all right so you guys pretty much know how this works at this point it is time
again for scrapyard Wars but we're throwing a wrench into the rules once
more we're going to have a bigger budget $900 per team and because that gives us
enough money to build something that not only performs well but also looks good
we've brought in BS mods professional computer modders extraordinaire to lend
both me and Luca hand so a Welcome to our guests Bob and Rod and without
further Ado let's get started SC
so we're ready to call him back um we're a little late actually yeah it's
2:25 um do this can I have your phone oh
wait no you called them with Brandon's phone okay Brandon can I have your you're not going to like this text
what hey got a reply from the other guy he says he's willing to pay the full 400
so I'm going to have to take his offer sorry what whoa hold on no we just won
the lottery I do however have an XFX
reference cooler cooled card I can sell you for
260 up to you why didn't he tell us that in the first place that when we were
like begging for a better deal done deal
that fits better in our
budget dude you're a fast texter name the time and
place that is awesome so I wonder if his brother has that though cuz I hope so
remember the thing was is that his brother was dealing with it and whatever
oh I hope so we want to get it
today um cuz that card performs almost
identically so and the so so we just got extra money in our
pocket yeah if that's I'm getting a CPU Cooler or you can have more modding crap
whatever you know no I mean we're pretty good other than that is great okay well
let's let's enjoy our food knowing that we may have just pulled this out of the
fire I feel really good about our
computer hardware um a year ago when we
did the first scrapyard Wars I might not have felt as good about what we got for
our money but quite frankly with how
competitive the used Market seems to have gotten I mean we ended up buying
from someone whose entire job it is to scavenge used stuff assemble it into
systems and sell it and that combined with the way the Canadian dollar has
tanked I feel really good about what we
got considering the market conditions I think Luke and Rod are going to have a
hard time matching the RW speec of our system okay so what are you planning for
the lighting then um it's going to start dragging
everything out here well we don't all we
have right now is just that one case vanan that's a blue LED and that's not
really going to be enough yeah but we um okay well now we can probably afford a
water cooler you found the cooler 920 for what was
it uh what was it like 50 bucks 50 bucks
or best offer so we might get it for Less I think that one comes with two fans so right now we got a 120 and a 140
with this yep so honestly the blue LED
fan is kind of the odd man out but one of the categories is lighting so we
can't abandon it so I have LED strip
lighting in my toolbox oh okay and it
would definitely light up the whole case like it's like a whole kit so it would
do the whole case really bright we really needed to spend at least another
couple hours on Aesthetics today we burned over 3 hours just driving it
really hurt what I think we're going to be able to deliver in the aesthetic
Department hopefully Bob can prove me wrong tomorrow but right now I'm pretty
worried so they look kind of like that and for close up it looks like
they oh yeah so if we had like a rusted can so if we rusted can chopped it like
here so that we just had the stick and none of this crap and then like strapped
a rusted can it's having some Thunder sticks would they do stick tall off the
off the machines too they going tall off
the chassis might not be bad either but yeah I think if we totally we
got to ditch the top this the top so if we cut if we cut here where there's a
nice hopefully I don't work with bamboo a nice inside we can use a screw like
put a plug piece in of something and then we can cover the this looks like
bamboo Parts with some strapping or tape or whatever yeah all right I'm going to
start trying to get through that okay I just heard back from the guy's brother
he says it's okay to meet at 6:30 nice perfect 6:30 yeah oh that's even better
yeah that's half an hour better yeah uh he says he can come home earlier if we
need to meet up earlier but I don't even know if we're going to be done here time to yeah what time is it right now it's
3:15 uh I'm going to ask where he's located okay so I'll find that out
either way we're in good shape we're going to have a video card which is better than not having a video card um
and then I'm waiting on the cooler so we should get an answer back so hopefully
direct me show me what to do while you do other more important things I was
actually trying to figure out what I could get lonus to start doing that
would uh not get either one of us hurt so we're all stried down so uh one last
thing I think we want to do is pull out pull out the hard drive cage right
here okay um because we can just open up this space it's not really needed since
we only have one SSD we can just use like double back tape or something and
stick it somewhere yeah there we go that's perfect so um okay um so this can
be gone okay the optical Bay we got to leave because it's part of the instru
the structural Integrity of the case itself for keeping it from bending and
so I just got to drill out some Ribbit so yeah it looks like um if you go to
the bottom here you got those you got these two here um and then those two
there do you want to do that and have me cut out the window you better cut the
window I would do such a crappy job of the window you want me to do at the same
time yeah yeah yeah go go H all right
yeah we're going to we got to make the best use of the labor that we have right now because we have used a lot of time
on Hardware
how freaking badass is
that we need to get a Le we can grab we can have our initials
on this guy will go right like
this uh we started actually working on the aesthetic stuff I did worry a little
bit about overall all time uh but Rod is really fast and if he gives me something
that I can actually work on I can hopefully be pretty fast so I think
we're going to be able to pull it together it fit yep I think we should win purely on the
fact that uh you know their computer is not going to be as explosive as ours our
computer is definitely going to be dangerous whether it's our computer
could literally kill their computer right and our own right it probably will
and and the building yeah so much for L Tech tips yeah so they should probably
let us win it was a good run we're like the wook and they W get that reference
all right there we go how do you turn it
on what I don't know how to turn it on
this little this whole thing but you have to push this little
tab
that's not I don't think that changes anything right really then I have to use
it like this it sounds ridiculous yeah that does sound for it not to F throw
sparks don't you yeah like
thanks I don't even care that much so I would probably be like this soide it
stand yeah I think that's the thing my elbow all
right
I didn't breathe that whole
time nice I'm sure this sounds super
dope through the mic sure that just sounds
great we've uh we' figured actually out a fair amount of things I'm pretty happy
with today's progress uh we still have some stuff we need to acquire which is
becoming a problem over time but the aesthetic stuff I think is really coming
along I think we have just about every element of design in our case uh on in
progress yeah so um yeah finish the S
tomorrow and drop some Hardware in um I'm a little worried about the cables on
that power supply like I was thinking about you know what we can do with this acrylic on the way over here and they're
just going to be ugly there's there's there's things we can do so we can cover
them were you saying we can you weren't sure if we had enough acrylic for the
back panel but I think we do I think we got
lots we can got the power supply and we
can actually snip back any wires we don't need that's true we can snip those
off get those out of the way so that eliminates that then anything that's
left um if there's any way we could put
something over them I don't care if we use a sock or something just to put like
better whatever and you know you can try
to paint the wires themselves but as soon as you spray them with spray paint
you're going to have a chemical reaction and they're just going to get gooey so the insulation on the wiring is going to
just turn gooey on you now if you didn't touch it it might look okay from
afar so it's something we probably don't want
to do but um okay I'm going to start by tearing down the power supply then okay
yeah and then we can we can snip anything back yeah I'll have this done
in about 5 minutes so okay all right
sorry who you hear back okay so this is a CPU Cooler guy yeah so uh he says yes
it works with for and as well as as well
as in oh I can't oh yes it works for get okay so I live
close to Joyce station okay that's actually pretty close to where we need
to go for the video card anyway okay so if it's for just about 4:30 right now so
should I tell him a time and say can we meet up at like whatever time let me let
me get a closer let me get a closer ETA for you but yeah we should be able to
make it part of the same trip did I think too let's do blue and
silver on it we'll do a design actually dude since we're going to do like racing
stripes or whatever on here like uh let's put a racing stripe on that power
supply racing stripe done that'll be K
racing stripe too or is that overdo no you know what that's Bingo that's
exactly what we need to do okay so if we carry the theme so if we go RAC and
stripe on the outside RAC and stripe on the power supply RAC and stripe on the
SSD it ties it all together super easy
this kid wants what 50 bucks for that thing or whatever so and I'm sure we
could probably get it for 40 okay so
just let me do the
talking
a lot of laughing going on we'll see how much you guys are giggling when you lose
yeah
no we need that
okay I mean is it really a surprise when I'm Victorious though do you mean with
or without cheating like you know is it
you've been following me this whole time do I seem like the kind of person who
would cheat uh wow so there's going to be our
window nice I like the blue color yeah
we just leave the plastic
on oh my God it's 5:00 is it really holy
crap okay time flies man mine is speaking oh
okay you know what I've actually tracked down most of what I need I think but do
you have any CPU coolers
see see how he comes straight over here instead of going over to the other team
I don't know it wasn't trying to get me to come over there that's the Loyalty he
was kind of just like that's the right
there what do you mean what's so cool about it it's cool and awesome I don't
even know what I'm looking at I'll get out of here actually what am I looking at trust
me it'll be awesome we can't tell you that okay looks good would you go pick
this up yeah that's great huh yeah yeah we're going for a rustic uh abandoned uh
you know Woodyard type nice looks good
done a wood case before I actually did a case out of uh old crappy pallet
wood okay look at that dude that's going
to be so awesome once that's
painted bam okay everything left is
going to be like a I hope that paint
will work over plastic on its own I
believe it does so we have to or cut around or
something but yep all right rock on can you wet
sand with alcohol no um just want to use
water that will be
awesome
ouch
shoot we have to go it's 5:45 crap we're
going to have to leave this sitting just like this yeah we got I mean we definitely got to get this stuff okay so
our UTA is saying we're going to be about 11 minutes late for our rendevu
with the video card guy but there's another wrench in the plan we are out of
gas so I'm going to have to stop
somewhere on the
way we're going to have to message him and let let them know that we're running
about 15 minutes late which should still be okay but we're
going to have to let the then we're going to have to let the uh the CPU
Cooler guy know yeah I was just going to Scrapyard Wars will return after this
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shoot do we have enough time to finish this mod
Bob um when's it got to be done end of
day tomorrow 5:30 tomorrow yep we'll be done on oh crap
okay we've got a 3D 3D program running
all right let's uh let's do this thing
and mosy we've got our video
card we still have 23 minutes before we
have to wrap up for the day and all that's left is to meet up with the guy
who has our CPU Cooler we're getting an antec cooler 920 that's an all-in-one
liquid cooler and we have all of our
Hardware ready to go at that point so we
got to head back to the office and tomorrow
we have the whole day to build which Bob
insists is going to be enough and we are going to finish but I do not share his
confidence okay so what did we say 40
yep so I'm did he ever confirm that no
but that's what he's getting is 40 bucks okay so if you're going to be that
guy then you're going to be that guy I tell you what I'm I'll give you I'll
give you the I'll give you the 10 to have in your back pocket it's not
necessary so you're getting it for
40 all right on hey I'm Bob hey nice to
meet you hi hi oh hi did you get our
message yes so is 40 bucks going to work for you oh sure cool awesome all right
oh I actually have okay cool oh it's
okay I'm yeah I'm familiar with uh buying Hardware on the street corner you
know yes everything's here everything's good to go let's pay the man and we are
we are four 4 minutes to the deadline thank you okay thank you okay let's take
our let's take our water cooler our Ace in theole water cooler that we're going
to overclock our 2500k with and uh yeah
that's the last piece of the puzzle that's the last piece of the puzzle we have everything we need mission
accomplished yes Friends mission accomplished all the
hardware I think well we're 1 minute
from pencil's downtime today and we are done we are
done actually on ncx I found some ssds
that were just as cheap as they are on Craigslist so people need to figure out
and start selling used things at discounts and not be and try to sell
them at full price I am cutting out our front panel
to fit our sweet gauges so we want this
to drop flush so it's not interfering with like our torch um there's a guy
with a 240 GB v300 for 80 bucks which is
still available we've got an 840
Evo which is still available which is 90
bucks and it's a 250 gig and then the power supply we've got for
$45 the energy Hazard inside sticker
which actually might have been a good idea to keep on because you know fire is
like type of energy thermal energy maybe
should left it but I think for the aesthetic it's better with the
warnings fire is all the you
need it's kind of true fire is all the warning you
need these were the ones that were only $4.99 yeah but if you had two more of
these caps you could drill the caps and
a case foot I'm getting everything cleaned on
the case for paint to it here right you can't have any dust oils fingerprints
grease sticker goo the thing is if there's still a little grimy it's
probably okay but I don't want them to be like
disgusting well lonus might be fine claiming that he needs to build the
computer for a uh immigrant girls
orphanage for the challenged and elderly
um I kind of feel feel bad when I haggle people because like I don't need to save
$5 on a power supply but for the contest I do but
like especially like if I was like 15
and trying to sell my power Suppy so I could buy a new computer component like
that five bucks is actually pretty impactful so like it's pretty to haggle
with people and then like I kind of feel like I should hide
my car when I drive up cuz like
oh yeah I drive like a relatively new car and I really need that five bucks
off that power supply that's so much with like one bolt so we maybe we have
to put I got enough room I could put a wood block and screw it in this way too
and then come all the way through long screws all
right
top okay so we want to allow our piston
Rod to go together but they've got an extra lip right here where they connect
the crankshaft so I'm going to come in and take this extra e in of probably
pretty hard casting off
it there you go hot
metal we'll shoot this really quick just some nice light
so we got some uh Stone accent paint it's black with a little bit of uh kind
of a brown in it and we've kind of done an overall Brown texture coat kind of to
emulate rust and harsh conditions so I
want to throw some accents onto it with the darker color so I'm just going to
throw some streaks like right across
it and uh so now it looks like it's really been
around for a few years which it has it's pretty old chassis plan today is to get
the system hopefully get a power supply and SSD and do everything we possibly
can in in terms of Aesthetics I'm not sure we're going to get to 100% in terms
of Aesthetics but we'll get as much as we can so we're picking up a power
supply at 330 it's currently 110 um I'm trying
to get on the laptop so I can figure out
when we're picking up the SSD and the
system the guy said and I quote later
I'm at work around noon I will text you when I'm there and ready I have to take
care of some shipping this morning first so it's 1:0 now he
hasn't messaged me yet little bit worried about that I've tracked down two
more tiki torches well technically 61
more tiki torches but we only need two and we can use the caps on there as feet
for the case so we might end up going to
get those but I'm getting a little bit worried about the component stuff I've
got an email from one of the guys apparently the SSD guy can meet us
around two or three so that's good
actually we'll try to miss him so I'm trying to schedule things out
so we can most optimize our time in the workshop um the system guy wants us to
pick it up relatively soon he doesn't really have a Time power supply guy
wants us to pick it up at 3:30 and the SSD guy wants to either deliver or have
us pick it up or I'm still trying to figure that out from 2:00 to 3:00 so I'm
hoping to line it up so that we either get the SSD or uh receive the SSD or go
get the SSD at like 230 is and then go
get the system for 3:00ish and then get the power supply for 3:30ish and be back
here by hopefully 4 and then keep working we still have an hour of flux
time from last night possibly an hour and a half considering they went half an
hour over but we'll have to grill them about that
later okay so here we are day three
we've got to be finished our build at the end of the day and um I think uh Bob
went out to dinner with the Enemy last night and got potentially some
useful Intel they didn't like come out and say anything obviously because they
didn't want me to know what was going on but they were trying to do the whole
code speak thing you know and but they
had to show each other some texting and whatever so what I gather from that is
that they don't have all their Hardware
yet so they actually had somebody
deliver something here to the shop for them last night they are still in need
of something and what I could get from the code speak is that they were
uh not sure that their deal was going to go through or not even and so they were
going to have to scramble to find something else meanwhile we've got the
heat cranked in the warehouse to uh speed up our paint drawing times and we
are pretty much ready to get rock in here okay um so one thing I do want to
do is get that Hardware fired up at some point here this one's ready Maybe
actually see it won't take you too long to bench stuff right H it'll take me a
while yeah if you want to do that I'll go ahead and just handle all this stuff
for now and then we'll
regroup so I was pretty nervous about us not being in paint yet uh last night but
we're hitting the paint booth first and I still hear metal fabrication sounds
over there so we've got all our hardware and we've got our fabrication done we're
in paint I'm feeling pretty good about where we're sitting right now
so um basically this is like I just I
need something to set stuff on when I paint it so this is just a quick and
dirty little stand out of some
cardboard we have a Samsung SSD right which means we can install
Samsung's SSD magician software to
utilize RAM as a cash now the
unfortunate thing is we don't have a lot of RAM in our system but we still have
$60 so if I can find a deal on another 8 gigs of RAM I might want to get it
today I gave you 20 yesterday so don't mess up our budget yeah I still owe you
20 right okay okay so I have 40 bucks I
have $43 people are asking about 50 for
8 gigs of DDR3 so I would have to spend
effectively everything you'd be left with
$22.75 again for the rest of your mod do
you need need anything else the only thing I'm concerned about
is paint should we need one more can of
paint so if I could offer okay here's another thing I got a guy who's made an
offer on the antech case oh yeah yeah yeah um should I take the offer on the
antech case even though that's kind of gray which gives us another 15 bucks or
10 10 bucks 10 bucks well I mean that's another kind of paint if we need it I
don't know that it's worth the risk of the paint and then the time we're going to lose tracking the hardware down
because we actually do have quite a bit to do and we got to allow for drying
times just because I can get it painted yeah okay and we got to go we don't know
how long it's going to take yeah and then that pulls me away okay I'll you
know what if he's down the road and he'll take 35 bucks or something and I
can get the antech case done then I'm going to try he wants how much 50 he
wants 50 I don't think he's going to take 35 but we'll see I got a lead on
our case I told the guy I got someone coming tonight so if he doesn't come get
it today he can't have it and then I've got a couple people asking 50 bucks for
8 gigs of RAM one of which actually has identical RAM here's a listing for
40 maybe I can offer this guy uh maybe I
can offer this guy 30 oh this one's close wait is
it oh this one's close this one's like a
10-minute Drive okay well that that came loose
eventually ew there's some there's some stuff in here
you can see there's like yellow gunk
let's get this shoddy tubing off here
replaced by some real tubing
fantastic come on I was right about the
water having evaporated from this thing it's completely full of
Gunk what are we going to do no wonder
when I tried to dump out the rat it wasn't going it's totally clogged
up now what I hope is that it's just here
in the barbs or something let's go see
if it's my Fork I guess no one can really get mad at me
right okay there we go and we're getting water out now that we've unclogged it
look at this there's freaking pebbles in my
radiator this side is still not clear
I'm sure Bob won't mind me using his uh Allen key set to do
this
good thing I was planning to take this apart cuz if I had found out during
final assembly that our water cooler didn't work and it was completely
clogged like no amount of turning it off
and turning it back on again was going to fix that Bob you ready we uh got to
leave 1 minute ago okay you ready let's do it all right let's go I'll grab my
food find my phone we're doing Linus's
OCD things now where Linus really feels
like a modern system with a 2500k and an r9290 should really have 16 gigs of RAM
not 8 gigs of RAM we're spending pretty much the rest of our budget on another 8
gigs of RAM where are we out on painting we are doing actually pretty good really
so the let's see I have a few small
misscellaneous things completely done I
have all the fabrication is 100% % done okay um
they're still fabricating I just have to sand all the parts and just start
blasting them with paint we're literally like flying through this section of the
paint stuff there you are please count them I I feel more comfortable if other
people verify my counting 15 205 30 all
right all right as long as you're doing business with you thank you very much we
got a competition to win so uh so Bob
final count after I paid back the 20 bucks I borrowed from you yesterday is
$5.70 I got to say I'm feeling pretty damn confident about the modding part I
really am because I think with smoothing out the insides and everything and just
going with a good silver color and then whatever we do for some accents man I
feel pretty good it's it's hard to beat that I think we're going to have
it