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still we totally just left a brand new Macbook sitting at the table oh God this
is terrible
oh man all right let's see what this thing got oh man I can't believe we just
did that we just totally just left our brand new laptop just sitting on the
table oh my God that would be so bad if it if it's gone oh no don't don't talk
like that man I cannot believe we just did
that all right please be there
thank you thank you so
much oh we deserve that that was dumb we
even left the leftovers I like how she even got us the
leftovers this guy's trying to sell a dead gtx480 I was like gtx480 30 bucks I
am going to do do it I'm going to do it I'm going to I'm going to low ball them
I'm going to offer like 15 bucks cuz this has been listed for quite some time
I'm going to tell the guy that I need it for a school project to fix it and that
I can't afford to pay for it I'm going to try and get it for free all right I
heard back from the uh 280X guy from before 160 he says is the lowest he can
do on that so that might put that out of
our price range if we can get something like a GTX 280 or 85 for 30 to 40 bucks
I don't think that's going to perform four times better oh shoot the SSD for
39 bucks someone's apparently coming tonight at 6:30 for it okay maybe I
should find out if I should offer a bit more than asking I'll find out what
other ssds are going for cuz the fact that someone's coming to pick it up
means it's definitely worth the 40 bucks
K there are like no ssds on Craigs
List okay so we're running into a bit of a dead end on our SSD search the one
that I wanted on Craig's List that I contact oh he's gotten back to
me wo he wants me there by 3:00 p.m. we're done okay yeah let's do it I'm
giving him a call the other guy was going to come at 12: and then he said he
couldn't come till 6:30 and if I still had it that'd be great kind of thing and
so uh so I had to reply to one minute
before getting yours so I thought okay I think I fine with with if someone comes
before so where are on our way to go get the SSD that I sniped some guy was
supposed to show up at 12:00 and then rescheduled to 6:30 I sent in a lowball
offer but I'm getting it for asking if I come before that guy so I'm on my way
there but I'm a little bit worried too
because this gives me only 2 days left and I haven't even compiled my graphics
card price to Performance database yet
we got to drive 45 minutes then as soon as we are done there we got to meet up
with someone else where I don't even know what they have and that gives me 2
days to compile my graphics card price to Performance database figure out what
card I'm buying hope that Austin and Luke haven't bought it yet and then go
get it uh not to mention the rest of the components one thing I'm a little
worried about is so I'm asking some of these guys like hey are you available
tomorrow to be picked up um because it's 3:00 right now it's a little kind of
actually sketchy because a lot of people are you know getting off work around 5:00 or so so I wonder what we actually
are going to do about that restriction cuz it would be really really bad if
like a lot of the stuff was available but it's like oh can we meet like six o'clock or something so in that case
cheating question mark question mark question mark um we're just uh just just
hanging out I I haven't had a lot of time to hang out with my buddy Ed so
we've just we wanted to hang out catch up um think about just like how much
line is cheating cuz he's cheating oh yes he's cheating a ton so he did on
both the last ones right yeah so it seems like a safe bet I wonder should we cheat too do that that make sense we we
should all cheat right yeah let's cheat right you're cheating of course right
I'm actually not well well I'm not either but I just assume like in theory
that you should probably be cheating if lus is doing we should be doing it too just Sayang that so have fun thank
you okay so I just messaged the guy for the 290 I told him I can be there for
10:30 so hopefully that works out I
really really hope the guy with the
setup that I want to buy the motherboard CPU Cooler and CPU messages me back
because that would work out just great so now that Luke's back we need to be
way more stealthy I don't know was he here for a while but he he us talking
about anything he's too nice to do that he wasn't listening okay I don't think I
say anything I think we're good Luke's nice he wouldn't cheat so $ 7970 for
$100 and I think the best part is this so we have an 77 saber-tooth board for
$30 the reason it's $30 is because two of the RAM slots don't work but we don't
care about that we care about is not only is it also in this place that's
right by the 7970 but 30 bucks let's
find a more private place can go upstairs or
something I'm looking you're looking that's I don't actually have
anything here but you guys left your stuff on the freaking table didn't you
yeah is that your guys' stuff
no what are you doing why do you abandon your
stuff wow
they think uh the boxes on the set were
ours what were they uh that was a system
Linus and I built on Saturday so those are actually our new parts and they're sitting there do we need to like make
sure they think that uh here hang on just come with me let let me uh just
subtly try to like sneak that computer away
so stealthy
wow hey I just wanted to call and warn you I saw some like sketchy looking
dudes running through the warehouse with some computer parts uh they they're
running around with what looked like new computer parts so I'm sure it's not yours cuz you're probably smart enough
to buy old computer parts thanks man yeah no I appreciate it but actually we haven't bought anything yet we're just
uh we're just strategizing today we wouldn't we were just cleaning up told
you told me earlier that you had bought everything well we bought everything in
our minds but we were not going to really get around actually picking it up till tomorrow so don't worry about it
okay yeah cool cleaning the office I'm
just making sure you guys are okay oh of course dude we we're golden we're just cleaning up the office making sure that
everything's nice and neat and tidy that's fair that's fair I appreciate
that thanks a lot have a good one okay now that we can talk freely we need to
work out a few more things um none of these people have gotten back to me
which is still a little stressful but um so if we get this core I3 we would need
a uh heat sink for it we would need the memory and we would need some kind of
Drive whether it's a hard drive or SSD we might be able to swing an SSD um I
mean Max we're going to pay is $60 for a brand new SSD so I feel like we could
probably get something cheaper but if not it's not the end of the world um so
we're looking at probably like a $300 build right now that's actually not that
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sent my offer to the guy that wants to sell me the motherboard CPU and cooler
for 80 bucks so we'll see what he says about that uh he told me earlier that he
won't be able to check to see if he has RAM until 7:00 tonight so I'm not going
to make any final purchasing decisions on memory until he gets back to me then
um but I'm looking for some leads for memory right now I also told them if you
have some cheap low-end power uh hard drive laying around to let me know um so
right now I'm messaging a different dude who ended up being Kevin's used
computers or something like that it's a used computer store around here for a
power supply I'm hoping I can get one fairly cheap off of him and yeah just
trying to do some leg work on some other stuff but we're doing pretty good pretty
good I think Brandon and I are going to stop and get lunch pretty soon here all
right so we got a 120 gig SSD for $38
Canadian my friends that could win us
this competition if it helps us win PC Mark and the guy with the broken 480
wants it for $25 $25 for what it's broken it's legit
broken so I offered him 10 all right so
we're rolling around to the literal back alley here here holy crap what the hell
is this it's a crack fight right oh I
don't know man away oh okay and this one
okay when uh you don't want people fishing through this bin if they don't
know what they're doing that's an exposed power supply if you accidentally
Bridge a contact on that there's capacitors someone could actually die
okay that that was some legit
like scrapyard digging I found a literal
pile of semon CPUs okay I've got 4 gigs
of ddr2 I've got a core2 quad
q6600 yes my friends I have a
q6600 and potentially I have an assus
Commando board if any of it works I spent $60 of
my budget on stuff where I am legit
really not sure if any of it works but I
also got an antech smart power 450 W
power supply with a PCI Express power
connector all right so so far my brilliant strategy of lowballing
everyone is not going too well not getting a ton of replies and this one
guy is extremely combative here
something about why would you offer less than half you looking to get told off so
I'm kind of thinking I'm going to come back with uh asking price was out to
lunch not my fault people don't know what their stuff is worth here's a card
that performs better with multiple ones listed for 50ish good luck with your
sale bruh some might say that this is
cheating I would respond with that I don't think that
they understand scrapyard
Wars because I got something from the
scrap and I'm I'm turning it into a
thing and if that isn't the meaning of scrapyard Wars then I don't know what it
is no way we just heard back from the guy with the
$256 A50 that is by far our best one yet
with other people telling me off about asking my mom for money we've done
awesome we have a oh my iced tea is running down the roof oh no uh maybe I
can get it hold on really yeah I'm going to pull over
hazards hold on maybe it's maybe it's still up there I don't think it is maybe
it's still up there ah damn it you lost
your I tea yeah it's all over the roof of the
car okay so an email from the z77 people just came in I have more than 10 people
emailing me about it but I don't have time to meet in Sky Train Station and
stuff only time available this week is tomorrow 11:5 and I have someone who
said he is coming so if you're really interested coming around 11:00 and email me before come I think we got to need to
go AMD cuz I think what's helping us a lot with the AMD cards is the fact that
tons of people are using them for like Bitcoin and Litecoin mining which means that there's tons of these cards around
and they're pretty cheap because they've been abused so that's helping us a lot
so that's why there's so many 7950 and 797s out here but um none of these
people are getting back to me if we do the I3 and the 7970 we're talking 280 if
we bump that up to 4 i5 and a 6990 we are looking at
420 actually 419 so uh but the problem
is the power supply we absolutely need some kind of other power supply for this
so we're talking about a lot more money but a core I 5 6990 that's pretty solid
and we're still talking about definitely well under $500 okay so I just texted
the guy about the 6990 so if we do the 6990 and the cor I5 the little power
supply that we have is not going to work so what we might have to do is go back
to the idea of putting an extra power supply on the top of the rig and just
wiring it straight for the graphics card in fact it would be powering like half the graphics card
uh probably not the smartest idea it
should work in theory okay so to recap
we have a core i52400 at Kevin's used computer we also can get a 250 K hard
drive there most likely we can get some kind of cheap power supply as a
secondary for our uh for our graphics card um we have a case we have our
second power supply we have a motherboard we have the memory which we
can just pick up at NCIX it's like 30 bucks no big deal um and we have the
graphics card which we will pick up en Richmond at some point I will text the guy here in a minute
6990 that sounds like a computer to me are we forgetting anything was that
salvageable did I just Salvage that we got the motherboard to mount it works
the spacing is okay the power spy will Mount here or up here so it's the actual
power sply that I get is probably going to be a little bit longer so let's say it goes to here cables come out of here
cut it this way cut it this way um but I want to build a wall that it can sit
against I'm going to cut it with a circular saw okay so this isn't me
helping this is me making sure he doesn't cut his own hand
off looks like you're hard at work over here I'm done you happy Austin I'm happy
that you're 5 minutes late I'm very happy I think I'm going to get some
extra time so you got some uh some wood going on it's a smart move for computer
build I I usually have wood I just thought I'd incorporate in a build I
mean it's natural like you want to make sure yeah of course one thing I wanted
to use power tools in a good safe environment um second thing it's only 5
minutes and it's supposed to be Transit time and I'm already here so I don't
really think it's that big of a deal not going over time also to be fair you were
in my space when I could have been working h no I don't think so I also
think you're not supposed to be in my space I'm pretty sure I believe I asked
you to leave and you did not you can't say that the outside is your space you
can't say that the entire outside is your space you worked in two different
areas of the office I needed tools from over there and couldn't go over there
cuz your parts were over there so I waited until later oh oh well okay I've
got to say thank you for not looking at all the parts side
bought wait I thought you didn't buy any parts I didn't buy any parts zero zero
Parts nothing bought whatsoever I'm just having fun and uh this is all for a good
sport don't worry about it does Luke
have enough wood does the crack pip line is found still work find out next time
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