I Salvage The WORST Craigslist PC I Could Find...
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**The Author's Misadventures with Building a Gaming PC**
The author of this article is still in the process of building a gaming PC, and things haven't quite gone as planned. They've encountered some unexpected challenges, but they're determined to see it through.
As they began cleaning the aio (all-in-one liquid cooler), they realized that they weren't entirely sure how to go about it. "I'm going to start off with just a rag soaked in cleaning liquor and then kind of start wiping up the majority of it," they said, referring to their "hair-brained" idea.
Things took a turn for the worse when the author sprayed duster at the radiator, causing it to shoot out a cloud of dust and debris. "Gross! Wow, look at that - that just shot out pretty much across the table!" they exclaimed.
After researching the next steps in cleaning the radiator, the author decided to soak it in dish soap and water before brushing away the grime with a toothbrush. However, they didn't have time for this process and instead opted to replace the aio with new components.
To their surprise, the new system turned out well, despite some aesthetic changes. "It actually turned out really cool," they said. Now, all they need to do is test the system to see if it works.
**The System's Performance**
After assembling the system, the author was pleased to find that temperatures were within a healthy range - mid-50s on both the graphics card and CPU. However, they soon realized that their i5 processor was bottlenecking the 1060 graphics card, preventing them from achieving optimal performance.
Despite this setback, the author was still impressed with the system's overall performance. After 20 minutes of gaming, temperatures remained stable at around mid-50s, while the system ran smoothly and quietly. "Battlefield 5 is running really well at 1080p medium settings," they said.
**Conclusion**
The author concludes their article by thanking viewers for watching, despite not having much else to say about their experience building a gaming PC. They did, however, mention that if you're interested in seeing someone properly deep clean their system, you might want to check out Greg Salazar's videos - and they'll include a link to his content in the description below.
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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enThis is the worst looking system that I could find on my local Craigslist, and I don't mean in terms of like price-to-performance or whatever, I mean 'actual condition of the system'. Going by the pictures online, I am convinced that there is some endangered wildlife living in the system. So, what we're gonna do in today's video is i'm gonna open it up and we're gonna have a bit of a gag at the inside and then i'm gonna clean it up and turn it into something a little bit more presentable but before we get into that it's time for today's video sponsor that helped pay for this wildlife sanctuary today's video is sponsored by manscaped of performance package hedge trimmer fame manscaped has just launched their brand new ultra premium luxury body wash which is a shower gel that's infused with aloe vera and sea salt meaning it can handle even the toughest darved cheese and just like all liquid products in the manscaped collection it has cologne quality fragrance that smells like man the new refined shower gel comes in a 16 oz aluminium bottle and you can get a replenish discount so that you never have to worry about running out of shower gel if all of this sounds good to you use my manscaped link in the description below to get 20 off your order plus free international shipping and while you're there why don't you also pick up a lawnmower 4.0 for all your trimming needs thank you very much manscape for sponsoring today's videofor today's pc cleaning i'm going to use my go-to glove brand valida fresh comfort not only do they keep your hands fresh and comfortable but they offer a solid barrier between your fingies and the pc gonorrhea ah that feels like velida quality valida the only grav glove brand for me now the guy that i bought this system from was actually really nice we had a lovely conversation while we were waiting for the payment to go through i actually really hope he doesn't see this video but anyway he told me that he cleaned the outside of the system before selling it which just has to be a lie because i don't know what the hell kind of cleaning they were doing that left these suspicious man juice looking stains on the top but other than the couple stains it is just very dusty on the outside so let's open it up and see what kind of animals we can find living inside here we go and oh that is a very dusty pc but the thing that concerns me the most about it is that there are spider webs all over the place now the spider webs in themselves isn't concerning it's just that i can't i can't find this spider and considering that i left the system without the side panel open overnight in the office i think that i may now be living with a new spider which which is not ideal now the thing that you'll notice immediately after the suspicious lack of spiders in this system is that the cable management is genuinely shocking this case does actually have behind the motherboard tray uh cable routing options but they just completely ignored it but anyway let's quickly walk through the components that we have in this spider sanctuary now under this evga aio we have an intel i5 4670k with what i think is 24 gigs of ram but we'll have a closer look at that later uh the motherboard is an asrock fatality z97 board so you can see there mr fatality's name very proudly displayed on the motherboard uh in terms of the graphics card we have a pny gtx 1060. now according to the guy this was actually a graphics card that he got as a warranty replacement for a gtx 960 and he says that it's very very lightly used moving down to the power supply we have a real beast a 1050 watt xfx unit which seems to have suffered the brunt of the dust collection it is a real dirty boy now technically the power supply is in here upside down because the case does actually have ventilation in the bottom for the power supply but if they were running the system on a carpet it would make sense to run it this way around and then in terms of ssd we have a drive that's quite difficult to identify due to what looks like volcano eruption debris but it looks it looks like it's a samsung drive of some description but other than that i think it's time to start disassembling the system cleaning one part at a time and see how we can salvage the systemokay that is by no means a clean graphics card but it's definitely not the worst i've seen so yeah let's let's dig a bit deeper oh there's like a hidden m.2 drive under that graphics card that's an exciting find i love how the cpu power cable is just like routed through the front here that's always hilarious but againthese cables are stuck between the ramoh there we go it's out we can get these cables down oh they really went to town on the thermal paste but rather more than too little i always say now next up i want to remove the rest of the aio so that we can relatively easily remove the motherboard from the case i think we're good here oh yeah there we gooh ooh the back just came off look at that ew oh i found the spider oh no i don't think the spiders made it that is the corpse of a spider if i've ever seen one rest in peace little pc spider although it really had a nice home for itself in here look at all that web going on here that is some luxurious inside of pc spider house we've got going here i've actually run into a bit of a problem with this top panel because in order to get it off you need to undo these little clips on the inside and there just happens to be one underneath the spider grave which means i'm gonna have to just blindly stick my finger in there which feels a little bit like corpse desecration to me but at least i'm wearing these dry comfort velida latex gloves to protect me oh sorry little spider buddy i'm just gonna try and be really gentle there we go hey oh oh things sounded like they broke there but we got the panel off that's good it seems like they've gone for the age-old two screws in the middle of one side radiator mounting method which is it's a bit of a brave move i personally prefer the opposite corners tacticno he definitely could have used opposite corners but whatever it seems to have worked for him oh that is a gross aio at this point that's definitely affecting cooling performance right there there is like a a solid mat of dust blocking up this radiator that is that's pretty gross okay now we can easily remove the motherboard this person has clearly gone to the david school of pc assembly because there are only four screws keeping the motherboard in placeoh um it actually seems to not be a standard atx width so that's part of the reason why they only used four screws to keep it in place um yeah this should be should be terrible to clean let's move on to i don't know the storageokay there is drive number onecome on there you go oh there there is a lot of spider house under this ssd it actually seems to have really taken a liking to this ssd that is a that is a fat power supply right there i am not entirely sure what i want to do with this um because it's actually very dirty inside as well and i don't want to have to open it and clean it it is a thousand watt unit so there are some big ass capacitors in here that really want me dead so i don't really want to deal with that i i think that's the grossest power supply i've seen in a long time so uh i'll i'll i may just end up recycling and i'll see i'll deal with that later oh i'm so glad i've been wearing these velita glovesand here is our tiny little gtx 1060 dive surrounded by a whole bunch of neglectoh shinynow unfortunately i've run out of this thickness of thermal pad so i'm not going to replace them which is a little bit savage but it should be okaynow i wouldn't say it's a shocking transformation but it's definitely better than it was before and going by the q-tip graveyard we definitely made some progress next up it's time to clean the mr fatality motherboard and here we have our vrm heatsink nicely cleaned and it's actually painted in this beautiful anodized red finish it looks awesomenow with the motherboard you want to be really careful when wiping it down because there are a lot of very sensitive just like surface mounted components that you don't want to damage um so i think most of what i'm gonna do in terms of cleaning the actual pcb is just gonna be using compressed air on it i feel like that's probably the safer way to go about itand there we go it's it's pretty clean now it's not the cleanest motherboard ever it's not like damn that is now new uh but i think it's clean enough now the next bit's gonna be relatively easy i'm just gonna clean up the ram modules and the ssdand just like that we have essentially a brand new looking drive all i had to do was wipe it down with some cleaning liquor and there you go um so i'm just going to do the same thing with the ram that cleaned up real nice okay i'm going to start with the fans before i tackle that heinous dust crime of an aio now this is always the really irritating part about cleaning fans is that you have to do like one blade at a time i always find it the most tedious part of a pc to clean now it's a lot cleaner than it was before you can see there uh it's still not perfect if i put some more time into this i can definitely get it cleaner but yeah these are like these are like really cheesy fans so yeah i'm just gonna replace them with something better but yeah so now that i've made my mind up on that let me move over to the aio okay it's the moment of truth we get to clean that um not entirely sure how i'm going to go about that because if i just kind of spray duster at it it is going to asphyxiate me and i don't really feel like i don't really feel like dealing with that um so i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to start off with just a a rag soaked in cleaning liquor and then kind of start wiping up the majority of itso this is definitely another hair brain idea a la david but it's raining outside so i can't go and film me dustering the thing outside so i'm just gonna do it into a trash bag hopefully that's fine let's see what happens ah gross wow look at that that just shot out pretty much across the tablenow i gave it a quick google and apparently the next step in dealing with the radiator this disgusting is actually soaking it for a while in dish soap and water and then kind of using like a like a toothbrush and and brushing all the grime out and then letting it dry now unfortunately i i don't really have time for that so it's a little bit lame but i'm gonna also replace the aio so at the end of the day we're just going to be using the core components with that let's let's build the system and then see what kind of temperatures we get and and what it looks like and all that and sadly now that i've finished cleaning the system i have to unfortunately take off my velida gloves which is a real shame but they have kept my hands nicely fresh and comfortable thanks velitaso we're done with the build and it looks really cool it actually turned out really well i did cheat a little bit by basically replacing everything aesthetic in the build um but it it still turned out really well uh now we just need to see if it works i actually uh was stupid and didn't test fire it before i started cleaning everything so if it doesn't work now i don't know if i broke it or he saw it to be broken yeah let's let's give it a try that all sounds promising it works would you look at that um yeah let's do some temperatures and then we'll take it from there20 minutes into a gaming session and the temperatures are immaculate we are in the mid 50s on both the graphics card what is this guy doing oh okay we're good we're in the mid 50s on both the cpu and the graphics card which is really awesome unfortunately the i5 is bottlenecking that 1060 quite quite aggressively now i did try and overclock it above that four gigahertz but i couldn't get it stable any higher than that i admittedly spent very little time on it but yeah that 46 4690k does not seem to want to overclock uh but yeah overall amazing temperatures and we're getting a solid battlefield 5 gaming experience at 1080p medium settings so at the end of the day it runs very well it's cool and relatively quiet and uh it doesn't look like a meth lab dumpster rat anymore so yeah that's exciting but other than that i don't really know what else to say so thank you very much for watching if you liked the video do let me know down in the comment section below i may turn this into a series if there's enough interest which definitely isn't a rip off of greg salazar's content actually on that note uh if you want to see someone really properly deep clean his system and go check out his videos i'll have one link in the description below and uh yeah other than that thank you for watching bye-byei actually really hate these velita gloves you're not supposed to film that