Buying a NASTY $120 Gaming PC on Facebook Marketplace
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2025
- Buying a PC second hand comes with its risks, there is the unknown of whether the PC fully functions correctly. In this case i purchased a budget gaming PC and the gaming PC had a bunch of dirt and dust everywhere, it was so nasty and i was not even sure if it worked. Oh well, Time to get to work!!
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I recognize that dent. My cat would lay on anything warm, and eventually, it would cave in like that.
Jesus, how big is your cat?
@@Lurch-Bot She used to be 13 pounds. It took a little while. Now she's bigger. ;)
my cat did the same thing to this case! I built my 4770k system in this case YEARS ago
Lol a case wouldn't dent from a cat laying on it. What bs. 😂😂😂
@@LawrenceTimme it’s a thin grate. It absolutely bends from a fat cat laying on it.
But carry on know it all
Impressive work. Just a hint for newbies here is a PSA: the fluid being used for cleaning purposes is most likely Isopropyl Alcohol which fully evaporates.
I dont know i kinda like the case for being very different and whacky, but then the previous owner butchered it and its missing 5.25" bay covers. Thank you for slapping a RTX 2080 Super from EVGA in there, nice to see EVGA still getting the respect they deserve.
With the way the lot of modern gaming is nowadays, I'm getting a lot of my game time in playing older titles and buying older collections. Nothing about this generation has appealed to me. Older hardware is more than likely how a lot of gaming will survive as modern AAA produces fail after fail.
Sad but true. The only AAA game I've really fallen in love with lately is Baldur's Gate 3. But you also don't really need anything too crazy to run it. Hell, it plays... OK on my steam deck.
Something very satisfying about refurbishing a nasty old PC.
I like your attention to detail. You want to do everything you can to help ensure the PC will go the distance for your customer. If I'm doing a build to sell, I make used components look like they're new. Refurbed a tar and dust encrusted 2060 a couple months ago and now it looks (and smells) super clean.
That computer was well worth the $200 asking. You got it for a steal at $120. I also got that exact MOBO recently from goodwill. Built my son a complete pc just to find out that the m.2 port(both) is known to not work on these boards.
That B450 Pro4 MOBO was an absolute feature rich budget beast for its time.
- 2x nvme slots (most budget b450 boards only had 1)
- VRMs able to handle higher end CPUs
- More than enough USB ports for the average consumer
I used to rock that case for quite a while. Got it when cube sized cases were a thing and my favorite part was that you could literally take off all sides (except the back) and it was basically a bench platform as well. Make it pretty easy to work in imo. I ended up changing out for a different case later on but it was still pretty awesome. The big gaping hole in the front would have been optical drives (or other items -- it's 2x 5.25) and if they couldn't get the power supply anchored down then they did something wrong with their cabling.
what case was it exactly? I'm liking it :D
@@szabidoki5750Cooler Master HAF XB EVO.
@@RobertPendell thanks mate!
Black and red extenders to match the ram with fan on red to match would be nice touch. Sick build though, Zen+ still a solid architecture too, flipped a few with 27 and 26s, the 2080s / 3060ti is a perfect match up, especially at 1440p
Dude, that is a deal for that thing. Cube cases are a love it or hate it type thing. I have no idea why anyone would choke off the ventilation like that though. The RGB power supply alone is worth about 80 bucks. You got a deal for sure.
Also the Cooler Master HAF XB Evo when a system is built-in it the way it designed for ; you won't need a Sag bracket.
"PC Rehab" hahah, I like this :D I'm not sure if I would take apart those MOBO radiators, I would rather save the thermal pads, they looked good. Also the AiO being good is exciting for $120. If you would change it, the video would be less interesting, because for $120 it was a great deal. What's the song @ 10:32? :)
well done young man. Love the looks of this machine. It does look a whole lot better then the original state you got it in. please be safe my friend.
I'm facing a bit of a dilemma right now, both my wife and I lost our jobs. We live in South Africa. So just before I was notified I managed to complete my gaming/work pc. The goal was to do some graphic design work as a side hussle in order to grow my business. The decision I'm struggling with now is which path to take, fully invest my time into finding another job or continue my passion of graphic design/pc building/content creation/streaming... Its such a huge sacrifice to make. My worst fear is that I would have to sell my pc in order to get by😥
oh no, i hear you my friend i have sold my computers many many times to get by. hopefully u don't have to. but just remember its only temporary computers are easy to get for hard working people i wouldn't stress it for now i would take the risk and fallow your passion. every success story starts with doing what is out of your comfort zone nothing every happens unless you push and try.
You can build a better pc later on, what's important is you have food, shelter, clothing, or have a stable job first.
You could build a budget rig for cheap just to get by if you have to sell your gaming rig. 4th gen intel hardware is really cheap these days and there is no shame in gaming on a 750Ti or even a FirePro W5100, which is probably the best $30 US GPU right now. Performs like a GT1030 but has 4GB VRAM. Also, the Lossless Scaling app is less than $10 US and it is an amazing tool for maximizing the potential of low end hardware.
its the specially designed power supply for quick asy removal
Also it's designed to let the PSU sit further back to allow more room for the cables.
you should put your youtube logo on the wall behind you and maybe make it rgb or something love the video btw your awesome🔥❤
I had that same old case back on my fx 8350 build i loved it i had 240mm xspc water cooling kit and 990fx sabertooth rev 2 with HIS 7870xts in crossfire that hotswap storage was awesome
The Cooler Master - HAF XB Evo ; one of my all time favorites.
I never noticed u removing the mob heatsinks & cleaning them before. Do you always do that?
Not always, most of the time the pads are in decent shape but in this case the pads were filthy so I figured it was due for a replacement
Amazing flip. I recently tried flipping Gaming PC's. I love doing it but unfortunately I can't find the deals you are able to. I am breaking even but not making any money. Wanted to save to build my ultimate Gaming PC. I will keep watching you and maybe I can win one in the future. Have a great night brother.
Honestly you don’t need abused deals, get the cpu from Ali express you can get a 5600 for 80 dollars in the us, if you really want to go budget you can get a machinist b450 from Ali that can be 50 dollars, get the sama argb q5 and then ram you only need 16gb try for 3600 mhz atleast 3200 and then ssd whatever is cheapest but for me crucial p3 is the most reliable ans then gpu since you’ve saved so much money else where you can order from somewhere like eBay and not worry about getting a huge deal
Honestly you don’t need abused deals, get the cpu from Ali express you can get a 5600 for 80 dollars in the us, if you really want to go budget you can get a machinist b450 from Ali that can be 50 dollars, get the sama argb q5 and then ram you only need 16gb try for 3600 mhz atleast 3200 and then ssd whatever is cheapest but for me crucial p3 is the most reliable ans then gpu since you’ve saved so much money else where you can order from somewhere like eBay and not worry about getting a huge deal also for psu i reccomend mag a550bn or a650bn
Nobody is buying pc's, right now really
@@TBRANN that’s true too but there is always a market regardless but it’s gonna take a while to sell not any holiday. Someone has a birthday everyday tho so you never know
@xyylas true, I just sold a monitor yesterday as a birthday gift. I've got brand new pc's, but they would rather go to micro center and overspend because they don't know what they're doing. They'll learn I tried to help, some people don't want it. Learn the hard way I guess
What a transformation! Great job!
I built 5 PCs in the same old tired Antec case until I bought an RX 6800. It would no longer fit. My PC looked as bad as this one but it was a very solid PC. I had upgraded from a 3700x to a 5800X3D and the RX 6800 was in my hand but wouldn't fit without cutting half the bays out of the case. The RX 580 it replaced had grown so long in the tooth it had to go. When I built the PC it was during the GPU shortage so I stayed with the old card. My power supply was always screwed in.
I put the PC in a new Fractal Design Icon Pop XL. It's huge. It's not ugly. I can air cool a 5800X3D comfortably in it and my RX 6800 fits nicely. I still miss my old "sleeper case". If my house got burglarized, nobody would have stolen it.
I love it when you Rehab dirty old PC 😂😂😂
Loved the build.go ahead.
That's not "filthy". I've brought home way worse systems that I found on the side of the road (bulk trash pickup). There was one, when I opened it, it looked like the entire insides of the computer were covered in gray fur. I opened up the power supply and you couldn't even see colors or tell what anything was. It was covered in so much dust that literally all you could make out were shapes. I didn't shake or blow the dust out, I SCOOPED it out!
Love that Montech XR case. Its the best for flippers
Tip: disk brake cleaner is great to remove thermal paste residue
Shoutout all the way from South Africa 🇿🇦
Hello, I've been watching "tpr" for a while now. I really like the content on the channel.
This is probably the most Space inefficient the 2000s case market has puked out.
Now they are bringing back space inefficiency with these aquarium cases.
Also, obviously, those rivets used to house an external radiator. GPU was probably water cooled.
ok ok ok, not pc related but man these soundtracks!! can we get a list somehow?? awesome soundtrack choices
Bambulab p1s is a great printer, and the Bambulab A1 is also pretty good
I would have kept that case and fix it up
What did you do with the old case?
the b450 and r7 2700 alone were the 120 id have listed it for 300 and gone down to 240
*Got a great deal on that machine, even if it was dirty*
Great job!!
Ive seen so many of those power supplies over the years.
Always make me cringe inside.
A lot of gamemax psus are terrible, but this one looks okay enough for the system. Not sure how accurate the 80+ gold rating is, but it has 70 amps on the 12v rail so it would be fine for the CPU + GPU in this build. It's really hard to tell what kind of OEM Gamemax uses in their power supplies so I generally avoid them if I can
That's not a bad setup. I've still got my LGA1150 ASrock..It's awesome
this thing looks like a combo of a printer and a vhs player
Cooler master has some weird a$$ cases.... some guy on FB Market place just GAVE me a long skinny one that's supposed to stake on top of others like a Guitar Amp stack. It's mini itx... so guess I now have to build one.
what are the specs on the ram?
The whole reason I clicked on this video was that weird case and find out he didn’t use it. I’m so disappointed.😊
Nice vid, cheers. Can you please send over that toothbrush: much better condition than mine that I use to brush my teeth:) 120 buckaroos is a banging deal on the hardware you got.
I have a random toothbrush but i found it in someones trash so you probably dont want it
Run Benchmarks, More Game footage at different settings. Explain the process of using everything as is but with a GPU. Love the videos!
The case alone, worth the money.
Is that a steamer trunk from the Titanic it's huge. You haven't seen my mods ro an HP Pavilion i riveted a 240mm cooler to the top outside of the case
It must be in the water, I picked up a similar system, ugly as homemade sin and all, this weekend for $150. Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB DDR4, 256GB nvme, 4TB very low hour HDD, 650W EVGA modular PSU (Gold), and a 1650 GPU. I get it, all he wanted to do was play 5M, and this PC does that well, but wow that case is letting it down, and a better GPU will really make it into a rock solid modern gaming PC. That is the problem with the "I only care if it works:" aesthetic, it can devastate the resell value. He was asking $200, had no offers for a month, so I lowballed $150 and he took it. I have a decent surplus ibuypower case to put it in that was only $30 with plenty of ARGB, that case has a decent OEM Silver 550W PSU I will use depending on the GPU I put in it, I am leaning towards an RX 5700 XT I have sitting around, if I do that I will stick to the 650W PSU. I only paid $50 for the 5700, and will still have the 1650 to put in the next Optiplex I snatch an i7 out of. I normally sell a 6th gen or ujp Optoplex with 1050ti for about $150 with a goodwill monitor keyboard and mouse, maybe $180 with the 1650.
Isn’t the AIO radiator mounted upside down…. Air could get trapped at the top…
oooooooooooooooooooooo first to see your video !!!!! Im excited to always see what ya got cause i think i look forward to your videos now more then anyone elses !
That is awesome to hear man! Glad you are loving the content! Hopefully you like this one as I am testing out a new editor, I think that the build montage could use some work but overall I think it’s pretty good.
@@ThePcRehab yes the editor is way better then before i hate the whole ( but wait he has no idea ) context cause to me it was pulling away from the actual content !
That first case had more character and appeal than that cheap montech you put it in.
I made $180 profit on that pc…I’m not saying you are not correct but it’s doubtful I would have made anything off the broken case it was in 🫡
The music, where did it come from? Also that's a big case.
What are u gonna do with the case?
What a steal, 120 bucks 😂
This PC is better. The Supply is not screwed in, it is screwed up....... Is it just me, or does it look a bit like a Laser printer ? This tape remembers me on this funny time, when everyone thought it would be smart to put foam allover the entire inner case, to make the system more "silent" but no one thought about it would simply take the metals cooling down function, so the only thing had happened was the fans were having more work and the case was hotter but due to the foam it remained the same, but the systems mostly were hotter.
But besides the ugly case... You really had a good deal for 120......
Takk!
Omg! Brother! You don’t need to do that man! The content is free! lol but thank you so much!!!!!!!
You think that's a dirty PC? You offering $120 for it was dirty! Good Grief🤦♂
With the case being that dirty, with massive dents and having no graphics card I suspect the £120 offer was likely the only one he received after the ad was up for a while. It's the kind of pc listing pc flippers look for. It's only a steal if someone is willing to put in the work on it, unfortunately most people aren't so pc flippers fill the gap.
Another solid build i think you should buy one 3d printer not just for sag bracket you can also create some little toy or something to make build more cool
Do you still have the case?
I had this exact computer case. horrible.
I want the old case!!!!!!
You need to flip the AIO tubes on bottom otherwise you will end up with air in the pump , gamers nexus has a video about this topic other than that great video
the AIO is just going to push air with the tubes facing up dont install them like that can overheat the CPU
When you first started what was your camera setup?
Like first started on UA-cam or in this video? My first videos were o. My iPhone
@@ThePcRehab what are you using now? Would love a video on your setup.
@@NuwksGG I currently use a Sony ZV-1F. Decent little camera for what I do. I would love to upgrade my current camera but they get pricy real fast
@@ThePcRehab agreed, I went with go pro hero 12 but kept going back and forth on the two.
I have a strong feeling, that you doing it on purpose,like switching the 20060 to 2080,not mentioning hdds!
Are there a test coming??
those are some nice drive sleds
Ryzen 3600x , mbo Strix b450 , 16gb RAM , 512 ssd , RX 5700 XT , cooler master 550w psu , cooler master case .... All of this for 300$ , îs a good deal ?
no, but tell me where is being sold.
Better price than my pc...
This was built by a Steam user who routinely cries about "Optimization" in the review section thinking that's the complaints forum.
Oh,i don't think you mentioned notebook "spinning rust" hdds...
Why?
I did not know they were even inside the build until I started ripping everything g out….hence why I never mentioned them but had them in the cleaning
You could have saved the old case as well. What was wrong with it except for that light dent?
Massive rivet holes all throughout the side panels as well as missing optical drive cage covers.
Ugly? Shut yo' mouth. It's a cube. Cubes should be more common. If you mean the weird "mods", then I understand. I've had a HAF XB for my main desktop for around a decade. Some of us don't want RGB.
it is not ugly, it is horrendous and has one of the most weird shapes i have seen in a case, it is not a cube, it is cant go horozontal, it is a weird cooler master experiment
No rgb is a plus
@@WeatherMan2005 so you cant see the inside or it hidden in the dark 😂
@@betag24cn i can see it sure. Mine has some lights inside but they are not rgb
Nice build, imagine with a Ryzen 5 5600X3D/Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Im sure you would get even higher avg. frames rates and 1% low.
Wtf i didn't know that you can shoot liquid on the motherboard to clean it up ! What kind of cleaner is that ?
I think its 99.99% isopropyl alcohol.
And amd still give you nice upgrade path and a x3d upgrade will be so great
In Belgium (Europe) , the system u bought would go for + - 350 euro on a second hand website. I tried pc flipping here and it is not possible. Tried 4 times , pc's different price ranges. All the pc channels like this are from America.
Thank you
lol junkie trash can 100 years ago :) that made me laugh lol
I've seen gaming pcs around $150 that were filthy dirty on FB marketplace.
As a tech I count on 1 hand how many PC's I've repaired that didn't come in disgusting condition, and most were built by Gamers who think the work is done once it's together.
Man, I was wondering where you had gone. I was unsuited for some reason. Weird.
Same psu as me.but iav got the 1050 watt version.
Dang thats $50 cheaper than a system that i bought which was a generation older
I'm pretty sure that price is fake, is too low to be true.
@@samogx86 the price of the system in the video or mine?
@@WeatherMan2005 The price in the video.
@samogx86 well i suppose it sure could be but idk
@@WeatherMan2005 Just the PSU, RAM and M.2 could cost more than $120.
Hey, don't hope the AIO breaks. It just wants to work. 😢
Lol
the rivets seems to be to add another radiator or for some autistic or obsessive reason where the owner did not understood where to mount hard disks, fans or why there was a noise somewhere that rivets fixed apart from bending that pannel, it was the psu not being screwed or the pump i bet
Wish that case had been saved!
2080S nice, decent PSU for the price. They saved money on PSU screws xd.
if you dont want the cooler master haf xb case, Ill take if off your hands.
120 bucks for that is insane HAHHAHAHHA thats a steal
Yeah it is!
oooooo that looks sick !!!
fande ihn vorher besser , jetzt sieht er aus wie jeder andere pc den jeder hat :D
UGLY??? Wtf. Thats is a GREAT Looking case.
it is a old style vhs shaped ugly cooler master case that is too big and has a too weird shape
Other than the damage...
Oh,and while using toothbrush is useful,just know - there's a special brush for it.
you can use any toothbrush to remove dirt from any piece of aluminum
the motherboard itself only has problems if you are not grounded, and i have used one when not grounded and have not done damage to anything in decades doing it, not telling you to do it, but im telling you it is the oeast important of the problems when building a pc
Toothbrushes are easy and cheap to get
@@WeatherMan2005
But destroyed easily,and leave "hairs" afterwards, while special brushes are not!
@DuneRunnerEnterprises ok and whats the price/availability of them
@@WeatherMan2005
Nah - cheap,look for "esd brushes", with the long "hair", black ones.
Mmmmmmm ultra budget good food
All this for 120$ It's steal man😅😅
i love the old case send it to me please!!!
get some aquaphor for your hands
I like the CoolerMaster case.... can some give me a name of it? =D
I have a case just like that, with windons on top, haf xb evo
Just curious as to why you continued to keep the (4) Stick Ram Configuration, when 2 Sticks is better to run in Dual Channel Mode?
it is minimal the performance loss, you want to have 32 gbs these days, try it for yourself, i am telling you that it is hard to see the difference
@@betag24cn I'm currently running 32 Gigs of Ram in both my Gaming PC's but each Setup is 2 Sticks of 16 Gigs running in Dual Channel Mode. Thanks
If he was reusing as much parts as he could he saves money
Letsss gooooo!!!!
wait you didnt say anything about where you were with selling anything or where you where with your budget !!!
This is not a build up challenge flip ;)
@@ThePcRehab oh
I just sat down to have breakfast and your video popped up so glad I have a W video to watch