1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,080 Pretty much everyone and their dog has a side hustle these days and dog walking or uber driving might work for some people 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,440 But I'm better with tech than I am with organisms 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,760 What's a socially awkward penguin to do? Hang on? I've got it 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:20,160 There's all this broken tech all over sites like eBay and Craigslist 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,760 Maybe I could fix it up and flip it for profit 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,560 And where to start I mean I used to be pretty good at fixing bent pins 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:38,320 So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna buy some four parts am4 processors that don't look too far gone 8 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:46,160 We're gonna set a timer fix them and find out how much we can pay ourselves to do this kind of work with minimal tools 9 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,760 How about this one this one this one this one this one this one this one this one and this one 10 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:03,520 Well, I mean they're not here yet But while we wait, how about we do this segue to our sponsor before we could try to fix anything 11 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:10,120 Something already went wrong. We ordered a total of six CPUs, but as you can see, I'm holding only five 12 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,720 Thankfully the one that didn't show up was canceled and refunded by the seller 13 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,120 So we haven't lost any money at least not yet 14 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,120 Let's give everybody their assignments. I've never unbent CPU pins before 15 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,360 But I think I'm a good candidate for this because I'm a fairly handy guy. I'm a fairly DIY guy 16 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,120 Like I've ran out of kitchen before I can do things. I've never done this 17 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:38,800 It's been a while since I've done this, but I have repaired pins on like older CPUs before and like CPU sockets and motherboards, so 18 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,520 I've got some experience at least just not super recent. I have fixed bent pins 19 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:49,600 All right, that's about as far as I've gotten. I've never soldered pins. My experience level is pretty low 20 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,760 But of the probably I'd say 21 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:59,200 10 to 30 CPUs that I fixed over the years. I have above a 90% success rate 22 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,960 All right, so I get a 5700 X and how many problem pins are there? 23 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:10,760 Okay, first thing I'll say is these are really small. I could like make it I this but it would be a lot harder 24 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:16,360 I'm grateful for this thing. This is actually a good way to check because you can see they're all at orderly and you can see gaps 25 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:21,520 Between each row, so if there's anything that's wonked over you would see it fill that gap 26 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:28,640 The only bent pins are on the corners over here and over here. This is a game changer having it on this thing 27 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,000 There they are three amigos 28 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:37,920 This microscope is so sweet. This is gonna make it so much easier. Oh, there's more bent pins than I thought on this corner 29 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:44,220 I thought it was one, but it's four maybe even six two things. I'm worried about with this task is 30 00:02:44,580 --> 00:02:49,500 Number one, I don't know how many times you can bend it this way and that before it just snaps right off 31 00:02:49,540 --> 00:02:54,220 Number two I don't know if these are solid gold or just plated and I worry that if I were to grab it with like a plier 32 00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:58,100 That I would strip off a coating and then it would no longer function as it's supposed to 33 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:06,700 Do you know the answer to these questions? I do not I'm still out of four confidence, but I don't know if I can do it in an hour, but maybe I can do it in 10 minutes 34 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:11,100 I really don't know I'm gonna start with a spudger and the microscope and let's go. Oh my god 35 00:03:11,220 --> 00:03:18,460 The spudger is like wider than the gap between rows. I may not be able to use this tool. Okay. I might use a razor blade instead 36 00:03:18,980 --> 00:03:24,260 Okay The other thing I don't know is how straight do they need to be? What's the margin for error? 37 00:03:24,380 --> 00:03:30,540 Looking at the socket each pin has a hole So if it's off a bit, it should just get snapped into place 38 00:03:30,540 --> 00:03:37,780 That's the theory not snapped in the bad way snapped in the good way You don't have to force it, but like it's got a tiny bit of give at least almost looks like I'm done here 39 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:42,340 But then when you turn it this way like oh, yeah those I need a helping hand 40 00:03:42,340 --> 00:03:49,220 So because like I can I use my nose to adjust the focus? Okay, so I previously was working on these ones and now I'm gonna go over this one 41 00:03:49,220 --> 00:03:52,540 So this is a mechanical pencil and the tip is a hollow cylinder 42 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:56,740 And apparently you can actually fit the pins in that hollow cylinder and then just manipulate them that way 43 00:03:56,740 --> 00:04:00,500 I think you're gonna give that a shot because I love the idea of just being able to use a tool 44 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:05,660 You might have lying around the house you got her on there now The question is do I give up having a feedback to like know what's happening? 45 00:04:05,660 --> 00:04:08,100 That looks really straight up and down. We'll pull it off 46 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:16,780 Did we get any progress? Oh, yeah, not bad. It's not perfect yet. That one is still wonky that one right on the corner 47 00:04:16,780 --> 00:04:21,660 I'm I'm digging this pencil trick, but I don't know if I can get these ones because they're so leaned over 48 00:04:21,660 --> 00:04:25,180 They're touching the neighbor. Yeah, I don't think this pencil is gonna work for this application 49 00:04:25,420 --> 00:04:30,940 All right, where's my trusty razor blade? This is like when Luke just uses a force instead of that tracking system 50 00:04:31,820 --> 00:04:36,380 I Think I'm I'm pretty good here guys going into this 51 00:04:36,380 --> 00:04:40,140 I thought the definition of bent pin was like really leaned over and now I'm realizing 52 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:45,780 It might just be like a little leaned over and that is worrisome. Aha. Oh 53 00:04:46,740 --> 00:04:49,060 She's in all right. Let's send it 54 00:04:50,540 --> 00:04:57,540 Let's go 21 and a half minutes CPU information AMD Ryzen 5700x 8 core processor 55 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:04,260 Ploof that's the wind condition you see Ploof you win 56 00:05:04,780 --> 00:05:10,300 Cinebench is running fine. All the numbers are within expectations. So I'd say we're done. We made the money 57 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:12,580 I hope the other guys are doing at least this well, but 58 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:16,220 Who knows 59 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:25,300 All right, what do we got It's it looks like a couple of rows are bent 60 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:29,620 But I think maybe I can get them all at the same time with like a razor or something 61 00:05:29,620 --> 00:05:34,700 I like to stick it on to Something a little more substantial to hold on to just to make it easier 62 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:39,180 I've got some double-sided tape on a cork here probably better than a half dozen bent pins, but 63 00:05:39,780 --> 00:05:42,180 They're not very bent. This is almost like 64 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:47,820 Not bent enough like I don't think I would have tried to sell this on eBay. I would have tried to fix it 65 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:49,980 I'm pretty happy with that to be honest. I 66 00:05:51,300 --> 00:06:00,220 Think that's pretty good. I Think this is a broken chip that someone just kind of creatively bent because I would have tried to fix that myself 67 00:06:00,540 --> 00:06:03,260 All right, here goes nothing 3,700 X 68 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:09,100 Ring 3,600 megahertz faulted is a good CPU looks good 69 00:06:10,140 --> 00:06:12,140 Let's see if we Windows. There we go 70 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:19,660 That guy again everything looks okay to me. Let's see a Cinebench. Yeah, not too bad 71 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:32,220 I Let's take a look at your chip. Okay, this one. I probably the one labeled me three pins on the very corner 72 00:06:32,220 --> 00:06:37,780 It seems oh, and I see maybe one that's bent in the bottom right corner by the triangle 73 00:06:37,780 --> 00:06:41,260 So three missing pins and a slightly bent pin 74 00:06:41,980 --> 00:06:48,580 But three pins all beside each other on the edge there and like the most open edge of the corner. I'm probably I think I'm 75 00:06:50,180 --> 00:06:56,520 We'll find out Jumping all over the place, right? Like oh all right 76 00:07:00,780 --> 00:07:08,660 All right, I am not having fun I think even if my life depended on this I would die. I like genuinely would not be able to get this done 77 00:07:13,220 --> 00:07:19,100 I think it's dust. Yeah, I think I got to call it. I'm sorry. No worries man. You just give it a good try 78 00:07:23,180 --> 00:07:27,580 I Hear you need some help a lot. You had some trouble with 79 00:07:28,020 --> 00:07:34,660 Soldering on some missing pins there. I have tons of soldering experience and working on small electronics. So I figured it might be able to do some 80 00:07:34,780 --> 00:07:40,340 All right, so I'm gonna give a shot. So it's yellow one to five then how confident are you? Probably about six 81 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,900 Okay, that's off the confident. All right, take a look. All right 82 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:50,300 Yeah, yeah, he managed that one pretty good a see for me. It's not the 83 00:07:50,740 --> 00:07:56,260 Getting them off part. That's gonna be difficult. It's the getting them back on part is gonna be fun 84 00:07:56,260 --> 00:08:02,220 First things first probably try just straightening out the ones that are still there. Are you still at a six? 85 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:05,100 steadily dropping down to a four 86 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:09,340 So this isn't like a for realsies thing sound and fired 87 00:08:10,180 --> 00:08:14,780 No, all done. All done. Got one. That's time 88 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:19,220 So how many more do you have to do? 89 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:23,560 Okay, that's not too bad though. You think it's a viable side hustle 90 00:08:24,540 --> 00:08:30,820 Not replacing pins unbending them sure, but if you're replacing them, there's no feasible way to make a dollar off this 91 00:08:37,940 --> 00:08:45,860 Now it's my turn. Oh Dude, oh, there's a bad one. I don't want any hints. I don't want to know how oh dude. Oh, there's two like that 92 00:08:46,620 --> 00:08:53,940 Dang those are both pretty mangled and there's a fair number of other ones with minor bends all along the edges here 93 00:08:53,940 --> 00:08:55,940 What did they do to you? 94 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:03,420 Check it out. Just like the scribe driver, but a mechanical pencil. That is awesome. Yeah, where do I get it? 95 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:10,260 Nowhere yet. Yeah, well you started already. Yeah, geez Jordan. Hey, you were poking at pins before well 96 00:09:10,260 --> 00:09:17,820 I was just I was looking at it I was looking at it what I want to do is I want to really get under that pin and see if I can get it to 97 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:22,180 slightly less bent over without 98 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:26,220 Ripping it off if I rip it off. I'm gonna have to put a new pin on it 99 00:09:26,220 --> 00:09:31,940 Which means I need a donor CPU and I need a lot more time. It's hard to get under this guy 100 00:09:33,260 --> 00:09:40,380 You can really see boys. This is the smallest flathead in the iFixit kit and it's still kind of hard to get it under there wait 101 00:09:41,740 --> 00:09:47,380 I figured out what they did. Oh, I think they put it into the socket the wrong way Jordan 102 00:09:47,380 --> 00:09:51,700 I wonder if they like had it the wrong had it oriented the wrong way or something dude 103 00:09:53,060 --> 00:10:01,020 I think I may have nailed it and the thing is it doesn't have to be completely straight. Yeah, it just has to go in 104 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:04,060 Hey, hey, hey, she's in now 105 00:10:05,180 --> 00:10:08,740 Just because she's in the socket doesn't mean I want to fire up the board yet 106 00:10:08,740 --> 00:10:14,900 I want to see if I like really mashed one down because if I fire it up while I've got a pin mashed down 107 00:10:15,860 --> 00:10:21,060 Who knows what's gonna happen, right? At least that way I get another shot at it 108 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:27,980 Don't get one shot one opportunity. Okay. Okay. I'm ready. It's my okay. So it took me 109 00:10:28,780 --> 00:10:35,260 15 minutes Ryzen five thirty five hundred. How much I pay for this thing 30 bucks 30 bucks 110 00:10:36,380 --> 00:10:40,140 dude 15 minutes 111 00:10:44,820 --> 00:10:52,100 I did it faster But not the same CPU the point is that aside from some overhead here 112 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:59,660 I can afford to pay myself 80 bucks an hour to fix this CPU dude. I'm feeling good challenge number two for Mr 113 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:04,620 Linus, I get a bonus CPU. He gets to because neither of them is worth that much. That's why they call me the boner 114 00:11:05,620 --> 00:11:10,340 Oh dear because I get a bonus CPU and bonus tech tips 115 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,500 Okay, sorry, what are we talking about? 116 00:11:15,860 --> 00:11:22,300 This time I get a thirty five hundred X. This also seems like it's not in very bad shape 117 00:11:22,860 --> 00:11:27,140 Wait, is this just fine? They said it's missing a pin. I couldn't find it now 118 00:11:27,380 --> 00:11:32,540 Occasionally you're gonna buy stuff that's for parts and it's just gonna be dead. Okay, stop the clock 119 00:11:32,540 --> 00:11:35,660 I think I'm ready to test this thing because I do not see a 120 00:11:36,140 --> 00:11:42,740 Missing or bent pin on it. Well, she went in the socket easily. Yeah, nothing was bent on it before this fires up or doesn't 121 00:11:42,740 --> 00:11:50,420 What's my potential profit here? 15 20 bucks. Okay. Oh, I just saw the keyboard light up. Holy crap. Did we just get a for part CPU? 122 00:11:50,420 --> 00:11:53,180 That's just perfectly fine. No way 123 00:11:55,340 --> 00:12:00,420 Six core processor all six cores there. They freaking go. She's turbo in baby 124 00:12:00,420 --> 00:12:03,420 Yeah, and she seems like she's working just fine 125 00:12:09,140 --> 00:12:15,500 Now what if I told you that actually is missing a pin a missing pin doesn't necessarily mean a broken CPU though 126 00:12:16,020 --> 00:12:20,820 Sometimes they have unused pins or ground pins that are extra 127 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:23,700 vestigial pins if you will 128 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:29,380 Dude, I feel bad about missing it though Naughty Linus. I was getting old man 129 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:37,340 Here pop it out. We'll take a look and there she is. Yep. How'd everybody do so James took about 20 minutes 130 00:12:37,340 --> 00:12:40,380 How'd yours go took me about eight minutes and I got it working fine 131 00:12:40,380 --> 00:12:47,580 How about Elijah Elijah had a bad time did we sabotage Elijah has never soldered before and he had one was missing three pins in the corner 132 00:12:47,580 --> 00:12:52,860 And it didn't go out Justin ended up cleaning it up and getting one pin back onto it in the time allowed 133 00:12:52,860 --> 00:12:55,940 It's it's been through some something to watch for is 134 00:12:56,380 --> 00:13:04,380 Sometimes you can get away with sticking a little piece of metal into the socket as long as you can get a good contact here 135 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:08,820 I actually had a CPU that I put into my parent system an old tricor 136 00:13:08,820 --> 00:13:13,340 I think it worked for about 10 years like that with a broken off pin on the CPU 137 00:13:13,340 --> 00:13:19,140 You're right. Yep, but with a little slightly over long piece of metal in the socket so it would make contact 138 00:13:20,140 --> 00:13:25,220 Should we try it? I was thinking maybe if that's memory channel B 139 00:13:25,220 --> 00:13:29,660 Maybe we could run it in single channel that CPU. I dropped that Xeon back in the day 140 00:13:29,660 --> 00:13:35,820 Yeah, where I dented the corner of it. It did still work. Yeah, just five of I believe six memory channels 141 00:13:37,220 --> 00:13:45,020 No way no way There could still be issues are all of those pins memory channel B. I'll double check 142 00:13:45,860 --> 00:13:53,860 because if they aren't Then it might still work, but maybe one of our PCIe lanes is not functioning properly, right? 143 00:13:53,980 --> 00:13:59,740 Who knows at all memory be dude. She's in Windows. She's in Windows, brother. I 144 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:06,980 Cannot believe that let's run the numbers James should be able to sell this CPU for about a hundred thirty five US dollars 145 00:14:06,980 --> 00:14:10,820 And we're not able to completely ignore the cost of our tools 146 00:14:10,980 --> 00:14:18,100 But they are good for more than just unbending pins So let's take away a couple of bucks from his profit for that that leaves him with 147 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:24,180 $64 of profit for just over 20 minutes of work a rate of a hundred seventy nine dollars an hour 148 00:14:24,460 --> 00:14:28,860 Not too shabby assuming he can keep that pace up as for team Elijah 149 00:14:29,220 --> 00:14:36,260 He didn't have such a good time after two hours his 5800 X only works with a single memory channel 150 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:40,900 Now he might still be able to sell that be it at a reduced price 151 00:14:41,140 --> 00:14:47,180 But he wouldn't be making even close to minimum wage as for Jordan's 3700 X 152 00:14:47,180 --> 00:14:53,460 Well doesn't have quite the profit potential of James or Elijah's chips, but he made up for it by being quick 153 00:14:53,620 --> 00:14:57,980 He should be able to get close to 40 bucks after expenses or around 154 00:14:58,820 --> 00:15:04,140 285 an hour though. There's no way that that's a sustainable pace as for me 155 00:15:04,140 --> 00:15:10,300 I spent about 16 minutes on my 3500 and really I just used the precision screwdriver 156 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:13,500 So I should see about $19 of profit coming back 157 00:15:14,260 --> 00:15:17,900 $71 an hour if you're playing along at home as for the 3500 X 158 00:15:18,060 --> 00:15:22,820 Well, I didn't spend any time fixing this one and I could get 20 bucks of profit there too 159 00:15:22,820 --> 00:15:27,300 And I'm only out the time it took to test it and ship it not too bad 160 00:15:27,380 --> 00:15:33,900 But is this a viable side hustle? Well, I think so but there are some caveats 161 00:15:34,060 --> 00:15:42,500 There is a lot of upfront risk I'd say it's important to make sure that you are picking chips with good potential profit picking ones where the seller 162 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:49,220 Clearly lays out what's wrong with them so you can claim something back if the issue is something else and try to get chips with 163 00:15:49,220 --> 00:15:55,820 As you bent pins as possible So you're not wasting a ton of time before you can get right to this segue to our sponsor 164 00:15:55,820 --> 00:16:00,300 If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe you'll like watching us fix bent pins in a CPU socket 165 00:16:00,540 --> 00:16:03,060 That can be even more finicky than this