I bought OVER $3,000 of USED Gaming PC Parts in Tokyo... Did I make a mistake?
welcome to the final used PC parts hunt in Japan for at least 2024 because I have to go back to Australia very soon but with Tokyo lately it has just been insane the deals that we've been picking up in the last couple of months here and as always one good turn deserves another but also I was thinking about going on a Country tour however I realized all the junk stores that I used to go to in the past they've all got terrible pric pricing now to the point where the discrepancy between pricing on these used PC parts at these junk stores and Tokyo right here with all these good stores now is just such a big difference that I'd be wasting so much time and also gasoline going around to these places and getting bust after bust and what made it so was that I went to my local hard off recently and sometimes they've got decent deals and I just saw the a GTX 1650 for over a 100 USD and I thought yeah I'm in the wrong place here where I'm used to picking those kinds of cards up for nearly half that price and the saddest thing about it all is that local hard off that's close to where I live has actually been probably one of the best hard offs too the ladies and gentlemen get your used PC parts hunting capes on and let's go for a tour and see what Bargains we can find I was a so that maybe I would have fall for you because you make me mad I lose it all when I'm with [Music] [Music] you so we've come out of the first junk paradise and as you can see the bags are full of good deals the first being an RTX 3070 a little over 200 $ and it's a pretty good model I mean it looked like it's in really good condition the guy said it's got a problem with the fan and one of the fans has a noise but every time these guys at junk Paradise have told me that there's problems with the fan noises I get the cards home and there's literally nothing wrong with them after I just at least give them a quick little spray down then beside that we've got a bargain on a b550 pro for motherboard here we got this for I think a little over 30 something us now at least in the last month the Japanese Yen has appreciated a little bit against the United States dollar but if I'm picking up these deals where the prices in Yen are cheaper than that exchange rates dropped then I'm still winning as we can see here but the pro this has apparently got a dead audio output or something he said to me and I'm thinking that's probably not a problem maybe someone uh just put some uh crumbs in there off their hamburger and we just got to clean that that audio Port out and we should be good to go again then beside that we got two x470 Master boards here and they were going for around $50 so really good price on some x470 boards but apparently one of them has a busted HDMI port and I'm thinking well if I'm building a ryzen 5000 series say an x3d a 5700 x3d system it's going to have no igpu anyway so there's a win and then beside that we've got this nvme drive on the other one that's apparently missing a screw or something so yeah I mean it's going to cause zero issues for me at all on all these deals or hopefully but let's move on now to the next store which is another junk Paradise but I'm starting to also see a little bit of a trend because someone in Australia told me GPU prices are back up on the rise again at least for the low end but we will check that out a little bit more because the first store did kind of correlate with that with 1660 prices and 10 prices being a little bit elevated to at least last month and the month before [Music] [Music] so we just now visited two stores one of which is really good lately last month we picked up an RTX 3050 from this place for a bargain and this month we picked up the same RTX 3050 they got this bulk deal on the 8 GB cards but you're only allowed one uh purchase per visit I guess per day so I quickly just went in there and snagged up my art tx350 brand new in bulk packaging but also they've got some other really good deals on new parts at this Arc place so for instance RAM ssds and things like that but also you may notice we're doing the tour a little bit different this month and that's because we're doing it in reverse but what I'll do is I'll show you a map of usually the tour I do from aih Habra cuz a lot of people have been asking me both via email and via the comments what uh stores do I go to so I'll just quickly go I'll just really run through a map of all the shops that I visit when I'm in aih Habra for all the deals and usually they've always got something every time I come here I'm usually never coming up with a bust whether it's new or used parts so really good deal so far and I've only visited three stores and the other was a second junk Paradise but this junk Paradise I think I'm just going to stop visiting it because it's only got one little shelf for computer parts and it's usually a BST and last month it was a BST this month it was a BST uh they just really had no good deals here that the other junk paradises where they've got a lot more parts and of course a lot better deals but let's keep going through with this tour where there's just another junk Paradise down the corner here so there's like three in a really small cluster but this uh third one usually has it's sort of in the middle of akih Habra it's usually got the deals that we like so let's go check out if we come up Lucky but also you guys uh requested a different mic this month I was wearing the Aly Express field mic banger but people would just constantly making fun of it in the comments and my insecurities have kicked in now so we're back to the usual mic so do let us know though which do you think sounds better this one I think lets in a bit more background noise so but it looks better [Music] so we've now just stepped out of the third junk Paradise with some good and bad news and we'll start off with the bad news first and that is that there was no good deals on graphics cards in there in fact compared to last month I've noticed a especially 1080s 1660s and stuff like that they've creped up around $15 to $20 on just sort of General Flat prices so maybe my friend telling me about GPU prices going up in Australia there's some truth to that and it's actually something in the back of my mind that's been bothering me ever since we haven't got any sort of entrylevel decent cards from Nvidia and I mean let's be honest the last time we got a decent card in the $200 range was probably the 3050 or the 1660 super and the problem there with those cards especially the 3050 was things went up in price cuz it came out during a crypto boom and then we have the 3060 I mean you can still get them for a little under $300 but the bottom line is there is no like sub $200 cards being launched from Nvidia and that's a big problem because there's a lot of buyers who want budget gaming systems and especially if their friends have got in cards and whatnot they're going to want an Nvidia graphics card so the only way to go then is the used market and if there's all this pent up demand for the used market for these cheap graphics cards then that means supply and demand it's only going to go up in price though there is the RX 6600 but they're on the shelves used and new and they're not being bought up at any real Pace to make the prices go up for them but do let us know in the comments what you guys think about this situation especially where you live is it a different story or is it a trend that's emerging but let's get on to the good news and that is we got two CPUs while we're inside and they're both ryzen 7700s now we got these for I think a little over 30 USD a piece so eight cores 16 threads I'm happy with those two CPU purchases but speaking of other CPUs in there really nothing special standing out except for the are indeed sort of higher end Intel CPUs starting to fill the shelves on the used Market more than they were last month so I guess this worry about these CPUs degrading and causing problems is becoming more apparent in the mainstream and we are starting to see the effects on the shelves anyway the junk Paradise we just came from is over there I just had a nice Kebab here it's pretty much the only place I eat at in aih HRA because it's just quick easy good value you don't have to wait in any cues but quickly scoff that Kebab down I got the beef one and we're going to move up just over here like that's how close everything is I can show you it in one slide Dos Power is right over there we're going to go hit that up and there's also buy more just on the corner before Doss power so let's go check out these two stores [Music] [Music] [Music] so this is going to sound a little bit crazy but if you've been watching Tech yet City for a long time you'll know it's not that crazy but anyway we were going into those other stores that I mentioned and actually I at that stage IID found a wraith prism and these were going for like a little over 10 USD they were calling them junk because they didn't want to hear any complaints but and I was like damn if I if I had longer in Japan I'd probably just clean out the whole shelves of those and then put them on a boat send them back to Australia cuz uh boat shipping is so cheap to get stuff like this back to Oz and but the problem was there too they only allowed two per person so you kind of got to live close to Tokyo go in there every day to you know grab your two or whatever and stock up but that was a bargain but then I went into dos par and I was kind of like I was like I was thinking well there's there's a few motherboards here I I'll put them on the shelves cuz at that stage I was already carrying quite a bit of stuff so I was like all right well I'll come back to the motherboards if I go look at the other stores quickly check out they've got just so I don't so I'm not lugging around heaps of more stuff while I'm looking at other stuff but then I I quickly walked into schumo and that's when it happened I was just like wow I know what's going to go on here I'm looking at all these GPU prices they've got the 3060 TI I mean sure they're coming in at roughly the same price that we paid for that 3070 but that's a good price like those prices you're not seeing them at other stores so I picked up 3360 TI now keep in mind this is the price you're paying if you are on a tourist visa that little bottom price there cuz they're taking the tax off for you so we're picking up three 3060 TI I then saw they had the 3050s on the shelves and I'm like I'll take all four of those because again that's a pretty good price for a 3058 gig and then after that they had a 3080 on the shelves just like last month we got that really good deal on a 3080 now telling me something about this card like it had a little bit of rust on it I checked it out and it really had nothing on it I think there was an overreaction there then after that he's asking me what else do you want and I'm like all right we've got a 4080 super here um again like the cheapest I've ever seen a 4080 super on the shelves for not just in Japan but also in Australia and I asked him why is someone selling a 4080 super so soon and he said oh it wasn't enough power for them they upgraded to a um to a 490 but yeah we're going to go through all these gpus guys test them out one by one I'll actually put up the total tally here up on the shell uh screen for you soon after we just talk about this one right here 1660 super and it's going for like one of the cheapest prices I've ever seen a 1660 super go for now I asked him what was wrong he said fans um spinning up making a noise so we've got two of those in today's pile here where they claim the uh fans are bad so we got that initial 3070 that we got and then we got the 1660 super here so we're going to test out those first see what's wrong with them but also we got a ryzen 7 1700 another one and this one was even cheaper I think this is even cheaper than last time going for a I think in the 20usd region maybe 20 something 23 24 USD unbelievable price I mean I've been picking up they're the only CPUs I've picked up this month ryzen 7 1700s but as you guys know last month when I picked one up I was reading the comments too and you guys had the same mindsets like yep let's get those ryzen 7 1700s at that price cuz that's a bargain you couple that in with our 3050s right that we're getting for cheap 32 gabt of ram you get yourself a really nice specked out PC that you can make a good tidy profit on when it comes to flipping anyhow let's get all this stuff unboxed and show you guys that tally unfortunately I don't I'll try test out these motherboards but I just don't know if they support the ryzen 7700 cuz I've packed up all my other stuff that's all boxed and a lot of that's been shipped off to us already so I've only got like in terms of testing the motherboards I might have to se that one out but I've got my uh test system here my Benchmark system so we're going to run through that and test out all these gpus and see if there's any problems so here's the first of the gpus that is making the noise and I'll show you a quick clip of what is happening here it's actually the right-and fan the bearing's just completely [Music] gone but now we get back to here we're actually benchmarking the GPU and it works really well so if you're on a budget this is kind of like the the poor man's fix and that's just undervolt the GPU and then you can drop the fan speeds down to the lowest they go and there it is voila let's check out the next one so here's the 370 and there's actually really good news and that is the fans are just going pretty much 100% And the temperatures are going pretty high so all it needs is just a repaste there's actually I don't think there's anything wrong with this GPU except it just needs new thermal paste [Music] so we're coming back the next morning after testing out all these graphics cards and we got some really good news to report and that is all of them worked absolutely fine and in fact the fans on the 3070 were absolutely fine too I just think the card needs a repaste but all the other cards especially the ones from schumo those guys do a great job of benchmarking the cards making sure there's nothing wrong and if there is something wrong they give a really good discount accordingly like we found out with that 1660 super which what I did just before was I checked AliExpress and I can get the replacement fans actually two of them for $10 USD delivered so I'll be able to fix that fan and have a spare left over and I got an amazing deal on a 1660 super so basically what happened there was the bearing went out and as we said earlier if you wanted a budget fix for that and it's your own PC I mean I wouldn't sell it with a busted fan but if it's your own PC or you're building for a family member and you're on a real strict budget you can always undervault the card and then deal with it that way way but what we got here is just an insane haul I just went overboard at that schumo because I just haven't seen like just deals are just on the shelves like one after the other we had the 3050s just all in a row there I'm like man I'll take them all and then we had those 3060 TI coming in at the right price and there was a few other good cards there like the 4080 super I haven't seen one that cheap on the shelves before and the weird thing about that 4080 super was it looked really good actually a cool looking card that I've never seen before so I don't know do let us know what you guys think in the comments about the look of that 4080 super are you jamming with it do you think it's a bit too much I don't know just I thought it looked pretty cool but the card is of course a Whopper uh bigger than a Hungry Jack or a Burger King Whopper too but also as we're testing through these cards I'm also checking for the Headroom that's just given the core clock slider a little bit of room there given the memory a boost just to see if any of these cards are sort of busting out on us and the good news here is is that all all of them are doing absolutely fine I am a little bit worried about the 3080 venti because it it must just be that model perhaps but the temperatures do seem a little bit high at stock and the I don't think it needs a thermal repaste and the easiest way to tell is just to feel the back plate if the back Plate's getting really hot that means the cooler is absorbing the heat properly especially if it's happening relatively quickly which is why I knew that the 370 that we tested had a thermal paast problem because the card is just really cool to touch still but the GPU temperatures are just going really high pretty quickly so that's an easy way for you guys to tell if a card IM immediately needs a repaste so I'm a little bit worried about that 380 I think I heard somewhere that the 3080 Ventus did in fact have a bit of a mediocre or underperforming cooler though I'd have to check again anyhow what we got here is just a tally that is just absolutely insane I'll put it up on the screen for you guys we're coming in around a little over 3 and a half th000 USD uh in Yen terms over guman absolutely insane hle considering we just got this many graphics cards I actually haven't picked up this many graphics cards in a single Hall outside of crypto um Mass buyers in the past so this sort of marks a new record for the channel and then of course we got these motherboards here and these ryzen 7700s I think these are an absolute bug in these 1700s I'll be putting them to the test later on when I get back to Australia put them in a gaming PC and see how well they flip but the motherboards I did decide like I'm actually glad because on the train home when I was catching the train back home I checked out the motherboard prices on AliExpress cuz I was actually going to buy a few more I was going to go back to maybe Tokyo and just buy up a heap more because at Doss par they had b550 for 8,000 Yen like all these azck Pros uh Pro Models and they all looked really good condition it was like over 10 of them at least and then I checked out AliExpress it's like man b450 I'm seeing b450 motherboards for around 40 USD delivered and I'm thinking to myself oh okay we'll just hold off on the on the motherboard purchases here because AliExpress isn't just bringing those prices on the CPUs they're bringing them now on the motherboards again because at I think like in the last year motherboard prices on alexpress especially for b450 b550 and that kind of thing they went up actually quite a bit to the point where it's was like much better to buy on the used Market or try and get a deal just locally for your motherboards but now with those prices coming down to the way they are I'm definitely going to be trying out some of these latest b450 motherboards that are up for sale as well as some other boards and giving you guys reviews on that tell you if it's a hit or a miss and um yeah do let us know what you think about that idea but of course it's always always about the matter of just getting the gaming PC done for as cheap as possible so what we got here is just an absolute score um I as I said before I had to call the whole Parts hunt just I had to cut it pretty quickly because I just couldn't carry anymore I had a backpack full of parts I had three big bags and in fact at the schuma I told the guys like oh you know we'll Chuck the bags in a service right these 20 cent bags is like we'll give you this service because you're buying so much and I and I just said uh well about that service can you uh chuckle these boxes out for the motherboards and also these bags and stuff that I got from junk Paradise uh because they didn't want to Chuck out the boxes and all the stuff for the graphics cards because as soon as you do that you actually void your warranty so technically I voided the warranty now for these motherboards here but again the gpus being much more expensive being much more of an important purchase I would rather void the warranty on the motherboards than that of the GPU so made that decision because I just couldn't carry anything else and he was like sure I'll chuck all that out for you that's not a problem so I also realized that motherboard boxes besides the motherboard itself they carry a lot of weight cuz they put all these manuals and CDs and all these other jazz in the box and it really increases the weight so if you guys are looking for tips for packing things always go to Bubble Wrap bubble wrap is like the lightest and most efficient way to drop the weight while still protecting the gear so what I usually do and even if sometimes if if if posting uh stuff is pretty expensive I'll just do what's called a bubble wrap pack and you just bubble wrap it so much that that's just the package there's no box so that's a little bit of little bit of hints for you guys but also another thing is too you probably wondered why I started the parts on in reverse because usually I go to schumo like first or like the junk Paradise that's on the other side of akih habara and the reason I did that this time is you're probably thinking BR this is bit bit of a script job you went there first before you did all the other parts hunting absolutely not actually this month and I've got some crazy news that's sort of tied in with this I started off at actually ueno and I got off at ueno station which is like I think it's like a stop before AI habara because there's a bank there called ufj now I like it's a long lost bank account that I had and it had about 1,000 bucks in it I think and I was just like guys can I get this money to my other account overseas I just want to send this money money off and kind of close his bank account down and they just said to me like okay you want to send money overseas you're going to need a a resident card and it's got to have three months validity and I'm just like man I'm on a tourist visa now like and I just said to them like I want to send my money from my account to my account overseas and they're like we can't do it we can't do that for you and I'm like okay what is going on in Japan cuz I remember like years ago you could send money absolutely fine there was no problems but now it's like a massive problem so if you're living in Japan you might want to think about that so I'm actually kind of Lucky there's hardly any money in this bank account here but if you got money in a bank account here or you're kind of doing some sort of investing here I don't know the headaches involved around that if you're not a resident you're trying to send money overseas I thought that was completely backwards and I asked them what's going on here and they're like oh all the laws have gotten really strict uh regarding sending money and I just said guys look at the amount of money I'm trying to send and I said surely there's some kind of decision making involved here to just look at the situation and go hey this guy's got this bank account since like 2008 I think it was I've opened this bank account and you guys are like questioning me about $1,000 anyway it was just crazy but that's why I started off on oeno cuz the bank ufj only has like a branch in oeno then from there I started walking into akih habara and that is why we started off at the other side anyhow all that aside time for a bit of an update do let us know as well in the comments what was your favorite deal of this Parts hunt here today for me personally I've got to go with the RTX 370 I think that's just the bargain we love right just change the thermal pce and you got a perfectly working card as well as the ryzen 7700 and also you may notice I got that 2080 TI as well I think it was on the shelves last month I was like all right we'll give this 2080 TI another go because the price is pretty decent it's coming around the same price as a 3070 so yeah I mean the market does prefer a 3070 for my experience but we'll give the 2080 TI another crack but finally let's get on to the last part of the partson and that is talking about the market the update here what is going on what am I seeing and what are the trends and all the tech guess onomics tied in with all this and basically this month was for me personally one of the best parts Hunts I've done but that's because of one store I actually saw at the other stores kind of a bit of a weird Trend where gpus at least like 1660 supers and GTX 1080s and all those sort of lower end cards were actually starting to go up in price a bit on average so if you are thinking about sort of stocking up for Christmas on used gpus you might want to do it now while prices are still pretty good especially as we were talking about before because there's no sort of low-end cards coming out that really hit the spot versus the used market in terms of at least sub $200 so you'll notice a lot of these cards here in today's Parts Huns are in that sub $200 Mark and they're bringing extraordinarily good value for money especially when it comes to putting them into a gaming PC so I think that's one thing to look out for I think CPUs and motherboards checking the prices of those at least on AliExpress they're really good uh so that's sort of like your backup if you can't get good prices on the local market where you are for things like motherboards CPUs and and RAM and also another thing is too ddr4 memory has gotten really cheap online as well so those sort of barebones components for a build they're nothing to worry about and they're coming down in price so that's a really good thing but then gpus that's the worrying concern here is your GPU going to go up in price I don't have a crystal ball here but one thing I do know as always and I say this in all my part SS is just look at the price you're paying now for what you're getting remember price is what you pay value is what you get and what I paid here and the value I'm getting I'm blown away and I always do that with my used partons so always just look at the performance you're getting especially comparing that versus what's available new so if we look at the most popular card RTX 30 60 12 GB that's your benchmark for what people are paying on the new market check out the performance of that rally it up against the card on the used Market and you're good to go there's your value right and a lot of these cards here they're going to be coming in at pretty much double the value of that 3060 at least off the top of my head maybe certain instances might be more than that might be a little bit less but overall we're just going to get a lot more value off the used market then when we put that into a gaming PC people can do their own research and go hey this PC is packing a lot of value so that's where we're all about with the used market now in terms of the economic environment going forward it's like every time I look at the finance news it's like oh we we're going we're heading into recession we're going into a recession a recession's coming and there's talks of America now uh cutting the basis points by 50 points on the interest rates so that's like kind of crazy to see that between now and then I think again that Catalyst something big is going to happen big shock and then they might even go bigger than a 50 basis point cut and if that happens again it's the same thing as before inflation's back on again so I just see the good deals at the moment guys don't pass them up especially if you got a bit of cash on hand stock up on the good deals cuz I don't think they're going to last for all that long especially in this inflationary environment that's happening I mean we saw Japan even kind of raise their interest rates not that much but still I saw an article where they kind of want to get their interest rates to around 2% in the next couple of years so that's kind of weird for Japan too so kind of looks like there's a trend and that is sort of this higher inflation not the typical two 1 to 2% that you're used to seeing it's more like 3 to 4% and that's um that seems to be a very dangerous sticky Trend that if these central banks and governments want to stick to they're going to see just how much of a headache it's going to cause for economies you want no inflation realistically you just want reliable pricing day and day out especially when you're doing business in any business environment you don't want inflation it's just horrible anyhow enough rambling aside with the te Tech y nomics hope you guys enjoyed this one uh do stay tuned for the Aussie videos I will be back to in Australia next month and I look forward to giving you guys a lot more content we're going to look into the ryzen 9000 Series launch uh much more in depth as well a lot of you guys have really been enjoying that content I'll get to the bottom of that because my 9600 X it was running pretty good when I did the testing here so I'm kind of shocked that all these other reviewers were just saying it was just a complete ride off when I just thought the only bad thing about 9000 series at least from my testing so far was the value and that's only because as we said before the economic conditions aren't that great right now AMD can't control that and the CPUs on like 7,000 are just such good prices so that's kind of what they're going to contend with so 9,000 launch for me it's like mediocre but hey I'll look into it a lot more and I'll just when I'm back in Australia I'll really analyze the other CPUs as well see what the go there is but I don't think like it's it's the end of the world put it this way the easiest way for me to describe products if they're bad good or mediocre is if I bought it myself or if I knew someone who bought it went out and bought this product would they make a bad decision was that a bad decision if they bought a 9600 X for $280 did they make a horrible choice and the answer is no that CPU is going to fly in games it's going to do actually even things like 1080p video editing or even 4K video editing it's going to be actually really good so that CPU is just going to perform so yeah is the value not as good as say a 7800 x3d sure but still going to be okay you know like you put that in your rig you're not going to like your system isn't going to have suddenly be out of performance so but who knows maybe I'm just a little bit different to the other guys out there and I will catch you guys in the next tech video very soon if you stayed this far and you're enjoying that Tech yes content be sure to hit that sub button ring the bell and also let us know in the comment section below any requests for videos anything you guys want to see love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in the next one peace out for now bye h
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