@@Andrew-ky8oc8cq4n What are you smoking? That is not why they were intentionally damaged. It was to prevent the buyer from finding any data on the drive, even if wiped data can still be retrieved by someone that knows what they are doing. Repairing the drives PCB isn't worth the effort to most people, just to snoop.
Yeah this rig having all these broken/not working parts just screams sabotage. I mean the state of that HDD and the motherboard plus the 'made in China' sticker on the CPU just all feels fishy to me
Seems like the seller just used this as a vehicle to move a bunch of part they knew were dead or were just ewaste anyways. You've done a great service though. While that system definitely wasn't worth it... even if everything were working, you've save someone else from buying it.
Greg scammed himself by not determining what parts were in the system prior to purchase. Anything with DDR3 is NOT worth buying now unless it is rare and collectable only.
@@johnt.848 unfortunately not entirely gregs fault. you can't always determine parts by pics and i doubt the post had specs, or i am sure greg would have never even thought about purchasing such rubbish. the green ram can easily be ddr4, the stock cooler certainly didn't give anything away and the cheap looking card could have been a cheap card from any third party that required 0 power, i.e a 1050 ti, 1650, 6500xt ect ect. hell even the motherboard looked fairly modern. i went into this vid expecting a 1050 ti and like an i5 6400 or something... for that price tbh i never would have assumed such low spec. but i guess there is some absolute garbage people in the world.
My mother tried to sell a "super fast gaming system" on FB. It was some AM1 with Nvidia GTF460. She wanted €1000. Yes but it runs extremely fast, look at FarmVille go!
I purchased a AMD certified black max spec gaming PC from 2016 in 2017, the guy said the thing kept overheating and shutting down, which was true. he owned multiple cats and he had the water cooling air intake. Set to suck air in his water. Cooler was completely clogged with cat hair. I simply replaced the heat sink with a traditional system. Problem solved. Best $1900 computer I purchased for a whopping 200 bucks.
Dont forget, Greg. "retro" PC Gaming is becoming a thing. People buy or build machines with old parts so they can run the games they grew up with on period correct hardware so they dont have to emulate or anything. definately keep the old parts incase you or someone you know wants to do so sometime in the future.
@@buildyourcomputer It should do - my B85 motherboard (for i7-4770) comes with WinXP drivers, although the USB 3.0 ports are not supported and revert to 2.0. If you use XP SP3 then you also don't need SATA drivers for the SSD. Nvidia support XP up to the GT-7xx series too.
The US is technically a 240V country. We just split it into 2 120V phases for residential houses. It's what high power devices in your house like a dryer and AC run on. Technically you could have a 240V circuit in your house just for running your PC and networking gear if you wanted to get some extra efficiency. (Power supplies run a bit more efficiently on 240V over 120V)
That's a big scam. That thing isn't even worth 30 bucks when it's fixed. :/ In our company we threw away hundreds of PCs with such hardware 5 years ago. Wasn't even worth selling.
Wow! what a disaster of a system! Someone clearly mistreated that hard drive, (whole PC) took a hammer to it or something. Some people have no shame in selling stuff like this.
Wow, the "made in China" sticker on the CPU was just crazy. Not only did someone stick it on there, but somebody else also didn't remove it when installing it.. And what's even funnier is that the CPU says Malay, so it was obviously made in Malaysia anyway. 🤣
The motherboard is a X7-V124, which means it's a China made motherboard using a B75 chip set (or depending on their salvage lot, H61 or H67) and a LGA1155 socket (likely a MACHINIST brand or knock off of). These are motherboards made from salvaged parts and chip-sets from older decommissioned servers and such, assembled onto a "new" PCB. "This B75 (and H61/H67) chip motherboard supports Intel 2nd or 3rd gen Core i3/i5/i7, Xeon E3/V2 series, Celeron G series, and Pentium G series processors. (Eg. Intel xeon E3-1280 V2, Core i7-3770K, Core i5-2500K, Core i3-3240, Pentium G620, Celeron G540, etc.) and for DDR3 non-ECC RAM" During the hay-day of this and other cheap China motherboards, one could buy them from China for $20~40, and get used CPUs for a few dollars. Likely this was a "gaming pre-built" made for extreme budget users or ones made by disreputable sellers in a turn-and-burn scam. And the capacitor and mosfet got blown from the power supply, that section is part of the main power rail for the motherboard.
Spoilers: -noname h61 mobo that went poof (usb 3.0 was added back in the day via extra controller chips so nothing special in that regards) -cpu with sticker on ihs -broken psu that probably also went poof -ripped hdd connector pcb -noname gtx 650 with cooler attached upside down(?) -nonworking (?) case fans What a combo!
This was probably someone who buys broken PCs and takes out the good parts to build PCs and sell them throwing all the dead parts together and hoping another person who does the same things buys it.
This is the stuff that makes people (me) hate Ebay. Somebody put a pile of junk parts in a box and hoped it would sell as 'parts', knowing that whoever buys it is stuck with it.
I had a rig running a 2600K and GTX 660 until about a year ago. Hand me down system used for a kid to play roblox at 10809p. Stability issues from a ram dimm slot not being 100% caused some start/power-on issues. Upgraded it to a RTX 3080 & 7800x3d combo and blew a young person's mind.
Greg, what likely happened were was an overvoltage that caused an arc fire, which would explain why the HDD SATA connectors were melted like they were. That system is TOAST and was not worth $250 even for "spare parts", that system was good enough to be donated to a school to learn about PC's and that's it.
So I read some of the comments, saying Greg got scammed. The seller put not working in the ad.. sure it’s not worth $250 working but Greg knowingly bought this pc to make a video about it.. he’s gotten his money back 5x for sure. So I wouldn’t label the seller as dishonest. Nothing against Greg tho.. he makes great content compared to the much larger channels. I just love when he makes content like this.
Idk if I would consider putting in replacement parts, “fixing” a pc. I would want to see finding the bad part and tracking down the failed component(s) and replacing just those.
Meticulously hand picked DOA parts put into a PC build to sell for repair on ebay is pure scam, There seller feedback rating was likely a "0" or extremely low.
You are a brave man, Greg. I hope your family wasn't in the house when you plugged that thing in, and no fire extinguisher!!! I keep an extinguisher at arms length in my shop. That hard drive looked like something my pit bull used as a chew toy. Love your videos.
Hasten to point out that such a large disparity (Ryzen 5000 with Kepler or Fermi) can cause issues with BIOS/UEFI compatibility. Sometimes the cards are not UEFI compatible, and the Motherboard is not BIOS compatible. I would re-test that card. Perfect opportunity to practice repairs on that motherboard too. Get a soldering iron and hot air tool to swap that transistor and capacitor. Just as a learning experience.
Sandy Bridge CPUs worked in Ivy Bridge motherboards, and as I recall Ivy Bridge was the first Intel platform to feature USB 3.0, that's probably why the 2400 was on a 3.0 board.
my guess regarding the HDD's fate is that its last user didn't need it anymore, wasn't confident enough in their ability to make the data unrecoverable but also didn't want to properly dispose of the device, so they just destroyed the connectors after wiping the disk and passed it on to the next sucker
Well, you have a case you won't feel bad about modifying. Break out some tools and get to cutting it up , maybe a few tiny ac o rings or something for the glass panel. Some bondo and paints, rgb, and creativity. Possibly Cutting it up for better ventilation and fans or aio. I'm with you though, I'll buy something if I think I can fix it.
A PSU with a 115/230 switch got me good one time - I bought a gaming PC off of Facebook Marketplace, and it worked fine; all it needed was a solid state drive. It had an 8th Generation Core i5 and a GTX 1060. I updated it BIOS, installed Windows 11, installed updates, and everything else you need to do to get a PC ready with no issue......until I tried to run the Heaven Benchmark. And it immediately cut itself off. Tried it again, same result. Ran another stress test, watched the CPU hit 100 degrees, and then the PC cut off. So I bought it a new CPU cooler, installed that, ran the same test, and the PC cut itself off again. At that point, I figured it had to be the power supply, and sure enough, the one it had was set on 230 and not 115. But I still replaced it, and that fixed it. But I was very surprised it ran, and was stable, until I decided to do any kind of stress test on it. I would have thought putting a PSU at 230 in the United States would make it unstable at any workload.
Did not expect the PC to power with the PSU set to 230V in a 115V country, I thought it would not even power on at all, like you had the PSU power switch in the off position.
That's what surprised me too, and why I never checked or even suspected the PSU at first. The PC ran perfectly fine for hours, until I tried to stress test it. Even if switching it back to 115 would have "fixed" it, the fact it didn't cut off before then while in 230, and the fact it was a random no-name brand, made me trash it and replace it with something I trusted.
@@Trainbuff26 Interesting. Yeah, plugging 230v into a PSU while switched to 115V just pops the internal fuse inside the PSU, or blows a cap if it is cheap enough. Well, never knew you can ATCally run a PC with a PSU set like that. Wanted to know for years, but I live in a 230v country, otherwise I would have sacrificed a cheap PSU.
@@DoomGuy9001-MK4 "Yeah, plugging 230v into a PSU while switched to 115V just pops the internal fuse inside the PSU, or blows a cap if it is cheap enough." Can confirm, I've done it before, it goes boom, you get some smoke and burn marks on the back of the PSU. Luckly it didn't broke anything else.
Motherboard doesn't work, GPU doesn't work, PSU shouldn't work ... but the video does indeed work well for my entertainment - thanks for doing what the rest of us shouldn't Greg ;)
100% a scam. the missing thumb screws, the hard drive, a literal bomb of a psu, a broken motherboard and that dead gpu. i saw the video and i assumed you got a low spec system, i didn't expect to ever see a scam like this. it is disgusting. i feel for any one that has ever purchased a low spec system like this off ebay. the amount of people scamming on that platform is revolting to say the least.
I'm betting the hard-drive was jacked up because someone didn't know you need to pinch those tray arms to get it to click all the way into the bay...so it was sticking out, the case panel wouldn't close, and they decided to Conan the panel closed.
So the power supply is bad, the motherboard is probably fried, the memory is ancient, the hard drive is trash, the CPU is so ancient it's basically garbage, the graphics card is of unknown quality, assuming it works at all.. Um.. maybe it's a unique example of what not to buy??
That HDD ended up that way because someone was being rough when shoving the cables around trying to get that side panel back on, I've done it before back in my younger years...
I'm in the UK but love this channel. One thing that always bugs me is when they say 'Gaming' pc/rig, if they work the best most of them can do is play solitaire lol.
If you think the case is at least able to be used again, to get back at least a few dollars, you can get rubber washers at Lowe's or Home Depot to mount the glass panels.
That sucks... altogether you could get better specs in a 40 dollar refurbed office PC on ebay, but thank you for spending that money for our entertainment lol. It was a struggle, but it was cool to watch, thumbs up lol.
Hey Gregg love your channell and ive noticed a brainstorming session was had by looking at your whiteboard looking for video ideas, how about making a video of that session? would be interesting to watch and see how you reach conclusions for your content 👍👍
I tried using one of those raptor power supplies once. That thing was legit scary. Would get alarmingly hot under load, like I was scared it was gonna catch fire.
Apevia are a decent power supply brand and quite suitable for low end builds. Switching it to the 230V setting in America will have little affect, but switching it to 110V in a 230V country will blow it up.
Looks like a scammer threw old parts together to mee too. Subscriber here: I just came across an stagubron used gaming desktop on ebay with everything intact except a missing cpu, and video card. Only $111 total after tax and shipping. Cleaned the thing up after i got it, and installed a used intel i7 4th gen quad 3.60 ghz cpu, ( $30 off ebay), and a $40 amd rx 460 4gb video card, and used my destruct pro usb key wiper to wipe the 1tb ssd, and ,viola, i got lucky. works like new. $190 total, and for the little money, now working good. Not the best for 2024, but for the little money i spent, great for casual gaming.
I see we are back to Masochism for our entertainment.
that's the funniest comment I have seen in a long time!!
i approve
Including sticking his finger in a CPU fan running at full speed, this must be not just for content anymore 😏
indeed we shall
he didn't even care about the value. So he really is just practicing his fixing prowess lol
Man as soon as you bought it that guy yanked the posting down. He probably screamed “omg someone bought it”
That page looked like eBay removed the listing, not the seller.
@@TheSpotify95 I know I was being funny. I have no idea who removed it obviously
It was obviously a scam. Like Greg said, it wouldn't be worth $250 in working condition.
@@SuperDavidEF yeah for sure. Normally I wouldn’t say scam since it said “for parts” but yeah even fully working and new, it wouldn’t be worth 250 lol
Would eBay's buyer protection help?
Looks like some scumbag put old and broken parts together to scam someone.
Exactly so!
The hard drive connectors were broken intentionally to keep anyone for finding out what repair shop or recycling center these broken parts came from.
I thought the same thing. The seller knew what they were doing. This was 100% a scam!
@@Andrew-ky8oc8cq4n What are you smoking? That is not why they were intentionally damaged. It was to prevent the buyer from finding any data on the drive, even if wiped data can still be retrieved by someone that knows what they are doing. Repairing the drives PCB isn't worth the effort to most people, just to snoop.
And not just one. I've worked on almost this exact same machine. Its even worse in person.
That person assembled all the broken components that he found in his junk yard and sold it for 250$.
Exactly what I was thinking
Same here, just looking at the HDD and even the cpu cooler all mangled
looks like they threw old non working parts together to get some quick cash
I agree
Yeah this rig having all these broken/not working parts just screams sabotage. I mean the state of that HDD and the motherboard plus the 'made in China' sticker on the CPU just all feels fishy to me
I was thinking that myself
Looks exactly what they did?! Scummy move.
I bought a very similar one and it was definitely a prebuilt. Almost exactly like this one.
Seems like the seller just used this as a vehicle to move a bunch of part they knew were dead or were just ewaste anyways. You've done a great service though. While that system definitely wasn't worth it... even if everything were working, you've save someone else from buying it.
Happens too often these days.
This is like a Hoovie’s Garage video, the PC was worth content and someone else didn’t get scammed
At least Greg knows when to cut his losses unlike Hoovie throwing piles of cash at Wizard.
That is, by far, the most cursed PC I have seen. Wash it with Holy Water and then purge it with fire!
$250 for this hurts me in the wallet just watching the video lol
same :(
Greg scammed himself by not determining what parts were in the system prior to purchase. Anything with DDR3 is NOT worth buying now unless it is rare and collectable only.
@@johnt.848 unfortunately not entirely gregs fault. you can't always determine parts by pics and i doubt the post had specs, or i am sure greg would have never even thought about purchasing such rubbish. the green ram can easily be ddr4, the stock cooler certainly didn't give anything away and the cheap looking card could have been a cheap card from any third party that required 0 power, i.e a 1050 ti, 1650, 6500xt ect ect. hell even the motherboard looked fairly modern.
i went into this vid expecting a 1050 ti and like an i5 6400 or something... for that price tbh i never would have assumed such low spec. but i guess there is some absolute garbage people in the world.
I can't believe someone would even sell this junk. It looks like someone threw together every non-working component they had and called it a computer.
My mother tried to sell a "super fast gaming system" on FB. It was some AM1 with Nvidia GTF460. She wanted €1000.
Yes but it runs extremely fast, look at FarmVille go!
Fr, even worse is when they have the audacity to make a listing and call it a "gaming computer"
I purchased a AMD certified black max spec gaming PC from 2016 in 2017, the guy said the thing kept overheating and shutting down, which was true. he owned multiple cats and he had the water cooling air intake. Set to suck air in his water. Cooler was completely clogged with cat hair.
I simply replaced the heat sink with a traditional system. Problem solved. Best $1900 computer I purchased for a whopping 200 bucks.
This whole video, I was envisioning the “This is fine” meme with the dog surrounded by fire.
There's no way the seller didnt know everything was broken in that.
13:49 that MOSFET is gone for sure, that's probably the VRM for the memory
Dont forget, Greg. "retro" PC Gaming is becoming a thing. People buy or build machines with old parts so they can run the games they grew up with on period correct hardware so they dont have to emulate or anything. definately keep the old parts incase you or someone you know wants to do so sometime in the future.
Not sure second gen core i processors are retro enough yet LOL
Yup - i5-2400 and GT-650 would make a great little XP retro machine (although you'd be better with Haswell). Shame these are fried though!
i5-2400 would have come with win 7, not sure xp would handle this hardware from a driver standpoint.
@@buildyourcomputer It should do - my B85 motherboard (for i7-4770) comes with WinXP drivers, although the USB 3.0 ports are not supported and revert to 2.0. If you use XP SP3 then you also don't need SATA drivers for the SSD. Nvidia support XP up to the GT-7xx series too.
As soon as you said the listing was dropped and gone, I knew what was coming.
Not sure if it matters but I just found out that motherboard's brand and model. It's a Machinist B75 X7-V124.
Wow good looking out.
The US is technically a 240V country. We just split it into 2 120V phases for residential houses. It's what high power devices in your house like a dryer and AC run on. Technically you could have a 240V circuit in your house just for running your PC and networking gear if you wanted to get some extra efficiency. (Power supplies run a bit more efficiently on 240V over 120V)
That's a big scam. That thing isn't even worth 30 bucks when it's fixed. :/ In our company we threw away hundreds of PCs with such hardware 5 years ago. Wasn't even worth selling.
Not only is it not worth selling, it cannot be sold. No one would touch it. Atleast not a person who knows anything of pc components and their value.
If it works, its a cheap media or web browsing machine. This one's broken, so... yeah, worth nothing.
Wow! what a disaster of a system! Someone clearly mistreated that hard drive, (whole PC) took a hammer to it or something. Some people have no shame in selling stuff like this.
Wow, the "made in China" sticker on the CPU was just crazy. Not only did someone stick it on there, but somebody else also didn't remove it when installing it..
And what's even funnier is that the CPU says Malay, so it was obviously made in Malaysia anyway. 🤣
This doesn't even qualify as a pre-built. It's just a straight up scam.
probably only worth $20, $250 is crazy for this
I honestly wouldn't take that pile of rubbish for free
@@pepethepatriot7524 i would just for the case and the i5 for some mad low end banger tbh but im a pc flipper, not much value for anyone else
love videos like this because it shows ppl to be careful on what they buy and to double check what is actually in the system if you buy used
12:07 Nehalem first gen boards had USB 3. They were an off-die controller.
Yeah my age was definitely showing in that comment hahah.
1. Watches video.
2. Rushes to assemble janky broken PC's out of all my leftover, questionable parts.
3. Greg buys them.
4. Become Millionaire.
The motherboard is a X7-V124, which means it's a China made motherboard using a B75 chip set (or depending on their salvage lot, H61 or H67) and a LGA1155 socket (likely a MACHINIST brand or knock off of).
These are motherboards made from salvaged parts and chip-sets from older decommissioned servers and such, assembled onto a "new" PCB.
"This B75 (and H61/H67) chip motherboard supports Intel 2nd or 3rd gen Core i3/i5/i7, Xeon E3/V2 series, Celeron G series, and Pentium G series processors. (Eg. Intel xeon E3-1280 V2, Core i7-3770K, Core i5-2500K, Core i3-3240, Pentium G620, Celeron G540, etc.) and for DDR3 non-ECC RAM"
During the hay-day of this and other cheap China motherboards, one could buy them from China for $20~40, and get used CPUs for a few dollars.
Likely this was a "gaming pre-built" made for extreme budget users or ones made by disreputable sellers in a turn-and-burn scam.
And the capacitor and mosfet got blown from the power supply, that section is part of the main power rail for the motherboard.
These videos are actually really useful not knowing anything about a PC and trying to fix it can teach you a lot, thank you Greg
What a bummer. Could maybe have been used as a Batocera box.
Better luck next time. Love the series so keep'em coming.
the psu 110/220 switch looks like its seen some serious heat. like partially melted .
Spoilers:
-noname h61 mobo that went poof (usb 3.0 was added back in the day via extra controller chips so nothing special in that regards)
-cpu with sticker on ihs
-broken psu that probably also went poof
-ripped hdd connector pcb
-noname gtx 650 with cooler attached upside down(?)
-nonworking (?) case fans
What a combo!
This was probably someone who buys broken PCs and takes out the good parts to build PCs and sell them throwing all the dead parts together and hoping another person who does the same things buys it.
This is the stuff that makes people (me) hate Ebay. Somebody put a pile of junk parts in a box and hoped it would sell as 'parts', knowing that whoever buys it is stuck with it.
I had a rig running a 2600K and GTX 660 until about a year ago. Hand me down system used for a kid to play roblox at 10809p. Stability issues from a ram dimm slot not being 100% caused some start/power-on issues. Upgraded it to a RTX 3080 & 7800x3d combo and blew a young person's mind.
Thanks Greg for taking one for the team and showing us how bad an eBay "deal" can really be
Wow, glad that wasn't me! OTOH, it's good to share your pain with your YT friends!
Nice to see yet another vid by good old bro Greg. Hope you do more spinarama helpping micro center vids . been craving 4 that lately.
Love these Try to catch them as soon I see them Thanks Greg
Greg, what likely happened were was an overvoltage that caused an arc fire, which would explain why the HDD SATA connectors were melted like they were. That system is TOAST and was not worth $250 even for "spare parts", that system was good enough to be donated to a school to learn about PC's and that's it.
I was expecting Greg to go in to "Northridge Fix" mode and solder a new capacitor on the board.
So I read some of the comments, saying Greg got scammed. The seller put not working in the ad.. sure it’s not worth $250 working but Greg knowingly bought this pc to make a video about it.. he’s gotten his money back 5x for sure. So I wouldn’t label the seller as dishonest. Nothing against Greg tho.. he makes great content compared to the much larger channels. I just love when he makes content like this.
give the seller his best comment / evaluation !
Thought you were cancelling "Fix or flop" with the Military "taps" being played
Idk if I would consider putting in replacement parts, “fixing” a pc. I would want to see finding the bad part and tracking down the failed component(s) and replacing just those.
Meticulously hand picked DOA parts put into a PC build to sell for repair on ebay is pure scam, There seller feedback rating was likely a "0" or extremely low.
You are a brave man, Greg. I hope your family wasn't in the house when you plugged that thing in, and no fire extinguisher!!! I keep an extinguisher at arms length in my shop. That hard drive looked like something my pit bull used as a chew toy. Love your videos.
fix or flop is my favorite series, maybe this is the beginning of a flip or flop series :)
Once we saw the HDD power and sata connections destroyed I assumed the CPU was going to be installed incorrectly with all the LGA pins bent 😂
I run across this all of the time. They won't list the cpu/gpu- so I ignore those. Thanks for taking the dive. 👍
Yikes, that is ROUGH. Thanks for trying and hey, it was a good PSA to the viewers about the sort of listings/sketch things to avoid if possible 😅😅
Now that my friend is what I call one large pile of junk parts---it wasn't even good when it was first assembled lol
The part of the ebay ad that claimed you could sell the parts off was a good clue that the machine had been assembled from a bunch of dead parts.
Just when I thought things couldn't get worse, there were surprises at every single turn. RIP to that $250
You saved someone from being scammed, maybe a kid that saved for his first PC
better luck next time, keep em coming
That HDD! Holly crap!
Looked like it'd been through 'Nam.
Ghetto personal data removal would be my guess
Hasten to point out that such a large disparity (Ryzen 5000 with Kepler or Fermi) can cause issues with BIOS/UEFI compatibility. Sometimes the cards are not UEFI compatible, and the Motherboard is not BIOS compatible. I would re-test that card. Perfect opportunity to practice repairs on that motherboard too. Get a soldering iron and hot air tool to swap that transistor and capacitor. Just as a learning experience.
Unbelievable, I would like to see more of these types of builds and buys from ebay or Facebook market place.
Loving that black and gold EC-1000. Do a runthrough of your guitars sometime if possible
Well at least you got a semi usable case😮
you got me with the 'pain and misery' comment :)
Sandy Bridge CPUs worked in Ivy Bridge motherboards, and as I recall Ivy Bridge was the first Intel platform to feature USB 3.0, that's probably why the 2400 was on a 3.0 board.
my guess regarding the HDD's fate is that its last user didn't need it anymore, wasn't confident enough in their ability to make the data unrecoverable but also didn't want to properly dispose of the device, so they just destroyed the connectors after wiping the disk and passed it on to the next sucker
I guess a win for the seller
Well, you have a case you won't feel bad about modifying. Break out some tools and get to cutting it up , maybe a few tiny ac o rings or something for the glass panel. Some bondo and paints, rgb, and creativity. Possibly Cutting it up for better ventilation and fans or aio. I'm with you though, I'll buy something if I think I can fix it.
A PSU with a 115/230 switch got me good one time - I bought a gaming PC off of Facebook Marketplace, and it worked fine; all it needed was a solid state drive. It had an 8th Generation Core i5 and a GTX 1060. I updated it BIOS, installed Windows 11, installed updates, and everything else you need to do to get a PC ready with no issue......until I tried to run the Heaven Benchmark. And it immediately cut itself off. Tried it again, same result. Ran another stress test, watched the CPU hit 100 degrees, and then the PC cut off. So I bought it a new CPU cooler, installed that, ran the same test, and the PC cut itself off again. At that point, I figured it had to be the power supply, and sure enough, the one it had was set on 230 and not 115. But I still replaced it, and that fixed it. But I was very surprised it ran, and was stable, until I decided to do any kind of stress test on it. I would have thought putting a PSU at 230 in the United States would make it unstable at any workload.
Did not expect the PC to power with the PSU set to 230V in a 115V country, I thought it would not even power on at all, like you had the PSU power switch in the off position.
That's what surprised me too, and why I never checked or even suspected the PSU at first. The PC ran perfectly fine for hours, until I tried to stress test it. Even if switching it back to 115 would have "fixed" it, the fact it didn't cut off before then while in 230, and the fact it was a random no-name brand, made me trash it and replace it with something I trusted.
@@Trainbuff26 Interesting. Yeah, plugging 230v into a PSU while switched to 115V just pops the internal fuse inside the PSU, or blows a cap if it is cheap enough. Well, never knew you can ATCally run a PC with a PSU set like that. Wanted to know for years, but I live in a 230v country, otherwise I would have sacrificed a cheap PSU.
@@DoomGuy9001-MK4
"Yeah, plugging 230v into a PSU while switched to 115V just pops the internal fuse inside the PSU, or blows a cap if it is cheap enough."
Can confirm, I've done it before, it goes boom, you get some smoke and burn marks on the back of the PSU.
Luckly it didn't broke anything else.
I feel $250 is a good price for troubleshooting content. I love the mystery and getting from A to B trying to figure out the problem(s).
Motherboard doesn't work, GPU doesn't work, PSU shouldn't work ... but the video does indeed work well for my entertainment - thanks for doing what the rest of us shouldn't Greg ;)
First video I watched, come for the pc guide/build, stays (and sub) for the Yugi-Oh! card collection at the studio! 😄
I like how it went from bad, to worse, to an absolute disaster
100% a scam. the missing thumb screws, the hard drive, a literal bomb of a psu, a broken motherboard and that dead gpu.
i saw the video and i assumed you got a low spec system, i didn't expect to ever see a scam like this. it is disgusting. i feel for any one that has ever purchased a low spec system like this off ebay. the amount of people scamming on that platform is revolting to say the least.
I'm betting the hard-drive was jacked up because someone didn't know you need to pinch those tray arms to get it to click all the way into the bay...so it was sticking out, the case panel wouldn't close, and they decided to Conan the panel closed.
So the power supply is bad, the motherboard is probably fried, the memory is ancient, the hard drive is trash, the CPU is so ancient it's basically garbage, the graphics card is of unknown quality, assuming it works at all..
Um.. maybe it's a unique example of what not to buy??
That HDD ended up that way because someone was being rough when shoving the cables around trying to get that side panel back on, I've done it before back in my younger years...
You never know what you're getting sometimes so its exciting
I'm in the UK but love this channel. One thing that always bugs me is when they say 'Gaming' pc/rig, if they work the best most of them can do is play solitaire lol.
If you think the case is at least able to be used again, to get back at least a few dollars, you can get rubber washers at Lowe's or Home Depot to mount the glass panels.
Thank god you took the extended warrenty!
those older gpus still make semi useful test cards for people who don't have any.
and yes, those variants aren't designed for close slot configs.
I still have my old ITX rig using a 650 Ti as a media PC. It was the first good graphics card I owned, having used a GT 220 and then a GT 520.
That sucks... altogether you could get better specs in a 40 dollar refurbed office PC on ebay, but thank you for spending that money for our entertainment lol. It was a struggle, but it was cool to watch, thumbs up lol.
Hey Gregg love your channell and ive noticed a brainstorming session was had by looking at your whiteboard looking for video ideas, how about making a video of that session? would be interesting to watch and see how you reach conclusions for your content 👍👍
I tried using one of those raptor power supplies once. That thing was legit scary. Would get alarmingly hot under load, like I was scared it was gonna catch fire.
Sorry, Greg, I really needed a laugh, and boy this did it!
This is going to be amazing and very educational video.
hey Greg, just a little tip, try tu plug some speakers on the board, maybe u can get a idea of the error on the board, hope i helped
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It is fun to try and fix up old machines ..
Thanks for sharing the failed ones too,
I'm once again reminded of my old DIY computer that died from a failed power supply.
Looks like AliExpress parts. It looks like a voltage regulator went rogue.
Oof... I don't even think the seller thought they would sell this, no wonder they removed everything related to it the second you bought it.
this is gonna be a series, i feel it
Oy Vey, Greg! Seller probably pissed pants from overwhelming happiness when package was dropped at the post office. Lemon that is a bonafide'd Lemon!
Apevia are a decent power supply brand and quite suitable for low end builds. Switching it to the 230V setting in America will have little affect, but switching it to 110V in a 230V country will blow it up.
No disrespect but when I see you fail in fixing computers, it's really entertaining.
As to that hard drive, it may be fixable, you would need micro-soldering. NorthridgeFix would be a good channel to collaborate with on that.
It’s sad to see scams like this. I feel sorry for anyone who ends up with a pile of junk.
Better for you to have bought it then one of us, can you imagine some poor kid thinking he was getting a gaming machine, and this shows up.
Looks like a scammer threw old parts together to mee too. Subscriber here: I just came across an stagubron used gaming desktop on ebay with everything intact except a missing cpu, and video card. Only $111 total after tax and shipping. Cleaned the thing up after i got it, and installed a used intel i7 4th gen quad 3.60 ghz cpu, ( $30 off ebay), and a $40 amd rx 460 4gb video card, and used my destruct pro usb key wiper to wipe the 1tb ssd, and ,viola, i got lucky. works like new. $190 total, and for the little money, now working good. Not the best for 2024, but for the little money i spent, great for casual gaming.
Definitely someone put together a system of broken components and sold it as "non-working"