Welcome to Season 5 of Scrapyard Wars.
The competition is going to be hotter than ever
because Luke and I are traveling to sunny California
to take on, yes, we're going to be on a team for the first time,
Paul from Paul's Hardware
and Kyle from Awesome Sauce News Network Bit Wit.
It's a team battle.
Everyone gets 500 American US dollars
to build the best RGB gaming computer they can.
Make sure it's all there.
You know him.
And go.
Oh, yeah.
And it's brought to you by iFixit and FreshBooks.
Okay.
Ready, guys?
Three, two, one.
Scrapyard Wars!
Okay, go, go, go.
What are you doing with the money?
We've got to get started.
Two teams try to build the best gaming rig they can for $500.
The rules are simple.
You work within the set hours, you buy the parts you use,
and you can't use your influence as a YouTuber to get deals.
Oh, and the best RGB computer gets a...
10% score bonus.
Welcome to Scrapyard Wars.
You have the money?
Okay, so who's...
Okay, good. Close enough.
Where does everybody build?
What?
You guys can be there. We'll go there.
We're there? You guys are in the kitchen?
Sure.
Okay. All right, we get the...
That gives them an advantage.
Wow.
They apparently have a lot of confidence
that I think is unjustified.
Maybe.
Because these guys are cruising for a bruising here.
We need laptops, stat,
because we don't know what the heck is going on.
We gotta remember that we don't know anything around here.
Right.
And also that this isn't the real money.
This is Paul and Kyle's money that we have to give back to them.
I'm kind of hungry. We haven't had lunch yet.
Yeah, I know.
We should probably eat.
There's a good place to eat.
Okay.
Do we have time for lunch?
You know what? Why are you guys hoarding all the water?
Like, it's really hot here,
and we're gonna need our water.
Also, this is your money, so we'll need that.
Okay.
How are you guys getting money?
We'll have to go get the real money
from the hotel room where I left it.
Okay.
But it's okay.
I can just give you some of this money,
and then you can bring that tomorrow
if that saves some time.
Well, we left it on, like, the counter in the bathroom,
and we didn't put the Do Not Disturb on,
and it's like $1,000 of actual money.
So I actually don't know
if we're gonna go back to the hotel room.
I think I'm just gonna roll the dice on the money on the counter
because we've only got two and a half days, effectively.
We started so late.
We've never worked together.
I don't even know what to say to you.
I know.
I'm just automatically looking things up.
I'm looking at Goodwill Electronic Recycling right now.
Okay.
Okay, so how about I start tracking down what's on Craigslist.
Do they have Kijiji here?
I don't know about Kijiji here.
I don't really think so.
Okay.
Because Kijiji is owned by eBay,
and eBay is bigger in the States.
Now, you were saying this earlier,
like, they might not know that Orange County
is pretty nearby here.
So if we're lucky, they might end up hitting up LA Craigslist.
Which is gonna be, like, hella traffic.
Is this Ontario, Canada?
Three gig Toronto, yeah.
No dice.
Yeah.
If they're looking at LA, this is our home field advantage.
If they're looking at LA traffic,
or if they're looking at LA locations,
they might get all the way into LA, which is to the north.
Right.
But we're, like, right on the border to go south, Orange County.
I think our initial goal should be to try to find a really cheap,
complete system that somebody's selling
that we can get base components, like a case and a power supply,
that we can get, like, dirt cheap.
And then for art, I think the RGB integration
is gonna be a challenge, but I feel like we might consider...
All right, we do have an ace in the hole,
an option, which is Micro Center.
Should we head out, or...?
I just realized that we can't leave them here, though,
because I have to lock the door.
I love how we get the workshop. This is awesome.
Except they said it's gonna get really hot,
and that has central air, and this doesn't.
Oh. So we thought that they were...
No, I didn't.
Oh.
You claimed the workshop.
So you knew that we were getting s*** on...
Yes.
...immediately.
Yep.
Great.
You were like, let's...
We take the workshop, and I was like, oh, crap.
Okay.
Well, I'm sorry.
Sorry to interrupt.
We just realized we all need to leave together,
because I need to lock the door.
Otherwise, it will be unlocked.
And just whenever we go.
This isn't Canada, guys.
I know.
We lock our doors.
People will kill us.
Do you have a second key?
Yeah, do you have a key?
Like, I'm...
I realize I'm asking for a lot.
Would the garage door work?
Garage door is not really an option, unfortunately.
All right.
I have an idea, but we'll discuss when the cameras are off.
Okay.
So here it is.
Strictly platonic.
Here we go.
Wait.
What am I doing?
So L.A. sucks.
What I mean by this is there's, like, nothing there
in terms of used PC parts.
Everything's MacBooks.
You know what I think the first thing we have to do is?
Is get our bearings.
Like, maybe the reason you can't find anything for Ontario
is that that's not, like, a relevant thing.
Where we should be going?
Yeah, like, where's, like, Orange County?
And where's, like...
I don't think that's...
Hollywood and...
Hollywood's, like, an hour away, I think.
I just mean, like...
No, I hear you.
I hear you.
So these are, like...
Are these counties?
Is El Monte...
These are all really small.
Okay, so Los Angeles is, like, a fair ways that way.
I don't even know where Hollywood is.
All I know is there's a big sign that I've never seen,
even though I've been to L.A.
quite a few times.
These guys are leaving already?
What?
You guys are leaving already?
You guys are still here.
I mean, you understand what happens in this area
with traffic after it gets past, like, 2 p.m., right?
Don't tell him.
It's past 2 p.m.
It's not like it's gonna matter.
There will be traffic.
Wherever, everywhere.
That's all that matters.
Don't give him any...
Yeah, it's after 2 p.m.
Yeah, you guys are screwed.
Okay, bye.
Bye.
Well, what are we gonna do?
I hate you.
I have a feeling they're just going to Kyle's house.
Oh, that makes sense.
Those guys are so full of .
You know what?
I think that these guys actually,
if they actually intend to get out there today,
are gonna be in for a rude surprise in terms of, like...
Research matters, man.
Yeah, how not efficient that is.
Yeah.
Maybe it was kind of unfair and, like,
of us to stack the teams like this.
I don't know, man.
Then again, like, I'm gonna be killing my...
Not killing myself.
But kicking myself at the very least
for saying something like that.
And then potentially losing?
And then potentially losing.
To figure out somebody bribed the judges,
what if we had food that was somehow associated with the system
that they could eat,
and the food was colored red, green, and blue?
Like, uh, green eggs and ham type of thing,
like, on the power supply.
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe that's...
Like I said, call me crazy.
I'm just, I'm spitballing here.
Potentially.
Just throwing out ideas.
We're gonna have to make, like, a, you know,
like, a fast food run right before we get to the judges then,
and, like, maybe, like, put all the food inside the case,
and when they open it up, you know, it's like,
dinner served.
Exactly.
Make us win.
Um, that should work out perfectly.
That or paint.
I mean, I mean, if we can't,
if we can't find anything that lights up RGB...
Yeah.
Maybe there's some things at your house,
maybe there's some things that light up at your house
that aren't necessarily,
oh, I guess we couldn't use anything.
Yeah, I think we have to buy everything.
We have to buy everything.
I'm gonna call this place right now.
Okay.
Hey, Jared.
Um, I was wondering if you guys sell any, uh,
like, sort of pre-built systems that, uh,
are somewhat or fully functional?
Sorry about that.
I'm Kyle from Bitwit.
I'm Kyle from Bitwit, you idiot!
You've missed your chance to meet me!
God!
All right, um...
909?
I thought, I thought we weren't allowed to go into the 909.
That's, that's a dangerous area.
What? No, it's not.
Is it?
The 909, that's, that's nothing crackheads and...
That means, that means they'll be willing to sell computer parts
for really cheap.
That's true.
Kyle and I obviously, uh, go back for quite a while.
We work together at Newegg.
We do a regular, regular weekly live show
on Tuesday evenings at 5.30 p.m. Pacific time.
And, uh, it's, it's, uh,
it's, it's been good so far.
I think we have a, a good basic understanding of, like,
you know, working together and everything, so that's good.
We're pretty used to each other's vibe
and, uh, can really feed on each other's ideas
and things like that.
We're, we're really good at bouncing back,
back and forth ideas, so, um,
so far it's been a pretty positive experience.
What's the rule, what's the rule if,
like, if we...
With crackheads?
If we bought some crack or something
at, like, a really good rate...
Ooh, crack, I didn't think about that.
...let's say, let's say we knew a guy...
Right.
...and then we could bring it out to that area
and perhaps we could trade up, you know?
Okay.
We could get more for our, for...
They would all just kind of come screwing up.
I don't know what the rules are
with scrapyard wars for, like,
an intermediary form of currency or...
Crackyard wars.
...other exchanges.
Crackyard wars.
Sometimes I can be a little sporadic
and, and scatterbrained and he brings back the focus,
but then I can sort of drive the urgency,
so I think it's a nice balancing act.
13.
Hi, uh, I was wondering if you guys sell
any pre-built computer systems?
No, we don't.
So I'm thinking, I'm thinking this might be a good area
to kind of have as a base of operations.
We're in, uh, Roland Heights right now.
Newegg is located just a few blocks that way
as well as quite a few of the larger manufacturers,
uh, parts like MSIs over there,
Gigabytes over there, Zotac's over there.
So there's a lot of kind of techy people in that,
you know, who might work with,
actually work with them directly.
Not that we're, like, trying to find anyone we know,
but I feel like, I feel like in this area we could find some.
Well, that's a good idea.
Um, so I think maybe get some food
and while we're sitting down we can make some calls,
uh, via Craigslist or something like that.
I think if we get, I think if we get food
then we've already won, really.
That's probably true.
Basically.
You can't, you can't hunt for computer parts
on an empty stomach.
From minute zero, you have to bust
or else you are just gonna fail.
I'm so glad that we stopped here at Lee's Sandwiches,
purveyors of fine Vietnamese baguette-based sandwiches
and stuff to eat and recoup and gather our thoughts.
I agree.
Also, we're so overconfident, I think.
So FreshBooks' sponsorship is that
we use the FreshBooks app to track all of our, um, our expenses.
So we could do time tracking, but, like,
we're not billing for anything we're doing.
But you basically just go like this,
and then you just, like, put what it is
Oh, that's pretty easy.
and how much it was and the currency.
That's probably gonna be easier to track than, like...
And then you attach receipts, so you just take a picture.
Perfect.
Yeah, cool.
I don't know why we were ever using a spreadsheet for this before.
I'm sorry, I will get Excel open at some point here
and everything will be fine.
Hi, I was just wondering if you guys sell used computer parts?
Yeah.
Um, basically, we're, like, we're trying to build, uh,
a pretty good gaming system for a friend,
but we've only got, like, a few hundred bucks,
so we don't have a huge budget,
and we were thinking maybe buying used would be a good idea, so...
Oh.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I think, um, I think we were looking for Windows,
so, um, thank you very much, then.
If you look at PC parts on Craigslist,
it comes up with Mac Maglock power adapters.
It's all Macs.
Macs to the max.
MacBook Air.
iMac.
MacBook Pro.
Apple Mac Remote.
This is what I'm dealing with here!
We should just build a Mac.
Like, what are we expecting for 500 US dollars?
So someone wants 400 bucks for an R7 370,
FX83 28 gigs RAM, 1 terabyte hard drive.
Holy .
This is not, like, as cheap.
as I was sort of hoping it would be.
There's a 970 for 190 bucks.
Should we decide now?
Like, do we go for the RGB modifier,
or do we forget about it?
I think we don't focus on it, at least at the start.
Do you think they're gonna go for it?
We could try and do it creatively.
Like, we could buy, like, red, green, and blue paint.
Yeah, I thought about that,
but making that look genuinely cool might be difficult.
Maybe not.
If we had enough time, like, it's hot here,
so paint would dry really fast.
Have you ever done, like, cornering?
Cornering.
Like, use a few different emails and phone numbers
to lowball super hard,
and then, like, do a more reasonable one?
You're such an .
I've never done that on Scrapyard Wars, I don't think.
Okay, should I get on creating a few gmails?
I have a few.
Of course you do.
Okay, so we're half an hour in,
and...
I have got the Scrapyard Wars 5 doc open
in my activated copy of Word.
That's where I'm at.
I got, honestly, almost nothing done for the first hour.
Hi, I was just wondering
if you guys sell used computer parts?
No, no parts.
Hi, I was wondering
if you guys have used computer components for sale?
Um, with the garage.
I really hope those guys are, like,
not finding anything right now,
because there is not a lot of time.
I just found a really good deal on Craigslist.
It was a 2500k overclockable
for 90 bucks in Garden Grove,
but I kind of screwed up.
What?
I emailed him from my business email.
Ooh.
Like, so he knows...
If he knows, if he recognizes me,
but in any way, shape, or form,
that means we can't do the deal.
Technically, rules of Scrapyard Wars,
so I'm really hoping that I'm not as popular.
If he doesn't recognize you,
then we would just want to confirm,
yes, we will pay this much,
and we will come and get it.
Yeah.
And then it wouldn't matter,
because we would have confirmed
the price beforehand.
Right.
Okay, so Inland Empire,
Norco, actually,
we have a i5 2500k-based system.
This is a complete system for $450.
Corsair memory looks like an 8-gig...
It seems like two 4-gig sticks.
P67 motherboard,
a GTX 950 graphics card,
so that's not that great,
but a Seasonic 600-watt power supply,
OCZ 240-gig SSD,
and even some, like, LED,
red LED fans in there.
So, it's a lot of stuff.
Maybe we could reply and ask him
if we could just omit the GTX 950,
since we don't need it,
as well as, like, there was, like,
bundling some other crappy gaming peripherals.
Motherboard, or keyboard, and a mouse.
Maybe if we could just eliminate those
and try to talk him down on price,
because right now it's $450,
which is most of our budget,
but if we can cut that down to, like, $350 or something...
Do you think ketchup and mustard cables count as RGB?
Oh, oh, oh, Kyle, Kyle, did you...
You didn't leave your backpack, did you?
Laptop?
No.
Damn.
We need to do something today, though.
We need to...
We gotta stop somewhere.
We need to interact with other humans.
It feels like we haven't done anything.
It's like we went to Lee's and ate sandwiches,
which was delicious.
I don't regret that.
In fact, we could just go back there again tomorrow, I think.
Oh, my God.
What if we just, like, went to a scrapyard
and, like, found some metal and, like, bent it?
I mean, we've got iFixit kits.
Yeah.
We'll make it work.
So, what does the iFixit ProTech Toolkit have in it?
Um...
Okay, we've got...
We've got a 64-bit screwdriver kit.
Is that good for bending metal?
I mean, it'll help us, like, fix it together.
No, okay.
It's got their prying tools.
I'm thinking steel, sheet steel.
No, not what that's for.
Suction cups for removing screens.
Um, we've got, uh...
We've got ESD-safe tweezers and ESD wrist strap.
So, this looks great for stabbing you for terrible ideas.
That was your idea.
Stab yourself.
That was not my idea.
To bend the metal?
Oh, that was my idea.
I said I was gonna make it out of wood.
Okay.
Well, okay.
So, the iFixit kit is good for lots of things.
Like making a case out of wood?
Like making...
No, it's not good for making a case out of wood.
You can screw it together.
It's good for reasonable things.
Hi, I called up, um, computer recycling team
and was recommended to you.
I'm looking to buy some used computer components.
I have a, like, 800-watt...
We're pretty comfortable with DIY and used stuff.
Like, we would, uh, we don't have that kind of a budget.
Like, I can already tell that power supply is gonna be, like,
half of what we would have to spend.
Okay.
Um, so you said you're gonna have some more used...
Do those motherboards that you had to go through tomorrow,
do those have CPUs and RAM in them as well?
Like, could we dig through the pile?
Oh.
Great, yeah.
Thanks.
All right, cool.
What?
50% or more off of ticket.
For brand...
For, like, wholesale stuff, I guess it makes sense,
because this is where all...
Like, this is where basically all the computer parts
for North America come in.
Yeah.
So I guess it's more likely, like,
for there to be a pallet of random motherboards
that, like, didn't sell or whatever.
I don't know.
I don't know if we're gonna do very well with that, though,
to be honest.
Because, like, if he only has the motherboard...
Like, bundles.
That's where you...
No, I know, I know.
But I often find, like...
Like, how many scrapyard wars have we had to buy a power supply
at the very end?
Yeah.
Like, almost every time.
Yeah.
And he's got a 50% off power supply.
Yeah, but, like, even a be quiet! 800 watt at 50% off
is still, like, $100.
You can spend, like, 40 bucks, 30 bucks on a power supply.
Yeah.
This is a 2400, 3.1 gigahertz.
It has 4 gigs of DDR3, I think 250.
Oh, okay.
We've seen significantly better pricing on that kind of era stuff,
so I might have to pass on that one.
But I'll call you back if our other leads fall through then.
Yeah.
Okay, thanks.
Did he say asshole?
Absolutely.
Ah.
Well, that's a lot nicer of a thing to say.
Yeah.
Okay, so there's a full gaming PC for $450,
which is right up there with our budget,
but it's almost $100.
It's good to go.
It's got an FX9590, Hyper 212 EVO, an R9 390,
which is a Sapphire card.
390 is still pretty solid.
16 gigs of DDR3, 725-watt power supply.
This thing is pretty much good to go right out the gate,
especially because it's got a Phanteks P400,
which is a fairly new case.
It's a very recent case that has RGB LEDs in it
and a 2-terabyte hard drive.
The only thing that's missing here is an SSD,
at least from the looks of it.
So that would give us 50 bucks for an SSD.
If we're just putting the OS on it,
we probably don't need more than a 60-gig SSD,
which is great.
Which we should be able to find for that price.
I'm emailing him right now.
The only issue is that he lives in Calabasas.
He or she lives in Calabasas,
which is probably an hour-fifteen drive one way
without traffic.
We're not having too much luck with Craigslist so far.
We've found some listings,
but we haven't heard back from anyone we've contacted yet.
So I have installed LetGo,
which is an app that just allows you to take a picture
of something and then offer it to people to trade stuff.
There does seem to be a decent amount of stuff in here.
I found this listing for three computer towers.
So just a case, but they're nine bucks each.
And if we can knock out a decent case
that'll fit everything and looks okay for nine dollars,
then I'll feel like we accomplished something today.
Hi, this message is for Jason.
I'm calling about...
Oh, can I start this over?
Oh, crap.
980 for 175, mother .
Yeah, if you come over,
I don't mind hooking it back up to my rig,
running it through a benchmark.
I'm off today, any time.
Let's go.
Okay.
So I realize we don't have an address yet,
but that's okay.
I have gummies.
So we'll go back to the hotel
while we wait for him to get back to us on the address.
I finally feel like we have a purpose.
Let's go.
Yeah, this is Lilia from JE Components.
You messaged us on eBay.
So you guys had some Xeons listed, correct?
Yes.
Were they 5670s?
Sorry, I've messaged quite a few people.
Yeah, 56, 5670.
But right now we have them listed for 110.
110.
Can you do any better than that?
Were you looking for the pair or?
I did want a pair of them
because the board that we were able to find,
like we're kind of scraping together bits and pieces here.
The best we can do right now is 100.
100 for both.
Yeah.
Like if we can't build a system for 325,
like then we should probably just stop making Scrapyard Wars
because we clearly suck.
Shoot, there's more than one.
Yeah.
Of the exact same address.
Like one of them's in Fullerton.
One of them's in Whittier.
I think there's actually more.
Does it say on his Craigslist ad?
Oh, I'll check.
I'll check.
That's in the dock, right?
Yep.
Okay, I'll check.
Oh, crap.
I think Bakersfield is a different place altogether.
Oh, my God.
This is two hours away.
Yeah, I'll call Paul.
We can ask for mercy.
Yeah.
If you were them, would you give us mercy?
I have before.
Yeah.
Yeah, but you're soft and weak like that.
So we wanted to know, you know, given the late start today,
you know, what would be the odds of doing like a longer pickup tonight, you know?
Go straight.
Actually, he's probably going to get picked in about a half an hour.
Okay.
I tried to talk him out of it.
You know, he just said, I don't care.
Yeah.
You or Scrapyard Wars or anything.
Yeah.
You know, I just, I really thought you guys were cool, which is...
Well, no, he's not saying no to us.
He's just saying that Kyle has to go.
We're just wondering if we can go drive somewhere and drive back.
So basically what you're saying is that Kyle's being pretty inconsiderate then.
I'm definitely passing the buck, yeah.
But, you know, we don't want to stretch the rules or bend them out of shape or go 18 hours over time or anything like that.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I can respect that.
I'm just going to be thinking about how much I respect that.
If you call me and you need a tool or whatever, you know.
Well, you know, we're not vengeful though.
So, all right.
All right.
Thanks, Paul.
I never know you need to be.
Okay.
Thanks, Paul.
Okay.
Bye.
Thanks for nothing, Paul.
You .
Yeah.
So Linus was asking if we could extend tonight during a time period when he knows you will not be here.
That's BS.
Okay.
I already told him that I wouldn't be available after 5.30ish or 6.
Yeah.
So unless you want to go alone, but I don't know if that's.
I wouldn't seem appropriate, especially because I might get mugged.
Oh, yeah.
And I know that your jiu-jitsu skills are probably.
That would be horrible.
If you got mugged, I don't, like, that would traumatize me.
Yeah.
You know.
Like, I don't know if I could handle that, you getting mugged.
If we have to pay $100 for the CPUs, we get the 24 gigs of RAM.
The dual socket board, the 175 GTX 980, the $40 case, if we can get the SSD for $35 with no tax, and we can get the hard drive for $10, then we are going to be, we're going to be $25 over.
Over.
$25 over.
I was testing them out, and one of them was defective, so I threw it away.
Okay.
So it's.
So it's two drives for $10?
Yeah.
You can have them for $10.
It's fine.
You can have both for $10.
I don't care.
Okay.
I'm calling up Michael here.
Let's see if Michael is going to come down from $250 to $175 on that there video card.
If I could talk to him, maybe I can reason with him.
I don't blame people for not picking up my calls.
Must show up on the caller ID, like, terrible person.
Hello?
Hi.
Is this Michael?
Yeah.
Hi.
Um, I saw your Craigslist ad for an MSI GTX 980.
Yeah.
Would you be interested?
Um, yeah.
I'm interested, but I, I hate to be, I hate to be one of those people, but I only have
$175.
Are you able to do that?
Um.
Sorry about work right now.
I can.
$125.
I can come get it, like, tomorrow.
Like, quick sale at least, if it has that going for it.
Uh.
I can't do $175.
I'm sorry.
Uh, how many, one, one seven or just one?
I, I, I only, I mean, I only have $175, so unless you wanted to do both of them for $175,
it's definitely just one.
I'm sorry.
I can't do that.
What's the best you can do?
Excuse me?
For one, uh, the best I can, the best I can do is $220, my man.
Is what, sorry?
It's $220.
$180?
$220.
Oh, $220.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I definitely misheard you there.
Um.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
I just, I don't think that's in the cards for me right now.
I really appreciate it, though.
Um, actually, actually, could you do two?
What's that?
Sorry?
Could you do two?
$200.
$200?
I'm on a, I, you know what, I should probably tell you, like, sort of what, what's going
on here.
Um, basically, one of our buddies is moving away, he doesn't have a gaming rig, and everybody
scraped together $500.
That's all we've got.
Um, and so we're trying to get kind of everything for that.
And basically, we've budgeted it out, and we've got $175 for the video card.
Like, that's kind of where I'm at, and I can maybe stretch, like, another $10.
Like, could you do $185?
You know what?
I can do $185.
You can do $185?
Yeah.
Okay.
That is incredibly, incredibly cool of you.
I think we can, hold on.
I think we can make this work.
If we can get an SSD for $35.
And I get the CPUs from the other shop where there's no tax.
And we do, and we do 16 gigs of RAM instead of 24.
Then we're at $498.17.
Maybe I should have negotiated on the $2.50.
I'm telling you, dude.
So far we've got, like, what, two bucks?
Not even quite?
Uh, yeah, $2 left.
$2.
If I can get this guy, if I can get this guy to $7.50, then we'll have $4.50.
If we drive five hours, then we'll have $14.50, which is probably enough to do something RGB.
We could probably do something RGB for free.
Like, if we just wanted to, like, be idiots and, like, find red things and, like, leaves.
Fantastic.
That one works?
Absolutely.
Yeah, that one works.
Okay.
Done deal.
Pleasure doing business with you.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Does this have two drives in it?
This might have two drives in it.
Maybe it's, like, a RAID thing?
Is that what the dual interfaces are for?
Maybe there's actually two drives?
We'll have to see, but...
You know what's really funny is iFixit sponsored this, and we actually have to disassemble hard drive.
Day one, we have a thing.
Well, two things.
With that, our day is sort of done, though.
I think we got this.
Yeah, well, it's six o'clock.
Exactly.
We're just out getting food.
Yeah.
I have food.
Look.
Food.
Brandon, food?
Save food.
Yeah, we're not doing Scrapyard Wars anymore.
We're just getting some food.
Don't worry about it.
Okay, so let's drive back to the restaurant that we are at right now.
Okay, so this is day two, Scrapyard Wars.
Day one, Paul and I didn't really get any parts.
No one's here from the other team, right?
They can't hear us.
Okay, so we didn't get any parts yesterday,
so all the emails that I sent out was just casting a really wide net,
just being very polite and trying to see if anyone would reply.
I'm following up with all those people now.
Like, my house is on fire and we're all about to die
because we only have one more day of this.
Tomorrow is pretty much judgment day,
so pretty much we need to start parting things together,
hopefully by the end of tonight, early tomorrow morning.
So we're just going to have to see if people respond to a sense of urgency
and can tell in the tone of my emails
that this is a matter of life.
I feel like we've made some real connections
on a deep, emotional, human level
with the people that we're trying to negotiate with,
and that's important. We're getting the best deals.
Sorry, but I'm trying to get rid of the whole computer,
not interested in parting out. Screw you!
Kyle has some strategery he's working on right now.
We'll see if that works out. I'm not really sure.
Are you serious right now?
Yeah.
You're literally cleaning your car.
That's important.
In day two of Scrapyard Wars.
We need to be able to see clearly out the Windows
to the computer hardware that's outside.
You should not have Windex in your hand
unless it's for a side panel window, damn it.
All right, first stop for today is Fullerton, California.
Lovely town, established in 1898.
Get to the point, Paul.
Sorry.
There's a guy there with cases.
He has, I think he has four of them.
Some of them have some parts still in them.
Given that he's got four and he wants like nine bucks for them,
and it sounds like he might even just be like,
just please take these,
it might be just kind of a good stepping out
off point, get something in hand,
very minimal investments.
And we're really hoping there might be a power supply
in one of them that's usable too.
In other news, I just got a reply from the dude
that has a CPU and motherboard.
It's a KSKU.
I can't even remember, probably a 2600K.
It's all a border right now,
but it's a good CPU and motherboard.
And this is the guy who didn't want to meet us at lunch
because on his lunch break from work
because he said it was going to take too long
to assemble the system.
I told him that I'm a full-time system builder
and I could provide any assistance if possible.
And he said, that won't speed things up.
I just need to unscrew everything,
including my specialty mounted liquid cooler from the board.
Can you text me at this number?
So we got a number from him.
That's good.
So faster communication.
He said that would be faster.
I might be able to work something out.
I'm okay with you.
We're okay.
You know me.
I mean, I've got so much stuff listed on Craigslist.
I have so much stuff listed on LetGo and OfferUp
that afterwards I'll drop the price.
You just got to clear it out.
Are each of these 10 bucks?
Or what's actually the pricing on?
For this full working one, about 30.
25, 30.
For this, 10, 10.
That one, 5.
Do you know what's inside of that, by the way?
XP.
It's an XP?
It's a Dell.
There's a modem in there.
Yeah, here. Look, guys.
So it's also potentially a proprietary power supply.
So the power supply will not work for us.
Oh, okay.
It's proprietary, so it doesn't have the...
You guys are looking for something.
We're trying to part out an entire system
as quickly and as inexpensively as possible.
This is the basic game.
So there's a hard drive in there.
But I do appreciate you contacting me.
I do appreciate you following up.
Of course.
I like people like that
because I can drop the price
and get rid of all this stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
My wife can be happy.
I can be happy.
You can be happy.
This is an ATX chassis.
It could work.
It's got a window.
So technically, we'd be able to put some RGB lighting in it
and it would shine through.
Nothing else is really usable.
The hard drive's only 40 gig.
And it looks like we don't have the correct pins
or anything on that motherboard.
Well, the motherboard's just super outdated.
I don't even know what chipset it is.
The case looks good, though.
The case could work.
How much did you say for this one again?
Nine dollars.
Okay.
That is very strange.
I want you happy, guys.
I just can't hold this stuff.
I can't get back in the garage.
I feel you.
Yeah.
So this one doesn't have a window.
I'm trying to be honest.
Yeah, it's trying to find buyers for stuff.
I haven't had a job for over a year, guys.
Yeah.
I tend to hold on to things.
I feel you.
Are you sold on this one?
Do you think this will work?
It's got the space we need.
Is it a standard power supply mount?
Yeah, it's a typical standard ATX power supply mount.
All right, that'll work.
What about this girl?
We like the window on this guy
because that's one of the chipsets.
I can tell his wife was just like,
if you bring any of these home,
I'm going to continue to be mad at you or whatever.
So I offered to like, we can just take another one.
The cases were in pretty bad shape.
They weren't going to be able to be sold to anyone
besides people doing something like this.
Honestly, just to help you out with the wife situation
or whatever, I'll take one of them
if you just want to get rid of it
and come home with a little bit less stuff.
I mean, I'll probably end up recycling it, honestly.
But I mean, if that helps you.
Take that one in.
Okay.
You can do that.
All right.
Sir, for this guy right here, no change needed.
Extra doctor is a sign of gratitude.
Thank you so much.
This is perfect.
This is exactly what we're looking for right now.
Good, good.
Yes.
You did something good today.
You just made our day.
Success.
We should just call it here.
We're good.
Yeah.
Should have just taken his fully built system
and just presented that.
That would have been awesome.
Yeah.
All right.
This is wonderful.
Okay.
Day two.
Not a lot of good communication overnight.
But at least we have these really ancient-looking hard drives.
So there's that.
Yeah.
So I heard back from a lot of guys
I messaged about GTX 980s.
185 is definitely our best deal.
Okay.
This guy said 200.
This guy...
This guy's the 175 with the five-hour round-trip drive,
which I don't...
I think we shouldn't kill it yet.
I'll just...
Don't close the communication line.
I'll leave him hanging.
Yes.
I'll leave him hanging, which is just not very considerate.
A little bit rude, but it's fine.
Okay.
So I'm not going to lie.
That's some of the bad news for today.
The place with the bulk of the components,
motherboard, RAM, tower, SSD,
I haven't heard back from them since the afternoon yesterday.
And I've emailed them at the end of the day yesterday
and first thing this morning.
And what I said was,
we found the CPUs cheaper somewhere else,
so that freed up some budget.
And I wanted to take the tower for 40,
the motherboard for 75,
16 gigs, not 24 gigs of RAM for 40,
which is like per DIMM.
That's the price they gave.
And the 128 gig SSD,
I didn't try to negotiate.
I left it at 45 bucks.
And I was like,
okay, that should be 200 plus tax.
I haven't heard from them.
And they said,
once you place an order,
it's a one day lead time.
Yeah, we have much bigger problems right now.
IT Recycle Pro is in Palo Alto.
If they respond,
we could take a flight.
Technically,
flying is not against the rules.
It is a transport cost.
Transport costs are not within the fixed budget.
Palo, Ontario,
Ontario Airport, Palo Alto.
You look up Ontario,
I'll look up LAX.
LAX is only about an hour and a half drive from here.
How are we going to transport a server back on the plane?
You know what?
There's a nonstop flight from 7.45 tonight to 9.
Do they have Uber Chopper here?
Hi, this might be kind of a stupid question,
but is it possible to charter a flight to San Fran from LA?
Yeah, no, it's not stupid.
What date and time are you looking at?
Well, that's where it gets kind of stupid.
It would probably be today.
What time today?
So we don't know yet.
Long story short,
we're filming a thing,
and there's a part that it's,
that we'll know probably within the next hour or two.
There's a part that we need,
and the only way to get it might be to go pick it up in San Francisco.
So we would need a flight up there and then a flight back.
How many passengers are we going to have?
Two, three, three, three.
Sorry, there's a camera operator.
And just so you're aware,
a lot of folks associate us with helicopters.
Totally correct.
But for a trip like this,
I'd probably push you towards an airplane.
It's actually going to be a little bit more cost effective for you guys.
I've never flown in a helicopter.
It would be super cool.
So maybe I could get a price for both?
Yeah, absolutely.
That's no problem.
I hate to do this to you,
but can I have like kind of a ballpark?
Like are we looking at $2,000 or $20,000?
Just so I know what I'm dealing with.
And it's round trip.
We would need to come back.
We'd probably have to pay for an hour of sitting on the airfield,
I guess is how that works, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I'll see which operator we go with.
Yeah, so it looks like it would be about $6,000 each way.
Okay, got it.
Thank you.
Does that seem reasonable?
That seems like if we don't have another choice,
we're going to have to go for it.
All right.
Well, we'll see if we can bring the cost down as much as possible.
And when you reconnect with us,
we should have a few options for you, okay?
Okay, thanks, man.
You're welcome.
Okay, bye.
So I think we need to explore other options.
So Virgin has a nonstop from 6.30 to 8 o'clock from LAX to SFO.
So tonight is our late pickup night.
Yeah.
That flight is only $292.
So if we were to get a hotel there,
or you know what we could do?
Here's a crazy thought.
What if we flew there and drove back?
I was actually kind of thinking if we like check in the car here,
say we need to pick it up again.
Yeah.
And just get it from the same guys and then drive back.
So we fly out at like 5 tonight or something.
Yeah.
And then just drive back.
And it would be quite late when we'd get back.
It's better for the server though.
Dude, we're going to end up here all day again.
Like we got to get out and get moving.
We need some other.
Okay, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to call the guy with the CPUs,
the guy who works at the like film studio.
Maybe they have the rest of the workstation.
And I have other good news.
The guys that I called and talked to
who were willing to do the cash deal on the CPUs.
Yeah.
But their pricing wasn't any better.
Those guys are local, local.
Inglewood.
Okay.
So they haven't replied to my email
saying all the stuff I needed though.
But they're local and they said we could go there.
Okay.
Now I feel terrible because I was like
the guy that I've strung along for so long.
What's his name?
Justin.
I'm like emailing and being like,
yeah, what time can we come today?
The earlier the better.
Now I look like a total asshole.
It's like,
we didn't realize that you're in a completely different city
because we're idiots.
Just don't say that.
I feel like we would like to present it to him
like later tonight.
If we flew there at night,
we wouldn't even be able to go into their shop.
They'd be closed.
Yeah, there's earlier flights though.
Oh, that was the earliest one I saw.
Are you sure the earlier ones aren't like 17 hours
with like multiple stops?
Yeah, they'll be closed for sure.
Unless we were able to get on one 15 minutes ago.
Right.
Because I think it's like morning and then like evening.
Studio guy's not picking up.
I'm going to call JE Components here.
I can't believe I overlooked that.
I spent all this time like,
basically we built the entire strategy
around getting that bare bones from those guys.
This is like not good.
JE Components might be an okay alternative though.
Hi.
I called into you guys yesterday about,
we're putting together,
actually it's like a gaming computer,
but we think we can use some server hardware for it.
Okay.
I did send you an email,
but our situation has changed a little bit.
We found a really cheap source for the CPUs,
but we still need RAM, motherboard,
chassis and power supply and cooling
as well as a cheap SSD.
Are we able to come in?
Do you guys have just kind of random
dual socket motherboards and some,
we're actually looking for a tower chassis,
not a rack mount chassis if possible.
Sure.
Thank you so much.
We're kind of desperate.
Shoot.
Honestly,
I haven't found anything like as big
and professional looking as these guys though.
Oh, 1230.
Oh, that's in an hour and a half.
That's not bad.
That's from Ontario to SFO too.
That's a good flight.
Yeah.
That's a good flight.
I'll give Justin like 235.
235 bucks.
Yep.
Okay.
And then we'd be back by 630.
Hey, Justin.
It's Ash calling from our emails yesterday.
If we were able to get there before five,
would we be able to get it today?
Is it possible?
I think we could go ahead and make that happen.
Email me your shipping address
and I'll take care of that.
Okay.
Great, thank you.
Right there.
Hold on, we might have a slight problem.
Shipping address?
I didn't account for tax for the SSD in our budget.
We're $2 over.
I should have let you negotiate on the hard drive.
Look, you were right and I was wrong.
Do you feel good about it?
No.
Should we just show up and be $2 short?
I don't think they're going to let us get away with that.
No.
These guys are, like, kind of legit.
Michael might.
We're pushing our meeting out with him another day.
Like, we're kind of screwing Michael.
So we're screwing Michael and Omid,
and we expect one of them to give us a $2 discount.
Well, let's get moving, one way or another.
Like, we don't have a choice.
There's no other flight?
Not really.
What time do we have to be at the airport?
Uh, 12.20.
12.20 at the airport?
Yeah, so we have 45 minutes.
Can we get to Michael first?
Oh, my God.
And passports?
Here, I'm grabbing your iFixit.
Let's go.
Where's Michael?
Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Oh, no, I have mine.
I have mine.
Let's just get the f*** out of here.
Will these cases help Paul and Kyle tower above the competition?
Will Luke and Linus make their flight,
or are they destined to be grounded?
Find out next time on Scrapyard Wars.