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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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Moody's like a city. Like I need to know where. Okay.

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So, I got a R9280 for 120 bucks. I

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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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But, I think a 280 is going to be good and I think I need to move on to other

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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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it on DX10 or DX11 hardware. So, right

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now I've switched from buying that um

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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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So, I did not realize this is going to be an Apple specialist.

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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

00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.680
got us the leftovers.

00:16:29.040 --> 00:16:38.079
This guy's trying to sell a dead GTX 480. I was like, GTX 480, 30 bucks. I am

00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:42.959
going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to I'm going to lowball them. I'm

00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:47.920
going to offer like 15 bucks cuz this has been listed for quite some time. I'm

00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:52.240
going to tell the guy that I need it for a school project to fix it and that I

00:16:50.800 --> 00:16:59.040
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

00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:04.319
before. 160 he says is the lowest he can do on that. So, that might put that out

00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:08.799
of our price range if we can get something like a GTX 280 or 285 for 30

00:17:07.199 --> 00:17:13.839
to 40 bucks. I don't think that's going to perform four times better. Oh, shoot.

00:17:11.520 --> 00:17:19.199
The SSD for 39 bucks. Someone's apparently coming tonight at 630 for it.

00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:22.720
Okay, maybe I should find out if I should offer a bit more than asking.

00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:25.600
I'll find out what other SSDs are going for cuz the fact that someone's coming

00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:31.480
to pick it up means it's definitely worth the 40 bucks. Okay, there are like

00:17:29.280 --> 00:17:36.000
no SSDs on Craigslist. Okay, so we're running into

00:17:33.600 --> 00:17:40.520
a bit of a dead end on our SSD search. The one that I wanted on Craigslist that

00:17:38.080 --> 00:17:46.880
I contacted Oh, he's gotten back to me. Who? He wants me there by 3 p.m.

00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:48.880
We're done. Okay. Yeah, let's do it. I'm

00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:53.039
giving him a call. The other guy was going to come at 12:00 and then he said

00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:57.840
he couldn't come till 6:30 and if I still had it, that'd be great kind of

00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:59.840
thing. And so uh so I had replied to 1

00:17:57.840 --> 00:18:05.679
minute before getting yours. So I thought, okay, I think I can respond

00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:07.840
with with uh if someone comes before it.

00:18:05.679 --> 00:18:13.200
So we are on our way to go get the SSD that I sniped. Some guy was supposed to

00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:18.400
show up at 12 and then rescheduled to 6:30. I sent in a lowball offer, but I'm

00:18:16.080 --> 00:18:23.200
getting it for asking if I come before that guy. So, I'm on my way there, but

00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:28.480
I'm a little bit worried, too, because this gives me only two days left and I

00:18:26.320 --> 00:18:33.840
haven't even compiled my graphics card price to performance database yet. We

00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:37.440
got to drive 45 minutes. Then, as soon as we are done there, we got to meet up

00:18:35.840 --> 00:18:42.880
with someone else where I don't even know what they have. And that gives me 2

00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:46.559
days to compile my graphics card price to performance database, figure out what

00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:51.679
card I'm buying, hope that Austin and Luke haven't bought it yet, and then go

00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:55.520
get it. Uh, not to mention the rest of the components. One thing I'm a little

00:18:53.919 --> 00:18:58.799
worried about is, so I'm asking some of these guys like, "Hey, are you available

00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:03.039
tomorrow to be picked up?" Um, because it's 3:00 right now. It's a little kind

00:19:01.360 --> 00:19:08.480
of actually sketchy because a lot of people are, you know, getting off work around 5:00 or so. So, I wonder what we

00:19:07.520 --> 00:19:13.360
actually are going to do about that restriction because it would be really really bad if like a lot of the stuff

00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:19.600
was available, but it's like, "Oh, can we meet at like six o'clock or something?" So, in that case, cheating

00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:24.320
question mark question mark question mark. Um, we were just uh just just

00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:28.400
hanging out. I I haven't had a lot of time to hang out with my buddy Ed. So,

00:19:25.760 --> 00:19:31.520
we just we wanted to hang out, catch up. Um, think about just like how much Lion

00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:34.960
is cheating cuz he's cheating. Oh, yes. Yeah, he's cheating a ton. So, he did on

00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:39.919
both the last ones, right? Yeah. So, it seems like a safe bet. I wonder should we cheat, too? Does that that make

00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:43.600
sense? We should all cheat, right? Yeah. Let's cheat, right? You're cheating, of

00:19:41.679 --> 00:19:46.640
course. Right. I'm actually not. Well, well, I'm not either, but I just assume

00:19:45.120 --> 00:19:49.120
like in theory that you should probably be cheating. If Lance is doing it, we

00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:54.240
should be doing it, too. Just saying that. So, have fun. Thank you. Okay, so

00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:58.880
I just messaged the guy for the 290. I told him I can be there for 10:30. So,

00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:05.760
hopefully that works out. I really really hope the guy with the setup that

00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:08.480
I want to buy the motherboard CPU cooler

00:20:05.760 --> 00:20:12.480
and CPU messages me back because that would work out just great. So now that

00:20:11.120 --> 00:20:15.679
Luke's back, we need to be way more stealthy. I don't know. Was he here for

00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:19.280
a while? Did he hear us talking about anything? He's too nice to do that. He

00:20:17.520 --> 00:20:25.120
wasn't listening. Okay, I don't think I said anything. I think we're good.

00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:27.919
Luke's nice. He wouldn't cheat. So $7970

00:20:25.120 --> 00:20:33.120
for $100. And I think the best part is this. So, we have an a Z77 saber-tooth

00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:36.000
board for $30. The reason it's $30 is because two of the RAM slots don't work.

00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:42.000
But we don't care about that. What we care about is not only is it also in

00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:44.799
this place that's right by the 7970, but

00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:49.320
30 bucks. Let's find a more private place. Can you go upstairs or something?

00:20:49.760 --> 00:20:55.200
I'm looking. You're looking the other way. That's I don't actually have

00:20:53.679 --> 00:21:00.960
anything here. You guys left your stuff on the freaking table, didn't you? Yeah.

00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:02.720
Is that your guys' stuff? No.

00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:08.080
What are you doing? Why' you abandon your stuff?

00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:14.720
Wow. They think uh the box is uh on the set.

00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:17.520
What were they? Uh that was a system Lionus and I built on Saturday. So those

00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:23.760
are actually our new parts and they're sitting there. Do we need to like make sure they think that? Uh here. Hang on.

00:21:21.919 --> 00:21:28.520
Just come with me. Let let me uh just subtly try to like sneak that computer

00:21:25.520 --> 00:21:28.520
away.

00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.440
So stealthy. Wow.

00:21:45.679 --> 00:21:51.200
Hey, I just wanted to call and warn you. I saw some like sketchy looking dudes

00:21:49.760 --> 00:21:54.159
running through the warehouse with some computer parts. Uh they're they're

00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:58.720
running around with what looked like new computer parts, so I'm sure it's not yours cuz you're probably smart enough

00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:02.799
to buy old computer parts. Thanks, man. Yeah. No, I appreciate it. But actually, we haven't bought anything yet. We're

00:22:01.120 --> 00:22:06.559
just uh we're just strategizing today. We wouldn't We were just cleaning up.

00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:10.000
You told me earlier that you had bought everything. Well, we bought everything

00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:14.320
in our minds, but we were not going to really get around to actually picking it up till tomorrow. So, don't worry about

00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:17.600
it. Oh, okay. Yeah, cool. Sorry about that. We're just cleaning up the office.

00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:21.600
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

00:22:20.159 --> 00:22:25.200
that everything's nice and neat and tidy. That's fair. That's fair. I

00:22:23.760 --> 00:22:30.400
appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Uh, have a good one. Okay, now that we can talk

00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:33.919
freely, we need to work out a few more things. Um, none of these people have

00:22:32.320 --> 00:22:38.720
gotten back to me, which is still a little stressful, but um, so if we get

00:22:36.080 --> 00:22:41.919
this Core i3, we would need a uh, heat sink for it. We would need the memory,

00:22:40.320 --> 00:22:46.320
and we would need some kind of drive, whether it's a hard drive or SSD. we

00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:50.080
might be able to swing an SSD. Um, I mean, max we're going to pay is $60 for

00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:54.000
a brand new SSD, so I feel like we could probably get something cheaper, but if

00:22:51.840 --> 00:22:57.760
not, it's not the end of the world. Um, so we're looking at probably like a $300

00:22:56.080 --> 00:23:01.760
build right now. That's actually not that bad. Officially sent my offer to

00:23:00.080 --> 00:23:05.360
the guy that wants to tell to sell me the motherboard, CPU, and cooler for 80

00:23:04.080 --> 00:23:08.400
bucks. So, we'll see what he says about that. Uh, he told me earlier that he

00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:12.000
won't be able to check to see if he has RAM until 7:00 tonight. So, I'm not

00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:16.400
going to make any final purchasing decisions on memory until he gets back

00:23:14.159 --> 00:23:21.919
to me then. Um, but I'm looking for some leads for memory right now. I also told

00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:24.720
them if you have some cheap low-end p uh

00:23:21.919 --> 00:23:28.400
hard drive laying around to let me know. Um, so right now I'm messaging a

00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:32.400
different dude who ended up being Kevin's used computers or something like

00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:38.320
that. It's a used computer store around here for a power supply. I'm hoping I

00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:40.080
can get one fairly cheap off of him. And

00:23:38.320 --> 00:23:44.080
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

00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:53.280
are going to stop and get lunch pretty soon here. All right, so we got a 120

00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:56.720
gig SSD for $38 Canadian, my friends.

00:23:53.280 --> 00:23:58.960
That could win us this competition if it

00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:05.679
helps us win PC Mark. And the guy with the broken 480 wants it for

00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:09.039
$25. $25 for what? It's broken. It's

00:24:05.679 --> 00:24:11.840
legit broken. So, I offered him 10. All

00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:19.440
right. So, we're rolling around to the literal back alley here. Holy crap. What

00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:23.919
the hell is this? It's a crack fight,

00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:27.120
right? Oh, I don't know, man.

00:24:23.919 --> 00:24:28.799
Oh, okay. And this one. Okay. When uh

00:24:27.120 --> 00:24:32.240
you don't want people fishing through this bin if they don't know what they're

00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:36.000
doing. That's an exposed power supply. If you accidentally bridge a contact on

00:24:34.159 --> 00:24:45.200
that, there's capacitors. Someone could actually die. Okay, that that was some

00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:49.200
legit like scrapyard digging. I found a

00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:51.000
literal pile of SRON CPUs. Okay, I've

00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:59.640
got 4 gigs of DDR2. I've got a Core2 Quad

00:24:55.960 --> 00:25:02.960
Q6600. Yes, my friends, I have a

00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:07.600
Q6600. and potentially I have an ASUS

00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:10.799
Commando board if any of it works. I

00:25:07.600 --> 00:25:14.840
spent $60 of my budget on stuff where I

00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:17.840
am legit really not sure if any of it

00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:20.799
works, but uh I also got an Anttech

00:25:17.840 --> 00:25:25.840
Smart Power 450 W power supply with a PCI Express power

00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:30.159
connector. All right, so so far my brilliant strategy of lowballing

00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:35.520
everyone is not going too well. Not getting a ton of replies and this one

00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:37.440
guy is extremely combative here.

00:25:35.520 --> 00:25:41.360
Something about why would you offer less than half? You looking to get told off?

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:45.679
So, I'm kind of thinking I'm going to come back with asking price was out to

00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:49.440
lunch. Not my fault. People don't know what their stuff is worth. Here's a card

00:25:47.679 --> 00:25:54.960
that performs better with multiple ones listed for 50ish. Good luck with your

00:25:51.760 --> 00:25:58.640
sale, bruh.

00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:59.960
Some might say that this is cheating.

00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:03.159
I would respond with that I don't think that

00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:08.760
they understand scrapyard

00:26:05.320 --> 00:26:11.799
wars because I got something from the

00:26:08.760 --> 00:26:14.000
scrap and I'm turning it into a

00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:18.400
thing. And if that isn't the meaning of scrapyard wars, then I don't know what

00:26:15.520 --> 00:26:23.919
is. No way. We just heard back from the guy with the

00:26:20.600 --> 00:26:25.760
$2568.50. That is by far our best one

00:26:23.919 --> 00:26:31.600
yet. with other people telling me off about asking my mom for money. We've

00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:34.240
done awesome. We have a Oh, my iced tea

00:26:31.600 --> 00:26:39.799
is running down the roof. Oh, no. Uh, maybe I can get it. Hold on. Really?

00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:44.720
Yeah. I'm going to pull over.

00:26:42.360 --> 00:26:49.440
Hazards. Hold on. Maybe it's Maybe it's still up there. I don't think it is.

00:26:46.159 --> 00:26:51.520
Maybe it's still up there. Ah, damn it.

00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:56.799
You lost your iced tea? Yeah, it's all over the roof of the car.

00:26:54.720 --> 00:27:00.240
Okay, so an email from the Z77 people who just came in. I have more than 10

00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:03.840
people emailing me about it, but I don't have time to meet in Sky Train station

00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:07.919
and stuff. Only time available this week is tomorrow 11:5 and I have someone who

00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:12.159
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

00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:15.760
need to go AMD cuz I think what's helping us a lot with the AMD cards is

00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:20.159
the fact that tons of people are using them for like Bitcoin and Litecoin mining, which means that there's tons of

00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:23.760
these cards around and they're pretty cheap because they've been abused. So,

00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:28.000
that's helping us a lot. So, that's why there's so many 7950 and 7970s out here.

00:27:26.159 --> 00:27:33.440
But, um, none of these people are getting back to me. If we do the i3 and

00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:36.000
the 7970, we're talking 280. If we bump

00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:41.600
that up to a Core i5 and a 6990, we're looking at 420. Actually, 419. So, uh,

00:27:39.679 --> 00:27:45.200
but the problem is the power supply. We absolutely need some kind of other power

00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:50.400
supply for this. So, we're talking about a lot more money. But a Core i5 6990,

00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:54.080
that's pretty solid. and we're still talking about definitely well under

00:27:51.760 --> 00:27:59.760
$500. Okay, so I just texted the guy about the $6990. So if we do the 6990

00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:03.279
and the Core i5, the little power supply that we have is not going to work. So

00:28:01.760 --> 00:28:06.559
what we might have to do is go back to the idea of putting an extra power

00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:11.840
supply on the top of the rig and just wiring it straight for the graphics card. In fact, it would be powering up

00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:17.520
half the graphics card. Uh probably not the smartest idea. It should work in

00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:22.399
theory. Okay, so to recap, we have a Core i5 2400 at Kevin's used computer.

00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:26.320
We also can get a 250 gig hard drive there. Most likely, we can get some kind

00:28:24.159 --> 00:28:30.880
of cheap power supply as a secondary for our uh for our graphics card. Um, we

00:28:28.399 --> 00:28:35.279
have a case. We have our second power supply. We have a motherboard. We have

00:28:33.840 --> 00:28:39.679
the memory, which we can just pick up at NCX. It's like 30 bucks. No big deal.

00:28:37.840 --> 00:28:42.399
Um, and we have the graphics card, which we will pick up in Richmond at some

00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:46.480
point. I will text the guy here in a minute. $ 69.90. That sounds like a

00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:50.960
computer to me. Are we forgetting anything? Was that salvageable? Did I

00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:56.000
just salvage that? We got the motherboard to mount. It works. The

00:28:53.520 --> 00:29:00.320
spacing is okay. The power supply will mount here or up here. So, it's the

00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:04.960
actual power supply that I get is probably going to be a little bit longer. So, let's say it goes to here.

00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:09.760
Cables come out of here. Cut it this way. Cut it this way. Um, but I want to

00:29:07.600 --> 00:29:13.440
build a wall that I can sit against. I'm going to cut it with a circular saw.

00:29:11.520 --> 00:29:18.039
Okay. So, this isn't me helping. This is me making sure he doesn't cut his own

00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:18.039
hand off.

00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:31.760
Looks like you're hard at work over here. I'm done. Are you happy, Austin?

00:29:30.320 --> 00:29:36.640
I'm happy that you're 5 minutes late. I'm very happy. I think I'm going to get

00:29:33.919 --> 00:29:41.120
some extra time. So, you got some uh some wood going on. It's a smart move

00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:44.720
for computer build. I I I usually have wood. I just thought I'd incorporate in

00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:48.480
a build. I mean, it's natural like you want to you make sure. Yeah, of course.

00:29:46.399 --> 00:29:53.840
One thing I wanted to use power tools in a good safe environment. Um, second

00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:56.320
thing, it's only 5 minutes and it's supposed to be transit time and I'm

00:29:55.360 --> 00:30:02.720
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

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

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

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

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:18.080
can't say that the entire outside is your space. You worked in two different

00:30:15.360 --> 00:30:20.720
areas of the office. I needed tools from over there and couldn't go over there

00:30:19.120 --> 00:30:25.039
cuz your parts were over there. So, I waited until later. Oh. Oh, well, okay.

00:30:23.600 --> 00:30:28.840
I got to say, thank you for not looking at all the parts that I bought.

00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:36.320
Wait, I thought you didn't buy any parts. I didn't buy parts. Zero. Zero

00:30:34.080 --> 00:30:41.360
parts. Nothing bought whatsoever. I'm just having fun. And uh this is all for

00:30:38.399 --> 00:30:47.120
a good sport. Don't worry about it. Does Luke have enough wood? Does the crack

00:30:44.159 --> 00:30:51.039
pipeline found still work? Find out next time on Scrapyard Wars. All right, so it

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

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

00:30:57.840 --> 00:31:03.679
and make sure it's still available. This is Luke. I know it. It is absolutely

00:31:01.760 --> 00:31:09.520
Luke. Oh man, we're not going to have enough time, dude. This guy. What? The

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:13.039
guy with the 7950s replied back. So, wait. We can get the

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

00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:19.679
right now. Oh, this is for the case. It

00:31:17.919 --> 00:31:24.240
the guy's local, so it should not be that

00:31:21.320 --> 00:31:29.120
far. 25 minutes away. Day two of Scrapyard Wars. So, we are going to get

00:31:27.679 --> 00:31:33.240
that graphics card that I talked about yesterday, the R9290

00:31:31.520 --> 00:31:39.399
uh Gigabyte Wind Force. And then I have bad news. The

00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:46.559
motherboard CPU and cooler platform guy responded

00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:49.840
saying that he had a lot of 2 GB stick

00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:50.519
of RAM, which is good news. turn left.

00:31:49.840 --> 00:31:56.399
And then also told me that he forgot to

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

00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:08.960
was distracted trying to uh have Brandon email motherboard guy.

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

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.

00:32:16.399 --> 00:32:24.240
I actually heard back from a fair number of my lowball graphics card offers. So,

00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:28.399
it's a good thing I did this before running out and picking up that $20

00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:32.080
video card that I arranged yesterday, cuz if I can find something better, I'm

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

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.

00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:51.679
This card is too good for $35. Lol. 7870. $40 firm for a broken card. What

00:32:48.399 --> 00:32:54.080
an idiot. What a freaking duel. This guy

00:32:51.679 --> 00:32:59.919
didn't reply to any of my questions. Are you really the line of Sebastian from

00:32:56.679 --> 00:33:02.039
NCX? Okay, so no useful leads

00:32:59.919 --> 00:33:09.200
whatsoever. Let's get down to business. So, I decided I'm going to go

00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:11.279
for the oneot, you know, home run swing

00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:17.519
right off the bat here. I'm going to load literally all of this hardware up

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

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

00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:33.919
this motherboard wasn't going to work. Why did I even let myself think it might

00:33:31.159 --> 00:33:37.840
falls? Another shot here with a proper power supply and see if maybe that's the

00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:42.760
issue. the display on the back. It actually has a post read out back here,

00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:45.799
but I can bar No

00:33:42.760 --> 00:33:49.720
way. We

00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:54.360
got an ASUS ROG

00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:57.399
board, 4 gigs of working

00:33:54.360 --> 00:34:00.320
DDR2, a

00:33:57.399 --> 00:34:07.000
Q6600, and a broken power supply, which I'm totally okay

00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:07.000
with for 60 bucks.

00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:13.679
So, I know what we're doing today. We

00:34:10.560 --> 00:34:16.079
need to obtain a new power supply. Okay,

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

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

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.599
get a case power supply combo. We still need to potentially find a graphics

00:34:26.240 --> 00:34:32.159
card, but I'm going to find out about that in a minute here.

00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:36.720
Maybe we should spend some of our time obtaining a better cooler, cuz the Q6600

00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:42.280
can run pretty hot when you overclock it. So, having a really beefy cooler on

00:34:39.359 --> 00:34:47.679
there could be the ace up our sleeve. We got to go. We might just lose

00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:52.800
the motherboard right now. Do we bail on this guy and try to get a different

00:34:48.919 --> 00:34:54.399
case? Okay, so it is 10:09 and

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:58.640
everything is already going completely wrong. Um, I'm pretty sure Luke is

00:34:56.560 --> 00:35:02.000
getting our motherboard right now. And I just realized the guy who has the case,

00:35:00.240 --> 00:35:08.560
who's supposedly local, is actually 25 minutes away. And this guy's expecting

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:10.560
us to like show up in like 5 minutes. We

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

00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:19.040
leads on both a 6990 and a pair of 7950s. Both of which should be doable.

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

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

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

00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:35.680
have any other appointments. I don't think we might. Um

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

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,

00:35:43.200 --> 00:35:50.640
I have bad news and great news. The bad news is motherboard system guy still

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

00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:59.839
20 bucks. How did I do that? Well, I

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.

00:36:03.160 --> 00:36:09.760
But there's one little oddity. When I

00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:15.040
went to go take it out of the bag, I noticed this. There's no

00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:17.599
screws right there. There's one screw

00:36:15.040 --> 00:36:22.000
holding the plate on here, but it's missing a screw here and it's missing

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

00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:30.839
started complaining and he gave me 20 bucks off. So, I got a 290 aftermarket

00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:36.400
cooled card for $180, which is pretty sick. I just need

00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:42.800
to make sure that I have a computer to put it in.

00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:45.680
It is time to call FreeGeek and see how

00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:49.520
much they can save my ass. Hopefully entirely. One thing we do have going for

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

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

00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:59.760
of the day. But if we don't have everything today, we're going to have

00:36:58.160 --> 00:37:03.960
until noon tomorrow. So basically we'll have 2 hours tomorrow to go and get any

00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:07.359
last minute parts we need. So, we should be able to get everything

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

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:15.119
systems. Although, I know Luke has already got started on his. Sounded like

00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:19.599
that. Anyway, okay. So, we're here. We're about to pick up the case. Um,

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,

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?

00:37:29.040 --> 00:37:34.800
Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, I don't accept returns. I'll make sure

00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:37.760
everything well before you take it. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. It is

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

00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:49.200
here. Oh, it's got a lock on it. There we

00:37:49.240 --> 00:37:56.160
go. That's actually pretty solid. And he showed me the power supply does work. We

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.

00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:05.520
Oh, we even have a SATA cable front panel. All right, I think we're in

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

00:38:08.160 --> 00:38:13.680
good start. So, the guy with the Sabertooth motherboard replied. He'll

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

00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.920
who first responded the first chance. He should be here shortly, and if he

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

00:38:22.640 --> 00:38:29.359
for the same price. If other guys doesn't show up, so 7950 guy just

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

00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:36.160
till 7:00. He could do it tomorrow, but

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

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

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

00:38:49.200 --> 00:38:56.640
missing a couple screws on the IO plate,

00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:59.440
which while they're nice to have, the

00:38:56.640 --> 00:39:03.280
card will run without it. Um, and I'm hoping that there might be some spare

00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:09.200
ones for that in the in the spare screw bin at work.

00:39:05.560 --> 00:39:12.320
Um, the motherboard and system guy still

00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:14.880
has not messaged me back. He's at work.

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

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,

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

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,

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

00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:37.440
at work and he did not because he

00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:41.520
apparently forgot or didn't read that email or something. Kind of think he

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

00:39:43.040 --> 00:39:48.400
supply which I'm going to pick up later today. Other than that, it's unknown.

00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:52.000
And the FreeGeek stock is really starting to freak me out. So, my new

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

00:39:53.359 --> 00:40:00.000
everything I need, which is very unlikely, but if they do, I'll just pick

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

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

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

00:40:11.359 --> 00:40:20.400
with stuff at FreeGeek. Hopefully, that will work. Um, I had a lot of backup

00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:22.880
plans last night and most of them are

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

00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:31.720
have 6600s and other various quad cores.

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:38.440
So, in straight might not be screwed. Just

00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:41.280
really depends on what's at free

00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:49.200
gig. Yeah. Interested in QC600. interested in a board that it can go in

00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:50.880
and a fairly low capacity hard drive.

00:40:49.200 --> 00:40:56.000
So, our options right now, this is actually way better than I expected.

00:40:52.240 --> 00:41:00.319
This place is super cool, is um $30 for

00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:04.640
an Intel DG43 GT. Did she say 35 and not

00:41:00.319 --> 00:41:09.839
55? So, I've got an ASUS P5Q

00:41:04.640 --> 00:41:11.119
motherboard, a Q6600, a 120, 160, I

00:41:09.839 --> 00:41:17.720
don't remember, a gigabyte hard drive spinning at uh 7200 RPM, and it was a

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

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

00:41:27.160 --> 00:41:34.400
she rubbed the pins on the board and did

00:41:31.160 --> 00:41:36.720
the But anyways, I think it'll I think

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

00:41:39.359 --> 00:41:46.160
out what exactly this graphics card is. I cannot believe

00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:54.560
we can't believe that board works. All

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

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

00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:08.440
cray. Oh, wow. It's a sound

00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:14.119
driver. AIO. What caused the problem?

00:42:11.720 --> 00:42:20.240
Interesting. Does this even

00:42:16.040 --> 00:42:21.079
Oh. Oh, wow. Um, we might have to go

00:42:20.240 --> 00:42:27.319
back to our buddy there and get a sound

00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:33.040
card. This motherboard doesn't have onboard sound.

00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:38.880
So, today's going well so far. I have determined that my motherboard by some

00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:40.800
freaking miracle works. Uh, the RAM is

00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:45.760
all correctly detected. The CPU is correctly detected. It even has drivers

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.

00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:56.800
I have arranged to go out and pick up the graphics card that we figured out

00:42:53.400 --> 00:43:01.040
yesterday. And I've reached out to back

00:42:56.800 --> 00:43:03.839
alley crackpipe computer owner guy about

00:43:01.040 --> 00:43:08.319
going and getting a sound card because that is the thing that probably had that

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

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

00:43:15.680 --> 00:43:20.800
the optional step of obtaining a power

00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:26.000
supply because I could use the one from the computer inside. And that is about

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

00:43:28.560 --> 00:43:36.079
cover up my progress so

00:43:32.359 --> 00:43:39.760
far and head out. All right. So, we are

00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:41.520
here at the computer store and hopefully

00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:46.560
we can get a lot of what we need because we need

00:43:43.240 --> 00:43:49.200
um roughly everything right now. So,

00:43:46.560 --> 00:43:49.200
let's give it a

00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:54.560
try. Hey, so basically we were able to

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

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.

00:44:02.319 --> 00:44:08.720
Um, but the most important thing is we've got a seriously powerful CPU. We

00:44:06.720 --> 00:44:13.760
have a seriously powerful graphics card. We have a 160 gig hard drive because 15

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

00:44:16.160 --> 00:44:21.440
second power supply. So, this is actually a pretty beefy supply. It

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

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

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

00:44:32.640 --> 00:44:38.720
problem mounting the stock heat sink. Um, but the price is good, so I really

00:44:37.359 --> 00:44:42.319
want to make sure it works. So, they let me back into their testing area, which

00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:46.119
is awesome, and letting us film, which is awesome. FreeGeek is awesome. I need

00:44:44.560 --> 00:44:50.440
to mount this thing, though. Yeah, it's I think the heat sink

00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:56.079
has a problem. That really sucks cuz something

00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:59.680
that I do know doesn't work is this top

00:44:56.079 --> 00:45:01.520
slot. But they say that this one works.

00:44:59.680 --> 00:45:06.000
I want to make sure it works before I leave.

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.

00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:16.720
I hate these freaking stock heat sinks, man. That's one side in. So, the whole

00:45:14.560 --> 00:45:21.480
right side went in no problem at all. The whole right side's in. The left

00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:25.359
side, on the other hand, is

00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:27.280
just not working out for me very well.

00:45:25.359 --> 00:45:33.240
I'm having second thoughts about my video card matrix strategy. What I

00:45:30.240 --> 00:45:36.400
realized is I'm calculating FPS per

00:45:33.240 --> 00:45:40.079
dollar as a function of only the cost of

00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:43.440
the graphics card. I have not factored

00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:46.200
in the rest of the computer. So if a

00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:52.960
graphics card costs $10 more, that doesn't mean that if I'm

00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:57.800
spending $20, I'm spending 50% more. I better get 50% more FPS. That means that

00:45:56.720 --> 00:46:03.839
compared to the rest of the cost of the system, I

00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:09.760
might be spending 10% more. I only have to get 10% more

00:46:06.359 --> 00:46:12.680
FPS. So basically, the more expensive

00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:17.839
graphics cards might be totally worthwhile, even if they don't score as

00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:25.720
many FPS per dollar compared to a low-end one. Next time on Scrapyard

00:46:21.040 --> 00:46:25.720
Wars, Dennis nearly gets deported.

00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:36.160
So basically, the more expensive graphics cards might be totally

00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:39.400
worthwhile, even if they don't score as many FPS per dollar compared to a

00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:45.119
low-end one. You know what the stupidest thing

00:46:41.839 --> 00:46:47.680
about me screwing up that formula is? is

00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:53.680
that's exactly the formula that I used to use when I worked retail computer

00:46:49.839 --> 00:46:55.520
sales to help people understand how, you

00:46:53.680 --> 00:47:00.880
know, buying something that cost twice as much might effectively give them a

00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:05.440
way better value than if they bought something for half as much.

00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:11.440
Like if you're buying a $1,000 computer, spending an extra $100 on a graphics

00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:14.480
card that performs 30% better is still

00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:16.359
30% more performance for 10% more budget

00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:22.680
in the grand scheme of things. But I like forgot. And the really frustrating

00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:25.599
thing right now is that even if we

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

00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:33.040
to go meet him. Even if that weren't the

00:47:33.160 --> 00:47:38.400
case, I still have to go right now. I

00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:44.560
have no time to go and plug some more cards into an updated formula and find

00:47:41.040 --> 00:47:46.640
out how they compare before I have to go

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

00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:56.079
end of this. I didn't bring my cash.

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

00:48:00.319 --> 00:48:06.319
this is going to really help me a lot. I

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:09.839
have money. Sweet. I also have a sweater. Awesome. I couldn't find a

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.

00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:21.680
Vote for Ter. Sweet. Awesome. We just heard back.

00:48:19.359 --> 00:48:27.400
Not that I'm touching that. Uh we just heard back from the back alley guy.

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

00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:34.559
bucks. So, we need to be in Richmond in

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

00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:40.720
should be good on time. And that's pretty much it. Last thing we're going

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.

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

00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:53.920
doing really good. We just need the graphics card and as long as that works

00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:59.359
and everything should be fine there, then we're going to be good. So, let's

00:48:56.720 --> 00:48:59.359
go.

00:49:00.200 --> 00:49:07.440
Hey, so that's the top slot. So, everything's good. So, just got out of

00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:11.119
FreeGeek Vancouver. I was pretty worried about that store and they ended up being

00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:16.800
amazing. All I need left is a power supply and I've spent $280. I should

00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:16.800
have asked about a power

00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:28.480
supply. 700 W.

00:49:25.599 --> 00:49:32.960
Some sketchy brands, too. I forgot I needed a power supply. Oh,

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

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

00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:47.920
need six, which it has. Awesome. Okay,

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.

00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:59.359
So, done. I guess FreeGeek just cleaned

00:49:54.160 --> 00:50:03.440
me out for what was it? Uh $130. I got a

00:49:59.359 --> 00:50:06.280
550 watt power supply, a Q6600, a 160 GB

00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:13.319
hard drive, a 775 motherboard, and 8 gigs of RAM. So that

00:50:10.160 --> 00:50:20.880
means my final total comes

00:50:13.319 --> 00:50:23.920
to 180 + 30, so 210 plus $100 $310. So,

00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:26.839
I'm $10 over the original Scrapyard Wars

00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:31.440
budget and have a way better computer.

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

00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:39.119
go back and test the cards, but I keep I

00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:45.960
keep looking anyway. I mean, I just saw a

00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:49.440
790 listed or a 7970 listed for

00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:52.480
$100. Even factoring in my $20 loss on

00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:54.200
that card, that's an FPS per dollar of

00:50:52.480 --> 00:51:00.079
almost 0.4. That would be the winner if I could

00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:04.720
get it. I mean, here's something totally stupid. Here's a $69.990 in Richmond.

00:51:03.200 --> 00:51:08.640
Surely this guy doesn't think he's actually going to get $180 for that. So,

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

00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:17.119
now, Richmond. Richmond. After the 18 hour drive to Richmond, give or take 17

00:51:15.680 --> 00:51:20.480
hours, we're here. But we're actually here 20 minutes early. So, the dude

00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:25.119
lives in one of these apartment buildings over here. So, I guess we just

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.

00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:35.440
Hi, I'm calling about the 690 you have listed on Craigslist. Do you still have

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

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

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

00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:55.800
not likely to pick up though. Uh, cuz

00:51:54.319 --> 00:52:03.280
he's using a California numbers. So, I I don't know

00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:05.440
it's a fraud or or what. Oh, okay. Um,

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

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.

00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:22.000
Okay. Uh how much did he offer?

00:52:18.160 --> 00:52:23.240
It's 180. Oh, okay. Okay. I'd have to

00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:28.720
figure Okay. Um Okay. Can you can you call me at 2 if

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

00:52:31.359 --> 00:52:37.520
or something like that. Where are Where do you live? Well, I live out in

00:52:35.680 --> 00:52:41.960
Langley. So, the sooner you can let me know, the sooner I can start driving cuz

00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:46.640
I really need it today. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I will give you a

00:52:44.319 --> 00:52:51.000
call. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Okay. Bye.

00:52:55.400 --> 00:53:02.359
California. California. Okay. Austin's

00:52:59.720 --> 00:53:06.839
number. Going to pick up a 69.990 in the

00:53:04.520 --> 00:53:14.240
city. City city of Richmond. He is rocking a

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

00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:23.119
us test the card. The problem is, do we film it? Because I feel super sketchy

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

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.

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

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

00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:44.480
goes, "Oh, well, I want twice as much money for the car." And we say, "Well,

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

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

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

00:53:55.200 --> 00:54:00.640
recording in places where people don't like let me which I guess that's why

00:53:58.319 --> 00:54:04.559
you're asking. We don't have to tell them that we're shooting a YouTube

00:54:01.839 --> 00:54:08.119
video. We can just be like, "Hey, uh like can we just document this?" Oh, I

00:54:07.200 --> 00:54:12.880
forgot the money. Can we catch this? That might be

00:54:11.119 --> 00:54:18.079
a little helpful in buying a graphics card.

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

00:54:20.640 --> 00:54:29.280
to totally him, but the other part of me

00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:31.839
is actually not even sure if that's that

00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:38.119
great of a card. So, we can plug this into the formula. So, $69.90 at

00:54:35.640 --> 00:54:46.160
$180 would be approximately a

00:54:41.079 --> 00:54:47.160
6970* 2ish. So, that's 57. So, let's say

00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:51.720
times 1.8. Those games should scale like

00:54:49.680 --> 00:54:58.480
pretty well. So about 102. So if he's paying 180 bucks for

00:54:55.559 --> 00:55:03.280
that. Oh, that is a that see that's a better performance index than I'm

00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:03.280
getting.

00:55:07.640 --> 00:55:13.880
36. Damn it, Austin. Well, if I can

00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:18.800
snipe it, I'm going to. All right, so looks like everything

00:55:16.720 --> 00:55:22.559
works. So, we're here testing out the 6990. Everything looks like it's running

00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:25.599
great on Diablo II. So, we're pretty much good there. Um, now pretty much all

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

00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:40.640
ready. Boom. So, we successfully have an S XFX Radeon 6990. This is a huge card

00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:42.960
look compared to me. So, yeah, I think

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

00:56:15.520 --> 00:56:22.319
important thing, we have an awesome graphics card, so we're set

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

00:56:23.839 --> 00:56:28.720
feeling way better. At this point, we really only need the memory, and that

00:56:27.200 --> 00:56:33.359
should be like the easiest thing ever to get. So, putting in work right now,

00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:38.160
especially considering how cheap this was. I mean, this was like a $600

00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:44.160
graphics card. $700 graphics card just a few years ago. We got this thing for

00:56:39.839 --> 00:56:45.440
less than 200. So, I don't know. I feel

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

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

00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:58.319
this because of this card. So, we've had a troubling morning.

00:56:56.160 --> 00:57:02.480
We got our graphics card that I thought was a great deal. Turns

00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:08.799
out that according to my corrected

00:57:06.359 --> 00:57:14.720
calculations, it was actually not a very good deal. And we got some very useful

00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:22.240
Intel on what our competitors are doing. So Austin is going high performance and

00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:24.400
he's going dual GPU, which I really wish

00:57:22.240 --> 00:57:30.240
I had looked up the 6990. I looked up almost every other dual GPU solution

00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:36.400
yesterday by keyword. This one's been listed for a month and Austin offered

00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:39.839
asking price. He's getting a $69.90 for

00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:42.760
180 bucks, which by my calculation is

00:57:39.839 --> 00:57:47.480
going to cream me. So, we're on our way back to the

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

00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:58.559
to do some shopping, try and find a better graphics card deal. And if I can

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

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

00:58:08.640 --> 00:58:13.599
X is right there. It's right in that.

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?

00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:20.720
What? Let's go get our memory now. Dude, I'm feeling pretty pumped. I really

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.

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

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

00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:38.520
there's any other 4 gig just in

00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:40.280
case. Okay.

00:58:38.520 --> 00:58:46.160
20 30 five. There you go. Just got the 4

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

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

00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:58.040
be out. Okay. Awesome, man. Appreciate it. We're good.

00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:05.520
Root beer. All right, we have officially all of our parts right now. So, to

00:59:03.680 --> 00:59:10.599
recap, we picked up the case and one of our power supplies for $25 this morning.

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

00:59:13.680 --> 00:59:20.799
sink, we got another power supply, and

00:59:16.799 --> 00:59:22.839
we got a hard drive. We got the graphics

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

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

00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:35.599
well actually. It is 238 right now. So,

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

00:59:37.839 --> 00:59:44.559
beer. Well, you do. You're too cheap to get me

00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:48.720
one. Oh, yeah. So, I accidentally I just bought this out of the scrapyard wars

00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:53.200
budget. So, all the parts we bought plus like $2 for root beer.

00:59:51.319 --> 00:59:58.119
Oops. This tastes pretty sweet, though. I think it was kind of worth

00:59:54.920 --> 01:00:01.090
it. Okay, I'm a little nervous right

00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:02.680
now. Here we

01:00:02.680 --> 01:00:15.760
go. What is that?

01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:21.200
This guy sell us a dead graphics card.

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

01:00:29.520 --> 01:00:35.960
even if I have to throw away the $20 I spent

01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:42.920
on this will put me back out ahead or at

01:00:39.520 --> 01:00:45.200
least even with Austin for FPS per

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

01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:52.720
hoping I hear back soon. The bad news is

01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:58.440
our power supply we hoped would work is dead. Which means that our 400 watt

01:00:55.280 --> 01:01:01.640
backup power supply is only

01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:05.200
borderline capable of even supporting a

01:01:01.640 --> 01:01:08.559
7970 if we get it. There's also more bad

01:01:05.200 --> 01:01:11.440
news. It looks like our 6850 might

01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:18.799
actually be dead, which could also be good news because that gives us $20 back

01:01:14.559 --> 01:01:21.200
in our pocket if we can get a refund.

01:01:18.799 --> 01:01:25.280
Um, I'm liking Austin's chances, but never count Luke out. I mean, he might

01:01:22.799 --> 01:01:31.040
show up with some completely bizarro thing. Next time on Scrapyard Wars,

01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:35.520
Austin gets a tennis shot. Luke gets captured by Vikings and Lionus runs over

01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:39.200
a dog. Okay, so we're back from FreeGeek. We

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

01:01:43.160 --> 01:01:49.760
Q6600, 160 GB hard drive, and a 550 W

01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:52.880
BFG Tech power supply. Uh, everything here I've tested except for the power

01:01:51.520 --> 01:01:57.760
supply and the graphics card. So, hopefully that all works out.

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

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

01:02:05.200 --> 01:02:10.880
other desk where I'm doing my woodworking stuff right here so that

01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:14.799
while this is running like Windows updates and junk, I can hopefully work

01:02:12.720 --> 01:02:19.200
on that so that once this is kind of done doing Windows updates and junk, I

01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:23.920
can mount it onto the wooden board. And then hoping tomorrow that I can more

01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:27.599
focus on overclocking and stuff all day because I really want to get that down.

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.

01:02:29.359 --> 01:02:33.760
So I want to take advantage of that extra performance. So, the one shitty

01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:40.319
thing about not having the screws here is worth the 20 bucks for sure, but is

01:02:36.799 --> 01:02:41.760
that I can't screw in my DVI cable. So,

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

01:02:46.319 --> 01:02:51.760
really wanted to, I could use DisplayPort or

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

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

01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:03.520
be good form, not cuz it's actually really needed, I guess. Here goes

01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:08.720
nothing. Oh, I was trying to document the issue

01:03:06.160 --> 01:03:14.799
with this graphics card, but since we changed to my test bench power

01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:17.839
supply, it's actually fine now, which is

01:03:14.799 --> 01:03:19.240
pretty bad news because what that means

01:03:17.839 --> 01:03:24.960
is that our ghetto power supply works fine

01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:29.599
with a card that it's not plugged directly into, but then doesn't work

01:03:27.599 --> 01:03:35.039
with a card that requires auxiliary power, which means our 7970

01:03:33.039 --> 01:03:38.680
might not run off this power supply. Even if it is rated at enough wattage,

01:03:37.200 --> 01:03:43.960
it might just be too crappy. I'm muted. Damn it, Taran. How

01:03:41.599 --> 01:03:48.240
long have I been muted? Um, have I been muted since I like went

01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:52.839
to the bathroom a billion years ago? Now, because I've actually got some time

01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:57.760
to spend with my CPU. The rules for overclocking are that you can have an

01:03:55.280 --> 01:04:01.680
overclock, but as soon as you run into stability issues during the testing

01:03:59.720 --> 01:04:05.200
phase, you have to turn off your overclock and run again. You don't get

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

01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:12.160
good news and that it's a working graphics card and that the power supply

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

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

01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:28.799
power supply, what I could do is grab a

01:04:24.680 --> 01:04:30.119
7970 and test it. Nope, we do not have

01:04:28.799 --> 01:04:34.480
one. Okay,

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

01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:43.920
just find another graphics card that draws a similar amount of power and go

01:04:41.520 --> 01:04:50.400
from there. We may end up using this card after all. Oh wow. Inaccessible

01:04:47.200 --> 01:04:53.920
boot device. Oh wow. What's going on

01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:55.640
here? This computer is not happy now

01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:58.680
that we've installed a power hungry card. There are a lot of power supplies

01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:04.160
on Craigslist. Nothing that cheap. Corsair

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

01:05:07.119 --> 01:05:13.920
really bad. And there's your Buntu. So the graphics

01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:16.920
card works. The power supply works.

01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:19.920
Everything else I already tested

01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:19.920
works.

01:05:20.520 --> 01:05:26.319
Nice. Okay, on this station here, I'm

01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:30.960
going to focus on formatting into Windows. I need to get uh Ubuntu off of

01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:35.880
here, get into Windows on this drive. And then over here, I'm gonna keep

01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:40.400
working on my little woodworking project, trying to get this going, using

01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:43.520
these sample pieces, the sample power supply I have and sample motherboard

01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:48.400
that I have to kind of work on the layout of how everything's going to

01:05:45.640 --> 01:05:53.280
actually be on here. One other thing that I need to do is actually use this

01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:58.000
screw bin and possibly use another few things around the office to try to rig

01:05:55.440 --> 01:06:02.000
up the back of that graphics card so it actually has screws on it. Although that

01:05:59.520 --> 01:06:06.039
isn't a huge priority right now. That would be kind of nice to do.

01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:14.599
So, we have two terrible power supplies, but together hopefully that equals one

01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:14.599
good power supply. This is the goods.

01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:24.839
And Core i7. Oh, Core i7. What? 2600.

01:06:20.079 --> 01:06:24.839
Nice. 690. 180.

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

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.

01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:42.880
All right. So, that's actually not going to fit in the case. No fear, though.

01:06:40.640 --> 01:06:45.599
This stuff, we just cut all this out, right? Yeah. Actually, this could

01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:48.480
probably even get Yeah, this this will come out. You want to take a guess on

01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:54.559
like how much we spent on all this stuff? Mhm. 350.

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.

01:06:57.280 --> 01:07:04.000
RAM was tough. RAM was really tough because Yeah, you got taken for a ride,

01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:08.960
but still. The thing was we No one had any cheaper RAM. You honestly have like

01:07:06.799 --> 01:07:13.440
pretty primo stuff. It's just this is the only concern. At least for the work,

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

01:07:14.559 --> 01:07:19.440
want to We have everything. Yeah. So, we have everything now. We basically just

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

01:07:22.720 --> 01:07:29.839
pins. So, we're going to have to make sure that these power supplies, this

01:07:26.720 --> 01:07:32.240
power supply has Oh, Lord, it's gray.

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

01:07:33.599 --> 01:07:40.000
an eight pin somewhere. Sparkle power. Sparkle power. Oh, there's just a bunch

01:07:38.160 --> 01:07:45.760
of adapters. Okay. Does Do you have the extra two? It doesn't have the extra

01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:49.119
two. Wait, what the What is going on here? Why are there so many adapters?

01:07:47.520 --> 01:07:53.119
All these Molex have adapters on them. We should have looked at this before.

01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:58.240
Yeah. So, basically, power supply right here. Tape it on. Cut this slash try to

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

01:08:00.240 --> 01:08:05.599
somehow. I'm not really worried about that. Um, and just hope that these two

01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:11.039
power supplies are enough for the Core i7 and the 6990. Sorry. Do you need an

01:08:08.319 --> 01:08:16.319
actual sander? Do we have an actual sander? Yeah, I have an actual sander.

01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:21.839
Oh, is it a company tool thing? I've been using it here. So, sure. Yeah.

01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:28.480
Uh, I'm down with that. Yeah, you I'm down with that. I will uh

01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:29.679
just Why are you using this? Uh, yeah. I

01:08:28.480 --> 01:08:33.960
know it's the wrong thing, but it's actually kind of working actually pretty

01:08:32.199 --> 01:08:40.560
well. Did my I just sanded off the mark that I

01:08:37.120 --> 01:08:40.560
made for where I wanted to

01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:46.640
cut. I'm not saying there's cheating involved, but that's some point

01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:53.040
deduction. A little suspicious right there. We we know that Linus was uh

01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:55.359
still sending messages after five. Was

01:08:53.040 --> 01:09:00.560
he? Yeah. Uh oh. How do you know? I asked him and he told me.

01:08:58.480 --> 01:09:04.920
He's cheating. So, he's absolutely cheating.

01:09:03.279 --> 01:09:10.000
I'm calling about the CX500 power supply. I can come get it

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

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

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

01:09:20.799 --> 01:09:26.640
that okay? I live in Richmond, though. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Son of a [ __ ] Okay.

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

01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:38.319
Kquitlam. And we are going to be all over the place for the next little bit

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

01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:49.199
option. So, we got a $20 power supply to go with

01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:49.199
our $100 graphics

01:09:49.239 --> 01:09:56.880
card and we'll just bring a computer with us to test it. Let's

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

01:10:03.360 --> 01:10:12.120
our back alley contact is on time, I think we got this.

01:10:10.640 --> 01:10:18.760
It's 3:00 and it's 10 minutes to our next

01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:26.080
destination. You know what? New plan

01:10:22.640 --> 01:10:28.920
because back alley guy wasn't able to

01:10:26.080 --> 01:10:35.040
meet until 4ish. So, we're going to go straight

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

01:10:37.360 --> 01:10:43.679
before 5, if it takes us a little longer to drive back, we technically haven't

01:10:41.440 --> 01:10:49.520
broken the rules. You have to be done scrapyarding and head back at

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.

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.

01:10:59.120 --> 01:11:06.080
Oh, you got it from NCIX. I see.

01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:07.920
Tell from the NCIX sticker. Yeah. Okay.

01:11:06.080 --> 01:11:12.000
Cables are inside and presumably it works. Yeah. Pleasure doing business

01:11:09.280 --> 01:11:16.480
with you. Huge fan, actually. Oh. H. Yeah. Screw it. Okay. Here you go. I

01:11:14.159 --> 01:11:20.080
mean, well, nothing that we know of at the moment. I only have one of those

01:11:18.080 --> 01:11:24.400
though. That's okay. I can get an adapter. Well, I mean, if it doesn't

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,

01:11:26.880 --> 01:11:32.960
but the guy said we can come back tomorrow morning if we need a refund.

01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:38.400
So, at least we have the backup plan of using our

01:11:34.120 --> 01:11:41.280
6850 and returning the 7970. So, that's

01:11:38.400 --> 01:11:44.840
good. And our quote from Google Maps right now is that we will arrive in the

01:11:43.199 --> 01:11:49.760
back alley at 458. He said we can have the sound card

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.

01:11:54.080 --> 01:11:59.880
Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. Okay, we got our

01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:06.960
sound card. So, our back alley best friend

01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:09.600
hooked us up with an Odigy 2 and a Sound

01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:15.840
Blaster Live, both of which are PCI graphics cards, and at least one of

01:12:12.480 --> 01:12:18.080
which I'm hoping will both work and have

01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:25.120
drivers for Windows 7, which is what we've standardized on using. So, um, as

01:12:22.719 --> 01:12:29.280
long as that's the case, I have everything I need for my winning

01:12:27.600 --> 01:12:34.000
computer. Yeah. So, I feel better

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

01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:42.960
not been an impartial cameraman, so we've been a team here, but I didn't

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

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

01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:55.120
the windowless dungeon of linest. So do I.

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

01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:04.560
and 50 minutes. Okay. No, it's cut off.

01:13:02.080 --> 01:13:09.520
Oh, so you have 50 minutes. This is helpful.

01:13:06.360 --> 01:13:11.360
Uh smaller one. Okay. Oh, do we need

01:13:09.520 --> 01:13:19.840
something to short the pins on the Oh, paper clip. Paper clip. Yeah. up here.

01:13:15.320 --> 01:13:21.600
Maybe you have a paper clip. No. Oh,

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

01:13:24.159 --> 01:13:29.760
a video editor without a paper clip? You

01:13:27.199 --> 01:13:33.679
think I need a paper clip? Oh, you get that? You think this will

01:13:32.080 --> 01:13:37.840
actually work? This sounds like we're about to die. This out of the way. Oh,

01:13:35.679 --> 01:13:42.320
man. Installing it or are we uh I'm installing outside the case first to

01:13:40.080 --> 01:13:47.840
test it. Yeah, let's build outside the case. You're right. You can't really

01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:51.760
build inside because

01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:53.199
Okay, memory's good. No, you cut out. I

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.

01:13:57.320 --> 01:14:02.199
Like, this is a bad idea. It's a really

01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:05.679
bad idea. It's so

01:14:05.800 --> 01:14:11.640
tight. I know. I'm scaring me with this right now.

01:14:12.159 --> 01:14:18.560
Oh no, I slightly damaged some of the sleeing. Uhoh, that's not good. Oh yes.

01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:22.640
Okay, we're good. We're good. We're good. Um, okay. Slight problem. This

01:14:21.120 --> 01:14:27.679
motherboard needs a eight pin connector and we only have a four. Also, bad news.

01:14:25.040 --> 01:14:31.080
This also has a four pin. Can we Couldn't each power supply power half

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

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

01:14:38.400 --> 01:14:44.000
hopefully that will work. Can we have a quick time check? 450. So, we have 10

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

01:14:45.120 --> 01:14:52.400
paperclip thing. How is this going to work,

01:14:49.159 --> 01:14:53.840
dude? Okay, so this is a green. You and

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

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.

01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:09.360
Wait, what? Oh, no. We don't have a way of turning this

01:15:07.040 --> 01:15:12.840
on with a screwdriver. I've never done that before. What are you talking

01:15:11.239 --> 01:15:18.000
about? Yes.

01:15:14.520 --> 01:15:21.920
Yes, it works. Power supply. Power

01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:23.360
supply. Fan fan fan. Yes, we did it.

01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:27.080
Okay, we just need to make sure this is actually like posting, but all the fans

01:15:25.120 --> 01:15:31.280
are running. It looks like it's working. Needs some sanding, but there's

01:15:29.360 --> 01:15:35.280
my graphics card holding plate or my power supply holding plate. Maybe the

01:15:33.280 --> 01:15:39.440
power supply. My computer is still setting up over there. Windows 7

01:15:37.120 --> 01:15:43.880
Professional is still applying my settings. It's been doing that forever.

01:15:40.880 --> 01:15:47.520
It's kind of getting annoying. Let's try

01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:49.920
this. Cool. So, just like I had kind of

01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:54.159
hoped, um, I don't actually even need this block. It'll just hopefully look

01:15:52.159 --> 01:15:58.400
cool. I hope it looks cool. I really hope it looks cool. It looks like it

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

01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:06.400
idea. Horrible idea, but whatever. Let's do it. They don't want to go in

01:16:04.400 --> 01:16:11.360
together. What are you talking about? Let me just squish it. Don't worry. Good

01:16:08.400 --> 01:16:13.600
enough. Good enough. I know. No. No. This power supply should be spinning

01:16:12.320 --> 01:16:17.560
right now. I don't understand why it's not. It should be working.

01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:22.719
Oh, you're right. Oh, come

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

01:16:27.040 --> 01:16:32.560
they are. Because you're not supposed to put that in sideways.

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

01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:39.960
like we did here except this time to power the CPU. I actually have never

01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:47.920
even tried this. I don't think it'll work, but it could.

01:16:42.920 --> 01:16:49.520
Uh, could it maybe? I I have a feeling

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

01:16:52.239 --> 01:16:59.440
we done? No. No, it's not going to work.

01:16:56.320 --> 01:17:01.760
It's different. Okay, so at this point I

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

01:17:04.080 --> 01:17:09.920
actually works, which is more than I thought I could say, but it won't post.

01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:14.320
And I think the problem is powering the motherboard. So, we have a one 8 pin

01:17:12.320 --> 01:17:19.040
power connector for the CPU. We only have a four pin from each power supply.

01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:23.040
So, neither of them are actually enough to get it to post. Um, I'm assuming

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

01:17:26.320 --> 01:17:32.960
power supply freaked out and stopped working. So, I'm pretty sure if we could

01:17:29.840 --> 01:17:36.480
get these two somehow between the two to

01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:37.840
power the CPU, we would be good. Um, so

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

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,

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

01:17:49.199 --> 01:17:57.600
eight pin, we can't power it. Worst case is something here is broken. In which

01:17:54.239 --> 01:17:59.159
case, we are way more screwed. Okay, I

01:17:57.600 --> 01:18:05.520
think it's time to call it a night. Until tomorrow, sweet

01:18:03.080 --> 01:18:10.320
prince. Oh man, I hope we can figure this out. I really do. Next time on

01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:14.719
Scrapyard Wars, Burkel fights his doppelganger, Nikki B. You really want

01:18:12.560 --> 01:18:18.480
to throw down? You want to rumble punk? Wait, who are you talking to? You have

01:18:16.320 --> 01:18:25.080
the same person. All right, Scrapyard Wars day three. Our internet is

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

01:18:27.679 --> 01:18:34.880
are Canadian or have heard of Telus, but they're sort of legendarily terrible.

01:18:32.560 --> 01:18:40.560
And there was apparently some kind of data entry error while they were

01:18:37.760 --> 01:18:45.440
changing our internet. I guess they were probably typing with their faces as

01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:47.840
usual. So, that kind of probably hampers

01:18:45.440 --> 01:18:52.159
me a lot more than anyone else, which really sucks because now was supposed to

01:18:49.760 --> 01:18:58.040
be the time that I was finishing downloads and installs. So, I guess um

01:18:56.080 --> 01:19:03.280
what I'm going to do now is try to install everything onto the

01:19:00.719 --> 01:19:10.320
board, which is actually what I wanted to do later, but whatever. This is

01:19:06.719 --> 01:19:12.640
ridiculous, but if it works, who cares?

01:19:10.320 --> 01:19:16.920
DisplayPort, no signal. Oh, good call. So, let's get the

01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:22.719
graphics card out of the out of the equation. Oh. Oh, I saw something flash

01:19:20.400 --> 01:19:27.480
for like half a second. Yes, we have video. Okay. Okay,

01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:32.000
guys. Ah, okay. That's kind of what I was afraid

01:19:30.400 --> 01:19:35.520
of. That four pin is probably not going to be enough to keep the CPU

01:19:36.120 --> 01:19:41.600
fed. Like I expected, my wood thing is

01:19:39.360 --> 01:19:45.679
not really tall enough because I didn't take into account the height of the

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

01:19:56.719 --> 01:20:02.000
that's a good sign. So, we moved where

01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:06.080
we were, if you didn't notice, uh, because it will hopefully be better for

01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:10.719
filming reasons or whatever yet, but we should be theoretically sitting at about

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

01:20:16.120 --> 01:20:24.199
3.24 GHz. I must have screwed up, but I made

01:20:21.600 --> 01:20:31.880
it faster than I expected, and it's not crashing.

01:20:31.880 --> 01:20:39.199
Might need a bigger pilot hole, but we're going to see. The wood was not

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,

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

01:20:46.400 --> 01:20:51.440
know if this is going to help me tie the

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

01:20:54.239 --> 01:20:59.840
know if that's true anymore.

01:20:57.920 --> 01:21:06.880
Oh, it does totally seem to be true. That's awesome. Okay, that's good. If

01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:09.440
this overclock works, honestly, I'd be

01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:13.760
happy, I think, with this overclock and the overclock that I have on the CPU,

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

01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:23.440
to a profile. I already have my CPU's overclock saved to a profile, and uh

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,

01:21:26.880 --> 01:21:32.880
it would be nice. Vync off.

01:21:34.679 --> 01:21:39.320
Apply. It did not like

01:21:37.800 --> 01:21:44.800
that. Okay. After the benchmark ran, it

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

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

01:21:52.239 --> 01:21:59.159
changed my overall total power limit from 150% to

01:21:59.199 --> 01:22:05.400
uh 25% and I changed my applied voltage

01:22:02.560 --> 01:22:13.040
from 100 molts to 50 m. Whoa.

01:22:09.159 --> 01:22:14.760
What? Okay. My GPU is not very happy

01:22:13.040 --> 01:22:20.560
right now. It's not hot. Maybe it doesn't have

01:22:18.080 --> 01:22:24.760
enough voltage or something. Okay, so I turned things down and they're actually

01:22:22.080 --> 01:22:31.159
running faster. So at $310, I just

01:22:27.880 --> 01:22:34.000
got Damn it. Why does it keep doing

01:22:31.159 --> 01:22:38.960
that at the same part after like the same amount of time? Okay, so after some

01:22:37.040 --> 01:22:42.719
troubleshooting, I think I know what's going on. So, we instead of using our

01:22:41.040 --> 01:22:45.920
two like really crappy power supplies, we're using one power supply that's

01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:50.560
somewhat decent. And this is now powering the graphics card and it's got

01:22:47.440 --> 01:22:52.080
eight pins to the CPU. So, the 8 pin was

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

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

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

01:23:01.600 --> 01:23:07.920
graphics card has its own dedicated power supply. The power supply is enough

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

01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:15.440
not going to be stable whatsoever. But this is more to just see if our two

01:23:12.719 --> 01:23:18.560
power supplies Yes, it's posted. Okay, we're we're in business. We're in

01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:25.120
business. So, the only thing we basically need to do right now is get

01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:28.159
the uh 4 pin to 4 pin plus molex

01:23:25.120 --> 01:23:30.320
adapter. Okay, success. We have the one

01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:35.159
tiny adapter that cost $7 that we needed. So, with our new 8 pen, we can

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

01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:44.560
down. But it seems to be working. Look at this. We're stable 100%. With only

01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:49.320
the four pin, this immediately crashed. Oh

01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:52.480
no. Memory management.

01:23:49.320 --> 01:23:56.040
No, it didn't do anything. It's just as

01:23:52.480 --> 01:23:58.480
unstable as with the four pin. Oh

01:23:56.040 --> 01:24:03.360
no. Maybe it's the power supply. Maybe the just this this 300 watt supply is

01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:05.920
just not enough to to power it. Okay, so

01:24:03.360 --> 01:24:10.239
basically right now we've swapped out memory we bought with some other memory

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

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

01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:22.440
work. This is longer than it was before. The memory may have been the issue. We

01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:27.679
may have got some defective brand new memory. Wow. The only other thing we can

01:24:25.679 --> 01:24:31.040
think about is trying this RAM in a different slot. So I'm go ahead and

01:24:28.880 --> 01:24:35.760
start the stress test. So, it only lasted like 5 seconds before.

01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:39.560
Wow. Is this going to be stable? Was it literally just changing the slot in the

01:24:37.199 --> 01:24:45.040
motherboard? I'm a genius, dude. High five. Yes. Okay, at this point, let's

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

01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:57.440
thing with this build, something is weird with this motherboard. It freaks

01:24:53.520 --> 01:24:59.040
out every sing. Oh, no.

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

01:25:03.520 --> 01:25:10.239
than 2 hours to make sure this works and build the whole computer. Get benchmarks

01:25:08.400 --> 01:25:15.679
ready. We do not have another opportunity. If this does not work, we

01:25:12.400 --> 01:25:19.360
might just be out of it. Oh man. Coming

01:25:15.679 --> 01:25:21.360
down to the wire. Okay, she posts, which

01:25:19.360 --> 01:25:28.280
is a good sign. Well, either our motherboard has two dead PCI slots or

01:25:24.080 --> 01:25:31.199
our Sound Blaster Odigy 2 is dead.

01:25:28.280 --> 01:25:36.560
Fortunately, we grabbed a couple sound cards at the time. So, let's go ahead

01:25:33.600 --> 01:25:41.199
and try another one. So, our internet's down at the office this morning, which

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

01:25:43.760 --> 01:25:50.639
got Windows 7 installed. My graphics card seems to be working for the most

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

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

01:25:58.719 --> 01:26:08.719
high hopes for, and my Sound Blaster Live are dead. So, I will have to accept

01:26:06.080 --> 01:26:14.800
that I will be running a system that only has HDMI audio. Oh. Oh. Whoa. Ho.

01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:20.679
Oh, he said, "Oh, we're up. We're up. Internet's up." Yay. So, this

01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:27.600
is exciting because I am many hours away from

01:26:25.520 --> 01:26:31.280
competition crunch time and I've got almost all of my benchmarks installed,

01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:34.800
all my drivers installed. I can start getting baseline readings and then

01:26:33.199 --> 01:26:38.280
tuning things and finding out how it goes from there.

01:26:36.679 --> 01:26:44.159
Okay, 76.5 FPS average. I'm feeling a little

01:26:41.679 --> 01:26:52.239
tense today. It's 12. I haven't started my build yet. And this initial Cinebench

01:26:47.600 --> 01:26:55.360
run is really ugly. Like if those guys

01:26:52.239 --> 01:26:58.560
ran out and got a 3770K or something

01:26:55.360 --> 01:27:00.560
like that, they'll be pulling off triple

01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:04.960
my score thanks to the improved architecture and hyperthreading. And at

01:27:02.639 --> 01:27:09.520
least unlike Austin, I'm not running around picking up components now because

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

01:27:12.239 --> 01:27:19.560
competitor over there, I'm going to do a quick run through of all the awesome

01:27:17.440 --> 01:27:25.120
components that I've got over on my side.

01:27:21.080 --> 01:27:28.480
First, this gaming grade motherboard.

01:27:25.120 --> 01:27:31.360
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

01:27:28.480 --> 01:27:35.679
Look at that. So many games. That's a gaming sound.

01:27:33.679 --> 01:27:40.800
Can I play Pac-Man? It can be

01:27:37.960 --> 01:27:45.679
Pac-Man. Oh, no. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

01:27:41.880 --> 01:27:47.040
Nope. Next up, we have the finest power

01:27:45.679 --> 01:27:53.080
supply ever made. I mean, it was a miracle that I was even able to find

01:27:49.440 --> 01:27:58.960
these, let alone afford it with my

01:27:53.080 --> 01:28:04.800
budget. Next up, this genuine USB 2.0 4

01:27:58.960 --> 01:28:06.239
port expansion card and 56K modem. Going

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

01:28:11.679 --> 01:28:19.000
wicked overclocking. Intel 750 series

01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:22.560
PCI Express SSD. We didn't even pay for

01:28:19.000 --> 01:28:25.080
that. And this put Put the 750 series

01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:30.239
SSD down again. Yeah, that doesn't really sound

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

01:28:32.719 --> 01:28:41.120
standing over here lying about what computer parts I have. My name's Lionus.

01:28:37.360 --> 01:28:43.440
My voice isn't quite that high.

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

01:28:45.520 --> 01:28:53.880
had two. So, this is actually broken.

01:28:50.199 --> 01:28:56.960
Fortunately, we have so much extra

01:28:53.880 --> 01:28:59.280
hardware that literally half of our

01:28:56.960 --> 01:29:02.639
parts could be broken and we would have no problem whatsoever. So, I'm just

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

01:29:04.639 --> 01:29:11.520
extra extra hardware that isn't the stuff that we actually need, you know,

01:29:09.120 --> 01:29:16.159
right now. Just installing our bolt-on Hemi.

01:29:13.840 --> 01:29:21.600
They're lying to us and we were so honest with them about the computer that

01:29:19.120 --> 01:29:27.440
we're building. You mean you don't believe that I have a Hemi?

01:29:24.239 --> 01:29:28.760
Well, I did believe you.

01:29:27.440 --> 01:29:33.320
I wanted to believe. I was just moving stuff around

01:29:30.960 --> 01:29:39.679
to try to do cable management and the computer froze up.

01:29:37.280 --> 01:29:46.760
Hopefully that's not actually a problem. It's probably just

01:29:41.639 --> 01:29:46.760
random old hard drives and stuff.

01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:07.360
My computer straight up doesn't boot properly anymore.

01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:11.600
I have no idea what happened. It blue screened randomly and now it doesn't

01:30:08.960 --> 01:30:17.600
properly turn on. So, I'm pretty disappointed.

01:30:14.360 --> 01:30:19.600
So, we just went from our game benchmark

01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:25.120
acting weird to our computer completely not turning on to our computer turning

01:30:22.320 --> 01:30:30.800
on, but now Windows is freaking out and super unhappy. I moved the graphics card

01:30:28.080 --> 01:30:34.719
down one slot because uh FreeGeek Vancouver said that that top slot wasn't

01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:39.040
working. I had no problems with that top slot working, but I'm just trying to

01:30:37.040 --> 01:30:44.800
minimize issues at this point because there's about 3 hours to go and I really

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

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

01:30:50.960 --> 01:31:00.000
of building my troll system, which has all of the worst of every component that

01:30:57.040 --> 01:31:03.120
I have. Like, this is like legit like one of the most stressed moments of my

01:31:01.600 --> 01:31:07.679
whole life. Okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but like I'm super

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

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

01:31:13.679 --> 01:31:18.880
CPU intensive test. If it finishes this, that's pretty much means that we're

01:31:17.360 --> 01:31:24.239
good. Nothing else should hit the CPU this hard for this long. All right,

01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:31.080
we're in business, dude. That's awesome. Connect it up. Oh, look at that. Like

01:31:27.080 --> 01:31:31.080
butter. Wow.

01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:35.320
This will

01:31:35.320 --> 01:31:42.050
work. Yeah, I think that

01:31:45.159 --> 01:31:51.199
work. It's perfect. It's actually not that bad. Everything else has just been

01:31:49.360 --> 01:31:54.880
like typical sort of like random computer problems like dead memory or

01:31:53.360 --> 01:31:59.840
like not having the right adapter or whatever. But if it works together, we

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

01:32:01.280 --> 01:32:09.760
seconds ago and I agreed. What have we done, dude? This is not cool. What have

01:32:06.320 --> 01:32:11.360
we done? You your idea. 30 seconds ago.

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

01:32:13.440 --> 01:32:19.679
we actually see what it is. Like I have nothing to do with

01:32:16.600 --> 01:32:21.719
this. This is the greatest thing ever.

01:32:19.679 --> 01:32:26.800
Thermal paste looks fine. There's a lot of it, but it looks

01:32:24.400 --> 01:32:31.080
fine. Oh my god. Yeah, there's still gunk in the CPU socket. That could super

01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:34.880
be what it is. Oh wow. It's currently

01:32:35.719 --> 01:32:41.840
2:26. Meaning assuming it's 2:30, we've

01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:43.760
got an hour and a half left. So if that

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

01:32:45.920 --> 01:32:52.920
could be totally screwed. At this point, my computer doesn't make it through Fire

01:32:50.000 --> 01:32:58.920
Strike. If I completely fail a benchmark, I'm done. So, right now we're

01:32:56.080 --> 01:33:02.960
testing CPU overclock only, no GPU overclock. We just did a successful Fire

01:33:01.360 --> 01:33:09.520
Strike run completely all the way through with no overclock. Now, we're

01:33:05.440 --> 01:33:11.800
testing 3.24 on this guy. Oh, I can't

01:33:09.520 --> 01:33:18.480
believe it just crashed. I feel like sick. Like, I don't

01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:23.040
feel good at all. If that just crashed because of the overclock, that's fine.

01:33:21.360 --> 01:33:27.760
If that just crashed for any other reason, I'm screwed.

01:33:25.360 --> 01:33:34.159
So, as of right now, if I apply literally any amount of overclock to my

01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:36.920
CPU, my memory, or my graphics card,

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.

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

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

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

01:33:50.960 --> 01:33:56.880
don't have time, dude. Uh, yeah, I've got it. Give me a second.

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.

01:33:58.560 --> 01:34:05.600
Oh, you should have told me that. I did. Oh, just now. And upstairs, too. Thank

01:34:02.719 --> 01:34:09.199
you. I'm going to be slightly late. So, slightly late. We don't have an

01:34:06.880 --> 01:34:14.159
operating system. You're also live. Okay. Okay. So, our CPU temperatures are

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

01:34:16.800 --> 01:34:24.560
go back and work on our troll system. Here we go.

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

01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:34.000
working. I have tried to get it to post. I've tried two separate motherboards and

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

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

01:34:40.000 --> 01:34:48.159
time to time, but I'm probably better off focusing right now on my main system

01:34:45.920 --> 01:34:54.239
because I only have an hour and 40 minutes to dial in a GPU overclock and

01:34:51.360 --> 01:34:59.520
mod the case and building it. Those are the three main mods. Make the

01:34:56.719 --> 01:35:05.800
motherboard fit, make the power supply fit. I guess that's only

01:35:01.719 --> 01:35:07.639
two. with a couple of drill

01:35:05.800 --> 01:35:13.760
holes. Um, we can make this work. Now, here's

01:35:11.679 --> 01:35:21.400
something that I actually had sort of forgotten about. We need to make sure

01:35:16.400 --> 01:35:23.560
that this baby is going to fit

01:35:21.400 --> 01:35:29.080
here, which so far is looking like a bit of a nogo.

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

01:35:39.920 --> 01:35:48.159
tape over them just in case. I cannot afford to kill any more components at

01:35:45.040 --> 01:35:50.000
this stage in the game. So, apparently

01:35:48.159 --> 01:35:56.320
overclocking my CPU, but not applying voltage kind of worked. Overclocking my

01:35:52.880 --> 01:35:58.719
GPU and not applying voltage, no, not

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

01:36:01.120 --> 01:36:09.520
reset the graphics card overclock. Just run it at stock. Whatever. So, there's 9

01:36:06.639 --> 01:36:12.920
minutes left. I'm just going to set it to the last overclock that worked. You

01:36:12.000 --> 01:36:23.280
can do it. Believe in yourself. Come on.

01:36:18.960 --> 01:36:25.639
Wow. Done. Hands down. It's 4:00 minus

01:36:23.280 --> 01:36:29.440
stop. I'm done. Okay. Okay, so Windows is

01:36:27.840 --> 01:36:33.920
installing right now. Basically, after this, we need to install our benchmarks.

01:36:31.360 --> 01:36:38.800
We need to install our Hi, what's up? This is 4:00.

01:36:36.400 --> 01:36:43.440
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Austin becomes a wizard. Linus doesn't have to

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

01:36:47.280 --> 01:36:56.080
it next time on Scrapyard Wars. Yeah.

01:36:52.560 --> 01:37:00.350
Scrapyard Wars.

01:37:02.159 --> 01:37:09.440
This episode of Scrapyard Wars was brought to you by

01:37:06.199 --> 01:37:12.800
Dbrand. I can run now. So, let's run

01:37:09.440 --> 01:37:14.639
now. Where's Austin? I don't based on

01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:19.520
Nick coming in and asking if we're supposed to be done. I'm thinking Austin

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

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.

01:37:26.480 --> 01:37:33.679
Like the system's done. Like the thing is is like the first time we did

01:37:30.639 --> 01:37:37.040
Scrapyard Wars, the benchmark period

01:37:33.679 --> 01:37:38.800
included like installing software. Yo yo

01:37:37.040 --> 01:37:42.080
yo yo, hold on. Hold on. Pause everything. What's going on right now

01:37:40.159 --> 01:37:46.320
with install? Uh well, Luke's not letting me put my front bezel back on

01:37:43.840 --> 01:37:50.000
because it's after 4:00. What about software? Uh we were just talking about

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.

01:37:53.119 --> 01:37:58.719
That's a good point. So, I think we should the software should be My

01:37:56.800 --> 01:38:04.080
computer is 100% done hardwarewise. Uhhuh. Okay. I love how both the other

01:38:01.520 --> 01:38:07.199
contestants are taking more time to do you the You can put the camera down.

01:38:05.920 --> 01:38:11.679
It's fine. I didn't totally just accidentally install 32-bit Windows. So,

01:38:09.360 --> 01:38:16.080
I'm currently installing 64-bit Windows. Did not realize that there was a 32-bit

01:38:13.360 --> 01:38:20.880
Windows thing on that key. So, I think the troll system deserves to see the

01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:26.000
light of day. So, we're just going

01:38:22.199 --> 01:38:26.000
to put all this in

01:38:26.119 --> 01:38:32.880
here. There's nobody. Look, we're not coming through with any kind of monster

01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:37.239
computer or anything. The cover's not helping

01:38:37.239 --> 01:38:46.880
much. Uh, so we've decided to do the unveil in

01:38:43.600 --> 01:38:50.400
two stages. Stage one, we unveil the

01:38:46.880 --> 01:38:53.040
hardware. Stage two, we all run our

01:38:50.400 --> 01:38:59.280
benchmark scores, therefore unveiling the performance. Stage

01:38:55.320 --> 01:39:02.880
three, we unveil the prices that we

01:38:59.280 --> 01:39:04.440
paid. Yeah. So, Austin, you're up first.

01:39:02.880 --> 01:39:08.800
All right. So,

01:39:06.280 --> 01:39:15.920
introducing the greatest system I've ever built. That's not saying much.

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

01:39:20.080 --> 01:39:25.560
top because it has two power supplies.

01:39:26.320 --> 01:39:30.719
Okay, so basically you guys just seem

01:39:29.440 --> 01:39:36.560
shocked and amazed, right? You know what? I get it. I was going to do that.

01:39:34.320 --> 01:39:42.800
Oh, really? If I had gotten that graphics card. Oh, that was the

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

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

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,

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

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

01:40:02.639 --> 01:40:08.080
got me. All right. So, this needs some serious power. This power supply is

01:40:06.320 --> 01:40:13.920
purely for the graphics card. Yeah. Which is Figured that out. It is a 6990.

01:40:12.159 --> 01:40:19.679
I saw that. I actually almost went for that. A 6990. So, we got talking dual

01:40:16.000 --> 01:40:21.840
GPUs. We also have a Core i7 2600, not

01:40:19.679 --> 01:40:26.400
K. The motherboard's not overclockable either. So, it's pretty much like if it

01:40:24.960 --> 01:40:35.119
works at stock, I'm going to be really happy with it. That is the scrapator.

01:40:31.760 --> 01:40:38.000
There you go. All right. Interesting.

01:40:35.119 --> 01:40:42.000
All right. Well, what I expected. All right. This looks awesome.

01:40:42.040 --> 01:40:46.040
This Oh,

01:40:46.159 --> 01:40:55.239
what the hell? What? Okay.

01:40:50.639 --> 01:40:58.440
This my machine is called the scrap

01:40:55.239 --> 01:41:01.199
hole because it's where I

01:40:58.440 --> 01:41:05.080
buried all the extra hardware that I ended up with. Okay.

01:41:06.159 --> 01:41:12.960
Wow. Okay. So, uh, I'll start horrified

01:41:09.600 --> 01:41:17.920
right now. I'll start at the top.

01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:20.080
Okay, this is an IPI BLLB LG A775

01:41:17.920 --> 01:41:24.400
motherboard. DDR2, my friends. Unfortunately, it doesn't support the

01:41:22.000 --> 01:41:30.159
Pentium 4 processor. This works, by the way. At least it did before I did that

01:41:26.159 --> 01:41:31.480
to it. This is a vintage USB 2.0

01:41:30.159 --> 01:41:38.719
expansion card. Okay, this horrified is a broken

01:41:35.679 --> 01:41:38.719
Ody 2.

01:41:39.280 --> 01:41:46.000
This is the most disgusting piece of hardware that I have ever laid eyes on.

01:41:43.760 --> 01:41:51.679
It smells. The computer we pulled this from literally had a used crackpipe

01:41:48.320 --> 01:41:52.880
inside it. Nice. Really? That's awesome.

01:41:51.679 --> 01:42:00.719
Literally. No, that's good. That's a good thing. This is a working 9500

01:41:56.840 --> 01:42:04.080
GS power there. This is a working 6850.

01:42:00.719 --> 01:42:05.870
This is a Sound Blaster Live, also dead.

01:42:04.080 --> 01:42:07.920
This is a heat sink.

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

01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:17.119
to an actual scrapyard and get all this stuff for basically free. The hard

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

01:42:20.080 --> 01:42:25.600
processor. Really? This RAM I borrowed.

01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:29.920
So, this actually is not I did not obtain the RAM. And uh that Foxcon

01:42:28.480 --> 01:42:34.639
board, I don't know. It made those beeping sounds you heard earlier. But

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

01:42:37.280 --> 01:42:45.199
now. What is this? Oh, he has another computer. What is this? I think this is

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

01:42:46.719 --> 01:42:52.800
car. I think he has a whole another computer cuz I think he went to a

01:42:51.040 --> 01:43:00.159
scrapard and like actually got all this stuff. Like basically This is the

01:42:55.760 --> 01:43:02.159
leaning tower of Scrabza.

01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:07.679
Why do you have two full computers? This is my actual computer. Why don't you

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

01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:18.040
Yeah, there's no reason. Okay. So, th this is my

01:43:15.719 --> 01:43:26.440
Q6600. Yes, I went Q6600 again. Fair enough. Fair enough. 4

01:43:21.280 --> 01:43:30.000
gigs of DDR2 memory. They're okay. my

01:43:26.440 --> 01:43:31.199
7970 Ghost. Uh, that was actually modded

01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:39.040
by the original owner, believe it or not. This Commando ROG motherboard was

01:43:36.159 --> 01:43:41.760
literally pulled out of a scrap pile of motherboards. So, this is what I'm

01:43:40.159 --> 01:43:46.880
saying. He found somewhere. He spent like $18 on this entire rig. Literally.

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

01:43:50.520 --> 01:43:57.840
friends, is the leaning tower of Scrap Z. So, can I just ask a question?

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

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

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

01:44:06.800 --> 01:44:10.000
6850. It

01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:19.679
works. But I'm factoring all this into my price. This is probably suspicious.

01:44:16.239 --> 01:44:22.880
Or like cost of metal weight.

01:44:19.679 --> 01:44:24.639
That's what Okay, so I'll get the scrap

01:44:22.880 --> 01:44:33.600
hole out of the way. It does actually really stink. Smells gross computer.

01:44:28.639 --> 01:44:35.600
I knew it. Oh, I knew it.

01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:40.719
I basically told you. You asked me some stupid ass question on the first day.

01:44:37.920 --> 01:44:45.600
Basically, this isn't John. Why is there fishing line on it?

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

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

01:44:55.199 --> 01:45:03.199
and was able to get this. This is a BFG Tech power supply.

01:45:00.239 --> 01:45:10.400
Yeah. Here we go. Benchmark number one. Cinebench

01:45:04.600 --> 01:45:13.119
R15. Three, two, one, go. And I think we

01:45:10.400 --> 01:45:18.239
all know who is winning this one. You know, maybe, just possibly. Oh yeah.

01:45:16.320 --> 01:45:23.280
Well, he has eight threads, which is sort of an issue. Yeah. Oh my god. If

01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:28.239
your name isn't Austin. So, this is I spent a fair chunk more on

01:45:26.080 --> 01:45:32.320
this i7 almost entirely for this test. So, hopefully I beat you guys by a lot

01:45:30.320 --> 01:45:34.800
cuz I I'm feeling pretty good. I'm crushing Luke. Yeah. Actually, what's

01:45:33.679 --> 01:45:40.480
going on? I think Don't you guys have the same CPU? Yeah, mine has some

01:45:37.360 --> 01:45:44.719
issues. 615.

01:45:40.480 --> 01:45:47.520
316. Oh, almost double. 316 for Lionus.

01:45:44.719 --> 01:45:53.840
Peter, that likes 267. 267. That's not bad. All right, so our first benchmark

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.

01:46:00.840 --> 01:46:08.080
Okay, I'm counting on Austin's like crashing or something because he's going

01:46:05.440 --> 01:46:13.840
to crush the PC Mark score as well. Oh man, PC Mark Vantage has crashed. So,

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

01:46:17.119 --> 01:46:24.320
run. I think that's fair. Rule technically says he has to immediately

01:46:21.040 --> 01:46:25.800
reset his own most. I think I'm going to

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

01:46:28.159 --> 01:46:35.040
little lenient if I have some issues in a minute. So, whatever.

01:46:32.800 --> 01:46:37.920
That was mainly your rule. You were you were the one that was hardcore. I know.

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

01:46:40.080 --> 01:46:46.400
this? That does not look great. Yeah, yours is doing that. Might be because of

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

01:46:48.639 --> 01:46:54.880
manipulation benchmark. I think it's not doing that. This is what mine looks

01:46:51.840 --> 01:46:57.199
like. Yeah, mine's being super screwy.

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

01:46:58.880 --> 01:47:04.280
back my overclock. Wow. Turn it off. Yep.

01:47:03.040 --> 01:47:10.560
Which is really Which is really

01:47:07.239 --> 01:47:12.320
shy snoody tooty.

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,

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

01:47:20.080 --> 01:47:27.360
completed that test. But his system isn't stable. So, I failed my PC Mark

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,

01:47:31.360 --> 01:47:38.560
which in Cinebench um basically amounted

01:47:34.480 --> 01:47:40.239
to about 2/3 of the score that I got.

01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:44.199
Uh, now we're going to have a look at our PC Mark results.

01:47:44.480 --> 01:47:49.840
How are we going to submit results or we just saving? Yep. Click submit results

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.

01:47:53.440 --> 01:48:05.440
That does not sound particularly right. Oh, okay. So, Austin's machine straight

01:47:58.320 --> 01:48:07.760
up derped and I apparently crushed Luke.

01:48:05.440 --> 01:48:11.239
How's your CPU image manipulation? hard drive. Importing pictures to Windows

01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:18.880
Photo Gallery. Yes. Why am I not seeing any

01:48:14.080 --> 01:48:23.080
stuff? What? I just Oh, the SSD paid off

01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:25.840
hardcore. Okay, you just got

01:48:23.080 --> 01:48:31.560
creamed. All right, 3D Mark Fire Strike time. Let's do it. Ready, set, go.

01:48:29.840 --> 01:48:36.320
Now, we decided that unless Austin's actually in

01:48:34.320 --> 01:48:41.040
contention, which I don't think either of us really thinks is going to happen

01:48:38.400 --> 01:48:44.719
on this side table here. Rude. Unless Austin's actually in contention, we're

01:48:42.960 --> 01:48:48.880
just going to throw out his PC Mark score. It just wouldn't finish. So,

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

01:48:50.960 --> 01:48:58.000
assign him a similar score to what Luke

01:48:54.800 --> 01:49:01.199
has. Your CPU is probably helping. Wait,

01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:05.840
crossfire's still on, right? Uh, yes, it

01:49:01.199 --> 01:49:09.760
is. Yeah, it's Yeah. Okay, so

01:49:05.840 --> 01:49:11.440
Oh, no. You're like Luke's crushing us

01:49:09.760 --> 01:49:13.840
both. Don't worry, though. There's the CPU.

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.

01:49:17.040 --> 01:49:23.520
I wonder if we'll have to turn off that graphics card. Overclocking. Sure hope

01:49:20.880 --> 01:49:27.280
not. It says running system info, though. What does that even mean? You're

01:49:25.119 --> 01:49:31.679
on. Is this a physics one? Physics now. Yeah. So, you're probably Oh, wow.

01:49:28.719 --> 01:49:36.960
That's really good. That's super good. That's going to crush your score. Yep.

01:49:33.920 --> 01:49:40.000
Let alone now it's a lot slower. Uh,

01:49:36.960 --> 01:49:42.639
wow. Yes. You just crashed, dude. Yeah.

01:49:40.000 --> 01:49:47.800
Oh, wow. RIP. Time to reset your graphics. Tons of graphical [ __ ] No.

01:49:48.400 --> 01:49:56.560
No. Oh, I'm running at stock settings. All

01:49:52.560 --> 01:49:58.320
right, I'm in the second test. M. Yeah,

01:49:56.560 --> 01:50:02.560
I like it. Although he's done this twice. It's my favorite.

01:50:00.480 --> 01:50:08.560
There was no lower enthusiasm. Yeah, the reenactment was flawless. Okay, so let's

01:50:05.440 --> 01:50:11.280
put Austin's story. 5546.

01:50:08.560 --> 01:50:18.159
Oh, 5580. Or you barely beat me. I beat Austin,

01:50:14.480 --> 01:50:21.679
dude. Fire strike. 5546 versus 5580.

01:50:18.159 --> 01:50:24.480
That's pretty close. All right,

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,

01:50:25.920 --> 01:50:30.880
which is exactly where I like him.

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.

01:50:34.080 --> 01:50:40.080
Whoa, that's lower than uh Whoa, that's

01:50:37.360 --> 01:50:48.440
lower than I thought it would be. Okay, no, that's fine. Average 109.

01:50:43.040 --> 01:50:51.440
87. Y Okay, so Austin comes in at

01:50:48.440 --> 01:50:53.920
109 even. Yes. With me coming in at

01:50:51.440 --> 01:51:01.360
84.9. Okay. All right. Let's run Far Cry 4.

01:50:57.719 --> 01:51:03.600
Okay. So, here's the update. We are

01:51:01.360 --> 01:51:08.000
swapping out Austin's graphics card with an

01:51:04.920 --> 01:51:10.960
R9270 to rerun PC Mark and give us

01:51:08.000 --> 01:51:16.639
approximately the equivalent of if this card were to run with a single GPU, what

01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:20.800
his PC Mark score would be. We know it's an approximation, but the cold hard

01:51:18.480 --> 01:51:25.119
truth is nobody actually runs PC Mark Vantage, so who cares? We're going to

01:51:22.719 --> 01:51:29.760
live with the approximation on Luke's system. We are running him off of an

01:51:27.600 --> 01:51:33.040
uninterruptible power supply to condition the power because I've seen

01:51:31.360 --> 01:51:36.960
this before where cheap power supplies will actually be able to handle a

01:51:34.800 --> 01:51:40.480
system, but won't be able to handle crummy power coming off the wall, which

01:51:39.040 --> 01:51:44.159
with all these systems running off the same outlet may in fact be the case

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

01:51:47.760 --> 01:51:52.800
are apparently rerunning my Cinebench. I was doing it so there was I was doing it

01:51:51.360 --> 01:51:57.480
so that there was something running to be but otherwise I have completed all of

01:51:56.639 --> 01:52:05.040
my benchmarks. 6711 he got a score. Okay.

01:52:01.840 --> 01:52:06.880
Do I get my OC back? I don't know man.

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

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

01:52:11.280 --> 01:52:16.800
get another crack with my overclock? Yeah. See like that's just like a a

01:52:14.320 --> 01:52:20.239
spiral. Maybe that is the dirty wall power.

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

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,

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

01:52:31.440 --> 01:52:37.719
Cry 4 right now. Yeah, it's not running very well. I

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

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,

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

01:52:55.280 --> 01:53:00.960
on that one. Yeah. Oh, man. But you

01:52:58.400 --> 01:53:05.119
crushed the graphics. You did crush the graphics. I think we should let Luke

01:53:02.400 --> 01:53:10.360
just use his old benchmark score. You guys, so the final scores are Austin

01:53:09.280 --> 01:53:18.000
with 455 out of 500 points. All right. Lionus

01:53:14.880 --> 01:53:21.560
with 362.

01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:26.880
out of 500 points and Luke with

01:53:21.560 --> 01:53:32.440
386 out of 500 points. Wow. So now all

01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:32.440
that's left is the cash count.

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.

01:53:37.520 --> 01:53:44.400
Uh 5989. I just used my calculator for Yeah, let

01:53:42.080 --> 01:53:52.159
me let me do that real quick. I spent 310. I Ah, I spent

01:53:49.320 --> 01:53:59.360
$218. Final price per dollar. Score is really high though. Wait, score per

01:53:55.360 --> 01:54:02.320
dollar. Higher is better. Good job. Good

01:53:59.360 --> 01:54:08.320
job. Officially wrecked. I think I called it. Minus one by 40%. Okay, let's

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

01:54:10.480 --> 01:54:17.280
of a funny story. If I had lost by $40,

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.

01:54:21.119 --> 01:54:27.760
And I was like, "No, man. Here's another

01:54:25.040 --> 01:54:34.560
20 bucks." Really? I'm going to fleece you slightly less. Oh my goodness. Wow.

01:54:30.800 --> 01:54:39.199
Now, I was betting heavy on my SSD. Mhm.

01:54:34.560 --> 01:54:40.800
I I paid $38 for my SSD. Wow. Which is a

01:54:39.199 --> 01:54:47.760
good deal still. It's a great deal. Yeah, but when you consider my

01:54:44.760 --> 01:54:50.639
$238 budget,

01:54:47.760 --> 01:54:55.280
dude, I paid $25 for my 150 gig hard drive.

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

01:54:56.639 --> 01:55:02.400
my motherboard and CPU. I was supposed to have a 9550 and some other board.

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

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

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

01:55:12.880 --> 01:55:18.239
set an appointment and have that appointment in the same day. I ended up

01:55:16.000 --> 01:55:23.199
going to FreeGeek Vancouver, which we've been talking about doing a thing. I got

01:55:20.000 --> 01:55:25.840
a Q6600 for 17 bucks. What? That

01:55:23.199 --> 01:55:29.520
motherboard's 35. That hard drive was 10. All that RAM was 40. I should have

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.

01:55:31.199 --> 01:55:37.199
All that RAM was only 40 bucks. and that power supply which actually murdered me

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

01:55:38.960 --> 01:55:46.159
stupid website. Um, but it it was 30

01:55:43.520 --> 01:55:52.400
bucks. Okay, so why don't we close this out? Austin, it was your first scrapyard

01:55:48.960 --> 01:55:54.239
wars. You came in on unfamiliar turf.

01:55:52.400 --> 01:55:58.000
How do you feel about your result? I feel like I spent way too much money.

01:55:55.679 --> 01:56:04.400
That was the big problem. I way misjudged the budget and I to be totally

01:56:02.320 --> 01:56:07.760
honest my build probably shouldn't have worked. Like how close I cut it to

01:56:06.400 --> 01:56:12.000
actually getting everything working at the last second like it should really

01:56:09.840 --> 01:56:15.199
should not have worked. Like the second in your defense my build shouldn't have

01:56:13.599 --> 01:56:18.960
worked either. The motherboard when you see how that motherboard was packed. My

01:56:17.119 --> 01:56:22.320
power supply barely works. We were all That happens every time dude in

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

01:56:23.920 --> 01:56:29.119
like I don't have a working system. I might just like be disqualified and like

01:56:26.960 --> 01:56:32.639
just not having anything to show. Oh man, that was that was brutal. But do

01:56:30.719 --> 01:56:35.440
you feel good about not getting disqualified? I feel so good. Like the

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

01:56:38.400 --> 01:56:43.840
system, this crazy contraption. It actually works. So happy. I'm still

01:56:42.159 --> 01:56:47.440
happy, which is good because you did come dead last. Yes, I did. All right.

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

01:56:51.920 --> 01:56:57.199
think I actually did quite well. you just got a crazy deal, which is that's

01:56:55.199 --> 01:57:00.560
scrapyard wars. That's totally fair. I just wish I actually bought that Corsair

01:56:58.960 --> 01:57:03.199
power supply. That's the only regret I have. I would have had pretty good

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

01:57:05.599 --> 01:57:13.040
yeah, I I wouldn't have changed much, just power supply.

01:57:09.239 --> 01:57:14.719
So, what I would have changed is I

01:57:13.040 --> 01:57:18.159
wouldn't have bought an extra $20 graphics card. So, I'm just going to for

01:57:16.639 --> 01:57:24.480
the sake of running numbers, I'm going to drop 20 bucks off my score here.

01:57:21.360 --> 01:57:26.639
Um, I wouldn't have tipped the guy 20

01:57:24.480 --> 01:57:31.599
bucks. That's crazy, dude. And my FPS per

01:57:29.440 --> 01:57:37.400
dollar score would have been literally more than double Austin's and would have

01:57:35.080 --> 01:57:43.679
been uh about

01:57:39.960 --> 01:57:45.440
25% better than Luke's. Wow. So, I feel

01:57:43.679 --> 01:57:49.440
really great about my performance overall. You did a good job, dude. Yeah.

01:57:47.280 --> 01:57:52.480
As a purist, I really would have liked to find a working sound device. I would

01:57:51.119 --> 01:57:56.719
have spent another five bucks to get a working sound card. That is like it's

01:57:54.400 --> 01:58:00.000
100% fair because there was no sound benchmarks, but that is if it was a

01:57:58.800 --> 01:58:06.080
system you were using. That's a little brutal only, right? Yep. Um, and I would

01:58:03.920 --> 01:58:09.840
have liked to spend time properly on my case. I would have liked to present a

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

01:58:13.280 --> 01:58:18.159
troll system. Yeah, dude. That was awesome. Part of the problem was I

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

01:58:21.599 --> 01:58:26.800
blast. It was so much fun. Me too. Interesting because you don't know what

01:58:25.040 --> 01:58:30.880
the other piece. Yeah. That was the hardest part. Honestly, I was getting

01:58:29.440 --> 01:58:35.920
pretty close to guessing near the end, but the whole time the duration. You had

01:58:33.599 --> 01:58:39.119
no idea what you were competing against in terms of price. Yeah. Right. I had no

01:58:38.080 --> 01:58:45.119
idea you were spending what you were spending. And

01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:46.800
I You were confusing the whole time. So,

01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:53.040
thanks for watching, guys. I hope you enjoyed Scrapyard Wars season 3. We'll

01:58:49.679 --> 01:58:54.239
see you again next time. Drop a like on

01:58:53.040 --> 01:59:01.360
the video and subscribe and all that good stuff. War.

01:58:57.760 --> 01:59:04.719
Good job, guys. All right.

01:59:01.360 --> 01:59:07.920
Awkward dude high five. Yeah.

01:59:04.719 --> 01:59:07.920
Slappy fight.