Okay, sorry, what is this called?
Huashang Bay.
Hahaha.
Fantastic.
Alright, so I'm here at, uh...
Huashang Bay.
Yeah, perfect, thank you.
With Scotty from Strange Parts, so I'm getting me some strange parts in China, which is actually
exactly what we're doing.
So in this, like, gigantic tech mall thing, they have everything from components like
switches to computer parts to drones to cryptocurrency crap, mobile phones, pretty much you name
it, they've got it here.
So I don't really have any objective other than to go shopping and see exactly what it
is that I can buy with my little stack of Canadian rubles here.
So wish me luck, and hopefully that's not for me.
Nah, I think we're good.
This video is brought to you by Corsair's Subsidian 500D.
It's a mid-tower gaming case featuring premium tempered lights.
Glass and aluminum construction, removable top fan trays, and more, check it out at the
link below.
I think this is going to be an uphill battle to get them to even recognize what those are,
let alone know the value of them.
They're going to be like, what is this sh**?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, no, it's okay, because there's an ATM.
Yeah, right, yep.
This is the world's most helpful error message, transaction is cancelled for some reason,
operation time out, thank you.
Okay.
So, like, this is the kind of stuff that I wish we had a shop like this, like, we were
trying to do a piece a little wider.
A while ago, where we wanted lit buttons, or like, big fun buttons that we could press.
And if we could have just walked into a mall and bought them, that would have made my Christmas.
The cool thing about here, particularly for buttons, is you can actually come in and touch
them, right?
So, like, the button feel is super important.
Oh my god, I already found something I need.
Entire bags of, like, motherboard standoffs.
I was trying to buy just a bag of computer screws, only place I could find for it was
on eBay.
Pricing was totally unreasonable.
Yeah, and it will be very reasonable here.
Smart watches.
Yep.
Totally 100% real Beats.
These are probably, like, semi-real.
Semi-real?
Yeah, like, refurb-type.
Right, okay.
Yep.
Wow, this place is enormous.
Crazy, right?
This is probably one of 20 buildings.
Honestly, it's overwhelming.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, here's stuff I mostly recognize.
Right.
Here, there's, like, a bunch of mining gear.
Yeah.
Like, ant miners and stuff like that.
Yeah.
And here's all the like, the realologne supplies and what else do they got?
Mining power supplies.
Got an Apple cash machine.
ROG something something.
Looks like very similar SKUs.
Yep.
Uh, just looking.
Just, looking.
Uh, okay.
No, I don't necessarily want to get let in here.
Hi, no, I'm just looking around.
It's okay.
Thank you.
I mean, this is the kind of thing you would never find in a real estate store, actually.
Yeah.
retail store back home.
This is like dual socket,
like server boards and stuff like that.
Can you ask how much this 1,800 watt power supply is?
It's like 50 bucks.
50 bucks?
Yeah.
$50 for an 1,800 watt power supply?
Yeah.
It doesn't feel like an 1,800 watt power supply.
Oh my God.
It's actually only rated for 1,600.
Also, this is a mining only power supply.
So it only does 12 volt.
This is just all mining .
They did not use it this way.
These are mining specific cards right here.
These ones without coolers
and they actually do have a display output,
but like just the one.
Wow, look at this stuff.
Yeah, so they've got things
like these mining specific boards.
And this is used.
ASUS demo board.
Here's a brand of motherboard
that I've certainly never heard of.
Sometimes it's just fascinating.
Like you walk up to a booth and you kind of go,
what are you doing?
You know?
Like if you really need a B250M HD3,
or a WD green SSD or a bison fan, then you're good.
But like.
So, I mean, this is indicative of the markets,
which is just like a high degree of specialization in booths.
But it's also just like a different way of doing business.
There's just not a lot of like vertical integration.
It's everybody does their one little thing
and has friends that do the other bits.
Fundamental problem for PC stuff is that.
What's this?
Pricing across regions has really leveled out.
Yeah.
That's a wonderful question.
I'm actually not sure what this is.
It doesn't seem to be in any sort of hurry to tell us.
DTMF.
Is this like telephone gear?
I mean, they still have LGA 775 motherboards here,
like brand new.
That's incredible.
Oh wow.
Okay.
I can't even like focus my eyes on it.
At one point she was burning paper with one of these.
So just be careful.
Oh, yeah.
It's this one.
How much is that one?
This one?
Yeah.
I don't know.
We'll ask.
Oh, here we go.
Oh my God.
Watch the reflections on the glass.
I think my kids would end up going blind if they found it.
Yes.
Yes, that's true.
Yeah.
I'll pass.
I'll pass on this one for now.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I'm getting a $3 discount now.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
Yeah.
I'm okay.
If I decide I'll get one, I'll come back.
Okay.
My recommendation is if you think you want something,
you should just buy it while you're there.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So what I figured out at this point is
I definitely need some kind of an objective
because you could wander around in here for weeks.
And still have no idea where the hell you are.
And I have.
And what you're doing.
I have.
So yeah, if you have something specific you want to do,
I'm happy to try and make that happen as best we can.
Okay.
I want the cheapest laptop in this entire mall.
Cheapest laptop in the entire mall.
Yeah.
Let's do that.
Okay.
Let's see how usable it is.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm trying to think where we would go for that.
But yeah, okay.
Let's maybe jump buildings.
Sure.
Because you've seen this one.
Okay.
You've seen laptops and stuff?
Okay. Sounds good.
Yeah.
It's an unusual thing going into somewhere
with the objective to buy the worst thing that you can find.
Yeah.
I mean, if they weren't trying,
I don't know how they could have made
two completely different buildings
full of completely different people and things
look so identical.
Once you start coming here more,
it does actually, like you do notice differences.
There is a different mix of stuff here, but.
Right.
But it's a different mix.
But it's subtle.
It's not fundamentally different.
It's subtle.
It is subtle.
Laptops, he wants to buy.
Cheap laptop.
Laptop.
Yeah.
Actually, yeah, Eric, can you jump in?
Okay, we want the cheapest possible laptop.
Like in.
Laptop.
It's my translator.
Laptop, right.
Notebook.
Notebook, yeah.
Notebook, then you go here, and then down.
So, one problem here,
where the really nice guy from upstairs directed us,
is that none of this is off-brand.
This is like,
Lenovo, Samsung, ASUS, Dell.
This is a start set, 6,000, what, yen?
RMB.
RMB?
Yeah, U1, yeah.
It's about six to one.
So divide by six.
It's about $1,000.
Okay, I mean, that's about what, like,
an Envy would start at back at home.
Like, I don't think we're gonna find anything
that weird and or cheap here.
Tell you what.
What do you edit your videos on?
Final Cut or Premiere.
I have Final Cut's my editor of choice, but my editor, you know.
Okay.
Yeah.
I have Final Cut's my editor of choice,
but my editor uses Premiere.
Here's what we're doing.
We're building an editing rig for Strange Parts' editor.
Because when in doubt,
and I can't figure out what to make a video about,
I just build a computer.
Well.
So it.
Nope, that's what we're doing.
Okay.
Let's do it.
So let's go back to PC Component Lab.
Okay, go back upstairs here, maybe?
Sure.
So my editor is in Mexico.
Your editor's in Mexico, of course.
It could be my editing rig,
or my transcoding rig.
You know what, I don't care what you do with it.
Okay.
I'm just gonna watch this video.
So if you don't send it to him, then, you know what?
That's for you guys.
It's true, it's true.
I'm gonna have to sort that out.
Oh no, Linus has stars in his eyes here.
Oh my God.
He's looking devious.
I think I've fallen in love.
It's actually like the construction of it is not bad too.
Like from a distance, it looked like plastic garbage,
but it's actually aluminum garbage.
It's like proper, yeah.
So it's exhaust going out either side
with these like baffles,
and then the whole thing is a big intake.
Holy .
Is this thing like 300 bucks?
300 bucks, yep.
Wow.
How much is a Ferrari,
definitely real Ferrari power supply to go with it?
Dang.
Let's look around a little more.
I mean, we might find something else,
but I don't know if I could love anything more than that case.
Sorry, hun.
I'm feeling good.
We're off to a very good start here.
Look at this stuff.
That is some ghetto ass water cooling supplies.
I don't know how I can resist.
So they have absolutely nothing at all?
What?
It's not the fan.
It's just display.
Oh, what's the point of having something on display
if you can't sell it?
So that one and that one.
Oh, wow.
That radiator weighs almost nothing.
That is aluminum AF.
And I actually don't even know if this,
oh, do you hear that like crack when I try to put it on?
Okay, 15 bucks for this though?
Not that bad.
Okay, let's continue our quest.
Ah, thank you.
I don't really see anything here that's jumping out.
Nothing out at me as having sufficient RGB-ness.
Okay, this, that is my kind of RGB
and looks a lot more sensible in terms of pricing as well.
Okay, I expected that.
Okay, that's pretty cool.
It doesn't actually have a microphone though.
That is totally cheating.
Is that true?
Yeah, no, it's just cheating.
So the question was like, should we haggle over this, right?
And so my rule of thumb is like,
if I think it's a fair price, then I don't.
Like I don't push on it.
Most people in the market are not like marking stuff up
because it's like wholesale.
There's just not the expectation that like,
particularly buying one,
that they're gonna like really gouge you.
The one thing I need to know is
if I have anywhere to mount my radiator inside.
So Eric, can you ask him if I can take it down
and open it up?
Okay, you should be in pretty good shape.
Okay, yep, I'm sold.
Looks good to me.
So I know I said that you don't screw around
on the power supply and the motherboard.
Yeah.
But I am definitely gonna be finding,
brands that I don't recognize for both of them.
Okay.
Because we are gonna have,
we're gonna have the Chinese PC experience.
Wow, Colorful makes motherboards.
Yeah.
That's fun.
Okay, so I wanna know how much for that one.
It's a Battleaxe.
I don't know what the brand is, I can't read it.
But it says Battleaxe on it.
Yeah, the brown one at the bottom.
There's nothing on here that would indicate
sort of what it is.
It does have USB 3.
Colorful?
Oh, it's a Colorful board.
Oh, okay.
Do you have anything bigger?
Full ATX?
Here, why don't we just pick up a board here?
Let's just talk to our buddy here.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Do you have a motherboard CPU memory?
CPU memory?
Okay, let me try that again.
This, what motherboards do you have?
Do you have anything like full size ATX, more slots?
Yeah.
What about memory?
Memory?
Okay, so that's an eight gig Kingston stick.
Wait, it's a hundred bucks for one stick?
Okay, no, hold on.
Yeah, I don't think that's very good pricing.
I think we can do better elsewhere.
We gotta start buying stuff
or we're gonna run out of time here.
Does anyone here speak English?
No, I think that one's okay.
Okay.
So we're reaching a deal on a Ryzen chip and a V350 motherboard.
But if I understand correctly, he doesn't have stock here.
He's just gonna go to one of the other stores and buy it.
So.
Maybe, or there's a storeroom somewhere else.
That's pretty common too.
It's like, there'll be another booth somewhere
that has the stock.
That's less like visible than this.
I hate this.
I wanna go back to shopping online.
Fun fact, we're paying more than the other guy quoted us,
but at this point I don't care.
Fine.
So here's the situation.
We have like 20 minutes before this whole place closes down.
We have like 2,500RMB left to get a GPU storage,
the power supply, and a cooler.
Because clearly this tubing is not gonna do us any good.
I hate this.
This is not a great shopping experience that I'm having.
I am stressed out.
Okay, so these guys have Galax 1060's.
Let's find out how much.
—Sorry, which brand again?
Galax.
—Galax.
—Is he quoting 2000?
—Yeah.
—Okay, we're gonna have a cashless version.
—Hold on a second.
We're gonna open these.
Worst case scenario, all we still need is storage
and a power supply because we can use the stock cooler.
Okay.
And then we can just throw this radiator
in the back for lulls.
And I'm gonna need a screwdriver.
Well, the other option is to go find a repair booth
and be like you and a Chinese guy
putting this together together.
Oh my God.
So that's an option.
2550.
I think we'll have to move on.
Okay, lots of high-end stuff here.
1080s, 1080Ti's.
We don't want that.
I'm determined to get the rest of the stuff here.
So here we go.
We need SSD, power supply.
Do you have 1060?
Is that it?
Oh, okay.
So 2360, that's a little better.
And then I can't even tell
what the wattage of these things are.
600 watt?
All right, so we'll take this one.
We're definitely getting at least one product
where I don't recognize the brand at all.
I've never heard of Neatac.
Eric's trying to get us
a 60 RMB off and he's offering us 10,
which is about $2, $2 discount.
Fine, I don't care anymore.
Okay, fine.
We've got a $2 discount, man.
You know, like 10 years from now,
I'm gonna have like $2.
I'm gonna like desperately need it
to take a bus somewhere.
And that's gonna be all I have.
And I'm gonna be like,
thank God Eric saved me that $2
on that power supply SSD.
What is the total over here?
It was 3050.
Can I owe you some money?
I'll have to go to the ATM again.
Okay.
All right, do we need to go back
and get our motherboard CPU combo?
So we've got a small problem.
The escalator is caged up now.
This place is closing in like two minutes
and we have to go down to the bottom floor to the ATM.
We may not be able to go back to the store.
That is a potential problem.
So we might walk out of here with a case.
It would be kind of a big move
if we sent them around the markets all day.
Sorry, I think we're gonna make it work.
All right, this is what we got.
This is, it's these three?
Oh, and that one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Check.
So check everything, yeah.
Yeah.
Ryzen 7, 1700,
two DDR4,
eight gig sticks.
Yep, that's,
and then we've got a B350 plus.
Yep, okay.
All right.
So you're getting probably,
hopefully a decent computer here.
Cool.
I don't know about that power supply.
You checked the first couple
to make sure they were really, you know.
I mean, I'm surprised
he's not running it through a machine actually.
Cause, oh, he's gonna go run it through a machine now.
Like, yeah, that's just a universal concern.
It's definitely not you.
Like.
Oh, okay.
Hopefully this last piece of the puzzle is really simple.
We just need a Phillips head screwdriver.
I know where to get that,
but it's in a different building.
It's in a different building?
I mean, they must have a Phillips screwdriver here.
Let's go walk around the bottom floor.
Like if we go offer someone 50 RMB
for their screwdriver.
Yes, we can buy a shop,
we can buy a shop screwdriver.
That would be an option.
Like this one right here?
Yeah, sure.
Here.
No, no screwdriver.
Okay.
Okay, should we just go to the other building?
Yeah.
Okay, fine.
Let's just go where we know they're gonna have it.
All right, let's go back to that big tool booth.
I think the odds of that case having all tool-less mounts
is very slim.
Yeah.
Oh, is that your tool store?
This is the one, yeah.
They look kind of open.
They look very open.
Okay.
And if I'm gonna buy a screwdriver,
it might as well be like that.
Yeah, that one.
Yeah.
I don't see that many options.
Like where's just the-
Here's small screwdrivers.
The screwdriver with an S, you know?
2013 used to all like lots of precision screwdrivers
for working on phones,
but we just want like a normal like big screwdriver.
Big.
Oh, here we go.
Here.
Oh, here we go.
We walked right past screwdriver land on the way in.
Okay.
Here's a super long one.
You know what?
I could actually use one of these.
Okay, yeah.
I'll take this shank.
I mean screwdriver.
Sorry, I looked.
Wait, wait a minute.
You stay back.
See this?
They're both reversed now.
They're both going down.
We caught it by like two minutes.
We were about to get kicked the out of this place.
So Mr. can build an iPhone out of parts
that he finds in Shenzhen.
When's the last time you built a computer?
It's been-
15 years?
15 years.
Okay, so can you build a computer?
I mean-
That's a great question.
I would like to think I still can.
I bought the-
But it has been a long time.
Like it has been multiple, multiple generations.
I bought the screwdriver for you.
I'm going to be in charge of unboxing.
Okay.
And you're going to be in charge
of actually building this mess.
All right.
I like it.
You're already doing my job.
All right.
Whole collab ruined.
Linus takes the vision of responsibility very carefully.
Okay, so here we can,
let me just do a quick overview of our case here.
Yep.
So this case is from the brand Powertrain.
So we were successful on the case front.
We found something that I had never heard of before.
It's the Chameleon.
And honestly,
the $30 case, the fact that it has RGB lighting,
not that bad.
I feel a little weird assembling a computer
in the middle of a market square, but-
This is totally normal.
There's, there'll be like,
there's iPhone repair going on at McDonald's down there.
Fair enough.
Okay.
We might've run up against our first challenge.
We actually need to pull out these two standoffs
and they are fricking tight.
So one option,
and I have used this with success before,
is to take a motherboard screw here.
Right.
And,
and screw it in too much.
Like seize it.
Yep.
In the standoff.
And then try and back off the standoff and the screw.
It's worth a shot.
Oh, oh, that looks good.
Got one.
That looks good.
Okay, but we're gonna sacrifice another screw here.
Oh, we caught it.
Oh, you're a lucky man.
This isn't my computer.
You're the lucky man.
So there you go.
These are, these are seized as hell,
like without pliers and yeah,
we're not getting that out anymore, but.
All right. So while Scotty,
he screws in the motherboard,
I'm gonna go through everything else we got here.
So this is a bit of a cheat.
I had heard of Great Wall,
but it is a Chinese brand.
I don't think I've ever seen a Great Wall power supply
available outside of China.
Wow.
You've got a modular power supply.
There you go.
Then modular cables.
Yeah.
You only plug in what you need.
Fancy, fancy.
I would say that goes down here, right?
Yes, it does.
But we need to pull.
How the hell do I get it in there?
We need to pull this off.
How the hell do we, you know what?
No, we don't have to take it out.
We can just slide it in.
Yep.
You know what we have to do
is find out how good of a deal we got.
I'm willing to say a little bit more expensive
than the States, but I'm not sure.
Oh, our case did not include any cooling fans
and we blew our money on a radiator instead of a fan.
Damn it.
And our stock cooler goes on right here.
Right.
If we're double teaming on assembly,
then I'm gonna double team on unboxing here.
Did you just get all the thermal group all over your hand?
I just did.
No wonder your projects take you eight months.
Being an idiot doesn't help.
Okay.
HyperX Fury.
All right.
What else is there in here?
We ready to pop this in and then put cards in?
Yep.
Oh, that's almost in.
Oh shoot.
Is that in our way?
Okay, we're in.
Okay.
It's like actually getting dark enough
that I'm having trouble seeing now too.
Yeah, can you flashlight me?
Did you just say fleshlight?
I did not say fleshlight you.
Cause like not on camera.
So he showed us the graphics card,
but I didn't realize it was like a brown box card.
Like it. Yeah.
He showed us looked legit, but.
This is a brick.
Made in China, GTX 1060.
Oh, this is a system integrator.
Skew.
So he sold us an OEM card, that rat bastard.
So this probably doesn't have as much warranty on it.
Again, not my problem.
Yeah.
I actually like this screwdriver.
Are you compensating for something?
Okay.
Now, I promised that I was putting this damn radiator in
no matter what.
Oh yeah, you did.
So I'm doing it.
It's not gonna do anything, but it's gonna be in there.
But it's gonna be in there.
We need our tubing as well, right?
Yeah, hell yeah.
You know, like that, right?
I would just run it back right into the other one.
Just like that.
No, no, no.
No?
Oh, you really want the illusion.
I want it to look convincing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want.
You want the full illusion.
Yeah, I want.
So we just wanna run that baby right there.
There.
I mean, that looks kind of water-cooled, right?
See?
Yeah.
What do you think?
Totally water-cooled.
Yeah, totally.
Thank you.
Totally water-cooled.
All right.
I'm gonna show you a cable management secret.
Show me.
I love cable management.
Okay, so this is the moment where I find out
if this was a good deal or a rip-off.
Oh.
So I had to make some compromises
with my Newegg equivalent.
So I used a Rosewill power supply
with sort of similar specs.
I picked like the second cheapest generic SSD I could find.
And then for a case, honestly, they were better deals.
Shipped.
Really?
I could get a case for 38 US dollars.
Okay.
Which is less than what we paid for this.
Yeah, a little less.
I would have paid 11.42.
How did we do?
11.42.
We did 11.62 plus $2.50 for the screwdriver.
So it was basically the same.
Well, that was fun.
I'm sure glad that that was so stressful,
but here, congratulations.
Do whatever you want with it.
I no longer care.
I don't even know if it works, but it's water-cooled.
Depending who you ask.
See, it looks pretty water-cooled, right?
It looks very water-cooled.
Doesn't it look water-cooled?
It looks very water-cooled.
No one's gonna look that closely at it.
So this video is brought to you by Private Internet Access,
which actually has been serving me very, very well
on this trip.
See, watch, I'm gonna do a thing.
I'm gonna go to google.com.
Wait for it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what is that?
Oh, wow, that's google.com.
I'm in China.
So Private Internet Access allows you to access
the internet more freely and more openly
wherever you happen to be.
They support a variety of VPN protocols
and types of encryption and authentication.
They've got apps for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux,
and Google Chrome.
With support for more platforms coming soon,
you can connect up to five devices at the same time.
So if you travel with a couple of phones and a laptop,
like me, no problem whatsoever.
You can have them all on it.
And you can even get it for someone as a gift.
Yes, my friends, you can buy PIA for your friends and family
and keep them more secure online.
So check it out at the link in the video description.
So thanks for watching, guys.
If you disliked this video, then you can hit that button.
But if you liked watching me get stressed out,
then hit that like button, get subscribed.
Maybe consider checking out this guy, Strange Parts.
We're gonna have his channel linked in the video description.
You can also consider checking out our merch store,
which has cool shirts like this one,
and our community forum.
It's a pretty apt-in place for a computer forum.