This is the worst looking system that I could find on my local Craigslist, and I don't mean in terms
of like price-to-performance or whatever, I mean 'actual condition of the system'.
Going by the pictures online, I am convinced that there is some endangered wildlife living
in the system. So, what we're gonna do in today's video is i'm gonna open it up and
we're gonna have a bit of a gag at the inside and then i'm gonna clean it up and turn it into
something a little bit more presentable but before we get into that it's time for
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for today's pc cleaning i'm going to use my go-to glove brand valida fresh comfort not only
do they keep your hands fresh and comfortable but they offer a solid barrier between your fingies
and the pc gonorrhea ah that feels like velida quality valida the only grav glove brand for me
now the guy that i bought this system from was actually really nice we had a lovely conversation
while we were waiting for the payment to go through i actually really hope he doesn't see
this video but anyway he told me that he cleaned the outside of the system before selling it which
just has to be a lie because i don't know what the hell kind of cleaning they were doing that left
these suspicious man juice looking stains on the top but other than the couple stains it is just
very dusty on the outside so let's open it up and see what kind of animals we can find living inside
here we go and oh that is a very dusty pc but the thing that concerns me the most about it is that
there are spider webs all over the place now the spider webs in themselves isn't concerning it's
just that i can't i can't find this spider and considering that i left the system without the
side panel open overnight in the office i think that i may now be living with a new spider which
which is not ideal now the thing that you'll notice immediately after the
suspicious lack of spiders in this system is that the cable management is genuinely
shocking this case does actually have behind the motherboard tray uh cable routing options but
they just completely ignored it but anyway let's quickly walk through the components that we have
in this spider sanctuary now under this evga aio we have an intel i5 4670k with what i think is 24
gigs of ram but we'll have a closer look at that later uh the motherboard is an asrock fatality
z97 board so you can see there mr fatality's name very proudly displayed on the motherboard
uh in terms of the graphics card we have a pny gtx 1060. now according to the guy this was
actually a graphics card that he got as a warranty replacement for a gtx 960 and he says that it's
very very lightly used moving down to the power supply we have a real beast a 1050
watt xfx unit which seems to have suffered the brunt of the dust collection it is a real dirty
boy now technically the power supply is in here upside down because the case does actually have
ventilation in the bottom for the power supply but if they were running the system on a carpet
it would make sense to run it this way around and then in terms of ssd we have a drive that's quite
difficult to identify due to what looks like volcano eruption debris but it looks it looks
like it's a samsung drive of some description but other than that i think it's time to start
disassembling the system cleaning one part at a time and see how we can salvage the system
okay that is by no means a clean graphics card but it's definitely not the worst i've seen
so yeah let's let's dig a bit deeper oh there's like a hidden m.2 drive under
that graphics card that's an exciting find i love how the cpu power cable
is just like routed through the front here that's always hilarious but again
these cables are stuck between the ram
oh there we go it's out we can get these cables down oh they really went to town on the thermal
paste but rather more than too little i always say now next up i want to remove
the rest of the aio so that we can relatively easily remove the motherboard from the case
i think we're good here oh yeah there we go
oh ooh the back just came off look at that ew oh i found the spider oh no i don't think the
spiders made it that is the corpse of a spider if i've ever seen one rest in peace little pc spider
although it really had a nice home for itself in here look at all that web going on here that
is some luxurious inside of pc spider house we've got going here i've actually run into
a bit of a problem with this top panel because in order to get it off you need to undo these
little clips on the inside and there just happens to be one underneath the spider grave which means
i'm gonna have to just blindly stick my finger in there which feels a little bit like corpse
desecration to me but at least i'm wearing these dry comfort velida latex gloves to protect me
oh sorry little spider buddy i'm just gonna try and be really gentle
there we go hey oh oh things sounded like they broke there but we got the panel off that's good
it seems like they've gone for the age-old two screws in the middle of one side radiator mounting
method which is it's a bit of a brave move i personally prefer the opposite corners tactic
no he definitely could have used opposite corners but whatever it seems to have worked for him oh
that is a gross aio at this point that's definitely affecting cooling performance
right there there is like a a solid mat of dust blocking up this radiator that is
that's pretty gross okay now we can easily remove the motherboard this person has clearly gone to
the david school of pc assembly because there are only four screws keeping the motherboard in place
oh um it actually seems to not be a standard atx width so that's part
of the reason why they only used four screws to keep it in place
um yeah this should be should be terrible to clean let's move on to i don't know the storage
okay there is drive number one
come on there you go oh there there is a lot of spider house
under this ssd it actually seems to have really taken a liking to this ssd
that is a that is a fat power supply right there i am not entirely sure what i want to do with this
um because it's actually very dirty inside as well and i don't want to have to open it
and clean it it is a thousand watt unit so there are some big ass capacitors in here
that really want me dead so i don't really want to deal with that i i think that's the grossest
power supply i've seen in a long time so uh i'll i'll i may just end up recycling and i'll see i'll
deal with that later oh i'm so glad i've been wearing these velita gloves
and here is our tiny little gtx 1060 dive surrounded by a whole bunch of neglect
oh shiny
now unfortunately i've run out of this thickness of thermal pad so
i'm not going to replace them which is a little bit savage but it should be okay
now i wouldn't say it's a shocking transformation but it's definitely
better than it was before and going by the q-tip graveyard we definitely
made some progress next up it's time to clean the mr fatality motherboard
and here we have our vrm heatsink nicely cleaned and it's actually painted in this
beautiful anodized red finish it looks awesome
now with the motherboard you want to be really careful when wiping it down
because there are a lot of very sensitive just like surface mounted components that you don't
want to damage um so i think most of what i'm gonna do in terms of cleaning the actual pcb
is just gonna be using compressed air on it i feel like that's probably the safer way to go about it
and there we go it's it's pretty clean now it's not the cleanest motherboard
ever it's not like damn that is now new uh but i think it's clean enough now the
next bit's gonna be relatively easy i'm just gonna clean up the ram modules and the ssd
and just like that we have essentially a brand new looking drive all i had to do was wipe it down
with some cleaning liquor and there you go um so i'm just going to do the same thing with the ram
that cleaned up real nice
okay i'm going to start with the fans before i tackle that heinous dust crime of an aio
now this is always the really irritating part about cleaning fans is that you have to do like
one blade at a time i always find it the most tedious part of a pc to clean
now it's a lot cleaner than it was before you can see there uh it's still not perfect if i
put some more time into this i can definitely get it cleaner but yeah these are like these are like
really cheesy fans so yeah i'm just gonna replace them with something better but yeah so now that
i've made my mind up on that let me move over to the aio okay it's the moment of truth we get
to clean that um not entirely sure how i'm going to go about that because if i just kind of spray
duster at it it is going to asphyxiate me and i don't really feel like i don't really feel
like dealing with that um so i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to start off
with just a a rag soaked in cleaning liquor and then kind of start wiping up the majority of it
so this is definitely another hair brain idea a la david but it's raining outside so i can't go and
film me dustering the thing outside so i'm just gonna do it into a trash bag hopefully that's fine
let's see what happens ah gross wow look at that that just shot out pretty much across the table
now i gave it a quick google and apparently the next step in dealing with the radiator this
disgusting is actually soaking it for a while in dish soap and water and then kind of using like a
like a toothbrush and and brushing all the grime out and then letting it dry now unfortunately i
i don't really have time for that so it's a little bit lame but i'm gonna also replace the aio so at
the end of the day we're just going to be using the core components with that let's let's build
the system and then see what kind of temperatures we get and and what it looks like and all that
and sadly now that i've finished cleaning the system i have to unfortunately take off my velida
gloves which is a real shame but they have kept my hands nicely fresh and comfortable thanks velita
so we're done with the build and it looks really cool it actually turned out really well
i did cheat a little bit by basically replacing everything aesthetic in the build um but it it
still turned out really well uh now we just need to see if it works i actually uh was stupid and
didn't test fire it before i started cleaning everything so if it doesn't work now i don't know
if i broke it or he saw it to be broken yeah let's let's give it a try that all sounds promising it
works would you look at that um yeah let's do some temperatures and then we'll take it from there
20 minutes into a gaming session and the temperatures are immaculate we are
in the mid 50s on both the graphics card what is this guy doing oh okay we're good
we're in the mid 50s on both the cpu and the graphics card which is really awesome
unfortunately the i5 is bottlenecking that 1060 quite quite aggressively now i did try
and overclock it above that four gigahertz but i couldn't get it stable any higher than that i
admittedly spent very little time on it but yeah that 46 4690k does not seem to want to overclock
uh but yeah overall amazing temperatures and we're getting a solid battlefield 5 gaming experience at
1080p medium settings so at the end of the day it runs very well it's cool and relatively quiet and
uh it doesn't look like a meth lab dumpster rat anymore so yeah that's exciting but other than
that i don't really know what else to say so thank you very much for watching if you liked the video
do let me know down in the comment section below i may turn this into a series if there's enough
interest which definitely isn't a rip off of greg salazar's content actually on that note uh if you
want to see someone really properly deep clean his system and go check out his videos i'll have
one link in the description below and uh yeah other than that thank you for watching bye-bye
i actually really hate these velita gloves you're not supposed to film that