so as you can see we got our million dollar plaque billion million subscriber plaque and then we
got our multiple hundred thousand well some things but i don't think it's
really gold but my actual my favorite lot of money it does and then the silver
ones too like if that's all solid that's quite a bit of money and then so welcome
to scrapyard wars you guys might be wondering
what's up with all the mad stacks well this crapyard wars is going to be a
little bit different we are going to build a computer we are going to build a
good value computer but there is no set
budget the challenge today with our special guest austin evans is to build
the best bang for the buck computer we'll be using five different benchmarks
tomb raider far cry 4 cinebench pc mark and 3dmark firestrike to determine who
has gotten the most possible value for
their money
all right friends boom care package from brand d brand
skinned oh yes sirs
so we got an s6 edge plus
we got a note 5 and we got yes my friends
macbook airs pearl
it's what i always wanted
okay so these are the tools
that we'll be using to do all of our scrap yard
warring thanks to dbrand let's see uh i think my macbook air is supposed to be
like a special one so orange
yes i believe that one that one is it so you guys can flip over the other two
because i am totally going for this is a new orange finish from them that looks
absolutely sickle though i gotta say i like the wood grain that orange is
pretty pretty nice i would match my wood grain if i got wood grain on the laptop
no wood sure i'd always want one
okay so i don't know about you guys but i got my dbrand phone
i got my chest strap done up oh you got the real stuff right here
yeah you got the real stuff right right yeah me too bro so
let's go no holds barred scrapyard wars no holds barred case bros
wait actually i need my laptop where did my laptop go
here it is okay uh i really have to pee let's go dude uh
how do we get out of here
okay all right so basically my plan right now is
there we go okay totally thought the door was locked all
right so the plan right now is to just get out of here so
i think it looks way more legit if we're like not here so where are we going it's
a great question uh let's not be here let's just drive a little ways and
figure this out so okay potential problem number one
i actually haven't even done any pre-thought i've been so busy that i
haven't had any time to figure out how i'm gonna tackle this challenge
potential problem number two there's three of us this time there's
going to be craigslist crap that's listed two weeks ago that they get no
calls about and they're gonna have three people calling them today
so it is going to be a race against the clock to win scrapyard wars three
which obviously means it's a great idea that i'm sitting here on a couch i
should really get going so i'm gonna try to save some money by
avoiding a case i'm gonna try to build everything onto like a cardboard box or
something it's all about price to performance so
if i spend like even half the budget i almost feel like
we're gonna go over because i don't know i'm thinking like seven
hundred dollars something like that you know of a cool spot around here like i
know my hotels over here what's the cool spot like we could hang out um we're in
langley so nowhere oh that is some wicked gas
we're not in the car yet though so it's okay
oh man oh wow that's like that is some
outdoor grade gas one of my biggest concerns is that i think we're gonna be
fighting for parts uh i think we're gonna be fighting for parts because i
don't think there's actually that many for sale right now i'm wondering if it has something to do with the canadian
dollar being in the tank at the moment oh my goodness is
that mine they're just sitting on the ground it's my tip
so one of our dastardly plans is to send
responses from craigslist ad posters to
those guys that they never actually messaged so we'll try and we'll try and
get them off the trail get them confused
so we're all gonna be on craigslist
we're all gonna be trying to find
the same deals or maybe not because the way that i see it there's
actually a few different ways to tackle this we can try and get the cheapest
possible computer that is at least capable of running the benchmarks
and hope the other guys spend way more
or we can go for like the traditional bang
for the buck pc somewhere in the seven to eleven hundred dollar range and win
the benchmarks and hope the other guys aren't able to get great value for the
dollar i frankly don't know what the answer is
right now yeah what if we try to do like a hundred dollar gaming pc build i don't
know if it's necessarily going to be awesome but it's price for performance
right so if this is as tenth as good as if they spend a thousand dollars then we
actually win so this could work it's only ten dollars
and it's even here this could work
maybe okay so i just got a 220 offer on a r9
290. box of video cards oh we're we're
calling this guy we're calling this guy that looks like an 8600 gts like if we
can just taking up space on a shelf if we can get that for like two bucks or
five bucks or something we might be in pretty good shape it's an option
so i'm calling the guy with the r9 280 for 130 bucks i'm going to offer him 120
if he doesn't take it i'm still going to do it can you do 120 bucks awesome uh when do
you want me to come pick it up yeah yeah but port moody's like a city like i need
to know where okay so i got a
r9 280 for 120 bucks i really wanted to get that 290 but i don't think the price
per performance is worth it when the 290 would be
over a hundred dollars or no basically exactly a hundred dollars more i don't
know there's there's some funny math there because you have to calculate in
the whole rest of the system as well but i think a 280 is going to be good
and i think i need to move on to other things so i'll go with that if i'm
learning anything from this is that people like to really overprice their
old pc hardware like people likes are like oh my my six-year-old gaming pc is
worth 800 it was worth 1200 five years ago like no dude it's worth like 300 get
over yourself canadian used market in general is just
because uh the turnover is so low yeah
dude yeah i mean i'm just seeing tons of junk here and every once i see something
cool like yeah okay so this is a g4 7900 for
50 i mean it's got s video on it it's not
going to be worth 50 i don't care what you say wow a lot of this stuff is
pretty brutal is that a 9 600 for 10 bucks though
that's not bad let's save that in the numbers sheet
the best thing to do this is going to be a disadvantage for austin in this whole
competition because he hasn't done this before but the best thing to do is right
in the first couple hours put out as many feelers as possible yeah you're
right this does take a long time i also totally want to find like a pawn
shop or something car oh dude that's a good idea
that's a great idea yeah like the car just like runs out there's a q 9650 CPU
i'm still potentially interested in that if i can get it for the right price i
think we're gonna need a quad core to win uh that cinebench is gonna make a big
difference i wonder how austin's doing at this point like new city like he
doesn't even know where any of these sub regions are like he's gonna be like oh
yale town that's probably pretty close okay i think we might have found
something here a pair of 7950 graphics cards for 150 and that's both of them so
basically one of them actually they were both used for bitcoin mining but i don't
really care as long as it works for long enough where i can actually like benchmark that could work 150
where is this 13th avenue is that burnaby
was that anywhere near burnaby newest
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scrapyard wars i'm trying to work on system so what i'm trying to find now i
have a graphics card i'm probably not going to look for a case power supply
i'm probably going to have to get on its own and so what i'm looking for right now is
motherboard processor memory essentially
and a hard drive i guess but i might try to sneak an SSD in there if i can i just
don't know if it'll be worth it because most of our benchmarks are CPU or GPU
60 for an SSD that could be that could be all right maybe i think
you might be able to get a new SSD or around that they probably wouldn't be
that it's probably not that much cheaper but we also maybe try to get that guy down a little bit so this guy wants 60
bucks for a 120 gig SSD that is so
not happening 60 dollars for price
you can buy brand new 240 gigs for
98 dollars so
i'll see if i can get him to be a little bit more realistic
now you should know luke almost lost his money
yeah i was just wondering if you were interested in selling parts of it at all
yeah yeah that's a pretty good point um i was only interested in the
motherboard processor
RAM and potentially power supply i call them up i'm like are you interested in
selling just the parts and he's like oh yeah totally that was my first idea when
i was gonna put on craigslist was i was just gonna part it out and he ends the
phone call like well i'm okay with selling the parts if you buy all of them
so so far i've got a graphics card that i'm picking up at three something that
was a r9 280 for 120 bucks i don't know
if that's like necessarily the best deal i could get
but i wanted to move on to system because i did notice that a lot of my
target processors they're kind of scarce right now i can't find very many of them
so i had a whole bunch of graphics card options and was like okay i just want to
get that out of the way i should have maybe done that later
but whatever i'm really trying to find my platform right now and having a
little bit of trouble with it ah dude i think this might be it 150 for 279 50s
that's gonna kill it all right this is this is we totally need to go this way
so now let's try to find some other parts and start calling that's totally the way to go dude that's that's it
that's that those are our cards right there so for a lot of the components i'm
just going to be kind of browsing what's out there and buying whatever but for
the graphics card i think i have to shop a little bit smarter so i'm going to be
using anantech's bench repository in order to compare graphics
cards across generations and then from
looking at it briefly i'm feeling pretty good about the approach of going with a
tahiti based card so either a
280 or 280x or a 7950 or 7970 i think
that's where we're gonna get the best bang for our buck so i'm gonna lowball
this 280x and kind of go from there
okay so this is how i write a craigslist email how's it going saw your listing
for the pair of 7950s i plan on building a gaming pc and was wondering if you've
made sure they can game i don't plan on mining but want to make sure both cards are fully working thanks because i've
got to be polite i'm in canada so fire that off
and hopefully we hear back okay i'm just being like a little [ __ ]
hi i'm um contacting you about the 280x for sale are you firm on the price
i don't think i can spend that much
whenever someone contacts you like that whenever they open with that they're a
loser well not like a loser but like getting a better price makes you a
winner yo but uh being a little [ __ ] hey here's a
good deal on an SSD let's see if this guy has a phone number
40 bucks call all right i'm gonna offer i'm gonna offer 30 for a 120 gig if i
can get it i'm feeling really good about my storage
drive who uses a home phone number i
can't even text that so i'm gonna i'm gonna just oh man i'm gonna play every
game in the book SSD on craigslist um i can come get it
today if you can do 30 do you have anything else for sale i'm trying to
build a budget gaming pc for a friend of mine who's moving away who could say no
to someone trying to buy a present
maybe next time it'll be like my six sister or something she broke her ARM
and she can't go out much so we're getting her gaming computer
look you might be judging me here but i
have a competition to win so
yeah i did say no holds barred this is the
guy with the lots of older computer stuff
um come he says come take a look should we just should we just go check it out okay
i've come across an interesting discovery there's a 7950 gx2 that's a
dual GPU card the guy's asking 25 bucks
if i can get that for like 10 or something
i could be in really good shape
no that's a directx 9 part
okay i knew i knew when we were choosing the
benchmarks that we should have gone with something older than far cry 4
but it looks like you have to run it on dx10 or dx11
hardware so right now i've switched from buying
that that r9 280 to an r9 200 or 290 i
haven't told the 280 guy yet because the 290 guy seems a little bit flaky so
i think i'm gonna wait until i get a actual confirm from him so the next
problem we have is just having to power these two 7950s so i started looking
around there are not a lot of power supplies we might be able to find something used but just out of curiosity
i looked on ncix it's gonna be like 97 to get like a Corsair
we might end up having to buy some new stuff because they're the options on craigslist are not as
solid as i was hoping um and plus there a lot of these people think that stuff
is worth way more than it actually is so we're super stressed on time right now
um so much so that we're having delicious sushi because um you know we
got this okay so i found something decent here so this guy has an older
computer but he's willing to part it out so you get a cooler master case with a
db rider for 20 bucks and there's a power supply a 500 watt power supply for
30 bucks that can work but i don't think that 7950s enough to power them
what if we get two really cheap power supplies
oh and like tape one of the top or something yeah dude that would be so
cool so like we basically just like have like one 500 watt power supply in the system
like we like tape another one to the top just to power the other graphics card
i almost want to do that purely because of how ridiculous it would be it might not even save us any money but that
would be awesome uh now we're gonna go try to hit up some local computer stores
maybe try to find like some used cases uh we still need like a motherboard and
memory um okay so i did not realize it's gonna be an apple specialist
i mean we're here we might as well try
yo you have the macbook right nice
okay um so slight change of plans we just left the macbook at the restaurant
no big deal but uh that was my bad so let's uh try to get
back to there before uh this macbook is stolen
i can't believe i just walked off that's
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