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welcome to tear gas City and I am in Taipei 101 actually I'm not in the building I'm in Taiwan Taipei today we're going to be used parts of log hunting and I'm actually in the hotel room oh so Millia breakfast and then we're going to look around so this is the drop is here that no one really knows where these go use part payments.that what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the place where they sell the new pots and I say to the boys then look where do I get the use pot that so we're going to try and find something in the end see if it works out and you guys are going to become the men and women who watch this whole journey 2017 Computex coverage in Taiwan was brought to you by MSI and Corsair bringing you the best in PC peripherals and components click the link in the description below to find out more about current specials being offered by both MSI and Corsair over the Computex period so right now we are outside a place called Guang Howell Plaza now I'm going to go into this place and of course hunt for those youth parts for you guys also check out some of the new parts but I'm more interested in getting some youth price-performance and this is right in the middle of Taipei as well so this is my first time going here this is like my literally my second day in to being in Taiwan yesterday I pretty much slept because they got a midnight flight and I don't know hardly any Chinese at all so let's see how this goes wang hao is quite literally epicenter of tech if you're in the middle of type aid and this is the place to go to shop for brand new tech all via the prices surprisingly aren't that much better than what you'd expect back at home for instance in australia i could probably pick up an SSD cheaper than what i couldn't i won which is surprising considering a lot of these products are actually not just based in here in the headquarters are here for these companies but they're also produced here so it is quite surprising to see that prices are that cheap for actual new technology here even with a 5% tax on board I still think the prices could be a little bit better however as for use parts I'm sure you guys were wondering what do as they asked around a quite a few people and all they could come up with is that you have to go online if you're looking for use parts however I did arm myself with a cheat sheet and I did learn the word for used and so I just went around for literally every store in this district and it took me a long time I was very tired went around every store walked in and just said I'm looking for use parts and anyway I ended up finding two places in the end that had some used parts to sale the guy had some stuff out the back and he showed me the West and what I had here was an A m3 motherboard and a phenom six core processor and I managed to pick this up for around about 50 US dollars and that is a bargain especially even it came with the cooler and then another store also had a fm2 motherboard with an old APU on it and I asked this guy well how much do you want for this and he said two dollars so I immediately picked that up because he said it was probably broken and I was like what look I'm just going to test it out anyway and I'm sure both the motherboard and CPU aren't broken so probably one of the two is broken so I think that was a pretty good deal mind you they did have an Intel H 55 motherboard packed with memory and an i7 870 and I said can I have this and he's like he took a little bit and he said oh you can have anything that been and then he went and took the motherboard said no you can't have this once he saw the i7 so a little bit devoted about that but I did offer him $10 and he didn't take and so we just finished shopping at Guan howell digital Plaza and it was pretty good I'm pretty tired because I had to hustle really hard the streets here they mainly sell the new parts no one's really selling used parts on the shelves but as always no ASCII no Getty and I was asking all these guys and two stores did manage in the end to give me some use parts so I'm going to show you guys when we get back to the hotel what we've got in these bags because one of the deals that I got is really cool because I've been looking for it for quite some time and it's going to be awesome when I put it into a build but let's get back home to go now if you're coming to Taipei it is a really good place especially if you love food there's so many different night markets and there's also different places where you can eat on pretty much every corner I did find a few places close by that just made amazing food and keep in mind you can still go to chain restaurants like Moss burger McDonald's KFC however I really wasn't interested in eating any chain food when I was over here and I'm glad I didn't as some of the local food is just absolutely fantastic I can highly recommend it and it will only set you back around about two or three dollars and it just tastes that good now also if you were going around transport for taipei then i highly recommend you take the trains and the buses or the sky buses as the prices between them and a taxi for example are just leagues different if you catch the train it literally cost you around a door so if you do decide to catch a taxi it can cost you pretty much what you're used to paying back at home sold actually quite surprised when i got a taxi from the airport to my hotel and I love being $50.00 of like wow that's quite expensive even then I found out if I took the air shuttle bus and a train would have cost me literally five bills that's just the tip if you guys want to come you for a holiday so we're now back at the hotel and I've got all the parts here that I've got from this hall now two of the parts I actually managed to get when I went into the BitFenix office and they had some all parts laying around that they said they were going to throw out because they thought they didn't work so I've got this graphics card here I believe it's a gtx 770 might even be a 780 after they've got to pull it apart and check and they just said it doesn't work so I'm essentially going to test this thing out see if it does work and then we've got a the 87 motherboard here now this board honestly it's got so many bent pins I'm going to have a tough time trying to get this thing to work but if it does work there's going to be really awesome and then of course we've got those two parts that I've picked up at the market for really good prices so I'm hoping to see what I can make out of this but honestly guys use parts hunting is very challenging if you are in Taipei it is extremely challenging to the point where I was exhausted after I ran through all those night markets trying to get deals and people were kind of like looking at me strange because I guess buying used parts really isn't a thing here I guess everyone likes to buy new stuff kinda like Japan except Japan's got those junkyard places and they do make a little bit of money out of doing things like this so it was a great experience I really am enjoying Taipei itself it's a great place to come for you guys are thinking about a holiday everything's really cool the food to traveling here and some of the places are really awesome too so I am enjoying myself a little bit besides the EU's past hunting as well I don't think I'll be able to make a PC while I'm here a whole youth PC I think the question because they can actually start filming for Computex soon so on that note I did forget my microphone and it was a dynamic microphone that I forgot so I was actually out shopping for microphones and the guy had five different mics and I just said look that one looks used what's the deal on it he said oh it's like fifteen dollars literally and so I said can I try that compared to the $50 mic and he's like yeah sure and I had one listen to this used microphone and I thought it sounded a heat better but anyway I'll switch over to this microphone you guys can have a quick lesson because this is the kind of sound quality I'm going to be giving you guys at Computex when I'm doing the live one-on-one interviews so here's a quick sound test on the audio lapse microphone never heard of the brand but hopefully it just works that's all I'm hoping for and I'll be giving you guys some Computex coverage in the next couple of days and it's going to be hard because my voice is already gone and the event hasn't even started yet so that's pretty crazy so if you guys have a request as well let me know in the comment section below as I'll be here for the next week roughly and if you have any special requests in there not too crazy then I'll try and get them done for you guys and also with the giveaway for the monitors Steve and I will be announcing the winner on Twitter and we'll also be doing a live stream on Twitch so I'll put the link in the description below where you can check out the details for that it will be announced probably an hour beforehand so stay tuned if you want to see us give away these monitors live and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon and also if you enjoyed this one then be sure to hit that like button as well and yeah see you in the next tech video guys peace out for now goodbye Oh and