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dbrand okay so we're back from free geek we got a whole bunch of our parts we've
got a 77 775 motherboard 8 gigs of RAM a
q6600 160 GB hard drive and a 550 W BFG
tech power supply uh everything here I've tested except for the power supply
and the graphics card so hopefully that all works out um right now what I'm
trying to set up to do is hook all this stuff up in this corner I'm going to try
to get a monitor and keyboard and mouse over here too and then I'm going to have
my other desk where I'm doing my woodworking stuff right here so that
while this is running like Windows updates and junk I can hopefully work on
that so that once this is kind of done doing Windows updates and junk I can
mount it onto the wooden board and then hoping tomorrow that I can more focus on
overclocking and stuff all day because I really want to get that down I think I
can overclock this card a bit I think I can overclock that CPU a bit so I want
to take advantage of that extra performance so the one shitty thing
about not having the screws here is worth the 20 bucks for sure but is that
I can't screw in my DVI cable so it just
goes to there cuz normally there's a screw in there that I would screw in to
um so that's fine if I really wanted to I could use DisplayPort or HDMI
um but I'm just going to use DVI for now because it's the cable that I have but
I'm going to try to find screws to put in here just cuz it would be good form
not because it's actually really needed I guess here goes
nothing oh I was trying to document the
issue with this graphics card but since we changed to my test bench power supply
it's actually fine now which is pretty
bad news because what that means is that
our ghetto power supply works fine with
a card that it's not plugged directly into but then doesn't work with a card
that requires auxiliary power which means our
7970 might not run off this power supply even if it is rated at enough wattage it
might just be too crappy I'm muted damn it Taran how long
have I been muted um have I been muted since I like went
to the bathroom a billion years ago now because I've actually got time to spend
with my CPU the rules for overclocking
are that you can have an overclock but as soon as you run into stability issues
during the testing phase you have to turn off your overclock and run again
you don't get to like try and dial it in a little bit lower so it's working I
guess this is good news in that it's a working graphics card and that the power
supply is powering it but bad news in that I'm not getting my 20 bucks back if
I want to know if it'll work with a 7970 if I want to know if I need another
power supply what I could do is grab a
7970 and test it nope we do not have one
okay so that throws a bit of a monkey wrench
into my plan that's okay though we'll just find
another graphics card that draws a similar amount of power and go from
there we may end up using this card after all o wow inaccessible boot device
oh wow what what's going on here this computer is not happy now that we've
installed a power hungry card there are a lot of power supplies on
Craigslist nothing that cheap Corsair
CX500 would do the trick yeah this is this is not this is not booting this is
really bad and there's your buntu so the
graphics card works the power supply Works everything else I already tested
Works nice
okay on this station here I'm going to focus on formatting into Windows I need
to get uh Ubuntu off of here get into Windows on this drive and then over here
I'm going to keep working on my little woodworking project trying to get this
going using these sample pieces the sample po spy I have and Sample
motherboard that I have to kind of work on the layout of how everything's going
to actually be on here one other thing that
I need to do is actually use this screw bin and possibly use another few things
around the office to try to rig up the
back of that graphic cars that actually has screws on it although that isn't a
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Wars so we have two terrible power supplies but together hopefully that
equals one good power supply this is the
goods and core i7 oh core i7 what 2600
oh nice 6990
180 even for that old of a card that's a
deal I me this thing is a monster no so
I think it actually here let me see will it fit in the case uh oh
no oh my God all right so that's actually not going to fit in the case no
fear though this stuff we just cut all
this out right yeah actually this could probably even get yeah this will come
out you want to take a guess on like how much we spent on all this stuff mm 350
ah no it's like 550 okay so oh you spent
30 on like one stick yeah dude RAM was
tough RAM was really tough yeah you got taken for a ride but still the thing was
we no one had any cheaper RAM you honestly have like pretty Primo stuff
it's just this is the only concern at least you know the work right it's like
it's brand new exactly yeah so that's the thing we want we have everything
yeah so we have everything now we basically just need to make sure it works I'm a little worried because this
needs this is like a 500 watt card so this needs two eight pins so we're going
to have to make sure that these power supplies this power supply has Lord is
gray let's see it's not that bad um so it has a six pin here and I think it's
got an eight pin somewhere Sparkle power Sparkle power oh there's just a bunch of
adapters here okay does do you have the extra two doesn't have the extra
two wait what the what is going on here why are there so many adapters all these
mole have adapters on them we should have looked at this before yeah so
basically power supply right here tape it on cut this slash try to remove it
I'm not sure if it can be unscrewed or not but we can remove this somehow I'm
not really worried about that um and just hope that these two power supplies
are enough for the core i7 and the 6990 sorry do you need an actual
sander we have an actual sander yeah I have an actual sander oh is it a company
tool thing I've been using it here sure so sure
yeah I'm done with that yeah I'm done
with that okay I will grab that the cuz
are you using the uh yeah I know it's the wrong thing but it's actually kind
of working actually pretty well did
my I just sanded off the mark that I
made for where I wanted to
cut I'm not saying there's cheating involved but that's some point deduction
little suspicious right there we we know that lonus was uh still sending messages
after five was he yeah uh how do you know I asked him and he told
me he's cheating so he's absolutely
cheating cheating I'm calling about the
CX500 power supply I can come get it today if you can do 20 sure why not um
20 so I could yeah like if you just give me an address I can I can get there
tonight no problem well if you leave now you can come to my house I I I still
won't be at work yet so is that okay I live in Richmond though yeah okay yep a
son of a okay 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 Coquitlam and we are going to be all
over the place for the next little bit here okay so he won't set it up to to
show us it works but we have another
option so we got a $20 power supply to
go with our $100 graphics
card and we'll just bring a computer with us to test it let's go
okay I think we can I think we can hit all these places today as long as our
back alley contact is on time I think we got
this it's 3:00 and it's 10 minutes to our next
destination you know what new plan
because back alley guy wasn't able to
meet until 4ish so we're going to go straight back
to Coquitlam and then to the back alley
and as long as we can get there before 5 if it takes us a little longer to drive
back we technically haven't broken the rules you have to be done scrap yarding
and head back at 5 new we're good I think the rule is you
have to be back at 5:30 well it's all very gray anyway op
right there 20 bucks y That's cook you
oh you got it from NC I see tell from the NC sticker yeah okay
cables are inside and presumably it works yeah pleasure doing business with
you huge fan actually oh H yeah screw it
okay here you go I well nothing that we
know of at the moment I only have one of those though that's okay I can get an
adapter just well I mean if it doesn't super work just let me know cuz I got we
didn't have time to test our 7970 but the guy said we can come back tomorrow
morning if we need a refund so at least
we have the backup plan of using our 6850 and returning the 7970 so that's
good and our quote from Google Maps right now is that we will arrive in the
back alley at 458 he said we can have the sound card
for free just if we just come pick it up
I am going to have my system thank you thank you thank
you all right all right we got our sound
card so our back alley best friend
hooked us up with an AIG G2 and a Sound
Blaster live both of which are PCI graphics cards and at least one of which
I'm hoping will both work and have drivers for Windows 7 which is what
we've standardized on using so um as
long as that's the case I have everything I need for my winning
computer yeah so I feel better
about telling you guys stuff I really Ed's been uh very helpful he's not been
an impartial cameraman so we've been a team here but I I didn't know I wasn't
supposed to help I didn't either very much not an impartial cameraman as you
give you give us you give me a reason why escap the windowless dungeon the
L so we may need to hurry up a little bit
you got you got what you have 1 hour an hour and 50 minutes okay no no it's uh
cut off it's 5 oh so you have this is helpful
a smaller one okay oh do we need
something to short the penss on the oh paper CLI paper clip yeah sure maybe you
have a paper no what do you need it for how are you a
Salesman without paperclip how are you a video without a paper clip you think I
deal on paper pitch oh you get that you think this
will actually work this sounds like we're about to die this out of the way a
man installing it or are we uh I'm installing outside the case first to
test it yeah let's build outside the case you're right we can't really build
inside the case
because okay memory's good no you cut out I can't get back at
it it's way too tight especially with a big knife like this
like this is a bad idea it's a really
bad idea it's so
tight SC I know I'm scaring me with this
right now oh no I slightly damaged some of the
sleeping uhoh that's not good oh yes
okay we're good we're good we're good um okay slight problem this motherboard
needs an eight pen connector and we only have a four also bad news this also has
a four pin can we can each power supply
power half the CPU too that seems like a horrible idea either we try to see if
one four pin will work no no we got to do this let's try
with one four pin let's hopefully that will work can we have a quick time check
450 so we have 10 minutes do we just try it oh we need to still oh we need to
still do the paperclip thing how is this going to work
dude okay so this is a green you do not
agree that's green yeah that is GRE okay and the one right beside it is black oh
man I feel like you're not supposed to do this with a staple feel like you're not supposed to do this ever but
especially not with a staple wait what you talking about oh
no we don't have a way of turning this on screwdriver I've never done that
before what are you talking about
yes yes it works power supply power supply
fan fan yes we did it okay we just need
to make sure this is actually like posting but all the fans are running it
looks like it's working need some sanding but there's my
graphics card holding plate or my power supp holding plate maybe the power
supply my computer is still setting up over there Windows 7 Professional is
still applying my settings it's been doing that forever it's kind of getting
annoying let's try this cool so just like I had kind of
hoped um I don't actually even need this block it'll just hopefully look cool I
hope it looks cool I really hope it looks cool school it looks like it works
but it's not posting and we're over time this is seems like a horrible idea
horrible idea but whatever let's do it they don't want to go in together what
are you talking about we just squish it don't worry good enough good enough ter
I know no no this power supply should be spinning right now I don't understand why it's not this should be
working oh you're right oh come on
oh dude I don't know if these are supposed to work together I don't think they not because you're not supposed to
put that in side words no we we're going from mole to six pin and then going six
pin eight pin like we did here except this time to power the CPU I actually
have never even tried this I don't think it'll work but it could uh could it
maybe I I have a feeling this shouldn't work if it does work it shouldn't work
look at this what have we done no no it's not going work it's
different okay so at this point I think we have to call it a day um the fan spin
the two power supply thing actually works which is more than I thought I
could say but it won't post and I think the problem is powering the motherboard
so we have a 1 18 pen power connector for the CPU we only have a four pen from
each power supply so neither of them are actually enough to get it to post um I'm
assuming that's the problem because when we tried to plug in both four pin which
which you're not really supposed to do um this power supply freaked out and stopped working so I'm pretty sure if we
could get these two somehow between the two to power the CPU we would be good um
so yeah I think we got to give up for the day and maybe tomorrow come up with
like a game plan of like how we're going to power this thing but we're close but
H this is the this is the best case this is the best case if it's just the eight
pin we can't power it worst case is something here is broken in which case
we are way more screwed okay I think
it's time to call it a night until tomorrow sweet
prince oh man I hope we can figure this out I really do next time on scrapyard
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