Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S5:E12

[@Jobocan.]

Dude getting a whole new PC, pretty much. Good for him.

[@marktaylor7152]

Super nice of you Greg to replace all of those components to get his system up and running again and gives the user a nice starting platform to upgrade from. Love the series, keep up the good work

[@jdspencer60]

"Anti Surge" on the motherboard after it had gotten a surge lol

[@johnt.848]

From memory they actually had an issue with the "anti surge" being too sensitive in the past and shutting the system down due to power spikes during use.

[@Skyline_NTR]

hypothetical. If his PSU got fried, taking the mobo out with it, maybe his home power (or even that specific power outlet) is dirty/cooked. Would probably be a good idea to not plug the pc directly into the wall, and have some sort of AVR/UPS inbetween the wall outlet and his pc.

[@johnt.848]

@@Skyline_NTR The damage shown is typical of a poor connection, ie not inserted fully, or too much current draw, which is also possible as he did overclock the system and it is only a 4 pin connector, not an 8 pin for the CPU.

[@detecta]

@@johnt.848 yea my old fm2+ asus mobo kept restarting for anti surge crap psu ended up being crap in the end so not exactly sure if it was being sensitive

[@johnt.848]

@@detecta yep, the Mobo would have detected the PSU spikes and shut down, that was an issue also with cheaper PSUs and the transient spikes. That's why a quality Gold rated PSU is always recommended.

[@spentcasing3990]

Glad you didn't swap the case, it's still perfectly fine. They can buy a sheet of acrylic at Home Depot for about $20. All they would have to do is cut it with an exacto knife into the same shape as the original and then glue it in place.

[@bikesandbeans]

or just use window screen material to mesh the open hole after you take the old acrylic out ;)

[@spentcasing3990]

@@bikesandbeans Good idea. That would help a lot with airflow since its limited in the front

[@Lurch-Bot]

Make sure to cut through one side a little ways and then finish the cut from the other side or it will probably chip. Same goes for drilling acrylic. You should bevel edges and deburr holes to prevent cracking in the future.

[@FergaliciousFergyFerg]

$20 for a DIY job on an old case, or $35 on a case upgrade from Newegg.

[@spentcasing3990]

@@FergaliciousFergyFerg Ewwww Newegg lol. I would never buy from them personally. But yeah you could as an alternative buy a cheap new case for the same

[@armasplaygrounds6355]

Always a joy to see Greg being able to sort problems out, and gifting parts if it helps solve the problem. These videos are always fun to watch

[@kenanthony2962]

Hey Greg, Just finish checking out the video. I pulled out my old system out of the box its a AMD FX 9370 CPU on the ASRock 990FX system board 24GB of DDR3 memory with the Red Devil RX 580 Graphic Card. I built it for gaming back in the day. Man its still runs 97% to 98% of todays game. I also use it for testing from time to time. Its nice to see you fix older rig from time to time.

[@eyekona]

That's nearly the specs of my daughter's pc, which is my old rig. Still runs perfectly after 14 years. Was built 2010.

[@brucemcardle]

My main pc still rocks a fx8370.

[@Impactz]

Marshmallows were roasted that day. Glad you got the system up and running for the viewer!

[@YuProducciones]

😂😂😂

[@proofofexistence1580]

WOOOOOOOOW spoiler ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@adamqly5]

finally, my favorite episode on this channel. more of this greg

[@Derceto00]

That was a great watch, Greg. I think you prioritized perfectly. The case and gpu, were still functional and non-factor in the operation of the rig. It would have been nice to replace the case, sure, but that would have put it two components from being an entirely new system, with only the HDD and GPU being original then. Nicely done. 🍻

[@heythatsphil]

That mobo looks SO much better in that case. Very clean looking build 👍

[@GregSalazar]

It really does, ey!

[@Kishi7]

Nice. It's great that you helped them out. I hope you gave a really strong recommendation for an SSD as well

[@kamizerox]

At this point, I'm starting to wonder if people are just trying to toss in their old stuff that they know they destroyed back then just to see if they can get free parts from Greg. Bless his heart for being too nice and not questioning further even though the PC as described by owner should still turn on.

[@Sup_D]

Well, if doing that reduces E-Waste, then it's good right.

[@elemental9210]

If you had watched the video, you would've seen that the pc was not functional anymore. Just because the owner didn't KNOW what the issue was doesn't mean that he's lying. Otherwise, he would've probably just changed components himself. But at the end of the day, remember that it's gregs channel, and he gets to decide what he upgrades. You don't get to tell him anything except for thanks for the content.

[@Broxibear212]

This is exactly what crossed my mind, when it’s more than one thing wrong it starts to look suspicious.

[@qT_p13]

@@elemental9210 if you'd watched the video you'd not only realize that the email the user sent and the actual symptoms didnt line up. Also the pc was described and shown by Greg as being "very clean" which makes it even more sus that the user never smelt a burn on the board, or noticed that the cpu power connector was literally burnt and partially melted.

[@Behemoth33]

​@Broxibear212 then you clearly did not have a bad psu fail in a rig😂

[@Broxibear212]

Absolutely agree you should not be replacing peoples full systems as it leaves you wide open to people taking advantage. It is after all called fix or flop not complete new build or flop.

[@NowThatsPCGaming]

Ahhh maaaaan! what a way to start my day. Good ol' FOF from one of the goats. We love you greg!

[@GregSalazar]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the support.

[@YuProducciones]

FoF means.. Fuck OnlyFans?😂

[@raymondicalia5710]

@@YuProducciones Fix or Flop

[@coolpoete]

Great video! I had an old FX 8350 platform that I had sitting around as well after upgrading to AM4 and gave it to a friend with an upgraded SSD and he loves it. Not a gamer, just used for browsing/light office work and I'm still surprised it works. I expected it to cut out but if you take care of things they can still last!

[@losguy3183]

Good Job and thank you for being so nice to Him....and giving him a sweet build...

[@Eric79-f7i]

I realize that you don't do this for free by being sponsored and monetized, but you're still a good dude Greg and completely fair. Money is tight for a lot of folks and stuff like this gives them one less financial worry. I'd be elated if I were in this viewer shoes. *Thumbs up*

[@spacer125]

That Thermaltake psu is an IED ignition source, so not a surprise it blew the board

[@RichWhiteUM]

My thoughts too. Seen quite a few of those fail over the years.

[@crabbypigman]

Greg gotta say, I love where you draw your line in the sand about how much your willing to upgrade / replace because at some point you would just start having to give away PCs.

[@bonniep1947]

Excellent diagnosis. I noticed a exploded 45 ACP diagram on you're wall. I have the same two passions. PC build and repair.... and throwing some lead down range. Great channel. First time viewer.

[@jonathanmellette8541]

I totally understand your decisions, and, not that you need my approval, I think you really made solid choices. But man, it's gotta hurt your soul a little to send PCs back out into the wild with OSes still on HDDs.😂 Very cool FoF. It's nostalgic to see some of those older systems! For those freaking out about it, saving the case upgrade for the user really is such a solid choice. A) He might have an attachment to it. And B) He can have the entire building experience again if he wants for very little money. A Corsair 4000D is like $80 or $90, and it'll be like a COMPLETELY new system. Even $40 cases exist that don't suck. At least, I heard that somewhere once.

[@Miniputt_999]

Happy to see the rig up and running again. it is indeed a shame that the case was not swapped, but that was alot of hardware already thrown into this pc. Looking forward to the next video :D

[@christhed8679]

I'm upgrading right now from a fx8350. Those cpus are still doing alright!

[@edvinasbardzilauskas2352]

Finally another episode ! Always intresting to see what you get, and what is broken

[@OlettaLiano]

Thanks, Greg. It's always fun learning with you.

[@johnt.848]

While I didn't learn anything with you, I did take inspiration and bought a remote screen such as you use for the display, it will come in handy for testing and carting around.

[@Dan-Simms]

Quite the upgrade, that person is going to be so happy, awesome.

[@Viking8888]

You'd be surprised at what an old Bulldozer setup can do. I know I was when both of my nephews bought Radeon RX 6800's about a week or so ago. They came over so I could help them get their new cards setup. The younger one has an FX 8350 with 16GB of DDR3 and a 1 TB SATA SD (Previous GPU was a Sapphire RX 580 8GB). It's now pushing 55 to 60 FPS in Remnant 2 on Ultra settings with no FSR at 1080p with a pretty straight line for frame times. Shocked the crap out of me. Before, it would get low 20's to low 40's with frame times that were all over the place, WITH FSR enabled. Eventually he'll replace the platform, but for now, it's working pretty well.

[@NoobSniper]

Great job, Greg! A minor thing in a case this large and spacious (and clean for that matter) but any reason the PSU was installed fan up when there was a bottom-facing intake?

[@BuzzTec]

Sweet upgrade/fix. 👏🏼

[@GregSalazar]

I appreciate it!

[@Fellzu]

I really like that case. I'm glad you didn't replace it. Old doesn't mean bad and it isn't a hard repair to fix that side panel.

[@jerrydiecidue4140]

Hey Greg, love these Fix or Flop videos. Very informative and is a great thing you're doing for people. Not sure about the orientation of his old case but I'm surprised you mounted the new power supply fan up.

[@edison3571]

I really like your fix or flop videos. Sometimes you need to just send it back and this I would not have touched with a ten-foot pole. On this one you went above and beyond what anyone should expect.

[@Lord_Ralph]

AM3+... that brings back memories!

[@tomr3422]

and they are not great memories - I still have atleast 2 a 8150 and 6200 with MB and memory somewhere, I cant believe someone was still using them

[@honeybadger6275]

@@tomr3422 Yeah I had an 8320 back in like 2015, was not a great cpu.

[@Galiant2010]

@@honeybadger6275 I was using my 8350 until 2-3 years ago. I don't really remember any issues with mine, though.

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Before my Gigabyte 990FX Gaming ( G1 ) died ; I had what was nearly the best AM3+ - FX system you could build. My cpu was the FX-9590. In some ways - even today it would probably do decent enough at 1080p gaming and most other everyday use cases. My current AM5 based system would totally destroy my AM3+ system ; even so ; I was very proud of the system I was able to build it to the level it got to. I feel the FX-series of CPU's got a worse rep then the deserved.

[@fireshorts5789]

bad memories lol those CPU's were terrible. made me straight up avoid AMD until AM5.

[@dustinsnyder7410]

Hello! Love the series! It’s fun to watch and very informative! Also love the OSRS background 😆

[@Louie_M]

I had such a nice performance bump going from an FX 8320 to a Ryzen 3600 with my 1050 TI in 2019. I'd be so hyped over this.

[@BK557SC]

Linus made a video about those thermaltake smart whites and after watching it I replaced mine. This video certainly makes that replacement feel justified.

[@NateNakao]

Wow. The very first PC I ever built was an FX-6300 with a GTX 1050 Ti inside an NZXT Phantom 410 case with a little acrylic window just like this one. I did use a 2.5" SSD for the OS though. I ended up selling most of those parts, but I have so many great memories from that first build. This video brought me back!

[@GTArajgaming]

I'm so glad the case got kept... it's more user beneficial overall, got that DVD drive slot going... I wish more cases these days came with dvd drive slots. Anyway this was pretty interesting in general.... death by old age and overclocking

[@timh6477]

Long time lurker here, Greg. You're a stand up good guy. just wanted to throw that out there.

[@EvilLron]

I have multiple pc's. My old-school rig is a fx-8150. Love seeing these fix or flops!

[@firstlast1299]

Greg, this guy didn't even want to spend few bucks for an SSD 2.5 inch. You basically gave him a new PC for free. I hope this person is really a good friend of yours. People tends to take advantage when they can, you know....just saying. By the way, you are the best! I love your channel and what you do!

[@FicoOl8998]

This series never never gets old 🔥

[@gamingallday954]

hey greg enjoying your fix or flop playlist, learning a lot from this

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks for watching!

[@keithsandle683]

Excellent fix by Greg. The upgrade from AM3+ to AM4 is brilliant! plus the owner could still sell the FX6300 & 16GB DDR3 (still working?) and buy a 512GB SSD?

[@rudikroch6499]

Nice job and I'm happy for the new owner!

[@terryrds]

What a throwback. Reminded me of my old FX-8320e/GTX 760 combo I ran back in the day.

[@Lurch-Bot1]

I had a blast playing Fallout 3 on a GTX 670 with a 3570 yesterday. 1440p Ultra at high framerate. Bulldozer/Piledriver is at a point where it is collectable. And they weren't all that common, at least not in comparison to intel hardware from that era. Nowhere near the popularity of Ryzen. I've considered getting an FX system built but I gotta wait until I can afford to spend $250 on a PC I will never actually use. I suppose I could luck into something for cheap, at a flea market or yard sale. Once in a blue moon I see something cool on CL. An excessive OC with a FX could cause the EPS to be overdrawn, especially when it is only a 4 pin. They needed the power of the sun just to run stock. A good PSU wouldn't have allowed this to happen.

[@b0ne91]

Bulldozer and Piledriver would probably outperform your 3570 these days. By now that people have figured out RAM overclocks and learned not to push the cores by focus temperature headroom on the Northbridge and HT, you can take them quite far. I've had an FX 8350 with 2400C12 DDR3 that would do better than a stock i7 4770 with 1600C9 DDR3 in TimeSpy and Valorant

[@stephenhood2948]

I had a Corsair 750 watt PSU that lost the 5v rail. No 5v standby=No power switch operation. I pulled the PSU apart and saw no problems. I could take the cables coming out of the non modular PSU and get it to boot by tugging on them, I suspect it had a dry solder joint somewhere. Very similar to what this PC was doing.

[@ShieyV2komputroniks]

You could reused the cpu cooler , the am4 retention Modul supports older amd coolers

[@ArtisChronicles]

My side panel was broken in box just not this bad. Different case too, but still love that it has 5'25" bays as options.

[@ttrevino167]

Keep doing what you do my guy. I enjoy the knowledge you give

[@ralithorn3798]

Great video Greg! I like how you fixed this one up.

[@jackoneill84]

Going from an FX 6300 to a Ryzen 5 5500 is a heck of a jump. Good base for upgrades down the road.

[@kingzilant]

I think these vids are great to broaden the challenges everyday people face today. So GG Greg ❤

[@samuelrave]

Why install the Bequiet PSU with the fan up??? The old thermaltake PSU was installed with the fan down!!! That case has an airinlet in the bottom where the PSU goes

[@qT_p13]

some of those older cases had the air inlet so small that if you used a longer psu, the fan wouldnt line up properly (like i had a versa n21 years ago and never mind all the holes at the bottom, the actual air intake area was a tiny little square) . also because the airflow is so bad in the case he may have done it to create more negative pressure in the system

[@D4r3k33]

Greg great Job happy to see how You help people

[@imnotallergic]

people there should be really greatful to have you

[@scottwebb6748]

Im still a rookie when it comes to building PC's, but there was vents at the bottom of the case why didnt you face the PSU Fan downwards to get its own air supply rather then sharing with the GPUs Airflow?

[@Nosi75]

Great repair as always. Thanks for the informativ and cool content you´re creating. Keep on doing great videos.

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@ArikGST]

I remember having several PCs with burn issues back in the day from bulldozer platform. I think power surge protection just wasn't quite there yet.

[@gaz1983-v6p]

greg keep them coming m8 i love the fix or flop videos

[@jyadel]

My head snapped up when I heard the OSRS music; thought I had the game open somehow in the background lmao Love that the case is being kept!

[@adhdturtle37]

I have a Fx-6350 1050 Ti rig sitting in my floor for the last year, since I upgraded my brother to a 5700 and 1080 Ti. Thinking about giving it to my niece as her first computer when it's time.

[@Schattennebel]

This MoBo wass in the second PC I ever build and still in use. Just with little different components. - Phenon B65 (Quadcore with two deactivated cores, could reactivate the third core but the forth wouldn`t work) - Arctic Alpine 64 - 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz - GTX 750Ti - 120GB SSD - 250W Power Supply - Linux Mint Even though I OC'ed the Phenom to 3,8Ghz via Multi - there were no problems with it. Well there was no benefit either so I took it back to stock.

[@RybekRybs]

Great job Greg, as always 👏 I wonder if you could just solder a new connector to that board, it's THT so it shouldn't be too hard to do. Also watching you solder would make for a very interesting video, regardles of result 😉

[@AreYouOkKuro]

I had an old FX-8320 computer back in the days. I had to replace the motherboard 3 times because the previous 2 always got burnt from the same connector for the CPU. I never overclocked it or anything, but that was my experience with it. Motherboards in question were both Asus m5a99x EVO.

[@michaelshifflett6597]

I find this interesting, have the M5A97 R2.0 from Asus with the same processor that I initially had in my daughter's computer before I built her a new system. Now this board sits on my shelf as maybe a future project.

[@Bubs-Ph]

thanks for sharing knowledge sir greg... watching all your vids... saying Mabuhay from Philippines!

[@robertmorris9450]

Looks like my second gaming PC motherboard. I have built am2, am3 and I just built a am5 pc with a 7600x and a 6750xt and am saving for upgrades to my cpu and gpu. The old FX 8350 chip was solid, and let me skip am4. I used it for 1080p gaming mostly, and it lasted me from around 2012 to 2022. It still runs my old landlord uses it for streaming. I installed custom liquid cooling for my CPU and even the 2gb card was connected to the loop. I'm glad that AIO'S are so abundant custom loops are a pain to install and maintain.

[@dorians4043]

I love this series!

[@AlyxSharkBite-2000]

Oh he is gonna love that new CPU/Mobo it's a massive upgrade

[@troy6686]

10:02 that runescape music in the background.

[@p3tb4rk]

Not read all comments and so may have already been mentioned. The burning on the connector could be down to not being inserted correctly so drew more current to over come resistance which led to the burning.

[@SAMarcus]

5v is your power-on signal back in the day. So it being bad explains a lot of the issue. As for the 4 pin, it being overclocked for an extended period of time causes that to bake. I've seen that in some of my older Intel boards after running them with extreme OC for a while.

[@DronSkyhawk]

"Still a viable 720p/light 1080p gaming machine" Thank you. I like that you give a chance for these older platforms too. A lot of us use older machines daily, a lot of games are still running on these.

[@rogerdewitt3042]

I have worked with a lot old pc cases and main issue 8 out 10 the USB on the case have shorting must deep clean them a few times to each ans any silicon they link into before connecting to the motherboard. Even have to replace the USB and silicon boards they got in the cases. Buy a good USB 3 PCI-E just by pass the in case silicon and hook them directly to the PCI-E. If not want the card sticking in the case use a PCI-E slot card and hide the card if no need for more USB 3 on back of case. OK there your options guys and these work 100% all ways :D

[@mysticeggshell4009]

Big fan of FoF. I'd love a video with part recommemdations for different typical price ranges

[@josephvahabzadeh1289]

Totally enjoyed this video. Also, was kinda jazzed about seeing an old FX-6300 system, because I have one of those, still working, as a secondary/test-bed system. Ok, so, I totally do NOT want to come off as doing Monday-morning quarterbacking here, but, because of a previous experience I had, I wish you'd tried the PSU first. Firstly, because the Thermaltake Smart PSUs are generally pretty poor quality, but secondly, well... Ok, so, back years ago, I'd been given a dead system that was running a Pentium 4. It was either 3.4GHz or 3.6GHz, with hyper-threading. This was given to me probably around the time when Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad were pretty common, and maybe just when the Sandy Bridge CPUs were coming, out, or maybe were on the horizon to being released soon. It was a Sony VAIO, and apparently came with Windows XP Media edition. Poked around with the system, and it definitely was dead. I knew WAY less than I should've at the time, but I did know that the P4 was a power-hungry beast. I also thought at the time that the PSU wattage seemed a bit on the low side for such a system. Then I noticed that 4-pin EPS connector. Rather than that off-white, the connector was definitely an uneven brown. Fortunately, it came out intact. On the motherboard, it was definitely darkened brown, but on the PSU side, the plastic was definitely burnt. Blackened and slightly deformed. I managed to find an inexpensive Corsair PSU online with way more wattage (430W seemed impressive at the time), and installed it. Again, while discolored (both on the inside and the outside), the EPS connector on the motherboard was still fully intact. And, it fired right up! So, I guess I was kind of hoping that you would've tried to fish out the plastic bit from the PSU that was still stuck in the EPS connector on the motherboard, and tried a new PSU. Would it have worked? I don't know. Given how much more discolored the connector was on that old P4 system, yet a new PSU worked fine in it, I'd like to believe that a new PSU of good quality would've been all it took to bring that AM3+-based system back to life. Hey, I can dream, right?

[@Knoppersd]

I am fully on your take that is is far from e-waste. My girlfriend is still gaming on this plattform on a hand me down. She mostly browses the net and play lol. Perfectly fine for that. We just recently upgraded to an cheap GTX 1080 from E-Bay as she wanted to play BDG3. Once i upgrade my Ryzen 3 3600 system she will get this CPU with a B series board and off she goes for another long time run :)

[@stephandolby]

The PC slowly stopping working reminds me of an XP1700+ Palomino setup I had that started refusing to be stable at 133 FSB/133 RAM; I had to reduce the RAM to 100, then both, and finally, neither would work. I bought new RAM and a replacement PSU, neither fixed the issue, so I turned my attention to the motherboard - an ECS (remember them?) K7S5A, a very popular if rather unreliable board that you could supposedly bring back to life using a heatsink mod on the SiS735 chipset, though that didn't help. A quick trip out to get a KT266A board and everything was good again, and whilst I was annoyed to have fired the parts cannon at the thing, I didn't lose anything other than the motherboard.

[@RenatoG1848]

You da man Greg, another satisfied customer

[@jackn2236]

Right up until a few years ago, I was gaming on a pc I bought back in the late 2000s. I upgraded the RAM and GPU once during the mid 2010s. During the entire time I had it, there was only a single major issue, one day it started overheating and based on the sounds that it normally made, I had determined that the air intake fan was the culprit, to the surprise of the repair man, I was right, the fan was completely bricked. Thankfully I noticed in time to get it replaced and avoided bricking the entire thing. That computer lasted me over 12 years with only one major issue and 2 upgrades at half life... They don't make things like they used to any more.

[@mastathf]

I got a broken FX-8150 based system for free and found the same burn marks. I salvaged CPU, RAM, and a case out of it. MOBO and PSU were too suspect to use anywhere else. Googling says that FX series had a lot of boards with melted VRM. I wouldn't overclock them.

[@annareismith6843]

Lucky person get such an upgrade. I went from an AMD APU 7870K with MSI Nvidia 1060 6GB to AMD 9 5900X with MSI X3 3060 12GB OC. And boy was it a big différance in power.

[@Rasilia]

Was the broken 4 pin the one in the slot when you got it? I'm wondering if he broke that off, then put in the other 4-pin connector with plastic still in the port. If he did that, it wouldn't fit quite right with the unbroken pin and plastic from the other pin in the slot and might cause small electrical discharges. If that makes sense.

[@johnhudson7055]

I still have my fx9590 machine, and I did OC heavily back the day. I like seeing how much extra performance I can get with an OC, but I never leave any of my machines OC'd.

[@socaldayve]

8:30 I always get so stressed watching the POST part of the FoF vids--as if it were me working on my own rig. 😰😄

[@dikbozo]

I have a machine with the same board. Works fine for my purpose, which is media playback. CUP is an Athlon II X4 640 and it runs Ok with its 8 GB of DDR3. Boots W10 reasonably from an older SATA SSD. The video card in use is an old Sapphire R7 360. Good enough for me.

[@ezerio027TV]

When I saw that it was FX platform, I always remember your old video wayy back at the beggining of the channel, when you built Mclovin a FX system and throwed the stock cooler in the yard. :D

[@GregSalazar]

A classic! We need to chuck another one of those coolers at some point.

[@foxthroat3410]

I had a Silverstone 80Bronze PSU that was plugged off the wall directly and got killed because our home sometimes had awful low voltages. Good thing it was just the PSU that died, after that I bought a new one and made sure to have it plugged on an AVR now.

[@05DonnieB]

Even if its potato, its someone's potato that they will get some use from. I used to have an FX 6300 and GT 710 combo and it served me well for the time.

[@taino6267]

amen

[@leoscomputerandguitarrevie978]

I had a cool max psu that did the same thing with my FX 6300 on a 990FX ASUS board. The 8 pin connector melted into the slot. I called Newegg and they did an RMA on everything luckily. The new parts lasted only 4 years.

[@jd31068]

Wow, they had no idea how close they were to a disaster. Dang!

[@ksenchy]

A good advertisement for Thermaltake power supplies. GG

[@sparkleshyguy85]

Thermaltake is a mixed bag with PSUs. The Toughpower line is generally rather solid, but the entry level stuff like that SMART unit , yeah, are trash. Avoid anything but the Toughpower line from Thermaltake. It’s not worth it.

[@cpz01]

overclocked with a stock cooler??? Would love to know how long he was running that oc before it died and he was upgraded.

[@rippeter_]

I almost thought my computer was experiencing the same symptoms in the video and was excited to see if you had a solution to it but my expectations fell short. My mid-range PC is just BSODing or just automatically crashing (instant restart and gray screen). Despite having the system work for a few years with mostly every software up-to-date. I don't want jump the gun and start replacing parts. My thoughts are PSU or RAM as this point...Event 41 sucks ;(

[@stuzystu]

Thanks for doing this. You got my sub now.

[@7MBoosted]

I have the AM3+ board in this video that i use for testing legacy hardware, and for the most part, there is 0 reason to try and OC with this board. The EPS is only 4pin and the VRM (especially considering FX voltage needs) is extremely lack luster. I have seen some folks use this board to OC a 6300 to 4.1ghz but they had to use too much voltage than I'm comfortable with to do so.

[@ErbsSpices]

I'd be really interested to see a follow up if the CPU and ram are still good. If so, a time accurate build in the works?