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one you know what the stupidest thing about me screwing up that formula is is
that's exactly the formula that I used to use when I worked retail computer
sales to help people understand how you
know buying something that costs twice as much might effectively give them a
way better value than if they bought something for half as much like if
you're buying A1 th000 Computer spending an extra $100 on a graphics card that
performs 30% better is still 30% more
performance for 10% more budget in the grand scheme of things but I like forgot
and the really frustrating thing right now is that even if we hadn't already
been late to meet this guy twice so I
feel like I really have to go meet him even if that weren't the
case I still have to go right now I have
no time to go and plug some more cards into an updated formula and find out how
they compare before I have to go meet him now so I basically could end up
stuck with a $20 paper weight by the end of this I didn't bring my cash it's okay
it's okay it's okay hello nice meet thank you this is uh
this is going to really help me a lot
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it's a hoodie that's all right it's even better cool be vot for tur up
for sweet awesome we just heard back not
that I'm touching that uh we just heard back from the back alley
guy I think we've got a lead on a sound card I'm going to offer him like five
bucks so we need to be in Richmond in an
hour and it's going to take us about 40 minutes to drive out there so we should
be good on time and that's pretty much it last thing we're going to have to do
is go over and pick up some memory which I think inst ex is actually going to be
the cheapest way there's not a whole lot of like cheap used memory so yeah I feel
like we're doing really good we just need the graphics card and as long as
that works and everything should be fine there then we're going to be good so
let's go
hey so that's the top slot so everything's good so just got out of
free geek Vancouver I was pretty worried about that store and that ended up being
amazing all I need left is a power supply and I've spent
$280 I should have asked about a power
supply 700 Watts
oo some sketchy Brands too good I forgot I needed a power
supply oh yeah um how much for this guy
this one is it from one cable can I just put them together from one yeah I can
just put them together and then it has a I need yeah I need six plus two and I
need six which it has awesome okay so
give me one second how much did you say 30 bucks there you go thank you so done
I guess free geek just cleaned me out for what was it uh
$130 I got a 550 W power supply a q6600
a 160 GB hard drive a 775
motherboard and 8 gigs of RAM so that
means my final total comes to 180 + 30 so
210 plus1 $310 so I'm $10 over the
original scrapyard Wars budget and have a way better
computer yes okay I keep telling myself I'm just
going to stop looking I'm going to go back and test the cards but I keep I keep looking
anyway I mean I just saw a 7990 list listed or a 7970 listed for
$100 even factoring in my $20 loss on
that card that's an FPS per dollar of
almost .4 that would be the
winner if I can get it and here's something totally stupid here's a 6990
in Richmond surely this guy doesn't think he's actually going to get $180
for that so why don't we send a text okay so after the 18-hour drive to where
are we at right now Richmond Richmond after the 18-hour drive to Richmond give
ever take 17 hours we're here but we're actually here 20 minutes early so the
dude lives in one of these apartment buildings over here so I guess we just
wait for him oh dude there's a Toys R Us over there 20 minutes in Toys R Us hi
I'm calling about the 6990 you have listed on Craigslist do you still have
that yeah I do but uh there's a guy is picking up uh this afternoon um if he uh
doesn't shows up I will give you a how's that um do you know the name of
the guy picking it up no I don't oh okay
yeah I think um he's not likely to pick
up though uh because he's using a
California numbers so I I don't know it's a froud or or what oh okay um cuz I
can come like I can come like right now because I I have made uh a promise to
him so I will wait till two if he doesn't shows up then uh it's yours okay
uh how much did he offer it's 180 oh okay okay I'd have to
Fig okay um okay can you can you call me
at two If he if he doesn't come get it by two sure yeah I will wait like half
an hour or something like that where are where do you live well I live out in
Langley so the sooner you can let me know the sooner I can start driving cuz
I really need it today okay
yeah yeah I will give you a call okay all right thank you all right thank you
okay
bye California
California okay Austin's number going to
pick up a 6990 in the
city city of Richmond he is
rocking a 6990
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we're at the guy's place um he's going to let us test the card the problem is
is do we film it because I feel super
sketchy at going to some random guy's house as he's testing a graphics card
for me and say by the way can we film I don't know what do you think well I
think our intention is to make a video
video is very important we should push like we're asking right is it is it
invion of privacy if we ask hold on but if we say we want to record what happens
he goes oh well I want twice as much money for the car and we say well we
don't have a choice record the video no no no but like if he knows like this is
not just some random couple guys who want to build a computer like what if he decides like he wants to raise the price
or something I just really don't like recording like people's houses or like
in I don't like recording in places where people don't like let me which I
guess well that's why you're asking and we don't have to tell them that we're
shooting a YouTube video either we can just be like hey uh like can we just
document this oh I forgot the money wait
can we catch this that might be a little helpful in buying a graphics
card so now we know Austin after that
card part of me wants to snipe it just to totally him but the other part of me
is actually not even sure if that's that
great of a card so we can plug this into the formula so $ 6990 out
$180 would be approximately a 6970 time 2ish so that's
57 so let's say times 1.8
those games should scale like pretty well so about
102 so if he's paying 180 bucks for
that oh that is a that see that's a better performance index than I'm
getting
36 damn it Austin Well if I can snipe it
I'm going to all right so looks like everything
works so we're here testing out the 6990 everything looks like it's running great
on Diablo II so we're pretty much good there um now pretty much all that's left
for today is we need to go pick up some memory and we'll be good to go so we
might just have this build ready boom so
we successfully have an S XFX radon 6990
this is a huge car look compared to me
so yeah I think we're looking good right now um so at this point we pretty much
just need to go to int ex and pick up 4 gigs of RAM which shouldn't be a big
problem um that's the only kind of slight question right now is how much
RAM do we actually want to get um so 4
gigs is going to be a lot cheaper but we might have some stuttering issues I
think Far Cry 4 is the thing that we're kind of a little worried about right now so it's going to be like do we want to
go for it or not I kind of want to play
it a little risky so I think we might go with 4 gig of RAM especially if they end
up making me pay for tax which I don't want to have to do so but most important
thing we have an awesome graphics card so we're set
mostly I've got to say now that we've got this beefy graphics card I'm feeling
way better at this point we really only need the memory and that should be like
the easiest thing ever to get so putting
in work right now especially considering how cheap this was I mean this was like
a $600 graphics card maybe $700 graphics card just a few years ago we got this
thing for less than 200 so I don't know
I feel like if we win this it's going to be because of this card if we lose this
it's going to be because of this card but I think we're going to win this because of this
card so we've had a troubling morning we
got our graphics card that I thought was a great deal turns
out that according to my corrected
calculations it was actually not a very good deal and we got some very useful
Intel on what our competitors are doing so Austin is going high performance and
he's going dual GPU which I really wish
I had looked up the 699 I looked up almost every other dual GPU solution
yesterday by keyword this one's been listed for a month and Austin offered
asking price he's getting a 6990 for 180
bucks which by my calculation is going
to cream me so we're on our way back to the
office we're going to test what we have
make sure it's running I am going to do
some shopping try and find a better graphics card deal and if I can find
something that'll allow me to eat the $20 I wasted then I will go out and get
it before I meet the uh the back alley
guy again at 4 today dude the NX is right there it's right in
that okay so do you want to drive over there or do you just want to walk it
what let's go get our memory now dude I'm feeling pretty pumped I really think
that we're actually doing really good here 8 gigs of RAM is way too that's
crazy for a scrapyard War system we got crazy it's pretty crazy we got to save
money dude this is price of performance it's a serious business we got to we got
to go for the 4 Gig let's see if there's any other 4 gig just in
case okay
20 30 five there you go she got the 4 Gig
stick of the Corsair memory so won't be super fast won't be a ton of memory but
it should be just enough to get through number is 162 be out okay awesome man
appreciate it we're
good root beer all right we have
officially all of our parts right now so to recap we picked up the case and one
of our power supplies for $25 this morning we went to a computer shop we
got our CPU our motherboard we've got
the heat sink we got another power supply and we got got a hard drive we
got the graphics card just now and we just picked up the $30 kit of 4 gig
memory as as on the spot flying it out right here so we have all the parts and
we bought them all today and everything went pretty well actually it is 238
right now so not only do we have over 2 hours left but we get to enjoy a
delicious root beer M well you do you're too cheap to
get me one oh yeah so I accidentally I just bought this out of the scrapyard
Wars budget so all the parts we bought plus like $2 for root beer
oops this tastes pretty sweet though I think it was kind of worth
it okay I'm a little nervous right
now there we
go what is that
did this guy sell us a dead graphics card
anyway so the good news is that we found
a lead on a graphics card that even
if I have to throw away the $20 I spent
on this will put me back out ahead or at
least even with Austin for FPS per
dollar but I haven't heard from the guy in about half an hour so I'm really
hoping I hear back soon the bad news is
our power supply we hoped would work is dead which means that our 400 watt
backup power supply is only
borderline capable of even supporting a
7970 if we get it there's also more bad
news it looks like our 6850 might
actually be dead which could also be good news because that gives us $20 back
in our pocket if we can get a
refund um I'm liking Austin's chances but never count Luke out I mean he might
show up with some completely Bizarro thing next time on scrapyard Wars Austin
gets a tenis shot Luke gets captured by Vikings and lus runs over a dog