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welcome back to another episode of Ken yes fix it and as you can see here on the desk this is the biggest yet this is a show where you guys send in PC pots whether they're broken or not broken and I try and fix them and we give them either a tech yes cleanse or if they don't need a tech yes cleanse we give them a better tech yes lovin now I also got some letters sent in this month as well so we'll quickly read them out and first of all I will say that before we get all the letters big THANK YOU to Madden he has given us the biggest donation yet on the channel you see here 8 1 terabyte hard drives an absolute crap ton of ddr3 memory and 8 i7 3770 s that's right this is an absolutely massive donation thank you Madden and next time you're on the Gold Coast I told you drinks and dinner and all that good stuff it's on me so big thank you to Madden and all this stuff he said works as well so I don't even really need to test it because he has already in the past donated PC parts to me and they've all worked absolutely fine except this motherboard here so he doesn't know exactly if it works or not I believe it's at age 77 motherboard he said he didn't have time to test it so we're gonna test this out and see if it works also these all these boxes here you're probably seeing Jorge Velasquez who has a website called JDM PC sales he sent us in a letter and it said hi Brian we're a big fan of your YouTube channel check air city and we love the unique content you've produced to date you've certainly been an inspiration for our business when it comes to Xeon CPUs gotta love your Zeon's and Intel x58 motherboard platform we've gotta love your x58 model platform - absolutely amazing George among other aspects as per our recent communication via facebook messenger we've collected some working and non-working motherboards and graphics cards for you enjoy the freebies and good luck with them we hope these PC parts allow you to produce another video or two of the high quality engaging and entertaining content we've come to know and love from you passion + persistence equals possibilities thanks a lot George and it also equals a lot of use parts so we're gonna go through this box see all the parts we've got in here but also in the intro you probably saw that case as well Oliver came from Brisbane and he donated an air 540 case he knows how much I love the air series cases so he donated a black air 540 and also he said this motherboard here's the 87 g45 motherboard he can't get it to boot so he doesn't know that the cpu or if there's the motherboard itself so we're gonna put that to the test to see if that works and then also we have another letter sent in here from Julian he says he is a loyal subscriber and basically we got to read this one out and he says hi Brian my name is Julian all the way from Melbourne and I'm a loyal viewer of your channel since the LGA 775 geomod days the best pc mod known to man and i've watched your content ever since now i found this guy who goes by the name of Ray on gumtree he gave me a great deal on an online 290x last week and I noticed on his profile he was looking for a desktop system the link is below to the listing and a link to his profile he basically got scammed by some toxic vermin on gumtree and has barely any money to spare if you read his listing he seems very genuine and would be lovely to help him out I thought this would be great content for you as a gum tree and YouTube enthusiast as great content but also helping another fellow Aussie out cheers mate keep up the great vids PS I thought this letter would be the best way of getting to you as I felt this wouldn't reach you and I'm sorry for the multicolored text printer was playing up so basically with scamming on gumtree I've spoke about this in the past it's one of those risks you run when you buy used parts there's always gonna be bad apples out there I feel very sorry for Ray I've been scammed in the past multiple times a few guys to follow the channels for years I got scammed on a graphics card I've been scammed on two CPUs even in Japan and then a motherboard I got really hosed on so it sucks it is part of the game if you were on the Gold Coast I could help you out I just have to see if you're genuine or not I can't tell if Ray's genuine because I haven't met him before and anything about him because I I get messages every single day from people all over the world just asking for free stuff and this is like as much as I as much of people think I get this free stuff sent in it's actually a lot of people donate the stuff to help the channel and keep the content coming because they enjoy free content via YouTube and so if I was to give away pcs to one person it would be completely unfair to everyone else but if you're on the Gold Coast and I could see that you were genuine and you are in need and you've watched the channel I've known you for a while then definitely I could help you out I do help my friends out locally here on the Gold Coast from time to time with PC parts it is something I do but unfortunately international and people I don't know personally I wouldn't be giving away parts is just completely unfair to the rest of the viewers today well let's get on with the next donation here we've got the lettuce and a CPU it is a-ok it's got absolutely no writing on it and the lettuce says hi check yes City here's my old 11:55 i-5 I have no idea what model it is since I lightly sanded the top to improve its temperatures as of the thing called laughing I but the CPU should work fine share about the motherboard it was in our shame about the motherboard is in always unplug the power when turned off anyway love the channel looking forward to your new of vids regards aaron johnson curie thanks Aaron it's actually I think the problem you may have had with the motherboard is not the power off it might be ungrounded if your computer is on ground it is very risky to touch any PC parts when they're ungrounded I have actually killed two graphics cards in the past albeit they weren't expensive gravis cards are really cheap graphics cards so very careful with your grounding make sure your stuff is always grounded otherwise you could indeed damage PC parts also the last PC part we got donated here was a b85 asrock pro 4 motherboard and they don't know if it works or not at all actually picked this off of a gum tree user who donated it with a gratis car that they sold so it's time to start testing PC parts out so there's the first motherboard tested and it actually works we did give it a clean down with the data vac and changed the CPU around the RAM around and then it just happened to work off the primary display from the motherboard but even when we did that the USB keyboard from corsair it didn't work and enable us to press f2 so sometimes newer keyboards for some reason they don't work with older motherboards so use the Microsoft Sidewinder that I've got from ages ago and that worked absolutely fine so that's a motherboard we can now use in a build as you'll be absolutely fine let's test some more parts so we just finished testing this x58 motherboard the ud7 and it is working absolutely fine the really cool thing about it is it's got water cooling on the Northbridge heatsink as well added from the get-go so George you sent us are really awesome board here not to mention the vrm on this thing is super Beefcake as well so that's a really good score let's test out now a h75 would not be 75 motherboard from MSI so just finished testing this b75 MSI motherboard now very weird problem with this it has 99 written in the bottom right corner so I believe it's just a bias initialization problem and we'll need a new bias but the problem is with motherboards like these the biases permanently sold it onto the motherboard so it's pretty much useless I've tried different CPUs different memory and different memory slots even taking the CMOS battery out and try and HDMI port with nothing else plugged in to and tried the HDMI port to a graphics card as well so this board is pretty much as good as broken so let's get on to the next so we just tried booting up this h 61 motherboard here from gigabyte and it was weird because it did boot up and we did just get a screen out of it but then it cut off and it keeps cycling and resetting and doing the same thing and I've seen this problem once before ironically enough with a gigabyte motherboard I believe it has to do with a faulty BIOS and it's sad because it has a dual blast but it has no switch to switch between the BIOS and since it's again manually soldered on the board it's very difficult to replace that so this board will be going in the trash pile as well also I did try two different CPUs two different memory I even tried plugging it in with no graphics card on it all and it's still resetting and cycling so pretty much dud woohoo so now we know that this motherboard works we've actually got here the CPU that was sent in that's lapped so I'm actually curious to see what CPU it is and of course if it even works after we've got this setup working we can then proceed to test these to grab his cards out and see if they give us a signal - so the CPU in this motherboard is actually in i5 3570 so it's a non K so I'm not entirely sure why you would bother lapping it unless of course it was for a bit of practice if it's your first time lapping but even then you can get like $1.00 CPUs for that but it does work it is a four core four threaded zbu and I don't believe the 35 70s were overclockable on any motherboard in the Ivy Bridge lineup even in a z77 you probably get the base clock up 5% max and even then it's not really that reliable for overclocking so I'm not sure my bulbs are doing that bit it works so thanks and let's test some graphics cards so this 7950 here it actually does boot up but it didn't boot up on the h77 motherboard it actually booted up on the x58 motherboard god bless x58 motherboards so this is actually fully functioning and working might need a thermal paste change but this other graphics card here is very bizarre because it doesn't boot up and one of the fans is bastards so it may need an oven-baked it does look like it's got some signs of micro rusting on it in that case I already tried booting it up on different motherboards already tried even putting in a razor to the pins to clean them up fully just to make sure that that wasn't the problem but it does seem like it does have some life left in it for some reason since it is doing a normal boot it does look like it could possibly work the oven-baked could fix this graphics card of course I'll try some other things in the future but I'm definitely on a sideline this I'm not gonna chuck it in the bin so it is a possible working card it just needs a bit more TLC I mean Tyl check yes lovin so now the board that Oliver sent in here it's a z87 motherboard but the problem is it's got a Haswell refresh CPU in it that's a forty seven ninety so before I even boot this up I'm not even going to attempt to because out of the box these did not work with Haswell refresh CPUs so it may need something like an i3 and then we've got another two boards here one being also a a b85 motherboard and another of b85 too so I actually have to go source a Haswell CPU from down the road I don't have one on hand at the moment and then I can test out these motherboards properly and make sure that they actually work as opposed to if I test it with this CPU it could be a BIOS updates that's one problem we're facing before we test these three motherboards new day new endeavors and we just tried this out this is the Azrael be 85 pro 4 it was just boot cycling with the i3 which I know works because I just bought it from a working computer so that is in the trash file officially and these two boards here are very interesting this is the b85 Biostar now first I booted this up and it had a few problems change memory change the CMOS battery over and then on the final boot it just gave me some magic it was a really weird problem and I think something around here might be sensitive because when I touch this area the screen literally blanks out so this motherboard does work but it is sensitive so I will have to sideline that and then we've got last up here on the z 85 haswell's z 87 Haswell range we've got the maximus ranger 7 now this board initially it did not boot with this i7 4790 and in fact it kept boot cycling it just kept switching off so I then put the i3 in and it was having a few problems but then I just decided ok just gave it a little bit of a bang good old just old-school style you know and used to bang your PC to boot it up the same deal applied and now this motherboard is working absolutely fine so I'm blown away this is a really good motherboard z87 weak nvme support so it's a really cool board as for putting the i7 back in however it does not work so this I 747 90 could be faulty and that's one thing I've got a test on another motherboard because there would be such a shame if the CPU is faulty because it doesn't really use up a whole lot of power to begin with especially compared to an overclocked 4790k but if it is faulty that's a bummer but the motherboard works at least it's working again it's been resurrected so that's the power of trying different things around and getting things to work so there it is we've got two working motherboards out of that endeavor let's move on now to the LGA 775 boards so we just got done testing this g-41 motherboard and that didn't work unfortunately it just gave fan speeds with full speed and you know your motherboards pretty screwed when you try to do everything like change memory over change CPUs clear the CMOS and then you put a keyboard in and just the keyboard isn't even initializing so this board is pretty much a dud then we had this as well the 650 SLI board tried everything on this even took the little SLI key out tried different memory different CPU and again the fan speeds on the graphics card were just full speed fan speeds on the CPU cooler itself didn't change as well so this one is pretty much a dud board as well so there's two dodge boards but the good news was was that this G 31 motherboard this works straight away with the Core 2 Duo and also different memory so I did try call to Joe's rather than trying like a q9 550 or something like that because that can cause problems if the boss isn't updated so did try the right CPUs we just got two dud motherboards there and that pretty much concludes all these use parts so let's take a look at what worked and what did so now this is what we're left with from the initial pile so first off here we've got this gravis car which didn't work but it is showing promise I will put this in the oven bake file this 4790 I will try it on a z97 motherboard in the future I just don't have one on hand at the moment because it could still work if it doesn't work in a z97 multiple that i know it works it will go into the bin pile unfortunate because it's a very painful Chuck away that one if it doesn't work we had the 7950 that did boot up on a particular motherboard first off it didn't boot up on the h77 motherboard here which does work they did boot up on this x58 motherboard honestly this is my favorite prize of the whole pcs that were donated the pc parts this is just amazing it's got water cooling on it it's x58 it's got some of the beefiest vrm i've ever seen in my life so it's big and I can't wait to use that in a build this year the maximum is range of seven it works with the i3 so definitely gonna use that in the future G 31 I might just do something with the four laughs like does a Core 2 Duo work in 2018 or something like that that's a really cool little pickup but in terms of like playing games and beating out some of the other stuff I've done on the channel there isn't much potential here unfortunately but this is what we got here b85 biostar this thing was really weird but it did work in the end so and as for the i7s and the ddr3 and the hard drives that MADD donated I know they all work he's donated parts in the past before and they've all worked absolutely fine he pulls them out of working machines so really big thank you to Matt and also big thank you to everyone who donated parts and also thank you to you guys for watching the videos too if you enjoyed this one - be sure to hit that like button and also let me know the comments section below if you've got any requests as well I've got that 980ti build coming soon also got a budget I three build coming so the budget is coming back in season and also as well they use parts on will coming soon so stay tuned for all this goodness and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon and also don't forget last resort if it doesn't boot on just bash it peace out for now bye