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what is crackalacking everybody out there in the used parts universe it is the end of the month and it's also the weekend and that can only mean one thing and that is a massive part hunt for instance I've already been on eBay snagged up seven a320s Zeus motherboards for 30 Aussie dollars a pop which makes it a phenomenal Buy now another thing about those a320 boards I've heard a rumor that they will indeed support the new Matthias CPUs so this means that a Zen 2005 3600 could be on the cards with one of these cheap boards yes I know they're not the best motherboards but imagine the possibilities on a budget with this kind of combination but on that note of what's on the cards I need everything this month from gravis cards to power supplies to CPUs to RAM so we're gonna go around and hunt for everything but the first stop is heading up to Brisbane where I've already found an i7 4770k M where I'm picking that up for a hundred and seventy Aussie dollars and while we're up that way we wise will pull into good old mate Liz and see what he's got on display for us and see if we can make a bargain so with that aside get you used PC parts hunting capes on or in my case get your new threads which you traded to gaming PC for and let's strap on in and see what deals we can get this month so we just got back from Brisbane and that actually took a lot longer than expected I had to go pick up two separate deals here the first being there's Dell on its own for a hundred and seventy Aussie dollars I think that's around 120 USD and it actually had a forty seven ninety in it instead of a forty seven seventy now it has a hybrid SSD 500 you buy a hard drive a gig of ram now with the motherboard I don't know if that's going to be any good at all because usually with these Dells they've got those proprietary power buttons and they give error messages when you try to repurpose them in other builds so what I'll probably do is maybe take out the i7 out of that put in the Sun like this and then switch things around and try and make some value out of that but we also managed to pick up an optiplex 9020 these are actually really good because all you have to do since the power supply is in them actually quite good is chuck in a graphics card like a 1650 or something then you get yourself and all awesome gaming PC that's ready to go without pretty much putting any effort into it at all and then of course the last of the prizes are lenovo OEMs these are great these are a staple liz is hooking us up with those and then we've got monitors gaming monitors too we got about five of them and the whole lot I think we got this four in total 150 for the optiplex and 200 for the monitors and then also 650 for all these OEMs plus an additional 170 for this Dell right here so I'll put the total on how much this costed in terms of Aussie dollars on the screen for you guys as well as USD for those folks international but without a side let's move on now to another deal where someone's messaged me and they've actually called me out they're like Brian you've got to come out and check out this Zeon deal that I've got and as soon as I saw the word Zeon my eyes just opened wide open and I had to get on this so we're gonna go pick that up now see what it's all about and they want about 150 Ozzie dollars which just a little over 100 USD so we're gonna see what that deal entails because it's not only just a Zeon it's also like a motherboards a case of power supply and all that other good stuff and the weird thing is I haven't even started on gumtree or Facebook marketplace looking for deals so this month is definitely looking like it's going to shape up to be one of the best months ever and then of course next month once Zen 2 comes out you guys are in for a special treat so now we just picked up this bargain right here well I'm kind of calling it a half bargain because the stuff is really dirty it's definitely been in a heavy smokers environment and even before that when this case came through its got like all gyproc think you guys in the u.s. called sheetrock it's got like old filings and stuff like that some of the stuff is really messy I'm gonna have to sanitize it after I do this voice bit here but what we've got mainly the main prize is the 1270 v2z on which I guess is similar to a thirty seven seventy and we got the motherboard we've got another motherboard with an i-5 2400 we've got some two two gigabyte sticks of memory we've got a turtle beach headset so just alcohol wipe all that down and then we've got two power supplies which are pretty decent 650 watt antec and also a cooler power 700 watt I also picked up the Intel coolers as well because they always come in handy when you're doing builds and you don't have a cooler or if you're pulling off a really good all-in-one often not overclockable CPU and yes believe me I've seen that happen with trade-ins you might think it doesn't happen but it does we've got all the input/output shields and I got this LAN cable here but there was a lot of garbage in that deal as well which I just left behind because I'm not interested in getting really old power cables for example which is just gonna be absolutely worthless in terms of keeping around here but also in terms of me wasting time cleaning it up so essentially we just picked out all the good stuff and left all the bad behind and we even got a Core 2 quad motherboard I mean I was told all this stuff works you know with the amount of dirt on it I am definitely gonna be double checking it and making sure it works a hundred percent with stability tests before I put any of this stuff in gaming PCs for example but with that aside let's give it an initial sanitization because I just don't like having anything unhygenic here in the tackiest studio and also I forgot to mention we got two 22 inch monitors with the deal so I mean in terms of raw hardware for the dollar we scored big time for a hundred and fifty Ozzie dollars here but again like I said before a lot of it just it feels dirty so I'm gonna have to definitely just cleanse this all down right now with some tech yes love it now we're looking at these motherboards monitors coolers and power suppliers in a different light these have had a bit attack yes loving and now they're safe to put on the shelves and stack them and looking at the hole in this light it looks a lot better now two power supplies five motherboards as xeon i5 2400 and we've even got this turtle beach headset which i'm sure if someone comes around you can chuck that in the deal make someone happy then we've got the i/o shields for the boards and that case the core 2 quad which had the case and the motherboard and the pounce blinded i'm not even gonna do that thing at night that needs some serious serious tech yes loving before it's going to come up well so considering it's nighttime I'd say we did a pretty good job I also shout out to the crew over there they helped us out they wanted to come on the deals hunched and for the fam and also Nate in the discord and yeah that's about it for this hole right here 150 Aussie dollars I'd say I did pretty well let us know in the comment section below though what you think of this deal or the previous deal we got from lenses because now it's time finally even though it's like 6:30 at night to go check out good old gam tree and also Facebook marketplace because I am in need of quite a few things so we just finished up a mega session on gumtree looking for deals and this whole thing about the rise and launch coming up soon was n2 I would have thought there would have been more first gen and second gen CPUs available but there's not basically what I'm saying here is it's cheaper to just at the moment I think at least in Australia the meta would be to get those boards like I did at the start of this episode and then just go on Aliexpress and download some CPUs from there cuz they've got some pretty good prices and yet we're going new meta with the terminology to just download the CPU but continuing on with the deals on gumtree we had a corsair 650 watt rated power play and that is going for 30 Ozzie dollars and I put in an offer on that there's some rx 570s which he had three for sale I messaged the guy and said look would you take 320 Aussie for all three of your RX 570s and then there was also 1080 TI's available two of them for 750 of pop each and I put in an offer of 600 so waiting for those guys to get back to me but there was also another deal on ddr4 memory for Trident Z stuff for 150 Ozzy for 3000 mega Hertz RGB stuff that looks really good in a build it does help sell especially higher-end systems the RGB memory does work a treat but one crazy thing is at least from judging from gum tree we're gonna check out the Facebook marketplace soon is that it seems like graphics cards the mining deals are running out at least here in Australia so it's sort of a tough market where you are going to be paying a little bit more than what you used to and sort of all those deals are flowing out now so I guess it's a weird market because I haven't done a parts hunt in Australia for two months now pretty much because last month we did it in Taiwan and so I wasn't really looking for many GPUs there or at least X mining GPUs so it's funny how the market shifted in two months but let's check our Facebook marketplace quickly and then come back to you guys and see what we've managed to pull up there s is pretty much the only good deal I could find was a 430 watt power supply for $19 policy so it'd be like 13 USD it's not bad especially if it works okay but Facebook marketplace the last avenue to check out now was eBay and looking for some rx5 70s and GTX 10 60s they seem a little bit above market average and of course the problem with eBay and selling used graphics cards on eBay is that the sellers have to pay the fees have to pay shipping and that's why getting those local deals is always a lot better than going on eBay and looking for those deals but sometimes you can find good stuff it's just I'm trying to exhaust every single Avenue this month because I want to get as many deals as possible basically but we're gonna wait for some replies hopefully some of those people get back to us and then we'll see what magic we can still come up with this month and here we are now at the next day and some of the people got back to me about some of those graphics cards and I've got two deals that are guaranteed they're just waiting to get back from their holidays on the weekend and that is the first of all a 16 60 TI picking them up for 300 Aussie dollars they say they've only used it for a little bit and it's pretty much brand new with receipts from warranty so that's a pretty good deal considering the whole market and what I've learned this month and this is something to take home out of today's parts on is the GPU market is drying up in terms of really good deals especially things like rx 570s for instance if you guys are in the u.s. on eBay some of those $85 rx 570s they're not going to remain at those prices for much longer I think once they start drying up and people realize how good a value they are you're not gonna see them really on the market anymore so I'm kind of wishing that I sort of went on the prowl a little bit more a couple of months ago because this sort of caught me by surprise as I said before me being in Taiwan last month for Computex and then me doing this massive parts haul today and that is 2 months things have shifted big-time and I've kind of got to look for another avenue now to get some GPUs in bulk so I'll be checking that out I'm not too sure yet I'm gonna have to go back to the drawing got a lot to do around here at the studio especially in the next week we've got the r-tx super coming up as well as the X 570 as well as the RX 5700 so three big launches within a week I better get back to it but with that said we've got that 16 60 TI and the kitty we've also got a gtx 1050 TI now I offered them 135 Aussie dollars they've accepted it this is sort of the max threshold I'm willing to go with a card like this it's pretty much fair value at its current price point but the thing with the 1050 Ti is I'm specially thinking that and that optiplex for example I can mix and match that combo pretty much just slot it in there and you've got a nice little gaming PC that you could quickly uptake a profit on in the used markets so that'll be an easy deal I'm picking that up tomorrow as well as the 1660 TI when those people are back on the Gold Coast so there won't be too far to get those deals and at their current rates they represent pretty good value for money now in terms of the other components things like power supplies I was going to be buying them when they're on sale in bulk as well as cases you can get pretty good deals on them there's sort of beat out of the used market of course always buying a used power play you've got to check that thing out quite a bit because if you guys didn't know in the past I've had power supplies that have caused PCs to boot for 10 or 15 seconds and then they've caused the system to shut out and when I've changed that power supply around things have worked properly so you've got three different rails there to worry about 12 volt 5 volt and also the 3.3 volt lines and if even one of those is faulty then that will give some weird symptoms so always buying a used power supply be careful of that motherboards are pretty straightforward but I am just stock to the brink with CPUs motherboards now especially after those a320 boards and I got to look into getting some more memory especially ddr3 terms of ddr4 the person got back to me about that triad and Z stuff they 160 Ozzy pretty decent deal except my thresholds 150 so maybe if they come back and they say look I'll take the 150 then we've got another deal but as it stands is the total for this month is a little bit over and we have I think seven monitors we've got nine pcs we've got five more motherboards we've got a foggy about two ddr4 a three memory but all those other pcs that we got from less early in the deals they've got memory and also hard drives in than two coolers motherboards so that's why the OEMs are always a really safe play because you're getting the whole package in there and if you wish to get low powered GPUs like 10:50 tea eyes then you don't even need to go out and get another power supply so you can save costs in that regard too but value here let us know in the comment section below guys what you think of this month's pods on I'm just over the moon at some of the deals I got this month but of course that GPU market it is worrying me a little bit I've got to now go back to the drawing board and look for a new Avenue on what's hot in the GPU Michael because it current prices especially some of the prices these guys are asking for 980 T is and 10 seventies and stuff like that you're better off just waiting for eBay sales for example on new things like 1660s or 1660 T is where you're gonna get a lot better of a deal in terms of buying them when they got like a 20% off sale or something so apparently that's coming soon with the Amazon Prime sale where a Bay's gonna counter that in Australia so if you guys want to see maybe a deals video where I point out all the hot buyers on eBay for Aussies let us know in the comment section below - with that aside I hope you enjoyed this one if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us also let us know in the comments section below what you want me to do in next month's part hunt do you want me to hunt those rising deals and see if anything's on the horizon because nothing in this month's part hunt really represented the value for money they're on the rise and CPUs I only found the motherboards and so as we said before Aliexpress was definitely offering some better deals when it came to those CPUs at role purchasing prices I think everyone sort of is not in the least in Australia selling off their used 1st and 2nd gen CPUs which is a little bit surprising I thought then to buy now would have had people selling off their CPUs but maybe after the launch that's when you'll see a lot of 1st and 2nd gen rising CPUs coming on the market when people just want to do a straight swap and then get they're old CPU so hopefully that's a scenario and next month part hunt is going to be jam-packed and if you want to see these videos the moment they drop sub button and also ring the bell it's down there and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye