The judges are currently looking at your system, how does that make you feel?
I felt really good until I saw their setup.
Really? I thought the same. We thought the same thing.
I looked over at yours and I was like, no.
I haven't seen it up close yet. That, okay, so to be vulnerable here for a second, which is how I feel with the judges
looking at our setup, ours might show some flaws when you get closer.
Um, I don't know. Our machine is...
Really? Like I would take that machine home. Yeah, if you put it in a store and we're like, this is brand new, I'd be like, all right.
Or like lightly used maybe for... Like the aesthetic of it or you mean?
Everything. Yeah, like it's like modern enough. It's immaculate.
So you have brand new hardware, is that what you're saying? It looks brand new.
Okay, yeah, I think ours kind of does too. Yeah, I think ours looks... Like the actual rig itself is quite clean.
This is the first time I think I've had a tempered glass panel.
We've got a glass panel. Yeah. But if you get real close to our chair or smell it...
Yeah, it doesn't smell that bad. It doesn't smell. There's some colors on our chair that are concerning.
There's also maybe a hole. Sometimes people are incontinent. We don't judge.
I tried to lint roll ours. So...
Yeah, ours is like a fake leather. Well, leather.
Yeah, calling it actual leather is a bit of a stretch.
We got boned on a mouse pad. So our mouse pad is a piece of foam.
We got screwed on a keyboard. We bought a keyboard, brought it back and...
We never used it yesterday. We plugged it in today and it just...
Half the keys didn't work. It's not just half the keys didn't work.
Half the inputs wouldn't go through. Yeah.
I thought I tried to... Sammy keyboard checkered ours. So ours definitely is good to go.
I tried to like, you know, USB chipset updates, whatever.
I tried to fit nothing. That's rough. Nothing.
It was mechanical. We did zero performance tuning.
None. I think that's gonna... This guy did his first ever overclock.
I didn't know he had never overclocked before. So I was like cleaning something.
Assuming he is more up to date with it than me. Yeah, nice.
But... I don't know how to... Got a pretty solid overall.
I did see an improvement between this morning and an hour ago.
However, our system is completely stable.
Like super, super stable. And our temps are great.
And it's so quiet. We have a full complement of Noctua fans in our system.
One LTT edition one. We know the exact...
We know what system you bought. Yeah, you were the one who offered $200, weren't you? $200.
Were we? You were offering full price. We were trying to talk him down and he agreed.
We had him at $180. And then you guys offered $200.
So we had to pay the full... But that was on Craigslist. Oh, give it back. But we took it anyway.
So we could have gotten an actual mouse pad. Yeah, we flipped some of that stuff for profit.
You're just... He never even responded to us though. So they probably got it before. Like a lot of actually been us.
I know this is something you're talking about, but he never emailed me back. No, no, no, he...
He just said I've got another offer. He said I got another offer. And I told Sammy I was like...
That was... He never responded to me though. I wanted that system. I know.
Yeah, but it's because he was in... No, only I went.
Okay. Yeah, and I had to carry through Crystal Mall, like through the whole mall, into the basement parking lot.
A laptop because I didn't have the email on my phone. Right.
And I had to like... It was digging my ARM the full time. And every like 10 steps I had to stop at a pen.
I was just carrying this old PC around. This one lady got... I got into the elevator with this one lady.
She's like, oh, did they fix that computer for you? I was like, no, I'm picking it up for my boss.
She's like, oh, that's very nice. So you know how that works.
I look like a crazy person. Oh, boy. Just walking around.
That was a... That was a good, well-priced system though.
Yeah, well... We were missing some modular cables though.
Yeah. But then they was kind of a problem because we flipped it for profit.
Yeah. And then he didn't have the cables. Yeah. But we have since connected them
so he can get the cables from the other guy.
That's pretty fun. Are we spoiling specs now? Or are we waiting to spoil?
Oh, no. No, we're not talking specs. Okay, cool. Just wanted to make sure.
Yeah. We have two different audio solutions. An hour and a half ago, we had zero.
Now we have two. We have a speaker set up.
That aren't PC speakers. So it's speaker wire into an amp.
I saw that. It works. He said, their speakers look bigger than ours.
I'm a little nervous. It is all about size.
I had $2.17 left. He listed them for 10 bucks,
which is obviously really cheap. I offered him $2.17.
He looks at my Facebook profile with like the skull banner and the motorcycle.
And he sends me this message and he's like, I looked at your profile.
You seem like a funny guy. And it's like low key, mildly insulting me.
But then it's like, you can have it for free. And it's just the speakers in the photo.
I show up. He gives me a center speaker, which he says is way better,
but we couldn't really integrate well. So it's not in our setup.
And I was sitting there like, this isn't going to work because I'm seeing the speaker wire.
And then he's like, yeah, you can have this too. And so is the amp. And I was like, oh my god.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable. But we have a blue snowball microphone.
We do have a mic. It's not a blue snowball. It's a headset.
I saw. Yeah. I thought about getting a headset, but then we couldn't get one at a good price.
And we already have edifier speakers with a subwoofer.
Yeah. Those are probably better than us. So we have edifiers and a blue snowball,
but we do not have a headset.
And we were about to leave a toonie under a guys welcome mat
for a brand new hockey gaming mousepad.
And then we were on our way and we're like, hey, just wondering if you did that.
And he's like, oops, nobody home. So we had to go. How about tomorrow? Yeah. How about tomorrow?
So we went to, we called everybody. Mamex, like Best Buy.
To try to buy a brand new one. Yeah. Just kind of computers should buy one. We were like, what's the cheapest one you have?
We have $5 and five cents left in our budget. It was five, it's $4.99.
We're like, if we just give you the cash, well, you just weigh the tax.
And he said, yes. Whoa.
Don't do that at home. It's not normal. So we got it for five bucks.
Wow. So you guys ended with like five cents. Yes.
Thank you. Thank you, Yami. We ended with two dollars and two cents.
So I think I have a defective cable, which,
so what am I allowed to swap it out or? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We have a good mouse.
Yeah. We have a G402. That's going to be better than ours.
We have a knock off mouse. It looks like a Cooler Master.
Cooler Master Final Mouse or something, but it's not. I don't remember what it is.
Yeah. And we've got a good mouse. It feels okay though. The art is good.
It was some guy who was trying to get rid of it from his ex-girlfriend. Yeah. He was getting rid of it for cheap.
He told us a whole story. Yeah. There was a bit of salt.
Our keyboard is functional. Oh. Ours is too. We originally had mechanical keyboard.
That's the one that didn't work. So we got a...
A door stop mouse. It was available when I'm pretty sure I was a teenager.
Nice. G11, you'll remember. Yeah, we've got a Logitech G110.
That's a lot newer than a G11. Yeah. And G11 is an okay keyboard.
It's an okay keyboard. It's like one of those membrane keyboards that are supposed to feel kind of mechanical.
It was sick when it came out. Right. It's just...
Now it's... Not anymore. But it's still a good keyboard now.
I'm happy we got it. I was really lucky because we realized
the keyboard didn't work today. And I had $2.17.
Yeah. I ended up getting that keyboard for free and some headphones for someone
that was just like cleaning out their place. They just didn't want it anymore.
Are those HyperX points? The headphones? Yeah. I don't know.
They're coarse air, I think. But I don't know what they are. They're not like high-end or anything.
I'm so frustrated. Whatever it is that I've overlooked that is making that monitor not run at 120Hz.
Can we get brownie points for that at least? Can I show them the...
Like, do you not have a high-end? Exchange. It's a DVI.
But we have a DP to do a link DVI adapter. Yeah, you do.
Higher refresh rate on DVI. Yeah. We have the photo of the thing running at 144Hz yesterday.
Like, he took it. Is that going to matter? I mean, for that... Plutiful notice.
If they're like going around playing... Oh, because they're actually going to use it. I guess so. Can we tell them?
Or is it blind? That's the blind reacting, right? I have no idea. We're supposed to give them much.
I don't know how that works. They even know. We haven't usually done like set-up reviews.
So this is kind of new. I should have written down take... I forgot to write down that they can take the candy.
We left our extra money. We left our money.
I wanted to go get candy, but we ran out of time. I think candy's class here.
Yeah. It's a lot of cash. Yes. So I think we only left $2.17.
Technically, it's a quarter because we couldn't break it, but whatever.
I was spending as if I only had 17, but I didn't end up spending it anyways.
We had five cents left. We bought a blind box,
and I had to give away my life's information to Miniso for it.
To get the discount on it. Yeah, to get the discount. But we bought it because there was one...
Like, it was a bunch of animals, and one of them was a penguin. And so we stood there shaking it.
Oh, there's a bunny. So, like, if it sounds like that,
we're on the side. You can hear the ears. Yeah, like, so, no, that's not it.
And then we got away. We got the penguin. So the shaking worked.
Yeah, it was shaking. That's awesome. It was a one in six chance, theoretically,
but we wanted a penguin to suck up to one of the judges. Nickel. Yeah, yeah. That's a great storyline.
All right, we got a... I got a share for free. That's, like, pretty good,
compared to a lot of the free chairs I've seen. Yeah, have you snatched that one?
We saw it. I'm pretty sure I saw it on Facebook. I didn't see it, actually. Oh, sorry?
I saw the blue one on Facebook Marketplace. No, no, I think you sniped that one. Oh, nice.
Well, it had a broken wheel. But what you saw me doing
was there was some chairs thrown outside in the parking lot.
I thought about those, too. And I just ripped a wheel off of one.
Yeah, I ripped a wheel off of one. And it fits in this one,
so I just swapped it out. And now we have all the working wheels.
I got a free desk. You know my realtor?
From his office. Okay, wait, wait, wait.
My desk story is amazing. We arrange it. He's like, yeah, sure, come pick it up.
I tell Luke, give me the address. I get in the truck at the Labs. It's across the street.
And so I just, like, drove over and backed in. I was like, I'll take it.
He's like, cool. I came back here and I waited 20 minutes.
Luke's like, how are you back already? I was like, bro, I didn't go that far.
I saw the truck still here. I was like, why didn't he leave yet? I come inside.
I was, I'm about to ask him, like, why don't you go?
And then the table's just there. And I'm like, what?
It was across the street. You didn't even need to drive the truck. You could just grab the car.
He's like, walked in, yeah. Yeah. No, but he walked in with his disguise,
with his LTT t-shirt. And we have it on camera.
I've been wearing LTT t-shirts. Because he forgot to wear the sweater. Like, this guy's was a sweater and I was fucking dying.
Oh, dude, I was a leather jacket. Partway through, I was like, I have to stop.
But he walked up and I held, like, the camera. And then you have his realtor looking at him,
like, why is this man shaking my hand? To, oh.
So good. We went to, we went to a place that I knew
would definitely recognize Luke. So it was a good test of the disguise. It lasted for a bit.
He got about halfway before the guy went. We got to the point where he had fully offered me a thing.
We didn't even know I'm abusing it. Yeah. But he offered me a thing from, like, a sea can
that they had in the back with, like, a bunch of recycled junk that they had. And he was like, yeah, you can pull the power spider this
and keep it. That's what I was looking for. And then he, like, looks at me in double takes
and then just stares hard. So I'm wearing the aviators. And it, like, feels like he's trying
to look through the aviators to see me. And I'm like, and then I try to distract.
And, like, the makeup artist that we were with, Lindsay, is pretending that she's my sister.
Right. And we, like, kind of distract and try to keep walking.
But then after that, he was, like, acting a little bit different, but didn't say anything.
And then he brings me to, like, a tech room in their computer shop where I can take the power supply out
that has a wall of screwdrivers. But he leaves to another room and comes back
with an LTT screwdriver and hands it to me. And I'm like, I'm screwed.
This is over.
I'm kind of surprised because with the hat and the glasses,
I didn't feel like I was that recognized.
Pull the same fucking move. Yeah.
It's so good. That's fine. So power supply. It sounds like you got a garbage power supply.
No, ended up having an OK power supply. At that point in time, we were unsure.
Probably not as good as ours. Maybe not. I would be surprised if ours is better.
Yeah, it's probably not better. Ours is a CSONIC 550 watt 80 plus gold.
Ours is not better. Ours has higher wattage, but it's not a better power supply.
Not a better power supply. Our system is all quiet under load.
Ours is not. I don't know if you've heard it. We were, like, running to benchmarks,
and you couldn't hear anything. We thought about running a benchmark,
and I'm pretty sure you heard our computer.
I've barely touched this computer. I don't even think I saw the latest video drivers.
It's very good for, like... That might kill them. That might be rough.
Like, we were just out and about so much. I meant to do it before I left. What did you do to pick up today?
We went to the mall. We went to Guilford to pick up, like, We got a penguin.
Yeah, the accessories. Oh, that was today. Yeah, that was just now, today.
Yeah. And we also went to go pick up the mic.
Yeah, love the mic. We picked up the... Or we tried to pick up one mousepad,
and then we turned around, and then we had to go to memory. I'm curious on how much you spent on the...
The mousepad probably screwed you over a lot. Yeah, the mousepad screwed us a lot.
I'm curious on how much you guys spent on the tower versus the setup.
Yes. I'm not sure. The total is... Oh, because you did the salary for the money.
Oh, sure. The... So it would have been
220 plus 380,
which is 600 plus 200 is 8.
Am I doing the math right? I don't know. Yes, it is. It's 600, and then 200, 800, 800 minus 260 is
540. And then 540 plus the 20 for the SSD,
which was 560. That's the tower.
Yes. We spent... Our computer costs a lot more than that. Yes.
Our tower costs $720.
How's the math working on that? Wait, did you include Java in there?
Isn't it more than that? That's 220. The monitor. If you count...
Yeah, I'm taking the monitor out. I'm not including the monitor. Yeah, we spent $720 on the tower.
Just on the computer itself, yeah. They definitely don't have...
What we... Yeah, they don't have our... Okay. Oh, no.
Yeah, that makes me feel better. I didn't think they did, but that makes me feel better,
because especially because you said you bought your GPU on Java. We knew from like three hours into the competition
that we were going to have a better graphics card. Oh, wow.
Because I'm pretty sure the card that you probably bought on Java
was immediately what I pointed at, and I was like, that makes a lot of sense. We should do that.
And then Elijah was like, but...
We could do this other thing. And I was like, YOLO, dude.
I tried to be reasonable for once and not bet the whole house on a graphics card.
And then Elijah was like, we could bet the whole house on a graphics card.
And then we did it. All right, well, we're going to see. We lost.
I can only resist so much. Yeah.
We lost a lot of time trying to sell, but then it gave us more budget.
When he said that, I was like, okay, we can do this. But from experience, Linus will crush us
on storage and CPU and many other things.
It's going to have... I'm surprised you didn't end up with a Xeon. There were some actually very interesting Xeons.
The Xeons, dude. Did you see the all water cooled rampage rig on the island?
Oh, yes. I just ignored it. Two 680s, like a 3000 series Core i7
and a rampage board all water blocked.
And I found some guy that had bits, power,
barb fittings for $6 for four in the West End.
And I was like, the performance would suck.
But if we showed up with SLI 680s,
all water cooled, but no. I'm going to crush us on the setup portion
because that would be so cool. I am hoping that just the quietness...
You'll crush us on quietness. ...is going to be worth something to the judges.
Are just quiet if you don't game on it. And our temps are great.
I repasted the GPU. That's interesting.
So our GPU loads at like 68 degrees or something like that.
Yeah, ours does not. We did not think of that. That was a good idea. I debated it, but I did not want to do it.
So... I could have done it. But I didn't think... I don't know how much Labs testing is going to matter though.
Like, I don't know how much of this is going to be subjective. It was a weird one.
Is this a person we have had no idea what any of the tests were? I guess.
I just was like, okay, well, let's just build... Are we supposed to pick two of the benchmarks? We're picking one.
One each, I think. So after... One each. Yeah, so we're going to do a set benchmarks here.
Then after, there's five games, and we each get to pick one game at our setting choice to compete.
So if you think your CPU advantage, you'll probably pick like CS2 or... Well, we don't actually know what they have.
CS2 isn't in our test suite anymore. I just said that was a... Yeah, that was what we were supposed to pick.
Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. What kind of drive did you end up with? Oh, yes, it is.
We have an NVMe drive. We took it out for a bit. Samsung or something?
Okay. Some OEM Samsung thing. And then we have a hard drive that didn't work and then worked.
Yeah, we heard. We heard. We heard. Oh, it came back. Oh, really? Yeah, like we tried to plug it in a billion times,
and then Linus was freaking out like, oh, it doesn't work. And then... And it just does randomly?
Yeah, he's like, oh, I just plugged it in and it worked. And I was like, what? It worked.
He plugged in the different SATA ports on the board, though, so I wonder if I have a bad port on the board.
It's probably it. There's all my SATA cables that I was using to try.
Oh, is that when you asked them for everything they had, all the SATA cables or whatever?
I heard you asked for all the cables. No, we asked for all of the adapters that we have.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whoa, they got adapters? I tried to fix that keyboard by putting it through a USB to PS2 adapter.
Oh, yeah? No, it didn't work. Didn't even try to work. No one puts...
Yeah, it needed power or something. Probably because of the RGB or something. The RGB.
Yeah. Oh, that sucks. All our RGB is blue.
Yeah. Oh, they actually went the better. No, we didn't configure it.
No, it just happened. Well, I thought about configuring it, and I saw it was all blue, and I was like, okay.
And then we got a blue penguin and a blue notebook shaped like a penguin.
If you know Nicole. No, this is all smart.
I totally make sense. Yeah, our notebook has a bunch of key highlights of our system in it.
Yeah, we also had some... Oh, it's pretty smart.
We had some dings on the bottom that we were worried about cutting into your legs,
so I hot glued some ribbon that matched our desk.
We weren't really aesthetic with this. Well, I don't know. I think we got more.
Yeah, we needed more time. Yeah. I think it kind of...
I don't think I'm used to it ending at two. When do we know we're in? No, we thought we had until six.
Dude, we thought we had all day today. So that was when we booked going and getting the mouse pad
and going and getting a couple more things, thinking we were going to have three or four hours
to dink around with drivers and... I think this was the shortest working hours of any discrepancy.
For sure. It's crazy. For sure. This was nuts. And then we had to get the desk and everything.
Like, this was actually very hard. Especially when... That was my fault.
Yes, David had desk and chairs for us. And I was like, I don't think it's going to be that interesting.
Well, now it's very interesting. The desk that we have, I found when we thought we had to find them.
And then David was like, you don't have to find them. So I didn't contact the person.
And then he comes back and is like, you do have to find them. And then I'm like, please, I need the desk.
Your desk looks really good. I'm pretty happy with the desk. It's really big though.
It is. Yes. Yeah. Ours is like... It's good for the working professional.
It came from an office. I think I visually prefer...
I want to say this really, really quietly. I think I visually prefer their setup, to be honest.
Ours is very like, gamery, which is fine. I feel like it's like...
Ours looks like nicer and... Ours is the rounded setup. It's kind of how we pitched it.
We were just like, computer. Everything else, we will get for free.
We will get for free. I knew that was going to happen. We debated getting... Typical... ...michigan weight jobs.
I tried not to. I tried not to. I was going to go with a 30-70.
It was going to be nice. We're going to round everything else out. It was going to be a good system.
I told him no.
And I was paired with this guy. So I was pulled right back in like an addict.
He said it and I was like... So you're an enabler is what it is.
Heck yeah. Give him the first hit for free, kids. No, he was like... Slash ice.
Yeah, I bet Luke probably has like an old Lenovo office tower case.
And with some graphics card hanging. Actually, we almost did.
We almost had three power supplies at one point.
Because we were looking up, like, can you power?
Yes, you can. You might... You can. Okay. Each PCIe power can be a different power supply.
You shouldn't. We did it. But you can. But you can. So we thought about that.
And then we were looking up like Bitcoin mining power supplies. Because they only had PCIe powers.
Yeah. And I was like maybe that. We found a 2000 watt power supply. The guy was gonna sell us 15 bucks.
I was like, yeah, maybe that'll last for six hours.
Long enough for them to run the testing. Didn't end up meeting it.
Yeah. Oh, it was so funny. So I ended up being pretty clean. But we were pretty prepared for it to be very not clean.
The budget was pretty high. Sort of.
But we had less time. But here's the thing, everything's more expensive.
Yeah. Right? Like even though it was higher than it's been in the past years.
Even with inflation, we could have had our system with a 3060 Ti, like 500 bucks.
Yeah. Which would have been a killer setup.
Like that's where I was. My brain immediately jumped to like 3060 Ti's.
Like I want to aim around there. Yeah. And I was like, I have so much money.
Like what do I do with all this? You could build a rounded system with Noctua fans.
Nope. That's nice and quiet. Nope. Aesthetic. Turbo fans.
You could also play a 4K with DLSS 3.0.
We have a decent, it's not amazing. It's an aftermarket CPU cooler though.
Oh, RGB. Do you have a Hyper 212 RGB? We have a not.
A cryo rig. I don't think it's probably, it's probably slightly worse than a Hyper 212.
Our case fans are what makes our system so quiet though.
Because they don't get like 60% of RPM. I wanted that system really bad. Yeah. We saw it and we definitely.
I was pushing with him. He just never, when did you message?
Early. Early. Early. I don't think we messaged him. You probably caught him first.
Yeah. I don't think that other offer was me. Oh, I'm sure it was.
It was because he replied a lot later in the day. Yeah. With, like we were already setting up.
He was like, hey, I know we agreed on 180. But someone offered me full price.
Honestly. Can you do full price? And I was like, I don't want Luke to have this.
Man, why didn't he just email me back? Wow.
So he was willing to like still give it to you first because you were in line instead of, oh.
Which we did not do. We did not do that. Yeah. But you're welcome.
I would have been a lot, I would be a lot more confident right now if I had that system.
Yeah, it's a good system. What refresh rate are you supposed to be at?
120. 144. 144. It's at 60.
I know. Oh, oh, there's nothing you can do. Yeah, it didn't work and I don't.
Can I show the photo of it working at 144? No, no, when I bring you guys in.
Yeah. I don't remember like enough about troubleshooting this.
I'm sure I'm overlooking some tiny thing. But there's an.
Works. Yeah. Editor, don't include me being so charitable.
Let's not do it. It could be a driver update. It could have, like, you could just,
since you didn't get driver updates, like it honestly could be like. It could even be that.
That, right? That's a war, but part of Scrapper to Wars is we all got across the finish line.
Yeah. It is what it is. I'm very ha- I'm-
The sh**, though. This was fun. Sorry, this isn't for- It's a bad show if, like, someone doesn't have a rig.
Like, it's not good. No, we've got a rig. It's just running at 60 hertz.
No, I don't. I'm just saying, yeah. This was fun enough. But we paid extra for that.
Yeah. Yeah, so do we. Yeah. But I understand what you mean.
We also screwed up. We looked up the monitor and we were like, oh, good, it has DisplayPort.
We don't have to worry about this. And it doesn't. And it didn't. So I don't know whether they sent us the wrong model number
or, like, we didn't go back and check what happened. Is that a Java monitor?
No. Ours is a Java monitor. Did you guys buy a lot of stuff from Java?
We bought two things. Oh, okay. A lot of monitor and SSD. Yeah, okay.
We thought about it, actually. There was close. There was a system on there that was, like, pretty good.
Yeah, but then it was like- It wasn't worth it because, like, it came with a one-year warranty
and official Windows install and all this kind of stuff. So there's, like, other things you're paying for.
And it was nicely built. Yeah. But it was pretty aggressively priced, like.
Right. I used that. Sorry. My favorite debate at one point
was we debated on buying an Xbox off Java. And getting a capture card for our PC
so you could have a streaming setup. That was my favorite.
I was like, Luke, we should get an Xbox. The first day was a little silly.
We actually thought about getting a ring light, but, like, one of those extruders.
I almost got a grid light.
I saw you looking at that. I was like, why the heck is he looking at garage lights?
Okay, I had some weird ideas.
There's a lot more. We had a grid garage light for the roof, which actually would have looked sick.
But I was like, we're not going to have enough time to figure out how to set this up. And then another one was,
some guy was offering a bunch of- I might even just message him personally after this
and try to get it. A bunch of off cuts of acrylic.
But they were big enough.
Some of them were tall and some of them were this wide. Clearly, whatever he makes is really big.
And I was like, oh, because our desk has some sound dampening material in it.
So we think of ripping that off and putting it on the acrylic
to shape it around the computer to make it a little bit quieter or something. Right, okay.
But I was like, we just don't have time. But all that acrylic, it was cool
that he was offering that for free. I might even actually try to go get it.
Yeah, okay. In 30 days when you can change your name back from Duke to Luke.
Yeah, it takes 30 days. Yeah. I told you about the guy that was like,
you seem like a funny guy. Yeah, that was the speakers. I ended up using David's Facebook account.
Yeah, well, it was extremely inconvenient actually
because I wasn't logged in on my phone. Yeah, so we had to walk around.
The only machine we had was a laptop. Yeah, I read it.
I read it, too, because when I was going to pick up stuff up late,
it was Luke's account. And so I didn't have that. So I had it on my laptop.
And so I told the guy, I was like, please text me. I don't have data, but I'm like driving
in case he's updating me while I'm driving or something.
And so none of them texted me. You were supposed to get at one point in time.
Yeah. You didn't get it. I'm sorry.
I was offered a free computer, free monitor,
free mouse, free keyboard, free printer,
and even if I wanted, a whole desk.
And I forgot to pick it up. And I was like, cool, yeah. Elijah will pick it up tonight.
And then he just left it. I didn't get home until 8.30.
I was so tired. I knew I got the better assistant. And my plan was to like, you know what?
Called it. This computer is probably not amazing. This person didn't list any specs.
Yeah. It's an old HP tower. Yeah, OK. It's probably like 4.2 dual.
Spare drives if we need. We've got backup things.
Power supply case. We have a keyboard and a mouse now. We don't have to worry about it.
We can focus on other things. That's what it was mostly for. We might not have ended up using any of it.
But it was free. It would have been nice to have. But the problem is, again, I didn't have the messages.
Right. Because when I left, the hotspot of the laptop. Yeah, but I'm driving. Pull over.
But the hotspot turns off as soon as you put your phone asleep half the time.
So pull over. You pull over, hotspot the laptop, read it,
send the message. I'm sorry, dad. That's what I was doing. Because I read the message in the morning.
And she's like, are you coming? Because she was like, I'll wait up for you and stuff.
Like she was being very nice. And then you abandoned her.
And then I sent her a message in the morning apologizing and saying, like, we can still pick it up.
And she just marked it as sold. I was like, oof, never responded.
Got him. Rough. Sorry.
Sorry. That's why we call him Elijah the Ghost Horner.
For sure. I don't even have any comeback for that one.
F***ing ghosted. Yeah. So we bet.
Is that yours? That's probably theirs. Because they went to ours first.
It's further away. It's hard to judge from here, to be honest. Yeah. We're through multiple walls.
We bet big on reselling. Yeah.
Yeah. That's cool. We kind of see what kind of things we thought about.
Dude, when we noticed you dropped your price, it made us feel so much better.
Did you sell that CPU? We sold that? I don't know what you're talking about.
Sure, buddy. What do you mean? We're in the discussion portion. You didn't sell it, did you?
I sold it. OK. Did you? I unironically wanted to buy it.
I'm not even kidding. I'm not even kidding. We had a board that would fit it.
We were looking at this. I was sitting right there. I was like, it would be short travel time.
We can afford it. We looked at it. We were like, we could buy this and then flip ours
to even make up a little bit of the cost. And we were like, this would be incredible.
Message them. Just immediately denied with nice try, Luke. And we're like, all right.
This thing is like, that's me. I forgot. Really? Yeah. I forgot I had told you my name.
No, but the thing is, I didn't know that was your name. But I figured out it was you because of the mutual friends.
Yeah, there's so many mutuals. Because he has the mutuals, right? And then I was like, OK, maybe it's just some people
that you know. And then you had Yvonne Ho added. And I was like, nobody has Yvonne on Facebook unless you've
been around for long enough. That's how we figured out it was you, too. Because nobody uses Facebook.
You responded. And then Luke went in. And he's like, who is this person? He has friends with, look, Jono?
He's friends with Yvonne? Like, who is this? And then we realized.
Their friends was like a lot of old LMG people. I was very confused.
Because the thing that was weird was in the Facebook chat,
it said David. Yeah. So I was wondering if it maybe said Luke and all of mine.
We had a problem because I would call people. And I'm telling everyone my name is Duke.
And then I call them and it says Luke. So on the phone, someone's like, is your name Luke or Duke?
And I had to spin some story about how I changed my name and the caller ID stuff.
And Facebook hasn't updated properly and whatnot. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, exactly.
Most people call this Jon. OK. I thought that we were going to have more evenings.
Yeah. Like when that was kind of. I thought we had two or three evenings. Yeah, when that was pitched as the angle.
And it was the whole point. And then I was like, what do you mean Sammy's coming in at like 10
the second day and she has no evening time. I was talking to him about how he's going to pick stuff up.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Evening of the second day. And he's like, I'm done at six. I was like.
Yeah, that's what I was. Yeah, I canceled my figure skating lesson for that.
Like, fuck man. Thank you.
Yeah. So this was. We blame David. The time crunch on this was actually brutal.
Yeah. It was rough. Honestly though, I think that whoever wins or loses at this point,
the fact that we got what we got. Yes. In effectively. I'm pretty happy with the rig.
Two days. It's insane. Because like we had some time this morning.
Sort of. And like, man, what I noticed was that if you're going for like really premium,
it's still really expensive. Yes. But up to a certain point.
It's quite. Yeah. Like up to a 60 and 60 super and like an eighth gen Intel.
You can put together a system for fucking nothing. Yeah.
Like if you were okay, if you would accept even a very high end fourth gen chip.
Yeah. You could get it for nothing. You don't even need fourth gen. Like no, no, eighth gen is still is cheap.
Yeah. We. No, I'm saying free. The amount of times we saw. There was like 47 70ks for free.
Yeah. But the thing is, remember, they're they're they're instructed. They don't have the right instruction sets for some of the new regains and such.
And like, no. I'm just saying like it's surprising that that's even possible.
But dude, you can get eighth gen with a 60 and 60 super and like everything to go around it.
For a couple hundred bucks. Yeah. Which is going to run almost any.
If you want to play like 1080p, like CS 2, League of Legends, Rocket League, like whatever,
you have a gaming system. This is next to nothing. This was pretty eye-opening to me because I've never bought used.
What? So I'm from the generation. I've only sold.
Dude, I'm from the generation that's just like, oh, I'm I'm upgrading my computer.
So I'm just going to buy a new thing. What is that? The generational generation.
Because it's how we grew up being taught. Hey, you get a new phone every two years.
Hey, you get a new item. What are you talking about? I think that's just you.
I think that's just you because I like, okay, I when I first got into gaming,
which was 2020 during COVID, that was the GPU apocalypse of like.
Yeah. Okay. Yes. Well, that's fair. So like I was looking at 1080 like 1080 ti is being sold for like 700 bucks or whatever.
Right. And so obviously at that point, like MSRP is going to be cheaper. And then I had in order to order off new egg, new egg was like, you have to buy it in a bundle.
So I bought a bundle. Right. But otherwise, like I've only ever really sold stuff.
But I have a few friends who have like bought. Never done it before.
Yeah. It was very fun. But second hand, man, it's it's a thrill of a hunt.
You want to know something that has me very nervous right now
that is largely this guy's fault and allowed to throw him under the bus?
What? I sometimes, especially today, but sometimes would take a price from a price to nothing.
Yeah. We never took a price from something to something else.
Really? We only ever went from something to nothing or bought a second.
So we tried on our big purchase. We did try on the GPU.
On the GPU, we tried and we had two people lined up that were the cheapest on Facebook marketplace.
And we'd low balled them, not by a lot, but we were like, hey, you can save us 20 bucks.
Both of them were like, no. Hard no. Yeah, they know what they have.
And so it was like, okay, we will go get that.
And then I was going to negotiate on a big purchase as well.
Yeah. And I get there and I start talking to the guy. I'm asking him why he's selling it.
And you know, he's like, oh, I'm just going to college and need a laptop.
I was like, that's fair. And then I'm like, oh, I don't know about this.
And then I stand up to like start counting the money and kind of be like, oh,
you know, I'm going to do like 160, save some money or something.
Are you, you look familiar? Oh, and I was like, oh, and so I couldn't negotiate at that point.
Lost it. So I was, I was somewhat artificially throwing one of the buses, not really his fault.
Yeah, I tried to play around it at first, but then he kept being persistent.
I was like, oh, really? Like what do you, what? And he's like, he tried to dodge.
We tried to negotiate our mouse. We got a G402 for $15 and we tried to low-ball him 10.
That's crazy. And he just like stopped responding to us, but we already had his address.
So we showed up. We debated on doing that too.
We were going, my strategy at the beginning was electronic recycling.
I wanted to get like a free PC case and like a free power supply.
It's hard to find. Yeah. We called, I think, eight shops.
One eventually agreed to let us come. And that was the one where you got kind of recognized.
Yeah. Well, all of them apparently, they do, so don't do free gig anymore because they're gone,
but there's some other place, ERA, that they did pickups last week.
So I called ERA and I was like, can I like, just come look for your file.
Yeah. And they're like, oh, you can send us an email. And then we saw their address.
The second she said you can send us an email is like, we're done. There's no way they're going to respond fast enough.
I sent one anyways, but I was like. Have you even heard back now?
No. Yeah. But we debated because we saw their address. But that's not like a thing that they do.
They collect recycled computers and rebuild them for like charity work.
So it's not, it's not for this. So yeah, we missed out by like a week basically.
Oh yeah, here, look, my power supply. Because a bunch of shops were willing to give us stuff,
but they just didn't have any. Or is that what you guys got? Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good power supply. Thank f***. ours is 750 watt, but it's a thermal take bronze.
Oh yeah. It's a worse power supply. It doesn't matter that it has more capacity. It's not as good.
I also have one of these. That's from Craigslist guy.
That's probably worth five bucks. Yeah. Didn't get around to selling it though.
Whoa. Listing things takes a long time. It's an internal header to, yeah.
That's funny. Yeah. That's cool. Did you get that like as part of a system?
It was in there. Yeah. Because he was building a NAS. This is the dumbest NAS I've ever seen.
Well, he like changes mind. I remember the post because I really wanted it.
Dude, he had a two and a half inch hard drive in there.
Like f***ing why? A 750 gig. Well, originally I think it was supposed to be a gaming computer
and then his partner got him a laptop or something
and then it was supposed to be a NAS and then she convinced him to use cloud storage. Cloud storage, yeah.
That was the convincing, that was like crazy. I very much know this post. Thank you for your life story, Mr. Craigslist guy.
I literally told him that I was like, I don't need your life story. Sell me the computer.
I don't have anything. I just was in the neighborhood. Yeah.
It'll be an interesting one. So funny that he had an LTT fan though.
Honestly. Like just one on the side of the panel.
And that's why we also wanted to do it. We were like, this is going to push the content. I thought it would be really good for content
to show up in person in my get up and try to buy something with an LTT fan. There's actually an LTT sticker inside of the case.
But I thought it was stuck on for so long. I didn't want to like peel it off and stick it back on.
Yeah. We sold it to a fan. If their side is anywhere near as interesting as ours
and if it's anywhere near as interesting as they're making it sound, dude,
this is going to be the best season. I think it's going to be really good.
I think this is from. I was worried a few times, but I'm worried a few times every time.
From just watching them, like I think this one is going to provide at least four solid episodes,
like very, very good episodes. I was also worried because
the GPU and the system that we got were both at night from him.
So there wasn't a ton of me going out. But then the next day we got,
I think three or four pickups with me going out. Oh, dude, I had like today.
Today we got two or something. Yeah, we knew you were having a lot, which I was I was kind of like, oh, man,
we got a. We were worried content. You know how I am. Like I went out of my way to like make sure we were.
We were hardly here. Yeah, I know. Yeah, we were hardly here at all.
We were pushing for content. There was there was a bunch of times where we did things more for content
than anything else. We were trying to make it good. We fucked you over on Craigslist guy,
like for the content. I didn't need it. I completely didn't.
That's true. I actually wanted that system so bad. I am legitimately a little salty about that.
It's a good play. And you should have done it. It's a good play. But I was like, I literally told Sammy
for the extra $20. It's worth it for Luke to not have it.
I will season my food with his tears.
I would be I would actually be significantly more confident in our system
if it was that one. Are we ready to go in there, Mr. David? Not quite. I there's one last discussion
that has to happen between you because we basically have to decide
what preset the settings for the benchmark are. And we have to agree.
So what did Labs test again? So that they know they tested at low,
but our systems are more powerful than they expected. So I think we should probably raise the.
I was going to say 1080p high. Oh, I want an ultra medium.
I don't know. I don't know.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah, let's get that pick up.
We're apparently support. We've been asked to agree
on what the level of detail should be in the games. That's where the first mistake was.
I don't think that they're going to get us to agree on this.
So given that we can't agree, we should probably go with whatever Labs decided.
They didn't know they didn't know. All right. Well, I'm fine with that. Oh my goodness.
Flip a coin. What? No. Higher medium.
Higher. They want medium. We want high settings.
We're not going to agree. What are we going to agree on? 1080p. 1080p.
Who's running as any one of these systems on 1080p medium or low?
I agree. That's why I'm on high. I would do that. Well, I don't know what games we're running.
Cyberpunk. Yeah. If I was running cyberpunk, I'd be running medium.
We have ran cyberpunk on ultra on our system, and it was great.
Very nice. Good for you. We're never going to agree on a settings.
Yeah. I think we might need to get David. You know, imagine if I actually knew what we were doing.
I think we're just... I only know these settings because I look at graphs every day.
At the graphs, yeah. I know the settings, but I don't know what they mean. I was advocating for you too, because...
I defer to the judges. All right, we'll get David in here to decide for us.
I'm joking. We could defer to the judges. I'd be okay with that.
I defer to the judges. Oh yeah, maybe the judges. Yeah, like all three of them can pick.
Let them pick. I'm okay with that.
Should be fair, I do understand what the settings do.
I was just content. Someone said, like, I got the more technical person,
because I haven't been reviewing computers and stuff, which I was like, okay, cool.
And then they said you were there. And I was like, but she looks at the graphs all the time.
She's going to be familiar with... But I don't know exactly. Like, if you give me context, I'll understand.
I couldn't just six-san me on, like, build a computer. Yeah, you got me on take apart a computer.
I could have done that with Elijah. We would have ended up with an Xbox and a capture card.
No, I could have put a computer together just not as fast as he could.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I built my own. My record is seven and a half minutes building a computer
from everything in box to hitting the power button. Took me four hours.
But I was also incredibly paranoid. Like, every single, oh, like, make sure you do this.
This is better. Like, I did every single step. Can you watch the ultimate PC guide?
Yeah, there you go. David? Yep. We've decided that the judges will decide,
because we're not going to agree on this. Okay, I got you.
We're stuck between, we're stuck between picking.
We're not stuck between anything. The judges are going to decide. Okay, sure.
Makes sense. We're stuck between, we're stuck between
clicking on high and ultra, so if you guys could really pick for us, that'd be really good.
This was so much fun. Every time we drive by bikers, I'd be like, brother.
Dude, we had a great moment where we had to do makeup in the car on the ride.
Yeah, that was pretty good. Because we couldn't get it done in the morning in time.
I had Buddy fixing my facial hair while I was working on a computer.
Nice. He literally, after lunch, I ordered f***ing noodles because I'm an idiot.
We had this conversation. I was like, I can't order that because there's going to be too much steam,
and I ordered something bad. So I literally, like, had to rip off my facial hair and eat,
and then he had to, like, put it back on while I was, like, building my computer.
The makeup artists were troopers. Yeah, they did so good. All of them, we had two different ones.
Yeah. They were both really good. Tom was a personal trainer, so he called the table down the stairs.
Yeah, I would not have been able to get the table down the stairs with Sammy,
no offense, Sammy. I squat.
Great. I can squat two of you. Did you list that thing?
Wait, how much do you squat? Two of him? Do you know how much he weighs? I don't know how. He probably weighs more than anything.
Okay, probably. He's like a buck 10, right?
What do you think? You gotta understand that he's, he's,
I'm five, six and a half. He's fairly dense. 150 pounds?
170. Yeah. Not too 70. Yeah. 150 pounds.
So you can squat 300 pounds? Okay, I'm not 300.
Okay. I might like do something. Yeah, okay. For reps though, I've never done a, sorry.
Don't do it. I've never done a single, like, single rep. It's not worth it. Don't do it.
Like, you get injured that way. Yeah. Yeah, no, that table is stupidly heavy.
Yeah. You saw it yet. Yeah, it's only in passing.
So I wasn't sure how, if I could really look at it. It's made of MDF.
So that should tell you something about it. Yeah, that's heavy. That's a heavy boy.
Ours is pretty deep. Like it's not too bad. It's about what you'd expect when you look at it.
It's like, Like you've moved stuff around with me.
Hauling it from outside to that spot. Like I was done.
My muscles were given out. It's really heavy.
They should take that in consideration. We live in Vancouver. You have to move every year
because of rent. They should take nothing like that into consideration. If they don't think to move the desk,
that's not my problem. I don't think a heavy desk should count against you.
I'm hoping. I feel like the size is good for Vancouver though
because yours is like a whole L shape. No, ours is just a normal.
It's just in a corner. I think our location is worse. I don't think it'll matter much.
Yeah, well we didn't really have like, I couldn't put it against the kitchen cabinet.
I was like, okay, I need a wall. Like this isn't fair. If ours is judged based against the kitchen cabinet.
We did lose a little bit of time because we had to like pull everything out of that corner. Like the bookshelf and all this stuff.
And like the super heavy kitchen table thing, we had to haul off the thing.
David helped us with that. We almost got free paint to paint a wall.
No, it was $5 paint. Oh, sorry, $5 paint. We low-balled them on paint.
And then we didn't pick it up. Dude, I'm going to be getting messages for like days
because especially today, when I was like, we need sound and we need a keyboard,
I was messaging people, a new person probably every like five minutes
for like two hours. Just anyone who had...
There was like 75 messages. Oh man, we didn't spend that many hours.
I was driving and the... We did, did we? Oh. You can look.
I was driving and I used my phone for maps while I'm driving.
And it was, messages was covering part of the map, the whole drive, because people are responding.
And I'm just like, I don't even know what's happening. I can't read them. So like we might have tons of offers, we might not.
I picked up the speakers and then was like, oh yeah, this person's going to give us headphones and a keyboard
because that happened while I was driving, I guess, because I messaged like a hundred people.
And I was just every single person, no matter what the price it was, I was like, I have $2.17, take it or leave it.
I can come now. Oh shoot, do we have off? Do we have deals here?
G502 SE? Oh no, what was... 20.
20? Oh, that's fine. I'm still good with it. 305 for 15. That's...
I sure probably shouldn't be looking just in case they were trying to Okay. stick here or something else.
I'm sure we have deals. Yeah, that's okay.
But like it just is what it is. It goes to show you though, man,
if you take a couple weeks, take your time,
really put together just unbelievable.
Especially because more things are going to start showing up over that course of that two weeks, right?
So if you don't quite get a deal on a mouse, wait a week. I'm sure another mouse is going to go up and you can get it.
I don't think we made money flipping, but what we did do was we got the best of bundle pricing
without giving up bundle pricing. Sure, yeah. It allowed us to pick and choose a little bit more.
Yeah, so it starts here and it goes all the way up.
And this isn't including the Craigslist people we contacted. We honestly, we contacted like two people of Craigslist, I think.
Not even like, I think it was the one guy. No, the keyboard and headphones is from Craigslist.
I was doing some Craigslist stuff. I didn't get a lot of movement there. I think more people are using Facebook market.
I had never used Craigslist. Yeah. Facebook market is red hot here.
Scrapper doors used to like run off Craigslist. Yep. Yeah, you never used it before today.
You know what though, if we had tried to do Scrapper Wars back in the Craigslist
in two days, it would have been impossible. Yeah. Facebook marketplace is so much better.
People respond so much faster. Did you guys chance to do a full plane call out for this?
Yep. We're basically ready for you.
Okay.