A Guy's Journey to Build a Gaming PC: From Disaster to Success

So, I thought it would be a great idea to start with the 990 FX platform because of its five year warranty and the fact that components like the Sailor are pretty indestructible. And since she's gonna be gaming at 1080p 60 Hertz, I didn't think the CPU limitation would be too big of a problem.

I ordered a GTX 1060 and some other bits and bobs to build a gaming PC with, thinking that everything would turn out okay. When we finally assembled all the parts together and turned on the machine, everything was working great for about two weeks. But then, out of nowhere, it just stopped booting into Windows.

At this point, I was convinced that it was the motherboard that had failed. I mean, why else would it stop working? So, we decided to scrap the whole 990 FX platform and go for something a bit more reliable.

That's when I stumbled upon Yahoo Auctions, which is basically the eBay of Japan. It's where shops (yes, that's what they're called!) buy up broken PCs and sell off their usable components online. The thing is, these sellers don't always test their products to ensure they work properly, so there's a chance that a component might be faulty.

I decided to give it a shot, thinking that if I got a good deal on a CPU or graphics card, it wouldn't matter if it didn't work out in the end. So, I bought a 7700K for very little money, and when it arrived, I was excited to see what would happen.

When I opened up the package, I found that they had taped the CPU to the bottom of the envelope with bubble wrap. It was a weird packaging method, but I didn't think much of it at the time.

Anyway, I powered on the machine and installed the motherboard. But when I ran the CPU, it wouldn't work. I knew it wasn't the motherboard's fault, since they were brand new. So, I had to figure out what was wrong with the CPU.

Luckily, my friend Anna came to the rescue, suggesting that we use a different CPU - the Z271. That way, I could buy a 7600K instead of the faulty one I had purchased online.

So, we went ahead and bought her a 7600K from Yahoo Auctions, but this time, we got it from a reputable seller who sold us the part with all the necessary documentation. And now, she has a running machine that's performing beautifully.

In my next video, I'll be doing a breakdown of the machine and its components, followed by some beautiful b-roll footage of her in action. After that, we'll do some benchmarks to see how well it runs and what kind of performance you can expect from this setup.

Thanks for watching, and I hope you found this story slightly interesting!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to hard-on hardware the hardware channel that really is hard on hardware this first video is a bit weird for me to make though because I didn't really know where to start so I decided to tell a story about how I got the machine that's behind me here it all started when my girlfriend Anna came to me and said David how do I become as cool confident and good-looking as you are how do I join the PC gaming master race so I decided to help her out by building her first rig for now it's always quite a big investment building your first gaming PC so I thought I'd make it a bit cheaper for her by scrounging around for some used parts that I had that she could build a PC around and what I ended up finding was this a AMD FX 8350 which is everybody's favorite CPU because of how just powerful it is when it comes to signal threaded applications and in Asus I think it's 990 FX is the chipset sabertooth revision 2 I think it is now this has been in my previous gaming PC since like 2000 fifteen I can't remember the date but it's been one PC for a while but because it's you know the motherboard itself is like a five year warranty on it and the Sailor to stop usually or that they're pretty indestructible so I thought it's not a bad place order to start and because you have like 16 gigs of RAM and she's gonna be gaming at 1080p 60 Hertz so it means that you know the the cpu limitation isn't good enough or I thought wasn't gonna be as much of a problem so we decided to buy gtx 1060 and a couple of other bits and bobs to build a gaming pc for and when everything was assembled and put together machine turned it on and everything's all hunky-dory for about two weeks and then after that it just kind of stopped booting into Windows and I don't really know what was wrong with it but it just so I came to the conclusion that it's the motherboard it's broke I'm not really gonna go through my diagnostic process but it wasn't working that's when we decided to kind of scrap the whole 990 FX platform and go for something a bit more water which brings me to the next part of my story which involves Yahoo auction now if any of you have been in Japan before you'll know that Yahoo auction is basically just the eBay of Japan it's the same concept where sellers list things and buyers bid on them and the person gets the highest bid ends up buying the thing now there's a trend here where shops and I think shops is the best way to refer to them because yeah I think it's just a guy that calls himself a shop goes and buys up a bunch of broken pcs and then they tear them down and sell off the inn the dual components as unverified because well the seller doesn't test them and they don't necessarily know that that component is the point of failure that has broken the machine so there's potentially a chance that this component is gonna work which means you get a pretty tasty deal on a CPU or graphics card so I decided to try it out because well if it works it's a great deal and if it doesn't work you lose a bit of money but it's not a big deal so I ended up buying a 7700 K and for very little money actually I was hugely excited then the thing arrived in the mail I opened up it was quite funny because it's like in an envelope and you open it up and they've just like taped to the CPU to like the bottom of the envelope so when you open it up it's just kind of like hanging there and it like a bit of a bit of bubble wrap that was already a bit of a bad sign but I decided to power on and buy a motherboard and ran for the CPU put it all together and lo and behold the CPU didn't work I know that it wasn't the motherboard and I know that it wasn't around because they were brand new and because the motherboard was giving me a CPU warning LEDs elements so then I didn't know what to do because if I went and bought a 7700 K full price it's not the greatest purchase because I want to be a content creator and the Intel Pack 4 or at least the Intel mains I promise not the best for content creators you know it's not it's not grateful for rendering videos and stuff like that but then Anna came to the rescue and decided that because her machine was going to be purely for gaming why not use the Z 271 aboard her machine and you know that leaves me open to buy horizon 7 CPU and so on and such forth and that's what we've decided to do so we went out and bought her a 7600 K to replace this this little this dead guy over here it's really infuriating that it doesn't work but it's broken even though it looks which always mean it should work right anyway so we went in bought her a 7600 K not off of Yahoo auctions with black market and well now she has a running machine behind me over here so what I'm gonna do is in the next video I'm gonna do a breakdown of kind of the machine the components in it and some beautiful b-roll of it and then after that we'll give you some benchmarks and see how well it runs thank you very much for watching the video and I hope that you found my story even slightly interestinghello and welcome to hard-on hardware the hardware channel that really is hard on hardware this first video is a bit weird for me to make though because I didn't really know where to start so I decided to tell a story about how I got the machine that's behind me here it all started when my girlfriend Anna came to me and said David how do I become as cool confident and good-looking as you are how do I join the PC gaming master race so I decided to help her out by building her first rig for now it's always quite a big investment building your first gaming PC so I thought I'd make it a bit cheaper for her by scrounging around for some used parts that I had that she could build a PC around and what I ended up finding was this a AMD FX 8350 which is everybody's favorite CPU because of how just powerful it is when it comes to signal threaded applications and in Asus I think it's 990 FX is the chipset sabertooth revision 2 I think it is now this has been in my previous gaming PC since like 2000 fifteen I can't remember the date but it's been one PC for a while but because it's you know the motherboard itself is like a five year warranty on it and the Sailor to stop usually or that they're pretty indestructible so I thought it's not a bad place order to start and because you have like 16 gigs of RAM and she's gonna be gaming at 1080p 60 Hertz so it means that you know the the cpu limitation isn't good enough or I thought wasn't gonna be as much of a problem so we decided to buy gtx 1060 and a couple of other bits and bobs to build a gaming pc for and when everything was assembled and put together machine turned it on and everything's all hunky-dory for about two weeks and then after that it just kind of stopped booting into Windows and I don't really know what was wrong with it but it just so I came to the conclusion that it's the motherboard it's broke I'm not really gonna go through my diagnostic process but it wasn't working that's when we decided to kind of scrap the whole 990 FX platform and go for something a bit more water which brings me to the next part of my story which involves Yahoo auction now if any of you have been in Japan before you'll know that Yahoo auction is basically just the eBay of Japan it's the same concept where sellers list things and buyers bid on them and the person gets the highest bid ends up buying the thing now there's a trend here where shops and I think shops is the best way to refer to them because yeah I think it's just a guy that calls himself a shop goes and buys up a bunch of broken pcs and then they tear them down and sell off the inn the dual components as unverified because well the seller doesn't test them and they don't necessarily know that that component is the point of failure that has broken the machine so there's potentially a chance that this component is gonna work which means you get a pretty tasty deal on a CPU or graphics card so I decided to try it out because well if it works it's a great deal and if it doesn't work you lose a bit of money but it's not a big deal so I ended up buying a 7700 K and for very little money actually I was hugely excited then the thing arrived in the mail I opened up it was quite funny because it's like in an envelope and you open it up and they've just like taped to the CPU to like the bottom of the envelope so when you open it up it's just kind of like hanging there and it like a bit of a bit of bubble wrap that was already a bit of a bad sign but I decided to power on and buy a motherboard and ran for the CPU put it all together and lo and behold the CPU didn't work I know that it wasn't the motherboard and I know that it wasn't around because they were brand new and because the motherboard was giving me a CPU warning LEDs elements so then I didn't know what to do because if I went and bought a 7700 K full price it's not the greatest purchase because I want to be a content creator and the Intel Pack 4 or at least the Intel mains I promise not the best for content creators you know it's not it's not grateful for rendering videos and stuff like that but then Anna came to the rescue and decided that because her machine was going to be purely for gaming why not use the Z 271 aboard her machine and you know that leaves me open to buy horizon 7 CPU and so on and such forth and that's what we've decided to do so we went out and bought her a 7600 K to replace this this little this dead guy over here it's really infuriating that it doesn't work but it's broken even though it looks which always mean it should work right anyway so we went in bought her a 7600 K not off of Yahoo auctions with black market and well now she has a running machine behind me over here so what I'm gonna do is in the next video I'm gonna do a breakdown of kind of the machine the components in it and some beautiful b-roll of it and then after that we'll give you some benchmarks and see how well it runs thank you very much for watching the video and I hope that you found my story even slightly interesting