@@DawidDoesTechStuff I hope this copy and paste from a science website helps you feel better. "There's a common misconception that it's mostly human skin. It's not: that mainly ends up in the bath or shower. Two thirds of the dust in your house comes from outside, as dirt tracked in on your feet, and airborne particles like pollen and soot. The rest is mostly carpet fluff, clothes fibres and pet hair."
This works. I buy used PCs every few weeks and dirty ones you can bargain the most. But you have to wash it with water and soap plus WD40 after it's dried (to remove those greasy spots and stickers). Also, air pressure blow inside the PSU from every possible angle to remove years old dust and have reliable power going forward. Fans are easy to clean with a small soft-ish brush (I use little shoe polishing brush).
@@amehu I often open power supplies with An insane amount of dust inside them. Of Course i'm only removing the top and I won't get to close to capacitors and stuff.
Glad you finally noticed the weird thing about CSGO. A lot of channels just assume 60 is enough for CSGO. I'd say the minimum required for smooth gameplay is at least 150 fps. Optimal would be 200+ fps, this applies even if you're using just a 60Hz monitor.
Can anyone tell me how to fix that ? I run a GTX 1070 with a Ryzen 5 1600 AF and it has this super annoying input lag even if the game is running at an high fps
Pro tip: Remove all the components and then turn on your bath tub and wash your case and fans under that blast of running water. I'll all look like new afterwards. I always let my fans sit overnight just to be sure they're dry before plugging them in again. Sounds crazy, but as long as there's no current being run through the things you're washing it's complete safe, and very quick other than the dry time.
When you've stripped the case that far down, just remove the two other components left in there, the optical drive and the hard disk, take it into the shower and hose it down at full pressure! You can use soap too. Then leave it for a day to dry, and you're good. No need to waste alcohol on it, and much less effort than trying to brush and wipe it. Warm water and soap also really cleans sticky dirt pretty well, and sometimes benzene (lighter fluid) is a good choice for spots that remain sticky - it shouldn't harm the paint. Actually the 99% iso that you're showing is good at some things and bad at others, since it has almost no water in it, and not all contaminants are alcohol soluble. CSGO has two render modes, the classic synchronous and the newer "multicore rendering". The latter unburdens the submit thread and increases your average framerate, at the cost of latency. A sticky terrible mud kind of latency, if you're getting only moderate performance out of the system. To actually play it on this kind of box, turn the feature off! There are some maps with crazy geometry visibility where it can backfire in performance a little bit though, but it'll still be an improvement in playability. GTAV is... not that difficult to run? Except for a couple newer areas, it worked pretty nicely for me on a Phenom II x6 too, but in a casino with a lot of people you get frustratingly almost good performance, somewhere just short of 60. GTX970 next? This is my daily driver and i love this card.
The only issue with hosing it down is with some cases it may cause some rust. I had that with my old PC case. The anodized coating or zinc coating..whatever it was.. was corroding/wearing off in some places and if it got any water on it, it would rust.
When you were talking about the case finish I remembered when I re-painted a computer case in "Fleck Stone" spray paint. The case weighed a TON after that but it turned out OK. I don't think they make it anymore but Rust-Oleum has a version of stone paint now. Hmmm that gives me some ideas for craft projects!
11 months later. The rubber grommets on the back of the case were for external water cooling which used to be more popular 5-10 years ago. So the case it self did not need to have room to support interior water cooling and could just slap those two holes on the back and call it water cooling ready. My friends first three water cooled pc’s and my first were all externally water cooled.
LOL!! Good video! That machine is actually in better shape than the "remnant" of a machine that someone dumped on my front lawn back in July! It was completely filthy and full of dead leaves and someone put out their cigarette butt on the back of the rather pathetic looking ASUS GTX 780 ti DIRECT CU II graphics card. All of the wires from the Corsair 850 watt power supply were hanging out like spaghetti. It has two 4gig sticks of G.Skill ram with heatsinks attached, an I7-920 CPU, an old Zalman cooler surprisingly in GOOD, but filthy condition, an unattached dvd player (like yours had) and all attached to an ASUS P6t DELUXE v2 motherboard. The hard drive was missing and it looked like someone had ripped it out with pliers or something instead of just simply unscrewing it from the case! Major case damage there!! The whole system was also covered in what looked like "black, sooty dust!" I had very little hope in this thing ever running at all. At first it would not even boot up even though the two on board buttons, the power on and reset button, lights would light up on the motherboard. Power supply tested good! After some VERY major cleaning of EVERYTHING and all fresh heatsink compound on CPU and GPU and fiddling around (MUCH, MUCH fiddling around)...SHE FIRED-UP and has been running like a champ so far! It actually turned out to be a rather damn good system...for free!! I just put in a new basic hard drive and for now installed Windows 7 until I get a new SSD drive installed with Windows 10 (maybe...) It is missing one side panel, though, but hey...no big deal! I just cut out a large piece of cardboard to cover the missing panel for now...to keep the cat out... just in case ( pun intended!) Oh, I almost forgot, it also was dumped with an old Gateway 19 inch monitor. After also giving it a little love and a thorough cleaning both inside and out, it too works! Best of luck and keep up the good videos!!
For anyone wondering what the secret is to getting rid of dirt from rough matte finishes like that? It's baking soda...rub dry baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) into it with your hands for a bit, then wipe it off with a slightly damp sponge...then splash a bunch of water on it to dissolve the now stuck-on baking soda which took the place of the dirt. Baking soda also works wonders to get rid of stuck on adhesive residue, or sticky old rancid oils.
Those cheap 2+1 Phases MB are notorious for forcing the CPU to throttle to the minimal frequency due to overheating. Gluing heatsinks (With Thermal Glue) on the Mosfets can help it stay stable. You can buy small heatsinks or cut them to size from old CPU/GPU coolers using a saw. The glue is cheap and since you only need a little you may even be able to get it for free with a local refrigerator maintenance/repair shop. Its a easy, cheap and effective mod. Give it a try :D
The grommets at the back of the case are for USB cables to power internal devices from the external USB headers. When those cases were popular, a lot of 5.25 inch bay card readers/usb ports needed to be plugged in that way.
Most of the PCs you buy used are simply super dirty. When they clean it, sometimes it's even worse because they just wipe off the outside and it only *looks* clean. That's why I follow Bryan's from Tech Yes City advice and I clean everything up, but then I add my twist and water parts, hence the name and the controversial videos lol
Dawid: So I got a good deal on an 8 year old gaming PC. Audience: Ok? Dawid: When I opened the side panel *BOSS MUSIC STARTED* Audience: Why? Dawid: *I got dusted* (ripped off)
I've seen several budget cases from back in the day that had those rubber grommet apertures and they weren't for water cooling. They had retrofitted front panel USB 3.0 ports or 5.25" bays that had USB 3.0 ports with USB extension cables that you ran through the grommet and plugged directly into your existing USB 3.0 ports on the rear I/O. Really cheap way of adding front panel USB 3.0 to a dated budget case.
I worked on a custom built FX 8150 with overheating issues due to the fact the user's AIO's water pump quit working. Lucky he was using a Corsiar AIO which was still under warranty. I think the person you bought that PC from probably disconnected the parts at one time and then reconnected them back himself because I don't think anyone from IBuyPower would do cable management like that. I have seen Prebuilts with pretty nice cable management.
I saw somewhere that if you update the MB bios... the RX 570 might work, some Amd cards need a newer motherboard bios to work, hope this helps. Great vids!
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Dawid, did you check and see if the GPU is whitelisted by the manufacturer? On my prebuilt HP I can only install about a dozen cards, the best of which is a Radeon HD 6570 2 gb. Which is weirdly still 67 dollars on newegg.
Baking soda and warm water should clean up that textured black metal really well. If you watch a few classic computer restoration videos (8 Bit Guy, RMC - The Cave, and Adrian's Digital Basement come to mind) you'll pick up a bunch of techniques that you can use to clean up disgusting used machines. And Adrian's also from Canada, so you ought to feel at home! :)
Probably the bios version was incompatible with the gpu drivers. I had to update my bios recently in order for a new gpu to be installed. And let windows install the gfx driver before you do. The one windows installs is known stable. Also ensure gpu overclocking in bios is disabled before installing drivers.
Speaking of gag reflexes, I once put together a retro gaming rig, using a case that had been sitting, gutted, on the floor in my garage for fifteen years. You name it, it was in there and it was dead. Flies? Check. Spiders? Check. Earwigs? Check. Slugs?! CHECK! I'm not normally squeamish, but I did nearly spew. That case now holds a 1000 Mhz Athlon with Voodoo for Glide games, though. Totally worth it.
Hahaha I absolutely love the humor you give to your videos! Makes me come back for every time. Also I love these low end PC videos. They are great for PC enthusiasts!
I worked in a warehouse where one department needed a basic pc to run a label printer. My boss bought an XT from another factory on our street and told me to get it up and running. I opened the case. You couldn't see the components. It was like being in a plane and looking down at the clouds. It was a solid block of dust. How it never caught on fire I have no idea. Had a slot AMD Athlon 500 when it started having issues I opened it up and the fan had literally packed the heat sink with dust.
That weirdly placed motherboard connector was the option LTP/parallel printer port for which you would've required a breakout cable that usually screwed in very close to the rear IO ports into a slot in the case, that's why its connector is placed directly behind the rear IO
Hey @Dawid. I know it's an old vid but the problem u had with the rx 570, is related to the motherboard. The more budget AM3 and AM3+ motherboards for some weird reason don't properly power more modern and demanding gpus through the pci-e ports. I had a similar problem with an asus one when I had purchased an r9 290 back in 2014. Changed mobo to a higher end TUF one. worked perfectly. Also had the 8120
Any multi threaded game runs just fine on AMD's FX cpu's even today. The Intel line released at around that same time seem to be slower than they used to be and are noticeably deficient when running modern multi threaded applications.
I have seen a lot of youtubers have problems with certain AMD cards on an older bios. Although I thought that was just not booting, could be wrong though.
That Dawid style TechYes lovin though. I wouldn't mind seeing you use a 1050 or 1060 as a substitute for an RX card. I find the lower end rx cards to be hit or miss especially when they are used or in these odd cases when they just don't play nice with older PCs. Speaking of GPU compatibility, did you update the motherboard BIOS?
I was browsing offer up and found a DELL 8920 XPS system up for sale for $550, I’m not told familiar with dells XPS line. I’ve never had a prebuilt before, but the price intrigued me. The seller specified it having an i7 8700 paired with a gtx 1080. Not a blower or dell reference one either it was a AORUS card. so I met up with him, unfortunately, the pc he showed me was a different one, same pc just a different GPU, It had a G1 gtx 1080 so not a deal breaker, I went through the pc and also discovered it had a 7700 not an 8700, it had 16gb of 2666mhz ram and a 500gb SSD, so I offered $450 and he accepted, I’m really happy with it too, it performs amazingly in the games I play.
He Dawid, i actually made a cheap build like a month ago with an FX8120, 8Gb of ram and a EVGA 560. I only swap the 560 for a Gigabyte 760 2GB and it actually run pretty well. Cost about 270$ 90$ for the basic pc 60$ for the 760 80$ for a coolermaster Hyper T2 and a 240GB Kingston SSD 50$ For a new case (sold the old case for 35$)
I would have liked to see you show how you clean the circuit boards. Is it just canned air? I've I always wondered if there are spots where you can blow them too hard. Maybe this experience would inspire you to do a video about how to clean the inside the inside of the computer as routine maintenance.
what's wrong with lower resolutions? if you are playing, you think about what you are doing next, not about framerates or quality. if you are watching a vid on your phone, 720p is way more than you need, for that little screen.
I've recently bought a used EVGA GTX 1070 and while the card was working it was so dirty and smelly I had to include that info in my feedback comment on eBay. Absolutely appalling, took me more than half an hour to clean it. It reeked of cigarette smoke and smelly cooking mixed together. People are awful.
I actually just worked on a PC built in this EXACT case for a gentleman who also bought it from iBUYPOWER, he had a i7 3770k in it and a really old (and noisy) corsair AIO in it. The system was also extremely disgusting, which is a theme I've noticed with all the pre-built systems I've worked on. Oh and he was running a GTX 680 2gb, absolute beast.
2:14 They put water cooling grommets on cases that clearly have no support for water cooling. So you can put a block on your CPU and the rad/pump/res outside the case(I think it's a Koolance system they used to sell that sat on top of your case).
I picked up someone's pc for $100 on kijiji. He said he bought it as a pre built from a company 9 years ago. Had an i5 2500, 16gb ram, hd 6870, a disgusting antec case. Dust everywhere, weird stains, scratch marks, dents, pet hair EVERYWHERE. Sold the case and hd 6870 for like $20 each, and picked up a zotac gtx 960 for $100 cad. I probably over payed for the gtx 960, but there weren't many deals to be had since it was during the pandemic
I used to work for a local big chain computer shop and we hated getting in machines that were caked in dust and nicotine. We've had to clear out cobwebs, dead spiders and even a mouse.
2:23 wasn't the point of watercooling holes so you could use an external rad? It honestly makes more sense to use it for cases without radiator support.
Hey Dawid, you might try to do a driver signer patch tool from: www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher I had the same issue with an RX470 and after running that quick driver signer all was well and it saved my card / the budget build I was working on!
G'day Dawid, I was feeling your pain of the Gag Reflex when you Showed the Fans & inside the Front Panel 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮, Good to see you got the CPU Cooler Fan Blowing the Right Way, but I would Rotate the Cooler 180 (Heat Pipes on the right) so that the Fan is Blowing Air over that Tiny Gigabyte VRM as I think it needs the Cooling more than the RAM with the FX8120, Also when cleaning sometimes Warm/Hot Soapy Water is what gets some 'Sticky Oily 🤢 Stuff' off best, it's funny but Chemical Cleaners & Alcohol don't clean as well sometimes, Ps I didn't have a good night sleep last night & woke up hoping for an Awesome Dawid Video, I looked in my Inbox & 😍 Joy at a link, then watching you did not disappoint (Awesome as Always) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Unfortunately home environments are perfect for combining carpet/cat/dog fibers and human dead skin and grease into coatings of awfulness inside your average PCs. I really don't understand why there aren't case manufacturers that integrate proper air filters into their cases so that computers don't get grunged up like this. Also fans are a particular bone of contention. They are a major pain in the ass to demount for cleaning the low pressure side of the blades immediately start attracting grunge. Quick release fasteners for fans would be a start and don't get me started on how the hell you are supposed to clean the average CPU cooler after 6 months operation without breaking the entire machine down. Nice video as always Dawid. Here's an idea for a future video. Take an old school computer case, rip out the redundant stack of drive bays and install a large filter like a car filter and a brace of fans to provide clean filtered air inside the case.
Hi Dawid, check with Phil from PhilsComputerLab or with Bryan from Tech Yes city as these Prebuilts tend to have a lockdown bios(even if it's a Gigabyte motherboard) so you can't put in all of your "diseases" there :)
yo man, the transistors in that processor don't even have an output attached to them. its all wireless. using flux radiation, the closer the sensor can get to the... the less power it needs to trigger the sensor wire... and so the problem with 7nm, the power delivery on the boards can not sustain the exact voltage needed for that chip set to function.
For rx570 on cpus older then 4th gen i series you have to set the motherboard to legacy and then install the drivers. After the drivers is installed then set bios to uefi. Also change thermal paste on north bridge other wise it will boot cycle.
Please for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster buy a socket set! You can get cheap screwdriver sets off eBay that have some small sizes included. The use of pliers reminded me of the tool misuse in a Verge PC building video that I'm sure a few people saw...
I know it's kind of late, but I had a similar issue once and it was due to the mainboard's inability to handle the gpu's bios and the GPU not being capable of slave bios.
so i have been watching you i bought a dell optiplex for 200 with a old i7, 16 gb ram, 1050 ti graphics card, 1tb hard drive, and i want to upgrade it i see that boards like b450 for 70 and AMD ryzen 3 3200G for 100, 500gb ssd for 42, power supply from evga for 40 dollars, for a 250 dollar upgrade. but i feel like i just bought the pc for the case, ram, graphics card, cd/dvd drive, wifi card, and sata cables and preforms really well on 1080p. i feel like i can still upgrade the graphics card in the future which is nice.
I remember I took one of these kinda PCs and cleaned it put a Blu-ray drive and a hdmi out on it and now I have a decent computer for backing up my library and encoding
11:20 you're using the wrong dvi cable, you need a dual link dvi cable. all dvi ports are the same spec as far as I'm aware because I had 144hz on a gtx 460
I'm going to spoil it. I believe the PSU is not up to powering up the RX 570. 18A on both the two available 12V rails. So that's a total of 432 Watts. LOL! That PSU is on a very old platform. Newer and better PSUs have higher amps on the 12V rail because that's what matters in powering up the CPU and other components. Change it ASAP!
Heh, you think that was dirty, I cleaned three pc's that would bully that one in the schoolyard with their dust alone just this Monday. One case was so dirty that I actually couldn't get some of the dust out due to the case design. As for the driver, assuming it is a fresh install of windows you might try updating the bios (yes even if it is to the same one)
I have seen some horrible things in my life...I cleaned some PCs that looked like abandoned houses after a horrible war, I probably have many unknown viruses and bacteria in my body due to those PC cleanups
You should become a Tech Yes Citizen Brian has some superb Tips and Tricks in used price performance and with his Secret Weapon called multi purpose spray rigs like this one are new in a jiffy
A friend of mine gave me his old Cooler Master Wave master case. He was a chain smoker... I've never seen dust that was moist with tar and nicotine before. And I hope I never have to experience that again in my life!
I had this a few times before with these older office PCs and AMD cards... Freezes, bugs and crashes... That is why 1650 and the low profile version is my go to card :D
I have the "500W" version of that Cooler Master power supply. Brand new in box and unused, paid $5 from a thrift store for it as a tester. I used air quotes because in fine print on the label it states, *"The +3.3V & +5V & +12V1 & +12V2 combine power shall not exceed 431.5W"* Weak. IDK if I would trust the "600W" claim on that one.
A dirty case is twice as disgusting when the mess comes from another person.
Exactly! Dust is mostly skin cells, so I have breathed in a pretty decent amount of Craigslist guy skin. :O
This is a hilariously filthy computer ~ I was rolling on the floor! ua-cam.com/video/lqIEHclBxDE/v-deo.html
@@DawidDoesTechStuff what do you do with this cleaned pc ? Do you sell it on ebay or do you use it ?
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I hope this copy and paste from a science website helps you feel better. "There's a common misconception that it's mostly human skin. It's not: that mainly ends up in the bath or shower. Two thirds of the dust in your house comes from outside, as dirt tracked in on your feet, and airborne particles like pollen and soot. The rest is mostly carpet fluff, clothes fibres and pet hair."
@@DawidDoesTechStuff thats covid
7:30 "smells like a distillery gave birth to a hospital"
Good lord Dawid, how do you come up with these?
I once cleaned a used case by putting in the shower, good job on that one.
Haha!! That sounds like a quick way to solve the problem. 😂
I use the old garden hose if things are looking grim enough. I've seen some..... things... in my time buying used in my area lol.
Lol I just bought a 10$ case and had to hose it down in the backyard cause it was dusty af
This works. I buy used PCs every few weeks and dirty ones you can bargain the most. But you have to wash it with water and soap plus WD40 after it's dried (to remove those greasy spots and stickers).
Also, air pressure blow inside the PSU from every possible angle to remove years old dust and have reliable power going forward.
Fans are easy to clean with a small soft-ish brush (I use little shoe polishing brush).
@@amehu I often open power supplies with An insane amount of dust inside them. Of Course i'm only removing the top and I won't get to close to capacitors and stuff.
Glad you finally noticed the weird thing about CSGO. A lot of channels just assume 60 is enough for CSGO. I'd say the minimum required for smooth gameplay is at least 150 fps. Optimal would be 200+ fps, this applies even if you're using just a 60Hz monitor.
I totally agree.
For sure. CS GO behaves pretty weirdly under 200 FPS. If you want to survive a match, then that's your FPS target. 😁
Can anyone tell me how to fix that ? I run a GTX 1070 with a Ryzen 5 1600 AF and it has this super annoying input lag even if the game is running at an high fps
@@heinobrummer1044 disable multi core rendering
I really loved the creative analogies in this one, possibly one of your best scripted videos to date
Thank you! I don't really script my videos, so sometimes it comes out good, sometimes less good. :P
The 90s exercise VHS interlude music for the first segment interlude always gets my head nodding lol. 👍
Pro tip:
Remove all the components and then turn on your bath tub and wash your case and fans under that blast of running water. I'll all look like new afterwards. I always let my fans sit overnight just to be sure they're dry before plugging them in again.
Sounds crazy, but as long as there's no current being run through the things you're washing it's complete safe, and very quick other than the dry time.
Thanks
I don’t know why but dawid always makes me laugh
That's nice to hear. 👍
You know why.
It's because of that little seizure at the beginning of the video. 🤣
It was "dirtier than a strip club on $5 beer night."
Priceless.
Err....maybe because he's funny?.....
This kind of video make me loves the old pc part. It definitely useable after done a proper cleaning instead of just buying a new pc.
When you've stripped the case that far down, just remove the two other components left in there, the optical drive and the hard disk, take it into the shower and hose it down at full pressure! You can use soap too. Then leave it for a day to dry, and you're good. No need to waste alcohol on it, and much less effort than trying to brush and wipe it. Warm water and soap also really cleans sticky dirt pretty well, and sometimes benzene (lighter fluid) is a good choice for spots that remain sticky - it shouldn't harm the paint. Actually the 99% iso that you're showing is good at some things and bad at others, since it has almost no water in it, and not all contaminants are alcohol soluble.
CSGO has two render modes, the classic synchronous and the newer "multicore rendering". The latter unburdens the submit thread and increases your average framerate, at the cost of latency. A sticky terrible mud kind of latency, if you're getting only moderate performance out of the system. To actually play it on this kind of box, turn the feature off! There are some maps with crazy geometry visibility where it can backfire in performance a little bit though, but it'll still be an improvement in playability.
GTAV is... not that difficult to run? Except for a couple newer areas, it worked pretty nicely for me on a Phenom II x6 too, but in a casino with a lot of people you get frustratingly almost good performance, somewhere just short of 60.
GTX970 next? This is my daily driver and i love this card.
Alternatively, with the benzine and alcohol. you can then light it on fire, which may or may not improve things... 🤣
The only issue with hosing it down is with some cases it may cause some rust. I had that with my old PC case. The anodized coating or zinc coating..whatever it was.. was corroding/wearing off in some places and if it got any water on it, it would rust.
I also use 970 damn. I like it alot
"Boss battle music started playing" 😂😂 cracked me up. Your videos are always hilarious
Haha
Haha!! It took me hours to clean. 😂
When you were talking about the case finish I remembered when I re-painted a computer case in "Fleck Stone" spray paint. The case weighed a TON after that but it turned out OK. I don't think they make it anymore but Rust-Oleum has a version of stone paint now. Hmmm that gives me some ideas for craft projects!
Dawid always on my homepage, good to see the algorithm is really starting to push you. Rewards for all your hard work (y)
"When your pig won't clean itself!" They should put that on the bottle!
I know right? :P
11 months later. The rubber grommets on the back of the case were for external water cooling which used to be more popular 5-10 years ago. So the case it self did not need to have room to support interior water cooling and could just slap those two holes on the back and call it water cooling ready. My friends first three water cooled pc’s and my first were all externally water cooled.
LOL!! Good video! That machine is actually in better shape than the "remnant" of a machine that someone dumped on my front lawn back in July! It was completely filthy and full of dead leaves and someone put out their cigarette butt on the back of the rather pathetic looking ASUS GTX 780 ti DIRECT CU II graphics card. All of the wires from the Corsair 850 watt power supply were hanging out like spaghetti. It has two 4gig sticks of G.Skill ram with heatsinks attached, an I7-920 CPU, an old Zalman cooler surprisingly in GOOD, but filthy condition, an unattached dvd player (like yours had) and all attached to an ASUS P6t DELUXE v2 motherboard. The hard drive was missing and it looked like someone had ripped it out with pliers or something instead of just simply unscrewing it from the case! Major case damage there!! The whole system was also covered in what looked like "black, sooty dust!" I had very little hope in this thing ever running at all. At first it would not even boot up even though the two on board buttons, the power on and reset button, lights would light up on the motherboard. Power supply tested good! After some VERY major cleaning of EVERYTHING and all fresh heatsink compound on CPU and GPU and fiddling around (MUCH, MUCH fiddling around)...SHE FIRED-UP and has been running like a champ so far! It actually turned out to be a rather damn good system...for free!! I just put in a new basic hard drive and for now installed Windows 7 until I get a new SSD drive installed with Windows 10 (maybe...) It is missing one side panel, though, but hey...no big deal! I just cut out a large piece of cardboard to cover the missing panel for now...to keep the cat out... just in case ( pun intended!) Oh, I almost forgot, it also was dumped with an old Gateway 19 inch monitor. After also giving it a little love and a thorough cleaning both inside and out, it too works! Best of luck and keep up the good videos!!
For anyone wondering what the secret is to getting rid of dirt from rough matte finishes like that? It's baking soda...rub dry baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) into it with your hands for a bit, then wipe it off with a slightly damp sponge...then splash a bunch of water on it to dissolve the now stuck-on baking soda which took the place of the dirt. Baking soda also works wonders to get rid of stuck on adhesive residue, or sticky old rancid oils.
I wish we could get beer at a strip club for 5 dollars. You don't know how lucky you are 👍
Haha!! I was just making an uneducated guess. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff love your humour man, it always makes me laugh and your videos are always great so keep up the good work👏
To be fair strip clubs aren't even open in the UK either.....
@@tomjackman8531 what strip clubs, i could never find any 😂😂 my mates 18th is coming up
@@astafire6810 Kings Cross in Sydney the Main Street is 80% full of them & XXX Shops
And there is a vent in the base where the PSU goes that has no hope of having any airflow as the case has no feet.
Those cheap 2+1 Phases MB are notorious for forcing the CPU to
throttle to the minimal frequency due to overheating. Gluing heatsinks (With Thermal Glue) on the Mosfets can help it stay stable.
You can buy small heatsinks or cut them to size from old CPU/GPU coolers using a saw.
The glue is cheap and since you only need a little you may even be able to get it for free with a local refrigerator maintenance/repair shop.
Its a easy, cheap and effective mod. Give it a try :D
The grommets at the back of the case are for USB cables to power internal devices from the external USB headers. When those cases were popular, a lot of 5.25 inch bay card readers/usb ports needed to be plugged in that way.
Most of the PCs you buy used are simply super dirty. When they clean it, sometimes it's even worse because they just wipe off the outside and it only *looks* clean. That's why I follow Bryan's from Tech Yes City advice and I clean everything up, but then I add my twist and water parts, hence the name and the controversial videos lol
I am you 312th sub cheers mate
Why am I watching this man's videos non-stop for the past couple of days? Not complaining at all.
Dawid: So I got a good deal on an 8 year old gaming PC.
Audience: Ok?
Dawid: When I opened the side panel *BOSS MUSIC STARTED*
Audience: Why?
Dawid: *I got dusted* (ripped off)
dude I got some bad news your grandfather that was cremated got sucked into that computer sorry about that heres some gift cards to make it better
@@raven4k998 Silly
@@Russell970 lol you know it
I've seen several budget cases from back in the day that had those rubber grommet apertures and they weren't for water cooling. They had retrofitted front panel USB 3.0 ports or 5.25" bays that had USB 3.0 ports with USB extension cables that you ran through the grommet and plugged directly into your existing USB 3.0 ports on the rear I/O. Really cheap way of adding front panel USB 3.0 to a dated budget case.
I love how you do your videos, plenty of humour too. Keep them coming!
Used to be a Slot Technician, this PC is squeaky clean compared to some of those machines. Literally pulled carpet rugs out on more than one occasion.
I have a lot of rx series gpu's in my country which were used for mining, most of them faulty but repairable each being around 30-40$ on average.
I recently had to drill some holes in the back of my Phanteks case to allow external water cooling!
Honestly compared to a recent PC I was given that was full of dead roaches, this thing is clean AF.
0:39 best intro ever
I worked on a custom built FX 8150 with overheating issues due to the fact the user's AIO's water pump quit working. Lucky he was using a Corsiar AIO which was still under warranty. I think the person you bought that PC from probably disconnected the parts at one time and then reconnected them back himself because I don't think anyone from IBuyPower would do cable management like that. I have seen Prebuilts with pretty nice cable management.
I saw somewhere that if you update the MB bios... the RX 570 might work, some Amd cards need a newer motherboard bios to work, hope this helps. Great vids!
somehow i am watching this unlisted without any links.
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Haha!! That is really weird. How did that happen? :O
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Dawid, did you check and see if the GPU is whitelisted by the manufacturer? On my prebuilt HP I can only install about a dozen cards, the best of which is a Radeon HD 6570 2 gb. Which is weirdly still 67 dollars on newegg.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff i don't know. the video just appears in my feed, it was a few seconds ago and unlisted
00:27
Hide the pain Harold meme 😂
Baking soda and warm water should clean up that textured black metal really well. If you watch a few classic computer restoration videos (8 Bit Guy, RMC - The Cave, and Adrian's Digital Basement come to mind) you'll pick up a bunch of techniques that you can use to clean up disgusting used machines. And Adrian's also from Canada, so you ought to feel at home! :)
Bro i loved your videos they are so chill and interesting man you seriously deserve more recognition. Kept it up vato!
the 1 dislike is from the guy who didn't clean the pc and sold it to you
And mine
@@apparentlyashleys1fan113 ok, thanks for helping him
I'm not even being sarcastic, dislikes help the algorithm, so do comments.
Probably the bios version was incompatible with the gpu drivers. I had to update my bios recently in order for a new gpu to be installed. And let windows install the gfx driver before you do. The one windows installs is known stable. Also ensure gpu overclocking in bios is disabled before installing drivers.
Speaking of gag reflexes, I once put together a retro gaming rig, using a case that had been sitting, gutted, on the floor in my garage for fifteen years. You name it, it was in there and it was dead. Flies? Check. Spiders? Check. Earwigs? Check. Slugs?! CHECK! I'm not normally squeamish, but I did nearly spew. That case now holds a 1000 Mhz Athlon with Voodoo for Glide games, though. Totally worth it.
Hahaha I absolutely love the humor you give to your videos! Makes me come back for every time. Also I love these low end PC videos. They are great for PC enthusiasts!
I worked in a warehouse where one department needed a basic pc to run a label printer. My boss bought an XT from another factory on our street and told me to get it up and running. I opened the case. You couldn't see the components. It was like being in a plane and looking down at the clouds. It was a solid block of dust. How it never caught on fire I have no idea.
Had a slot AMD Athlon 500 when it started having issues I opened it up and the fan had literally packed the heat sink with dust.
That weirdly placed motherboard connector was the option LTP/parallel printer port for which you would've required a breakout cable that usually screwed in very close to the rear IO ports into a slot in the case, that's why its connector is placed directly behind the rear IO
Hey @Dawid. I know it's an old vid but the problem u had with the rx 570, is related to the motherboard. The more budget AM3 and AM3+ motherboards for some weird reason don't properly power more modern and demanding gpus through the pci-e ports. I had a similar problem with an asus one when I had purchased an r9 290 back in 2014. Changed mobo to a higher end TUF one. worked perfectly. Also had the 8120
Any multi threaded game runs just fine on AMD's FX cpu's even today. The Intel line released at around that same time seem to be slower than they used to be and are noticeably deficient when running modern multi threaded applications.
What does it matter what the cables look like when you are going to cover them over with a totally opaque panel?
You are the most humorous of all the tech youtubers I watch, man, keep it up.
Invest in an air compressor, that way the dust won't get wet and stick to the case. It's much quicker than cleaning by hand
I have seen a lot of youtubers have problems with certain AMD cards on an older bios. Although I thought that was just not booting, could be wrong though.
That Dawid style TechYes lovin though. I wouldn't mind seeing you use a 1050 or 1060 as a substitute for an RX card. I find the lower end rx cards to be hit or miss especially when they are used or in these odd cases when they just don't play nice with older PCs. Speaking of GPU compatibility, did you update the motherboard BIOS?
Looks liks someone threw shit in through the fans whilst they were running. Absolutely disgusting!!!!!
"Doesn't trigger my gag reflex anymore" Hahaha, hilarious!
I was browsing offer up and found a DELL 8920 XPS system up for sale for $550, I’m not told familiar with dells XPS line. I’ve never had a prebuilt before, but the price intrigued me. The seller specified it having an i7 8700 paired with a gtx 1080. Not a blower or dell reference one either it was a AORUS card. so I met up with him, unfortunately, the pc he showed me was a different one, same pc just a different GPU, It had a G1 gtx 1080 so not a deal breaker, I went through the pc and also discovered it had a 7700 not an 8700, it had 16gb of 2666mhz ram and a 500gb SSD, so I offered $450 and he accepted, I’m really happy with it too, it performs amazingly in the games I play.
He Dawid, i actually made a cheap build like a month ago with an FX8120, 8Gb of ram and a EVGA 560. I only swap the 560 for a Gigabyte 760 2GB and it actually run pretty well.
Cost about 270$
90$ for the basic pc
60$ for the 760
80$ for a coolermaster Hyper T2 and a 240GB Kingston SSD
50$ For a new case (sold the old case for 35$)
I worked on a desktop repair and found dried blood inside the case. That was really nasty.
I would have liked to see you show how you clean the circuit boards. Is it just canned air? I've I always wondered if there are spots where you can blow them too hard.
Maybe this experience would inspire you to do a video about how to clean the inside the inside of the computer as routine maintenance.
My pc died and im so sad bc i have to watch UA-cam at 720p now
That sucks, hopefully you can get it up and running again. 😊
@@DawidDoesTechStuff you and i both
what's wrong with lower resolutions? if you are playing, you think about what you are doing next, not about framerates or quality. if you are watching a vid on your phone, 720p is way more than you need, for that little screen.
@@francescovolpini i actually don't watch more then 480p on Mobile its plenty sharp for my eyes
@@goobisoft4873 exactly. if i need to read something, 480p is my first choice
I hope this channel get over a million subscribers because the amount of effort on making these videos is top notch. Keep up the good work
Dude get a medium size paint brush and use it to remove dust from annoying places. It does wonders.
I've recently bought a used EVGA GTX 1070 and while the card was working it was so dirty and smelly I had to include that info in my feedback comment on eBay.
Absolutely appalling, took me more than half an hour to clean it. It reeked of cigarette smoke and smelly cooking mixed together. People are awful.
"Just because we got holes it doesn't mean we can fill them"
Story of my life right there..
Purple power degreaser works pretty well for cleaning those old cases, but make a test spot in case it hurts the paint or anything
He opened the CPU case and all I could hear in my mind was a loud high pitched yell for like 20 seconds...
"The problem started when I opened up the side panel" ... lol
4:52 i think that white spikey connector is for one of those old purple printer ports
I actually just worked on a PC built in this EXACT case for a gentleman who also bought it from iBUYPOWER, he had a i7 3770k in it and a really old (and noisy) corsair AIO in it. The system was also extremely disgusting, which is a theme I've noticed with all the pre-built systems I've worked on. Oh and he was running a GTX 680 2gb, absolute beast.
2:14 They put water cooling grommets on cases that clearly have no support for water cooling. So you can put a block on your CPU and the rad/pump/res outside the case(I think it's a Koolance system they used to sell that sat on top of your case).
I picked up someone's pc for $100 on kijiji. He said he bought it as a pre built from a company 9 years ago. Had an i5 2500, 16gb ram, hd 6870, a disgusting antec case. Dust everywhere, weird stains, scratch marks, dents, pet hair EVERYWHERE. Sold the case and hd 6870 for like $20 each, and picked up a zotac gtx 960 for $100 cad. I probably over payed for the gtx 960, but there weren't many deals to be had since it was during the pandemic
2:23 Im dying, you just couldnt resist, could you.
Very cool video Dawid! I really like your editing!
I used to work for a local big chain computer shop and we hated getting in machines that were caked in dust and nicotine. We've had to clear out cobwebs, dead spiders and even a mouse.
Damn.. Big difference from before and after.. Good job Dawid
For an FX, it should be the 3.1 version of the board, as the 1.3 does not support FX - latest BIOS for the 3.1 is FC
I liked and enjoyed it, that you got to clean that up.
The pleasures of being a nerd :) i cleaned old pcbs the other day myself.. Great fun :)
2:23 wasn't the point of watercooling holes so you could use an external rad? It honestly makes more sense to use it for cases without radiator support.
Hey Dawid, you might try to do a driver signer patch tool from:
www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher
I had the same issue with an RX470 and after running that quick driver signer all was well and it saved my card / the budget build I was working on!
Thanks for the suggestion, I will try that out.
Dawid Does Tech Stuff awesome hope it works!
G'day Dawid,
I was feeling your pain of the Gag Reflex when you Showed the Fans & inside the Front Panel 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮,
Good to see you got the CPU Cooler Fan Blowing the Right Way, but I would Rotate the Cooler 180 (Heat Pipes on the right) so that the Fan is Blowing Air over that Tiny Gigabyte VRM as I think it needs the Cooling more than the RAM with the FX8120,
Also when cleaning sometimes Warm/Hot Soapy Water is what gets some 'Sticky Oily 🤢 Stuff' off best, it's funny but Chemical Cleaners & Alcohol don't clean as well sometimes,
Ps I didn't have a good night sleep last night & woke up hoping for an Awesome Dawid Video, I looked in my Inbox & 😍 Joy at a link,
then watching you did not disappoint (Awesome as Always) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
5:37 Please get a little 1/4 inch socket set with screw driver handle.
2:22 S-senpai
Try: next time, take the PC outside with both side panels off, and use a leaf blower (or other air source) on it.
Kind of like when you tell your kid to clean his room and he just throws everything in the closet.
Unfortunately home environments are perfect for combining carpet/cat/dog fibers and human dead skin and grease into coatings of awfulness inside your average PCs. I really don't understand why there aren't case manufacturers that integrate proper air filters into their cases so that computers don't get grunged up like this. Also fans are a particular bone of contention. They are a major pain in the ass to demount for cleaning the low pressure side of the blades immediately start attracting grunge. Quick release fasteners for fans would be a start and don't get me started on how the hell you are supposed to clean the average CPU cooler after 6 months operation without breaking the entire machine down. Nice video as always Dawid.
Here's an idea for a future video. Take an old school computer case, rip out the redundant stack of drive bays and install a large filter like a car filter and a brace of fans to provide clean filtered air inside the case.
Hi Dawid,
check with Phil from PhilsComputerLab or with Bryan from Tech Yes city as these Prebuilts tend to have a lockdown bios(even if it's a Gigabyte motherboard) so you can't put in all of your "diseases" there :)
yo man, the transistors in that processor don't even have an output attached to them. its all wireless. using flux radiation, the closer the sensor can get to the... the less power it needs to trigger the sensor wire... and so the problem with 7nm, the power delivery on the boards can not sustain the exact voltage needed for that chip set to function.
For rx570 on cpus older then 4th gen i series you have to set the motherboard to legacy and then install the drivers. After the drivers is installed then set bios to uefi. Also change thermal paste on north bridge other wise it will boot cycle.
steel wool did not work?`if everything was removed, but not just use industrial cleaners, but maybe not as strong that it will remove the paint
0:23 Lol, that Linus Tech Tips style B-roll footage...
Please for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster buy a socket set! You can get cheap screwdriver sets off eBay that have some small sizes included. The use of pliers reminded me of the tool misuse in a Verge PC building video that I'm sure a few people saw...
I know it's kind of late, but I had a similar issue once and it was due to the mainboard's inability to handle the gpu's bios and the GPU not being capable of slave bios.
so i have been watching you i bought a dell optiplex for 200 with a old i7, 16 gb ram, 1050 ti graphics card, 1tb hard drive, and i want to upgrade it i see that boards like b450 for 70 and AMD ryzen 3 3200G for 100, 500gb ssd for 42, power supply from evga for 40 dollars, for a 250 dollar upgrade. but i feel like i just bought the pc for the case, ram, graphics card, cd/dvd drive, wifi card, and sata cables and preforms really well on 1080p. i feel like i can still upgrade the graphics card in the future which is nice.
I remember I took one of these kinda PCs and cleaned it put a Blu-ray drive and a hdmi out on it and now I have a decent computer for backing up my library and encoding
11:20 you're using the wrong dvi cable, you need a dual link dvi cable. all dvi ports are the same spec as far as I'm aware because I had 144hz on a gtx 460
I'm going to spoil it. I believe the PSU is not up to powering up the RX 570. 18A on both the two available 12V rails. So that's a total of 432 Watts. LOL! That PSU is on a very old platform. Newer and better PSUs have higher amps on the 12V rail because that's what matters in powering up the CPU and other components. Change it ASAP!
That's interesting. I was looking at the specs for the twelve volt rails and thought it looked a bit tiny. Haha!!
I will swap it out and see.
Heh, you think that was dirty, I cleaned three pc's that would bully that one in the schoolyard with their dust alone just this Monday. One case was so dirty that I actually couldn't get some of the dust out due to the case design.
As for the driver, assuming it is a fresh install of windows you might try updating the bios (yes even if it is to the same one)
Update: took a garden hose to it, its better now.
I have seen some horrible things in my life...I cleaned some PCs that looked like abandoned houses after a horrible war, I probably have many unknown viruses and bacteria in my body due to those PC cleanups
Haha!! Yeah, all the IT people in the comment section have seen some shit. :P
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I have even seen a real live small worm on a laptop motherboard once...talk about a bug :)
You should become a Tech Yes Citizen
Brian has some superb Tips and Tricks in used price performance and with his Secret Weapon called multi purpose spray rigs like this one are new in a jiffy
2:23 cant resist a chocolate starfish can you?
A friend of mine gave me his old Cooler Master Wave master case. He was a chain smoker...
I've never seen dust that was moist with tar and nicotine before. And I hope I never have to experience that again in my life!
I had this a few times before with these older office PCs and AMD cards... Freezes, bugs and crashes... That is why 1650 and the low profile version is my go to card :D
I have the "500W" version of that Cooler Master power supply. Brand new in box and unused, paid $5 from a thrift store for it as a tester.
I used air quotes because in fine print on the label it states, *"The +3.3V & +5V & +12V1 & +12V2 combine power shall not exceed 431.5W"*
Weak.
IDK if I would trust the "600W" claim on that one.