Another Free PC From The Local Dump... 

Wish I had a local dump where people casually throw out PCs. Could have started a PC retail business XD

Please max out that pc that would be a really cool video to see it’s true potential

I LIKE YA CUT G!👊

The tip near my sisters let you take anything you like without asking all tips should work that way like they did in the 70s/80s. I used to love going through all the toys.

The PC gods have given you their blessing after sacrificing a PSU in their name.

These kind of videos are always good. My buddy also found a pretty sick pc in the trash recently. Had a FX6300, r9 270x, and It was 100% in working order! All I had to do was put w10 on it lol

Someone's kid is gonna watch this video and is gonna be like "hmm that PC looks familiar wasn't that mom's PC?" Edit: so I am likeable :D

My friend uses one of these daily with an i5, 8gb ram, 120gb ssd plus the original 500gb hdd and a sff GTX 1050ti. Works like a charm for light gaming

Nice haircut. Very sharp. Great video. Might be a good fit for that R5 340X.

Even tho it's not a real performer of a PC, it's the idea you found a more or less working PC, & it was able to be revived. Thanks 🤓 good find, & yeah, it's amazing what people throw out!

i love how this guy just gets straight into the video and doesn't have any ridiculous music in the background etc

One of my friends used to work at a recycling center and kept all the laptops and pcs for me back in the day, made a killing on eBay with parts etc. Sometimes they just needed a reformat and fresh windows install, amazing what people throw who don't know any better... People just think it's broken and buy new. Crazy.

this is why is fun to recycle PC's... finding them abandoned and needing some TLC... taking them, cleaning them up, testing them, and even being able to sell or gift them to a friend!

I built a pretty decent computer out of scrap parts from the local recycling back home. My friends Dad worked there so he would always keep the computers in the office for me to collect and take home to play with. Good memories man, thanks for the trip.

You and Tech Yes City should totally do a collab. Find old parts from the junk, give it some Tech Yes loving and sell it for profit.

Always nice to see the i3 3220 in action, it runs quite well paired with a gt 1030. I replaced it for a 13$ i5 2500 a couple of days ago but I will always remember that little fella.

Awesome! That case has an awesome Design too!

Great find! Would be fun to see if you would slap in a second stick of ram and a low-end GPU. You could also probably upgrade to an i5 3470. Solid little starter PC in our war-torn pc parts pays of 2021.

Find an office building with a couple law firms inside. What I found out is that law offices have a ton of laptops, desktops, and servers that they upgrade every couple years. Usually, in the basement of these buildings there is an electronics recycling bin. Ask the building manager if you can rummage and take stuff; this way you avoid any trouble. The two buildings I frequent are totally cool with me coming in. In the last 3 years, I found servers, desktops and laptops. When I first started, it was mostly 3000 and 4000 series Intel CPUs, but recently I've been finding more 6000 series processors with DDR4 RAM.

Thanks SO MUCH for enabling captions. You're very soft-spoken and i like to watch your videos on my lunch breaks so sometimes I'll miss what you said. Subtitles help a lot. Really appreciate it :D

I might’ve mentioned in a comment on a previous video, but the most insane (and only, really) PC I’ve found in a literal dumpster was an i7-2600k, 16gb 1600mhz ram, & GTX 570 2.5gb that was surely a behemoth in 2012. Long story short it ALL worked, I installed it into a much needed newer case and used it for awhile cause it was still able to game like a freaking champ, but did end up exchanging the GTX 570 for a RX 580. Yes, I know it’s ironic number-wise, but obviously much more powerful. Sadly the mobo finally died, and I retired the i7-2600k/DDR3 parts and moved onto a B450 Tomahawk, 16gb 3200mhz ram and Ryzen 5 2600 (more irony!). I got a really good deal on them used so this has been a ridiculously cheap build. Now fully team red, the R5 and the 580 are an amazing combo and I’m so glad I was able to get a semi-modern yet also capable PC before the world went to shit.

I gave away a similar machine recently, they're really robust and have tons of potential. The socket 775 models can accommodate a cheap quad-core 771 Xeon with an adapter, throw in an SSD and a cheap video card for HD video decoding and you've got an office PC no less capable than a brand new one. I hate the throwaway culture we live in sometimes.

Random Gaming in HD . . . name, literally, checks out. Literally a completely random pc gaming on intel HD. This is why we love you.

Good for you for taking this and finding a new home for it. No need to destroy a perfectly functional computer that could be used for a child, or in a library, etc.

Love "junk" kit. I like taking them apart and giving them a clean. Sharp look you have as well. Bit of stubble as well suits you sir!

This guy is a legend a true geek.

This is definitely better than the usual dumps you send me videos about.

So nice you rescue PC from dumps really nice job recycling e waste

They have a shop at ours that you can peruse. Quite good. I also found a Synology NAS without a power supply or HDD. Took it home, ordered the DIN connector for power and up she ran perfectly. Sold it with new discs for about 400. Amazing what people throw out.

I have also recently been surprised by what was thrown away. I got a 3 HPZ400 workstations, and 2 custom built PCs. One of the Z400s is now my main PC, with a Xeon W3565, a Quadro 4000, 8 GB of RAM, and 2 500GB HDDs. All for free. It is the best PC I have ever used. I don't know how much I should rely on it though, considering it was sitting at the bottom of an open dumpster, in rain, but it is proving itself to be reliable after a few weeks. The other 4 PCs I got, I haven't really tested yet. They all turn on but haven't gotten video out of them yet.

Just got an old "gaming PC" from the local classifieds for $30.... 965 Phenom II X4, GTX 550TI, Asus MB, 12gb of DDR3 in a super old case. He says "yeah, it ran fine but would overheat now and then. " The exhaust fan hole was nearly non existent more so, I popped off the CPU fan when I got home and the there was about 2-3mm of dust on top of the stock heat sink. Pretty amazed that it ran it all. I already gutted it and will give it a new life in another case. Great vids....love dumpster finds.

Just the other day I found an i5-3470 system put out on the nature strip in the rain, quickly rescued it and the only problem was the GPU (GT 520) was dead and they didn't bother trying the integrated graphics, also needed a fresh install

Don't worry, it's at least a 'complete' paint job. I once had a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz 478 system which I sanded down EXTREMELY THOROUGHLY from fading black paint. I used "neon fluorescent orange". Love the color, but the "quality of Home Depo paints really are revealed through SO MANY BUMPS, FROM BOTH CANS! Still sold it though for the same cost as parts.

I know people who use much worse computers. Such a waste to throw away a rig like that! Thank you for saving it

Found an "old" sff antec pc with almost everything in place on the edge of the road, took it back home and in a few hours thanks to the random hardware I had home (hdd, gpu, fan and power cable) it's now up and running no problems. Looks like we got quite lucky these days finding those ;)

I became "friends" with the workers at my local recycling center after bringing some beers & ice-cream every now and then. Now I can take all the stuff I want to. Office PCs like this one and old home pre-builts by HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, etc. are very common. Real custom rigs are pretty rare (3-4pcs/year) and decent GPUs even more.

A 4gb stick of ram and a 750TI and you have an Alienware alpha level machine for next to nothing. I have found full tower PCs behind office buildings, I7s, SSDs and even old server towers just sitting by the dumpster. Good show sir!

I personally got a pc from a local pc reseller on eBay here in Australia 🇦🇺, and it WAS NOT password protected and the users email accounts and banking & PayPal credentials, eBay login etc were saved in the browser and with their “favourites” and a number of other logins saved! It even had the users name, address and mobile number on it as well as their licence number etched into the case! I contacted the owner and told them to change all their financial passwords etc to be safe and the owner was very happy as they were told the machine would be reformatted by the pc reseller.

damnn thats crazy. I really wish I could go pc dumpster diving or go get anything for free. I love tinkering with stuff like that. and honestly for what its worth (literally free) it could serve somebody a great life. Donate it to an eldery care centre or for somebody in need that could use one. It'll be more than enough for web browsing!

Very cool, Fujitsu computers are completely unheard of in the US since the heyday of convertible tablets in the 2000's. Their main business in the US are minisplit air conditioners.

I've worked at the sorting stations at the local dump and yeah people throw away perfectly good functioning stuff all the time.

I got a motherboard from a local recycler once. It came with an AMD K6 from the 90's and still worked.

Rocking the buzz cut I see, easiest option.

If there was a local PC dump, I'd have a tent outside just waiting

As a building caretaker I recently found 2 abandoned pc's..an i5 2400 and a core2 Extreme. Both had ram and hard drives just waiting to be plundered. Sometimes this job pays.

It not that we throw away wrong componments, its that we never should be creating e-waste like that while it could go to someone in need or anything to do with reusing and recycling.

you should totally try making a thrift video where you go to your local thrift stores like goodwill and buy old tech lol

Dude I just found that PC's AMD half-brother at a charity shop, down to the 500GB HDD and sausage-shaped 250w PSU. The case is basically just a non-OEM version-same size/shape and flippy-uppy front part. After slapping a GPU I also found for $3 in there, I basically have an $18 Steam Machine with Playstation 3-level game performance. I want to figure out what that rose gold color is so they can match.

With SSD's you can do what's referred to as a secure erase before you get rid of a computer. For mechanical hard drives I do a single pass of zero bytes over the whole hard drive using a utility like "dd" in Linux. With modern drive densities, a single pass of zeroes over the whole drive will sufficiently make it unrecoverable and will salvage the drive rather than senselessly destroying it.

Best thing I ever got down a tip was a 1847 full gilded and hand painted dinner service for a tenner O.o Dinner service as in meat platter dishes, soup tureens, vegetable tureens, soup bowls, main dinner plates, two sizes of side plates and nothing as gauche as a pudding bowl cos the person who bought this wouldn't be having some cake and angel delight for afters because one's afters was served on the smaller of the side plates and eaten with the correct fork too... Only comes out at Xmas but is still used :D I used to be registered for electrics at the tip but then the local company decided they only sold to a chap they done a deal with so he gets all the good stuff so I make sure anything I take electric down the tip I fill with used cat litter or get one of the cats to have a widdle inside.

I had loads of stuff years ago, some stuff were scrap, but did find a decent gaming pc of that time. It really is the case of "one man's rubbish is another man's treasure", but can see why people would chuck stuff out, I've done it myself just because it wasn't worth selling it taking too long to sell that I just dumped it and moved on.

Its always nice finding stuff like that. One time I found a bunch of computer components at our local recycle bin. There were no hard drives in them but one was an old Pentium 133 w motherboard, ram, video card. Was also a p3 with motherboard, ram.

Nice find ...its mad to think how much good stuff gets thrown out..once found a working ARP axe and a 1973 revox reel to reel at the local tip

i work on recycling centres and i find all sorts, literally found a i7 6700k full system other day

Awesome PF sense box with a nice dual NIC card.

A third gen i3 is pretty solid, getting that for free could be a real blessing if you can't afford to build your own PC. Replace the PSU if possible, add a 570 once GPUs go back to being a thing, and you'll have a fairly ok entry level gaming PC.

You could throw a used gtx 750 ti (assuming you can find one for a reasonable price) and maybe some extra ram in there and get a fairly decent system for only around 100$

Dang just tossed out. I bought one with a i5 2400 for $50, so someone could've easily sold it for like $75 or more. They make good home media servers or HTPCs due to their decent performance, low profile, and low power draw.

My father found old Rogers studio speakers on the side of the road, they are worth around 3000$ CAD online. those were made in UK in the 70s i think. Some people really have no clue what they are throwing away.

Love that paint job.

i like that pink paint. maybe paint the greyed plastic black so it matches the other bits of the case and leave the top lid pink.

No surprise that the excitement is palpable :). I‘m getting some free stuff tomorrow. Folks seem quite often like rabbits in headlights when the question comes up: "So, what do we do with the old PC, then?“. You‘d think that after over a generation of personal computing ppl would’ve gotten used to dealing with their redundant boxen but oh no… So…Free PCs forever!! :)

I knew u were a lad that finds things!

Same at my local dump, you can't just walk in and help yourself they tell you NO! I always suspect there are guys who work there help themselves and you may be buying one on eBay off one of those guys.

I like the lid painted. Gives it a bit of subtle pop. Back in the days of beige computers. I used to paint those up because anything was better than beige. Leave it as is. Easy flip for $50.

I got 2 HP pcs at the dump and one of them had an Asrock fm2 board, an athlon X4 750K, 4 gigs of HyperX ddr3 and an RX 460 2gb from MSI Had to swap the PSU with the other machine but other thant that works great and even OCed the CPU to 4.2 ghz but boy was it dusty :D Great video !

Oooo lovin the trim

I got some computers that were being thrown out recently. One has an i7 4770 and GTX 560 Ti, another has an i5 4460 and Radeon 520 (I think). It's amazing what people just throw away.

I made a great buy yesterday, i5 3570, GA-H61M-S2PV, decent CoolerMaster tower cooler, 2x 8GB Ballistix Sport 1600MHz, 450W Thermaltake 80+, DVD-RW drive, 2 SATA cables, one 120mm fan, a Windows licenzs and a crap case for just 40€, can´t complain on that price.

Throw in another 4 gigs of ram and a low profile 750 Ti or (950) and you got a decent budget rig for 1080p gaming. It's really insane what people just casually throw away.

I have a weird respect for Fujitsu. My first job was as a configuration engineer for them, building POS systems. The second computer I ever used was a Fujitsu Siemens windows 98 machine. I'd love to have another, but I doubt there's any out there.

I have a local place where people dump their old, crappy computers builds and components. Its called PC World I think ;-) Decent find though, nice one :)

i was riding home one day from store and seen a haf case just sitting out in the trash I'm guessing they went to a smaller tower cause it was gutted other than a blown 500w psu the things worth like 120 bucks on ebay so I built my new pc in it it gets amazing airflow lol

Nice find, you can install another bigger hdd in it and use it as a multimedia/plex server or as a file server, this pc is perfect for this type of job because it dosent consume much electricity and should be very silent, I use a similar sff pc from hp, an 6200 with the same i3 as yours and it works 24/7 since almost a year.

An additional 4gb of ram, a small ssd and a cheap gpu like a gt1030 and you can play a lot of esports games and older titles. The pc Gods have given you this gift in exchange for the psu that you sacrificed.

Amazing video as always!

it's so heart warming to see old PC's find a new home... lol

i remember i found a pair of optiplex 3010 systems at my local recycling center, since i am 14 and still young, they allow me to take whatever i want. the two systems had i3 3220s and 250gb hardrives. also i found a working system with an i7 4770k and a gt 640 which is nice

My first thought was "ugh crap Core2Duo system". Pleasantly surprised to see a capable Core i3 there! That paint job though... 😑

the amount of free sata cables and hard drives I've got from work is astonishing(I work in retail and if somethings being thrown out were allowed to take it if nothings wrong with it)

if you put an i7 3770 or xeon equivalent + 16gb you can pair it up with almost any GPU

Hey! always great to see another one of your video!

We are very wasteful these days, I find lots of thrown out things on council clean up day that work just fine and can be repuposed for a new lease of life rather than landfill Best regards Andrew from downunder

I'm currently doing my computer science bachelor degree on a 5 years old system with pentium g4350, 8gb of ram, gtx750 and a SSD. What can I say... if it works, it works. Only in heavy duty IDEs (Intellij or Pycharm) I'm experiencing some hang ups sometimes when they start. In VSCode I don't have any problems. An SSD and more ram makes the difference, especially the SSD. Some people don't need much, so don't throw perfectly working PCs.

Nobody will ever see this nor will anyone ever care, but I have quite the connection with the 3220 as it has served me well for more than 5 years, I basically grew up with this CPU. It was only in November last year when I decided to upgrade to a R5 2600X (while not the most powerful CPU, it's still quite the upgrade for me, especially as it tripled both my core and thread counts), and while it used to run quite smoothly back when I first got the chip, I was being hard CPU bottlenecked for the last 3 years or so, even with an entry-level graphics card like the 1050Ti I own. Genshin Impact ran with 20-40 fps (visual settings changes had minimal impact on the framerate, but let's assume it was on max for simplicity's sake), and after upgrading the CPU, I could run the game on absolutely max out settings and still get an average framerate of around 75 (convenient because that's exactly my monitors refresh rate). Destiny 2 also used to run with 20-40 fps (dropping all the way down to 10, and going up to around 70 when looking off the map at the background terrain), while now I'm getting 60-120 fps (still very low settings with very high texture detail), sometimes even more in closed spaces, but still averaging at about 65-70 during action, hitting a constant 75 in some less demanding areas. The most surprising results came from League of Legends, since when I first played it with the i3 3220, it could get me all the way up to 150-200 fps at the beginning of the game, and consistently hold 75+ even in the most demanding scenarios. After years of use, however, I couldn't ever get above 120 and I sometimes dropped all the way down to 40, which was frustrating to say the least. The 2600X of course manages to get me up to 500 fps absolute best case scenario with minimum settings and still hit 100+ in the worst one, as League is a notoriously easy game to run. Tldr: I3 3220 was a solid entry-level chip back in the day with a nice price/performance ratio, however either games have become more demanding with a bunch of major updates or the CPU itself has started to die on me after around 6 years, because it was pretty much unusable when I finally decided to get rid of it.

that feeling when a pc from the local dump preforms better than your pc holy sh*t

GT 1030, a second RAM stick and a SSD would make it a fine SFF PC for some light gaming.

Fujitsu makes amazing notebooks with tablet functionality. Unfortunately, they pulled out of the consumer market here in the States/Canada as folks can't afford this premium brand, although they continue to sell in Europe, Africa and the growing middle class in Asia. Ravi Peiris M.D.

I have one of those fujitsu siemens 775 pc, also found in the dump haha seems more common than ive thought

That's my daily driver Please run from the darkness in this It crashes every time

Throw in a second ram stick, a gpu, and reapply that thermal paste, then test it! I have a couple of old 3rd and 4th gen i3's lying around and am definitely interested in seeing real world performance with a low powered gpu =)

The funny thing is that this machine got an interesting upgrade path if you take to work on it. It might work with the E3 xeons quite nicely, and they're somewhat cheap.

You could put like a 750Ti in it because mostly anything above that will probably be bottlenecked heavily.

i used to work at our local recycle centers . that places was a goldmine for parts , you would not belive what people would just throw away as soon as i saw a I5 or I7 sticker on cases it was getting stripped down and coming home with me ,lets not even get onto the story of laptops ,just because they running slow , dont mean they knackered . a fresh install of windows and most was good as new

I want a local Dump like you :D free pc to test things

Yeah I've found a few PC's next to dumpsters from time to time and some of them actually worked fine.

for this type of videos im always looking around a pc in the trash, maybe i can get something running with them, nothing groundbreaking but a starting point at least.

You should run Recuva to see if it was fully formatted -- a lot of folks do a quick format and assume the files are gone forever, but they're really just hidden! I do like the paintjob, interesting color

Cool pc.. but more importantly fresh cut G.

That's the first 3D gated CPU sold by Intel @ 22nm lithography. They were awesome back in 2012.