[00:00] Yvonne and I were out for a midnight walk, as one goes on. Not quite like this, we were holding hands. Oh, okay. There we go. And what did I encounter? But there is someone's yard. Oh my goodness, Linus!
[00:12] Just on their lawn. Two 3PCs. Now, they're clearly a little worse for the wear. In the pictures from that night, you can see that there was a substantial amount of dust and or dew on both of them.
[00:25] But as we've seen from the Coke machine, it's not always a death sentence for a PC to get a little bit wet. We need to clean up. Well, maybe. Have you looked at these at all other than that moment?
[00:39] I have not. Which makes what I'm about to say all the more stressful. Okay. What we're going to do is we're going to make, come hell or high water, at least one working PC out of these salvage parts. And if there's any component that I cannot get working in the next 90 minutes,
[00:56] I'm going to swap it out for something brand new. Then when we're done, we're going to give that PC away on the street corner, just like we give away this Segway to our sponsors.
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[01:20] I guess we've got our assignments then. Okay. Step one is crack these things open and have a look at exactly what we've got.
[01:32] Spoiler alert, at least one of the CPUs is a lot better than you would probably think for a yard PC. Okay. I mean, I don't even have to open it up, and I see that I'm missing something critical. You don't have a GPU.
[01:45] Or a power supply. But I do. Wow, I really have nothing. Somebody salvaged the RAM. What are you talking about nothing? What chip is that? For free on the road is crazy.
[01:57] This is a i5 9600K. Which, admittedly, is not the most modern of gaming chips. But, we actually did a video recently looking at the GOAT, the 1080 Ti.
[02:09] Yeah. And evaluating whether it kind of still holds up. And it kind of does. And we paired it with an 8700K. A generation older. So, you put a decent GPU on this thing? You're gaming. You're gaming. That's pretty sick.
[02:21] What do you have? I don't know. Oh. Do you actually have a cooler? I have a cooler. Ah. You also have... It looks like a whole other person with how much dust is in here. Yeah. This one's a little gross.
[02:33] I don't even have much to, like, really look at, I feel like. Well, you could grab the test bench. Sure. See if it's even, like... See if it works. Get going. All right. And in the meantime, I'm going to find out what I got here. What the heck is an i5-6402T?
[02:46] Probably like a system OEM only chip. Like, you wouldn't be able to buy that. I mean, this is a... Oh, this is a CyberPower PC. CyberPower. Usually they use more like... They would use... Okay, who can get to Arc first?
[02:58] You, Skylake. I mean, that makes sense. 6,000 series. Four cores, four threads. No hyper-threading. Okay. So we're really banking on this one working. Yes. But the good news,
[03:11] these are both DR4-based platforms, and you still have your RAM. I do. You might be able to salvage that. It's not the fastest RAM. It's like barely DDR4. First generation. 2133 megahertz.
[03:23] But I do have a total of... At least four working gigs. Maybe eight if that one survives.
[03:35] Your RAM's... Oh, thank you, Galring. Whoever built this computer definitely learned from you. They only put four of the five screws in for the motherboard. I mean, it didn't come out. You know what? Maybe one fell in the ditch.
[03:47] I'm getting the vibe that while this was a pre-built, obviously, from CyberPower and has cable management to match, they might have done this one themselves. Yeah, I'm getting that vibe too. And that could be a very bad time. Because why would a tech-savvy person throw away a working 9900K?
[04:02] But it was also missing the RAM, so it's possible some junkie was just going for the RAM. And then threw the rest of the computer away. Because there was no GPU either. But why'd they leave RAM in mine? This whole thing makes no sense, Elijah.
[04:14] Do we know that this is the same person's computers? Two people independently of each other randomly put computers in that person's yard. I'm saying it's possible. So, look at this. I wonder if my systems problems are as simple as this loose 8 pin connector.
[04:30] Look at that. Two of these pins are not making contact. Not that this CPU is much of a find. Unfortunately, it's the 4 gig version. Oh, how is the bottom so clean? And this is...
[04:42] My question is though, I see an SSD and a hard drive there. Should we plug in these drives and just see if we could boot into whatever windows they had? Oh, yeah. Maybe that'll tell us more information about whose it was. Yeah. I wonder what kind of porn they like.
[04:55] Oh, that's where you were going with that. You tell a lot about amazing- I don't actually want to know. I mean, now you teach my interest, because I'm like, aw, yaww. Hey, have you named your system yet? No. Mine's famous Howard.
[05:08] Well, I gotta be Raj then. Oh, it's Raj. Alright. Racist, but sure. What do you mean? No, they're the closest friends. If I picked Leonard, you would have to be Sheldon. You know that. Bazinga?
[05:20] Great joke. You get another four seasons. This SSD is a 500 gig 860 Evo. Whoa, no way. It would be a pretty good drive for this era of systems. 500 gigs of Flash right now is a pretty good drive for today era of systems.
[05:33] Very true. I have a DVD burner. I can't wait to watch all 11 seasons of Big Bang Theory. Why do you know how many seasons there are? I watched them all in four days. This man has not seen...
[05:47] Here's your power supply. Oh, and once again, the bottom is clean. Let go of me.
[06:00] Sorry. No, not you. Was that the walk of the Vaughn tune you were telling her that? Absolutely not. I like it when she touches it. Look at this! That was our air intake! Oh wow. In the same system that brought you this.
[06:13] New piece of the puzzle. Someone must have installed this after. You think so? So like it was already in the ditch, then they threw this in. Okay, stop it.
[06:26] What are you doing to my computer? Nothing. Helping. No rush! This had something. Yeah, there was an aftermarket cooler in here. This even looks like the mount off an AIO. I know. This might be cool enough. You know what? No. I think it was an air cooler.
[06:38] I think this was a hyper. Hyper 212? I think so. Maybe we should actually give this away at Whale Land that coming up That would be so cool We should totally do that Yeah That in like a couple weeks right Yes sir Heck yeah You going to Whale Land I am I bringing my steam machine because I don really want to pack heavy
[06:53] I don't want to bring my server rack. You said no to that, so. Totally makes sense. Just roll the 42U in. The thing about this guy is there's a solid chance he's not kidding with stuff like that, so you've got to be careful. I would do it if you even didn't.
[07:05] I know that. Where's our grab and go monitor? Ooh, one terabyte hard drive. Manufactured in... Ah! It was hiding in plain sight! Ten years ago, almost to the day! We're looking pretty good here.
[07:18] Fine looking test bench. Dude, Elijah, I don't have HDMI, I got D&I! Oh! There's no way this just works. Holy crap, I mean, the fans are spinning, that's a lot of gas.
[07:30] It's kicking off that one. Disgusting. That's the human hair. I have all white LEDs, I had no bad postcode there. Then quieted down. Holy crap. Did we just find a working 9900k system on the side of the road?
[07:46] Drum locks up. Dude, this would unironically be like the best bang for the buck PC right now. GPUs still got LEDs. I do wonder if we missed like the Windows boot or something.
[07:58] I don't think so. Now we troubleshoot. Thank God we have a video. Yeah. Where would you begin? Step one for me has got to be take this GPU out of the equation. Yep. The fewer variables we can deal with at once, the better.
[08:13] Oh, holy crap. It worked. Preparing automatic repair. So it even got all the way to the windows here. That's insane. Wait, we also don't know which one we have windows on. Oh. Because we don't know if this is the SSD or the hard drive.
[08:25] This is the hard drive right now. I have to put a new GPU in this damn thing. 5090. It's the only thing that... Okay. I didn't say top of the line. But think about how much money you're saving on the rest of the system. You can splurge the budget of a 5090.
[08:37] Whatever we choose, it'll have to be something that we have more than one of so that the lab can run comparisons in the future if they need to. Our 50 series shelf is pretty ridiculous. Maybe we could go back one gen.
[08:49] It had a Radeon. We could go Radeon. Oh, we could go Radeon. Oh, we could go Radeon. We've got like a whole shelf of 9070 XTs. Hey, thanks, Astro. Why don't we throw a Tai Chi in there? Is this just still doing that? Yeah, I did go into BIOS and confirm there's only a Windows install on the SSD.
[09:04] Oh, great. But it still keeps trying to fight the automatic repair. It might just be Whiteville. I've made a terrible mistake. I don't think we can do a 97 EXT. We only have a 600 watt power supply. Yeah, what's recommended on that one?
[09:17] 750. No French thermal taker. Your power supplies kind of suck at that, so... They have good ones. Yeah, yeah. This series is not one of them. Well, then the only logical explanation is a new power supply as well. Tell you what. Well, okay, do we go on shoot or shoot?
[09:31] Okay. I win. That is always best of three. That is not a thing. Yes, it is. Are you... Henry? This is usually best of three. Okay, you suck up.
[09:49] No! All right, I'll go get a power supply. Whoever gets this at Whale Land, I'm looking out for you. It's gonna be a thermal take, though! That's fine. I think the only thermal take power supplies we have these days
[10:02] were brought in for, like, labs testing, so they're the good stuff. Or we could go with something air-appropriate but totally new-worthy. There you go. You happy? Very.
[10:14] It's actually a pretty nice little one. Very nice, actually. Juan! It's pretty modular! Do you not care about who gets this computer? I do care about those. I care very much. Look how much I care about them.
[10:27] Look, this cooler's broken. Hold on, hold on, stop, stop, let me try. Look, it's a broken cooler. Let me go get some more. There, you like that? Who cares now? B***h. I can't get into that Windows install.
[10:39] Yeah. But do we still want to see what's on it? Because we could install a new SSD with Windows and then take a look. That's creepy. I'm curious. Alright, let's do that then. This seems like the right...
[10:51] Notchless? Yeah, sure. Well, not to offend us enough coolers that we can kind of do whatever projects with them, so I figure we can spread the love a little bit. It's going to be a nice, quiet little, and actually, my gosh, low-key fast machine now.
[11:06] I also added a new SSD, you know. Oh, no. What? That's just for testing. We're installing on this one. You really wouldn't do that, then, would you? Okay. Memory prices is where he draws the line right now.
[11:19] Wouldn't you? Well, for someone who has such a big warehouse full of all the computer parts, Sorry sir, I'm gonna end up like that's Aaron if I'm not careful. You were being very generous earlier with the new cooler and the new power supply and the new G-Hood.
[11:31] It's not generosity. The cooler was broken. Let me try... Look, it's a broken cooler. You guys see that? I know. You thought I was gonna promote this new driver from LTTStore.com, but I'm not.
[11:43] Boom! Talks! In a weird twist of events, you managed to promote both! We do have one small problem. Okay. system was current, Windows 10 has actually gone EOL. What is the minimum required RAM
[11:56] for Windows 11? The minimum is 4. Oh. The recommended is 16. Well, that's according to Microsoft support and AI. Alright. Damn, I need to throw my computer in a ditch. What
[12:10] speed of memory does the 9600K support? 2666 is what it says. What about with X17, though? I'm just on ARK. ARK never knows. Editor, cut to the part where you said pull up ARK earlier.
[12:22] Okay, who can get to ARK first? Okay! Oh, this is a 32-bit kit by accident. You know, you can solve it. You don't have to... install it. Hey, you used the A on the side.
[12:35] That's G-Skill RAM. They have great skill in Memory World, not great skill in labeling products. This is how we get hacked again. It's not connected to the network. It should be fine. Come on.
[12:55] Oh, see if your memory changed. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was fast. Okay. All right. I can't believe that this chip works. These are worth, like, anywhere from $50 to $75. Side of the road.
[13:07] Would you pick up a $50 bill? I would. Would you pick up a $50 bill and then add on $1,000 to it? I would. We should start getting our case ready. Oh, yeah. So you liked this case better, right? Yeah, your case looks better.
[13:20] Get that out of here. Dirty ass hull of a GPU. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Do not shame it. It on me right now okay It gonna do what it does That fair enough Only those fans work I thinking of only fans We got a lot of fans Should we upgrade the cooler We can grab all the fans from your case Oh I see what you mean Yeah consolidate Okay
[13:41] Let's go clean this thing. Beautiful day to clean a computer. Huh. Data vacuum. Contains no data isn't a vacuum. Discuss.
[13:57] Have you managed to creep what sort of man leaves a computer lying in his yard in the middle of the night? I have not yet, but I did find out that hard drive also has windows on it. It just for some reason didn't show up in the BIOS, but showed up in the boot menu.
[14:09] Oooh. There's two windows drives here. I hope it's like a Bitcoin wallet. Can we split it 50-50? Oh, we're rocket rescivering. There's a weird power dynamic here by you being my boss. I
[14:21] don't know if I can agree to this. It's my computer. The power dynamic is I don't have to give you anything. Okay, but that's a three. It's true! Okay, we can split it fifty- What the fuck does that mean?
[14:38] I think Pancrax would be entitled to some too. He helped. That's true. It comes out No. You know what? That's actually cleaned up pretty nice. Not bad. Who the hell is Ryan?
[14:50] His PIN wasn't 1111. Okay. Try 1224. Hmm. I think we could just break it. Yeah, we could do UTIL, man. But I also could just boot into the correct. Okay. Do we want to know if this works? I'm kind of curious.
[15:04] We can try. It took only a 6402P, but like... I don't know. If it works, that's still usable for somebody. Sure, we can just throw a sock cooler on it, maybe some... Give it away. Throw this ram in.
[15:16] Yeah. Oh, hey, we got windows. Oh, we're in. Time to snoop. Okay, let's start with the SSD. All right. And this, my friends, is why full drive encryption is really, really important. Oh, hey, there it is.
[15:28] Okay, there's the 500. It's pretty close to being full. Look at it go. Look at it, look at it, look at it. Okay. So this is the part where we don't actually create the files, Elijah. What? because this is just meant to show how easy it would be
[15:42] without breaking your password, without even doing anything to browse your files. Fine. I can tell he was a League player, though. This could have gone a lot worse, though. You're lucky we found it, Ryan.
[15:54] Okay, cut the camera so I can look. All right, it's formatted, at least. Wait, you formatted it? How are we going to find the crypto? You asshole. Are we going to give this user a one terabyte hard drive? I don't see why not. But Ryan is still given an old hard drive, but not a new SSD.
[16:07] You're a terrible person. I'm just getting the comments. I'm like, whatever. New cooler. New power supply. Don't forget the RAM. The RAM. Oh, this one got detected right away.
[16:20] Same thing. There it is. Easily just could go through. And look at what they have. All right, let's get a name. A different Ryan. This one's Ryan. What were the odds that both of these computers belonged to someone named Ryan, but with a
[16:33] different last name? I have a theory. They got married in between the two computers, changed their last name. I choose to believe there's love involved here. Well, no, for sure. Let's go find the love folder. All right, I'll go deeper. No, no, no, don't go deeper.
[16:45] They already did that in the love folder. All right, shut her down. And then I'm going to go ahead and throw this into the case. That's crazy, leaving drives in a yard and then just that data on them. I got to wonder if these are stolen then. Yeah, that's a very good point.
[16:57] You'd be surprised, though, how many people really don't care about their data. When I used to do, like, IT work, and quite often we'd have some sort of charge of, like, oh, we'll make sure we take care of your data, we'll wipe it all. They're like, oh, don't worry about that.
[17:09] It's possible people just don't understand, right? Because they think, oh, it's part of the computer, and if the computer's broken... Like, there's still people out there who absolutely think that. And most of them are named Ryan. This is like a better power supply. This thing even just comes off.
[17:22] I love thermal tape cases. I don't think I'd buy anything else thermal tape. Let's see if we get a picture here. Oh, I've got a red VGA, which this tells me to spray, but does this CPU have integrated graphics?
[17:34] Intel Arc says that it has integrated graphics, specifically Intel HD 510. Not really sure why it's not showing up then. Alright. Oh! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
[17:46] Oh my goodness. Did we get two working systems? Holy cow. Is the only thing that didn't work that GPU? Yeah, dude. It seems like the only thing that was broken was the GPU. What a score.
[17:58] Man. What are we gonna do with this now? Put a better cooler on it. Here's a free CPU RAM starter kit. Yeah, because 8 gigs of RAM. Like, you could do a pretty decent NAS with that, right?
[18:10] You're not throwing a 97 in there, are you? The CPU is broken. To be clear, it's not a 9070. 9070 XT. I mean, I guess you've got to match the 9000 CPU with the 9000 graphics card. You know that's exactly what I was thinking.
[18:23] Cut to the footage where I said that. Is it? No, heavens no. One more shout out, lpgstore.com. Screwdriver extension. Damn, we should ask it, didn't we? Alrighty.
[18:35] I'm at five, but anything else for me? No, you're good. Get out of here. Have a good evening. First things first, Vocabola. Don't include that in the video editor. You can't tell them what to do.
[18:48] I hate this. You haven't actually seen the finished system yet. No, because I left you to finish it at the warehouse. Dude, this is a nice looking machine. You can't even tell that it's got like a tiny little letterboard in it. It almost looks like none of the parts that were originally in it are here anymore.
[19:03] No, that's such a lie. Speaking of, motherboard, case, drives. That's five, baby. Yeah, big cooler upgrade, big GPU upgrade. Optical drive, that's six. Actually, there were some challenges.
[19:15] This motherboard has literally only two fan headers. Oh. I had to go find a quad splitter in order to hook up all of these bloody fans. Also, the power supply that we grabbed was missing a 12-volt 2x6 cable. Oh. It just wasn't in the box.
[19:27] So I ended up having to use the adapter. And the last big one. We stayed at Cable's. Yeah. I finished the build, and then I was like, oh my god, I have to cable manage up to the optical drive.
[19:39] That's amazing. I love it. It looks good, though. God, it's pleasant. Not side of the road great at all. Now, the second thing you got to do, Bocabola, is... I hate that so much. It's so weird when it comes from you.
[19:52] And if you just do like a f***ing TPS and just do Elijah Horner. You can't tell them what to do. Depends on who the editor is.
[20:04] I have their DM. Damn. The only thing you gotta do is decide how to give it away. Yeah. Any brilliant ideas? I thought about leaving it out by the washroom on the side of the road with just a sticker that says free Should we throw candy on it Just like free candy Well where the white van My worry is that people won believe it I like that thing They gonna be like oh okay well the owner will come back and you gonna like walk away right Everyone here is pretty cute Someone
[20:27] must have gotten a free computer at some point. Yeah. I like the idea that just like being on the side of the bathroom. I think that's a return to its roots. We found it on the side of the road in the shittiest position and now we're putting it beside the shittiest position. Let's do it. Yeah.
[20:43] Tire of the road PC becomes bathroom PC. Oh, there's a candy! Nice! There's a candy! Whose is it? Whose candy is that? Okay, we'll take one. I almost instantly just started opening the candy.
[20:57] Leave a comment if you love Vocabola collabs and you want to see more. It feels weird when you say it. I want my entire career at this company never uttering that name. Oh, sorry. Only stats a lot back there.
[21:09] That's a lot back there. Stop. No, please. Right there. That's the line. Alright, I'll wait. Do we have any masking tape? No masking tape? I'd settle for a piece of paper and some other kind of tape.
[21:23] Oh, okay. That's fine. Thank you. Oh, beauty. Thank you. Everything's more complicated. Yeah. I think we need a piece of paper. You can take loose death lips. I could do that. It'd be really long.
[21:35] You know what? I'm liking this napkin. This gap king has excellent vibes. I can't wait for the rain to wash that away. It's not raining. Yeah, but like, how long will it take? Oh god, I mean, hopefully not that long.
[21:48] We're just gonna stand out there in the towers just like, waiting. I hope not. Where's the candy? I got it right here. Okay, well we gotta get this thing candy. I thought you guys were gonna make like a trail of Starburst.
[22:03] We're sending it home. Like when you catch a squirrel after it broke a leg, you heal it up, you're like, go back. It's so janky. Okay, look, I'm going to do this. Oh, yeah. I'll stand in front. What do you want me to do?
[22:17] Well, I can't tell you to do anything. Okay. You have to do it of your own free will, Bookabula. I hate you. Why did you do two people? This is so large. This might be the worst sidekick we've ever done, dude.
[22:30] And nonchalant whistling. I like the neck. Will you sign the coconut? I'd love to. Alright. Oh, he's gonna go for it now. Okay. Okay, he's gonna go for it now. Alright.
[22:42] I was also the potato guy. Nice. You know, if you picked something more permanent, we wouldn't have to do this every Whale Land. It's something.
[22:54] It's something. That's a... Are y'all open to be there? Uh, for what? The... that one. They... usually we'll send out a form later. Yeah, yeah. TV's charging. Yeah.
[23:06] Someday. Someday. I don't want to get spotted putting it down right now. I know. You know? That makes me worry people turn around. They're like... Yeah, my voice is distinctive, I've learned.
[23:19] Yeah. Are you thinking next to the turd box? Turd box. I put this one... You want a turd box? Yeah. Okay, turd box. Okay. Am I clear?
[23:37] Yeah. Okay. Nope. Yep. No one's going to see us here right outside of our own establishment.
[23:51] And also Boca Bola was there. I was saying earlier and someone was like, don't leave the IP. I'm like, solid. Let's go to the next chance. She might recognize famous Twitch streamer Bokobolo
[24:04] Did you know I was picking her up?
[24:18] Yeah I'm Chris Hansen. You're the first one to pick it up!
[24:41] Okay. Congratulations! You won! Really? Really? Well, we found this PC on the side of the road. We thought, what better place to put it back than its home?
[24:54] The side of the road. You found it. So I just take it home? We made some improvements to it. It has a 9070 XT. We put some better cooling in it. It's got way more memory.
[25:06] I think it started its life with 8 gigs? Something like that. Something like that. Yeah, it's got I think 32 gigs of RAM in it now. You're sh**ing me? I would never do that. Well, who took the Starburst? He did.
[25:20] He took your sweet candy. Congratulations, man. There you go. Do you have your PC? I'm not even kidding. You're kidding. You're not kidding. No, I'm kidding. We would never kid about something like that.
[25:32] Okay, now I'm going to have issues because I've got to go buy someone's reality. Oh. I'll figure it out. I can take it back. I can find someone else to pay for it. No, I'll take it.
[25:44] All right. Great, dude. Felix, thanks for coming out to Rail Run, man. Yeah, thanks, dude. Congratulations on the PC. Very much. And congratulations on being here to witness this big one to our sponsor.
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