Gadgetory

so we just got ourselves a bit of play money and it's towards the end of the month for September and that can only mean one thing and that is some use price performance goodness so strap on in but before we even strap on in there's one deal that's come up that requires immediate attention x99 5820k 32 gigabytes of ddr4 memory x99 motherboard really good powers playing the gtx 770 now the gtx 770 it's probably the worst thing in this build everything else is cream of the crop so we're going to get on this before someone else does yeah we just got back from picking this up now I spoke to where's who I picked it up off and he said that there were so many people messaging him about this and so initially I dropped in a $600 offer and he just said no there's someone picking it up literally tomorrow but first come first serve with it and of course having 32 gigabytes of ddr4 and a build itself screams value not to mention that's got the six core 12 threaded 5820k x99 motherboard pretty solid power supply as well not the best but certainly far from the worst and then it's got a solid SSD so 240 Huebert SSD as well so really good value I haven't seen one of these in a while the old-school LED Zalman cool as I think they are and that'll be interesting to see how well they perform but the idea behind this of course is clean it up I'd probably be putting it in a new case and maybe use this for something on the lower end it doesn't look that aesthetically pleasing of course the cable management's a bit of a jungle sandwich but still better than the verge but ultimately there's a lot of value in that build even the gtx 770 which isn't that desirable we could still probably flip that individually and bring down the cost of the builds but right now we're gonna actually go through some more deals see what we can find because I didn't have any other time to check out anything else when a hot deal comes up you've got a pounce on it so we've been pulling up a heap of deals now and this is actually the next day because I've been looking for some deals yesterday and things are kind of drying out a little bit there's nothing really good up for sale I did find a 970 that I put 150 Aussie down on but the guy wants 200 pretty much firm so we'll give that a Miss there's another 970 up for sale and there's a few other cards up for sale that aren't really that good value for money there is this though this is pretty interesting an alienware x51 are three desktop machine now it's got an i7 6700 16 gigabytes of RAM the specs look really good but the case itself is really small form-factor so I'm gonna do a little bit of research and see if you can fit a small graphics card in this machine for instance like a 1050 Ti because if you can then that will really raise the price of this build you could even maybe swap out an i-5 6400 and that will keep the value roughly the same for the build itself but then you'll have a 6700 and your kitty there's also the next deal up here we have as well I've been negotiating with these monitors and there's four of them for sale for four dollars each now they're 20 inch monitors and they're apparently VA panels so I'm gonna go pick them all up because that definitely adds to the value if you're selling something on the real low-end for instance even a 3 or $400 PC monitors like that will really give the value of boost and especially at $4 I mean there's nothing really to lose here other deals include some hans g monitors i remember these from back in the day surprised to see them up for sale 27-inch 16 by 10 and they won around a hundred and thirty aussie per pop dad I'm not too sure I might go pick up one and just check out what this monitor was about bit of a nostalgic purchase if so so we're now on day 3 and this is probably the first time I think I've ever done the use PC parts on during weekdays but some good news has come about and that is some of the monitors that I was inquiring about the guy got back to me today said I can come around later and pick up three of them for four dollars a pop so looking forward to seeing how that goes because this will be the cheapest monitor I've ever picked up in my life and I just hope it works but some other really good news is I've given les a call and he's got some leather licious deals for us so we're gonna go up now and go see him and hopefully clean him out if he's got some really good deals but on a sidenote Gumtree really is a drought at the moment there's no real good deals up there and I think anything that's good that comes up will get snatched up straight away the Alienware PC is a little bit of a gamble in my opinion they want 520 for it I just said come back and said no 500 flat and we got a deal so I'll see how that goes as well but let's go check out what lasers girl for us so we just got back from lasers and he did some really good deals we've got to i7 rigs here with 26 hundreds in the megabytes of RAM harddrive all that jazz we've also got an i3 system as well I three twenty two twenty eighty bytes of RAM harddrive I think we picked this up 485 AUD a pop and these two for about 150 AUD H so really good bargains since I brought king of the coast along as well and he bought a lot of stuff let's decide to throw in a power supply for absolutely nothing which is 700 watt that's really good but actually my favorite part of the deal is right here besides these rigs and this is 3 HP monitors their IPS panels 1080p 23 inch displays we pick these up for 50 AUD a pop and I've got a nice feeling seeing all these three monitors just all beside each other how about a budget triple surround setup since I was gonna do a world of warcraft PC but I figured instead of just doing this world of warcraft PC with sort of like value for money new parts but also maybe a hostile gtx 1070 TI and see what kind of bill we can create so stay tuned for that i'm really looking forward to that because maybe this is a new meadow if you can get a budget triple surround setup especially for next to nothing then why not if the deals are there but since we've got stuck in a lot of traffic going up to brisbane I just think we picked a bad time which is close to peak time in Australia that's kind of like nowadays like 3 to 5 p.m. we got stuck at rapid a long time so I had to hold back the guy selling the four dollar monitors so we're gonna go pick that up now even though it's round about 7 p.m. so we need to pick those up now and see what kind of value we can extract out of that then we'll come back and have a look more in depth at these parts so I just got back from picking up those monitors and he actually had five on hand his name was Chris and he's a really nice guy we had a chat about just some things he was into filming a little bit and it's really good just going out and meeting people but he had five of these HP monitors and I decided to put them in my garage for now because they had no monitor stands and he said he had a couple of stands for them but they were just like completely the wrong fit so they do have a some mounts on them it's just I'm going to have to leave them there until I find some actual if I come across some bargains on monitors stands for example then I'll definitely pick those up because in the meantime it'll just take off rumens because in the mean time otherwise it'll just take up room in the studio and I'll just be sitting on them being like okay reminder of how I've got to get monitor stands but let's for example he had some wall mount monitor stands that he wanted to chuck in but I don't think anyone would be too keen to wall mount a HP 2008 monitor in 2018 but on that for some reason I'm still a little bit hungry for deals even though I've got some awesome deals already we're gonna take a look at gum tree because I haven't really got much out of gum tree this month I've got a 5820k machine that I paid asking price for and then I got a really good deal on these monitors which is still not the core of what we're looking for so I took an extended peruse through gum tree just then and there is some okay deals one deal that popped up was an rx 570 expedition from a Zeus and this was going for about a hundred and sixty Aussie and the guy said he want to get rid of it pretty quickly but that's a really good deal at that price point there was some other deals that were really questionable someone was trying to sell I think an r7 260x for a hundred and fifty dollars there was a broken GTX 760 being sold like $60 and then someone was trying to get $3,000 for 384 gigabytes of ddr3 ECC registered and I'm not sure that how that works because I thought ECC registered usually especially on ddr3 meant to be cheaper than unbuffered non-ecc and I know you can pick up brand-new ddr3 modules the same speeds which is the normal stuff and that's going for ya cheaper than that price and so Gumtree at the moments really especially where I live is becoming a vulture pit now even that's the best way to describe it because that 5820k deal for example I had to pay asking price for that when the guy clearly said in the ad he was open to offers so I'm guessing from that 750 he would have taken 600 in a usual year maybe 2016 era but 2017 and more people coming on board now 2018 is just saturated so we're gonna try and pick up deals here and there but I guess from Gumtree itself I'm kind of going to start shying away for it I will look for deals here and there but like when it comes to getting more deals I'll be going to contacts now that I've has started to establish and just start to deal with them directly because yeah some of these deals just aren't even deals anymore if so many people are trying to snatch them up at asking price and then that's going to especially if what their intentions are to do with that PC they're not gonna really be getting that good of value if they want to build a gaming PC for their friend or whatever they want to do because use parts still have the risk of things not working for instance in the past when I bought a 6,700 rig there was 32 gigabytes of RAM in it that one of the 16 gigabyte module ended up soon being faulty and so that was pretty much a big crux of that deal was now worthless and it's not like I'm going to go claim a faulty 16-gigabyte stick off the guy sold it to me for a decent price already that's how the use market works but other than that if someone's near that rx5 70s a little bit far from me definitely go snatch that up there was also in the can yes fix it episode there was the mumbo jumbo tron powers to play I'd never seen one of these before when it that came in front of me and now one's up for sale local to me and it's funny because here comes another one up he thinks it's a cp850 what this thing's like a bigger than usual power supply and it was just funny to see it up for sale again but there was another thing too that came up and that was someone had an ad and they were selling an Intel stock cooler for ten dollars and it said sold and I'm just sitting here scratching my head I mean if there's any guys on the Gold Coast who want to pay ten dollars for Intel stock coolers hit me up I'll sell them to you for $10 a pop I mean I just picked up this little cooler here off Aliexpress this is a three dollar cooler even comes with an LED fan so we're gonna be giving this a dedicated video because you guys have said you want to see more bargain choices from Aliexpress and see how they go so I think three dollars for a cooler is definitely coming in in terms of bang for buck so I look forward to giving that video to you guys and seeing if it can handle an i7 because I actually know that it can handle an i5 already but if it can handle the i7 that's gonna be fascinating so to cap up this month's deals so far we've got this case right here with the 5820k x99 and I might pull out 16 key watts of ddr4 and keep that for a later project but I'm kind of not digging this case at all so it's not really the best looker when it comes to looks so I might repurpose it and maybe spray-paint that cooler inside white and since we've already got this sort of black and white theme to grab his card I may even pull out something like a focus G white version with the two white LED fans which is a pretty good case especially for the money and maybe make something special out of this whole rig and see what we can come up with and then here on the desk we've got the hook up for these two i7 rigs and also this ThinkCentre here with the i3 and these three monitors man I don't know why I'm just so excited about these three monitors here I don't know if that's a weird thing or not but this is like my favorite deal out of all these deals this month I ended optimally not picking up those monitors as well because lares had a really good deal on the three monitors I got already and with the Alienware PC you're just getting really a hard drive ddr4 memory and a 6700 even then it's not too bad a deal I'm not sure about the motherboard and how that would go with sort of different 10 series graphics cards but I guess the case and the power supply is really not worth it at all and we got all five monitors so that's four dollars each and monitor for 20 in total that's pretty good deal but they didn't come with any monitor stands so that's work in progress and that's about it for this month's used pod hunt I know some people will be disappointed that the bogan didn't come out and call anyone but honestly some of these deals just they weren't really there usually I'm pulling up like 5 or 10 deals at a time and I can go through and make a few different calls but this time around was like one deal at a time sort of crapped up and I only got two deals off Gumtree in total and the first one I had to message so quickly didn't even have time to film the phone call because other guys was just trying to swoop on that and yeah from here on I'm gonna actually record this tonight the r-tx 20 atti review so it's I think it's like almost 10 p.m. now still got the energy health videos dropping in probably the next week so stay tuned for that and if you enjoyed this part son then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comments section below what was your favorite deal of this month's episode I'll also update the description below if I get any hooks on those offers that I made on gumtree and with that said I love each and every one of you and also finally got some merch finalized it's in the process gonna be updating that when it drops so stay tuned so much is in the works and I'll catch you guys in the next Tech video very soon peace out for now BAE