Gadgetory

right here beside me on the tack yes bill desk is something that needs a bit of tech yes loving we've got here a fractal defined case also a z68 motherboard as also as a memory installed a cpu and a power supply so we don't even know if this works but I thought why not take you guys through the whole process what goes through my mind what goes into the cleaning and saw the organization of getting something like this up to scratch and replacing dirty and broken parts if they need to be replaced so strap your capes on so strap your used PC parts off so strap your use potato cleaning capes on let's get on with it welcome back take your city what we've got here is a really dirty fractal design define r3 or r4 I don't know but there's actually cobwebs down the bottom too so that's how filthy this thing is even dirt underneath the DVD drive but the motherboard itself is filthy as well and what we're gonna do is we can take this thing apart piece by piece and this is gonna save you time in the long run essentially what you're gonna do is by taking it all apart piece by piece if something's faulty which I'm guessing something is whether it be the memory the motherboard the CPU or the power supply then what we can do is we can find that piece individually see what's faulty and then replace it but also save ourselves time and long run because what we do is give it a quick and dirty cleanse and something's wrong then we will be pulling it apart anyway and essentially wasting time but also these drive bays as well they're filthy so I think this is the best way to approach this alcohol wipes in here everywhere and just go around this whole build and just really give it a nice texture of and cleanse so we've got all our parts laid out here on the table and this is z68 from azuz taking a close-up of this thing you can just see how filthy it is and so we're gonna do with this is we're gonna give it a nice data vac session also on this and the power supply and the case and what this will do it has just lift up all that initial dusts but you can just see it's just so filthy I don't know how it got this filthy when we're probably gonna replace the cooler as well to stock into a cool because that's just garbage and it's just so filthy that'll take too long for what it's worth and we got the power supply here which is actually - not bad as decent so 500 watt power supply and it should be ample fine for 3770k no gtx 1060 now looking inside is fractal design case as well that's filthy as well so hopefully the data vac can lift off all the initial dust and the alcohol wipes can come in and then after that we hopefully won't have to use brake cleaner if we don't need to because the stuff is expensive and I generally had to use it on GPUs and motherboards just to really clean out idiot grid ease so now you may have these stickers and you notice how much of a pain in the ass they are to get off sometimes so what you can do with them is just drench them in wd-40 and then leave them overnight if you've got time because what will happen is it'll soak in and then it's just so easy to get them off so that was actually a tip from a viewer who let me know about that so there's an extra function of daily 40 so thanks for that it's actually really works well so the Donna vac really brought these parts up and they're looking really good now all we have to do is go over with alcohol wipes and see how they come up I don't think they will need brake cleaner because after the alcohol wipes the wd-40 should get off anything else and make them look like brand new so what are we waiting for time to get these alcohol wipes to work so we're gonna do now is get our 3770k and deal it it and then drop it in here but before we do that we might actually just test everything out make sure the bias is up-to-date make sure the motherboards working also the memory is working as well and the good news is the motherboard works absolutely fine but we did need this BIOS update this is pretty important because we've put all this build together to 3770k and then boot it up we would have had to have taken the cooler off and take the CPU apart and put the old one in and update the BIOS again which would have wasted a lot of time so here it is here the preliminary bill we actually haven't done the cable management yet and there's a reason for that which is gonna boot it up make sure everything works and if something doesn't work we can change it over quickly also this case itself it still does need some feet underneath so we're gonna go to Bunnings Warehouse now and go pick up four feet for it and just try and finish it off but we're gonna make sure it boots first so we're going to turn the power on right now and just do a quick check and then after that we can finish it off so here it is here the finished product and it is looking so damn good as you can see it is just a world of a difference from what it was before we've also added in a 120 gigabyte SSD so that's about 50 Australian dollars added an extra 8 gigabytes of RAM as well to make it really contemporary with 16 gigabytes of memory added in the GTX 1066 gigabyte swap the i5 2500 for a 3770k and we're using this aliexpress cooler here this is it run really what they do perform very well previously I was going to use the two 12x from cooler master but that was shorting out the motherboard really bizarre problem I smelled a little bit of smoke coming off that as well so I stopped using that cooler we're also reusing the power supply here and we were using the motherboard reusing the case and using a 1 gigabyte hard drive that was donated to the channel as well so this PC all up is just really going to scream hopefully it's gonna scream when we start overclocking it's just gonna start smashing those games absolutely no problems but without a sigh let's put the side panel on and see how it runs you see here we just got dirty towels broken zip ties I decided to take these things off as though just loose waste the time trying to put them back on in my opinion and this here is the dirty Intel stock cooler we're actually just gonna chuck this out because it's just so so filthy I actually haven't seen one this filthy before I don't believe at least not on a z68 motherboard so that's gonna go on the bin as well because the time you're gonna spend on that cleaning that it's not even worth it in my opinion but yeah that's the rubbish pile out of this so here we got the CPU now running at 4.2 gigahertz and I know you're thinking 4.2 gigahertz it's a pretty bad overclock for a 3770k and yes it actually is but the temperatures are really good not even hitting 60 degrees on full stress test here and the noise is actually really quiet so I'm really loving this setup however this is one problem that I've seen only once before and I haven't talked about it because I've only seen it once before and I couldn't exactly identify what it was but now I have and that is just simply the CPU at least one of the cause is not running up to full power at least at 4.5 gigahertz 4.3 or 4.4 at 4.5 gigahertz it would be at one point three five ish volts and it would just crash immediately with a blue screen and then four point four and four point three would give me Google's snap errors when I load it up Google Chrome for example a webpage and so that's pretty indicative of just the CPU either being faulty or just not being able to maintain those overclocks so that's a rare sort of thing that happens and I've seen it once before now syn it for the second time just with higher overclocks here so it's at 4.2 gigahertz though it's running really nicely at these temperatures noise is really good now it's time to jump into some games and see what this setup can do and we've also got an extra hundred megahertz on the GPU itself and also a little bit of a boost on the memory speeds on the GPU to also the memories real mediocre we managed though to get it to 1600 megahertz with pretty loose timings at around 1.5 8 volt but it's really old stuff so hopefully it does the job so here it is right here the restored PC it is running so smooth and so good at games 1440 by 34 40 ultra wide resolution absolutely no problems for this thing keep in mind I did have to drop a few settings in some of those games but it was a very enjoyable experience and this was I mean half the pots in this PC were otherwise parts that people just did not want that rather chuck in the bin because they just want to go up not great to the latest and greatest yet feeling like this will perform just as good as the latest and greatest CPU and motherboard with a gtx 1066 gigabyte we're just really revitalizing and rejuvenating what we have here to not only make it look really good but also perform really good in the current titles today if you have any questions or comments about this restored and refurbed potato then let me know in the comment section below and we'll get back to you as soon as I can and also don't forget to hit that like button if you enjoyed this one and stick around because they use monthly parts on is coming very soon we've already picked up a few deals and there's hopefully some more to come catch in the next one peace out for now bye ultra wide 13 44 34 40 but without a side if time to put this thing in the paces and that was only one of the many PC parts that were donated here if you guys enjoy this refurb stuff then there's a lot more of it to come here and to be honest I really enjoy bringing up these old use potatoes there were otherwise neglected back into something that looks branding you