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well so I just got back in from Vietnam late this afternoon came down with a tummy bug and all that stuff and whatever the show must go on and got some questions in the last parts hunt about how I do the traveling and how I make things work I think there's this misunderstanding that I'm paying for everything like I'm actually going out of my way to go to Vietnam just to do a use parts hunt which would really knock the price performance out of crazy ratios because then I'd be paying thousands of dollars for air tickets and accommodation just to hunt 100 and $200 gravis cars and that's not the case at all don't we talked about all that a little bit later because right before I left Vietnam a subscriber you might have seen him at the end of the GOC video boo he took me around to a local PC shop star computer it's got a different name in Vietnamese I cannot pronounce it for the life of me and we went there and they got mining gravis cars p1o sixes which essentially are gtx 1066 gigabytes and i was able to pick one of those off for 1.3 million dong which in australian dollar terms would be like 75 Aussie dollars a USD would be under sixty US dollars so this one I got doesn't have any display outs though I'm gonna try and get it working through the motherboards graphics by using the GPUs the engine apparently you can do that so stay tuned I'll have a video coming out very soon to see if I can get that working but we also managed to get an Rx for 74 gigabyte and this has a DVI out and we've got this for 950 thousand dong it's a sapphire nitro version hopefully this will just work off the DVI cable itself and if so that'll be a great bargain coming in with USD pricing of that of close to like 45 US deal something and then in Aussie dollar turns like 65 Aussie which is ridiculously cheap for cards of this caliber now the VGA BIOS on these cards is different to that of a gaming graphics card so I'm gonna see if I can even mod that to see if it can perform to that of the gaming variants and one thing about these mining cards is there are a lot of them now especially now that crypto has bottomed out there's even more and more of these cards coming up for sale pretty much everywhere now it is a flood of gravis cards and it's probably only even gonna get worse going into Christmas but you guys let's get on to the main topic of today's video and that is travelling and how I do things because lately I seem to be going to a lot of different places and doing parts hunts and people like Dan Brian you must be rich and believe me I'm not I my YouTube channel doesn't make a whole lot of money it has picked up a bit since the ad pocalypse which is great so I'm not so stressed I can eat more than baked beans now but when it comes to traveling I do extract maximum value out of these trips if you've noticed that every time I've been to a different country other than Australia whether it be Italy or Thailand now Vietnam I've always had to cover an event whether it be for AMD or in this case it was for Galax they asked me look we'll pay for your flights and accommodation and you come over and film our event and let the audience know about what our latest releases or what we're doing and I'm more than happy to do that pretty much just for flights and accommodation because I do want to see new places in the world because I've hardly traveled at all when I was younger and so in these places come up I'm like well great I can give the audience a used PC parts hunt at this particular place plus I could just go on overdrive with work and then get the content done for the particular company and so it's worked out so far you guys are definitely loving it by the feedback I'm getting in some of these videos so I guess I'm just gonna keep this up whichever company decides to bring me to a particular event I'm more than grateful to go there and just cover it for them and then on the bonus I'd just go around and learn that whole area and possibly personally I think it's a big challenge so I just go to these places solo and then essentially just go Yolo and it works out it always has worked out except for Italy that was pretty tough that was probably the toughest parts hun I've done yet because I only had three days there and I was shooting for all three days for AMD so I had very little time to do a parts on and the one really good deal that we came into ended up the guy ended up pretty much running away so with the deals itself I'm only ever going to get a deal if it's a proper deal like I'm not gonna overpay for something or I'm not gonna go hey I got an i7 3770k for $200 that wouldn't be a deal and so I always pass off bad deals but when something like Vietnam for example when a 1063 gigabytes from biostar came up for a really good price cheaper than I could get it for even a really good price in Australia then I'll jump on those deals now in terms of how I travel in how I edit videos out on the fly I use the Intel NOC and when it comes to what's inside that NOC I've got 32 gigabytes of ddr4 so-dimm and also one terabyte nvme both of which I hustle deals off Gumtree so everything I do on the channel I guess has the passion showing through it's not just the videos that you see it's also behind the scenes everything I do I try and get a deal and just like the traveling I try to get a deal where I go bargain hunting in that particular country doing something else covering an event for example so I guess at this stage maybe the companies enjoy watching the content as well because I do seem to be getting flown out more and more to these events every year and honestly it is a blessing but it is a lot of hard work so in the hotels themselves I'll usually have a TV or a monitor and the case of Vietnam I actually pulled the TV off the wall mount and used it like a normal desktop setup and that's where I can get my work done really effectively and efficiently for me I've tried a laptop in the past and I just can't work as fast as I can with a dedicated keyboard and mouse and a bigger screen I find that helps me get videos done way more efficiently and so I can get you guys the content day in day out but from time to time there will be some problems like the AMD video where they'll sort of like this ringing coming through and that was actually from the hotel room and I oddly enough just thought it was my tinnitus because there's some big soccer match the night before with Vietnam versus Philippines and Vietnam won so literally the whole streets of Saigon became just one big party that was absolutely out of control but what about Vietnam itself and I think a lot of the viewers thought when I went to Vietnam I would have been the guy who got hustled and believe me some people did try to hustle me hard the taxi driver for example when I first docked in he was actually trying to take money out of my wallet and I grabbed his hand I slammed it back into his chest I said don't touch my wallet in that stage I think he kind of was like shaking a little bit I'm like dude you know you trying to steal my money and I had my phone with roaming on so I had internet so if it's one thing if you come to Vietnam ake sure you got a smartphone within net going straightaway so you can just Google on the fly if something's a bit fishy but the taxi driver ended up taking me to my hotel and he wanted to charge me like about $50 and I said no way I checked the average price that was around about ten to fifteen dollars so I just gave him $15 on the generous side and I said please don't try to scam me next time and then just slam the door and walked out but other than that the one thing I was really annoyed about with the taxi ranks was I went to the official taxi rank and I was the guy came to pick me up and I'm asking the other guys there I'm like yo is this taxi okay and the other two guys at the taxi rank and nodding and they like yep he's fine so I was kind of like the first problem I came into with Vietnam and if it's one thing as if you guys are traveling to Vietnam just install an application called grab it allure it's like uber but it'll just save you any hassles of having to be hustled or scanned by taxi drivers because you'll know exactly where you're going and what you're getting so definitely install that if you come to the country also in terms of exchanging money I went to a bank in the middle of the city they gave the best rates it was like a 2% spread as opposed to the airport's they'll charge you like nine percent on your money so definitely want to change it over a bank but anyway the next crazy thing about Vietnam and one thing I haven't experienced out of the whole time I've been traveling was the misrepresentation of my first hotel I booked it on a go TOCOM and it was they said it was a four-star hotel and when I went into this hotel I actually show some photos for you guys it was filthy like it was just disgusting I'm like I am NOT staying in this hotel it was a dirty pillow there was hair over the couch and it was just filthy in general like running paint and I'm pretty sure I got a headache from the paint fumes that the guy was just slapping way too much paint on all the furniture inside so at that stage I just got pretty much just got out of a taxi where a guy tried to scam me so my patience was wearing thin and I'd seen this hotel where the pictures on the website which was just completely different to what I was getting and so I just walked out I handed them the key card and said I'm not staying here PayPal is gonna fix me up thank you very much see you later and so from there I just went to a two-star Hotel that night that had a spare room and you just pay cash so I checked out the room before I stayed there and that ended up being pretty good and then I went on to booking.com and I booked another hotel that ended up being cheaper and had a rooftop pool and a gym as well and they included buffet breakfast so when it comes to hotels I'd probably recommend just actually coming to Vietnam on the spot and going to the hotel and checking it out first and then saying okay I will stay here and pay the money because in the past over all the different countries I've booked hotels with by booking Kimora goda I've never had a hotel been misrepresented this bad before anyway the next thing that came out of all this was the young girl who was driving me around Daisy she was my translator and also my tour guide which really was unexpected because what had happened was when I got into Vietnam my suitcase had been delayed a whole day apparently it didn't make it from the plane from Sydney to Vietnam because I had to transfer from the Gold Coast and I had to wait another day for my suitcase and what I do when I fly is I usually put pajamas on because it's really comfortable and then when I get to the airport I'll change clothes for my suitcase and then I'll look normal but since my suitcase was delayed a whole day I'm walking through the streets of Vietnam in my pajamas and they're like okay we're gonna deliver your goods to your hotel the next day so it was just a nightmare the whole first days so many things that happened where I tried to get scammed by a taxi driver hotel was misrepresented and my suitcase didn't show up but that night ended up crashing out having a really good sleep and I woke up and I just started looking for clothes so I was like I need to have a shower get some new clothes on and that's when I stumbled into the store where Daisy was at she had shirts for sale her aunty had shirts for sale and they were like okay I was like look I'll just buy a shirt I need anything so I got this a Vietnamese shirt with the star on it and also some pho King shirt and I was like look do you have shorts underwear belt and socks and they were like no but we know a place where you can go to to get that and I was like okay can you help me out and she was like okay go to my niece she'll take you around the corner and so I jumped on this scooter with her and she took me there and she spoke English and she did all the translating to make sure I didn't get ripped off and after that I'd had a whole fresh new set of clothes and when I got back to the shop where they took me to the other shop from I just said to her thanks you'll like the first person who he hasn't tried to scam me be he's been really nice and you know the city pretty well and you speak English so I offered I said to her do you want to be my tour guide and she turned around said sure I'll do that for you so the trip just got better and better from there my next hotel was really good and then I just went around did the whole pods hunt anywhere I wanted to go she took me and so there it all is with Vietnam I was there for a total of six days and it was crazy how cheap things were over there everything's really inexpensive of course you do have to be mindful of being scammed by people if there's no price list I'd recommend going somewhere else priceless is usually an easy way to say hey I'm not gonna be getting scammed whether it be you're eating lunch or you're getting a massage or you're getting some sort of product always look for a price list it'll help you out in terms of eating and not trying to get sick definitely just go eat where everyone else is eating generally popular places will be popular for a reason that's one thing I've learned from traveling around different places and other than that this has honestly been the most value extracted holiday I've ever had in my life I think I changed over about 700 Aussie dollars and I've still got like 150 Aussie dollars in my wallet in Vietnamese dong and I've got like five graphics cards and I ate like a king and so you dollar does go very far when it comes to Vietnam and just living in general so it was a really good experience and also a big thanks to everyone who helped me out over there especially boo and also Daisy you guys are awesome really made the trip so much fun so I definitely wanna go back there in the future and I hope you guys enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let us know in the comments section below what you think of the whole tech yes travel adventures are you enjoying the International used parts hunts is there anything else you wish to know about how I travel I can let you guys know in the comment section below and with that said love each and every one of you and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you