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So, as you can see, we got our million dollar plaque. Millionaire, million

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subscriber plaque, and then we got our multiple hundred thousand. Well, some

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say it is, but I don't think it's really gold. But my actual a lot of money. It

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does. And then the silver ones, too. Like, if that's all solid, that's quite

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a bit of money. And then, so, welcome to Scrapyard Wars. You guys might be

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wondering what's up with all the mad stacks. Well, this Scrapyard Wars is

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going to be a little bit different. We are going to build a computer. We are

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going to build a good value computer, but there is no set budget. The

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challenge today with our special guest Austin Evans is to build the best bang

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for the buck computer. We'll be using five different benchmarks, Tomb Raider,

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Far Cry 4, Cinebench, PC Mark, and 3D Mark Fire Strike to determine who has

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gotten the most possible value for their

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money. standard.

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Okay. So, I don't know about you guys, but I got my Dbrand phone. I got my

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chest strap done up. Oh, you got the

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real stuff right there. Yeah, you got the real stuff right there. Yeah, me too, bro. So, let's go. No holds barred.

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Scrapyard Wars. No holds barred. Peace, bros.

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Wait, actually, I need my laptop. Where did my laptop go? Here it is. Okay. Uh,

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I really have to pee. Let's go, dude. Uh, how do we get out of here?

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Okay. All right. So, basically my plan right now is

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Oh, there we go. Okay. Totally thought the door was locked. All right. So, the

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plan right now is to just get out of here. So, I think it looks way more

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legit if we're like not here. So, where are we going? It's a great question. Uh,

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let's not be here. Let's just drive a little ways and figure this out. So,

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okay, potential problem number one. I actually haven't even done any

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pre-thought. I've been so busy that I haven't had any time to figure out how

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I'm going to tackle this challenge. Potential problem number two.

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There's three of us this time. There's going to be Craigslist crap that's

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listed two weeks ago that they get no calls about and they're going to have

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three people calling them today. So, we it is going to be a race against the

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clock to win Scrapyard Wars 3, which

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obviously means it's a great idea that I'm sitting here on a couch. I I should

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be able to get going. So, we're going to try to save some money by avoiding a

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case and try to build everything onto like a cardboard box or something. It's

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all about price to performance. So, if I spend like even half the budget, I

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almost feel like we're going to go over cuz I don't know. I'm thinking like

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$6700, something like that. Do you know of a cool spot around here? Like I know

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my hotel's over here. What's a cool spot like we could hang out? Um we're in

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Langley. So nowhere. Oh, that is some wicked

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gas. We're not in the car yet, though, so it's

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okay. Oh man. Oh wow. That's like that

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is some outdoor grade gas. One of my biggest concerns is that I think we're

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gonna be fighting for parts. Uh I think we're gonna be fighting for parts

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because I don't think there's actually that many for sale right now. I'm wondering if it has something to do with

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the Canadian dollar being in the tank at the moment. Is that mine? It was sitting

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on the ground. It's my tip. Damn.

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Thank you.

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So, one of our dastardly plans is to

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send responses from Craigslist ad

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posters to those guys that they never actually messaged. So, we'll try and

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we'll try and get them off the trail, get them

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confused. So, we're all going to be on

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Craigslist. We're all going to be trying

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to find the same deals. Or maybe

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not. Cuz the way that I see it, there's actually a few different ways to tackle

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this. We can try and get the cheapest

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possible computer that is at least capable of running the benchmarks and

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hope the other guys spend way more. Or we can go for like the

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traditional bang for the buck PC somewhere in the 7 to $1,100 range and

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win the benchmarks and hope the other guys aren't able to get great value for

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the dollar. I frankly don't know what

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the answer is right now. Yeah. What if we try to do like a $100 gaming PC

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build? I don't know if it's necessarily going to be awesome, but it's price for

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performance, right? So, if this is a tenth as good as if they spend $1,000,

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then we actually win. So, this could work. It's only $10 and it's even here.

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This could work, maybe. Okay, so I just

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got a $220 offer on a R9290

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box of video cards. Oh, we're we're

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calling this guy. We're calling this guy that looks like an 8600 GTS. Like if we

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can just taking up space on a shelf. If we can get that for like two bucks or

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five bucks or something, we might be in pretty good shape. It's an option. So,

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I'm calling the guy with the R9280 for 130 bucks. I'm going to offer him 120.

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If he doesn't take it, I'm still going to do 150. Can you do 120 bucks?

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Awesome. Uh when when do you want me to come pick it up? Yeah. Yeah, but Port

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really wanted to get that 290, but I don't think the price performance is

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worth it when the 290 would be over $100

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or no, basically exactly $100 more. I

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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.

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things. So, I'll go with that. If I'm learning anything from this is that

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people like to really overpric their old PC hardware. Like people like are like,

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"Oh, my my six-year-old gaming PC is worth $800. It was worth $1,200 5 years

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ago." Like, no, dude. It's worth like $300. Get over yourself. Canadian used

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market in general is just cuz uh the

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turnover is so low. Yeah, dude. Yeah. I

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mean, I'm just seeing tons of junk here and every once in a while I see something cool like Yeah. Okay. So, this

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is a a GeForce 7900 for $50 there. I

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mean, it's got Svideo on it. It's not going to be worth $50. I don't care what

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you say. Wow. A lot of this stuff is pretty brutal. Is that a 9600 for 10

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bucks, though? That's not bad. Let's save that

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in the numbers sheet. The best thing to

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do, this is going to be a disadvantage for Austin in this whole competition

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because he hasn't done this before, but the best thing to do is right in the

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first couple hours, put out as many feelers as possible. Yeah, you're right.

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This does take a long time. I also totally want to find like a like

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a pawn shop. Turn off the car. Oh, dude, that's a good idea.

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That's a great idea. Yeah, like the car just like runs out. There's a Q9650 CPU.

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I'm still potentially interested in that if I can get it for the right price. I

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think we're going to need a quad core to win. Uh that Cinebench is going to make

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a big difference. I wonder how Austin's doing at this point. Like new city. like

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he doesn't even know where any of these sub regions are. Like he's going to be

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like, "Oh, Yale Town. That's probably pretty close." Okay, I think we might

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have found something. Here are a pair of 7950 graphics cards for $150. And that's

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both of them. So, basically, one of them actually, they were both used for

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Bitcoin mining. But I don't really care. As long as it works for long enough

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where I can actually like benchmark, that could work. $150. Where is this?

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13th Avenue. Is that Burnaby? Was that

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anywhere near Barnaby newest? Do you have any idea where that

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is? Trying to work on system. So, what I'm trying to find now, I have a

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graphics card. I'm probably not going to look for a case. Power supply. I'm

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probably going to have to get on its own. H. So, what I'm looking for right

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now is motherboard, processor, memory essentially, and a hard drive, I guess.

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But I might try to sneak an SSD in there if I can. I just don't know if it'll be

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worth it because most of our benchmarks are CPU or GPU.

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$60 for an SSD. That could be that could be all right. Maybe I think you might be

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able to get a new SSD for around that price. It probably wouldn't be that it's

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probably not that much cheaper, but we also maybe try to get that guy down a little bit. So, this guy wants 60 bucks

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for a 120 gig SSD. That is so not

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happening. $60 firm. You can buy brand new 240 gigs for

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$98. So, I'll see if I can get them to be a

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little bit more realistic. Thought you should know Luke almost lost

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his money. Yeah. I was just wondering if you were interested in selling parts of

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it at all. Yeah. Yeah. It's a pretty good point. Um I was only interested in

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the motherboard, processor,

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um RAM, and potentially power supply. I call him up and I'm like, "Are you

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interested in selling just the parts?" And he's like, "Oh, yeah, totally. That was my first idea when I was going to

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put it on Craigslist was I was just going to part it out." and he ends the phone call like, "Well, I'm okay with

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selling the parts if you buy all of them." So, so far I've got a graphics

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card that I'm picking up at 3 something that was a R9280 for 120 bucks. I don't

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know if that's like necessarily the best deal I could get, but I wanted to move

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on to system cuz I did notice that a lot of my target processors, they're kind of

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scarce right now. I can't find very many of them. So, I had a whole bunch of

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graphics card options and was like, "Okay, I just want to get that out of the way." I should have maybe done that

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later, but whatever. I'm really trying to find my platform right now and having

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a little bit of trouble with it. Uh, dude, I think this might be it. $150 for

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27950s. That's going to kill it. All right, this is this is we totally need

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to go this way. So, now let's try to find some other parts and we'll start calling. That's totally the way to go,

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dude. That's that's it. That's that those are our cards right there. So, for

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a lot of the components, I'm just going to be kind of browsing what's out there and buying whatever. But for the

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graphics card, I think I have to shop a little bit smarter. So, I'm going to be

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using Ananteek's uh bench repository in

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order to compare graphics cards across

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generations. And then from looking at it briefly, I'm feeling pretty good about

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the approach of going with a Tahiti based card. So, either a uh 280 or 280X

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or a 7950 or 7970. I think that's where

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we're going to get the best bang for our buck. So, I'm going to lowball this 280X

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and kind of go from there. Okay, so this

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is how I write a Craigslist email. How's it going? Saw your listing for the pair

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of 7950s. I plan on building a gaming PC and was wondering if you've made sure

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they can game. I don't plan on mining, but want to make sure both cards are fully working. Thanks, cuz I've got to

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be polite. I'm in Canada. So, fire that off and hopefully we hear back. Okay,

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I'm just being like a little [ __ ] Hi, I'm um contacting you about the 280

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extra sale. Are you firm on the price? I don't think I can spend that much.

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Whenever someone contacts you like that, whenever they open with that, they're a

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loser. Well, not like a loser, but like getting a better price makes you a

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winner, yo. But, uh being a little [ __ ] Hey, here's a good deal on an

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SSD. Let's see if this guy has a phone number. 40 bucks. Call. All right, I'm

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going to offer I'm going to offer 30 for a 120 gig if I can get it. I'm feeling

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really good about my storage drive. Who uses a home phone number? I can't even

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text that. So, I'm going to I'm going to just Oh, man. I'm going to play every

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game in the book. SSD on Craigslist. Um,

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I can come get it today if you can do $30. Do you have anything else for sale?

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I'm trying to build a budget gaming PC for a friend of mine who's moving away.

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Who could say no to someone trying to buy a present? Maybe next time it'll be

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like my sick sister or something. She broke her arm and she can't go out much,

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so we're getting her gaming computer. Look, you might be judging me

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here, but I have a competition to win,

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so yeah, I did say no holds barred. This

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is the guy with the lots of older computer stuff. Um, come, he says, come

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take a look. Should we just Should we just go check it out? Okay, I've come across an interesting discovery. There's

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a 7950 GX2. That's a dual GPU card. The

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guy's asking 25 bucks. If I can get that

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for like $10 or something, I could be in

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really good shape. No, that's a DirectX9

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part. Okay. I knew I knew when we were

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choosing the benchmarks that we should have gone with something older than Far

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Cry 4, but it looks like you have to run

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that R9 280 to an R9200 or 290. I

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haven't told the 280 guy yet because the 290 guy seems a little bit flaky. So,

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I'm think I'm going to wait until I get a actual confirm from him. So, the next

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problem we have is just having to power these two 7950s. So, I started looking

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around. There are not a lot of power supplies. We might be able to find something used, but just out of

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curiosity, I looked on NCX. It's going to be like $97 to get like a Corsair

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CX750. We might end up having to buy some new stuff because the the options

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on Craigslist are not as as solid as I was hoping. Um, and plus there a lot of

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these people think that stuff is worth way more than it actually is. So, we're super stressed on time right now. Um, so

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much so that we're having delicious sushi because um, you know, we got this.

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Okay, so I found something decent here. So, this guy has an older computer, but

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he's willing to part it out. So, we get a Cool Master case with a DV writer for

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20 bucks, and there's a power supply, a 500 watt power supply for 30 bucks. That

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can work, but I don't think the 7950 is not going to be enough to power them.

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What if we get two really cheap power

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supplies? Oh, and like tape one to the top or

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something. Yeah, dude. That would be so cool. So, like we basically just like

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have like one 500 watt power supply in the system and like we like tape another one to the top just to power the other

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graphics card. I almost want to do that purely because of how ridiculous it

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would be. It might not even save us any money, but that would be awesome. Uh,

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now we're going to go try to hit up some local computer stores. Maybe try to find

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like some used cases. Uh, we still need like a motherboard and memory. Um, okay.

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I mean, we're here. We might as well

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try. Yo, you have the MacBook, right?

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Okay. Um, so slight change of plans. We just left the MacBook at the restaurant.

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No big deal, but uh that was my bad. So,

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let's uh try to get back to the air before uh this MacBook gets

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stolen. I can't believe I just walked off. That's Neither of us saw that,

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right? Next time on Scrapyard Wars,

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Luke's mom finally gets her revenge on Lionus. Austin's surprise visit from a

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friendly grizzly bear turns hairy.

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Lionus reveals the deep, dark secret behind his obsession with sandals. Dude,

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we're stupid. Mostly me, but still. We

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totally just left the brand new MacBook sitting at the table. Oh god, this is

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terrible.

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Oh man. All right, let's see what this thing got. Oh man, I can't believe we

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just did that. We just totally just left a brand new laptop just sitting on the

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table. Oh my god, that would be so bad if it if it's gone. Oh no. Don't Don't

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talk like that, man. I can't believe we just did

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that. All right, please be there.

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Thank you. Thank you so much.

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We deserve that. That was dumb. We even left the leftovers. I like how she even

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got us the leftovers.

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This guy's trying to sell a dead GTX 480. I was like, GTX 480, 30 bucks. I am

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going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to I'm going to lowball them. I'm

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going to offer like 15 bucks cuz this has been listed for quite some time. I'm

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going to tell the guy that I need it for a school project to fix it and that I

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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

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before. 160 he says is the lowest he can do on that. So, that might put that out

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of our price range if we can get something like a GTX 280 or 285 for 30

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to 40 bucks. I don't think that's going to perform four times better. Oh, shoot.

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The SSD for 39 bucks. Someone's apparently coming tonight at 630 for it.

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Okay, maybe I should find out if I should offer a bit more than asking.

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I'll find out what other SSDs are going for cuz the fact that someone's coming

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to pick it up means it's definitely worth the 40 bucks. Okay, there are like

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no SSDs on Craigslist. Okay, so we're running into

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a bit of a dead end on our SSD search. The one that I wanted on Craigslist that

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I contacted Oh, he's gotten back to me. Who? He wants me there by 3 p.m.

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We're done. Okay. Yeah, let's do it. I'm

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giving him a call. The other guy was going to come at 12:00 and then he said

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he couldn't come till 6:30 and if I still had it, that'd be great kind of

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thing. And so uh so I had replied to 1

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minute before getting yours. So I thought, okay, I think I can respond

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with with uh if someone comes before it.

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So we are on our way to go get the SSD that I sniped. Some guy was supposed to

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show up at 12 and then rescheduled to 6:30. I sent in a lowball offer, but I'm

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getting it for asking if I come before that guy. So, I'm on my way there, but

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I'm a little bit worried, too, because this gives me only two days left and I

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haven't even compiled my graphics card price to performance database yet. We

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got to drive 45 minutes. Then, as soon as we are done there, we got to meet up

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with someone else where I don't even know what they have. And that gives me 2

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days to compile my graphics card price to performance database, figure out what

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card I'm buying, hope that Austin and Luke haven't bought it yet, and then go

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get it. Uh, not to mention the rest of the components. One thing I'm a little

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worried about is, so I'm asking some of these guys like, "Hey, are you available

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tomorrow to be picked up?" Um, because it's 3:00 right now. It's a little kind

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of actually sketchy because a lot of people are, you know, getting off work around 5:00 or so. So, I wonder what we

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actually are going to do about that restriction because it would be really really bad if like a lot of the stuff

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was available, but it's like, "Oh, can we meet at like six o'clock or something?" So, in that case, cheating

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question mark question mark question mark. Um, we were just uh just just

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hanging out. I I haven't had a lot of time to hang out with my buddy Ed. So,

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we just we wanted to hang out, catch up. Um, think about just like how much Lion

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is cheating cuz he's cheating. Oh, yes. Yeah, he's cheating a ton. So, he did on

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both the last ones, right? Yeah. So, it seems like a safe bet. I wonder should we cheat, too? Does that that make

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sense? We should all cheat, right? Yeah. Let's cheat, right? You're cheating, of

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course. Right. I'm actually not. Well, well, I'm not either, but I just assume

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like in theory that you should probably be cheating. If Lance is doing it, we

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should be doing it, too. Just saying that. So, have fun. Thank you. Okay, so

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I just messaged the guy for the 290. I told him I can be there for 10:30. So,

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hopefully that works out. I really really hope the guy with the setup that

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I want to buy the motherboard CPU cooler

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and CPU messages me back because that would work out just great. So now that

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Luke's back, we need to be way more stealthy. I don't know. Was he here for

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a while? Did he hear us talking about anything? He's too nice to do that. He

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wasn't listening. Okay, I don't think I said anything. I think we're good.

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Luke's nice. He wouldn't cheat. So $7970

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for $100. And I think the best part is this. So, we have an a Z77 saber-tooth

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board for $30. The reason it's $30 is because two of the RAM slots don't work.

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But we don't care about that. What we care about is not only is it also in

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this place that's right by the 7970, but

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30 bucks. Let's find a more private place. Can you go upstairs or something?

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I'm looking. You're looking the other way. That's I don't actually have

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anything here. You guys left your stuff on the freaking table, didn't you? Yeah.

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Is that your guys' stuff? No.

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What are you doing? Why' you abandon your stuff?

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Wow. They think uh the box is uh on the set.

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What were they? Uh that was a system Lionus and I built on Saturday. So those

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are actually our new parts and they're sitting there. Do we need to like make sure they think that? Uh here. Hang on.

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Just come with me. Let let me uh just subtly try to like sneak that computer

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away.

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So stealthy. Wow.

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Hey, I just wanted to call and warn you. I saw some like sketchy looking dudes

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running through the warehouse with some computer parts. Uh they're they're

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running around with what looked like new computer parts, so I'm sure it's not yours cuz you're probably smart enough

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to buy old computer parts. Thanks, man. Yeah. No, I appreciate it. But actually, we haven't bought anything yet. We're

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just uh we're just strategizing today. We wouldn't We were just cleaning up.

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You told me earlier that you had bought everything. Well, we bought everything

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in our minds, but we were not going to really get around to actually picking it up till tomorrow. So, don't worry about

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it. Oh, okay. Yeah, cool. Sorry about that. We're just cleaning up the office.

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I'm just making sure you guys are okay. Oh, of course, dude. We're golden. We're just cleaning up the office, making sure

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that everything's nice and neat and tidy. That's fair. That's fair. I

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appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Uh, have a good one. Okay, now that we can talk

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freely, we need to work out a few more things. Um, none of these people have

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gotten back to me, which is still a little stressful, but um, so if we get

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this Core i3, we would need a uh, heat sink for it. We would need the memory,

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and we would need some kind of drive, whether it's a hard drive or SSD. we

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might be able to swing an SSD. Um, I mean, max we're going to pay is $60 for

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a brand new SSD, so I feel like we could probably get something cheaper, but if

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not, it's not the end of the world. Um, so we're looking at probably like a $300

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build right now. That's actually not that bad. Officially sent my offer to

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the guy that wants to tell to sell me the motherboard, CPU, and cooler for 80

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bucks. So, we'll see what he says about that. Uh, he told me earlier that he

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won't be able to check to see if he has RAM until 7:00 tonight. So, I'm not

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going to make any final purchasing decisions on memory until he gets back

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to me then. Um, but I'm looking for some leads for memory right now. I also told

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them if you have some cheap low-end p uh

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hard drive laying around to let me know. Um, so right now I'm messaging a

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different dude who ended up being Kevin's used computers or something like

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that. It's a used computer store around here for a power supply. I'm hoping I

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can get one fairly cheap off of him. And

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yeah, just trying to do some leg work on some other stuff, but we're doing pretty good. Pretty good. I think Brian and I

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are going to stop and get lunch pretty soon here. All right, so we got a 120

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gig SSD for $38 Canadian, my friends.

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That could win us this competition if it

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helps us win PC Mark. And the guy with the broken 480 wants it for

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$25. $25 for what? It's broken. It's

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legit broken. So, I offered him 10. All

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right. So, we're rolling around to the literal back alley here. Holy crap. What

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the hell is this? It's a crack fight,

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right? Oh, I don't know, man.

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Oh, okay. And this one. Okay. When uh

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you don't want people fishing through this bin if they don't know what they're

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doing. That's an exposed power supply. If you accidentally bridge a contact on

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that, there's capacitors. Someone could actually die. Okay, that that was some

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legit like scrapyard digging. I found a

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literal pile of SRON CPUs. Okay, I've

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got 4 gigs of DDR2. I've got a Core2 Quad

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Q6600. Yes, my friends, I have a

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Q6600. and potentially I have an ASUS

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Commando board if any of it works. I

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spent $60 of my budget on stuff where I

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am legit really not sure if any of it

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works, but uh I also got an Anttech

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Smart Power 450 W power supply with a PCI Express power

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connector. All right, so so far my brilliant strategy of lowballing

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everyone is not going too well. Not getting a ton of replies and this one

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guy is extremely combative here.

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Something about why would you offer less than half? You looking to get told off?

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So, I'm kind of thinking I'm going to come back with asking price was out to

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lunch. Not my fault. People don't know what their stuff is worth. Here's a card

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that performs better with multiple ones listed for 50ish. Good luck with your

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sale, bruh.

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Some might say that this is cheating.

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I would respond with that I don't think that

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they understand scrapyard

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wars because I got something from the

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scrap and I'm turning it into a

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thing. And if that isn't the meaning of scrapyard wars, then I don't know what

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is. No way. We just heard back from the guy with the

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$2568.50. That is by far our best one

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yet. with other people telling me off about asking my mom for money. We've

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done awesome. We have a Oh, my iced tea

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is running down the roof. Oh, no. Uh, maybe I can get it. Hold on. Really?

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Yeah. I'm going to pull over.

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Hazards. Hold on. Maybe it's Maybe it's still up there. I don't think it is.

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Maybe it's still up there. Ah, damn it.

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You lost your iced tea? Yeah, it's all over the roof of the car.

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Okay, so an email from the Z77 people who just came in. I have more than 10

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people emailing me about it, but I don't have time to meet in Sky Train station

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and stuff. Only time available this week is tomorrow 11:5 and I have someone who

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said he is coming. So if you're really interested, come around 11:00 and email me before you come. I think we got to

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need to go AMD cuz I think what's helping us a lot with the AMD cards is

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the fact that tons of people are using them for like Bitcoin and Litecoin mining, which means that there's tons of

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these cards around and they're pretty cheap because they've been abused. So,

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that's helping us a lot. So, that's why there's so many 7950 and 7970s out here.

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But, um, none of these people are getting back to me. If we do the i3 and

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the 7970, we're talking 280. If we bump

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that up to a Core i5 and a 6990, we're looking at 420. Actually, 419. So, uh,

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but the problem is the power supply. We absolutely need some kind of other power

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supply for this. So, we're talking about a lot more money. But a Core i5 6990,

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that's pretty solid. and we're still talking about definitely well under

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$500. Okay, so I just texted the guy about the $6990. So if we do the 6990

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and the Core i5, the little power supply that we have is not going to work. So

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what we might have to do is go back to the idea of putting an extra power

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supply on the top of the rig and just wiring it straight for the graphics card. In fact, it would be powering up

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half the graphics card. Uh probably not the smartest idea. It should work in

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theory. Okay, so to recap, we have a Core i5 2400 at Kevin's used computer.

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We also can get a 250 gig hard drive there. Most likely, we can get some kind

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of cheap power supply as a secondary for our uh for our graphics card. Um, we

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have a case. We have our second power supply. We have a motherboard. We have

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the memory, which we can just pick up at NCX. It's like 30 bucks. No big deal.

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Um, and we have the graphics card, which we will pick up in Richmond at some

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point. I will text the guy here in a minute. $ 69.90. That sounds like a

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computer to me. Are we forgetting anything? Was that salvageable? Did I

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just salvage that? We got the motherboard to mount. It works. The

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spacing is okay. The power supply will mount here or up here. So, it's the

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actual power supply that I get is probably going to be a little bit longer. So, let's say it goes to here.

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Cables come out of here. Cut it this way. Cut it this way. Um, but I want to

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build a wall that I can sit against. I'm going to cut it with a circular saw.

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Okay. So, this isn't me helping. This is me making sure he doesn't cut his own

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hand off.

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Looks like you're hard at work over here. I'm done. Are you happy, Austin?

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I'm happy that you're 5 minutes late. I'm very happy. I think I'm going to get

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some extra time. So, you got some uh some wood going on. It's a smart move

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for computer build. I I I usually have wood. I just thought I'd incorporate in

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a build. I mean, it's natural like you want to you make sure. Yeah, of course.

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One thing I wanted to use power tools in a good safe environment. Um, second

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thing, it's only 5 minutes and it's supposed to be transit time and I'm

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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

412
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:06,480
space when I could have been working. I No, I don't think so. I also think

413
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,200
you're not supposed to be in my space. I'm pretty sure. And I believe I asked

414
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:13,919
you to leave and you did not. You can't say that the outside is your space. You

415
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:18,080
can't say that the entire outside is your space. You worked in two different

416
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:20,720
areas of the office. I needed tools from over there and couldn't go over there

417
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:25,039
cuz your parts were over there. So, I waited until later. Oh. Oh, well, okay.

418
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:28,840
I got to say, thank you for not looking at all the parts that I bought.

419
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:36,320
Wait, I thought you didn't buy any parts. I didn't buy parts. Zero. Zero

420
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:41,360
parts. Nothing bought whatsoever. I'm just having fun. And uh this is all for

421
00:30:38,399 --> 00:30:47,120
a good sport. Don't worry about it. Does Luke have enough wood? Does the crack

422
00:30:44,159 --> 00:30:51,039
pipeline found still work? Find out next time on Scrapyard Wars. All right, so it

423
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:55,279
is the beginning of day two. And the very first thing we need to do is check email. Someone who emailed ahead of you

424
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:59,120
has confirmed he is coming to buy it first thing in the morning. So don't come out before phoning me around 11:00

425
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:03,679
and make sure it's still available. This is Luke. I know it. It is absolutely

426
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:09,520
Luke. Oh man, we're not going to have enough time, dude. This guy. What? The

427
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:13,039
guy with the 7950s replied back. So, wait. We can get the

428
00:31:10,919 --> 00:31:17,919
7950s. Oh, no. We don't have time for this right now. We have to We have to go

429
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,679
right now. Oh, this is for the case. It

430
00:31:17,919 --> 00:31:24,240
the guy's local, so it should not be that

431
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:29,120
far. 25 minutes away. Day two of Scrapyard Wars. So, we are going to get

432
00:31:27,679 --> 00:31:33,240
that graphics card that I talked about yesterday, the R9290

433
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:39,399
uh Gigabyte Wind Force. And then I have bad news. The

434
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:46,559
motherboard CPU and cooler platform guy responded

435
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:49,840
saying that he had a lot of 2 GB stick

436
00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:50,519
of RAM, which is good news. turn left.

437
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:56,399
And then also told me that he forgot to

438
00:31:53,600 --> 00:32:02,159
bring it to work with him today and that he might not be able to tomorrow. So I

439
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:08,960
was distracted trying to uh have Brandon email motherboard guy.

440
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:12,960
Uh so I went the wrong way on the highway. So I'm going to pick up the

441
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:18,640
graphics card. We're at BCIT. He's waiting. I'm late. I'm going to go.

442
00:32:16,399 --> 00:32:24,240
I actually heard back from a fair number of my lowball graphics card offers. So,

443
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:28,399
it's a good thing I did this before running out and picking up that $20

444
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:32,080
video card that I arranged yesterday, cuz if I can find something better, I'm

445
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:37,600
going to just bail on that guy. So, first up, we've got a GTX 460 for 30

446
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:44,559
bucks. The guy came down from or up from my offer of 20. GTX 550 Ti. Nah, sorry.

447
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:51,679
This card is too good for $35. Lol. 7870. $40 firm for a broken card. What

448
00:32:48,399 --> 00:32:54,080
an idiot. What a freaking duel. This guy

449
00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:59,919
didn't reply to any of my questions. Are you really the line of Sebastian from

450
00:32:56,679 --> 00:33:02,039
NCX? Okay, so no useful leads

451
00:32:59,919 --> 00:33:09,200
whatsoever. Let's get down to business. So, I decided I'm going to go

452
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:11,279
for the oneot, you know, home run swing

453
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:17,519
right off the bat here. I'm going to load literally all of this hardware up

454
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:21,880
and I'm going to see if it boots. And if it does, then I am in really good shape

455
00:33:19,919 --> 00:33:26,880
for the rest of the day. And if it doesn't, and we got nothing. Oh, I knew

456
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:33,919
this motherboard wasn't going to work. Why did I even let myself think it might

457
00:33:31,159 --> 00:33:37,840
falls? Another shot here with a proper power supply and see if maybe that's the

458
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:42,760
issue. the display on the back. It actually has a post read out back here,

459
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:45,799
but I can bar No

460
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:49,720
way. We

461
00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:54,360
got an ASUS ROG

462
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:57,399
board, 4 gigs of working

463
00:33:54,360 --> 00:34:00,320
DDR2, a

464
00:33:57,399 --> 00:34:07,000
Q6600, and a broken power supply, which I'm totally okay

465
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:07,000
with for 60 bucks.

466
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:13,679
So, I know what we're doing today. We

467
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:16,079
need to obtain a new power supply. Okay,

468
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:20,480
I'm okay with that. We need to obtain a case. And what's great about that is

469
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:24,560
it's really easy to find a case power supply combo. So, we need to go out and

470
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:27,599
get a case power supply combo. We still need to potentially find a graphics

471
00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:32,159
card, but I'm going to find out about that in a minute here.

472
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:36,720
Maybe we should spend some of our time obtaining a better cooler, cuz the Q6600

473
00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:42,280
can run pretty hot when you overclock it. So, having a really beefy cooler on

474
00:34:39,359 --> 00:34:47,679
there could be the ace up our sleeve. We got to go. We might just lose

475
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:52,800
the motherboard right now. Do we bail on this guy and try to get a different

476
00:34:48,919 --> 00:34:54,399
case? Okay, so it is 10:09 and

477
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:58,640
everything is already going completely wrong. Um, I'm pretty sure Luke is

478
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:02,000
getting our motherboard right now. And I just realized the guy who has the case,

479
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:08,560
who's supposedly local, is actually 25 minutes away. And this guy's expecting

480
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,560
us to like show up in like 5 minutes. We

481
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:14,920
might be a little screwed here. The good thing that might save us is that we have

482
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:19,040
leads on both a 6990 and a pair of 7950s. Both of which should be doable.

483
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:23,680
Absolutely. So, I think what we're going to do is we're going to go to this guy's house, pick up the case and the power

484
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:27,520
supply, and then what we're going to do is we're going to go and grab um see

485
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,440
what kind of stuff we can get at the computer shop because that's uh we don't

486
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:35,680
have any other appointments. I don't think we might. Um

487
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:40,119
yeah, we'll go to the computer shop and see what we can find. If that guy has a good motherboard, then we should be able

488
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:45,040
to either pull off the 7950 or the 6990s, but it's going to be tricky. So,

489
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:50,640
I have bad news and great news. The bad news is motherboard system guy still

490
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:58,320
hasn't messaged me back. Good news is I got the graphics card for $180. I saved

491
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:59,839
20 bucks. How did I do that? Well, I

492
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:07,760
checked out the card before he gave it to me. It's a 290. Everything's fine.

493
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:09,760
But there's one little oddity. When I

494
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:15,040
went to go take it out of the bag, I noticed this. There's no

495
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:17,599
screws right there. There's one screw

496
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:22,000
holding the plate on here, but it's missing a screw here and it's missing

497
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:25,119
two screws here and two screws here. So, I was like, that's kind of weird and

498
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:30,839
started complaining and he gave me 20 bucks off. So, I got a 290 aftermarket

499
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:36,400
cooled card for $180, which is pretty sick. I just need

500
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:42,800
to make sure that I have a computer to put it in.

501
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:45,680
It is time to call FreeGeek and see how

502
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:49,520
much they can save my ass. Hopefully entirely. One thing we do have going for

503
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:52,640
us is that uh Luke Linus and I we all had a chat this morning and basically

504
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:56,640
the idea is is that we're all going to try to have all of our parts by the end

505
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,760
of the day. But if we don't have everything today, we're going to have

506
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:03,960
until noon tomorrow. So basically we'll have 2 hours tomorrow to go and get any

507
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:07,359
last minute parts we need. So, we should be able to get everything

508
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,960
today and we'll do the build off tomorrow. So, we don't really have to worry about putting the together the

509
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:15,119
systems. Although, I know Luke has already got started on his. Sounded like

510
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:19,599
that. Anyway, okay. So, we're here. We're about to pick up the case. Um,

511
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:25,200
hopefully we don't get murdered. This is the first time we've actually used Craigslist for this whole trip. So,

512
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:31,760
let's get some money and hopefully have a case. Hey. Hi. How's it going, Austin?

513
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:34,800
Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, I don't accept returns. I'll make sure

514
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,760
everything well before you take it. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. It is

515
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:44,079
officially begun. We have our case and I've got to say it's actually way more beacon than I thought it was. So, see

516
00:37:44,119 --> 00:37:49,200
here. Oh, it's got a lock on it. There we

517
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:56,160
go. That's actually pretty solid. And he showed me the power supply does work. We

518
00:37:54,160 --> 00:38:01,599
have a 120 fan in the back. Actually, is that one in the front? No. Still though.

519
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:05,520
Oh, we even have a SATA cable front panel. All right, I think we're in

520
00:38:03,599 --> 00:38:10,320
business. It's a little beat up, but it'll totally do. For 25 bucks, it's a

521
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:13,680
good start. So, the guy with the Sabertooth motherboard replied. He'll

522
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:17,680
let me know if it's sold or not. He got multiple replies, and I have the first

523
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,920
who first responded the first chance. He should be here shortly, and if he

524
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:24,240
doesn't show up, it'll be yours. It's not about getting more money, but more of a promise to keep. It will be yours

525
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:29,359
for the same price. If other guys doesn't show up, so 7950 guy just

526
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:34,480
replied, basically, we're kind of out of luck on this, too. He doesn't get home

527
00:38:31,119 --> 00:38:36,160
till 7:00. He could do it tomorrow, but

528
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,599
that would eat up the little bit of time we would have and we'd have to drive

529
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:45,359
like an hour out of the way. So, there is a 6990. It's $180. So, we're going to

530
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:53,440
meet him at 2:00. So, I just got the $200 R9290 for 180 bucks because it was

531
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:56,640
missing a couple screws on the IO plate,

532
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:59,440
which while they're nice to have, the

533
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:03,280
card will run without it. Um, and I'm hoping that there might be some spare

534
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:09,200
ones for that in the in the spare screw bin at work.

535
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:12,320
Um, the motherboard and system guy still

536
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:14,880
has not messaged me back. He's at work.

537
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:18,160
I can't be mad, but this guy is getting a little frustrating to deal with. He's

538
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:22,240
never I gave him my phone number. He keeps on saying he's going to text me,

539
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:26,400
and he has not. Um, and that would be a lot easier to communicate with him over

540
00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:30,800
text messages. Uh, he said he was going to check for RAM last night. He did. Uh,

541
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:35,280
I also told him to bring the stuff to work so that I could pick it up from him

542
00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:37,440
at work and he did not because he

543
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:41,520
apparently forgot or didn't read that email or something. Kind of think he

544
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:44,160
just forgot. So, I've got a graphics card and I've got a line on a power

545
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:48,400
supply which I'm going to pick up later today. Other than that, it's unknown.

546
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:52,000
And the FreeGeek stock is really starting to freak me out. So, my new

547
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:54,480
plan is I'm going to go to FreeGeek, figure out what they have. If they have

548
00:39:53,359 --> 00:40:00,000
everything I need, which is very unlikely, but if they do, I'll just pick

549
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:04,640
it all up. If they don't, I will just kind of post up probably near FreeGeek

550
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:09,200
in the car, do as much research as I can online, try to plan all the appointments

551
00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:13,920
I can for the stuff that I can, and then fill out the holes that I can't find

552
00:40:11,359 --> 00:40:20,400
with stuff at FreeGeek. Hopefully, that will work. Um, I had a lot of backup

553
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:22,880
plans last night and most of them are

554
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:30,000
gone now, but there's still a few that seem to be on the fence of guys that

555
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:31,720
have 6600s and other various quad cores.

556
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:38,440
So, in straight might not be screwed. Just

557
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:41,280
really depends on what's at free

558
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:49,200
gig. Yeah. Interested in QC600. interested in a board that it can go in

559
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:50,880
and a fairly low capacity hard drive.

560
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:56,000
So, our options right now, this is actually way better than I expected.

561
00:40:52,240 --> 00:41:00,319
This place is super cool, is um $30 for

562
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:04,640
an Intel DG43 GT. Did she say 35 and not

563
00:41:00,319 --> 00:41:09,839
55? So, I've got an ASUS P5Q

564
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:11,119
motherboard, a Q6600, a 120, 160, I

565
00:41:09,839 --> 00:41:17,720
don't remember, a gigabyte hard drive spinning at uh 7200 RPM, and it was a

566
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:21,760
little vague, but I think 8 gigs of RAM all for 100 bucks. I'm a little bit

567
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:31,160
worried that this thing isn't going to work at all. As you guys saw there, there was like Tim in the CPU socket and

568
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:34,400
she rubbed the pins on the board and did

569
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:36,720
the But anyways, I think it'll I think

570
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:41,599
this will be good. Okay, so I'm throwing my Windows 7 test build on here to find

571
00:41:39,359 --> 00:41:46,160
out what exactly this graphics card is. I cannot believe

572
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:54,560
we can't believe that board works. All

573
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:59,280
right. I do have to say one cool thing about the MacBook Air is that I forgot

574
00:41:57,359 --> 00:42:03,960
to charge it. Used it a bunch yesterday. It's at like 65% battery. It's cray

575
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:08,440
cray. Oh, wow. It's a sound

576
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:14,119
driver. AIO. What caused the problem?

577
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:20,240
Interesting. Does this even

578
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:21,079
Oh. Oh, wow. Um, we might have to go

579
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:27,319
back to our buddy there and get a sound

580
00:42:25,079 --> 00:42:33,040
card. This motherboard doesn't have onboard sound.

581
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:38,880
So, today's going well so far. I have determined that my motherboard by some

582
00:42:35,599 --> 00:42:40,800
freaking miracle works. Uh, the RAM is

583
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:45,760
all correctly detected. The CPU is correctly detected. It even has drivers

584
00:42:43,119 --> 00:42:51,359
for up to Windows 8.1. So, we're going to be able to run all of our benchmarks.

585
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:56,800
I have arranged to go out and pick up the graphics card that we figured out

586
00:42:53,400 --> 00:43:01,040
yesterday. And I've reached out to back

587
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:03,839
alley crackpipe computer owner guy about

588
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:08,319
going and getting a sound card because that is the thing that probably had that

589
00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:13,040
motherboard in the scrap heap. I don't have a sound card for it. So, if we hear

590
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:18,880
back from him, maybe we can get a case while we're there, which leaves us with

591
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:20,800
the optional step of obtaining a power

592
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:26,000
supply because I could use the one from the computer inside. And that is about

593
00:43:23,359 --> 00:43:32,359
it. We're in really good shape. It is time to boogie. So, I'm just going to

594
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:36,079
cover up my progress so

595
00:43:32,359 --> 00:43:39,760
far and head out. All right. So, we are

596
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:41,520
here at the computer store and hopefully

597
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:46,560
we can get a lot of what we need because we need

598
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:49,200
um roughly everything right now. So,

599
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,200
let's give it a

600
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:54,560
try. Hey, so basically we were able to

601
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:58,079
get a lot of what we needed. So, we were able to get a Core i7 2600 not

602
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:04,640
overclockable as well as the motherboard. So, it will support Crossfire. So, we're good with the 6990.

603
00:44:02,319 --> 00:44:08,720
Um, but the most important thing is we've got a seriously powerful CPU. We

604
00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:13,760
have a seriously powerful graphics card. We have a 160 gig hard drive because 15

605
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:18,000
bucks and we just need it to run benchmarks. It's not really going to make a difference. And we have our

606
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:21,440
second power supply. So, this is actually a pretty beefy supply. It

607
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:26,880
actually has an 8 pin and a six pin. So, basically right now, I think we're in

608
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:30,400
pretty good shape. I think once we like glue this or tape this up to the top of

609
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:35,040
the case, we're going to be set. So, let's go do it. Okay, so they had a

610
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:38,720
problem mounting the stock heat sink. Um, but the price is good, so I really

611
00:44:37,359 --> 00:44:42,319
want to make sure it works. So, they let me back into their testing area, which

612
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:46,119
is awesome, and letting us film, which is awesome. FreeGeek is awesome. I need

613
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:50,440
to mount this thing, though. Yeah, it's I think the heat sink

614
00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:56,079
has a problem. That really sucks cuz something

615
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:59,680
that I do know doesn't work is this top

616
00:44:56,079 --> 00:45:01,520
slot. But they say that this one works.

617
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:06,000
I want to make sure it works before I leave.

618
00:45:03,359 --> 00:45:11,000
Uh the the arm is broken off. That's why it won't sit. Yeah, that explains a lot.

619
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:16,720
I hate these freaking stock heat sinks, man. That's one side in. So, the whole

620
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:21,480
right side went in no problem at all. The whole right side's in. The left

621
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:25,359
side, on the other hand, is

622
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:27,280
just not working out for me very well.

623
00:45:25,359 --> 00:45:33,240
I'm having second thoughts about my video card matrix strategy. What I

624
00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:36,400
realized is I'm calculating FPS per

625
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:40,079
dollar as a function of only the cost of

626
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:43,440
the graphics card. I have not factored

627
00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:46,200
in the rest of the computer. So if a

628
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:52,960
graphics card costs $10 more, that doesn't mean that if I'm

629
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:57,800
spending $20, I'm spending 50% more. I better get 50% more FPS. That means that

630
00:45:56,720 --> 00:46:03,839
compared to the rest of the cost of the system, I

631
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:09,760
might be spending 10% more. I only have to get 10% more

632
00:46:06,359 --> 00:46:12,680
FPS. So basically, the more expensive

633
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:17,839
graphics cards might be totally worthwhile, even if they don't score as

634
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:25,720
many FPS per dollar compared to a low-end one. Next time on Scrapyard

635
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,720
Wars, Dennis nearly gets deported.

636
00:46:28,079 --> 00:46:36,160
So basically, the more expensive graphics cards might be totally

637
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:39,400
worthwhile, even if they don't score as many FPS per dollar compared to a

638
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:45,119
low-end one. You know what the stupidest thing

639
00:46:41,839 --> 00:46:47,680
about me screwing up that formula is? is

640
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:53,680
that's exactly the formula that I used to use when I worked retail computer

641
00:46:49,839 --> 00:46:55,520
sales to help people understand how, you

642
00:46:53,680 --> 00:47:00,880
know, buying something that cost twice as much might effectively give them a

643
00:46:59,119 --> 00:47:05,440
way better value than if they bought something for half as much.

644
00:47:02,599 --> 00:47:11,440
Like if you're buying a $1,000 computer, spending an extra $100 on a graphics

645
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:14,480
card that performs 30% better is still

646
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:16,359
30% more performance for 10% more budget

647
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:22,680
in the grand scheme of things. But I like forgot. And the really frustrating

648
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:25,599
thing right now is that even if we

649
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:33,040
hadn't already been late to meet this guy twice, so I feel like I really have

650
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:33,040
to go meet him. Even if that weren't the

651
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:38,400
case, I still have to go right now. I

652
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:44,560
have no time to go and plug some more cards into an updated formula and find

653
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:46,640
out how they compare before I have to go

654
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:53,119
meet him now. So, I basically could end up stuck with a $20 paper weight by the

655
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:56,079
end of this. I didn't bring my cash.

656
00:47:53,119 --> 00:48:04,000
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Hello. Nice to meet you. Thank you. This is uh

657
00:48:00,319 --> 00:48:06,319
this is going to really help me a lot. I

658
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,839
have money. Sweet. I also have a sweater. Awesome. I couldn't find a

659
00:48:08,319 --> 00:48:14,040
t-shirt, so it's a hoodie. That's all right. It's even better. Cool beads.

660
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:21,680
Vote for Ter. Sweet. Awesome. We just heard back.

661
00:48:19,359 --> 00:48:27,400
Not that I'm touching that. Uh we just heard back from the back alley guy.

662
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:32,800
I think we've got a lead on a sound card. I'm going to offer him like five

663
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:34,559
bucks. So, we need to be in Richmond in

664
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:38,160
an hour and it's going to take us about 40 minutes to drive out there. So, we

665
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:40,720
should be good on time. And that's pretty much it. Last thing we're going

666
00:48:39,359 --> 00:48:45,599
to have to do is go over and pick up some memory, which I think NCX is actually going to be the cheapest way.

667
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:50,160
There's not a whole lot of like cheap used memory. So, yeah, I feel like we're

668
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:53,920
doing really good. We just need the graphics card and as long as that works

669
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:59,359
and everything should be fine there, then we're going to be good. So, let's

670
00:48:56,720 --> 00:48:59,359
go.

671
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:07,440
Hey, so that's the top slot. So, everything's good. So, just got out of

672
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:11,119
FreeGeek Vancouver. I was pretty worried about that store and they ended up being

673
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:16,800
amazing. All I need left is a power supply and I've spent $280. I should

674
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,800
have asked about a power

675
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:28,480
supply. 700 W.

676
00:49:25,599 --> 00:49:32,960
Some sketchy brands, too. I forgot I needed a power supply. Oh,

677
00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:37,119
yeah. Um, how much for this guy? This one. Is it from one cable? Can I just

678
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:46,240
put them together from one? Yeah, I can just put them together. And then it has a I need Yeah, I need 6 plus two and I

679
00:49:42,559 --> 00:49:47,920
need six, which it has. Awesome. Okay,

680
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:54,160
so give me one second. How much did you say? 30 bucks. There you go. Thank you.

681
00:49:51,119 --> 00:49:59,359
So, done. I guess FreeGeek just cleaned

682
00:49:54,160 --> 00:50:03,440
me out for what was it? Uh $130. I got a

683
00:49:59,359 --> 00:50:06,280
550 watt power supply, a Q6600, a 160 GB

684
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:13,319
hard drive, a 775 motherboard, and 8 gigs of RAM. So that

685
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:20,880
means my final total comes

686
00:50:13,319 --> 00:50:23,920
to 180 + 30, so 210 plus $100 $310. So,

687
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:26,839
I'm $10 over the original Scrapyard Wars

688
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:31,440
budget and have a way better computer.

689
00:50:28,599 --> 00:50:37,119
Yes. Okay. I keep telling myself I'm just going to stop looking. I'm going to

690
00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:39,119
go back and test the cards, but I keep I

691
00:50:37,119 --> 00:50:45,960
keep looking anyway. I mean, I just saw a

692
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:49,440
790 listed or a 7970 listed for

693
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:52,480
$100. Even factoring in my $20 loss on

694
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:54,200
that card, that's an FPS per dollar of

695
00:50:52,480 --> 00:51:00,079
almost 0.4. That would be the winner if I could

696
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:04,720
get it. I mean, here's something totally stupid. Here's a $69.990 in Richmond.

697
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:08,640
Surely this guy doesn't think he's actually going to get $180 for that. So,

698
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:13,440
why don't we send a text? Okay, so after the 18-hour drive to where we are right

699
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:17,119
now, Richmond. Richmond. After the 18 hour drive to Richmond, give or take 17

700
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:20,480
hours, we're here. But we're actually here 20 minutes early. So, the dude

701
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:25,119
lives in one of these apartment buildings over here. So, I guess we just

702
00:51:23,359 --> 00:51:31,040
wait for him. Oh, dude, there's a Toys R Us over there. 20 minutes in Toys R Us.

703
00:51:28,559 --> 00:51:35,440
Hi, I'm calling about the 690 you have listed on Craigslist. Do you still have

704
00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:41,440
that? Yeah, I do. But, uh there's a guy is picking up uh this afternoon. Um if

705
00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:46,559
he uh doesn't shows up, I will give you a call. How's that? Um, do you know the

706
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:54,319
name of the guy picking it up? No, I don't. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think uh he's

707
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:55,800
not likely to pick up though. Uh, cuz

708
00:51:54,319 --> 00:52:03,280
he's using a California numbers. So, I I don't know

709
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:05,440
it's a fraud or or what. Oh, okay. Um,

710
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:11,920
cuz I can come like I can come like right now cuz I I have made uh a promise

711
00:52:09,119 --> 00:52:18,160
to him. So, I will wait till 2. If he doesn't shows up, then uh it's yours.

712
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:22,000
Okay. Uh how much did he offer?

713
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:23,240
It's 180. Oh, okay. Okay. I'd have to

714
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:28,720
figure Okay. Um Okay. Can you can you call me at 2 if

715
00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:33,920
he if he doesn't come get it by two? Sure. Yeah. I will wait by half an hour

716
00:52:31,359 --> 00:52:37,520
or something like that. Where are Where do you live? Well, I live out in

717
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:41,960
Langley. So, the sooner you can let me know, the sooner I can start driving cuz

718
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:46,640
I really need it today. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I will give you a

719
00:52:44,319 --> 00:52:51,000
call. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Okay. Bye.

720
00:52:55,400 --> 00:53:02,359
California. California. Okay. Austin's

721
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:06,839
number. Going to pick up a 69.990 in the

722
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:14,240
city. City city of Richmond. He is rocking a

723
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:18,319
6990. Okay. Interesting. So, we're at the guy's place. Um, he's going to let

724
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:23,119
us test the card. The problem is, do we film it? Because I feel super sketchy

725
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:27,599
going in some random guy's house as he's testing a graphics card for me and saying, "By the way, can we film?" I

726
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:32,480
don't know. What do you think? Well, I think our intention is to make a video.

727
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:37,599
Video is very important. We should push like we're asking, right? Is it is it of

728
00:53:35,599 --> 00:53:40,880
privacy if we ask? Hold on. But if we say we want to record, what happens? He

729
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:44,480
goes, "Oh, well, I want twice as much money for the car." And we say, "Well,

730
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,920
we don't have a choice, dude. Record the video." No, no, no. But like if he knows

731
00:53:46,319 --> 00:53:51,839
like this is not just some random couple guys who want to build a computer, like what if he decides like he wants to

732
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:56,559
raise the price or something? I just really don't like recording in like people's houses or like in I don't like

733
00:53:55,200 --> 00:54:00,640
recording in places where people don't like let me which I guess that's why

734
00:53:58,319 --> 00:54:04,559
you're asking. We don't have to tell them that we're shooting a YouTube

735
00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:08,119
video. We can just be like, "Hey, uh like can we just document this?" Oh, I

736
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:12,880
forgot the money. Can we catch this? That might be

737
00:54:11,119 --> 00:54:18,079
a little helpful in buying a graphics card.

738
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:24,960
So, now we know Austin's after that card. Part of me wants to snipe it just

739
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:29,280
to totally him, but the other part of me

740
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:31,839
is actually not even sure if that's that

741
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:38,119
great of a card. So, we can plug this into the formula. So, $69.90 at

742
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:46,160
$180 would be approximately a

743
00:54:41,079 --> 00:54:47,160
6970* 2ish. So, that's 57. So, let's say

744
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:51,720
times 1.8. Those games should scale like

745
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:58,480
pretty well. So about 102. So if he's paying 180 bucks for

746
00:54:55,559 --> 00:55:03,280
that. Oh, that is a that see that's a better performance index than I'm

747
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,280
getting.

748
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:13,880
36. Damn it, Austin. Well, if I can

749
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:18,800
snipe it, I'm going to. All right, so looks like everything

750
00:55:16,720 --> 00:55:22,559
works. So, we're here testing out the 6990. Everything looks like it's running

751
00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:25,599
great on Diablo II. So, we're pretty much good there. Um, now pretty much all

752
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:32,319
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

753
00:55:29,599 --> 00:55:40,640
ready. Boom. So, we successfully have an S XFX Radeon 6990. This is a huge card

754
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:42,960
look compared to me. So, yeah, I think

755
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:46,960
we're looking good right now. Um, so at this point, we pretty much just need to

756
00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:51,359
go to Intel X and pick up 4 gigs of RAM, which shouldn't be a big problem. Um,

757
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:55,920
that's the only kind of slight question right now is how much RAM do we actually

758
00:55:53,200 --> 00:56:00,160
want to get. Um, so 4 gigs is going to be a lot cheaper, but we might have some

759
00:55:58,319 --> 00:56:04,559
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

760
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:08,799
to be like, do we want to go for it or not? I kind of want to play it a little

761
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:12,000
risky. So, I think we might go with 4 gigs of RAM, especially if they end up

762
00:56:10,559 --> 00:56:16,799
making me pay for tax, which I don't want to have to do. So, but most

763
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:22,319
important thing, we have an awesome graphics card, so we're set

764
00:56:20,119 --> 00:56:25,920
mostly. I've got to say, now that we've got this beefy graphics card, I'm

765
00:56:23,839 --> 00:56:28,720
feeling way better. At this point, we really only need the memory, and that

766
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:33,359
should be like the easiest thing ever to get. So, putting in work right now,

767
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:38,160
especially considering how cheap this was. I mean, this was like a $600

768
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:44,160
graphics card. $700 graphics card just a few years ago. We got this thing for

769
00:56:39,839 --> 00:56:45,440
less than 200. So, I don't know. I feel

770
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:49,280
like if we win this, it's going to be because of this card. And if we lose

771
00:56:47,359 --> 00:56:53,000
this, it's going to be because of this card. But I think we're going to win

772
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:58,319
this because of this card. So, we've had a troubling morning.

773
00:56:56,160 --> 00:57:02,480
We got our graphics card that I thought was a great deal. Turns

774
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:08,799
out that according to my corrected

775
00:57:06,359 --> 00:57:14,720
calculations, it was actually not a very good deal. And we got some very useful

776
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:22,240
Intel on what our competitors are doing. So Austin is going high performance and

777
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:24,400
he's going dual GPU, which I really wish

778
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:30,240
I had looked up the 6990. I looked up almost every other dual GPU solution

779
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:36,400
yesterday by keyword. This one's been listed for a month and Austin offered

780
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:39,839
asking price. He's getting a $69.90 for

781
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:42,760
180 bucks, which by my calculation is

782
00:57:39,839 --> 00:57:47,480
going to cream me. So, we're on our way back to the

783
00:57:45,079 --> 00:57:53,920
office. We're going to test what we have, make sure it's running. I am going

784
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:58,559
to do some shopping, try and find a better graphics card deal. And if I can

785
00:57:56,799 --> 00:58:05,760
find something that'll allow me to eat the $20 I wasted, then I will go out and

786
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:11,839
get it before I meet the uh the back alley guy again at 4 today. Dude, the NC

787
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:13,599
X is right there. It's right in that.

788
00:58:11,839 --> 00:58:18,240
Okay. So, do you want to drive over there or do you just want to walk it?

789
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:20,720
What? Let's go get our memory now. Dude, I'm feeling pretty pumped. I really

790
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:26,319
think that we're actually doing really good here. 8 gigs of RAM is way too That's crazy for a Scrapyard War system.

791
00:58:24,079 --> 00:58:29,280
We got crazy. It's pretty crazy. We got to save money, dude. This is price to

792
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:35,079
performance. This is serious business. We got to We got to go for 4 gig. See if

793
00:58:31,599 --> 00:58:38,520
there's any other 4 gig just in

794
00:58:35,079 --> 00:58:40,280
case. Okay.

795
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:46,160
20 30 five. There you go. Just got the 4

796
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:50,000
gig stick of the Corsair memory. So, won't be super fast. Won't be a ton of

797
00:58:47,839 --> 00:58:53,520
memory, but it should be just enough to get through. If the number is 162, I'll

798
00:58:52,079 --> 00:58:58,040
be out. Okay. Awesome, man. Appreciate it. We're good.

799
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:05,520
Root beer. All right, we have officially all of our parts right now. So, to

800
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:10,599
recap, we picked up the case and one of our power supplies for $25 this morning.

801
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:16,799
We went to a computer shop, we got our CPU, our motherboard, we've got the heat

802
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:20,799
sink, we got another power supply, and

803
00:59:16,799 --> 00:59:22,839
we got a hard drive. We got the graphics

804
00:59:20,799 --> 00:59:27,599
card just now and we just picked up the $30 kit of 4 gig memory as Ed's on the

805
00:59:25,839 --> 00:59:33,440
spot flying it out right here. So, we have all the parts and we bought them all today and everything went pretty

806
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:35,599
well actually. It is 238 right now. So,

807
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:40,000
not only do we have over 2 hours left, but we get to enjoy a delicious root

808
00:59:37,839 --> 00:59:44,559
beer. Well, you do. You're too cheap to get me

809
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:48,720
one. Oh, yeah. So, I accidentally I just bought this out of the scrapyard wars

810
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:53,200
budget. So, all the parts we bought plus like $2 for root beer.

811
00:59:51,319 --> 00:59:58,119
Oops. This tastes pretty sweet, though. I think it was kind of worth

812
00:59:54,920 --> 01:00:01,090
it. Okay, I'm a little nervous right

813
00:59:58,119 --> 01:00:02,680
now. Here we

814
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:15,760
go. What is that?

815
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:21,200
This guy sell us a dead graphics card.

816
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:31,319
Anyway, so the good news is that we've found a lead on a graphics card that

817
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:35,960
even if I have to throw away the $20 I spent

818
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:42,920
on this will put me back out ahead or at

819
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:45,200
least even with Austin for FPS per

820
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:50,000
dollar. But I haven't heard from the guy in about half an hour. So I'm really

821
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:52,720
hoping I hear back soon. The bad news is

822
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:58,440
our power supply we hoped would work is dead. Which means that our 400 watt

823
01:00:55,280 --> 01:01:01,640
backup power supply is only

824
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:05,200
borderline capable of even supporting a

825
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:08,559
7970 if we get it. There's also more bad

826
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:11,440
news. It looks like our 6850 might

827
01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:18,799
actually be dead, which could also be good news because that gives us $20 back

828
01:01:14,559 --> 01:01:21,200
in our pocket if we can get a refund.

829
01:01:18,799 --> 01:01:25,280
Um, I'm liking Austin's chances, but never count Luke out. I mean, he might

830
01:01:22,799 --> 01:01:31,040
show up with some completely bizarro thing. Next time on Scrapyard Wars,

831
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:35,520
Austin gets a tennis shot. Luke gets captured by Vikings and Lionus runs over

832
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:39,200
a dog. Okay, so we're back from FreeGeek. We

833
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:46,960
got a whole bunch of our parts. We've got a 7775 motherboard, 8 gigs of RAM, a

834
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:49,760
Q6600, 160 GB hard drive, and a 550 W

835
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:52,880
BFG Tech power supply. Uh, everything here I've tested except for the power

836
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:57,760
supply and the graphics card. So, hopefully that all works out.

837
01:01:55,319 --> 01:02:01,280
Um, right now what I'm trying to set up to do is hook all this stuff up in this

838
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:06,400
corner. I'm going to try to get a monitor and keyboard and mouse over here, too. And then I'm gonna have my

839
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:10,880
other desk where I'm doing my woodworking stuff right here so that

840
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:14,799
while this is running like Windows updates and junk, I can hopefully work

841
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:19,200
on that so that once this is kind of done doing Windows updates and junk, I

842
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:23,920
can mount it onto the wooden board. And then hoping tomorrow that I can more

843
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:27,599
focus on overclocking and stuff all day because I really want to get that down.

844
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:30,720
I think I can overclock this card a bit. I think I can overclock that CPU a bit.

845
01:02:29,359 --> 01:02:33,760
So I want to take advantage of that extra performance. So, the one shitty

846
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:40,319
thing about not having the screws here is worth the 20 bucks for sure, but is

847
01:02:36,799 --> 01:02:41,760
that I can't screw in my DVI cable. So,

848
01:02:40,319 --> 01:02:47,920
it just goes to there cuz normally there's a screw in there that I would screw into. Um, so that's fine. If I

849
01:02:46,319 --> 01:02:51,760
really wanted to, I could use DisplayPort or

850
01:02:49,319 --> 01:02:54,640
HDMI. Um, but I'm just going to use DVI for now because it's the cable that I

851
01:02:53,119 --> 01:02:59,359
have, but I'm going to try to find screws to put in here just cuz it would

852
01:02:57,599 --> 01:03:03,520
be good form, not cuz it's actually really needed, I guess. Here goes

853
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:08,720
nothing. Oh, I was trying to document the issue

854
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:14,799
with this graphics card, but since we changed to my test bench power

855
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:17,839
supply, it's actually fine now, which is

856
01:03:14,799 --> 01:03:19,240
pretty bad news because what that means

857
01:03:17,839 --> 01:03:24,960
is that our ghetto power supply works fine

858
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:29,599
with a card that it's not plugged directly into, but then doesn't work

859
01:03:27,599 --> 01:03:35,039
with a card that requires auxiliary power, which means our 7970

860
01:03:33,039 --> 01:03:38,680
might not run off this power supply. Even if it is rated at enough wattage,

861
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:43,960
it might just be too crappy. I'm muted. Damn it, Taran. How

862
01:03:41,599 --> 01:03:48,240
long have I been muted? Um, have I been muted since I like went

863
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:52,839
to the bathroom a billion years ago? Now, because I've actually got some time

864
01:03:50,079 --> 01:03:57,760
to spend with my CPU. The rules for overclocking are that you can have an

865
01:03:55,280 --> 01:04:01,680
overclock, but as soon as you run into stability issues during the testing

866
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:05,200
phase, you have to turn off your overclock and run again. You don't get

867
01:04:03,119 --> 01:04:08,799
to like try and dial it in a little bit lower. So, it's working. I guess this is

868
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:12,160
good news and that it's a working graphics card and that the power supply

869
01:04:10,559 --> 01:04:17,200
is powering it, but bad news and that I'm not getting my 20 bucks back. If I

870
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:24,680
want to know if it'll work with a 7970, if I want to know if I need another

871
01:04:19,039 --> 01:04:28,799
power supply, what I could do is grab a

872
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:30,119
7970 and test it. Nope, we do not have

873
01:04:28,799 --> 01:04:34,480
one. Okay,

874
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:38,960
so that throws a bit of a monkey wrench into my plan. That's okay, though. We'll

875
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:43,920
just find another graphics card that draws a similar amount of power and go

876
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:50,400
from there. We may end up using this card after all. Oh wow. Inaccessible

877
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:53,920
boot device. Oh wow. What's going on

878
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:55,640
here? This computer is not happy now

879
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:58,680
that we've installed a power hungry card. There are a lot of power supplies

880
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:04,160
on Craigslist. Nothing that cheap. Corsair

881
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:09,200
CX500 would do the trick. Yeah, this is this is not this is not booting. This is

882
01:05:07,119 --> 01:05:13,920
really bad. And there's your Buntu. So the graphics

883
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:16,920
card works. The power supply works.

884
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:19,920
Everything else I already tested

885
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,920
works.

886
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:26,319
Nice. Okay, on this station here, I'm

887
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:30,960
going to focus on formatting into Windows. I need to get uh Ubuntu off of

888
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:35,880
here, get into Windows on this drive. And then over here, I'm gonna keep

889
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:40,400
working on my little woodworking project, trying to get this going, using

890
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:43,520
these sample pieces, the sample power supply I have and sample motherboard

891
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:48,400
that I have to kind of work on the layout of how everything's going to

892
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:53,280
actually be on here. One other thing that I need to do is actually use this

893
01:05:50,559 --> 01:05:58,000
screw bin and possibly use another few things around the office to try to rig

894
01:05:55,440 --> 01:06:02,000
up the back of that graphics card so it actually has screws on it. Although that

895
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:06,039
isn't a huge priority right now. That would be kind of nice to do.

896
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:14,599
So, we have two terrible power supplies, but together hopefully that equals one

897
01:06:10,079 --> 01:06:14,599
good power supply. This is the goods.

898
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:24,839
And Core i7. Oh, Core i7. What? 2600.

899
01:06:20,079 --> 01:06:24,839
Nice. 690. 180.

900
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:30,400
Even for that old of a card, that's a good deal. I mean, this this thing is a

901
01:06:28,799 --> 01:06:38,000
monster. So, I think it actually here, let me see. Will it fit in the case? Uhoh. No.

902
01:06:36,559 --> 01:06:42,880
All right. So, that's actually not going to fit in the case. No fear, though.

903
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:45,599
This stuff, we just cut all this out, right? Yeah. Actually, this could

904
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:48,480
probably even get Yeah, this this will come out. You want to take a guess on

905
01:06:47,119 --> 01:06:54,559
like how much we spent on all this stuff? Mhm. 350.

906
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:59,680
No, it's like 550. Okay. So, oh, you spent 30 on like one stick. Yeah, dude.

907
01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:04,000
RAM was tough. RAM was really tough because Yeah, you got taken for a ride,

908
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:08,960
but still. The thing was we No one had any cheaper RAM. You honestly have like

909
01:07:06,799 --> 01:07:13,440
pretty primo stuff. It's just this is the only concern. At least for the work,

910
01:07:11,359 --> 01:07:16,720
right? It's like in brand new. Exactly. You have that. So, that's the thing. We

911
01:07:14,559 --> 01:07:19,440
want to We have everything. Yeah. So, we have everything now. We basically just

912
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:24,480
need to make sure it works. I'm a little worried cuz this needs This is like a 500 watt card. So, this needs two eight

913
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:29,839
pins. So, we're going to have to make sure that these power supplies, this

914
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:32,240
power supply has Oh, Lord, it's gray.

915
01:07:29,839 --> 01:07:36,079
Let's see. It's not that bad. Um, so it has a six pin here, and I think it's got

916
01:07:33,599 --> 01:07:40,000
an eight pin somewhere. Sparkle power. Sparkle power. Oh, there's just a bunch

917
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:45,760
of adapters. Okay. Does Do you have the extra two? It doesn't have the extra

918
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:49,119
two. Wait, what the What is going on here? Why are there so many adapters?

919
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:53,119
All these Molex have adapters on them. We should have looked at this before.

920
01:07:51,039 --> 01:07:58,240
Yeah. So, basically, power supply right here. Tape it on. Cut this slash try to

921
01:07:56,640 --> 01:08:01,520
remove it. I'm not sure if it can be unscrewed or not, but we can remove this

922
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:05,599
somehow. I'm not really worried about that. Um, and just hope that these two

923
01:08:04,079 --> 01:08:11,039
power supplies are enough for the Core i7 and the 6990. Sorry. Do you need an

924
01:08:08,319 --> 01:08:16,319
actual sander? Do we have an actual sander? Yeah, I have an actual sander.

925
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:21,839
Oh, is it a company tool thing? I've been using it here. So, sure. Yeah.

926
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:28,480
Uh, I'm down with that. Yeah, you I'm down with that. I will uh

927
01:08:25,239 --> 01:08:29,679
just Why are you using this? Uh, yeah. I

928
01:08:28,480 --> 01:08:33,960
know it's the wrong thing, but it's actually kind of working actually pretty

929
01:08:32,199 --> 01:08:40,560
well. Did my I just sanded off the mark that I

930
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:40,560
made for where I wanted to

931
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:46,640
cut. I'm not saying there's cheating involved, but that's some point

932
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:53,040
deduction. A little suspicious right there. We we know that Linus was uh

933
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:55,359
still sending messages after five. Was

934
01:08:53,040 --> 01:09:00,560
he? Yeah. Uh oh. How do you know? I asked him and he told me.

935
01:08:58,480 --> 01:09:04,920
He's cheating. So, he's absolutely cheating.

936
01:09:03,279 --> 01:09:10,000
I'm calling about the CX500 power supply. I can come get it

937
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:15,279
today if you can do 20. Sure, why not? Um 20. So, I could Yeah, like if you

938
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:19,040
just give me an address, I can I can get there tonight. No problem. Well, if you

939
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:22,880
leave now, you can come to my house. I I I still won't be at work yet. So, is

940
01:09:20,799 --> 01:09:26,640
that okay? I live in Richmond, though. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Son of a [ __ ] Okay.

941
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:33,520
How are we going to do this? We got to go to Vancouver. We got to go to Richmond. And we got to go to

942
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:38,319
Kquitlam. And we are going to be all over the place for the next little bit

943
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:42,319
here. Okay. So, he won't set it up to to show us it works, but we have another

944
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:49,199
option. So, we got a $20 power supply to go with

945
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:49,199
our $100 graphics

946
01:09:49,239 --> 01:09:56,880
card and we'll just bring a computer with us to test it. Let's

947
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:04,920
go. Okay, I think we can I think we can hit all these places today. As long as

948
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:12,120
our back alley contact is on time, I think we got this.

949
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:18,760
It's 3:00 and it's 10 minutes to our next

950
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:26,080
destination. You know what? New plan

951
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:28,920
because back alley guy wasn't able to

952
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:35,040
meet until 4ish. So, we're going to go straight

953
01:10:32,159 --> 01:10:39,360
back to Kquitlam and then to the back alley. And as long as we can get there

954
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:43,679
before 5, if it takes us a little longer to drive back, we technically haven't

955
01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:49,520
broken the rules. You have to be done scrapyarding and head back at

956
01:10:46,679 --> 01:10:55,760
5. New. We're good. I think the rule is you have to be back at 5:30.

957
01:10:52,960 --> 01:11:02,800
Well, it's all very gray anyway. That is right there. 20 bucks. Yep. That's good.

958
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:06,080
Oh, you got it from NCIX. I see.

959
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:07,920
Tell from the NCIX sticker. Yeah. Okay.

960
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:12,000
Cables are inside and presumably it works. Yeah. Pleasure doing business

961
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:16,480
with you. Huge fan, actually. Oh. H. Yeah. Screw it. Okay. Here you go. I

962
01:11:14,159 --> 01:11:20,080
mean, well, nothing that we know of at the moment. I only have one of those

963
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:24,400
though. That's okay. I can get an adapter. Well, I mean, if it doesn't

964
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:28,159
super work, just let me know cuz I got We didn't have time to test our 7970,

965
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:32,960
but the guy said we can come back tomorrow morning if we need a refund.

966
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:38,400
So, at least we have the backup plan of using our

967
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:41,280
6850 and returning the 7970. So, that's

968
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:44,840
good. And our quote from Google Maps right now is that we will arrive in the

969
01:11:43,199 --> 01:11:49,760
back alley at 458. He said we can have the sound card

970
01:11:47,440 --> 01:11:57,040
for free just if we just come pick it up. I am going to have my system.

971
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:59,880
Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. Okay, we got our

972
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:06,960
sound card. So, our back alley best friend

973
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:09,600
hooked us up with an Odigy 2 and a Sound

974
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:15,840
Blaster Live, both of which are PCI graphics cards, and at least one of

975
01:12:12,480 --> 01:12:18,080
which I'm hoping will both work and have

976
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:25,120
drivers for Windows 7, which is what we've standardized on using. So, um, as

977
01:12:22,719 --> 01:12:29,280
long as that's the case, I have everything I need for my winning

978
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:34,000
computer. Yeah. So, I feel better

979
01:12:31,719 --> 01:12:38,960
about telling you guys stuff. I don't really Ed's been uh very helpful. He's

980
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:42,960
not been an impartial cameraman, so we've been a team here, but I didn't

981
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:47,199
know I wasn't supposed to help. I didn't either. Was very much not an impartial

982
01:12:44,719 --> 01:12:50,840
cameraman at all. You give you give us you give me a reason why I can escape

983
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:55,120
the windowless dungeon of linest. So do I.

984
01:12:53,760 --> 01:13:02,080
We may need to hurry up a bit. You got you got what? You have 1 hour an hour

985
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:04,560
and 50 minutes. Okay. No, it's cut off.

986
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:09,520
Oh, so you have 50 minutes. This is helpful.

987
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:11,360
Uh smaller one. Okay. Oh, do we need

988
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:19,840
something to short the pins on the Oh, paper clip. Paper clip. Yeah. up here.

989
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:21,600
Maybe you have a paper clip. No. Oh,

990
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:27,199
what do you need it for? How are you a salesman without paper clip? How are you

991
01:13:24,159 --> 01:13:29,760
a video editor without a paper clip? You

992
01:13:27,199 --> 01:13:33,679
think I need a paper clip? Oh, you get that? You think this will

993
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:37,840
actually work? This sounds like we're about to die. This out of the way. Oh,

994
01:13:35,679 --> 01:13:42,320
man. Installing it or are we uh I'm installing outside the case first to

995
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:47,840
test it. Yeah, let's build outside the case. You're right. You can't really

996
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:51,760
build inside because

997
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:53,199
Okay, memory's good. No, you cut out. I

998
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:57,320
can't get back at it. It's way too tight. Especially with a big knife like this.

999
01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:02,199
Like, this is a bad idea. It's a really

1000
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:05,679
bad idea. It's so

1001
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:11,640
tight. I know. I'm scaring me with this right now.

1002
01:14:12,159 --> 01:14:18,560
Oh no, I slightly damaged some of the sleeing. Uhoh, that's not good. Oh yes.

1003
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:22,640
Okay, we're good. We're good. We're good. Um, okay. Slight problem. This

1004
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:27,679
motherboard needs a eight pin connector and we only have a four. Also, bad news.

1005
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:31,080
This also has a four pin. Can we Couldn't each power supply power half

1006
01:14:29,199 --> 01:14:36,480
the CPU, too? That seems like a horrible idea. Either we try to see if one four

1007
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:40,080
pin will work. No. No. We got to do this. Let's try with one four pin. Let's

1008
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:44,000
hopefully that will work. Can we have a quick time check? 450. So, we have 10

1009
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:47,440
minutes. Do we just try it? Uh, we need to still Oh, we need to still do the

1010
01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:52,400
paperclip thing. How is this going to work,

1011
01:14:49,159 --> 01:14:53,840
dude? Okay, so this is a green. You and

1012
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:58,320
I agree that's green. Yeah, that is green. Okay. And the one right beside it is black. Oh, man. I feel like you're

1013
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:05,000
not supposed to do this with a staple. Feel like you're not supposed to do this ever, but especially not with a staple.

1014
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:09,360
Wait, what? Oh, no. We don't have a way of turning this

1015
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:12,840
on with a screwdriver. I've never done that before. What are you talking

1016
01:15:11,239 --> 01:15:18,000
about? Yes.

1017
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:21,920
Yes, it works. Power supply. Power

1018
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:23,360
supply. Fan fan fan. Yes, we did it.

1019
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:27,080
Okay, we just need to make sure this is actually like posting, but all the fans

1020
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:31,280
are running. It looks like it's working. Needs some sanding, but there's

1021
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:35,280
my graphics card holding plate or my power supply holding plate. Maybe the

1022
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:39,440
power supply. My computer is still setting up over there. Windows 7

1023
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:43,880
Professional is still applying my settings. It's been doing that forever.

1024
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:47,520
It's kind of getting annoying. Let's try

1025
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:49,920
this. Cool. So, just like I had kind of

1026
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:54,159
hoped, um, I don't actually even need this block. It'll just hopefully look

1027
01:15:52,159 --> 01:15:58,400
cool. I hope it looks cool. I really hope it looks cool. It looks like it

1028
01:15:56,239 --> 01:16:03,040
works, but it's not posting and we're over time. This is Seems like a horrible

1029
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:06,400
idea. Horrible idea, but whatever. Let's do it. They don't want to go in

1030
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:11,360
together. What are you talking about? Let me just squish it. Don't worry. Good

1031
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:13,600
enough. Good enough. I know. No. No. This power supply should be spinning

1032
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:17,560
right now. I don't understand why it's not. It should be working.

1033
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:22,719
Oh, you're right. Oh, come

1034
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:28,320
on. Oh, dude. I don't know if these are supposed to work together. I don't think

1035
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:32,560
they are. Because you're not supposed to put that in sideways.

1036
01:16:30,159 --> 01:16:35,760
No, we got we're going from Molex to six pin and then we're going six pin 8 pin

1037
01:16:34,159 --> 01:16:39,960
like we did here except this time to power the CPU. I actually have never

1038
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:47,920
even tried this. I don't think it'll work, but it could.

1039
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:49,520
Uh, could it maybe? I I have a feeling

1040
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:53,000
this shouldn't work. If it does work, it shouldn't work. Look at this. What have

1041
01:16:52,239 --> 01:16:59,440
we done? No. No, it's not going to work.

1042
01:16:56,320 --> 01:17:01,760
It's different. Okay, so at this point I

1043
01:16:59,440 --> 01:17:05,920
think we have to call it a day. Um, the fan spin. The two power supply thing

1044
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:09,920
actually works, which is more than I thought I could say, but it won't post.

1045
01:17:08,159 --> 01:17:14,320
And I think the problem is powering the motherboard. So, we have a one 8 pin

1046
01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:19,040
power connector for the CPU. We only have a four pin from each power supply.

1047
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:23,040
So, neither of them are actually enough to get it to post. Um, I'm assuming

1048
01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:27,600
that's the problem because when we tried to plug in both four pins, which you're not really supposed to do, um, this

1049
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:32,960
power supply freaked out and stopped working. So, I'm pretty sure if we could

1050
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:36,480
get these two somehow between the two to

1051
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:37,840
power the CPU, we would be good. Um, so

1052
01:17:36,480 --> 01:17:41,920
yeah, I think we got to give up for the day and maybe tomorrow come up with like

1053
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:47,679
a game plan of like how we're going to power this thing. But we're close. But,

1054
01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:51,440
uh, this is the this is the best case. This is the best case. If it's just the

1055
01:17:49,199 --> 01:17:57,600
eight pin, we can't power it. Worst case is something here is broken. In which

1056
01:17:54,239 --> 01:17:59,159
case, we are way more screwed. Okay, I

1057
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:05,520
think it's time to call it a night. Until tomorrow, sweet

1058
01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:10,320
prince. Oh man, I hope we can figure this out. I really do. Next time on

1059
01:18:08,159 --> 01:18:14,719
Scrapyard Wars, Burkel fights his doppelganger, Nikki B. You really want

1060
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:18,480
to throw down? You want to rumble punk? Wait, who are you talking to? You have

1061
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:25,080
the same person. All right, Scrapyard Wars day three. Our internet is

1062
01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:30,000
down. Basically, we're upgrading to 1 gig. And I don't know how many of you

1063
01:18:27,679 --> 01:18:34,880
are Canadian or have heard of Telus, but they're sort of legendarily terrible.

1064
01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:40,560
And there was apparently some kind of data entry error while they were

1065
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:45,440
changing our internet. I guess they were probably typing with their faces as

1066
01:18:42,239 --> 01:18:47,840
usual. So, that kind of probably hampers

1067
01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:52,159
me a lot more than anyone else, which really sucks because now was supposed to

1068
01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:58,040
be the time that I was finishing downloads and installs. So, I guess um

1069
01:18:56,080 --> 01:19:03,280
what I'm going to do now is try to install everything onto the

1070
01:19:00,719 --> 01:19:10,320
board, which is actually what I wanted to do later, but whatever. This is

1071
01:19:06,719 --> 01:19:12,640
ridiculous, but if it works, who cares?

1072
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:16,920
DisplayPort, no signal. Oh, good call. So, let's get the

1073
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:22,719
graphics card out of the out of the equation. Oh. Oh, I saw something flash

1074
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:27,480
for like half a second. Yes, we have video. Okay. Okay,

1075
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:32,000
guys. Ah, okay. That's kind of what I was afraid

1076
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:35,520
of. That four pin is probably not going to be enough to keep the CPU

1077
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:41,600
fed. Like I expected, my wood thing is

1078
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:45,679
not really tall enough because I didn't take into account the height of the

1079
01:19:49,239 --> 01:20:00,159
Velcro. Okay. Well, that's good. It's mounted and it's still posts. So, that's

1080
01:19:56,719 --> 01:20:02,000
that's a good sign. So, we moved where

1081
01:20:00,159 --> 01:20:06,080
we were, if you didn't notice, uh, because it will hopefully be better for

1082
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:10,719
filming reasons or whatever yet, but we should be theoretically sitting at about

1083
01:20:08,480 --> 01:20:16,120
3 GHz, and I think our memory is still at about 720 MHz. So, CPU is running at

1084
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:24,199
3.24 GHz. I must have screwed up, but I made

1085
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:31,880
it faster than I expected, and it's not crashing.

1086
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:39,199
Might need a bigger pilot hole, but we're going to see. The wood was not

1087
01:20:36,719 --> 01:20:43,600
super happy about that. I can't wait for the comments on this. Oh my god, Luke,

1088
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:49,840
you did that so wrong. I literally have no idea what I'm doing. I really don't

1089
01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:51,440
know if this is going to help me tie the

1090
01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:57,920
fishing line at all. I was hoping these were grippier than my skin, but I don't

1091
01:20:54,239 --> 01:20:59,840
know if that's true anymore.

1092
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:06,880
Oh, it does totally seem to be true. That's awesome. Okay, that's good. If

1093
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:09,440
this overclock works, honestly, I'd be

1094
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:13,760
happy, I think, with this overclock and the overclock that I have on the CPU,

1095
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:18,320
but I'll have about 3 hours left. So, what I need to do is save this overclock

1096
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:23,440
to a profile. I already have my CPU's overclock saved to a profile, and uh

1097
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:28,120
hopefully doing a little bit more cable management stuff just to make it look better. Even though that's not a metric,

1098
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:32,880
it would be nice. Vync off.

1099
01:21:34,679 --> 01:21:39,320
Apply. It did not like

1100
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:44,800
that. Okay. After the benchmark ran, it

1101
01:21:42,280 --> 01:21:49,360
crashed. And I don't know why it crashed. So, what I need to do now is

1102
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:54,239
figure out if it was my GPU or if it was my CPU thing. So, what I just did was I

1103
01:21:52,239 --> 01:21:59,159
changed my overall total power limit from 150% to

1104
01:21:59,199 --> 01:22:05,400
uh 25% and I changed my applied voltage

1105
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:13,040
from 100 molts to 50 m. Whoa.

1106
01:22:09,159 --> 01:22:14,760
What? Okay. My GPU is not very happy

1107
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:20,560
right now. It's not hot. Maybe it doesn't have

1108
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:24,760
enough voltage or something. Okay, so I turned things down and they're actually

1109
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:31,159
running faster. So at $310, I just

1110
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:34,000
got Damn it. Why does it keep doing

1111
01:22:31,159 --> 01:22:38,960
that at the same part after like the same amount of time? Okay, so after some

1112
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:42,719
troubleshooting, I think I know what's going on. So, we instead of using our

1113
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:45,920
two like really crappy power supplies, we're using one power supply that's

1114
01:22:44,159 --> 01:22:50,560
somewhat decent. And this is now powering the graphics card and it's got

1115
01:22:47,440 --> 01:22:52,080
eight pins to the CPU. So, the 8 pin was

1116
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:55,679
absolutely the problem. The four pin, it was enough to get it to post, but it's

1117
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:59,920
not enough to actually do anything. So, the CPU I feel like is good as long as

1118
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:03,440
we have an 8 pin. Um, we've now switched around the power supplies so that the

1119
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:07,920
graphics card has its own dedicated power supply. The power supply is enough

1120
01:23:05,199 --> 01:23:10,800
to spin the fan fully up. That's good. So, we're still using the four pin. It's

1121
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:15,440
not going to be stable whatsoever. But this is more to just see if our two

1122
01:23:12,719 --> 01:23:18,560
power supplies Yes, it's posted. Okay, we're we're in business. We're in

1123
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:25,120
business. So, the only thing we basically need to do right now is get

1124
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:28,159
the uh 4 pin to 4 pin plus molex

1125
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:30,320
adapter. Okay, success. We have the one

1126
01:23:28,159 --> 01:23:35,159
tiny adapter that cost $7 that we needed. So, with our new 8 pen, we can

1127
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:40,080
see that the CPU is boosting up to like 3.6 GHz or so, and then it's coming back

1128
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:44,560
down. But it seems to be working. Look at this. We're stable 100%. With only

1129
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:49,320
the four pin, this immediately crashed. Oh

1130
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:52,480
no. Memory management.

1131
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:56,040
No, it didn't do anything. It's just as

1132
01:23:52,480 --> 01:23:58,480
unstable as with the four pin. Oh

1133
01:23:56,040 --> 01:24:03,360
no. Maybe it's the power supply. Maybe the just this this 300 watt supply is

1134
01:24:00,239 --> 01:24:05,920
just not enough to to power it. Okay, so

1135
01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:10,239
basically right now we've swapped out memory we bought with some other memory

1136
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:14,320
just to see if it's the RAM that's the problem. Um I mean this is a brand new

1137
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:19,120
stick. This is like the only brand new component in the build. So it' be really weird if this was the part that didn't

1138
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:22,440
work. This is longer than it was before. The memory may have been the issue. We

1139
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:27,679
may have got some defective brand new memory. Wow. The only other thing we can

1140
01:24:25,679 --> 01:24:31,040
think about is trying this RAM in a different slot. So I'm go ahead and

1141
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:35,760
start the stress test. So, it only lasted like 5 seconds before.

1142
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:39,560
Wow. Is this going to be stable? Was it literally just changing the slot in the

1143
01:24:37,199 --> 01:24:45,040
motherboard? I'm a genius, dude. High five. Yes. Okay, at this point, let's

1144
01:24:43,520 --> 01:24:51,920
tear this stuff down. Oh, no. We should probably play a game. Let's play a game. Okay. Download this. Yes. Uh, which one

1145
01:24:50,159 --> 01:24:57,440
thing with this build, something is weird with this motherboard. It freaks

1146
01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:59,040
out every sing. Oh, no.

1147
01:24:57,440 --> 01:25:06,400
So, we have to go return this memory because it's broken. And it just fell out. That's awesome. 2:00. We have less

1148
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:10,239
than 2 hours to make sure this works and build the whole computer. Get benchmarks

1149
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:15,679
ready. We do not have another opportunity. If this does not work, we

1150
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:19,360
might just be out of it. Oh man. Coming

1151
01:25:15,679 --> 01:25:21,360
down to the wire. Okay, she posts, which

1152
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:28,280
is a good sign. Well, either our motherboard has two dead PCI slots or

1153
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:31,199
our Sound Blaster Odigy 2 is dead.

1154
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:36,560
Fortunately, we grabbed a couple sound cards at the time. So, let's go ahead

1155
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:41,199
and try another one. So, our internet's down at the office this morning, which

1156
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:46,239
has made progress a little slower than I'd like, but there is good news. I've

1157
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:50,639
got Windows 7 installed. My graphics card seems to be working for the most

1158
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:55,679
part. Uh although I haven't run anything 3D yet cuz I don't have drivers for it

1159
01:25:52,880 --> 01:26:01,639
at the moment. Um there's some bad news though. Both my Odigy 2, which I had

1160
01:25:58,719 --> 01:26:08,719
high hopes for, and my Sound Blaster Live are dead. So, I will have to accept

1161
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:14,800
that I will be running a system that only has HDMI audio. Oh. Oh. Whoa. Ho.

1162
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:20,679
Oh, he said, "Oh, we're up. We're up. Internet's up." Yay. So, this

1163
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:27,600
is exciting because I am many hours away from

1164
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:31,280
competition crunch time and I've got almost all of my benchmarks installed,

1165
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:34,800
all my drivers installed. I can start getting baseline readings and then

1166
01:26:33,199 --> 01:26:38,280
tuning things and finding out how it goes from there.

1167
01:26:36,679 --> 01:26:44,159
Okay, 76.5 FPS average. I'm feeling a little

1168
01:26:41,679 --> 01:26:52,239
tense today. It's 12. I haven't started my build yet. And this initial Cinebench

1169
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:55,360
run is really ugly. Like if those guys

1170
01:26:52,239 --> 01:26:58,560
ran out and got a 3770K or something

1171
01:26:55,360 --> 01:27:00,560
like that, they'll be pulling off triple

1172
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:04,960
my score thanks to the improved architecture and hyperthreading. And at

1173
01:27:02,639 --> 01:27:09,520
least unlike Austin, I'm not running around picking up components now because

1174
01:27:07,199 --> 01:27:14,480
I'm fairly certain they did not go out for lunch. So, for the benefit of our

1175
01:27:12,239 --> 01:27:19,560
competitor over there, I'm going to do a quick run through of all the awesome

1176
01:27:17,440 --> 01:27:25,120
components that I've got over on my side.

1177
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:28,480
First, this gaming grade motherboard.

1178
01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:31,360
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

1179
01:27:28,480 --> 01:27:35,679
Look at that. So many games. That's a gaming sound.

1180
01:27:33,679 --> 01:27:40,800
Can I play Pac-Man? It can be

1181
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:45,679
Pac-Man. Oh, no. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

1182
01:27:41,880 --> 01:27:47,040
Nope. Next up, we have the finest power

1183
01:27:45,679 --> 01:27:53,080
supply ever made. I mean, it was a miracle that I was even able to find

1184
01:27:49,440 --> 01:27:58,960
these, let alone afford it with my

1185
01:27:53,080 --> 01:28:04,800
budget. Next up, this genuine USB 2.0 4

1186
01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:06,239
port expansion card and 56K modem. Going

1187
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:15,600
to need one of these. I don't want to tell them about that, though. That's my secret weapon. Massive cooler for like

1188
01:28:11,679 --> 01:28:19,000
wicked overclocking. Intel 750 series

1189
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:22,560
PCI Express SSD. We didn't even pay for

1190
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:25,080
that. And this put Put the 750 series

1191
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:30,239
SSD down again. Yeah, that doesn't really sound

1192
01:28:27,639 --> 01:28:34,400
right. I don't think that's a 750 series SSD. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm just

1193
01:28:32,719 --> 01:28:41,120
standing over here lying about what computer parts I have. My name's Lionus.

1194
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:43,440
My voice isn't quite that high.

1195
01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:46,920
Let's put one of our 750 series SSDs away for now. Now you have two. I always

1196
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:53,880
had two. So, this is actually broken.

1197
01:28:50,199 --> 01:28:56,960
Fortunately, we have so much extra

1198
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:59,280
hardware that literally half of our

1199
01:28:56,960 --> 01:29:02,639
parts could be broken and we would have no problem whatsoever. So, I'm just

1200
01:29:00,960 --> 01:29:07,360
going to go get another one. All right. So, just in case, I brought some of our

1201
01:29:04,639 --> 01:29:11,520
extra extra hardware that isn't the stuff that we actually need, you know,

1202
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:16,159
right now. Just installing our bolt-on Hemi.

1203
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:21,600
They're lying to us and we were so honest with them about the computer that

1204
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:27,440
we're building. You mean you don't believe that I have a Hemi?

1205
01:29:24,239 --> 01:29:28,760
Well, I did believe you.

1206
01:29:27,440 --> 01:29:33,320
I wanted to believe. I was just moving stuff around

1207
01:29:30,960 --> 01:29:39,679
to try to do cable management and the computer froze up.

1208
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:46,760
Hopefully that's not actually a problem. It's probably just

1209
01:29:41,639 --> 01:29:46,760
random old hard drives and stuff.

1210
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:07,360
My computer straight up doesn't boot properly anymore.

1211
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:11,600
I have no idea what happened. It blue screened randomly and now it doesn't

1212
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:17,600
properly turn on. So, I'm pretty disappointed.

1213
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:19,600
So, we just went from our game benchmark

1214
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:25,120
acting weird to our computer completely not turning on to our computer turning

1215
01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:30,800
on, but now Windows is freaking out and super unhappy. I moved the graphics card

1216
01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:34,719
down one slot because uh FreeGeek Vancouver said that that top slot wasn't

1217
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:39,040
working. I had no problems with that top slot working, but I'm just trying to

1218
01:30:37,040 --> 01:30:44,800
minimize issues at this point because there's about 3 hours to go and I really

1219
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:48,320
want to be running all of the benches that I have to run and know what my

1220
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:53,360
scores are going to be before I walk into the final. So, I'm in the process

1221
01:30:50,960 --> 01:31:00,000
of building my troll system, which has all of the worst of every component that

1222
01:30:57,040 --> 01:31:03,120
I have. Like, this is like legit like one of the most stressed moments of my

1223
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:07,679
whole life. Okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but like I'm super

1224
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:11,120
hardcore stressed right now. Oh man, did do we actually do it? I don't I don't

1225
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:16,000
want to get my hopes up right now, but like this looks good. This is the only

1226
01:31:13,679 --> 01:31:18,880
CPU intensive test. If it finishes this, that's pretty much means that we're

1227
01:31:17,360 --> 01:31:24,239
good. Nothing else should hit the CPU this hard for this long. All right,

1228
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:31,080
we're in business, dude. That's awesome. Connect it up. Oh, look at that. Like

1229
01:31:27,080 --> 01:31:31,080
butter. Wow.

1230
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:35,320
This will

1231
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:42,050
work. Yeah, I think that

1232
01:31:45,159 --> 01:31:51,199
work. It's perfect. It's actually not that bad. Everything else has just been

1233
01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:54,880
like typical sort of like random computer problems like dead memory or

1234
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:59,840
like not having the right adapter or whatever. But if it works together, we

1235
01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:03,040
did a great job. It is terrible. But you just literally told me to do this like 5

1236
01:32:01,280 --> 01:32:09,760
seconds ago and I agreed. What have we done, dude? This is not cool. What have

1237
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:11,360
we done? You your idea. 30 seconds ago.

1238
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:15,120
You were taking credit like this is all Austin Ed. We're such a great team. Then

1239
01:32:13,440 --> 01:32:19,679
we actually see what it is. Like I have nothing to do with

1240
01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:21,719
this. This is the greatest thing ever.

1241
01:32:19,679 --> 01:32:26,800
Thermal paste looks fine. There's a lot of it, but it looks

1242
01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:31,080
fine. Oh my god. Yeah, there's still gunk in the CPU socket. That could super

1243
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:34,880
be what it is. Oh wow. It's currently

1244
01:32:35,719 --> 01:32:41,840
2:26. Meaning assuming it's 2:30, we've

1245
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:43,760
got an hour and a half left. So if that

1246
01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:48,480
was the problem, I think I'm still doing okay. If that wasn't the problem, I

1247
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:52,920
could be totally screwed. At this point, my computer doesn't make it through Fire

1248
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:58,920
Strike. If I completely fail a benchmark, I'm done. So, right now we're

1249
01:32:56,080 --> 01:33:02,960
testing CPU overclock only, no GPU overclock. We just did a successful Fire

1250
01:33:01,360 --> 01:33:09,520
Strike run completely all the way through with no overclock. Now, we're

1251
01:33:05,440 --> 01:33:11,800
testing 3.24 on this guy. Oh, I can't

1252
01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:18,480
believe it just crashed. I feel like sick. Like, I don't

1253
01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:23,040
feel good at all. If that just crashed because of the overclock, that's fine.

1254
01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:27,760
If that just crashed for any other reason, I'm screwed.

1255
01:33:25,360 --> 01:33:34,159
So, as of right now, if I apply literally any amount of overclock to my

1256
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:36,920
CPU, my memory, or my graphics card,

1257
01:33:34,159 --> 01:33:41,600
even one at a time, I can't run a benchmark. 150 gigs. That's not right.

1258
01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:46,239
Oh, it is 15 gig hard drive. Oh, no. It's not big enough. We only have 15 gig

1259
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:49,440
hard drive and there's a 200 gig SSD. We're going to have to install Windows

1260
01:33:47,679 --> 01:33:53,760
from scratch cuz we don't have any way of finding Windows. No, we have a We

1261
01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:56,880
don't have time, dude. Uh, yeah, I've got it. Give me a second.

1262
01:33:55,520 --> 01:34:00,320
No, we have one. We have a flash. You have a flash drive? I got it from Li.

1263
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:05,600
Oh, you should have told me that. I did. Oh, just now. And upstairs, too. Thank

1264
01:34:02,719 --> 01:34:09,199
you. I'm going to be slightly late. So, slightly late. We don't have an

1265
01:34:06,880 --> 01:34:14,159
operating system. You're also live. Okay. Okay. So, our CPU temperatures are

1266
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:19,280
well within reason. And we're going to do some stability testing at 3.2 GHz and

1267
01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:24,560
go back and work on our troll system. Here we go.

1268
01:34:22,560 --> 01:34:29,120
That sounds good. Um, I don't know if our troll system is going to end up

1269
01:34:26,159 --> 01:34:34,000
working. I have tried to get it to post. I've tried two separate motherboards and

1270
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:38,239
honestly, we're at the point now where I don't have a ton of extra time to spend

1271
01:34:35,679 --> 01:34:42,480
on it. So, I'm still going to go over there and like be working on it from

1272
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:48,159
time to time, but I'm probably better off focusing right now on my main system

1273
01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:54,239
because I only have an hour and 40 minutes to dial in a GPU overclock and

1274
01:34:51,360 --> 01:34:59,520
mod the case and building it. Those are the three main mods. Make the

1275
01:34:56,719 --> 01:35:05,800
motherboard fit, make the power supply fit. I guess that's only

1276
01:35:01,719 --> 01:35:07,639
two. with a couple of drill

1277
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:13,760
holes. Um, we can make this work. Now, here's

1278
01:35:11,679 --> 01:35:21,400
something that I actually had sort of forgotten about. We need to make sure

1279
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:23,560
that this baby is going to fit

1280
01:35:21,400 --> 01:35:29,080
here, which so far is looking like a bit of a nogo.

1281
01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:42,280
I've never trusted this kind of standoff, so it's fine, but I'm going to

1282
01:35:39,920 --> 01:35:48,159
tape over them just in case. I cannot afford to kill any more components at

1283
01:35:45,040 --> 01:35:50,000
this stage in the game. So, apparently

1284
01:35:48,159 --> 01:35:56,320
overclocking my CPU, but not applying voltage kind of worked. Overclocking my

1285
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:58,719
GPU and not applying voltage, no, not

1286
01:35:56,320 --> 01:36:03,040
even like a little bit. barely got into that bench at all. So, we're going to

1287
01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:09,520
reset the graphics card overclock. Just run it at stock. Whatever. So, there's 9

1288
01:36:06,639 --> 01:36:12,920
minutes left. I'm just going to set it to the last overclock that worked. You

1289
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:23,280
can do it. Believe in yourself. Come on.

1290
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:25,639
Wow. Done. Hands down. It's 4:00 minus

1291
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:29,440
stop. I'm done. Okay. Okay, so Windows is

1292
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:33,920
installing right now. Basically, after this, we need to install our benchmarks.

1293
01:36:31,360 --> 01:36:38,800
We need to install our Hi, what's up? This is 4:00.

1294
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:43,440
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Austin becomes a wizard. Linus doesn't have to

1295
01:36:41,040 --> 01:36:52,560
cheat, but he does. Luke's house burns to the ground. And that's all. Come see

1296
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:56,080
it next time on Scrapyard Wars. Yeah.

1297
01:36:52,560 --> 01:37:00,350
Scrapyard Wars.

1298
01:37:02,159 --> 01:37:09,440
This episode of Scrapyard Wars was brought to you by

1299
01:37:06,199 --> 01:37:12,800
Dbrand. I can run now. So, let's run

1300
01:37:09,440 --> 01:37:14,639
now. Where's Austin? I don't based on

1301
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:19,520
Nick coming in and asking if we're supposed to be done. I'm thinking Austin

1302
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:24,400
is not done. He walked over to me and was like, "How did you install Windows 7

1303
01:37:21,840 --> 01:37:28,719
with 20 minutes left?" I was like pretty sure he was trolling. I don't mind that.

1304
01:37:26,480 --> 01:37:33,679
Like the system's done. Like the thing is is like the first time we did

1305
01:37:30,639 --> 01:37:37,040
Scrapyard Wars, the benchmark period

1306
01:37:33,679 --> 01:37:38,800
included like installing software. Yo yo

1307
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:42,080
yo yo, hold on. Hold on. Pause everything. What's going on right now

1308
01:37:40,159 --> 01:37:46,320
with install? Uh well, Luke's not letting me put my front bezel back on

1309
01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:50,000
because it's after 4:00. What about software? Uh we were just talking about

1310
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:54,560
I don't even have a way of installing all the benchmarks. I do not know your login or anything, so I can't do that.

1311
01:37:53,119 --> 01:37:58,719
That's a good point. So, I think we should the software should be My

1312
01:37:56,800 --> 01:38:04,080
computer is 100% done hardwarewise. Uhhuh. Okay. I love how both the other

1313
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:07,199
contestants are taking more time to do you the You can put the camera down.

1314
01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:11,679
It's fine. I didn't totally just accidentally install 32-bit Windows. So,

1315
01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:16,080
I'm currently installing 64-bit Windows. Did not realize that there was a 32-bit

1316
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:20,880
Windows thing on that key. So, I think the troll system deserves to see the

1317
01:38:17,920 --> 01:38:26,000
light of day. So, we're just going

1318
01:38:22,199 --> 01:38:26,000
to put all this in

1319
01:38:26,119 --> 01:38:32,880
here. There's nobody. Look, we're not coming through with any kind of monster

1320
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:37,239
computer or anything. The cover's not helping

1321
01:38:37,239 --> 01:38:46,880
much. Uh, so we've decided to do the unveil in

1322
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:50,400
two stages. Stage one, we unveil the

1323
01:38:46,880 --> 01:38:53,040
hardware. Stage two, we all run our

1324
01:38:50,400 --> 01:38:59,280
benchmark scores, therefore unveiling the performance. Stage

1325
01:38:55,320 --> 01:39:02,880
three, we unveil the prices that we

1326
01:38:59,280 --> 01:39:04,440
paid. Yeah. So, Austin, you're up first.

1327
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:08,800
All right. So,

1328
01:39:06,280 --> 01:39:15,920
introducing the greatest system I've ever built. That's not saying much.

1329
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:25,560
What? Why does it have a power supply on the top? It has a power supply on the

1330
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:25,560
top because it has two power supplies.

1331
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:30,719
Okay, so basically you guys just seem

1332
01:39:29,440 --> 01:39:36,560
shocked and amazed, right? You know what? I get it. I was going to do that.

1333
01:39:34,320 --> 01:39:42,800
Oh, really? If I had gotten that graphics card. Oh, that was the

1334
01:39:39,840 --> 01:39:47,199
component that I knew you had. Really? I called the guy and I was like, "Can I

1335
01:39:45,199 --> 01:39:51,840
come get it first?" And the guy's like, "No, I already told him I'll give it to

1336
01:39:49,199 --> 01:39:55,760
him." So, unless he doesn't show up, you can't have it. But I'll tell you what,

1337
01:39:53,600 --> 01:40:00,719
if he doesn't show up by two, you can have it. And he goes and he goes, "But I

1338
01:39:59,600 --> 01:40:04,639
don't think he's going to show up. He's got a California number." You totally

1339
01:40:02,639 --> 01:40:08,080
got me. All right. So, this needs some serious power. This power supply is

1340
01:40:06,320 --> 01:40:13,920
purely for the graphics card. Yeah. Which is Figured that out. It is a 6990.

1341
01:40:12,159 --> 01:40:19,679
I saw that. I actually almost went for that. A 6990. So, we got talking dual

1342
01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:21,840
GPUs. We also have a Core i7 2600, not

1343
01:40:19,679 --> 01:40:26,400
K. The motherboard's not overclockable either. So, it's pretty much like if it

1344
01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:35,119
works at stock, I'm going to be really happy with it. That is the scrapator.

1345
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:38,000
There you go. All right. Interesting.

1346
01:40:35,119 --> 01:40:42,000
All right. Well, what I expected. All right. This looks awesome.

1347
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:46,040
This Oh,

1348
01:40:46,159 --> 01:40:55,239
what the hell? What? Okay.

1349
01:40:50,639 --> 01:40:58,440
This my machine is called the scrap

1350
01:40:55,239 --> 01:41:01,199
hole because it's where I

1351
01:40:58,440 --> 01:41:05,080
buried all the extra hardware that I ended up with. Okay.

1352
01:41:06,159 --> 01:41:12,960
Wow. Okay. So, uh, I'll start horrified

1353
01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:17,920
right now. I'll start at the top.

1354
01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:20,080
Okay, this is an IPI BLLB LG A775

1355
01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:24,400
motherboard. DDR2, my friends. Unfortunately, it doesn't support the

1356
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:30,159
Pentium 4 processor. This works, by the way. At least it did before I did that

1357
01:41:26,159 --> 01:41:31,480
to it. This is a vintage USB 2.0

1358
01:41:30,159 --> 01:41:38,719
expansion card. Okay, this horrified is a broken

1359
01:41:35,679 --> 01:41:38,719
Ody 2.

1360
01:41:39,280 --> 01:41:46,000
This is the most disgusting piece of hardware that I have ever laid eyes on.

1361
01:41:43,760 --> 01:41:51,679
It smells. The computer we pulled this from literally had a used crackpipe

1362
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:52,880
inside it. Nice. Really? That's awesome.

1363
01:41:51,679 --> 01:42:00,719
Literally. No, that's good. That's a good thing. This is a working 9500

1364
01:41:56,840 --> 01:42:04,080
GS power there. This is a working 6850.

1365
01:42:00,719 --> 01:42:05,870
This is a Sound Blaster Live, also dead.

1366
01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:07,920
This is a heat sink.

1367
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:14,080
So, you found some way. This is my army of hard drives. You found some way to go

1368
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:17,119
to an actual scrapyard and get all this stuff for basically free. The hard

1369
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:23,520
drives may or may not work. I'm not sure. I see. Under there is a Pentium 4

1370
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:25,600
processor. Really? This RAM I borrowed.

1371
01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:29,920
So, this actually is not I did not obtain the RAM. And uh that Foxcon

1372
01:42:28,480 --> 01:42:34,639
board, I don't know. It made those beeping sounds you heard earlier. But

1373
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:39,760
you don't have RAM in your system now. Because But no, you can't add anything

1374
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:45,199
now. What is this? Oh, he has another computer. What is this? I think this is

1375
01:42:43,119 --> 01:42:48,840
all just a waste. But he said he had a 1650. That looks like a fairly decent

1376
01:42:46,719 --> 01:42:52,800
car. I think he has a whole another computer cuz I think he went to a

1377
01:42:51,040 --> 01:43:00,159
scrapard and like actually got all this stuff. Like basically This is the

1378
01:42:55,760 --> 01:43:02,159
leaning tower of Scrabza.

1379
01:43:00,159 --> 01:43:07,679
Why do you have two full computers? This is my actual computer. Why don't you

1380
01:43:05,280 --> 01:43:12,480
just lay it on its side? Why do you lean it? I like it this way. So, there's

1381
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:18,040
Yeah, there's no reason. Okay. So, th this is my

1382
01:43:15,719 --> 01:43:26,440
Q6600. Yes, I went Q6600 again. Fair enough. Fair enough. 4

1383
01:43:21,280 --> 01:43:30,000
gigs of DDR2 memory. They're okay. my

1384
01:43:26,440 --> 01:43:31,199
7970 Ghost. Uh, that was actually modded

1385
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:39,040
by the original owner, believe it or not. This Commando ROG motherboard was

1386
01:43:36,159 --> 01:43:41,760
literally pulled out of a scrap pile of motherboards. So, this is what I'm

1387
01:43:40,159 --> 01:43:46,880
saying. He found somewhere. He spent like $18 on this entire rig. Literally.

1388
01:43:44,639 --> 01:43:53,199
Well, I have a 7970. I mean, come on. Okay, so $25. Yeah, $25. So, that, my

1389
01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:57,840
friends, is the leaning tower of Scrap Z. So, can I just ask a question?

1390
01:43:56,000 --> 01:44:00,880
What's the deal with all this stuff? If you have this computer right here, we we

1391
01:43:59,520 --> 01:44:04,560
can't ask you about price right now, but you went to some scrap junk place and

1392
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:10,000
got a whole bunch of this for And you said this is a a radon 6850. That's a

1393
01:44:06,800 --> 01:44:10,000
6850. It

1394
01:44:10,199 --> 01:44:19,679
works. But I'm factoring all this into my price. This is probably suspicious.

1395
01:44:16,239 --> 01:44:22,880
Or like cost of metal weight.

1396
01:44:19,679 --> 01:44:24,639
That's what Okay, so I'll get the scrap

1397
01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:33,600
hole out of the way. It does actually really stink. Smells gross computer.

1398
01:44:28,639 --> 01:44:35,600
I knew it. Oh, I knew it.

1399
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:40,719
I basically told you. You asked me some stupid ass question on the first day.

1400
01:44:37,920 --> 01:44:45,600
Basically, this isn't John. Why is there fishing line on it?

1401
01:44:44,320 --> 01:44:51,280
This is awesome. I like this immediately. So, it's it's a Q6600. I wasn't supposed

1402
01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:57,520
to have one of those. I was supposed to have a different processor. Then, that guy bailed on me, so I like scrambled

1403
01:44:55,199 --> 01:45:03,199
and was able to get this. This is a BFG Tech power supply.

1404
01:45:00,239 --> 01:45:10,400
Yeah. Here we go. Benchmark number one. Cinebench

1405
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:13,119
R15. Three, two, one, go. And I think we

1406
01:45:10,400 --> 01:45:18,239
all know who is winning this one. You know, maybe, just possibly. Oh yeah.

1407
01:45:16,320 --> 01:45:23,280
Well, he has eight threads, which is sort of an issue. Yeah. Oh my god. If

1408
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:28,239
your name isn't Austin. So, this is I spent a fair chunk more on

1409
01:45:26,080 --> 01:45:32,320
this i7 almost entirely for this test. So, hopefully I beat you guys by a lot

1410
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:34,800
cuz I I'm feeling pretty good. I'm crushing Luke. Yeah. Actually, what's

1411
01:45:33,679 --> 01:45:40,480
going on? I think Don't you guys have the same CPU? Yeah, mine has some

1412
01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:44,719
issues. 615.

1413
01:45:40,480 --> 01:45:47,520
316. Oh, almost double. 316 for Lionus.

1414
01:45:44,719 --> 01:45:53,840
Peter, that likes 267. 267. That's not bad. All right, so our first benchmark

1415
01:45:51,760 --> 01:46:03,760
scores are in. Shall we run PC Mark next? Yes, let's do it. Ready? 3 2 1 go.

1416
01:46:00,840 --> 01:46:08,080
Okay, I'm counting on Austin's like crashing or something because he's going

1417
01:46:05,440 --> 01:46:13,840
to crush the PC Mark score as well. Oh man, PC Mark Vantage has crashed. So,

1418
01:46:12,480 --> 01:46:19,600
what do we do now? To reset your overclocks. I don't know. Do I get to try one more time? Cuz I've I've had it

1419
01:46:17,119 --> 01:46:24,320
run. I think that's fair. Rule technically says he has to immediately

1420
01:46:21,040 --> 01:46:25,800
reset his own most. I think I'm going to

1421
01:46:24,320 --> 01:46:29,679
I'm going to be a little lenient on this one. It's mostly cuz I also want a

1422
01:46:28,159 --> 01:46:35,040
little lenient if I have some issues in a minute. So, whatever.

1423
01:46:32,800 --> 01:46:37,920
That was mainly your rule. You were you were the one that was hardcore. I know.

1424
01:46:36,639 --> 01:46:42,000
I just I don't think that's why it crashed. Yeah. So, what's the deal with

1425
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:46,400
this? That does not look great. Yeah, yours is doing that. Might be because of

1426
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:50,560
your dual GPUs. You think it's just like not No, that's part of the image

1427
01:46:48,639 --> 01:46:54,880
manipulation benchmark. I think it's not doing that. This is what mine looks

1428
01:46:51,840 --> 01:46:57,199
like. Yeah, mine's being super screwy.

1429
01:46:54,880 --> 01:47:01,440
Look at that. Crashed again. Wo. Yep. I guess I got to I guess I got to dial

1430
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:04,280
back my overclock. Wow. Turn it off. Yep.

1431
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:10,560
Which is really Which is really

1432
01:47:07,239 --> 01:47:12,320
shy snoody tooty.

1433
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:17,760
Just in general, it's a good life skill to be able to turn that off. Gucci. So,

1434
01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:21,679
we got So, do I get to keep my Cinebench then? Yeah, I think it cuz it worked. It

1435
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:27,360
completed that test. But his system isn't stable. So, I failed my PC Mark

1436
01:47:24,800 --> 01:47:34,480
run, which means I had to reset my CPU overclock taking me from 3.2 to 2.4 GHz,

1437
01:47:31,360 --> 01:47:38,560
which in Cinebench um basically amounted

1438
01:47:34,480 --> 01:47:40,239
to about 2/3 of the score that I got.

1439
01:47:38,560 --> 01:47:44,199
Uh, now we're going to have a look at our PC Mark results.

1440
01:47:44,480 --> 01:47:49,840
How are we going to submit results or we just saving? Yep. Click submit results

1441
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:55,239
and let's find out how much it affected me in PC Mark. Uh, my score is zero.

1442
01:47:53,440 --> 01:48:05,440
That does not sound particularly right. Oh, okay. So, Austin's machine straight

1443
01:47:58,320 --> 01:48:07,760
up derped and I apparently crushed Luke.

1444
01:48:05,440 --> 01:48:11,239
How's your CPU image manipulation? hard drive. Importing pictures to Windows

1445
01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:18,880
Photo Gallery. Yes. Why am I not seeing any

1446
01:48:14,080 --> 01:48:23,080
stuff? What? I just Oh, the SSD paid off

1447
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:25,840
hardcore. Okay, you just got

1448
01:48:23,080 --> 01:48:31,560
creamed. All right, 3D Mark Fire Strike time. Let's do it. Ready, set, go.

1449
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:36,320
Now, we decided that unless Austin's actually in

1450
01:48:34,320 --> 01:48:41,040
contention, which I don't think either of us really thinks is going to happen

1451
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:44,719
on this side table here. Rude. Unless Austin's actually in contention, we're

1452
01:48:42,960 --> 01:48:48,880
just going to throw out his PC Mark score. It just wouldn't finish. So,

1453
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:54,800
we'll see how the rest of it goes. If he's in contention, it's likely we'll

1454
01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:58,000
assign him a similar score to what Luke

1455
01:48:54,800 --> 01:49:01,199
has. Your CPU is probably helping. Wait,

1456
01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:05,840
crossfire's still on, right? Uh, yes, it

1457
01:49:01,199 --> 01:49:09,760
is. Yeah, it's Yeah. Okay, so

1458
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:11,440
Oh, no. You're like Luke's crushing us

1459
01:49:09,760 --> 01:49:13,840
both. Don't worry, though. There's the CPU.

1460
01:49:12,960 --> 01:49:18,719
That's what I was saying. I wasn't entirely sure. My second test didn't launch.

1461
01:49:17,040 --> 01:49:23,520
I wonder if we'll have to turn off that graphics card. Overclocking. Sure hope

1462
01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:27,280
not. It says running system info, though. What does that even mean? You're

1463
01:49:25,119 --> 01:49:31,679
on. Is this a physics one? Physics now. Yeah. So, you're probably Oh, wow.

1464
01:49:28,719 --> 01:49:36,960
That's really good. That's super good. That's going to crush your score. Yep.

1465
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:40,000
Let alone now it's a lot slower. Uh,

1466
01:49:36,960 --> 01:49:42,639
wow. Yes. You just crashed, dude. Yeah.

1467
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:47,800
Oh, wow. RIP. Time to reset your graphics. Tons of graphical [ __ ] No.

1468
01:49:48,400 --> 01:49:56,560
No. Oh, I'm running at stock settings. All

1469
01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:58,320
right, I'm in the second test. M. Yeah,

1470
01:49:56,560 --> 01:50:02,560
I like it. Although he's done this twice. It's my favorite.

1471
01:50:00,480 --> 01:50:08,560
There was no lower enthusiasm. Yeah, the reenactment was flawless. Okay, so let's

1472
01:50:05,440 --> 01:50:11,280
put Austin's story. 5546.

1473
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:18,159
Oh, 5580. Or you barely beat me. I beat Austin,

1474
01:50:14,480 --> 01:50:21,679
dude. Fire strike. 5546 versus 5580.

1475
01:50:18,159 --> 01:50:24,480
That's pretty close. All right,

1476
01:50:21,679 --> 01:50:29,199
so uh Luke's a little behind. To be fair, I waited a really long, you know,

1477
01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:30,880
which is exactly where I like him.

1478
01:50:29,199 --> 01:50:37,360
So, let's go ahead and Austin and I are going to start the Tomb Raider benchmark. All right.

1479
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:40,080
Whoa, that's lower than uh Whoa, that's

1480
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:48,440
lower than I thought it would be. Okay, no, that's fine. Average 109.

1481
01:50:43,040 --> 01:50:51,440
87. Y Okay, so Austin comes in at

1482
01:50:48,440 --> 01:50:53,920
109 even. Yes. With me coming in at

1483
01:50:51,440 --> 01:51:01,360
84.9. Okay. All right. Let's run Far Cry 4.

1484
01:50:57,719 --> 01:51:03,600
Okay. So, here's the update. We are

1485
01:51:01,360 --> 01:51:08,000
swapping out Austin's graphics card with an

1486
01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:10,960
R9270 to rerun PC Mark and give us

1487
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:16,639
approximately the equivalent of if this card were to run with a single GPU, what

1488
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:20,800
his PC Mark score would be. We know it's an approximation, but the cold hard

1489
01:51:18,480 --> 01:51:25,119
truth is nobody actually runs PC Mark Vantage, so who cares? We're going to

1490
01:51:22,719 --> 01:51:29,760
live with the approximation on Luke's system. We are running him off of an

1491
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:33,040
uninterruptible power supply to condition the power because I've seen

1492
01:51:31,360 --> 01:51:36,960
this before where cheap power supplies will actually be able to handle a

1493
01:51:34,800 --> 01:51:40,480
system, but won't be able to handle crummy power coming off the wall, which

1494
01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:44,159
with all these systems running off the same outlet may in fact be the case

1495
01:51:42,320 --> 01:51:49,760
here. And we don't want to penalize him for bad wall power. For my system, we

1496
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:52,800
are apparently rerunning my Cinebench. I was doing it so there was I was doing it

1497
01:51:51,360 --> 01:51:57,480
so that there was something running to be but otherwise I have completed all of

1498
01:51:56,639 --> 01:52:05,040
my benchmarks. 6711 he got a score. Okay.

1499
01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:06,880
Do I get my OC back? I don't know man.

1500
01:52:05,040 --> 01:52:10,159
It's cuz of the UPS. It was dirty wall power. Is that fair? It had nothing to

1501
01:52:08,080 --> 01:52:12,639
do with I think at this point we all just need to take what we can do. Do I

1502
01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:16,800
get another crack with my overclock? Yeah. See like that's just like a a

1503
01:52:14,320 --> 01:52:20,239
spiral. Maybe that is the dirty wall power.

1504
01:52:18,320 --> 01:52:24,800
Okay. So, you go on a UPS, but I have to rerun everything. Yeah, come on. We're

1505
01:52:22,159 --> 01:52:28,960
done here. I don't know. Like, what? It's I don't care. Whatever. Okay. Well,

1506
01:52:26,800 --> 01:52:33,080
there's Oh, my score wasn't that bad. 242. So, I'm doing my last test in Far

1507
01:52:31,440 --> 01:52:37,719
Cry 4 right now. Yeah, it's not running very well. I

1508
01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:43,920
don't know why it's not running very well. It's I think low 40s, but I don't

1509
01:52:41,040 --> 01:52:51,520
know. Uh, so I have good news, guys. Hey, it's done. It's done. And 9780. Oh,

1510
01:52:51,520 --> 01:52:58,400
so even without an SSD, I was almost able to beat. So, mine's just really low

1511
01:52:55,280 --> 01:53:00,960
on that one. Yeah. Oh, man. But you

1512
01:52:58,400 --> 01:53:05,119
crushed the graphics. You did crush the graphics. I think we should let Luke

1513
01:53:02,400 --> 01:53:10,360
just use his old benchmark score. You guys, so the final scores are Austin

1514
01:53:09,280 --> 01:53:18,000
with 455 out of 500 points. All right. Lionus

1515
01:53:14,880 --> 01:53:21,560
with 362.

1516
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:26,880
out of 500 points and Luke with

1517
01:53:21,560 --> 01:53:32,440
386 out of 500 points. Wow. So now all

1518
01:53:26,880 --> 01:53:32,440
that's left is the cash count.

1519
01:53:32,880 --> 01:53:40,239
I don't know any of what any of these coins are. Holy. Okay, this is a dollar.

1520
01:53:37,520 --> 01:53:44,400
Uh 5989. I just used my calculator for Yeah, let

1521
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:52,159
me let me do that real quick. I spent 310. I Ah, I spent

1522
01:53:49,320 --> 01:53:59,360
$218. Final price per dollar. Score is really high though. Wait, score per

1523
01:53:55,360 --> 01:54:02,320
dollar. Higher is better. Good job. Good

1524
01:53:59,360 --> 01:54:08,320
job. Officially wrecked. I think I called it. Minus one by 40%. Okay, let's

1525
01:54:06,560 --> 01:54:14,960
go. Okay, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. All right. I had actually, this is kind

1526
01:54:10,480 --> 01:54:17,280
of a funny story. If I had lost by $40,

1527
01:54:14,960 --> 01:54:25,040
I would have been so mad because the guy with the Q6600 offered it to me for 40.

1528
01:54:21,119 --> 01:54:27,760
And I was like, "No, man. Here's another

1529
01:54:25,040 --> 01:54:34,560
20 bucks." Really? I'm going to fleece you slightly less. Oh my goodness. Wow.

1530
01:54:30,800 --> 01:54:39,199
Now, I was betting heavy on my SSD. Mhm.

1531
01:54:34,560 --> 01:54:40,800
I I paid $38 for my SSD. Wow. Which is a

1532
01:54:39,199 --> 01:54:47,760
good deal still. It's a great deal. Yeah, but when you consider my

1533
01:54:44,760 --> 01:54:50,639
$238 budget,

1534
01:54:47,760 --> 01:54:55,280
dude, I paid $25 for my 150 gig hard drive.

1535
01:54:52,320 --> 01:54:58,000
25 bucks. I paid $10 for mine. You got wrecked on your hard drive. So, okay. My

1536
01:54:56,639 --> 01:55:02,400
my motherboard and CPU. I was supposed to have a 9550 and some other board.

1537
01:55:00,400 --> 01:55:06,080
That guy I showed you. I had 18 emails back and forth and stuff just Oh, he's

1538
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:11,440
supposed to bring it to work. Oh, I forgot it. So, I had to scramble and find some other solution. And this was

1539
01:55:09,520 --> 01:55:14,159
on the second day, so like there's basically no way I'm going to be able to

1540
01:55:12,880 --> 01:55:18,239
set an appointment and have that appointment in the same day. I ended up

1541
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:23,199
going to FreeGeek Vancouver, which we've been talking about doing a thing. I got

1542
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:25,840
a Q6600 for 17 bucks. What? That

1543
01:55:23,199 --> 01:55:29,520
motherboard's 35. That hard drive was 10. All that RAM was 40. I should have

1544
01:55:28,080 --> 01:55:33,440
got 4 gigs. I think I would have been way more competitive if I got 4 gigs.

1545
01:55:31,199 --> 01:55:37,199
All that RAM was only 40 bucks. and that power supply which actually murdered me

1546
01:55:35,920 --> 01:55:43,520
and I should have bought the other one that I was going to buy from Kevin's

1547
01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:46,159
stupid website. Um, but it it was 30

1548
01:55:43,520 --> 01:55:52,400
bucks. Okay, so why don't we close this out? Austin, it was your first scrapyard

1549
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:54,239
wars. You came in on unfamiliar turf.

1550
01:55:52,400 --> 01:55:58,000
How do you feel about your result? I feel like I spent way too much money.

1551
01:55:55,679 --> 01:56:04,400
That was the big problem. I way misjudged the budget and I to be totally

1552
01:56:02,320 --> 01:56:07,760
honest my build probably shouldn't have worked. Like how close I cut it to

1553
01:56:06,400 --> 01:56:12,000
actually getting everything working at the last second like it should really

1554
01:56:09,840 --> 01:56:15,199
should not have worked. Like the second in your defense my build shouldn't have

1555
01:56:13,599 --> 01:56:18,960
worked either. The motherboard when you see how that motherboard was packed. My

1556
01:56:17,119 --> 01:56:22,320
power supply barely works. We were all That happens every time dude in

1557
01:56:20,480 --> 01:56:25,360
Scrapyard Wars. Don't worry about it. I was I was like an hour and a half out

1558
01:56:23,920 --> 01:56:29,119
like I don't have a working system. I might just like be disqualified and like

1559
01:56:26,960 --> 01:56:32,639
just not having anything to show. Oh man, that was that was brutal. But do

1560
01:56:30,719 --> 01:56:35,440
you feel good about not getting disqualified? I feel so good. Like the

1561
01:56:34,400 --> 01:56:40,080
second I finished the bill, I was like, you know what? I don't even care if I come dead last. I just built this

1562
01:56:38,400 --> 01:56:43,840
system, this crazy contraption. It actually works. So happy. I'm still

1563
01:56:42,159 --> 01:56:47,440
happy, which is good because you did come dead last. Yes, I did. All right.

1564
01:56:46,239 --> 01:56:53,599
How do you feel about your performance today? Honestly, pretty good. I'm happy with the Free Geek Vancouver stuff. Um I

1565
01:56:51,920 --> 01:56:57,199
think I actually did quite well. you just got a crazy deal, which is that's

1566
01:56:55,199 --> 01:57:00,560
scrapyard wars. That's totally fair. I just wish I actually bought that Corsair

1567
01:56:58,960 --> 01:57:03,199
power supply. That's the only regret I have. I would have had pretty good

1568
01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:07,040
overclocks and everything. You still would have won. I just would have been happier with my system overall. But

1569
01:57:05,599 --> 01:57:13,040
yeah, I I wouldn't have changed much, just power supply.

1570
01:57:09,239 --> 01:57:14,719
So, what I would have changed is I

1571
01:57:13,040 --> 01:57:18,159
wouldn't have bought an extra $20 graphics card. So, I'm just going to for

1572
01:57:16,639 --> 01:57:24,480
the sake of running numbers, I'm going to drop 20 bucks off my score here.

1573
01:57:21,360 --> 01:57:26,639
Um, I wouldn't have tipped the guy 20

1574
01:57:24,480 --> 01:57:31,599
bucks. That's crazy, dude. And my FPS per

1575
01:57:29,440 --> 01:57:37,400
dollar score would have been literally more than double Austin's and would have

1576
01:57:35,080 --> 01:57:43,679
been uh about

1577
01:57:39,960 --> 01:57:45,440
25% better than Luke's. Wow. So, I feel

1578
01:57:43,679 --> 01:57:49,440
really great about my performance overall. You did a good job, dude. Yeah.

1579
01:57:47,280 --> 01:57:52,480
As a purist, I really would have liked to find a working sound device. I would

1580
01:57:51,119 --> 01:57:56,719
have spent another five bucks to get a working sound card. That is like it's

1581
01:57:54,400 --> 01:58:00,000
100% fair because there was no sound benchmarks, but that is if it was a

1582
01:57:58,800 --> 01:58:06,080
system you were using. That's a little brutal only, right? Yep. Um, and I would

1583
01:58:03,920 --> 01:58:09,840
have liked to spend time properly on my case. I would have liked to present a

1584
01:58:07,760 --> 01:58:15,119
more finished build. If I'd had a full another day, I also would have built my

1585
01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:18,159
troll system. Yeah, dude. That was awesome. Part of the problem was I

1586
01:58:16,400 --> 01:58:23,599
didn't even have time to install Windows on it. Yeah. But overall had fun. Had a

1587
01:58:21,599 --> 01:58:26,800
blast. It was so much fun. Me too. Interesting because you don't know what

1588
01:58:25,040 --> 01:58:30,880
the other piece. Yeah. That was the hardest part. Honestly, I was getting

1589
01:58:29,440 --> 01:58:35,920
pretty close to guessing near the end, but the whole time the duration. You had

1590
01:58:33,599 --> 01:58:39,119
no idea what you were competing against in terms of price. Yeah. Right. I had no

1591
01:58:38,080 --> 01:58:45,119
idea you were spending what you were spending. And

1592
01:58:41,880 --> 01:58:46,800
I You were confusing the whole time. So,

1593
01:58:45,119 --> 01:58:53,040
thanks for watching, guys. I hope you enjoyed Scrapyard Wars season 3. We'll

1594
01:58:49,679 --> 01:58:54,239
see you again next time. Drop a like on

1595
01:58:53,040 --> 01:59:01,360
the video and subscribe and all that good stuff. War.

1596
01:58:57,760 --> 01:59:04,719
Good job, guys. All right.

1597
01:59:01,360 --> 01:59:07,920
Awkward dude high five. Yeah.

1598
01:59:04,719 --> 01:59:07,920
Slappy fight.