they've got two thousand dollars to build the best bang for the buck pc but
they have to do it without internet they've got three days to do it and on
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so it's day three and at this point i have pretty much
accepted that there is a most excellent chance that i'm gonna
lose this thing this is gonna come across a little desperate but i'm gonna text this guy
yet again text number five
uh hey didn't find a graphics card yesterday if
i come down there can we talk about a price
i can't believe that this guy wants me to drive all the
way to his store it's like a 45 minute drive
before he will even begin to talk about a price with me
if the price was any good you'd think he would just tell me the price because
then i'd be willing to drive 45 minutes so now that i'm
not saying i need a price before i can come there
he replies immediately within two minutes
this guy sent me five freaking messages no three
all right what were the messages
the address the name of the shop and instructions to come around 12 because
apparently i'm on his schedule
i don't really like this guy i want to swing by geeks rs and have a
look at their old workstations because if they're in similar condition to
carols and if carol's fellow shopkeep guy
is like yeah these are worth you know
a couple hundred bucks then if we buy one from them for a
couple hundred bucks we're not bad people so where did these
turn up from did someone come in for some new machines and just kind of drop
the old ones with you uh we got um reefer from geek and
surrey they do lease returns
oh really
sorry what are they called
g-e-e-p and you can just buy lease
returns from them yes
i've never if you need a business account or not but
could i uh could i get a number for them
these returns of course
people who lease computers they need somewhere
to give back the stuff that they basically paid for completely um i was
given your number and extension by geeks r us um so they had said that if we were
looking for an older workstation um you
might be the guy to talk to sometimes depends
would it be possible for me to come down there and and check and check it out
we're not a retail store we're a big warehouse that sell large
quantities of all fleece equipment
and are you looking what are you looking for just one system or are you looking
for unfortunately it would be just one
yeah yeah um it's just i i i don't have a um a
showroom or anything like that it's you know we're taking down skids and stuff
like that to show us hey i can't do that i mean i i don't i don't need you to to
tear down a skid for me or anything like that to just to show it but if you just
have like a piece of paper that i can look at or an electronic listing i can
kind of go yeah yeah that one um if you'd be willing to do this for me it
would it would be awesome it would make my day
what's okay email address um
long story but i actually don't have access to email right now
it's just it's not what we do we're we're not going to be able to
provide the service or anything like that that that
you're needing
is that what you want i just want an older workstation
uh i'll do the conversion on my own just something something with uh with a uh
a quad core or six core xeon in it would be perfect as long as it has a decent
power supply yeah i don't have any quad cores six cores
and it's just really it's not it's not it's not what we do
okay i'm just i'm just saying it's just not what we do
okay okay but i appreciate you you
trying and you know thanks for your call but uh no
i don't think i'm gonna be able to do it for you okay all right thanks anyway
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what are you thinking honestly i'm thinking of just showing up
there i don't i don't buy it
we we do volume deals we have a first gen what does he what
does he even mean by that i think he just doesn't want to do it so he's telling me they don't have it but
there's no way how could they how could they have a building
with skids of stuff that's not
4th gen or 3rd gen or i don't know like is the owner or like
is he just a sales guy that these guys deal with i don't know where like if
he's the owner and i call back like he's probably going to tell whoever
it is to not deal with me on principle but if he's just like one of the guys
and i can talk to someone else maybe they will help me
i could try just showing up at geep and seeing if someone will help me
but that's a super pushy dick move
i can try going back to carol and saying like
hey best buy has an open box system that
frankly i think is pretty comparable to this
for 269 you know what can you do for me
i don't think she's going to want to sell it though it says they open at 10 a.m but i guess
not today uh i do know she's not feeling well so
maybe they just aren't open yet
all right so we're heading to best buy first thing to pick up that a10 based
system because that price is just really hard to beat so i'm gonna try to go with
that angle and then we're gonna head to crystal mall to go find that guy that
gave us the 30 power supply deal i might actually try to buy it cheaper one of
his power supplies because i realized the graphics cards i'm going to be
buying probably only need one PCIe power so i probably don't need
the extra power cable so i can go with
the hopefully cheaper power supply so i'll talk to him about that also i might
try to tone down the graphics card 179.99
that sounds alright that looks like scrapyard wars to me it
it that it is
did he buy anything i don't think he bought anything okay
okay thank you thank you i appreciate it
interesting okay so for 203.16
we have a computer we can technically compete with this right now i've even
thought about it actually because the apu in here can technically play games
so it actually might be worth just going with a 203 computer i'm still
i'm still debating it i'm gonna drive around we're gonna look at other parts and see how we can do our pricing and
whatnot but we have a computer we got it
from best buy and someone tried to teach me how to mineral oil a computer which
was actually like a really cool experience because i don't think he knew
me and that's that's pretty sweet but yeah we have a computer time to move on
let's go obviously it's not going to be the greatest thing in the world but yeah
that for 14.99 wow this here dual fan
single single tower 17 bucks for 17
bucks um so that's what i mean you know
if you're thinking about a hyper 212 yeah it's probably gonna put you over
over what's gonna but 17 bucks is not too bad
there to to stay in the spirit of the competition that like modding is
involved i'll get a i'll get a cooler and then i think we're probably going to
be done yeah okay cool i think
yeah yeah
i doubt like literally two dollars is gonna break the
bank and this one's on a three dollar sale so i'm probably gonna go with this
one yeah okay so we came out of their canada computers with a 44.88 SSD before
tax and a like i think 16.99
CPU cooler before attacks
and we're done i think i think we're just going to go
back to the office and build the computer now which seems weird because
there's so much time left but i stood in front of their tech desk and just like
wondered about things out loud about ah i wonder how well this CPU would do in
the game without any other modifications and just kept standing there and kept
openly pondering about things until they started searching on the internet i
never asked them to i never asked them to at one point he's like
but apparently an extremely similar a10
processor got lows of 30 at fortnight
high some of the settings were set to low but in general i think that's enough
for me so we're coming from actually like way off the map over here and highway 10. we
need to take highway 91. i actually don't know how much a 1070
costs new right now so i'm not gonna have the context to
know if this guy is trying to fleece us or not
so i need to
call memory express over the phone
and ask for a price on a graphics card over the phone uh hi could i get a price
on it on a gtx 1070
our cheapest one is 690 right now actually
i really hope that place isn't it computer repairs and vape shop
one stop seems legit
are we we're not even in the right place at all
we need four three one nine this is so confusing
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all right karaoke songs hi
the video i'm sorry i'm going to get the video oh
cause he's uh he's helping me make a video about my my search here so his
story for why he has the card very disjointed uh he said something about
building a few systems and then he's got this one and then something
about he built one for someone they ended up getting a zotac 1080. they
didn't want this one but then the card's got a bunch of dust on it
like none of those things add up
but uh 400 bucks for a 1070 400 canadian it's a
good deal i'm gonna buy it i think we just killed it
like freaking killed it
should i ask him if i can use this bathroom exactly
no no not at all do you live very close by
can i borrow your washroom or are you on the way somewhere
ah okay forget it community
center literally a block and a half away heck yeah thank you
okay we got a lead you know what oh we should drive there i shouldn't just leave my car here in the alley
there's a few things that i noticed one this thing has a dvd drive worth
probably nothing but still it has a wireless lan and bluetooth
card it's not on the motherboard it's a separate device
and there's a two terabyte hard drive those are all things that are not
required for this competition and i have a lot of time left so i might be able to
go sell those because at my price point even like 20 bucks
is a pretty good bump and if i can make up the cost that i spent on the cooler
that might be pretty cool
there it is
so we're in fortnite and uh
this is the lowest poly fortnite character i've ever seen it looks
terrible current frame rate is 15.
oh but the display so it's trying to run it at 4k
so hopefully that's what's going on
why can't i change the okay it's running way better now
i think i'm gonna need a graphics card
i pull the derp uh i don't often use apu's so i'm not
like usually if i don't have a graphics card in a system you can kind of just
run Windows update you get your CPU stuff everything's fine so i didn't have
an AMD display driver
which is very possibly what the problem was which is really
really really really good if that's true
and makes more sense because like that was pretty bad i
expected more out of it than that well after in a game we'll have to see in a
game but right now that gave us a hundred more FPS
so we're in the loading area with tons of other people
and it's bouncing all the way between like really depends what's going on but we're
looking at like 60 to 70.
hello
hey so you need to ask possibly i yeah
probably and i was wondering if i could maybe trade you for it
i have a two terabyte hard drive
so he's not going to trade me for the stuff
which i probably should have seen coming honestly i thought he'd take the two
terabyte hard drive because he's got some used stuff and it looks like he's
building a computer back in there so i thought he might actually be able to use a two terabyte but
i guess not i'm not surprised he didn't care about the optical drive or the wireless card but whatever let's move on
what he does have is he's selling all of his power supplies for 30 bucks it
doesn't matter if it's 550 watts 650 watts 875 watts they're 30 bucks so
that's fine i might as well take the really nice one um
he's also got a 950 and a 660 660 i
don't want that the 950 is 80 bucks
brandon thinks i should haggle him down i can try to do that he might go for it
i need to do some math for a sec i need to think about this
the more i think about it the more that gtx 1070 is both a blessing and a
curse because on the one hand it's a great
deal for a 1070. on the other hand i don't know that it's
the best bang for the buck
graphics card and it kind of handcuffs me
because i no longer have the option of just showing up with an apu system now
that i've spent 400 on a graphics card
now i have to find something that doesn't bottleneck it too badly or this
is going to be last season all over again well that was really disappointing
um the guy i talked to at the receiving
door in the back was actually pretty helpful he was like yeah we might have
something like that maybe you can go upstairs and talk to our sales guy and
he'll help you out but then on my way up
someone intercepted me and i explained you know we're making a video
documenting you know what you might do to try and get a a
deal on a computer system and he was basically like
well you can't do any of that here go away like
this is a secure facility i don't know what the big deal is with their like old
refurbished electronics and all that maybe it's
far more valuable than i would guess um but they were like yep get out of
here send us an email
so for you guys out there something like a refurbisher like this might be an
option but i don't think we're gonna get anything
done i'm gonna try calling again
i mean what's the worst i can do annoy him more
i'll be like look i'm i'm outside i just want to come in and
buy something but i i doubt it's going to go anywhere could i possibly see what
you guys have i'd like to buy something right now if possible
we don't we don't do it but we really don't
the public um our building it's a secured building that we can asset
management for for high-end customers and it's not public it's it's not a
public building okay can can you talk to me outside
know i don't it don't know how you're very persistent and i really don't know
how to uh um to deal with yeah i i don't know
all right thanks anyways
okay so the surrey best buy in the nicest possible terms gave us a hard
time about having a camera in their store and did their best to help us out with
like an open box or a clearance deal or something like that but
just did not have anything
so we are seriously running out of options right now um
i'm gonna call back cloverdale computers and see if they ever even opened up
today hey carol yeah it's Linus
a highlighter okay um can you do 350 for
the tower um
okay so let me think about it and i'm gonna call
you right back okay thank you okay thank you
without knowing what their cost structure is and knowing that they might
not be the savviest buyers
i did feel a little bad making an offer
that was like a quarter of the sticker price
but i mean they
they bought it it's worth what it's worth i need a computer
uh you want to come take it for 375.
oh man are we oh do we have to oh do we have to ah three okay
so okay so the math is based on what i could get an a10 7800 system and
an upgraded power supply for which i think is pretty equivalent
um can you do it for like
oh man can you do it for
360. all right okay
cash deal cash deal cash deal yeah okay all right let's do
it all right i'll be right there i'm back
you're not going to believe the video card that i'm going to put
it did not i see it it's still here
very funny oh the guts ran away
saw me coming did they yeah you're not going to believe the video
card i got to put in it what do you got we got a gtx 1070 for 400 bucks really
wow yeah so that consumed pretty much all of our budget but that's going to
turn it into actually a pretty beastly gaming machine so um
the one that's in here absolutely thank you
totally a done deal holy shimoli
well that's my receipt for uh
that there that their cash purchase there
for better or for worse this is what we've got
gtx 1070
gig sandisk x110
uh this is just our usb for installing Windows off of that doesn't count
and this lenovo workstation
no way look where it came from
of the three deals i think the highlight is the graphics card that SSD honestly
is worth 10 bucks and that tower
it's worth what i paid in the sense that
compared to buying a machine brand new at best buy and then a power supply to
put in it and then dremeling out the hard drive cages to cram in a graphics
card and putting some holes in it for cooling it's worth it in the sense that compared
to that it's an okay deal but
if i had more time to shop and if i was able to shop online i could have done
better than that tower hey okay we've got display output so
theoretically that means we're not totally locked down we're booting
Windows off a hard drive one thing i regret is wasting a lot of
my time on the first day the sign on the back of the car the
shirt those were completely stupid but the phone book
that was actually an excellent investment even though it was kind of
challenging to get one and the map was a
hundred percent worth the seven dollars i'm confident that i have a working
system and that i will have a working system
i just have a lot of misgivings about whether it's the best
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don't know if this generation even worked like that i might
be better off pulling out these things in the bag
are junk i'm trying to sell them to you okay