Gadgetory

so hear me out with this one we're gonna build a PC that was actually really good value for money it's coming in at 283 US dollars or if you're in Australia 362 or strangles even has some new parts has an 8 threaded CPU has a gtx 780 and it will perform really well in games but when we're going to boot it up the first time came into a really bizarre problem where the computer just wouldn't switch on at all however after doing a few different things we've finally now got this computer working in exactly the same configuration as we had before but nothing changed so what really did happen to the 280 dollar PC let's find out welcome back to tech yes City this is brian coming to you guys today with this PC diagnostic problem that you guys may have and actually I kind of shouldn't be doing this video because in ways this is how I get the bargains the parts don't work and then we get them working and then we make a bit of profit on them on the side but don't tell anyone that that's a little secret sorry we're onto the parts themselves let's total up the build cost here 3770 i7 we picked this off 450 Australian dollars also came with the cooler and the Dell motherboard this was in an XPS 8500 that had the RAM pulled the hard disk drive pulled and then I had a refurbished power supply so straight away I was like well something on this build probably had to do with the hard drive being faulty or the power supply being faulty so I was just gonna remove the motherboard and give it a transplant into a different case and because we just finished up using the bento which was my mom's old PC case I thought that that would make for a really good Transplant case since of course we essentially got that case for nothing though onto the gravis card we have a GTX 780 we picked this up in a recent bargain hunt for 150 Australian dollars a really good graphics card if you are on a budget keep in mind you will need however a decent power supply to power this and that's when we're using a server grade FSP pass by 39 amps available on the 12 volt line we pick these up in Japan for around about 15 Australian dollars now the thing with these power supplies is as I've said in the past and why they don't work that well in Japan because depends a hundred volt and sometimes that dips down to 90 volt and these power supplies are only rated from 100 to 240 volts so in Australia they work exceptionally well as opposed to the Japan they might not be working that well with dirty wall power but anyway the power supply is there another bargain to be had and when I go to Japan always manage to pick up so many of those power supplies because they're just such good value for money now on to the memory I actually bought this stuff for around about 7,000 yen when I was in Japan this is a 16 gigabyte kit two sticks of a gigabytes of ddr3 memory at 1600 speeds this was even when ddr3 prices were expensive and they are still expensive to this date so consider these brand-new parts then we move on to another brand-new part of this build and this is a one terabyte hard drive from Western Digital 62 Australian dollars so this brings the whole tally of the build up to around about 362 Australian dollars or again as I said before 283 USD now the build very good performance we're talking pub G really good frame rates 1080p medium settings we go on to overwatch again great frame rates at 1080p high settings always over a hundred fps and then we're moving on to other titles like f1 2016 absolutely no problems on this rig but you look at GTA 5 a very popular title and on this rig with the 3770 in its 4 cos 8 threads it did a fine job of playing GTA 5 with smooth frame rates now we move on to csgo the last title I tested on this rig again absolutely no problems this build here was complete overkill for csgo maintaining over 200 FPS at all times now keep in mind the CPU isn't overclocked 3770 comes out of the box with a rated speed of 3.4 gigahertz it turbos the 3.9 gigahertz I believe and even 3.7 on all cores so it's not exactly the best performing CPU out of the box and certainly if you look at the other build that I've built recently with a 3770k which is the same CPU but overclockable we've got that up to four point eight gigahertz and in 3dmark fire strike the physics scores showed the big difference we had 9700 points on this rig and we compare that to the 3770k rig which had twelve thousand four hundred points so that's literally over a 30% increase on the same CPU but just overclocking which is why I always stress to overclock your parts if you can because you're gonna get free performance and it's gonna really show especially in today's titles unused hardware though the last crux of this build was the memory 1600 megahertz ddr3 and the timings were a little bit off unfortunately on this motherboard which is the core is a h77 motherboard we weren't allowed overclock and on that note we weren't allowed to even touch the memory timings so it was a little bit confusing and it was something that will of course give us a slight detriment to performance when we're playing games and also doing other tasks that a memory reliant so hey guys let's get back to the main question that we hinted at in the intro and that was with the computer and what happened pacifically with this computer here and one of the weirdest problems I've seen and I have actually seen something similar like this in the past but this was specific to this Dell motherboard and that is when we hooked it all up everything was connected we went to fire it up and essentially the PC wouldn't boot up and now I did make the mistake of just quickly putting this PC together because I thought it would work and then it didn't work when I first switched it on it was ironic because I had my friend here at the time and he saw it as well we're like watching me trying to boot this thing up I even recorded the first boot and it just wouldn't turn on no matter what I did however after pulling it all apart again I decided to do one thing and that is just boot the PC up with everything disconnected but the CPU bought the 24 pin even can disconnect the CPU 8 or 4 pin depending on your motherboard and even take out all the RAM and it was at that stage we got a little signal out of it it changed it actually booted up in a microsecond so I knew then we were beginning to get somewhere so after this point I changed the CMOS battery booted it up again left the power off boot it up again put one Ram stick in boot it up again we put the CPU 4 pin back in boot it up again then that stage we got into the BIOS and I knew things were starting to look up for this PC and then we slowly connected everything back up again one piece by one piece and we put it in legacy 2 UEFI mode and it was at this stage we now had a working system that was exactly the way we had it when we originally try to boot it up so none the wiser if you guys are having problems with your computer sometimes it's very beneficial to just go back to the grassroots and try to disconnect everything even the RAM sticks and then try and boot it up that's if you're getting absolutely nothing out of it so this worked in this case we now have this PC it's performing really well and I'm sort of sort of baffled as to exactly why this is when it comes to this PC my putting it just back to the bare bones booting one thing at a time actually works I'd love to read your comments in the comment section below but what we had here at the end of the day was a PC that's got even new parts and is still incredible value for money it's going to do a great job for gaming and also since it's got 16 gigabytes of RAM it'll be able to do 1080p video editing even a bit of streaming if you're into that thing for 280 US dollars anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's build and also today's diagnostics of problems because I had another z68 motherboard ready right beside that to transplant it into and this was the last resort that I tried I even tried as well another thing and I don't know if this exactly worked or not but I got some tweezers flat lined tweezers and then I put them in and cleaned out the sockets as well in between and there was a little bit of real Sony dust in one of the ddr3 RAM slots so that could have been the problem and I know this method has fixed things in the past I'm not entirely sure what made this motherboard boot up in the end but it did get there and it is really good so it does save me having to transplant to another motherboard and with that said I hope you guys enjoyed today's video and if you did them sure to hit that like button and again let me know in the comment section below if you've had any problem similar to this and if you know exactly what was wrong with this motherboard I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye