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we have another Craigslist video lined up and last time we touched on a few good ads mixed in with the bad ones you guys seem to feel okay about that but a lot of you watch these these videos because you want to see the terrible stuff you want to see me rip into it talk about what I would pay for especially like extremely old used hardware and that's all we're gonna do in this video I have about four or five terrible ads lined up and I gave you guys a taste of this on Twitter yesterday if you follow me there so without further ado we're gonna get started off here with this this one eight hundred dollars powerful gaming PC I I don't know what these people think when they list these these ads but like in my opinion this guy's wasting its time all right cut to the intro and then a word from our sponsor and we back to this stuff stay tuned we're asking people on the street would you rather have the car on the right or the car on the left which comes with a mess is to set a serious question taking this there you have it people prefer the mess is too so what we have here powerful gaming PC 800 bucks now what made me click on this ad was not the fact that he was wanting 800 bucks for a powerful gaming PC you can find plenty of this on Craigslist and frankly a lot of them are decent deals but for 800 bucks I expect a lot more than what I see in this opening picture here first off I see dust everywhere I have no idea what kind of CP cooler so it looks like some like classic zom and cooler not terrible looking but it does look quite bad when you've got dust caked into it as much as this guy has we have a GTX 580 that is ancient by today's standards also looks fairly dusty and then we have these just these are cringe-worthy molex to PCIe power adapters it's not looking too great but he's definitely trying to sell it so let's check out what he says here too much to list to message me if you have any specific questions just yeah I'm just taking offers at this point 3.8 4.2 gigahertz ACS crossfire 5 formulas II I don't know why you'd listen CPU frequency before you list the CPU you're talking about two different things here anyway FX 4100 processor and he says easily overclock of what a 4.2 never needed to go for higher I'm sure you didn't buddy 16 gigs of ram ddr3 obviously 2133 1 terabyte WD black he's got a cheese 600 Logitech mouse NVIDIA GTX 580 after market case doesn't say what kind of case we can see a few pictures there though and loaded with times 7 plus big fans with red LEDs several aftermarket fans and heatsink so he's definitely trying to sell you on the the RGB aspect of this build and anyone who's dabbled in the use market of pcs know is that RGB does help sell most computers first off the FX platform is virtually dead you can get rise in CPUs on the use market for around 50 60 bucks that'll blow the FX 4100 out of the water you might even get Verizon CPUs cheaper than that depending on where you look who you buy them from I wouldn't pay more than 10 bucks for an FX 4100 and I'm being dead serious about that the 16 gigs of ram is nice ddr 390 dr 4 again this is a platform we have to deal with but 16 gigs is you know I'd pay upwards of 60 60 bucks or so for ddr3 16 gigs worth and that's probably overpaying but given how dear impresses a fluctuated recently I'd say that's an okay offer there so right now we're at a hundred bucks right for the CPU motherboard and RAM he wants 800 so we got to come up with $700 somewhere else in this list here of components the GTX 580 honestly not worth very much I wouldn't pay more than 40 50 bucks for that and I would only pay that much just because I'd like to have something that vintage on the shelf for testing in the future but I would never use it as a serious gaming card only a 2gig buffer it's not gonna be a lot for some modern 1080p gaming even and that's why I hesitate to even make an offer on this PC so yeah I'm feeling maybe 200 to 250 for this rig which is 1/4 of what this guy's asking and then on top of it is didn't look like I was taken care of and the parts are very very out of date so yeah that's my verdict on that one I'd pay about 1/4 of what this gentleman is asking on to the next build this is custom gaming pc with nvidia geforce 1070 graphics card okay now gtx 1070 is good he's got a monitor NEC 850 right but here's here's the problem 3.2 gigahertz Sandy Bridge Intel processor ok I have no idea what processor that is ok Sandy Bridge that's great but what are we talking here core i5 core i7 if it was a core i7 I feel like he would state that which is why I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it's a core i7 I'm going to assume it's a Core i5 and then 256 GB SSD to one terabyte hard drives 8 gigs of RAM however he says performance RAM and then a Coolermaster case I don't know what Coolermaster case this is but it looks like it was built in the early 2000s and then comes with a 27 inch 1080p monitor Logitech G 17 keyboard that's great but it's not gonna add much to the price here he's got a smart 750 watt Thermaltake power supply again not looking too juicy here cable management is kind of black but I can't really blame him because the case doesn't look like it's very easy with which to manage cables so starting price here 850 yeah I'm not seeing that at all let's say gtx 1070 love let's give them 254 I bought GTX 10 70s on eBay for as little as 200 bucks and this is a super clock EVGA card so it's nothing super fancy these typically go for between 2 and 260 on ebay so let's say 250 is given the upper end 250 bucks let's assume a core i5 sandy bitch processor I don't know if it's overclockable or not he doesn't say what kind of motherboard he's sporting but it doesn't look like a very high-end motherboard either this one's tough it's a tough call I'm gonna assume it's a lock processor and that that is not a z-series chipset doesn't look like it is and that would lead me to assume that the CPU is gonna be worth maybe on the used market a hundred bucks at most and then maybe another forty bucks for the motherboard guy that's a stretch too so 140 plus 250 let's call it an even 400 he's got a hyper 212 Evo is what it looks like so another 20 bucks used for that so what do we have 420 and then 8 gigs of ram gonna be ddr3 so 40 bucks for 60 he's got 256 he guesses 250 bucks off used I'd pay 40 if that let's say 40 heck I'm just splitting hairs here 500 bucks to one terabyte hard drives I would pay 50 for the pair so what do we had near 550 I'm sure I'm doing some of this math wrong I'm just kind of spitting out numbers but we're around 5 to 550 here at 27 inch 1080p monitor he doesn't say what refresh rate it is I'm gonna assume it's trash otherwise he probably would have stated it so cheap 1080p monitor wouldn't pay more than 50 60 bucks for so we're at 5 550 in the $600 price range when you include the mechanical keyboard assume you even want to pay for that and yeah the asking price is 850 so I definitely start much lower than this the 1070 is cool but a lot of this older hardware is difficult to flip and also difficult to use with some modern games especially if you plan on buying this strictly for gaming so in my opinion I would start at 400 bucks and just see if he's even willing to entertain an offer close to that amount because I wouldn't go a over 500 bucks for this and even that's a stretch I'm not even sure I want to pay 500 bucks to this I think I'd hold for him at 400 knowing that he would probably end up turning it down but hey that's what you get when he asked way too much for a bill that is several years old save the graphics card now the next one is a gaming PC for $1,800 what made me click on this one was I noticed that it wasn't custom cooled it looked like a typical Pascal card you know an OK CPU cooler and then a fairly you know run-of-the-mill case from Corsair looks like the 4 60 X to the 400 see and white so we're just gonna run through the specs here let's see GT X 1080 founders Edition I wouldn't pay more than 300 I've gotten GTX and 80s for 300 bucks so for a founders card 3 let's say 320 320 okay and then a 250 250 gig SSD another 30 40 bucks so 320 let's make it 350 360 800 watt power supply had no idea what kind of power supply it's probably run in the middle again so let's call it 400 even 16 gigs of DDR 4 that's gonna be used 80 bucks and that's that's probably a say we don't know what kind of ddr4 it is what kind of 16 gig kid it is but let's say 80 bucks for that so that's 480 a 6 motherboard 50 bucks 60 again I don't know like you're not detailing the parts so I don't know what to offer you and that's the problem when you don't list these specifics with these components and I don't know how good or bad they are and I'm going to assume the worst because who in the right mind would just vaguely list the name of parts if they spent hundreds of dollars but there were genuinely good parts let's see this is my gaming PC I built and I rarely play it anymore I absolutely love this thing but money is low as of right now but the specs are and then he lists aspects that we just went through so I I'm I'm struggling to even reach $1,000 in this build my dude and you you want $1,800 for it the parts right now especially in the use market are nowhere near this expensive and this last one here at the x58 Xeon have to call Brian in for this one our X 480 gaming PC $700 selling gaming PC perfect fortnight pub G Ark Rainbow six siege destiny GTA 5 blah blah blah okay comes with a Z on a 55 20 quad-core hyper threaded CPU we'll talk more about that in second XFX AMD rx 488 gig GP you 16 gigs of mixed ddr3 okay gold gold fur never even heard of that before gold for 128 gig SSD paired with a 300 gigabyte mechanical hard drive only at three pieces is this is an old system I mean clearly on a picture but he's like pairing some old stuff with with some new components including that graphics card this is gonna be a little weird and then the power supplies of course their CX 450 and semi modulated plus bronze board and 50 watt power supply comes with 10 free games already installed would make for a good late Christmas present for a kid yeah because I think a kid is the only like person who's gonna spend $700 in the system that's probably why you said that asking $700 firm this guy's in for a rude awakening all right II 55:20 CPU let's cut right to that real quick this is of course a Xeon it is actually based on the Nehalem architecture which was launched back in 2009 which makes this a 10 year old CPU it has a very very low frequency operating frequency at its base is 2.2 6 gigahertz a turbo frequency of up to 2.5 3 gigahertz and I believe that is only on one core so not only do we have ancient architecture of 45 nanometer lithography but we also have a low frequency this CPU is the definition of a bottleneck when it comes to pretty much any game that's relatively modern on Steam or origin or wherever this is my thinking he bought this card maybe a year and a half ago when they were fairly expensive when the mining craze was approaching its peak he probably paid three to four hundred dollars for it and he found out that he couldn't flip it for that much so he decided to throw it into a super cheap workstation PC from 10 years ago and hoped that he could flip this the whole thing and try to get all of his initial investment back from the graphics card maybe he got the workstation for free and that's just thinking and he put like a cheap but power supply that you could buy from Amazon for like 30 bucks in it that's my thinking now he says that it's perfect for fortnight pub gr Rainbow six siege destiny GTA 5 etc that's a load of crap I wouldn't pay a dime over 10 20 bucks for the Xeon CPU and that would be again just for kicks and giggles because I would end up just fiddling with it for science but I would under no circumstance try to flip this as a gaming PC and then on top of that try to get it sold for $700 that just leaves a nasty taste in the mouth so yeah Rance over now I gotta calm down a little better these these were pretty bad I mean what scares me more is that people still might find builds like this and say oh these must be perfectly valid for gaming why else with this person asked $700 for this rig if it you know if it wasn't good and that's what I that's what I'm afraid of that's one of the reasons why these videos exist the other reason is because you guys just genuinely like you know checking out old hardware and see me roast some of this stuff so avoid these at all cost I would not put my stamp of approval on any of them and I frankly this last one here is just insulting like trying to pass this off as a gaming PC is downright disgusting you're gonna fool some kid it's exactly what you said you wanted to do was you wanted to sell it to some kid or at least sell it to a parent that would give it to a kid and assume the parent has no idea what he's buying into because this is not a gaming PC and the only people you could possibly fall into thinking this was a gaming PC are kids anyway what do you guys think about these builds leave a comment down below and then you can also link your own Craigslist Facebook Marketplace let go finds whatever you can send this to me either via Twitter you can send them on facebook Messenger I don't recommend you guys email this to me we have filters for that kind of stuff so they come from you know just generic Gmail addresses or anything like that I might not see it we try to save the the business email for business inquiries but if you do have a few that you want to show off set them to me on Facebook I have the Facebook link down below you can also tweet me add on Twitter and that's a another place where I'm pretty active and usually I respond fairly quick my phone's always on me and then yeah we'll hope we'll look forward to the next one hopefully you guys enjoyed this one let me know if you 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