Gadgetory

so I hear you guys love used price-performance and right here on the desk we got donated just today - brand-new potatoes well they actually not brand-new but they're used and we're going to refurbish them and switch parts around because I've ready got another potato laying around that has a p5q deluxe in it and it's got no RAM but it does have a Core 2 Duo and it doesn't have a schooler so we can utilize that motherboard since it's a really good LGA 771 board and in the other PC we've got a Core 2 quad a q9 450 I believe a gigabytes of ddr2 memory so we could take that from the Intel board since the Intel board I believe doesn't overclock and the vrm doesn't look that good either take those components put on the p5q deluxe we've now got a solid entry level gaming PC in my opinion we're going to put that to the test later and then on the other end of the spectrum with these parts we've got left over we can try and make something that'll just play for night since I do have for one gigabyte sticks of ddr2 do you have a gtx 750 a real low end power supply and also a 160 gigabyte hard drive so we're gonna make magic with that that'll be the third PC and then also on the desk here we've got a p7 p 55 d I love this motherboard it's a real good solid mid-range p55 LGA 1156 motherboard so we're gonna be putting a 0 on X 30 440 in that as well as a cooler from ID cooling this is an SE 207 and in Australia I don't know where else they sell this cooler but they're selling in Australia for 49 AUD twin tower cooler 2 fans and I'm gonna see how that performs so let's get on with refurbishing these three potatoes so this case here it's a little bit special so I'm gonna sideline this for another project in the future and get back to working on these other two cases and builds so we pulled this whole build apart now and we've got this sis color here it's just got metal shavings in it which I've I don't think I've seen this before the amount of metal shavings coming off this thing is incredible so we're gonna get the brush out just brush it down give it a hammering and then hopefully start putting this PC back together and we would have had the first potato completed so just completed giving this motherboard some tech yes lovin and it's looking really good but before we put it in the bill we just want to make sure everything's running right and we can do this with inside the boss itself and I'm glad I did the CPU temperatures are looking ok but this motherboard won't work with a gigabytes of memory installed you'll only work at the moment with two gigabytes so just gonna quickly update the boss and then hopefully that'll fix the RAM compatibility issue then we're going to drop it in the build and finish it the right here we've got a rusty front panel still even off inconvenient good wire brushing so we're gonna do the good old trusty marker and just start coloring it in so there are these guys one potato is finished let's get on to completing these others so ii built is now complete we've got this massive cooler on board at gtx 780 Ti and we're gonna start doing some overclocking but while we're doing some overclocking we're gonna build the third PC now with a case that has been lying around for months and months and the last time I used this dell case things were shorting out and they just weren't working properly but since it's a real budget build anyway we're gonna give it a shot so here's the last building this one is the most potato out of all potatoes but it just keeps boot cycling and the fan will just instantly turn off I believe it's the case I've even put rubber grommets underneath four of the end screws to lift it off but it still does it so I'm gonna take it out of the case and see if it boots then and if it does in this case is just cursive and it must not be used it's going in the bin forever but if it does boot if it doesn't boot again sorry then it might be a faulty motherboard so let's find out so I was up late last night and I had some problems with this computer it was so painstakingly hard to get this thing to work so first of all these memory sticks they only work in this configuration to get four gigabytes if I had it in the other way around it wouldn't boot it give three beeps also this case right here there's Dell that I pulled out of the garage that was just really dirty and stuff the power button itself was causing this whole build to short out so I had to rip the wire out of one of these two then use the power button on the front also the USB ports were so rusted out that I had to just pull them all out because if I plugged him up to the motherboard it was short out the computer but everything is running now but there's just one more problem with this PC and that is that this harddrive here the 160 gigabyte it's just so slow like it does nothing here's here's it like I'll close this browser down and I'll try and open it up again and it just takes so long to do anything it's really painful to the point where I don't even know if this single light load over watch because I wanted to try and sell it as an overwatch PC but I don't even think it'll do that so I might just settle for parts since it does have a gtx 750 in it i'll see how it goes like i'll trying it over what's working so not over watch I mean fortnight or trainee a fortnight working and that doesn't work then yeah or just be a for sale for parts where I might try and put a 1 terabyte in I don't know and finally here we are at the table with these three pcs and this one has a little bit of a story because I did end up putting a 1 terabyte hard drive in and it fixed that real sluggish slow response so basically this hard drive here is done it's gonna go in the bin but the GTX 750 4 gigabytes of ddr2 and this quad core here the 9400 and this motherboard that I don't even want to bother overclocking and this real mediocre power play this managed to get a fortnight at 1080p running at 80 to 100 fps and it was really smooth providing was the only game open and Windows has been optimized but that's a good selling point because I'll now be able to easily get around 200 Australian dollars for this PC and it's just awesome because you're making something out of something that otherwise a lot of people would just throw out or discard or just say no it's completely useless but you make these parts together and makes energy and even though it took a lot of troubleshooting especially with the ddr2 and also a lot of troubleshooting these power connectors and getting this case working I kind of really enjoyed this one the most out of these three pcs I mean providing it did work in the end sometimes it does get very frustrating it doesn't work but this one here right beside it this is very interesting because this was that new cooler from ID cooling now I did try there water coolers in the past and honestly they looked cool but they weren't that good for performance this air cooler looks like it's really good for performance I did put the thermal imaging camera on it it was staying very cool it was actually pretty quiet as well and on the xeon unfortunate could only get up to three point eight gigahertz because the motherboard sort of topped out after that going to 200 base clock just really presented problems that kept blue screen and kept crashing tried changing the IMC voltage drop to keep you I transport speed down as well tried all different voltages and even dropping the memory down to twelve hundred megahertz wouldn't make a difference it just wouldn't go any higher so 3.0 gigahertz unfortunately is the most with the Xeon X 3440 and that's why I do like as I said in the past the x34 seventies you get that extra flexibility regardless of your motherboard not being able to go that high so gtx 780 Ti this thing here is performing and actually the best thing about this cooler is it's in Australia I don't know where else it's sold in the world in Australia it's 49 Australia dollars from pili I believe in the moon that's an absolute bargain for this cooler but the case itself it looks so clean as I said before really digging this whole build considering it's kept chipper mustard and it's sort of like this nothing else to the case there's no cable management options I think you came out really clean let me know what you think in the comments with this bill of course I look forward to doing more tests with the ex 34:30 versus the x34 40 as well possibly with this 780ti but last up here we have the build this is sort of like the spare parts that were better than the other build we ended up putting a 7870 on this bill because the GTX 750 did not work and so now we got a gigabytes of ddr2 and also we've got this fifth caller so I will start overclocking this and also put a 20 centimeter fan on as well as no fan doing sort of like a cool comparison as people on a budget who can't afford fancy cases with three fans at the front and mesh panels just to see how much extra performance or extra cooling you can get from a budget cooler and you guys I hope you enjoyed this one refurbishing potatoes you can really make something out of nothing especially if you've got the tools and the wd-40 and wire brushes and sort of just cloth and a little bit of patience cotton buds all that good stuff I even got a little brush for some of the fins as well but here they are they're all working and they're all gonna be coming in separate videos as well doing some cool little tests with that so stay tuned for that well at least these two builds anyway and if you enjoy this video then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below if you want to see any more tests especially with these three pcs and I'll be sure to make it happen for you and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now Bay