and here we are back at part two of
august 2020's used pc part time of the
month
if you guys didn't watch part one
already i'll put the link up here where
we came into so many deals that i had to
put this in the two-part series though
starting off fresh into it with good old
facebook marketplace here we've got
potentially uh we've already got two
deals that were scored
we just got to go pick them up that is a
5500 xt for 230 aussie dollars this is
the 8 gig version
and when it comes to re-flipping pcs the
vram is actually a pretty important
factor
so i like where this is coming in at and
it's of course the newer 5500 xt which
beats out the rx 580.
then we've got a ryzen 5 2600 which is
coming in at 185
is the offer we put down it's brand new
so they've accepted that we're going to
get that and it's around the same area
which makes it
a big plus and then we've got a gtx 1060
we put an offering of 200
well they're actually asking 200 they
just got to get back to us so i think
they've actually had this for a higher
price but they've just decided to drop
it
to 200 flat which is a fair price for a
1066 gigabyte so we're gonna go with
that
and then we've got an r9 290 x which
we've offered a hundred bucks down
on so if we can score this that's
actually a really good price
for this caliber of gpu then there was
an r9 390
which i've just asked about the vram
because sometimes they have the eight
gigabyte variants of these
and if so we'll put down an offer so
there's two deals already scored but
there's three potentials up in the air
but when we move over to good old game
tree we've got a gtx
1070 where they've just put this up for
250 bucks and it's the katana version
this is the single
slot pcie slot version and i mean 250
for a gtx 1070
in this car and climate i put in pretty
much asking price which i don't usually
do but if the asking price is really
good
on its own and considering there's
already like four other offers down on
this card within 14 hours
then i'm just going to offer asking
price and they've got back to me already
saying they'll accept it
so we're gonna go pick that up i mean
depending if
the next up is a vega 56 which we put in
an offer of 250 but then they got back
to us and said
that someone else already got it however
they would have accepted that offer
which is
that does make me feel good at least i'm
on the right track
and then we've got next up at gtx 970 we
put on an offer here of 110
and we're waiting for them to get back
to us of course being a 970 they may
have a hard time
selling it and the last deal is an i3
4th gen
system where they're asking 90 bucks i
put down an offer of 75
but they also have a lot of other stuff
to sell so hopefully we can break in
with this deal and it might lead to a
lot of other deals
with that aside let's get those used pc
parts hunting capes on
yet again strap on in and let's go for a
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so we've just picked up the rx 5500
and you'll notice i'm at a different
place right now and i'm actually at my
sister's house
because she lives like literally two
minutes around the corner from where i
picked this graphics card up from
and i also right around the corner from
this place too picked up the
ryzen 5 2600 so it's just crazy
coincidence
that both these deals were right near my
sister's joint now i'm just popping in
for a quick feed
then we're going to hit the highway
again and on the way home i'm going to
go
and visit the dude who had the pcs for
us yesterday
and we're going to go check out what
he's got because he reckons he's got a
few more pcs
and then on the way home there's also
another deal that i've got to pick up
too so this is going to kind of like be
a couple of late night deals but the gtx
1070 guy i think that is a bit of a
troll
because uh apparently he's messaging
other dudes as well
saying like yeah come and pick it up
come and pick it up
and he's telling me come and pick it up
as well so kind of a little bit fishy on
that one
um might want to just tread lightly if
you see if it's
generally if it's too good to be true
right it always is that's the rule of
thumb
but other than that i did have it
something came to me now this is mid
parts hunt you guys said the audio from
the phone
wasn't half bad when i watched it back i
was actually surprised too it wasn't
half bad
and the video was okay bit potato but
voice always comes over video
and this was the thing alright the vram
thing it got me thinking
how ingenious some of this stuff is
these graphics card companies pull off
right
so this guy sold me the rx 5500 and he's
like oh man like you know it's got eight
gigabytes of vram i'm like yeah bro i
know like that's
basically as a pc flipper i'm buying it
because it's got that eight gigabytes of
vram but the rx 5500 is not a bad buy at
230
dollars but then i said to him what did
you upgrade to he said oh 2080 ti
i mean i made a joke to him about the
vram but you went from 8 gigabytes of
vram to 11 gigabytes of vram
and he was like uh yeah
and then i'm like well dude that's like
400 of the cost for only like
30 percent more vram but um didn't
really click and didn't really register
but
and this got me thinking back to the
upcoming rtx 3000 launch
and how important vram sku marketing
is for these companies right if we look
at the 10 series that was like a
perfect and i mean perfect separation of
vram they had
the 11 gigabytes on the 1080 ti 1080
1070 eight gigabytes
go down to six and then three for the
guy who wanted the competitive nvidia
price performance at the time
versus the amd card then they had the
1050 ti 4 gigabytes
10 32 gigabytes so that's like perfect
spread of vram
but then you look at the rtx 2000 series
and the vram was in ways sort of less
for the same money right you're getting
the 2080
for the same money roughly as the 1080
ti but that was only eight gigabytes of
vram so it got me thinking like
okay maybe this is the real reason
why nvidia had to do something with rtx
like it got me a little bit thinking
like because i i don't know why am i
going down this train of thought
but sometimes you've got to always bring
it back to the most
common denominator and the most basic of
basics and then it got me thinking that
may be a big reason for
rtx i mean call it a little bit weird
but you guys said you
like story time so there's a bit of
story time but then we've got rtx 3000
now
we've got the ray tracing we're also
going to have a big jump in the
i guess the amount of vram these cards
will have
so it's going to be really interesting
to see the actual amount of vram
they are putting on these cards 100
because i guarantee you it's going to be
bigger
than rtx 2000 series but then you've got
the rtx selling point over the gtx cards
that had actually quite high vram sizes
on them
of course i have parched my thirst with
some exquisite beverages
but still that helps you relax the brain
and get more thoughts out
anyway let's go here to feed and then
we'll get back on the road
and see what deals we've got cracker
lacking or pop a lopping depends
whichever way you want it
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um
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so we're now at the finish line finally
it's actually the next morning cause i
got home last night it was so late i was
so tired because i did an extra stop
that i didn't intend to do
but when i got to the guy's place that i
originally intended to drop into in
episode one
he ended up having a lot more stuff than
i had bargained for
i was just like yep i'm going to drive
home it's going to just be a quick easy
pop in
pick up a pc maybe you might have
another pc but nope he had
five pcs and we'll get onto them soon
because he also had a heap of monitors
so we had five 22 inch monitors and one
20
inch and he said what do you pay for
these and i said well 20 inches usually
20 for 20
and then 22 inches i pay 35 to 40
depending on how many i'm getting in
what condition
and so he had six 22 inch monitors and i
ended up getting
five of them and i had to leave one
behind it's a true story i had to leave
one behind because i ran out of money in
my wallet i had no cash left
so i could not get these parts because
i'd really wanted to get the towers now
there's five of these things the cases
are pretty good
they've all got windows 10 pro licenses
installed
but there was a problem with a few of
them like this is the weirdest thing
because
this situation i'm going to tell you
guys you probably won't even believe it
but
this guy he had a hearing aid and so
unfortunately he couldn't hear the coil
whine
and you don't even have to turn the pc
on to notes the power supply i've heard
this noise before and i just said to him
dude
i will have to replace the power
supplies in these machines
that have these bad power supplies and
he's like oh man that'll be fine
i can't hear it it's not a problem and
i'm like oh this
is kind of it's just a weird situation
because you cannot sell a pc with that
kind of coil one it
is going to drive you nuts
after a while
it's not just the noise it's also the
fact that the power supply is not
in good running condition so he was like
i can't hear it it's fine i'm like well
man like because you know you just don't
want to really haggle too much
so like i just said to him look can you
give me a little discount because i'm
buying all five
so we ended up going uh with 420
on these five i3 systems now i'm gonna
have to replace the power supplies in a
couple of them
but the good thing is they do come with
hard drives so
some of them will come with uh one
terabyte hard drives
and 500 gigabyte hard drives and they've
also got ram installed now
the one reason i wanted to get all these
i3 systems is because i've got because
if you guys remember i did a video on
the i5 and i had a heap of i5s lying
around
second and third gen so i can go through
all these systems and replace them with
second and third gen i5s because that's
a big reason i'm looking for all these
i3 systems at the moment because
i got i5s to burn hold up i'm not gonna
literally
burn these cpus that's not what's gonna
happen
i'm going to basically get the cpus and
put them in and keep going through them
until i have them no longer
hence the slang for burn so that
in itself just ended up being i think a
really good deal
besides the high-pitched wine then after
i picked up that whole deal
he threw in a couple of keyboards which
was awesome i always love
you know free keyboards mice i clean all
that stuff up make it
make it perfection but then on the way
home after that i got a message
and this guy was right around the corner
from this other guy
and he's just like dude i i've got a
heap of stuff here you want to come and
check it all out
and at this stage i'm just like sure
let's just do it i've already got a car
full again for the second time and the
second day in a row
let's just top it all off so we had um
a 2200 g and 16 gigabytes of ram
four hard drives uh he won 120 bucks for
that combo i said sure let's do that
uh then we had graphics cards he ended
up uh doing
us a r7 360 for 30 bucks
a gtx 1060 for six gigabyte for 150
aussie
and then rx 460 we ended up just
clearing off this whole box of stuff for
350 bucks
and he said to me like do you want this
fx cpu and motherboard and ram for
nothing with some sodim
and i was like yeah i'll take it i'll
take a look at it if it doesn't work it
doesn't work if it works it works
so he gave me this combo here with the
water cooler so i'm going to check that
out later that'll be on the have to test
it pile because
if this stuff is like if they don't know
if it works and it's untested i'll get
onto it when i've got a heap of all that
stuff
in a pile so i can just run through it
quickly
that's of course the can yes fix it
episode then we got up here the rx 5500
that was a really cool deal
as well as the ryzen 5 2600
and now telling all that up for you guys
we ended up doing part two
with a grand total of 1388 aussie
dollars
we had 615 on the monitors and all those
bangers
then 230 on that gravis card 185 on the
ryzen 5 2600
then 350 on the magical box of
parts which was broken down into a lot
of little separate deals
but then it came to 350 in total so
pretty much at this stage i am not
looking at
any other deals so the guys on gumtree
and facebook if they haven't replied yet
i'm not even gonna like i'm just done
two car fulls of stuff
i i'm just the cooldown the used parts
hunting swoop cape
that is on cooldown at the moment that
needs to recharge
and i mean you guys hitting that like
button and dropping all them funny
comments
that's the reason i guess i go so hard
at this stuff
plus i i love it too i mean what more
fun is there
than someone who's like this pc is done
it's finished it cannot game anymore and
then you pick that thing up
you do a bit of magic tech yes love into
that thing
you get the monitor you put the
wallpaper on there you get the rgb
keyboard the mouse bang you're swooping
in and then perhaps that person is
looking to upgrade their pc they're
looking for another gaming pc on the
market but then they see the magic that
you've done
man i wish we could get some of those
reactions on camera that'd be gold
anyhow guys with that aside i am going
to go edit this video out and then
i might have a day and a half off a
weekend off this is a foreign concept
for me
i am not you i'm not used to having time
off but that's what's going to happen
this weekend
and actually i'm going to make a cool
behind-the-scenes patron vlog i'm going
to meet up with some
of the guys who are actually my
competitors but they're my friends
and this is kind of like i like the
community that we're making here in
southeast queensland
i just don't try to be like this gtx
1070 guy who
is from what people are telling me he is
trolling
because there's a few guys that have put
offers down on this gravis card and
he's listed it for 250 then he's gone
and re-listed it also let us know in the
comments section below what was your
favorite deal of
both part one and part two which was the
king in this two-part
series and also let us know have you
come into
coil wine on a power supply before and
if so what was your
recourse of action love reading those
thoughts and opinions
as always just like this question of the
day here
which comes from jackson c and they ask
why would anyone ever put the thermal
paste on their thumb
then press their thumb to the chip wtf
brian
jackson sometimes in life you just gotta
take a step back
grab a beer relax and just see the
meaning behind it
and basically the meaning behind that
was was that there was all these thermal
paste arguments
like you got to spread it you've got to
do the p method if you don't do the p
method there's going to be micro air
bubbles that me just stamping it on the
thumb is like who cares
as long as there is thermal paste
between the chip and the heatsink
and its decent quality thermal paste
mixed in with a bit of a
finger grease then it's gonna do a great
job on cooling
but that's the thing it doesn't matter
if you spread it with your thumb
it like people actually people who have
studied the subject
say that your thumb automatically makes
a barrier with the thermal paste
so even if you spread it with your thumb
it's actually fine
there's no real contamination of the
thermal paste to begin with so
there it is it's just like a hey you
know maybe in the process you might have
had a laugh too
laughing that might be a foreign concept
too though i'm out of here if you guys
have stayed
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on my back because apparently
vitamin d from the sun absorbs best
through your back and your chest
this is what i'm told i don't know
but i'll catch you guys another tech
video very soon peace out for now
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bye
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one thing i've been meaning to do for a
couple of months now is a long-term
viewer real long-term viewer neil
he sent over some xeons motherboard and
ram and i said thanks heaps and then he
just said would it be possible if you
gave us a little shout out in your
monthly parts hunt
just to hire thank you and i said yes
sure no problems but i've been
keep forgetting every month until now so
big thanks neil
thanks for watching and also i
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guys
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