WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.440 As the price of PC parts marches from wildly expensive to downright 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:13.040 unobtainable, PC gaming on a budget requires some 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:17.440 creativity. We've shown time and time again that the best way to save money on 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:22.000 building a computer is to buy a broken part and then repair it. A gamble for 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:25.840 sure, but if you're smart, it is a gamble that can pay off. Today though, 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:31.800 we're gambling the whole house. We're not just buying one not working part. 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:37.120 We're buying only not working. We're buying only not working 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:41.360 parts and hoping to turn them into a working PC. Theoretically, we could have 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:46.559 four working computers at the end of this video, or I just spent $2,600 on 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:52.719 e-waste. But what isn't a waste is the segue to our sponsor, MSI. Their 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:54.480 ProZ890S Wi-Fi PZ motherboard features a 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:58.239 back connect design, which allows for easier cable management and cleaner 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:02.160 looking builds. Check it out today using our link in the description. Right out 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:06.320 of the gate, I would like to thank/blame Sven Wires who said we should do a full 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:10.080 PC build with only fixed parts called the Necro Build. Thank you very much. I 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:15.600 don't think this is going to end very well. To start off, Adam is going to help me pick out what components we 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:20.720 think are going to have the best bet of building a fully working computer with 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:24.720 just our knowledge from looking at them briefly. One of the toughest decisions 00:01:23.119 --> 00:01:31.520 when we were starting this project was deciding if we wanted to go with LGA or 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:34.240 PGA cuz as you can see here, the pins on 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:39.360 this motherboard are probably bent and that's likely why it doesn't work. But 00:01:36.479 --> 00:01:43.600 that also means that our CPU is not going to be easy to fix. In the end 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:50.720 though, we decided to go with LG 1700 because there were plenty of dead Intel 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:52.640 CPUs on eBay. Not so much for AM4. Hm. I 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:55.439 wonder why. Intel. And what I've noticed on this one specifically is there's a 00:01:54.159 --> 00:02:02.399 lot of places where it looks like it's already been manipulated. Like there's like adhesive or something around the 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:06.560 CPU fan header. I feel like we got ripped off with this one. How much was 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:11.120 this? 50 bucks. And how much was this? 85. So it's the same one, but it has all 00:02:08.959 --> 00:02:15.360 of the stuff on it and no bent pins. Yeah. Do we go with the recently dropped 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:19.200 fully stripped motherboard? I think we should evaluate other options first. 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:23.200 This one looks nice. So, was there any eBay notes on this? 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:28.640 Cuz it looks pretty good. None at all. Although, there's one hella bent pin in 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:32.800 there that looks like it's flat against the back of the plastic. Just looking at 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:38.319 the the condition of the box, it does not make me very confident. Uh oh, 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:44.040 that's great. With an open So, we had the retention bracket not mounted. And, 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:49.519 uh, an open socket that has now been jammed here. Bent pins in the 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:54.400 corner. I don't like the look of that one. I think that these are two best 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:59.280 candidates. I agree. So, on to the next components. For our CPUs, we have four 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:04.480 options. And I already know which one I want. Okay. Why? This 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:08.319 13700F right here. And for two reasons. First of all, because it's the F, it 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:11.920 doesn't have an iGPU. So, it is entirely possible that the person that tested it 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:15.760 just doesn't know what that means and thought that it wasn't posting. Another 00:03:13.920 --> 00:03:19.280 thing that's possible is that since it's 13th gen, it could have been put into a 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:23.360 motherboard that didn't have an updated BIOS and they might have just been like, 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:27.760 "Oh, it didn't post." Even though the motherboard only had support for 12th 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:32.400 gen chip. This one's a 13900 K and that's faster. 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:38.640 It's a lot faster. It also cost us $200. $200. It's basically it's new. It's not. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:43.760 The 13700 was 75. I think we go with that cuz it's just such a better value. 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:48.400 It's really Whoa, look at the damage on the corner there. Oh yeah, I think we 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:52.080 just have to cross our fingers and hope for the best. Would you ever in a 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:56.000 million years put dead RAM into your system? Is it like something that you 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.519 would choose to do to yourself? I mean, I wouldn't choose to do any of this. I 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:03.920 guess I personally, as someone that loves doing sketchy stuff like this, 00:04:02.239 --> 00:04:07.840 would never put dead RAM into my computer. It's the sort of thing where I 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:12.720 just want to trust that my memory works. It's not very expensive right now, and 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:17.199 we've only saved like $10 on each one of these by buying it dead. The biggest 00:04:14.959 --> 00:04:21.840 problem also is that memory errors can show up in so many different ways across 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:26.880 so many different workloads. And maybe it seems fine. I'd never trust it. I 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:31.040 don't even know how to pick. I think we just play the odds games. These three 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:35.040 came as a single stick. This one came as two, which gives us twice the 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:39.120 opportunity for one of them to work. Okay, let's go. I I trust you. Yeah, I 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:43.040 trust you. Now it's time for GPUs. I feel like it's really hard to tell if a 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:49.199 GPU is broken until you tear it down. Yeah, well, with the exception of this 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:52.960 one. This one is obviously broken. We should not have bought this one. What 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:58.080 are all the arrows? Two places where it is absolutely. 00:04:55.759 --> 00:05:03.840 At least they like let us know. Okay, so no 2070. What about like a 3070 or what 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:09.360 are those? We've got a 6TN00 XT and a 6800 XT. both which I kind of like the 00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:14.880 looks of because their warranty stickers have not been touched. Yeah, this one 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:16.880 has that rust here though. That doesn't 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:23.120 look very promising. I think my decision is the 6800 XT because it has no visible 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:27.039 damage but also it has a BIOS switch right here and I have seen it before 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:30.880 where a card will seem like it's dead and you just flip that switch and 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:34.400 suddenly it comes alive and whoever was testing it never thought to do that. So 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:38.720 we just need a cooler and an SSD, right? So, what are we going to do for cooler? 00:05:36.320 --> 00:05:43.520 I think that this Enerax guy right here is our best bet. These are well known 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:47.600 for sludging up and dying, but also because they're well known for sludging 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:52.080 up and dying, fixing it is also quite well documented. Whereas the rest of the 00:05:49.520 --> 00:05:56.080 stuff, who knows why it's dead. I just feel like like what could have gone 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:00.880 wrong with this outside of the fact that it looks like it was pulled from Chernobyl. I think that that's the 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:04.400 problem. So, we could go with this one knowing that it'll probably work. Even 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:09.919 if the fan doesn't work, we can just steal one from a case or something. It 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:12.080 is so ew. It is pretty groy. Look at ew. 00:06:09.919 --> 00:06:15.919 Terrible but functional or terrible but perhaps totally destroyed. We could get 00:06:13.919 --> 00:06:19.919 pancrass to fix this one. I love putting work on other people. Let's do it. SSDs. 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.880 I have no I don't even know how you'd fix one. I don't. Nope. I guess choose 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:27.919 the most normal one. Do you want to know which one I'm leaning towards? The 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:32.080 Optane. Of course you're going to do the Optane. This thing is so freaking cool. 00:06:30.080 --> 00:06:36.319 This thing is so sick. Screw it. Let's do it. Let's Let's go Optane. I like 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:42.080 making bad decisions. Are all of these AS is? Like there's no side panels. So, 00:06:39.039 --> 00:06:44.800 we got two four parts ASIS from eBay. 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:50.000 That's this one and that one. And then I got these two for free as e-waste. 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:54.240 That one has fans, though. Let's do at least one thing that's going to be nice. 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:59.039 All right. Okay. Case with fans, but no side panels. Cougar. Finally, we have to 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:02.720 pick a power supply. Now, everything is untested except for these. I took these 00:07:01.039 --> 00:07:06.880 to Lucas, had him put them on the power supply tester to figure out what works. 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:12.800 One thing that's interesting is we got this box of 10 as a power supplies for 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:18.319 $10. Do you want to guess how many of these 10 work? Um, zero. I guess that 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:22.319 takes us to this bin. Yeah. One thing that four parts power supplies all seem 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:27.039 to share is that they are just missing cables if they are modular at all. I 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:31.280 don't need a modular power supply. And I feel like having the cables attached 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.080 means that we're not likely to plug in a cable that was not meant to be with that 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:37.840 power supply and destroy it. Go with the Corsair. This one right here. I think 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:43.759 that that's our best bet. Cool. Cuz this one's alive. Oh, yeah. Now we just have 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:47.759 to systematically test all of the stuff that we have chosen. We each have a test 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:51.039 bench. And David back there has one as well for the more tricky stuff. I'll 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.240 take the motherboard and try and repair those pins. Broken GPU in. Let's see if 00:07:53.840 --> 00:08:01.440 it boots. Lights is good. 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:03.120 It works. It's just on. Okay. Sweet. Did 00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:07.919 you flick the switch? I didn't do anything. I didn't touch it. Sweet. One 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:13.879 part down. Oh, what the hell is that? Oh, look at 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:20.800 that. Look at this. Oh, that is filthy. 00:08:17.919 --> 00:08:27.440 Why is it green? It's mold. Or like that's a not mold. That's like, oh, got 00:08:23.599 --> 00:08:29.039 to be living. Oh, yeah. I'm going to try 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:32.320 and clean this out. I'll try and flush it out a little bit, too, in the in the 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:40.479 bathroom or something like that. We bought this GPU for $200. Yeah. And it 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:45.240 retails for $550. 500. So, we just saved 00:08:40.479 --> 00:08:45.240 $300 on a fully functional GPU. 00:08:48.959 --> 00:08:55.360 I guess I'll test the RAM now. Meanwhile, I'm looking at this CPU 00:08:52.880 --> 00:09:03.040 socket, and it looks like there's only one pin here that has gone bad, but it 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:05.360 has gone very bad. Getting it back might 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:10.519 be possible, but there's also a real chance that I just break it right 00:09:08.680 --> 00:09:15.040 here. Come on. With that pin bent up, I'm going to 00:09:12.959 --> 00:09:18.080 give it a try on my test bench. Tried it with both RAM sticks, got an error 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:24.959 light. Trying it with one RAM stick, error light. Oh, it's moved on. So, this 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:30.279 might be just a dead stick. Huh. I wonder if this has anything to do with 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:33.399 it. Fixable, maybe. Dan, I don't have a 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:35.360 mic. That might be speaking to my 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:41.040 chest. Speak to me like you always say when you speak to women. 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:44.800 Yeah, this looks uh this looks fixable. Oh, 00:09:42.760 --> 00:09:49.279 sweet. So, we're probably just going to have ones. Yeah, I think one sticks 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.560 fine. No. Well, I'm glad that I was able 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:55.360 to take part of this and find two working components. Well, I guess best 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:58.640 of luck. Godspeed. Since testing all these components is going to take 00:09:56.560 --> 00:10:03.600 absolutely forever, my helpers are going to be swapped out. And now I have got a 00:10:00.880 --> 00:10:08.800 Dan. Hi. Who can try and test out this CPU and this SSD? Do we know what's 00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:13.360 wrong with them? No. Oh, great. Over here, I've got that motherboard with the 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:17.519 bent pin that might no longer be bent. Let's give it a 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:21.600 try. Well, that's not good. Normally, if there's just a bent pin, you would 00:10:19.040 --> 00:10:27.120 expect to press the power on button and it would do stuff until whatever that 00:10:24.640 --> 00:10:31.120 pin does stops it from continuing. Whereas, this is doing absolutely 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:34.240 nothing. It's not like boot looping like it's not turning off and turning on 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:38.640 again. It's just like not getting to the first stage. My hopes are not good for 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:44.000 the dead CPUs. It's really No, generally a CPU dies. It like really dies. Yeah. 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:50.240 Grime around the edge is all gone and the fins are nice and clear. Yep. uh 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:52.880 O-ring is still intact, so that is good. 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:57.680 And then this guy came out okay as well. On the other side, though, it's got some 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:03.040 pretty good corrosion going on. So, this had actually a protrusion that I scraped 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:08.560 off, and I think that's actually metal deposits that had grown on there, but I 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:14.640 think this would be a case of could get it working now, but may not work for 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:17.760 long. Uh, I'm getting 00 and I mean the 00:11:14.640 --> 00:11:20.640 cooler is getting pretty warm. Uh, I 00:11:17.760 --> 00:11:24.880 assume 00 means very bad. Do you want to just start trying the other CPUs that we 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:30.640 got and hope for the best? I genuinely don't think you should ever buy a dead 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:32.720 CPU. 12700F. Okay, this one is also 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:37.040 saying 00. I don't know if this is a good sign. This is our dead Aorus 00:11:34.959 --> 00:11:41.440 motherboard and even with the pins bent back up, it is doing absolutely nothing. 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:47.680 So, I'm going to try and flash the BIOS. My BIOS flash has finished and it still 00:11:44.880 --> 00:11:52.480 does nothing. Absolutely nothing at all. This one's working, or at least 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:59.279 pretending to work. Is that our 12700 KF? Yeah. Look at that. You're into the 00:11:55.360 --> 00:12:01.120 BIOS. 12700 KF. That's our broken CPU. 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:06.839 Yeah. It's seeing on both sticks of memory, which is great. Yeah. Oh, 00:12:08.160 --> 00:12:15.200 you shouldn't have made noises. Oh, beans. Another thing that is good is I 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:21.920 thought that I fixed the pins on this motherboard, but there's other ones that I didn't notice were broken because I 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:27.040 was too distracted by We just got sand. I don't think I've ever seen just sand. 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:33.160 Right now, it's at 5,000. Let's just try something extremely low. 00:12:31.160 --> 00:12:37.519 Maybe 30,000 MHz. All right, I got into Windows. Oh, 00:12:35.920 --> 00:12:43.680 wow. My intuition is sometimes right. Yeah, 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:46.160 we're locked at 3 GHz. So, it's just 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:50.160 unstable. Let's try Cinebench multi-core and see if it'll even like make it 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:56.240 through at 3 GHz. So, I don't know. Does this count as working if you can't use 00:12:53.360 --> 00:13:00.639 the full potential of it? I think we can call this one a win. The way that this 00:12:58.160 --> 00:13:04.639 has failed really doesn't feel like a bent pin problem. It feels like a dead 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:08.000 motherboard problem. At some point, we had to run out of luck. We got eight 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:13.120 motherboards in a row that we're able to repair. The ninth, I guess, wasn't it. 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:18.399 I'm moving on. Coming into this, I knew that spending 00:13:14.680 --> 00:13:21.600 $415 on four probably dead CPUs was a 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:24.639 really bad idea. Mhm. So, I have backup 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:26.560 i5 12600 KS. Okay. And how much did you 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:31.920 pay for these guys? Each one of those is about $200. So, this one's boosting to 4 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:36.160 and a half gigs pretty much all core. It's already hit TJ Maxx and it seems to 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:41.360 be working a lot better than the other one, obviously. Yep. Turns out that 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:45.839 buying a good CPU is a good idea. So, I think for our first build, we can use 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:50.240 this dead CPU and be like, "Oh, yeah. It's all dead parts." I'm going to throw 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:55.040 this card in and see what the hell this does. I've also got this motherboard 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:59.040 here, which is quite beautiful. 85 bucks for this is great, but there's nothing 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:02.240 obviously wrong, which might sound like it's good, but I really like to see 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:11.480 something and be like, "Ah, I can fix that." I just tried to boot this computer with the Intel SSD in it, and 00:14:07.199 --> 00:14:13.519 it booted into Kobuku or 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:17.360 something. Should I format it? Do you want to lose the special Linux on there? 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:23.360 Can lose the special Linux. Throw on some Windows. And that's our boot drive 00:14:19.040 --> 00:14:25.440 for the Necro PC. Power on ours is can I 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:31.279 see this in like normal values? So it's been on for five and a half years. So we 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:35.519 dump our drives also around that time. So this was definitely pulled from like 00:14:33.199 --> 00:14:41.360 a server. So I'm calling this like good but old. I think you can start trying to 00:14:39.040 --> 00:14:45.199 get motherboards to work because I am not having success. I tried to biosplash 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:51.000 this one and I'm getting the solid green light of it. No workie. Bye. 00:14:52.240 --> 00:15:00.800 I was having a RAM problem, so I removed one RAM stick and now it's fine. We also 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:05.040 have only one RAM stick cuz one of our RAM sticks is dead. So, it's kind of a 00:15:02.959 --> 00:15:12.000 match made in heaven. So, this one's probably the worst pin damage I've seen. 00:15:07.199 --> 00:15:13.760 You can somebody lined this one. You can 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:18.320 see them coming back in line with the light. See the light reflecting on it. 00:15:16.160 --> 00:15:22.560 So, that tells me that it's too low. They'll never be the same. They'll never 00:15:20.160 --> 00:15:27.279 all reflect perfectly. Uh, but I'm calling this maybe good enough. So, 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:29.279 we'll try it. Okay, there we go. That's 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:34.560 great. The CPU is way too hot. I'm going to turn this off. Um, so the CPU is at 00:15:32.079 --> 00:15:38.959 90 at idle, so maybe not. Um, okay. So, this one I'm going to call fixed. Yeah, 00:15:37.040 --> 00:15:43.680 fixed motherboard. Yeah. And if we're lucky, this one as well. This computer's 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:49.279 basically built, but I now need to attach the cooler. And given that the 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:51.199 cooler is not made for this socket or 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:55.360 this case, it could get pretty interesting. This one worked out of the 00:15:53.040 --> 00:16:00.000 box. Motherboard. Wow. So, we got uh what, four now? Something like that. 00:15:58.079 --> 00:16:05.680 It's pretty good. This one has the worst pin damage so far. 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:09.600 Ooh, that's gnarly. That is gnarly. What 00:16:05.680 --> 00:16:11.920 you can do is you can look up the pin 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:18.720 out for these CPUs. Yeah, we're missing an entire pin. And often there'll be 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:21.040 like big sections of pins which are one 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:25.160 thing. Yeah, there might be 50 grounds there. If that's the one that's missing, 00:16:22.800 --> 00:16:31.360 then whatever. If it is the pin that goes to this memory 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:33.600 module, you're screwed. I just about 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:38.480 have the CPU cooler attached. I am using two zip ties that go through the CPU 00:16:36.079 --> 00:16:42.480 cooler mounting holes, around the back, and then up through the heat pipes on 00:16:40.160 --> 00:16:48.240 this cooler. I wouldn't recommend this, but also it kind of works pretty good. 00:16:44.800 --> 00:16:50.240 This is my first time. Um, if that is 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:55.440 the right pin, looking at the pin out, it might be like one of the core um 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:59.920 voltagey thingies, which is probably a good sign. Normally, you can tell if the 00:16:57.680 --> 00:17:06.480 system's actually doing stuff if either caps lock or numblock works. There you 00:17:02.880 --> 00:17:09.919 go. Oh. Uhhuh. 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.439 There we go. So, we have one slot on 00:17:09.919 --> 00:17:15.760 here that might be damaged. So, it's probably in the DRAM section. This one 00:17:13.919 --> 00:17:20.160 has one working RAM slot. For a motherboard with a missing pin, I think 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:24.199 that's a pretty big win. Mhm. Well, so far we've been able to save four of the 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:29.720 seven motherboards that we had, which is excellent. And also, we have our first 00:17:27.439 --> 00:17:36.080 finished Necro PC. Okay. Oh, everything lights up now. 00:17:33.360 --> 00:17:44.320 Green light's good. Huh? High five. Yeah, this is an abomination. 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:46.320 Nice job. Nice job. I guess uh I'll 00:17:44.320 --> 00:17:51.280 leave for your next buddy to come and give you a handler. Thanks, guys. Next 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:55.440 person. It's the start of day two. We have Jordan here and we are just going 00:17:53.360 --> 00:17:59.360 to blast through testing as many components as possible. With any luck, 00:17:57.760 --> 00:18:04.080 we will have enough to make a couple more working computers soon, even if we 00:18:01.840 --> 00:18:08.160 need to bring in working CPUs and stuff like that. What do you want to test? 00:18:05.919 --> 00:18:13.679 Computers. Okay, let's do it. Should we try our RAM at the same time? Mine has 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:17.840 already looped twice and the DRAM light is on. I don't think there's anything I 00:18:15.600 --> 00:18:22.880 can do to save this besides just tell you don't buy dead RAM. Yeah, that's the 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:26.200 RAM stick that had brown water coming out of it. 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:33.280 I'm a genius. I'm awesome at fixing computers. 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:38.480 This guy is the RAM whisperer. Want to try yours? Sure. If that just 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:45.919 works for you, I'm going to be so mad. No way. Why is it working? Why does it 00:18:42.320 --> 00:18:48.240 work in your bench? So, what this means 00:18:45.919 --> 00:18:54.559 is that four out of the five RAM sticks that we bought just work. Yeah. Which 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:57.559 means that buying dead RAM's a good idea. 00:18:58.320 --> 00:19:00.960 RTX 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:07.600 3070 straight to full fan speed and not 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:11.280 slowing down is not a great sign. What I've got here is a BIOS flasher. 00:19:09.919 --> 00:19:16.160 Basically, what you do is you connect this to a computer and then these pins 00:19:13.600 --> 00:19:20.720 go directly over top of the BIOS chip on your GPU. This can allow us to load a 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:24.960 BIOS onto the GPU without actually being able to boot into Windows. So, if the 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:30.559 BIOS is corrupted, we could potentially solve it with this thing. I switched 00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:32.160 over to the onboard video and I have the 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:36.240 test card still in here to see if it'll show up or not. Uh, we're just checking 00:19:34.320 --> 00:19:40.799 in device manager to see if it's here. It's not under display adapters. So, I'm 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:45.679 checking under the uh other devices here. Our card is not being detected in 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:52.200 Windows at all. Well, Jordan looks at that 3070. I have the 6TN00 XT that has 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:56.760 very clearly taken a couple of hits. Is it just me or does it look like 00:19:54.559 --> 00:20:02.480 someone's been at those solder joints before? I have some form of radio on 00:19:59.679 --> 00:20:08.160 here that just says no video on it. Uh with no other 00:20:04.360 --> 00:20:10.960 markings. It feels kind of old to me. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:16.039 Oh, they were liars. There's video. There's 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:19.760 video. Uh, looks like this is a Radeon 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:22.720 RX6800 XT. Soldering a GPU is very 00:20:19.760 --> 00:20:27.039 difficult. It uses a multi-layer PCB and on many of them there will be an entire 00:20:25.360 --> 00:20:31.600 layer of copper which helps with heat dissipation and it also just makes for a 00:20:29.120 --> 00:20:35.600 very easy ground for the engineers. What that means though is that when you put a 00:20:33.280 --> 00:20:39.520 soldering iron up to it, it won't get heated up as much as you would like and 00:20:37.520 --> 00:20:44.720 all that heat just gets spread out across the entire board. So, in order to 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:49.280 solder this stuff, you need to heat it up. That's this incredible contraption 00:20:47.760 --> 00:20:53.840 that I have right here. Normally, you would have an official like station for 00:20:51.120 --> 00:20:58.799 this kind of thing, but we do not at the moment. Our 6800 XT appears to be 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:03.919 perfectly fine here. Uh, turns out it came from Dell. We just finished our 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.919 benchmark in firmware 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:10.880 here. After a little bit of soldering, these are all actually attached to the 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:15.280 GPU now, which is great. I don't think I did a fantastic job, but electrically 00:21:13.520 --> 00:21:19.520 connected is electrically connected. Rocket ship fans 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:24.400 again. Well, I think we can chalk this 3070 to trying our best and not 00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:28.320 succeeding. We paid $130 for this piece of 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:33.039 e-waste. We did attempt to do the BIOS flashing through this little tool, but 00:21:30.600 --> 00:21:36.960 unfortunately, this only reads F, which makes sense because the card itself is 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:42.400 dead. In total, we were able to get two GPUs working out of six, which is pretty 00:21:40.080 --> 00:21:49.440 bad. But also, you can think of it as we spent just over $1,000 and we got just 00:21:45.760 --> 00:21:52.080 over $1,150 worth of working GPUs. So, I 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:57.200 guess that's a win. Okay, our first SSD is perfectly fine. It just passed our 00:21:53.840 --> 00:21:59.679 smart tests. So, we have uh how much? 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:05.520 240 gigs of storage. Oh, that one's bad. Oh, which drive is 00:22:01.679 --> 00:22:08.240 that? That is the 800 gig Intel. Well, 00:22:05.520 --> 00:22:13.159 we'll try the WD next. It's not even detecting 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:16.960 it. I think this SSD is brand 00:22:13.159 --> 00:22:19.480 new. It's got zero megabytes written and 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:23.520 it wasn't initialized in Windows Disc Tool. So, I suspect someone plugged it 00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:29.360 into their computer, didn't know how to format it, and said it's broken. Zero 00:22:27.120 --> 00:22:33.280 bytes written, zero bytes read. It's been powered on eight times. That is a 00:22:31.679 --> 00:22:37.440 brand new drive that someone didn't know how to initialize. I'm moving on to 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:43.440 testing some coolers here. This one right here from NZXT cost us only $15 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:48.240 and it came with these three Corsair RGB fans, which means we kind of already won 00:22:45.600 --> 00:22:52.320 with this one. But the problem is that I don't see any way to turn on the pump. 00:22:49.840 --> 00:22:55.520 There is this little USB port here, but I'm guessing this will not work because 00:22:53.840 --> 00:22:59.520 all the power is likely delivered over these pins and we don't have the cable 00:22:57.280 --> 00:23:03.200 for that. And yep, it's not working. My thought to get this to work is there's 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:08.880 probably some power pins here. So, if you put 5 volts across the correct ones, 00:23:06.320 --> 00:23:12.880 it'll probably turn on. Which ones exactly those pins are? I don't know. 00:23:11.120 --> 00:23:18.640 Let's try and take it apart. Opening up this cooler on the inside. There's a 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:20.240 bunch of water. That's uh not what you 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:24.880 want around the electronics for your pump. That is for sure. And now we have 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:29.360 our final guest, Elijah. Jordan was an excellent help. So, we know how many 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:32.880 SSDs we have. And also, we have one more GPU that we can turn into a working 00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:36.720 computer. Do you want to look at those coolers over there? That's all we have 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:39.919 left. I will do my best. Let's start with the NZ XT1. Before you do that, do 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:44.960 you want to see what I'm doing here? This other NZ XT1 does not have the 00:23:42.080 --> 00:23:49.200 power connectors. So, I'm thinking we just find out where to apply power and 00:23:47.360 --> 00:23:58.400 then maybe it'll work. Let's put that there. I'm very out of my element 00:23:52.760 --> 00:23:59.600 here. Oh, I did it. It's on. Alex, do 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:05.280 you remember what was wrong with this when you bought it? It says incomplete 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:09.600 as is untested. Missing screw. I think you will get what you see in the photo. 00:24:07.600 --> 00:24:15.279 Oh, if it's just missing a screw, that's easy. Oh crap. Okay. No, I am missing a 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:17.360 bit more stuff. I'm missing a standoff 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:20.279 to go between these cuz otherwise this would put way too much mounting pressure 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:27.440 on the CPU. Get on there. And now it's a Molex 00:24:25.360 --> 00:24:31.440 powered pump. Hopefully there's something in here that will work. Oh, 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:35.440 that might work. Oh, that looks promising. I think those will work. 00:24:33.760 --> 00:24:39.039 Yeah, let's just The method we're going to try here is we're going to try to 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:42.400 bypass the standoff because you can actually screw all the way through the 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:46.640 back plate. So, if you had enough clearance behind your motherboard, you 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:53.919 might be able to just kind of go really, really deep with the screws and then 00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:53.919 secure it, you know, by feel. 00:24:55.240 --> 00:25:00.480 There. There. Oh my goodness. Look at 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:00.480 the 00:25:01.320 --> 00:25:10.480 gap. It works. I'm going to look at our last AIO here. It's got the right 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:16.159 mounting. It's got the spacers and the whole thing. Oh, we have the power 00:25:13.840 --> 00:25:20.000 connector. Incredible. I've got this Deep Cool AIO that as far as I can tell, 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:24.799 nothing's wrong and nothing's missing from it. So, I'm just going to plug it 00:25:21.919 --> 00:25:28.240 in and see if it's happy. Okay, now plug in the cable that I thought I was 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:31.200 missing. And then I think this might actually just be working. So, our 00:25:29.760 --> 00:25:37.440 solution was just four screws. Hopefully. Hey, we have actual lights. 00:25:33.679 --> 00:25:39.360 This is working. Oh, no way. So, was it 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:43.919 just a working pump or did you have to do anything? I think it's just working. 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:48.000 Oh, I just felt air bubbles. Oh, I just felt a whack ton of air bubbles go 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:51.279 through. Did we just get two working AIO's? 00:25:49.679 --> 00:25:57.600 Yeah. How much was this one again? This one was 15 bucks. Normal 155. 00:25:55.679 --> 00:26:00.240 That's a steal. That is sick. I think we're about at the point where we can 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:04.640 put together two computers and have a game. 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:10.400 All right, we have our two Necro builds built and they are 00:26:06.840 --> 00:26:12.000 um computers that technically exist. I 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:16.960 think it is very safe to say that you should not be buying broken GPUs or CPUs 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:23.480 because they are both expensive and the chances of them actually working is very 00:26:19.919 --> 00:26:27.200 very low. As for power supplies and 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:28.960 RAM, you can Our results were not too 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:32.159 bad between them. Like a lot of our RAM just worked and a lot of our power 00:26:30.320 --> 00:26:36.159 supplies did as well. Would you ever trust a system that has a broken power 00:26:34.159 --> 00:26:39.840 supply or broken RAM in it? Not to run longterm. you should definitely run a 00:26:37.840 --> 00:26:45.440 stress test on it before you permanently deploy it. That said though, the storage 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:49.679 I was really shocked. A lot of it just straight up work. Some of it was brand 00:26:47.120 --> 00:26:54.400 new. And if you already have an OS, getting like game storage, it's actually 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:57.919 not the worst idea ever. And motherboards again are an awesome thing 00:26:56.159 --> 00:27:01.600 to try and buy broken. We were able to revive a whole bunch of them and we were 00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:06.480 actually able to fix them. And same sort of thing if you get an AM4 CPU that has 00:27:03.840 --> 00:27:12.200 some bent pins. Awesome thing to try and fix. But should we have a little game on 00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:18.400 these? Let's game. Uh, I changed to 1080p and I have appeared to crash. 00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:19.960 Well, I can play video games. This is a 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:25.840 12600. 12600. Dude, you're getting like 350 00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:29.200 sometimes touching 400, but I'd say around the 350 mark. It's where your 00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:33.039 average seems to be sitting. That's pretty good. Are you having fun gaming, 00:27:31.600 --> 00:27:37.279 dude? I actually love video games so much. This is my favorite part about PC 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:41.279 gaming. Reboots. I'm still on a black screen and no signal. Okay, let me try 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:45.039 one more time. No, we had this working, dude. 00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:49.360 It's almost like that buying all broken stuff for your computer isn't a good 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:53.440 idea. It is a very big gamble. I swear that computer was working before we 00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:58.159 turned the camera on. 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