 Okay, sorry, what is this called? Huashangbei. Fantastic. Alright, so I'm here at Huashangbei. Yeah, perfect, thank you. With Scotty from Strange Parts, so I'm getting me some strange parts in China, which is actually exactly what we're doing. So in this gigantic tech mall thing, they have everything from components like switches to computer parts to drones to cryptocurrency crap, mobile phones, pretty much you name it, they've got it here. So I don't really have any objective other than to go shopping and see exactly what it is that I can buy with my little stack of Canadian rubles here. So wish me luck and hopefully that's not for me. I think we're good. This video is brought to you by Corsair's Subsidian 500D. It's a mid-tower gaming case featuring premium tempered glass and aluminum construction, removable top fan trays, and more. Check it out at the link below. I think this is going to be an uphill battle to get them to even recognize what those are, let alone know the value of them. They're going to be like, what is this s***? Yeah, no, it's okay because there's an ATM. Yeah, right, yep. This is the world's most helpful error message. Transaction is cancelled for some reason. Operation timeout, thank you. Okay, bye. So like this is the kind of stuff that I wish we had a shop like this. Like we were trying to do a piece a little while ago where we wanted lit buttons or like big fun buttons that we could press. And if we could have just walked into a mall and bought them, that would have made my Christmas. The cool thing about here, particularly for buttons, is you can actually come in and touch them, right? So like the button feel is super important. Oh my god, I already found something I need. Entire bags of like motherboard standoffs. I was trying to buy just a bag of computer screws. The only place I could find for it was on eBay. Pricing was totally unreasonable. Yeah, and it will be very reasonable here. Smartwatches, totally 100% real beats. These are probably like semi-real. Semi-real? Yeah, like refurb type. Right, okay. Wow, this place is enormous. Crazy, right? This is probably one of 20 buildings. Honestly, it's overwhelming. Yeah. Okay, so here's stuff I mostly recognize. Right. Here there's like a bunch of mining gear. Yeah. Like amp miners and what else do they got? Mining power supplies. Got an Apple cash machine. ROG, something, something. Looks like very similar SKUs. Yep. So, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, yeah. You okay with that? Just looking. Just looking. Okay, no, I don't necessarily want to get led in here. Hi, no, I'm just looking around. It's okay. Thank you. I mean, this is the kind of thing you would never find in a retail store back home. This is like dual socket, like server boards and stuff like that. Can you ask how much this 1800 watt power supply is? It's like 50 bucks. 50 bucks? Yeah. $50 for an 1800 watt power supply? Yeah. It doesn't feel like an 1800 watt power supply. Oh my God. It's actually only rated for 1600. Also, this is a mining only power supply. So it only does 12 volt. This is just all mining shit. Look at this. These are mining specific cards right here. These ones without coolers. And they actually do have a display output, but like just the one. Wow, look at this stuff. Yeah, so they've got things like these mining specific boards. And this is used. Asus demo board. Here's a brand of motherboard that I've certainly never heard of. Sometimes it's just fascinating. Like you walk up to a booth and you kind of go, what are you doing? You know? If you really need a B250M HD3 or a WD Green SSD or a Bison fan, then you're good. So I mean, this is indicative of the markets, which is just like a high degree of specialization in booths. But it's also just like a different way of doing business. There's just not a lot of like vertical integration. It's everybody does their one little thing and has friends that do the other bits. Fundamental problem for PC stuff is that... What's this? Pricing across regions has really leveled out. Yeah. That's a wonderful question. I'm actually not sure what this is. Doesn't seem to be in any sort of hurry to tell us. DTMF. Is this like telephone gear? I mean, they still have LGA 775 motherboards here, like brand new. That's incredible. Oh, wow. Okay. I can't even like focus my eyes on it. At one point she was burning paper with one of these. So just be careful. Oh, yeah, it's this one. How much is that one? This one? Yeah, I don't know. I'll ask. Oh, here we go. Oh my God. Watch the reflexes on the glass. I think my kids would end up going blind if they found it. Yes. Yes, that's true. Yeah, I'll pass. I'll pass on this one for now. Okay. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm getting a $3 discount now. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. If I decide, I'll come back. Okay, I'm back. Okay. Okay. My recommendation is if you think you want something, you should just buy it while you're here. Yeah. So what I figured out at this point is I definitely need some kind of an objective because you could wander around in here for weeks and still have no idea where the hell you are. And I have. And what you're doing. I have. So yeah, if you have something specific you want to do, I'm happy to try and make that happen as best we can. Okay. I want the cheapest laptop in this entire mall. Cheapest laptop in the entire mall? Yeah. Let's do that. Okay. I'm trying to think where we would go for that. But yeah, okay. Let's maybe jump buildings. Sure. As you've seen this one to the other place that has a lot of laptops and stuff. Okay, sounds good. Yeah. It's an unusual thing going into somewhere with the objective to buy the worst thing that you can find. I mean, if they weren't trying, I don't know how they could have made two completely different buildings full of completely different people and things look so identical. Once you start coming here more, it does actually like you do notice differences. There is a different mix of stuff here, but it's a different mix. It's not fundamentally different. Yeah. Subtle. It is subtle. Laptops. He wants to buy cheap laptop. Laptop. Laptop. Yeah. Actually, yeah, Eric, can you jump in? Okay. We want the cheapest possible laptop. Like in... This is my translator. Laptop. No book. No book. No book. So one problem here where the really nice guy from upstairs directed us is that none of this is off-brand. This is like Lenovo, Samsung, Asus, Dell. This is a start set, 6,000... What? Yen? R&D. R&D? U1. Yeah. It's about 6 to 1. It's about $1,000. Okay. I mean, that's about what an Envy would start back at home. I don't think we're going to find anything that weird and or cheap here. Tell you what, what do you edit your videos on? Final Cut or Premiere. Final Cut's my editor of choice, but my editor uses Premiere. Here's what we're doing. We're building an editing rig for Strange Parts' editor because when in doubt and I can't figure out what to make a video about, I just build a computer. So f*** it. Nope, that's what we're doing. Okay. Let's do it. So let's go back to PC component. Okay, go back upstairs here, Remy? Sure. So my editor is in Mexico. Your editor's in Mexico. It could be my editing rig or my transcoding rig. I don't care what you do with it. Okay. But your editor's going to watch this video. So if you don't send it to him, then you know what? That's true. It's true. I'm going to have to sort that out. Oh no, Linus has stars in his eyes here. Oh my God. He's looking devious. I think I've fallen in love. It's actually like the construction of it is not bad too. Like from a distance, it looked like plastic garbage, but it's actually aluminum garbage. It's like proper, yeah. So it's exhaust going out either side with these like baffles and then the whole thing is a big intake. Holy s***, is this thing like $300? Wow. How much is a Ferrari, definitely real Ferrari power supply to go with it? Dang. Let's look around a little more. I mean, we might find something else, but I don't know if I could love anything more than that case. Sorry, hun. I'm feeling good. We're off to a very good start here. Look at this stuff. That is some ghetto ass water cooling supplies. I don't know how I can resist. So they have absolutely nothing at all. It's just display. Oh, that's the point of having something on display if you can't sell it. So that one and that one. Oh, wow. That radiator weighs almost nothing. That is aluminum AF. And I actually don't even know if this... Oh, do you hear that crack when I tried to put it on? Okay, 15 bucks for this though. Not that bad. Not that bad. Okay. Let's continue our quest. Thank you. I don't really see anything here that's jumping out at me as having sufficient RGB-ness. Okay, this. That is my kind of RGB and looks a lot more sensible in terms of pricing as well. Okay, I expected that. Okay, that's pretty cool. It doesn't actually have a microphone though. That is totally cheating. Is that true? Yeah. No, it's just cheating. So the question was like, should we haggle over this, right? And so my rule of thumb is like, if I think it's a fair price, then I don't. Like I don't push on it. Most people in the market are not like marking stuff up because it's like wholesale. There's just not the expectation that like particularly buying one that they're going to like really gadget. The one thing I need to know is if I have anywhere to mount my radiator inside. So Eric, can you ask me if I can take it down and open it up? Okay, you should be in pretty good shape. Okay. Yep. I'm sold. What's good to me? So I know I said that you don't screw around on the power supply and the motherboard. Yeah. So I'm definitely going to be finding brands that I don't recognize for both of them. Okay. Because we are going to have the Chinese PC experience. Wow. Colorful makes motherboards. Yeah. That's fun. Okay. So I want to know how much for that one. It's a battle axe. I don't know what the brand is. I can't read it, but it says battle axe on it. Yeah, the brown one at the bottom. There's nothing on here that would indicate sort of what it is, but it does have USB 3. Colorful? Oh, it's a colorful board. Oh, okay. Do you have anything bigger? Full ATX? Here, why don't we just pick up a board here? Let's just talk to our buddy here. Yeah. All right. Okay. Do you have a motherboard, CPU, memory? CPU memory? Okay. Let me try that again. This. What motherboards do you have? Do you have anything like full size ATX? More slots? Yeah. What about memory? Memory? Okay. So that's an eight gig Kingston stick. Wait, it's a hundred bucks for one stick? Okay. No, hold on. Yeah. I don't think that's very good pricing. I think we can do better elsewhere. We got to start buying stuff or we're going to run out of time here. Does anyone here speak English? No, I think that one's okay. So we're reaching a deal on a Ryzen chip and a V350 motherboard. But if I understand correctly, he doesn't have stock here. He's just going to go to one of the other stores and buy it. So maybe or there's a store room somewhere else. That's pretty common too. It's like there'll be another booth somewhere that has the stock that's less like visible than this. I hate this. We're shopping online. Fun fact, we're paying more than the other guy quoted us, but at this point I don't care. Fine. So here's the situation. We have like 20 minutes before this whole place closes down. We have like 2,500 RMB left to get a GPU storage, a power supply and a cooler because clearly this tubing is not going to do us any good. I hate this. This is not a great shopping experience that I'm having. I am stressed out. Okay, so these guys have Galax 1060s. Let's find out how much. Sorry, which brand again? Galax. 2000. Is he quoting 2000? Yeah. Okay, we're going to have a cash situation. Hold on a second. Worst case scenario, all we still need is storage and a power supply because we can use the stock cooler. Okay. And then we can just throw this radiator in the back for lols. And I'm going to need a screwdriver. But the other option is to go find a repair booth and do like, like you and a Chinese guy putting this together together. Oh my god. So that's an option. 2550. I think we'll have to move on. Okay, lots of high end stuff here. 1080s, 1080 Ti's. We don't want that. I'm determined to get the rest of the stuff here. So here we go. We need SSD, power supply. Do you have 1060? Is that it? Oh, okay. So 2360. That's a little better. And then I can't even tell what the wattage of these things are. 600 watt. All right. So we'll take this one. We're definitely getting at least one product where I don't recognize the brand at all. I've never heard of Nitec. Eric's trying to get us 60 RMB off and he's offering us 10, which is about $2, $2 discount. Fine. I don't care anymore. Okay, fine. We got a $2 discount, man. You know, like 10 years from now, I'm going to have like $2. I'm going to like desperately need it to take a bus somewhere. And that's going to be all I have. And I'm going to be like, thank God, Eric saved me that $2 on that power supply SSD. What is the total over here? It was 3050. Can I owe you some money? I'll have to do the ATM again. Okay. All right, do we need to go back and get our motherboard CPU combo? So we've got a small problem. The escalator is caged up now. This place is closing in like two minutes and we have to go down to the bottom floor to the ATM. We may not be able to go back to the store. That is a potential problem. So we might walk out of here with a case. It would be kind of a dick move if we set them around the markets all day. It's all right. I think we'll, I think we're going to make it work. All right. Is this what we got? This is these three? Oh, and that one. Okay. So check everything. Yeah. Yeah. Ryzen 7 1700, two DDR4, eight gig sticks. Yep. That's and then we've got a B350 plus. Yep. Okay. All right. So you're getting probably hopefully a decent computer here. Cool. I don't know about that power supply. We checked the first couple to make sure they were real. You know, I mean, I'm surprised he's not running it through a machine actually. Cause oh, he's going to go run it through a machine now. Like yeah, that's just a universal concern. It's definitely not you. Like, hopefully this last piece of the puzzle is really simple. We just need a Phillips head screwdriver. I know where to get that, but it's in a different building. It's in a different building. I mean, they must have a Phillips screwdriver here. Let's go walk around the bottom floor. Like if we go offer someone 50 RMB for their screwdriver, we can buy a shop. We can buy a shop screwdriver. That would be an option. This one right here. Yeah, sure. Here. No, no screwdriver. Okay. Okay, but should we just go to the other building? Yeah. Okay. Fine. Let's just go where we know they're going to have it. All right. Let's go back to that big tool booth. I think the odds of that case having all tool-less mounts is very slim. Yeah. Oh, is that your tool store? This is the one. Yeah. They look kind of open. They look very open. Okay. If I'm going to buy a screwdriver, it might as well be like... Actually, don't see that many options. Like where's just... Here's small screwdrivers. The screwdriver with an S, you know. 2013 used to all like lots of precision screwdrivers for working on phones, but we just want like a normal like big screwdriver. Oh, here we go. Here. Oh, here we go. We walked right past screwdriver land on the way in. Okay. Here's a super long one. You know what? I could actually use one of these. I'll take this shank. I mean screwdriver. Sorry. Wait. Wait. Stay back. See this? They're both reversed now. They're both going down. We caught it by like two minutes. We were about to get kicked the fuck out of this place. So Mr. Can build an iPhone out of parts that he finds in Shenzhen. When's the last time you built a computer? It's been... 15 years? 15 years. Okay. So you bought a computer? That's a great question. I would like to think I still can. But it has been a long time. Like it has been multiple, multiple generations. I bought the screwdriver for you. I'm going to be in charge of unboxing. Okay. And you're going to be in charge of actually building this mess. All right. I like it. You're already doing my job. All right. Whole collab ruined. Linus takes the vision of responsibility very carefully. Okay. So here we can... Let me just do a quick overview of our case here. So, this case is from the brand Powertrain. So we were successful on the case front. We found something that I had never heard of before. It's the Chameleon. And honestly, for a $40 case, the fact that it has RGB lighting, not that bad. I feel a little weird assembling a computer in the middle of a market square. This is totally normal. There'll be like... There's iPhone repair going on at McDonald's down there. Fair enough. Okay. We might have run up against our first challenge. We actually need to pull out these two standoffs and they are fricking tight. So one option, and I have used this with success before, is to take a motherboard screw here and screw it in too much, like seize it in the standoff. And then try and back off the standoff and the screw. All right. It's worth a shot. Oh, that looks good. Got one. That looks good. Okay, but we're going to sacrifice another screw here. Oh, we got it. Oh, you're a lucky man. This is my computer. You're the lucky man. So there you go. These are seized as hell, like without pliers and yeah, we're not getting that out anymore. All right. So while Scotty screws in the motherboard, I'm going to go through everything else we got here. So this is a bit of a cheat. I had heard of Great Wall, but it is a Chinese brand. I don't think I've ever seen a Great Wall power supply available outside of China. Wow. You've got a modular power supply. There you go. The modular cables. Yeah. Yeah. You only plug in what you need. Fancy, fancy. I would say that goes down here, right? Yes, it does. But we need to pull this off. How do I get it in there? How the hell do we? You know what? No, we don't have to take it. We can just slide it in. Yep. You know what we have to do is find out how good of a deal we got. I'm willing to say a little bit more expensive than the states, but I'm not sure. Oh, our case did not include any cooling fans and we blew our money on a radiator instead of a fan. Damn it. And our stock cooler goes on right here. If we're double teaming on assembly, then I'm going to double team on unboxing here. Did you just get all the thermal group all over your hand? No wonder your projects take you eight months. Being an idiot doesn't help. Okay. HyperX Fury. All right. What else is there in here? You ready to pop this in and then put cards in? Yep. Oh, that's almost in. Oh shoot. Is that in our way? Okay, we're in. Okay. It's like actually getting dark enough that I'm having trouble seeing now too. Can you flashlight me? Did you just say flashlight? I did not say flashlight you. Because like not on camera. So he showed us the graphics card, but I didn't realize it was like a brown box card. Like the card he showed us looked legit, but. Made in China, GTX 1060. Oh, this is a system integrator. Skew. So he sold us an OEM card, that rat bastard. So this probably doesn't have as much warranty on it. Again, not my problem. Yeah. I actually like this screwdriver. Are you compensating for something? Okay. Now, I promised that I was putting this damn radiator in no matter what. Oh yeah, you did. So I'm doing it. It's not going to do anything, but it's going to be in there. We need our tubing as well, right? Hell yeah. You know, like that, right? I would just run it back right into the other one, just like that. No, no, no. You really want the illusion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want. You want the full illusion. Yeah, I want. So we just want to run that baby right there. There. I mean, that looks kind of water cooled, right? See? Yeah. What do you think? Totally water cooled. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Totally water cooled. All right. I'm going to show you a cable management secret. Show me. I love cable management. Okay. So here I find out if this was a good deal or a rip off. So I had to make some compromises with my new egg equivalent. So I used a Rosewill power supply with sort of similar specs. I picked like the second cheapest generic SSD I could find. And then for a case, honestly, they were better deals. Shipped. Really? I could get a case for 38 US dollars. Okay. Which is less than what we paid for this. Yeah, a little less. So we did 1142. How did we do? 1142. We did 1162 plus $2.50 for the screwdriver. So it was basically the same. Well, that was fun. I'm sure glad that that was so stressful, but here, congratulations. Do whatever you want with it. I no longer care. I don't even know if it works, but it's water cooled. Depending who you ask. See, it looks pretty water cooled, right? It looks very water cooled. Doesn't it look water cooled? It looks very water cooled. I'm going to go closely at it. So this video is brought to you by Private Internet Access, which actually has been serving me very, very well on this trip. See watch, I'm going to do a thing. I'm going to go to google.com. Wait for it. Whoa, whoa, what is that? Oh wow, that's google.com. I'm in China. 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