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- So we just finished the Next Horizon Gaming in L.A. and flew back, we're now in the beautiful land of Australia. I'm at Brisbane International Airport, got a direct flight back, but that's not gonna stop me from doing some Tech Yes after care. Now when you sell a gaming P.C., there's always good karma. Good karma equals a good future, and that's what I do. So for someone who buys a computer off me, I wanna make sure they have a great experience from start to finish. And so today we're gonna actually fix a couple of computers of up, cause while I was on holidays, I got some messages and this actually started from Computex. I just did not have a chance since Computex and this L.A. event, but now I'm gonna do a bit of Tech YES Lovin' to some of these PCs, make sure they're working all okay and also try and pick up some deals while I'm up in Brisbane, since Brisbane is a city that's about an hour drive from where I live. Since I'm getting picked up here, I thought, might as well just keep going, regardless of how jet-lagged or sleepy I am. (rock music) So just finished up with that first PC repair and I guess I wouldn't call it a repair, it was actually my own bad, I sold a PC during Computex and I accidentally left a four core Ryzen CPU in there. So I've now changed over to a six core, and I got the four core right here, but I am right around the corner from Lez's house. And now if you guys watched the used monthly parts hunts, you'll know that Lez is a regular that I go to, and it would be a cardinal sin to not drop in at 7:30 a.m. in the morning and pay him a visit if I was right around the area. So that's exactly what we're gonna do. Also there's an awesome cafe in the back here, I'm just gonna quickly go get some breakfast and chow down. (mellow electronic music) So just got out of Lez's place and he always takes good care of me. I've got eight monitors that are like 22 inch to 23 inch screens. We've got three PCs and we also got a 4GB stick of memory and three hard drives. Now this is pretty important here, this stick of memory, because I just got back from the airport and I'm on the road up at Brisbane, and I've got a screwdriver, and I now gotta go fix another PC, and I've just picked up the parts for that PC. So you guys can see already that I'm making things work on the road, proper hustling. but also on that note, how did America go in terms of getting the deals over there? We'll talk about that when I get back to the studio with real talk, but you can see here, I've got a little bit of an itch I need to scratch in terms of hustling and we'll talk about that too. But let's move on now to the next location, get the work done and then get back to the studio with this whole. (mellow electronic music) So now the last place, this is called Ipswich, and the person who I went to fix their PC up, they're unfortunately at work, which is understandable since it is a Thursday. But I'm actually at my sister's home, which is literally like two minutes around the corner, so I've just put the replacement parts at her place and the guy who needs the parts fixed up, can just come and pick them up after he finishes work. So that's that problem solved, and also while I'm here, and my sister's a little bit camera shy, but she's wanted to show me her chickens and she reckons they're awesome 'cause you can feed them anything and then they'll turn anything into eggs. Now that's kinda like, very similar to the Tech YES story, you take trash and you turn it into treasure. But our last stop is now the Gold Coast, so let's get this hustle back to the Tech YES studio. (mellow electronic music) So here's all the hustle here on the desk, unloaded in all its glory. You can see there, a massive score, but in about half an hour there is another PC that's coming here to the Tech YES studio to get a quick patch up. So we'll detail that very soon, but before we do, we'll quickly sit down and do some real talk with you guys. So you guys are probably sitting there wondering like what the f-- this guy just got off a plane, 14 hour flight and he's in there, he's already hustling again, like have a break. And this is where we get down to that argument of introvert, extrovert, you know the extrovert will get charged in terms of energy when they go out in public and they socialize and stuff, and the introvert's the opposite, they'll be in their man cave or wherever they are, and they'll charge their energy via being inside that introverted space. For me, I'm sort of a different brand all together, I like to think of myself as a hustler-vert, and so when I start hustling and getting deals, that's my energy getting charged up again. And when I docked into L.A., I was so jet lagged 'cause I'd just come off Computex, uploaded heap of content for you guys in the meantime when I got back for the three day break, so I hope you guys enjoyed some of that content coming out, like the 1903 update and some other videos. But I docked into L.A. at like the worst time, I came in at seven in the morning and I'd been up all the day before in Australia, which we then flew back in day. It was kind of weird, like Back to the Future kind of stuff, and I went to the hotel and I crashed out and then I woke up like 7 p.m.. So my body clock was already messed up by the time I got to L.A. for the AMD event. And then the whole weekend I was covering that event, I didn't get any time to sort of step outside and hustle, though as soon as I got in and I woke up that night, I was on Facebook marketplace, and I already lined up some really good deals, the problem is, is that my Bank of America card, there was this mix-up where they sent it out to the wrong address so my friend didn't have it. So I couldn't get any USD out, so I was literally left with a sticky situation where I couldn't even pick up these deals, but it was weird because I did negotiate two Ryzen 5 2600s for $100 USD a pop, and also found a Vega 56 I think for $180 USD, as well as a whole PC for about $280, and I think that had some really good specs inside like an RX580 and a Ryzen CPU too. So I was lining up a really special hustle, but it just didn't come to realization due to those factors of me not being able to get a car 'cause no one at the event had a ride that I could borrow and I was like look, can I give someone here a couple of bucks so I can just take their car and quickly get some deals in and everyone there was like, no we ain't got access to a car and I was like okay. So I'm not really gonna get an Uber and go all around L.A., 'cause that would sort of beat the purpose of getting deals in the first place. Where those deals will end up costing twice as much as they usually would, but Los Angeles always has really good deals going on. And that was with me on the marketplace for like nine minutes, I think I screen recorded the whole session. So that's how easy it is to get deals if you're in L.A. There's also OfferUp as well, but unfortunately on my smartphone, because it's Australian based, I can't use that app. I'm gonna try a work around where I use a VPN on my phone the next time I'm there, but hopefully I made up for all of that and then some with all these deals on the table here. Let's go and fix this PC and then we may even have to fix up one more PC later in the afternoon before we come back to a conclusion. (mellow electronic music) So that PC ended up coming in and it was the quickest fix of my life for a PC because it looked like it was working absolutely fine, which means that the person who bought the PC off me probably has an issue elsewhere with something a faulty monitor cable or even a faulty monitor. So that was kind of good to see in my case, but kind of if there's still problems existing for that person, I said that I would make a trip to their place and fix it up afterwards. 'Cause you've always gotta keep the customer happy with that Tech YES after care. So with that problem done and dusted, I am waiting on a reply for the last problem here that I have to go fix up. But if I do, then I'll quickly get on the road and take you guys with us, we can check out what's wrong, fix that computer too, but in the mean time, I do need some Tech YES Lovin', which this pillow on this couch is going to provide. (rock music) (mellow electronic music) So it's now 8:30 p.m., just got back from finishing the last fix of the Tech YES after care. And that ended up being really, really weird, in fact, it was such a weird problem, I haven't encountered it yet. And to let you guys know what happened, first of all, changed the motherboard over, changed the power supply over, brought a different graphics card, it was still having problems initially. Like I had brought two sticks of memory over that were 8GB, cause there were four 4GB memory sticks in there. And so after a bit of troubleshooting, I then went into the BIOS and noticed the memory was at 1600 MHz. A CL10, which is fine, but a command rate of one, and now one thing with the command rate, having it set at one, especially with four sticks of memory, is it's very strenuous on the integrative memory controller on the CPU, and so the 3770 being one of those CPUs that went from 32 nanometer just down to 22 nanometer, it was at the stage where this could present a problem of not a rapidly degrading CPU, but a CPU that's degrading, especially on the IMC side, faster than otherwise usual. So this PC was like it's six months out of warranty or something, but again I still like to take care of people, so what I did was I then dropped the memory down to CL2, command rate of two, and everything was up and running again. So that's something I've learned in that CL1, it can, especially like I said just before, four sticks of memory installed in a motherboard of the CPU, it can degrade that IMC. So something to look out for in the future. I didn't even think of it when I initially put this PC together, but it is something to look out for, if that automatic, 'cause that's what it booted up with, it automatically defaulted to those timings and sub-timings on the memory when I initially built this PC. So that was really crazy, something that took me a couple of hours actually to troubleshoot, 'cause I had to change a lot of things over and then finally got to the bottom of the problem. One thing at a time, and I guess that was sort of the most bizarre problem I've had yet. With that said guys, today we have done so much, we've hustled a whole table full of deals, we've fixed up four computer problems for people who have had issues. And on top of that, I still managed to crash out for a couple of hours on the couch. And from here on in, I'm going to actually eat some dinner, have a shower and then crash out yet again. Get a big night's rest 'cause I've just been traveling in this last two weeks to Taiwan and then to L.A. for the AMD event, and I'm absolutely spent. So I think tomorrow I might just take it a little bit easier than usual, and I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. If you did then be sure to hit that like button for us. But let us know in the comments section below, what is the weirdest problem you've had when it comes to dealing with PCs. This one here today, I think that tops the charts for me as I kind of have seen it slightly before in the past when I was dealing with that 4770K that was de-lidded and stuttering from Italy. If you guys haven't seen that video, I'll put it up here. But it is weird to see this problem creep up with a 3770 at 1600 MHz, especially when that CPU is rated to 1600 MHz. I guess the CL1, that command rate of 1t on those timings, is very strenuous on the CPU's IMC. But anyway guys, I'm gonna get on out of here, I'll catch you in another tech video very soon. Peace out for now, bye.