Gadgetory

alright welcome back guys I just thought I'd do it like a vlog where I'm putting together a $20 PC that's right $20 welcome back to tokyo city ladies and gentlemen's brian coming back you guys live in some little vlog where i've just picked up this junk pc for $20 so I'm pretty much cleaning it down at the moment with some 556 cic absolutely like this stuff and man it was an absolute mess before but it's some red max case it came with three fans I even think they're LEDs so that's that and then up here we've got a Q I should pull this outside cuz it's light we've got a q9 550 which came with it as well so yeah for 20 dollars i'll surprises like these guys clearly didn't know what pc parts are worth so inside we have as well in a zeus motherboard which i'll just pull out for you guys I'm going to Zeus motherboard now clean this down as well so that's with CRC 556 I've cleaned all that down that's good to go and even came with a 600 watt power supply like you know I've cleaned this down too as well but so for 20 dollars we've got a 600 watt power supply a motherboard the q9 550 a junk intel heat sink fan a raid max case and then we've got in here four gigabytes of ddr2 memory so I was kind of shocked I mean this is really good especially if someone wanted to build a real budget PC because I got a GT 9 740 upstairs I think it is 740 I'm not too sure I have to check that I've got a real budget graphics card upstairs as well so I'm going to pair it with this I've even got a 750 gigabyte like just hard drive that I pulled out of a laptop so I'm just going to see if I can put something together for $20 and post on the results now keep in mind though that there is a big risk that these parts won't work at all so since it was labeled as junk but I've got a feeling it'll work I mean I've cleaned it all down now that does look pretty damn good so we're going to use you know it's going to go into actually one thing can show you is the is the IR shield so that's it even came with the IO shield as well so just put that on the CPU you know it's no problems so it's going to work it's going to work anyway guys let's move on to the next part where I put this all together and we're going to whack a graphics card in their hard drive and see if it fires up here's a look at how dirty it was before so here's the head sink fan and it's just like almost antiqued so really filthy so we used to get this stuff and you just spray it down now you can just like grab that spray it down you know wipe off the heatsink paste that comes off pretty easy and then you just can grab a brush now I'm doing this with one hand so so this is how easy it is to clean your computer parts you know like no bull no bull like this will actually come up pretty well yeah take a look at that anyone want a roasted pizza for breakfast so there's the after so it looks a little bit cleaner than it did before so yeah now these folks were even nice enough to include a DVD rewritable as well so this $20 man I'm extracting some value out of it we're about to start the build and this input/output shield is like completely wrong and the top two ports they're in the back they're like PC a sorry ps2 ports you see this one doesn't even have two ps2 ports but anyway the builds mostly ready to go in so I'm just doing some little prep changes here and then I'm going to install it all oh yeah look at that we're gonna do some b-roll on this jungle sandwich fellas so there it is I haven't even bothered doing any cable management I just really want to see if it works at the moment and then we can pretty much just yeah I mean I actually don't know the power switch and reset switch configurations so what I'm going to do is just kind of guess and then see if it boots up by pressing either one just sort of like yeah troubleshoot that because this actual motherboard it even though it looks pretty decent it actually doesn't have a model name on it so I can't find a model number anywhere I mean that's before I covered it with jungle cable but anyway let's try and boot it up and see if it works here's the moment you guys have all been waiting for I am going to boot this thing up and see if it turns on so fingers crossed if I got the power switch right so okay alrighty even though the power button is on this case okay nothing the light on the motherboards on so hopefully I can rework the power switches down there and see if one of those is the actual power switch yeah that's not I got to rework the power switch up down there okay sorry hope the power switch up and it's booting up whoa if this 20 dollar PC is working this I can't believe this holy crap that's that's insane like the I mean even like the fans are working to even though they're really weak like wow this is like the weakest fans I've ever seen in my life they just don't like they're blowing like nowhere that's weak but anyway the computer is still initializing so I mean it boots up which means the CPU the RAM I guess everything's working I think there just might be a problem with it so I probably have to diagnose what's going on with this and then I can try and get it to boot so we'll just play around with it I mean I might jump in the bass because I could go to the BIOS before and then we'll see if it works okay so the problem we got now is is this stuck on this screen where it's saying initializing but interestingly enough this memory stick when it has this one in only it doesn't boot but when it has this one in it does boot which would mean that it's most likely a memory problem and that the memory might not be compatible or it's just that it needs your voltage I'm not too sure and so it's just not working properly with said conditions so what I'm going to try to do now is I don't know I mean I might last-ditch attempt I might pulling off these blue because it's got these over vault settings and I might just try to pull these pins off and see if it buds if not I might just run down to a secondhand junk store and grab like a ddr2 stick of memory and try another stick and you know if the motherboard does work it's always a good thing if you can salvage it just it seems like these something's going on with the memory here in terms with the motherboard so that's why it's not booting up but anyway we'll get more progress on that soon all right so we went to the store today and I've got a different computer this one this one's $10 so it came with two sticks of 512 megabytes of ddr2 memory so I'm going to put these sticks in and see if they are compatible with our little junk rig over there there's a towel in the way but we will see if it works so we'll clean this up a little bit I mean this was filthy as well so I will clean it up and then put the RAM in and see if it fires up if it doesn't fire up then I'm just going to say it's the motherboard because I know the power supply works and if this if it was the CPU honestly it probably wouldn't even start so that's that so anyway we'll give it a shot we'll clean this Ram up and put it in ok so we've put the last stick of memory in and like I've tried everything I've tried every single slot of RAM I've tried this that no no I've just tried if you haven't even tried bashing the motherboard so it's pretty much a dead motherboard though there's good news is that the CPU does work and I'm pretty sure all the memory works as well so what I'm going to do now is pretty much sell the all the individual parts and probably bin the rest of that so I'll probably been all that stuff I mean sorry bin the motherboard and just kit so all the other little pie hats off so in the end I did get a q95 50 and a 600 watt power supply and a half decent case for 20 bucks though I did waste another $10 on this thing here this piece of junk here so I did waste 20 bucks on this I mean sorry 10 dolls all I was thirty dollars and I do get four gigabytes of ddr2 memory as well so well 1l it was okay it's just I was hoping that this motherboard would work I was really hoping there's not a little work and it didn't but anyway guys you wanted to see the vlogs win or lose I'm gonna show everything so this is holdup alright so I was just about done I had edited the video everything got it already and then we went out to some more stores to hunt my brother's hunting for retro games and they like secondhand stores that just sell a lot of cheap stuff and so I saw this this was like as funny this was advertised as a core to George just a dual core no hard drive they're like 10 bucks and I pulled off the side panel and I saw an AMD motherboard on okay what's going on here so yeah the motherboard looks really good I haven't cleaned this or anything and then I pulled the heatsink off and it's like phantom 2 I'm like wow that's a quad core so you know I caught these boys slipping up big-time or I don't know whatever maybe they just finished a mega fap session or whatever but then they slipped up ten dollars and I got all this here so we're going to give this one more shot now the catch here is that this heat sink is broken so the clips actually broken but if it does work if it does boot up and everything's okay then you can see that silicon gun there I'm actually going to do something I've never done before and if it all does work then I'm going to kind of just pretty much just silicon gun the heatsink down and that pretty much means that I'm never going to be pulling this heatsink off will this be off again but doesn't matter because there's a ten dollar PC and I just want it to work we've got the other parts up here this is the there's another four-year arts of ddr2 memory and then video graphs cards like a nothing card but whatever if it works it'll be cool like I just want to put together a cheap PC and then we like 250 gigabyte hard drive so fingers crossed that this does work so I'm really hoping it does work so let's fire it up let's see if it works ok the moment of truth you've all been waiting for I've hooked it all up and we've got the keyboard and mouse ready you've got HDMI the TV's on TV's like yep give me a signal so let's let's try this okay well it's like the power supply it's letting off this high-pitched noise this this doesn't sound good already okay turn it on no turns on which is cool let's see if we can get a signal come on stop me as it's turning on the power button worked okay come on I got on the right one HDMI should be HDMI one okay we've got nothing so far there's no signal coming out of this so it could be the HDMI ports faulty or something since I don't or it could be where three four three like you know I already gone through two of these computers the last one the ten last $10 one at ball went up in smoke they literally smoke pop down to the other leg damn so this looks like it's three for three but I'm going to try and do is I'll try and switch some parts over now switch the RAM over change the power supply even put that graphics card in and see if we can get a signal out of it because you know the motherboard and the CPU are the main parts that I want to work and if they work and we've got a PC so I'll try and work some things and see if we can get something working out of this fingers are still crossed okay so upon pulling off this power connected to the CPU you can see that it's like fried like and that I mean it looks like it's the power supply that's at fault since I guess someone probably let you know probably install the computer and just How to Lose connect oh that's what it looks like so I'm going to put another power play in and see if this will fire up but that's definitely the problem there so that's scary I've never seen that before so anyway just be careful this is lit I guess the lesson to come out of this is make sure your harnesses are connected properly so anyway let's try and fix this PC all right so we've got another power supply rigged up here we've got CPU just sort of sitting there the cooler sitting there doing nothing but sitting on the CPU and we've got one stick of RAM so if this doesn't boot up then nothing will that means the model it's pretty much dead so we'll give this a shot so we've got no more whining but uh oh yeah I need a screwdriver now just use a USB port here to show the pins okay let's see if we can get a signal whoa okay whoa whoa I'm put that work in the wind no problems it works okay so what's the power supply's I thought the high-pitched whine that could have been the power supply and I was pretty much right though I do worry about that connector still but this is definitely some good news that it's booting up and it's giving me a signal so pretty much so we are trying yeah like try and work with this now so yeah I'm gonna actually put it in a case now and try and set it up that's actually really good news and if it boots up then this would have all been for something this whole three junk rigs man that's like I don't know I feel like I've climbed Mount Everest with one leg or something no all right so with a silicon gund the heat sink down here so I do not recommend any of this at doing any of this at home so silicon it down now it is technically I can get the CPU a low so once this dries would probably take a few hours once it dries if I do want to pull the CPU out I can actually just get a Stanley knife and cut the links so yeah but anyway I just thought I'd give it a go so the motherboard does work I'm pretty sure at this stage it'll all work so once this is dried up I'll then start putting it into that $20 ring case and we will hook it all up and then put a hard drive in put six gigabytes of ddr2 to memory in there and we'll hopefully have a PC for like under $40 so I'm hoping at this stage all right so here's the heat sink in the morning and you can see here it's firmly attached to the motherboard now so it did work the silicon did work so now it's time to put this motherboard in the case and screw it off and put the RAM in hook up the power and let's see if we can get it to work 100% you alright so the computer is finally up and running I did have some problems with these solder connections there mainly the USB boot it wouldn't boot off a USB device so I had to pull off an old CD and I've got a spare Windows 7 copy lying around so I thought hey I'll install that and it's working like everything is legitimately working I'm surprised it's got 6 gigabytes of ddr2 memory in there and it's also got a phantom 2 quad quad core processor at kodkod I'm playing too much Call of Duty lately but it's got a core quad core CPU in there the phantom 2 940 so anyway that being said this the whole thing cost me $40 and I think we need to move over to a conclusion because there's a lot that needs to be spoken about with this sanal here we are with a PC that works I was really surprised at the same time I was really happy because I built a quad-core phantom to AMD build with six gigabytes of ddr2 memory for $40.00 now we pull the power supply out of the first bill which worked fine and then we pulled out other parts and replace them and we got a working PC and everything is good mind you I did put a 250 gigabyte Seagate hard drive in there but honestly you could probably pick up second in hard drive for ten dollars and I did put a graphics card in there that's really lackluster but if you were to put something like a 650 Ti boost in here or something that's pretty cheap you can have yourself a pretty cheap gaming rig for $100 now obviously there are risks right I could have ran the risk of everything not working completely since it was junk parts but when I did inspect them at the hardware store before I bought them I kind of had an inkling of what would work and what wouldn't work especially when I saw this AMD motherboard I thought wow that's pretty much going to work and I was right even though I got lucky in that that motherboard wasn't blown out with that burnt-out connection there though keep in mind though the connection is firmly connected I've made sure that's now firmly connected so nothing shouldn't be too dangerous some people may think of this as a fire hazard but it's working fine the CPU is secured down by silicon so it's a little bit ghetto but at the end of the day I've got a PC that works and I've got these spare parts as well so I got a q9 550 that I pulled from the first build and that will probably sell for around about $80 I've also got a core to joy which is like $5.00 and then I've got a spare sooo gigabytes of ddr4 memory so all in all i'm i've built a PC here today and I'm probably going to net like $50 profit off it too so it's a lot of fun though honestly if you're tech savvy would this be worth your time I would say yes and no for me it was because I had a lot of fun also there was a lot of frustrating moments but ultimately it all worked out and I guess that's why it made it all worth it though if it didn't work out I'd probably be doing a different recommendation which is kind of stupid but don't worry anyway I'm just happy that it all worked out and if you guys this is an option that you may wish to consider especially if you go to secondhand junk stores where parts are really cheap so if you know especially where the people at the store don't really know much about computers which is was which was the case where I went to so yeah if you go to some junk stores and check out pcs that don't work and you inspect him and you know what you're getting and you can potentially build yourself a really cheap PC so that's what's come out of this is it worth it yes and no that's the answer and it depends on your I guess your level of experience and what you can do to make things work though yeah anyway if someone's in Japan and they need a cheap PC man I can sell this thing I can hook you up for like $50 so if you're in Japan you need a cheap computer send me a message and I'll hook you up if you want this computer just drop a better graphics card in there and you have a really decent gaming PC anyway that being said guys if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you have any questions or comments about the $40.00 rig that I've built then please drop a call in the comment section below and I will get back to you as soon as possible and part three of the set up the conclusion of this studio will be coming I'm just going to do a little few things with the cable management around here and it will be completed so expect that soon hey guys I'll catch you with another tech video very soon peace out for now bye