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late last night I landed in Thailand and I'm here for the Galax overclocking event but I got here a few days earlier and of course I'm gonna go use parts hunting now is here a year ago and when I was here I got a lot of comments about checking out some new places one of them being palladium Plaza and another one called fortune town also got recommended to go outside of the city but I'm really not too keen to venture outside the city as I'm only here for a few days I want to relax and not get into any trouble also got a lot of comments about ladyboys and Bangkok and guys if you're into that kind of thing then go for it as for me personally I'm good I don't need either of the two with that said let's get this show on the road so we've just made it into a palladium Plaza and you guys was saying that this place was better than pantip Plaza but I've already been here for like two minutes and I've already got hounded by three different people for massages so maybe is that is that way better but I don't know apparently on the fourth and fifth floor of this place is all whitey so I'm actually on the fourth floor now so we're gonna go use PC parts hunting up here and see what deers we can get but apparently there's also the sixth floor but that's out of like out of service at the moment but anyway if we stop over these places and we get deals then I'll record for you guys so now I've found a store right at the back of the fourth floor and this is called techno Beyond and I've met Ed he's a really nice guy he showed me around I asked what PC parts he has on display in which motherboards he has working I told him I'm looking for used motherboards mainly and he showed me he had a hate 55 gigabyte board and also a H 81 M so that's first and fourth gen motherboards I need both of them at the moment and so we struck a deal for about 1500 baht which would be around 70 or maybe $60 for the both of those boards so that's pretty good going I'm happy with that deal because as always when I go deal hunting I like to get at least one deal out of the whole equation just to make me feel satisfied as that after the day's ended so now just in a place called VN and computers and they've got something that new but they're of course old 1156 motherboards and they want to ground I think about 6070 us but they only have two DIMM slots and the V RMS I'm guessing is very weak so you really couldn't expect overclock from these motherboards but they do have some really cool cases behind me Mini ITX cases as well that I've never seen before they're very lightweight of course they're not as expensive as $100 cases I think they're asking around $50 but it's a really good experience here so far they've pointed me to a shop called ntek so we're gonna go over there and see if we can find some used actual used PC parts because apparently that's the place to go but ironically enough they're opening at 2:00 p.m. I mean I've never heard of a shop opening it like afternoon at 2:00 p.m. anyway maybe I'm just not with the times nowadays so now we're out the front of ntek and now this place has been recommended to me by practically everyone on this floor and when I came and checked out the place they definitely have the goods now they had a lot of h61 h87 also older motherboards as well so they've even got like an x79 board of course they are pretty tough on the prices i can't bargain them down at all so they're asking about a thousand baht for a motherboard I think that's worth it for the H 87 gigabyte board which has got the 8 pin CPU connect up from memory I believe this board especially it's because it's the revision one it can run a fork or eight threaded CPU absolutely fine without throttling so I'll probably look around and definitely go to panted Plaza and come back and go collect these deals just because of course I want to get the best deal regardless I know at the price that they're asking it's actually a pretty decent deal like it's solid it's just of course I want to look around and if the suitcase is already full with even better deals then we don't have to come back so I am definitely going to look at getting two of these motherboards the h-60 one which I could definitely use to replace that HP board with the GT 1030 or something and also that h87 like I said before really solid board so but they just won't bargain at all that they won't come down at prices here they're just really set on their one thousand bar which is I think it's about forty or Stran dollars or thirty USD or something like that so it is a pretty good deal it's just of course you want to get the best deals possible way that's still before when we picked up those two motherboards so I am hustling hard but I think I've met my match at this store right here so now I've gone around the whole fifth floor and I've asked around the stores who's got used motherboards and a lot of the places don't have used motherboards I actually saw in two of the stores they had the pricing on even just old H 81 series motherboards but they had them brand new for around 1,600 Bart so that deal for even a thousand Bart's pretty good if it's confirmed working for those motherboards but the store behind me now elite systems they've actually been really helpful in sort of telling me where to go and where to get the deels they do reckon a few stores at pantip Plaza will have some used parts and they actually just like everyone here is connected as well that's one thing I've got to tell you guys about they they all know each other on the same floor and so they'll you just be friendly to them and they'll like tell you the inside deals they'll talk to their friends about who's got the best prices on used price-performance parts so it's a really good atmosphere and from here behind me I actually managed to score a BTC Biostar 250 series multiple with 12 PCIe slots onboard for around about $150 so they they wanted about 3700 but I got them down to three thousand four hundred and fifty so that's a really good deal actually purchased that because that'll be able to replace my two systems with one and still have a lot more Headroom if I want to add graphics cards onto the actual mining bricks so really impressed with that board so yeah 150 Australian dollars it should be like 120 USD for that board which is a really good deal now another sad thing about especially even palladium I haven't been to pantip yet so I can't check it out but I was talking to a few people they moved over from pantip Plaza to palladium because the rents a lot cheaper here but on the fourth floor a couple of the guys were telling me that a lot of the stores are closing down because the business is so bad at the moment and also with that internet sales are taking over so it's really sad to see that I mean I I don't like hearing about economic tough times because people lose jobs and stuff like that even happening on YouTube with the ad pocalypse thing so it's a really weird time it feels like maybe the whole things going into recession even especially in Thailand so it's sad to hear about that because the people here are extremely nice it's so really it's awesome just to get out here and go parts hunting so a little bit sad to hear that news but of course we're gonna go over to pantip Plaza from here on in and see if we can score some deals over there and see what some of those prices of those news motherboards alike because a lot of the places here have those main boards and that's the main component that I need for these rigs so we just rocked into pantip Plaza and now we're gonna skip the first floor because the last time we came here the first floor just had nothing but new parts and it's really cool if you want to see some real cool custom builds wall mounted pieces and stuff like that they've got that on the first floor also if you're coming to Bangkok or Thailand to buy use PC parts then you're gonna get some pretty good deals if you can hunt around here but the new parts of course they're a little bit more expensive than Australia and a bit more expensive than the US so it's good if you're from like a remote island or something and the prices are really expensive but if you're coming from Australia the US or the UK then you're not really going to get good deals on new paths with that said let's check out the second floor and see what we can find so we just got done checking out the second floor and they did have one store called M&M technology and now these guys did have some good parts like they have the board's I was looking for but they're asking way too much like they'll asking about 30% more about 1,400 baht for the same motherboard as the other place so the other place definitely looking better at the moment so we're looking like we will go back but of course let's check out the third and fourth floor of this place before we do head back and on that note as well I didn't go to the back of this floor like the second floor here right at the end and people just didn't want to talk to me like they looked at me and they'll like I was like hey can I check out these motherboards in LA just like literally like looked at me and then just looked away I was like ok if you don't want to sell your stuff it's so good maybe well maybe they just knew I was like gonna hustle them and like the anti hustle in there like not wait we don't have the time mang and we finished up now on the third floor and this was pretty interesting because we went over at the back and there was one store that first of all had like a use part section and they opened up the doors and then they had the packages and they wanted like two thousand eight hundred baht for all their package deals with i3s and the motherboards that I wanted but it's a little too expensive I mean they're charging almost two thousand baht or like $80 for an i3 it's really not worth it but then we looked around the corner and the name of this place that we looked around the corner at was really unique to say the least it was called poo Computer Services so I hope that's not a indicator of their actual services that they provide but we managed to get a H 81 K as zeus board here for 800 baht so we saved 200 baht from the other place at palladium so that's winning baby so let's get on to the 4th floor and check out what deals they got up there and I think that's about it I mean there might be a fifth floor as well but let's go check it out and we just finished up on the fourth floor and that was a massive success we picked up a H 81 as Rob mini-itx board for a thousand baht so that'd be about 40 Australian dollars or 30 USD so the reason we got the Mini ITX board is that it gives us a bit of flexibility and now in the past I've done micro ATX boards but a used Mini ITX build is looking like it's on the cards now they did have another h80 one board for nine hundred baht and I did bargain them down from 1300 to 1400 AD one board but I'd rather pay an extra hundred baht for the h87 gigabyte boards so that'll give us a stronger vrm as I said before more options but with that said let's go hunt around on the last and final floor this is the fifth floor we'll go see if we can pick up any more deals before we head back to that place and grab some other boards from there so we just finished up on the fifth floor and this was a boss though we did come close to getting some deals we looked at a h87 em from a Zeus so this they wanted around 1400 baht for this I did say a thousand baht which would be like again 30 USD but they were pretty firm on that price but it wasn't a complete bust because they didn't have the same mini ITX board that I just bought from downstairs brand-new in-the-box going for 1,300 bars so that's an extremely good deal if you guys want to come here and you don't even want to haggle that's an extremely good deal going on the fifth floor here there was also another store that we went to and they had the asrock h61 and motherboard and they wanted a thousand bar just like the other place and I tried getting him down to nine hundred and eight hundred they just said no they wouldn't take it at all so I'd rather go back to the other place and buy from them because they were extremely nice to me so I guess manners matter if anything but with that said we're gonna go collect the loot from palladium and then we're gonna go get on out of here so we just finished up at NJ Tech and this is like crazy drama now I thought I'd just come back here and have a smooth easy by here with the two motherboards but what happened was I paid from initially a bargain him down a hundred baht so I did bargain him down about four or five dollars and so he accepted to mother woods for nineteen hundred but as I was packing in the mop or as they were packing him up for me I asked them to put the hard covers on because I'm gonna be putting these in suitcases and you shouldn't have just paper over the pins you'll risk bending the pins so it's always changing him over for hard covers I noticed that the h61 motherboard have a lot of bent pins and so with that I said I don't want this anymore and so he refund to be a thousand bucks so we ended up getting the h87 em for nine hundred baht which is like you know thirty Australian dollars or thirty USD or some of that so it's really cheap and I just got them to test that it was working because the other h61 mother was actually they had three of them and they all had bent pins on them so I was like damn you know this guy's selling some shady wares so I just looked and he did confirm that the h87 board was working so with that I got a refund of a thousand baht and so now I'm gonna go back to the other place that had the h-60 one as rock board just check that that's got no bent pins and I'll pick that up for a thousand five because I desperately need that I do need one h61 board because I've got an i5 2400 CPU that I pulled out of another build and I want to use that in a build and of course with motherboards they're always the main component in a build and a lot of people don't sell them cheap so especially good ones that are working so if you can always pick up a mainboard for good money then get it I just got back to the hotel and I am so buggered I'm spent guys I've just used all my energy now today just wheeling and dealing getting those good deals hustling and we ended up with five use motherboards three of those H 81 motherboards one of those at age 55 and also at age 61 also bought that BTC 250 Pro motherboard that was an extremely good deal considering it's got 12 PCIe slots and they all work for cryptocurrency mining and on that note of cryptocurrency mining a lot of people at both palladium and panted Plaza they were in de cryptocurrency really hard they're all using nice hash I was like asking on what's going on here and they're just all mining they're all into it in Thailand so apparently it's all between BTC ETH and Z cash here that's what they're all mining in Thailand so it was pretty cool to talk to him about crypto currencies and see what they were doing one of the guys was making racks for them and selling those and they'll selling all the 10 70s so the rumor here is is that they all use the 10 70s for cryptocurrency mining apparently they're just the best in terms of efficiency so that's why your 10 70s got sold out pretty much straight away well the other Graham Scouts did get sold out but they were a bit slower than the 10 70s to sell out also another thing is well I picked up this debug LED readout got that for around $8 that's really cool plug it into a PCI slot and you've now got a debug LED they can read out problems if you've got that and three LED lights as well on top of that I picked those three of them up for about $10 I think and they're going to be really cool for b-roll and just doing some little things so it's just really cheap some cool accessories that I picked up too so this has just been a massive used parts haul and this time around it's been so much better than the last time I came here there's just so many deals now with used PCs and the parts that they've got available there was so many multiples they're gonna picked up a lot more motherboards than I did I just picked up the cream of the crop and got the absolute best deal they could there was still pretty good deals as I said before the Mini ITX boards are brand new in the box so if you guys come here you can definitely get some good deals on use motherboards it also is really fun as well the food here is great if you're coming over make sure you change your money over at super cash they got the best I'm finding on the street or places around them usually match the price as well but they got really low spreads they beat the banks by like 2% as well so 2% saved if you just go to super cash and change your money over there but anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's epic used parts hunt in Bangkok they also did have the LGA 775 boards and ddr2 but as I've said on like live streams in the past I'm kind of phasing out of ddr2 and LGA 775 especially since the Aliexpress first gen i5s and IR Zeon's they're extremely cheap and also the motherboards like we picked up today are getting really cheap as well anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below what was your favorite deal of today I'm so buggered but I'll probably go eat dinner have a drink somewhere and relax and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye so I'll think about it so 2,800 bar for this one okay all right I'll think about it hey this one you the H a do you want how much I'm like I'm looking around here and I'm probably the only happy looking dude in this place at the moment because I'm getting the deals