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so it's finally that time in the month we're going use PC parts hunting and last month we managed to get a HD 6950 and also an all-in-one PC for pretty good prices this month yet again we're gonna be looking for some used GPUs and see if we can snap up some bargains welcome back to tech yes City and let's pull up those deals so the first tear would pulled up here I'm really excited about it's a GTX 690 now I've never tried one of these cards personally I've always wanted to get one and now it looks like the price is right Reed is selling one of these for a hundred and sixty-five Australian dollars and that is in u.s. dollars about a hundred and thirty-two dollars so it's a really good price even for what he's asking at the moment because one Australian dollar is weaker than a US dollar it's like 80 US cents so we're gonna give him a call of course and try and even put in a little bit lower of an offer maybe pick it up for a hundred and fifty Australian dollars even so let's put on that bogan voice and see if we can get the deal okay right there you go mate yeah good yeah I saw you add on gumtree for a GTX 690 yeah yeah mate would you take 150 for one of them I see some posing for three Andy yeah so two 694 three and a you ain't gonna laugh I know and I'm I just always trying to get deal you know you know I just I'll come pick them up 3-under you just take such a dress mate and tell me what time to pick them up all right thanks mate bye so we just got off the phone to read and he only wanted to sell both the cars for 300 ashran dollars which is like 240 USD and honestly I'm not gonna argue with that price I'm just gonna take it because if I don't someone else will definitely pick that up because that is a really good deal at its current price so we're gonna move on to the next deal which is a GTX 970 now the seller wants 280 Australian dollars for it we're gonna drop in an offer of $200 since of course the GTX 1060 is already out and that's already good performance for the doll hello hey race here you go mate what y'all saw yet on gumtree for a GTX 970 correct yeah would you take 200 for just that there's the GTX 1060 s that are out and they go for around three hundred so the three gigabyte ones literally the 970 in the 1063 gigabyte but the ninth series or four gigabyte so yeah I just I said I thought they had 3.5 what the nine seven is yeah god says on the box for geeks okay mate no worries yeah all right yeah 250 is pretty good night all right thanks for that bye so we just got off the phone to Rhys and he wanted 250 Australian for his 970 and that's not really a good deal at that price and what I said on the phone was pretty much the truth a 1060 at 300 with three gigabytes uses less power it's also got warranty and I believe it'll actually perform better on average than a 10 and then a 970 will anyway so yeah that's kind of a miss on that deal so before we move on to the next deal I wanted to talk about today's video sponsor audible with 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number to call again so now the last deal we got up here for graphics cards is 2 GTX 780 windforce editions and now the seller is asking 200 astraying dollars each for one of these cards I'm gonna put in an offer of 300 of strandos for the pair which is about 240 USD see if he takes that and again there's no number to call here so guessing there's maybe a bit of a trend going on with gum trend that is people don't want bogans like myself calling up so besides the graphics cards there's now two other deals that I'm pulling up here the first is ddr3 memory always need ddr3 memory for a good build and the seller is asking $80 for 16 gigabytes of ddr3 memory we're gonna drop in and give them a call and drop in an offer of 60 or strainers which like 48 US dollars for four sticks of ddr3 memory and see how it goes hello Kai how are you good mate I uh saw your advertisement on gumtree for ddr3 for gigabyte memory yeah that's right would you take $15 for one stick yeah okay make just text me your address and I'll come pick her up yeah that's fine mate just text me the time and the address thanks Kai bye so Kai said that he already sold three sticks of memory so again I put in an offer with the price scaling to my original offer and he accepted that so we're gonna go collect that a little bit later so now the last thing we got up here is a desktop PC with LGA 1156 and eight gigabytes of memory so it doesn't look too bad it's an OEM PC they're asking a hundred and seventy-five astraying dollars for it we're gonna try and drop in an offer of a hundred strain dollars which will be about 80 USD and if we can get it for that price it'll be a pretty good pickup I hello Karen how are you yeah I saw your advertisement on a gum tree dot-com do you for a desktop computer yeah I just need the the box like the actual computer so would you like take a hundred for it yeah hundred bucks a when could I pick her up no worries well I'm just making a few rounds so if you could just Texas your address and I'll come through and pick her up all right thanks Karen all right so we just off the phone and we got that for a hundred Australian dollars like 80 USD so now we've got three deals confirmed I'm just waiting for all the text to come through with the times that's actually coming through now so just waiting for a few more texts and addresses and times to come through then I'm gonna go pick up all these parts a bit later on we're also waiting on those offers to come back for two of those gratis cards that I sent by a gum tree so hopefully they come back before the afternoon when we go to pick up some of these parts and of course I want to go and test out all these parts to make sure that we don't get hosed also a big thank you for some of you guys who have sent in some pots completely free over the last few months some of them which you'd like me to test so I'm gonna be making a dedicated video to that one of the most curious parts is a rise in CPU with bent pins on it which is crazy like a lot of these pins are bent so I'm gonna be having a fun time seeing if I can fix this up and seeing if it works still so now it's time to go pick up some of these deals and the guy with the GTX 780 s actually got back to me and said he accepted my offer so we're gonna go pick up that as well unfortunately the GTX 690 s he hasn't messaged me back yet but he did say he was at work so hopefully when he's on the road he'll message us and we can go pick them up as well but let's get out of here because I'm so you got back now from picking up three of the four deals the 690 guy I'm still waiting on a reply from him so hopefully it replies before dinner if it goes long after dinner then I guess he's just not keen and he's maybe found another deal or something loud but we've got here two seven 80s pick these up for 300 a strand or two 40 USD gonna clean it up and see if they work this here is the desktop PC that we got for 180 or 80 USD now the lady was kind enough to show us this thing fully working so we know it's awesome we know it works and she even throw in the windows 7 ultimate so we should be out I pray this to Windows 10 it should be all good then we've got a free keyboard and mouse you threw in Cherry throwing a monitor as well now usually I wouldn't take the monitor but I will be building a nasan and something like this is perfect for an ass you don't need any fancy monitors just for an ass system so that would be really good and then the ddr3 memory we can actually just drop this in this rig and see if it works so that's an easy fix but let's get on to cleaning up these parts and making them look a little bit better than they are now so we're cleaning up this PC now and it is by far one of the dirtiest pcs of sin in my life the fans were just filthy it was covered in dust and the good news is we've cleaned it all up now and it's got a p55 zeus motherboard in there for core 750 i5 a gigabytes of memory and a 500 watt cooler master power supply so this is really good value for money none of that sort of 1 terabyte hard drive it also has a 9600 GT which is a completely useless graphics card so we're gonna put in something like a 750 Ti because ironically enough this power supply doesn't have any PCI Express cables even though it's got a good June 20 and 12 volt rail which is really odd but let's put this thing back together and make it shine so now what you're gonna test the first crabbers card and see if this boots up and even after that I actually want to stress it in UniGene heaven to see if we need to change the thermal paste as well but because there's a 780 it should be okay I think it should be fine so the first gtx 780 we have up here is running absolutely fine it's working perfectly it's hovering around 70 degrees and the fans are really quiet I think that's normal but it might benefit from a thermal paste change and this GTX 780 is running perfectly fine as well one interesting thing to note is that this one is not the GHz Edition and doesn't have the back plate either so it is a little bit slower but it does have the same cooling solution so with that it should be as you can see here running a little bit cooler than the GHz Edition which it is and now for this last part we've got this PC that we cleaned up and we've also put the 750 Ti in and that four gigabyte stick that we bought earlier so hopefully we can kill two birds with one stone we have a signal we are working and it looks like everything is good to go the fans are a little bit noisy however one of these fans will definitely need to be replaced well I think we found the culprit so all the parts we picked up here today are working perfectly fine and also some really awesome uses of the guy with the GTX 690 s has gotten back to me or be it's pretty late at night so we're gonna go pick these up now and see how good they are so I just got back from meeting up with Reid and he had the two gtx 690 s for $300 we'll test them out soon just to make sure that they work although he said that they did work and they were perfectly finally actually showed me a screenshot of him working but also i talked to him on the phone and he was also keen for an RGB keyboard and I told him I had a cool master of master keys Pro L laying around and he started to offer me parts like an x58 motherboard 10 gigabytes of ddr3 memory i-79 ATX a corsair case and at this stage I was like yeah definitely I take this keyboard off my hands I want these parts and even threw in some ek waterblock fittings as well so that was really cool so I was really happy with that other deal that I got on top of the GTX 690 s but let's go quickly test these out make sure they work and it's actually really late at night but we'll just quickly try and boot up this x58 board as well so there it is guys all the parts we've got through here today are working and they're working perfectly fine I am just amazed everything we've gone through here is not missing a beat except for one of the gtx 690 s you may have seen in the footage that one of the cause was going over 90 degrees so i'll have to pull this apart and replace the thermal paste and then recheck the temperatures and i think that goes for every use graphics card i'm gonna pick up from now I think I'll just replace the thermal paste anyway it's not only gonna get you better temperatures in some cases a lot better temperatures but it's just great for peace of mind going forward I find usually in half the cases of use GPUs I have to replace the thermal paste to get the GPU working fine so I should just make it a practice to do it on every used GPU that I buy from here on in but when it all comes down to it we got four graphics cards today two GTX 780 s 2 GTX 6 90s which I've never even laid hands on in my life before and we've got them for a really good price really good deal got a whole PC with the p55 motherboard good power supply a gigabytes of memory I 5 754 core overclockable decent case all this in a stick of ddr3 memory some water block fittings and i7 980 X and x58 motherboard and 10 gigabytes of ddr3 memory on that all for 715 Australian dollars man this is easily like the best day of used parts PC hunting in my life this is crazy good I'm stoked I hope you guys have enjoyed today's video and with that said a big thank you to today's sponsor audible and if you guys want to know how I do the deals how I interact with people cuz there's actually a lot more to the story with the last deal that I got which I'll probably talk about sometime in the future but if you guys want to know how to get the deals like I do you want to better yourself as a person and head over to audible.com/anna description below get yourself a free trial and get that book how to win friends and influence people really good listen I'm actually listening to it now I've read it I'm gonna listen to it and enjoy it again and that's it for me today guys if you enjoy today's video then don't forget to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what was your favorite deal of today I actually have to take a step back I'm gonna go have a sleep take a step back in the morning and take a look at all these deals and decide which one was my favorite because they were all freaking pretty good today I was just amazed we got some really good deals so stoked and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye so was it so check that out the GTX 690 actually doesn't have a HDMI port so I had to use a DisplayPort to HDMI or actually a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort to HDMI ports that's two adapters just to get a signal to make capture card that's crazy and also a big thank you to you guys on Twitter I asked you guys what parts I should go searching for some mentioned like gtx 1060 s 1050 TI's and some other things like an online fury I couldn't find any of those parts I did search for them so thanks for your suggestions however one of the suggestions of gtx 690 was a gold suggestion so thanks for that also a cab from Tech's showdown mentioned that I should look for a FX 95 90 i mean we're coming out of winter here in australia so I'm not ready jokes aside I'm not ready to put a heater in my house