I had a similar issue with a very expensive 40gbit network card as your 1080 issue, problem for me was one of the small signal capacitors on one of the pcie lanes had been broken off... you should see some absolutely tiny ceramic capacitors in pairs near the PCIe connector, check and see if one got broken off... took a cap off a broken gpu and replaced it, started working perfectly fine after that!
Here in Japan. I did get a Ryzen 5 5500 and a 1080Ti for myself as a upgrade. Also, I did get a RedDragon Fizz Mech Keyboard from aliexpress for cheap.
I have the same RedDragon KB myself but I got in on Amazon for 30€ (White & Gray variant with Red switches). Also found a bag of 30 gateron yellow switches for 5€. Although the pins are different if I spend some time filing them they do fit (currently using only one for the right control and shift buttons)
11:47 some local phone repair guys could help with that problem. From my experiences, there might be some faulty/knock off resistor on the pcie x4-16 slot. Just solder it back and it'll work just fine
In Scotland, I am able to build the Ryzen 5 3600 paired with the RX 6650xt in either the B450m (asrock) or MSI 550 with 16gb of ram and a 750w psu and get them out the door for a sell price £450 all day. The 1660 scares me a bit for under performing in high settings on newer titles and still cost a mint here which makes no sense compared to better performing GPUs. Great builds and finds mate.
That's exactly what I would on a budget. Sometimes Microcenter has 3600s new for $80 but they must sell out fast because the price goes up pretty quick.
The 1080 will be fractured on the PCB near the PCI support where the motherboard slot clip goes into. That generation did that it snapped a few traces in the board around that point and stopped them fully working. That would be why it works in x4 slot. Essentially first half of the pins would be used for x4 the rest are broken at a point between pin and where they need to go (snapped near that clip/support) You can use a multimeter and points on the card i think to confirm this with a continuity test but might need to scratch away some of the coating to expose traces. I often find those with the higher end parts are decent, usually if they were original owners they have allot of money and are just chill with returns and giving discounts as its less meaningful to them and they want shot of the hardware. The people you really have problems with are the more poor types who are desperate for cash, they are always difficult to return stuff to. I find you get some proper good higher end deals more than lower end ones because of this. I have showed up so many times to buy a higher end product and just had loads knocked off the value (and often also got other things while there) My biggest tell on how a deal will go these days is simple, it's the area they are living in and the value of the housing.
Hey Brian, the 10th Gen Intel is the last Intel chip to support SGX, which is required for HD Blu-ray playback. Highly sought after for livingroom HTPC/Emulation gaming systems.
I bought an used 3070Ti in 2022 because I badly needed it. I looked at the invoice and the guy paid almost 1700 US dollars for it, he sold me for 500. He got it at the height of the shortage.
Love the videos. I have a suggestion. Build a portable test bench using an LFP battery (ecoflow, bluetti, etc) and portable monitor that you can leave in your car to test the parts you buy on the spot.
You said you can't find 10th gen boards for good prices, so the only solution is looking for 11th gen motherboards since they are backwards compatible and from my experience too, they are cheaper than 10th gen boards and also easier to find. It's been age since I last saw an used 10th gen board, but 11gen boards are still pretty much everywhere.
true i found this out back in 2006 with amd and ryzen it was hard getting b450 b550 x570 mobo and way to expensive so i started to get a320 b350 x470 and just flash the bios with a usb to the latest suport
@@CHICKENmcNUGGIESMydude Okay, I need your help then, this x570 motherboard by TUF Gaming, I've tried getting the bios updated soooo many times. Even got a $30 2300x so I could run the motherboard so I could use a 5800x3d, but everywhere I go, official websites, they have updates, but never for the bios. It's so weird.
The GTX 1080 and PCIE x4: it could be that some of the ceramic capacitors (in pairs, on the back of the card, next to the PCIE slot) are bad or missing.
Would you be down to getting some used cases too? There are a lot of old, and "aging" cases that are still super useful, like Corsair's 4000/5000D and cases like that. Even here in the developing world I've found them for a bargain. Could be a hell of a tool to help flip PCs with more hungry components as they have high airflow, not to mention the incredible aesthetics and usability since they are so versatile and really make RGB stand out and options for big liquid coolers.
I recently had a similar story. A few kilometers away from me, someone had an INNO3D RTX 2060 6GB on the second-hand market for 120€. I wrote to him and offered 100€. He said that was too little for him so we agreed on 110€. We agreed that I could pick up the graphics card from him the next day. Then the next morning he wrote to me that he had another interested party who had offered him more. I then kindly pointed out to him that we had a verbal purchase agreement. He then wrote back, somewhat offended, but sold me the graphics card as agreed. When I was at his house, he told me that the other bidder was a scam. When I got back home and took a closer look at the graphics card, I discovered on the sticker on the back that the guy had sold me an RTX 2060 with 12GB VRAM from July 2022 as RTX 2060 6GB. Sometimes you have to be lucky 😆😄😀
My friend that I go to school with had that 1070. He asked me to help him with it at school but before I could pop over he took it to Les. What a small world!
Dammit! Where can I find a Les in Melbourne? Bargains are a bit hard to come by down here (for me at least) It's good to see those old business boxes being turned into useable gaming machines. Cheers!
Experience the same thing with Gumtree, after 2 mins of posting an ad, instant scammer message along the lines of "pack and send" or my brothers mother will pickup... I just report the conversation and it gets blocked. Love the videos Brian!
I got six GTX 1070s recently for a very good price to sell in some of my old personal builds. Shipping from North America to Australia may be too expensive for low margin parts unless you can find them in bulk.
Picked up a few parts in Tassie recently; 11700K for $200 AUD RTX 2060 for$180 AUD. Picked up a free Lenovo M73 as it was being thrown out. I had a look at it and the W7 installation was corrupt. I reinstalled W7, upgraded to W10. It has a i7 4770, 120 GB SSD, 1TB HDD and a basic GT620. I added a low profile 1050Ti and wifi card and have it listed for sale with a KB, mouse and 24 inch monitor. Have to be patient is TAS as it’s a smaller market.
Got an OptiPlex with a i7 8700 with 16gb of ram for $85 usd, I also got a 1650 on ebay for $60, and got a 1tb ssd from Ali express for $30, im going to swap out the i7 8700 for a i3 8100 I have and use the 8700 in another build with a 5700 xt, I'm very excited!
Hi from south africa, I've had this issue with the exact same model 1080. Did a reflash on the bios from techpower up and that fixed my issue and been running it on my emulator rig and it's not had any issues.
I wonder why only gen1 x 16. It sounds like all 16 lanes are working - there is logic on the card that tells the MB how many lanes it has, which seams to say 16 lanes -, so why is it having trouble with higher gen speeds. I would wash the card in case there is contamination causing minor shorts. Also check for damaged components.
With the 1080 maybe try reloading the official bios. With the other untested parts I would suggest just pick them up and as with Les pay them after testing.
I just recently upgraded from rx570 and 1070ti to rx6700xt and 3070 msi suprim x 300 buck a piece Then need to upgrade 1 mobo cause the b450 mobo I had only has 1 NVME slot funny thing NVME's are cheaper than 2.5" SSD here It's kinda frustrating that PC upgrading is taxing on the wallet and now I have to worry about CPU , Storage and Peripherals (Monitor and Keyboard) Before I can officially rest for another 3 yrs
Feeling a lot better about snagging a 3090 (evga FTW3) for £540 locally recently to play about with larger local LLMs. That’s what’s driving the upswing in prices. No substitute for a used 3090 unless you want to spend big on 4090 at the moment.
Hey Bryan, love your videos man! I‘m from Germany but currently on vacation in Australia and on the Gold Coast. What‘s up with the weather in Queensland lately? I thaught this was the sunshine state :( Glad things on the used PC parts front are looking better!
Trying to find deals where I am is a full time job in itself. I'd love to do what you do, but I don't have the love for the hunt. Cool to see all your crazy steals!
Ahhh 4th gen systems. I picked up a HP Z230 recently with e3-1246v3, no ram, no drive for around $60 USD (240PLN, yes i live in Poland). Slapped used GTX 1060 6GB, 512GB SSD and 16GB DDR3 for around $90-100 into it. Dirt cheap, plays games like a dream for this price
I just missed it but on aliexpress there was an i5-12400f going for about $85 usd, and a Kllisre B760 board was around $58. Kicking myself for not grabbing that combo, but i don't need any more parts right now lol. I think the i5-12400f is still available for about $90 usd though which is still really good
Kiwi sub here. Love your content. I’ve always had to be on a budget and your tips have helped a ton with knowing what is a bargain I’m about to pick up my first all brand new computer part system. Keep it up you certainly put in the hours. Ya gotta love the hunt I certainly do
The bottom seems to have dropped out on the 1660 and 1660 Super here in DFW. I've spotted several of them around $85, and they don't get much over $100.
Oh, the problematic card is a Gygabite 1080 with orange stripes! I have the white 1080ti with orange stripes, crazy, never saw anyone on the interwebs using one, just a review at the launch time kinda glossing over it.
Nice finds! I'm currently in the process of rebuilding my gaming rig. I unfortunately had to sell my 5600x and my 2080ti a couple years ago to make rent and have been without my baby since. Here's to hoping the used selling gods smile upon me as they did with you and let me snag a 3600 and a 1660s at that fantastic price.
Sorry to hear. I think you will be able to get yourself a a new pc with time and savings. If all you want is a AMD Ryzen 3600 build with the 1660super. They can found cheaply. The AMD Ryzen 3600 can be found for about $50 on used market. The 1660 super can be found for around $60 used A simple Asrock B450 board can be found for about $30 on the used market 16GB 3200MHZ DRR4 Corsair Ram can be found brand new for around $30. A basic Gadmais Case with excellent airflow brand new for $60 (cases have gotten expensive) A budget 1TB SSD Slicon Power for $60 For PSU a 650 watt MSI MAG for $60 (they have a 550 watt model for $50 but since its olny $10 more for more wattage might as well).
when you talk $1100 AU for an RTX3090 it sounds a lot, but when you put it up as a $719 USD it is pretty banging for a price I done a buy it now price for my Evga RTX3090 for $947 USD last September, not even the RTX2080 TI's have dropped that much in price in the passed 5 years on the used market place of scambay.
GTX 1080 seems to have a dying core? Could try underclocking core/mem see if it stabilizes. I do feel that some of the sellers sell these broken parts hoping to sell it to someone who hates confrontations so they´ll eat the cost. Unsure but i could see that happening.
Nice find on the Ryzen 3600. It's my CPU of choice when I do budget builds, I try and buy them for $50 USD. I got six GTX 1650's a few months ago for $29 each that I pair them with.
The GTX1080 might have some VRAM issues since it still works fine on GEN1 which doesn't push them hard enough might be fixable with a bios editor with crappier timings like the Chinese No Names GPU's sold in Aliexpress that is how the are able to recycle heavily mined on GPU's by putting the chips and VRAM on a new PCB but gives them lower timings and pass them off as "BRAND NEW" just to get them running stable enough to be sold the performance drop is negligible enough that it would pass off as margin of error during testing.
where do you post the systems you build? your facebook and website are years out of date. And did you ever say what les's business name is.. I need some homelab gear.
I wonder that as well. I have a GTX 1660 Super that has similar issues as well. How does this tape mod work? Is it closing off a couple of pins or all pins til x8?
@@grizzlyindustries7593 All pins until you reach the x8 limit. Both sides. The PCI Express pinout is easy to find. Some cards might require pin 81, which is PRSNT2#, to be available.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Thank you. I'll definitely try with some painter's tape later on in my test bench. Reminds me of another tech channel, Budget Builds Official. He had a HD7000 type card. The literal PCIe lanes were snapped off to fit into a smaller slot. Worked shockingly well. Guess this follows the same principle. Gonna look up the pin layout on this GTX 1660 Super too. See if Pin 81 is needed. Thanks again. :)
@@grizzlyindustries7593 It can work, but it's generally not a good idea to snap off the pins as shorts can be created. Nobody likes Shorts. Not even if they were RUclips Shorts. Jokes aside, PCI Express is very modular and flexible.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Hey Marco. Long update here. Lot of words, but if your intetested. I tested my varibles and have come up with something interesting. I did the tape mod. Didn't work in any of my systems. I did a half lane for x8 tape. Then exposed pin 81. Then exposed pin 81 and 82. Now, I have two test systems. One, a i5-3570k, 3x4gb DDR3 1600mhz(I have 4x4gb sticks yet the motherboard either has one bad dimm slot or a bad CPU. Pins on motherboard are all fine.) AsRock Z77M Fatality Professional board. Seasonic 750 Modular Gold PSU. Second and better test bed. Dell Precision T3400 with x3323(LGA771 Xeon equivalent to Q6600), 3x2gb DDR2 667mhz, same PSU. Now I have been testing a PNY Single Fan GTX 1660 Super which has mostly been glitching due to what I think was overheating in it's past life with it's previous owner. Believe the memory, core, or both has been dieing causing major glitching yet no crashing. Cleaned it very throughly with even tech bathing it. Used my heatgun which I only use very rarely. This helped the card live longer and not glitch for a short while. Yet, the glitches returned. Redid all my usual inspections. Never really fixed it. So, I want to also throw out. I not only use Windows 10 and 11. I always have used Linux as long as Windows. I also have been using multiple Linux distros cause from January to February. I helped my buddy build and sell older 2nd to 4th gen prebuilts into ultra budget Linux machines. Mainly being Chimera OS or HoloISO. I have been trying this GTX 1660 Super in Windows were the issues happen. Yet, each and every time I have tried booting this GPU in not only my test benchs but the prebuilts. Linux wouldn't display or ever start whether it being live or a fresh install from Fedora to Mint to Debian to Ubuntu. Which was strange. Now, while doing the tape mods. The GPU was detected or even displayed. Tried using the first test bed. Then route through the i5-3570k iGPU. Used Windows with no drivers to preinstalled drivers. Then Linux. Nothing. No display. The second test bed though. I could never get Windows to detect or display. Then I used Linux. Same thing. *Then I took the tape off.* Put it back into my second system. Using LMDE OS. A Linux Mint Debian live USB. The GTX 1660 Super is displaying and working. Now, I am going to have to get back to redoing my test. Cause I have no idea why it is displaying after putting on and removing tape. I have only been running video from an external storage drive for about 2 hours. Yet, this is a major improvement. I have had no glitching til now. I'm gonna need to come back to testing later. But, I theorize that I shorted some pins on the GTX 1660 Super with the tape mod that might've franksteined itself. Then again, LMDE along with many other Linux distros are lightweight. And LMDE comes preinstalled with nouvea drivers rather than nvidia which can be installed later for testing. I've got more work and testing cut out for me. But I want to thank you for telling me about the tape mod. Cause either though it didn't work. It has brought about something shocking to me, yet a great development. Just getting it to post. Run in Linux. Then play videos with zero glitches and artifacting is amazing. Thank you for showing me the tape mod. I have plenty of others systems as well. Many low end GPUs laying around. Only this GTX 1660 Super has been the weirdest and worst one that I will never sell or give away. But I'm hoping to get small basic usage out of it like as a personal HTPC's GPU. Hoping it works. Thank you for the suggestion.
FYI. In the St Louis area this past month, I was able to get these deals off FB marketplace. 5800x - $100 5800x - $110 32G DDR4 3600 - $30 2080 (PNY) - $160 3070 Ti (EVGA FTW3) - $250 3070 Ti came from a miner (he had 5) but he took care of them. I wish I had bought all 5. AMD 3600 are selling for ~$60.
@@X_irtz Just Ethereum. I've been mining Ironfish with my 3070ti just fine. The EVGA are great, the 3070ti FE, though, I had to add cooling to the back, literally, thermal padded a 3 inch by 1in aluminum heat sink on the back, themal pads under the back plate, upgraded thermal pads on the front, and thermal paste, otherwise ETH made it thermal throttle. Been running them all for years at easy temperatures. Great miners take better care of their GPU's than gamers. Staying warm, versus hot, and cold, back and forth of gaming, not gaming is harder than a more or less continuous temperature.
@@tradingnichols2255 I am aware of that. Miners typically also undervolt their cards, thus they tend to consume less wattage and less wattage means less silicon wear. I have had personal experience with mined cards, they are not necessarily different. This specific thing about the GDDR6X memory is just something i have heard about before.
@@tradingnichols2255 Some miners do, not all. Just like how water cooled cards are usually run at pretty low temperatures overall. Especially the ones that have a proper water block designed for them.
Just picked up an entire PC for $1800 Canadian with a 7900x3d, Asus Prime x670 wifi , 32 gb ddr5 kingston fury, 1 tb WD Black Nvme, rtx 4070ti, corsair 360 mm AIO, Corsair 850 Watt PSU, LG Ultragear 240 HZ monitor, thermaltake atx case. I also got a 1080ti for a cheap build for parts I had laying around with no GPU because he had one. Ryzen 7-1700, A320 mb, 16 gb ram, etc, etc. Pretty decent deal for me. I love the 1080ti and I had none left.
The 7900x3d sucks. It cuts its cores in half to utilize the 3Dvcache. So even though it’s marketed as a 12 core processor it’s really a 6 core CPU in real world tasks.
@@ZackSNetwork You are completely wrong. The 3D vcache is only on one CCD and not the other. That is the only difference. Games will use the CCD that has the vcache although there are some issues with games choosing the wrong CCD (WITHOUT VCACHE). Do you even have one? If you did you would know that it does have those cores by running Cinebench R23. Perhaps you did not have the CPU configured correctly in bios. Do your homework before you trash a CPU.
I got a EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black OC 11GB for 160 USD on eBay excellent condition to replace my 1660 TI that I Have been gaming on for a year and a half now since the day I switch from Consol to PC hope this will be a good upgrade and great buy
I hope the card works as you hope, if it does that is a great upgrade. The last 1080ti I got was a Gainward Geforce Blower style for about 145 USD. I love the 1080ti's. With the cooling on the EVGA version I would say it should be quite nice.
That GTX 1080 build is probably power restricted man. It looks like you have that on a sata power to pcie adapter. Try using the ACTUAL pcie 6 and 8 pin connections from the PSU itself lol
Not had great luck yet on market place. I tried haggling a 5700G build. Literally no GPU. Guy wanted $800 for it lol said he needed it gone so i offered $750 i dont think that was unreasonable and then hes all like "well if im gonna lower the price i want what I listed it for" 🙄 lol. Like is the $50 really that much of a deal breaker? I just didn't respond at that point.
Ooof if i did pc videos for my channel i got deal of the year last week, whole system, i7 6700k, rog strix mobo, gtx1660, corsair AIO, 256gb ssd and 2tb hard disk in a really beat down aerocool case $10aud at the tip shop.....
Madman intro so Nostalgic!
exactly!!
I miss the madman intro..
I had a similar issue with a very expensive 40gbit network card as your 1080 issue, problem for me was one of the small signal capacitors on one of the pcie lanes had been broken off... you should see some absolutely tiny ceramic capacitors in pairs near the PCIe connector, check and see if one got broken off... took a cap off a broken gpu and replaced it, started working perfectly fine after that!
Here in Japan. I did get a Ryzen 5 5500 and a 1080Ti for myself as a upgrade. Also, I did get a RedDragon Fizz Mech Keyboard from aliexpress for cheap.
How much did you relatively spend on the upgrades? How do they hold up for your gaming needs?
nice
I have the same RedDragon KB myself but I got in on Amazon for 30€ (White & Gray variant with Red switches). Also found a bag of 30 gateron yellow switches for 5€. Although the pins are different if I spend some time filing them they do fit (currently using only one for the right control and shift buttons)
Will play anything but Alan Wake 2 lol good budget build especially for competitive games. Will be enough for the advantage.
@@natsuLore most of the parts i bought is not only for gaming, but for my 2d/3d work. Make sure you buy some parts that can handle your PSU too
11:47 some local phone repair guys could help with that problem. From my experiences, there might be some faulty/knock off resistor on the pcie x4-16 slot. Just solder it back and it'll work just fine
yeahhhh the intro's back... so like this, this is what was playing when I joined back during the pandemic... like an old friend
Madman intro yup, that's the Tech Yes City that I know!
Thank you for helping out fellow Estonian
In Scotland, I am able to build the Ryzen 5 3600 paired with the RX 6650xt in either the B450m (asrock) or MSI 550 with 16gb of ram and a 750w psu and get them out the door for a sell price £450 all day. The 1660 scares me a bit for under performing in high settings on newer titles and still cost a mint here which makes no sense compared to better performing GPUs.
Great builds and finds mate.
That's exactly what I would on a budget. Sometimes Microcenter has 3600s new for $80 but they must sell out fast because the price goes up pretty quick.
@@BlackJesus8463 Sadly no Microcenter in the UK
The 1080 will be fractured on the PCB near the PCI support where the motherboard slot clip goes into. That generation did that it snapped a few traces in the board around that point and stopped them fully working. That would be why it works in x4 slot. Essentially first half of the pins would be used for x4 the rest are broken at a point between pin and where they need to go (snapped near that clip/support) You can use a multimeter and points on the card i think to confirm this with a continuity test but might need to scratch away some of the coating to expose traces.
I often find those with the higher end parts are decent, usually if they were original owners they have allot of money and are just chill with returns and giving discounts as its less meaningful to them and they want shot of the hardware. The people you really have problems with are the more poor types who are desperate for cash, they are always difficult to return stuff to. I find you get some proper good higher end deals more than lower end ones because of this. I have showed up so many times to buy a higher end product and just had loads knocked off the value (and often also got other things while there) My biggest tell on how a deal will go these days is simple, it's the area they are living in and the value of the housing.
Hey Brian, the 10th Gen Intel is the last Intel chip to support SGX, which is required for HD Blu-ray playback. Highly sought after for livingroom HTPC/Emulation gaming systems.
Ohh, yes it is that time of the month!!!
3.7k 3090 invoice ouch
I bought an used 3070Ti in 2022 because I badly needed it. I looked at the invoice and the guy paid almost 1700 US dollars for it, he sold me for 500. He got it at the height of the shortage.
I did the same for a 3060, paid more than 1000 usd but it really doenst bother me, i was making a lots of money back them xD @@POLARTTYRTM
Crypto market ....i paid 2.3K USD for my EVGA 3090
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? 2.3K??????????@@simdevils
@@simdevils1.2K US for My 3070
Love the videos. I have a suggestion. Build a portable test bench using an LFP battery (ecoflow, bluetti, etc) and portable monitor that you can leave in your car to test the parts you buy on the spot.
Loving the madman into. So old school! very cool
7:21 I like how you blurred out the stuff on the left but left his address in the clear
You said you can't find 10th gen boards for good prices, so the only solution is looking for 11th gen motherboards since they are backwards compatible and from my experience too, they are cheaper than 10th gen boards and also easier to find. It's been age since I last saw an used 10th gen board, but 11gen boards are still pretty much everywhere.
true i found this out back in 2006 with amd and ryzen it was hard getting b450 b550 x570 mobo and way to expensive so i started to get a320 b350 x470 and just flash the bios with a usb to the latest suport
@@CHICKENmcNUGGIESMydude Okay, I need your help then, this x570 motherboard by TUF Gaming, I've tried getting the bios updated soooo many times. Even got a $30 2300x so I could run the motherboard so I could use a 5800x3d, but everywhere I go, official websites, they have updates, but never for the bios. It's so weird.
@@CHICKENmcNUGGIESMydude 2006? I'm guessing you meant 2016.
Actually scratch that, no such thing as x570 in 2016 or 2006.
The GTX 1080 and PCIE x4: it could be that some of the ceramic capacitors (in pairs, on the back of the card, next to the PCIE slot) are bad or missing.
That's what I was thinking, or as some people are saying the BIOS might be borked, and needs a reflash.
@@CommodoreFan64I dont think its a vbios issue, I’d say its some hardware issue
@@1valzo Like i said it could be either one, so both are worth looking into.
@techyescity I had a similar problem with my 1080..... I did a bios update on the GPU and it fixed the issue....Hope that helps you out Bryan!
That's a great idea! My thought is it might be something partly faulty between the GPU and slot. If he's lucky it's a firmware problem.
Love the used parts hunt Bryan 👍
Would you be down to getting some used cases too? There are a lot of old, and "aging" cases that are still super useful, like Corsair's 4000/5000D and cases like that. Even here in the developing world I've found them for a bargain. Could be a hell of a tool to help flip PCs with more hungry components as they have high airflow, not to mention the incredible aesthetics and usability since they are so versatile and really make RGB stand out and options for big liquid coolers.
I recently had a similar story. A few kilometers away from me, someone had an INNO3D RTX 2060 6GB on the second-hand market for 120€.
I wrote to him and offered 100€. He said that was too little for him so we agreed on 110€. We agreed that I could pick up the graphics card from him the next day.
Then the next morning he wrote to me that he had another interested party who had offered him more. I then kindly pointed out to him that we had a verbal purchase agreement. He then wrote back, somewhat offended, but sold me the graphics card as agreed. When I was at his house, he told me that the other bidder was a scam. When I got back home and took a closer look at the graphics card, I discovered on the sticker on the back that the guy had sold me an RTX 2060 with 12GB VRAM from July 2022 as RTX 2060 6GB. Sometimes you have to be lucky
😆😄😀
I didn't even know 12GB variants were made. That's pretty cool
Hey Brian you can check the VRAM temps using HWINFO and its the "GPU Memory Junction Temperature" readout. Should tell what the temps are on that 3090
My friend that I go to school with had that 1070. He asked me to help him with it at school but before I could pop over he took it to Les. What a small world!
Wow that's quite a coincidence. Pretty cool.
Where is les? I was interested in purchasing from him
Brisbane Southside near the Sleeman Sports Centre or the Belmont Shooting Range :)@@muqtadirshah7317
That HOF Hoodie is so legit.
Dammit! Where can I find a Les in Melbourne? Bargains are a bit hard to come by down here (for me at least)
It's good to see those old business boxes being turned into useable gaming machines. Cheers!
Experience the same thing with Gumtree, after 2 mins of posting an ad, instant scammer message along the lines of "pack and send" or my brothers mother will pickup...
I just report the conversation and it gets blocked. Love the videos Brian!
Bryan is the original tech hermit!
Feels good to hear that intro yet again! Man, that song forged what TYC is rn
I got six GTX 1070s recently for a very good price to sell in some of my old personal builds.
Shipping from North America to Australia may be too expensive for low margin parts unless you can find them in bulk.
Picked up a few parts in Tassie recently; 11700K for $200 AUD RTX 2060 for$180 AUD.
Picked up a free Lenovo M73 as it was being thrown out. I had a look at it and the W7 installation was corrupt. I reinstalled W7, upgraded to W10. It has a i7 4770, 120 GB SSD, 1TB HDD and a basic GT620.
I added a low profile 1050Ti and wifi card and have it listed for sale with a KB, mouse and 24 inch monitor.
Have to be patient is TAS as it’s a smaller market.
Have to be quick as well! Nice finds man!
Got an OptiPlex with a i7 8700 with 16gb of ram for $85 usd, I also got a 1650 on ebay for $60, and got a 1tb ssd from Ali express for $30, im going to swap out the i7 8700 for a i3 8100 I have and use the 8700 in another build with a 5700 xt, I'm very excited!
yay they support windows 11
Hi from south africa, I've had this issue with the exact same model 1080. Did a reflash on the bios from techpower up and that fixed my issue and been running it on my emulator rig and it's not had any issues.
I wonder why only gen1 x 16. It sounds like all 16 lanes are working - there is logic on the card that tells the MB how many lanes it has, which seams to say 16 lanes -, so why is it having trouble with higher gen speeds. I would wash the card in case there is contamination causing minor shorts. Also check for damaged components.
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You can test the lanes by putting electrical or kapton tape on the last 8 lanes, physically forcing the x8 mode on the card
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My first thought with the 1080 was to clean the pins - and then check for continuity on the pins with a voltage tester
With the 1080 maybe try reloading the official bios. With the other untested parts I would suggest just pick them up and as with Les pay them after testing.
I got 2 of those Lenovos and 4xHP Compaq 6200 Pro for 30NZD a few weeks back. My best catch so far for sure.
I’d personally love to the see “Madman” song intro on the monthly parts hunts going forward💪🥲🥳!
The mad deals reaching Tech Yes City!
I just recently upgraded from rx570 and 1070ti to rx6700xt and 3070 msi suprim x
300 buck a piece
Then need to upgrade 1 mobo cause the b450 mobo I had only has 1 NVME slot funny thing NVME's are cheaper than 2.5" SSD here
It's kinda frustrating that PC upgrading is taxing on the wallet and now I have to worry about CPU , Storage and Peripherals (Monitor and Keyboard) Before I can officially rest for another 3 yrs
The MADMAN is back, and so are mad deals! Great price on the 3600.
Feeling a lot better about snagging a 3090 (evga FTW3) for £540 locally recently to play about with larger local LLMs. That’s what’s driving the upswing in prices. No substitute for a used 3090 unless you want to spend big on 4090 at the moment.
I am looking for a 10th Gen motherboard myself, they seem hard to come by right now. I have a 10700 sitting idle that needs an RGB filled home.
I am on the reverse side of your problem, have the boards, but waiting for chip prices to drop. !cheers
Look for 11th gen boards, they are compatible and still are easy to find for good prices, at least where I am, they are.
Hey Bryan, love your videos man! I‘m from Germany but currently on vacation in Australia and on the Gold Coast. What‘s up with the weather in Queensland lately? I thaught this was the sunshine state :( Glad things on the used PC parts front are looking better!
Trying to find deals where I am is a full time job in itself. I'd love to do what you do, but I don't have the love for the hunt. Cool to see all your crazy steals!
Reflash the BIOS on the 1080....
Yes, I was thinking it was a bios problem as well.
Good to hear Madman intro. I love the used pc content
Damn. That madman intro was a throwback for me.
It's raining, NO WAY!
Same here.
It's raining where I am while I watch this. :)
$98 USD is what RX-580s were priced (used) .. before the pandemic.
I wonder if taping off the other 8 pcie connectors would work... The digital foundry guys did it when testing m.2's with limited speeds
Ahhh 4th gen systems. I picked up a HP Z230 recently with e3-1246v3, no ram, no drive for around $60 USD (240PLN, yes i live in Poland). Slapped used GTX 1060 6GB, 512GB SSD and 16GB DDR3 for around $90-100 into it. Dirt cheap, plays games like a dream for this price
I just missed it but on aliexpress there was an i5-12400f going for about $85 usd, and a Kllisre B760 board was around $58. Kicking myself for not grabbing that combo, but i don't need any more parts right now lol. I think the i5-12400f is still available for about $90 usd though which is still really good
MADMAN INTRO! YEEEEEEEEEEEEES...In fact TECH YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!
Kiwi sub here. Love your content. I’ve always had to be on a budget and your tips have helped a ton with knowing what is a bargain
I’m about to pick up my first all brand new computer part system. Keep it up you certainly put in the hours. Ya gotta love the hunt I certainly do
The bottom seems to have dropped out on the 1660 and 1660 Super here in DFW. I've spotted several of them around $85, and they don't get much over $100.
Got that Aigo CPU cooler from aliexpress really good value cooler
Manli GTX1080 gallardo 8gb $100 - Lots of them for sale where i live, probably mined on, don't know mulch about the brand though
Oh, the problematic card is a Gygabite 1080 with orange stripes! I have the white 1080ti with orange stripes, crazy, never saw anyone on the interwebs using one, just a review at the launch time kinda glossing over it.
Nice finds! I'm currently in the process of rebuilding my gaming rig. I unfortunately had to sell my 5600x and my 2080ti a couple years ago to make rent and have been without my baby since. Here's to hoping the used selling gods smile upon me as they did with you and let me snag a 3600 and a 1660s at that fantastic price.
Sorry to hear. I think you will be able to get yourself a a new pc with time and savings.
If all you want is a AMD Ryzen 3600 build with the 1660super. They can found cheaply.
The AMD Ryzen 3600 can be found for about $50 on used market.
The 1660 super can be found for around $60 used
A simple Asrock B450 board can be found for about $30 on the used market
16GB 3200MHZ DRR4 Corsair Ram can be found brand new for around $30.
A basic Gadmais Case with excellent airflow brand new for $60 (cases have gotten expensive)
A budget 1TB SSD Slicon Power for $60
For PSU a 650 watt MSI MAG for $60 (they have a 550 watt model for $50 but since its olny $10 more for more wattage might as well).
I also wanted to add that the MAG650BN is a Teir C PSU meaning that it is safe on the low end.
Anyways when doing the math you can build this system for about $350. Which in my opinion is not bad at all
Man, i love that intro. Why is it so nostalgic
i sold my 1660 for 125usd and bought a rx 5600xt for the same price, did I do good Mr. Yes Man?
I am looking to upgrade my 8086k (8700k) so tempted to go to am4 as can keep my memory and use a 5700x3d which would be a massive boost
9900KS ?
when you talk $1100 AU for an RTX3090 it sounds a lot, but when you put it up as a $719 USD it is pretty banging for a price I done a buy it now price for my Evga RTX3090 for $947 USD last September, not even the RTX2080 TI's have dropped that much in price in the passed 5 years on the used market place of scambay.
Got my 6950 XT for $400 in Atlanta ga a few months back.
GTX 1080 seems to have a dying core? Could try underclocking core/mem see if it stabilizes. I do feel that some of the sellers sell these broken parts hoping to sell it to someone who hates confrontations so they´ll eat the cost. Unsure but i could see that happening.
Great price on a 1080. If it takes hours to fix though it may not be worth it. Monitor stand needs rgb.
Nice find on the Ryzen 3600. It's my CPU of choice when I do budget builds, I try and buy them for $50 USD. I got six GTX 1650's a few months ago for $29 each that I pair them with.
Gumtree sounds like an Aussie version of Craigslist, including the scammer infestation.
It's crazy how scammers ended up everywhere now. They're in everything I swear.
The GTX1080 might have some VRAM issues since it still works fine on GEN1 which doesn't push them hard enough might be fixable with a bios editor with crappier timings like the Chinese No Names GPU's sold in Aliexpress that is how the are able to recycle heavily mined on GPU's by putting the chips and VRAM on a new PCB but gives them lower timings and pass them off as "BRAND NEW" just to get them running stable enough to be sold the performance drop is negligible enough that it would pass off as margin of error during testing.
The Madman intro made me grin involutarily!
Madman is bacck!!!
YESS teh Madnan intro is backkk
I've bought some of those Algo CPU coolers on AliE for less than $5 USD shipped. pretty crazy to think about!
where do you post the systems you build? your facebook and website are years out of date. And did you ever say what les's business name is.. I need some homelab gear.
Missed the madman intro!
Newer viewer, never knew the tradition, lol.
i took the aliexpress gamble on a ryzen 7 7700 for $300 aud, fingers crossed it arrives
Madman intro is the best
12:20 just tape the pins to make it x8
I wonder that as well. I have a GTX 1660 Super that has similar issues as well. How does this tape mod work? Is it closing off a couple of pins or all pins til x8?
@@grizzlyindustries7593 All pins until you reach the x8 limit. Both sides. The PCI Express pinout is easy to find. Some cards might require pin 81, which is PRSNT2#, to be available.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Thank you. I'll definitely try with some painter's tape later on in my test bench.
Reminds me of another tech channel, Budget Builds Official. He had a HD7000 type card. The literal PCIe lanes were snapped off to fit into a smaller slot. Worked shockingly well. Guess this follows the same principle.
Gonna look up the pin layout on this GTX 1660 Super too. See if Pin 81 is needed. Thanks again. :)
@@grizzlyindustries7593 It can work, but it's generally not a good idea to snap off the pins as shorts can be created. Nobody likes Shorts. Not even if they were RUclips Shorts.
Jokes aside, PCI Express is very modular and flexible.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Hey Marco. Long update here. Lot of words, but if your intetested. I tested my varibles and have come up with something interesting.
I did the tape mod. Didn't work in any of my systems. I did a half lane for x8 tape. Then exposed pin 81. Then exposed pin 81 and 82.
Now, I have two test systems.
One, a i5-3570k, 3x4gb DDR3 1600mhz(I have 4x4gb sticks yet the motherboard either has one bad dimm slot or a bad CPU. Pins on motherboard are all fine.) AsRock Z77M Fatality Professional board. Seasonic 750 Modular Gold PSU.
Second and better test bed. Dell Precision T3400 with x3323(LGA771 Xeon equivalent to Q6600), 3x2gb DDR2 667mhz, same PSU.
Now I have been testing a PNY Single Fan GTX 1660 Super which has mostly been glitching due to what I think was overheating in it's past life with it's previous owner. Believe the memory, core, or both has been dieing causing major glitching yet no crashing. Cleaned it very throughly with even tech bathing it. Used my heatgun which I only use very rarely. This helped the card live longer and not glitch for a short while. Yet, the glitches returned. Redid all my usual inspections. Never really fixed it.
So, I want to also throw out. I not only use Windows 10 and 11. I always have used Linux as long as Windows. I also have been using multiple Linux distros cause from January to February. I helped my buddy build and sell older 2nd to 4th gen prebuilts into ultra budget Linux machines. Mainly being Chimera OS or HoloISO.
I have been trying this GTX 1660 Super in Windows were the issues happen. Yet, each and every time I have tried booting this GPU in not only my test benchs but the prebuilts. Linux wouldn't display or ever start whether it being live or a fresh install from Fedora to Mint to Debian to Ubuntu. Which was strange.
Now, while doing the tape mods. The GPU was detected or even displayed. Tried using the first test bed. Then route through the i5-3570k iGPU. Used Windows with no drivers to preinstalled drivers. Then Linux. Nothing. No display.
The second test bed though. I could never get Windows to detect or display. Then I used Linux. Same thing.
*Then I took the tape off.*
Put it back into my second system. Using LMDE OS. A Linux Mint Debian live USB.
The GTX 1660 Super is displaying and working.
Now, I am going to have to get back to redoing my test. Cause I have no idea why it is displaying after putting on and removing tape.
I have only been running video from an external storage drive for about 2 hours. Yet, this is a major improvement. I have had no glitching til now.
I'm gonna need to come back to testing later. But, I theorize that I shorted some pins on the GTX 1660 Super with the tape mod that might've franksteined itself.
Then again, LMDE along with many other Linux distros are lightweight. And LMDE comes preinstalled with nouvea drivers rather than nvidia which can be installed later for testing.
I've got more work and testing cut out for me. But I want to thank you for telling me about the tape mod. Cause either though it didn't work. It has brought about something shocking to me, yet a great development. Just getting it to post. Run in Linux. Then play videos with zero glitches and artifacting is amazing.
Thank you for showing me the tape mod. I have plenty of others systems as well. Many low end GPUs laying around. Only this GTX 1660 Super has been the weirdest and worst one that I will never sell or give away. But I'm hoping to get small basic usage out of it like as a personal HTPC's GPU. Hoping it works. Thank you for the suggestion.
FYI. In the St Louis area this past month, I was able to get these deals off FB marketplace.
5800x - $100
5800x - $110
32G DDR4 3600 - $30
2080 (PNY) - $160
3070 Ti (EVGA FTW3) - $250
3070 Ti came from a miner (he had 5) but he took care of them. I wish I had bought all 5.
AMD 3600 are selling for ~$60.
Be careful with that 3070 Ti, GDDR6X memory is quite sensitive to mining.
i know but 70 conadian or australian dollars is like 50 usd so he still got a better deal for the 3600 then 60 bucks
@@X_irtz Just Ethereum. I've been mining Ironfish with my 3070ti just fine. The EVGA are great, the 3070ti FE, though, I had to add cooling to the back, literally, thermal padded a 3 inch by 1in aluminum heat sink on the back, themal pads under the back plate, upgraded thermal pads on the front, and thermal paste, otherwise ETH made it thermal throttle. Been running them all for years at easy temperatures.
Great miners take better care of their GPU's than gamers. Staying warm, versus hot, and cold, back and forth of gaming, not gaming is harder than a more or less continuous temperature.
@@tradingnichols2255 I am aware of that. Miners typically also undervolt their cards, thus they tend to consume less wattage and less wattage means less silicon wear. I have had personal experience with mined cards, they are not necessarily different. This specific thing about the GDDR6X memory is just something i have heard about before.
@@tradingnichols2255 Some miners do, not all. Just like how water cooled cards are usually run at pretty low temperatures overall. Especially the ones that have a proper water block designed for them.
Try flashing a different msi 1080 bios on the card
Mad Man intro is top notch!
That 1080 is a curious case. Yes to parts hunt.
really intresting and i learned many thing about pc thanks for uploading
The early bird gets the word, but the second mouse gets the cheese
For a BOX 5600X $92 is amazing yeah! Imo the B460 STRIX mboard is the best deal, since it's new and so cheap for a strix mboard LOL
Just picked up an entire PC for $1800 Canadian with a 7900x3d, Asus Prime x670 wifi , 32 gb ddr5 kingston fury, 1 tb WD Black Nvme, rtx 4070ti, corsair 360 mm AIO, Corsair 850 Watt PSU, LG Ultragear 240 HZ monitor, thermaltake atx case. I also got a 1080ti for a cheap build for parts I had laying around with no GPU because he had one. Ryzen 7-1700, A320 mb, 16 gb ram, etc, etc. Pretty decent deal for me. I love the 1080ti and I had none left.
The 7900x3d sucks. It cuts its cores in half to utilize the 3Dvcache. So even though it’s marketed as a 12 core processor it’s really a 6 core CPU in real world tasks.
@@ZackSNetwork You are completely wrong. The 3D vcache is only on one CCD and not the other. That is the only difference. Games will use the CCD that has the vcache although there are some issues with games choosing the wrong CCD (WITHOUT VCACHE). Do you even have one? If you did you would know that it does have those cores by running Cinebench R23. Perhaps you did not have the CPU configured correctly in bios. Do your homework before you trash a CPU.
I got a EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black OC 11GB for 160 USD on eBay excellent condition to replace my 1660 TI that I Have been gaming on for a year and a half now since the day I switch from Consol to PC hope this will be a good upgrade and great buy
I hope the card works as you hope, if it does that is a great upgrade. The last 1080ti I got was a Gainward Geforce Blower style for about 145 USD. I love the 1080ti's. With the cooling on the EVGA version I would say it should be quite nice.
@@Willbme4EVA I hope to the sellers are accepting returns and full refund money back if I run into any issues with the card
Great card that one. They still hold up surprisingly well considering how old they are.
That Ivy Bridge/Haswell/Broadwell OEM (specifically Dell) problem with 6+ GB Pascal and Turing GPUs is such a pain in the ass.
Hey, Bryan,keepus posted about that 1080.
What about your Twitter/X,you seems to not being there...
That GTX 1080 build is probably power restricted man. It looks like you have that on a sata power to pcie adapter. Try using the ACTUAL pcie 6 and 8 pin connections from the PSU itself lol
Not had great luck yet on market place. I tried haggling a 5700G build. Literally no GPU. Guy wanted $800 for it lol said he needed it gone so i offered $750 i dont think that was unreasonable and then hes all like "well if im gonna lower the price i want what I listed it for" 🙄 lol. Like is the $50 really that much of a deal breaker? I just didn't respond at that point.
Anyone know what the background panels on the wall are at 26:20????
Thought u were going make a vid on the mail time parcel ? There parts in there u made a vid with the parts hunt
will there be Techyes parts hunt in japan if their currency take another dive
Yeah🎉 used parts hunting is the best.
You are such a legend for being a leader and inspiration in the computer community for about a decade now!
I have a z590 asrock taichi oc and I've had the hardest time finding a 10900k or even a 10700k for it.
Ooof if i did pc videos for my channel i got deal of the year last week, whole system, i7 6700k, rog strix mobo, gtx1660, corsair AIO, 256gb ssd and 2tb hard disk in a really beat down aerocool case $10aud at the tip shop.....