Now you join me in my car because this is the start of a new Siri's tech I found on Facebook, or rather, the Facebook marketplace.

Now the Facebook marketplace is a decent online location for people.

Toe cell.

Get rid of the old junk.

I mean, secondhand wears, and there's often a lot of tech related products on there.

So this particular episode started off with these two machines hit £40 for two working Peces.

I'm in my car now because I'm on my way to collect them, so let's get into it.

Collect the peces, and I'll talk a little bit about what I've got, what my plans for these systems are.

And in the future, we'll see if we can upgrade them all.

Just try and make a profit on them as they are.

One man's trash, of course, is another man's treasure.

Now.

These systems look very similar from what I can see through here, but the only way to find out for sure is to get them outside, open them up and check out the specs.

Because there was no description as to the specifications off these machines, but it doesn't know that we have any graphics cards from what I can see.

So I thought before we cleaned out we should at least test out these machines and ah, to do that, I've needed to dig out about 100 adapter.

Cable is we got the HD monitor Devi.

I hooked up to the VJ, which is then connected to another V g A, which is connected to this VJ which will connect on there.

Somehow it will go on.

It will go on.

Look at that dust that is grim became machine one.

It's on to showing machine too.

You're up.

It was about at this point I realized that my overzealous Yusof adapter cables probably wasn't helping here, considering both Peces refused to boot up.

So I decided to look for a suitable monitor with a V g a connection on run the tests again.

So I tried things with a different monitor without the hundreds of adapted cables and it works, but both operating systems to have a password which is not a big deal.

We conform at that.

But now it was time to take the machines outside, check out the specs and give them a clean up if necessary.

I was told that these machines had spent a lot of time in the loft unused for a few years.

So I don't expect to find the cleanliness tw of environments inside these cases.

And lo and behold what I was met with pretty much met.

My expectations are first PC here looked a bit like a desert had slowly built up inside the enclosure on our second machine.

Here was a little bit cleaner, and as I was expecting, these specifications do seem identical right the way down to the ram sticks used on closer inspection.

It seems that our processor is an Intel Celeron E 3500 a jewel course socket 775 chip In terms of storage.

We also have a 500 gigabyte hard drive, which isn't bad, to be honest on with the four gigs of RAM.

Should we want to resell this machine, then it shouldn't be too hard to do so on make a small profit.

The four and 500 get combination is still suitable for basic everyday tasks, especially when paired with an older operating system like Windows seven as I began prepping the peces for cleanup.

I noticed that one of the arms on the heat sink fan was broken, so I'd have to replace that, though.

Luckily, I do have a spare lying around, so it won't cost me anything extra.

I also took the brief opportunity to look at the motherboard here and check out what CP use it did support?

Should I want to upgrade these machines?

And, well, the outcome wasn't good.

There weren't really any significant upgrades available on that plays heavily into the end result.

Off this video, something will discuss a little later on, but let's cue the cleanup montage.

So it took me a couple of hours to clean up.

Both Peces and I think it's fair to say they look a lot better than they did when I first picked them up.

Now the next step was to install Windows seven.

This is the operating system they originally had on them, but they were password protected and rather ask the seller what the password waas.

I thought it's just easier to install fresh copies off the operating system of also bumped up from Home premium to professional on both systems as well, using a key that cost about £2 on eBay.

It was during the installation of all the necessary drivers that I noticed that the Celeron isn't exactly the most capable processes in the world.

In fact, using this machine for anything other than a very basic tasks feels rather sluggish.

The sin a vent result came back at 111 which isn't terrible as faras Celeron xgo, but it's far from a snappy CPU, which is to be expected, considering the age and the fact that this was a budgie orientated machine when it launched years ago.

Home and I did try gaming on the integrated G 41 trips as well under.

Even San Andreas here didn't really want to run very well.

It's a bit like a power point presentation, but if you turn the settings down low enough, you I might be able to squeeze playable frame rates out off some entrant titles so fast for today, and I want to talk a little more about the situation with these Facebook marketplace Pete sees now.

Initially, I thought I might upgrade them, but as I mentioned earlier, we couldn't really perform any significant upgrade in terms off the process.

Thes systems do support eight gigs off DDR three memory, but I thought that wasn't really worth the extra investment, either, and I decided to prioritize profit.

There's discussed the power supply, first of all, so it was a 300 units that was off satisfactory quality to power this machine as it wants.

But in order to stop the graphics card in here, I may have needed to upgrade that if I wanted anything remotely powerful.

But then, should I have gone down that road?

The process, sir, would have quickly become the bottleneck.

I could have gone with an older graphics card, maybe a radio on 43 50 or 54 50.

But in terms of the initial outlay, monetary wise, I don't think that would have helped to net a higher profit.

I think these machines were best resold as basic usage systems, and that's exactly what I did.

I left the 300 what power supply in there.

I kept the four gigs of Ram in there, and I kept the 500 gigabyte Satya hard drives in there, too.

It's where was the processes?

He's remained pretty much untouched, apart from the cleanup that I gave them, and I decided I was going to try and double my money on my investment here.

So I paid £40 for the pair, £20 each, and I thought I would try and sell them for £40 each on Dhe.

I'm happy to say that this was a success.

I re listed them on.

The Facebook marketplace had a couple off local buyers who were interested, one of which never showed up, and the other one never replied to me in the first place after showing initial interest.

But that's just the way it goes sometimes.

And I also had a little bit of interest from a local computer store, too.

They were happy to pay £80 for both off the machine, so I think that's a job well done there.

We've made £40 with very little work cleaning up systems, in my opinion, at least, is very therapeutic, very relaxing.

So their own money at the end of it well, I think it was an okay result.

The thing went, buying and selling Peces is that you don't get too greedy.

I'd recommend buying lower in systems in bulk and then squeezing a little bit of profit out of each one, taking more care with each individual.

Sistemas Well, if you're opting to build higher end or buying a selling hiring systems, then there's higher risk for you.

The prophet.

Maybe a little bigger.

But should anything go wrong, customers end then, well, it's not a happy outcome all the time, and you could see your profits quickly go down the drain.

This is starting to sound like one of those financial advice Tran Horse.

But yet every self and I buy and sell a couple of pieces just for fun, really?

And if I can make a profit out of it, then so be it.

In the case of the zoo store machines, I think we did OK in making a small profit.

Andi, I think the new owner, whoever they may be, should be happy with them.

Providing all they want to do is do a bit of browsing, scroll through their Facebook news feed or just keep in touch with distant friends via email with all that sitting down.

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