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

[@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.

[@Boroda4Gaming]

Dad's mad again :(

[@the_one_titan]

@@Un_Pour_Tous Would've been better if he said 737 instead of 747

[@Martinspire]

I get that for when the difference is big, but for 6:25 I think its not really fair when Elijah is 2 bucks off and linus 3...

[@sargemarine3709]

Earrings look stupid....

[@eric_d]

The game show is called "The Price is Right", not "Price as right". "Price as right" doesn't even make any sense.

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

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

[@GeneralS1mba]

Core ultra 7 165hl, core ultra 7 165ul... So much simpler with new suffixes!

[@YaySyu]

​@@GeneralS1mbaWho wants intel anymore anyway.

[@Aliyah_666]

​@@GeneralS1mbaI swear lol...CPU manufacturers are just going buck nutty with it lol. Core ultra 7, Ryzen 5 7600....lol got those wacky names lol.

[@Dajova]

@@YaySyu We will see. They have promised a improved environment and much larger cache for their next gen, so until we see hard specs from them and actual reviews, i'm personally gonna hold off.

[@Lord_Reset]

The ONLY possible upside to this is that people hopefully know in a couple years that core ultra is relatively recent but core i is older. And even that is a TINY possible upside​@@Aliyah_666

[@AB-80X]

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

[@ROARROARROAR-w7x]

I love the whale emoji lol

[@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.

[@dearingo]

I actually thought the same until you see the actual specs and it’s not very impressive even considering eu price hikes

[@tundranocaps]

@@dearingo Oh, it's not amazing, but it's not a scam. At least on some. And I guess it might depend on the specific country. In my country computer parts are about 52% more expensive than in the USA.

[@dearingo]

@@tundranocaps does that take into account that Americans don’t take into account tax until shipping for my Eu country it only has about 100 or 200 euro increase

[@tundranocaps]

@@dearingo Percentages, not raw amount, and yeah.

[@Arjay404]

@@dearingo I don't think regular sellers on second hand market charge taxes separately. I'd imagine they just throw it into the listed price. (Because that just makes freaking sense and is how normal people function. Go into the store with 10 bucks because you saw something you want to buy for 10 bucks, then you get to the cash register and it's 13 bucks, WTF!)

[@4Gehe2]

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.

[@lucrecio2099]

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

[@Wiisporter]

People really keep up pandemic pricing 4 years on

[@purplemaddx]

2K likes? Sounds unnecessary​@JoulieRodgers

[@saauuccEE]

@JoulieRodgers No one give a shit.

[@henry03100]

@JoulieRodgersbot

[@biggin92191]

If you think anyone, ever would lower prices, then I appreciate your optimism.

[@shrishpotdar343]

​@JoulieRodgers keep begging

[@alexanderschilling6948]

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

[@Frankon81]

more like in whole europe...

[@or1on89]

Same in Spain...they have no idea how much this stuff cost in Europe, plus VAT is listed in EU prices...

[@jedsithor]

I built a PC last year and bought many parts from Caseking in Germany and found them to be among the most reasonably priced in Europe. I was buying from Ireland, which is ridiculously expensive.

[@NedransVikingar]

Exactly! A 4090 is like 1500 USD in the US while here in Sweden it's around 2100 to 3500 USD depending on the brand and if it's water cooled or not. It's expensive over here and then americans complain about the pricings over in their country. Mtrfkrs! Try spending 2k USD for a 4090 instead of just 1.5k. If it was that cheap here then everyone here would own one.

[@chesssoldier355]

@@or1on89 this is Facebook Marketplace though, I'm pretty sure there isn't any tax in these prices. But yeah, if you're american you got to remember that we always show prices with VAT already included

[@4RILDIGITAL]

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

[@gameclips5734]

it's easy to make money if you're a scumbag and that's what some people choose to do

[@tanuki4games]

For real, not even just adding 100 bucks for profit just adding 500 dollars 😭

[@theloniuspunk383]

thats just indians

[@spookyweeb5563]

i mean, thats just how capitalism works.

[@theloniuspunk383]

@@spookyweeb5563 cringe

[@Rundumsfliegen]

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

[@Oj10101]

Hey, South African here, I run a retail store in SA. That GPU is brand new, but the price is still nuts. It's factory sealed with three year warranty, and the distributor has had that stock since new. They don't drop pricing on old stock, so if you keep hunting you'll also find the likes of brand new MSI GeForce 9800 GT, Abit Radeon X800, Celeron 347, Operton 940, etc, all priced the way they were when released. That 780 Ti is still crazy though, even based on the insane cost pricing. The seller is trying to make a cool 60% markup (108.6% if you go by the "normal" price). It's on Takealot (our equivalent of Amazon) by a third-party seller, ironically called "Daily Deals Online" - LOL!

[@PhilGates]

We get ripped off a lot on pricing for tech here in SA, it's cheaper to import an item and waiting a month for it to arrive than buying from retailers here

[@LTTJordan]

You'd think at a certain point they'd run out of room to store such old hardware and just want to get rid of it! I used to work for a PC retailer and our distributors here in Canada tended to get rid of things very quickly when they were going to be discontinued.

[@PhilGates]

@@LTTJordan they would, if they sold them at a reasonable price, if something is $500 in the states, we pay $700 to $800 for that same product sometimes

[@Oj10101]

@@LTTJordan That would make sense, but with this particular distributor, dead stock is more valuable than discounting stock. They actually DID run out of space at one of their warehouses a few years ago (2017 if I recall correctly), and the solution was to move to a larger premises rather than clear out 20+ years of dead inventory.

[@Oj10101]

​@@PhilGates Sometimes yes, sometimes no. There are some crazy outliers, such as monitors with $ 1,000 shipping costs to SA. Something to keep in mind is that VERY little hardware has an international warranty, so if it fails you'll be in for some hefty courier fees. Mybroadband forums had someone who had to return an external hard drive to Amazon, and the cheapest courier he could arrange was R 2,700 (around $ 130 for the international folks). Do a search there for "Amazon external hard drive" and it'll be the first result. In post #90 he confirms what DHL charged him.

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

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.

[@jordi95]

They are, the Cheapest 4090 I can find here in Spain is around 2000€ (2170$USA) , most models go for around 2200 to 2400€ , we have the VAT(taxes) already included in the price, but it is still more expensive regardless

[@accountnotfound4209]

Usa doesn't have bullshit taxes. Europe and other shithole have excessive taxes on tech items. With AI I think govt will not consider high end computer as luxury items and then prices will become reasonable.

[@sznikers]

VAT alone is often 20 to 25% 😢

[@PrograError]

Obviously, since USA is basically king on global trade... plus enormous shipping cost for many places

[@NVidiero]

Well. In europe we ALWAYS compare prices with all VAT included. Usa never do that because the have different taxes arround the country depending in what state you are. So i think the prices are not so different after all.

[@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...

[@SIGSEGV1337]

leet

[@Steamrick]

Lol no as someone in Germany I'd price that PC at 1500~2000€ depending how generous I am about the prebuilt watercooling. The most expensive PC component is the 6950XT which goes for around 500€ used and the Ryzen 7 5800X is 170€ *new* or 150€ used. Only the hardline tubing muddies the price on an otherwise 1000€ PC.

[@liyatini]

​​@@Steamrick None sketchy 6950XT I see for 610, EVGA 1000Watt is like 150 to 250 alone. That CPU cooler is also 150ish. I'm not saying the price is great but it's not as bad as it might look.

[@Chaotic_H3LL]

@@Steamrick Ah no, i highly doubt that my guy. I literally just finished price charting this exact build via Amazon Germany and without including literally any of the water cooling stuff, the rig is already at 2938 Euros. The GPU ALONE is 1715 euros. From me actually looking directly at pricing online it honestly looks like a deal, not a great one sure, but dude is still selling at a clear undercut to what he paid. The only listing i found on that Distroplate had it at 420 Euros which already bumps that 2938 up to 3358 Euros. And again, that isn't including literally any other water cooling stuff. Sure a completely broken 6950XT might be 500 Euro, Maybe the lowest spec AIR COOLED ones are. But GPUs that come new with waterblocks on them retain value a lot higher and are drastically more expensive from the get go. You don't build NEW PCs with USED PARTS. That isn't how price charting works. For the record, All of these prices, minus the Distroplate as that was on another site. Are all directly from Amazon Germany Case: 300 Euros PSU: 215 Euros Storage 1: 1tb Nvme 76 Euros Storage 2: 2tb Nvme 136 Euros RAM: 100 Euros GPU: 1715 Euros (Didn't include it in the price, but also add 71 Euros for shipping) Motherboard: 145 Euros CPU: 194 Euros Distroplate: 420 Euros

[@rem3dy_e]

@@Chaotic_H3LLDamn, I just bought a 7900xtx brand new in the uk for 860 quid, or 880 euros

[@melonmelon2848]

14:08 The edit done on Linus the translator is pretty funny!

[@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. 😂

[@CarstenSvendsen]

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

[@MycaeWitchofHyphae]

“Under the radar” nice stealth joke with that plane hahah

[@robertk1701]

missed this the first time, wow

[@VezWay007]

@@MycaeWitchofHyphaeI think, it’s less about stealth and more about crashes.

[@Arjay404]

Thanks for the comment, I totally missed it.

[@cardude1957]

lmao I totally didn't catch that

[@OpsMasterWoods]

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

[@chrisjensen6826]

Its antique so its worth even more 😂

[@Quasardian]

This should have been checked in the video in my opinion. that's one of my very old 1060 card. (they did also use the same design for higher tier 10 series cards)

[@OpsMasterWoods]

@@chrisjensen6826 😂😭

[@X_irtz]

Exactly what i was thinking, it's at the VERY best a 2080 Ti, which is the last time ASUS used that design on their ROG line-up, and that card is about 6 years old now lol.

[@Fizzer99]

Yeah I had a 1080ti strix with this cooler.

[@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.

[@the_undead]

Canada has the highest percentage of native English speakers who can speak French because it is taught in our schools the same way that English is taught in. As far as I know every European school (what they teach in the UK I have no idea) or how Spanish is taught in American schools, and due to being able to speak French actually just giving you career opportunities in Canada. Some people go beyond what the education system teaches you. I suspect Linus knows French partially because to the best of my knowledge there are several people that work at lmg that have French as a first language, so it just made his life easier if he could communicate with them in their native language

[@Metal_Maxine]

@@the_undead In the UK, it is normally French. If they offer a second foreign language, it is either Spanish or German. Linus went to a French immersion summer camp thing as a teen and spent 2 months herding kids en francais. There is some footage in one of the LTT videos - his hair was purple.

[@MTGeomancer]

@@the_undead While Spanish is often taught in American schools, it is as an elective class and not a requirement. Many schools offer a couple options like French or German in addition to Spanish. Very few Americans can speak Spanish beyond a couple words, aside from first generation immigrants, of which there are millions so understandable why a lot of people think we can speak Spanish.

[@zandreblondin8880]

at least in modern day western canada, french education is a wasted investment. there are french immersion schools you can attend by choice, but the public budget for french is clearly next to nothing. when i went to school, most of my french teachers could barely speak french themselves, and one of them was actually a spanish teacher whom they figured must be close enough as they didn't have enough teachers that year. i went to school in a relatively wealthy area. things may have been different when linus went to school but i'm willing to bet he actively made the choice to be as famililar with the language as he is.

[@pierre-lucbourgeois5578]

@the_undead Also, most native French speakers in Canada learn English at a young age at school, so a lot of Canadians know both languages. It's not that special, though, as in Europe, a lot of people speak multiple languages.

[@manners403]

The reason old Mobos are sold for premium is that most people don't have the money for a full upgrade even on a 5 year old system and they rather pay $100 to replace a bad board and stretch the life of existing system a bit longer. We do it all the time with office computers.

[@anderssanggaard]

You should make an episode, where you contact sellers with ridiculous prices, and see how low you can actually get the price

[@foxs49er]

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.

[@blackraen]

I think that's why used motherboard prices are so fucked up. You got this whole system but your MB is dead, but only a specific chipset/socket motherboard that isn't made anymore to put it back into service, so MB sellers know that they aren't competing against other motherboard prices, they're competing against the price of replacing all your other components.

[@rawhide_kobayashi]

There are much, much fewer HEDT motherboards to go around than regular consumer boards of any given generation.

[@simonfr97]

On on board ( hehe ) with you for the price of X99 motherboards, if and when my Rampage V dies, I might go the Iliexpress route and repurpose the whole combo to a secondary PC. Another funny thing is that this exact Asus Maximus IX at 8:00 was on sale for 100€ here for MONTHS back in 2019, pretty much every PCMR enough guy who had some spare cash just bought one for the lolz or to try to flip it as if we didn't know about the listing. Plus the fact that it can be BIOS modded to put a 9900K in it made it a bargain of a board for that CPU ! It even came with a CPU-VRM combo waterblock. ( I *might* have 2 of these boards, although one of them is probably bricked, the person I got it from modded it and put that weird laptop version of the 9900 on it)

[@Liminal.Headspace]

An i9 9900 costs over 200 dollars, the 9900K and 9900T is around 300 dollars. A 1151v2 mobo on the second hand markets costs around 120 dollars, just a little under the cost of a old-new stock one

[@joshluvhalo]

I think it's because Linus said he was judging the price on what he thinks it's worth today. It would be a waste to buy that used mobo for $140. $40 sure, but you could go current Gen I'd assume at $140.

[@fizzyoddcod]

Something to keep in mind is that when something is priced outrageously it could just be that their partner (or someone else) is telling them to sell it but they don’t want to, happens a lot with motorcycles and “performance” cars.

[@technocatdance]

didn't even think of that, you could ask crazy price and be like sorry no one offered guess I get to keep it

[@pikkyuukyuun4741]

sounds like a red flag to me

[@LKLM138]

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

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

Wow, and here I thought that the sellers in my country (Mexico) were bad and expensive…

[@or1on89]

Or maybe they pay import taxes and sell with VAT included in the price while US prices are always lower at the source anbd ex VAT...

[@heladeradragon]

it's likely import taxes rather than all pc part sellers agreeing to sell way higher than usual

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

@@or1on89 true, but at least in my own country I have made the calculation with the import taxes, VAT, etc., all the extra charges from daddy government and yet the electronic sellers still overcharge you between 5 to 15% extra of the USA price on top of the government fucking your wallet. I wouldn't be surprised if the same happens in Finland, Australia, etc.

[@jussipeura5237]

Well Finland has quite Big taxes, and they include VAT in the price, i bought a pc couple months ago with 3060ti and i5 12th gen cpu (won't remember the exact one) and that cost around 1500€

[@SegmentW]

19:37 "I think the viewer won" Thanks Elijah

[@fighterpimp]

So weird thing about the computer at 8:37. Old cpu and mobo's like that are actually needed as replacement parts for older systems people run. Some people don't want to use a different system for whatever reason. Sometimes its a more poor work station for someone somewhere. It is cheaper to replace that mobo and cpu for 180 then buy a entire computer for work that does basically what this one already does.

[@AlphaHorst]

the german system shown costs right now, to rebuild, around 2800€... in germany. Like the ebay parts especially are insane. while stuff like an RTX 3070 is at around 350 an RTX 3080 at least 500 sometimes 600€ the 6950 in the video is around 1800€ but to be fair it was around 1000€ a few days ago which is the price I used. People need to under stand this. Germany is fucking expensive and fucking cheap at the same time. Prices can fluctuate like crazy. A 4080 right now is around 1000-1200€ last april it was 1700€ while an 4090 was at around 1900-2000€ at the same time.. making the 4090 a good value card back in those days. CPUs are bonkers. While the US had R5 3600s for 50 usd we had them for 170€ or more. in december last year a fucking 2080 super was worth 550€, now it still goes for around 300€. last gen hardware is still often going for MSRP or more. And to be quite frank. people who spend 800€ 2 years ago for an GPU and used it lightly do simply expect at least 600€ back when selling it. So in short americans pay loudicrous prices for stuff while fully awayre that they do not consider any of it to be worth that much. Otherwise I can not understand how anyone would sell a 3080ti for like 150 usd considering that the upgrade will cost at least 1200 usd probably more.

[@superbnns]

3:08 This guy's build is actually next level. He has a 500GB "NVAME" drive in there. Never even heard of that before so it MUST be a rare find!

[@YaySyu]

Not as rare as the sweat pc

[@dstarfire42]

Yeah. it's some serious cutting edge tech. Nasa is looking at it for future space probes. mostly because you can increase the capacity remotely. /s

[@groenevinger3893]

NVME

[@j100j]

I've heard they can transfer data directly into your head.

[@GreatMossWater]

@@j100j PlayStation 9 came out already?

[@anarcy7777u]

Im really enjoying the return of luke to these videos. He has started appearing more and i didnt realise how much i missed him

[@Andrew_G4CH]

17:15 That price doesn't surprise me. I have a friend in South Africa.. She says prices are stupid high down there.

[@betterchapter]

Love their banter. We need more of those

[@memorimusic420]

17:35 "we're all high" seems fun to work at LTT lol ;)

[@AngryChineseWoman]

That French to English translation from Linus was almost flawless

[@gaspemcbee]

I remember an old home invasion video where he was reading Harry Potter in French to practice. His efforts paid off! :D

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

Right!? Very impressive.

[@Gamer-qr8ee]

For the "Linus knows French?" section of this video I thought he had a translated version of it. I then realized that they also speak french in Canada lol

[@Metal_Maxine]

He got sent to French immersion camp in his teens. Luke, on the other hand, has no French except for the word for grapefruit and it really annoys Linus.

[@Gamer-qr8ee]

@@Metal_Maxine lmao

[@pierre-lucbourgeois5578]

Most of the French speaker are from province of Quebec while Linus lives in BC. I remember a video about VHS restoration and they use some old VHS of Linus in a French camp and you can hear him speak in French, so I guess he knows French at a basic level at least.

[@martymcfly88mph35]

Hopefully soon Quebec won't be a part of Canada so it won't be French mixed anymore. We need to get rid of Quebec by any means necessary. Anyone that has dealt with French people before can sympathize with this position I'm sure

[@runeonaquest9347]

To be honest ever since the Linus-gate incident I have been watching less LTT videos. But it’s good to see this kinds of being-real vids rather than the more scripted ones. Really enjoyed this one.

[@MrAshwijshenoy]

I absolutely loved this episode. That dork Elijah is soon becoming a crowd favorite. Soon he will surpass Riley.

[@Cookie2734]

The PC at 12:44 ... all the hardware together adds up to that 3500,- EUR (just threw it together at an german retailer) and custom loops aren't done in a few hours. You also have to consider the time when he bought it. All in all i think he paid more than 3500,- for the hardware alone in 2022 and now sells it at 10-15% discount because of age, also not including his working hours. Hardware in europe is waaaaay more expensive than on your continent.

[@DoublePlus-Ungood]

Ya, I like Linus but what in the hell is he talking about "that's not how it works" when referring to custom hardline...that's litterally exactly what bizeness runs on. I either can't or don't feel like running the plumbing to my second bathroom so I PAY someone else. It ain't just the cost of the PVC ffs. Probably the dumbest thing I've heard in a good while.

[@seanmartin7837]

New watcher, and I’m building my first pc today😮 This channel has been such a help🙏🏼 Love all the hard work and incredible writing and editing!

[@CouchFunHouse]

Linus saying "A seller charging extra for the labor done to build the PC is not right and that the work they put into it doesn't factor into the price" is both true and untrue, depending on the situation. For example, Origin, a company who recently sponsored the channel sells computers at a VERY bad pricing, compared to what others can offer. In fact, LTT even called this out severely back in one of the old "Secret Shoppers" videos from a couple years ago. The fact is, Origin DOES charge extra because of the "assembly time/effort" and such.

[@T101Crazy]

It was a stupid thing to say. Labor cost is almost always factored in, otherwise the seller wouldn't make a profit. The thing about used PC's though is that typically one would sell them on the aftermarket to recoup some of the original cost (most likely because they are building an upgraded PC). This changes when the seller is building PC's specifically to sell, which is where labor is factored into the price. This extra cost would then translate to a convenience fee for the buyer.

[@misfitsman805]

Always hated when they list a price with "Or Best Offer" and you offer them a price but they are like "Nah I gotta get at least the asking price". THAT'S NOT "OR BEST OFFER!"

[@notconnor_gg]

ik linus is canadian and they speak french in some regions but i never expected him to be that good

[@Vociferous]

The video we didn’t think we needed but are glad to have, the market is weary at times and LTT guiding us let’s us know he’s doing gods work.

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

Each time I see a Vessi sponsorship, I'm always amazed that they managed to sell shoes in France. (for reference, "vessie" in french means "bladder", very on point for waterproof shoes lol (if water doesn't get in, can it get out?)

[@chronometer9931]

Veesi - So soft it's like walking on bladders

[@MrM4xwell]

14:37 as a french viewer, yeah your translation was pretty good

[@DimitriMP]

je confirme

[@RowanHawkins]

Linus is in Canada It was probably available in school. In the US if your public school had language it was Spanish, then french and/or Latin.

[@MTGeomancer]

@@RowanHawkins He was sent off to a summer camp by his parents as a teenager where they only speak French and he was forced to learn. Can't remember where or why that came up (maybe in a WAN show). Also, not all schools teach Spanish in the US, and even if they do it's an elective (not a requirement). I personally took a semester of German in high school to meet my "foreign language" requirement. I can only speak about a dozen words from it, so a long shot from what Linus demonstrated.

[@max-is-loud]

Yup, can confirm. As a French speaker, you pretty much nailed it! Also, I had no idea linus knew French! Although growing up in Canada, it’s not that surprising.

[@gameclips5734]

@@max-is-loud not surprising at all, it's like people don't know he's canadian

[@johnny26910]

this was a fun video, I would love a few more "price is right style" guessing games

[@Nauzhror1216]

None of them caught the 20:53 mobo mishap? How did they make a price for this? The guy claims to have a B550M motherboard with an i5-12400. That's an AM4 board.

[@carnagedestruct1520]

Wrong timestamp?

[@mlloser8318]

2:38 "I was thinking Canadian" lol 😂

[@foop3307]

fyi they live in Canada

[@martymcfly88mph35]

We live in Commieland Canada

[@Arcky-ykcrA]

Props for the editor who lined up the top of the monitor in Luke's and Elijah's screen. Very satisfying :)

[@davidandrew7314]

Its the same monitor from the same camera shot, not impressive.

[@blaireshoe8738]

@@davidandrew7314 Doesn't have to be impressive to be satisfying, YMMV of course ^^ It does mean that either the camera and monitor were perfectly level with each other, or they compensated for any slanting in the edit, because the line across the top was pretty darn smooth in the split shots. It's nothing fancy but it looks, well, satisfying :P To me, Arcky, and the 60+ people who liked their comment, at least, lol

[@Kaenguruu]

Note to the one at ~13:50 component prices in Germany are a bit higher at least for those I saw lately so that might also factor in to it. Although 1k usd difference is still a bit much for it

[@benwu7980]

Same for Brazil (though the part wasn't from there)

[@pedrus357]

Just remember when watching American and Canadian channels they quote prices without taxes so those are not thge prices they pay. If they have taxes on used stuff idk.

[@Mayhemm52]

"$747... the panels don't look like they're on that well" Is such an underrated comment

[@ZOMPAZYT_]

The German one was so high priced because compontents are a lot more expensive in germany , a 4090 is worth about 2.287,00 in germany and 1,949.97 in california and now do that with every single part and its pretty much 3500 when it was listed

[@elowine]

6:26 I believe Elijah was actually closer Linus :P

[@electricspider2267]

Linus was 3 under, elijah was 2 over. Therefore Linus won that one.

[@o_l_i_p_o_p7476]

6:15 I can already see the CBC headline for next week: "Popular tech KZbinr Linus Sebastian found dead from 6 self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the back of the head"

[@timramich]

LMG: "Corporations should pay workers a living wage because labor is worth as much as capital invested." Same people: "Your labor and skill spent building a computer with custom tubed water cooling isn't worth anything. That's not how it works."

[@TheFunniBaconMan]

"unskilled labor"

[@SomeGunNerd]

17:49 The weirdly empty PC reminds me a lot of my dad’s PC. He built it a couple years back to replace one he’d been using for about a decade and he enlisted me to help pick parts. I tried to convince him a mid-tower was big enough, but he insisted on getting a huge case because he thought he needed it, apparently forgetting that he wasn’t putting any disk drives or bulky HDDs in it this time around. It looks just like that, a lonely GPU in a giant space. He also went with an i9-12900k and an RTX-3080, which I advised against because he doesn’t play games and mostly just uses his PC for office work, but he wanted the best available I guess. He’s my dad, I love him, but I will never understand why he spent thousands of dollars building a kickass gaming PC when he doesn’t actually use more than maybe 10% of its power.

[@fus132]

At least the thermals are all good with so much air inside, lol

[@jancovanderwesthuizen8070]

In South Africa (and probably other countries too), electronics are extremely expensive due to tariffs and taxes

[@mingyi456]

The 12400f listing with the 4060 said the motherboard was a b550m, which is an amd chipset and definitely incompatible with a 12400.

[@colesym84]

Must have been a B660M

[@iamKORHAL]

This is one of my recent favorites for sure 😁 Goofy fun with all of them together and all the silly sass going on is fantastic.

[@iamKORHAL]

And I almost choked on my food when Luke cut Linus off for the "our sponsor" 😂

[@MyUsernamesThis]

the roblox pc tho... its tempting

[@acid.dropplets]

nobody has replied or liked your comment 😭

[@MidChld]

​@@acid.dropplets💀

[@viccie211]

Very fun video :) Elijah's vibe fits well with Linus and Luke and Jordan was a great "quizmaster". Premise was fun, execution was fun. Had a great time!

[@AVB40000]

Luke takes a single breath Linus: DID YOU INCLUDE WINDOWS?!

[@randomone649]

3:15 , that PSU is not surprising to me, in the place where I live plenty of "PC builders" put the most sketchy and cheapest PSU in the configs, and sometimes choose to cut prices where is the worst and add it where is pointless for a cheap PC For example, someone asked for a build of around 500-600 dollars my build was: R 5 5600 (80-100) RX 6700 (non XT) (230) A cheap motherboard that was 30-40 dollars stock cooler 16 GB RAM 3600 DDR 4 (60) Seasonic non-modular PSU, 600-650w (50-70) A cheap computer Chase with 3 coolers An SSD 250 GB+ HDD 1 TB Someon's else build: R5 5600x (120-140) A motherboard MSI (560 dollars) 16 GB RAM 3200 MHz (60 dollars) RX 6600 (non xt) The crapyes PSU for 550W (AQIRYs, for 40 dollars) Same chase as me 1 TB NVME SSD So it had a slower CPU a slower GPU, a power supply that would give a new meaning to RGB (Rig is Gonna Blow), and less storage (faster but when u want to install games like APEX you would end up with 4 games) and a motherboard worth 560 dollars for the AM4 socket which is already at it's end so in any future upgrade that MBO will go When I make a bould I would rather cut on" Storage (because it can be upgraded in the future very easily and cheaply) Motherboard Chase CPU (but keep in the same gen, because between R 5500 AND R5 5600X for example is as best 10 fps difference which can be gained back with a better GPU) Never cut on PSU (because a good one can survive well for 10-15 years, and take part in future builds and upgrades especially if it gives more than the build needs) And GPU, as long the CPU does not bottleneck it, is the most prominent part and even a small difference (from 6600 to 6700) can prove to have some good fps gain and advantages on longer time

[@Metal_Maxine]

Rig is Gonna Blow 🙂

[@FluffScripts]

Plug: The roblox game that showed at 7:26 is "Custom PC Tycoon"

[@CxbraUK1]

good game +1 (Play the roblox game. Now.)

[@elgatomiau328]

very good game 10/10 hop on Custom PC Tycoon

[@vimk1401]

I can confirm very good game!!!!!!!!

[@NurJoel]

When I first joined It changed my life. I now drive a rari with a beautiful wife and 3 healthy smart children. I am thankful for this game and recommend anyone to play it too so your life gets as good as mine.

[@texeryone]

good game ngl

[@DJRatAttack]

That 747 joke killed me 😂😂😂

[@noredine]

747's killed more

[@ruleset]

this was hillarious haha more of these you should do a secret shopper and waste these peoples time if they're local and come meet them and be like "you know what i don't actually like the color of the case"

[@Darkyahweh]

In Ohio in the U.S verbal contracts are considered legal contracts so if someone posted it as free, THEY LEGALLY must give it for free.

[@MagmaBow]

The first pc had 9 fans, not 6. 3 were left uncounted at the very bottom of the case

[@eesveryowncarrzkiss8596]

2:22 There are actually 9 fans. 3 top 1 back 2 front 3 bottom If you look at the light reflecting from the bottom, you can see they are also RGB.

[@Bugnarok]

That's what I count too ... I'm confused LTT forgot to count the 3 on the bottom, hahaha

[@armsofzeus]

​@@BugnarokIn Linus' defense, I didn't notice the first look either.

[@Bugnarok]

@@armsofzeus well, people make mistakes, even Linus did.

[@eesveryowncarrzkiss8596]

@@Bugnarok Yeah, but catching the things he or the team might have missed is always fun.

[@maddyjoshthompson3408]

Need more of these. Loved the dynamic between all three of you. Also the dad’s mad again got me dying.

[@TheUnderdog909]

I actually thoroughly enjoyed this. I've been struggling to be able to upgrade my pc. Looking on marketplace is the only option and funnily enough I had the same idea as to make a vod about how almost every pc on there is far over priced. I've even messaged sellers pointing out there item for sale is literally infringing on fair trade laws and misleading buyers. I would absolutely love to be able to have a company that actually follow up on these types of scams

[@Jdude-123]

Literally listened to that rant while at work a week or so ago and the story that went along with it was so funny

[@sanyr80]

I like that this was filmed like 2 weeks ago, Linus made a Boeing joke at like the 6:15 mark, and just yesterday there was ANOTHER story of panels flying off of a Boeing jet so the joke is somehow stale and highly relevant all at the same time. Keep it up Boeing, you're doing great.

[@Black3ternity]

13:50 regarding the Pricing: You have to remember 19% VAT for germany (Text of the ad-listing). So that puts it roughly into 2500 / 2600 bucks. Plus Watercooling is expensive AF over here. Not really THAT unreasonable - but you can get it cheaper if you hunt for it.

[@Rebster]

Vat doesn't apply for secondhand (unless you are a professional seller). I don't see it mentioned in the ad (as far as I can see) so that would realy apply.

[@bert5003]

wow....that one in kalispell is one of my old rigs like 2 owners down the line; i sold it 4(ish) years ago for 450usd with a mouse and keyboard. it was the backup rig for if a buddy wanted to get in on a game but didnt have a pc of his own he could still roll with the boys. that went to fund a piece of the current rig which now sports a 12700k, the OG IceGIant prosiphon, msi z690 unify, zotac trinity 3090 watercooled, 32gb gskill trident ddr5 6000, and a thermaltake gf1 1200w.

[@dayceem]

That advertised one... I'd accept them paying me $100 to take it off their hands.

[@MannyHaarp]

Btw I gave into Floatplane for this one. That wooden case PC bit was hilarious 😂😂😂

[@AlpakaWhacker]

I think one thing that's very possible with a few of these ads is not what the pc is worth now but more what extortionate price did some of these people pay during covid and lockdowns? I wouldn't be surprised if some of these at least are people that paid WAYYYY to much for their pc parts 3-4 years ago and are now trying to sell it for similar to what they bought it for

[@juanpablofajardoramirez1008]

Kudos to the editor who made Elijah's and Luke's lamp AND monitor line up so perfectly: attention to detail right there

[@WJKnightMare]

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

[@verakoo6187]

Should probably ask for possible things lol. Sony doesn't make their hardware support windows. Even if u somehow managed to get windows installed and runnable u'd still have bricked the system. Making it unable to play PS5 games anymore, plus there would be no drivers for the hardware so audio and display wouldn't even work.

[@raz0rblade06]

@@verakoo6187 You could still run Linux on one if you mod it, so transplanting the system's hardware into a PC and hacking it to run a PC operating system could be pretty interesting. The changes don't even persist after reboot, so one restart later you've got a working PS5 again (on an outdated firmware version, but still).

[@stayyyfaded]

Shouldn't it be Day 17 now

[@crashniels]

​@@raz0rblade06I think Linux is only possible on the PS4 at the moment

[@e1ectrino]

Could just build a pc inside a ps5 “case”, ezclap

[@legotechnic15YT]

Posted *12 Minutes ago* Guys you didn't even watch the whole video and your saying it was great....

[@tylermccarthy6927]

x2 watch speed

[@flyingman09101984]

FR to EN Linus translator was great. 10/10 would recommend :D

[@ccramit]

This is why I always spend days, if not weeks, researching stuff I don't know before buying. When I was buying my first VR headset, it took me 2 weeks of research and price checking before even going onto retail websites looking for a deal. It allowed me to brace myself so that I didn't make an impulse buy and get a good deal.

[@_GhostMiner]

*15:49** come recycled as coolant?* 😂

[@gen_angry]

15:55 lol. "Milk".

[@JoshuaG]

15:49 Linus: "Too bad he filled the loop with cu----" Bro did not just go there ☠🤣🤣🤣

[@jaroslavmrazek5752]

Luke: "Are components more expensive in Spain?", Linus: "Doesn't matter." WDYM it doesn't matter? Of course it does, on average everything in the EU is about 25% more. That German guy wasnt even that crazy off with that price, apparently you are just used to having things cheap.

[@saplingseedsaccrew3143]

1:56 That's not even a 40 series card, that's a cooler design from the ROG strip 20 series.

[@sullychow4123]

Wait... people buy windows?

[@fajaradi1223]

We do buy windows and install them. How else you gonna let the sunshine get in to your room?

[@cvspvr]

​@@fajaradi1223there's nowhere to mount a window in my mom's basement

[@christsm8163]

😂

[@Mayson2006]

i need the light. Do you live in a basement or something

[@AndyRock1]

I don't know how they do, windows are so damn expensive.

[@vaiz955]

10:15 bro there is no way you could build this system for 1200 bucks

[@tehgjunki]

Lol of course you can. Remember they're giving USED prices. A used 3080 is only $400-500. 12900k $150-200. The rest adds up to $500 MAX. These numbers are on the extreme side too, you could easily build that for $900 if you look hard enough. I built a 7800x3d+rtx4090 system with 32gb ddr5 ram @6000mz on the used market for $1750. If you think this isnt possible then you're definitely one of the suckers these sellers are marketing to.

[@NixTea]

South africa at 17:10 XD, I built my pc in south africa for R14 000 for core i3 10100f, gtx 1070 8gb and 16 gb ddr4 ram XD

[@danaa-]

I felt pain when i realized the price

[@Aria_Saarkia]

The editing on this video was fantastic - super funny. Great job team!

[@haksolix9862]

I sometimes find it hard to watch the daily videos about general tech, maybe i'm getting too busy, but no matter what i consider the setup reactions and marketplace reaction video top tier content, i'd like to see more of it often but eh... one every few months.

[@hishaamdevries]

being from South Africa I can say that all computer electronics are expensive as importing tech is a lot cause of our import tariffs and that we put a 15% VAT tax on all products even local, However even that gpu is only suppose to be about R600~$32,47 used

[@mrSM3432]

As a fellow South African I agree that seller was way over priced even for us

[@H4L0GUY117]

two minutes and no bots, should I be concerned?

[@QTA-20]

He fell off 😂😂

[@Flaax2k13]

Bro these are the worst shoes I have ever seen if you buy something like this you are clapped 💀

[@night1wind]

Love the editing of the video LOL! also "Get a new computer" as Linus stares at the camera! so true

[@ItzTheDay]

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

[@ndawgtkd]

Worth noting that way over pricing things used to be common on eBay, it indicated that you didn't actually have the item in stock, but saved you on listing fees to leave the item up - could be the case with the etsy seller given the multiple tiers were all the same price.

[@CientifiKOF]

Removing panels for pictures makes the inside look better without all the glass reflections, that PC at 1:40~ indeed had them removed.

Linus translation was really really good! GJ

[@AlecWyld]

I built my high-end 7900 XTX build for $2500, brand new. It can crush any game I throw at it, and due to it being a 7800x3D build, that includes productivity software as well. People vastly overestimate how much they have to spend to get incredible performance on a modern PC.

[@FredLootLlama123]

747 line had me in stitches