Craigslist Never Changes... Buying A USED Gaming PC In 2024 

I assume you resold said Pc for $3500 mid 2020-2021 😂… I’m kidding but also that’s what everyone else did lmao

Also a crazy good deal honestly

Oh those times when $500 could pay a monthly rent😂

Where do you live that rent was 500 bucks?

@@kgrayman XD I think people are misinterpreting "let me pay rent" as "it paid my rent". It only paid half my rent. Either way, I wouldn't have been able to pay it on time without the $400 profit it gave me.

lol funy you say that a working 1992 PC might actually be worth a lot more than a working 2010 pc . hell a working 1998 pc tends to be popular too for that mattter , for those retro games provided it has win 98 2nd ed installed on it and not win 95 , or worse win millenium edition.

@@DenverStarkey You are right - a beige box retro PC is all the rage now, when people couldn't get rid of them fast enough in the early 2000's. I remember giving away by Amiga 1200 and Sega Master system to a jumble sale as I had just got a shiny new PC in 1999 and they were now worthless...... How I regret that!

@@DenverStarkey Not really, newer the system more parts we have, that's like with guitars, those from 50-60 may be worth a lot, those after 90-ties? Not really.

@@wiziek guitars and computers are a completely differnt thing ... myself being a muscian i can tell you about guitars . and i enver said teh computers after the 90's were worth any thing . late 90's comptuers are kidna saought after in the retro market adn really old computers like early 90's, 80's adn 70's have gotten valuble as collector peices . since so few comptuers from those tiems stil function. with guitars (and bass guitars by extension) it is all about the "vintage label" . vintage is any thing older than 25 years. when a guitar hits vintage age it's value starts going up depending manufacture . for instance old fender and gibson guitars go up and up the older they get , while rickenbackers plateu at a certain age . this is because rics are a bitch to get work done on. and when they get old they (rics) all need work. so depending on brand and model , eventually even guitars from curent year will be extemely valuble instruments. what i can't wait to see (and i hope i live long enough ) is (mass produced) electric guitars that finnaly get tha Antique label . antique being 100+ years old. the first mass produced guitars by fender and gibson were put out in the late 40's and early 50's , so we go a ways to go there. that said comparing comptuers to guitars is still abit off , because even a 2005 guitar is 100% capable of doing every thing a guiitar from any other year can do. while a 2005 computer really can't do much more than browse the web today . you certainly won't be playing the latest games on it.

@@Tech-Nerdrome sadly my beige box from 1999-2001 (i had upgraded some parts in it before retiring it as my main), saddly it died a firey popping electronic death after serving as my brother's PC for 2 years (2002 and 2003). one day the PSU just made a series of pops then caught fire ... it didnt' burn the rest of the PC, but even after geting another PSU the PC was electronically fried. the only components that didn't completely crap out , was the ram , video card and the sound card . every thing else was fried , CPU , HDD and main board. which i dropped into my grandma's PC so i could game on it when i visited her. that was the first PC i built myself and i still miss it to this day. it's final specs when it died: AMD Slot-A Athlon thunderbird @ 850MHZ 512MB SDRAM PC 133 XFX Nvidia Geforce 4 4600ti (128mb vram) Sound blaster Audigy sound card LG DVDread/ CD burner disc drive two 20 gb Segate HDD 7200 RPM

I come for his descriptions for everything 😂

Where what store? What was the model? Send me a link😊

He said Marketplace....like Facebook Marketplace.@@MoralKombato

@@MoralKombatoIt's called Facebook Marketplace, probably wasn't a prebuilt

That's really not a bad deal.

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that's it, you're on his list...

He is Schindler's brother

Should he be on one?

I remember when CL first came out. There was a news special on the TV about how people were using it to sell drugs and find hookers.

Yes it's a TU104 instead of TU106, they perform slightly better I think.

Not overclockable but had weirdly great workstation workload performance in some areas. Look up the RTX 2060 KO

And the little front fan is pulling through that awfully narrow slit in the front panel. A new case would drop gpu temps dramatically I bet. I don't know why canada computers uses those crap things.

I’m still using this case for my build and the airflow is awful no matter what you do with fans, currently running 3 front intakes without the hdd cage and 2 exhausts and it still struggles, only way I’ve found to make it any better is to pull off the front panel entirely (which thankfully because of how cheap it is you can easily remove it without opening up the rest of the case)

wonder why corsair ditched the bottom intake they had on the older spec-03, my 1080 went from temperatures in the 80's to 60's from going from 2 to 5 fans, with one blowing directly at the gpu from underneath

nah gigabyte is just sucks all arround except their top of the line model. i will never buy their product again

@@jonboy602 this is why I don't like those cases with almost no airflow at the front. I had one before and even with a stock cooler, Ryzen 5 3600 was hitting over 90 C. I changed to a Phanteks Enthoo Pro (allowing for multiple optical drives) and immediately saw a difference by 10-15 C, then upgraded later to a Ryzen 9 5950X and AIO. The AIO makes the R9 even cooler than the R5 on its stock cooler!

Not all Zen+ CPUs can do 3200 MHz, memory controllers on these things were pretty terrible, and there is a fair bit of silicon lottery involved. 2933 MHz was the max officially supported for that generation, a lot of them could go higher than that, but not all. I had a 2600 that was absolutely rock-solid at 2933 MHz, but would straight-up refuse to boot at anything higher than that, and I tested 2 different ram kits rated at 3200 CL16.

@@FloppaAppreciationSociet-ds7zf - The only time I ever saw an issue was using cheapo mobos (like an A320/b350) or using early DDR4 which was rated for intel but not xmp. - Also, using ram which compliments the infinity fabric is a considerable performance boost.

@@ghosttheoremproductions5469 IIRC Infinity Fabric always ran at half the DRAM frequency on Zen/Zen+ and couldn't be manually overclocked like on Zen 2/3, it was likely one of the reasons memory support was so shit on these early Ryzens, even if DRAM controller could handle the frequency, IF might have not. Many X and B-series boards actually tried to "fix" memory issues by increasing the SoC above AMD-recommended max of 1.2 V, and it did work, but it could lead to CPU degrading over time, so personally I never tried it. I remember Gamers Nexus doing a video on that. At 2933 MHz the mobo was reporting only 1.05 V with SoC left at auto, and 1.2 V locked was still not enough to boot at 3200 without crashing immediately after, so I just gave up, and settled on manually tuning the timings instead.

It might be risky to use *too* recent of a bios since some boards removed support for older generations of Ryzen in order to add support for the 5000 series.

@@XxGorillaGodxX Absolutely not how that works. CPU support doesn't get removed from BIOS of any kind on any board... newer boards just don't support older architectures. There was plenty of this in the mid to late 2000's and on, starting with Intel LGA775. You can't use older processors on newer boards (and vice versa), even if the socket fits, because of architectures... not BIOS.

@@x8jason8x In this context, @XxGorillaGodxX is correct. Specific to Ryzen 5000 some BIOS were updated to remove support for older Ryzen due to the sheer limitations of storage on the board itself. You have to be very careful with BIOS flashing due to CPU support for Ryzen because AM4 was so long lived.

@@achaerna.6662 No, he isn't. They never remove CPU support from ANY bios. _Period._ Some _updates_ remove support. Some are _sold_ not supporting them. They factually _never_ remove support.

@@achaerna.6662 ... and it factually is because of _architecture,_ not I/O coding. SMH

Well AIO fans are also working as an exhaust so not fully necessary to have rear fan.,

@@Rentta yea i guess. But the front fans with the front plate doesnt seem to get much air in either

gpu temp?

it was still 99 bucks 3 months ago now bidenflation has it at 150

He doesn't love you or know you exist 😢

What if he reads it

And one in Seattle or Portland

@EconomyBreadfruit950 sure, normally what I do is use a motherboard that has a green led light on it, the led light lets you know if the power supply capacitors are charged up, I then turn off the computer and turn off the power strip, I then check the green led and waits till it turns off, usually the led light stays on for maybe a minute more, then for good measure I hold down the power button for a minute. Then it should be good to go into the Tub. The lazy method is to take it outside and simply take it to the back yard and lay it on the ground, then bring over your garden hose, stand back and drench that bad boy down really good, the water willl naturally disipate any remaining charge. After you wash everything, make sure you dry everything with towels then let it dry overnite preferably with an oscillating fan, u dont want any water to linger around because it mite cause rust. Also if its a nice hot summer sunny day u can lay the parts outside on a table and let the sun bake it. I've done it both ways depending on the season.

@EconomyBreadfruit950 Your Welcome, now more than ever its important to wash pc parts due to germs, for example to clean the motherboard pickup some painters brushes, some toothbrushes, and some Barber Brushes or Automotive Detailing Brushes, they are all very useful to get into all the nooks and crevices. Yes I try to rescue old working computers.

How does germs effect a pc? I would only be concerned about the dust and other visible contaminants

Nah Mr crabs is walking

fresh sounds so weird man