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  • čas přidán 12. 12. 2021
  • Dumpster diving for enthusiast pc tech like monitors, motherboards (found a Z390) and graphics card (though there were no graphics cards lol).
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Komentáře • 622

  • @techyescity
    @techyescity  Před 2 lety +264

    Remember don't forget to live life one dumpster at a time!

    • @iamperplexed4695
      @iamperplexed4695 Před 2 lety +19

      My local electronics recycle place laughed at me and told me to F off. They resell.

    • @dragonsystems5973
      @dragonsystems5973 Před 2 lety +6

      @@iamperplexed4695 yeah, it depends on the location. Sometimes it really is about having the in... I paid someone to get the in at the place I went. Sometimes it is about having the friend of a friend who knows the guy in charge. I even had a place that I was buying at forever who told me to get lost, then a buddy of mine that was one of their vendors told me he saw cars parked outside that we both knew belonged to my competitors and said he talked to someone who told him that like oh yeah, we sell to so and so, so I called them up and they actually lied that they didn't, then when I told them I had the goods it became oh well, yeah, we sell some stuff to him, but not much... actually the Seattle secondary market scene has a whole drama all of its own

    • @LawrenceTimme
      @LawrenceTimme Před 2 lety +1

      In the UK, by law they don't allow you to take the perfectly working pcs out of the tip to be reused in case you damage the environment by dumping them. Super lame.

    • @kaisersolo76
      @kaisersolo76 Před 2 lety +1

      Dumpster Tech Yes City - It's Got to be a new Video series DYTC! Go on bigman!

    • @cody3026
      @cody3026 Před 2 lety

      Cant believe someone else has found my treasure trove. I use to go to this same place here on the Goldy and was in love until lockdown and haven’t been back since. Need fo go shortly after the stuff you’ve found! Love it man

  • @nickus9119
    @nickus9119 Před 2 lety +364

    We had a hardware dumpster at university. As a student I passed by daily to check for new trash / stuff. Always took the HDDs, RAM, CPUs, PSUs, Heatsinks, Fans. Checked warranty on the HDDs online and RMAed them whenever possible for new drives. Other working stuff was sold on ebay. Or I upgraded some student PCs in the faculty.
    Nothing beats freebies.

    • @Sybertek
      @Sybertek Před 2 lety +5

      Nice!

    • @witnesszer0
      @witnesszer0 Před 2 lety +4

      How you rma without the receipt?

    • @Marsychu
      @Marsychu Před 2 lety +25

      @@witnesszer0 that's quite easy, though wont work every time, you either say you don't have the reciet or you ask the school for it. I've experienced with a DJI drone i got from Sitech for free, with a broken range extender, I sent it for RMA and got a new one for free, just by telling them I didn't have the reciet as it's so old. lol so now i got a free functining DJI drone

    • @hovanthecool1995
      @hovanthecool1995 Před 2 lety +1

      Totally in agreement.

    • @revengenerd1
      @revengenerd1 Před 2 lety +10

      The thing that annoyed me though in cases like that was when I didn't have much cash, lets say the IT department would offer free or very cheap pcs i.e £20 for one that might of been a few years old at most. People would email/phone the literal second they were available and take them all. And they weren't doing courses that even required consistent pc usage, I could be doing media or an actual pc course and had to spend own cash I didn't have. People don't think about the others who may need them.

  • @richardirvine2220
    @richardirvine2220 Před 2 lety +291

    I am over the moon for this content. Getting things that were tossed out and keeping them out a landfill and back into service, I have found a macbook pro in the garbage and installed a new keyboard and it has been working like a champ.

    • @_________________404
      @_________________404 Před 2 lety +32

      Lol. Meanwhile where I live ppl try to sell absolutely everything instead of throwing it out, even broken core 2 duo laptops..

    • @tibib0ss
      @tibib0ss Před 2 lety +4

      @@_________________404 where do you live ?

    • @petercrome4931
      @petercrome4931 Před 2 lety +5

      @@tibib0ss propably Germoney, at least here it‘s just as he describes...

    • @stefanManiak262011
      @stefanManiak262011 Před 2 lety

      @@_________________404 same here in Romania!

    • @johnphillip1711
      @johnphillip1711 Před 2 lety +3

      @@stefanManiak262011 Same Scotland, people see the new price and think 10% off is a steal for something heavily used.....

  • @Da-Niros-Smirk
    @Da-Niros-Smirk Před 2 lety +182

    It's actually quite sickening how much perfectly good things just get dumped everyday. If people really care about the environment then this should be one of the things that should get tackled 1st

    • @techyescity
      @techyescity  Před 2 lety +71

      Yeah recently the person told me someone chucked out a 10700K and RTX 2060 system... my jaw dropped lmao.

    • @masterofallclasses7287
      @masterofallclasses7287 Před 2 lety +16

      People feel the need to buy new stuff even thou they don't need it and throw away perfectly working things away...

    • @PCFixer
      @PCFixer Před 2 lety +47

      @@techyescity I work at a recycling center. I had an 8th Gen i5 come in, 16GB DDR3 red-LED RAM and GTX1060 3GB. The reason? The CPU fan was noisy! Fixed it up, new cooler, new case, sold.

    • @WayStedYou
      @WayStedYou Před 2 lety +12

      @@techyescity The actual fuck

    • @LansHamilton
      @LansHamilton Před 2 lety +10

      @@PCFixer I used to work near where the local recycle drive happened every few months, you'd be surprised how far a couple of cold drinks go in a SoCal summer. They let me rip anything I wanted for free except HDDs because of security protocols about unwiped data. Considering this was the nice part of town I got a lot of nice older GPUs, CPUs, and enough DDR3 ram to fuel a data center. Only thing that sucked was that the pandemic killed them off, but at least now I can strip PCs I find on the side of the road in a minute flat from all the practice.

  • @chalermlab8925
    @chalermlab8925 Před 2 lety +223

    you're like reverse ltt or something, fixing stuffs without any expensive tools. good jobs man

    • @techyescity
      @techyescity  Před 2 lety +29

      Thanks man!

    • @Sybertek
      @Sybertek Před 2 lety +13

      Hey, that's Linus's dad!

    • @_________________404
      @_________________404 Před 2 lety +16

      LTT is cringe AF. Really decreased in quality over the years. It's unwatchable now.

    • @prudiceflc
      @prudiceflc Před 2 lety +1

      @@Sybertek xD

    • @Sybertek
      @Sybertek Před 2 lety +8

      @@_________________404 agreed. The thumbnails alone turned me away from his channel. I found Brian by accident and I have no regrets. First video I watched was him doing lessons on overclocking X58 Xeons. Now I'm living it! Those things may be old, but they play 4K so nicely for such an amazing price!

  • @Krhys1
    @Krhys1 Před 2 lety +53

    Getting the Z390 going after all the damage was an amazing job.

    • @johnhicks8626
      @johnhicks8626 Před 2 lety +7

      My mind was blown on that one. I passed on a z490 mobo once with gum stuck in two of the RAM slots. Now I feel foolish.

    • @grlmgor
      @grlmgor Před 2 lety +8

      I guess you could say the z390 board pins weren't *TUF* enough.

    • @jimmymcguire5039
      @jimmymcguire5039 Před 2 lety +1

      @@grlmgor oh my God that's great

    • @rulik006
      @rulik006 Před 2 lety +1

      because damaged was left side of socket with Vcore and ground pins
      , so its not critical like right side with memory pins

  • @philipbrady7635
    @philipbrady7635 Před 2 lety +75

    credit to you, you are one of the few that shows this avenue for equipment, what is possible, how easy it is to repair and THE GREAT GEAR THAT MORONS are throwing out. Brings me back a few years, I got most of my gear this way and still working perfectly. more content please

    • @patg108
      @patg108 Před 2 lety +2

      yeah but he hams it up and doesn't give a realistic perspective, far too superficial how most everything seems to "conventionally work" Shows bias against lower and older hardware that can still be repurposed for things, notice how most of the stuff he saves isn't too much older than around 10 to 12 years old? That's still viable for modern use given some time, cheap upgrades and consideration bias for what software to use removed to put expectations within reason.
      And he's not the only techie in australia. Ewaste ben, the complete opposite kind of guy, shows ya how to waste your time waste the tech, waste your money destroying it and he constantly makes videos too. Just look at a video or 2 of his. to see what i mean and compare. Practically no testing or repair or getting it to boot. Just tear it down strip wires parts (often improperly) or simply cut then with a wire cutter and talk about gold and contacts and copper or steel n crap.

  • @candidosilva7755
    @candidosilva7755 Před 2 lety +56

    Watching this made me realize something motherboards are realy hard to kill. Im impressed.

    • @CraftingTable3076
      @CraftingTable3076 Před 2 lety +3

      yeah im shocking too

    • @candidosilva7755
      @candidosilva7755 Před 2 lety +4

      @@CraftingTable3076 even with things riped twistid and broken cpu pins the damn things both posted and my face was like this🤔🤔

    • @nightcorekira5787
      @nightcorekira5787 Před 2 lety +1

      @@candidosilva7755 just means that manufacturers pick up the quality

    • @joefish6091
      @joefish6091 Před 2 lety +1

      @@candidosilva7755 Missing PCIe lanes, thats the downside to fragile LGA sockets, people ham fist them. AMD pins tends to be strong until they break off.

    • @madartzgraphics2019
      @madartzgraphics2019 Před 2 lety +3

      i literally made a decade old am3 board bath in WD40 to remove corrosion, let it soak for some time and wash it in dishwashing liquid with a toothbrush and put it under mild sunlight to dry. Still boots and looked newly purchased.

  • @sch-corp
    @sch-corp Před 2 lety +41

    Treat that guy who's letting you into the recycling facility like he's your own family...this is a public liability nightmare for whoever owns it. Have been to a few of the PC recycling outfits here in Melbourne (one in Campbellfield, one in Moorabbin), the people running them are very friendly and definitely believers in the reuse/recycle cause, but I wouldn't dare ask them to dive straight into the bins.

    • @datboi4925
      @datboi4925 Před 2 lety +8

      Agreed, i used to go after all employees but him left since he stayed about an hour after. Allways brought him a 6pack or gift card here and there, and he would always save stuff for me if he saw it. Was a great relationship and could talk to the guy for hours each time i went if he wasnt busy since id never hold him up.

    • @OZTutoh
      @OZTutoh Před 2 lety +1

      Thanks for mentioning this.

    • @joefish6091
      @joefish6091 Před 2 lety +4

      @@datboi4925 A six pack of refreshments could be considered good neighborly, a gift card crosses the line over to bribery and corruption side of things.

    • @daytimerocker3808
      @daytimerocker3808 Před rokem +2

      @@joefish6091 i mean ur dealing with discarded items essentially deemed trash so I feel like “corruption” is a bit intense for what this really is.

  • @TheGameBench
    @TheGameBench Před 2 lety +7

    Nice work. I didn't think you were going to be able to save that Z390. That was pretty bad.

    • @techyescity
      @techyescity  Před 2 lety +6

      Yeah I think when they told me to fix it, they laughed thinking it would be impossible, but the toothpick is my best friend.

    • @TheGameBench
      @TheGameBench Před 2 lety +1

      @@techyescity Jokes on them. Maybe you do maybe you don't, but you don't take the risk, you get no reward... and a working Z390 board, that a hell of a reward for just a little time. But I think I'm convinced that that toothpick IS magic.

    • @Sybertek
      @Sybertek Před 2 lety

      @@techyescity Nothing Linus's dad can't handle.

  • @nicholas9051
    @nicholas9051 Před 2 lety +18

    Thanks for the great content and a huge thanks for recycling ♻️ what could potentially end up in a dump!! As a kid in the 90s growing up in the burbs of Chicago, I used to ride my bike to different neighborhoods and go garbage picking. One day I opened a box while looking through the trash and there was a complete Unisys workstation (monitor, kb, and mouse also) with a 386, 12MB 30pin ram, and a 340MB HDD. It was super neat, and it was super heavy... It weighed 86 lb just for the tower! Great times I had back then and found many dumpsters also from businesses throwing away all kinds of cool electronics.

  • @MatthewKiehl
    @MatthewKiehl Před 2 lety +8

    Great stuff again Brian. I've dumpster dived a bunch of PCs. Most are much older than you have here. In my area I've not found a facility that will let me touch the drops. I find them by literal dumpsters. Many of my friends also hand me their old machines. Some I find new homes for. My best "find" was actually at a thrift store, "$35 as is" full system, fixed it up, dropped in a GPU+SSD and got my friend gaming. Other machines I've found I use as test equipment, or for experiments. I donated others to an A+ certification class. I've considered creating a little sign to pin up next to dumpsters "PCs here". People at apartment complexes often dump alot when they move.

  • @Sybertek
    @Sybertek Před 2 lety +2

    Flipped a system that was on the side of the road. The fans were clogged with cat hair being held by vaping juice and there were a bunch of dead roaches inside. Took me an entire afternoon to clean everything out. It had the following specs inside.
    CPU: i5 6500
    Motherboard: Asus H110M-K
    RAM: Hynix (2x8gb) 2133MHz RAM
    GPU: Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970 4gb
    PSU: EVGA Supernova Gold 750w modular
    Case: DIYPC F2-P Black/Purple
    Stock Intel cooler
    Storage: 1tb WD Blue 7200 rpm hard drive
    It smelled awful, but after a lot of cleaning, I switched the GPU put with an RX 560 4gb, moved a less intensive PSU into it, cable managed it, and put an SSD in it for running Windows 10 and flipped it for $350. Easy profit.

  • @shady4422
    @shady4422 Před 2 lety +5

    Looking into those dumpsters is like heaven for me lol i always go to recycling centers i even jump into the dumpsters for a good old rummage to ha.It's amazing what you sometimes find.Great vid as always @Tech YES City

  • @mitchdalsing2492
    @mitchdalsing2492 Před 2 lety

    Love it! Keep it up! Love to see all of it re-purposed instead of melted down or in a dump!

  • @dazzlernator
    @dazzlernator Před 2 lety +9

    This is amazing dedication. I thought I did well getting a Z390 Strix board for 25GBP being sold as untested but it had bent CPU pins and the board had a bend in the bottom third of it. After some time aligning the CPU pins, the board booted. I can't use dual-channel memory on it but none of the I/O beneath the bend on the board seemed to be affected so I'm now using the board in a file server. You put me to shame getting 4 free boards, putting in a bit of TLC and getting them working. I need to find a computer/electrical disposal company in the UK who'd be kind enough to let me dive their dumpsters.

  • @tyre1337
    @tyre1337 Před 2 lety +3

    non tech savvy people often think "a computer" is one single entity, and not a collection of interchangeable parts

  • @jasonsaez3668
    @jasonsaez3668 Před 2 lety +10

    Hey Bryan, I found another technique for bending back pins that works well for me. I use a small straw like you would find on a can of your all purpose spray. I put the straw over the pin and lean it back into shape. Just thought I'd mention a technique I thought of after watching your videos!

  • @brents2500
    @brents2500 Před 2 lety

    Great content, keep up the good work. Also, thanks so much for the sponsor! Just built a new rig and this saved me a good chunk of cash. The fact I was able to get a Windows Pro license at this price point was amazing.

  • @dragonsystems5973
    @dragonsystems5973 Před 2 lety +6

    Ok... technically this is not dumpster diving.... I used to do the same thing, I had the in at a place called Total Reclaim in Seattle wayyyy back in the day long before any of the CZcams stuff got started, I would buy whole pallets of high end hardware for like a couple hundred dollars. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with access to pc recycle always go the same way. First they see some stuff that looks like it could be worth a little money, then, they do that for a while, then they realize they could make a little more money on a little more stuff, then usually like a year or two in they realize they could go full retail, and they tell you to get lost.... after you basically gave them all the market research they needed to make money on the stuff

  • @mcborge1
    @mcborge1 Před 2 lety +11

    Nice finds. The only time I ever went dumpster diving (we call it skip diving in the UK) back in the mid 90's I got an Atari PC3 (8088) and a Commodore 8096-SK. Both machines were complete with screens and keyboards and everything was in full working order. :)

    • @oldrandomcomputing6247
      @oldrandomcomputing6247 Před 2 lety

      I managed to get myself an old socket 7 computer from a skip that was fully working, HDD included!.

    • @mcborge1
      @mcborge1 Před 2 lety

      @@oldrandomcomputing6247 Nice.

  • @NebulaShadow_
    @NebulaShadow_ Před 2 lety

    Hey man, keep up all the great videos. In many ways you're one of, if not my favorite "techtuber". Focusing mostly on DIY amazing gaming PCs, better for the environment going used, as well as better for the wallet. Having watched your content for years now, I can't believe you only have 500k, I genuinely enjoy your content loads more than some of your peers that have 3x or more subs. All I'm saying is don't let that be a measure of your success, thanks for the entertaining and informative videos, and keep up the tech yes lovin!

  • @michaelthompson9798
    @michaelthompson9798 Před 2 lety +3

    Great episode Bry 🥰🥳 truely awesome episode to watch and great to see you in your element and scoring this Tech Yes deals!

  • @69Dartman
    @69Dartman Před 2 lety +5

    Back when everyone had crt TV sets I had 2 TV shops in my town that would give me all the sets customers decided not to fix. I got a lot of them working and the rest were tore down for parts and recycled and scrapped. I still have some leftover crts and lots and lots of tubes from the super early lighthouse ones. I sold working buf not awesome sets for 50 each with a 30 day warranty and really nice up to date ones that had a remote and digital tuners that had excellent pictures could go for 150 and up. Made money for bills and toys for quite a while till throw away flat screens became popular and the digital broadcasting took over it wasn't worth it any more.
    I still have a couple crt rejuvenators and test equipment around I just don't want to throw away.
    Someday I should sell off all the vacuum tubes, some are worth some money now.

  • @BARCH-wp5vl
    @BARCH-wp5vl Před 2 lety +6

    I love what you are doing . You should promote this stuff for conserving our environment and This may help people who don't have money to buy new stuff also ease out the chip shortage time

  • @nana-chan4550
    @nana-chan4550 Před 2 lety +2

    It's crazy how much usable things get thrown away. I once found a Desktop with a i7 3770 and a GTX 660 on a garbage pile on the side of the road, took it home and it worked perfectly. In the company I worked at, PCs and Laptops that worked but were too old were data wiped and given out by lottery to employees for free. This is a much better thing than just throw them away.

    • @marcellachine5718
      @marcellachine5718 Před 2 lety

      I still have my i7 3770 I bought brand new. I still use it as a second family computer for internet and light gaming. Paired with a decent gpu it's still quite the capable machine.

    • @bustergundo516
      @bustergundo516 Před 2 lety

      @@marcellachine5718 nice.

  • @AndyMitchellUK26
    @AndyMitchellUK26 Před 2 lety +2

    I am still amazed by what people will throw away. I picked up a few computers from marketplace a few months back that they were just going to dump. One was an i5 2500k system, another was an i7 4770 and the 3rd was an FX-6300. All 3 worked and all 3 had 16GB DDR3 RAM and the only thing missing was the drives! The i7 had an R7 260x and the i5 had a 560 Ti. The FX system had something like a GT710 I think (I donated that system to a neighbour who was on an aging Core 2 Duo). The other 2 systems were sold cheaply on marketplace after buying a couple of 120GB SSDs and scoring some free 500GB mechanical drives from old Sky TV set top boxes.

  • @budgetflow6315
    @budgetflow6315 Před 2 lety +11

    Love your content,this is next level Scrapyard wars

  • @kensg
    @kensg Před 2 lety +1

    Been awhile since I’ve been here, but I’m glad the channel is thriving. All the Best🙏🏿

  • @martinbadoy5827
    @martinbadoy5827 Před 2 lety

    I'm looking forward to your more in-depth future video on binning PC components :)

  • @marduke83
    @marduke83 Před 2 lety +2

    Years ago my ud3 p67 board started boot looping out of nowhere, didn't work on either bios. Did some looking online and seemed like it happened to afew gigabyte motherboards of the time. Before it died it was throwing USB hub errors even with nothing plugged in, so not sure what caused it to fail.
    Glad to see some of this hardware will see some more time in use after being dumped. Good stuff mate!

  • @alaricpaley6865
    @alaricpaley6865 Před 2 lety +3

    Hey, a helpful hint for the pins: Go to the drugstore and buy a hypodermic needle. the hollow point lets you capture the pins easier, it's waaaay easier then using a toothpick.

  • @ericsfishingadventures4433

    You can find a lot of great stuff dumpster diving, we live in a throw away society, people throw out perfectly working products all of the time, especially here in America. Great video I love this kind of thing!

  • @Stoomhamer
    @Stoomhamer Před 2 lety

    You are a true hero man!!! This is the future, and you are teaching the whole world!!!! Thank you!

  • @jamespressey8610
    @jamespressey8610 Před 2 lety +1

    Great Video. Thanks for sharing and thanks for recycling. Won't know how good that MB with the bent and broken pins will work until you use it. Just because it boos does not mean their might not be a problem later.

  • @unitybeing777
    @unitybeing777 Před 2 lety +1

    You are so awesome and a blessing in my feed, thank God I found you. Congrats on z390!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a deal!

  • @LordShockwave9
    @LordShockwave9 Před 2 lety

    Brian, this. This content is amazingly awesome and I love this stuff. Please keep this up!

  • @Whymelow
    @Whymelow Před 2 lety

    Wonderful, Id love to do this for work, hobby, etc., its so great

  • @Arashmickey
    @Arashmickey Před 2 lety +1

    Kudos for respecting the time of the workers at that place just trying to do their jobs. I hope you get the opportunity to visit again and go through those bins at your leisure. I said it before but these vids feel kinda wholesome.

  • @paulf2898
    @paulf2898 Před 2 lety +2

    A fine sewing needle works best for bent pins

  • @cj_zak1681
    @cj_zak1681 Před 2 lety +2

    bit of a dumpster diver myself - great video! Have to be careful though, I had a monitor which went POP the 2nd time I used it, after it seemed fine to begin with....and some of those old mobos will give you PCIE 2.0 slots only. Lastly, make sure to thoroughly dry out your dumpster loot before using

  • @kennguyen2913
    @kennguyen2913 Před 2 lety +1

    Great work Bud!!! Keep up the good works , Recycled and save all those still capable budget gaming pc!!! Loved what you're doing 👍👍👍

  • @TM-zy6un
    @TM-zy6un Před 2 lety

    That is quality content! Thanks a lot for this!
    Kind regards from Germany.
    All the best for christmas time.

  • @16Tango
    @16Tango Před 2 lety +1

    About a year ago my wife and I were going out to dinner and we parked next to a dumpster outside of a Bank. I glanced in and saw two desktops on top and grabbed both. One was an older i5 machine that needed a PS but the other was an old 486 Cyrex machine. A new PS in the 486 machine got it up and running, it now shows my kids the kind of thing I started gaming on.

    • @Kilen81
      @Kilen81 Před 2 lety

      Nice save!! 👌That makes me very happy

  • @UndyingGhost
    @UndyingGhost Před 2 lety

    This content light up my day. Enjoying watching it with my morning caffe.

  • @RanenPo
    @RanenPo Před 2 lety +2

    Good stuff! I recently fished an Optiplex 3020 out of a recycling bin with an i3-4160 and 8GB of RAM, fully working! Still a competent machine.

  • @epic_clint
    @epic_clint Před 2 lety

    I was not expecting you to get the z390 board going. Well done.

  • @mehmetc1567
    @mehmetc1567 Před 2 lety

    bro greatings from out the Netherlands, i love your videos men!!! it motivates me so much to work and grind as hard or even try harder then you. keep it up loving it!!

  • @ultraxfo5664
    @ultraxfo5664 Před 2 lety

    I love this kind of content. Keep it up!

  • @paulomeneses2593
    @paulomeneses2593 Před 2 lety

    Great video I love your content, very interesting and totally different than most. Keep up the great work!!!

  • @bunter6
    @bunter6 Před 2 lety +2

    Great video, I lol'd when you said " they just threw it in the bin" as it immediately made me think of one of my other favourite Australian channels, MCM. As Marty would say - "IN THE BIN!"

  • @trevorromney3589
    @trevorromney3589 Před 2 lety

    Man I love watching your processes, and you have so much RMA know-how. I flip as a side gig, but I just can’t afford to put so much time into RMA on no boot tech. I needs to sell to keep it floating.

  • @mikpalio098
    @mikpalio098 Před 2 lety

    Love it man. I do near the same thing here. Maybe not for free but cheap. Anything to keep stuff from the landfill

  • @FUNatTECH
    @FUNatTECH Před 2 lety +11

    Ooh stop it! That´s exactly what we want to see! Free bargains. 🤑😎

  • @halbouma6720
    @halbouma6720 Před 2 lety +2

    I dumpster dive all the time when I go to the data center. I score stuff all the time from that. lol. Thanks for the video!

  • @Real_shred_krueger
    @Real_shred_krueger Před 2 lety

    very cool man, Happy new year.

  • @editz26smithoni69
    @editz26smithoni69 Před 2 lety

    I love these series!!!

  • @h2oincfs
    @h2oincfs Před 2 lety

    congratulations on the score.
    love me some tech yes lovin'!

  • @TheSgtCyrus
    @TheSgtCyrus Před 2 lety

    Got 2 i5 4690 systems off the road on a town wide recycle day. One had a bad ram stick, another a bad psu. Both systems were repaired and regifted, one to my niece and one to a friend

  • @askeebojan3460
    @askeebojan3460 Před 2 lety

    for this ga-p67a try this method, hold power button, plug power cable in PSU, as soon motherboard gets power unplug power cable from PSU, wait like 10-15 seconds and plug cable back and repeat process 3 times. After that you should release power button and get to backup bios and working motherboard. I had same problem with my GA-Z77-D3H. Good luck

  • @prophetgoogle7071
    @prophetgoogle7071 Před rokem

    Man, this is really amazing.

  • @garmar704
    @garmar704 Před 2 lety +2

    Cashing out is good news indeed! Crossing my fingers that's what it is. 🤞🏼 Love the salvaging content!

  • @KamiKageYT
    @KamiKageYT Před 2 lety +1

    Me and my buddy just did this a few days ago and found 3 old laptops and 2 desktops with some ok parts. its worth looking at

  • @AmbeBlackburn
    @AmbeBlackburn Před 2 lety

    In 2016 I saw a bunch of computers in a dumpster and went to take a look and found a working R9 390 PC color+ edition at the time I was rockin a R7 250 in my computer cause I only play games like cities and build computers here and there but yeah was way stoked at the time and it still works to this day thank god for the people taht throw things away lol

  • @JustIn-sr1xe
    @JustIn-sr1xe Před 2 lety

    One of my first forays into pc building came from dumpster diving for upgrades. I took an old 533MHz Pentium. Found a 733MHz and a 933MHz cpu. A 20GB Seagate HDD I dubbed the Gimp drive, as it had a rubber drop wrap over it. And a couple sticks or ram. Taking the old 128MB out to be replaced by 768MB between two sticks. Also found a voodoo card. But by that point, games already needed much more than the 4MB it had.

  • @morantaylor
    @morantaylor Před 2 lety

    I used to drive around my council area during hard rubbish collections finding PC hardware.
    The best score was a Acer i7-2600 with 8GB of RAM.
    Also scored a Samsung B/W laser printer I am still using 4 years later...
    Our council is moving to booking system next year :(

  • @j.lietka9406
    @j.lietka9406 Před 2 lety

    Sort of a cool find! They would make good PCBs for repair learning!

  • @saultube44
    @saultube44 Před 2 lety

    @10:45 You don't need to take the securing plastic thign from the RAM slot, just manually push the plastic to get it in place, and that's it, unless that's not enough. For Pin unbending: use a very small "flat" screwdriver, and a 40x+ magnifying glass, great precision; if you need more precision, build a small lever with 2 small screwdrivers

  • @badseedtech
    @badseedtech Před 2 lety +7

    Great video, man! Thumbnail really hit too! 👍🏻

    • @techyescity
      @techyescity  Před 2 lety

      It's my man Big B, how you been brother? I will have to give you a call and wish you a merry christmas soon dude.

    • @louellajackson2898
      @louellajackson2898 Před 2 lety

      Thank you for the competition.

  • @jan_harald
    @jan_harald Před 2 lety +1

    even when you can't get the full components to work, you can still scavenge the parts, or sometimes replace them, for example you could spend some time and solder on a new pci slot, if old is ripped out, with corrupted traces, if they're surface-level, you could potentially bridge them yourself (if there's overlaid traces both of which are broken, that's technically possible, but probably not worth it, at that point, unless you REALLY want it), or your could desolder the individual components (probably not worth the time, unless they're uncommon, or unless you like tinkering with building electronics yourself, where it can be very handy to have a few trays of components for only the cost of time)

  • @lunchie80
    @lunchie80 Před 2 lety

    Have picked up a couple of PCs left on curbside collection. One had a bad psu fan(noise sounded awful) which I simply replaced with a PWM case fan, and one had a windows install(seemed fine) but obviously no password. Cleaned, fresh windows installs and gave them to friends with young kids as Minecraft/internet browsing PC's

  • @frankstared
    @frankstared Před 2 lety

    You are a legend, my friend, an absolute legend. Keep on keepin', stay well, and be kind to yourself.

  • @webdev217
    @webdev217 Před 2 lety

    These are the types of things that would be great for Kid's PC. With many home-schooling now and not so much budget these would be sweet. At least where I live.

  • @ogbenchmarks7127
    @ogbenchmarks7127 Před 2 lety

    Wow wow wow. Great job on bending those pins. You've gotta play to win!

  • @jyveturkey1894
    @jyveturkey1894 Před 2 lety

    I had that exact p67 board and had the very same problem with boot looping. This was a long time ago, and I don't remember the solution. If I remember correctly, it would actually boot sometimes, and when it did I just never turned it off :) then at some point upgraded.

  • @makedaevilmage
    @makedaevilmage Před 2 lety

    20:20 yeah same here. Didn't sell anything for a bit and then suddenly I sold 3 systems in a week.

  • @JamiePineappleWyatt
    @JamiePineappleWyatt Před 2 lety

    You just hit the trifecta man, just wait until you hit that one nugget you never thought you'd ever see!
    With that dead trace board it might be time for the YES man to try his hand at trace repair (get some kynar wire from jaycar and a scuff pen, good flux and go for broke man)
    I've pulled heaps of stuff from dumpsters, I've worked for a lot of places that have great tech and always find a way to get some home when it comes to recycling time!

  • @Tobsn0312
    @Tobsn0312 Před 2 lety

    Man this is soo cool!
    I tried this aswell here in germany, but it is pretty hard to find the right person, which is allowing you to take a look.
    I got a complete PC with an i5 3470 which was clean and perfectly fine :)

  • @thunderwarrior1759
    @thunderwarrior1759 Před 2 lety

    For some reason you’re video pop up on my recommended’s…and I’m so happy it did.
    The motherboards you rescued,would they be any good for a retro gaming pc. If they are, which gen of games will they play up to? ie: MAME,N64 and such.
    I’m definitely gonna be subscribing and look forward to more videos

  • @K-Anator
    @K-Anator Před 2 lety

    I remember back in the day, my friend's mom would take us along to the recycling center as she was on the hunt for paint (they had a section where you could pick up like 1/4 cans of paint people disposed of). Anyway, there was always a big box, like the ones watermelons come in, full of old PC bits we'd root through. We eventually ended up building a working dual Pentium II, used it as a CS 1.4 server for a while.
    Don't remember what happened to it sadly.
    Oh, and more recently; went on a dump run, noticed a "gaming" PC case sitting in the scrap metal pile. When I looked, I could see there was still a CPU in it, and it happened to be a 775 board. Ripped the heatsink off and popped the CPU in my pocket. Turns out that Core2Duo was better than the P4 I had in my PC at home.

  • @KRAVER_
    @KRAVER_ Před 2 lety

    I do the same thing in my local areas, find nice stuff super cheap or free.

  • @chabchab8063
    @chabchab8063 Před 2 lety

    This is very intresting love the vid♡

  • @HairyScrambler
    @HairyScrambler Před 2 lety +2

    Can’t wait to see more dumpster dives! You should try to make a full dumpster dive build from different systems not just a prebuilt one. You mentioned extreme budget building, you should try to do some of these. It’s a shame that people think 3rd gen intel era mobos and CPUs are garbage when they can still play games and are still good for office and school productivity. They’re also still capable of being made into computers you can give to children who can’t afford online schooling instead of ending up as turtle food. Also there was a pretty new z390 board, I wonder if you might be able to find any systems with pascal or maxwell GPUs that’d be amazing.

    • @allroundgamer3541
      @allroundgamer3541 Před 2 lety

      hi there i did ive found a strix 1070 and an evga 1070

    • @HairyScrambler
      @HairyScrambler Před 2 lety

      @@allroundgamer3541 awesome finds, I just built a PC for my friend and he got a strix 1070 it’s such a beautiful card. The pascal era strix cooler/shroud design is easily one of my favorites, everything about it including the backplate is just so premium

  • @SwiftMCy
    @SwiftMCy Před 2 lety

    Man I wish we had an e-waste recycler around here. Awesome stuff yeah

  • @allansolomon5132
    @allansolomon5132 Před 2 lety +1

    Im surprised that most of the boards are actually working, I'm very curious about the z390 stability when booted into windows.
    I have dealt with a bent cpu pins, some boards won't recognize multiple stick of ram, some with have a thermal issues.
    Definitely a follow up video on that z390 motherboard

  • @artk2219
    @artk2219 Před 2 lety +1

    Where those two pins snapped was likely in the power delivery section for the CPU, you can usually lose a few of those and not lose stability, you may never win world records with overclocking now though hah. LGA 1151 pinout diagrams should help you find exactly which pins were lost and what they did.

  • @quantum2330
    @quantum2330 Před 2 lety

    I haven't been dumpster diving in forever, always good to recycle things that can be fixed!
    I found a working gpu at one of my local dumps, some sapphire thing not really anything high performance but it had nothing wrong with it, pawn shops normally throw out merchandise that isn't selling got a few free ps3 games that way when I was younger,

  • @kornelart3122
    @kornelart3122 Před 2 lety

    Nice ! Have been waiting for this one ! 😎👍

  • @TheBaza1980
    @TheBaza1980 Před 2 lety

    Great video. How are you drying the boards after they have been soaking wet plz

  • @gauchemode7488
    @gauchemode7488 Před 2 lety

    Good on you Brian!

  • @johnwatson5593
    @johnwatson5593 Před 2 lety

    The socket is actually soldered into the board and can be replace fairly easily

  • @mitchel71
    @mitchel71 Před 2 lety

    My current rig is running a 7600k on a gigabyte motherboard. I got it for free, when someone at work bent the pins on the board trying to clean it. I offered him some cash, but he said, if you can fix it, it's yours. 1 hour later, first time bending pins, and I haven't had an issue in 10 months.

  • @WaybackTECH
    @WaybackTECH Před 2 lety

    Glad to see you still playing with old junk and showing it is still useful and fun.

    • @HardwareHaven
      @HardwareHaven Před 2 lety

      I know it's super annoying to do this, but I'm starting to make videos on finding uses for older machines and such if you're interested 👍

  • @atonfoabdoul-aziz7834
    @atonfoabdoul-aziz7834 Před 2 lety

    #@TechYesMan awesome content once again... I've encoutered the Ram stick problem many times in past and never know what to do to solve it. Thanks!

  • @prawny12009
    @prawny12009 Před 2 lety

    I have that exact gigabyte ga-p55-ud3 motherboard in my old mesh titan gs wall mount, aluminium back plate as a test bench style tray
    my living room pc is an asus m11bb transplanted into a sff case.

  • @kam7r882
    @kam7r882 Před 2 lety +1

    dude , that's awesome , i'm an old tech guy still working in the area , now i'm thinking about going to my local dumpster and maybe rebuild PCs and give them away to kids or poor ppl, maybe to charity since i hate when ppl dump perfectly working stuff or just a little damaged, but i don't know if it's the same in France since we usually recycle quick or try to use what we have until it's really really dead... but i'll look for informations in any case

  • @SpikeBlighty
    @SpikeBlighty Před 2 lety

    Fantastic eco-friendly content. keep up the great work

    • @marcellachine5718
      @marcellachine5718 Před 2 lety

      I find it sickening, people that talk eco friendly and do not understand what that would really mean.

  • @meliodascurams6435
    @meliodascurams6435 Před rokem

    GREAT WORK DUDE

  • @twizz420
    @twizz420 Před 2 lety

    Kinda like dumpster diving for "broken" tech on ebay... I got a "broken" Crosshair V Formula-Z for $40cdn because the guy thought it was fried. Turns out I just had to replace the bios chip, which was socketed anyways. Works like brand new. And still in new condition, just sat in a box since he bought it. Replaced the thermal paste on the chipset and replaced the thermal pads with some newer thinner ones.

  • @techluvin7691
    @techluvin7691 Před rokem

    Those pins that broke on the z390 were probably grounds and that’s good. I’ve had a broken socket pin and it just happened to be for the x16 slot which ended up disabling the socket.