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it's early in the morning and I've got a rent-a-car behind me and today we're going use PC parts hunting all around the Chiba district in Japan so let's get it on so we just finished up at the hot off at a mall called fresco now this is in Chiba City I'll actually put the directions on a map for you guys this place in the past has never disappointed me every time I've been there I've always picked up something here and today was no different I went in there got a 500 gigabyte hard drive for around $15 which isn't too bad I like using those in budget builds a little bit more than what you should pay you should be around $10 but they're guaranteed to work at least and then I got an a330 240 which is a pretty decent CPU for around $25 so they were mediocre deals but the best deal I got there was by far two things actually a motherboard a Maximus gene LGA 1155 motherboard it had two bent pins on it and when I checked out the back of the motherboard that looked really good as well so one way to check out a motherboard to see if it's absolutely screwed is to look at the back of the chips and if they are discolored in any way then I'd recommend staying away from that however this motherboard I was looking at today had no discoloration and when I pulled off the socket there was two bent pins that were bent upwards which should be really easy to bend back in order to get this motherboard working and I paid $10 for that mobo and the last deal that we got was the desktop PC for $30 now actually open this up and it had an asrock age 55 motherboard in there which was worth the whole thing in itself it also had a bonus for gigabyte the video three memory thrown in a power supply which is actually confirmed working and the motherboard is confirmed working too and an i5 550 so the CPU isn't that good I'll have plans to probably change this around to easy on but everything else is pretty good I'll probably check out the cases again I got to take all these parts back to Australia and also there were more desktop PC but they weren't that good value for money there was a $40 one that I probably would have taken a gamble on just that it's so big I thought the $30 PC was better value and of course there was an X for a fork or phenom CPU but they wanted $100 for that setup so I think I pulled out the best deals there and of course we're going to hit the road now and go to another hot off so let's get moving so we just got out of the heart off and that was a complete buff there was nothing good there worth the money I mean in the past they have picked up some good deals from this place especially on the junk shelf but this time around it was just a bust I mean they even had an audio interface there that was just not worth your money I mean you can pick this up on Amazon pretty much near brand-new condition for an extra 15 bucks I mean some of those old desktop PCs I believe we're even there from the last time I did a part time there so some old dinosaur cases that were just not worth the money a few t-rex's even but they had a massive cosmos case the old version of the cosmos I believe Kula mites are updating this case it was good to see that even though of course it was overpriced there and the desktop PCs that were guaranteed working were just a complete ripoff - I even found a PSP there that just wasn't worth the money I mean it was 3000 yen it was a good price because I wanted to load some custom firmware up but I tried the bottoms out and they would just messed up so I decided not to buy anything from there and now we're actually at the next hard off so we're going to go into this place see if they've got any deals because in this one here I have picked up in the past the $5 League of Legends PC so let's go in and check it out so we just got out of this hot off and it was kind of like a semi bust I mean there could have been some good deals had they had had the advertised parts in the actual build there was an i7 2670 a gigabytes of RAM but when I pulled out the parts to have a look it was like there was no RAM in there someone had already stolen the memory out of this build and then besides that was actually a really good builder than i7 on a p55 motherboard going for around about $100 now generally I probably would have picked this up but I don't have enough luggage I've only got 40 kilos that I'm allowed to bring back to Australia and of course 10 of that will be suitcase and closed so I've kind of got a micro what I'm bringing back and with that I want to bring back the really good deal then there's another case there that was going for around $80 in an ABI think it is enclosure all feel really good but upon pulling it out the motherboard which is a p55 BIOS though all the pins were just completely screwed I was like I kind of even asked them like guys why are you even selling this motherboard it's pretty much worthless but it is in the junk section so it is justified and one thing if you guys are going to buy junk parts do check them out before you buy them especially if they're in the boxes as well because yeah if you get something like that and then you find out all the pins are bent you're in for a rough time you pretty much got hosed but they did have a keyboard which was mechanical blue switches with backlighting for around $15 with a wrist rest it was a full 109 keyboard really good deal if you were looking for a keyboard on a budget so that one had it I just don't need any keyboards at the moment but I would have picked that up they also had an 80/20 35 microphone that was a pretty good deal for around $80 as well or at least a couple of years ago was still a good deal they also had some desktop PCs that were working but we're a little bit expensive as well so ultimately it was kind of a mess especially for someone like me who wants to get those real good deals but without said let's get on to the next destination miss me love okay so we just got out of PC depot and I'll put it on the map I don't actually know what part of town it is it's just in Chiba and this one has some really good deals on CPUs they didn't have really any motherboards or anything like that I did pick up in the past the 20-dollar motherboards from here at z77 that was an absolute bargain but this time around they had a 3770k going for around a hundred dollars so of course I've just picked that one up right now they've got another 3770k there for about a hundred and ten dollars or ten dollars more it comes with the cooler I didn't need the cooler and they had a 5820k for about two hundred dollars I was about to pick this one up until they said that I had to pay tax on this one and not on the 3770k so very odd dilemma I think they said because they discounted the 5820k so much already that they weren't going to put take off tax because I think they actually don't take off the tax here unless they mark down the price a little bit it's just them being really nice so it's a weird dilemma but they definitely have some really good CPUs there and I would have pulled the trigger on more of those deals except I do have to budget a bit of my money here for the rest of the trip I would have probably bought a 2500 K for about $70 as well I'm probably bought that other 3770k and that 5820k if money wasn't a limit but anyway guys you know where this place is if you want to get a deal on the CPUs and you're in Japan this place it's still got them here and I'm going to head around to the next hot off now with a hot on so this hot off behind me is generally a bust and this time was no different I went in there and the prices were shocking and really the only reason I go here is because it's so close to the other PC depo it's like a five minute drive so I think I'm going to stop coming here actually because the prices this time were worse than they've ever been before I think they wanting like $200 for the same CPU that I just picked up for like a hundred dollars the desktop PCs weren't that good at all they were really like a boss I mean some of the parts in there once good and the prices they were charging we're just a ripoff they had some dinosaurs in there and usually I would go dinosaur hunting it's just that I've been dinosaur hunting in this place before and the PCs and site advisors just been filthy or they've just had really really old parts in there so and also they had a PSP for $30 as well and I was going to try it out but then I realized the color that they had it in was like the worst color and I'm not big on cosmetics but man if I pulled this PSP out in public I would be embarrassed with this color but anyway we'll keep hunting and we'll find something good pretty soon so we just got out of the last hard off that we're going to visit before we head back to our hometown in our hometown we've got a few places to check out but we just got all these places out the way because there's a further and if time permitted we wouldn't have time to see the local ones which we can check out later but in this place it was a bus for PC park there was like a queue 9550 old school LG a 7m five quad core system in there but that was going for around about $80 besides that though I did find a $2 tripod and I thought I had left to try put at my friend's house here's the guy who I gave my job to I thought I'd left a tripod there but I actually didn't or at least maybe his missus chucked it out or something but we couldn't find it so yeah picked up a really cheap tripod but two bucks so I can just leave it whenever I come to Japan I can do a bit of b-roll on the g7 or on whatever camera I bring over but this place Dameon my friend also picked up some ice cream maker as well so there was some cool little novelty things here that we're going for a pretty good price but in terms of the actual PC parts there was just nothing here this time but let's get to our hometown and see if there's anything good there now just got back home from all this used parts hunting and even on the way home stopped off at a place called wonder X this is a place end in local town of Tor Ghana where I'm currently staying at and I managed to pick up a PS Vita for about 65 US dollars and apparently this models got the OLEDs screen on it it's a really good model to get so I was really happy that I picked up for $65 now does have the firmware on it three point six five or something so I have to use a thing called VHDL but basically I wanted something to play some old retro games when I'm on the plane and also watch some movies and this thing looks like it's going to be perfect for doing that apparently it's a lot better than the PSP - so really good pick up a 65 bucks now all those other pick ups that we picked up today wow they were incredible I mean probably the best deal was the 3770k we got that for $100 that was an absolute bargain we got all those other parts of the other stores the motherboards the two CPUs at the first place the hard drive power to play even picked up that motherboard with two broken pins and I found out that cz 68 motherboard from a Zeus so it should be able to run the 3770k if I get it to work and if I BIOS update it so the one thing I do regret is not picking up those CPUs at PC Jeff I mean they had that 3770k they're going for ten dollars more that was still a really good deal they had the twenty five hundred K and the 5820k all gone for good prices though again I just don't have the budget at the moment to do that I didn't bring enough cash to go buy a lot of things that I would have bought had I'd been living here because as you may or may not know Ashley came here with the main directive to see my little boy my little son staying in Japan at the moment and I'm just spending a lot of time with him he's loving it I'm loving it and I've got only a couple of days off where I don't see him and this is when I'm making these parts vlogs for you guys and also you may be wondering what's going on with Verizon 3 I actually did get the CPUs like a week earlier before the NDA lifts however I couldn't get out any results as I had already scheduled to come over and see my little boys unfortunately I didn't get a day 1 review I will be getting the comparisons coming to you guys and also a pretty cool build coming with rising 3 so I look forward to giving you guys that as I'm sure you'd want to see how it stacks up against other CPUs like the G 4560 and also the risin 5 1,400 so I look forward to bringing you guys that comparison I'll maybe test it with like a gtx 1070 or like a mid-range graphics card because i think that's where that 4 core is going to be coupled with in a lot of gaming pcs and even productivity pcs and now there's also something else that i wanted to talk about because in the previous used parts pc hunt that i did some people in the comments got actually pretty upset with the little snippet of video that I took of this chick sleeping on a bus and now if some people think that it's disrespectful for the Japanese culture and really there was a lot of Japanese people on this bus and I've lived in Japan for quite a while man if they're all looking at me and staring at me with cold eyes I know that I'm being real disrespectful but actually there was a Japanese guy beside me who is laughing his ass off and even then if it's disrespectful to the culture you've got this argument of culture versus law and now if that's the case you could say that even Japanese people are being disrespectful to their own culture a lot of the times because there's a classical argument of a place that I used to live in called cassia City and the train line there had a line called the jaw Bahnson and now the jaw bond sin when the send just means train line in the jaw bonds the name so it's the jewel bond train line had this little dilemma where there was a Japanese salary man that's just guys who go to work all day and then come home they were jumping on the train and just getting some cheap drinks from the convenience stores and just having a laugh you know they'll just laughing having fun talking to each other and a lot of people found that disrespectful they thought it was rude they didn't like it and I was on this train a lot of the times I had to go to work and I witnessed this a lot of the times and although saw was a few dudes just drinking on the train having fun probably had a long day's work got to go home to a nagging wife and all those sort of this might only be their opportunity to have a bit of fun in their day so what I saw is just a couple of dudes not breaking any laws and just having a bit of fun they weren't getting in anyone's grill they weren't offending anyone those doing their own thing and there's this cultural thing like should you be the guy who follows something that some rule that some guy made 500 years ago now he's dead do you have to follow those rules is that one thing you have to do like there's this other thing in Japan that it's really rude to eat and that's an old tradition that's really not really relevant today a lot of people just walk on the street and eat now because the they don't care about this cultural rule so I think it's fine to eat if you're in a hurry and you've got to go somewhere I think it's fine to walk a knee I don't see a problem with it so guys that's just my opinion on it there's the laws there they're the boundaries you live within them as long as you're not breaking the law you're not doing anything bad in my eyes I mean sure there are cultural traditions which I'm sure a lot of people do respect and in many ways I do respect a lot of Japanese traditions and now we're living in the digital age everyone's got a smartphone that has video capabilities I mean everyone's taking videos everywhere I got memed five years ago and I mean I don't really care it's just I'm sure I gave a lot of people in the world or laughs I didn't even know someone took this photo of me they actually photoshopped a massive beer in there and made me and I just saw I was laughing I mean it's providing people a laugh but it goes it's a touchy subject that could go on for hours and hours and there are good points on both sides of the fence however that said we'll get back to the used parts hunting which in this case there's one more Avenue if you are in Japan that you can hit up the use PC parts and that is the online auctions now there are some other auctions that has become popular my friend says there's one on a smartphone he uses but for me the yahoo auctions have always been gold for picking up bargains now I've actually bought I actually got to PayPal my friends and money but he got me a 9 X 58 motherboards and we got these for like $70 a pop so really cheap I even bought 6 X 58 d Zeus motherboards and now my friend he actually wants three of these as I said to him look dude you could get these for 70 bucks and easily flip them for like 150 160 bucks you've got other people selling I'm actually selling them for $200 so he was like really got the doorbell actually speaking of auctions that was the postman he just delivered a UA for FX this is a mic preamp I bought one of these for Steve from hardware unboxed because they generally go for $200 plus in the US or Australia and in Japan young boom up like $60 now they've got essentially onboard effects like an onboard a compressor and 48 volt power in a nutshell they're really good for the money and they beat out a lot of traditional prints in that they have those extra options to turn your mic on the fly but anyways back to auctions in Japan if you want to shop online like the Yahoo auctions you will most likely need a friend who lives here or already have a yahoo account created because in order to buy things I think you have to get certified or registered with your address and so you'd want to get that organized before you come to Japan if you did want to buy things off the Yahoo auction which I highly recommend you can get some really good deals not just on those x58 motherboards but a lot of other things like use power supplies and of course shopping around outside of Tokyo is highly recommended if you want to get some really good deals on use price performance parts in Tokyo itself of course the new parts are always really good value for money so I can highly recommend that if you want to build something like the Mini ITX rig that I just built recently but all-in-all I think I've hit up all the avenues here in the limited amount of time that I have and I hope you guys enjoyed today's video and if you did then be sure to give that like button a big smash for us and I'll look forward to reading your comments as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye they're back on moon red girl mare excuse me sir but would you happen to have a this is pretty cool this actually came with a 32 gigabyte memory card and a looks like a SIM card but you can insert into the PSP Vita I never knew this thing could take a SIM card so maybe I could just get rid of my smartphone and use the PSP as a phone