We Bought a $200 Gaming PC From Goodwill....

[@DiogenesUlyanov]

Shoutout to these guys and their team. They recently got my system back up and running in good order. You have a new fan!

[@baroncalamityplus]

FYI Goodwill doesn't do any actual charity with the money they make. Their big charitable purpose is hiring and training disabled people to work for them, and they use their non-profit status to pay them significantly less than minimum wage. Outside of that, they are just a basic retail business. The biggest plus is they save a lot of stuff from going into a landfill and give it new homes. Their electronics are hit or miss off the auction site but often it depends on where the item is coming from. Some Goodwill centers are more, for a lack of a better word, honest. However some centers just DGAF and you may get trash or treasure because they don't check what they are selling.

[@Joreel]

Your actual incorrect. The Goodwill hires and trains people with disabilities to be able to work in any job, not just at their stores. They are one of the biggest training companies for people with disabilities who want to work and have independence. They do not in fact underpay their employees. I've worked in both their stores and as a trainer to help people learn how to work despite their disabilities. Please don't spread lies about companies you know little to nothing about.

[@seannesbit2218]

@@Joreel It's not a lie. Goodwill is a for-profit company.

[@inactive-v2o]

👍

[@eduardoyanez13]

I know ppl that were formally homeless and goodwill housed them. Single mom with a 2 yo boy

[@MrFuzziiWuzzii]

@jeremy446 Bro came through with the references and proof to make you look like a fool

[@toufusoup]

Shoutout to George giving the lads twists and turns with this system

[@mr.guillotine1312]

I've looked at that site a few times when I was hoping to maybe find some things without spending a fortune. All the items I was interested in were listed with starting bids just a few bucks under retail, and for that, I may as well just buy it new and not have to worry about it not working and having no return policies.

[@MujinTouge]

'so much worse than we thought' is a synonym for Pentium these days

[@sneezyrider1]

Bought my first gaming CPU and mobo from goodwill auctions 2 years ago. I7 5820k and gigabyte x99 ud4. $160 including shipping. You can find good deals, but sometimes people pay way too much.

[@sneezyrider1]

@Real_Toastybros. Nice! Huge fan of you guys. For some reason yours are the only build videos I like to watch anymore. Always leveraging a good deal somehow, you two are likeable, and you always actually play games to test. Keep it up!

[@chasepeterson5368]

In Charlotte, NC they have a regional store called The Grid. It’s a great little shop that has anything from donated Video Games, Computer Components, Full Systems, etc. They were super helpful when I built my first PC and I always recommend them to anyone that’s in the area

[@holddamayo7474]

Bro I’m from Hickory and am definitely headed down there to check that place out it sounds legit. Appreciate the info

[@bmh67wa]

Goodwill works with several electronics recycling companies. The stuff that they put up for auction are usually handpicked from what people turn in. If you're lucky they might plug something in to see if it makes noise or lights up but that's the extent of their "testing".

[@milescarter7803]

I literally just flipped an NZXT case like that. For airflow I marked out 120mm x 240mm on the front, drilled the corners with a step drill bit and used a thin cutting wheel in an angle grinder to connect the holes (put down some masking tape to help cut straight. Then I hit it with some krylon black because I exposed some metal. File or sand the sharp edges. The final piece is to get some black metal mesh from the hardware store. Its sold as gutter guard and it is 6"x36" for 4 dol hairs. I used e6000 adhesive to glue it down from the inside and it looked pretty sweet, also the front fans can get tons of air this way, and if you go ARGB fans it looks great. You can slap a cheap magnetic filter over the whole mess too if you didn't cut the hole super clean.

[@hovanthecool1995]

Didn't even know this was possible from Goodwill!

[@wtfwebster3424]

Yea online tho

[@sneezyrider1]

Gotta be careful though. They do not do returns.

[@RB-mk3se]

@@sneezyrider1 they charge for consoles and as much as GameStop. Like they paid more than free for it.

[@dior666-]

@@sneezyrider1they do theyll definitely take it for free! 😂😂

[@frychip2686]

Shhhhhh ThEy DoNt

[@squalley]

I am SUPER surprised when you guys started gaming 😎

[@eggflavoredegg2591]

Honestly, this gamin pc would be insane for the price with a $80 minimum cpu upgrade

[@nolanschulz3965]

A few weeks ago in Wilmington NC I actually picked up a PC at our local good will…. Ryzen 5 2600x, RTX 3050, asrock b450 and 2 500 gig hard drives in a cooler master case….. 10 bucks. 10 dollars and 59 cents 😂 AND IT WORKS!!!

[@TBRANN]

Good Deal!

[@baoquoc3710]

ok, now that's the deal of the millennia, hard to beat for chump change

[@MJFLIX]

The funniest part of this video is y’all thought nothing was gonna work 🤣

[@kaukomieli]

4:16 hahah hes cleaning up the packing material with the bowie knife -- what a true multi-purpose tool!

[@DiamondDepthYT]

I got my main monitor from Goodwill 6 years ago for $15. It's a 1080p 60hz 2ms response time Viewsonic monitor, I believe. I still use and will continue to for a long time. 1080p 60 is all I need.

[@DiamondDepthYT]

Also, Goodwill used to sponsor a local flee market near me for many years until covid shut it down

[@Dfm253]

It’s all you need, but not all I want personally. 1440p 165hz is a night and day difference from 1080p 60hz.

[@salmon_wine]

@@Dfm253 same here using the asus VG27A panel with my RTX 3060 and its a great experience- at least do yourself a favor, OP, and get a 75hz panel, even that feels ten times better than 60hz

[@Qronous]

Try 75hz, its a major step up from 60hz.

[@Pelzlc]

Honestly not a bad deal. Weird that they cut the rear mounting bracket to make the LP 1050 fit. They normally come with both full size and LP brackets. I’d guess they probably got the card used or for free or something. But not a bad little rig for $200.

[@gureguru4694]

this little boy can be a beast of a gaming PC with a few key and expensive upgrades.

[@Its_Me_Wheelz]

I get some good deals from Goodwill's bid site. Sometimes people get stupid on how high the bids get, but sometimes there are good deals to be had.

[@docter4ever]

$60 in Noctua Industrial's up front is always nice.

[@Anachronism1995]

I literally almost bid on this listing and I just couldnt tell what motherboard is was. This is actually so cool for me lmao I literally clicked on this video saying to myself it would be funny if they got a pc I looked at.

[@andrewbenson6316]

I love how few people understand what goodwill is. It's a bunch of subdivided companies that each do their own thing. Some are 501 (c) charities, some are for profit, and some are halfway between.

[@mickibihon]

Yes Goodwill has tech people at times, wipes PCs and MACs ready for use for customers, really depends on the store and location. Sometimes sold as is.

[@howardwilson3466]

I used to work for goodwill, the store i worked in had university graduates who voulenteer to check all the computers to get work experience.

[@Gpgesell1]

i bought a pc for 150 on goodwill. I received a rx480 with a i5 core

[@Siouxpreme1979]

I used to work at a thrift store part time when I was in college. Whenever we got a computer or laptop in as a donation I would set it up and test to see if it could atleast access the web, test the dvd drive and then wipe it. But I never see any tech at that Thrift Store any more so maybe they just took it because I was there.

[@Daduck47]

What’s the motherboard?

[@BeastofBourdon]

I'm honestly surprised the pentium was unable to get the 1050 to 100% usage in fortnite. It is a fairly modern 2 core 4 thread cpu so I thought it would perform at least on par with older quad cores like the i5 4670.

[@orated762]

That is 100% a mining setup thrown in a case. Donated to get additional $$. It was probably donated at a value of like 700 or more.

[@thewhyzer]

A GTX 1050 in a mining setup?

[@frychip2686]

No if it was donated, it was given to them for free they don't give out cash for items. Its not a pawn shop.

[@thewhyzer]

@@frychip2686They probably meant for a tax credit/write off.

[@orated762]

@@thewhyzer exactly, thx

[@orated762]

@@thewhyzer it was a throw away gpu to add value. who cares about a 1050? Definetly not a miner.

[@davidgutierrez8297]

Goodwill has 2x16gb ddr4 3600mhz ram by gskill right now for the current bid price of $17

[@yoshigeiger262]

I've ordered several computers, monitors, and tons of parts from goodwill. None were damaged in shipping.

[@GetWiththeProgramGaming]

That looked like a reskin of windows 10

[@rynhanson]

Try fortnight on a celerion and you will rethink that statement at performance mode running on anything

[@lwrs10]

I used to volunteer at a local Goodwill on weekends. I did all of the electronics testing for that store, including stereo equipment and computers. *I* actually do know what I'm doing....mostly...haha, but usually, it's someone who *thinks* they know what they are doing, but are actually really clueless. Almost every electronic that could be considered "high" value was left for me to price. Otherwise, they would slap $999 on an Emachines pile of junk. In the year or so I was there, I increased the stores profit, yes profit, numbers by something like 80%. If you only knew the amount of stuff that went in the dumpster simply because noone knew how to test it. It'll make you sick. In the case of your computer, I'd deff say it wasn't tested at all. Because no-one was available that knew how. And Goodwill is NOT a good company BTW. They are a for profit corporation, and actually do not do much at all to help the community. However, some local Goodwill affiliate stores DO help the community out, but they are not a corporate store.

[@idothings6685]

I mean they hire people at a decent wage who might struggle to find normal employment, plus they have career centers and things like that. I agree they aren't really a charity so to say, but they do more than your average company.

[@PTRRanger951]

I was tripping out on the Win11. I have a i7-7700k and I had to jump through hoops to get Win 11 installed on mine. Easiest thing was updating the firmware on my z270 Gaming 7 Asus motherboard. But several roundabout ways to get the Win11 to take. My machine is 6 years old, only updated to a 3060 from a 1060 last month. But I am able to play everything in Ultra so I am happy with it.

[@afp75]

i live near Hampton Va. and we have a Super Goodwill that was an old Kmart if I remember correctly but there is a dedicated store in the goodwill just for computer and and different game centric items. The staff is separate from the other staff they only work with the pc's and tech related items.

[@jerryspann8713]

Those expansion slot covers are not original to the NZXT case. The ones on mine match the mesh on the rear fan.

[@bobbyLovesTech]

It's even got some Noctua PPC Fans (IIRC) - amazing video as always

[@ProPayne84]

The music at 12:30 just doesn't seem to work for anything outside of Tim's outro music.

[@RealAaron317]

When I work at Goodwill here they had me and another guy in the back handle the electronics. We never ever got a gaming pc. It was always old-school PCs that had windows XP or windows vista

[@strictly_fn]

that pc is better than my hp laptop in every way lol. gaming on it isn’t the best but it’s playable. good vid!!

[@sharminjaramillo4414]

Yesterday I bought an RX 550 Low profile from XFX and the bracket looks similar to this zotac 1050 , sadly mine doesnt come with a low profile bracket but I found a 3d model that I can print, I hope it fit inside my 3010 sff 🤣

[@Lethalwick5673]

Smart idea man 😂

[@Elvarg]

I just sold a basic pc that I got the motherboard, i7 870. 16GB ram and the psu from goodwill. All in it was 12 bucks and I was happy with the pc

[@DylansLiving]

This shipped from a bins goodwill thats literally like 5 miles from me, I went there before not knowing how it worked. I was astonished at 20 people fist fighting over a dirty box of broken shoes that then get thrown around the room cause no one wanted it. To say I was in shock is an understatement

[@Scott-ig1zd]

Best Goodwill stores to go to are in a upper class area. In Portland Oregon area you would be surprise what you can find.

[@4Frmcfofficial]

😂👎👎

[@Scott-ig1zd]

@@4Frmcfofficial 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TENGILL]

Dude at 15:02, is that industrial 3000 rpm Noctuas? Sick!

[@ElHeffay1974]

Goodwill is also big in Canada.

[@jeremykedel]

Goodwill in tallahassee fl has a whole computer/retro game store.

[@neilrealism9248]

that's cool that it works id definitely love seeing like a upgrade video with this pc to make it more playable that gpu is pretty slick looking

[@skiron2k814]

my fiancée works with goodwill but they never get computers lmao, my guess is that random employees get the pc and prob call someone about them but who knows

[@Demutualized]

What is the desk in this video the one y'all are unboxing on

[@breakingaustin]

'Acclamator' as in Acclimatize or Acclimation

[@shawnmcilwain8527]

so i built a pc an it just loads up too bios an it shows the m.2 ssd but doesnt boot up any ideas????

[@yevgeniyvalstion7467]

You should use recuva and see what on that ssd is having on it.

[@faqihudinn]

Looks like the previous owner installed a dev version of windows 11, or an very early version, because the settings app is still remains the same from windows 10

[@K.Russian]

Love your videos ❤️

[@imabanana5377]

How are you seeing the fps and percentage of usage

[@bdifferentb]

Goodwill use to be a great place, now they are for profits only and prices nearly match retail.

[@benpenguin7382]

How is it running win 11? I have an old setup my mrs uses sometimes which is a z390 pro, 32gb ram and a 8700k running 5.3ghz, 2tb m.2 and rtx 3080 and it says its not compatible with win 11 so theres something fishy going on here

[@Draxion_]

Recently got i7-7700k with 1070 & 16gb ram for 325 on marketplace insane deal.

[@markginete03]

Thanks for uploading. Really bored rn 😃. Hello from Philippines 🇵🇭

[@idothings6685]

That was definately some kids PC in high school, went to college out of state and their mom called them one day and was like "JIMMY, WE ARE CLEANING OUT YOUR ROOM, DO YOU WANT YOUR PC?" and he has a new one now and didnt want to bother so he was just like i dont care mom, so she took it to goodwill and probably deducted $500 from her taxes.

[@rudycastillo6369]

do u guys have the goodwill site u found it on

[@fanz7935]

i do wanna find a decent monitor and is that BenQ is good suggestion? and what its full name ??

[@Gh0stFac3_Gaming]

Ex Goodwill Employee here, Its gonna be shocking to know that its at Random instead of Knowledgeable People that work in the Electronics Department, We have what we call E-Commerce aka the Shop site where high value items like the PC and All sorts of other things go to to be sold Online for a Random Price, but In Store Electronics Dept the highest they go is $15-$20 if i remember right. But E-Commerce will Vary, but as far as Knowledge goes for E-Commerce its Mainly a Plug in and Boot (if it does) and sell it and hope that someone that doesnt know better and just sees "Gaming PC" and falls for it and gets a System thats not even worth the Money instead of having someone be able to list the Specs and get a good deal for it. Side note: The knowledge part varies on Location like a Hit or Miss (Mostly Miss)

[@frychip2686]

They're are a bunch of different stores some of them have computer specialists some don't, the description will tell you

[@marcsimmler6176]

How you get it shipped?

[@1163562]

I haven't seen a thrift store carry PC's in over a decade... I've seen monitors, keyboards, mice, speakers, etc. but not any actual towers.

[@OgHyde]

And no goodwill doesn't have technology staff to test stuff they only plugin and check for power

[@1x.Antares]

Damn those goodwill pictures of that pc be lookin dope

[@pepeshadilay]

Is it over clocked ?

[@PinkyTech]

How many fire extinguishers do you have on set for those shady power supplies?

[@ParodyFax]

Keep up the great content!

[@josephsawatsky]

We have salvation army or value village here in Canada and usually not to much pcs

[@JetpackAhoy]

I worked for Goodwill about 14 years ago, so this information may be VERY out of date. With that said, I was the person in charge of sorting, testing and pricing the electronics. There was ZERO training aside from how to test that items work, and a binder with price suggestions based on the brand of the item in question. Anything rare, or that is deemed relatively valuable was boxed up and sent to their e-Commerce website.

[@milescarter7803]

Oh man, its got Noctua fans!?! Niiice. You can bump this with a 1070 and 8600-9600 for pretty cheap. 9600k pop up under 100 and so do 1070 and you can sell the 1050 for 40 locally to get a little back.

[@Retrocidal]

Yes they should I used to buy pcs from the good will at auctions as a kid it's how I started selling fixing them buying pallets of pcs at times all needed work do I'd fix them or most of them and resale I loved it me and my dad would go get stuff and sale it he's a disabled veteran on dialysis and he almost has passed 3 x times now we we don't do that any more and mybpc business went out of business like 20 years ago

[@arthurreid6108]

Let's be real about Goodwill, they sell donated items for a profit, and call employing their employees charity.

[@arthurreid6108]

@@zee-fr5kw Charities specifically do not profit, that's why they're called "non-profits", and can apply to have a tax exempt non profit status with the IRS, meaning revenue cannot be taxed because it isn't profit. Charities are not businesses, they may run businesses to fundraise for their charity work, which does require profits, but a charity absolutely does not, nor should it, generate profits. If it does, it isn't a charity but a dishonest business, that literally would be seen as so much better if they branded themselves as a business that does a lot of charity work.

[@downwiththecistem]

I may not know enough about computers but if you got a PC for 200 dollars that can actually play those games fine, you got an amazing deal. My 800 dollar PC crashes just from watching Netflix for half an hour

[@downwiththecistem]

@@darthtrolleus1947 I found this out when I took it apart to upgrade lol. I had no idea you needed to clean a pc!

[@oumashu1767]

I have a question... Is i5 13600k and rtx3060TI a good combo for stream and gaming?

[@senorcheesy9661]

That's a great build. A 13700k would be better due to the extra cores but you'll still do great due to them splitting the cores based on their usage.

[@rmgaminguk7079]

Nice find. Would have been nice to see you discuss the upgrades you would do. Dual channel ram and PSU obviously, but would you have changed the cpu and what GPU would you have gone up to (if you upgraded the CPU) ?

[@aaron71]

9900k! haha

[@agbag8185]

Isn't that just kinda buy a new PC except for the hard drive and case?

[@jakemcgowan7928]

The thing is, yes, you could upgrade the cpu and gpu depending on your need, but it would cost money. The best possible value is to leave it as is.

[@Troppa17]

Seems someone build a PC especially for Goodwill form parts he had lying around. Price is not great but OKish including the two Noctua fans. I would check on the PSU maybe it's decent quality. Otherwise I would start upgrading there. 2nd RAM stick for sure or maybe a 16 GB DDR4-3200 kit instead. Than a used i5 8400 or above and a Radeon RX 6700 XT or Geforce RTX 3070 would made a nice setup.

[@spagsketti]

The peanuts in the box are not baking soda it is made from "starch" just plain old starch. Edit: Tempered glass does not stay together it shatters into tiny squares. If it is held together it is from something like window tint or tape holding it together. I installed auto glass for 5-6 years.

[@AmaraTheBarbarian]

Wait wait, it has noctua IPPC fans in the front for a pentium G5420? Almost the same amount of money was spent on front case fans and CPU, I'm shook. What is this build? or perhaps equally important, why is this build? I didn't even stretch for IPPCs for my 10850k (though I may well when I finish my Xeon W upgrade)

[@FoundCasper]

was a manager at a good will. its usually a normal guy on that electronic bin. but they have no idea what they are looking at. usually a dude in his 50s still owns a flip phone.

[@JCinLapel]

I think George was looking for a teen to take a risk and find the mother load. I think the penteum was not the originally the possessor and that 16 gig ram was half a 32 set. My guess is it is the leftovers of a salvaged product and this was the leftover because it was ready out of the box. I hope you find someone who could really use a hand up to give that PC to.

[@Jwalker76]

My understanding is the US don't get alot of zotac cards. We get more of them here in Australia and I've seen that model GTX 1050 back during the first crypto GPU mining boom. As the GTX 1050 was only 2gb it was no good for mining and I bought one for a system flip I did years ago as most cards at the time we're not available or ultra expensive. It was a i7 2600 and I sold it to some teen playing counter strike which the GTX 1050 was ok for.

[@type45tomcat21]

I have a ZOTAC GTX 1050ti low profit version and never change anything, that's exactly the same cooler as mine but printed to white

[@duhdardar624]

i’ve never been to a goodwill that has had something worth anything frl

[@TheOneAndOnlyBandlt]

I got 2 pcs from goodwill for under $100 together and they both have pretty decent specs and both work!

[@TestAccount0817]

specs?

[@stingrayslapper1595]

Banger of course

[@TheSquadIsBack]

how much for that gtx 1050?

[@Justin-dy2ib]

Built a few G series with 1050ti’s back in the day. Good find.

[@davidsalmons80]

I'm a Goodwill worker and i didn't even know they did this still

[@xeonicfront]

If the original builder hadn't put that paid of Noctua Industrial PPC fans in it, they probably could have afforded an i5. ~$30 each, if I recall... maybe it would have been better to toss in $7 specials and then get a good, non fire hazard power supply instead.

[@ryandaniellmunoz1501]

It’s a 1050 Ti I believe… they run a lot of casino game machines… little out dated tho…but I have one if you guys want me too send it out to you

[@madisonmcelyea1919]

What is the fps counter they used?

[@NikhilBlr]

MSI Afterburner overlay.

[@CAOSWOLFIII]

did u not notice was running ddr4?

[@ambicioustrader9546]

I thought u guys will give it back to goodwill with the stamp of approval

[@cringefestivalhereuwu8170]

Lowkey my favorite youtube tec channel is “Toasty Bros”