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So recently in a lot of my twitch live streams I've had people coming in thanking me for teaching them how to build computers used with secondhand parts and then flipping them to make Some money as a second source of income, but I've also had people saying they've gone out bought parts brought them back Only to find out that they've been scammed now when you're buying secondhand parts It's usually a risk no matter what part you go with because you don't know what's happened to that part before But of all the risks you take the biggest one is by far the graphics card because in any computer budget The graphics card will always cost you the most amount of money now There are a few different ways that a graphics card can be broken most of which can actually be repaired and actually give you a brief Overview of how it could be broken I'm gonna have my friend Chris from coalition gave me explain it to you really quickly because like I've said before in the channel He's by far one of the smartest people that I've ever met when it comes to fixing what is wrong with your PC So if you bought a graphics card secondhand and you're experiencing issues There's always a few things you can try to get that graphics card working First thing is inspect the card closely take the cooler off the card and look for signs of burning dark spots or discolored areas This can signify heat or voltage damage while you're here also look for signs of bulging or leaking capacitors The capacitor thing isn't all that likely admittedly Second the card could have been out and sitting for some time before you bought it The PCIe fingers or contacts could get dirty causing them to make a bad connection to the PCIe slot and contributing to the issues Simple trick here is to take a pink pencil eraser and rub it along the PCIe fingers of the graphics card Which cleans those contacts clear off the leftover eraser bits. Thank you for another shot Third it could be something as simple as trying different video outputs of the graphics card Because sometimes some of the outputs just work better than others. Lastly the card could have come from a miner You don't know and if it came from a miner Well, they customize the v-biles of the graphics card and it might appear stock But go ahead and flash the v-biles the stock v-biles back to the card The tech power-up GPU v-biles database will be able to help you with that So anyways here in town There was a guy who was complaining about a GTX 1070 Which if you don't know is still a pretty nice card to have in a gaming system Used use typically see them go for around $200 and he said just bought it for 150 off a guy On let go seems to be a dead card if you can fix it Let me know or please buy it off me So i'm not out of this money with what's going on right now open to any offers won't give her for free though So i reached out to him and he is willing to sell us the card for a whopping total of $30 So we're actually gonna go drive down right now pick up this card and see if we can figure out what's wrong with it Back into the creepy Chinatown alley we go Hey, how's it going? So I'm i'm interested in trying to fix this thing first So can you tell me any details about this thing? Um, so I literally picked it up Yesterday or the day before off a guy Like the middle of town right or something. He's like, yeah, it's working all that. I didn't have time to test it I usually have a system. I could bring or something but I didn't okay. So like, okay, you sell computers. Maybe maybe it'll work I should trust it and like I checked the pins on the PCI stuff. It looks all good Plug it in try and boot it up plug in power all that and it doesn't turn off Do you mind if I take a look? Oh, yeah, I'm here. I just can't help think Which reseller did you get this from if you don't mind me asking? I I've seen his stuff, okay We're fans. Oh say I appreciate it You're awesome. You're actually one of the main reasons I got into pc flipping. Well, I'm so sorry then because I'm one of the reasons you just got scared I've got scams quite a few times actually primarily motherboards Like three motherboards by now two graphics cards. Probably that one's like third graphics card Maybe four I remember like two five eighties Well, the the one thing that will definitely happen is the more it happens to you the more you realize like this is not gonna work You just start getting a sixth sense for it. Okay. Yeah, we've got through quite a few though. It's been pretty good Let me let me fix this I want I there's just no way this is not fixable Worst-case scenario. I'm gonna throw it into the oven. All right, great to see you guys later Have a good rest of the day. Okay, so we are back with the broken card and we need to give Chris a call So we can try to figure out what is wrong with this thing That's you and now I need to try and speak your story. Okay, so What do we need to do first? Have you already tried it in the system to see if you're getting displayed? No, let's try that No, it's modular. Please. Tell me I have another power cable. Please don't tell me I did this to myself. Oh my god Okay, no, no, I'm looking through the modular power supply bag right now. I'm using a different power supply A different cable from a different company. It's fine. It's gonna work just fine. That's risky, bro No Never it'll work. I think this is an ebg ebg and Oh, wait, these are all ebg cables. We know this is perfect. See it's just a different power supply same company same brand It's all gonna work just fine So what does that mean? It went and then and then it stopped working. I smell smoke. Chris. I smell smoke Chris, I sell smoke. Chris. Something's on It's both from ebg a let's let's see. How dead can it be? That smells burnt. That's burnt It smells bad, dude. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah That's a nice little burned part right there. Do you think it's the entire system or just a car that's fried now? It would probably just a card put the other one back in and see if it turns on It lives Okay, not all this bad Just, you know, the fried graphics card might be permanently fried We're not sure it is fully dead though True. So what do I what do we do next? In my experience with graphics cards that don't have the right power cables plugged into them It'll pop up a screen on the computer if it does give a display out saying power cables plugged in incorrectly So if you just plug in the one that you know that works We'll see if the system powers on with it Okay, I heard a shock the fans spinning on the graphics card the fans are not spinning Chris Don't lie to me Chris. Do you think this do you think this is gone? Okay, all right Well, oh wait, I see smoke Again, what from the graphics card? No from the motherboard this time from the PCIe slot No From this little heatsink thing. Okay, did you see that flash of light? Yeah, I did Yeah I needed this pc This thing's cursed dude. Let me see what happens if I Take it out Hey, there you go, buddy. It's the graphics do this thing is cursed card is cursed. No, but okay Here's my serious question like as of as of everything you've seen now. What do you think? Well the common Uh denominator here is the graphics card. So the graphics card you stop burn or smoke from the connector's Graphs card we moved it into another system Then the then the system smoked again this time from somewhere else, but still the common denominator is the graphics card. So at this point There's only like i'm about 90 percent sure something is up at the graphics card There could have been a power surge that damaged it The power circuit could be bad on it. So somehow the only thing now if you wanted to keep trying it Is if you have if you have a throw away system a throw away system Yep, because I wouldn't want to keep telling you to risk risk more stuff. I have some new parts. Let's test it again Okay, it's on fans are spinning There you go. Okay. Okay. Okay. So this is a working system now So because the system works We should we can try the 10 70 in here and see if it'll work I'm just ready to see like the face of Satan's just pop up on this thing All right, here we go It's a it did it did a little And then I heard it Yeah, it just It just gives a little to and then it doesn't go All right, put the other graphics card back in. Let's just make sure the system I mean Oh shit Where did you go? I'm missing There you are. Okay I don't know. I mean so So take this out put in the other graphics card just to make sure Yeah, you need to make sure you didn't kill anything Oh It spins So and the graphics card spinning too and last we checked if we plug it in Just almost put my finger in the blade. That would have been fun. Yeah, so just look All right Oh man, I'm so mad at myself If I the thing is my room is such a mess that I didn't look around to see if I had another Another system lying around that would still be fun But I'm more I'm more than likely find this card so we couldn't see what would have done beforehand Well, I feel kind of bad today's the day I'm supposed to meet up with this guy because I told him that if I could Fix the card I would give it back to him and then at the end of the day all he's taken with me is a $30 risk So Just go down and meet him. All right. So homeboy right now is walking Back inside he's walking back inside right now and honestly in his car right now He has got a gtx 1070 and You might be wondering chris Why does he have the gtx 1070 that you just fucked up? Well As he drives away with his brand new card Which I would have shown the process of earlier, but my phone stopped recording last night And this is partially the reason why I look like a homeless person right now than the fact that there are no barber shops open I went out and bought a gtx 1070 the only one that was available in vegas past midnight And I swapped the cards the reason I did that is because building computers And this youtube channel and the twitch streams and everything that has come with this has completely changed my life If it wasn't for this then I wouldn't have been able to pay for Anything when I came to my dad's medical bills I don't know if many of you people know this but chemotherapy treatments experimental treatments insurance issues all of that is so fucking expensive And none of that would have been possible without building computers And when I read this guy's facebook post originally before he just straight up sold the card is that he recently got into Building and flipping pcs He's pretty new to the game and to me when I first got into the game I was super lucky in that no one scammed me No one sold me a bad part and I always got stuff that worked And it wasn't until I started to make some money back That I realized that not everyone's going to be straightforward and honest with you and sell you something that's supposed to work So for this guy who watches my videos Who also is just new to the game? He doesn't deserve that experience. I don't want to sit here and tell you guys that Buying and selling secondhand parts is always going to be this rainbow magical unicorn fart glitter dust world of perfect usable parts because it's not But When you first get into the game, I think that everyone should at least have the opportunity of working with honest people that are not going to hustle you are not going to scam you and For this guy, I want him to have the same experience I did So I hope you guys found this video creative entertaining or informative in any way shape or form Uh, it was definitely not as informative this time around as always I hope you guys have a great day And don't tell him don't tell him I swapped the cards I don't know if he's going to watch this video But don't tell him because you know what if you couldn't tell the difference between the gtx 1070 models. He doesn't need to now