My brother’s old Intel Core i5 i5-4670 appears to be kill. Power button doesn’t work nor does shorting it.
Replacing the PSU with a known good PSU doesn’t work either or anything really I have tried. Most other things that could be wrong would at least have the fans spin up a bit first so I’m going to go ahead and assume that either the CPU or motherboard is kill.
Anyways he doesn’t game nearly as much these days and I remember the old liquidation PCs. I can’t find where that was and he really just needs a cheap computer.
The HDD that was in the build works and I assume the SSD as well but my USB thing doesn’t work for SSDs with windows OSs so I haven’t tested it. His GPU was a 7870 Myst so it was old AF anyways.
Under $300 would prob be ideal. (He is on shitty teacher pay)
The GPU should work… I haven’t tested it but it prob works still… Testing it would require me to shut my computer down and I haven’t felt like doing it.
Chances are probably good it’s the motherboard unless someone did something stupid while overclocking. Couldn’t you just buy a z97 motherboard for half what you are looking to spend?
Have you done all the basic troubleshooting? Removed all extra hardware, 1 stick of ram… breadboard it… etc?
I just talked to him again and it sounds like what we will do is just pick a motherboard up. I just am having a hard time finding one on amazon seeing how the chipset is super old.
Always my top recommendation with craigslist directly after. They scrub through them and make them as new as they can again. Getting a macbook with a GT330 and a nice screen isn’t hard, and he can play some gaems if he really wanted.
Well yeah every miner and his grandma are buying all the cheap mobo’s rn. As well as the people who are trying to afford half way decent GPU’s to play counter strike.
