the end of september is nigh and that
can only mean
one thing and that is the used pc parts
hunt of the month
here at tech yes city now before we get
into
this month's part hunt i'm gonna tell
you guys about my personal experience in
the last month
and that is that i've had a lot of
success
sort of under a thousand aussie dollars
so the low end of the market
and even to like the mid-range of the
market
is still kicking along it's still fine i
think people in this
price range aren't really holding out
for a graphics card that
at least with the rtx 3080 that's going
to cost them
a lot of money in oz at the moment i
think
people are trying to resell them for 2
000
just for an rtx 3080 so there is this
bit of
sort of despair that's come along with
the launch of the 3080 and that's the
supply problems but
if you picked up an rtx 2080 super or a
2080i or a 2070 super
last month when they were going pretty
cheap i think you made a good call
because at least you'll be out of game
for a few months because
all these problems will be solved in the
next few months it's just a matter of
time
and with that of course i i'm even me
i'm i'm a beta tester at the moment for
nvidia
going on their new graphics cards so
there are a few problems with the rtx
3080 but in time
i think they'll be ironed out and once
they are ironed out the used market
itself will then stabilize
and we'll be able to find where prices
are going exactly but in the meantime
me personally coming into this month i'm
just going to be hunting
those uh sort of low end to mid-range
parts because
i'm just really not moving anything past
the thousand aussie dollars like i'm
sitting on builds
for the longest that i've ever been
sitting on even though i don't have any
builds up for sale right now
previously i think it took me like two
weeks just to move one pc and i was like
damn this is a really long time that was
a 1080 ti build that i had up for sale i
had to drop the price of that
just to move it so things are really
weird at the market
in terms of pricing and what people are
prepared to pay but i guess that
weirdness can be explained by
people are holding out for rtx 3000
series cards to come back into stock
and on the flip side there's also a
crunch in the economy as well so those
two factors
combined means that anything over a
thousand dollars is going to be
harder to move in my opinion than it
ever was
in the last few years but in the
meantime what i'm going to do coming
into this month
i'm going to go back to my grass roots
and this is where the fun is going to
start
i'm going to be looking for all those
budget parts whether it's i5s
even first gen ryzens i7s cheap ddr3
ddr4 power supplies cases
you name it i need the whole lot of
course if something higher end comes
through at the right price
i'll take it but my focus this month is
budget parts because again i've been
having just a lot of success as not just
that too i've been having
a lot of fun on this budget entry
market so with that aside let's jump
onto good old gametree
and facebook marketplace and i hope you
guys have been doing well
wherever you are in the world let's have
some fun and see what deals we can pull
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so starting off with facebook
marketplace here we've got
three potential deals already where the
people have replied and they've got some
pretty good prices
uh the first being two monitors they
look like they're both 22 inches
and at 25 aussie dollars i am okay with
that considering i get them off less for
35 bucks
if it's not too far of a drive for me
i'll go and get these monitors
then we've got some ddr4 memory where
there's two different sets
someone's got 16 gigabytes of ddr4
another person's got
another 16 gig but in a 2x8
configuration
and i'm just going to pay asking for
both of these because they're very good
prices for ddr4 memory
where from retail you're going to pay
double so i like the prices of both
these there's also a ddr3 listing for 50
aussie dollars as well for 16 gigabytes
which
i messaged them waiting back to here but
we've potentially got four but it looks
like we're going to score three deals
from facebook marketplace
in terms of graphics cards and also cpus
there really wasn't anything available i
mean someone had a gtx 670 up for sale
and they were saying well i want 75
bucks for this i offered them 40 bucks
because again
a 670 is very old and you
if you don't have problems now with it
it's got you know two years time
probably gonna have some problems that
go wrong in the next two years so the
life frame
of this 670 is really like pushing it
even at 75 aussie and in terms of the
other gpus out there i saw a 960 for
sale but
i tried to message the guy it was some
error so you must have sold that already
but the biggest thing with graphics
cards right now
is that i don't want to pay these
overpriced prices on used gpus
because there's rx 570s for sale for 169
aussie dollars
brand new with the warranty so there's
just no purpose
buying these cards that even come close
to this in price
when they're used and you've got to go
drive out to go get them
and waste your gas waste your time so
the used gpu market is still looking
like
it's a complete mess where i am locally
but the good news is
is that we've still got that alternative
avenue to get some rx 570s especially we
want to put together
some good price performance rigs if we
can pick up the other parts
now moving over to good old game tree
we've found here uh
three different listings one being an
r7260 one gigabyte
they wanted 20 bucks i just said okay
i'll give you 20
for this thing since it is just a little
banger it'll go in a
say for instance a minecraft pc or just
something entry like cs go
there is a market for these uh pcs
believe it or not so
20 bucks that's really not going to add
to the build cost at all
but then next up we've got an i7 940 and
this is 20 bucks but the thing is it
says it comes with a main board
and it's as is so i mean the x58 main
board it's worth a gamble
considering you're getting the i7 cpu
for 20 bucks so i just put in the
20 asking on that one too so we'll see
if they're good to go but now
the last thing we're going to focus
attention on here is an i7 4770 for 150
bucks now straight away
my reaction is man this is overpriced
for an old school i7
as well and the thing is though this is
the going rate for these cpus
believe it or not i'm speaking to people
who actually sell these in bulk and they
say in australia
150 aussie is actually the going rate
for these cpus
it's just crazy because you've got the
i3 10 100 now
which is miles better brand new going
for just a little bit more
but that's how confused the marketing is
right now with the i7 versus i3
and i guarantee you a lot of people in
the market for a gaming pc who don't
know much about this stuff
would be like oh i7 and they would pick
an 4770
over an i310 100 even though the 10 100
is a better cpu to get by a long shot
there with all that out of the way i've
got to jump in the yes mobile now head
up to brisbane
because we'll go see les but there's
also some of these other deals where
pretty much
all these deals are up in brisbane which
is like an hour drive for me
but this seems to be a trend going on
where i don't really find
any deals locally except a uh
260 so hopefully we get the r7 260
because it's local
yo les what is crackalackin
uh not much mate i'm about to head up to
brisbane go get some deals
and it's that time of the month so i
thought i'd stop by
say hello and of course see what you got
cracking
yeah i don't have much cracking i mean
good jacket
yeah well i was just wondering if you
wanted to release the kraken on my
wallet
oh my one's pretty big and now we just
finished up at lez's place and
he only had one pc for us one pc
that's all we got this month but the
good news is that we're going to go pick
up some of the memory now both the guys
on the 50
kits of memory got back to us but the
monitors as well the two monitors
that is just around the corner so we're
gonna go grab those two monitors chuck
them in the boot too
and also on the gold coast uh someone's
messaged me about a ryzen
cpu so we're gonna go pick that up as
well on the way home there's
apparently someone with a broken 1080 ti
so i'm going to go check out that
where they just want me to fix it so
we're going to chuck that in the boot as
well
because it's on the way home so a little
bit of synergy being created right now
but
i am surprised i think this is the least
amount of tech that i've
ever gotten from les in the history of
the channel but keep in mind the other
week i went and saw him when i did a
vlog i'll put the link up here where i
was getting back into the used
parts hustle again after all this rtx
3000 stuff
but let's put that foot down on the gas
and get on out of here
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so here's all the deals that we got last
night but i did find this
on the way home this is a ryzen 5 1600
and we got this for 100 aussie dollars
then there's this pc right here from lez
he wanted 130 for it i said look
110 and uh we sort of came to an
agreement on that i do like
the hp z210s because all you really have
to do is generally pop an ssd
and a graphics card and they work pretty
well and you can get a lot of value
out of these units right here then we've
got the ddr4 memory kit
so there's a 16 gigabyte kit there that
was 50 aussie dollars
then another two eight gigabyte sticks
of ddr4 50 aussie dollars
and then i uh went over to a viewer's
house someone was right around the
corner from where i was picking up one
of these deals
then they said look i've got a 1080 ti
and it's not working anymore
and i said sure like i'll come pick it
up we can look at it in the next ken yes
fix it episode
and so when they were there they said
look do you want any older parts and i'm
like yeah ddr3
first gen i7s or i5s like show us what
you've got
and so he had a first gen i7 and some
ddr3 which
they uh kindly gave us for free so big
thanks
for that uh jeremy as i really
appreciated
always can't say no to free used parts
that's for sure
then the last of the bunch is these two
monitors one samsung one
ben q and we got them for 50 aussie
dollars for the pair so
not bad for 22-inch monitors 1080p can
never say
no to monitors because you don't know
when you'll need them even though
i've stocked up on monitors i've got a
bit more than i need right now
in the future that can quickly turn the
other way
where you're finding yourself needing
monitors so it's always good if you find
stuff cheap enough i've always said this
in the past
if stuff's cheap enough right now always
stock up on it right now
and so now it's day two of the parts
hunt and i've looked around
gumtree high and low again and this time
i've found a potential deal on a gtx 580
i've offered 40 aussie dollars for it
and there's also a deal on uh three hard
drives
where they wanted a hundred dollars for
at externals but they're all like two
terabytes so i put down an offer of 80
on that so hopefully we can snag up both
these deals but
in terms of gpus looking at the
situation right now
it just seems like at least where i'm at
locally this is going to be a continuing
trend
until there is something like an rtx or
a gtx 3050
and perhaps amd releases a 6000 series
on the low to mid-range uh end to
alleviate this problem so until nvidia
or amd decide to release a graphics card
at the lower price points entry level
we're going to see all these graphics
card use graph scope prices
just going pretty stupid and pretty much
this rx 570
in one picture shows what i've been
talking about this whole time
this card is going on the used market
more than it's going
for brand new the exact same graphics
card so
it's really like for me firstly it's
just really like shaking my head
face palm all those emotions are coming
through
with the gpu market right now now
another thing too is earlier this month
we
talked about the rtx 2000 series and how
much of a roller coaster it could be
now we've seen the rtx 3000 series
launch
and i think the stock was so low
that a lot of people missed out and now
sort of that demand is coming back to
the rtx 2000 series
where 2080 ti's have gone up in price
now
and uh 2070 supers 2080 supers and those
three tier
higher cards have all gone up in price
again
at least where i am locally so i think
even the retailers were giving into that
sort of
fomo sort of uh panic selling
and they were like in australia these
retailers were dropping down their
prices of 2080 ti's
very low um i mean i snagged up a 2080
ti for 800 aussie dollars that for me
was like
risk free and that 2080 ti i guess has
gained a bit of value now
i also got a 2080. i did buy a 2070
super as well
i didn't talk about that in the last
parts hunt because i got it after the
used parts
last month so there has been a few deals
that i've come into
recently that has been sort of off
camera but
in terms of the market in general um
prices for you stuff
is generally right now where i'm at a
little bit overpriced people are sort of
struggling i'm struggling to get the
deals this month i think this is an
indication
of sort of what's to come there's a lot
of people where i am locally a lot of
resellers who are hungry for the deals
and as soon as they come up they just
get snagged
so i i really i've got to think of a new
plan going in
where i definitely have to start bowl
quartering stuff
even though that takes away from the
element of the used part-time
essentially where
i love getting these one-time deals and
making stuff
especially on the low end putting
together these pcs they can play games
for really
cheap that sort of like that element is
just
it's really hard it's getting a lot
harder to do and i'm realizing that
looking at the potential deals on the
market anyway guys in the meantime i
will update you
with the remaining two deals and let you
know in the description if i do snag
them
this month's tally is pretty small i'll
put it up on the screen for you
where it's definitely the smallest parts
hunt this year
and possibly one of the smallest parts
hunts in the history of the channel
though there is one more element to talk
about and that is pretty much i'm just
exhausted
from all the rtx 3000 testing because we
tested
all resolutions like 1080p 1440p 4k
and uh overclocking under vaulting all
that stuff does take a lot of time and
then of course
when you're putting all these numbers
into spreadsheets after that
for me personally it gets to the stage
where you're just looking at so many
different numbers
you're like whoa like this information
overload
essentially when you're trying to put it
all together so that was a big one this
month
other than that i do like testing the
new stuff as well especially on the rtx
3000 line because it does give us a
basis
for how much the use stuff should be
priced at
so right now i'm just seeing the gravis
card prices are just
all across the board are overpriced and
again i'm pleading
to nvidia or amd to hurry up and release
something on the low end
and maybe with the new navi cards amd
does just that just like when they
released the rx
470 and 480 originally it was met with
like a bit of
confusion people were like okay
shouldn't they be releasing the high end
first but
now in hindsight i actually appreciate
that move
so much more and i wish amd would do it
again with like a
6600 xt or something like that that'd be
really cool
and hopefully they can do that and fix
the used gpu market
problem and with all that out of the way
do let us know
your favorite deal of this month there
isn't
a whole lot to pick from so do pick
wisely for us in the comments below
but we do have the question of the day
here which comes from dennis sovar
and they ask i bought a ryzen i guess
three
to 1200 for 70 dollars new good deal
question mark
so this i honestly personally for 70 if
that's usd
i'd say it's not that good of a deal at
all aussie dollars it's okay
you saw here we picked up a ryzen 5 1600
for 100 aussie dollars
that for me personally is a much better
deal because you're getting that six
cores 12 threads as opposed to four
cores four threads which i think a lot
of people nowadays do want the four
cores eight threads as sort of like a
baseline minimum
yes four cores four threads will still
play games fine
but you're kind of just leaving yourself
there with a very limited uptick
so mediocre deal at best if we're
talking aussie dollars i'd pay around 50
aussie dollars for a ryzen 3 1200 that's
my personal max
and of course how do i price that up at
50 aussie dollars that's all got to do
with the rest of the components in the
build what balance are you looking for
how much you're looking to re-flip the
build what price performance are you
going to get out of it
and of course what the market is looking
for that's the biggest one
what the market demands is what you
should always be trying to satisfy
that's probably a different story for a
different day because there's the
ultimate thing that you've got to factor
in
and that is your time if you're going to
go out and do pc reselling
and it takes you say five hours to put
together a build and you're only making
100 bucks
could have you made more money just
working some other job
so there's all those factors that you've
got to put together and just ask it is
it worth it
uh best question of all time is it worth
it
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hey look what i got here what's that
it's a pc and i paid a fortune for it
how much did you get it for i picked it
up down the tip
so you paid nothing for it exactly right
yeah so is this going to be your new pc
is it
yeah yeah okay well we're going to need
a cpu and some memory but yeah we'll
patch this thing
up for you and you'll have a brand new
pc
from 2008 wow