I seriously don't get why someone would laugh at what you do. You have proven time and time again that it works, you're enjoying it, legally making money in the process and doing something for the environment as a side effect, who cares if your methods are unorthodox? Instead of being a sheep that follows the herd you're doing things your own way and you're succeeding, this should only be admired and respected!

Went for a jog through the woods a few weeks ago, came across a pc that someone had rummaged through and left there. It was so random. It had a 750w gold rated corsair power supply that caught my eye. Managed to clean it up very well with soap and water and blow it out, and is now in one of my main computers :) The mobo/ram/cpu is going in a web browsing computer for my mum. It is VERY satisfying to clean old parts and give them new purpose, i'm having a lot of fun. Thank you Tech Yes!

As a former PC technician myself, I have to say that this has been the most interesting video I've seen of you. No, I haven't seen all of them, but most since summer time in the northern hemisphere. I really liked how you went in depth with the whole procedure and the taboo, water on PC components thing. Also addressing all those who not only laugh at you but think that you are a nut job for washing PC components. Also you gave a good insight on how you feel about it, and your process of thinking. Your smile the end spoke volumes, you definitely had this sense of achievement, nice 😊

this is the kind of content you can ONLY get from tech yes city! i appreciate your commitment to reuse in this age of e-waste

Tech Yes City at it's finest fixing broken and disgarded parts and sending them to new homes.

Great to see so many pc parts saved from just generating waste. It's amazing for the environment as well as getting a free motherboard

the best tech channels are the ones where they restore/recover stuff. dawid does tech stuff recently bought a perfectly salvable pc and just replaced the entire thing with new parts. it was very frustrating. the guy was afraid of cleaning a perfectly working 1000w psu...

2:16 YES. Finally the best machine is back!

Brian your content has persuaded me to rescue old PCs and see if they can be turned into gaming rigs. I got really lucky one time and found an Intel 6th generation PC at a thrift store that was put in with some Windows XP dinosaurs and nabbed it for 10 bucks. I had also acquired an rx 560 4gb gpu for cheap and turned a good profit on it.

I used to have a business of cleaning nasty computers and my choice of cleaning was hot water with detergent and a stiff nylon brush. Never failed me so long as I made sure to dry the components well and a dehydrator works fantastic for this stage of the process.

Many youtubers use those ultrasonic cleaners but they don't cram in a dozen parts, and they don't use tap water and dish soap. They use distilled water mixed with 99% alcohol, and sometimes alcohol only. Usually they only clean one component, or two small ones since having so many components crammed in there can block the sonic waves to other components, so all you end up doing soaking other parts. I like to see you do an experiment Bryan. When you have a LOT of parts to clean, split them up and cram in parts in the sonic cleaner with tap water and soap, and do your normal routine, and then cram in parts in a small tub or bin, with water and soap and let them sit in the same amount of time, and see what the differences are. Because I think the real mojo you do is what you do AFTER the sonic cleaning, blowing air out, and using the all-purpose spray to displace any remaining water.

As much as I love your videos, your cleaning methods are a bit out there. Using that ultra sonic is great and nice to see you stepped away from brake cleaner. ** Tips ** After your ultra sonic clean, dump the entire parts in an IPA bath, then in an over that can do 50 degree for about 30 minutes, dries all the water. For those watching, never use a hard surface to clean thermal paste off the chips silicon die, use IPA and soft cloth, much safer. Bryan, if you have parts that don't work, let me know, I can solder your parts back on, fix and diagnose them. I'll even buy them if you don't want em.

I am a 2nd Gen “dump diver” and you have inspired my need to hunt!

Only here, in this channel will you see a guy fixing pc parts in the most bizzare way yet very VERY effective! Love the content man! Keep it up!

I cringe at the water because of having to be sure you have removed every drop of water, however when it works, it works! Love watching you in action.

I like the fact that Bryan shows how "not-scary" tearing down mobo heat sinks are. Massive respect!

That's a good feeling when you think something is dead and then you get it working again...... kind of like the feeling I got from buying an i3 9th gen PC with a GTX 1650 on ebay and some how the seller sent me a Ryzen 3600 system with a GTX 1660 Super 😃

IT is generally not green, especially with all those packaging and short product cycles. I really appreciate your efforts in these used parts.

I love this type of content from you. It's why I subbed to TYC in the first place

Yes please make a computer cleaning video, how you go about it. The right cleaning products to use your methodology of how you do it right! Hope to see that vid soon.. Thanks.

Hey Bryan! I generally think your soundtrack taste is fantastic, but this was the best I've seen in A LONG ASS TIME. Love the tracks used here!

I do appreciate your cleaning methods even many electronic scrap industries doing this and selling that in aliexpress well you are the inspiration for many ppl to build pc from scratch

Good job man. You’re knowledge of pc is incredible

Tech YES City can make anything look brand new again!!

Love your Vids🙌 Your voice cracks me up😄, content really good can wait for more. Also more IRL part picking vids very intertaining.

On the DDR-3 memory module - that missing part is a resistor network - four independent resistors, used to help manage the signal integrity on specific signals. The values of the resistors may vary from one module design to another, but you can often measure other parts on the same or a similar module to find the correct component values.

Bry, you are endlessly versatile and innovative...and with style.

Loving the Command and Conquer tracks in your videos. More of this please!

Great score Bryan and happy to see you getting these parts back to life 🥰👍😉 it’s great to see older tech getting a new lease on life and not ending up e-waste in landfill. Awesome job!

Always insightful and great content! Great cleaning methods!

I've tried to fix older electronic but I have to admit I'm not as stubborn and patient as you are which I respect. Gonna try more diligently next time. Thanks for the great content.

I wish more people would take the time to properly check and maintain tech components. Thanks for keeping the dumpster and land fill content down. You are making a difference. You deserve to make a buck for your time.

Niiiice... Love seeing techs resurrected from the dead. Good job Bryan, continue doing these kinds of video. Perhaps using IPA 99% later on,to avoid using bigboi that may cause broken pins. 🙏

Knowing when to fish and when to cut bait is such a hard part about troubleshooting. Great video.

Always love the tech yes loving. So satisfying.

Literally keeping stuff out of landfill, great work

Also found a h97 and z87 mobos! Cleaned the h97 which now has a 4790k in it! Haven't cleaned or tested the z87 yet. Will try washing it in ultrasonic cleaner when I get one as it was the dirtiest of the two boards. Thanks Brian for your awesome videos!

Love your videos Brian... keep it up!

I once spilled coffee on my K95 Corsair keyboard and I was heart broken, but did the Tech Yes Lovin’ wash it off with water method. Didn’t have the BigBoi lol so I used a hair dryer, it melted some of my key caps lol but it is all good now Thanks Bryan always for awesome content, I’m lovin the Tech Yes Lovin

Another great case of the Tech YES Lovin'. And damn, I started watching the channel regularly a few months before you actually bought the DataVac... Time surely does fly when you're YES'ing.

Great job mate 👍😀

Oh yes, would love videos of repairing faulty hardware - that would be next level for tech yes city!

dude over the last 6-7?! years i have been laughing but with you, in fact washing the parts is something that i do myself. love all your content but Tech Yes Lovin ones are my favorites. Cheers from Portugal.

For anyone who's going to literally wash PC components, make sure that if you have hard water from the tap that you buy a large jug of distilled water to do a final rinse in. Mineral deposits from evaporated tap water can screw up electronics, so rinsing in distilled water removes any of that residue. Source: personal experience living in an area with very hard water and refurbishing computers.

Loving your more frequent uploads

Washing parts and bending pins is why I watch this channel, fixing bent cpu pins is witchcraft, Ive tried, nearly lost my sanity.

just remember when a lot of people laff at you " those that can - DO , those that can not - mock "

"A particular something that came out of a bird" man that was hilarious 😂 as usual Brian, great video, keep up the good work

I used to have that Asus Z97 board. I got it in a box full of parts. It was dirty, bent pins, and the PCIe slot clips had broken off. After some work it worked again. I ended up giving it to a buddy of mine that needed an extra office PC.

Always very good quality and interesting videos

Love the tunes, but I want to hear the big boi :) Thanks for a great channel Brian

Tech Yes Loving! Woot!

I am into retro computing - I regularly work with stuff that looks like it has been dug out of a field. No point even starting without using water.

I was throwing out thrash a couple of days ago and saw a PC on the side of the road. Brought it back home to take a look. It was caked with dust, and definitely past its prime. There was a label that said that it was sold on October 2010. That was pretty interesting. I definitely wanted to refurbish it and make it look good again as that makes me feel good. However, I gave up after I realised that the system was a bit too old and not worth it. It had one stick of DDR2 800mhz ram, a 250gb HDD. Unfortunately, I could not check what CPU the system had as the cooler was probably stuck onto that. I wish I could find a better system one day haha

I love the giant, loose heatsink for testing!

I ain't laughing at you. I'm in tears to see how well you care for PC hardware, regardless of it's age. It's sad to see what people junk these days, when it still has plenty of more life left. No matter how old a piece of tech is, somebody out there will find use for it. Perhaps because they don't have the money to afford the latest and greatest gear, or they simply take an interest in the history of past technology. I hope these motherboards find a good home.

Great job 👍👍👍👍.

I would like to see a video with Ultrasonic cleaning it interests me especially what cleaning solutions are used

Funny thing about being a mechanic.... Doesn't matter how you arrange the hardware, the physics stays the same.... ViVa La Tech Yes City...!!!!

I am up for a sonic tutorial. understanding the process is part of learning how to do it, so please and thank you. As to the blowers, well YMMV but I fond they don't do as good a job as I want so I manually dry my parts. it takes longer likely but I get to examine every little thing on them and any sketchy things are found. A hot air station is just thing instead of a soldering iron. These work fast and are reliable and accurate as to temperature. Under 100 USD and it should have most of the parts you'll need plus solder and flux. Your positive attitude as regards tackling GPU fixing is admirable. Sourcing the needed components can be troublesome but a decent local supply house is something to track down before you go whole hog into this. Good luck, mate.

Love your vids! That being said, if a bird shits on your motherboard you're doing it wrong.

for stuff thats really dirty i'd wash it with dish soap and water and really get down there with a used toothbrush and a paintbrush. Then for drying, i just wet the entire thing with isopropyl alcohol (40% works fine) and leave it out to dry for 1-2 days under the tropical sun. fixed two motherboards with corrosion that way

I also love to give old pc parts new life. Don't have much time but here and there I do stuff like that. Do you think a dish washer would also work on dirty hardware?

Yes i wanna see how you clean pc parts!

MAN looking forward to seeing the BIG BOI more love it when u wash pc parts im also somewhat of a pc part washing efficianado let the hater hate we love you brian and know that ur gr8

Pc parts must smell good after using apple and raspberry soap lol always love the videos.

I gotta go to sleep (3:34am here) but you better believe I'm gonna come back and watch this video. EDIT: back 11 hours later, watched it.

Yes! I would like a dedicated ultrasonic cleaning video, maybe with a guest appearance spot regarding how to get electronic dusters working with power grids in different countries. I could see that helping alot of recycling gamers and hustlers.

I have used an Air Compressor to blow out PC Parts for many Years without issues. Just make sure if any moisture is present you give it time to dry. Of course I do keep in mind not to blow too close to the CPU Pins but I have never had any Bend fro the Air as of yet.

I love this videos.

you are such an amazing person bryan, I love your way of doing things, don't give a sh*t to people who don't know how to appreciate stuff! TechYesCity always!

That is some serious dumpster diving. I guess the times call for it. As they say: one man's trash is another man's treasure. :-D

BRIAN good job as always.

Damn, I m amazed..

Wow I'm amazed how many people just chuck stuff away, in the UK it would all be on eBay for top money, even broken! 😂

How can people even laugh at you because you're giving pc parts a new life?

Yes please do a video on the ultrasonic cleaner.

When I'm done washing the boards I just toss them in the oven at around 75C for 45 mins or so. Gets rid of all traces of water even in places you can't see. I don't just pull them out, I just turn off the oven and let them cool down so as not to shock anything.

Oh man!! I do need to make some time,and use an ultrasonic bath at our place. It has an inluded drier,as well!!!!!

Switch to a Wedge Tip for your Soldering, works WAY better than the classic Cone Tip

My z-97k is still going strong from when i had my 4690k in my main rig, I just use it as a home media/console pc right now with a gtx 1060 and 16gb of ram, still does quite well.

nice video Brian... hey buddy where do you get your tunes? there are so good.

Nice Transformers The Movie poster you have on the wall ;)

Ultrasonic!

I laugh at the people who'll laugh at someone making money and a good effort for the climate... Great work, keep it up!

Brian, change the foam filter in your DataVac, it looks like it's totally caked with dust. That should get it going back up to 100% again.

I Think that after ultrasonic bath you could bake components in owen on lowest possible temperature, something like 100c. All water will be gone from everywhere, like under the chips.

Love the vids for the past 6yrs brian, might get the big boi if your review says it's worth it or get the datavac lol. Hope you can fix my 1080 ti one day get a hot air station from quick that thing is really good for the price

I want an ultrasonic cleaner vid!

What do you use to prop up boards to display? Is that some sort of easel?

I dont get why people find pc part washing weird,overcloackers do it all the time,der8auer washes motherboards in his dishwasher all the time,he even has a video about it. it is okay as long as you fully dry the parts.

Good job Brian. I agree with most of what you do, but what's the multi purpose spray for exactly?

I was laughing so hard at the title

i have alot of solder experience i have fixed cb radios and mother boards for computer replaced caps in them to my blower i got it good to Bryan good stuff love fixing old computers to got a few going to

thans for helping lowering e waste on this planet.and for making some kid happy with its first pc :) 2 birds one stone or our SUPER tech yes MAN

i still have that ASUS Z97 board in my hardware collection

My computer shop is partially in a barn, sometimes birds get in and nest and shit on my parts, I am used to cleaning bird shit off of new and old hardware, it's damn corrosive though.

Reduce , Reuse , Recycle and try not too catch Bird Flu in the process!!! on the topic of soldering Bryan i have a Asus Dual GTX 1060 3GB Oc edition i took the cooler off too re thermal paste it and noticed that 2 Ram sic GDDR5 modules where never soldered on !!!! because their is a more expensive model that is a 6gb version so they used all the same components and boards but just left two 1.5gb GDDR5 modules !!!! so i had the bright idea too figure out if i could acquire the exact same Ram Sic GDDR5 modules and solder them on and guess what i found them already pre soldered balled with lead solder and for sale for 9$ cheap on Aliexpress !!!!! i rushed too order 2 aswell as a air gun and flux !!! when they arrived from china i then proceeded too clean the area where the missing components where and place the Ram Sics into place perfectly and hit them with 245c from the heatgun pressing on them lightly with tweezers for approximately 35-40 seconds then let it cool... and they stuck and i put everything back together too test .. and low and behold it read only 3gb still ........so then i reformatted the vBios with the same model only 6 gb version and poof low and behold i have a GTX 1060 6GB !!!! nice upgrade that costed me all of approximately 60$ and 2 hours of learning !!!!! i tested it on games too comfirm that all 6gb infact are being used and working no issues

damn bryan you look baked 😂

Awesome