Awesome Tips Can I Make Money Fixing Dead CPUs?
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We’ve saved money by buying and fixing damaged motherboards, but could we make a profit selling repaired CPUs? Linus and the team take on ‘for parts’ CPUs from eBay.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:17 Meet the Victims
2:15 James
5:36 Jordan
6:41 Elijah (and friends)
8:53 Linus
12:50 How’d everybody do?
17:11 Credits
Deals for Days. Big home savings are happening now.
@LTT
14:35
uhh.. what is this math?
resale 135
– 75 paid
= 60
– 2 tool/supply
= 58….
How do you get 64 out of that?
What am I missing? I know I wasn't very good at math in school, but I am correct on this one… right? Am I?
You did not account in the money/hour that the person must also do all the logistics arround that: Find and buy it (with possible losses!), do a foto and description of the repaired one AND successfully sell it and ship or transfer it… and also some 'warranty'-issuses I might assume.
I've unbent pins on 74 series chips, does that count?
To anyone who genuinely complained about eBay prices rising due to the last video regarding motherboards:
You can check averages and trends with eBay's tools. There's been no difference in average price on sold broken motherboards.
This would've been more fun if we were able to more clearly see what the CPU-fixers were actually doing. Especially for Elijah, it's completely unclear what he tried to do in an hour and fifteen minutes. Fun premise though.
why linus didnt get the hardest the is the best … cool vid
FYI, trying to resell those processors online is going to cut way into costs due to shipping and online marketplace fees.
I think you should also consider the test bench that you will use to test the CPUs you are fixing.
11:25 "Bonus Tech Tips" is a masterful double entendre (at least verbally).
Some of the pins may be redundant (ground) or may be connected to devices you don't necessarily need. Always good to check the schematic.
as with any business, the biggest difficulty is not making something, its finding buyers! You can't say "I'm bad with people, so I'll do tech repair" because guess what, repairing is the easy part. Still have to find buyers, or just hope swamping e-Bay will sustain you.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss finally James is back on camera!!! More James please
Guess I'll be flocking to ebay.
You should do another fixing dead GPUs video. I need to figure out a good way to actually find dead GPUs that are fixable cause I’m on a pretty tight budget and I’m not having any luck.
Should also probably only buy CPUs for which you own the hardware to test them with.
As an experienced microsolderer who works every day on iphone logic boards, this is a walk in the park… although years of experience and my tools cost thousands so not a fair comparison
You can make money out of these types of jobs but you need to be really picky about the devices you buy
New side hustle. Buy dead CPU's with good pins. Bend a couple of the pins then sell them as unknown working condition with bent pins. Sell them all to LTT. $$$$$$$
patiently waint for the frost tips to grow out
I feel like ceramic tipped tweezers would be really good for bending pins back into place. not because you need to isolate from current or anything, just because they thin yet solid, and may not be as damaging to the pins as metal pliers/tweezers. At least maybe for a couple bent pins. if its a row of them, something long, straight, flat, and non-metallic might be best.
I once found a broken Ryzen 7 3700x together with a premium workstation board in the dumpster at work. I was allowed to take it and I fixed all the pins, but sadly it had memory issues after that and if you touched or wiggled the cooler the PC would have crashed completely. I guess there was damage in teh socket because the CPU was ripped out of it together with the cooler. It was sticking on the cooler when I found it.
does anyone really find Linus funny?
disregarding however that microscope costs and not factor it in into the profits is kinda sus
Well you make money using broken ideas…so another turd polished and pushed out to the glitter roll will make you even more lucre for the elves. So, why not.
PS have you sorted the supply problem for your habit yet?
15:15 "ryzen 5 3700x"
????? do you mean ryzen 7 3700x? as far as i'm aware theres no ryzen 5 3700x
0:16 he actually caught something instead of dropping it
2$ for tools? huh lol
"WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU" is exactly how i feel when i see bent cpus
I have soldered on a few pins before. Kinda hard but saved some cpu's this way!
In Australia we have Kerb Side collections where people put large items on the kerb as rubbish for the Council to pick up and dispose of. I used to pick up computers that were thrown out and rebuild them and sell them off. A PC that cost me nothing but some time to find and play around with could net me $150 AUD+ with maybe an hours work. These were mostly Pentium 4, maybe the occasional Core 2 Duo back then. More recently I picked up a i7 9th Gen with 256gb SSD, 4Tb 3.5 inch, 16gb DDR4 and a GT1050 (Pretty sure that is what it was) completely working with Windows 10. Facebook Marketplace has machines similar for around $350 AUD. I'm not really collecting to sell these days but more so to upgrade my home server which is an old PC. That could make a good episode for you guys, See what you can find FREE on Marketplace or something and how much you could flip it for.
I had a friend drop a Ryzen 5 5500 about a year ago. he gave it to me to fix, i accidentally broke off basically all of the bent pins, and now it works. no idea how
F'me… surgical scapel fixes all of them. I could beat Linus in a best of 5!