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
the fourth day we find out who the winner is in this edition of scrapyard
wars brought to you by dbrand
day two first order of business
is to make our sponsor face palm and cringe at
the same time by attempting
to remove the dbrand skin that's on my daily driver blade stealth
and remove the skin that's on
the unit they sent with their new camel pattern for me to use and then put this
back on there without destroying anything
oh wait my justification for this um i'm demonstrating how dbrand skins
can be removed from your devices without leaving any residue
because i don't want to reinstall all my crap on another laptop this is not this
is not going well this is not going to be reusable um
okay okay fresh idea just uh
everybody oh wow yeah
fresh idea aw crap
swap the boot drive i just wasted 15 minutes
but possibly gained myself back 20.
that my friends is time management
please turn on no i don't regret it this was theoretically a good way to save
time it just didn't work out that way
and you can't regret things that you could only have known in hindsight i had
no way of knowing this would happen and it worked initially it wasn't until
i put the cover on what why did putting the cover on briquette
crap we gotta go build a computer so let's
just let's just go um i'm just gonna use this one and
the brand will never work with us again and maybe i deserve it
i don't i don't want to buy stuff from best buy but one of the computers there
the a10 7800 for under 200 bucks
is a pretty good deal it's not like it's not exactly a crazy processor but
at that price point i think
it's pretty damn good for price performance kind of stuff the the
difficult part right now is i can't check
they've got a complete tower with an
apu eight gigs RAM two giga oh wait i need an SSD
crap okay anyway they've got like open box and then
they've got final clearance and when it's on final clearance it looks like if
it's final clearance and open box there is some room to negotiate
269 for CPU motherboard
RAM case power supply
that's not bad a parts store let's go to a memory
express or something and see what they
have to say the interesting thing about this
challenge is that it's making us try new strategies
and ones that you might not think of like it's crazy how different best buy
looks and walking around in that store there's nothing to indicate that there's
a deal to be had in any way you have to go and talk to somebody
actually we might not have to go all the way to memory express
i think canada computers took over all of ncix's old leases
so theoretically there's a canada computers here
and it would appear that
this lease was legitimately so terrible
that uh nobody wanted it nope this ncix
still holy crap
wow these guys just straight up came over
here like oh well they're closed let's just put our sign on that you know what
let's go there very interesting store um
almost zero overlap with what ncix used to sell
and the first thing they told me when i walked in the door was no if you're looking for computer hardware go to
mimex okay
do you have any used power supplies
what what size uh like 500 600 this might be not a bad
idea but i'm trying to see i don't see the other
cable harnesses so let's do one graphics card
875. yeah yeah
yeah i might uh i might go for that
30 bucks okay 875 watts 30 bucks
probably gonna end up coming back and getting that but i want to make sure that i can get the rest of my build
before i start actually buying things and he said he can hold on to it for me it looks like it's been sitting in the
back for a while it's probably okay if you go down the ramp beside us uh behind
us there's a store you'll see lots of graphics cars okay
he might be able to help you out hi there um i know you guys are more cell
phone focused but i'm trying to ask around to see if anyone has spare
computer parts um i know this is more cell phone based
but hi i know this is more cell phone based but
i'm looking for individual components for a computer
it's only tuesday so i'm not at this point yet
but there's still time
okay so they've got a pretty clever strategy for dealing with open box stuff
here basically because they're a system builder as well
they negotiate with people who are buying systems to include their open box
hardware inside the system that way whoever buys the system gets a small
discount but they don't have to discount it as
much as they would have to if they were just selling open box hardware
because they would have to open something for a system and they would have to test it and make sure it's
working anyway so that's great for memory express's
business but it does nothing for us because they have literally no open box video cards or
power supplies which means we'd be paying full retail
and it turns out even a gtx 1050 at full retail price is freaking expensive
i don't know how we're gonna find a good deal on a graphics card
oh i left my water bottle in there someone's following me oh thank you i
appreciate that whatever system i'm going to end up with
is probably not going to have an SSD and it just occurred to me that AMD
has a software called sensemi or something like that that lets you use an
SSD to accelerate your boot hard drive
10 bucks okay is that how much you would charge anyone who came in and wanted to buy it
i would probably give it away okay well i'll pay you ten dollars then
so for better or for worse we've got a 64
gig SSD this definitely gives us enough to install an os install fortnite
and run the whole thing off SSD or in the event that we get a system that
already has a hard drive in it i think i can use it to accelerate the
hard drive so one way or another we were going to need an SSD and at 10 bucks the
price is right right thank you good sir pleasure doing
business with you and take care you're going to need that ten dollars
yeah yeah you don't want to just leave that there okay
excuse me uh do you know this is a
maybe a slightly offensive question to ask you what do you know where memory express is
honestly i don't know okay i just moved here recently so oh
okay yeah no worries yeah but andy here might know because he lives here
yeah okay where's that the one that got all the
ncis at birthday it got replaced by canada computers okay okay okay sweet
okay thank you duh okay so i'll go there do you know where memx is though as well
so go to both memory express the nearest one's enrichment it's like number two
number three road okay good enough perfect thank you very much
sweet gee squad just forever helpful
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the link below uh hi uh question for you
do you guys deal in second-hand hardware at all
uh yes you do really oh okay um do you have anything
that's kind of like older gaming system me
okay so uh uh uh yeah i do
what exactly are you looking for you know what i'm really close uh i might
just pop in i'm just gonna park we're just gonna
have to get out and look for it could call them oh
did you see their dad what's computer den
interesting this isn't the same place but we could pop our heads in
no oh no this is it they just must have
changed their name from cloverdale computers to computer den all
right okay so this power supply
is nothing special um
it's it's an acer it's an acer special is what i would call it no pci express
power connector um
it's a 2600 not a k so we wouldn't be doing any overclocking
and how firm are you on the 5.99 price
for this guy i i don't want to be like i don't want to be rude or anything but like that's
not worth anywhere near the sticker like not even close a
fraction of it yeah like 500 gig hard
drive worthless okay we're getting that's closer okay
good we are speaking the same language then yeah okay
okay because i said can i can i poke my can i poke my head
around at any of these other things like what like what do you what do you what
do you got going on here i mean some of this stuff is
pretty pretty bad um yes yes oh let's go with that word um
all right okay so tell you what we will um i'm going to go i'm going to
go scout a bit more um but
keep that in mind there's potential here negotiable okay
all right you guys have been fantastic
thank you very much uh we will we will talk again
okay sounds good okay take care
so the situation there is they've actually got a couple of
v2 xeon it's like pretty old but
it's got a pretty high clock speed so it turbos to 3.7 i think they had it
labeled but i'd have to double check that and then they've also got a second
gen core i7 so that would be uh it's a 2600
and the labeled prices are way off like way off like they wanted
like 900 for the xeon thing and like 600
for the core i7 box and these are without graphics cards or without useful
ones but when i was like
all of a sudden things got quite a bit more reasonable
we might we might have a lead here i do want to scout around a little bit
more though if we can get a good deal on a tower then the next order of business
is finding a graphics card and on the surface this seems simple
but in practice it
turns out it's actually really hard if you know anybody who knows anybody who
has something that that would be super cool thank you that works okay okay
sounds good thanks hi do you guys deal in used parts at all
cheapest best one that i have that would all handle gaming would be the MSI
GeForce gtx 1050 ti and their 289.
289. got it i understand
we've got some older pci cards we've also got a fairly
good selection of agp cards
rather than making me feel old though this whole experience makes me feel
a lot closer to the younger generation with their
snapchats and their twitter grams and all that
than to the older generation that you know actually does look for information
in here there you are hey do you or anyone you
know have a graphics card you're looking to sell a 530 that's not worth 50. all
right thanks anyway so we're on our way to surrey micro net
and i just realized i left my water bottle like my nice vacuum insulated
water bottle at the computer den so one way or
another we have to go back there it'll either be to make a purchase
or it'll be for like the walk of shame hey i said i might buy
something i'm not going to by the way i need my water bottle bag piece so
technically oh wow someone's calling who's this oh wow this might actually be
something hello uh
hello i'm just returning a call academy's call
yeah i have an answer here uh oh
is the ASUS turbo gtx 1070
aj
it is is that like a secondhand card or is that brand new
uh this is like out of the box and if it's working probably there's no problem
with this one uh oh okay so um
would there be a discount because it's not new yeah just come over here
um okay what's your address so i tell ed look we're in
central city which is a lot better than it used to be but like
don't leave anything valuable in the car or walking away i'm like is there
anything valuable in the car he goes well
you know that battery is worth a few hundred dollars
nothing of value in the car even my dualshock 2 controller is borderline
here okay so in summary he's got a gtx
570 and a Radeon 6870 each for under a
hundred dollars plus tax so 95 bucks
unfortunately at least according to the shopkeep because i can't verify this
online he figures that the 6870 is about
equivalent to a modern 750. unfortunately i haven't heard back from
buddy with the used 1070 since i told
him that i really need a price before i drive all the way out there but it is
used so there's at least some haggling to be done but
like if he makes me drive all the way out there just to find out that he wants
at or near retail for this thing that's going to be a real waste of time
okay so
if bro who won't give me pricing over the phone
needs me to go there we've got to go all the way to
43rd and fraser which is oh no
yeah that's really far that's like 45 minutes at least
canada computers now open we made it it's gonna be weird walking into an old
ncx location uh looking for SSD power supply and
graphics card sure probably just SSD and graphics card though sure
for SSD don't get too excited i want your worst thing that you have
our main leads right now are uh the computer that was forgotten in
the back of the warehouse in best buy that we're getting a ludicrous deal on a
power supply from some random dude that got pulled out of an alienware in
crystal mall the derpiest least expensive SSD i've
like ever seen from canada computers 44.88
dollars yeah 44.98 dude
that's awesomely horrible this looks like the worst SSD i've ever
seen we have no that's perfect okay that's absolutely perfect okay so canada
computers we found a 128 Gigabyte mushkin SSD looks like it's probably not
very good but that is perfect for me and it's 44.88
which is actually a really good deal so far out of all the different places i've
been to also we found a 1063 gig again
really junky 1063 gig but it's only 320
bucks so those two things put together is quite cheap and a 1060 should easily
be able to handle fortnite and everything else that we're throwing at it in this competition because we're
just doing 1080p so that's not too bad that put together with the 30 power
supply that we found in crystal mall and the platform from best buy with the a10
is a pretty cheap pretty good setup
because we're looking at like it's a 44 30 like that
600 ish dollars so we were just leaving
canada computers and we accidentally found a memory express
which is like right this way so memory express was super helpful they had
really similar prices to canada computers which is not surprising uh i
was able to find a 500 watt power supply for 55 dollars so
probably going to go with that 875 that we found at that place in crystal mall
and a 1066 gig for 400 bucks it might be worth
going with the six gig versions again i'm gonna have to try to rack my brain
on these things and kind of figure out which one i want to go with more and
i have no idea i like i i don't know so
we made it to sfu surrey i talked to it help desk which was the plan and he
didn't have anything or have any leads but he directed me to the computer
science lounge which also didn't end up working out
super well turns out they kind of semi-closed the
lounge at like four we got here at like 4 40 so most people were gone people
that were there didn't have anything it didn't have any leads and
all thought we were crazy so for us we're gonna end up buying everything
from stores i don't feel like that is in the spirit
of scrapyard wars but maybe i'm just failing and Linus is
doing really well i'm kind of hoping that Linus has found
some random person that was walking down the street and is like yeah i'll give
you a gaming computer for 35 bucks
i'm kidding we're gonna go back to the computer den
and i'm just gonna negotiate a deal on one of those towers
and i get get my water bottle back
that's so that's that's where i'm in a bit of a tough place and it's hard to
negotiate when you're okay well that's sort of far away
a long way away the two three hundred buck mark that's
about it anything higher than that is just knots
it'll never go anywhere i mean i i can't ask you to take a loss
on it because maybe someone else will come in and pay more but yeah i don't know what you paid for it the only thing
is sometimes you get the odd doofus that comes in and
we'll buy that for a lot more money
and i don't want to take away that opportunity
um no we got some you know hillbillies
living around here but but i'm i'm not a i'm not a doofus so i
can't pay i can't overpay for it yeah um
at a cheaper price and the other one will just tack the other money onto it
so i'll uh tell you what
you you you sound like you need a good
night's sleep so why don't we talk too much tired yeah no she told me she was
sick already too so she's sick too sick and tired all right
all right so we'll we'll talk we'll talk tomorrow see if uh see if you guys can
can help me out here all right you too thank you
i had really hoped those were just like salvage machines i i don't want these
guys to like lose money on it to sell it to me but
like it's if that markup is based on what they
paid like that's pretty rough i don't think they're going to sell it for that either so
everyone's sort of in a rough position right now
i thought we were going to close out today with a tower
we're going back to the office after another full day of shopping
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point i have pretty much accepted that there is a
most excellent chance that i'm going to lose this thing
honestly i'm thinking of just showing up there but that's a super pushy dick move
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 i think i'm gonna need a graphics card