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welcome back to tech yes city and today we're going to talk about the gt710 gaming pc that's
going around and i was alerted to this by a few people who said brian man check out these ads that
are going on here locally so this isn't not just happening on ebay we'll get into the ebay ads in a
second but this is starting to happen locally here where i am where people are now selling gt710s
as gaming pcs and this graphics card let's look at the gt710 it was released in march 2014.
that's uh that's over seven years ago for a card that wasn't even intended back seven years ago to
play games so if it wasn't intended and released as a gaming graphics card back then then what
makes you think it's going to play games seven years later so back in this era the entry level
card that was made for gaming was the gtx 750 from nvidia and also the gtx 750 ti the gtx 750 ti has
about three times the graphics processing power that the gt710 does hence the price differential
back when these cards are released the gt710 was originally intended just as mainly an office pc
upgrade for people who wanted more display outs or of course they didn't have a cpu that had hd
graphics on board say for instance a zeon or an fx processor this card alleviated that problem
and easily turned the pc now into a functional pc with graphics now we fast forward to 2021 and the
pc reseller on ebay is suddenly met with a couple of problems and the first one is that graphics
card prices have gone up because of the current crypto boom going around and also the scalpers
are taking advantage of the new cards and so what would typically mean for say a gtx 750 or even an
rx 550 or maybe a gtx 950 these are the typical cards that would go in your budget ebay gaming pcs
they've now got a resort to graphics cards that are still cheap and they can still service this
price point where people are only prepared to pay 500 for a gaming pc they're still going to service
that price they've got to get those gaming pcs flipped because they know there's a market for it
so they've resorted to now getting the gt-710s and just straight up blatantly misleading the customer
and just pretty much cheating them out of their money but we'll get onto that soon because this
ties in with the second problem perfectly and that is in 2021 nvidia has a massive market
share in terms of their dominance over the gaming pc industry in that even if we look at something
as simple as a steam hardware survey we see the majority of users playing video games on steam
are using an nvidia graphics card meaning that if a video graphics card's in a gaming pc then
it's most likely going to help sell that gaming pc then what better way to capture that audience
with a gt710 that's got a massive two gigabytes of vram on it now of course they could get away with
just putting in a 3000 g that's amd's two core four threaded athlon apu that will give you much
better fps than a gt710 forget about the fact that if you get this gaming pc it won't even do what
these sellers are advertising which is my biggest problem with these ads the first one we'll pull up
here is from an aussie retailer they're selling this for 475 dollars and you've still got to pay
shipping i mean you can get a discount at the moment wow you get 10 percent off and it's guess
what even with 10 percent off it's still not going to play games but what they got in terms of the
specs if we look at the i5 45 90. i've covered the 4th gen i5s you can actually play these games with
half decent fps but when we look at the graphics card it's so bad that it will literally play none
of these games that the person is advertising at least not with decent fps and what we showed you
in the intro was me putting a gt710 into some of these titles here and not getting anything
close to desirable this wasn't even playing these games for instance on fortnite i pretty
much put the settings as low as they could go where the game just looked horrendous to play
and i was getting under 20 fps call of duty wouldn't even boot up it just gave me an error
and f1 2020 that was so bad to the point where i thought at one stage daniel ricardo in front
of me was teleporting but then we've got over on this ad here we've got here cyberpunk 2077.
this will not play cyberpunk 2077 just we need to stop stop advertising these games in the same
advert as this so-called gaming pc but another thing that you have to love about this ad is
when we move over now to the two gigabyte graphics card the gt710 that it has 4k support for gaming
look it can't even play games at 720p what hope does it have to play games at 4k so as we start
pulling this ad to pieces we can clearly see that it is not going to be playing games but
what gets me the most out of this whole pc is and this is going to be when we look at a few of these
other ads as well is that they don't even list the power supply so yeah you could get this pc
it's got all the fancy rgb lights it's saying that it's a gaming pc and you get it in and you're like
okay well it's got 16 giga ram and a 4th gen i5 if i just change the graphics card over to say a
gtx 970 i'll be getting some decent frame rates and i'll still have a decent price performance
pc on my hands i wouldn't have got ripped off to oblivion so first of all you've got someone
getting ripped off because they're getting misled but then they get the pc in and they're like well
i want more frames because they literally got a slideshow in front of them but that's when the
news gets even worse because these sellers aren't even advertising the power supplies in in the pcs
and so you're probably going to get something like this just total trash so basically what this means
is once you change over the graphics card from the gt710 to another graphics card your pc is pretty
much either going to do one or two things it's not even going to have the cables there to turn
the pc on or when you turn it on you're just going to hear crack snap and pop like that cereal that
i used to eat when you put milk in it now we'll give this seller an australia a little bit of a
break because at least he only advertised it as a gaming pc if we move over now to the uk we've
got our friends over the uh monarch here they're selling it as a fast gaming pc this is where it
gets better they've got a fast gaming pc bundle if you get this you are going to be gaming with
incredible speeds right i mean generally that's what that's what you'd think fast would do like if
i saw a fast gaming pc i'd be like okay at least this thing's going to do 60fps but then we get
down to the specs here and all we've got is the same but even worse because he's got the included
keyboard and mouse and monitor and it's fortnite they got fortnight and they're advertising that
hard we got fancy pictures and then when we go down to the monitor the worst thing is they're
advertising what looks like a 22-inch monitor but then we go down to the screen it says here
19-inch refurbished tft and if you guys have seen my um parts hunts i'll get 19-inch monitors for
probably around sometimes i'll get them for free people just give them to me or i get them for
five bucks and they don't look anything like the monitor they're advertising in the photo
second of all we look at the gaming pc here instead of advertising a power supply
they just advertise a power cable so that's right you're getting a power cable like that's
gonna make any difference for you getting a crappy power supply and having to change it out
eventually in the end then the next thing is we've got 16 gigabytes of ram i mean i know these
sellers are stepping up their game now they know eight gigabytes isn't going to cut it when you
sell a gaming pc it's got to have 16 gigabytes of ram because that is a great selling point the more
ram that's in a pc the better especially when it comes to a video card like the gt710 i mean
the gt710 even with two gigabytes of vram is going to perform worse than a gtx 580 with 1.5 gigabytes
of vram and in fact the gtx 580 could still play games with smooth frame rates in 2021 but then we
go over to this is where the fast gaming pc gets even more faster and that is with the hard drive
we don't even have an ssd here so when you go to boot this thing up and i'm assuming that it's
going to be a used hard drive since we've got a used motherboard a used cpu and also an old used
19-inch monitor we're going to get a used hard drive now if you've ever used a used hard drive
as a main boot drive you'll know that it is just the slowest thing going and in fact nowadays i
wouldn't even do this on an office pc any pc i sell here just has to have an ssd in it because
the people i just feel sorry for the people that buy these systems and they don't have ssds in them
just like i feel sorry for the people buying a not just a gaming pc a fast gaming pc with a gt710 in
it where they're going to get this thing home and i mean i don't know what the reaction is going
to be if they're maybe if they're bit off edge that day that gaming pc is going out the window
or if they're patient they're just going to be messaging the seller and saying
why am i getting slow frame rates so if there's anyone out there with some sort of dms about hey
my friend bought one of these pcs and they started messaging the seller about why is
it so slow i'd love to read that transcript of what happened that'd be very interesting to read
but when we look at the uk seller like look compared to the aussie seller this guy is on
his game he's on another level first of all he's got a fast gaming pc going on here he's got no ssd
and then he's got fortnite in the picture as well as a one-year warranty and then if we look at the
condition he's saying this thing is opened and it's never used even though it's just flooded
with used parts so it's totally misleading but if we look a little bit closer the person's ebay
seller account they're the computer specialists i mean these guys are specialists and they've sold
3 800 units and they're selling pretty much between two and three of these things a day
which actually scares me about how many people are getting ripped off with these pcs on the
promise that they're gaming pcs put it this way if i had a game on a gt710 i just wouldn't game
period i'd even pick up my smartphone and start playing games on my smartphone because it would
give me a better experience than what a gt 710 could give me however we cannot just stop there
this is where things get better from this seller because i mean if you thought that paying more
money for a pc would give you better uh specs or at least a better listing think again because
we go down in price now from 350 pounds down to 260 pounds and we've now forget about the fast
gaming pc we've got an ultra fast gaming pc with half the memory as before and still the same gt
710 so years later after i made a video on 2018 exposing this stuff it just seems like every year
there's a new sucker born and they just come into the fold and they get conned by this stuff
and i just i i feel sorry for these people because they're going to have to learn the hard way
that this is not a gaming pc and it's not going to play games especially the games
that these sellers are listing and in fact i think the only game that the gt710 could
even barely play was cs go where i managed to get over 30 fps but i've managed to get over 30 fps
on things like hd graphics for instance one thing about me is i'd never sell to someone for
instance an i3 10 100 as a gaming pc i just sell it as a pc or an office pc or a desktop computer
because if i sold that as a gaming pc and someone went home with the intention of playing games
i would know that i've misled them or i've scammed them and i just couldn't sleep at night and so i
have to raise the question to these sellers and that is what goes through your mind when you're
selling this stuff as an ultra fast gaming pc and then advertising all these titles about what this
pc can do when it clearly can't do any of that and it would probably make for a half decent office pc
with some fancy rgb lights which a said person could easily pick up for a hundred dollars so
before getting on out of here i do have to raise concern about this whole gt 710 so-called gaming
pc and it just really reflects back on its own paradox that it's creating because the sellers
are trying to make the pcs that they're selling cheaper because they're trying to rip off the
people who can't afford to go out and buy a proper gaming pc especially the current prices and so i
get it with these sellers you want to make profit you want to make a dollar but you're doing so in
my opinion with absolutely zero integrity and you're just misleading and scamming people and
it seems like years later this thing just keeps happening and in fact it's happening a lot worse
than the last time i took a look at the gaming pc at least with the sheer volume of sales with this
one seller getting over 3 000 sales on their gt 710 so-called gaming pc so thanks for letting me
know about this one guys but as time goes on and as i guess economic conditions get worse
you're going to see more and more scams and more and more things that are misleading pop up along
the way and that was something i started noticing crawling up in 2020 but now in 2021 it seems like
all bets are off and people are just going to be straight up posting up lies and i don't even know
how ebay allow this crap to happen there should be a limit to putting gaming pc in the title
and relating to what graphics card you're advertising that pc with same goes for gumtree
and facebook marketplace i'd love it if there was some kind of filters which filters this crap out
sure if someone wants to look for rgb pc they can find it and they can go get ripped off in that
manner but when it comes to a gaming pc especially an ultra fast gaming pc with the gt710 it's just
not happening and i just don't know why these sellers are stooping this low and going down to
these levels when they don't have to anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be
sure to hit that like button for us and also let us know in the comments section below have you run
into any of these similar scams recently or have you protected some of your friends from the gt 710
gaming pc love reading those thoughts and opinions as always and of course if you want to warn people
about this stuff feel free to like and share this video because it does help me too but we've
got the question of the day here which comes from frank uh bullet and they ask i would be interested
in your thoughts regarding silver and what you think will be happening in the near future so
in terms of silver i've been open on the channel here i've been buying up a little bit of silver
and that just protects your um hard-earned against the thing known as inflation now
i am a little bit scared of inflation because i've never personally lived through a high inflation
environment so i don't know the effects as well as my parents not really noticing the effects of
when they were growing up through the 70s so it's one of those weird environments where you're kind
of going in blind but i do know one thing and that is something that's had a store of value
for thousands of years will continue to have a store of value so in terms of its price in
the near future i actually not sure it could go down it could even go parabolic but in terms of
the next five years silver is definitely going to be higher than what it is today and the reason we
came on to stumbled onto silver in relation to tech prices if we look at graphics card prices
i think they're going into a much higher price range than they should be and so if you want to
hold out and you're still like me you're scared of inflation then you can hold on to some silver
for the time being and just ride it out and wait it could even take possibly another six months
for gpu prices to normalize or even another year but you can hold out if you're afraid of inflation
in that meantime and then sell down some silver and buy yourself a gravis card once the price
of graphics cards to silver for example drops down now in terms of me investing for the near future i
really usually never get involved in that because near future would mean that you're a day trader
and if you guys don't already know you can go look up the medallion fund and that is literally like
algorithmic bots that are programmed to take money off day traders that's the history
of the medallion fund which was developed in i think the 1980s
so just be aware that if you're a day trader do step very cautiously in how you trade because
there's always going to be a bigger fish ready to take your hard earned just like these fast gaming
pc sellers with gt710s anyhow i hope you enjoyed today's video and if you've stayed this far
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