Been a crazy month, especially for the USED Market.. some of the best deals I have got on the channel have popped up.... in multiple different deals... definitely a sign of the times (at least in Australia). Is the used market banging where you are? sound off with your deals!
The broken glass back panel on that ROG build can be replaced with another material, acrylic, plexi etc. Even plywood or steel painted black would look great, just find something you can cut and drill with your tools on the cheap!
@raminpro9765 Do not buy used Raptor Lake period, they are going to take a dive in new price very soon. For those willing to take the risk, the prices will be the same.
I just got a 2nd hand pc with Ryzen 7 5700x + RX 6950 XT for around 700-750 euro. Im pretty sure that a new one with similar specs would cost me like double that
wouldnt büy anything belöw 80ti maybe titan xp since ü5 engine this fall-winterr? might släsh our Fps v?v 7800xt 3slot 3vv3 just göt 5% expensiväiR after %äle?? 30 özzease vla slyrrey ^^ + 9999 down south his pläyce?? sounds big Fishäyy a used pc chöpp ör even chain would be highlie missed inger... btw wondeer watt the radio cb least would be less treece and towns but häl mör scräypäirce v?v
In Los Angeles, I got a computer of FB marketplace, I only wanted the gpu but he told me $200 USD for all of it, after about 5 hours of some easy fixing I got it to boot, fixed up the monitor and sold it for $200, sold the 2nd gpu (2060 super) for $180 so ended up getting the whole computer for free even though I only wanted the gpu.
New parts will always be sold thru Dell/HP to institutions like schools, large businesses, that either don't want to get sweaty buying used parts, cannot buy used parts due to organizational rules, or need hundreds of the exact same machine.
YES. I live in Northern California and recently bought a used pc with an i7 7700k, z270 motherboard, 1tb ssd, 16gb ram (2400mhz though) and a 600w power supply for $100. You can’t beat that.
Way to go, Bryan. What a haul of PC parts for the month, especially the GPU's! And topping it off with complete systems...man, I wish I could find deals like that. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, eastern Canada(google maps lol) and our local Kijiji and Facebook market place only has "once-in-blue-moon" deals on parts, and even then the sellers don't really budge on their asking prices, regardless if you tell them that you'll come to them. I believe that our Canadian dollar is just worth a bit more(compared to the US dollar) than the Aussie dollar, on the market, but not by much. Anyways, been a subscriber for going on 5 years now...maybe even longer so keep up the great videos/work. G'day mate!
i've picked up like 50 GPUs and other parts on marketplace and never been fully hosed as far as a dead part. one had a bad HDMI port but DP works. i've been hosed on other stuff like icloud locked iphones and then just general ghosting and no shows or wrong parts (3 gb vs 6 gb 1060), but it's kind of a miracle for GPUs to buy sight unseen
also for the job you do i would definitely consider getting a big battery bank that can power a pc so you can test it in your car like a jackery or anker , now they are somewhat pricey but you do this for a living so its worth it . pair that with an old case and a low budget build like zen 2 or 3 six core and an old 24 inch monitor mounted on the right side of the case and one of those small wireless keyboards with a touchpad and there you go a mobile test rig
8:30 that case is pretty common in the philippines, i used to have that one black with orange side and a modded front steel grill instead of acrylic front panel, that case is very hard to cable manage if you are not creative, takes a bit of patience, overall that case is nice with very good airflow and cheap.
Hey TYC, you can make your own custom side panel for cheap using acrylic glass. Any aluminum/acrylic workshop would make that for you if you give them the correct measures. Put the acrylic one in the back and the glass one in the front.
11:30 I'd rather cut off some rigid steel "back" panel and leave the glasss since usually you can drop it near the wall so nobody looks at the right("back") side anyway😅
Unquestionably time. I'm about to upgrade to an 8th gen Intel from a 4th gen. Bought the board from a bulk reseller on eBay, the CPU came from a donated HP workstation, and my video card is a gifted EVGA GTX 1080ti Hybrid card. I should be able to run just about everything I can throw at it at 60fps... The today equivalent of this rig which will have cost me around $80 USD would probably run a grand or so. (13th gen i7, 4070, etc.)
I have a machine still running 4790k and 1080ti…. I’m mostly a borderlands junkie at this point. So it’s doing 1440p 60 on bl3 dx12 no problem. No overclocks, just upgraded the cooling over the years
I have a 8th Gen i7 and a 1080 ti. You can crush 120 on high/ultra at 1080p for literally 99% of games. It's only 1440 where the card starts to show it's age
I've had this bluescreen problem from someone I sold a used PC to and he used his old USB WiFi adapter. Took me AGES to essentially figure out that it was his adapter causing it. He had seen it working in person before and I helped him debug it. But what a waste of my time - I don't do this professionally and it wasn't even a flip, just some old hardware I put together so it doesn't collect dust on the shelf. Not in Australia though, this was in Germany. Seems the WiFi adapter was older (no real Win 11 drivers) and with his router it kept bluescreening, whereas mine was fine
I had a friends PC that had a similar issue, I took it apart cleaned it, rebuilt it at least three times over, and despite her constant blue screens every hour or so, I could not get it to blue screen for me not matter what benchmarks I put it through each time I worked on it. I had uninstalled and reinstalled drivers over and over again and just kept hitting a brick wall trying to figure what was wrong, turns out she was using a third party game controller that was well over a decade old and its drivers were causing fits with the USB drivers which in turn was causing the blue screen. She bought a new Xbox One controller, no blue screens anymore.
Got a deal a couple of months ago as I live remote and jumped on it. ROG strix x370 MB with r2600x, AIO cooler 16g memory, 1tb ssd, 2tb hdd, 2x 1070ti in crossfire, fast wifi adapter and 750w psu all in a nice rgb white case for $500 aussie. ripped out the 2nd 1070ti and used it in the other kids pc. happy days
You could just get some smoky acrylic cut to replace the glass. That 4090 seems like it has thermal probs, ie, fine for a couple min but then glitches. You can get boardviews of most motherboards to find out what those broken SMDs are, so you know what value parts to put back
Love the video. One video I was hoping you make, and you touched on it here a bit, is the amount of time per week you spend on customer support of sold systems. What percentage of PCs you sell have valid issues and user complaints about performance, etc?
you should check your local glass cutter he could easily cut you a replacement for that rog build and if he does not have the right type of shaded glass maybe choose a clear one , or lighter shade or even a slightly mirrored one , it would most definitely bring you more money than without
wouldnt büy anything belöw 80ti maybe titan xp since ü5 engine this fall-winterr? might släsh our Fps v?v 7800xt 3slot 3vv3 just göt 5% expensiväiR after %äle?? 30 özzease vla slyrrey ^^ + 9999 down south his pläyce?? sounds big Fishäyy a used pc chöpp ör even chain would be highlie missed inger... btw wondeer watt the radio cb least would be less treece and towns but häl mör scräypäirce v?v
Three 1080s for $197 is an amazing deal! Geez, you have been coming out really well with a lot of gpu's lately. I need me some of these kind of connects in Sydney 😅
For the ROG system, maybe get a sheet of metal cut the same size as the glass and use it for the back? Might even be able to use an old case side from a junk case. Then glue some rubber grommet to the edge for protection.
Think it looks fine as it is in the back but acrylic would be a cheap way to do it also, cut a sheet down to spec perhaps. Probably easiest to advertise it as is, say that it gets better temps. Actually run open case a lot myself.
In my opinion a Gtx 1080 is like the dream GPU to hand over to a person just getting into gaming. Can handle a bootie load of games, and not hurt the budget.
Depends on where you are, used market here only saves you 2-3% on something like a 4070 S or a 4070Ti S, so it simply not worth the risk and you'll have an easier time getting a better discount for a brand new card in shop sales.
Ngl even though it’s old I absolutely love a budget banger like a i7 4770 and a 1070 or a rx580 8gb. So much value with that setup still and you can extend the life even more with Linux
I have noticed that here in the Southeast US hosing us getting to be an issue. I have had several buyers that at first seemed to be really annoying, but it turns out had either been ripped off, or scammed. I go out of my way to make a customer feel comfortable. Honestly I dont really offer warranty or promise long term after sale support, but I actually use each system I sell for several days before selling, and anything questionable in the slightest goes into the bin. I got hosed myself a few weeks ago, found a good deal in a 1660 Super, seller accepted $60 USD, bought it on a meetup, didnt think much of it until I got home later. It was a two fan 1650 Super, huge difference, I double checked, the add was for a 1660 Super, of course the guy ghosted when I tried to contact him. The card works great, and at $60 was't even a terrible deal, just not what it was supposed to be
I've noticed WAY more scams in the past 4 months. Been looking for 16gb nvidia cards and half have been scams. I now show up unannounced with a test rig and 1/4 people immediately leave. Plus the amount of rigs I see sitting that would have previously sold is alarming. I've never seen it quite this bad. I'm talking 12600k + 3080 systems selling for $500 at best.
Yes I got scammed with a public meetup and got home and the rtx3060 was faulty. Seller deleted account and uncontactable. I'm building a test rig like you have...
@@baboon81choc ALWAYS ask to see the GPU running otherwise cancel the deal, I've been scammed before i don't care if its a gt 710 i want to see it running?
@Lennox032 yes lesson learned. I bought 9 gpus untested previously without any major problems, this one just shocked me. I now have a open benchtable by streacom, going to buy a battery inverter to power it and a portable lcd screen to view it working. Insurance for future purchases
On the Asus ROG case, I would custom cut a plexiglass panel in translucent white, and put it on the back of the computer. That would give it a unique look, and "cover" the fact that the original glass panel was broken.
yeah i feel ya. last year i had a pretty crazy run of just buying whole systems where the sellers just made shitty pictures and descriptions and no one buying them i guess therefore crazy cheap prices.... my best deals in october where a super clean GTX 980 TI Windforce (somehow after 10 years) for 40€ and a dusty but perfectly fine RX 5700 Pulse for 70€
13:17 I would be sussed out too if someone INSISTED on meeting at my home. If anything I would probably not sell to someone like that. You never know with people...
The buyer was just uninformed and expected you to know since you built it. I wouldnt blame him for having questions. Its cool he trusted you to be honest in the explanation. Its understandable.
With the glass panel i would see about getting some clear acrylic and finding someone who can cut it to the exact shape of the original glass one that you have
That Cooler master case is a really good budget case, its housing what I'm typing this reply on, (an ASRock B450 Pro 4 Micro ATX, Ryzen 7 2800x, 32 gb of Ballistix ddr4, MSI RX580 OC2 8gb, SanDisk 1tb SSD, and Tashiba 3tb 7200 rpm HDD). I have five fans on a push pull config and get great temps despite the small case (two of the fans are aftermarket, the case came with three), during 90 degree days in the summer my CPU idles around 40 C and the GPU around 35 C, in regular use when its been idling up and down for hours and Ive been doing a lot of work CPU sits around 50 C and the GPU around 40 and in work intense situations and gaming its around 55 to 80 C for CPU and 55 to 80 for the GPU. I'm doing this with just a stock wraith spire cooler on the CPU as well. I do have a slight underclock on the GPU and I'm running the RAM in XMP profile but the CPU is running stock with no under or overclock. I live in a very hot and humid area on the southeast coast of the US with sub par air conditioning, so keeping my PC cool in the summer is a battle and its one of the best cases I've ever had at doing that, other than being a little large for a micro ATX case and looking very basic (thats a plus for me), I can't think of anything bad to say about it. Personally I like the look of the case, simple, black and no bells and whistles, I cant stand RGB or goofy space age looking cases, simple straight lines and a low profile look is best for me, plus why waste the power on shiny lights no one will see but yourself.
if it were me, i would buy some plexiglass and use the good piece of glass to mark out the exact shape, and cut the plexiglass to fix the front side. you can sand/file the edges to get it smoother. leave the tinted panel to cover the wires in the back.
Seeing that deal on that 37x/5700 has me somewhat on edge. I got the 57xt variant and I was hoping to get more in the $500US range. Ah well, will see what I can get when I do my build next year.
I have a system using that Cooler Master case, would be nicer with a side panel cutout but you see the RGB through the top, front and a little through the top side panel.
Yesterday, in utah Facebook marketplace place i got a corsair vengeance prebuilt (ryzen 7 and 3070) a monitor, chair and keyboard mouse and headset all razor for 700 bucks. With conservative prices on everything else but the pc i paid like 400-450 on the pc.
Oh, so regarding the polarizing tape, what you'll find if you search for it is a tape that goes between polarizing filters to produce colors. But you can get small polarizing filter patches that you can cut to size. Saw 'em on Amazon. Not sure about Amazon AU, but I just googled "polarizing tape" and it was the 3rd or 4th entry down. So yeah if that's the actual issue on the monitor you can fix it no problemo.
The used market is heating up, with the surge dying down, and many casuals returning to console. Entire used builds do go for less than used parted out, sometimes...but much like this channel's focus, beware of unreasonable mark-ups from flippers, and commodity grade components.
I used to go to a hardware place, but expect a glass specialist business would be better, and just get them to cut and bevel of the edges on a new bit of safety or laminate, to match the one you have, the cost is not that much.
I’ve been buying used pcs and cleaning out and case swapping them for the past year, the profit margin is better when buying a whole used pc then multiple used parts
I am having the same problem in the UK as parts are on the high but full systems are becoming cheaper so i been able to get full systems and then flip them for about 30% profit within 24 hours. Has been very insane for it in the last month. But as you have said Christmas has become the most reason why my systems have been flying out very quickly.
My area is so horrible compared to this and I think I just got hosed on a i7 8700 I picked up for 40, there was corrosion on the bottom of it I figured I would roll the dice I cleaned it up and I'm afraid to buy a mobo for it. Also one of the contact pads is weirdly shaped might be burnt up because there is black around it I didn't notice when I payed up. I'm just starting flipping again with zero dollars in my pocket any broken part is gonna stop me dead in my tracks.
Yup it's those cheap white usb wifi adapters that caused me the Telstra grief years ago. You'll be fine flipping with the buffer from your mining rig haul. But tough market for everyone else. The sweet spot for flipping a PC is $500 Aussie not anywhere close to $1k.
Should have bought a piece of plexiglass and had it cut to match the front glass. Put the glass on front and it would have been fine. Yes plexiglass scratches easy but its on the back.
you should get some perspex and make another side panel ...... you can get cheap tint off temu if you really wanted to make it match ..... its a decent case so would probably be worth it
I bought a refurbished work station off of ebay for $100 and an RX470 for $50 ($ CAD) made a nice little gaming rig that runs black ops 6 with 140fps @900p with upscaling 👌
The market is so poor I've stopped building/selling. Currently debating doing some for Christmas season but it's pretty bad in my area of the US. Also, seen a lot of the same as far as parts vs whole-PCs. Best values for parts in often entire systems that just need a cleanup and/or recase. My market is more cosmetic sensitive so even budget systems need to be in nice cases.
Last year I got a very lightly used 6750xt for $200. The guy was working over 100hours a week the entire time he owned the GPU so you can imagine how much it was used. I don't think I'll find another deal that good
Heads up anyone looking for high end build parts, 13700KF on woot today is 199. I just picked up a pair. Brand new and should have full intel warranty as woot is owned by amazon.
No, at least not yet. Should we hold on to our hardware longer? Maybe. I'm holding on to my 5800X3D and DDR4 RAM on a B550 Motherboard for now, I'm just upgrading my graphics card from a 6900 XT to a 7900 XT or XTX to get more mileage out of AM4.
@@Mister_Phafanapolis I built a relative two machines a 7900x3D/X670E/32GB DDR5-6400/RX 7900 XTX, and a 7800x3D/X670E/32GB DDR5-6400/RX 7900 GRE. These machines are quite the overkill in my opinion but I'm not the one buying the parts or using them either. I'll keep my AM4 system till it doesn't do what I need it to any longer.
I would go to local hardware store with the unbroken piece of glass and see if they can cut a piece of plexiglass to match and then there would be glass on both sides
I just built several PCs within a year. And all of them build in mixed parts, new and used. LED monitor, case, SSD, and power supply I think I must have a new part, but RAM, CPU, GPU, and motherboard-I'm just looking for used parts. At the end, I can get a budget PC with a little bit higher specs.
Buying new, especially in today’s market is just not worth it. I was able to pick up a 5700x3d and a motherboard for around 200 USD. Should be a decent upgrade from my 8700k, which I also bought used.
REFLASH BIOS on rx580 ... Thats what I did when I bought one years ago and ports failed then it worked fine. Not saying thats exactly your problem but its so easy to do on 580's
Chinese rx 580 are trick to do bios fresh because the weird combo of memories and gpu. I tried to do with mine, and I can't make its works with anything but the crap mining BIO that come with it.
Hello from Greece, Did you ever try to use and 8700k or 9700k on Z170 mobo? i saw some tutorials but im not sure if it worth to try it. Thanks in advance :)
Help tech yes city i want to play black ops 5 Cold war with bots but it was a frame drop fest and i set everything it is not smooth. What can i do with a GTX1070 6mb. msi version. ???
I like all the mining GPU's that you got. They actually celebrate Halloween on the Gold Coast? I lived in Melbourne for 2 years form 1998 to 2000. I'm from the USA. Victorians didn't celebrate Halloween when I was there.
I'm a first time builder, been watching Tech Yes City for a month now and I need some help from you or the amazing community of Experienced PC builders. I got my hands on a AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB graphics card from Facebook market for $40, the guy says it works and when I got home to test it out it had No Display and the fan spinning, I tried at lead 10 times putting it back in the slot, connecting the 8 pin power to it but all I got was No Display, and fan spinning, I contacted the seller and he was nice enough to Refund me and let me Keep the Card, I opened it up cleaned it with my electric Duster, removed the old thermal paste and reapplied new thermal paste to it but got the same result, is this graphics card dead? Am I doing something wrong? I need some help!
A good case is to be made for buying at least some of the parts used. I think the HDD or SSD should always be bought new. Especially the HDD if you want one in your PC should be bought new because for one you have no idea what could be on that drive and for two you have no idea what conditions the drive has been operating in. HDDs are fragile and they can easily fail. SSDs have limited writes, and you have no idea how many writes might be left. Also, graphics cards I'm kind of iffy on buying those used unless they are a really good deal. CPU's I normally have no problem buying used. Just don't buy Intel 13th or 14th gen used because they have issues. I think air coolers are ok to buy used if you're OK with cleaning them up and/or replacing fans. I would never buy an AIO cooler used because the pump might be shot by the time you get it. Power supplies are another one I'm not sure I'd want to buy used because they could have roaches inside them. If you bring that in your house, guess what? You now have roaches. I'd just rather not have to worry about that. Bugs could possibly get in other parts as well, but I think it's more likely that they end up in a used PSU. Also, I'm ok with buying RAM used and I'm much more likely to buy used if it's a really good deal. Motherboards I think are also ok to buy used. You just have to be extra careful to not buy one with bent or broken pins if it's an LGA type of socket. AM4 motherboards don't have that issue. If you want to buy used, I think AM4 is probably the best way to go because there are so many good CPU options that are very cheap. You could go 12th gen Intel, AM4, or AM5. With AM5 you have to buy DDR5 which isn't quite as easy to work on AM5 as DDR4 RAM is on AM4. If you're building your first PC ever, I would steer you toward AM4 because it's just easier to build a PC with an AM4 platform. For one, installing the CPU is a bit scary if you're doing it for the first time on an LGA motherboard. AM4 is PGA which means the pins are on the CPU. The pins are also easy to break or bend on an AM4 CPU as well, but they are also a lot easier to put back into place. Also, the pins on an AM4 CPU are a bit harder to accidentally bend than the LGA pins on an LGA motherboard like AM5. Also, on AM4 you have DDR4 which has less issues than DDR5 and it's a bit cheaper. I wouldn't buy the case used or any fans used. I think that just about covers my thoughts on it.
@@TheLionAndTheLamb777 I still wouldn't. Your friend might not even be aware of any malware that could be on those, and some can infect your bios upon attaching and running the drive. While that is kind of unlikely, it's something you still need to look out for.
The last month has been... something else for me. I'm in Caucasus region and the market is at its worst, there's an economy crisis. But I sold nearly same amount of PCs in October alone than in 2024 from Jan to Sep. Weird. I haven't changed my tactics or adjusted prices at all. GPU prices here are as high as whole system prices in your area. I'll give an example: 200 AUD is considered a good price for a GTX 1070 here. From what I understand, people like hosing each other in Aus, but here they just lie about the condition of parts. They say that all parts are new, literally, but they're at best Used (Like New). So when I build with new parts, I have to provide invoice and all sorts of stuff to prove it. So, TLDR: The Meta here is to sell Used parts as New and fool the buyers that can be fooled. Sad times. As a result, I stopped building with new parts. But other than that, it's all going well in my area/region. Nothing too weird tho, seen it all at this point. Can't wait to see what you do with all that hardware that you bought btw :)
In the US at least the used market is going to go crazy once new tariffs take hold next year. I'm foreshadowing of course based on the past leadership.
Been a crazy month, especially for the USED Market.. some of the best deals I have got on the channel have popped up.... in multiple different deals... definitely a sign of the times (at least in Australia).
Is the used market banging where you are? sound off with your deals!
The broken glass back panel on that ROG build can be replaced with another material, acrylic, plexi etc. Even plywood or steel painted black would look great, just find something you can cut and drill with your tools on the cheap!
be carefull buy old intel , 50% of them have problem
@raminpro9765 Do not buy used Raptor Lake period, they are going to take a dive in new price very soon. For those willing to take the risk, the prices will be the same.
I just got a 2nd hand pc with Ryzen 7 5700x + RX 6950 XT for around 700-750 euro. Im pretty sure that a new one with similar specs would cost me like double that
wouldnt büy anything belöw 80ti maybe titan xp since ü5 engine this fall-winterr? might släsh our Fps v?v
7800xt 3slot 3vv3 just göt 5% expensiväiR after %äle?? 30 özzease vla slyrrey ^^ + 9999 down south his pläyce?? sounds big Fishäyy
a used pc chöpp ör even chain would be highlie missed inger... btw wondeer watt the radio cb least would be less treece and towns but häl mör scräypäirce v?v
In Los Angeles, I got a computer of FB marketplace, I only wanted the gpu but he told me $200 USD for all of it, after about 5 hours of some easy fixing I got it to boot, fixed up the monitor and sold it for $200, sold the 2nd gpu (2060 super) for $180 so ended up getting the whole computer for free even though I only wanted the gpu.
That's the beauty of it! Well at least for me, it's a huge amount of fun.
if everybody listens to you and start buying used parts who gonna buy new parts and sell them as used later? 😀
The used new paradox. Thankfully this channel is a niche :P
New parts will always be sold thru Dell/HP to institutions like schools, large businesses, that either don't want to get sweaty buying used parts, cannot buy used parts due to organizational rules, or need hundreds of the exact same machine.
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@@techyescity You need to state that all your PC's are "Ai Ready"
@@techyescity who is ur supplier😅😊😊
YES. I live in Northern California and recently bought a used pc with an i7 7700k, z270 motherboard, 1tb ssd, 16gb ram (2400mhz though) and a 600w power supply for $100. You can’t beat that.
Actually got one with the same specs but with 32 GB but with 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD for 100€ in Germany 😅
That's good for a DIY build, OEM 8 / 9th gen go for $50-100 USD here.
@@richardp3350 got the same build for 250 bucks in pakistan the prices are insane for used parts
Way to go, Bryan. What a haul of PC parts for the month, especially the GPU's! And topping it off with complete systems...man, I wish I could find deals like that. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, eastern Canada(google maps lol) and our local Kijiji and Facebook market place only has "once-in-blue-moon" deals on parts, and even then the sellers don't really budge on their asking prices, regardless if you tell them that you'll come to them. I believe that our Canadian dollar is just worth a bit more(compared to the US dollar) than the Aussie dollar, on the market, but not by much. Anyways, been a subscriber for going on 5 years now...maybe even longer so keep up the great videos/work. G'day mate!
In America it's sus if someone wants to have you come to their house. Walmart or police station or something is how you do it
There are more cameras at Walmart than most airports - be safe!
@@kurtwinter4422 kinda says something about the culture. Lol
i almost always have people meet me at my house thats a huge benefit to me not having to leave and can keep working on stuff
i've picked up like 50 GPUs and other parts on marketplace and never been fully hosed as far as a dead part. one had a bad HDMI port but DP works. i've been hosed on other stuff like icloud locked iphones and then just general ghosting and no shows or wrong parts (3 gb vs 6 gb 1060), but it's kind of a miracle for GPUs to buy sight unseen
That’s not America…. That’s just certain part. The minority actually.
also for the job you do i would definitely consider getting a big battery bank that can power a pc so you can test it in your car
like a jackery or anker , now they are somewhat pricey but you do this for a living so its worth it .
pair that with an old case and a low budget build like zen 2 or 3 six core and an old 24 inch monitor mounted
on the right side of the case and one of those small wireless keyboards with a touchpad and there you go a mobile test rig
8:30 that case is pretty common in the philippines, i used to have that one black with orange side and a modded front steel grill instead of acrylic front panel, that case is very hard to cable manage if you are not creative, takes a bit of patience, overall that case is nice with very good airflow and cheap.
Hey TYC, you can make your own custom side panel for cheap using acrylic glass. Any aluminum/acrylic workshop would make that for you if you give them the correct measures. Put the acrylic one in the back and the glass one in the front.
11:30 I'd rather cut off some rigid steel "back" panel and leave the glasss since usually you can drop it near the wall so nobody looks at the right("back") side anyway😅
roads in your contry look so broad & peaceful to drive.. good shit
cheers Brian you're doing the gods work
Unquestionably time. I'm about to upgrade to an 8th gen Intel from a 4th gen. Bought the board from a bulk reseller on eBay, the CPU came from a donated HP workstation, and my video card is a gifted EVGA GTX 1080ti Hybrid card. I should be able to run just about everything I can throw at it at 60fps...
The today equivalent of this rig which will have cost me around $80 USD would probably run a grand or so. (13th gen i7, 4070, etc.)
I think that's pretty solid, definitely saves you a good chunk of cash
I have a machine still running 4790k and 1080ti…. I’m mostly a borderlands junkie at this point. So it’s doing 1440p 60 on bl3 dx12 no problem. No overclocks, just upgraded the cooling over the years
I have a 8th Gen i7 and a 1080 ti. You can crush 120 on high/ultra at 1080p for literally 99% of games. It's only 1440 where the card starts to show it's age
That balcony view was something else man.
I've had this bluescreen problem from someone I sold a used PC to and he used his old USB WiFi adapter. Took me AGES to essentially figure out that it was his adapter causing it. He had seen it working in person before and I helped him debug it. But what a waste of my time - I don't do this professionally and it wasn't even a flip, just some old hardware I put together so it doesn't collect dust on the shelf.
Not in Australia though, this was in Germany. Seems the WiFi adapter was older (no real Win 11 drivers) and with his router it kept bluescreening, whereas mine was fine
I had a friends PC that had a similar issue, I took it apart cleaned it, rebuilt it at least three times over, and despite her constant blue screens every hour or so, I could not get it to blue screen for me not matter what benchmarks I put it through each time I worked on it. I had uninstalled and reinstalled drivers over and over again and just kept hitting a brick wall trying to figure what was wrong, turns out she was using a third party game controller that was well over a decade old and its drivers were causing fits with the USB drivers which in turn was causing the blue screen. She bought a new Xbox One controller, no blue screens anymore.
Got a deal a couple of months ago as I live remote and jumped on it. ROG strix x370 MB with r2600x, AIO cooler 16g memory, 1tb ssd, 2tb hdd, 2x 1070ti in crossfire, fast wifi adapter and 750w psu all in a nice rgb white case for $500 aussie. ripped out the 2nd 1070ti and used it in the other kids pc. happy days
You could just get some smoky acrylic cut to replace the glass.
That 4090 seems like it has thermal probs, ie, fine for a couple min but then glitches.
You can get boardviews of most motherboards to find out what those broken SMDs are, so you know what value parts to put back
In California, picked up a intel i5 2500k, with mobo and 16gb ram for only 25 usd. I got it up and running with my spare parts laying around.
Love the video. One video I was hoping you make, and you touched on it here a bit, is the amount of time per week you spend on customer support of sold systems. What percentage of PCs you sell have valid issues and user complaints about performance, etc?
you should check your local glass cutter
he could easily cut you a replacement for that rog build
and if he does not have the right type of shaded glass maybe choose
a clear one , or lighter shade or even a slightly mirrored one , it would most definitely bring you more money than without
or buy an acrylic sheet for 5 dollars and cut it yourself with a box cutter and it'll never shatter like tempered glass. or make a mesh panel.
Nothing can beat used PC parts.
my pc agrees
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New pc parts
Well not for newer parts since it will still be overpriced
Three 1080s for $197 is an amazing deal! Geez, you have been coming out really well with a lot of gpu's lately. I need me some of these kind of connects in Sydney 😅
$80 is about as low as ive seen them go for
@daytimerocker3808 $80 aud?
For the ROG system, maybe get a sheet of metal cut the same size as the glass and use it for the back? Might even be able to use an old case side from a junk case. Then glue some rubber grommet to the edge for protection.
Think it looks fine as it is in the back but acrylic would be a cheap way to do it also, cut a sheet down to spec perhaps. Probably easiest to advertise it as is, say that it gets better temps. Actually run open case a lot myself.
In my opinion a Gtx 1080 is like the dream GPU to hand over to a person just getting into gaming. Can handle a bootie load of games, and not hurt the budget.
I went on eBay USA( I live in Canada) and you can get a 2080, 2080ti for about the same price the 1080
@@Mike-Dynamike The 1080 is legendary so carries a bit of a premium.
@@wayland7150 i do agree 1060 and 1080 are legendary GPU.
Couldn't agree more mate. Love the good old 1080's!!!
The TI is beast mode for budget gaming still. It can even handle 1440p at 144hz.
Had the same issue with the Telstra gateway BSOD on a system! Glad you brought it up in a vid
Depends on where you are, used market here only saves you 2-3% on something like a 4070 S or a 4070Ti S, so it simply not worth the risk and you'll have an easier time getting a better discount for a brand new card in shop sales.
Ngl even though it’s old I absolutely love a budget banger like a i7 4770 and a 1070 or a rx580 8gb. So much value with that setup still and you can extend the life even more with Linux
Wonderful video. Maybe buying cheap complete systems then parting them out to make better specced systems might be the way to go for now.
I have noticed that here in the Southeast US hosing us getting to be an issue. I have had several buyers that at first seemed to be really annoying, but it turns out had either been ripped off, or scammed. I go out of my way to make a customer feel comfortable. Honestly I dont really offer warranty or promise long term after sale support, but I actually use each system I sell for several days before selling, and anything questionable in the slightest goes into the bin.
I got hosed myself a few weeks ago, found a good deal in a 1660 Super, seller accepted $60 USD, bought it on a meetup, didnt think much of it until I got home later. It was a two fan 1650 Super, huge difference, I double checked, the add was for a 1660 Super, of course the guy ghosted when I tried to contact him. The card works great, and at $60 was't even a terrible deal, just not what it was supposed to be
I've noticed WAY more scams in the past 4 months. Been looking for 16gb nvidia cards and half have been scams. I now show up unannounced with a test rig and 1/4 people immediately leave.
Plus the amount of rigs I see sitting that would have previously sold is alarming. I've never seen it quite this bad. I'm talking 12600k + 3080 systems selling for $500 at best.
Yes I got scammed with a public meetup and got home and the rtx3060 was faulty. Seller deleted account and uncontactable. I'm building a test rig like you have...
Where do you live where systems like that are $500?
@@baboon81choc ALWAYS ask to see the GPU running otherwise cancel the deal, I've been scammed before i don't care if its a gt 710 i want to see it running?
@Lennox032 yes lesson learned. I bought 9 gpus untested previously without any major problems, this one just shocked me. I now have a open benchtable by streacom, going to buy a battery inverter to power it and a portable lcd screen to view it working. Insurance for future purchases
On the Asus ROG case, I would custom cut a plexiglass panel in translucent white, and put it on the back of the computer. That would give it a unique look, and "cover" the fact that the original glass panel was broken.
Good idea.
yeah i feel ya. last year i had a pretty crazy run of just buying whole systems where the sellers just made shitty pictures and descriptions and no one buying them i guess therefore crazy cheap prices.... my best deals in october where a super clean GTX 980 TI Windforce (somehow after 10 years) for 40€ and a dusty but perfectly fine RX 5700 Pulse for 70€
13:17 I would be sussed out too if someone INSISTED on meeting at my home. If anything I would probably not sell to someone like that. You never know with people...
You're a pussy?
hey brian how's the pc flip up challenge going? Love the new content mate keep it up.
Hey man will start the second episode soon,just been so backlogged, still be backlogged for another week.
@@techyescity Hopefully 'backlogged' means a good level of business for you!
The buyer was just uninformed and expected you to know since you built it. I wouldnt blame him for having questions. Its cool he trusted you to be honest in the explanation. Its understandable.
With the glass panel i would see about getting some clear acrylic and finding someone who can cut it to the exact shape of the original glass one that you have
That Cooler master case is a really good budget case, its housing what I'm typing this reply on, (an ASRock B450 Pro 4 Micro ATX, Ryzen 7 2800x, 32 gb of Ballistix ddr4, MSI RX580 OC2 8gb, SanDisk 1tb SSD, and Tashiba 3tb 7200 rpm HDD). I have five fans on a push pull config and get great temps despite the small case (two of the fans are aftermarket, the case came with three), during 90 degree days in the summer my CPU idles around 40 C and the GPU around 35 C, in regular use when its been idling up and down for hours and Ive been doing a lot of work CPU sits around 50 C and the GPU around 40 and in work intense situations and gaming its around 55 to 80 C for CPU and 55 to 80 for the GPU. I'm doing this with just a stock wraith spire cooler on the CPU as well. I do have a slight underclock on the GPU and I'm running the RAM in XMP profile but the CPU is running stock with no under or overclock. I live in a very hot and humid area on the southeast coast of the US with sub par air conditioning, so keeping my PC cool in the summer is a battle and its one of the best cases I've ever had at doing that, other than being a little large for a micro ATX case and looking very basic (thats a plus for me), I can't think of anything bad to say about it. Personally I like the look of the case, simple, black and no bells and whistles, I cant stand RGB or goofy space age looking cases, simple straight lines and a low profile look is best for me, plus why waste the power on shiny lights no one will see but yourself.
if it were me, i would buy some plexiglass and use the good piece of glass to mark out the exact shape, and cut the plexiglass to fix the front side. you can sand/file the edges to get it smoother. leave the tinted panel to cover the wires in the back.
If you know someone with a 3D printer, could make a solid plastic piece for the back and put the glass in front?
was thinking the same thing!
Seeing that deal on that 37x/5700 has me somewhat on edge. I got the 57xt variant and I was hoping to get more in the $500US range. Ah well, will see what I can get when I do my build next year.
I have a system using that Cooler Master case, would be nicer with a side panel cutout but you see the RGB through the top, front and a little through the top side panel.
Use the good panel on the front. Make one out of Perspex for the back.
On the broken side I'd find some plexiglass for the back side and glass in front
Yesterday, in utah Facebook marketplace place i got a corsair vengeance prebuilt (ryzen 7 and 3070) a monitor, chair and keyboard mouse and headset all razor for 700 bucks. With conservative prices on everything else but the pc i paid like 400-450 on the pc.
Oh, so regarding the polarizing tape, what you'll find if you search for it is a tape that goes between polarizing filters to produce colors. But you can get small polarizing filter patches that you can cut to size. Saw 'em on Amazon. Not sure about Amazon AU, but I just googled "polarizing tape" and it was the 3rd or 4th entry down. So yeah if that's the actual issue on the monitor you can fix it no problemo.
Oh, that's awesome thanks for sharing that, gotta look into it!
The used market is heating up, with the surge dying down, and many casuals returning to console. Entire used builds do go for less than used parted out, sometimes...but much like this channel's focus, beware of unreasonable mark-ups from flippers, and commodity grade components.
I used to go to a hardware place, but expect a glass specialist business would be better, and just get them to cut and bevel of the edges on a new bit of safety or laminate, to match the one you have, the cost is not that much.
If I ever make it to Australia I’m gonna try to come visit you. We should scrapyard wars it.
I’ve been buying used pcs and cleaning out and case swapping them for the past year, the profit margin is better when buying a whole used pc then multiple used parts
I have a test rig with an UPS in my truck and have all the drivers downloaded just for this reason!
I will get mine setup in due time!
That's crazy! Haha, You must buy a lot of used computer parts to make that viable.
Nerd on a Budget drives around too with his test bench in the trunck on an UPS
yeah i got mine old 1060 and now 3060 ti both from ebay for good prices in europe, 200 euro for 3060 Ti
that is an EPIC view. Impressed!!!
I've been watching your recent "treasure like" used PC parts hunts.. and man, I'll try to find a RTX A6000 for $250 USD !!! YEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAA
I am having the same problem in the UK as parts are on the high but full systems are becoming cheaper so i been able to get full systems and then flip them for about 30% profit within 24 hours. Has been very insane for it in the last month. But as you have said Christmas has become the most reason why my systems have been flying out very quickly.
My area is so horrible compared to this and I think I just got hosed on a i7 8700 I picked up for 40, there was corrosion on the bottom of it I figured I would roll the dice I cleaned it up and I'm afraid to buy a mobo for it.
Also one of the contact pads is weirdly shaped might be burnt up because there is black around it I didn't notice when I payed up. I'm just starting flipping again with zero dollars in my pocket any broken part is gonna stop me dead in my tracks.
Yup it's those cheap white usb wifi adapters that caused me the Telstra grief years ago. You'll be fine flipping with the buffer from your mining rig haul. But tough market for everyone else. The sweet spot for flipping a PC is $500 Aussie not anywhere close to $1k.
Should have bought a piece of plexiglass and had it cut to match the front glass. Put the glass on front and it would have been fine. Yes plexiglass scratches easy but its on the back.
should be able to cut some cheap perspex to fit that rog case?
you should get some perspex and make another side panel ...... you can get cheap tint off temu if you really wanted to make it match ..... its a decent case so would probably be worth it
I bought a refurbished work station off of ebay for $100 and an RX470 for $50 ($ CAD)
made a nice little gaming rig that runs black ops 6 with 140fps @900p with upscaling 👌
took me a year and a few clients to work out that telstra problem on gen 1 telstra boxes... terrible problem
The market is so poor I've stopped building/selling. Currently debating doing some for Christmas season but it's pretty bad in my area of the US. Also, seen a lot of the same as far as parts vs whole-PCs. Best values for parts in often entire systems that just need a cleanup and/or recase. My market is more cosmetic sensitive so even budget systems need to be in nice cases.
Make a cardboard template of that Rog-glass and take it to your local plexi-glass man, he'll know what to do...awesome finds brother.
Drop a TECH YES City logo on it too for good measure.
Last year I got a very lightly used 6750xt for $200. The guy was working over 100hours a week the entire time he owned the GPU so you can imagine how much it was used. I don't think I'll find another deal that good
Love it, Les Man drops in 4 sticks of corsair dominator ram. Who could pass that up?
i don't know where les keeps getting this kind of stuff.
Heads up anyone looking for high end build parts, 13700KF on woot today is 199. I just picked up a pair. Brand new and should have full intel warranty as woot is owned by amazon.
No, at least not yet. Should we hold on to our hardware longer? Maybe. I'm holding on to my 5800X3D and DDR4 RAM on a B550 Motherboard for now, I'm just upgrading my graphics card from a 6900 XT to a 7900 XT or XTX to get more mileage out of AM4.
Don't worry, AM4 has _plenty_ of legs left.
@@Mister_Phafanapolis I built a relative two machines a 7900x3D/X670E/32GB DDR5-6400/RX 7900 XTX, and a 7800x3D/X670E/32GB DDR5-6400/RX 7900 GRE. These machines are quite the overkill in my opinion but I'm not the one buying the parts or using them either. I'll keep my AM4 system till it doesn't do what I need it to any longer.
I would go to local hardware store with the unbroken piece of glass and see if they can cut a piece of plexiglass to match and then there would be glass on both sides
I just built several PCs within a year. And all of them build in mixed parts, new and used.
LED monitor, case, SSD, and power supply I think I must have a new part, but RAM, CPU, GPU, and motherboard-I'm just looking for used parts.
At the end, I can get a budget PC with a little bit higher specs.
Back is better. It looks good with an open side.
Great minds think alike.
@@techyescity yeah, front panel open. people take that off on purpose even if they have it
right and were are the seond hand parts going to come from.
Buying new, especially in today’s market is just not worth it. I was able to pick up a 5700x3d and a motherboard for around 200 USD. Should be a decent upgrade from my 8700k, which I also bought used.
i wish people were this naive in europe
there is no way in hell you could get even close to such good deals here
I think those ddr4 sticks are going to make you a crazy amount of profit, those are the hiddem gem deals people overlook
hey brian, what do you use for cleaning monitor screens?
Used market really kicking. If you don’t mind Intel, you can grab a very nice MOBO for a heavy discount since everyone going AMD now
176GB DDR4.... let's goooooo!!!!!! I can have all the tabs open in chrome now!
REFLASH BIOS on rx580 ... Thats what I did when I bought one years ago and ports failed then it worked fine. Not saying thats exactly your problem but its so easy to do on 580's
Chinese rx 580 are trick to do bios fresh because the weird combo of memories and gpu. I tried to do with mine, and I can't make its works with anything but the crap mining BIO that come with it.
those little low profile cards do really well on ebay
Hello from Greece, Did you ever try to use and 8700k or 9700k on Z170 mobo? i saw some tutorials but im not sure if it worth to try it. Thanks in advance :)
like the ram deal the most, and very surprised you pay such money for 4770 still
why dont you make your own tempered glass for the asus rog case
Amazing how 12 year old pc parts (I'm looking at you, i7 4th gen) are still valid in this day and age.
i dont know if its uk only but i swear a 4080 is around 800 on non stop discount
Help tech yes city i want to play black ops 5 Cold war with bots but it was a frame drop fest and i set everything it is not smooth. What can i do with a GTX1070 6mb. msi version. ???
I see new Tech Yes City vid, I like
do you sell just the graphics cards and also ship to perth?
that Apartment view was insane , rent must be high AF
Love your videos 👍
I like all the mining GPU's that you got. They actually celebrate Halloween on the Gold Coast? I lived in Melbourne for 2 years form 1998 to 2000. I'm from the USA. Victorians didn't celebrate Halloween when I was there.
How is the intel a good deal, when it is outdated 4th gen. compared to a ryzen 5 8400f price wise,you can get it for around 110 euro here
Hey Brian, can you link whose selling 4080 gaming PCs in aus for $2000 aus?
I'm a first time builder, been watching Tech Yes City for a month now and I need some help from you or the amazing community of Experienced PC builders.
I got my hands on a AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB graphics card from Facebook market for $40, the guy says it works and when I got home to test it out it had No Display and the fan spinning, I tried at lead 10 times putting it back in the slot, connecting the 8 pin power to it but all I got was No Display, and fan spinning, I contacted the seller and he was nice enough to Refund me and let me Keep the Card, I opened it up cleaned it with my electric Duster, removed the old thermal paste and reapplied new thermal paste to it but got the same result, is this graphics card dead? Am I doing something wrong? I need some help!
why not get a piece of percepex for the rear
How has providing a 1yr warranty worked out for you, and do you offer it on all of your PCs?
Can someone please tell me the ROG cabinet name ?
I ended up buying a used aftershock pc for 2k AUD. with a 7700x cpu and 7900xt, corsair vengance 16x2 6000 and 850w gold psu do u think it was decent?
It’s a decent deal not much cheaper and not expensive.
If you got a decent mobo and power supply it seem to be a good deal….otherwise maybe just an ok deal.
Decent deal for sure.
A good case is to be made for buying at least some of the parts used. I think the HDD or SSD should always be bought new. Especially the HDD if you want one in your PC should be bought new because for one you have no idea what could be on that drive and for two you have no idea what conditions the drive has been operating in. HDDs are fragile and they can easily fail. SSDs have limited writes, and you have no idea how many writes might be left. Also, graphics cards I'm kind of iffy on buying those used unless they are a really good deal. CPU's I normally have no problem buying used. Just don't buy Intel 13th or 14th gen used because they have issues. I think air coolers are ok to buy used if you're OK with cleaning them up and/or replacing fans. I would never buy an AIO cooler used because the pump might be shot by the time you get it. Power supplies are another one I'm not sure I'd want to buy used because they could have roaches inside them. If you bring that in your house, guess what? You now have roaches. I'd just rather not have to worry about that. Bugs could possibly get in other parts as well, but I think it's more likely that they end up in a used PSU. Also, I'm ok with buying RAM used and I'm much more likely to buy used if it's a really good deal. Motherboards I think are also ok to buy used. You just have to be extra careful to not buy one with bent or broken pins if it's an LGA type of socket. AM4 motherboards don't have that issue. If you want to buy used, I think AM4 is probably the best way to go because there are so many good CPU options that are very cheap. You could go 12th gen Intel, AM4, or AM5. With AM5 you have to buy DDR5 which isn't quite as easy to work on AM5 as DDR4 RAM is on AM4. If you're building your first PC ever, I would steer you toward AM4 because it's just easier to build a PC with an AM4 platform. For one, installing the CPU is a bit scary if you're doing it for the first time on an LGA motherboard. AM4 is PGA which means the pins are on the CPU. The pins are also easy to break or bend on an AM4 CPU as well, but they are also a lot easier to put back into place. Also, the pins on an AM4 CPU are a bit harder to accidentally bend than the LGA pins on an LGA motherboard like AM5. Also, on AM4 you have DDR4 which has less issues than DDR5 and it's a bit cheaper. I wouldn't buy the case used or any fans used. I think that just about covers my thoughts on it.
I've gotten used HDD and SSD from friends but I know they're not full of viruses and malware either. Even so, I still zero fill them to "be sure".
@@TheLionAndTheLamb777 I still wouldn't. Your friend might not even be aware of any malware that could be on those, and some can infect your bios upon attaching and running the drive. While that is kind of unlikely, it's something you still need to look out for.
Get a glazier to make the glass be cheap enough
I agree i got a R5 2600 16gb ram gtx 1660 super pc with a keyboard mouse and monitor for 300
The last month has been... something else for me. I'm in Caucasus region and the market is at its worst, there's an economy crisis. But I sold nearly same amount of PCs in October alone than in 2024 from Jan to Sep. Weird. I haven't changed my tactics or adjusted prices at all.
GPU prices here are as high as whole system prices in your area. I'll give an example: 200 AUD is considered a good price for a GTX 1070 here. From what I understand, people like hosing each other in Aus, but here they just lie about the condition of parts. They say that all parts are new, literally, but they're at best Used (Like New). So when I build with new parts, I have to provide invoice and all sorts of stuff to prove it. So, TLDR: The Meta here is to sell Used parts as New and fool the buyers that can be fooled. Sad times. As a result, I stopped building with new parts.
But other than that, it's all going well in my area/region. Nothing too weird tho, seen it all at this point.
Can't wait to see what you do with all that hardware that you bought btw :)
In the US at least the used market is going to go crazy once new tariffs take hold next year. I'm foreshadowing of course based on the past leadership.