what is cracka lackin' used pc parts enthusiasts
it is the month of april and it's
approaching the end and that can only mean
one thing and that is a used pc
part-time where this month
i have a goal to get the cheapest individual
parts in that i'm going to be
micromanaging more
this month looking for those little
things that are coming
at a good price and that i don't think a
whole lot of people are chasing
and what i mean by this is i'm going to
be chasing sort of older gravis cards
two gigabytes of vram you'll still be
able to put together a really good price
performance pc
if this is sort of your target
especially in these times
and then we've got ddr3 memory we're
going to be chasing some of that as well
because i do from last month's part hunt
still have a few oem
systems stocked up here and i'll put the
link to last month's part on right up here
but with that aside let's get into the
deals and then
see what is papa lopping
so pulling up good old gametree the
first deal that we're getting into here
is some believe it or not ddr3 memory an
8 gigabyte kit here
for 25 aussie dollars now you're
probably thinking that's okay
but believe it or not ddr3 memory at
least sourcing it new
has actually gone up in price over the
last year i'd say actually
if i look at last year's quotes and this
year's quotes
from brand new suppliers it's actually
gone up around 50
then moving on to the next deal that
they've come back and said okay this is
an
hd 7770 now it's not a great card but it
will still play games
like valerian like league of legends and
so you can couple that
with a budget pc and that'll really make
some magic
for a low end build which believe it or
not low end builds are actually in
quite a bit of demand still especially
if people can't get
all the latest and greatest where i
personally feel like the higher end
stuff now
carries a more exponential premium
over what it once did even a year ago so
that's where i think the value lies
and that is in the lower end so we're
going to keep pursuing that
based on these prices at least that
we're pulling up right now the four more
deals that we are waiting on answers
back from is a 7870 we're offered 65
for this and then a gt 1030 where i
offered 75
and then also a 16 gigabyte kit of ddr3
memory
for dollars and then lastly there was
actually an eight gigabyte
ddr4 ram stick going for 25 going for 30
i just put in an offer of 25
so hopefully all these people get back
to us and accept these offers
so we can start getting some more parts
so it's quickly used flash i've got to
hit the tech yes mobile
sooner than i expected there's a gtx
1070 that i've got i put in an offer of
350. they said yes we're going to pick
that up right now
there's also an apu a 2200g which they
wanted 100 for
i put in an offer of 80s so we're
quickly gonna go grab those two now
because the person has to go to work so
of course i don't want to miss out on
that but as we're hitting the road i'll
put some of these deals up that i put
officers down
and we're waiting for the people to get
back on you still you
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so just finished up picking up two deals
in rapid
succession and this was the gtx 1070
scored that 350 in the bag then we've
got right here
a 2200 g which i've actually been
thinking about doing a video on this
because if you guys are in a price
performance struggle
then this little apu could indeed be
your savior
but from here on in we've got to give
lez a call and wait for some of the
messages to get back to us with some of
these deals
hopefully we can pick up a little bit
more fingers crossed
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just in the yes mobile just finished up
at lez's place it's getting a bit dark i
had to do a few things in brisbane
before i went to see les
and also had to take back a few faulty
parts so believe it or not
parts do get faulty but les is really
good in that regard because
he will give me uh just straight up
credit
on the stuff that is faulty if i get it
from him and
it hasn't been on it's been untested but
he's just like look just test this
if it doesn't work bring it back so he's
always good in that regard but we did
get
some pretty good deals this time around
i got a heap of monitors i also got
a gt 730 which i got for 15
and i mean i know people will laugh at a
gt 730 but hey
15 and it will play some games i know
that for a fact
gt730 will do a lot better than a gt710
for example it's like
in a different league if we're looking
at micro plays but then we also had a
personal favorite a xeon pc this was
loaded with a one terabyte hard drive 12
gig of ram
and i got that for 90 dollars and the
only reason i paid a little bit more for
that was because of the 12 gigabytes of
ram
and because of that one terabyte hard
drive and so the z400 series desktops
too they're
built so well i mean these things are
built like a brick
[ __ ] house though some other cool
goodies i got from les was a set of
logitech speakers for 20 bucks he wanted
20 bucks and i'm thinking to myself hey
logitech
speakers with a sub 20 bucks sounds like
a deal to me
and then we also picked up a video
camera which he gifted us
this old analog with a tape deck in it
and i was like okay i'll take that
because i'm kind of
believe it or not i do like some of the
old vintage stuff and especially when it
comes to film
analog film can give you like a really
cool different experience so maybe if
you guys want to see a video
around uh say an analog video editing
setup then maybe i can try and make
something happen in that regard i just
had this crazy idea that came to my mind
so all this gear from les we ended up
picking it up for 420
that was after we got some credit so you
might see some other pcs in there but he
did exchange two pcs
for all the faulty stuff that i brought
back so that was a different sort of
separate thing altogether though in
terms of other people getting back to us
with deals
we actually uh someone got back to us
about the gt 1030 but then they didn't
message me so i'm like here's my number
just message me directly and then they
said i'll take the offer
but they haven't gotten back to us and
we're up here in brisbane
and we've got to get back soon i can't
really wait around that much longer
otherwise i'll be here all night
and then there was another deal that the
ram that was up here and they haven't
gone back to us yet either
though there is one potential deal on
the gold coast for cl 16
32 gigabytes of g-skill memory 3600.
this stuff
is of course the cream of the crop when
it comes to ddr4 memory in my opinion
and especially at 240 bucks it's a
decent price
considering you're getting it at like cl
16 3200 so those two sets of memory
they're in a different league
cl 16 3600 is much better stuff anyhow
let's go hit the road and go pick up
that ram and hopefully some people get
back to us in the meantime
with some responses
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so here's a little added bonus of your
gaming pc you can use all these fancy
lights
to light yourself up and then you can do
a talking head portion
while you're recording a used parts on
now we've found
four gpus potentials and honestly i'm
going to focus so if people don't get
back to me about memory sticks and other
stuff
i'm not too devastated it's the gpus
right now that i'm super focused on
without the gpus there is no price
performance without the price
performance
there is no tech yes city as we know it
but what we found here was a little bit
of a mixed bag where i saw an rtx 2060
super for 500
and i'll think to myself well 500 is
pretty fair so
i just said look i'll come and pick this
thing up 2060 super 500 aussie cash
let's do this and i'm waiting for them
to get back to me there's also a gtx 650
where they just wanted 15 bucks for it
so i was like okay that asking price is
very fair
so i'm talking to him now providing it
works i'll go pick that up
and then the next two graphics cards
were new so we got an rtx 3060 where
they want 880 i just said look we'll
come in at 800.
let's just call it a day that's pretty
much what they're going for brand new in
australia it's just they're all sold out
and then um that was after the whole
accidental
uh driver slippage from nvidia there but
then we had the
6700 xt someone had a brand new one of
those and they want
about nine i'm sorry a thousand dollars
but you can get the i think you get the
red devil
for a thousand news so i was like look
come in at 900
and we'll call it a night so it's pretty
late now guys i'm going to go to bed
with some rgb
i'm actually not going to go to bed with
the rgb but we're going to
turn off the rgb then go to bed and then
see what happens in the morning
and still look for some graphics cards
in the morning as
well you beauty
so no joke i was just about to get to
sleep guy got back to us
6700 xt he accepted the offer so we'll
go get that
tomorrow and then the g skill ram so
even though the guy
we missed him on the way home because he
didn't respond
we um we can get that tomorrow as well
so there will be more deals on the table
tomorrow
that will be the reality more deals
equals more entertainment
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so now on the next day and i had to pick
these up right here and the people
finally got back to me in the afternoon
but this is the most interesting deal
right here gtx 650
has 15 bucks and they also had a 27 inch
dell monitor
and they wanted 15 for it so i got these
two here for 30 bucks
so i think that was a nice pickup and
then this right here
on the way home i ended up finally a guy
got back to me and he gave it to us for
230 dollars
because he was a little bit late to
reply so i got a 10 discount on that
and then lastly we got the 6700 xt and
they got back to us
and they said they'll come and drop it
off here
later tonight so before i do hand over
the money i'm definitely going to be
checking to make sure the card works
because
if someone's dropping something off to
you always make sure that part works
before
they take off because then you've got no
idea where they live or anything like
that there's no recourse for getting a
refund
if the product's faulty but that's about
it i have exhausted pretty much
all my options here for all these deals
this month over the last two days
and we've had a pretty good success rate
i've picked up some low end stuff
and i think we're going to talk about
the high-end stuff because you may be
thinking well
the 900 offer on a 6700 xt is pretty
high but
when you look at it that's kind of the
going rate i've been speaking to people
across the scene
and some people are paying like over a
thousand dollars for instance for
30 60s and people are paying um
more than you're used to paying for
these new gpus and i guess that's just
the way the market's going for instance
you're like well
brian you never pay you've never paid
350 bucks for a used 1070 before
in recent times or at least in the last
few years and the answer that is yes but
times are changing now and we've talked
about this in the last especially the
last few videos
and it's kind of like these last few
videos they kind of had a
they weren't that you know they weren't
the most positive videos
that i've produced but i've had to
educate myself on all
everything recently and retrain my brain
a little bit with certain things so we
are going to see
traditionally what would be some really
good deals here on the table
but then we're going to see things that
probably don't look like a good deal at
first but
when i've got demand for people
messaging me and saying hey i need a pc
for price
x and this is what they roughly want in
the specs
i can get one of these cards for
instance for 350 and i can still make a
decent profit off the final flip then
i'm going to definitely get into that
especially when i'm picking up things
like i5 10 600
for 150 bucks and then picking up some
cheap ddr4 memory
i'm able to make it all happen still
because the other parts are still pretty
well priced and i guess people
know that since the gpus are more
expensive they have to pay more for the
final pc so
i'm just really the intermediary and
that's how you should think of yourself
if you're doing
pc flipping you should always think of
yourself as just the intermediary
in the middle and i guess i am taking a
little bit of a gamble in this high
market but
as i've always said high turnover so
we're paying 350 for this thing but
we're going to be flipping it
as soon as we can that way if and if
crypto does crash for example
and the prices of gpus just start
plummeting we're not going to be left
with too much stock on hand and then we
can react to the market
quickly and then see how it changes
anyways with all that aside we're going
to put the use parts hunt tally here for
april
2021 up on the screen do let us know
what you think was your favorite deal of
the month
i have put an asterix against that 6700
xt
as of course nothing's ever ever
guaranteed until
the money's changed hands and the
products in your hand so that one's
still
out and about but in terms of all the
deals this month do let us know
what you guys and what your favorite was
i mean personally for me i was going to
say the vintage camera but
actually this gtx 650 i mean for 15
bucks
i'm gonna see what it can do i think it
can play free-to-play games
quite well at least maybe even at like
1080p
low settings but i mean the price
performance 15 bucks
it's there and now we are here at the
finish line for april 2021's used pc
part time of the month
and looking forward we can see some
trends going on here and that is
some of the parts i mean the graphics
cards that's just staying expensive and
sort of you're going into a new market
and i haven't seen this kind of market
before but i know one thing and that's
going forward
you just got to roll with the punches
and that's always been my channel motto
here
at tech yes city whatever the market is
have that high turnover
just be ready to adapt and that's what
we're doing right now you may see
things a little bit different this month
and that's me adapting so if you guys
have any questions or comments
then be sure to drop a comment below
i'll get back to you as soon as i can
but in terms of going forward i'm just
going to stay focused stay positive
hope you guys have been enjoying that
content but do drop a question in the
comment section below because we've got
the question of the day here from mike
and they ask just a question it's at the
end of the comment
uh just a question brian the 10 30 with
the gddr5 structure
are they a better buy or an acceptable
card for a low end gaming computer in
say an i5 4470 or should i spend the
extra for a
1654 gigabyte so it's interesting to ask
this question because in this part time
we're actually looking for 1032
gigabytes
so don't overlook a 1030 especially if
you just want to use it for something
where just your own gaming pc you're
building something for a friend that
just
wants to play like cs go or some basic
1080p low settings fortnite
1030 uh make sure it's the gdr5 version
that'll do that
if it's a ddr4 version just avoid that
thing it's a rip off i think it performs
like
half as good as the gdr5 version so
that one is literal garbage but the gtr5
version that's pretty good
go for it if you can get at the right
price though in terms of the 1650 at the
moment
those things are expensive they can go
north of three hundred dollars where i
am so
75 bucks versus 300 i can get four 10 32
gigabytes
or one 1650 and i mean for me personally
since i'm flipping a bit
i would go with the 4 10 30s i'd be able
to do so much
more with that than i would the 1650.
anyway hope that answers that question
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