it is nearing the end of October 2021
and that can only mean one thing and
that is a used pc parts hunt where I’ve
already looked at a heap of different
listings and it looks like this month
gpus are going pretty high here where i
am locally a lot of people are sitting
on high prices but last month we did
clean up a heap of different graphics
cards and so I’m still sitting on a few
of those so I’m not too desperate but
that said i have put in some offers on
some graphics cards mainly a gtx 760
offered them 60 AUD we'll see
if they take that there's also an rtx
3060 ti which I put an offer down as
well as an RX 6600 but there's also a
lot of other deals that i've put money
down on mainly some older i7 i5
motherboard combos and there's also a
b450 motherboard that i put in an offer
of 40 aussie dollars and they accepted
so we're gonna go pick that up now and
that's right near our favorite used pc
seller and that is les so we're gonna go
check out what he's got while we're up
that way and then hopefully by the time
we pick up this motherboard and some
other parts some of these other people
get back to us and we've got some good
news but who knows what deals we will
find this month so strap on in get used
pc parts hunting capes on and let's go
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so we've just finished picking up a heap
of different deals on the road i got the
b450 motherboard that was 40 dollars it
also came with wi-fi
included which is always a bonus
especially on a budget
then we picked up a power supply i got a
thousand watt xaomin power supply now
this thing is a little bit old didn't
come unfortunately with the extra cables
but it has so many cables
with it already on the get-go and i got
this for 35 aussie dollars so for me
that's a no-brainer since it'll be able
to power a high-powered build quite
easily then of course les a staple
he had heaps of stuff this time like
hard drives i got i7 cpus
monitors uh dell optiplexes so that was
the main thing he had this month and
also some other cool extra goodies so
we'll take a look at all that stuff when
we get back to the studio but i'm now
just on the road i'm kind of waiting for
a few more deals to come back and it's a
little bit ironic that a lot of the gum
tree ads i didn't put out many feelers
on gumtree or many offers on gumtree but
a lot of that came back to me with
accepting the deals so i'm picking up
one more deal later tonight
which is a motherboard and cpu combo but
also another person messaged me back on
gumtree just working out a time now and
then when we went over to facebook
marketplace i put on probably about
double the amount of offers
that i did on gumtree but literally like
no one's got back to me
on
on facebook so i have though i am in the
process of also working to get an rtx
3060 ti
where i put down an offer of a thousand
aussie dollars now i know it's expensive
in this market
but i do need one for a build and they
are going for around 1200 retail so of
course saving 200
on uh something that you kind of need
for a build to do for someone is always
a plus even though
it's
it's it's the max i would pay for a 360
ti put it this way i wouldn't pay any
more for one of these cards and it's
only because i've teed up a gaming pc to
sell that i need this usually i'd be
paying max i want to pay like 850 or 900
aussie max but of course the market is
still pretty bad for gpus but that
doesn't deter us we are going to keep on
looking for those deals so let's
continue on the road
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so we've just docked back now into the
tech yes studio for a quick pit stop so
i've unloaded all these pc parts and i
just couldn't believe the deal that we
got off les so far 1200 aussie dollars
and this was just packed full of i7s i
got ram i got 16 hard drives half of
those one terabyte half of those two
terabyte and also got five dell
optiplexes as well as three monitors and
les even chucked in this thunderbolt
extension hub as well which has display
port hdmi five extra usb ports so i was
actually been looking for one of those
for a while and they actually are a
little bit expensive so
for him to chuck that in as a present
that was really good but also managed to
get two
380 watt power supplies so power
supplies like these will do gtx 1050 ti
builds absolutely fine
but i was actually really impressed with
every single item
in the cart this month as opposed to
some months i'll just pick up some stuff
that les wants to sell and usually if
you're buying bulk off people you'll
take some of the bad stuff as well just
to keep them happy because they're
giving you really good prices on stuff
because one thing i've noticed with all
the bulk purchases i do off different
sellers that sell in bulk usually you
would want to take all their stuff that
way it keeps them happy and even if
you're just getting some stuff that you
really don't want it's a good thing to
keep that relationship up because
ultimately the good is definitely going
to outweigh the bad but this month
around everything was just really good i
can use everything in this kitty and
we've got that total for 1200 aussie
dollars for quite a lot of stuff so
really happy with that hole of course
that b450 motherboard that's a bargain
at 40 aussie dollars especially with the
wi-fi thrown in and then that powers by
a thousand watt even though it's a
little bit old old is gold especially
when it comes to good pc parts like this
power supply however the hustle doesn't
just stop there from here in i'm going
to quickly have dinner even though it's
a late dinner 8 p.m and then i'm gonna
jump back in the tech yes mobile and go
get two graphics cards so we're gonna
pick up that rtx 3060 ti
for a thousand aussie and then we've
also teed up a gt 1030 for 50 aussie
dollars so let's get in my belly and
then we'll go get some deals
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so we just picked up the 3060 ti and got
that for a thou and i checked the box of
course the guy even had the receipt
so making sure i don't get hosed because
i've heard of a few people messaging me
where they've picked up gravis cards in
the box and then when they got home they
found out it was a different graphics
card like for instance they bought like
a 2080 and then in the box was like a
gtx
like 560 or something so try not to be
that guy if you're on the road but we
just got to quickly now pick up this gt
1030 and then get back we'll see where
the deals are at
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and that right there is the final deal
of the night the gt 1030 but i actually
see quite a few gt 1030s come up for
sale so people probably buy the cards
and then realize hey maybe like 30 fps
at high settings isn't enough and i
don't want to play at low settings so i
got to get a better graphics card but a
gt 1030 will play those easy
free-to-play titles so it does have its
purpose
especially considering the price
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so we just got back to the studio with
the final two deals of the night
and i'm a little bit spent it is 10 30
it is getting a little bit late so i'm
gonna rest and recoup recharge
the tech yes energy and then in the
morning i'm gonna see if anyone's
replied but i'll also do another scan
it is now a fresh beautiful
actually not so beautiful outside it's
still kind of overcast yesterday was
pretty crazy it was storming and
lightning and raining and all that stuff
but it doesn't matter what time of the
day it is or what the weather's like i'm
always looking for a deal so we pulled
up this morning two potential deals
and one's a ryzen 3 3100 with a mini itx
motherboard they're asking 250 i put an
offer of 200 aussie dollars so hopefully
they get back to us with that and then
there's also a gtx 1650 super they're
asking 280 we put in an offer of 250. so
they're the only two deals that i've
come across that i'd potentially buy
hopefully those get back to us with some
success but in the meantime i will
actually close off the parts hunt here
because i've got so much stuff that i've
got to do from here on in there's uh
z690 ddr5 and the new cpus
i've got to test all that stuff and of
course i want to compare it to the used
stuff as well get an idea of what value
z690 is bringing if it is bringing value
at all so
or if it's just going to be one of those
platforms that's going to be
just a
you know trophy child for intel to say
hey we're back on top again or what not
so i'm gonna do all that testing it's
gonna take a lot of time so i look
forward to giving you guys the data on
that however we did score pretty well
yesterday i mean i got five separate
deals uh we got the lez mass stack we've
got two graphics cards we got uh two
other deals it wasn't as big as other
months but it's still i felt like we got
a lot of quality deals here of course do
let us know in the description below
what was your favorite deal of the month
for me personally i'm going with the les
big stash here i think the 1200 for all
this stuff that i got was a really good
deal considering i liked every single
item that was in that big stack as
opposed to what we were talking about
before sometimes you can get some bad
stuff that you're kind of just sitting
on or you gotta sell it in an office pc
combo it's not really the exciting
gaming stuff though i usually never
really admit to bad deals i'd say the
rtx 3060 ti is one of the worst deals
i've got but as we said earlier i've
already teed up that sale they've
actually put down a deposit for a set
amount on a rig that i've quoted them at
and of course if i can get the stuff
cheaper and especially in this case
since it is pretty much brand new with
the original receipt then i can save
that money and turn it into a bit of
profit so that's always the way i like
to do things always finding the value
even if something is overvalued and over
market price if you can still beat the
competition then you are doing a service
so with that said i hope you guys
enjoyed october's used pc parts hunt of
the month if you did then be sure to hit
that like button also let us know in the
comment section below what deals have
you been picking up love reading your
thoughts and opinions as always and with
that aside we've also got the question
of the day and this comes from our tomfo
abdul aziz and they asked did you try to
install windows 7 and then upgrade to
windows 10 with the 8 cores activated so
they're referring to our video that we
recently published with a problem what a
bizarre problem where we had a faulty
1700x ryzen cpu and in order to get
windows installed i had to halve the
core count
and the thread count and that
essentially turned the cpu into a ryzen
5 i think it's 1500x and i mean at the
end of the day
we didn't try the windows 7 and then
upgrade because
even if it installed windows 7 on less
cores and threads activated we would
have come into that crash sooner or
later the cpu was faulty and we managed
to fix it by halving the call and thread
count in the bios so
whatever the person who came around and
needed help fixing it does with it they
use it for personal use that's all cool
but i mean if they want to sell that pc
on then i hope they're very transparent
about it because that was just a bizarre
problem the cpu was out of warranty and
so essentially you've got a cpu that's
just half functional but at least at the
end of the day it's still functional i
mean it would still play games
absolutely fine i'm pretty sure but uh
yeah in terms of trying to get it fixed
and trying to get around a faulty core
i mean another workaround might be a
different bios that perhaps targets a
different two cores to deactivate so
you've got a six score 12 thread instead
of a four quarter thread but that's
probably the best case scenario but at
the end of the day i was glad i was able
to salvage something for that person who
came around because they were on a
budget they were quite young and i do
feel sorry for them they didn't have a
whole lot of money so it was good that
we got that to work in the end anyhow
guys i do have a message back from the
ryzen cpu motherboard combo and they
said i can pick that up later in the day
so that's looking pretty good hopefully
we can get that gpu as well i will
update in the comment section below what
unfolds this month also if you want any
sort of particular testing done on z690
anything you're looking forward to do
drop a comment in the comment section
below i'm just going to be going through
initially all the different standard
stuff the productivity benchmarks the
games but that'll be doing some other
cool stuff with this platform because it
is pretty cool that we got ddr5 finally
hitting the markets that'll be coming
out soon anyhow guys i'll catch you in
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