I went looking for PC Parts in SCRAPYARDS in Taiwan... 

Now this is my kinda place. It's the "Trash YES City" Or in my eyes, Golden Ticket! XD

Sadly a lot of times people throw away PC's simply because their OS isn't working like it did when it was new. My neighbor threw away a perfectly good laptop a few years ago, one that was socketable and about a 2013 or 14 model, and the ONLY thing I found wrong with it was Windows 7 was completely locked up from viruses and junk/malware etc. He had stuff pilled up in his truck ready for the dump when I happened by and offered my help. I instantly noticed 3 printers, several old TV's, two computers and a monitor thrown in his truck along with lots of other junk. I took the printers (all sold together on craigslist for $100) and kept the laptop and monitor and upgraded it with Intel wireless AC and a SSD + more ram and a much faster CPU. Total upgrade cost was about $70 considering I already had a spare Samsung 840 Pro SSD. The stuff people throw away jeez. Oh, and my Father just threw away a HP 7520 AIO printer all because it had a paper jam (not joking).

Hey, Marco! You're amazing for finding those places!

So this is what aliexpress means by tested and 100% working in the description . thx for taking us with u . these parts needs some tech yes lovin keep up the good work . u deserve wayyyy more subs man wayyy more

Always remember to scan old hard drives for Bitcoin wallet files ;)

i got a 750 ti for 7 usd and i felt so proud, i feel like your videos are finally working for me

Considering information you got on that HDD, it solely paid for trip and all, that information is that expensive lol. Btw we have a similar flea market in Serbia on fridays and saturdays where you can get your weekly dose of trashed tech from Germany, Austria, Sweden etc, basically small scrapyards in its own.

As someone who dives for used parts all the time, i love this.

Smugglers: Drugs This guy: PC Parts

They're kinda like Free Geek here in the states and Canada. Free Geek is a non profit tho, aimed at supplying the community with affordable electronics. They're also an awesome place to find specific retro pieces and parts.

Here in the Philippines there is a huge market for surplus computer components and systems. Almost all of them come from scrapyards and recycling centers like this, with most of them originating from Korea, but parts from Japan and Taiwan can also be found too. There are thousands of internet cafes and businesses that run with imported computers or systems built with used components. From motherboards, power supplies, graphics cards, laptops, monitors, peripherals, you name it. Almost anything computer related that's used can be bought. You can pick up a used mining RX 570 for around 70-80 USD, motherboards from 775 to 1151 for 30 USD, or even a 500-600w power supply from a name brand such as FSP, Seasonic, and others for around 12 USD or less. Now these may not sound that good of a deal to those who watch this channel on a regular basis, but take note that there are so many shops here in the Philippines that sell these components making them extremely accessible and readily available. Even those who live far from Manila (Where most of these shops are) can order them online via Shopee or Lazada (Equivalent to Ebay, Amazon, Aliexpress) for the same price plus maybe 1-2 USD for shipping.

Theres a Chinese guy that sells out of his house in the same scrap yard(Garages under cover), He is in Burwood NSW. He also has working cyrix, Pentium ones, old servers, 486, 386 everything new and old.

i bought a used gaming rig a gfew months back and the guy didn't wipe his SSD, it had, shall we say, compromising pictures of him and his girlfriend on there...Plus Steam, Email and Premium Spotify accounts all logged in.

I remember installing a Windows 7 crack then upgrading to windows 10 for free for a 100% legit windows 10 install

Everyone else flying in on Monday for computex keeping their hands clean in the Hilton bar. Tech Yes out there days before, down and dirty in the mean streets, bargaining with the used metal hustlers! Tech YES!

Hey Marco, thanks for the trip man. You are cool

A note for the kingston life time warranty. It is covered as long as they still have available ram sticks to replace them in stock. I had a conversation with one of the warranty guys on the phone, they did also replace an old DDR2 1gb 800mhz ram stick that died on me from an old pc. They will ask you to send in the faulty ram stick also, but I didnt have to since it was DDR2 and they just wanted to get rid of the last few sticks they had.

I was in Taipei city back in 95. It’s amazing how they have dedicated areas arranged in several blocks with common electrical items such as cables, motors, electronics and so on. You just tell the taxi driver what you want and he will take to the specific area that only sells the item you are looking for. A real eye opener.

OH BOY! 360 GOODNESS! HELLO HQ RESOLUTION FROM 2007

This is awesome! We have junkyards around me in the states called "U pull it", which has the same setup. It's nice to do if you are handy, as you can work at your own pace and often get all the little odds and ends that usually get thrown away, like interior pieces or something as simple as a hood prop. Sure you could buy new but why when you can the fully functional OEM one for 1/4th of the price.

I’ve had some really good finds in scrap yards! An lga 1366 mobo with the i7 950 still inside, a Corsair Stryker case.

just a fun fact. if some motherboard dony post or anything at all. wrap most stuff in foil except the chipsets and bake them in the oven for 7 mins at 170c (200c if first time doesnt work) alot of boards have lose north/soudbridge solder joints and this would probs fix it too

Sounded almost like if you were going undercover, still very interesting, cant wait to see the previous video. I like the way your eyes spark when you are in the hunt, that and the color make them look even better.

I was wondering why so many second hand motherboards from the east had all their vrm heatsinks removed. They are being taken for scrap.

I wish we had places like this where I live then used PC Part hunting would be so much fun! Great Video :D Keep up the excellent work!

Scrapyard searching is my dream, but my local scrapyard won't sell anything.

Check the AsRock board again with both sticks in it and look if the amount of RAM is right. The board probably just used the memory installed in B1 and didn´t recognize the stick in A1 as it´s probably dead.

This is where i get a lot of parts for resale, my local scrap yard. or night before garbage goes out, take a drive and see what's outside waiting. surprisingly most parts i find do work. best deal i ever got was a EVGA 1070ti for $10 2 years ago. think i got $100 for it which was a great deal at the time.

Big thumbs up to Marco who translate all those great deals.

I go to my local recycling centre all the time in the UK I have had some amazing deals on used parts and everything they sell is 10 GBP so I've built some really good machines on the cheap love the scrapyard :)

$3 1tb harddrive would make a great free Nas system

Now I understand why motherboards from aliexpress are always slightly rusty/dirty.

"here's a screwdriver, pick and pull"

From about 15km far from me is also a scrapyard, it's a tech guy's paradise. I know the owner and I just LOVE going there from time to time to check the PCs people throw away, I've found pretty awesome retro tech.

What's it like moving pc parts on aeroplanes/ travel?

THE OLD INTRO YESSSSSSSSSS! thankyou

gratzz to you and your friend, nice prespective of those places that we will never see, speaking from portugal ;)

That Tech Yes City music playlist, where is it? Music is always on point new aswell as older videos, goes really well with the always happy positive attitude with everything. Awesome video, thanks for making this and sharing! 🙏

Very awesome Brian! Big props to Marco for helping facilitate the transaction!

Taiwans new tourist attraction: scrap yard hiking!

Bryan, just a recommendation. If you ever buy a hard drive again and see that there's still data on it, it's better don't ever look at it and wipe it right away. There are things in this world that you really don't want to see. Trust me, I've been through this and some of the things I've seen still give me nightmares.

As a computer repair technician..Thats HEAVEN right there (for me at least) ma mouth waters😂😂😂

Should do it in USA or Canada if you got a chance i found a full gaming PC in my scrapyard worth about 750-800$ paid 150$ for it and great video!

I'm a Taiwanese. I don't even usually enjoy dealing with scrapyards business people. They are sometimes not so friendly with outsiders. You and Marco were doing so good.

15:42 Brian the business spy from Tech Spy City 😂

The 15 dollar X79 build I got from my local recycling center that I thought was totally dead finally is finished. Based tech god, couldn't have done this truly wild and unpredictable build without you chief.

sapphire nitro + vega 64 higher video playback and gaming on 1080p monitor makes 1440 and 4k videos and gaming pop . virtual super resolution enabled its really good i don't see anyone talking about this setting but highly recommend turning it on .

4:32 Tech Yes Scrap Yard~

Since I have an access to the "pc scrap room" from where decommissioned PC is going to the kind of facility rhat can be seen in the video, I'm usually getting those kind of parts for free, generally there are mostly socket 775 that I can't see a point in taking, from time to time I'm finding 1156, 1155 custom PCs and oftenly a dell or lenovo prebuilds with 1150 socket and an i3 4th gen, usually without the memory or storage drive, but still worth taking.

Thanks Marco, this fascinating video wouldn't have happened without you! This was a lot of fun to watch.

“I used the clothes that were dirty to wrap the parts for cushioning...” nice! You brought back a bunch of BO Boards lol

One good thing about computing hardware/software not taking major leaps forwards is that it allows the rest world to keep up.

Great video Brian,thanks ! Like these longer format vids

The reason people don't delete there hard drives I'd guess is because the recycler probably not supposta sell any of the stuff; most are contracted to only melt it down for scrap.

Nice deals. I Like those parts. As a tech enthusiast I'm happy that you saved them, and someone will be happy to use them.

4:11. In the background. Starring.

I've had that ram issue on an Intel H55 board before. Good parts hunting!

Search for "re PC" if your ever in Seattle Washington. I past thru a few times a year for work and always make a point to step in there.

THIS! This is the Tech Yes content I like to see. Would also love to see what those final configured "gaming pc's" used parts are, prices, and game benches next. Was that a Maxtor drive I saw ??? Those were my "go to" HDDs back in the day.

Loved your idea to venture off from computex into the junkyard ! Very original fun and refreshing !! If I'm in Taiwan ill go do that

Even we locals didn't know that you can get such great deal in the scrapyard. 100NTD for a 1 TB hard drive? Damn! Sign me up! FYI: the scrapyards which do recycle PC parts are limited to urban areas.

you can make a good business re-selling these parts on eBay tbh

What's up Marco! Nice work!

Tech Yes Documentary Channel bringing you: Where your computers die and rise again for the new Tech Yes Glory 😍

THIS VIDEO WAS SO INTERESTING MAKE MORE OF THESE!!

Good work guys. Those places look Iike my backyard 👍

This reminds me of the Ebay sellers that sell "recycled" computer parts. They are always called like "Green Tech" or something along those lines.

Excellent video. The very bottom end of the tech market. Eat your heart out LTT

Thanks Bryan, Yep Old windows 7 pro key worked for my Win 10 Pro install... Thanks bro.... 👍👍❤❤👌👌

Why do I get a Fallout vibe here, so cool. This is where you go find computer parts in post apocalyptic world.

Welcome to my world, i only get CPUs most of the time though :) Sometimes i pick out high end boards, but usually they won't let me open stuff myself here (austria)...

I got an old PC from a scrapyard recently but they're actually not allowed to sell or give out anything. Still on the lookout for proper places that sell PC junk in Austria, all I know of is a center that already resells old electronics which I haven't checked out yet.

Marco, 谢谢你找到那么好的地方了 keep these videos coming!

I always thought the Taiwan/china recycle centers would be like the literal gold mine of old pc parts... but that looks just like the ones i have around here. pretty cool!

That a boy Marco. Do ya thing. Way to connect the world. Cheers mate👍👏😁

fantastic video, I don't think any other tech channel has done this. Several PC's worth of mobos for the price of one!

Love the static straps.

This video was awesome, thanks for all your creative ideas you put into videos

13:45 in the episode of "Border Security - Australia's Front Line" we have brian who just returned from taiwan and has hidden a massive sets of computer parts in his luggage, in fact there was more computer parts than clothes...

Tried to look for such a place in Melbourne but couldn't find one (don't know many people there) but here in Pakistan we have these PC junkyards where you can score awesome psus or coolers for less than 2 dollars :D

I've been doing this for a few months now. My recycling center receives mostly older machines though, I've only found one lga1155 motherboard so far

I love your channel, you are a real enthusiast ready to go even to a scrapyard to do a build!

Almost the same motherboard I used to have, it was GA-P55A-UD3 and difference is, it has mosfet heatsink and it's P55, where as that L version doesn't and is H55 chipset, despite having P55 ini the name.

Bringing those through the x-ray machines must have raised an eyebrow

I hope that you have a decent eye for rare retro parts like 3DFX cards and certain high value isa sound cards as they can easily sell for hundreds on eBay.

i got a thermaltake smart se 630w for les than 3$

woa a magnetic claw/loader... 20:29 No wonder they might charge a lot. Sometimes yoiu have to look around a business to grasp a little on their expenses.

I usually go to a recycling center for pc parts, only just that i find really old parts (K6-2s and Pentium 3s). Yesterday i spent 2$ on a Athlon 64 3500+ and a am2+ board, but both turned out defective. I would like to know a place like that in Bucharest.

This would be an excellent venue for the next season of LTT's Scrapyard Wars.

I'd love to go to a dump site and check the electronics part, but, unfortunately, they're all off limits here. You can come in and dump your stuff, but if you go and search in it they'll send you away right away

If you're willing to put some time and effort into it, you don't need a lot of money to build a great gaming rig. Just a couple of hundred dollars, patience, and ideally an online 2nd hand market with an app that can give instant push notifications when someone puts up for sale something matching your search criteria; the best deals go fast. If possible, an extra couple of hundred dollars that you can "use but not ultimately spend" will help a lot too. That way if a great deal on eg. a better GPU shows up, you don't have do hurry/rush selling your current one to free up the cash to buy "the new" one - but instead you can use those extra money to close on a good deal quickly, pay for the "new" one, then put your old one up for sale with out the rush. When sold, you recuperate the expense. If you're in a hurry to sell, you rarely get a good price. This way, you also always have a full, working system. Once you've reach a point where you're satisfied with your build, you can put those "extra" flex-money back whence it came - savings account, pay back if you loaned them etc. I started out 2 years ago with a handed-down rig for simple gaming, with a i5-750, a gtx 670, a 1TB hdd and 4 gigs of ddr3. By buying and selling on 2nd hand market, buying at super prices, selling for a bit more, injecting a few bucks here and there... Having injected maybe $250 into this "revenue", today I'm sitting with a 4790k on a Asus Maximus VII board, 32GB ram, a gtx 1080ti, a big custom loop watercooling ordeal with mostly EKWB parts cooling both GPU and CPU, a 2TB ssd, 1200W corsair PSU and a 34" 1440p ultrawide monitor. All 2nd hand, from "buying low and selling high", writing good, descriptive ads, and buying "box of parts" with lots of goodies that are easy to resell, taking what I need and selling the rest for a profit or to break even after gaining the part(s) I needed for myself.

the fact that ddr3 memory are still good for gaming u can get a good deal on junkyards that restore electronic parts. no matter which country u live!! (modern western countrys^^)

Marco deserve a beer man. Thanks

I wish they had scrapyards like this in Illinois. I could start my dream job of just repairing computer parts all day. lol

Love the thumbnail pic! You look like a decent baseball player from the 50's! Yes! that's a complement! Come on! Check out Hutton Gibson ( Mel Gibson's father, winner of several Jeopardy prizes in OZ).

Intel Q9650's seem to be selling well right now. Its LGA775 but still seems to run pretty well. Ive got one running my Linux Lite machine with a 500gb ssd, XFX Radeon 550 2gb and 16 gigs ddr3 1600.

Brian, what a legend.

This video is better then all the "computech" videos all togheter

Loved this video, getting a real insight into another country’s culture

That beige case at 5:28