Today we build a computer from nothing but E waste found at my local drop off. This video took me 3 months to film so I hope you enjoy. This video is a reupload
nice to see a person invested the time in ewaste and made something good out of it, I want to be a hobbyist in recycling e-waste and build new stuff from them, but in my country, people do collect these junks from western nations and extract alive stuff and resell them with the price almost as new, its hard to find throwaway like this on the roads.
I love seeing people show what you can do with what other people throw away. My first PC was found in the trash walking home from school. 2004 and someone must have upgraded because they threw out the whole desktop monitor keyboard mouse and speakers. PC had windows 95 on it and 16mb ram. Didn;t game well with no gpu but played simcity and jazz jackrabbit fine. I remember upgrading to windows 98 se on it and typing school papers in Wordpad with no autocorrect. Good times. Keep up the content.
Most hard drives that come from video recording devices and security recorders and the like are 5400 RPM drives. Usually the HDD in computers are the faster 7200 RPM drives and load up quite a bit faster than the other. You really don't need the front USB I/O because you've got them on the motherboard I/O in the back. You can find video card drivers on line pretty easily. It's pretty impressive but not surprising you got the system running with all the parts you managed to get. Law of averages dictates you'd find some useful stuff. It just amazes me what people consider e-waste and throw away. You definitely reached your goal. Enjoyed the video! Just keep in mind, on these ATX systems most benefit from running at least two stick of RAM (even if it's less RAM) because most systems are dual channel and will improve performance a lot!
He could not connect to internet, and one of the ram sticks did not work leaving him with only 1 DDR3 stick. The other ram he had was ddr or ddr2 which is vastly slower than ddr3. DDR can run up to 400 MT/s, DDR2 can run 800 MT/s, and ddr3 can run 1600 MT/s. He also stated in the video that the system does not boot with dual-channel memory. Tom's Hardware also ran an analysis on single vs dual channel ddr2 ram and found only a very slight increase in speed, I'll post in a separate comment at the same time lmk if youtube doesn't let it post.
I've never actually attempted any builds from nothing but e waste, but your workbench brought back memories of me testing components, usually motherboards to see if they would at least post before putting any more effort into them.
20:16 That daughter card is a SAS controller. It's very rare to find them in PCs. They were only used in servers. Those are either SATA or SAS drives as the controller is compatible with both. They typically provide raid and some of them have a battery powered cache on them.
This was very interesting. You should totally make a video about cleaning up the mess around the computer, maybe putting all the parts in a nice computer case, and try to run more games on it to test its limits
This video was filmed a few years back. I don't have any of the parts anymore. But I do have some interesting videos coming up to keep an eye out for. Cheers.
@@sykeko Well it is good that you at least ended up making some money out of the whole thing. Good job for that and can’t wait to see more of your content in the future. What you did here was a pretty damn good accomplishment. Cheers.
Have no access to e waste in my area. I used to have a good source for used PCs at a thrift store but that has dried up. I can relate to the mix and match to build a good pc out of used parts.
Wish I could but the E-waste drop off was shutdown and the place that takes it now doesn't allow you to take anything. I do have a couple cool videos coming up tho.
Thanks for the dvr tip, I see one of these at goodwill & a whole NAS system i shoulda grabbed it even if it was empty 😂. Yeah nobody ever buys them. Smart never thought about dvr’s having hard drives i just assumed it was some soldered on proprietary bullshit
First thing - clear BIOS. Then ,check the Bios battery. Then- flash the bios to the last one(the newer cpu was not working probably because of an old bios). Btw - a ram compatibility issue could be BIOS,as well. Or,it could be a slightly bent pin in the cpu socket. P.S.Would you finish building that pc?? Like,in the case??
Me and my dad (mostly me) swapped his old pc into a modern case, the motherboard cables were a problem for me, also the case did not support hard drives so he helped me a bit. Overall the pc is fine, it can run minecraft at solid 30-40 fps. Im planning to buy a gpu soon for the pc.
Built a pc with an i7 3770k, gtx 1660ti, p8z77-m, 32 gig patriot ram, and an inspiron case. All used or free and whole thing under $200. Son gets 90fps mw3 2023 and 130 fps in fortnite. And none of it ended up in the dump.
I did this many years ago. Maybe 2012ish. I ran on a first gen i7 system that was picked from e-waste up until 2017 when it finally died. It was always threatening death because triple channel. Probably why the person got rid of it.
I want to do this at some point in my life but I have no idea where my nearest ewaste dump in lol. And idk if I could use computers I find on the road because those usually don't come with anything but case and motherboard that might have cpu and CPU cooler or smh. I would be willing to use spare parts. One thing I have on my bucket list is to build a computer one way or another by myself.
I started abt a year ago and i got pretty lucky a couple times. First i started doing it bc i needed a power suply and didn't want to waste money on my old pc, so i found a guy who was throwing his old ones out, and he even gave me a 750w gaming one. Abt half a year later i found a whole pc with an i5 4570k +gtx770, i still use it, but now i changed the gpu with a gtx1060 6gb i found a couple months ago. Yesterday i even found a MSI gtx 1070, but it's not posting(probably dead). Overall it's not really a timw consuming hobby if u ask me, i got a junkyard abt half a mile from my apartment
Since we live in a "disposable" society you'd be very surprised what you can find. Check thrift shops, GoodWill, pawn shops, and dumpsters behind large companies if you can get to them. I've picked up entire systems sitting in a pile out front of people's houses. I got an entire Alienware gaming system with a Ryzen 5, GTX 1080, 16GB RAM and a 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD. It had a bad power supply. Replaced it and sold the system for $300. I just bought an entire pallet of computer stuff that included three complete older Pentium systems and got the whole pallet for $15.00 at a public auction because no one else wanted it. Two of the three systems worked just fine.
Nice. Maybe you know suppliers who selling 5-13 years old computers in pallete. I want to orders about 10 palletes, dismantle computer parts and resell them or resell full computers. In my country there only 2 suppliers which dismantling computers for parts and reselling (Price is unreasonably high). They refusing sell to me computers in palletes but they receiving them ( they don't say why), i also don't know why. Maybe you have some valuable information ?
unfortunately my country has clamped down on E waste and doing stuff like this isn't much a thing anymore. This year was recorded a couple years back. Sorry I cant be of help.
your lucky you can just take anything were im at my local ewaste drop off you not allowed to take things and theirs always good stuff that you can't take sadly.
He never said he doesn't have a job, but some of have these things called "hobbies", you know things we like to do when we have some free time and aren't at work. His hobby, much like mine, is messing around with computer equipment. I actually built the computer I watched his video on, (just not from e waste), though I would enjoy such a challenge
nice to see a person invested the time in ewaste and made something good out of it, I want to be a hobbyist in recycling e-waste and build new stuff from them, but in my country, people do collect these junks from western nations and extract alive stuff and resell them with the price almost as new, its hard to find throwaway like this on the roads.
I love seeing people show what you can do with what other people throw away. My first PC was found in the trash walking home from school. 2004 and someone must have upgraded because they threw out the whole desktop monitor keyboard mouse and speakers. PC had windows 95 on it and 16mb ram. Didn;t game well with no gpu but played simcity and jazz jackrabbit fine. I remember upgrading to windows 98 se on it and typing school papers in Wordpad with no autocorrect. Good times. Keep up the content.
That's pretty cool man. If only more people did this. That could make a great security camera box too.
This was fun to watch. Love seeing people upcycle old hardware. Great job.
Most hard drives that come from video recording devices and security recorders and the like are 5400 RPM drives. Usually the HDD in computers are the faster 7200 RPM drives and load up quite a bit faster than the other. You really don't need the front USB I/O because you've got them on the motherboard I/O in the back. You can find video card drivers on line pretty easily. It's pretty impressive but not surprising you got the system running with all the parts you managed to get. Law of averages dictates you'd find some useful stuff. It just amazes me what people consider e-waste and throw away. You definitely reached your goal. Enjoyed the video! Just keep in mind, on these ATX systems most benefit from running at least two stick of RAM (even if it's less RAM) because most systems are dual channel and will improve performance a lot!
He could not connect to internet, and one of the ram sticks did not work leaving him with only 1 DDR3 stick. The other ram he had was ddr or ddr2 which is vastly slower than ddr3. DDR can run up to 400 MT/s, DDR2 can run 800 MT/s, and ddr3 can run 1600 MT/s. He also stated in the video that the system does not boot with dual-channel memory. Tom's Hardware also ran an analysis on single vs dual channel ddr2 ram and found only a very slight increase in speed, I'll post in a separate comment at the same time lmk if youtube doesn't let it post.
I've never actually attempted any builds from nothing but e waste, but your workbench brought back memories of me testing components, usually motherboards to see if they would at least post before putting any more effort into them.
20:16 That daughter card is a SAS controller. It's very rare to find them in PCs. They were only used in servers. Those are either SATA or SAS drives as the controller is compatible with both. They typically provide raid and some of them have a battery powered cache on them.
New to your channel love what I see, pity south Africa doesn't have an E-waste depot
This was very interesting. You should totally make a video about cleaning up the mess around the computer, maybe putting all the parts in a nice computer case, and try to run more games on it to test its limits
This video was filmed a few years back. I don't have any of the parts anymore. But I do have some interesting videos coming up to keep an eye out for. Cheers.
Do you still have that computer though?
@@thebestmew no I don't. I ended up selling all my ewaste for a lump sum. I still have some ram sticks. But nothing else
@@sykeko Well it is good that you at least ended up making some money out of the whole thing. Good job for that and can’t wait to see more of your content in the future. What you did here was a pretty damn good accomplishment. Cheers.
Have no access to e waste in my area. I used to have a good source for used PCs at a thrift store but that has dried up. I can relate to the mix and match to build a good pc out of used parts.
What about nearby colleges? Schools? check those bins? asked about?
Bro you gotta do another video like this, i love this stuff
Wish I could but the E-waste drop off was shutdown and the place that takes it now doesn't allow you to take anything. I do have a couple cool videos coming up tho.
Ah that's a shame.. looking forward to whats in store though!
I got to Goodwill and Salvation Army. I've bought 7 120Gb Xbox 360 HDD in my first attempt at setting up my own NAS or at home lab. ;)
Thanks for the dvr tip, I see one of these at goodwill & a whole NAS system i shoulda grabbed it even if it was empty 😂. Yeah nobody ever buys them. Smart never thought about dvr’s having hard drives i just assumed it was some soldered on proprietary bullshit
cool, i support u to do with a trash pc. I like it..... Nice to watch this video.... Syaloom from me, indonesian....
Dude, what a dope video, thank you!
@@dimanpro7007 np. Thanks for the kind words
First thing - clear BIOS.
Then ,check the Bios battery.
Then- flash the bios to the last one(the newer cpu was not working probably because of an old bios).
Btw - a ram compatibility issue could be BIOS,as well.
Or,it could be a slightly bent pin in the cpu socket.
P.S.Would you finish building that pc??
Like,in the case??
Ah yes another fellow Canadian
too easy eh.
Good god if I could get to a dump like that I would need a truck just to move everything .
Okay good information video
Kind of video I enjoy watching!
It works, and that is all that matters.
sad that there are little to no ewaste places in eastern europe, i would love to reuse some old pc parts for something
great message! wouldve been fun to start from e-waste to what i have now!!
Nice job dude🎉
Thank you.
Good job bro
Great video mate! I learned a lot - thanks.
Hi SYKEKO could you please demonstrate how you were able to get e waste and identify the ones that are faulty
Me and my dad (mostly me) swapped his old pc into a modern case, the motherboard cables were a problem for me, also the case did not support hard drives so he helped me a bit. Overall the pc is fine, it can run minecraft at solid 30-40 fps. Im planning to buy a gpu soon for the pc.
Built a pc with an i7 3770k, gtx 1660ti, p8z77-m, 32 gig patriot ram, and an inspiron case. All used or free and whole thing under $200. Son gets 90fps mw3 2023 and 130 fps in fortnite. And none of it ended up in the dump.
I have some Xeon X5650 Socket LGA-1366 showing ip in a few days. About to get my under $140 gaming PC working
I did this many years ago. Maybe 2012ish. I ran on a first gen i7 system that was picked from e-waste up until 2017 when it finally died. It was always threatening death because triple channel. Probably why the person got rid of it.
Well how convenient all the parts were already there and as its been raining and your parts are dry setup maybe of course it is
this video took over 3 months to source parts. If you trying to say I faked the video you'd be wrong.
exactly 😂😂
lol u sourced them and put them at the junk pile like I said staged
@@Peterohlalala and like I said.. I don't stage anything.
Build one just using old parts. Great for a basic PC
I want to do this at some point in my life but I have no idea where my nearest ewaste dump in lol. And idk if I could use computers I find on the road because those usually don't come with anything but case and motherboard that might have cpu and CPU cooler or smh. I would be willing to use spare parts. One thing I have on my bucket list is to build a computer one way or another by myself.
I started abt a year ago and i got pretty lucky a couple times. First i started doing it bc i needed a power suply and didn't want to waste money on my old pc, so i found a guy who was throwing his old ones out, and he even gave me a 750w gaming one.
Abt half a year later i found a whole pc with an i5 4570k +gtx770, i still use it, but now i changed the gpu with a gtx1060 6gb i found a couple months ago.
Yesterday i even found a MSI gtx 1070, but it's not posting(probably dead).
Overall it's not really a timw consuming hobby if u ask me, i got a junkyard abt half a mile from my apartment
Since we live in a "disposable" society you'd be very surprised what you can find. Check thrift shops, GoodWill, pawn shops, and dumpsters behind large companies if you can get to them. I've picked up entire systems sitting in a pile out front of people's houses. I got an entire Alienware gaming system with a Ryzen 5, GTX 1080, 16GB RAM and a 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD. It had a bad power supply. Replaced it and sold the system for $300. I just bought an entire pallet of computer stuff that included three complete older Pentium systems and got the whole pallet for $15.00 at a public auction because no one else wanted it. Two of the three systems worked just fine.
You swapped the CPU out then back in which upset the computer also try tiny 11 on an e waist computer
Nice. Maybe you know suppliers who selling 5-13 years old computers in pallete. I want to orders about 10 palletes, dismantle computer parts and resell them or resell full computers. In my country there only 2 suppliers which dismantling computers for parts and reselling (Price is unreasonably high). They refusing sell to me computers in palletes but they receiving them ( they don't say why), i also don't know why. Maybe you have some valuable information ?
unfortunately my country has clamped down on E waste and doing stuff like this isn't much a thing anymore. This year was recorded a couple years back. Sorry I cant be of help.
The sheer disgust at IDE is kinda cringe. lol
Btw most laptops containing decent hdd
Hi, Nice video btw, i have a question
Where did u find those old pcs? Cuz i'm interested in restoring a old one
There was an ewaste drop off in my area you could go and pick from. They got rid of it once the government stopped funding.
Cool❤❤
Ultimate Bro🔥🔥
your lucky you can just take anything were im at my local ewaste drop off you not allowed to take things and theirs always good stuff that you can't take sadly.
They did away with this. A new place takes things they can make money on and that's it. Can't pick anything
@@sykeko well thats too bad at least you enjoyed it will you could
I heared a six-pack of bear can do wanders....
Did you ever put this into a case?
@@joshwa1234 no I never. After this video I ended up scrapping everything and selling it all as bulk.
i want to find a ewaste drop off.. all the ewaste places around here wont allow you to take anything, its awful
This is very cool
It was a fun video to do. Took me over a month to record.
Did you pay for the parts? You didn't mention price
E waste is free
man i did this last year too
RESURRECT OLD TECH!!
fuck yea
your not going to- be using the first 2 cards there AGP
slab an ssd and load win10 atlas on that e waste PC of abomination and send it
Unpatched windows 7 probably better offline
And this stuff is just left at the side of the road?
E-waste drop off site. Its no longer there.
sorry you're at 212 now
yeah I did have over 3k subs but I was hacked and lost my channel.
@@sykeko Oh sorry dude thats sad
In 4 months you can work something and gain some money and buy a computer. But if you can pick something for free in one day, that's another story.
wouldn't made much of a video if I walked into best buy and just bought one.
@@sykeko Video and views are your concern. But you show people what can be done.
He never said he doesn't have a job, but some of have these things called "hobbies", you know things we like to do when we have some free time and aren't at work. His hobby, much like mine, is messing around with computer equipment. I actually built the computer I watched his video on, (just not from e waste), though I would enjoy such a challenge
@@Rangerman9404 And I never said it is about him. These guys monetize people's wishful thinking.
Are you dumb
WD make crappy drives
Hi bro am from india can I get that monitors in 2nds