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(upbeat music) - So late last night, I was doing a lot of research for an upcoming video where I was gonna take a look, at the used versus new market, and also give you guys my experience in the last few months on how things have changed a lot. But then I stumbled on eBay, on a listing, that really shocked me in two ways because there were some things that the seller was doing that was really questionable, we'll talk about that soon, but at the same time there was over 800 of these PCs, that have been sold. And it got me thinking, I mean all the hard work, and effort that we put into this channel and also other channels on YouTube and also you guys in the community that go around and help everyone, get the best value and also make sure they're not getting ripped off. It clearly isn't that strong in my opinion, when a PC like this is, just still floating out there in the wild, and people are buying it in droves. So let's have a look at what this PC has inside, and why it's so bad even for 345$. (rock music) Now when I first saw this PC on Ebay and with the title, I thought, okay, Intel i5 3.2 Gigahertz, eight gigabytes of RAM, one terabyte hard drive, it looks like it's got a decent case, with some fans kitted out and some RGB bling. But then I clicked on the listing and as I'm scrolling down my face is just dropping more and more, and then I saw it had an Intel i5 650. Now make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, this is pretty much the only desktop variant of an i5, that has two cores. That's right, it doesn't even have four cores like you would expect with an i5, it's basically an i3, just glorified into an i5, because it had on-board graphics. It was actually one of the first iterations of a CPU to have a graphics portion on board. But to complicate things even more, when I checked out the graphics card, it had a 7470 inside, with, whoa! Wait for it, one gigabyte of VRAM. Now back in the day, I tried out a 7570 I think it was, and that was complete garbage for Gaming. So this is sort of my first critique of the seller, the fact that he calls this a Gaming PC, in 2019 is pretty misleading. I think it should be called, a Retro Gaming PC because it's not really gonna be doing any modern gaming and 2019. Though, to his credit, he does at least state, that this thing can run, terrible fps in fortnight. I'm guessing it's the absolute lowest resolution, lower settings possible. And it's getting 27 fps, but he says it's no lag and make no mistake, I mean, your computer's probably not going to get any lag from the internet, but lag in general just means a sluggish, slow feeling at 27 fps on a machine like this, it's going to feel laggy. But going through the rest of the specs, eight gigabytes of Ram, one terabyte hard drive you'd think, yeah, this PC is okay in that regard, but then you look at the motherboard inside the pictures and it looks like it's a non-over clock-able board. So if you wanted to extract more performance, out of this i5 650 then you're gonna be SOL because this thing is not going to overclock, and with that, even if you replace the graphics card inside, you're still gonna be getting a terrible Gaming experience. This thing will not play games like Apex Legends for example. It barely plays fortnight, and I wouldn't even call that play because 27 fps. But upon closer inspection, looking inside the case, they are using a VS450 now, of course they do make it VS450 power supply and it's actually a decent model, for the money you pay, it will definitely do a fine job of running a system that's not overclock-able in 2019, but when you look at the brand name, it's actually like a rip off brand. So it's not even a true 450 watt power supply. So if you even changed out some of the components in the future, you're still gonna have to change out the power supply, because it's going to be pretty much complete crap. But the thing is, what confuses me more about this listing is the fact that over 800 people have bought this PC, and this guy has got pretty good feedback. I mean, has anyone in the audience out there, have you guys bought one of these PCs? And if so, were you happy? I'd seriously love to read your thoughts and opinions. Cause me personally, when I sell a Gaming PC, I could never do this to someone. It's for me personally, it feels like it's borderline scamming, because you're not selling someone a Gaming PC. You're selling him literally garbage, that no one wanted from these old office PCs, and he's probably re-purposing them, putting them in a fancy case with the cheap power supply, and then saying they're Gaming PCs. And when I posted on Twitter, people are replying and saying, hey, this is what I sold for a similar price. And for instance got an RX480 and it's got a much better CPU. That's kind of like what you would expect. And when I was in the US, I did put together a pretty good PC, that Christopher Yee sold for me, for 350 US, and it was just miles better, than this PC right here, and I still managed to make a bit of a profit on that. But before we move onto the next part, and that's gonna be the solution, let me know in the comments below, have you guys had friends that have been sort of oblivious to this and they've wanted to buy this and then they've asked you a question and you've sort of sent them in the right direction? Because, I know for a fact, if someone was to ask a question of whether this PC was good in this video's comments, I know pretty much all of you guys would steer them, away from this and in the right direction. Same with the Discord Server that we've got going on. But I guess now here's where things get better because for literally the same money or a little bit less, you can build yourself a brand new system that will have better components and much better performance. Let's go through the list here. We've got a rise in 32200g. This is a true four core CPU. It also has a graphics portion on-board and includes a CPU cooler. So as long as you get a motherboard, which we've looked around and there's a B450 from Asraq, for $65, and some eight gigabytes of DDR for memory. Now you do want this in your channel, and you can pick this up, for around $59 and then, put this in your system, couple it with a decent case. In this case, I found one for $32, and a half decent power supply like a 400 watt from AVGA for $35, one terabyte hard drive, You should have no problems. This should set you up, and if you wanna build something like this, there's so many guides out there on YouTube. Just put in there, how to build your first PC. Ask a friend or a family member, It's really not that hard. And you'll be saving yourself so much time and hustle. And on top of that, you'll actually get a proper warranty as opposed to this eBay seller who I don't think after that sort of a three months sort of delay, or whenever it is on eBay after that, I don't think you're gonna be getting much warranty out of this PC. But lastly, you probably thinking, okay, Brian, I need windows 10. This guy's advertising windows 10. Nowadays you don't even need to activate windows 10, to play games on it so you can save money that way as well, and that's an option. But anyway, thanks for watching this video. If you're new to the channel, I'll put some links in the description below for you guys. If you see this video and you're thinking about buying something like this PC off eBay, then don't. Just build yourself something brand new, or ask around in the comments on whether a PC for sale in your local area, or another PC on eBay or Amazon is better value, and people here will point you in the right direction. But you guys, if you enjoyed today's video then be sure to hit that like button and also let us know, if you've seen any other examples of this. I know on the Twitter thread that I made for it, people were telling me that there was some Cyber Power PCs that are still available with like FX 6300s and questionable GPUs, but I actually don't think that Cyber Power themselves selling that, it's sort of like a re-seller that's using sort of like the brand name and the case, to try and hoarse people essentially. And I just think with all the social media and all the open communication we have nowadays in 2019 this kind of stuff shouldn't be happening. I mean, people shouldn't be getting away with it, but they clearly are. 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