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welcome back to tech es city it's that time of the month where we're going used PC parts sunning on good old gam tree last month we went to Thailand to attend the AMD launch event for the Verizon second gen chips I went there a day early hunted a heap of motherboards in Thailand I'll put the link up here if you haven't seen that one already and this month already behind the scenes I've got two really good deals as well as a subscriber called Nate he came up to the Gold Coast and traded me ddr3 memory for a GTX 780 Ti so super stoked about that we got I think it was twenty eight gigabytes of ddr3 memory traded that for a 780ti now also this month picked up an FX 8350 AMD FX 970 chipset as well as rock extreme for motherboard and a cooler master - 12 X cooler for a hundred and ten Australian dollars which in the US would be even cheaper since the US dollar is stronger at the moment and the last still we picked up was two videos ago I did the x58 3 PC build because the ultimate comparisons coming very soon so stay tuned for that and we got that for $100 with a 1200 watt power supply it was packed with RGB LED fans and an RGB controller - so 1200 watt power supply case and all that for a hundred Australian dollars - so what I'm going to do there is take out the RGB controller try and flip that for 50 bucks and we would have ended up with a case power supply for 50 dollars and also in the previous video you probably noticed that I need glasses now it's actually a pretty crazy story we'll tell that very soon but let's get on with the parts hunt because I need a lot of graphics cards I'm out of gravis cards and we need a restock so now first listing we got up here is for a i3 PC so it's got an old school first gen AI 3 in it and it's also got four gigabytes of RAM and they're asking $140 but it's been listed for over a month not one offer and the thing about this piece is it's got a full old mid sized ATX case that doesn't look like it's an OEM of some sort so could have a decent power spline it could have a decent motherboard like an asrock or Zeus will give you about P 55 so that coupled with a hard drive and everything else could be a good pick up so we're gonna offer $90 for this and as we don't need the monitor keyboard mouse they might take that so let's give this a call yeah so anyway guys this month we're bringing the Boggan back hey Tim how are you mate y'all see you got out here on cam tree for a PC tower monitor keyboard mouse mate yeah I don't need the monitor and the keyboard mouse would you take 90 bucks for it the keyboard and the mouse would I take 90 bucks you know I'd rather sell there's one whole thing yeah available today could I come check it out eight o'clock all right mate yeah all right now have you got my number here thanks I'll come check it out thanks mate fight okay so that was kind of a success we're gonna go check it out if the specs inside are any good if I can salvage a lot of the gear from that then I'll go take it for a hundred bucks even though I don't need to monitor the keyboard mouse you can kind of use them but anyway that's kind of a success first go Boggan is back and is serious business till we get up here is a GTX 970 it's the Strix azu Strix these are pretty popular model to begin with but we're gonna go with 200 Australian dollars see if Josh will take that and I'm hoping he will but the bogan is back so I've got a good feeling about this okay so josh is not picking up his phone we're gonna drop in an offer of $200 see if you'll take it so the next deal I guess you could call it that it's not even really a deal but it's an AMD radeon r9 290 for you buy so they're asking $300 but they're hinting out in the ad that they are really negotiable so they're saying they got a brand new for 300 bucks I'm just gonna call them up and sort of suss it out rather than more than anything and see if I can drop in a pretty low offer like I'm thinking literally like a hundred and fifty dollars for this card since it has been up for over two weeks hasn't had any offers of course I yeah again whatever let's try it so it looks like Jackson might be at work or something the phone's just not picking up at all but yeah let's move on with the next deal so next day we'll get up here's a GTX 780 they're asking 200 I'm gonna drop in an offer of 140 and they've only listed it today so they might take it there in the rang there around the corner maybe the bogan magic can do something Here I am doing this path hunt on a Saturday this time it's not on a Sunday it's on a Saturday so I don't know what it is people just don't pick up their phones so next up here we've got a GTX 1060 it's a 6 gig model so does command a pretty decent price here over an oz brand new it's asking 350 for it I'm thinking I'll call him up see if he'll take 290 seems like a pretty fair offer considering you don't know what it's been used for but yeah let's give this a go next up here we've got two deals that are up an EPS which which is about 50 minutes from where I live so it's quite a drive but if I can land both these graphics cards both these deals then it'll definitely make about the drive 980ti 375 AUD I'm going to try and drop in an offer of 340 see if they'll take it it's only been listed today so it's a pretty hot graphics card so we'll see if we can land it oh hey David here you go mate yeah I saw you've got an ad here on gumtree for a gtx 980ti okay would you take 350 for the gain would go to drive from the Gold Coast okay mate do you want to text me your address and I'll come and get it yeah yeah absolutely so I'll text you might like this and yeah no problem I'll put it I'll put it on pause pending your arrival thanks David so you notice I immediately opted to 350 and that's because he already listed another one and it already sold so we landed that for 350 which is an awesome deal let's try the r9 290 so Josh isn't answering his phone and I'm just gonna drop in an offer of 150 and hopefully by the time we've done the deals hunt he might get back to me in the last day we got up here is a small form-factor PC eight gigs of ram i five twenty four hundred one terabyte hard drive and you guys already probably know Matt I've called him a few times we've had a few beers in the past I'm gonna give him a ring I can't put on the bogan accent obviously because he's got my number saved in his phone and I'm gonna offer him 150 even though it's pretty tight we'll see what he can do for me dude I've noticed you've got a small form-factor PC here I five is a twenty four hundred eight gigs of ram and one terabyte hard drive yeah would you take 150 for it I'm listening 220 throwing a 2,620 I 720 600 r7 to 1015 and you supply some drinks to ten and I supply the drinks well I had no favourites of Zeon's man the generation before that so there we go you guys I was prepared to pay a little bit more I was thinking like 180 he'd come in at but he's offered to put in an i7 which is a lot better than the i5 2400 of course you get a higher clock speed hyper-threading so pretty happy with that deal 210 bucks and yeah maybe we can do a video with that case 600 graphics card if it's actually any good a lot of people have been requesting I take a look at some Quadros some old used quadros and seeing if they can still game so that might be a good video anyway up until this far you're probably wondering why I'm wearing glasses in this video and also the last video as well and the truth is I've been teetering on the edge of needing glasses for quite some years now back in Japan I got my eyes tested at an optometrist and they recommended a mild prescription they said I was long sided and when I'm reading at close distances my eyes the muscles in my eyes are having to work harder and then it wasn't until recent that the today's video sponsor actually glasses usa.com they reached out to me and said that they've noticed in some of my videos that I have been sweating a little 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yesterday that was the first run and we got this for a hundred AUD with the monitor and keyboard and also there was a heat 55 motherboard inside and a power man power supply so that was really awesome because this build will all come together once I clean this thing out but speaking of being cleaned out I think we give this a quick data back right now so we just finished cleaning this rig here and I have not seen anything like that in my life that was crazy the amount of dust that came off that thing I had to put my shirt over my mouth so I didn't breathe in any of this dust but they look forward to bringing that in the building and cleaning it all up and putting a graphics card with it and of course ordering a Zeeland off Aliexpress now but here's the PC we picked up off mat it's already pretty clean because he has a dot of a key was he actually the guy who recommended me the data back in the first place and it's got an i-5 2400 I 720 604 210 s Randall's so pretty good computer considering it's got one terabyte hard drive as well and it's going to have a k6 hundred in it which I wouldn't mind testing out in a separate video something like this any decent and if so what could it play my guess is probably like legal legends maybe dota 2 if you're lucky and see it go but of course what about that 980ti surely you got that Brian well actually I texted my sister she lived just around the corner and she went and picked that up for me so I'm just got to give her some cash she's already got the 980ti that's been scored so really look forward to putting that in a build as well and seeing what it can do or 2018 and now the guy actually two guys with the r9 290 s they both got back to me and I'll take 160 like both of them all take 160 so one of them is really close to me so I'm gonna go pick that up like pretty soon and also another ones in Brisbane but the guy doesn't get back to a Tuesday or something so again I might get someone up in Brisbane to pick that up for me but let's go get this online 290 so there are these guys we just got back now picked up the r9 290 and it is a little bit dusty but the guy accepted one hundred and fifty dollars I thought was one hundred and sixty I guess I got that confused with the guy in Brisbane and the guy in Brisbane said he will be back Tuesday night so it's Sunday today so two days he said he'll accept the 160 offer so the guy she gave me ten bucks back so I got this for one hundred and fifty Australian dollars which would be like a hundred and fifteen USD maybe so really good deal for an online 290 looking below that this might be a build right here if I can order a Z on Aliexpress get that in pretty quick and maybe get a different power supply we'd have an awesome build here for like around about 300 Australian 250 USD incredible value for money I look forward to putting that together giving you guys one epic build so to quickly recap this month we still got one outstanding deal I will update the description if that deal goes through but we've got two PC's and a spare i seven 2600 a 980 TI and also an r9 290 we've got all that for our 810 Australian dollars which would be in USD terms I think off the top of my head like 620 USD absolutely phenomenal I look forward to putting some systems together for you guys showing you the price performance we can get and especially that 980ti seeing how it goes against the latest and greatest high-end rig because 980 is still a beast of a graphics card anyway guys hope you enjoyed this month's use part hunt if you've got an accent that you want to hear and it's not too difficult I mean I can't do the young garden accent I tried and then people last month said it's a bad idea anyway because you might trigger some people or something so if you've got another accent you want to hear drop a comma in the comment section below most upvoted accent we'll be getting one phone call at least next month in that accent so go out of guys also let me know in the comments your favorite deal of the month and if you picked up some deals of your own then drop them as well also another thing I wanted to talk about with the used parts hunts since you guys love it so much I was thinking of doing an add-on episode every month where you guys send in your deals and we sort of make something happen out of the show where we can give people recommendations for new Medes so I wanted to call this show hot used Medes instead of hot used setups which of you guys followed in for a while I promised that a long time ago I was thinking that's probably not a good idea because people wouldn't want to buy a used chair or a used desk but if we look at maybe hot used Medes with PC parts we can recommend stuff that's really hot at the moment so if there's a good eight core Xeon on sale and it's in stock and there's motherboards you can couple with I'll be looking at those deals and also presenting some other deals that people have if you pick up something really obscure something not a lot of people know about of course get that deal for yourself first and then I'll recommend it to the rest of the viewers out there and now I'm going to be getting out of here going to the gym and then I'm going to get ready for the P o D concert on the Gold Coast tonight they're an old school band I used to love them back when I was a teenager so they're playing here on the Gold Coast I'm gonna go you see them now got tickets to that and also big THANK YOU to glasses usa.com to sponsoring out this video and also giving me a hand with my eyes really appreciate it and be sure to check the link in the description below guys if you need some specs of your own and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye