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Why build a new machine when you can save some money and buy used, repurposed parts slapped into a case with RGB and a tempered glass side panel from Ebay? Well, big surprise, they’re not as good as you might be led to believe.
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Buy an Intel Core i3-12100F CPU:
Buy an ASRock H610M-HVS Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard:
Buy Silicon Power 3200 CL16 2x8GB DDR4 RAM:
Buy a Team Group T-Force Vulcan Z 1TB 2.5″ SSD:
Buy a PNY XLR8 GeForce GTX 970 Graphics Card:
Buy a Deepcool MATREXX 40 Micro ATX/Mini ITX Tower Case:
Buy an EVGA 700 BR 80+ Bronze 700W PSU:
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0:00 Intro
1:44 What’s in the box
4:30 CPU Nomenclature
5:28 GPU Nomenclature
8:30 Hardware Support
9:30 The Price
11:50 Bad Marketing
13:15 Conclusion
15:32 Outro
Deals for Days. Big home savings are happening now.
Corrections:
8:19 – The 665MHz listing is technically correct but we should have doubled it as per the Double in DDR.
9:39 – The GTX 970 shown is listed as "For parts or not working" (We sent the wrong link to our editor, oops), but there are plenty of 970s on eBay that are listed as "Used" condition that are the same price, if not cheaper.
With the price that make sense I would actually buy that
A about 2 years ago I was going from playing PlayStations all my life to buying my first “gaming” pc and I’m sad to say I am a victim of this because at the time I knew nothing really about computers. I got a full size dell OptiPlex with 16 gb of ram, a Intel I7 and a gtx 1050ti. I paid about $300.
The only good thing I guess was the computer did end up teaching me a lot because I was always trying to upgrade it until I wise up and actually built my own 😂
I know nothing about computer specs, I just enjoy watching videos about computers lol
My i7 cost more than that entire "i7" PC
can u review aisurix vga card?
I nearly fell for this with my first job trying to buy a cheap gaming pc off ebay and upgrade it over time starting with something decent. Luckily my bank stopped a 15 year old me from spending £400 in one go
On the scale of sponsors from @dabhdude Video I Hate Youtube Sponsorships, Youre videos are Tier Z: 2 Total Very Intrusive and Obnoxious Sponsorships, including Begging for Subs, Like, Comments, and others
Don't blame the seller, blame the consumers for being stupid. Survival of the fittest.
Can't wait for Linus to drop this video again in 10 years
it's literally just the same addiction that people have with buying the latest model of iphone.. people are addicted to getting the latest and greatest or the one that makes them sound just as good if not better then everyone else…
When your video is sponsored by 2 SEPARATE companies and not 1…… like 1st sponsor is Raid Shadow Legends and second is NordVPN……
10:00 What I do with old hardware, is whenever I fix someone's PC up for them and it's ancient, I offer them a free upgrade. I do it as a hobby, not a business, so no skin off my back and it keeps newer components in the field. Even when it comes to laptops, chances are someone near you (atleast vicinity) has an aging system that's better priced than a 2nd hand slapped together system for profit, because quite frankly, most people just want to get rid of them, because they're taking up space (like me, I have literally 10 pc cases standing in a corner, with aging parts in them, because I have no use for them and the most common part I salvage and just free-fix for people, is a psu. Because quite frankly for junker office pc's they dont really need an 80+ rated, if they just want it to turn on and run JUST a cpu and a hdd. So have a look around, chances are the people selling the parts are competent builders themselves (atleast adequate), so once you've bought the parts, can ask them if they can build it for you, for $20? Chances are good that they'd say yes.
My BIGGEST issue with the way computers are sold, particularly with prebuilds, is the COMPLETE lack of EVEN the generation of the CPU. Like the listing showed. "17 Quad core". At LEAST put the generation. Like, product listings have no issues being completely undecipherable (literally any product on AliExpress/Wish/Temu) and 1000 words long, but we can't put the actual product. No, that's a step too far.
What I would like to see is marketplaces making a standard for the names (and descriptions) of products and actually enforcing it. Like, I personally don't mind if the title doesn't include the model of the CPU, but there are a LOT of people that wouldn't look past the title, and that's an issue. For computers, there should at least be the class (I3,5,7,9 or R3,5,7,9), core count, and generation in the title.
Yes, that complicates things for the layman, but if I'm talking computers with anyone I don't stop at "Yeah, I've got an I5". There's no actual info in that. At this point, the only info that can be gained from just the class name is if they're talking Athlon or Pentium. In which case, it's outdated and NEEDS to either upgraded (if current rig) or avoided like the plague (if a possible buying choice, unless they recognize the age and are actually looking for that, for what ever reason).
I don’t know why people by on EBay. Have they not learnt. The real name of the app. Is Upay You pay for something and when it arrives it’s never the right thing that you ordered. Or it’s so poor a quality it breaks when you open the box. So Upay for nothing
My dear departed brother bought an 'i7 gaming pc' a couple years ago. Turned out it was an i7 860. He wouldn't listen when I told him not to buy it because it didn't list the gen of the processor
if you haver 500$ pls tary samting new witha real upgerdebailit lak AMD 6 CORE /12 TH WITHA VIDEO ON BORD ne tha nesx thing a veri cool gpu !! …. if not and you at tah botom of life wel you get wat you get and play wat you cen 98% of tha pc games or from tha 2000 to 2015 and most of them ar ofline so you cen play in pace ! adn not thos 5 title tha all mincereft kids ar plaing …. man ai mne tha diferne in tha generatios is more than 90% of …no coment vs wat once was !!! of more ! .. but o wel .
i find the cpus and boards and ram in dumpsters lol case was 100 bucks i recognize it .
Do not forget the electricity cost either. Running a old i7 vs a modern recent i3 will be a huge difference in your bills if the machine is used a lot.
waiting for the next video about that 13thgen over price 3000 series GPU it bundled with.
2:50 That's not PCI-E…
Linus can you guys make a video about the new nvidia geforce now ultimate 4080 edition? Its incredible!!!! Could save people a lot of money.
that's a rip off for $400? how? looks like a decent deal.
I bought a desktop at that start of pandemic (before the price hikes etc). Just a HP box (i7 6th Gen, 16gb DDR3, cost just over £110 with P&P, then got a half-height 1650 card (it’s a half height PC) for £120 and 2TB SSD for <£100. Basically less than £300. Used it for remoting into other computers for uni, word processing and playing Minecraft in the pandemic with friends
Scary to see that some of these machines now would be sold for nearly double that on eBay, because I know it’s near the bottom of the barrel but it did me well for what I needed and when I was very tight on cash.
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this weil go on fro 20 30 yars man .. if it weil satabelisz cz in tha last 14 it has bine a carp shoopt ive in tha sh market ! !??!?!?!?!?
.. this weil be on tha market fro andare 20 yars at list .. in intel mede lake 14 gen of it life is life …. as fro tha ahitecture genereation ..oooo don inve wat tu get in that costem bushet per core .tha shodoev bine throunowt in lak 2004 .. gen …. it is wat ti is adn tha persosn shood cosolt himself tha spece sheet ..fi not pay a persosn ho has tha expirirent to show you wat is ko and wat is not … in tha pc wolrd thi si life . me from 2004 to 2024 … im warkitng on may 9 pc adn 3 of them in 100% ok finction !!! plus mai man all tg aold games wak ok only on thos old one .. caz intel mede veri big bubu no leting instal win xp or win 7 on tha new sitem laptops etc thro tha medebord boot lok as holi ..so tha is a dandere dezaster …. wel mwni thign too say …. but it is wat it is man …. nad to thic thy hav bint hordi al of this coponet sam wer in a depo so wer to pul them out today !!! after 10 yars dem wat a nasti life for some … super scavaging on a golbal sacali !!!
Need more videos from Emily 😀
my i5 4670 32g 1333 still better than this lol
its a handheld PC in desktop form