and paid on top of it (it was 9 years old) for a 4070 Ti Super brand new. I hope it will last a while. I'm not going to the second-hand market again. Be patient if you can and save a few more bucks and go with a brand new GPU. CPUs are pretty bulletproof. Other components, too, but GPUs can be abused badly, and it really wears them out.
My current system I’m using was a fire deal it was a ibuypower prebuilt with a i5 13600kf, 4060, 16gb ddr5, b760 with wifi mobo, 750w power supply and a 1TB m.2 drive and a 240hz odyssey monitor for $700. So far I’ve swapped the ram out to a 32gb set at 6000mhz and a RX 6800 gpu
What I would have liked you to do was suggest a price at which that used system would make sense and make it worthwhile.
I have that case... it works, looks okay and only cost ~30 GBP New. Also the power LED is as bright as the sun lol
My best craiglist find was a rtx 3050 for 10 dollars cause it wouldnt display but i just plugged it in and it worked with no problem. Still using it to this day
I am going to buy following PC from 2020 for 390€. (gonna try to reduce). What do you think?
Ryzen 3600x
MSI GTX 1660 Super
MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus
32 GB Aegis 3000 RAM
SSD 500gb 970 Evo M.2 pci
HDD 2 Tb Toshiba
Be quiet straight power 11 650W
CPU cooler: be quiet dark rock 4
Case: be quiet pure base 500.
Just when I'm feeling so down, Dawid's video shows up yay
Last year got a Meshilicious, SF750, i7-10700, 2060 KO, 64 gb DDR4 3600 cas18 and 1 tb NVME for $600.
when i was still a first time PC builder i got a Gigabyte B450M DS3H and Ryzen 7 5700 - saw it on a local marketplace and assumed it was a good deal. died after just 2 days of minimal use. only consolation was that i took it to the original store that sold it to me and they replaced it, free of charge. just annoyed at the thought that if i'd lived any farther away, i'd have paid RM1400 (like, US$350?) for a completely broken CPU and motherboard in 2024.