I got a CRAZY deal on this USED PC!

Are buying USED PCs from the marketplace worth it? Let's see what kind of deal I found!

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[MaheerKibria]

I almost always boot the computer and run a stress test in front of the buyer before selling my used hardware. That way if something happens when they are taking it home I can be like it was working when you left. I actually had a few scammers actually say I want my money back it doesn't work. When I offer to go there to see what's wrong with it or for them to come in for me to check what is wrong with it, they immediately ghost me. I feel like it's best for all parties to actually test the hardware in front of the customer.

[jackgray]

Jay, I just want to say thank you for helping me solve a recurring issue with my PC that has plagued me for more than a year now. What you said at 5:15 made me realize that I had never thought of pulling the second channel of RAM that I had installed around the time that I started having issues with my PC. Now everything works as it should.

[Ken-zgze]

11:15 The RGB HyperX ram does come stock in the Omens. I bought a 3080 Omen 30L during the great GPU shortage.

[lurick]

OOBE can still install keyloggers and whatnot ahead of time. Full wipe is 100% recommended.
You can jump into the OOBE setup and install drivers and other programs while setting OOBE up and then reboot to give the first boot experience and hide anything that way too.

[barrettthetrombone]

I recently did a budget build for my friend. Found a local 6700xt for 200$ and a 10900k for 180$. Then a used z590 asus gaming e motherboard for 100$, Air cooler for 20$, a h6 flow open box from best buy for 80$ and gifted him my old 1tb SSD for free. Crazy value IMO

[franchesco]

I have an HP Omen 30L. Apparently the RAM is stock because in the BIOS it doesn't have a tab to adjust the memory speed. If the RAM is stock you change the speed in the OMEN Gaming Hub app in windows. If the RAM is not stock, in the BIOS it shows a tab where you set the XMP profile (if it doesn't you need to update the BIOS as this option was added later).

[alexflohr]

Thrifty find of my PC building career:
$270 for a refurbished 3070 ti. Benchmarked like new. I love my build. Thanks for the inspiration and help along the way Jay.

[corycosta]

I have that exact omen. The ram is stock 👍. I was the guy you explained early in the video. Got it as my first PC in late ‘21, got the “bug”, now I have a 4080 build and gave the omen to my son. The Omen has been great. It played most games on 2k/165 hz.

[toufusoup]

$400 isn’t bad for that set of parts at all. 5600G and 3060 used is like $300-$350 value already, and the rest of the system surpasses the value. Nice snipe!

[Skumevil]

If you are curious what it came with originally from HP. Should be able to run the serial through HP warranty support checker. I think it will also show you what the PC shipped with part wise.

[NoobSniper]

Great find and like you said Jay, there are tons of deals out there on good hardware. One I sniped recently was someone clearing out their storage unit, selling their "pc case", a white Phanteks Eclipse P360a, but it also had a Gigabyte B550m AORUS Pro-P mobo, a Corsair iCUE H100i RGB PRO XT AIO, 3 additional ARGB fans, Corsair CX600 PSU, and a 2TB WD Black (on its way out). Mystery CPU under the AIO turned out to be a *3700x*! I paid $50 CAD, snagged it up, and am currently in the process of giving it a good clean to flip it with a 2060 Super and a 1TB m.2 drive. Truly an incredible deal.

[bxdn]

I bought an omen 30L with a 5800x and 3060ti back during the gpu crisis. Now my wife uses it and I have a custom build. We’ve had the hp for almost 3 years now with zero issues.

[lexluthermiester]

@JayzTwoCents
8:28 Jay, just wipe the existing drive. Use a bootable utility to delete the partitions and reset the MBR. Then reinstall the OS. That's it, you're done. No need to swap drives or anything like that..

[j.p.h.]

@15:30 Just to note the RTX 4060 uses a standard 8 pin PCI-E power cable. So there would be no need for any adapters in this case. Even most 4070's use a singe 8 pin cable.
Like my Asus 4070 Dual OC for example. There are few models of the 4070 that use the 12vhpwr cable.

[lucidnonsense]

Just FYI. You can absolutely install all the malware you want, white list in Windows security/group policy, then trigger the oob experience for next boot.

[Arthur-jxbm]

I am impressed by your lowballing skills, 50% off starting price is crazy

[StewartWild]

Best iFixit ad ever!!
Found a HP Z4G4 Xeon W-2145 64GB RAM 512m.2 with GTX 1070 8GB for $450 (with $50 ebay discount code) w free shipping. Quad channel ECC RDDR4. Smooth as butter.

[BBC.Customs.]

Would love to see a video where you go through and show where to look for malicious software (or hardware mods) and what some of those may look like

[watercannonscollaboration]

11:22 typically for the big 3, you can usually do a serial number lookup for the out of factory stock

As for the windows key, usually the OEM key is tied to the motherboard in my past experience, so a CPU or GPU upgrade shouldn’t break activation. This is my past experience though and I could be very wrong

18:21 I wonder if this is some of those prebuilt where the AMD socket uses an Intel
Mounting mechanism. I know historically Asetek’s Intel mounting is compatible

[valhallasashes]

In general, I don't think you need to get rid of the drive to be safe. But as a matter of course, I would at the very least download a fresh Windows installer directly from Microsoft and install that to a flash drive. Boot into the installer and completely delete every partition on the drive using the advanced settings of the installer. Then have the installer create and format all new partitions on the drive and install a fresh copy of Windows onto the machine. It sounds like a lot, but it's actually extremely easy and quick to do and once Windows connects to the internet, it should automatically activate without the need for a serial, since Microsoft now automatically detects and recognizes and activates previously activated machines through unique hardware identifiers.

So I don't think you need to get rid of the drive, but to air on the safe side, I personally would definitely wipe that drive properly (partitions and all) and do a fresh clean install of windows.