I Built a Working PC using only Broken Parts

[LMGcommunity]

Building a PC with only broken parts... what could go wrong? Alex and the team gamble $2,600 on non-working CPUs, GPUs, RAM, motherboards, SSDs, and coolers to see if they can resurrect enough pieces to build functioning gaming computers. Was it worth it?

 

 

[spacepickle]

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[Haswellx86]

Ngl, but from this video I think I really like to watch Linus host videos. It felt a bit boring and unenthusiastic without him. Makes me realize how important of a job video hosting is and not everyone has the best talent in it.

[Mr Winter]

28 minutes ago, Haswellx86 said:

Ngl, but from this video I think I really like to watch Linus host videos. It felt a bit boring and unenthusiastic without him. Makes me realize how important of a job video hosting is and not everyone has the best talent in it.

I get what you mean, but I personally think they did a great job.

 

Wasn't as hyper energetic (which some people may find boring), but instead it was a nice relaxed hangout session with some interesting takeaways for the viewer.

The frequent switching of co-host is really nicely performed in this video imo.

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

Dan has style! No dull standard edition in sight!

[atxcyclist]

This is a fun video. That ‘Flying Windows’ shirt Jordan had on gave me such nostalgia.

[Needfuldoer]

Those Intel datacenter SSDs are tough little buggers.

[KidKid]

7 hours ago, Haswellx86 said:

Ngl, but from this video I think I really like to watch Linus host videos. It felt a bit boring and unenthusiastic without him. Makes me realize how important of a job video hosting is and not everyone has the best talent in it.

I agree... Linus is best. But Alex is my second favorite LTT video host, mainly because of all the sketchy things he and Linus do together.

[KidKid]

7 hours ago, Mr Winter said:

I get what you mean, but I personally think they did a great job.

 

Wasn't as hyper energetic (which some people may find boring), but instead it was a nice relaxed hangout session with some interesting takeaways for the viewer.

The frequent switching of co-host is really nicely performed in this video imo.

That's a reason I like Linus- he's always energetic!

[bluehawk]

I'd say get used drive but don't put mission critical files on it or at best get multiple and RAID it up at least. RAM is cheap don't get dead or faulty RAM. As Alex said you can get so many random issues with it not worth it

[OhYou_]

getting all FFs in a bios read has near zero implications that the gpu is cactus.
unless the power rail to the bios chip is being pulled to ground, the chip will come on and read because it is very independant from the card itself. you are powering the chip and reading directly from it.
if you see all FFs then you are not making a good contact or something is wrong with power to the chip. 

programming clips are very fragile and dont last long, I've never had good luck with them, resorting to just hand soldering leads to the legs most of the time.

[RejZoR]

Graphic cards that don't do anything might just have wrong BIOS flashed (or just corrupted) because someone flashed the wrong one. Doing blind flash or flash in extra slot along functioning graphic card with correct BIOS might revive it. If there are any labels on it, decode from that which card it is and which BIOS you need.

[PrimalPhoenix]

5 hours ago, OhYou_ said:

getting all FFs in a bios read has near zero implications that the gpu is cactus.
unless the power rail to the bios chip is being pulled to ground, the chip will come on and read because it is very independant from the card itself. you are powering the chip and reading directly from it.
if you see all FFs then you are not making a good contact or something is wrong with power to the chip. 

programming clips are very fragile and dont last long, I've never had good luck with them, resorting to just hand soldering leads to the legs most of the time.

+1 on this, either eeprom chip  is dead or not connected properly. Also those ch340 eeprom readers have some design flaw that sends 5v to chips that should only be using 3.3v. Some gpus even use 1.8v chips although the 2070 in the video appears to be a 3.3v chip. Its possible the chip was killed by the eeprom reader, in which case it may not be the problem, or it was dead already in which case the replacement is a relatively simple repair in terms of gpu repair.

 

 

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

6 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Graphic cards that don't do anything might just have wrong BIOS flashed (or just corrupted) because someone flashed the wrong one.

It's why I love cards with the turbo switch.

 

Not because I use Turbo, but because a flip and you have a free backup. They actually tried it on a card.

[dogwitch]

16 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

Those Intel datacenter SSDs are tough little buggers.

cough the god netgear fanless enterprise switches. 

be it 100 mb or 1gb.

those are unkillable!!!!