“My Loss Is Your Gain” 

Hey, everyone! I'd forgotten to add the price of the 580 in the PCPP link. Obviously, it'd be ridiculous to pay $500 for a used one, and there are far better value cards to choose from based on our in-depth analysis of the GPU market uploaded a few weeks ago. My issue wasn't as much the price as it was the combination of components and said "justification"/misleading remarks in the description. Don't sell a PC like this. And don't defend an advertised "Gaming PC" with 128GB of RAM (unless you're Tavarish 😉).

He should buy a 16gb budget ram kit and swap that in, drop the price of the rig and sell the 128gb kit by itself on ebay. He could even split the 128gb kit into 64gb kits to attract more buyers.

mark: *spends weeks researching* mark: puts 128 gigs of ram into a gaming pc

I needed this video. The amount of times I nearly fell for the "My Loss IS Your Gain" phrase 😭😭

The top rad fans aren't set to exhaust. All fans are intake😂

Yes, so much research he did. His time is very valuable. Obviously he forgot to google "how much RAM do you need in a gaming PC?" when he was doing said research!

The aio fans set as intake is giving me positive pressure vibes

I remember seeing a tryhard listing like this where he was trying to explain what each part did. I messaged the guy and he said that he was in bed and had a lot of time lmao.

Love that you brought back this series. I loved these ones!

The PC had all intake fans lol, Yaaaay for passive exhaust!

Hell, I can spend weeks planing and building a PC. Balancing cost verses performance, checking compatability and also being veeeeeeery indecisive.

Forget his exaggerated ad, that PC has no exhaust. The fans on the AIO are pushing the air towards the video card, plus there's no rear fan. That's a sin.

You should post more of these reactions, It's always funny to see your reaction to the PC market right now.

Bahaha! This is literally what I see all the time on overpriced parts and PC's. It's so comical that they think they're actually providing good value.

The amount of scams I've seen lately in the last few months has been crazy, love seeing them called out!

I genuinely have to keep an eye on my blood pressure while watching videos on subjects this damn infuriating

I would like to ask for more videos like this one. I wanna see ALL of those people, who are scalping prices, to be embarrassed and called out for their stupidity and greed. Gives them a huge back hand to the face. Now days, it's scalpers who irritate me the most, because of greed.

I love these videos, these were the first videos that led me to being a solid fan of you and your content. Thank you for reviving these.

I love this series!

The one down vote is the guy that listed this "Best Darn gaming pc"

I gotta say, that I recently built a PC with 5950X and 360 mm AIO in push-pull config, and it took me a lot longer than I expected. Just dealing with 20 fan cables (RGB+power, 3+3 for AIO, 3 at the front, 1 at the back) was a massive pain in the butt. I've built a ton of PC in my life, but not recently, infact that build is replacing my 8 years old 3930K HEDT PC. So - definitely not a couple of hours. Heck, just figuring out how to remove an internal side fan mounting bracket off 5000X case took a lot longer than it should've because the screws were so well hidden under pre-installed cable management brackets, and the user manual had NO directions in that regards whatsoever. I also installed 128 GB of RAM because I use this PC for work, and you are right - that RAM cost me almost as much as the CPU (which I bought for MSRP). I had to use a 2070 Super video card from my previous PC because there is literally NO GPU in stock anywhere - and I'm not willing to buy parts through unofficial channels like ebay, because, like I said, I use this PC for my business so it's important that I know where to go should some of it ended up non-functional.

Just built a new PC, used SCD key. I actually recommended it to all my friends with their new builds too. Thanks for showing it to me, it genuinely saved us a lot of money. Inevitably looks like a sketchy website, but I've had probably 12 people use it with no issue.

Thank you Greg for all the great content. I especially love these type of videos. Much respect. Mil de gracias Chico!

wonderful video. SO many people doing this and trying to do it - maybe if it was an earlier time in the computer era and these parts were the "Best of the Best" maybe.

Agreed it's not a "gaming" pc but it is a pretty decent editing PC. And considering how many people are out there just down right ripping people off right now, I think the price is fair for what he is selling.

That Ram and SSD cost what my entire tower cost lol

Sold two 1080Ti to two lucky local buyers for $340 each. Godspeed!

In all fairness I’ve been building PCs for decades but each time I go to do a new one so much has changed it does take me a week or two to get back up to speed and figure out the best options for my budget and goals.

I’ve been subscribed to you since 2016-17 and you haven’t aged wtaf

Why are all 5 fans setup as intakes??

Its a shame that some people will fall for this kind of BS because they may be new to the PC game or are buying a first PC . Another great informative video, gagging for series 2 of the cleaning filthy dirty PC's. Keep it up, this is so much better than constant benchmark videos of stuff we cannot buy.

What I make up out that ad is that he isn't used to building computers and that he had build a system to work from home but now needs a mobile system again. This isn't primarely a gaming system, but listing it as one will get more traffic for sure. And the fact that he uses 'my loss, your gain' is because it actually is a pretty big loss for him or at least a serious gain for someone wanting to buy these parts. Problem of course is that the combination of parts don't really make sense. 128gb ram, retail (oem) version of windows, rx580 which currently goes for $650 according to pcpp. But if you add ALL these parts up then pcpp gives you a total of $3510.42 and that is even with some concessions. That graphics card doesn't make sense at all, I'm fairly sure a gtx 1660 super would perform better and can be had for the same price (at least now, not sure about 3 months ago). If it's a workstation, wouldn't you want an nvidia card for the nvenc encoder? Instead of the 3900xt I also went with the 3900x as the current price difference is about $250 now, back around octobre that price difference was around €10 here which I would gladly pay. The psu and ram I went with the black versions, it's not clear on the photo if he did go with those or the white ones to match his case, white ones are more expensive. For the monitor I went with the cheapest one there currently is on pcpp, the LG 27UK650-W 27.0" 3840x2160 60 Hz Monitor. If it is a workstation where color accuracy matters then it might have been a more expensive model I guess, but he should have probably listed what is included. The graphics card is obviously way overpriced currently at $650, but that's what the current market is even though noone buying likes it. Videos like this make me watch your channel less and less. You make up a pcpp listing and get to about the price of what he's asking for it and just say that with the monitor that you hadn't included it would be around his asking price ... no, it would be $200 over. On top of that you don't include the most expensive part of the build currently, it shouldn't be but in the current market it is. You also don't list the windows 10 pro, you could have at least added the price of your sponsor key even though that is far from what you pay for an actual license. (Don't get me wrong, I also buy the cdkeys for far cheaper, but some people just don't because they consider it a grey area). The extra fan also isn't included, not sure where he put it but it's listed. Also the keyboard isn't included and making fun of him for the way he said you can get a new keyboard for free if you pay the full $2500 price is to me perfectly understandable, but I don't speak english natively. To me that means you can bargain on that price, but if you don't and pay $2500 he'll add the keyboard. It feels like you've put very litle effort in this video. You looked for a high priced listing, started making fun of the listing while filming, started a quick pcpp list and when you realised you were gonna go over his asking price you stopped adding stuff where the price you got from pcpp was only 2/3 of what it should have been (and is today). Guess I'll stop typing now as I doubt many will read all this. Considering this is my first time actually reacting to a video on youtube I should probably work on giving shorter reactions.

I’ve seen ads on Kijiji like this with people selling gaming pc’s with rtx 30 series hyping how hard it was to get the gpu and making the price based on that.

You shouldnt trust a seller who keeps making excuses on why they are selling the product

This is a line typically used in trading on Wall Street either in wirehouses or brokerages you name it

Honestly, I could not tell the difference between an M.2 NVMe and a standard SSD while gaming.

I'd like to believe that no one would be dumb enough to buy this pc but I know there's somebody out there that probably will. So unfortunate.

Greg, dissing crazy PC ads, one at a time. Love it!

I remember about 12 years ago referring to pc building to a young mother as "like using Lego" and got told it can't be its too difficult.

Intake fans at the front, AIO fans at top set to intake. Didn’t see an exhaust fan. Nice.

I have 2x32GB DDR4, but I also do some video edit, some high resolution image edits, 3D draw and a few other things - not just gaming. So I absolute agree, you really dont need that much RAM if your main purpose is just gaming

i used to build, sell, and fix pc's thru craigslist as a side hustle, mostly just because i find it fun to build and fix them. i would always see the most ridiculous sh*t posts on there. i really like that you call these mofos out.

I have 32gb of RAM for running servers when I game with friends, but 80% of the time I don't even use half of it. So yeah, that 128gb is freaking ridiculous.

This is a deal. Coupled along with the 4K monitor. You could even sell 2 of the Ram sticks yourself.

I have a slightly related question and it's just out of curiosity. In my experience, it's better and easier to part out a computer than it is to sell a whole computer. I've been able to disassemble a used PC and sell each part individually (including the case as-is) and little to no trouble doing so. Whenever I try to sell an assembled PC though, it takes a long time and I have few to no buyers. The final amount of money regained may not be exactly the same, however. I never actually added everything up, but I'd imagine the regain would be pretty close. So just curious as to what others have to say about this. Is it best to part out a used PC or to sell it assembled? I'm NOT selling anything at the moment. I was just watching the video and had this random thought.

Love this kind of content. Please keep doing it!

1 thing that is really triggering me is all the fans are set to intake

the time invested in learning what we PC builders have done for 30 years is called overhead

I’m just wondering why the top fans on the aio are an intake? There’s no exhaust fans at all so the cooling suffers and the dust buildup would be awful

I got really lucky I saw a Facebook ad for a build with a 1660 super for 500$ it had barebones cpu/motherboard and everything but I bought it and everything worked awesome! I ended up switching all the old parts except the 1tb ssd the Corsair power supply and the 1660 super and spent under 1000$ on my new parts! In total for the build I paid about 280 because I sold the cpu/motherboard for 220 from the old build so 280$ for a 1tb ssd a Corsair power supply and a 1660 super in today’s market i couldn’t be happier with my first build !!!

Can we talk about the 3 intake fans at the front... plus the fans as intake on the aio at the top... but simply no outtake fans at all. Like, talk about the "best darn gaming pc" but with not the "best darn" airflow, bruh

very strong marketing on this one ;D this is too funny

Tx Greg, cheered me up no end..

I don't get the narcissism of the people that make these listings. Don't they realize that being an A-hole is gonna make me NOT wanna buy their PC?

That's like engine swapping a mini with a dragster. But, you're the dragster....

Love your stuff man 🤘😎

Laughed SO HARD !!! Thanks SO MUCH Greg :D :D :D

I'm so tired of these ads all over the place. High end seems to be a Core2quad with any GTX card...sigh

TBH, that could make a good homelab server rig, but then I wouldn't really care for the RGB and some other niceties so unless they were selling it for $2,000 it wouldn't be that appealing...

His render and editing PC that happen to also be able to play games. Huge amounts of RAM, massive CPU, super fast storage. Yup that looks like someone who sells his 2018 render machine. My general advice for a general gaming machine is always to set about 30% of the budget for the graphics card. But that's just a general guideline, some want more, some less, depending on the games and settings and resolution and if one wants to stream them and if one want's to render them, etc.

When I use the word custom to describe a pc I built I only mean that it's not a branded prebuilt. As for labor, half the time spent on a build for me is playing games on it to see how it does, so it's not like it's really work lol. That pc honestly looks like he built a nice productivity machine and then decided to scalp his gpu and replaced it with his backup.

hes not the guy who put Walmart tires on his Ferrari, he's the guy who put Perrelli P Zero Neros on his rusted AMC Gremlin.

"My loss, your gain." Is a BIG YIKES...

A while ago I was chatting with a buyer trying to pay over $100 to a seller for i7-2600 and she thought it was a great deal. Tried to stop her from buying it but apparently she didn’t know anything about pc build and just wanted something more powerful.

I agree with the adult lego, but as a beginner it might take you longer than a few hours to configure your rig, especially on a budget.

Love the awesome content man! Keep up the great work! 👍

I sold my old 8GB RX 480 for about $100 below the blown up prices to give someone a chance at playing some games. The guy keeps in contact with me thanking me for how well the card is doing in his rig.

Great videos man. My 2 favorite series: PCDC and this.

"just trying to make my money back". RTX 2080: 2700 CAD.

Looking at graphics card or pc listing prices on eBay or Craigslist right now will give you a heart attack cause the prices are outrages

Custom PCs don't age like fine wine, naw it's more like a new vehicle... where the price drops 25% after you take the parts out the box.

@3:51 This is not a LED monitor. It is a LC display with LED backlight and an IPS panel. You could call his ad best of bad marketing tactics. :)

ngl if the pc is what they say it is that is actually a fairly good price rn the graphics card rn for me is $1.1k / £800 ish that's GPU alone not counting the case, heatsink, and all that this is a good price for a good build, you can just take out the 4 sticks put in 2 x 8 and sell the ram for a profit this overall from back in late 2019 would be less than 2500 but rn 2500 is a good price if you were to sell the parts individually

You technically don't need an exhaust fan hot air will leave case through all the holes in the back

Wouldn't even say the wiring is difficult it's just time consuming and annoying at times. I really hate connecting front panel stuff with the tiny connectors that are so fiddly but apart from that it's often as easy as clicking things in place to connect the right connector to the right pins.

How to sell a PC according to Greg: 1 blackbox includes CPU and GPU and does turn on Solves problems arithmetically and plays games (probably) Price - $500 bucks or something

Greg: "Even 64Gigs is an overkill" Me: Sweats seeing 64Gigs in my Gaming PC

In my country (Thailand) used RX580 8GB are around 500-600 USD now. And brand new PC with R5 and not so good spec with GTX1660Super cost 1500-1800 USD. So,This PC is almost reasonable price in Thailand if it's price around 2000 USD.

Lmao literally saw the title in a 3060 Facebook ad this morning

I know the market is stuck on stupid right now, but that's just..... I really don't have the words.

Your loss, my gain

"Your loss is my gain"

If an RX 580 build is "The best darn gaming PC" then I guess my RTX 3070 build is pure crap huh LOL.

What a garbage seller. I spent almost 2000 dollars on my PC 3 months ago (GPU was double the price) and I will never think of selling it. I will use it until it dies. PC would be the last thing that I would sell if I ever needed money. Nice video, as always. Cheers, mate.

The one dislike is from the guy selling this exact PC

This is ridiculous....

An Rx 580 is going for 500 to 700 used. So 2500 system price is not really that bad a deal.

it either the seller is showing off his "best darn gaming PC" or selling his "amazing PC", in my mind..."well which is it?" lol also I'm enjoying the videos and keep up the good work

He should have put, "Think of how many Chrome tabs you could have open with 128GB of RAM!"

So, the series is back

Watching this video now and adding in the current cost of an rx 580 this PC was worth buying for $2500. HOWEVER, no one knew prices would get this bad.

ngl that build is actually not TERRIBLE price for that speclist especially with the monitor

ill "respectfully" decline your offer sir.... $2475 is my lowest.

I've seen them sell a pc with a gtx 960 for over $1000+ and they mentioned my loss is your gain multiple times.

There are people out there re-selling their RX580's on Amazon for $588+. A GPU that's 3 generations old being scalped. Think about it.

world is full of sellers like that, and thats the sad part

i completely agree with everything said here. i mean, yes, "in the current market" its worth that. but not when you can go to a system integrator (not trying to shill so do your own research) and get a 3700x on a 240 aio, 32gb DDR4 (16gb is totally adequate for gaming anyone who says different is just trying to make you feel bad and justify it for themselves), x570 mobo, 1tb nvme 2tb hdd storage, rgb and a rtx 1660 6gb AND a warranty on all of it for under $2000 usd. yea you might have to wait for it, but i feel that its worth the wait to not have to pay for someone elses bad buying choices

I can't tell you how happy I am that I decided to build my PC last October rather than wait until January or February like I planned to. I've got a 1660 Super and I know it's not the craziest GPU, but it's insane seeing it go for over double what I paid for it, which was $250, for the record.

After an ad like that I understand why they got a whole video dedicated just for them lol😂

2:30 I have to dissagree that it's like adult lego, yes, putting RAM sticks is obviously ultra easy, but installing all cables on the motherboard, particularly the case and fan ones almost no pc build channels talk about, that you need to look up the manuals and decipher which tiny slot numbered from 1 to 11 is which, that...is not so easy. Compatibility is also a thing that needs to be researched a lot, I have a mobo that needs a specific gen of ryzen cpu's to be able to be upgraded to the 5000 series, which it won't run of the shelf, do you think an average Joe knows what the hell a Bios update is and what Picasso or Matisse are? Then there is two or four slots and xmp's (and the speeds they can achieve on particular mobo's) and things like that. Since I didn't have a 3000 Ryzen series and only had a 5000 one, I decided to send it to a pc shop for them to build it, when they returned it, they didn't even set the damn xmp's and it was on 2400 or something instead of 3200, which a average Joe wouldn't have any idea about.