Super nice of you Greg to replace all of those components to get his system up and running again and gives the user a nice starting platform to upgrade from. Love the series, keep up the good work
Glad you didn't swap the case, it's still perfectly fine. They can buy a sheet of acrylic at Home Depot for about $20. All they would have to do is cut it with an exacto knife into the same shape as the original and then glue it in place.
Make sure to cut through one side a little ways and then finish the cut from the other side or it will probably chip. Same goes for drilling acrylic. You should bevel edges and deburr holes to prevent cracking in the future.
@@FergaliciousFergyFerg Ewwww Newegg lol. I would never buy from them personally. But yeah you could as an alternative buy a cheap new case for the same
From memory they actually had an issue with the "anti surge" being too sensitive in the past and shutting the system down due to power spikes during use.
hypothetical. If his PSU got fried, taking the mobo out with it, maybe his home power (or even that specific power outlet) is dirty/cooked. Would probably be a good idea to not plug the pc directly into the wall, and have some sort of AVR/UPS inbetween the wall outlet and his pc.
@@Skyline_NTR The damage shown is typical of a poor connection, ie not inserted fully, or too much current draw, which is also possible as he did overclock the system and it is only a 4 pin connector, not an 8 pin for the CPU.
@@johnt.848 yea my old fm2+ asus mobo kept restarting for anti surge crap psu ended up being crap in the end so not exactly sure if it was being sensitive
@@detecta yep, the Mobo would have detected the PSU spikes and shut down, that was an issue also with cheaper PSUs and the transient spikes. That's why a quality Gold rated PSU is always recommended.
Hey Greg, Just finish checking out the video. I pulled out my old system out of the box its a AMD FX 9370 CPU on the ASRock 990FX system board 24GB of DDR3 memory with the Red Devil RX 580 Graphic Card. I built it for gaming back in the day. Man its still runs 97% to 98% of todays game. I also use it for testing from time to time. Its nice to see you fix older rig from time to time.
@@GregSalazar If that owner would just pop out that broken plexi and use some sort of mesh that would actually clean it up quite a bit more!~ Looks great!
Great job, Greg! A minor thing in a case this large and spacious (and clean for that matter) but any reason the PSU was installed fan up when there was a bottom-facing intake?
Linus made a video about those thermaltake smart whites and after watching it I replaced mine. This video certainly makes that replacement feel justified.
Absolutely agree you should not be replacing peoples full systems as it leaves you wide open to people taking advantage. It is after all called fix or flop not complete new build or flop.
At this point, I'm starting to wonder if people are just trying to toss in their old stuff that they know they destroyed back then just to see if they can get free parts from Greg. Bless his heart for being too nice and not questioning further even though the PC as described by owner should still turn on.
If you had watched the video, you would've seen that the pc was not functional anymore. Just because the owner didn't KNOW what the issue was doesn't mean that he's lying. Otherwise, he would've probably just changed components himself. But at the end of the day, remember that it's gregs channel, and he gets to decide what he upgrades. You don't get to tell him anything except for thanks for the content.
@@elemental9210 if you'd watched the video you'd not only realize that the email the user sent and the actual symptoms didnt line up. Also the pc was described and shown by Greg as being "very clean" which makes it even more sus that the user never smelt a burn on the board, or noticed that the cpu power connector was literally burnt and partially melted.
Wow. The very first PC I ever built was an FX-6300 with a GTX 1050 Ti inside an NZXT Phantom 410 case with a little acrylic window just like this one. I did use a 2.5" SSD for the OS though. I ended up selling most of those parts, but I have so many great memories from that first build. This video brought me back!
I realize that you don't do this for free by being sponsored and monetized, but you're still a good dude Greg and completely fair. Money is tight for a lot of folks and stuff like this gives them one less financial worry. I'd be elated if I were in this viewer shoes. *Thumbs up*
I'm so glad the case got kept... it's more user beneficial overall, got that DVD drive slot going... I wish more cases these days came with dvd drive slots. Anyway this was pretty interesting in general.... death by old age and overclocking
Happy to see the rig up and running again. it is indeed a shame that the case was not swapped, but that was alot of hardware already thrown into this pc. Looking forward to the next video :D
Excellent diagnosis. I noticed a exploded 45 ACP diagram on you're wall. I have the same two passions. PC build and repair.... and throwing some lead down range. Great channel. First time viewer.
Great video! I had an old FX 8350 platform that I had sitting around as well after upgrading to AM4 and gave it to a friend with an upgraded SSD and he loves it. Not a gamer, just used for browsing/light office work and I'm still surprised it works. I expected it to cut out but if you take care of things they can still last!
While I didn't learn anything with you, I did take inspiration and bought a remote screen such as you use for the display, it will come in handy for testing and carting around.
You'd be surprised at what an old Bulldozer setup can do. I know I was when both of my nephews bought Radeon RX 6800's about a week or so ago. They came over so I could help them get their new cards setup. The younger one has an FX 8350 with 16GB of DDR3 and a 1 TB SATA SD (Previous GPU was a Sapphire RX 580 8GB). It's now pushing 55 to 60 FPS in Remnant 2 on Ultra settings with no FSR at 1080p with a pretty straight line for frame times. Shocked the crap out of me. Before, it would get low 20's to low 40's with frame times that were all over the place, WITH FSR enabled. Eventually he'll replace the platform, but for now, it's working pretty well.
Before my Gigabyte 990FX Gaming ( G1 ) died ; I had what was nearly the best AM3+ - FX system you could build. My cpu was the FX-9590. In some ways - even today it would probably do decent enough at 1080p gaming and most other everyday use cases. My current AM5 based system would totally destroy my AM3+ system ; even so ; I was very proud of the system I was able to build it to the level it got to. I feel the FX-series of CPU's got a worse rep then the deserved.
"Still a viable 720p/light 1080p gaming machine" Thank you. I like that you give a chance for these older platforms too. A lot of us use older machines daily, a lot of games are still running on these.
I really like your fix or flop videos. Sometimes you need to just send it back and this I would not have touched with a ten-foot pole. On this one you went above and beyond what anyone should expect.
Greg gotta say, I love where you draw your line in the sand about how much your willing to upgrade / replace because at some point you would just start having to give away PCs.
I had a blast playing Fallout 3 on a GTX 670 with a 3570 yesterday. 1440p Ultra at high framerate. Bulldozer/Piledriver is at a point where it is collectable. And they weren't all that common, at least not in comparison to intel hardware from that era. Nowhere near the popularity of Ryzen. I've considered getting an FX system built but I gotta wait until I can afford to spend $250 on a PC I will never actually use. I suppose I could luck into something for cheap, at a flea market or yard sale. Once in a blue moon I see something cool on CL. An excessive OC with a FX could cause the EPS to be overdrawn, especially when it is only a 4 pin. They needed the power of the sun just to run stock. A good PSU wouldn't have allowed this to happen.
Bulldozer and Piledriver would probably outperform your 3570 these days. By now that people have figured out RAM overclocks and learned not to push the cores by focus temperature headroom on the Northbridge and HT, you can take them quite far. I've had an FX 8350 with 2400C12 DDR3 that would do better than a stock i7 4770 with 1600C9 DDR3 in TimeSpy and Valorant
Hey Greg, love these Fix or Flop videos. Very informative and is a great thing you're doing for people. Not sure about the orientation of his old case but I'm surprised you mounted the new power supply fan up.
I had a Corsair 750 watt PSU that lost the 5v rail. No 5v standby=No power switch operation. I pulled the PSU apart and saw no problems. I could take the cables coming out of the non modular PSU and get it to boot by tugging on them, I suspect it had a dry solder joint somewhere. Very similar to what this PC was doing.
I totally understand your decisions, and, not that you need my approval, I think you really made solid choices. But man, it's gotta hurt your soul a little to send PCs back out into the wild with OSes still on HDDs.😂 Very cool FoF. It's nostalgic to see some of those older systems! For those freaking out about it, saving the case upgrade for the user really is such a solid choice. A) He might have an attachment to it. And B) He can have the entire building experience again if he wants for very little money. A Corsair 4000D is like $80 or $90, and it'll be like a COMPLETELY new system. Even $40 cases exist that don't suck. At least, I heard that somewhere once.
That was a great watch, Greg. I think you prioritized perfectly. The case and gpu, were still functional and non-factor in the operation of the rig. It would have been nice to replace the case, sure, but that would have put it two components from being an entirely new system, with only the HDD and GPU being original then. Nicely done. 🍻
I have a Fx-6350 1050 Ti rig sitting in my floor for the last year, since I upgraded my brother to a 5700 and 1080 Ti. Thinking about giving it to my niece as her first computer when it's time.
I find this interesting, have the M5A97 R2.0 from Asus with the same processor that I initially had in my daughter's computer before I built her a new system. Now this board sits on my shelf as maybe a future project.
Thermaltake is a mixed bag with PSUs. The Toughpower line is generally rather solid, but the entry level stuff like that SMART unit , yeah, are trash. Avoid anything but the Toughpower line from Thermaltake. It’s not worth it.
Excellent fix by Greg. The upgrade from AM3+ to AM4 is brilliant! plus the owner could still sell the FX6300 & 16GB DDR3 (still working?) and buy a 512GB SSD?
This MoBo wass in the second PC I ever build and still in use. Just with little different components. - Phenon B65 (Quadcore with two deactivated cores, could reactivate the third core but the forth wouldn`t work) - Arctic Alpine 64 - 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz - GTX 750Ti - 120GB SSD - 250W Power Supply - Linux Mint Even though I OC'ed the Phenom to 3,8Ghz via Multi - there were no problems with it. Well there was no benefit either so I took it back to stock.
Right up until a few years ago, I was gaming on a pc I bought back in the late 2000s. I upgraded the RAM and GPU once during the mid 2010s. During the entire time I had it, there was only a single major issue, one day it started overheating and based on the sounds that it normally made, I had determined that the air intake fan was the culprit, to the surprise of the repair man, I was right, the fan was completely bricked. Thankfully I noticed in time to get it replaced and avoided bricking the entire thing. That computer lasted me over 12 years with only one major issue and 2 upgrades at half life... They don't make things like they used to any more.
Why install the Bequiet PSU with the fan up??? The old thermaltake PSU was installed with the fan down!!! That case has an airinlet in the bottom where the PSU goes
some of those older cases had the air inlet so small that if you used a longer psu, the fan wouldnt line up properly (like i had a versa n21 years ago and never mind all the holes at the bottom, the actual air intake area was a tiny little square) . also because the airflow is so bad in the case he may have done it to create more negative pressure in the system
Lucky person get such an upgrade. I went from an AMD APU 7870K with MSI Nvidia 1060 6GB to AMD 9 5900X with MSI X3 3060 12GB OC. And boy was it a big différance in power.
When I saw that it was FX platform, I always remember your old video wayy back at the beggining of the channel, when you built Mclovin a FX system and throwed the stock cooler in the yard. :D
Looks like my second gaming PC motherboard. I have built am2, am3 and I just built a am5 pc with a 7600x and a 6750xt and am saving for upgrades to my cpu and gpu. The old FX 8350 chip was solid, and let me skip am4. I used it for 1080p gaming mostly, and it lasted me from around 2012 to 2022. It still runs my old landlord uses it for streaming. I installed custom liquid cooling for my CPU and even the 2gb card was connected to the loop. I'm glad that AIO'S are so abundant custom loops are a pain to install and maintain.
I had an old FX-8320 computer back in the days. I had to replace the motherboard 3 times because the previous 2 always got burnt from the same connector for the CPU. I never overclocked it or anything, but that was my experience with it. Motherboards in question were both Asus m5a99x EVO.
I had a cool max psu that did the same thing with my FX 6300 on a 990FX ASUS board. The 8 pin connector melted into the slot. I called Newegg and they did an RMA on everything luckily. The new parts lasted only 4 years.
I had a Silverstone 80Bronze PSU that was plugged off the wall directly and got killed because our home sometimes had awful low voltages. Good thing it was just the PSU that died, after that I bought a new one and made sure to have it plugged on an AVR now.
I have worked with a lot old pc cases and main issue 8 out 10 the USB on the case have shorting must deep clean them a few times to each ans any silicon they link into before connecting to the motherboard. Even have to replace the USB and silicon boards they got in the cases. Buy a good USB 3 PCI-E just by pass the in case silicon and hook them directly to the PCI-E. If not want the card sticking in the case use a PCI-E slot card and hide the card if no need for more USB 3 on back of case. OK there your options guys and these work 100% all ways :D
I still have my fx9590 machine, and I did OC heavily back the day. I like seeing how much extra performance I can get with an OC, but I never leave any of my machines OC'd.
5v is your power-on signal back in the day. So it being bad explains a lot of the issue. As for the 4 pin, it being overclocked for an extended period of time causes that to bake. I've seen that in some of my older Intel boards after running them with extreme OC for a while.
Even if its potato, its someone's potato that they will get some use from. I used to have an FX 6300 and GT 710 combo and it served me well for the time.
I have seen some people being skeptical about owners being honest about their rigs in fix or flops episode and I understand, I had my doubts in the previous episodes as well and might still have doubts in the future. The thing is though people taking advantage of something or someone isn't new, it's very difficult to deduce which is and which isn't and I also don't think it's it will stop anytime soon But what if majority of owners was genuine of about what he/she was saying and do really need to have his/her rig fixed, replaced or upgraded ( which I imagine so ) then I would say this content is definitely a win. And even though some weren't but still got in, well it's still win since we all get to learn from it Also I don't think Greg accepts applications without carefully scrutinizing it or just plain unreasonable. I remember one episode where he mentioned that he rejected an application from my country ( Philippines ) because it's no brainer that transporting something from halfway across the world can be messy especially with electronics, not to mention expensive. Some people just go crazy sometimes 😅
Great job Greg, as always 👏 I wonder if you could just solder a new connector to that board, it's THT so it shouldn't be too hard to do. Also watching you solder would make for a very interesting video, regardles of result 😉
this is why i have a UPS for my PC. sure do miss the kool colors MBs used to have. i was a fan of blue themed boards. still a big upgrade, bet he will have a wow moment when he next runs something.
All FX should be scrapped. Hear me out. 4th gen Intel Xeon beats up on it like nobodies business. 15 for E3 1241v3 etc and 15 for a motherboard if you can't get one free from a dumpster, re-use your ram and all is good. The money you save powering it will pay for the upgrade in 6 months (never mind the increase in performance)
In the off chance you need one in the future, I've got two good AM3+ boards just sitting around with no purpose. I would build super budget rigs and sell them just so they could be used, but FX processors are also still overvalued.
I have a machine with the same board. Works fine for my purpose, which is media playback. CUP is an Athlon II X4 640 and it runs Ok with its 8 GB of DDR3. Boots W10 reasonably from an older SATA SSD. The video card in use is an old Sapphire R7 360. Good enough for me.
I loved my old Fx8350. It (and the GTX 960 I paired with it) served me very well until I finally built a new rig around a Ryzen 5 5600 (with an EVGA RTX 3060 12gb) almost exactly 2 years ago.
Dude getting a whole new PC, pretty much. Good for him.
Super nice of you Greg to replace all of those components to get his system up and running again and gives the user a nice starting platform to upgrade from. Love the series, keep up the good work
Glad you didn't swap the case, it's still perfectly fine. They can buy a sheet of acrylic at Home Depot for about $20. All they would have to do is cut it with an exacto knife into the same shape as the original and then glue it in place.
or just use window screen material to mesh the open hole after you take the old acrylic out ;)
@@bikesandbeans Good idea. That would help a lot with airflow since its limited in the front
Make sure to cut through one side a little ways and then finish the cut from the other side or it will probably chip. Same goes for drilling acrylic. You should bevel edges and deburr holes to prevent cracking in the future.
$20 for a DIY job on an old case, or $35 on a case upgrade from Newegg.
@@FergaliciousFergyFerg Ewwww Newegg lol. I would never buy from them personally. But yeah you could as an alternative buy a cheap new case for the same
"Anti Surge" on the motherboard after it had gotten a surge lol
From memory they actually had an issue with the "anti surge" being too sensitive in the past and shutting the system down due to power spikes during use.
hypothetical. If his PSU got fried, taking the mobo out with it, maybe his home power (or even that specific power outlet) is dirty/cooked.
Would probably be a good idea to not plug the pc directly into the wall, and have some sort of AVR/UPS inbetween the wall outlet and his pc.
@@Skyline_NTR The damage shown is typical of a poor connection, ie not inserted fully, or too much current draw, which is also possible as he did overclock the system and it is only a 4 pin connector, not an 8 pin for the CPU.
@@johnt.848 yea my old fm2+ asus mobo kept restarting for anti surge crap
psu ended up being crap in the end so not exactly sure if it was being sensitive
@@detecta yep, the Mobo would have detected the PSU spikes and shut down, that was an issue also with cheaper PSUs and the transient spikes. That's why a quality Gold rated PSU is always recommended.
Marshmallows were roasted that day. Glad you got the system up and running for the viewer!
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Always a joy to see Greg being able to sort problems out, and gifting parts if it helps solve the problem. These videos are always fun to watch
Hey Greg, Just finish checking out the video. I pulled out my old system out of the box its a AMD FX 9370 CPU on the ASRock 990FX system board 24GB of DDR3 memory with the Red Devil RX 580 Graphic Card. I built it for gaming back in the day. Man its still runs 97% to 98% of todays game. I also use it for testing from time to time. Its nice to see you fix older rig from time to time.
That's nearly the specs of my daughter's pc, which is my old rig. Still runs perfectly after 14 years. Was built 2010.
My main pc still rocks a fx8370.
That mobo looks SO much better in that case. Very clean looking build 👍
It really does, ey!
@@GregSalazar If that owner would just pop out that broken plexi and use some sort of mesh that would actually clean it up quite a bit more!~ Looks great!
Great job, Greg! A minor thing in a case this large and spacious (and clean for that matter) but any reason the PSU was installed fan up when there was a bottom-facing intake?
Linus made a video about those thermaltake smart whites and after watching it I replaced mine. This video certainly makes that replacement feel justified.
Absolutely agree you should not be replacing peoples full systems as it leaves you wide open to people taking advantage. It is after all called fix or flop not complete new build or flop.
finally, my favorite episode on this channel. more of this greg
At this point, I'm starting to wonder if people are just trying to toss in their old stuff that they know they destroyed back then just to see if they can get free parts from Greg. Bless his heart for being too nice and not questioning further even though the PC as described by owner should still turn on.
Well, if doing that reduces E-Waste, then it's good right.
If you had watched the video, you would've seen that the pc was not functional anymore. Just because the owner didn't KNOW what the issue was doesn't mean that he's lying. Otherwise, he would've probably just changed components himself.
But at the end of the day, remember that it's gregs channel, and he gets to decide what he upgrades. You don't get to tell him anything except for thanks for the content.
This is exactly what crossed my mind, when it’s more than one thing wrong it starts to look suspicious.
@@elemental9210 if you'd watched the video you'd not only realize that the email the user sent and the actual symptoms didnt line up. Also the pc was described and shown by Greg as being "very clean" which makes it even more sus that the user never smelt a burn on the board, or noticed that the cpu power connector was literally burnt and partially melted.
@Broxibear212 then you clearly did not have a bad psu fail in a rig😂
Wow. The very first PC I ever built was an FX-6300 with a GTX 1050 Ti inside an NZXT Phantom 410 case with a little acrylic window just like this one. I did use a 2.5" SSD for the OS though. I ended up selling most of those parts, but I have so many great memories from that first build. This video brought me back!
That Thermaltake psu is an IED ignition source, so not a surprise it blew the board
My thoughts too. Seen quite a few of those fail over the years.
Nice. It's great that you helped them out. I hope you gave a really strong recommendation for an SSD as well
I realize that you don't do this for free by being sponsored and monetized, but you're still a good dude Greg and completely fair. Money is tight for a lot of folks and stuff like this gives them one less financial worry. I'd be elated if I were in this viewer shoes. *Thumbs up*
I'm so glad the case got kept... it's more user beneficial overall, got that DVD drive slot going... I wish more cases these days came with dvd drive slots.
Anyway this was pretty interesting in general.... death by old age and overclocking
Happy to see the rig up and running again. it is indeed a shame that the case was not swapped, but that was alot of hardware already thrown into this pc.
Looking forward to the next video :D
Excellent diagnosis. I noticed a exploded 45 ACP diagram on you're wall. I have the same two passions. PC build and repair.... and throwing some lead down range. Great channel. First time viewer.
I really like that case. I'm glad you didn't replace it. Old doesn't mean bad and it isn't a hard repair to fix that side panel.
Great video! I had an old FX 8350 platform that I had sitting around as well after upgrading to AM4 and gave it to a friend with an upgraded SSD and he loves it. Not a gamer, just used for browsing/light office work and I'm still surprised it works. I expected it to cut out but if you take care of things they can still last!
While I didn't learn anything with you, I did take inspiration and bought a remote screen such as you use for the display, it will come in handy for testing and carting around.
You'd be surprised at what an old Bulldozer setup can do. I know I was when both of my nephews bought Radeon RX 6800's about a week or so ago. They came over so I could help them get their new cards setup. The younger one has an FX 8350 with 16GB of DDR3 and a 1 TB SATA SD (Previous GPU was a Sapphire RX 580 8GB). It's now pushing 55 to 60 FPS in Remnant 2 on Ultra settings with no FSR at 1080p with a pretty straight line for frame times. Shocked the crap out of me. Before, it would get low 20's to low 40's with frame times that were all over the place, WITH FSR enabled. Eventually he'll replace the platform, but for now, it's working pretty well.
AM3+... that brings back memories!
and they are not great memories - I still have atleast 2 a 8150 and 6200 with MB and memory somewhere, I cant believe someone was still using them
@@tomr3422 Yeah I had an 8320 back in like 2015, was not a great cpu.
@@honeybadger6275 I was using my 8350 until 2-3 years ago. I don't really remember any issues with mine, though.
Before my Gigabyte 990FX Gaming ( G1 ) died ; I had what was nearly the best AM3+ - FX system you could build. My cpu was the FX-9590. In some ways - even today it would probably do decent enough at 1080p gaming and most other everyday use cases. My current AM5 based system would totally destroy my AM3+ system ; even so ; I was very proud of the system I was able to build it to the level it got to. I feel the FX-series of CPU's got a worse rep then the deserved.
bad memories lol those CPU's were terrible. made me straight up avoid AMD until AM5.
"Still a viable 720p/light 1080p gaming machine"
Thank you. I like that you give a chance for these older platforms too. A lot of us use older machines daily, a lot of games are still running on these.
Good Job and thank you for being so nice to Him....and giving him a sweet build...
Ahhh maaaaan! what a way to start my day. Good ol' FOF from one of the goats. We love you greg!
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the support.
FoF means.. Fuck OnlyFans?😂
@@YuProducciones Fix or Flop
Thanks, Greg. It's always fun learning with you.
I really like your fix or flop videos. Sometimes you need to just send it back and this I would not have touched with a ten-foot pole. On this one you went above and beyond what anyone should expect.
Greg gotta say, I love where you draw your line in the sand about how much your willing to upgrade / replace because at some point you would just start having to give away PCs.
Finally another episode ! Always intresting to see what you get, and what is broken
I had a blast playing Fallout 3 on a GTX 670 with a 3570 yesterday. 1440p Ultra at high framerate.
Bulldozer/Piledriver is at a point where it is collectable. And they weren't all that common, at least not in comparison to intel hardware from that era. Nowhere near the popularity of Ryzen. I've considered getting an FX system built but I gotta wait until I can afford to spend $250 on a PC I will never actually use. I suppose I could luck into something for cheap, at a flea market or yard sale. Once in a blue moon I see something cool on CL.
An excessive OC with a FX could cause the EPS to be overdrawn, especially when it is only a 4 pin. They needed the power of the sun just to run stock. A good PSU wouldn't have allowed this to happen.
Bulldozer and Piledriver would probably outperform your 3570 these days. By now that people have figured out RAM overclocks and learned not to push the cores by focus temperature headroom on the Northbridge and HT, you can take them quite far. I've had an FX 8350 with 2400C12 DDR3 that would do better than a stock i7 4770 with 1600C9 DDR3 in TimeSpy and Valorant
Quite the upgrade, that person is going to be so happy, awesome.
Hello! Love the series! It’s fun to watch and very informative!
Also love the OSRS background 😆
What a throwback. Reminded me of my old FX-8320e/GTX 760 combo I ran back in the day.
Sweet upgrade/fix. 👏🏼
I appreciate it!
Hey Greg, love these Fix or Flop videos. Very informative and is a great thing you're doing for people. Not sure about the orientation of his old case but I'm surprised you mounted the new power supply fan up.
I have multiple pc's. My old-school rig is a fx-8150. Love seeing these fix or flops!
I had a Corsair 750 watt PSU that lost the 5v rail. No 5v standby=No power switch operation. I pulled the PSU apart and saw no problems. I could take the cables coming out of the non modular PSU and get it to boot by tugging on them, I suspect it had a dry solder joint somewhere. Very similar to what this PC was doing.
I totally understand your decisions, and, not that you need my approval, I think you really made solid choices. But man, it's gotta hurt your soul a little to send PCs back out into the wild with OSes still on HDDs.😂 Very cool FoF. It's nostalgic to see some of those older systems!
For those freaking out about it, saving the case upgrade for the user really is such a solid choice. A) He might have an attachment to it. And B) He can have the entire building experience again if he wants for very little money. A Corsair 4000D is like $80 or $90, and it'll be like a COMPLETELY new system. Even $40 cases exist that don't suck. At least, I heard that somewhere once.
That was a great watch, Greg. I think you prioritized perfectly. The case and gpu, were still functional and non-factor in the operation of the rig.
It would have been nice to replace the case, sure, but that would have put it two components from being an entirely new system, with only the HDD and GPU being original then.
Nicely done. 🍻
My head snapped up when I heard the OSRS music; thought I had the game open somehow in the background lmao
Love that the case is being kept!
My side panel was broken in box just not this bad. Different case too, but still love that it has 5'25" bays as options.
Long time lurker here, Greg. You're a stand up good guy. just wanted to throw that out there.
I have a Fx-6350 1050 Ti rig sitting in my floor for the last year, since I upgraded my brother to a 5700 and 1080 Ti. Thinking about giving it to my niece as her first computer when it's time.
I remember having several PCs with burn issues back in the day from bulldozer platform. I think power surge protection just wasn't quite there yet.
I find this interesting, have the M5A97 R2.0 from Asus with the same processor that I initially had in my daughter's computer before I built her a new system. Now this board sits on my shelf as maybe a future project.
A good advertisement for Thermaltake power supplies. GG
Thermaltake is a mixed bag with PSUs. The Toughpower line is generally rather solid, but the entry level stuff like that SMART unit , yeah, are trash. Avoid anything but the Toughpower line from Thermaltake. It’s not worth it.
This series never never gets old 🔥
Wow, they had no idea how close they were to a disaster. Dang!
You could reused the cpu cooler , the am4 retention Modul supports older amd coolers
people there should be really greatful to have you
Excellent fix by Greg. The upgrade from AM3+ to AM4 is brilliant! plus the owner could still sell the FX6300 & 16GB DDR3 (still working?) and buy a 512GB SSD?
Nice job and I'm happy for the new owner!
hey greg enjoying your fix or flop playlist, learning a lot from this
Thanks for watching!
This MoBo wass in the second PC I ever build and still in use.
Just with little different components.
- Phenon B65 (Quadcore with two deactivated cores, could reactivate the third core but the forth wouldn`t work)
- Arctic Alpine 64
- 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz
- GTX 750Ti
- 120GB SSD
- 250W Power Supply
- Linux Mint
Even though I OC'ed the Phenom to 3,8Ghz via Multi - there were no problems with it. Well there was no benefit either so I took it back to stock.
I think this was a fair compromise. Fixed the issue AND new PSU & Platform + huge upgrade potential.
I had such a nice performance bump going from an FX 8320 to a Ryzen 3600 with my 1050 TI in 2019. I'd be so hyped over this.
Oh he is gonna love that new CPU/Mobo it's a massive upgrade
Scrap it??? That’s 🤪
If he wants to sell it the owner can contact me. This thing is light years better than the laptop I’m watching the video on. 😂
Right up until a few years ago, I was gaming on a pc I bought back in the late 2000s. I upgraded the RAM and GPU once during the mid 2010s. During the entire time I had it, there was only a single major issue, one day it started overheating and based on the sounds that it normally made, I had determined that the air intake fan was the culprit, to the surprise of the repair man, I was right, the fan was completely bricked. Thankfully I noticed in time to get it replaced and avoided bricking the entire thing. That computer lasted me over 12 years with only one major issue and 2 upgrades at half life... They don't make things like they used to any more.
I think these vids are great to broaden the challenges everyday people face today. So GG Greg ❤
Why install the Bequiet PSU with the fan up??? The old thermaltake PSU was installed with the fan down!!! That case has an airinlet in the bottom where the PSU goes
some of those older cases had the air inlet so small that if you used a longer psu, the fan wouldnt line up properly (like i had a versa n21 years ago and never mind all the holes at the bottom, the actual air intake area was a tiny little square) . also because the airflow is so bad in the case he may have done it to create more negative pressure in the system
Suggestion: have the people who are submitting PC's to send a video to you with, let's say - "it powers on but..." in the video have them show that.
Lucky person get such an upgrade. I went from an AMD APU 7870K with MSI Nvidia 1060 6GB to AMD 9 5900X with MSI X3 3060 12GB OC. And boy was it a big différance in power.
good that you were able to provide something that addresses the end of windows 10 support next year
Doesn't it end in August this year?
Be quiets products are always so clean looking.
When I saw that it was FX platform, I always remember your old video wayy back at the beggining of the channel, when you built Mclovin a FX system and throwed the stock cooler in the yard. :D
A classic! We need to chuck another one of those coolers at some point.
Looks like my second gaming PC motherboard. I have built am2, am3 and I just built a am5 pc with a 7600x and a 6750xt and am saving for upgrades to my cpu and gpu. The old FX 8350 chip was solid, and let me skip am4. I used it for 1080p gaming mostly, and it lasted me from around 2012 to 2022. It still runs my old landlord uses it for streaming. I installed custom liquid cooling for my CPU and even the 2gb card was connected to the loop. I'm glad that AIO'S are so abundant custom loops are a pain to install and maintain.
I had an old FX-8320 computer back in the days. I had to replace the motherboard 3 times because the previous 2 always got burnt from the same connector for the CPU. I never overclocked it or anything, but that was my experience with it. Motherboards in question were both Asus m5a99x EVO.
I had a cool max psu that did the same thing with my FX 6300 on a 990FX ASUS board. The 8 pin connector melted into the slot. I called Newegg and they did an RMA on everything luckily. The new parts lasted only 4 years.
I kind of really like that case, aesthetically, very cool look! Not in great condition, but still cool!
I had a Silverstone 80Bronze PSU that was plugged off the wall directly and got killed because our home sometimes had awful low voltages. Good thing it was just the PSU that died, after that I bought a new one and made sure to have it plugged on an AVR now.
The aim is to get the system up and running not to upgrade it. Good on you for doing the minimum required.
Wish you could have made a project out of that nostalgic case and made a new acrylic panel.
Love this, I agree, the price of DDR3 systems is skyrocketing.
I have worked with a lot old pc cases and main issue 8 out 10 the USB on the case have shorting must deep clean them a few times to each ans any silicon they link into before connecting to the motherboard. Even have to replace the USB and silicon boards they got in the cases. Buy a good USB 3 PCI-E just by pass the in case silicon and hook them directly to the PCI-E. If not want the card sticking in the case use a PCI-E slot card and hide the card if no need for more USB 3 on back of case. OK there your options guys and these work 100% all ways :D
I still have my fx9590 machine, and I did OC heavily back the day. I like seeing how much extra performance I can get with an OC, but I never leave any of my machines OC'd.
Going from an FX 6300 to a Ryzen 5 5500 is a heck of a jump. Good base for upgrades down the road.
10:02 that runescape music in the background.
Keep doing what you do my guy. I enjoy the knowledge you give
not the same system but good on u for giving away a new pc
Is Glad To Upgrade Platfom
And I Hope Owner is happy
My man with the RunScape Grand Exchange :)
Big fan of FoF. I'd love a video with part recommemdations for different typical price ranges
5v is your power-on signal back in the day. So it being bad explains a lot of the issue. As for the 4 pin, it being overclocked for an extended period of time causes that to bake. I've seen that in some of my older Intel boards after running them with extreme OC for a while.
Even if its potato, its someone's potato that they will get some use from. I used to have an FX 6300 and GT 710 combo and it served me well for the time.
amen
Great video Greg! I like how you fixed this one up.
Greg great Job happy to see how You help people
I have seen some people being skeptical about owners being honest about their rigs in fix or flops episode and I understand, I had my doubts in the previous episodes as well and might still have doubts in the future. The thing is though people taking advantage of something or someone isn't new, it's very difficult to deduce which is and which isn't and I also don't think it's it will stop anytime soon
But what if majority of owners was genuine of about what he/she was saying and do really need to have his/her rig fixed, replaced or upgraded ( which I imagine so ) then I would say this content is definitely a win. And even though some weren't but still got in, well it's still win since we all get to learn from it
Also I don't think Greg accepts applications without carefully scrutinizing it or just plain unreasonable. I remember one episode where he mentioned that he rejected an application from my country ( Philippines ) because it's no brainer that transporting something from halfway across the world can be messy especially with electronics, not to mention expensive. Some people just go crazy sometimes 😅
Great job Greg, as always 👏
I wonder if you could just solder a new connector to that board, it's THT so it shouldn't be too hard to do. Also watching you solder would make for a very interesting video, regardles of result 😉
this is why i have a UPS for my PC. sure do miss the kool colors MBs used to have. i was a fan of blue themed boards. still a big upgrade, bet he will have a wow moment when he next runs something.
All FX should be scrapped. Hear me out. 4th gen Intel Xeon beats up on it like nobodies business. 15 for E3 1241v3 etc and 15 for a motherboard if you can't get one free from a dumpster, re-use your ram and all is good. The money you save powering it will pay for the upgrade in 6 months (never mind the increase in performance)
From FX to a 5500 Bro is going to have one hell of a speed increase
In the off chance you need one in the future, I've got two good AM3+ boards just sitting around with no purpose. I would build super budget rigs and sell them just so they could be used, but FX processors are also still overvalued.
I have a machine with the same board. Works fine for my purpose, which is media playback. CUP is an Athlon II X4 640 and it runs Ok with its 8 GB of DDR3. Boots W10 reasonably from an older SATA SSD. The video card in use is an old Sapphire R7 360. Good enough for me.
You da man Greg, another satisfied customer
8:30 I always get so stressed watching the POST part of the FoF vids--as if it were me working on my own rig. 😰😄
I loved my old Fx8350. It (and the GTX 960 I paired with it) served me very well until I finally built a new rig around a Ryzen 5 5600 (with an EVGA RTX 3060 12gb) almost exactly 2 years ago.