The Bizarre Build: A Tale of Triumph and Trial

It's no secret that building a computer can be a complex and often frustrating process, but this particular build has taken it to a whole new level. The story begins with a malfunctioning cooler that was bent so much it was affecting the CPU sockets, rendering the board unable to start. This led us down a rabbit hole of troubleshooting, as we tried to identify the root cause of the problem. After removing the faulty cooler and replacing it with an A30 CPU, we still faced an uncertain future.

We discovered that the issue wasn't entirely due to the motherboard or the CPU, but rather a combination of factors that ultimately narrowed down to the power supply. We had already removed this component, suspecting it might be causing the problem. However, we couldn't shake off the feeling that there was more to it. It was then that we met up with the "King of the Gold Coast," a renowned figure in the computer hardware world. He kindly offered us six replacement motherboards and a generous amount of DDR2 memory, as well as a special board that I'll introduce later. We were thrilled to have such an abundance of resources at our disposal.

As we began to test each motherboard, it became apparent that not all of them would work. We had some duds, but fortunately, the King's generosity allowed us to experiment with multiple options until we found one that worked. This board was a rare find – a LGA 775 XFX motherboard that I've only seen in articles before. It's truly an exotic find, and its presence on this build adds a touch of excitement to what could have been a mundane project.

With our trusty new motherboard in hand, we decided it was time to bring everything back online. We chucked out the power supply, suspecting that it might be causing the problem. This proved to be a wise decision, as the experiment turned out to be a crucial step in our journey. The system finally booted up, and we were eager to test its performance. After setting up a gaming combo using an R7 360 GPU and an XFX motherboard, we were thrilled to discover that it was working beautifully.

Our first gaming session with this new build was nothing short of smooth sailing. We managed to squeeze out over 60 frames per second on medium settings, with the game running at 1050p resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio. It's a remarkable feat, considering the GPU was relatively powerful at the time. The addition of four LED fans only added to the build's charm, making it an attractive option for those looking for a high-performance gaming PC.

But what's next? We're planning to put these PCs up for sale and see how quickly they can sell compared to our previous builds. The combination of a modern motherboard, a powerful GPU, and DDR2 memory might just give us an edge over the competition. And while we wait for those sales figures to roll in, we'll be exploring the world of monitors and keyboards – topics that are near and dear to my heart.

In part two, we'll delve into the world of monitor and keyboard reviews, sharing our thoughts on whether these components are worth investing in, especially when they're available at rock-bottom prices. We've got some exciting experiments lined up, so stay tuned for more updates from this build. And as always, I'd love to hear your thoughts – do you think this build will work? Have any suggestions or advice? Let me know in the comments below, and I'll catch you all in the next video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enright here behind me on the desk is the two monitors that I picked up in the recent parts hunt now they basically came for free with the PC someone was giving him away and I've picked up some other monitors in the past with deals now today's gonna be an experiment because I've had this PC in the background that has been up the sale for a couple of weeks I just haven't sold it so what I'm gonna do today is drop in a monitor keyboard and mouse combo and this will be part one of a two part series where we're gonna experiment just how quickly the build will sell if it has a monitor and a gaming combo pack as opposed to just being a bare-bones PC on its own know that we've also got another PC here as well then we're gonna put together and refurbish kind of thing and see if that will go well in a gaming combo pack as well because sometimes as I said just in the intro you get these parts and you're wise we'll make them most of them so let's see what we've got here on the desk put it together and make use of it all so what we've got right here on the table is the cue I think it's nine four fifty and eight gigabytes of ddr2 I've even thrown in a 500 gigabyte hard drive I believe I was asking 290 bucks for this because again I'm not a big fan of the old-school ddr2 series boards LGA 775 anymore sort of getting outdated especially when you can pick up the newest stuff for a lot better of a deal but here we've just got a potato it is really bad and we've got a GTX 760 that we picked up 470 AUD just recently so we're gonna be coupling that and giving that a bit of a refurb and then we're putting these packs together and seeing just how well they look so we did the whole build finished it it was looking great the booted up and then no signal came out of the gravis card and I was like okay try different graphics card tried everything and we've isolated it down now to the motherboard itself so take your taking out the CPU trying a like 2500 k for example now we're go to a3 2100 we realize that the CPU pins were bent and one of them was actually snapped and so it just has to be that one pin that's broken and the whole board is pretty much screwed so there we go problems in paradise so this is the second PC which had problems of its own and essentially we've put it down to we thought it was the case initially wasn't took it out and what happened was is a very bizarre problem I've never seen this before the cooler that was mounted on it before that was bending the CPU sockets so much that I think it canceled out and wouldn't just do not allow the board to start so we've removed that now and we're gonna try this little a30 CPU here but there's still one big question remaining and that is can this 8:30 budget CPU cooler from an tacky handle the quad-core stay tuned and find out so it's pretty late now but I just got back to the studio and this thing before I left just wasn't booting it just exhibited the same problem before and we had this thing doing it out of the case as well different power supply so it's definitely narrowed it down to the motherboard but that's not a problem because I met up with the proverbial king of the Gold Coast I don't know if he's ready to be named dropped yet I asked if he had a replacement motherboard and he had literally six motherboards so I had to leave three of these in the boot because it's just so late he also gave us so much ddr2 memory as well and a special board as well have to show you guys this one this is a real special one so here it is ladies and gentlemen the LGA 775 XFX motherboard actually have only seen this in articles I've never seen it in the flesh it's a pretty rare board but there it is I guess this could probably deserve a video on its own but definitely the backlog is very full so it should be sitting in the background as a prop at the moment but now we're gonna use one of these two boards and see if we can finally get this rig to boot so we've finally got this thing up and running and it's just been so painful I mean I had this build working and then it didn't work and then it did work and then didn't work so I decided to go away with the power supply as well I chucked that out because just seems like that was probably the issue it could have perhaps had a really heavy / volt rail and I could been damaging I just don't know but that's sort of like the only thing that could come to mind went through a couple of motherboards as well king of the coast he gave us a couple of duds but he admittedly didn't check them and we've got now super cheap dirt oh he's logging into Windows and we're gonna boot up fortnight on him and then after that after we were done running we're going to test the FPS and then the good thing is with this experiment because the experiments still going to be intact we're still gonna be able to sell this whole kit but even better news is we now have a less of powerful graphics card so we'll get an r7 and 360 and a Q 6600 and a motherboard is even worse off so if this experiment works it's gonna be a testament to the monitor keyboard mouse combo the gaming combo yeah we've got four nine up and running and it is getting around sixty to eighty FPS on medium settings so it won't do hi - well like stutters a little bit on high you can see the GPUs jumping around here see if we use up practically fully loaded so not a bad little combo so now we're jumping into a game of fortnight and everything's working absolutely fine in this first gaming combo pack and we're getting over 60 FPS at 1050 P 16 by 10 highest settings so this is really smooth looks really good whoever gets this PC is gonna be over the moon since it does have 4 LED fans which I believe in 2018 will make your PC run faster but anyway that about wraps up part one but we're gonna put these pcs up for sale and see how quick a gaming combo can sell as opposed to the normal PC and keep in mind the PC that I've main focus and that was the used one that's had some downgrades it went from aq 9000 series to a Q 6000 series and the GPU has gone from a 78 70 to an r7 360 so we're still gonna up the price so hopefully there's monitor and keyboard and mouse cells the PC better than ever and one thing about the modern is of course going out and buying a new monitor is probably not worth it but if you do pick up those monitors for really cheap prices then they're definitely worth it in my opinion but of course in part 2 we'll find that out hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did the be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below do you think it's gonna work or not love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you another take video very soon peace out for now byeright here behind me on the desk is the two monitors that I picked up in the recent parts hunt now they basically came for free with the PC someone was giving him away and I've picked up some other monitors in the past with deals now today's gonna be an experiment because I've had this PC in the background that has been up the sale for a couple of weeks I just haven't sold it so what I'm gonna do today is drop in a monitor keyboard and mouse combo and this will be part one of a two part series where we're gonna experiment just how quickly the build will sell if it has a monitor and a gaming combo pack as opposed to just being a bare-bones PC on its own know that we've also got another PC here as well then we're gonna put together and refurbish kind of thing and see if that will go well in a gaming combo pack as well because sometimes as I said just in the intro you get these parts and you're wise we'll make them most of them so let's see what we've got here on the desk put it together and make use of it all so what we've got right here on the table is the cue I think it's nine four fifty and eight gigabytes of ddr2 I've even thrown in a 500 gigabyte hard drive I believe I was asking 290 bucks for this because again I'm not a big fan of the old-school ddr2 series boards LGA 775 anymore sort of getting outdated especially when you can pick up the newest stuff for a lot better of a deal but here we've just got a potato it is really bad and we've got a GTX 760 that we picked up 470 AUD just recently so we're gonna be coupling that and giving that a bit of a refurb and then we're putting these packs together and seeing just how well they look so we did the whole build finished it it was looking great the booted up and then no signal came out of the gravis card and I was like okay try different graphics card tried everything and we've isolated it down now to the motherboard itself so take your taking out the CPU trying a like 2500 k for example now we're go to a3 2100 we realize that the CPU pins were bent and one of them was actually snapped and so it just has to be that one pin that's broken and the whole board is pretty much screwed so there we go problems in paradise so this is the second PC which had problems of its own and essentially we've put it down to we thought it was the case initially wasn't took it out and what happened was is a very bizarre problem I've never seen this before the cooler that was mounted on it before that was bending the CPU sockets so much that I think it canceled out and wouldn't just do not allow the board to start so we've removed that now and we're gonna try this little a30 CPU here but there's still one big question remaining and that is can this 8:30 budget CPU cooler from an tacky handle the quad-core stay tuned and find out so it's pretty late now but I just got back to the studio and this thing before I left just wasn't booting it just exhibited the same problem before and we had this thing doing it out of the case as well different power supply so it's definitely narrowed it down to the motherboard but that's not a problem because I met up with the proverbial king of the Gold Coast I don't know if he's ready to be named dropped yet I asked if he had a replacement motherboard and he had literally six motherboards so I had to leave three of these in the boot because it's just so late he also gave us so much ddr2 memory as well and a special board as well have to show you guys this one this is a real special one so here it is ladies and gentlemen the LGA 775 XFX motherboard actually have only seen this in articles I've never seen it in the flesh it's a pretty rare board but there it is I guess this could probably deserve a video on its own but definitely the backlog is very full so it should be sitting in the background as a prop at the moment but now we're gonna use one of these two boards and see if we can finally get this rig to boot so we've finally got this thing up and running and it's just been so painful I mean I had this build working and then it didn't work and then it did work and then didn't work so I decided to go away with the power supply as well I chucked that out because just seems like that was probably the issue it could have perhaps had a really heavy / volt rail and I could been damaging I just don't know but that's sort of like the only thing that could come to mind went through a couple of motherboards as well king of the coast he gave us a couple of duds but he admittedly didn't check them and we've got now super cheap dirt oh he's logging into Windows and we're gonna boot up fortnight on him and then after that after we were done running we're going to test the FPS and then the good thing is with this experiment because the experiments still going to be intact we're still gonna be able to sell this whole kit but even better news is we now have a less of powerful graphics card so we'll get an r7 and 360 and a Q 6600 and a motherboard is even worse off so if this experiment works it's gonna be a testament to the monitor keyboard mouse combo the gaming combo yeah we've got four nine up and running and it is getting around sixty to eighty FPS on medium settings so it won't do hi - well like stutters a little bit on high you can see the GPUs jumping around here see if we use up practically fully loaded so not a bad little combo so now we're jumping into a game of fortnight and everything's working absolutely fine in this first gaming combo pack and we're getting over 60 FPS at 1050 P 16 by 10 highest settings so this is really smooth looks really good whoever gets this PC is gonna be over the moon since it does have 4 LED fans which I believe in 2018 will make your PC run faster but anyway that about wraps up part one but we're gonna put these pcs up for sale and see how quick a gaming combo can sell as opposed to the normal PC and keep in mind the PC that I've main focus and that was the used one that's had some downgrades it went from aq 9000 series to a Q 6000 series and the GPU has gone from a 78 70 to an r7 360 so we're still gonna up the price so hopefully there's monitor and keyboard and mouse cells the PC better than ever and one thing about the modern is of course going out and buying a new monitor is probably not worth it but if you do pick up those monitors for really cheap prices then they're definitely worth it in my opinion but of course in part 2 we'll find that out hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did the be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below do you think it's gonna work or not love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you another take video very soon peace out for now bye\n"