Gadgetory

so this right here is what I've been doing all day pulling apart OMS and there is a lot of stuff inside so let's take a look because there's possibly some things that could come out of this video that I've never attempted before so on the table here is all the stuff and it's all been pulled apart and it is a lot of gear so we've got hard drives we've got ddr3 memory and we've also got a lot of second third and fourth gen i 5s and i sevens and that's the main cream of the crop when you pull these im's apart and you get them for really good deals you get those three pieces and you can put them in other builds but I was curious about these motherboards because I'm told the Dells don't work properly because they've got to intrusion sensors and if they go off then they don't work in other cases you have to have them in the Dell cases but what I was thinking to myself is that I can somehow short these sensors whether it be through some weird technique then I can get these motherboards working in normal cases so that's exactly what we're gonna be doing here today obviously some of them have proprietary connectors in themselves like this motherboard here but some of them do have normal 24 pin motherboard connector so they're the ones we're gonna start off with and see what we can make happen with the tech yes magic we run the final home run here this is the last PC and I pick this up on a deal for a hundred and sixty AUD it was initially 270 the guy was asking had a 2 terabyte hard drive I seven pretty good power supply I actually forgot exactly what's inside but I remember I did bogging them down because when I don't to take a look at it the computer was really slow and I was like ok that's probably the hard drive which it usually is when your computer is really really slow so I managed to say hey the hard drive is practically worthless and I'll give you $40 less than what we agreed on and he agreed to take it so I'm gonna be trying to restore this hard drive and see if we can make it faster by baby petitioning it and then hopefully there's it maybe it's just some bad sectors that need to be petitioned off so here we are here the next day and that PC over there it's the dirty components I pulled out that was the last of the builds it's actually pretty dirty so it's gonna get a check yes cleanse very soon but some curious things that came about this sort of endeavor here with all these OEMs was this power supply here this Delta this here has about 19 amps on the 12 volt line but for some reason it's a heavy power supply it just feels like it's quality to the point where I'm gonna try and get to solder connectors on this thing and see if it'll power an R X 480 I know it's a stupid test but I'm curious to see how it will go this power supply here I've never seen a power supply with just so little connectors on it like it's got one two three connectors and they're all really small so that's that and then we got this little cable here I've never seen such a cute sized the camera can't even focus on it this is like the cutest little PC a 6-pin I've ever seen in my life I'll show you guys a comparison against the normal PC a 6 pin and then on the desk these are the two most curious boards that came out of this whole thing because I've heard with Dells that they don't turn on some sort of intrusion sensor or something now they look like they are a bit of a pain because they've got these proprietary power connectors up here but with this we're going to quickly short this out now positive to negative and see if that solves that problem now these motherboards here these are the HP motherboards we can see here proprietary connectors they're also in the past with HP motherboards they've been a lot more miss than they've been hit so I'm probably just gonna bin these because gravis cards in general don't work the form factor it looks like it's BTX rather than ATX so yeah we'll probably give them a mess Lenovo's are good as always aces are probably the best of the best because you don't need to do anything to them they've got the standard connectors on them and they just pretty much straight plug-and-play and then we've got these two Lenovo boards here this looks like it's plug-and-play and that looks like it'll be easy except the fact that it's BTX and then this one here is sort of looking like it might be plug-and-play there is a proprietary connector that - so why don't we get on to all this om stuff and see what results we can get so here's the Dell motherboard the first of the first that intrusion sensor does seem to work absolutely fine shorted off like that but the problem is it just boots up automatically as soon as you hit the power switch at the back of the power splay everything just boots up so this must be a push to break system with the actual front power switch which I'll try and figure out how that works but we've got so many error messages here CPU fan failure hard drive failure power button failure front input output failure hard driver but it's still boots in we'll get into the BIOS and I'm just gonna play around and see if I can turn off all those messages if we can and then we can figure out the power switch button this motherboard will be fully salvageable so now here's the RX 480 and it's been running UniGene heaven for a total of about one minute and the screen went black so he got up to about 600 sorry run up to about 260 watts power draw from the wall and I guess this little power supply it was just too much for it to handle but it could definitely handle an i5 and a 750ti or something like that so it is a nice little unit I'll probably keep it around because it is bronze rated 2 and it hasn't blown up it just can't handle the heat literally [Laughter] so now it's finally time to answer that question of our OEMs worth it and I think you guys already know of course they are it all depends on the price that you get the Matt a lot of these pcs that I had here and pulled apart I was getting them from anywhere from $80 to around about a hundred and sixty dollars depending on which generation of i-5 and how much memory and if they had a hard drive in them to those HP motherboards I'm going to chuck them out because I just do not want to deal with them if you guys haven't seen the GT 1030 video already I'll put it up here for you I just had so much trouble with HP motherboards in the asked to the point now where if I see him I'll just pull everything off from the CMOS batteries the RAM even the little CMOS clips because I can always use them in the future and then just pretty much Chuck the board not to mention they do have a proprietary cable instead of the 24 pin and also on top of that you can't flash the bias so if a graphics card gets put in one of these things then it either works or it doesn't work and I've had a lot of the times misses with HP boards where they just don't work so I mean yeah you can use them for office pcs and stuff like that but I just really couldn't be bothered pull the cpu out and I don't really have any i threes on hand at the moment either so I just don't want to look at it it's what PTSD that little pals play it almost handled the RX 4 80 it was a lot to ask from it but it is a solid little unit definitely be keeping that in the kitty not to mention we've got a lot of AI fives and AI sevens both second and third gen even a fourth gen lenovo board some of the motherboards of course like the aces in the Lenovo's and even the Dells had 24 pins on them already ready to go so I just put them in a build and I've got a whole PC that'll work I won't have to go out and get another motherboard however as you saw those Dell motherboards they did have a special type of power connector where you needed a short the accessory to the positive and then from there you've got to somehow get a power switch connected to the positive and the negative which I've soldered them together so they will work it's just I'm probably gonna have to still again instead of putting a clip off the power line in or power switch sorry I'm then gonna have to put this the wire and solder that to the positive and then use the little negative portion on the negative and then I will have a power switch that will make this motherboard work in a case but the problem still then is that I have to deal with all those error messages so if someone does buy one of these pcs I'll probably have to discount it a little bit and just tell them look every time you boot the PC you've just got to press f1 and I looked in the bias and I couldn't find any way to sort of skip those messages maybe if there's some way to skip that I'd love to hear from you guys let us know in the comment section below because I guess that's kind of like a bit of a turn-off with those motherboards but regardless they do work and there is fourth gen motherboards there as well third gen and second so they will work really well hopefully well it all comes down to it flippin pcs and getting into this game is a lot of fun you guys love the parts hunts and OEMs I guess just make up a part of the parts hunts if they're too expensive I won't buy them but if they're cheap enough then I will surely get them and of course even if you don't use those motherboards as I said before you just pull out CPU on the RAM and all the other goodness and you're still going to be collecting your money's worth especially since CPUs especially unused CPUs like second third and fourth gen CPUs they've gone up in price and not just gone up in price in Australia they've also gone up in price overseas so there seems to be a bit of a stranglehold at the moment on the supply of these older CPUs and I hope they don't stop because then as they stop we're sort of forced to go back to new parts and buy ddr4 memory and new ddr4 memory is just too overpriced I wish they'd really fixed the ddr4 memory prices anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button let us know in the comment section below do you deal with the OEMs or not if you don't then let us know why not if you do let us know your success stories and if you've got any tips and tricks and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye