I gave DKOldies a 2nd chance...

It's been about a year since I last purchased refurbished consoles from DKOldies, and they've claimed to have made some changes... so I decided to give them a 2nd chance. I bought an xbox 360, ps3, and ps4 from them, so let's see if they're actually refurbishing them now!

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[jrob]

It's been about a year since I purchased refurbished consoles from DKOldies... so I decided to give them a 2nd chance here in 2024 to see if they've improved their process. Check out these 3 consoles I purchased from them and let me know what you think

[Lukaspecial]

This is why I always prefer to use ebay. Seeing actual pictures of what you are about to buy is so important to see the condition.

[Mickeyds]

this is very interesting. good for them to actually clean up. unfortunately they are still sending broken consoles. they need more due diligence, thats negligence, hopefully the return process is easy and that was just a fluke that passed the check because someone was lazy that day

[alexlefevre]

For the PS3, they didn't de-lid the Cell which is the usual culprit with this mode of failure. That's the part that's actually difficult. The RSX can be popped off with a bit of heat and a spudger... the Cell needs a steady hand, some specific tools, and heat. Removing the Cell IHS and cleaning the caked paste would fix your problem more than likely.

[DaBloxxer]

DKOidies actually clean an inside of a PS3? They probably knew they couldn't be ashamed again by Jacob R.

[TimDespairBear]

You know it’s bad when 2 out of 3 consoles having major issues is an “improvement”

[gregchandler]

With their price’s EVERYTHING should work!

[QuckRevve]

I think the main reason why the xbox was so good was that it didn't require that much work. As soon as a console takes any amount of work, they seem to botch almost every step of it lol

[LandenIsReal]

Scared me seeing DKOldies selling official controllers with consoles

[Secondarysavage]

One thing I noted with the PS3 is that they only De-lided the RSX GPU, which is great, but the main cause of loud fans is the thermal paste under The Cell processor which they did not change hope they start doing that in the future. As for the system shutting down, if it was over heating the console would tell you In a notification that the system is hot and needs to be shutdown it's very likely that this system has failing NEC Tokin caps causing a YLOD under heavy stress.

[BNH]

I am flabbergasted seeing a real controller

[tayloralantech]

I used to completley refurbish the BC PS3 systems pretty often for customers as a repair tech. These PS3 systems in particular just aren't worth a professionals time to be 100% with you. If you're a hobbyist that can spend tons and tons of time diagnosing and doing lots of board work then yes they're worth working on. For an actual disgnostic and full refurbish of those consoles it takes upwards of four hours sometimes + the testing period. Which for a shop to dedicate that amount of time for an employee to work on a single console just isn't viable. Most of the RLOD systems or YLOD systems need complete NECTOKIN capacitor replacements, possible re-balled RSX chip and Cell Broadband chip, then typically de-lidding on top of all of that (not always). You can also hook up a syscon tool for diagnostics to find codes to resolve the exact issue that's happenig with YLOD systems. I still work on consoles eight hours a day but my shop no longer accepts BC PS3 systems unless it's bluray drive, HDD, or something easy. It's just a matter of how I can replace 3-4 HDMI's in PS5 systems in the time I could refurb a single BC PS3 lol. Just not worth it, so it makes sense that DK just does the most basic like one hour to an hour and a half job and gets it out quick. Unfortuante.

[maisaltyleftnut]

I was at comic con a number of years ago and i saw joey from dkoldies there. We got to talking and he invited me up to his hotel room for a party. When I got there, he was wearing only leather short shorts and there was a nude gentleman tied up with an Xbox 360 controller. I left

[GarrettGoated]

4:08 The PS3 probably overheated because either the CELL or RSX wasnt making proper contact with the chips underneath. I'm guessing the RSX and GPU were the problems because at 7:02 you can see that the RSX gets lifted off of the GPU.

[holds]

I bought a WII U from them which is still good after a year (knock on wood) but have stopped buying from them ever since and have made quite a few retro console purchases since I am now a collector, I usually go ebay or local shops now. I figure my WII U was a lucky fluke that was probably barely touched prior to them receiving it.

[ben]

This is actually insane. Stuff like this is why I’ve been so scared to buy like the gameboys and stuff it’s no way of really being certain. It’s crazy to me that they manage to become a big business

[Mempavrai]

12:05 AND SINCE YOUR ORDER GOT PICKED TO BE FILMED, I'M THROWING IN AN OLD SILLY BAND!

[matthewsawyers]

I ordered a backwards compatible PS3 from them recently and had the same issue where the console immediately overheated. The replacement console that they sent me’s fans run at 50-70 percent speed which tells me they either don’t know what they are doing with refurbishment or they don’t check to make sure the console works correctly or both

[checob]

17:53 i noticed that people who suffered from jet issue on ps4, where the users that had their ps4 full of dust inside 😂. I never had that issue with any of my ps4.

[preamstrikbiz]

Now that Rich from Reviewtechusa isn’t making videos anymore and is only streaming now, your the last lot torch for the DKOldies investigations, I salute you !