Gadgetory

so I got back in from Computex a couple of days ago I needed a bit of R&R and I was seriously just burnt out after that trip I think I did in total like 17 videos but also filmed another 2 which I finished off when I got back here but people are wondering how do I pack for these events there's a few questions that run under the scenes which I'm going to quickly address now first off international travel and how it works with fitting so many used parts in that suitcase is a two-fold process first of all you need to use your clothes to actually cushion the parts second of all you need a pretty big suitcase with these two powers combined you can be fitting in all these parts like I've done here on the desk and still manage to have a good trip now why would anyone go directly to a country to hunt for used parts I don't know I don't book a plane ticket and go hey I'm going international just to do a parts hunt that would be stupid in terms of price performance but why I do that is because I piggyback these parts hunts off of events like Computex for example or if last year when I was in Vietnam for the gal acts overclocking tournament I did a parts hunt there and so how it works is I request the companies to send me a couple of days earlier and then I'm happy to cover the events for them and that way you guys and me we all get that use price performance hustle going on and also the companies get taken care of when I do the events and I'm more than happy to do that for a plane ticket and accommodation but on top of that if you guys are travelling to a certain location and you're like me and you love doing a bit of use price-performance then it's always a thing that you can keep in the back of your mind for instance if you want to enjoy a particular area or overseas and you want to do something on the side like I'm doing then these are the methods you can follow and you can come back with a little kitty in your suitcase and hopefully make a bit of money after the trips done 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condition they're absolutely fine if tested them all so they make it back through the flight okay now in terms of customs I really never get pulled over I mean when you're going through customs they do x-ray your stuff if they find there's a problem they'll usually just question me and I'll be like yeah I picked up some computer parts I just tell them this is sort of like a passion of mine I love use price-performance hustle and they sort of understand they never really take it any step further it's just computer parts it at worst they'll just pick a component out of my suitcase take a look at it and go yeah this guy's absolutely fine keep going but anyway besides making a heap of value out here on the table I'm also going to tell you guys behind the scenes a little bit and show you what a normal operation in the week of techie air city is like in terms of making even more value so get you used price-performance capes on strap on in and let's have some fun so here it is clean slate we have cleaned off the tackiest desk here but from now I'm going to go pay a visit to a local computer store called X gaming systems this is king of the coasts own operation now which is built up over the last two years but how it is is someone traded in a PC they bought off him and my sort of objective was to do a trade-in value that he would then buy back off me if that makes any sense so we're gonna go take that computer over to his shop now and go see what's cracking but also on that note I did buy an rx 570 off him that was faulty someone go get that replaced too so a little bit of a midday hustle here so we just got back now and we got the replacement rx 570 also got the 500 in pineapples that's what we call an Australian 50 and we got two cases here that Kevin no longer wanted he said they didn't fit the LED bling and I said that's not a problem around tech yeah City then more than welcome to stay here I'll find him a new home but basically with Kevin over the last two years he's gone from a garage to or if you're on the Gold Coast we do say garage and he's gone from there and built up a whole business in his garage and then essentially now made a local business at a storefront and it was crazy to see all the development and progress he's made and especially crazy because I haven't seen him for literally like five months and in that time he's just been going crazy he's even got an LED set up for taking photos of the builds so I guess that thing of LEDs selling pcs he's taking it to a whole new level where he's got the RGB desk that can match the color of the build but at the same time he is making a whole business that's thriving off of use price performance which was really crazy to see so that's what Kevin and ex gaming systems his company has been doing over the last five months but without a side why don't we start making something out of these two little brand new cases here well they're not brand new yet they are used but I gotta turn them into brand new [Laughter] so it's now the next morning and I got a little bit carried away last night I built this first one up and I'm like well wires will build the second one up and think about these pcs is why I'm not doing dedicated videos to them like in terms of a usual price-performance rig on the channel is that I don't really know how to price these up because both these rigs here have kind of the same thing in common and that's that I've got two cases that were pretty much going in the bin I got them gifted to me and then also we've reused the graphics card that's come back to life and in this case we've got a CPU cooler that I got for free use that we got a hard drive for like I think this one costs $8 and then we've got a motherboard in Taiwan that was $10 a power supply that otherwise would have been chucked in the bin we've got an RX 570 that was replaced and so you can start to see that this one here is going to literally cost next to nothing to put together I did manage to chuck in an SSD which is going to raise the value of the rig and put 16 gigabytes of RAM in and an i7 2604 mid specs but it doesn't really have the bling but that's not to worry because you know not everyone is after LEDs or at least I'm going to be testing that by testing that and selling it a little bit cheaper than I otherwise would sell something of similar spec with LEDs inside but this one right here again we've got the graphics card that's been sort of tech yes loved and then it's brought back to life got a cool that I had lying around a gigabytes of RAM multiple that we picked up in Taiwan for around 15 bucks and then we got a hard drive 500 give a hard drive that was pretty much taken out of another OAM system and then we have this power splay here which I picked up on a deals hunt for around 40 Aussie dollars I believe if you haven't seen that I'll put the link up here but you may also notice I did add a DVD drive in this case and that was simply just to fill out the front panel here so it doesn't look too bizarre and the whole system is completed but when it comes down to it these two cases were cases that were just filthy no one wanted them a lot of the parts inside were dirty filthy but we've managed to bring them back into something that is working as usual a hundred percent looks really good performs really good and is really good now I have installed windows on both these machines so they do boot up absolutely fine I've just got to run them through stress tests but another thing to come out of this video is really cool in my opinion that's just reusing old parts I do tell you guys you should never really chuck out a good part especially if it's got potential and this cooler here is a lot better than these newer coolers that they put on their CPUs there's a lot more metal inside I believe the fan is a lot better - and how it spins up and with that you've now got a cooler that's going to cool down an i7 2600 to the point where you could even overclock on them back in the day on the dual cores so the fact that this board had LGA 775 support I did want to utilize that and get some value out of it and I certainly have but also other parts in this bill do come together to synergize the whole total package so do let us know what you think of this rig and then this last one here of course we're just putting something together with an i-5 34 70 and a 79 70 and it's gonna perform really well even at 1080p and still get decent performance there's a real funny thing about 79 70 is back when it was released I think at the end of 2011 it had that three gigabytes of vram and people thought it was too much for what was at the time but fast-forward to this day in 2019 that three gigabytes of vram is really paying off for this card considering its lost at all that time and it hasn't been heavily used because over seven years of straight GPU usage will do some funny things to a GPU but in this case looks like it's looking okay I mean the caps checked out I think it just had a little bit of a problem with some thermal paste over some of the traces but hopefully both these rigs are good to go once I stress test them and put them on the market they should make some people happy on a budget so closing out this vlog you can see that around tech ES City and even guys like Kevin from axe gaming systems you can just use a lot of parts that otherwise would get chucked out in the rubbish and you can utilize them to make magic happen in the case of Kevin he had things like office pcs going on where he's utilizing those a threes the second and third gen I 3 s and even throwing in an SS which costs around about 19 USD I think you can get them in Australia for as low as 25 Aussie dollars and so if you chucked that in the system and even if you charge like $80 for it you're still gonna be making profit because a lot of those parts especially in the case of the motherboards and the CPUs you're not gonna be putting them in gaming pieces because you're just not going to get the value generally nowadays people do not want a 3s and I've found this out the hard way when I even tried to sell an i3 80 100 which is better than an i5 3470 for example but because it had the i3 logo on it no one wanted to buy it it was crazy pretty much for gaming pcs nowadays people don't want Pentium to write threes but you can still use them in office pcs where people just want to use Excel for instance or browse the web they're not going to need anything more than two cores and especially two cores four threads and if you couple in an SSD with it it's gonna actually be quite a fast office PC where retailers are charging in excess as least in Australia more than 500 Aussie dollars for something of similar performance so in closing out today's vlog you guys see that I just like to create value out of literally everything especially when people otherwise discard that and they think it's not worth anything to them personally they just think it's trash it's otherwise should go in the garbage but you can then reutilize that read tweak it and then make it into something that someone would find very useful and also you can make a little bit of Bank on the side so it's something that I really enjoy doing I know a lot of you guys out there and a lot of people around me here on the Gold Coast enjoy doing this too it really is a cool hobby to have a cool passion but with that aside I hope you guys enjoyed today's video and if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us but also let us know in the comment section below what was your favorite of these two pcs or if you have any questions about anything else featured in today's vlog them be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below I mean some of these pcs man they just get tech guest loving and it gets administered pretty damn quick just that light coating of multi-purpose spray on that build true brings it up look at Schmidt and beautiful and with that aside I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon but also if you want two months free premium access to skill share links in the description blur today's video sponsor two months free got nothing to lose and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon he's out for now bye you