I Bought Two eBay Gaming PCs For £150 - But What's Wrong With Them? 

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The gamers garden. Where the Hydrangeas review graphics cards and cases of various degrees of functionality.

Why pay for an expensive studio with professional lighting and soundproof walls when you can play with your new gaming PCs in the backyard?

Gaming outside be like :

​@@RandomGaminginHDRandomBackyardPC

Space for all of your rat nest needs!

@@fus132 Oh yea. I mean I think a beaver could build a dam in that thing.

lol, i dont even have optical drives anymore, not even a external one, i haven seen one on sale localy in a long time, how things changed

@@betag24cn I still wouldn't want a case without the 5'25 bays My current one has 2 of then and both populated

@@afos88 perhaps ypu still have optical media that works, i lost my last optical drive like 5 years ago, so all cds and dvds i have, no idea if they still work, alot died or perhaps it was the drive itself tbh a slow, noisy and big optical drive that doesnt last long is the last thing i need, i moved to onñine and local storage all my information, with backups, of course, because a small dvd is not a backup and a bluray is expensive and wont last long

i've found the case multiple times locally for about £40

@@williampaabreeves lucky, only site I can find them on is eBay and the local pickups are decently priced but in other states.

I call the one I got “the cube!” I’ve had it since I built my first pc it’s a chonky boy and I love him! He’s the Minecraft block of pc cases and it lets me have so much storage X3

I wash thinking the same thing, that case was close to becoming my main PC.

What the heck these are actually that expensive? Where i live they're 40$ used in good condition

Verified! Got a 337mm Gaming X Trio 4070Ti in my 540 Air, the manual states "GPU's up to 320mm are supported" I bought my 2nd 540 Air 4 years ago and am on my 2nd build in it, excellent airflow, very easy to work in and achieve a tidy build. Something of a classic.

That’s good to hear :)

Me to, I got my Antec 300 around 2011, I needed a large case for several mechanical hard drives and 2 optical drives. Times and needs change, It's been sitting around empty for the last 6 years, just can't bring myself to get rid of it.

I just bought it😂❤

It was intel's last cpu when they dominated the market right before ryzen took the pc world by storm exciting times.

@@mrhappy8966 yeah it was Ryzen that shook everything up, prior to Ryzen all of Intel's CPUs (certainly the common ones, away from Xeons and the like) everything from Intel (up to and including 7th gen) maxed out at 4 cores and 8 threads, with i5's only having 4 cores and 4 threads.

i remember a review gamers nexus made about it complaining abut lag and stutters thanks to the 4 cores, then ryzen hit everybody, what time to be alive

@@mrhappy8966 Not really, the i7-8700K was released later in 2017 and was quite a bit faster for gaming than the early Ryzen's. For gaming the 8700K was still slightly better than Ryzen 7 3700X etc. but the 5800X and especially the 5800X3D for the same platform are better. So with the Intel you would have had better performance in games for 3 years (if assuming a CPU upgrade on AM4) but didn't have the upgrade path that AM4 had. i9-9900K was just a refresh with 2 more cores and slightly higher clocks. Though without Ryzen Intel might have stayed on 4c/8t on mainstream platforms for few more generations

Yeah they’re a pretty good pairing to be honest

@@RandomGaminginHD My i7-7700K, with 32GB of DDR4 3200Mhz RAM, a 1TB NVME, and an (11GB) EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 blows the doors off of that RTX3050, at 3840x2160. When the new 50xx Series GPUS's come out later this year, and prices drop, I "may" upgrade the 1080Ti to an RTX470Ti Super, and step up to 4k. But, as it stands right now, there isn't anything that I do that pushes my CPU past 50%. Maybe, I "might" upgrade to a 16th Gen in 2026. LOL I recently came across a BRAND NEW (still in the sealed antistatic bag) GigaByte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK motherboard. So, I custom built a new "BLACK & GOLD" themed i7-4790K, Corsair (gold colored) 32GB DDR3 2400Mhz system around it. Unfortunately, the 4790K overheats. So, I am waiting on delivery of some ThermalGrizzly Liquid Metal. I'm gonna DeLid the CPU, apply the Liquid Metal, and see how far I can overclock it (maybe 4.6Ghz or 4.7Ghz???). But, honestly??? I get "as much as" if not "more than" enjoyment from building the PC's, as I do from playing games on them. I collect them like pieces of art, all over my house. 😂😂😂

Kinda funny that the 3050 is slower than what a lot of people paired with the 7700K back in the day. GTX 1080 Ti was released just 2 months after the 7700K

...I'm not sure why people started believing the GPU and CPU should have the same "load".. they don't even do the same thing. The CPU and GPU load aren't directly coupled--that's why you use a GPU so the CPU can offload all of the heavy lifting to it. The CPU is managing the OS, the MMC (which isn't part of the CPU even though lots of people mistakenly believe it is) is managing the memory and the GPU is essentially a totally separate computer dedicated to (usually) graphics. Bottle necking doesn't mean key components are running at different loads, bottlenecking means one of your component isn't running at optimal for certain applications because another component it relies on can't keep up. Bitcoin miners, for example, don't give a shit about CPU load at all. This is all a workaround for x86 garbage register limitations that have been around since the 80s.

Not sure but he’s definitely overclocked

​@@RandomGaminginHD overcooked

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Yeah I’m really tempted to keep the case 😁

@@RandomGaminginHD The case??? Meh... But, the PSU/MB combo???!!! Those are GOLD. Transplant those into a modern case and you will have a killer gaming system for years to come.

I built one of the builds which uses the Carbide Air, with a MSI Z790-P D4 and core i7 13700K with a 4070 though, and that case to this day still made pretty adequate airflow for the age.

@@baoquoc3710 That's awesome. And how is the MSI motherboard like? Been a while since I used one being an A320 and Z370. At that point, Gigabyte got better amd ASRock as usual is awesome. ASUS started getting worse. Has MSI been making them better?

A custom work of art is soothing to the soul. 😁

😂 thanks

7700K was equally matched with i3 10100F which is such a different class, only being superseded by the legendary 12100F of the 1700 socket, and the 2070s beats the 3060 in some scenarios as well

My i7-7700K is currently running at 32C, on the original paste. But, I am also waiting on delivery of some liquid metal, for an i7-4790K that I have. 😁😁😁

@@curtis.albrecht.79 The CPU in the video seemed also way cooler than mine with 4.5 GHz. Guess there is some thermal paste lottery involved. 😅

That’s amazing. Looking forward to overclocking this one and seeing what it can really do!

Taking e-waste and building it into something valuable is strangely more satisfying than the tiny profit to be made from flipping. That's not to say that I refuse the profit. 😏😏😏

the 680X aged so well