Pretty much everyone and their dog has a side hustle these days and dog walking or uber driving might work for some people
But I'm better with tech than I am with organisms
What's a socially awkward penguin to do? Hang on? I've got it
There's all this broken tech all over sites like eBay and Craigslist
Maybe I could fix it up and flip it for profit
And where to start I mean I used to be pretty good at fixing bent pins
So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna buy some four parts am4 processors that don't look too far gone
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
How about this one this one this one this one this one this one this one this one and this one
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
Something already went wrong. We ordered a total of six CPUs, but as you can see, I'm holding only five
Thankfully the one that didn't show up was canceled and refunded by the seller
So we haven't lost any money at least not yet
Let's give everybody their assignments. I've never unbent CPU pins before
But I think I'm a good candidate for this because I'm a fairly handy guy. I'm a fairly DIY guy
Like I've ran out of kitchen before I can do things. I've never done this
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
I've got some experience at least just not super recent. I have fixed bent pins
All right, that's about as far as I've gotten. I've never soldered pins. My experience level is pretty low
But of the probably I'd say
10 to 30 CPUs that I fixed over the years. I have above a 90% success rate
All right, so I get a 5700 X and how many problem pins are there?
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
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
Between each row, so if there's anything that's wonked over you would see it fill that gap
The only bent pins are on the corners over here and over here. This is a game changer having it on this thing
There they are three amigos
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
I thought it was one, but it's four maybe even six two things. I'm worried about with this task is
Number one, I don't know how many times you can bend it this way and that before it just snaps right off
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
That I would strip off a coating and then it would no longer function as it's supposed to
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
I really don't know I'm gonna start with a spudger and the microscope and let's go. Oh my god
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
Okay The other thing I don't know is how straight do they need to be? What's the margin for error?
Looking at the socket each pin has a hole So if it's off a bit, it should just get snapped into place
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
But then when you turn it this way like oh, yeah those I need a helping hand
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
So this is a mechanical pencil and the tip is a hollow cylinder
And apparently you can actually fit the pins in that hollow cylinder and then just manipulate them that way
I think you're gonna give that a shot because I love the idea of just being able to use a tool
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?
That looks really straight up and down. We'll pull it off
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
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
They're touching the neighbor. Yeah, I don't think this pencil is gonna work for this application
All right, where's my trusty razor blade? This is like when Luke just uses a force instead of that tracking system
I Think I'm I'm pretty good here guys going into this
I thought the definition of bent pin was like really leaned over and now I'm realizing
It might just be like a little leaned over and that is worrisome. Aha. Oh
She's in all right. Let's send it
Let's go 21 and a half minutes CPU information AMD Ryzen 5700x 8 core processor
Ploof that's the wind condition you see Ploof you win
Cinebench is running fine. All the numbers are within expectations. So I'd say we're done. We made the money
I hope the other guys are doing at least this well, but
Who knows
All right, what do we got It's it looks like a couple of rows are bent
But I think maybe I can get them all at the same time with like a razor or something
I like to stick it on to Something a little more substantial to hold on to just to make it easier
I've got some double-sided tape on a cork here probably better than a half dozen bent pins, but
They're not very bent. This is almost like
Not bent enough like I don't think I would have tried to sell this on eBay. I would have tried to fix it
I'm pretty happy with that to be honest. I
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
All right, here goes nothing 3,700 X
Ring 3,600 megahertz faulted is a good CPU looks good
Let's see if we Windows. There we go
That guy again everything looks okay to me. Let's see a Cinebench. Yeah, not too bad
I Let's take a look at your chip. Okay, this one. I probably the one labeled me three pins on the very corner
It seems oh, and I see maybe one that's bent in the bottom right corner by the triangle
So three missing pins and a slightly bent pin
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
We'll find out Jumping all over the place, right? Like oh all right
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
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
I Hear you need some help a lot. You had some trouble with
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
All right, so I'm gonna give a shot. So it's yellow one to five then how confident are you? Probably about six
Okay, that's off the confident. All right, take a look. All right
Yeah, yeah, he managed that one pretty good a see for me. It's not the
Getting them off part. That's gonna be difficult. It's the getting them back on part is gonna be fun
First things first probably try just straightening out the ones that are still there. Are you still at a six?
steadily dropping down to a four
So this isn't like a for realsies thing sound and fired
No, all done. All done. Got one. That's time
So how many more do you have to do?
Okay, that's not too bad though. You think it's a viable side hustle
Not replacing pins unbending them sure, but if you're replacing them, there's no feasible way to make a dollar off this
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
Dang those are both pretty mangled and there's a fair number of other ones with minor bends all along the edges here
What did they do to you?
Check it out. Just like the scribe driver, but a mechanical pencil. That is awesome. Yeah, where do I get it?
Nowhere yet. Yeah, well you started already. Yeah, geez Jordan. Hey, you were poking at pins before well
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
slightly less bent over without
Ripping it off if I rip it off. I'm gonna have to put a new pin on it
Which means I need a donor CPU and I need a lot more time. It's hard to get under this guy
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
I figured out what they did. Oh, I think they put it into the socket the wrong way Jordan
I wonder if they like had it the wrong had it oriented the wrong way or something dude
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
Hey, hey, hey, she's in now
Just because she's in the socket doesn't mean I want to fire up the board yet
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
Who knows what's gonna happen, right? At least that way I get another shot at it
Don't get one shot one opportunity. Okay. Okay. I'm ready. It's my okay. So it took me
15 minutes Ryzen five thirty five hundred. How much I pay for this thing 30 bucks 30 bucks
dude 15 minutes
I did it faster But not the same CPU the point is that aside from some overhead here
I can afford to pay myself 80 bucks an hour to fix this CPU dude. I'm feeling good challenge number two for Mr
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
Oh dear because I get a bonus CPU and bonus tech tips
Okay, sorry, what are we talking about?
This time I get a thirty five hundred X. This also seems like it's not in very bad shape
Wait, is this just fine? They said it's missing a pin. I couldn't find it now
Occasionally you're gonna buy stuff that's for parts and it's just gonna be dead. Okay, stop the clock
I think I'm ready to test this thing because I do not see a
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
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?
That's just perfectly fine. No way
Six core processor all six cores there. They freaking go. She's turbo in baby
Yeah, and she seems like she's working just fine
Now what if I told you that actually is missing a pin a missing pin doesn't necessarily mean a broken CPU though
Sometimes they have unused pins or ground pins that are extra
vestigial pins if you will
Dude, I feel bad about missing it though Naughty Linus. I was getting old man
Here pop it out. We'll take a look and there she is. Yep. How'd everybody do so James took about 20 minutes
How'd yours go took me about eight minutes and I got it working fine
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
And it didn't go out Justin ended up cleaning it up and getting one pin back onto it in the time allowed
It's it's been through some something to watch for is
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
I actually had a CPU that I put into my parent system an old tricor
I think it worked for about 10 years like that with a broken off pin on the CPU
You're right. Yep, but with a little slightly over long piece of metal in the socket so it would make contact
Should we try it? I was thinking maybe if that's memory channel B
Maybe we could run it in single channel that CPU. I dropped that Xeon back in the day
Yeah, where I dented the corner of it. It did still work. Yeah, just five of I believe six memory channels
No way no way There could still be issues are all of those pins memory channel B. I'll double check
because if they aren't Then it might still work, but maybe one of our PCIe lanes is not functioning properly, right?
Who knows at all memory be dude. She's in Windows. She's in Windows, brother. I
Cannot believe that let's run the numbers James should be able to sell this CPU for about a hundred thirty five US dollars
And we're not able to completely ignore the cost of our tools
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
$64 of profit for just over 20 minutes of work a rate of a hundred seventy nine dollars an hour
Not too shabby assuming he can keep that pace up as for team Elijah
He didn't have such a good time after two hours his 5800 X only works with a single memory channel
Now he might still be able to sell that be it at a reduced price
But he wouldn't be making even close to minimum wage as for Jordan's 3700 X
Well doesn't have quite the profit potential of James or Elijah's chips, but he made up for it by being quick
He should be able to get close to 40 bucks after expenses or around
285 an hour though. There's no way that that's a sustainable pace as for me
I spent about 16 minutes on my 3500 and really I just used the precision screwdriver
So I should see about $19 of profit coming back
$71 an hour if you're playing along at home as for the 3500 X
Well, I didn't spend any time fixing this one and I could get 20 bucks of profit there too
And I'm only out the time it took to test it and ship it not too bad
But is this a viable side hustle? Well, I think so but there are some caveats
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
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
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
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