I Salvage The WORST Craigslist PC I Could Find...

This 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 video for 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 system okay 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 again these cables are stuck between the ram oh 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 go oh 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 tactic no 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 place oh 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 storage okay there is drive number one come 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 gloves and here is our tiny little gtx 1060 dive  surrounded by a whole bunch of neglect oh shiny now 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 okay now 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 awesome now 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 it and 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 ssd and 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 it so 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 table now 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 velita so 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 there 20 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-bye i actually really hate these velita  gloves you're not supposed to film that

Channel: Dawid Does Tech Stuff

Views: 416,886

Keywords: pc gaming, cleaning, craigslist, worst PC, dirty pc, dawid does tech stuff, tech, 2021, video, computer cleaning

Id: Wa9vX4pkTm8

Length: 17min 12sec (1032 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 23 2021