@@iamperplexed4695 yeah, it depends on the location. Sometimes it really is about having the in... I paid someone to get the in at the place I went. Sometimes it is about having the friend of a friend who knows the guy in charge. I even had a place that I was buying at forever who told me to get lost, then a buddy of mine that was one of their vendors told me he saw cars parked outside that we both knew belonged to my competitors and said he talked to someone who told him that like oh yeah, we sell to so and so, so I called them up and they actually lied that they didn't, then when I told them I had the goods it became oh well, yeah, we sell some stuff to him, but not much... actually the Seattle secondary market scene has a whole drama all of its own
In the UK, by law they don't allow you to take the perfectly working pcs out of the tip to be reused in case you damage the environment by dumping them. Super lame.
Cant believe someone else has found my treasure trove. I use to go to this same place here on the Goldy and was in love until lockdown and haven’t been back since. Need fo go shortly after the stuff you’ve found! Love it man
We had a hardware dumpster at university. As a student I passed by daily to check for new trash / stuff. Always took the HDDs, RAM, CPUs, PSUs, Heatsinks, Fans. Checked warranty on the HDDs online and RMAed them whenever possible for new drives. Other working stuff was sold on ebay. Or I upgraded some student PCs in the faculty. Nothing beats freebies.
@@witnesszer0 that's quite easy, though wont work every time, you either say you don't have the reciet or you ask the school for it. I've experienced with a DJI drone i got from Sitech for free, with a broken range extender, I sent it for RMA and got a new one for free, just by telling them I didn't have the reciet as it's so old. lol so now i got a free functining DJI drone
The thing that annoyed me though in cases like that was when I didn't have much cash, lets say the IT department would offer free or very cheap pcs i.e £20 for one that might of been a few years old at most. People would email/phone the literal second they were available and take them all. And they weren't doing courses that even required consistent pc usage, I could be doing media or an actual pc course and had to spend own cash I didn't have. People don't think about the others who may need them.
I am over the moon for this content. Getting things that were tossed out and keeping them out a landfill and back into service, I have found a macbook pro in the garbage and installed a new keyboard and it has been working like a champ.
@@_________________404 agreed. The thumbnails alone turned me away from his channel. I found Brian by accident and I have no regrets. First video I watched was him doing lessons on overclocking X58 Xeons. Now I'm living it! Those things may be old, but they play 4K so nicely for such an amazing price!
It's actually quite sickening how much perfectly good things just get dumped everyday. If people really care about the environment then this should be one of the things that should get tackled 1st
@@techyescity I work at a recycling center. I had an 8th Gen i5 come in, 16GB DDR3 red-LED RAM and GTX1060 3GB. The reason? The CPU fan was noisy! Fixed it up, new cooler, new case, sold.
@@PCFixer I used to work near where the local recycle drive happened every few months, you'd be surprised how far a couple of cold drinks go in a SoCal summer. They let me rip anything I wanted for free except HDDs because of security protocols about unwiped data. Considering this was the nice part of town I got a lot of nice older GPUs, CPUs, and enough DDR3 ram to fuel a data center. Only thing that sucked was that the pandemic killed them off, but at least now I can strip PCs I find on the side of the road in a minute flat from all the practice.
credit to you, you are one of the few that shows this avenue for equipment, what is possible, how easy it is to repair and THE GREAT GEAR THAT MORONS are throwing out. Brings me back a few years, I got most of my gear this way and still working perfectly. more content please
yeah but he hams it up and doesn't give a realistic perspective, far too superficial how most everything seems to "conventionally work" Shows bias against lower and older hardware that can still be repurposed for things, notice how most of the stuff he saves isn't too much older than around 10 to 12 years old? That's still viable for modern use given some time, cheap upgrades and consideration bias for what software to use removed to put expectations within reason. And he's not the only techie in australia. Ewaste ben, the complete opposite kind of guy, shows ya how to waste your time waste the tech, waste your money destroying it and he constantly makes videos too. Just look at a video or 2 of his. to see what i mean and compare. Practically no testing or repair or getting it to boot. Just tear it down strip wires parts (often improperly) or simply cut then with a wire cutter and talk about gold and contacts and copper or steel n crap.
@@candidosilva7755 Missing PCIe lanes, thats the downside to fragile LGA sockets, people ham fist them. AMD pins tends to be strong until they break off.
i literally made a decade old am3 board bath in WD40 to remove corrosion, let it soak for some time and wash it in dishwashing liquid with a toothbrush and put it under mild sunlight to dry. Still boots and looked newly purchased.
Thanks for the great content and a huge thanks for recycling ♻️ what could potentially end up in a dump!! As a kid in the 90s growing up in the burbs of Chicago, I used to ride my bike to different neighborhoods and go garbage picking. One day I opened a box while looking through the trash and there was a complete Unisys workstation (monitor, kb, and mouse also) with a 386, 12MB 30pin ram, and a 340MB HDD. It was super neat, and it was super heavy... It weighed 86 lb just for the tower! Great times I had back then and found many dumpsters also from businesses throwing away all kinds of cool electronics.
Great stuff again Brian. I've dumpster dived a bunch of PCs. Most are much older than you have here. In my area I've not found a facility that will let me touch the drops. I find them by literal dumpsters. Many of my friends also hand me their old machines. Some I find new homes for. My best "find" was actually at a thrift store, "$35 as is" full system, fixed it up, dropped in a GPU+SSD and got my friend gaming. Other machines I've found I use as test equipment, or for experiments. I donated others to an A+ certification class. I've considered creating a little sign to pin up next to dumpsters "PCs here". People at apartment complexes often dump alot when they move.
Treat that guy who's letting you into the recycling facility like he's your own family...this is a public liability nightmare for whoever owns it. Have been to a few of the PC recycling outfits here in Melbourne (one in Campbellfield, one in Moorabbin), the people running them are very friendly and definitely believers in the reuse/recycle cause, but I wouldn't dare ask them to dive straight into the bins.
Agreed, i used to go after all employees but him left since he stayed about an hour after. Allways brought him a 6pack or gift card here and there, and he would always save stuff for me if he saw it. Was a great relationship and could talk to the guy for hours each time i went if he wasnt busy since id never hold him up.
@@datboi4925 A six pack of refreshments could be considered good neighborly, a gift card crosses the line over to bribery and corruption side of things.
This is amazing dedication. I thought I did well getting a Z390 Strix board for 25GBP being sold as untested but it had bent CPU pins and the board had a bend in the bottom third of it. After some time aligning the CPU pins, the board booted. I can't use dual-channel memory on it but none of the I/O beneath the bend on the board seemed to be affected so I'm now using the board in a file server. You put me to shame getting 4 free boards, putting in a bit of TLC and getting them working. I need to find a computer/electrical disposal company in the UK who'd be kind enough to let me dive their dumpsters.
Hey Bryan, I found another technique for bending back pins that works well for me. I use a small straw like you would find on a can of your all purpose spray. I put the straw over the pin and lean it back into shape. Just thought I'd mention a technique I thought of after watching your videos!
Nice finds. The only time I ever went dumpster diving (we call it skip diving in the UK) back in the mid 90's I got an Atari PC3 (8088) and a Commodore 8096-SK. Both machines were complete with screens and keyboards and everything was in full working order. :)
I love what you are doing . You should promote this stuff for conserving our environment and This may help people who don't have money to buy new stuff also ease out the chip shortage time
@@techyescity Jokes on them. Maybe you do maybe you don't, but you don't take the risk, you get no reward... and a working Z390 board, that a hell of a reward for just a little time. But I think I'm convinced that that toothpick IS magic.
I am still amazed by what people will throw away. I picked up a few computers from marketplace a few months back that they were just going to dump. One was an i5 2500k system, another was an i7 4770 and the 3rd was an FX-6300. All 3 worked and all 3 had 16GB DDR3 RAM and the only thing missing was the drives! The i7 had an R7 260x and the i5 had a 560 Ti. The FX system had something like a GT710 I think (I donated that system to a neighbour who was on an aging Core 2 Duo). The other 2 systems were sold cheaply on marketplace after buying a couple of 120GB SSDs and scoring some free 500GB mechanical drives from old Sky TV set top boxes.
Looking into those dumpsters is like heaven for me lol i always go to recycling centers i even jump into the dumpsters for a good old rummage to ha.It's amazing what you sometimes find.Great vid as always @Tech YES City
Back when everyone had crt TV sets I had 2 TV shops in my town that would give me all the sets customers decided not to fix. I got a lot of them working and the rest were tore down for parts and recycled and scrapped. I still have some leftover crts and lots and lots of tubes from the super early lighthouse ones. I sold working buf not awesome sets for 50 each with a 30 day warranty and really nice up to date ones that had a remote and digital tuners that had excellent pictures could go for 150 and up. Made money for bills and toys for quite a while till throw away flat screens became popular and the digital broadcasting took over it wasn't worth it any more. I still have a couple crt rejuvenators and test equipment around I just don't want to throw away. Someday I should sell off all the vacuum tubes, some are worth some money now.
It's crazy how much usable things get thrown away. I once found a Desktop with a i7 3770 and a GTX 660 on a garbage pile on the side of the road, took it home and it worked perfectly. In the company I worked at, PCs and Laptops that worked but were too old were data wiped and given out by lottery to employees for free. This is a much better thing than just throw them away.
I still have my i7 3770 I bought brand new. I still use it as a second family computer for internet and light gaming. Paired with a decent gpu it's still quite the capable machine.
Flipped a system that was on the side of the road. The fans were clogged with cat hair being held by vaping juice and there were a bunch of dead roaches inside. Took me an entire afternoon to clean everything out. It had the following specs inside. CPU: i5 6500 Motherboard: Asus H110M-K RAM: Hynix (2x8gb) 2133MHz RAM GPU: Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970 4gb PSU: EVGA Supernova Gold 750w modular Case: DIYPC F2-P Black/Purple Stock Intel cooler Storage: 1tb WD Blue 7200 rpm hard drive It smelled awful, but after a lot of cleaning, I switched the GPU put with an RX 560 4gb, moved a less intensive PSU into it, cable managed it, and put an SSD in it for running Windows 10 and flipped it for $350. Easy profit.
@10:45 You don't need to take the securing plastic thign from the RAM slot, just manually push the plastic to get it in place, and that's it, unless that's not enough. For Pin unbending: use a very small "flat" screwdriver, and a 40x+ magnifying glass, great precision; if you need more precision, build a small lever with 2 small screwdrivers
Hey, a helpful hint for the pins: Go to the drugstore and buy a hypodermic needle. the hollow point lets you capture the pins easier, it's waaaay easier then using a toothpick.
My mom used to dumpster dive at the Low Income apartments near her house, because people would simply throw anything "old" away. Found a Dell Inspiron 5758 laptop a couple years ago and have used it since. Found a motherboard that looked very similar to the gigabyte blue one you had gotten, with an I7-4770 a couple years back, also some corsair vengeance ram. Same dumpster. Used that mobo till it fried and i could afford something nice for once.. lol. I still use the laptop to this day, just threw an SSD into it recently and she still works for youtube and small games lol. Some people will throw anything away. Sad.
@@bustergundo516 so true though. I grew up considerably poor and when I found a galaxy s6, that thing was a golden ticket for me haha. Just so happy to be able to afford a galaxy s21, my girl an iPhone 11, myself a gaming pc w an rtx 3060, ya know nice shit young me could've killed for
Great video, I lol'd when you said " they just threw it in the bin" as it immediately made me think of one of my other favourite Australian channels, MCM. As Marty would say - "IN THE BIN!"
Ok... technically this is not dumpster diving.... I used to do the same thing, I had the in at a place called Total Reclaim in Seattle wayyyy back in the day long before any of the TH-cam stuff got started, I would buy whole pallets of high end hardware for like a couple hundred dollars. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with access to pc recycle always go the same way. First they see some stuff that looks like it could be worth a little money, then, they do that for a while, then they realize they could make a little more money on a little more stuff, then usually like a year or two in they realize they could go full retail, and they tell you to get lost.... after you basically gave them all the market research they needed to make money on the stuff
About a year ago my wife and I were going out to dinner and we parked next to a dumpster outside of a Bank. I glanced in and saw two desktops on top and grabbed both. One was an older i5 machine that needed a PS but the other was an old 486 Cyrex machine. A new PS in the 486 machine got it up and running, it now shows my kids the kind of thing I started gaming on.
bit of a dumpster diver myself - great video! Have to be careful though, I had a monitor which went POP the 2nd time I used it, after it seemed fine to begin with....and some of those old mobos will give you PCIE 2.0 slots only. Lastly, make sure to thoroughly dry out your dumpster loot before using
Good Junk So much thrown out - Moving or old stock Only keep what's useful 40 Brand-new WD 500gb Hdd & Seagate 250gb Dumped outside units DRR3 onwards only like Old hhd's the magnets inside ( stick on my lamp collection) and Copper heatsinks etc. That SteamPunk idea .
Kudos for respecting the time of the workers at that place just trying to do their jobs. I hope you get the opportunity to visit again and go through those bins at your leisure. I said it before but these vids feel kinda wholesome.
for this ga-p67a try this method, hold power button, plug power cable in PSU, as soon motherboard gets power unplug power cable from PSU, wait like 10-15 seconds and plug cable back and repeat process 3 times. After that you should release power button and get to backup bios and working motherboard. I had same problem with my GA-Z77-D3H. Good luck
even when you can't get the full components to work, you can still scavenge the parts, or sometimes replace them, for example you could spend some time and solder on a new pci slot, if old is ripped out, with corrupted traces, if they're surface-level, you could potentially bridge them yourself (if there's overlaid traces both of which are broken, that's technically possible, but probably not worth it, at that point, unless you REALLY want it), or your could desolder the individual components (probably not worth the time, unless they're uncommon, or unless you like tinkering with building electronics yourself, where it can be very handy to have a few trays of components for only the cost of time)
Great content, keep up the good work. Also, thanks so much for the sponsor! Just built a new rig and this saved me a good chunk of cash. The fact I was able to get a Windows Pro license at this price point was amazing.
Hey man, keep up all the great videos. In many ways you're one of, if not my favorite "techtuber". Focusing mostly on DIY amazing gaming PCs, better for the environment going used, as well as better for the wallet. Having watched your content for years now, I can't believe you only have 500k, I genuinely enjoy your content loads more than some of your peers that have 3x or more subs. All I'm saying is don't let that be a measure of your success, thanks for the entertaining and informative videos, and keep up the tech yes lovin!
when you use the ultrasonic cleaner you should move the parts around after running for a bit... like run 3 cycles and move EVERYTHING around in between each wash( no need to clean water tho) this is because the sound waves will just hit the same area over and over until it moves... moving changes the way the sound waves reflect inside the liquid and around/in-between all the parts inside - so if you want them SUPER DOOPER CLEAN, run them through at least 3 times (each cycle doesn't have to be as long as u typically do) - so remember MOVE THE PARTS AROUND!!! :DS
dude , that's awesome , i'm an old tech guy still working in the area , now i'm thinking about going to my local dumpster and maybe rebuild PCs and give them away to kids or poor ppl, maybe to charity since i hate when ppl dump perfectly working stuff or just a little damaged, but i don't know if it's the same in France since we usually recycle quick or try to use what we have until it's really really dead... but i'll look for informations in any case
Years ago my ud3 p67 board started boot looping out of nowhere, didn't work on either bios. Did some looking online and seemed like it happened to afew gigabyte motherboards of the time. Before it died it was throwing USB hub errors even with nothing plugged in, so not sure what caused it to fail. Glad to see some of this hardware will see some more time in use after being dumped. Good stuff mate!
Where those two pins snapped was likely in the power delivery section for the CPU, you can usually lose a few of those and not lose stability, you may never win world records with overclocking now though hah. LGA 1151 pinout diagrams should help you find exactly which pins were lost and what they did.
You can find a lot of great stuff dumpster diving, we live in a throw away society, people throw out perfectly working products all of the time, especially here in America. Great video I love this kind of thing!
I used to drive around my council area during hard rubbish collections finding PC hardware. The best score was a Acer i7-2600 with 8GB of RAM. Also scored a Samsung B/W laser printer I am still using 4 years later... Our council is moving to booking system next year :(
One of my first forays into pc building came from dumpster diving for upgrades. I took an old 533MHz Pentium. Found a 733MHz and a 933MHz cpu. A 20GB Seagate HDD I dubbed the Gimp drive, as it had a rubber drop wrap over it. And a couple sticks or ram. Taking the old 128MB out to be replaced by 768MB between two sticks. Also found a voodoo card. But by that point, games already needed much more than the 4MB it had.
oh man every time you wash it down with the tap before putting it in the ultrasonic cleaner, every part of my being is like OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING. same with the break cleaner 😂
My current rig is running a 7600k on a gigabyte motherboard. I got it for free, when someone at work bent the pins on the board trying to clean it. I offered him some cash, but he said, if you can fix it, it's yours. 1 hour later, first time bending pins, and I haven't had an issue in 10 months.
i work at an electronics recycler, i have to yeet so much good stuff because it's generic, hell even name brand stuff we'll scrap if it has a single bent pin. probably half a dozen am4 boards gone because the system they were in wasn't dell, hp, or lenovo. it really sucks tbh
Oh well, I wish we had some deals like that in Brazil. Nothing here goes to trash that easily. When tech is discarded in higher quantities (by businesses, for example), there are Recycling Facilities who buy the lot then reuse/repair/recycle themselves. Basically, much more sustainable but there's nothing left for us, enthusiastic individuals. The only way to get some bulk scrap computers is to have direct contact to the businesses and offer to buy it and pray for them to remember you when the time comes. Or buy them one by one when they break.
Got 2 i5 4690 systems off the road on a town wide recycle day. One had a bad ram stick, another a bad psu. Both systems were repaired and regifted, one to my niece and one to a friend
Have picked up a couple of PCs left on curbside collection. One had a bad psu fan(noise sounded awful) which I simply replaced with a PWM case fan, and one had a windows install(seemed fine) but obviously no password. Cleaned, fresh windows installs and gave them to friends with young kids as Minecraft/internet browsing PC's
Good Junk So much thrown out - Moving or old stock Only keep what's useful 40 Brand-new WD 500gb Hdd & Seagate 250gb Dumped outside units i take magnets out of Old hdd's the magnets inside ( stick on my lamp pole collection) and Copper heatsinks etc. That SteamPunk idea . DDR3 + stuff i keep if good dont need but uno someone may need Got Mve maybe Jan clean out junk time again bit rubbish
You just hit the trifecta man, just wait until you hit that one nugget you never thought you'd ever see! With that dead trace board it might be time for the YES man to try his hand at trace repair (get some kynar wire from jaycar and a scuff pen, good flux and go for broke man) I've pulled heaps of stuff from dumpsters, I've worked for a lot of places that have great tech and always find a way to get some home when it comes to recycling time!
Kinda like dumpster diving for "broken" tech on ebay... I got a "broken" Crosshair V Formula-Z for $40cdn because the guy thought it was fried. Turns out I just had to replace the bios chip, which was socketed anyways. Works like brand new. And still in new condition, just sat in a box since he bought it. Replaced the thermal paste on the chipset and replaced the thermal pads with some newer thinner ones.
I had that exact p67 board and had the very same problem with boot looping. This was a long time ago, and I don't remember the solution. If I remember correctly, it would actually boot sometimes, and when it did I just never turned it off :) then at some point upgraded.
Can’t wait to see more dumpster dives! You should try to make a full dumpster dive build from different systems not just a prebuilt one. You mentioned extreme budget building, you should try to do some of these. It’s a shame that people think 3rd gen intel era mobos and CPUs are garbage when they can still play games and are still good for office and school productivity. They’re also still capable of being made into computers you can give to children who can’t afford online schooling instead of ending up as turtle food. Also there was a pretty new z390 board, I wonder if you might be able to find any systems with pascal or maxwell GPUs that’d be amazing.
@@allroundgamer3541 awesome finds, I just built a PC for my friend and he got a strix 1070 it’s such a beautiful card. The pascal era strix cooler/shroud design is easily one of my favorites, everything about it including the backplate is just so premium
Great Video. Thanks for sharing and thanks for recycling. Won't know how good that MB with the bent and broken pins will work until you use it. Just because it boos does not mean their might not be a problem later.
These are the types of things that would be great for Kid's PC. With many home-schooling now and not so much budget these would be sweet. At least where I live.
Those pins that broke on the z390 were probably grounds and that’s good. I’ve had a broken socket pin and it just happened to be for the x16 slot which ended up disabling the socket.
I do this too, but just as a hobby and as a public service -- there are many underprivileged families who don't need a "1337 leet gaming rig", who rather need a basic PC for just Web access, e-mail, etc., but have "zero" money to invest (many of these folk can barely afford to put food on the table, never mind a computer bought at retail prices). I usually provision these boxes with Xubuntu Linux as the primary boot O/S and (if a "free" license key, e.g. the sticker showing the one that came with the PC in the W7 / Vi$ta days, is available), W10 as the alternate boot O/S (the user can use GRUB for the boot menu to pick the one that he or she wants). The big price issues in these cases are "cost of a halfway usable monitor" (surplus monitors in good condition for a reasonable price, I find, are quite a bit more rare than cases and motherboards) and "cost of a high speed Internet connection". Oh well... us dumpster divers do what we can... right? :-)
I miss the "old" "Dou YOu Feel Like This *Bryan dropping to the Floor* When You See This *activate Windows*..." sponsor ad. It always got a smile out of me.
Maybe if you could get access to some of those office park dumpster rooms, that could get you some good stuff. Judging from what Dave from EEV blog tends to find.
I think that logitech USB reciever is for their "unifying" devices. I think most logitech perifpherials that start with a K will work with that. Your price guess was pretty close also. They sell from $8-$10 on ebay.
My best "dumpster find" is a dx2300MT HP PC with E6700 and 4GB DDR2 and GTX 285 powered by Corsair VX550, then i've found a case with windowed panel nearby that area so i compared that stuff into one build and everything is working good today, sadly this motherboard don't accept C2Q's :/
Pro vergeside scab here, this is the way. I've scored z420's with Quadro K2200's and tons more over the last 3 years. I'd kill for the dumpster opportunity though - saves a lot of fuel lol :)
A while back, I went to a scrap yard and was looking for parts for my car, then on my way out saw giant bins full of PC parts. They were about to close shop for the day but let me dig a little, nothing gaming-worthy but found a fully functional, fairly new Dell and the previous owner left it unprotected and hard drive intact - scans of SS and IDs, even a credit card, finance info, everything. Not even password protected. I ran a thorough drive wipe, destroyed the drive, and contacted the person (a local teacher as it turns out) and let her know her personal info was safe. Blows my mind how people don't know better.
I went to recycle center 3 mount ago. It was my first time but I was with buddy who buys from there every week. I went through a tub full of CPU's and I found 8 quad core 775 (q6600,q8400 and one Q9650 :) ).. And a tub full of ram. I found 8 sticks of ddr3 4gb . I payed 30 bucks. I tested all of them. And all of the CPU's work .And 6 of the memory sticks work. So I 5x my money. I will try to go there again soon. I have a lot of OEM HP 775 so the cpu's will go in them.
Looking after those who you get free stuff from is the way to go. At the last place i worked at, we had a guy come around and we would give him all the wooden pallets that we would normally throw out. He would reward us with Beer or chocolates. Because he gave us these gifts, we would look after him and give him the better undamaged pallets and leave the crap for others that came collecting.
Im surprised that most of the boards are actually working, I'm very curious about the z390 stability when booted into windows. I have dealt with a bent cpu pins, some boards won't recognize multiple stick of ram, some with have a thermal issues. Definitely a follow up video on that z390 motherboard
In 2016 I saw a bunch of computers in a dumpster and went to take a look and found a working R9 390 PC color+ edition at the time I was rockin a R7 250 in my computer cause I only play games like cities and build computers here and there but yeah was way stoked at the time and it still works to this day thank god for the people taht throw things away lol
Pro tip next time use a butter knife to straighten out the IO pins. As a fellow pro it has worked out for me. Also I have used this method on Fighter Jets with ZERO incidents.
I must admit I've thrown out a lot of working PC components in the past. Normally if I was busy with work and the parts were worth under a certain amount, I just couldn't be bothered spending time trying to sell them. These days I'm more environmentally conscious and tend to try and sell them, even if I only get a few bucks. Also it's incredible to me how people manage to destroy their own PCs by bending pins, snapping off connectors etc.
It is quite amazing what people throw away as for tech. When people found out one of my hobbies is repairing old computers they started giving me the computers instead of throwing them away. So now I take what I don't want to a tech recycler here were I live in the states which helps in keeping tech item from winding up in a landfill that can be reused or recycled.
I scored a free system the other day, and the only thing wrong with it was the VGA cable was busted. Computer is bog standard(core 2 duo e4600 using integrated graphics), but the monitor is a 1080p 24" little beast (Phillips 244E1). I thought that was a great free pickup.
There aren’t any “unnecessary pins” on a cpu slot. Sometimes they can _run_ missing a pin or two, but then when more channels or higher speeds are needed, BSOD or complete shut down is almost imminent.
Remember don't forget to live life one dumpster at a time!
My local electronics recycle place laughed at me and told me to F off. They resell.
@@iamperplexed4695 yeah, it depends on the location. Sometimes it really is about having the in... I paid someone to get the in at the place I went. Sometimes it is about having the friend of a friend who knows the guy in charge. I even had a place that I was buying at forever who told me to get lost, then a buddy of mine that was one of their vendors told me he saw cars parked outside that we both knew belonged to my competitors and said he talked to someone who told him that like oh yeah, we sell to so and so, so I called them up and they actually lied that they didn't, then when I told them I had the goods it became oh well, yeah, we sell some stuff to him, but not much... actually the Seattle secondary market scene has a whole drama all of its own
In the UK, by law they don't allow you to take the perfectly working pcs out of the tip to be reused in case you damage the environment by dumping them. Super lame.
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Cant believe someone else has found my treasure trove. I use to go to this same place here on the Goldy and was in love until lockdown and haven’t been back since. Need fo go shortly after the stuff you’ve found! Love it man
We had a hardware dumpster at university. As a student I passed by daily to check for new trash / stuff. Always took the HDDs, RAM, CPUs, PSUs, Heatsinks, Fans. Checked warranty on the HDDs online and RMAed them whenever possible for new drives. Other working stuff was sold on ebay. Or I upgraded some student PCs in the faculty.
Nothing beats freebies.
Nice!
How you rma without the receipt?
@@witnesszer0 that's quite easy, though wont work every time, you either say you don't have the reciet or you ask the school for it. I've experienced with a DJI drone i got from Sitech for free, with a broken range extender, I sent it for RMA and got a new one for free, just by telling them I didn't have the reciet as it's so old. lol so now i got a free functining DJI drone
Totally in agreement.
The thing that annoyed me though in cases like that was when I didn't have much cash, lets say the IT department would offer free or very cheap pcs i.e £20 for one that might of been a few years old at most. People would email/phone the literal second they were available and take them all. And they weren't doing courses that even required consistent pc usage, I could be doing media or an actual pc course and had to spend own cash I didn't have. People don't think about the others who may need them.
I am over the moon for this content. Getting things that were tossed out and keeping them out a landfill and back into service, I have found a macbook pro in the garbage and installed a new keyboard and it has been working like a champ.
Lol. Meanwhile where I live ppl try to sell absolutely everything instead of throwing it out, even broken core 2 duo laptops..
@@_________________404 where do you live ?
@@tibib0ss propably Germoney, at least here it‘s just as he describes...
@@_________________404 same here in Romania!
@@stefanManiak262011 Same Scotland, people see the new price and think 10% off is a steal for something heavily used.....
you're like reverse ltt or something, fixing stuffs without any expensive tools. good jobs man
Thanks man!
Hey, that's Linus's dad!
LTT is cringe AF. Really decreased in quality over the years. It's unwatchable now.
@@Sybertek xD
@@_________________404 agreed. The thumbnails alone turned me away from his channel. I found Brian by accident and I have no regrets. First video I watched was him doing lessons on overclocking X58 Xeons. Now I'm living it! Those things may be old, but they play 4K so nicely for such an amazing price!
It's actually quite sickening how much perfectly good things just get dumped everyday. If people really care about the environment then this should be one of the things that should get tackled 1st
Yeah recently the person told me someone chucked out a 10700K and RTX 2060 system... my jaw dropped lmao.
People feel the need to buy new stuff even thou they don't need it and throw away perfectly working things away...
@@techyescity I work at a recycling center. I had an 8th Gen i5 come in, 16GB DDR3 red-LED RAM and GTX1060 3GB. The reason? The CPU fan was noisy! Fixed it up, new cooler, new case, sold.
@@techyescity The actual fuck
@@PCFixer I used to work near where the local recycle drive happened every few months, you'd be surprised how far a couple of cold drinks go in a SoCal summer. They let me rip anything I wanted for free except HDDs because of security protocols about unwiped data. Considering this was the nice part of town I got a lot of nice older GPUs, CPUs, and enough DDR3 ram to fuel a data center. Only thing that sucked was that the pandemic killed them off, but at least now I can strip PCs I find on the side of the road in a minute flat from all the practice.
credit to you, you are one of the few that shows this avenue for equipment, what is possible, how easy it is to repair and THE GREAT GEAR THAT MORONS are throwing out. Brings me back a few years, I got most of my gear this way and still working perfectly. more content please
yeah but he hams it up and doesn't give a realistic perspective, far too superficial how most everything seems to "conventionally work" Shows bias against lower and older hardware that can still be repurposed for things, notice how most of the stuff he saves isn't too much older than around 10 to 12 years old? That's still viable for modern use given some time, cheap upgrades and consideration bias for what software to use removed to put expectations within reason.
And he's not the only techie in australia. Ewaste ben, the complete opposite kind of guy, shows ya how to waste your time waste the tech, waste your money destroying it and he constantly makes videos too. Just look at a video or 2 of his. to see what i mean and compare. Practically no testing or repair or getting it to boot. Just tear it down strip wires parts (often improperly) or simply cut then with a wire cutter and talk about gold and contacts and copper or steel n crap.
Watching this made me realize something motherboards are realy hard to kill. Im impressed.
yeah im shocking too
@@cocolatte3076 even with things riped twistid and broken cpu pins the damn things both posted and my face was like this🤔🤔
@@candidosilva7755 just means that manufacturers pick up the quality
@@candidosilva7755 Missing PCIe lanes, thats the downside to fragile LGA sockets, people ham fist them. AMD pins tends to be strong until they break off.
i literally made a decade old am3 board bath in WD40 to remove corrosion, let it soak for some time and wash it in dishwashing liquid with a toothbrush and put it under mild sunlight to dry. Still boots and looked newly purchased.
Thanks for the great content and a huge thanks for recycling ♻️ what could potentially end up in a dump!! As a kid in the 90s growing up in the burbs of Chicago, I used to ride my bike to different neighborhoods and go garbage picking. One day I opened a box while looking through the trash and there was a complete Unisys workstation (monitor, kb, and mouse also) with a 386, 12MB 30pin ram, and a 340MB HDD. It was super neat, and it was super heavy... It weighed 86 lb just for the tower! Great times I had back then and found many dumpsters also from businesses throwing away all kinds of cool electronics.
Getting the Z390 going after all the damage was an amazing job.
My mind was blown on that one. I passed on a z490 mobo once with gum stuck in two of the RAM slots. Now I feel foolish.
I guess you could say the z390 board pins weren't *TUF* enough.
@@grlmgor oh my God that's great
because damaged was left side of socket with Vcore and ground pins
, so its not critical like right side with memory pins
Great stuff again Brian. I've dumpster dived a bunch of PCs. Most are much older than you have here. In my area I've not found a facility that will let me touch the drops. I find them by literal dumpsters. Many of my friends also hand me their old machines. Some I find new homes for. My best "find" was actually at a thrift store, "$35 as is" full system, fixed it up, dropped in a GPU+SSD and got my friend gaming. Other machines I've found I use as test equipment, or for experiments. I donated others to an A+ certification class. I've considered creating a little sign to pin up next to dumpsters "PCs here". People at apartment complexes often dump alot when they move.
Treat that guy who's letting you into the recycling facility like he's your own family...this is a public liability nightmare for whoever owns it. Have been to a few of the PC recycling outfits here in Melbourne (one in Campbellfield, one in Moorabbin), the people running them are very friendly and definitely believers in the reuse/recycle cause, but I wouldn't dare ask them to dive straight into the bins.
Agreed, i used to go after all employees but him left since he stayed about an hour after. Allways brought him a 6pack or gift card here and there, and he would always save stuff for me if he saw it. Was a great relationship and could talk to the guy for hours each time i went if he wasnt busy since id never hold him up.
Thanks for mentioning this.
@@datboi4925 A six pack of refreshments could be considered good neighborly, a gift card crosses the line over to bribery and corruption side of things.
@@joefish6091 i mean ur dealing with discarded items essentially deemed trash so I feel like “corruption” is a bit intense for what this really is.
This is amazing dedication. I thought I did well getting a Z390 Strix board for 25GBP being sold as untested but it had bent CPU pins and the board had a bend in the bottom third of it. After some time aligning the CPU pins, the board booted. I can't use dual-channel memory on it but none of the I/O beneath the bend on the board seemed to be affected so I'm now using the board in a file server. You put me to shame getting 4 free boards, putting in a bit of TLC and getting them working. I need to find a computer/electrical disposal company in the UK who'd be kind enough to let me dive their dumpsters.
Hey Bryan, I found another technique for bending back pins that works well for me. I use a small straw like you would find on a can of your all purpose spray. I put the straw over the pin and lean it back into shape. Just thought I'd mention a technique I thought of after watching your videos!
Wow, SMART!
Nice finds. The only time I ever went dumpster diving (we call it skip diving in the UK) back in the mid 90's I got an Atari PC3 (8088) and a Commodore 8096-SK. Both machines were complete with screens and keyboards and everything was in full working order. :)
I managed to get myself an old socket 7 computer from a skip that was fully working, HDD included!.
@@oldrandomcomputing6247 Nice.
I love what you are doing . You should promote this stuff for conserving our environment and This may help people who don't have money to buy new stuff also ease out the chip shortage time
Nice work. I didn't think you were going to be able to save that Z390. That was pretty bad.
Yeah I think when they told me to fix it, they laughed thinking it would be impossible, but the toothpick is my best friend.
@@techyescity Jokes on them. Maybe you do maybe you don't, but you don't take the risk, you get no reward... and a working Z390 board, that a hell of a reward for just a little time. But I think I'm convinced that that toothpick IS magic.
@@techyescity Nothing Linus's dad can't handle.
I am still amazed by what people will throw away. I picked up a few computers from marketplace a few months back that they were just going to dump. One was an i5 2500k system, another was an i7 4770 and the 3rd was an FX-6300. All 3 worked and all 3 had 16GB DDR3 RAM and the only thing missing was the drives! The i7 had an R7 260x and the i5 had a 560 Ti. The FX system had something like a GT710 I think (I donated that system to a neighbour who was on an aging Core 2 Duo). The other 2 systems were sold cheaply on marketplace after buying a couple of 120GB SSDs and scoring some free 500GB mechanical drives from old Sky TV set top boxes.
Looking into those dumpsters is like heaven for me lol i always go to recycling centers i even jump into the dumpsters for a good old rummage to ha.It's amazing what you sometimes find.Great vid as always @Tech YES City
A fine sewing needle works best for bent pins
Back when everyone had crt TV sets I had 2 TV shops in my town that would give me all the sets customers decided not to fix. I got a lot of them working and the rest were tore down for parts and recycled and scrapped. I still have some leftover crts and lots and lots of tubes from the super early lighthouse ones. I sold working buf not awesome sets for 50 each with a 30 day warranty and really nice up to date ones that had a remote and digital tuners that had excellent pictures could go for 150 and up. Made money for bills and toys for quite a while till throw away flat screens became popular and the digital broadcasting took over it wasn't worth it any more.
I still have a couple crt rejuvenators and test equipment around I just don't want to throw away.
Someday I should sell off all the vacuum tubes, some are worth some money now.
It's crazy how much usable things get thrown away. I once found a Desktop with a i7 3770 and a GTX 660 on a garbage pile on the side of the road, took it home and it worked perfectly. In the company I worked at, PCs and Laptops that worked but were too old were data wiped and given out by lottery to employees for free. This is a much better thing than just throw them away.
I still have my i7 3770 I bought brand new. I still use it as a second family computer for internet and light gaming. Paired with a decent gpu it's still quite the capable machine.
@@marcellachine5718 nice.
Been awhile since I’ve been here, but I’m glad the channel is thriving. All the Best🙏🏿
Flipped a system that was on the side of the road. The fans were clogged with cat hair being held by vaping juice and there were a bunch of dead roaches inside. Took me an entire afternoon to clean everything out. It had the following specs inside.
CPU: i5 6500
Motherboard: Asus H110M-K
RAM: Hynix (2x8gb) 2133MHz RAM
GPU: Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970 4gb
PSU: EVGA Supernova Gold 750w modular
Case: DIYPC F2-P Black/Purple
Stock Intel cooler
Storage: 1tb WD Blue 7200 rpm hard drive
It smelled awful, but after a lot of cleaning, I switched the GPU put with an RX 560 4gb, moved a less intensive PSU into it, cable managed it, and put an SSD in it for running Windows 10 and flipped it for $350. Easy profit.
@10:45 You don't need to take the securing plastic thign from the RAM slot, just manually push the plastic to get it in place, and that's it, unless that's not enough. For Pin unbending: use a very small "flat" screwdriver, and a 40x+ magnifying glass, great precision; if you need more precision, build a small lever with 2 small screwdrivers
Hey, a helpful hint for the pins: Go to the drugstore and buy a hypodermic needle. the hollow point lets you capture the pins easier, it's waaaay easier then using a toothpick.
Mechanical pencil also good
Love your content,this is next level Scrapyard wars
Good stuff! I recently fished an Optiplex 3020 out of a recycling bin with an i3-4160 and 8GB of RAM, fully working! Still a competent machine.
My mom used to dumpster dive at the Low Income apartments near her house, because people would simply throw anything "old" away. Found a Dell Inspiron 5758 laptop a couple years ago and have used it since. Found a motherboard that looked very similar to the gigabyte blue one you had gotten, with an I7-4770 a couple years back, also some corsair vengeance ram. Same dumpster. Used that mobo till it fried and i could afford something nice for once.. lol. I still use the laptop to this day, just threw an SSD into it recently and she still works for youtube and small games lol.
Some people will throw anything away. Sad.
*One man's trash is another man's treasure*
@@bustergundo516 so true though. I grew up considerably poor and when I found a galaxy s6, that thing was a golden ticket for me haha. Just so happy to be able to afford a galaxy s21, my girl an iPhone 11, myself a gaming pc w an rtx 3060, ya know nice shit young me could've killed for
@@lolimrob an iPhone 11 seems pretty pricey indeed!
Great video, I lol'd when you said " they just threw it in the bin" as it immediately made me think of one of my other favourite Australian channels, MCM. As Marty would say - "IN THE BIN!"
Ok... technically this is not dumpster diving.... I used to do the same thing, I had the in at a place called Total Reclaim in Seattle wayyyy back in the day long before any of the TH-cam stuff got started, I would buy whole pallets of high end hardware for like a couple hundred dollars. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with access to pc recycle always go the same way. First they see some stuff that looks like it could be worth a little money, then, they do that for a while, then they realize they could make a little more money on a little more stuff, then usually like a year or two in they realize they could go full retail, and they tell you to get lost.... after you basically gave them all the market research they needed to make money on the stuff
About a year ago my wife and I were going out to dinner and we parked next to a dumpster outside of a Bank. I glanced in and saw two desktops on top and grabbed both. One was an older i5 machine that needed a PS but the other was an old 486 Cyrex machine. A new PS in the 486 machine got it up and running, it now shows my kids the kind of thing I started gaming on.
Nice save!! 👌That makes me very happy
bit of a dumpster diver myself - great video! Have to be careful though, I had a monitor which went POP the 2nd time I used it, after it seemed fine to begin with....and some of those old mobos will give you PCIE 2.0 slots only. Lastly, make sure to thoroughly dry out your dumpster loot before using
Good Junk So much thrown out - Moving or old stock Only keep what's useful
40 Brand-new WD 500gb Hdd & Seagate 250gb Dumped outside units DRR3 onwards only
like Old hhd's the magnets inside ( stick on my lamp collection) and Copper heatsinks etc. That SteamPunk idea .
Kudos for respecting the time of the workers at that place just trying to do their jobs. I hope you get the opportunity to visit again and go through those bins at your leisure. I said it before but these vids feel kinda wholesome.
You are a true hero man!!! This is the future, and you are teaching the whole world!!!! Thank you!
for this ga-p67a try this method, hold power button, plug power cable in PSU, as soon motherboard gets power unplug power cable from PSU, wait like 10-15 seconds and plug cable back and repeat process 3 times. After that you should release power button and get to backup bios and working motherboard. I had same problem with my GA-Z77-D3H. Good luck
even when you can't get the full components to work, you can still scavenge the parts, or sometimes replace them, for example you could spend some time and solder on a new pci slot, if old is ripped out, with corrupted traces, if they're surface-level, you could potentially bridge them yourself (if there's overlaid traces both of which are broken, that's technically possible, but probably not worth it, at that point, unless you REALLY want it), or your could desolder the individual components (probably not worth the time, unless they're uncommon, or unless you like tinkering with building electronics yourself, where it can be very handy to have a few trays of components for only the cost of time)
Great content, keep up the good work. Also, thanks so much for the sponsor! Just built a new rig and this saved me a good chunk of cash. The fact I was able to get a Windows Pro license at this price point was amazing.
Hey man, keep up all the great videos. In many ways you're one of, if not my favorite "techtuber". Focusing mostly on DIY amazing gaming PCs, better for the environment going used, as well as better for the wallet. Having watched your content for years now, I can't believe you only have 500k, I genuinely enjoy your content loads more than some of your peers that have 3x or more subs. All I'm saying is don't let that be a measure of your success, thanks for the entertaining and informative videos, and keep up the tech yes lovin!
when you use the ultrasonic cleaner you should move the parts around after running for a bit... like run 3 cycles and move EVERYTHING around in between each wash( no need to clean water tho) this is because the sound waves will just hit the same area over and over until it moves... moving changes the way the sound waves reflect inside the liquid and around/in-between all the parts inside - so if you want them SUPER DOOPER CLEAN, run them through at least 3 times (each cycle doesn't have to be as long as u typically do) - so remember MOVE THE PARTS AROUND!!! :DS
non tech savvy people often think "a computer" is one single entity, and not a collection of interchangeable parts
dude , that's awesome , i'm an old tech guy still working in the area , now i'm thinking about going to my local dumpster and maybe rebuild PCs and give them away to kids or poor ppl, maybe to charity since i hate when ppl dump perfectly working stuff or just a little damaged, but i don't know if it's the same in France since we usually recycle quick or try to use what we have until it's really really dead... but i'll look for informations in any case
Years ago my ud3 p67 board started boot looping out of nowhere, didn't work on either bios. Did some looking online and seemed like it happened to afew gigabyte motherboards of the time. Before it died it was throwing USB hub errors even with nothing plugged in, so not sure what caused it to fail.
Glad to see some of this hardware will see some more time in use after being dumped. Good stuff mate!
Great episode Bry 🥰🥳 truely awesome episode to watch and great to see you in your element and scoring this Tech Yes deals!
Great video, man! Thumbnail really hit too! 👍🏻
It's my man Big B, how you been brother? I will have to give you a call and wish you a merry christmas soon dude.
Thank you for the competition.
20:20 yeah same here. Didn't sell anything for a bit and then suddenly I sold 3 systems in a week.
Where those two pins snapped was likely in the power delivery section for the CPU, you can usually lose a few of those and not lose stability, you may never win world records with overclocking now though hah. LGA 1151 pinout diagrams should help you find exactly which pins were lost and what they did.
You can find a lot of great stuff dumpster diving, we live in a throw away society, people throw out perfectly working products all of the time, especially here in America. Great video I love this kind of thing!
I used to drive around my council area during hard rubbish collections finding PC hardware.
The best score was a Acer i7-2600 with 8GB of RAM.
Also scored a Samsung B/W laser printer I am still using 4 years later...
Our council is moving to booking system next year :(
Love it! Keep it up! Love to see all of it re-purposed instead of melted down or in a dump!
One of my first forays into pc building came from dumpster diving for upgrades. I took an old 533MHz Pentium. Found a 733MHz and a 933MHz cpu. A 20GB Seagate HDD I dubbed the Gimp drive, as it had a rubber drop wrap over it. And a couple sticks or ram. Taking the old 128MB out to be replaced by 768MB between two sticks. Also found a voodoo card. But by that point, games already needed much more than the 4MB it had.
oh man every time you wash it down with the tap before putting it in the ultrasonic cleaner, every part of my being is like OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING. same with the break cleaner 😂
I was not expecting you to get the z390 board going. Well done.
My current rig is running a 7600k on a gigabyte motherboard. I got it for free, when someone at work bent the pins on the board trying to clean it. I offered him some cash, but he said, if you can fix it, it's yours. 1 hour later, first time bending pins, and I haven't had an issue in 10 months.
I'm almost sure you can re- solder/re-connect those cut/slice traces with a copper lead a a little bit of soldering...
good luck doing that on a multi layered pcb with no schematics or experience in micro soldering....
i work at an electronics recycler, i have to yeet so much good stuff because it's generic, hell even name brand stuff we'll scrap if it has a single bent pin. probably half a dozen am4 boards gone because the system they were in wasn't dell, hp, or lenovo. it really sucks tbh
That annoys me a lot.
Oh well, I wish we had some deals like that in Brazil. Nothing here goes to trash that easily.
When tech is discarded in higher quantities (by businesses, for example), there are Recycling Facilities who buy the lot then reuse/repair/recycle themselves.
Basically, much more sustainable but there's nothing left for us, enthusiastic individuals.
The only way to get some bulk scrap computers is to have direct contact to the businesses and offer to buy it and pray for them to remember you when the time comes. Or buy them one by one when they break.
Living in Brazil and watching these videos is hell for me, nothing here works and we have no opportunities, I hate this country.
You are so awesome and a blessing in my feed, thank God I found you. Congrats on z390!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a deal!
Got 2 i5 4690 systems off the road on a town wide recycle day. One had a bad ram stick, another a bad psu. Both systems were repaired and regifted, one to my niece and one to a friend
Have picked up a couple of PCs left on curbside collection. One had a bad psu fan(noise sounded awful) which I simply replaced with a PWM case fan, and one had a windows install(seemed fine) but obviously no password. Cleaned, fresh windows installs and gave them to friends with young kids as Minecraft/internet browsing PC's
I dumpster dive all the time when I go to the data center. I score stuff all the time from that. lol. Thanks for the video!
Good Junk So much thrown out - Moving or old stock Only keep what's useful
40 Brand-new WD 500gb Hdd & Seagate 250gb Dumped outside units
i take magnets out of Old hdd's the magnets inside ( stick on my lamp pole collection) and Copper heatsinks etc. That SteamPunk idea .
DDR3 + stuff i keep if good dont need but uno someone may need Got Mve maybe Jan clean out junk time again bit rubbish
You just hit the trifecta man, just wait until you hit that one nugget you never thought you'd ever see!
With that dead trace board it might be time for the YES man to try his hand at trace repair (get some kynar wire from jaycar and a scuff pen, good flux and go for broke man)
I've pulled heaps of stuff from dumpsters, I've worked for a lot of places that have great tech and always find a way to get some home when it comes to recycling time!
Cashing out is good news indeed! Crossing my fingers that's what it is. 🤞🏼 Love the salvaging content!
Kinda like dumpster diving for "broken" tech on ebay... I got a "broken" Crosshair V Formula-Z for $40cdn because the guy thought it was fried. Turns out I just had to replace the bios chip, which was socketed anyways. Works like brand new. And still in new condition, just sat in a box since he bought it. Replaced the thermal paste on the chipset and replaced the thermal pads with some newer thinner ones.
Ooh stop it! That´s exactly what we want to see! Free bargains. 🤑😎
I had that exact p67 board and had the very same problem with boot looping. This was a long time ago, and I don't remember the solution. If I remember correctly, it would actually boot sometimes, and when it did I just never turned it off :) then at some point upgraded.
Can’t wait to see more dumpster dives! You should try to make a full dumpster dive build from different systems not just a prebuilt one. You mentioned extreme budget building, you should try to do some of these. It’s a shame that people think 3rd gen intel era mobos and CPUs are garbage when they can still play games and are still good for office and school productivity. They’re also still capable of being made into computers you can give to children who can’t afford online schooling instead of ending up as turtle food. Also there was a pretty new z390 board, I wonder if you might be able to find any systems with pascal or maxwell GPUs that’d be amazing.
hi there i did ive found a strix 1070 and an evga 1070
@@allroundgamer3541 awesome finds, I just built a PC for my friend and he got a strix 1070 it’s such a beautiful card. The pascal era strix cooler/shroud design is easily one of my favorites, everything about it including the backplate is just so premium
Great Video. Thanks for sharing and thanks for recycling. Won't know how good that MB with the bent and broken pins will work until you use it. Just because it boos does not mean their might not be a problem later.
This content light up my day. Enjoying watching it with my morning caffe.
These are the types of things that would be great for Kid's PC. With many home-schooling now and not so much budget these would be sweet. At least where I live.
Those pins that broke on the z390 were probably grounds and that’s good. I’ve had a broken socket pin and it just happened to be for the x16 slot which ended up disabling the socket.
I do this too, but just as a hobby and as a public service -- there are many underprivileged families who don't need a "1337 leet gaming rig", who rather need a basic PC for just Web access, e-mail, etc., but have "zero" money to invest (many of these folk can barely afford to put food on the table, never mind a computer bought at retail prices). I usually provision these boxes with Xubuntu Linux as the primary boot O/S and (if a "free" license key, e.g. the sticker showing the one that came with the PC in the W7 / Vi$ta days, is available), W10 as the alternate boot O/S (the user can use GRUB for the boot menu to pick the one that he or she wants). The big price issues in these cases are "cost of a halfway usable monitor" (surplus monitors in good condition for a reasonable price, I find, are quite a bit more rare than cases and motherboards) and "cost of a high speed Internet connection". Oh well... us dumpster divers do what we can... right? :-)
I miss the "old" "Dou YOu Feel Like This *Bryan dropping to the Floor* When You See This *activate Windows*..." sponsor ad.
It always got a smile out of me.
The socket is actually soldered into the board and can be replace fairly easily
Maybe if you could get access to some of those office park dumpster rooms, that could get you some good stuff. Judging from what Dave from EEV blog tends to find.
Half of the hardware at my home was found in the trash! I wish I had the time nowadays to do more dumpster diving.
I think that logitech USB reciever is for their "unifying" devices. I think most logitech perifpherials that start with a K will work with that. Your price guess was pretty close also. They sell from $8-$10 on ebay.
My best "dumpster find" is a dx2300MT HP PC with E6700 and 4GB DDR2 and GTX 285 powered by Corsair VX550, then i've found a case with windowed panel nearby that area so i compared that stuff into one build and everything is working good today, sadly this motherboard don't accept C2Q's :/
Great work Bud!!! Keep up the good works , Recycled and save all those still capable budget gaming pc!!! Loved what you're doing 👍👍👍
Pro vergeside scab here, this is the way. I've scored z420's with Quadro K2200's and tons more over the last 3 years. I'd kill for the dumpster opportunity though - saves a lot of fuel lol :)
A while back, I went to a scrap yard and was looking for parts for my car, then on my way out saw giant bins full of PC parts. They were about to close shop for the day but let me dig a little, nothing gaming-worthy but found a fully functional, fairly new Dell and the previous owner left it unprotected and hard drive intact - scans of SS and IDs, even a credit card, finance info, everything. Not even password protected. I ran a thorough drive wipe, destroyed the drive, and contacted the person (a local teacher as it turns out) and let her know her personal info was safe. Blows my mind how people don't know better.
I went to recycle center 3 mount ago. It was my first time but I was with buddy who buys from there every week. I went through a tub full of CPU's and I found 8 quad core 775 (q6600,q8400 and one Q9650 :) ).. And a tub full of ram. I found 8 sticks of ddr3 4gb . I payed 30 bucks. I tested all of them. And all of the CPU's work .And 6 of the memory sticks work. So I 5x my money. I will try to go there again soon. I have a lot of OEM HP 775 so the cpu's will go in them.
Brian, this. This content is amazingly awesome and I love this stuff. Please keep this up!
Looking after those who you get free stuff from is the way to go. At the last place i worked at, we had a guy come around and we would give him all the wooden pallets that we would normally throw out. He would reward us with Beer or chocolates. Because he gave us these gifts, we would look after him and give him the better undamaged pallets and leave the crap for others that came collecting.
You are a legend, my friend, an absolute legend. Keep on keepin', stay well, and be kind to yourself.
Im surprised that most of the boards are actually working, I'm very curious about the z390 stability when booted into windows.
I have dealt with a bent cpu pins, some boards won't recognize multiple stick of ram, some with have a thermal issues.
Definitely a follow up video on that z390 motherboard
Me and my buddy just did this a few days ago and found 3 old laptops and 2 desktops with some ok parts. its worth looking at
You are the best bro!
I'm looking forward to your more in-depth future video on binning PC components :)
In 2016 I saw a bunch of computers in a dumpster and went to take a look and found a working R9 390 PC color+ edition at the time I was rockin a R7 250 in my computer cause I only play games like cities and build computers here and there but yeah was way stoked at the time and it still works to this day thank god for the people taht throw things away lol
Sort of a cool find! They would make good PCBs for repair learning!
Sweet mother of mercy... I would never leave that place :D
Pro tip next time use a butter knife to straighten out the IO pins. As a fellow pro it has worked out for me. Also I have used this method on Fighter Jets with ZERO incidents.
I must admit I've thrown out a lot of working PC components in the past. Normally if I was busy with work and the parts were worth under a certain amount, I just couldn't be bothered spending time trying to sell them. These days I'm more environmentally conscious and tend to try and sell them, even if I only get a few bucks. Also it's incredible to me how people manage to destroy their own PCs by bending pins, snapping off connectors etc.
It is quite amazing what people throw away as for tech. When people found out one of my hobbies is repairing old computers they started giving me the computers instead of throwing them away. So now I take what I don't want to a tech recycler here were I live in the states which helps in keeping tech item from winding up in a landfill that can be reused or recycled.
Love it man. I do near the same thing here. Maybe not for free but cheap. Anything to keep stuff from the landfill
That motherboard not only got knocked out with a crit, but not even a Phoenix Down will save it. In fact it’s not even in the party anymore 🤣
I scored a free system the other day, and the only thing wrong with it was the VGA cable was busted. Computer is bog standard(core 2 duo e4600 using integrated graphics), but the monitor is a 1080p 24" little beast (Phillips 244E1). I thought that was a great free pickup.
There aren’t any “unnecessary pins” on a cpu slot. Sometimes they can _run_ missing a pin or two, but then when more channels or higher speeds are needed, BSOD or complete shut down is almost imminent.