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eBay Deals: An £8.50 Triple Core CPU Bundle and The Cheapest GTX 1080!

Today I’m talking about a couple of my favourite deals I found on eBay over the last few days. These include a triple core PC, which quickly became just a CPU, RAM, and motherboard, as well as a really good looking GTX 1080.

0:00 Intro
0:49 Saving The Old Triple Core
4:43 Unboxing The Cheapest GTX 1080

The giant monitor featured in the video:
https://www.awd-it.co.uk/x-xexul49-1440p-49-ultrawide-ips-144hz-curved-gaming-monitor-dqhd.html

Thanks for watching 🙂

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39 thoughts on “eBay Deals: An £8.50 Triple Core CPU Bundle and The Cheapest GTX 1080!”

  • just grabbed at gtx 1070 in mint used condition for $50 canadian almost a steal

  • Hey bro can you check out the radeon pro w5700 8gb card.

  • are you going to do a video about PC parts from aliexpress ?

  • It is possible that the controller (if the board is on ddr2) of the processor will digest 8 gigabytes of RAM "memory for AMD". If on ddr3 , then maybe more . It would be nice to specify the name of the motherboard and processor .

  • GTX 1080 Seems like Overbranded Manli Gallardo.

  • Could you show us your magazine of all these gpus?
    How many of them you have?
    Would you do an episode where you tell any stories how you got some interesting cards? I bet you have some

  • I'm planning a 1080 build soon for sale. Just have to get some of the components but I have the GPU and some other bits. I think I'm going to get a Machinist X99 and E5-1650V4 for that one. Currently doing a cheap 1650/4790 build to sell for working capital. Trying to get a side gig going. I also have a RX6600 to work with. Will probably get a Xeon for that also. Then I hope to have enough in the kitty to start building better PCs with more recent components.

  • my brother used to run an athlon X4 and to be honest with a lil bit of an OC it worked quite well.

  • My guess on why the machine wouldn't boot with any of your existing Windows 10 installs was due to the board not being compatible with UEFI and needing the older boot loader to actually work.

  • I dug up my Athlon II 4 core cpu with a motherboard iGPU setup that I used to play Runescape and League.

    I bought a 4 core Athlon II CPU for $6 on Aliexpress, and an $45 RX 560 with SATA-to-6pin adapter.
    My MSI motherboard then unlocked the remaining 2 cores and the L3 cache, turning it into a 6 core Phenom II CPU.
    Also slapped in an SSD.

    Now, my unlocked "high end" Phenom II and RX 560 is gaming acceptably in 2023.

  • Hey guy I think afterburner still lets you control the fan speed manually

  • You need to test Tiny 11 or Tiny 10 for gaming on low end pc's like this.

  • To be fair, you can usually get a PSU conversion for less than £10

  • The triple core setup absolutely needs a triple GPU setup.

  • I was surprised to hear the 1080 was that much. I picked one up locally for $80/ £73.50 a few weeks ago

  • You might have to manually select the pci-e slot as the graphics display in the bios for a video card to work.

  • that 1080 really held it's own for a lot of years

  • i love these videos! your channel has been a huge inspiration for me and i'm currently working on a xeon build video 😛

  • Please try to compare 1080 vs 4060.

    And forgot this silly Fortnite, nobody plays it.

  • fun fact the 3 core Athlon cpu has a 4th core and it is defective / disabled !

  • I have the PNY XLR8 1070 OC of the same scheme, I mentioned before in the comments about how the eBay seller sent me one with two broken fans and old thermal pads from 2016. It still runs of course, and it's still a large upgrade over my GT 1030 for only $100. I installed it in an old Thinkstation P520 with an Xeon W-2135 and 32 GB RAM, I'm able to run Fallout 4 and nearly 600 mods on high and Witcher 3 on high with a few graphical mods installed, phenomenal performance for only spending about $300 on the entire PC upgrade.

  • 1: twist off and heatsinks.

    2: there exists compatibility issues going from pcie gen 2-3 and back again.

    Thanks for the video!

    Ps. Some boards can unlock these chips. Fun stuff to be had.

  • hello…. i have a xeon W3520 cpu will it bottelneck the gtx 960 ?

  • you should do a video on the 3400g for £30 -£50 it actually has better graphics on it than the 5600g lmao

  • The reason you are not getting a graphics card to work and could also not get your M2 boot drive to work is because of UEFI. That is not a UEFI motherboard and as such all newer PCIe devices can not communicate without UEFI.

    The Athlon is a phenom 2 based chip but does not have level 3 cache memory. So it will have very poor gaming performance in any games that require cache memory.

    In order to get this system fully working, you will need an ancient graphics card from before the time of UEFI. Like a Radeon 7850 is, I believe, the last generation before it went to UEFI, but I may be mistaken in that it could be the 200 series.

  • Does anyone knows if he has website a website he resells this on or how to contact him ?

  • Did you check to see if your X3 had unlockable cores? To fill the X3 bracket AMD did downgrade quad cores and even Phenom's with a flaky set of extra cores, you will find the X3 overclocks like a beastie if it is a downgrade cpu.

  • Picked up a 3070 for £150 as seller was a System Integrator who had to sell it as faulty because it was in the RMA pile, they couldn't find any issues so I bought it and it worked fine

  • Ah yes, the Athlon II X3's. My first self bought system had one of those. They were pretty decent for the money, but struggled with heavier multi-core loads.

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