I paid somebody on Craigslist $100 to build my PC for me...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- I paid somebody on Craigslist $100 to build my Gaming PC for me and it went way worse than I imagined it could...
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Who else is genuinely surprised the parts weren't just stolen?
Well, he did come to the guy's house, so the guy was not being shady with his identity.
Also, they guy's canadian, I presume.....
Hahaha!! I'm not gonna lie, that thought did cross my mind.
@@DawidDoesTechStuffI can fulfill that video for you 😜 next time bring to me I will give u fake address to a crack house & be there like it's my place 😜 make sure u go all out with this build in parts maybe two 3080s & a threadripper 🤭
@@SeriousGlitcher 3080's don't do sli.. gonna have to bump it to 2 3090's if you want sli
@@MrChiphazzord what a shame... well we will do what we must
It was probably just pet hair, styrofoam collects everything with static, he probably just sat the styrofoam on the ground, and it collected cat/dog hairs
Reasonable people know this but this dude was doing way to much lol
Yeah dude was a little bitch I won't watch another of his videos but had to stick around to see the shit build.
@@jessebensen3569 lol he should learn to clean where ever he trims, I have a full beard and trim it just about daily, so I can see that being a thing but only over the sink
@@jessebensen3569 Yeah. When I take a shit my toilet gets covered in beard hairs. I dont know why. It just happens.
@@AdriansCreatures Real men dont trim.
This PC is built awfully, but "Daniel" probably dropped less screws in the building of it.
Hahaha!! Yeah, he probably did.
I wonder how many tazes the pubes are worth. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I think that's worthy of jumper cables and a car battery.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff might be pet hair. pretend its pet hair.
He didn't even use ALL the screws, what are you talking about LOL
cant drop any if you dont put any.
That’s why I build my own PCs:
So no one can shit on my poor cable management, lol
You dont have to be crazy about it. It only takes a couple extra minutes to run your cables through the back and zip tie them, sure it's not showroom floor good but at least it's all in order.
@@apexalaska sayeth the impatient, it can be cleaned up next week...
SATA cables aren't as nice to hide as IDE.
Hardly any cable management to do these days with no optical drives and nvme hard drives, all kinds of places to hide them in cases.
I only cable manage the inside of my case. The back? Who cares, as long as I can easily get to where things are and re-route cables easily. Unless I got a tempered glass back panel, cable managing the back is a waste of time.
I was really conflicted when I offered my building/testing services for around $100 to a friend of a friend... It took me at least 4 hours of tweaking voltages for better thermals and making sure the cable management was done to a good standard (not including overnight testing time etc). I no longer feel bad in the slightest.
good Lord 100 bucks . I would have it spotless for a hundred bucks
I dont think this dudes from the states
@@dumberoni1023 canada, 100 bucks is reasonable for any professional but this wasnt done by a professional
any build i do free or not it has to be spotless
I'd throw in a free shoulder massage and beard grooming, for 100 bucks, even if it's canadian bucks....
@@creatip123 If you own a business and youre paying yourself less than 25 bucks an hours its not worth it. 4 hours of good work would have produced a way better experience. Canada Computers (microcenter basically) charges 150 or more for a build and it can take several days to get it back.
Craigslist Guy: I'm a full time nudist, who builds PC on the side.
Love those bear ssd
"My budget is 17,000 dollars"
@@p1nkf1oyd13 That almost enough for an i3 with a 1050ti, the pubes cost extra.
@@Justin_80 Pubes = 14,000
You missed the most important bit...
"whilst fully nude".
It's really impressive. Many years of standardisation of computer hardware in all areas makes it difficult to build system in so many wrong ways. But this guy did it.
The verge guy: am I a joke to you??
Someone will always screw stuff up. No matter how hard manufacturers try.
@@kangerer8886 It's a good job this guy didn't the thing when I started in 95, there was no proper internet or youtube to follow, the power cables were separate over 2 connectors and you had to plug them in the right way or the PC would get upset, you had separate boards to plug in to MB jumpers that you had to set on everything pretty much the MB jumpers had to correct for the correct power to be sent through to the CPU if you over loaded it that would upset it.
Actually, when I build a PC I always have a second SATA cable that hangs loose in the case tied together with a SATA power connector, so when I build in another SSD or hardrive I dont have to plug the cables on the motherboard because that can be quiet the hassle when your case is small or you got a big GPU
Yep. I do that too. And I end up using it most of the times.
Likewise. After I went to install an SSD and spent most of an afternoon trying to fit my fat hand between the gpu and the case.
It's a good idea, but it should be hidden. In fact, all the cables should be hidden as much as possible.
U also like to 'quiet the hassle'
That is also the reason why my 6th port has a cable on it. Been testing a bunch of drives over the last couple months and the cable will stay there until it'S done.
"Why is there so much hair on it?" My guess would be pets plus static cling. I have a husky, so if this was in my house it would be coated with his fluff.
Perhaps, but if you're offering pc building services to paying customers you should probably have a dedicated clean space in your house/apartment for exactly that reason.
@@ajohnson153 for 100 you get the hair special. you want clean.. itll cost more :)
Next video: I got corona from Daniel
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This comment wins 👏
@@DawidDoesTechStuff don't get covid
Well if you do get Corona hope for SARS-COV-2 (COVID19) as the chance of dying is less than 4%, where SARS is 9% and MERS is 34%. So yeh I would take the chances on COVID19.
@@Wipeout186 It was a joke Karen... Next someone is going to post a CDC link for information on the virus LOL
Holy crap, 100$. I mean I know Canadia dollars are worth less and covered in syrup, but damn...
Ew... sticky.
Indeed, and most computer stores in Canada will assemble the computer for free or a much smaller charge when purchased.
Honestly I feel like he's being a bit critical on the guy for $100 on Craigslist you got what you paid for. None of the parts so far were damaged or stolen or switched out his cable Management sucks but for single mom working a waitress job needing a computer built for her son this guy pretty trustworthy.
Tbh i dont think the cable management is that big a problem but the unscrewed mobo, hanging ssd, and opposite facing cpu cooler fans are not worth paying 100 bucks for. Trustworthy? Yes. Capable? No, not really.
@@mateosmith3585 yeah you can't expect much from Craigslist
Paying 100 dollars for someone to build you a pc means no mistakes allowed.
That SSD installation has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen this week! Also heard the South African coming out when you said Sata haha
It was a terrible location though. Get some double sided tape and you're good. I'm actually tempted to try that sometime.
@@ArtisChronicles I understand if the 2 drive bays were full but there is even 2 spots on the back of this case you can connect a Sata drive in. You do have to install in the back without the psu installed.
That was the most garbage thing I've ever witnessed in my entire life...
A pro shop in my town charged 300$ to install a SSD with tie-wraps when there were screw mounts everywhere... + for what, 10$ you can get a craddle that goes from 2.5 to 3.5inch...
@@wisico640 I bought a two pack of those SSD brackets to screw into 3.5" drive bays for about $8.
one of the first red flags was how the seller put the PC back into the styrofoam... and even though it didn't fit into the carton, he kept pushing. That's a small thing maybe but yeah... Drives me nuts. Entertaining video btw, keep it up :)
After watching this video (I somehow stumbled upon it just randomly you tubing) actually got me into checking out a fractal design case (which I got for like 25 dollars on sale. No pubes though) and after compulsively/idiotically buying the case I went on to thinking "why not? What's the worst that can happen if I build my very own pc for the first time?" So here I am with a bunch of pc parts all bought after hours of carefully watching the many inspirational videos Dawid uploads on pc building... and now I just realized I've got the skill set for building pc's that of a baboon learning how to ride a bike while balancing white elephants on its head. Well then, off to building a pc or causing a potential nuclear meltdown in my apartment's living room. Ta!
That's amazing! Good luck with the PC build! I'm sure you will do fine. If you get stuck at any point, go check out the Discord. (linked in the video) They will be happy to help you out. 👍
@@DawidDoesTechStuff thanks man! So far, no fallout yet... although stuck a bit with the whole cable "management" part. Not sure where to plug in some cables from a fully modular psu (could've swear I had bought a semi modular one but, lo and behold! An evga supernova 850 showed up in the mail) onto the motherboard. Hopefully nothing will get blown up 😅
That's shocking. I have that case and it's sooooooo easy to build in and it makes me look good at cable management. You should get your money back.
"the whole process was full of mistakes"
Why you gotta tell my life story 🤣
😅
I'm desperately clinging to the hope that the guy had a beard and that's where those hairs came from rather from..... somewhere else.
Real talk, it's probably a guy with a cat or a dog that sheds a lot. I have a husky, and honestly the styrofoam would probably end up looking worse coming from my house than that did
@@supergatorhator id agree, was most likely a dog/cat that sheds really bad. If your animal sheds bad and you dont groom them and also dont clean your home, then hair will be everywhere!.
lived in a cave
@@razorbacks9034 i have a wife and 2 daughters, 2 roombas, still hair is everywhere....
Maybe Craig was really the guy from The Verge with the legendary bad build?
I mean, that guy REALLY thought he could build a PC.
I need to make a twitter "Shit Dawid Says", first tweet "that looks suspiciously like pubes"
Yes
i think he just had cats. pulled the case out of the box, kitty got in the box, put the case on the bench and put parts in it, forget your screw driver go get it come back and cat is in your case. or sleeping on the mobo or something.
Youre a big help during self isolation- every day i resort to your vids. Thanks!
That's awesome! I am glad to help entertain you. Hopefully you don't have too long left.
As a dude who has sold over 50 rigs on craiglist, with a said same name, I can assure you none of my rigs contained my hair.
Wait are you the guy?
How much do you charge?
Genuinely shocked that someone charges that much for such shoddy work! Love these videos, you deserve many more subscribers than you have on this channel.
When I offer to build a PC I show the portfolio of all my other builds so people know what they are getting and the quality of build I do!
I hope you send this dude a link to the video, but I doubt he will drop a comment, but we will know when he watches by the 1 dislike lol
Haha, there is actually 1 dislike!
@@Tomazack There he is!
@@twiztidsidfreak13 I hope so, he needs the feedback.
he asked his friends and families to dislike the video lol. there is 8 now. haha
it's now 47, soI think Daniel has 46 friends & relatives who all hit 👎 too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've worked with "computer technicians" like Daniel who don't know what they're doing. It's frustrating knowing that people like that charge money to do really bad work.
Yea. I wanted to do this but now Daniel has destroyed the reputation of Craigslist builder so I guess I won’t
@@atraismachina8748 If you do good work the word will get around. Don't let bad techs influence what you do.
i just recently bought a new PC case asked local PC store to move the pc part from old case to new one for just $7 and it turned out really good
I really enjoy your videos. Great job of correcting his mistakes! Some of my thoughts on "Daniels" service; I could understand missing a screw and forgetting to install it, (I've done it myself), but the SSD is definitely a miss. Putting the foam packing upside down is also a miss, along with the hair. Most of this is something that you wouldn't be able to foresee, though, in "being careful" on who you pick to do your build for you. You don't discover this until you hire someone and get it back. There is no way to protect oneself from such "rushed" jobs and shabby services unless someone posts the results in some sort of review.
I did this exact thing before when I first started getting into PC building and I was too intimidated to do the whole thing myself. I found some random dude on craigslist to do it for me. I took it apart a couple years later and saw that he had put the CPU cooler on wrong. It wasnt fully contacting the CPU and I used it for two years like that. I was an idiot and so was he.
Poor cable management options aside, I have a very soft spot for the Focus G. It was my main case for nearly 3 years.
I also like the general aesthetics, but for me it would need to have more drive mounts
I’ve had the Focus for nearly three years and two builds with it so far. My only gripe at that price point is the cable management can never be 100% clean.
So-called "cable management" is the most ridiculous thing to worry about. Also, it's counterproductive. Suppose you want to remove the side panel to temporarily connect an HDD or SSD in order to partition it or whatever. With a normal PC in which some fancy lad didn't obsess about "cable management", you can just set the drive on the desk and run a power and signal cable to it because the cables aren't all trapped behind the motherboard tray.
"blowing at each other" Me brain be like: haha fan 69
ha ha funi
I like the way your brain works. 😁
HA nice 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff AAAA I been noticed by oen of the content creators I watch yay thank c:
Look, there"s a lot of good things to say about Dawid's videos in general but has anyone ever pointed out his excellent choice of straight up jammin' tunes in his montages? It's got me grooving along in my chair.
I use this exact model of case. mine is white and I can tell you from personal experience, having a fully modular power supply is a blessing in this case. I have no real complaints about this case other than no power supply shroud.
Who knows Daniel could've been paying his pet bear to build the system instead.
Dawid Can you show us on this doll where the craigslist builder touched you?
How can someone claim to know how to professionally build PCS for people but then mess up the CPU fan so badly??
9:52 My first instinct was to try and wipe the hair off lol 😂
Dawid's struggling sounds sound like when you crash a old man in gta 5
Yay PC video! Keep up the great work Dawid! :)
I just recently built my first pc, and as an inexperienced pc builder I can proudly say that I did better than what Daniel does
I don't know, that floating ssd might be new breakthrough in thermals.
Hey, I have that same case! Affordable and solid with good airflow and enough room to fit basically any GPU on the market.
all the hair is from Daniel scratching his head trying to figure out how to build a pc
Honestly, truly, genuinely, indubitably vile.
I appreciate you risking your life for content. First electric shock, this time venereal disease and/or Covid-19. What's next? Building a PC in an asbestos mine?!
That case isn't perfect, but it isn't hard to build in. And the hair was repugnant.
Hahaha!! Now I really want to find an asbestos mine. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Dawid Noooooo!
Well, bitwit did a "build pc while eating hot chilli". Maybe next is "build pc while holding in an explosive diarrhea". Less dangerous, same suspense and thrills 😀
@@creatip123 Hahahaha!!!!
What he thinks is "savage" and "disgusting" really let's you know he works with his brain and not his back, ever.
Did you do this in order to escape from the taser punishment?
that dangling SSD killed me 😂
looks like I'm WAY undercharging for my builds
Don’t give this dude such a hard time. He just did The Verge PC build challenge. “How much can I screw up and still get to the post screen?”
Yeah, but where are the tweezers? Did he install the brace correctly? Where are the insulating pads? Did he get a Core i7? Did he use a modular PSU (come on, all PSU's are modular, every PSU comes with a big bag of cables)? And is the PSU intake fan facing the inside of the case? Did he throw away the CPU holder cover? Did he use a CPU applicator to install the Core i7 Hexacore CPU (yeah, he got one)? Did he apply thermal paste on top of the applied thermal paste?
And, most of all: did he screw the motherboard with confidence (using a swiss army knife that hopefully has a screwdriver in it)?
This video is one of the reasons that this is easily one of my favorite tech TH-cam channels. He's so entertaining and informative in a reasonable way that even my wife who doesn't care about technology at all will occasionally watch his videos with me. I was laughing thru the whole video.
Just gross. I don't understand the mentality of doing work for someone and then giving them back something that's covered in Gross and with work that is completely half assed. (Edited for grammar)
I hate doing these for buyers, honestly I prefer to have a final build i can advertise and do videos and photos so buyers know what they are getting from the starting. I also do delivery and won't accept money until a buyer has approved the build and that it is what they expected... i even try to get my buyers to game on the system so they know it won't fail the moment they put a load on it... i really hate any ambiguity in sales
This is such a nice comment. Thank you very much. 😊
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I discovered you completely by accident while randomly clicking on TH-cam links. I watch a lot of tech TH-camrs, but none are quite as personable and down-to-earth as you are. Plus your analogies are brilliant.
Who tf grunts when they rip a box
he drinks alot of soy. you couldnt tell?
Nicely done. You cable managing is good. The less wires in the way, the better the air flow.
Next time you encounter that amount of pet hair, you might try climbing on a chair with a broom and scream in a high-pitched voice.
Oh yeah! That sounds like a good move. Except the guy definitely didn't have a pet. 😅
@@DawidDoesTechStuff haha well my mistake then.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Hmmm I need to apologize to you. I meant the comment to be funny but it came across as catty. Sorry Dawid.
@@iamamish No need to apologize. I know you were joking. 👍Thank you though. 😁
Probably just dog or cat hair dude, chill.
The amount of effort that has gone into ripping that box open has earned you my sub, Sir.
don't take this video as everyone who offers to build pcs is bad i get paid to build them sometimes and I build and resell them for 100 dollars more than I paid and I take my time and make sure everything is perfect and i take my time and do lots of testing :)
Dude, it’s like 3 hairs that stuck because of static, chill
No
I've only built 2 or 3 PCs in my entire life and even I could tell from the first look he made several huge newbie mistakes in building this PC. It's very obvious he didn't know what he was doing . The SSD mounting itself was laughable.
Damn, these people are making it really hard for experienced builders to find business.
Agreed, but at the same time, could be ppl just trying to earn some income during these hard times. I'm also a tech troubleshooter and budding PC assembler. Been doing tech support for about 10+ years, been gaining an interest in PC building lately due to watching a lot of PC building on TH-cam along with various other PC related content.
Ive never heard a grown man struggle on ripping a box XD
ohhh hi dawid!
at least he put your memory in dual channel mode though, surprisingly.
Ok, 3 potentially dangerous issues. 1. Potentially hazardous issue. 2. Cleanliness and aesthetic issues. And, 1 packaging issue.
1 missing standoff screw, improperly mounted ssd, and cooler fans fighting each other.
Loose, unconnected sata cable (could snap off the tabs).
Cable management. Human/pet hair everywhere.
Case improperly repackaged in its box.
You mentioned the thermal paste. Did that cooler not have pre-applied thermal paste?
*mid PC build*
Craigslist dude: Shoot, I forgot to shave
Hairs on styrofoam disgusting?
Definitely not an “outdoor person” lol
Bro you legit can't be an outdoor type of person when you are forced to stay inside with these lockdowns
the fact that the guy basically covered the styro foam in ball sweat and hair is just hilarious to me
You really need to share this video with the builder so that he knows how horrible of a job he did. Maybe he can learn something so that he may do a better job for others.
He doesn't care. Jamming the PC into the box incorrectly using sheer force and the ridiculous way of attaching the SSD inside clearly reveals he couldn't possibly care less, as long as he gets paid. The opposing fans could be a careless but genuine mistake, provided no testing was done.
So obviously fake and staged. Like really? If you fell for this, reader, then lol. After he faked that he couldn't get it out (literally all he had to do was turn box upside down) it just got worse and worse lol
Thought to be the same thing
vid should have been titled: "I paid a hillbilly $100 to build a PC for me"
I charged 100 like 10 years ago. I ask them what is the price range and what they use it for. Base off that I calculate the stuff I need and show them the list. They usually give me the money and I buy all the parts. I do a few zip ties. Make sure its clean and updated.
Kinda gives a bad name to people that do this and take time and care to do it right. I work at a computer store and because of me we have started doing custom builds for some customers. We charge a flat fee of $200 to put together a parts list depending on their use case and aesthetic choices, building the pc. Installing windows and all the drivers and making the cables look nice. And we do provide a 30 day warranty for any weird things that happen to the system after it leaves our store
Isnt 200$ "little" bit too much?
It was considerate he left the dangler there for you in case you were to retested to plug it into the motherboard yourself
Frankly it really goes to show that a lot of people really don't give a shit about anything unless it directly affects them.
So for $100 you can get a computer built virus-free, but infested with crabs.
1 min im very early
The cpu or cpu cooler most likely came with pre-applied thermal paste, which is why it looked perfect. The rest of this was a nightmare.
For the fans on the CPU cooler I generally position them so that the front fan pulls air through and the rear fan pulls air. I do this so that if one fans fails, there is still adequate airflow past the heatsink fins to dissipate heat. Of course on lower-end systems that are maybe 65 watt processors and using a large cooler like that, you can probably get away with just one fan in the front of the cooler and a rear and/or top case fan. But in my past few builds, I have made them so when I open the case panel I and put my hand in, I can physically feel air flowing through the case and out the back. To me, that's a sign of good airflow and cooling, and my CPU temperatures show this ... running a Ryzen 5 3600 which seems to idle around 29-30 degrees C and doesn't really get over 50-55 degrees C under load.
It looks like he didn't think you would open it back up to look.
Oh man, if ever there was a time for mid-tier venerial disease jokes this would have been the golden opportunity. Loved it Dawid, stay hilarious my man (from your fellow Vancouverite).
The Handles will block the case from coming out usually. Kinda crazy how easy they keep it in.
One thing i never do is get anyone else to build my pcs .. I glad i have that skill
Wow that’s cool you didn’t put the dude on blast but I would recommend sending him this video for a learning lesson
Results like that for a hundred bucks? Good god. I built one for a neighbor for $250-ish, and it looked on par with your (Dawid) reworking. Even made sure the PC could slide back out of the box the case came in too (and hair-free).
Yeah packaging foam blocks only ever work once, I have never succeeded at repacking with them.
The plastic protection thing is still on the motherboard's chipset heatsink right under the gpu. That thing won't help with thermal dissipation it is supposed to help with.
It says on the box that the case is white, but it´s black. I have exactly that specific case. I think it is a very good case, but you need a modular power supply for cable management
Ha, I had that case in white. It's now my sons case. The SSD and fan mounts were hilarious!
I built in this case earlier in the year. It wasn't so bad and what went into it was a bit pricey.
3080
3700x
m.2
4k capturecard
blue ray writer
but overall the case was sweet. not my cup of tea but finding a good case with a disc drive bay is hard to come by
ewwwww... You couldn't pay me to have that person build a PC for me 😨
I hope your pc didn't get Corona from Daniel.
Good to know Stefan is still building computers.
I spent $200 for a very similar service because I just got my first pc a couple of months ago, I finally got around to fixing it with a friend last week and it literally took 5 hours to untangle the rats nest of non-cable management and fix it, finding a screw for my missing motherboard screw, and fixing the fans that were facing eachother and not plugged in...
Oh, and they scratched my white case all over
About a year or so ago, I sent a computer into a retail store that it had been purchased from for repair, for my dad. It was supposedly supposed to have a lifetime warranty with them. Not only did they not do it for free, they insisted it must be 'upgraded' to make it work again. After paying more than retail value (certainly no discount for any warranty implied) for a basically new computer Except for dad's drives where still the same, it came back to us in such ludicrous bad shape I had to send them a 5 page letter outlining all the mistakes that were made. I won't get into it here, but I was horrified in so many ways! Whoever they had do the job, has no business building PC's, and if they had any quality control at all it should have never left their store that way. Just a completely disgraceful event entirely!
Just a tip you could've opened the bottom of the box and pushed from the top down and got the pc out without destroying the box
9.51 hahah i thougt there was a hair on MY screen and wanted to blow it away xD
I had a guy from Craigslist (former audio store employee) attempt to install a powered sub in my car. I ended up paying him 1-200 for his time because I felt bad, but I quickly figured out why he was most likely fired from his position and offering labor on Craigslist 😂
Dawid's moaning as he tears open the box sounds like the SFX from Happy Wheels.
100 bucks is a lot just for him to build it!
Linus from ltt worked for a company that charged 75 bucks for building and warranty...and the build quality was soo much better!
I think the foam was on the floor and dog fur got on it