- Today, I'm building a gaming PC from Craigslist
where Ken's got Wish to determine,
can a broke setup beat a pro one?
High Tier RGB gaming PC.
Problem with this one though, it was posted a month ago.
That's probably not gonna be here anymore.
- [Jared] That probably got sold.
- All right, so let's go try to find some PC parts.
So I have the Lenovo store here.
Oh, it actually has a little check mark too
so I can see what's verified.
But, there are a lot of refurbished,
PC parts from this one vendor.
I could just go like the really lazy route
that Austin usually goes,
which is buy a corporate prebuilt from like 10 years ago.
- Asus gaming slash office PC, 250 bucks.
1050Ti by itself,
I've been seeing on Craigslist for like 150, $175.
So the fact that for just a little bit more than that,
I can get a full PC, is actually not bad.
Unfortunately, I have texted this person like four times
and they've not gotten back to me.
- Okay. So they have ASRock motherboards.
It's verified as authentic brand products.
So, unlike Austin
who probably doesn't look for that check mark,
I'll probably get this stuff
if I buy it from these vendors.
This is a ninth gen i7.
Wow, okay, so we got options.
I mean, expensive, but we got options.
- This I think is a good spot to start.
Ryzen 3 is okay, 16 Gigs of RAM is nice,
it already has an SSD,
but if I can find a good GPU,
I think this is probably a good move.
- God forbid Wish..
what the,
(grunting)
If that's real, I'm just buying this.
So I have here a Lenovo Legion T7,
Core i9 10900K, 2080 super,
$1,900.
This vendor seems pretty legit.
You know what?
I'ma risk at all, with someone else's hard earned money.
- So, this is the card I actually wanna do.
The GTX 1070 Limited Edition Quicksilver.
This one is $260 for 1070.
260 bucks is not a cheap deal,
but as far as everything I've looked at on Craigslist,
I think this is my move.
(whimsical music)
Got my sad Starbucks.
(Austin sighs)
Surprise, surprise, 1070 guy was a no show.
Guess I'm back to square one, which is great.
Luckily other people did actually respond,
so I have a couple of other leads
but they're all complete opposite end,
of Southern California.
So,
thumbs down.
- All right, it arrives.
Wish actually followed through.
Let's go take a look.
That, is an actual PC.
Oh, this thing is massive.
Yeah, judging by the fact that
all of my peripherals are wrapped
and there's like Lenovo startup guides in here,
it's making me think
that this is actually refurbished by Lenovo,
not by the vendor that I bought it from on Wish.
Woohoo,
look at that.
I even like that the pain of glass
has a little bit of film on it.
It's like they reapplied some.
So, this is a proper refurbish.
Cable management could use a little bit of work,
after all, aesthetics will be coming into play a little bit.
First impression is this thing is looking pretty solid.
And, I personally think that I'm probably better out
with this PC than Austin is
with whatever he got from Craigslist.
Austin, not exactly a good negotiator.
- So it is time for redemption my friends.
It is time to get our hands
on the PC hardware that we deserve.
Now I went last time by myself.
So this time, we got the whole team.
Griffin, if they don't give me a graphics card (censored) them up.
(laughing)
(beeping)
The graphics card that was promised is here, the GTX 1060,
the pinnacle of modern technology.
Does that look like it's been through a mild fire,
and these screws for some reason are rusty?
Yeah.
Did I pay a lot of money for it?
Look, I got a GPU, okay?
Success.
We actually got some extra stuff,
'cause I don't think this was in the listing, right?
- [Jared] No, no, no.
He just kinda handed that to us.
- Here's what we really came for, the actual PC.
So let's actually crack it open real quick.
So I briefly looked at it,
we didn't actually power it on,
so hopefully when we get back to the office, it works.
- [Jared] I mean, that looks like a pretty,
oh, it's even got a glass side panel.
- Well, so that's the thing.
He actually packaged this up really nicely.
I almost feel like he built this to sell it or something.
But we've got dual channel memory,
we've got a 256 Gig SSD,
350 board.
I mean, I actually think we did totally okay on this.
- [Jared] For $350, I mean, that's not,
the worst deal we've ever gotten.
- No, definitely not.
You know what?
This is a lot lighter than I thought it was going to be.
You're about to witness something
that few people have seen in life.
- [Jared] Should we be wearing masks for this?
- Yes.
(Austin laughing)
(air whooshing)
I'm not sure if it is a good or bad thing,
that most of this is just not blowing off.
- [Jared] I was gonna say, very little actually came off,
and that worries me more than it soothes me.
- Okay, so I'm gonna be real,
I mean, this is 100% a mining card.
This poor card, has been running 24/7, 100%, for years now.
And he still sold it to us
for basically what he bought it for.
- [Jared] Yeah.
- You know what, this GPU just needs to work
for like a few minutes.
If it works for just a little bit, then it's fine.
Jared, will you please do the honors
of hitting the power button for the very first time
on our Craigslist PC of,
excellent good vibes.
Did you just dab?
- I don't know what I'm doing.
But,
- [Austin] Okay.
- It didn't work. Is it?
- Ooh - Whoa.
- [Austin] That's RGB my friends.
This angle, makes this PC look good.
Ken actually might not have the aesthetics
completely on point.
- I think, we might have won this in about every category.
You being good at games I can't call on,
but we'll see how that turns out.
- [Austin] So, the GPU is, not spinning.
This is, it just needs a minute.
- [Jared] Concerning.
- [Austin] This is a problem.
It's a very real problem right now.
What's worse, getting ghosted,
or spending money and not getting something
that you actually thought you're getting.
- Well, my past dating experiences says
I'd rather be ghosted.
- What? - What?
- [Austin] So we put it on our test bench,
just to really confirm.
So look at the fan, trying to like stutter to life.
No, it's not even trying anymore.
Oh my God.
Oh, look at that, look at that.
- Yo, that's terrible.
So, the real question is--
- [Austin] What do we do now?
- Now what the hell do we do?
- [Austin] Ken's coming tomorrow,
with his fully assembled PC.
We don't even have any more Craigslist options
now at this point, we'd have to start from scratch again.
- Just trying to find a guy that was willing to do it
in the same day was hard enough as it is,
let alone trying to find a second one,
that's gonna have a card that's a good deal,
that's nearby, like it's not gonna happen.
- This is like top five bad things ever on camera.
- Top 10 Anime betrayals.
- We'll be back, after we decide what we're gonna do
to rectify this disaster.
- All right, so this, is my PC that I got off Wish.
- Wish.com, that was more than like $100 whatever,
and you actually received it.
- Somehow. - First glance here,
I cannot tell that this is not a brand new computer.
- [Ken] I did all of my homework and research.
I checked on the seller.
They're based in the US,
they also sell on eBay and Amazon.
So the specs, is a Core i9 10900K.
- [Matt] Okay.
- [Ken] A 2080 super, 32 Gigs of RAM.
Also have a one terabyte hard drive and one terabyte SSD.
Normally I don't like bloatware or anything
with these pre-builts,
but, it comes with an overclocking tool.
And so it's overclocked right now.
- So this is a solid computer.
How much did you pay for a refurbished Lenovo on Wish?
- A couple of bucks over two grand.
- Okay, in this market that's not horrible.
So I will immediately just say looking at it,
it looks way better, just aesthetically to me,
than Austin's.
- Excuse me? - You mean
the Party City machine?
- [Austin] Excuse me.
- This is the one time
that you were supposed to judge a book by its cover.
- So, starting out with the PC.
This was a freshly built, Ryzen 3 3200 G.
16 Gigs of 3000 megahertz memory, a 256 Gig SSD
and a 1.5 terabyte hard drive.
Yes you heard me right friends.
1.5 terabytes.
How much would you pay, for what an amazing system this is,
with, a,
RGB
headset?
I know, I know,
the accessories aren't supposed to be included,
but I'm an overachiever Matt.
- Did this not come with a GPU?
- Did that come with a GPU?
That was this whole separate excursion.
- Like 700.
- $350.
- Okay.
- Price performance, big part of the game here.
The thing that was missing, was a graphics card.
I'm not gonna settle for integrated graphics,
hilarious and yet not possible.
So, you'll see there's a graphics card in there.
- Yeah.
- I borrowed a 1050 Ti from the office.
- No way. - No.
- [Ken] Oh no, no, no, no.
- If Ken showed up without a PC,
I definitely would not be like,
oh yeah, you could just go borrow
one of the one from the office.
- Well here, you know what my thing is,
is that if my PC didn't show up,
I was gonna try to do the Wish claim
to get my money back and just start over.
- Yeah, you can't do that in Craigslist.
- Can you look up what a 1050 Ti is on eBay?
- [Jared] I got one for 200, 160, 180, 190.
- So I'll use the 290 one.
- [Ken] Yes
Let's go.
(Ken laughing)
- We're at about 800 bucks for your system.
Wait, okay.
This is why we round up.
- [Ken] What a good sport.
- I think it's time to open up the benchmarks guys.
- So what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take his multi-core score,
I'm gonna divide that by the price of his computer,
which was just, we're gonna call 2100.
So, we get,
7.7,
we'll round it up to two.
- He's got like 10 times my score
and I spent half as much as him apparently.
- Multicore score,
you got a 3651.
So you paid what?
350?
- 350 plus 190.
- All right, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt,
and I'm gonna say 540.
- Wait, I get back to my original thing?
- Maybe.
You still lose,
(Ken laughing)
and get a score of 6.76.
Obviously you want a higher score.
- We have GPU benchmarks.
Oh, no.
(Ken laughing)
Same thing, all right?
So, as you can see,
I have plenty of performance with my mouse.
Let's see who is the supreme victor,
and who's the giant loser.
- [Austin] This is a big map,
it's gonna take us a long time to finish.
- [Ken] You picked it.
(gun bangs)
Okay. Seems like you, well played down.
Well played already.
(gun bangs)
Ah, this is very bad.
Ken, where'd you go?
(gun bangs)
Oh, either.
- [Matt] If you can get a single kill, I will consider.
- I hear you. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?
Wait, where?
- [Matt] If we just go ahead and--
- [Austin] Is that one settled?
- There might be an L in Craigslist
but there's a W in Wish.