This Broken Cashies Gaming PC Turned Out To Be One Of The Best Deals I've EVER Found...
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2022
- Today we're taking a look at another Cash Converters gaming PC. This one was being sold at the heavily discounted price of £150 because the graphics card was dead. I decided to take a risk and buy it anyway, and it turns out that my risk paid off...
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Your dog clearly fixed the problem and should get the credit.
I thought the same, get him a nice bone.
Indeed
he was pointing out the loose connection when he stuck his head in the case.
Doggo chased away the mischievous kitty karma
Dr. Debug Doggo
2:20 Stray benchmark must have caused the cat paw prints.
😁 I missed an opportunity there
It's down-to-earth, real-life circumstances, testing and gambles in videos like this that remind me why I love watching your videos. I feel like I just scored a great deal too!! There's no doubt in my mind that you are an unbiased and a true Enthusiast of hardware and gaming who's had some surprises and disappointments buying hardware. Never stop documenting your best and worst finds and everything in between!! See you in the next video! ;)
Thanks mate :)
Buy sum meat for the dog
"Please don't lick it" - RGinHD, 2022
This is the content we come here for.
Also, at 1:43, you can see a motherboard screw is missing, so maybe there was a little bit of grouding that the motherboard wasn't happy with, which is why everything worked after being removed from the case.
Oi mates come down to cashies mate
IT'S THE CASHIES SPECIAL, MATE!!!
IS THAT A DANKPODS REFERENCE MATE?!?!?!?!?!?!
DANKPODS!!!
Get the comment to 200 likes
I made dankpods references in all of his previous cashies videos and nobody got them
I remember when a housemate of mine from a while ago got two kittens and I had an issue with my PC just not sending an image and I just happened to remember one of them jumping up on top of the PC and brushing against it and decided to have a look inside and I found a tiny cat hair had slipped into the PCIE slot. I can almost guarantee that was probably a similar issue in this build as soon as you mentioned the paw prints and that it just worked when you took it apart and put it back together. Literally just the one little hair was enough to stop my system working properly so I'd wager this will also be the case. Also your lil doggo getting his full konk in there bless him 😂
True had a similar situation where was working on my PC and cat decided "oh look a box" and bam PC didn't work again.
Till a year later I put it back together in another case and it worked perfect.
So just shows how weird things get.
If pc on floor there your results
Could of been a grounding related issue. The pc builder might of had the motherboard bent against the case. It's easy to overtighten screws in cheap cases with bad standoffs
Yeah I suspected that too. Seems likely
Could've*
Bad standoff's?
@@leckthetech6132 The pegs on the motherboard tray you screw the motherboard into so that the board "floats" a bit and isn't actually touching the case. Nice cases usually come with them preinstalled (although they can be repositioned for different board form factors) but cheaper cases may come with crappy standoffs you have to install yourself, and inexperienced builders also occasionally overlook some of them.
first thing i thought to.
“Took it apart and put it back together again so not sure what fixed it”
Hey I mean that’s usually the case with many of my vehicles over the years 😜
Re-seating of cpu most likely, that could explain the ram led as the pins may not have been making good contact.
That would be my guess as well.
Yup, I've had this exact problem a couple of times with Ryzen when building PCs. I actually bought a PC that wouldn't work a couple of months ago and the issue was the CPU needed reseating.
Had stutter develop on my ryzen system after swaping out a 3100 for a 3800xt, swapping back to the 3100 didn't resolve the stutter, removed the socket cover and there was plastic swarf in there must have caused a bad connection, cleared out and back together and the stuttering was gone, have heard of thermal paste in the socket causing a wide range of problems as well.
or maybe someone tried to overclock the cpu.
@@Bricksandmortars I’ve had thermal paste on one pin cause all kinds of issues!
Just recently I bought a broken PC with a GTX 660 TI, I5 4570, 8 gb RAM and a freaking huge nice gamer case. 40€. He wanted to get rid of it. I first tried another GPU, because I was told it would not display. Booted up just fine. Got curious and put the 660 back in the PC. Ran just fine. I scratched my head, threw a 960 in it and called it my second PC in case my main Rig blows up.
Excellent purchase!
I got a CEX pc last week for £70 with a intel g4400 16gb corsair vengence 3200mhz ram a evga gtx 670 FTW+ 4gb an MSI Mortar z170m mobo a Silverstone 80+ platinum moduler 750w psu and a massive old-school coolermaster HAF case I just stuck a £20 i5 6600k in it and sold the whole thing for £200
The last line was only "rig blows up" so I thought the rig blew up or something at first haha
I bought similar pc for 60e but with 960 4gb, only known gpu from photos seller had posted and seller didn't want to plug pc in to check other parts so i low ball offered and he accepted
Amazing deal for a "faulty" pc.
PC repairing is always strange, sometimes you don't know what you did, but suddenly it works again. :')
Always hate it. Maybe it's just me but I'd rather have it fail and know the failure than randomly working again.
@@RisingRevengeance Yeah same for me. :-)
@@RisingRevengeance yess...just let me know what faileddd
Literally happened to me yesterday, bought a prebuilt and a graphics separately from a friend for cheap. It PC booted but it would display. I tried replacing the monitor and it’s cables and it did nothing. Then suddenly I just unplugged the ram and replugged and it worked. It started to display again. Very weird since Prebuilts come tested and working.
@@ieatgrass108 i replaced my own RX570 with an RX 6700 XT this year, had a similar problem, i put it all together, wouldnt boot, put the old graphics card back in, booted fine, pulled it out and replaced it again, and it worked perfectly. My guess is that Windows/the bios didnt know to switch to the basic windows graphics driver the first time, so it was trying to use the 570 driver with the 6700 but idk man computers have a mind of their own sometimes.
Your dog should be the PC inspector
Some of the most down to earth, wholesome PC-centric content on RUclips. I've been watching this one for a while now, and I gotta say almost all the content isn't flashy, clickbait-y, or overbearing, but sometimes less is more. Keep it up my man! Love the content! Very straightforward and down to earth.
The dog made the whole video 13/10 would watch more for dog
Years ago I had cats and one of them had peed inside a pc that was in storage and it rotted the motherboard and into the metal of the case and stank, just wanted to share that.
Haha that’s good to know. Maybe not good actually but interesting
🤣🤣🤣
What o especially love about your channel is that like other tech channels you could decide to review the latest and greatest ***coughs*** LTT but rather you decide to come down to earth to us the enthusiasts who can't afford shit and you show us what the things we can afford can do and It really refreshing especially when you're testing to see the real minimum requirements that a game can run on not just testing what the minimum it'll optimally run on is
Quite the deal, I've been dealing with corrupt windows installs the past 2 days and I've spent multiple days swapping parts and eventually I reverted to an older case and mobo which seems to work. funny enough the same mobo in this video. I totally get the struggles but it was nice to watch this video before I knock for the night at 3am and resume hopefully with a working pc again when I wake up :) You got a very good deal. pc hardware while awesome can make no sense when it comes to failures.
Does it work now?
why are taking apart the PC if you're dealing with corrupt Windows installs? in my experience, you can solve most of those problems using hard drive partitions to put the pieces back together. i had a problem when i first got my current PC, Windows install its system files to my solid state C drive while designating my HDD D drive as the boot disk, causing A LOT of issues.
@@quinnmarchese6313 Because my issues were a lot hard to nail down, It wasn't just oh it wont boot, It was more installers, apps would get corrupted and random blue screens and it got worse as time went on. I don't wanna deal with partitions or try that approach. I much prefer backing up my files and going full clean install to try and make figuring out the exact issue a lot easier. I have a super fast PC and one of the fastest if not the fastest SSD you can get on the market so reinstalling windows goes very quickly. I ended up having it nailed down to a GPU, For whatever reason my RX 6800 XT was the cause, Going back to my NVidia GPU and starting another clean install fixed it and I haven't had issues since.
@@sirjarko8762 card was probably bad, and you're problems were more than windows installs--i was asking why crack it all open if the hardware was good and it was just corrupted windows installs, since you didn't originally specify you had a bad card. i get that you probably didnt know at the time, but i was just asking why fix a software problem by changing hardware, that makes zero sense
@@quinnmarchese6313 Why would I mess around with windows partitions if the cause could be something I don't know of maybe even inside windows? My issues were not partition related and I ruled that out with clean installs so I tried the next logical thing. Windows its self can get corrupted from just drivers or hell even windows updates and clean installs really do rule so much stuff out.
When it comes to the issue at hand I had no clue what it was, Every error code, blue screen pointed me in different directions each time, half of it was so unique and odd that there was no solutions around to even try. Very random errors pointing to things deep within windows, files that most never have issues with and I certainly never heard of and my research over the course of a week confirmed this. So what should I do? Clean installs and reformatting did nothing so that already rules out partitions as did trying to install windows to a different SSD to rule that out. So I moved to hardware, I started with the simple hardware related stuff, cmos clear, changing the ram etc to the more advanced stuff and eventually I found the cause. It was my GPU. For whatever reason whether I install drivers for it or not it will corrupt stuff, It starts with EXEs and gradually it moves to other things and eventually windows its self. It was very odd behavior but I didn't know it was the GPU at the time. Not a single error code or crash or behavior I dealt with pointed to that and it didn't help that it doesn't show its self until I've used the computer for more then a day. PCs are a joint partnership between software and hardware. Sometimes hardware causes software issues, sometimes its the other way round or in my cause it was 1 specific hardware component causing both other hardware and software issues, it got to a point where my PC wouldn't even post. It was a royal pain in my ass even with a different GPU installed.
I've never ever dealt with the issues I was having and it appears most haven't either, I couldn't find anything online about it, The stuff I found always pointed me somewhere else and I tried those solutions and they didn't work and sure enough in the end through my process of elimination I found exactly what it was, Even a mobo change and another clean install seemed to work for a day but sure enough it started again and it was the GPU. I've never heard of a GPU causing the corrupting of windows especially in the way I was dealing with it but despite how niche it the issues and errors I was getting was I 100% know that it isn't anything else, Its not CPU related, Its not RAM or mobo or PSU or SSD or BIOS or CMOS or overclocks or anything like that, Its my specific GPU, So specific that others that have the same one don't have the issues I was getting.
Your issue to sounds like you installed windows with other drives present, I don't know if they ever fixed it but I had that issue to and I make sure now when I install any windows version on any PC I always just have the C drive and that's it at least until first boot.
I'm going through the same right now with an old HP minidesk. Thank you for making me feel less alone with this tedious headache of a stupid fix
I wish I could run across one of those in Thailand. Prices are pretty steep here on low-middle powered computers. As usual your style is appreciated as well as your content, thank you for the time it takes to conceptualize, create, edit and UL these for my dose of computer nerd I need daily. :)
Great video. Thanks for explaining all steps taken while troubleshooting
Love the RX 570, what a soldier of a card. I upgraded to an RX 6600 yesterday, and took out the exact same card, a Strix RX 570. Got it for £68 just before the mining boom hit and it carried me through with great 1080p gaming for the price.
My best buy was £25 from gumtree. Neighbour gave it to him when moving out but he couldn't get it to work. I spotted b450m motherboard and a decent GPU and travelled an hour to collect it. I didn't expect it to boot but it went right to bios! It just needed a new hard drive! It was a ryzen 2700 and Rx 590 and 16gb ram. Best deal ever!!
Deals like these want me to kill my self with these shit pcs in my country
That's insane, some people have no idea what things are worth. Although I often think is it a scam or is it stolen lol
Niceeee! Always great when this kind of thing happens!
Having people taking it apart might always cause a little dust or like old thermal paste, or whatever to get in the cpu socket. Which can create cases like this i would think, maybe not good contact, while you swapped the cpu it fixed itself i would guess. Keep it up with these amazing videos man! love your content :)
I had the same motherboard back then. At first I thought it was also a graphics card issue but upon removing the CMOS battery, I lately found out that the system was able to boot back up again. After a few weeks, the same issue occurred. This process repeated for several months until I swapped the entire motherboard out for a tomahawk b450. After swapping it out, the issue was completely resolved. I guess it goes to show buying ROG doesnt always guarantee quality if the board itself is not optimized from the start. Could be a microcontroller issue or poor bios configuration in my opinion. It has too many pcie express lanes, but the board is not optimized to handle all those features
Another quality video and I love the doggo!
Amazing find ! Congrats.
Great content! Good job 👍
Definitely more doggo in the videos! Great troubleshooting on this one, an enjoyable ‘Tea Break Fix’ as Vince would put it lol
Steve, great video. I'd love you to start reviewing other people's rigs again!!
Great video, and an excellent outcome. Like your co-presenter, seems to be sneaking in more as time passes 😀
I once had a problem that one of my DIMM channels stopped working. Both memory modules worked fine in single-channel mode. A few months later the PC stopped booting altogether.
I took out everything from the case, cleaned all the components, put it all back together, and the PC started working normally again, including both DIMM channels.
Magic.
Your dog knew exactly what needed doing 🤣 doggo tech support 👍
I've had the same problem when I first but my pc I have a 1660 super and r5 3600 on a tomahawk max b450 and I was so scared because it wouldn't boot no matter what I did and then out of no where after taking out and putting everything back in it worked
Pc's are wild
Love your channel and hope to see more
Awesome buy! The memory slots were dirty!
The dog is clearly the brains behind this operation 😅 good woofer!
Amazing find! Everyone around here tests ever piece of a faulty PC and only sells the bad parts "as is" or "for parts only." Rarely do I see a whole PC that is sold as not working.
This reminds me of a certain Aussie man singing about the cashies down his street
Excellent work as always.
One thing I've noticed, particularly with some 300 and 400 series AM4 boards, is that they retain energy in their capacitors that will throw false booting error codes. This happens particularly after some hardware swap like RAM or CPU.
One thing I now always try when troubleshooting a boot error after swapping hardware is to unplug the 8 and 24 pin from the motherboard, and press the power button a few times. That seems to dissipate any lingering charge in the caps, and lets the motherboard start up fresh and detect new hardware as it should.
now that i think about it happened to me when i upgraded ram and hard drive. i kept getting boot errors. and it happened again on my new build when i used my old 1600x to update the bios on my mobo and when i put in my 5600x it wouldnt boot. the bios settings had all changed and i had to spend 1 hour moving settings until it booted lol.
Nice find, previous owner probably overclocked the memory or something and didn't post after, then throught it was completely broken. Clearing the bios then sorted the issue.
Nice computer for a great amount of games and other stuff.. for that money its a nice deal. First when you noticed the Cat prints I thought a Cat had pissed in it ;) nice video glad it worked out great.
Ps, love your dog, he has such a nice face with lovely ears. 🥰
I've had a 3600 for a few years now and I agree it's such a solid chip. I recently upgraded my gpu and cpu to what I call my "final form" AM4 build but I plan to keep the 3600 around for other computers and as an AM4 tester for years. Great video too, what an incredible deal you got there. I think what fixed your rig was all the kind words you spoke to it as you were troubleshooting. Or maybe it was the new thermal paste and RAM, who can say. Cheers!
I think Harry '🐶Sniffed Out the problem & Licked It' 😂
yeah the R5 3600 will make a great testbench CPU, plus having a set of spare parts can come in so handy,
not just for testing when there is a problem but also if you need to RMA parts from your main PC you can still have a back up.
@@shaneeslick my computer has been asking me for a puppy for years but I keep saying she's not old enough yet! I think maybe it's time.
@@s-nooze I can't have a dog where I live as I rent a Unit & there are no fences either, but as I live across the road from bushland I get a family of Kangaroos visit nearly every day plus other Random Aussies like Echidnas & Wombats 🥰
I've had my 3600 since release date in 2019 and it's still amazing. I will be replacing it later this year with an 8 core CPU
What did you replace the 3600 with?
I've had the same CPU+mobo combo in my own rig. Quality stuff for sure.
What an excellent doggo!
Quite possibly screws screwed too tight on the cpu socket. It's happened to me before. Great channel chap.
Before you take everything apart next time, try unplugging the power supply from the motherboard, remove the battery, and then reset the bios. Its possible that the capacitors in the power supply had enough power to sustain the bios even though the battery was removed.
True but only for a bit rather than taking the time to unplug give it sometime while off
Just press the power button while its unplugged. Sometimes the fans/lights will switch on for a second or two and use any remaining power.
@@WTBMrGrey Yeah i use that trick all the time do that then wait 30 seconds works with all my electronics
That dog made my day, thanks man
Brilliant deal, well done Steve.
Still rocking R5 3600 so eagerly waiting for the tests! :D
Nice little system, absolute bargain and still pretty capable even now.
man what a deal! also....I thought I was up to speed with GPUs but I had NEVER heard of the 1630 until now
Congrats with a new PC! 🥳🎉👏
Nearly 500k sub congratulations in advance
That thumbs up was pretty smooth.
damn what an awesome deal, i'd say this use pc hunt is very successful and rewarding. i can't believe you can get a 3600 at that price let alone an entire system lol.
Man , ur dog is do damn adorable ! He had a good wiff !
I'd love to see more content involving your dog, he's so precious
Haha randomdoginhd
8:25 for sure, I have h81m asus proprietary board lying around that a friend gave me and it’s very temperamental. Sometimes it will only show the power LED and not turn on, other times the CPU heatsink fan will just do a little spin and shut off then other times it will full on boot into windows and work like nothings wrong and stay on just fine.
Your dog is clearly an expert technician. He could sense the problem by smell.
Great video yet again, ngl I was half hoping/expecting the dog to lift a leg and pee
Gorgeous Jack Russell. Good boy!
What a nice doggo!
Ive been a tech for 26 years. My older bro recently has moved into tech (last 5 years, fully funded as working in defence) and has vastly more qualifications than me. He recently reluctantly asked if i could recover the data from a laptop that was "broken beyond repair" as he lacked and m.2 dock. It took 20mins to see the liquid damage to a daughter board that regulated power, a few more mins to fix.
Just doing the basics, not giving up, doing a full teardown will often resolve it.
Fortunaterly after moving careers ive gained access to unlimited Microsoft courses and quals that I am working through quickly to remind bro that experience trumps quals every time. I look for it in new employees, ive met guys that have done 7 years of uni to get a degree in computer science that asked on the first day of the job "what is an ip address?".
Leanring in school helps sure but analytical skills take real world experience.
I like your opinion. Though the society gives low chances without big degrees... unfortunately.
@@wizzts fortunately some organisations do look for experience. Event thne I had to start in my current org at service desk level with over 20 years of 3rd line experience. But once the foot is in the door its good. Now i have access to MS quals
What a wholesome dog.
the dog did find the issue right away, you have to thank him for the service :D :p very nice doggo btw 🤗
I got a GTX 1080 TI for £130 few months back. Listed on ebay for spares and repairs and hangs and blue screens. After looking at photos I seen the sticker still on the back (warranty void if removed sticker). When I got it the paste was dry as the Sahara desert. Since owned it not put a foot wrong even OC it to 2095mhz stable so is a good chip. Love it
Dog deserves its own channel. Random Sniffing in HD
WoW that's a great deal ! I too have same cpu and MB, works perfect and price is still great for them
It's always good when buying used, to take it all apart, clean everything, reapply the thermal paste, and then reassemble.
I had the same MB with a 2600 in my last build, ran 2yrs with no issues. The Nvme heatsink is a little overly complicated but I only had to swap the drive once.
What a bargain lol - well done :D
Your dog really is great.
Excited to see the 3600 in future videos. i have the same cpu with a gigabyte rtx 2060 and 16gb ram
i do run games on my ultrawide 3440 x 1440 screen but curious to see how games benchmark on similar hardware.
Could also be that the AIO block was tightened too much which, as some are pointing at, could make the CPU not have the contact it needs to the socket.
Regardless I'm glad it all worked out. Good vid 👍
RandomDoggieinHD is always happy to help in PC troubleshooting 👌✌👍
omfg i never knew cash converters sold pcs and components; thanks for the heads up 😂
Let's just be grateful that you got it to work at the end! 🥳
As someone who fixed pcs for over 15 years the amount of times that simply removing a part and reinserting it (reseating) fixe the issue is so high that it was literally one of my first troubleshooting steps for ram specifically.
It was most likely a short circuit which triggered safeties to prevent further damage. I had this happen a few times and dismantling and reassembly is the only thing that works. But this also increases the chance of the ram module slots dying early, it can be a year or two but they die off.
Man make another Computer video banger 🔥🔥
Great deal. You were blessed by the PC gods 😂. I love your doggo btw is he overclocked?
I snagged a for parts or repair Ryzen 5900X from a seller for 99.00 that was listed to have slightly bent pins. To my surprise, the chip arrived with only 4 bent pins. I corrected the pins with a razor blade, cleaned the chip up a bit and slotted it in my MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon and it worked 100% Tech deals can be had if you're always looking!
Great find for the price cant go wrong with the AMD 3600
Brought to you in conjunction with Toyah Wilcox; It's a Mystery! That case got a good sniffing!
I've had the same motherboard the B450F for all my builds and upgrades through the years. I've just updated the bios and its worked great, I'm currently running a Ryzen 9 5900X with an Asus Tuf 5800XT GPU and it runs flawless on air. It will be a while before I upgrade :)
Gotta say,love that case!
I experienced a similar thing in the past and its a common thing with ASUS boards - this has something to do with the Pressure Sensor of the Socket on the motherboard. If the CPU Cooler is too loose or just slapped down to see if it boots - motherboard in fail-safe respond will not boot (it will give a long repeating beep).
If the pressure is too tight on cooler as well, you'll have the same fail-safe response on the board. Back when Google can still search forums, you'll find this issue goes wayback on Intel boards.
I own an ASUS PRIME X370-Pro.
Fun vid, enjoyed
Good catch Maynard
3:07 the dog sniffs at the PC says to itself "it's a strange cat, smells like it but it isn't" lol
I have the same CPU and MoBo combo paired with an MSI 6600 XT Mech 2--before someone chimes in, I got it free because it was thought to be broken, it wasn't, so I didn't overpay for it 😅--and it makes for a great 1080P gaming and streaming rig. The 3600 is still an outstanding chip.
hello i missed you'r good old cheap gaming pc's
Amazing find! Ryzen 5 3600's are still plenty capable, they are only 3 years old afterall. I have one in my personal system, it's been great.
*5 minutes have passed since a CPU's release*
People: This CPU is still pretty capable
@@crylune Lol
Now THAT is a good dog!!!!
It's a good thing your doggo checks that the cat's been removed from the system. :D
Interesting, cash converters clearly buy “faulty” hardware unless this happened after they bought it from someone?
All I saw in that Spiderman clip was the Stars and Stripes flying proud above the streets of NY.
I'm glad these things don't just happen to me. When I've repaired someone's rig they always ask "So what was wrong?"
So occasionally I have to say "Erm, I don't know. I honestly just took everything out and put it back in again after a dust off, repaste etc"
Also, I'm a 45 year old man with 2 cats. I pointed at the screen when your gorgeous dog came on as said to one of my cats (the lazy one) "LOOK, DOGGGGGIIIIIIIIIIIE". Lazy cat looked at me like I was a child then went back to sleep.
😂
nice deal, there. As a sparky would it be best when messing about with any pc would be leaving it plugged in the wall but switched off.