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so here we are in Japan in the middle of Tokyo Akihabara and Austria that got done by the yes picked up a lot of good deals but before that it was a bust in Italia but here we are on the home run and this is the country where people generally chuck out their used stuff so a lot of the times I turn trash into treasure but when it comes to Japan I'm gonna be turning tarnish silver into gold so first off we're gonna start off here then later on we're gonna get a car and then head around and pick up them deal but also got in late last night crashed out and now I'm in the middle of Tokyo and there was a place here that does really good exchange rates near the mid market rates so I'll put the link in the description below if you're in Japan give these guys a call and events they speak English and organize to get your money change over here see don't get ripped off but with all that out of the way get your used parts hunting capes on and let's go find them deals now generally if you're in Tokyo there's gonna be a lot more competition when it comes to getting used price-performance deals as we go out of the city you'll find out there'll be a lot better bargains going on the right behind me now is a place called SKU Moe which generally in the past I've gotten a lot of decent deals out of this place especially for gravis cards so we're to go on inside see what they got on the shelves and especially since the Logan Pole thing you tubers are generally frowned upon in Japan so if we can sneak some footage in we will so we just got out of school oh and that place was a gold mine so we just picked up an X 79 motherboard up4 got this for about a hundred and fifty US I think if I had to do the calculations right I'll put all the prices up on the screen anyway but we ended up getting a also a six core 12 threaded 7800 X a GTX 780 and a GTX 980 as well as the 16 gigabyte kit of ddr3 memory now I did manage to get a 5% discount out of them on top of the fact that I don't pay any tax because I'm a foreigner on a tourist visa so we just got an absolute bargain on all these parts now the good thing is we just got that 3930k in austria so that coupled with the x79 motherboard coupled with the memory we've got ourselves a bare-bones six core 12 credit kit here but man what a bargain already the first stall we've walked into already cleaned up and now we're gonna continue around and see what else we can find here in the beautiful land of Tokyo so we just gotta have this place called shop inverse and they had some really good deals on systems mainly the two that I saw had i7 4770k dr3 memory motherboards one terabyte hard drives they'll go on for a little under 300 dollars so if I lived close to this place I would definitely be going in somewhere like here and just gotten all these systems because they got some really good deals there's also an X 56 75 in there of course being a traveling today I can't really carry around a whole system with me so we're gonna keep on looking see what the other stores have so we just got out now of sofmap and went to a few other places just before that and their new parts mainly in the process of new parts seem to still be quite expensive especially for new gravis cards they all have the keyboards and mice on display so a pretty good thing but this time with soft map when we went into the used floor section it was very weird like I did manage to get a 3930k for 8,000 yen which is a really good price they even had one more on the shelves but we already picked one up in Austria so I've already got two 39:30 case but another thing they had on the shelves was like 2,000 yen for a motherboard and I thought well that's great I'm gonna put that in the kitty but after that I then found out the thing doesn't even turn on and then we had a graphics card a 660ti that was 4,000 yen and they said there was no signal coming out of it some way I'm thinking to myself why are they even selling this stuff because usually they just mark that clearly as junk because they want nothing to do with it but they have this stuff in the shelves like in the glass shelves so very weird maybe times are getting desperate who knows but let's go now across the road to a place called dos Peres and see what they've got so we just ended up getting out of dose power and that place is pretty much a bust except for one thing and they had i79 70s in there and I picked one of these up for around 60 bucks and now the difference between these and a Xeon is that these CPUs will pretty much work in any x58 motherboard now Georgia from JDM PC sales in the Kenya fix-it episodes you may have seen him send over an ex 58 motherboard this didn't work with the C on the six core 12 threaded Zeon's so that's why I'm civically getting one of these CPUs so I can chuck it into that motherboard and still have a six core 12 threaded CPU to play around with now just across the road here is another store that is actually doing even better prices on whole systems than the shop inverse that we saw before so if you're into gutting pc's this place would definitely be worth a look they've got x58 rigs going for around about $60 and then they've got p55 machines going for around $40 so the prices are really good at that store in particular if I had a ute I'd definitely be pulling up here just pretty much cleaning the place out but anyway let's try and find a few more stores in Akihabara as I'm pretty much ready to go as I've filled up all the luggage got all the deals out of here and I've at least checked around all the places that I know have good use price-performance but we'll see what else we can find if we don't we'll just jump on a train and get on out of here so I just got on the train about an hour out and we've gotten out of Tokyo and Tokyo is great for sightseeing but for living it's really crammed so I'm just going to my friend's house now and this will conclude day one of the deals hunting but before I got on out of here I checked the heart off and that was a bust I also went to the sofmap new place to see if they got some new parts and they did have gravis cards of course they're overpriced but another thing as well there's a lot of mining cards stacking up at some of these places that sell secondhand pots 1070 s 1070 TI's rx 570s there's a lot of them so you can expect prices to come down soon because there's a crunch and when there's a lot of stock taking up shelf space they'll need a clearance sooner or later on the other hand as well I did see the microsoft intellimouse as well I didn't realize they refresh this but this is an absolutely phenomenal Mouse at least back in the day remember when Microsoft used to make hardware it was more like they should have called their company Micro hard because that's what I was getting when I was using some of their products back in the day so hopefully I'll reach out at rocketjump ninja and see if we can take a look at that new mouse with that aside we're gonna get some rest and then we're gonna jump on in the car and go for the real hunt so here we are now on the next day and I've got my little boy he's coming with us he's gonna come hunting and I've also got Damien you may remember him from previous vlogs where we've gone around parts hunting in Japan and we're actually using his car today so big thanks to Damien for doing that and yeah guys this is the first hard off that we're at now we're gonna go inside see if we can find some deals I'm gonna be looking for PC parts and Damien's gonna be looking for retro parts so we're gonna be doing all this today so strap on in and let's go inside and see what deals we can find so right behind me now is a new store that we've sort of just dropped into on the way in from going from one heart off to another heart off now that previous heart off we just went to was really interesting because I ended up picking up a tripod a really good tripod for around about 50 US dollars as about 5,400 Japanese yen it has a really good fluid head on it it's exactly what I'm looking forward to replace my current travel tripod which is really it's it's had its days I mean after three years of use and traveling and abuse it need to replace it and so I found this really good tripod absolutely awesome if you guys are hunting in Japan stores for parts and you need a camera tripod I highly recommend just trying them out and seeing if you can piece one together but besides that computer parts what they've got going on here is something that's changed a lot since I've been dude especially this hard off and that was their piecing out all the PC parts now motherboards memory CPUs they're testing everything and individually selling it so there was really no deals for sale when it came to that hard off except something crazy happened while I was there I've never had this happen before and that was there was a foreigner another foreigner another guys Jin Dave he walked in and tried to sell some stuff with his wife and they gave him like nothing for his boots and they were gonna give him I think like cenaine for his computer so as he was walking out I just said how much do you want for that PC and I he just said are there and they offered me a thousand you know I was like wow I took a look at it it's got an i7 on the box so straight away I knew to give him so I offered him around 6,000 yen and he took that straight away I also got his number because it's always cool to meet other foreigners in Japan especially like if they talk they're really friendly so ended up picking up a deal that I've never got before and now the roof did this next door here we wise we'll go inside and take a look but also Damien he ended up getting a heap of retro stuff as well so I guess deals are already about so here we are now at a completely new heart off I've never been here before so this should be exciting to see what's going on inside but also at that previous place we just went to they didn't have really any PC stuff at all it was just retro games but on that note if you were into reconning they had a huge selection of stuff but with that said let's go find ourselves some PC parts so we just finished up at that hard off and for PC parts it was a complete bust I mean the best deals they had there were GTX 680 s and GTX 770 s for around 8,000 yen they had some junk PCs which were complete dinosaurs but one thing that we did find there and cuz we're into sort of retro stuff in general was we found these cool old Sony mics the ECM 870's and when we checked out the condenser mic part inside that was still in really good condition so I ended up buying one for myself and Damien ended up buying one for himself I also got three DVI cables for a dollar each they always come in handy when you're getting monitors and people don't have DVI cables and the last thing that Damien ended up picking up was this cool retro looking watch never seen it before and I guess it was just one of those things that you you needed but you didn't know existed but anyway since we're on the road we're actually outside this store that's open 24 hours a day and they just buy you stuff of course they sell you stuff the store is massive we just found this on Google Maps so we're gonna go inside and take a look so that last place ended up being an absolute bastard I think they had like a razor keyboard in their second hand for like 8,000 yen but here we are now at another heart off that I've never been to before our Damien has never been here either we're gonna go and check out what they got inside so we just finished up with that heart off and it was almost the bus I found one item in there that was really good that was a 16 gigabyte kit of ddr3 vengence memory though the price was mediocre it was about 7500 yen which would be close to around 70 USD so it was borderline just doable I just got that deal but right around the corner there is a PC Depot and sometimes they can have some really good deals on used PC parts I've never been to this PC Depot either so it's kind of like a new tour today of stores that I've never been to to see if they have deals so now back at the original place that I've been to a few times it was quite a big drive because we went way out of where we're used to going and this place is great because you've got a PC Depot which is just here and right next to that you've got a heart off and they're actually really big stores between the both of them I usually do get deals from either of these stores I have got a lot of deals in the past so we're gonna go in now and see what they've got but before we got here as well we're on the road and we quickly checked out a couple of places that were both like immediate bus one place was selling like a HD 6870 filled like $90 I knew straight away that was a ripoff so anyway let's check out what's inside here so we just finished up in there it was a complete boss there was three motherboards that were overpriced anyway I asked him if they had any more used PC parts and they said no also when it comes to filming I've actually got this little technique now with my Sony camera where I can start recording and then close the lid and then no one really knows I'm filming so I can actually get footage inside the stores for you guys now and people really did don't say anything so let's check out the last place and hopefully we can get lucky so now we just left the last part off and that was a complete bust what they're doing now at least this year compared to last year is the whole dynamics changed they're pulling memory out of PCs so you've only got two gigabytes now with systems that they're charging around ichiemon Roxann or about 150 US dollars for and then anything more expensive is still just not worth it I think they had a 7870 in there as well for around about a hundred dollars so ironically enough Tokyo ended up being the best deals of all this time around and I guess it starts to make sense places like this I guess they don't move a lot of parts so they've got to quickly move the parts in Tokyo because they probably get a lot of them in so they've got to give good prices otherwise people aren't gonna want to buy them but anyway we did manage to get this little guy some awesome toys he got an indoor tap daughter which is an Indo Raptor out of Jurassic world and also a little Annie a toy as well so we got these toys for him but also at the start of the day we ended up getting a really good deal that was just a one chance deal I've never had that happen before and we're gonna get home and check out what's inside that and then of course wrap up this pods blog hung but right now we're gonna get you some dinner aren't we is now the next day and we've pulled the PC apart that we picked up for 6000 yen of course this was a bargain what we got here was a HD 58 50 very old card not really relevant for today's video games but the rest of this package here is really awesome 1.5 terabyte hard drive also eh 55d motherboard with an i7 870 and also behind that is a 550 watt power supply from delta really good stuff a gigabytes of ddr3 memory faceplate and also the cooler included and here we are now at conclusion time and we got some really good deals in total we paid over a thousand USD for all these parts but what we got was a gtx 980 gtx 780 also an ex 79 motherboard three different CPUs so we got that six core 7800 ex we also got the 3930k and that i7 970 on top of that we got 16 gigabytes of ram in tokyo then we picked up an additional 16 gigabytes of ram while we're on the road and of course that last deal that we got the whole pc which just happened by sheer luck i've never had that happen i've never seen that happen before but the person walked out after only getting off at a thousand yen and i quickly came in and asked him what did they offer you what did you take and i gave him six thousand yen and they were more than happy to offer me that pc so i was really happy with that awesome deal after we pulled it all apart that was probably the best deal in terms of the enthusiasts tech pot the the weirdest thing is the polarity has shifted I came into Japan thinking that this time just like every other time I'd be getting those deals outside of the city but ironically enough we got most of the deals in Tokyo and there were really good deals as well and I guess the logic behind that is in Tokyo they're probably getting dumped so many parts on them that they have to move them so quickly otherwise the shelf space will get flooded and so you're going to be getting really good deals now in my opinion in Tokyo as opposed to the country where they're not going to be getting a lot of enthusiasts tech parts through and they know what those parts are worth now we can see that now that they're pulling out all the ddr3 memory and only offering two gigabytes and systems that are a hundred and fifty dollars plus and I mean I think you can't even install Windows 10 on a system with two gigabytes I think you need four gigabytes in total to get Windows 10 on a system if I remember correctly but we also got some DVI cables there are a dollar each needed a few of those and some really cool pickups outside of the city was that tripod my Sony tripod is actually pretty much at its end of life it actually doesn't work properly now it's had a rough life it's been a fantastic tripod but we picked up this velbon tripod and it's so good for 50 dollars it's easily rivaling that in my opinion of some $200 plus tripods at least ones that I've tried and my opinion is better than some of those man photos that go for $400 plus it's very portable very quick to adjust in terms of its height and the pan and tilt on this thing is so fluid so that's gonna be the new travel tripod it's awesome the Sony I had to retire that as it's almost broken but I'm gonna be using that for the g7 which is on the livestreams but I'm still gonna be using that Sony tripod as a stationary tripod it just won't move at all and that'll be for live streaming but on top of that we also got that Sony microphone and this is one thing that I'm not an expert in I'm not an expert in audio gear but I think at $20 it was a good pick up because we look at the quality it's got two different purposes you can use it as a live broadcasting mic or you can use it as a dedicated mic it does have a cardioid pattern but also if we look inside it's just well made it's quality and of course over the past few years I've learned to trust my gut and when I do I've always done well it's never let me down so I guess that's a tip if you guys are getting into deer hunting whether it be PC parts hunting or if it's some other field just trust your gut but also on that note knowing the prices in that market is always a big factor in terms of just picking up a deal on the spot and not trying to hold out and get a better deal for instance the tripod I knew of $50 it was solid I might have found one for $10 cheaper but chances are that I might have not found one and that's exactly what happened I didn't find a better one at a better price so picking that up was a good thing because we couldn't come back and get that because it was out of the way of where we needed to go later that day and who guys hope you enjoyed today's deals hunt in Japan if you did then be sure to hit that like button I did this over a day and a half I spent the most of my time in Japan with my son and we were just doing really cool things went to the bug Museum the dinosaur museum went into a Jurassic world and it was just really good to see him again I rarely open up about my personal life on the channel but is one of those times and that was a real reason for coming to Japan and things are definitely changing for the better so you're gonna see a lot more smiles on my face especially on the content and yeah I've got to get back to Australia now to leave tonight and I gotta film the annamaya event for msy and also film the thread Ripper review so I'll have to get them done ASAP so they'll probably be released before this video which will be a little bit weird because I'll be in astray and then it'll seem like I'll be in Japan when I'm actually in Japan and then headed matcha Australia so the order will be a little bit weird that anyway I'll catch you guys in the OP tech video very soon he's out for now bye so get your used PC parts hunting capes on again and let's see it's already going beyond beyond my belief in in terms of how good at the prior 747 70s which were really cool that guy in the background he's doing the thing as well so we just finished up with that hard off and it was a bust and except for one thing