I went looking for PC Parts in SCRAPYARDS in Taiwan...
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Scrapyards, some say these are the epicenter for getting a deal... and after today I certainly have to agree. Where we go through some places that are quite far out of Taipei and look to see what PC parts they have - mainly motherboards and Hard drives, since the other parts, like CPUs and GPUs are usually melted down for rare metals.
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#usedpcparts #techyescity #hustle
Now this is my kinda place.
It's the "Trash YES City"
Or in my eyes, Golden Ticket! XD
This was essentially your trip, Mr. Tech YES Man.
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i wish that i was a madman like him
Lol
Me too so long as I'm not forced to work there and burn the parts to retrieve the gold
there is an area of Seoul SK with tons of resale/junk shops, it would be awesome to see someday
Sadly a lot of times people throw away PC's simply because their OS isn't working like it did when it was new. My neighbor threw away a perfectly good laptop a few years ago, one that was socketable and about a 2013 or 14 model, and the ONLY thing I found wrong with it was Windows 7 was completely locked up from viruses and junk/malware etc. He had stuff pilled up in his truck ready for the dump when I happened by and offered my help. I instantly noticed 3 printers, several old TV's, two computers and a monitor thrown in his truck along with lots of other junk. I took the printers (all sold together on craigslist for $100) and kept the laptop and monitor and upgraded it with Intel wireless AC and a SSD + more ram and a much faster CPU. Total upgrade cost was about $70 considering I already had a spare Samsung 840 Pro SSD. The stuff people throw away jeez. Oh, and my Father just threw away a HP 7520 AIO printer all because it had a paper jam (not joking).
I used to get everything like this too. Furnished a home with stuff people discarded once, complete with two workstations. I had so many computers too, which I fixed and gave away.
That's how I found my gaming laptop
Neighbor threw a way his laptop 3rd gen i7 8gigs of ram all it needed was a new hdd
After that I added a egpu dock and a 1060
Still works great till this day
I'm always on the lookout for hardware
So far I'm up 10 pc's 2gen i3's ll the way up to 4th gen i5's
People will throw away anything
Specially rich people
My buddy went dumpster diving found a perfectly good working intel nuc all it needed was a fresh install of windows
Workplace at dominos is upgrading the computers on the 3rd. I’m gonna score 2 core2duo hp computers (ain’t much). They were a bit slow in the store but those fuckers were never cleaned out.those will be caked(and are) in dust. I think a clean up and they will run fine for some old PCs. I don’t expect much from the gpu because they would mainly need the cpu power from just running programs not too intensive(just under strain during heavy loads)
It's insane when u think about it. I got two Server Computers with ivy bridge Xeons cause they "didn't work anymore".... On one, the sata cable of the Hdd was lose and on the other the PSU was dead. So i got two dual Xeon Systems for free.... When u think about the fact, that those Processors were about 1500US each back in the day... PRETTY LUCKY DAY
I've gotten 1 desktop and 3 laptops that were "broken" and got them working. Desktop needed a virus scan and more ram. Laptops needed new batteries, ssd upgrades, and ram. The people gave up and bought new computers, let me keep the "broken" ones.
Always remember to scan old hard drives for Bitcoin wallet files ;)
🙏😱
Or pr0n
@@bitelaserkhalif I would have died if you didn't censor the o
Hey, Marco! You're amazing for finding those places!
Thank you! Stay tuned for Round III in 2020. There's more to come! I always note down anything I find over the year.
Marco *POLO*
So this is what aliexpress means by tested and 100% working in the description . thx for taking us with u . these parts needs some tech yes lovin keep up the good work . u deserve wayyyy more subs man wayyy more
Considering information you got on that HDD, it solely paid for trip and all, that information is that expensive lol.
Btw we have a similar flea market in Serbia on fridays and saturdays where you can get your weekly dose of trashed tech from Germany, Austria, Sweden etc, basically small scrapyards in its own.
Smugglers: Drugs
This guy: PC Parts
Me: new tech porn!
@@FodrMichalych Привет, Фёдр. Как дела? (=
@@TitleTheTitle норм!
Lol, Your comment made me Invision a really cool blow style movie starring Brian where he smuggled drugs In used gaming PCs all over the world.
Airport security watching the this guy's luggage go through the x-ray: everything looks like a bomb with PCBs everywhere.
i got a 750 ti for 7 usd and i felt so proud, i feel like your videos are finally working for me
Omg they sell gt210 for 50+ USD HERE
cuentame más, tell me everthing pls
Gr8 deal
Everyone else flying in on Monday for computex keeping their hands clean in the Hilton bar.
Tech Yes out there days before, down and dirty in the mean streets, bargaining with the used metal hustlers!
Tech YES!
As someone who dives for used parts all the time, i love this.
A note for the kingston life time warranty. It is covered as long as they still have available ram sticks to replace them in stock. I had a conversation with one of the warranty guys on the phone, they did also replace an old DDR2 1gb 800mhz ram stick that died on me from an old pc. They will ask you to send in the faulty ram stick also, but I didnt have to since it was DDR2 and they just wanted to get rid of the last few sticks they had.
OH BOY! 360 GOODNESS! HELLO HQ RESOLUTION FROM 2007
whocares
Bob S. Stevenson about you? Exactly
@@WorldJustice5 people write it on every vid m8
i bought a used gaming rig a gfew months back and the guy didn't wipe his SSD, it had, shall we say, compromising pictures of him and his girlfriend on there...Plus Steam, Email and Premium Spotify accounts all logged in.
Did you message him? Y'know just for shots and giggles...
@@tristan6509 Yeah I sent him a message saying I was listening to his spotify playlists. I didn't mention the pictures, to cringe worthy. I also warned him about not wiping stuff if he ever sells another PC.
send pictures now for scientific purpose
Sounded almost like if you were going undercover, still very interesting, cant wait to see the previous video. I like the way your eyes spark when you are in the hunt, that and the color make them look even better.
That Tech Yes City music playlist, where is it? Music is always on point new aswell as older videos, goes really well with the always happy positive attitude with everything. Awesome video, thanks for making this and sharing! 🙏
This is awesome! We have junkyards around me in the states called "U pull it", which has the same setup. It's nice to do if you are handy, as you can work at your own pace and often get all the little odds and ends that usually get thrown away, like interior pieces or something as simple as a hood prop. Sure you could buy new but why when you can the fully functional OEM one for 1/4th of the price.
They're kinda like Free Geek here in the states and Canada. Free Geek is a non profit tho, aimed at supplying the community with affordable electronics. They're also an awesome place to find specific retro pieces and parts.
I’ve had some really good finds in scrap yards! An lga 1366 mobo with the i7 950 still inside, a Corsair Stryker case.
10+ year old cpu. Eeekk
I was in Taipei city back in 95. It’s amazing how they have dedicated areas arranged in several blocks with common electrical items such as cables, motors, electronics and so on. You just tell the taxi driver what you want and he will take to the specific area that only sells the item you are looking for. A real eye opener.
Oh yeah. Since Guanghua is for computers. I've been calling everything else 'Guanghua' to mean specialised shopping district.
Wedding dress Guanghua on Aiguo road. Car Guanghua on Chengde road, Jade Guanghua on Jianguo......
Hey Marco,
thanks for the trip man. You are cool
Thank you!
I wish we had places like this where I live then used PC Part hunting would be so much fun! Great Video :D Keep up the excellent work!
There are Ewaste centers all over the world do some research you will find them.
our scool it class got a heap of dell pcs from dump
TheCooperman666 Aye still searching 😁
Amd Ulkoinen also not a bad idea, do some Junk Yard Diving 😁 Just need to find out if they are accessible as majority of those types of places here are kinda locked down.
@@twothermal you either have to get a permission or be sneaky
I remember installing a Windows 7 crack then upgrading to windows 10 for free for a 100% legit windows 10 install
Here in the Philippines there is a huge market for surplus computer components and systems. Almost all of them come from scrapyards and recycling centers like this, with most of them originating from Korea, but parts from Japan and Taiwan can also be found too. There are thousands of internet cafes and businesses that run with imported computers or systems built with used components. From motherboards, power supplies, graphics cards, laptops, monitors, peripherals, you name it. Almost anything computer related that's used can be bought.
You can pick up a used mining RX 570 for around 70-80 USD, motherboards from 775 to 1151 for 30 USD, or even a 500-600w power supply from a name brand such as FSP, Seasonic, and others for around 12 USD or less. Now these may not sound that good of a deal to those who watch this channel on a regular basis, but take note that there are so many shops here in the Philippines that sell these components making them extremely accessible and readily available. Even those who live far from Manila (Where most of these shops are) can order them online via Shopee or Lazada (Equivalent to Ebay, Amazon, Aliexpress) for the same price plus maybe 1-2 USD for shipping.
Where is this market?
@@rencm04 Ah sorry. When I meant by market, I mean that selling used computer parts is a big business in the Philippines.
But to answer your question, there are many shops all over the country where you can buy parts. Places such as Gilmore are a good example. However, the best deals can be found online on Tipidpc.com or Facebook Marketplace. I would suggest looking online first before buying as that's the way to get the cheapest prices.
From about 15km far from me is also a scrapyard, it's a tech guy's paradise. I know the owner and I just LOVE going there from time to time to check the PCs people throw away, I've found pretty awesome retro tech.
What's it like moving pc parts on aeroplanes/ travel?
I have more problems with the asshats that throw luggage around than security. Security has literally seen EVERYTHING. They know what motherboards and hard drives look like in xray.
TAIWAN IS TECH CITY
I once had a DVD writer in my checked bag, and the guy at the x-ray asked me what i had in the bag, but as soon as I told him about the DVD writer his colleague said, "those look ugly" and everything was cool, they didn't even ask to have a look inside
gratzz to you and your friend, nice prespective of those places that we will never see, speaking from portugal ;)
Now I understand why motherboards from aliexpress are always slightly rusty/dirty.
Cause it's bloody humid here. My drill bits turned red after 6 months of being here.
But the things on AliExpress are from China not Taiwan
@@loserbear0103 Some people from Taiwan do sell on Aliexpress and Alibaba. Some people from Taiwan do send those motherboards to China for either recycling or resale as well. But yes. It's humid as hell here in Taiwan as well as southern China.
@@MarcoGPUtuber I agree with the humid part.
The humidity is always above 70 in Taipei
Boy I live in 淡水 (coastal location) and I swear my graphics card didn’t have this big of a 2cm rust stain fours months ago
Theres a Chinese guy that sells out of his house in the same scrap yard(Garages under cover), He is in Burwood NSW. He also has working cyrix, Pentium ones, old servers, 486, 386 everything new and old.
Oh i love that store. I bought about 55 vintage CPUs. Saved from the horrible hell of the smelting factory. They're worth much more than their weight in gold. Gonna pick up more later.
Scrapyard searching is my dream, but my local scrapyard won't sell anything.
Yeah same in aus, they block it all off....
I haven't tried it yet in the Netherlands but I am pretty certain that a recyling center would send me away. It would be fun, saving old hardware from it, building systems, selling those for a fair price and helping the environment, the buyer and myself in the process.
Us asians will sell anythinf. Need a kidney?
Mike Dg and I’m sure it’s not your kidney either 🤣
@@techyescity Try Ewaste ben in australia he has a youtube chanel he scraps pc's, servers, laptop's ect he buys and sells compters as ewaste scrap. He allso runs a business called 'Boardsort Australia'
$3 1tb harddrive would make a great free Nas system
Wouldn't that be kind of risky though?
You can assume thise hard drives are at least 6-7 years old and add to that all the bangs and drops they suffered during transport and while stacking , i wouldn't trust anything important to them.
Verliebt yeah maybe best for steam game storage or back up of back ups
I was wondering why so many second hand motherboards from the east had all their vrm heatsinks removed. They are being taken for scrap.
A lot of cheaper boards don't even have heatsinks. The VRM isn't producing that much heat that one is needed, only a bit of airflow will do the job aof cooling.
I’m quite aware. I was talking about p67,z68,z77 etc. boards that I know came with vrm heatsinks being sold on eBay and similar from China and the like without vrm heatsinks on them. Listed as refurbished usually.
I go to my local recycling centre all the time in the UK I have had some amazing deals on used parts and everything they sell is 10 GBP so I've built some really good machines on the cheap love the scrapyard :)
THIS! This is the Tech Yes content I like to see. Would also love to see what those final configured "gaming pc's" used parts are, prices, and game benches next. Was that a Maxtor drive I saw ??? Those were my "go to" HDDs back in the day.
just a fun fact. if some motherboard dony post or anything at all. wrap most stuff in foil except the chipsets and bake them in the oven for 7 mins at 170c (200c if first time doesnt work) alot of boards have lose north/soudbridge solder joints and this would probs fix it too
This is where i get a lot of parts for resale, my local scrap yard. or night before garbage goes out,
take a drive and see what's outside waiting. surprisingly most parts i find do work.
best deal i ever got was a EVGA 1070ti for $10 2 years ago. think i got $100 for it which was a great deal at the time.
Big thumbs up to Marco who translate all those great deals.
Thank you!
Very awesome Brian! Big props to Marco for helping facilitate the transaction!
Thank you!
Check the AsRock board again with both sticks in it and look if the amount of RAM is right. The board probably just used the memory installed in B1 and didn´t recognize the stick in A1 as it´s probably dead.
A lot of dual channel boards will want you to fill the 2nd slot first.
Loved your idea to venture off from computex into the junkyard ! Very original fun and refreshing !! If I'm in Taiwan ill go do that
"here's a screwdriver, pick and pull"
Thanks Marco, this fascinating video wouldn't have happened without you! This was a lot of fun to watch.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video. The very bottom end of the tech market. Eat your heart out LTT
Great video Brian,thanks ! Like these longer format vids
This was cool to watch. Did you see any Z400 mobos/systems? :P Totally unique take on the typical computex taiwan content across the tech UA-camr space :)
Taiwans new tourist attraction: scrap yard hiking!
Search for "re PC" if your ever in Seattle Washington. I past thru a few times a year for work and always make a point to step in there.
I love your channel, you are a real enthusiast ready to go even to a scrapyard to do a build!
As a computer repair technician..Thats HEAVEN right there (for me at least) ma mouth waters😂😂😂
15:42 Brian the business spy from Tech Spy City 😂
I've had that ram issue on an Intel H55 board before.
Good parts hunting!
I'm a Taiwanese. I don't even usually enjoy dealing with scrapyards business people. They are sometimes not so friendly with outsiders. You and Marco were doing so good.
Thank you! It helps when you know the language and they don't have to deal with an arm-flailing idiot pointing and grunting because of the language barrier.
Nice deals. I Like those parts. As a tech enthusiast I'm happy that you saved them, and someone will be happy to use them.
This video was awesome, thanks for all your creative ideas you put into videos
“I used the clothes that were dirty to wrap the parts for cushioning...” nice! You brought back a bunch of BO Boards lol
The 15 dollar X79 build I got from my local recycling center that I thought was totally dead finally is finished. Based tech god, couldn't have done this truly wild and unpredictable build without you chief.
when youre selling stuff do people question the xeon chips? How do you market it?
I also wondered this a lot
Just advertise as "equivelant to i7-xxxx" then people know what kind of processor they're getting
very cool content and I look forward to seeing some builds with these boards.
I got an old PC from a scrapyard recently but they're actually not allowed to sell or give out anything. Still on the lookout for proper places that sell PC junk in Austria, all I know of is a center that already resells old electronics which I haven't checked out yet.
Welcome to my world, i only get CPUs most of the time though :)
Sometimes i pick out high end boards, but usually they won't let me open stuff myself here (austria)...
THE OLD INTRO YESSSSSSSSSS! thankyou
sapphire nitro + vega 64 higher video playback and gaming on 1080p monitor makes 1440 and 4k videos and gaming pop . virtual super resolution enabled its really good i don't see anyone
talking about this setting but highly recommend turning it on .
Should do it in USA or Canada if you got a chance i found a full gaming PC in my scrapyard worth about 750-800$ paid 150$ for it
and great video!
Specs?
@@usamahhoosen3593 Intel i5-9400 2.9gz Geforce GTX 1060 3GB, 1TB , 8GB ddr4 pretty basic build better then nothing
@@Onegamex that's not bad. What was such a recent build doing in a scrapyard though? 9th gen processor
@@usamahhoosen3593 yes Motherboard had chip problems i fix it easy i guess the last owner thougt its was dead sadly and trash it
Do you carry cpu covers for LGA when you go MB hunting?
Great vid once again. What test bench do you use, if I may ask (14:18)? Cheers
Since I have an access to the "pc scrap room" from where decommissioned PC is going to the kind of facility rhat can be seen in the video, I'm usually getting those kind of parts for free, generally there are mostly socket 775 that I can't see a point in taking, from time to time I'm finding 1156, 1155 custom PCs and oftenly a dell or lenovo prebuilds with 1150 socket and an i3 4th gen, usually without the memory or storage drive, but still worth taking.
This reminds me of the Ebay sellers that sell "recycled" computer parts. They are always called like "Green Tech" or something along those lines.
Great vid! Love watching these kinds of videos! Keep it up!!!
I hope that you have a decent eye for rare retro parts like 3DFX cards and certain high value isa sound cards as they can easily sell for hundreds on eBay.
Marco, 谢谢你找到那么好的地方了 keep these videos coming!
您也好幫看他的影片! 不要忘記看明年的影片! 謝謝.
Good work guys.
Those places look Iike my backyard 👍
4:32 Tech Yes Scrap Yard~
One good thing about computing hardware/software not taking major leaps forwards is that it allows the rest world to keep up.
I always thought the Taiwan/china recycle centers would be like the literal gold mine of old pc parts... but that looks just like the ones i have around here. pretty cool!
I've been doing this for a few months now. My recycling center receives mostly older machines though, I've only found one lga1155 motherboard so far
Do you offer warranty / service on your used builds when you sell them on? .... I always get people asking me if the PC has warranty and giving me aggro over the fact that it's built with used parts etc. So just wondering how you deal with that? Cheers and another great video.... going where no other techies dare to, just get the bargains.
In a previous video (Believe it was the one about how to sell Pcs) he did mention that he does offer a free warranty included with his builds
Another nice finds! Gosh I want to do this as well. And that HDD that has Nvidia and AMD business files is looking like a good deal. I think you checked every single one of the files inside that HDD.
Cheers to Marco.
Did the electronics give you any sort of trouble on both airports Bryan? Inspection or weight limits.
Nice video. ^^
Thanks!
I love how you use always i wish i was a madman song quietly in background before intro
at 6:37 I'm almost 100% that is a Kingston RAM module. I only know because I have sold hundreds of them on the bay! Then you show it on-screen like 10 seconds later. :)
What's up Marco! Nice work!
Thank you!
The reason people don't delete there hard drives I'd guess is because the recycler probably not supposta sell any of the stuff; most are contracted to only melt it down for scrap.
MHDD! Lejend!!! I used that a lot back then to test the HDD!
And of course you got lucky because you pick them on the right spot, their homebase, Taiwan LoL.
Tried to look for such a place in Melbourne but couldn't find one (don't know many people there) but here in Pakistan we have these PC junkyards where you can score awesome psus or coolers for less than 2 dollars :D
Nice video man!
Pls do a video OCing a x3440 on a cheap 1156 mobo. I have a x3440 3.0 with an asrock h55m lite. Idk if the mobo can handle more. Need some advice.
ASRock ARE the Kings of OC !
ASRock P55 pro gave me 3.99 easy out of X3440,and kept working at this frequency !!!
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises You mobo is way btter than mine man.
Almost the same motherboard I used to have, it was GA-P55A-UD3 and difference is, it has mosfet heatsink and it's P55, where as that L version doesn't and is H55 chipset, despite having P55 ini the name.
fantastic video, I don't think any other tech channel has done this. Several PC's worth of mobos for the price of one!
Bryan, just a recommendation. If you ever buy a hard drive again and see that there's still data on it, it's better don't ever look at it and wipe it right away. There are things in this world that you really don't want to see. Trust me, I've been through this and some of the things I've seen still give me nightmares.
Intel Q9650's seem to be selling well right now. Its LGA775 but still seems to run pretty well. Ive got one running my Linux Lite machine with a 500gb ssd, XFX Radeon 550 2gb and 16 gigs ddr3 1600.
Wendell (Level1Techs) told about him having built a lot of systems with hardware from recycle centres when he studied computer science, to earn some money.
you can make a good business re-selling these parts on eBay tbh
If they don’t do this already, when TYC flies into a location for a show they should hunt for parts to build their editing PC. This could badly backfire and lead to slower editing, maybe more costs, but it does back up some of the themes of the channel.
Hey @techyescity, Regarding those Windows 7 license stickers with keys, they're technically not permitted for use on other computers as OEM licenses are formally tied to the hardware with which they're sold. (That's essentially the Motherboard & CPU combination, though I've seen even things like an SSD swap break an OEM activation. Microsoft's exact definition is a mystery to me)
While those keys may still activate an install, it is no more compliant than a basic activation crack. So people may as well use a crack.
the fact that ddr3 memory are still good for gaming u can get a good deal on junkyards that restore electronic parts. no matter which country u live!! (modern western countrys^^)
Just when I was starting to think no 16 core Ryzen 3000 was a good thing...
As I don't [really] need one. When DDR5 comes out next year it will require a new socket, so buying any new CPU will mean having to also replace the motherboard etc. Although, I do wonder if two DDR4 memory channels will bottleneck a 16 cores, as it is only ~30GB/s (less than 4 times the speed of supported NVMe drives). Furthermore, if they keep increasing cores they will also need to increase the number of memory channels (DDR5 only buys them so much time), the trouble is more CPU traces massively increasing motherboard costs. SMT improves core utilisation, further saturating memory bandwidth. Saying that, it will support PCIe 4.0 GPUs and 8GB/s NVMe drives. Plus, 16 cores at ~4.5ghz shouldn't feel slow anytime soon, maybe 5 years+ even!
Plus, I have plenty of DDR4 (64gigs).🤘
PS: It's great that enthusiast (non-HEDT) motherboards are finally coming with 10GbE network adaptors, transferring large files at ~100MB/s seems to take forever!
Why do I get a Fallout vibe here, so cool. This is where you go find computer parts in post apocalyptic world.
I have 2 recycling centers near my home in Germany and I know both places have a section of computer parts cases and everything else I have thought about going and seeing if I can get a great deal on these parts
I'd love to go to a dump site and check the electronics part, but, unfortunately, they're all off limits here. You can come in and dump your stuff, but if you go and search in it they'll send you away right away
Loved this video, getting a real insight into another country’s culture
Hey I am unsure if you check comments on older videos but I was wondering if you know of places like shown in video in Australia?
Even we locals didn't know that you can get such great deal in the scrapyard. 100NTD for a 1 TB hard drive? Damn! Sign me up!
FYI: the scrapyards which do recycle PC parts are limited to urban areas.
Oh... Where there are cheap parts, I shall find them! From Keelung To Pingtung! Kinmen to Penghu! Hualien to Chiayi! I shall find them!