I Can’t Believe These are Real - Reacting to Ridiculous PCs on Craigslist

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We’ve all seen ads for gaming PCs or hardware that just seem too wild to be real. “No Low ballers! I know what I got!” when all they’ve got is a pile of e-waste. We collected a bunch of ridiculous listings and watched our heroes slowly lose their minds…

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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:16 Cables not Included
2:44 Keep it Basic
4:43 An Old Workhorse
5:45 Too Soon?
6:37 But Now!
7:18 Hehe
7:52 Linus Mad.
9:02 TUF one
10:20 Some Light Gaming
11:15 Let's go to Spain
11:59 They know what they have.
12:42 Linus-plaining water cooling
13:59 Linus Knows French?
15:23 He didn't just say that...
17:10 Just a GPU?
17:49 So Much Room for Activities!
18:44 Rainbow Road
20:23 Credits

[LinusTechTips]

For those of you saying we have the wrong winner on some of these, Linus declares 'Price is Right' rules early on, which means we're looking for the closest price without going over.

[Hortifox_the_gardener]

Thank goodness Core Ultra is totally less confusing and will fix this. Right?

[Wiisporter]

People really keep up pandemic pricing 4 years on

[AB-X]

Elijah absolutely nailed that "Oh no, dad's mad again!" comment. Priceless

[RILDIGITAL]

It's frustrating when sellers aren't upfront about their products, hoping to hoodwink less informed buyers.

[tundranocaps]

For EU prices, parts tend to cost ~25% more or so. So that German builder with the custom water-loop didn't charge that much for the labor.

[WJKnightMare]

Day 16 of asking Linus to turn a ps5 into a pc

[OpsMasterWoods]

1:57 THAT AIN'T A 4070 TI, it's an Old Strix card, prob a scam

[Gehe]

8:40 That was peak "dad angry about the price of something" though. Reminds me of my dad... who is an accountant, so you can imagine how those conversation went in our family.

[lucrecio]

Editor did an amazing job highlighting what they're talking about. This video was amazingly easy to follow and funny too. Great video!

[carlosdgutierrez]

Yeah, after reading some of the comments I have reached the conclusion that outside the USA and Canada, PC components are significantly more expensive, even in Europe.

[alexanderschilling]

for the PC from Germany at 12.44 it is important to mention that PC components can be significantly more expensive in Germany so the price more justified

[liyatini]

The one at 13:37 isn't even priced too crazy, parts are more expensive here already due to import tax. After which sellers up to price to make some more profit AND THEN there is also 19% VAT on top of that price. Oo, and prices are sometimes also extra inflated due to the price & demand of the market being different here.
Found this out the hard way when looking for best GPUs under $1000, checking the cheapest retailer and it being €1289, so around $1400...

[Rundumsfliegen]

15:49: May i Present to you: The Cumputer! XD

[ItzTheDay]

@2:00 that is not a 40 series, that is an Asus Strix 20 series.

[CarstenSvendsen]

6:15 That Boeing joke went way under most peoples radar. Gold comedy Linus *chefs kiss

[RomWatt]

To answer Luke's question, yes, PC components are unfortunately more expensive not just in Spain, but in the rest of Europe as well, compared to America.
Also, as a French, I feel honored to see a native English speaker visit our version of Craigslist, and being able to read our language.

[LKLM]

Sucks to be us. In Finland that 1st PC would cost you 3k easily. All our PC part sellers are scammers.

[SaltyZera]

I swear to god, “Dad’s mad again” is immediately my all time favorite quote from any LTT employee. And I’ve watched since before they had 50, 000 subs. Damn Elijah is the shit. 😂

[foxser]

It's funny that Linus was upset with that old mobo price when I remember in an video from a year or so ago he talked about how cpus never die but the boards do so as sockets get older cpus get cheaper but boards go up in price.

I remember this specifically because I had an X99 board and a 5960X. The cpu was still a champ but one of the ram channels and the onboard wifi died, and it wasn't worth replacing the board for these 2 things because x99 boards are now insane prices.