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Inviting complete strangers into your home is moronic. Meet in public and if they insist otherwise, find someone else willing to buy it.

@@-DawnZero I do that and then they cry on kijiji about how bad I am for doing that to them🤣🤣🤣

@@-DawnZero I always meet at the designated exchange spot at my local police department, If we had to we could use an outlet there, I test everything before I buy and suggest they do the same and when I sold my old 970 the guy legit brought his PC and monitor to test it with a inverter in his truck and I thought that was great so we could be like hey it was working when you paid me.

Sounds clever but can't imagine:) Any video link please?

It’s just true. Not everything that is factually correct has a video to prove it lol

Can also confirm this is true.

indeed, with second hand pc i would always reinstall the OS and full format the system. You dont know what was put on the system, even with the windows full reset option i dont trust it to remove all the junk

Well, his first recommendation was to get a new drive. So I would just do that.

I never skip it.

Correction... THE best ad on youtube, period. 😂

​@@TheAmazingCowpigLol, so i'm not the only one. 👍

Amen

Still don't have a Ifixit. I got Wera + Wiha micro drivers.

HP purchased Kingston HyperX product line in 2021.

That's what I did too, same setup as you likely. That RAM is MoBo locked too. You cant overclocked other RAM in the Omen MoBo. It had terrible cooling too. None of the HP stuff is left in my PC.

@@disguiseddv8ant486I currently work at HP and can confirm. They also switched to HyperX backlit keyboards for the Omen laptops

Thats a steal for sure its like the cost of a new cpu alone. Buy a used 5800x3d in a few yrs and a 6800xt

he talked about the parts where the 3060 was, the cheapest one, 299 dollars

​@@lego_max8999That's crazy. A few months ago you could get 3070s and some 3080s for $300.

I hope he didnt actually only give him that low-ball amount considering he's making money off this.

EXACTLY 100%

ive also seen a hp system at BestBuy with a single 16gb stick of that RAM

4 sticks of RAM is perfectly fine to have, BUT they should all be from the SAME kit. same manuf. batch, timings, etc. never mix brands of RAM, even if speed/timings match. Even same brand, timings, speed, can cause issues if they are from different batches. I too had issues when adding a 2nd pair of sticks. I thought 'speed matches, timings match, good to go". Nope. Once I bought a 32 GB (4x8) kit, the problems went away.

I wouldn't really call it lowballing. That's a 5600G and a 3060, that's about what the PC should cost.

Not really, you could ask $1200, then negotiate to $400, that doesn't mean the system was ever worth $1200

A lot of people these days don't understand how the "used" market should be... the asking price was 2x's higher than it should have been. Normal [OG] used pricing is 50% retail... because it is used. It is no longer new, it no longer has warranty (most the time), and has reduced life span. That's why 50% of retail has always been the mark to start for used. A lot of people just have "worth" and "cost" confused.

You never know who needs the money now

@@MrTwisted003 Fair enough. I think I'm guilty of that myself.

they are pretty good computers

Exactly, I don't think it's necessary to insinuate people should be afraid of reusing SSD's or HDD's, you don't even need a deep wipe, you're not trying to keep from recovering data, a simple format is good enough for 99% of use cases for reusing someone else's mass storage devices. Now, if selling or getting rid of a system with storage or a storage device itself, that's when you secure wipe it to ensure no one can recover your data, although bitlocker or other drive encryption reduces that risk a little bit, I wouldn't chance it.

@@Suchtzocker that's not true at all, plenty of boot USB utils that will perform full sector level multi-pass wipes of a spinning HDD. Will take forever, but I've been doing it for over 25 years. It isn't necessary to do when reusing someone else's old drive as a format as nuking the partitions and a regular format would get rid of any potential malware, but a good habit before selling, giving away or disposing your own.

@@Suchtzocker You can use boot and nuke to overwrite a spinning disk. It's pretty safe. Formatting is not wiping. You need to overwrite the data on the disk.

the question is how do you wipe a stopped disk ......

@@Suchtzocker what do you mean "a stopped disk"? Like a dead hard drive? Or one that isn't plugged in? We've used industrial degaussers to wipe and destroy corporate HDD's for years. If you want to wipe your boot drive, ultimate boot CD is still a thing, makes a Bootable USB which has an insane amount of tools and utilities, including tools to secure erase/wipe HDD's. Just keep in mind that wiping SSD's is different, the traditional wipe process used for HDDs not only isn't really effective for SSD's, it also destroys their write endurance in the process.

Best way is to not use Windows at all, and put Linux on it.

Drive can be pretty beaten up however...especially cheap high-capacity M.2 SSD`s, they are most likely using big memory cells that dont last long at all.

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 "Can be" but very rarely is. Finding out is simple. Wipe, format and test. If pass, golden. If fail, toss. It's really that simple.

@@lexluthermiester Except SMART on these drives is often incorrect and doesn't give warning to a failure. Source: have had MULTIPLE drives fail without any warning from SMART testing

@@AngelaTheSephira "SMART" doesn't matter if you do a full, sector by sector test. If each sector tests as good, the drive's SMART data can be safely ignored.

@@lexluthermiester I have done that. The drives passed. And then they failed a few hours later.

@@asksearchknock Needs to be a way to check that doesn't require specialized hardware and knowledge. I realize this is advantageous for your income. However in the long run the potential damage to the economy is potentially worse for everyone's livelihood.

@@asksearchknock It might be possible to ship a pc with a bios system designed to always have a backdoor. Servers kind of do this with their management interface, but that's not malware. From the factory is the only way I can making a bios setup that cannot be fixed. In the end it'd have to be in something proprietary like the CPU or the chipset otherwise some bright guy would just replace the infected chip if push came to shove. And if that's done it's game over, as we're probably looking a government level operation. One thing that could probably be done is clip a reader on the bios chip and dump if for a scan. However this could get expensive and/or impractical if we're talking several hundred office pc's and all the other infrastructure. Sure spotting the malware wouldn't rely on snagging a packed headed to pwnvill, but you still need several minutes with each pc. And if you have a bunch of personal gear and laptops and lots of variety they it gets even more of a logistical nightmare. This is why some sort of secured by hardware system to scan a bios is needed. Some hard coded asic or whatnot that does the opposite of a bios flashback in that it just spools out the entire contents of the bios to a usb stick. The resulting file can not only be a backup if clean, it can be scanned by av software on another machine. Heck you could probably build bios dump and flashback into the same controller. and as long as that controlled is effectively hardcoded your ahead of the curve and can be verified and backed up.

I would add that, if possible, you should also flash the backup bios on dual bios motherboards (after confirming that the new one works) and blank the part of the cmos that is not supposed to be holding anything to make sure malware is not hiding there. Also reset the bios configuration to defaults. The area of the bios that holds configured values sometimes is not written by the flashing software just to save the user from having to configure again (which you should reset and configure again anyway after a bios flash).

@@kaseyboles30 It's, I believe, still not clear whether it actually happened or not but what you describe about hardware-based malware is rumoured to have happened to Supermico, the US-based server brand (just as an aside, they make some great stuff). Bloomberg came out with a story some years ago that spy chips were found on supermicro server mainboards which were purportedly produced in China and destined for USA and EU government institutions and large companies. Something like 30 entities were claimed to have been affected. Then a whole back-and-forth of denial, examination, cross-examination, publication and litigation started up, even the NSA jumped in at some point saying it was impossible (they would of course say that) and last I heard, one or more other credible publications had come out with articles (some one or more years later) that basically stated that there was in fact more to the story than just "it was fabricated, didn't actually happen". I didn't do a deep-dive into it so can't say what the current state is or what concrete evidence (or lack thereof) has come out in the mean time, but if you're interested you should be able to find the entire thing by searching for "Supermicro spy chips" It's in response to this and like you also hint at, that multiple companies, Dell is one I know for sure, came out with a special line of servers (for Dell, they're called Dell Secured Component verification, SCV. We have some of those at work) that were fully produced in, I believe, don't quote me on this, the USA, EU or other allied nations and where all components inside, from nut to bolt to chip to case, were carefully guarded, tracked and monitored throughout the entire process from raw material to end-user and are validated and signed by Dell to be secure and unchanged from their manufacturer specifications. I believe they (or some of them) also have hardware-based checks built-in where the system will not boot if anything, either hardware or software, including component firmware, has been changed from the stock config. The CPU's for instance, are also locked to solely that model of server and won't work on any other model. Eye-wateringly expensive, of course but for some companies like the one I work for, they are more than worth the premium

@@boam2943 Fortunately when you use something like qflash or flashback it shouldn't keep old config data. That often requires software with the new bios to translate any config data that's storage format has changed (if for example they give new options or store the options differently). Though it's possible for the bios image to contain flags/markers to indicate what is and isn't' compatible to a point. but beyond some very simple basics you add complexity to the flashback asic and it starts to become a general computer itself. and that costs money. DPMI on a server could probably manage all that, it's supposed to provide a level of remote control well beyond what a home user would need, and you pay for that when you buy a server.

pointless anyway at that level of system.

@@kaimojepasltnot necessarily, they probably ship the same motherboard with the higher spec models with the 5800x.

Dont forget to flash new bios. Malware is getting smarter and now can be even at level one of system, just a step away from build-in spyware chip on motherboard.

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is not incredibly demanding... a 1660 will run it fine

And a 14900K will bottleneck a 4090 at 4K or 5120x1440 with super sampling.@@jesusbarrera6916

HP only bought the peripherals not the storage and memory, Kingston still owns that.

@@johnhudson7055hp is putting hyperx stuff in their pcs now tho

HP Omens do typically ship with HyperX RGB Ram, I have a Omen 30L with an AMD 5800X and it came with the same style HyperX ram.

But you would still expect the lighting to be synced with the rest of the lights.

@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 What other lights?

Yep. Sysprep reseal. You can even put nasty stuff and then reseal the oobe. That's how oem do that.

I agree about not recommending a new drive, but u also wont have to buy windows, even if u create a new windows USB as long as u dont change windows versions

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right i saw posted 24 seconds ago and jumped at the chance to be an early ass

Why

Why?

@@EtriehDishonest marketing about the high quality of their product when it’s actually low quality chicken that’s treated with extremely high levels of MSG to create an addictive chemical response in the brain to get people to crave more of it.

@@louisroggio5850 welcome to every single fast food joint with chicken bro.

@@Etrieh except the levels of MSG in chick fil a are over 10 times higher than any other national chain and they don’t disclose it. The EU forced them change the ingredients in preparation for the upcoming UK locations because they test the food over here and actually hold corporations accountable to their claimed ingredients. But believe what you want, bro. 🤦‍♂️

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