Welcome to Scrapyard Wars, where Luke and I compete to build the best computer on a fixed budget.
And this year, it's going to be interesting because we get to play with an enormous $800,
including a hundred bucks to spend on whatever we want from our sponsor, Jawa.
At the end of the week, our setups will be put through the ultimate gauntlet to find out who
wins Scrapyard Wars. Yeah! Go! Go! Go! Do I keep all the money?
Here!
This year, the rules are mostly the same except for one major change. Our teammate
can make pickups after the 5 p.m. cutoff. We'll be bringing them in shortly. We still aren't
allowed to research or plan off hours, nor are we allowed to use our industry connections or
our influencer clout for deals, which has become harder as the channel has grown and
my face has become a bit of a meme. That is why our first stop is a little unusual.
There's actually one more change this year. You're not building just a computer,
you're doing a full gaming setup for $800. Oh, so like monitor keyboard models?
Yes. Oh, I can do that. Desk chair. Desk. Too easy. Unless he defines chair,
I'm just going to show up with a log. I don't need to define anything because there's three
parts to the score. There's going to be Labs testing, there's going to be subjective judging,
and then there'll be a benchmark drag race at the end. Oh. So you need to impress the
judges with your setup. Well, that is harder than it is in tip. Yeah. Oh, it kind of gives you a
boxer nose. We're going to put on a few small pieces to aid you a little bit. Yeah, because
that's what I need. Make you look a little bit more tired. Grumpy, haggard. Yeah, and you're a
biker. You're probably getting all that wind hitting you. Clearly, I'm a little ways off from
my close up, but that doesn't mean I can't start working on my plan of attack. We know
the first name is Duke. What do you think for the last name? I think you had kind of mentioned
offhand a bit ago, Sons of Anarchy. There was like Teller, Dax, Moro. Moro? Duke Moro.
I like Duke Moro. That's a good one. You know what the end result for the makeup's supposed to be.
Have you given any thought to your identity as this finalized person? Not even a little bit.
There might be time to do that. Pick what bike does Duke Moro ride. I like that one.
Luke has a full alias ready to go. What? I'm probably just going to cheap out and just be my grandpa.
You need a whole identity. What? My grandpa's cool. I have a whole identity. I'm John.
I'm from the Prairies. As is tradition, we start by scoping out the usual second hand
marketplaces. Facebook has come up in a big way since the last time we did one of these.
Craigslist is like dead now. Man, looking at GPUs over on Facebook right now, I'm kind of wondering
if my $100 on Java would be best spent just getting a decent GPU and then fighting my way
through like crappy old Lenovo pre-built that are local. Honestly, so far finding the things on
Java seems the easiest, but I'm trying to make sure that I look everywhere. We'll shop around.
A $6,700 XT is like $400 Canadian on Facebook and as low as $240 US on Java. So it's like 320 bucks.
Wow. Oh yeah, aside from pricing, there's a couple talking points. Put the market in the hands
of gamers, you can find parts, pre-built systems, new end used, and they've got individually vetted
verified sellers. So that's probably what I'm going to want to go with so I can make sure
that we get it shipped up here in time. That's exactly right. Are we considering things like
shipping costs? No, no, no, no. We're getting it like expedited so it'll arrive tomorrow. They're
not actually available in Canada. They're making an exception for us. I kind of wish they were though.
We can get this right now. Meet your teammate. What's up, brother? My name's Duke Merrow.
Duke? So I've got a bit of a bad update for you. Okay. It turns out, never buying your own computer
components and not reviewing computer components for, I think, five years since the last GraphGuard
Wars means I have no idea what's going on. The what I've done is nothing. Well, I have some good news.
I have a plan that I think will win us the game. Brother. There's a whole bunch of mom and pop tech
shops or even just small tech shops that do like small to medium businesses. They have recycling
piles. We could probably just call them. So we could as much get like PC cases, power supplies,
things like that. When I was working at a place several years ago, they were recycling eighth
gens, CPUs. Whoa, I love this. One thing that I was doing actually was googling around for recycling
places because something that won me a GraphGuard Wars in the past was finding free geek.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Free geek is closed now. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Whoa. I like
this deal. What the hell is this? Tower only 250 bucks. Core i7-8700 32 gigs RAM. This is obviously
a custom build. Comes with the tower cooler. Whoa. Whoa. See sonic 520 watt power supply. Dude,
I should just go buy this. I might not even keep all that stuff. I got like four days. I can flip
some of that stuff. We're going to turn a paperclip into a house. Let's go. I'm going to be super
formal in my communication. I think that's going to be part of my persona. I don't have a lot of
money. What does he want? He wants to play Fortnite. I'm going to spell it wrong. Thank you,
John. Okay. Send message and see how it goes. Apparently presentation is some amount of the
judging. I don't know how much. Okay. Like if we end up with kind of an ugly computer,
my idea was that we hide it by like desk mounting the computer basically. And I have found a desk
that had like cable management holes in it and all that kind of stuff that was free. It says
pick up available today. So we should offer like now. It's in Langley too. So it's nice and close.
Overdale. This guy's like, yeah, just come by and pick it up. So we will go pick it up today.
This is interesting. What the hell is a Ryzen 5 4500? Oh, wait. Do I have a message back already?
I'm not a gamer. You need to look at the specs and draw your own conclusions. Sorry. Can you advise
if this is the best deal you can offer me? All right. Well, he got back to me really fast.
That's a big improvement over the Craigslist days. What do I want my angle to be? I got to
impress the judges. All I had to do was build a fast computer. No problem. Who are the judges?
Can we cater to the judges? Yeah, I'll tell you the judges. It's Nicole, Plouffe and Riley.
Okay. So Plouffe, we need a good monitor and keyboard. Riley is going to want minimalism.
I want to make sure that we try to spend nothing on desk chair, things like computer case,
stuff like that. But we should still try to do cool things with it. I should start figuring out
what I'm going to expect to pay for like a desk. I mean, it's got to be free, right? Oh, it's free
as f***. Things that I'm a little bit concerned about is peripherals and monitor. Labs won't be
testing the monitor. They'll just be testing the computer. But the monitor will be more
the subjector. That's part of the experience. Yeah. Whoa. This monitor is 300 Hertz for $175.
Honestly, you might want to even just send it. That's really good. It's a 24 inch 1080p,
one millisecond. Dude, I can get leftover paint for like five bucks. Like if I like painted up the
walls and you're my setup and stuff, I think that'd go a long way. There's one system on Java
that's like really sick. It's like legitimately pretty well specced out. My biggest concern was
that's American, which would be basically that's our budget. I think that'd be like $800. Yeah. So
you have to get like a free monitor, free mouse, free keyboard, free desk, free chair.
What is it? 400 bucks. Man, there's some deals. Of course. See Sonic Focus GM 550. Man,
will not come with storage. Okay. That's what's missing on this buddy for 400. All right. Hi,
just sending some messages, sending some messages. Hi Linus. Never better. Oh God. Okay.
Hello. It was the reverse of what happened when he shaved his beard off. Honestly,
things are going a little rough. Okay. For team Linus and Sammy. Okay. I found a couple of pretty
good deals. Okay. They are not responding to me. Oh, I found one okay deal, buddy needs two hours
of notice, but it's for a Core i7-8700, which is okay. Yeah, that's like worse than mine. And I
play games that run on a hamster wheel. So what I really want is a Ryzen 3000 series. There's a
couple good deals out there. One of them I can call, but I think it might be actually better if you
place the call. So guess what? You're up. Now we need a story. You're my daughter-in-law. So that's
why you're communicating for me. Okay. I'm trying to buy a gaming system for my grandson. I guess
he's your son then. I'm 23. He could have a son. Yeah. Biologically speaking. Look, I'm not saying
you're a responsible daughter-in-law. I don't have a lot of money. I'm a pensioner. Okay.
You have reached mailbox number. We're going to text. I guess that makes it a little bit easier.
Okay. Okay. Don't stand by. What? I mean, you're good for now. Are you sure your old man fingers
don't? Should I type it off? If we get the whole computer for free, we could spend the rest of
the budget just on PLUS monitor. Yeah. His current monitor that he has. I don't know. But that all
depends on you getting it for free. So why don't you call the tech shops? Yeah. Maybe I should
and see if they have a second pile they'll let you dig through. Yeah. This person's mailbox is full.
Bruh. Okay. I guess we're calling somewhere else. So Luke is also doing this right now. You have
reached mailbox number 604. Hey there. I was just calling. I just heard back from Buddy with the $400
3600 machine. It's got a 1660 super in it already. We could probably flip that for a few bucks.
B450A Pro Max 16 gigs rip jaws 3600. Focus 550 watt power supply. Serenity now. Nice looking case.
Okay. Lots of nice looking fans and stuff. We'll not come with storage. Yeah. That's fine. We can
find storage. I worry that this place is going to know my voice though because I've definitely
called. Hi there. Bit of a bit of a long shot but I've just been calling around trying to see if
any of the computer shops have like a recycling pile or something. If you've got anything you were
planning on recycling, if I could sift through it, that would be fantastic. Yeah. I could ask one
of the bosses. Would I be able to give you a call back? Yeah. Absolutely. I really appreciate it.
What's your name? Luke. Uh, Duke? Duke? Okay. I'll give you a call back. Okay. Thank you. Holy crap.
What's your name? Duke.
By the way, they probably know who you are because I've been there and they've talked about LMG.
So this might be a little bit interesting. I hope they don't agree to do it just because they might
have a sense of who you are. If they do, it should be fine because it's free, right? Not really. I
suspect it would be against the spirit of the competition. I see. But I'll try to be pretty
convincing. This buddy has no GPU in it. Okay. But does have storage. Okay. Oh god, what's this now?
I can help you out with that if you're not the most tech savvy. Oh, that's so helpful. I am asking
my daughter-in-law to have a look at your listing for me. She is quite knowledgeable. No pressure,
though. What do you mean no? I put things together. I've made one PC. That's it. Do you know how to
graph data visualization, right? Yeah. I could do that on a MacBook.
What time would we be looking at? I don't mind this one. Ideally, we should be picking up at
least something today or it's going to be a big waste of Tom's time to make me up.
Can we come in?
No pressure, but can we come in? It takes an hour to get there. 1.5 hours?
We're going to immediately flip this GPU. Okay. Because we're going to pick up something else.
Okay. But we got basically everything else that we need here other than storage. So we
just got to find storage. What GPU do we have? We don't have one. Oh, okay. So you just wanted
something else? Where do you want to meet up? Oh god, we're going to need like an outfit for me by
then. Well, we're committed now, Sammy. Should we call Black Lab, Glenn? It's the guy who we did
like buying out the mom and pop tech shop. Give it a shot. I'll give it a call. We'll see if Keith
answers. They picked up my recycling last week. Oh, okay.
I'm going to ask him if he can do $25 off, but I feel like I might have
committed already. Am I going to be one of those guys that shows up $50 short and is like,
well, do you want it or not? No, I hate those people. I actually hate them. I would be like,
I don't know this man. Someone just reached out to me. So I'm not sure. That is f***ing Luke.
They just low-balled you. They sound like a jerk. Pleasure doing business with you.
That sounds very broomer. I know. Well, it's what I'm going for, man. Yeah, no response from
any of the tech shops. I'm going to feel so dumb if we buy a $30.70 knowing we can get the rest of
the parts for like nothing. I agree. So overall update, we're debating on buying a $30.70 on
Java. And it is well-priced on Java. It is actually well-priced compared to our local area right
now. But the issue we're potentially seeing is if we spend that little of our budget on a $30.70
and we get the rest of the computer for very cheap, we could have theoretically bought a $30.80.
And so now we're trying to weigh our options of should we just bite the bullet and get the $30.70?
Should we wait for this one of the tech shops to call us because maybe they'll
say, yeah, come look through our recycling pile. Well, we could buy the $30.70. Hear me out. Do you
think someone here wants to buy a $30.70? We sell it to them for $20 more. That is actually fine.
I don't think we could sell it in here in the company. But if we were able to flip it on Facebook
market, like a day and a half. Yeah. Because it's showing up from Java. That stuff has happened,
by the way. Yeah. It's just very hard. Let's see, $30.70. Okay, what's a $30.70 going for?
Two, three hundred. Whoa, whoa, whoa. $260. Is this just like an amazing deal?
The only thing we're going to get that might be better would be if we could get a $6,800 XT.
Okay. I don't think we're getting that. Maybe a $6,800 XT. What about a $30.80 equivalent AMD card?
That's what I'm looking for right now. Got it. Oh man, I'm a little scared to just take the first
deal I see on Java. But like, I think this is like the best deal. If Luke doesn't get this,
I think he's like boned. The thing is that like, I feel like if it's the official store,
they would have tested it, Questerbark. That's true. Because that's like a big chunk of change,
right? And we can't get it back. Still going with that then? Yeah. I think we're still going to go
with it. When a hundred Hertz, 1080p, 22 inch monitor for $50. Or we get that monitor that we saw,
that super overkill monitor. Because if we get a $30.70 or $30.80, it'll be able to drive it.
But then that monitor is a hundred Canadian. It was, yeah. And it's all the Java money.
So we would only have 600 bucks left. Which then would be 500 for a $30.80. So we'd have a hundred
dollars for the rest of the system and peripherals. There is a $75 one. It's 24 inch 144. That's sick,
isn't it? Yeah, 75 bucks. And then we have 25 bucks still on Java. So we spend it on that SSD.
What's the most we can get for the max price of 25 bucks? We get a 256 SATA or 256 m.2.
Sheesh, brother. Or we spend 28. So we go $3 U.S. to Canadian and we get a 480 SATA.
You want to do that? I think that's, that seems pretty good to me. Okay, we need to find out what
the cheapest SSD we can get is. Oh wait, buddy here has tons of them. Okay, no, no. We can,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So we can, we can get them for 20 bucks Canadian locally.
Now we're trying to make a commitment on the GPU so that we can have a pricing for the rest of the
system. But we don't want to actually spend the money. So we're going to ask someone if we can
make an agreement to buy the card and say, can we pick it out tomorrow with full intention to
actually do that. But by saying we're going to pick it out tomorrow, we're buying ourselves the time
to figure out if it's even technically possible. So that is 100% the goal. We're not going to try
to bail on this person. But we want to lock in the deal. $30, 80 and $800 system is insane.
I can pick it up tomorrow. Is there any wiggle room on the price? Smiley face.
I don't know if... Okay, I'm deleting the smiley face. I don't know if Duke Marrow would send a smiley
face. Oh, sorry. Yeah, your Duke Marrow. Oh, I never checked my email. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I heard
back from this guy. I'm free after six today. Okay. Original Craigslist. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, but it only comes with eight gigs round, but it has a better
motherboard. It has a Quadro 600. That's like really old, I think. Quadro 600 is worth $5.
Where do you see 4,500 U in the posting? I mean, it says 4,500. That's not a CPU.
Wait, what the hell is a Ryzen 5 4,500? Oh, it is a desktop chip. How okay with bending the rules,
are you? We're okay with that. What if we, like, bought this and then we went on, like, a selling
spree over the next bit? Because I think this deal is crazy. Okay. Like, I think this guy has no idea
what this stuff is worth. There's five Noctua fans. The Noctua fans are worth $200. I say we do it.
Okay, and then we sell stuff. And then we have to sell stuff to get back under budget. Okay.
Luke would do the same thing. I don't know if we actually want to go with this name, but hey,
young Mike. What's up? If I come pick up today at six, can you give me $20 off?
See, this isn't so much a budget management exercise as a cash flow management exercise,
because the Jawa cash hasn't left our wallet. So as long as by the time the Jawa card arrives,
and the cash is back in our wallet by then, then we're good. Okay. Right? I didn't hear anything,
and I will allow it because it sounds interesting. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Between these two deals,
I think we're in really good shape because, like, a Ryzen 3,600 is worth like 90 bucks.
This is all mental math, which is not my specialty. Have you seen the tattoos? Whoa,
we got one by your eye? Damn. Your nose is huge. I can't get over the nose.
The nose is pretty huge. This side is enormous. Yeah, I really don't like that different.
I think if I put a hat on though. Yeah, a hat would help. Here we go. Here we go. We heard back.
Okay. Sure. Sure. Sure. 20 bucks off. We just got 20 bucks off. Let's f***ing go. $20 is the
difference between victory and crushing defeat in Scrapyard Wars. $20 is the difference between
cute desk and not cute desk. That's true. And it'll get us points at Nicole.
Right? Because she has a cat. Right? Yes. You still got to shave your head? All right, let's do it.
I think you should do it. You want me to shave his head? I think you should shave his head.
Why are we even, why are we doing this at all? Does he need to be convincing as well?
Is Linus this person also getting disguised? Is that a no? The problem is Elijah's actually
kind of recognizable. We do need to go to our first port of call very soon though. Here's what
I'm thinking. Sammy? Okay. Do you want to make a quick trip to the Valley Village?
We have a separate budget for clothes for our outfit. Okay. You got to help me out here.
I'm fine if you try to actually style it. You don't have to go straight bald. What does style it mean? I don't know. Do a lower taper fade. Straight bald is the only style we know.
I already regret it. I don't know if this is the right time to say it. I've never cut anyone's
hair in my entire life. If you want to see the full, you know, uncut version of me brutalizing
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Sorry, I'm a little focused right now, but yeah, check it out. I appreciate him being focused.
Oh my God, that's a lot of hair. I'm giving young Mic a buzz.
What does that say? I don't want it to be like white people can't read this or something.
We're here at Valley Village. Line is giving $50 in cash. I was tasked to specifically get him a
hat. We'll see what embarrassing things I can put him in. There's a name BJ,
but he wears socks with sandals at the office, so I don't know how much worse it can get.
$13.99. I'll go with this. I'm an adult, but not like a real adult. I think this one is more
fitting of a boomer man with a daughter-at-law who's 23 years old. How much is this one? $7.99.
It'd be really funny if we had a fedora. His head's kind of small, isn't it? Maybe we do have
to go with a cap then. We'll go with this one. It's very beige and sad. Pants are hard because
the thing is like he's so short, so I think getting shorts is like the safer option here.
Kaki might work. Like he goes boating and fishing every once in a while. He sold his house for
$3 million, even though he bought it for $150,000. It matches. Okay, we're good.
You look like that could just be your haircut. Yes! I did it. I mean, same with you.
I just look like I got, you mentioned it. I think you said it well. I just look older
and like I had some bad decisions. What do you mean, great decisions?
Now look at your young man. Oh my god. He looks way different than I do. You don't look that
different. You look older. We're hoping a hat is going to be a big part of the sale. I haven't,
I have not seen myself yet. So you start, you look older as well. Oh my god. You just look a lot older.
I feel like you've maybe got a bit of advantage here because people will be like nice to the old
grandpa trying to buy a computer for probably what I'm assuming you're going to say is you're like
young. Gosh, I never thought of that. Oh, he just gave him advice. No, trust me, he was going to do
it anyways. I'm busy for my grandson. Yes. Have you seen the neck? Not bad actually. I like that.
Yeah, it's good. You should get neck tattoos. No. You know, you can have hats from here, right?
Oh. A pirate hook. What? Elijah, whose team are you on? You could also just wear a freaking helmet.
You know what? That sells the look a lot. That I'm going to leave and get in my car.
No, you want to go with like the Canadian flag. Canada. The Canadian flag is really good. This
hat is definitely too small for me. It was a child sized hat. You know what?
Your laugh is so distinctive though. I gotta not laugh. Found any good deals?
Yeah, actually. I didn't. Nice. I got no good deals. Nice. All right. See you later. See you.
Hi there, honey. Give me a kiss. Wow, that's actually like very realistic.
Not bad, huh? No, it's pretty bad. How's it going? I mean, how's it going, young whippersnappers?
My goodness, you young people. It's inspiring seeing y'all working so hard in here. The visual
change is actually people won't recognize you, I think. I've seen the other team and they look
very much like the other team. Look at that, calling speechless.
Well, you have a hat, but I bought you a dad hat, which also might work. We got to go
basically like immediately. So I'm just going to throw this on. This is a shirt. It still had
the tag on it. It doesn't really matter what it says because I grabbed you a sweater.
I grabbed you a sweater. Okay, maybe we'll throw the sweater on. And then I grabbed you like khaki
shorts because I didn't want to buy long pants and have them be too long because... Okay. You know,
so here you go. I made sure that they didn't have weird stains or holes on them. Okay, thanks.
We are headed to Baloo Village or Value Village to try to get the rest of my costume,
like the clothing portions of my costume. Elijah is off to go pick up the desk and potentially
other things from some warehouse. I'm hoping he can come out with a desk and a chair.
Now my eyes ain't what they used to be, but I think we're going to turn right up there.
Is that right? All right, so what's this accent? Hold on. Hold on. Let me try again.
You should have gotten coaching from Gary.
I don't think any of these beat the Canada hat. Am I close enough to the steering wheel?
Oh, am I in the lane right now?
Yeah. Does it actually work? Yes. We just get this and then I can check what shirt I have in the car and just go with that.
Well, this is it. First deal. Am I going to pass? I hope so. If you just like look down,
maybe. Hopefully he's taller than you, so... That's Rich coming from you.
Am I going to get away with this? At the voice. You have to change the voice. Sorry.
Um, so we're, yeah, we're here to pick up the PC.
Oh, thank you very much.
Okay. Thank you. Great. Okay. Yeah, no problem. Should be good to go. Thank you very much.
We can just wait outside if that works for you. I'll just wait here.
Hello. Bye. No problem. Take your time. You seem pretty good with those machines.
How do you find this? That's a cool screwdriver.
Oh, where'd you get it?
Hi, Mango. Your name is Mango, right? I'm sorry. He's a door-to-door salesman?
Do you have the cash? Thank you. So one, two, three, four hundred. Thank you very much.
One question for you. When did you figure out who we were?
I saw your car in the background, unfortunately, and it's a very distinct wrap.
But the deal was not affected by real, okay.
Okay. Tell me, would you be able to tell? I think the eyes are kind of a dead giveaway.
That's my makeup artist right there. We hired a professional from the industry to come in and
that's the shtick this season. It's a nice screwdriver you got there.
Yeah, it's been pretty good. I haven't lost anything. Oh, thankfully. That's okay. There's bits available from, from where?
From LTG, LTGstore.com. That's right. Better believe it.
You know what's funny? We were like, we saw the screwdriver. He brought it out in the box. I was
like, hmm, yeah, it has a screwdriver. I don't know what that looks cool. And then he was like,
yeah, it kind of looks like you. I was like, we got busted. You know what? As long as it doesn't
affect the deal, then it's legal. Yo, that's pretty good. Do you want to know the best part?
They were literally across the street from the Labs building. What? I literally got in the truck
and just went. And they're like, oh, you're from Linus, right? I'm like, yep, it's free though,
because we already agreed to free beforehand. The deal was already made. The deal was made.
I don't want us to be cheating, but yeah, there's a little bit of suss stuff.
There's soundproofing on the underneath of it. And there's a bunch of like white splatters.
We can clean it. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No black lights. One of the guys agreed to $500 for a 3080 that leaves us with $194.
There is a decent amount of systems available at around that price,
usually i5s, i7s around like seventh, eighth gen. Power supply is going to be our issue.
Some of these brands I've never heard of. So that does sketch me a little bit. If they're
like seven years old, throwing a 3080 on it might be a little oof because of the big spikes, right?
It does. But if we have three of them, it's redundancy. Each piece of power connector
is a different power supply. Would that be three power supplies? And then one for the motherboard,
one for the drive. So we end up buying like five power supplies. We go get a power bar and it's
just part of the build. You have to have this power bar. He's going to look at the computer
at the end. He's going to be like, why are there five power cables coming off of this?
I just don't, I don't know if it works. Everyone is saying don't do it in forums,
but nobody's saying you can't. The one we're getting recommends a 750 watt. Yeah, but for a
system with one in it, like how much power draw is just a 3080 taking? Uh, 321. According to Zotac
site. So we could get away with like a 400 watt. So if we can't, no way. Why? No, no, I'm just saying
just a 400, just for the GPU. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is worth. We are fairly committed
to multiple power supply. We also need to be ready to kill our babies and move on from this idea.
Tom, am I allowed to drink? It's hard though. All right,
should we have a look at what we scored? Okay. Yeah, because I never got a close look at it,
because I was pretending to not know what's going on. Okay. We're just going to pull over right here.
So we have a full system basically without storage, right? Six core processor, 16 gigs RAM.
This GPU is going to go because we bought that one on job already. Yeah. So what that means is
Sammy, we need to start creating listings for any of this stuff that we are not going to keep.
Okay. Like now, because we got to sell this stuff. I didn't tell you this, but I'm $80 over budget
right now. Okay. The good news is the total stuff that we're buying for $780. Right. Is about $1,150
worth of stuff. Okay. However, we're probably going to have to sell it soon. So we have to
cut ourselves. And so we have to sell it for less than a 1,100 bucks.
Yeah. How do you want to do division of labor here? You take it out and I can make the listing
look pretty. Okay. You might have to customulate that a little. So do you want to grab pictures then?
Yep. The RAM we're keeping, I don't think we can afford this cooler. The other system has a stock
cooler. So we're going to use that instead. Do you, do you so shmeed? Are you, you, you got this?
She's got this. I just want to get these listings up as soon as possible because coming in under
budget at all is reliant on us selling at least some of it. Oh God. This is definitely dirtier
than I initially realized. No judgment though. No judgment. Okay. Are you ready to take the next
picture? Yeah. Okay. Do you want to grab this? Oh my God. A snake. Kidding. Kidding. Okay. So this
GPU is going to go. Let's get the back panel off here. You have man hands. Can you hold this?
Oh, you know what we should do though? We should clean the goop off the bottom. Make it look shinier.
Oh no, don't touch that. It'll get all over your hands forever. Should we post it right away or
can we wait until I clean it up and make it look nice? No, no. We're going to clean it up right
now. We got this. Okay. Don't even trip. Okay. Hi. Sorry. Yep. Technically legal what we're doing.
A little weird but legal. Weird. Yes. There's also dust on the outside. I'm working on it.
Any luck? Is it working? No, you're breathing it all in. Next time you drink water, it'll
taste like dirt. So let's put that on the dirty side. Okay. She kind of cleans up pretty decent
here. Yep. All right. I guess I'll probably write the posts or you know what? I can help you. I can
transcribe it. Wait, do you get carsick? No. Nice. So I can dictate when we're in the car and you
can post. Okay. We got this. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. We ended up with a hard drive that I wasn't
expecting. Oh, I told them we'd give it back to them if we found any storage. Oh, for crying out
loud. It's the biggest one. Bloody hell, Daniel. That was his name, right? Yep. This power supply,
we're keeping. So there's no point extracting all of this yet. But the case is going to go. I think
I have enough photos. I think this... Yeah, but then if we try to get a better price,
they'll be like, you don't need that money. Yeah. That and if Luke sees it, he'll know it's us. Yeah.
We can bait Luke and then ghost him. That's the best. It's not actually about saving money. First,
I'm going to clean this CPU. This CPU is going to go. We've got another one that's almost exactly
the same. It actually boosts a little lower, but it's a weirdo 4500 that most people don't seem to
have heard of. So they're going for a lot less. So I'd rather take the small performance hit
and get the most money back possible. This CPU is one of the most liquid things we have. It should
be really easy to move. Okay. Do you feel ridiculous yet? Yes. Good. That means you're doing it right.
Hold on. We might want to do this, but this would be the sketchiest possible. They have
LTT edition Noctua fans. It would be very hard for them to not recognize us. Duke and was it the
young Mike or whatever? What is it? What is it? AMD Ryzen 5 4500. Oh, it's only a 430 watt power
supply. Do you think if we say, Hey, no hard drive, no quadro, no power supply, maybe in a case, no case.
I mean, you could go for it. Just be like 125 bucks posted 18 days ago. That's a long time ago.
Why isn't it selling? That's one stick of memory. Maybe that's why people aren't buying it. But like
maybe the guy's willing to take the RAM out too. It's like, Hey brother, we really just need the
motherboard and CPU. Everything else can go away. Honestly, we don't need the GPU.
We're back. We forgot your hard drive. Yeah, it was in the hard drive. It's led. Do you
don't happen to have the mounting hardware for that CPU cooler for like other sockets? Oh, I do.
And since I'm at it, the motherboard box as well. Do you have the motherboard accessories?
All right, success. Awesome. See you later. Have a good one. Man, that worked out great.
Oh, look at that. We've got thermal compound and everything. We appear to have
the full complement of mounting hardware for our cooler. Let's take a photo of our combo. Okay.
Okay, we still got to get the case. We're just going to do a quick wipe down. Don't worry, we got this. It'll be worth it when we see Luke's crying face at the end. He'll cry real
tears. Interesting take on a friendship. Look, if you can't delay in the tears of your friends,
then, you know, really, what is there in life? A lot of other things like food. But imagine if
you could season your food with Luke's tears. This is the best place to do this. There is no better
method. Also, the fact that Linus had his LTT keychain out. Oh, yeah, that did not help. Do we
have everything we need? Oh, son of a gun. Daniel! I feel bad. But I really need the modular cables
from this power supply. Hello, we're sorry. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Sorry to be a
pain in the butt. I promise not to knock on your door again. I'll ring the bell. Okay. It's older,
but it has more cores and more threads. It's a Ryzen 7 1700. So it's first gen Ryzen. That's pretty
good. But it comes with the motherboard. 16 gigs of RAM. That's pretty good. 750 watt power supply.
That's amazing. No GPU nor storage. That's fine. 170. That's amazing. It's a it's 3.7 gigahertz turbo
at 8 cores, 16 threads. Do you think they're going to have 8 cores? They'll probably beat us on CPU.
I don't feel like they're going to they might. I don't feel like they're going to get a 3080.
This was listed four days ago. And he says he's unable to test it, unfortunately. But like 170,
and that gives us the rest of the system because it's 16 gigs of RGB RAM, bro. It's good. I don't
think it's necessarily the best thing we could possibly find. Yeah. This other system that I found
where we'd have to like hopefully get them to take some things out of it like the Quattro and
stuff, which is way less likely. Yeah. Would be better, but it's less likely. This one sounds
pretty realistic. Like even if he didn't take a deal with us. Yeah. It works because it's the whole
system. It's still in our budget, too. Right. So we should start moving on that. This guy's in
Coquitlam. Do you want me to low ball him or do you want me to say, Hey, before I low ball,
I always open with, is this available? I can pick it up. Either tomorrow. Yeah. Basically be like,
I'm committed. I can come to you and get it. I'm not I'm not one of those people asking for delivery.
And I have cash I can give you now. Our success hinges on selling some of the components that
we've bought because we've got a lot of duplicates in our first two deals. So Sammy is working on
getting all of our posts up on Facebook marketplace right now. We're going to land back at the office
and she's going to have about half an hour more overlapping with me where we can kind of plan
out the rest of her night. And then she gets another three hours. So she's going to go pick up
our next deal pretty much right away when we get back. And then dude, I have no idea beyond
that. So I mean, we're going to have to figure that out. Yeah. Oh, you can monitor if people want
to buy our stuff. The guy on the 13080 wants to pick it up after 6pm tomorrow, which doesn't work.
We were supposed to deliver the systems to Labs at 6pm. Could we get it after 6pm today? That is
then for sure locking us in to this. And we're like, we're in deep brother. That means tomorrow is
going to. Yeah, but we would have some time to find another system. Sure. Okay. Can I pick it up today?
Okay. Title. Corsair Carbide 275R. Computer case. I would go gaming case. Or yeah. Oh,
yeah. PC or computers. Because people search, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So gaming PC
computer case. Yep. Let's go full SEO. Let's go. The dude wants you to pick up the 3080 at 615pm.
Today. Yeah, that's fine. I can do it. Are we committing to it? Are we committing to a 3080?
Oh, man. I think this decision is going to make or break if we win Scrap Your Wars right now. Yeah.
Hi, I have other people offering full price. Can you do 200 an hour ago? Oh, my second deal
backed off on the $20 discount. I suspect the other person offering full price is Luke. It's a
really, really good deal. I'm a little surprised he found it though. But at this point, I'd rather
pay the extra $20 knowing that I'll just have to sell a little bit more and know that he's not
getting that deal. It's a really good deal. Okay. We got to focus in pretty hard on finding a system
because right now we actually have no leads that have responded. This guy is selling a
Ryzen 5 3600 for $65, but just the CPU. So it's like we need to find... You can find the rest of
the platform. Let's go. I found a motherboard for $120, which would put us at $185. So we'd need
$10 for RAM and power supply. Like maybe if I talk them down, we'll get lucky. But the guy who
listed the CPU listed it four minutes ago. Message them to talk them down. It's worth it. We don't
have anything right now. We got to chase everything we possibly can. We got a hit on our listing.
Which one? Which one? On the CPU. Already? They're friends with 18 people, including your wife
on Facebook. Wait. It's Luke. It's Luke. What a piece of s***. Nice try, Luke. Yeah, got him.
Okay. I messaged the CPU guy and I said, Hey, I have cash and can pick up tomorrow. He just
responded with nice try, Luke. Wait, but now he knows it's us. Oh yeah, maybe we shouldn't have
said that. His name is John. Who is this guy? Wait, John. Isn't that Linus' name?
He saw it. Unlucky. We should have wasted his time. Oh, that sucks. I thought we had a real bite.
I wonder if he doesn't even have it yet and he's like pre-listing it.
Hi, John. Buy our name. Would you take 40 cash for this, for the CPU? 40 bucks. I can reply with
55. What did we list it for? 65. Do you want to check what the other listings for the 3600 are
on Facebook Marketplace? Okay. Because I think we're already the lowest. Other people are listing
it for 60. Let's offer him 50. We can do 50. Yeah. Well, don't say we. Oh.
Check Facebook Messenger. Check Facebook Messenger. Which one? Which one? Which one? Check Facebook Messenger. Holy s***, dude. We're back in it, brother. Let's f***ing go.
Okay. So that was the guy who had the Ryzen 7 1700 and a 750 watt power supply
and 16 gigs of RAM. For 170 bucks. For 170 bucks. Meaning we will have 25 bucks as a wiggle room
to do like... One mouse. Dude, a 1700 is so good. I think it's good. It's a little old. Got another
bite on the Corsair case. I thought the case was going to be hard to sell. You must have taken
great photos, Sammy. Yes. Maybe the Duke should have chosen to be a king. Then he would have a crown.
Are you going to be fielding messages all night selling this stuff? Because like...
I can't believe how active these posts are. It can't be real. I can reply to multiple people
at the same time. Got that zoomer energy. Love it. Do you just sell CPU, GPU and case? Or do you
have motherboard too? Yeah, I got a motherboard. We have a motherboard too. That's weak. Well, I'm sorry.
I can more or less guarantee you they'll have a better processor. Are they going to have a better
GPU? I mean, they do have a better processor right now. They have 3600. And they're selling it.
Them selling a processor has made me pretty concerned. All right. Well, hold on. So what
all is he interested in? Can we add it up? Because it occurred to me with how we're kind of pricing
things according to how it is on Facebook and then like discounting a bit. I don't actually know
for sure that we're making money. Like I haven't checked, you know? This listing is being reviewed.
Can someone like report it? Did Luke report it? That would be quite the s*** move. I'm worried
they're going to make the benchmarks like super lame, like really heavy like storage and CPU based,
which like no one will ever do or use or care about. You guys in the comments can show how
upset you are. You would want a 3080, right? Right? Right? Wait, we may not have actually, uh-oh,
this may not be smart. Maybe that's why so many people are messaging us, though. Maybe our pricing
is a little bit too low. A little stressed. This may have just been an exercise in
doing the math. Swapping cash back for cash. Okay. We'll be fine, though. We'll be fine.
Let's get the $1,700. That power supply alone is for our whole system. Let's just send it. You want
to pick that up tonight, if possible. Yeah. So like 615 is the GPU. Where was the GPU? Did the guy
get back to you? I don't know. Oh, he hasn't responded after you sent that 20 minutes ago.
Do you think he's faking selling stuff? He just read it right now. I watched him. Should I just
ask him if he wants me to pick it up now? Say, I got off work early. He's in Richmond. Okay, so I
need to do that. Yeah, I got off work early. I can go pick it up now. I'm doing a lot of driving.
I'm driving all the way to Richmond to pick up a 3080. I'm then driving all the way to
Whitlam to pick up that Ryzen 7 system. I need to go ask accounting to break this into 20s,
because I don't really want to show up and be like, do you have 30? Yo, brother, I got Hondos.
Yeah. Day two, starting. I got the GPU yesterday, and I got the full tower. The guy did recognize me,
which was fun. The haircut didn't work. You were still okay with 170, though. That's what you
agreed on. So I'm not using my influence to get a deal. Dude, I can't believe it. I never thought
this day would come. And we bought it for literally what he listed it at. Yeah. Because we suck at
bargaining. We haven't tested it yet. We're going to test the GPU in the computer,
make sure it works. We have $25 left. We still need to get keyboard, mouse, mousepad, and chair.
We really need to verify the GPU works. Yeah. How'd it go? The seller from Craigslist,
they haven't responded. So I tried texting them again. Hopefully they'll reply. They're not
replying to me. Anyway, text. So I went and I sat in his lobby and kept emailing him, hi, I'm here,
and then eventually I picked it up. We have it right here. I didn't get to like plug it in because
we were in the lobby. Yeah. Otherwise, I sat there and I hit refresh until 9 p.m. all night to see
if we got more messages. We didn't really get many. So I'm a little worried about selling right now.
We need to buy more stuff before we can even sell anything, though. We don't even have storage.
Oh, so we're going to pick up storage at around 1120. Okay. And we're going to pick up a keyboard
at 11. We still need a mouse and monitor and a desk and a chair. A desk? Desks are free.
Okay. We just have to find one where the person is available. So here's our 3080. It's quite dusty,
but the guy told me he like just pulled it out of his computer to go do the sale. So I'm hoping
that's accurate. Oh crap, is it long enough? Okay. It's a snug fit, but it does fit in the
computer case. That I'm not worried about. We can always make things fit. The power supply that it
comes with, I opened it up. It's 750 bronze from Thermaltake. We're pushing the limits here on
like if this GPU is going to be fine. Didn't even realize we bought such new hardware. Still has the
plastic peel on. Look at that. Brand new case, basically. And he would be disappointed I peeled
it, but you know what? That's fine. All right. Let's power it on. Okay. Switch was off. Let's power it on.
It kicked off a lot of dust.
Do you hear that? I do. That fan does not sound healthy. I think it's this front one. Hey,
there you go. There it is. Ryzen 7 1700, 8 core processor. Got our 16 gigs of RAM. So our memory,
2133. Not the fastest. Definitely not the fastest. That's pretty slow. But you know what? We have a 38.
I found us a desk. It's a solid wood desk. Oh, that guy lies. That's not solid wood. Oh, I saw
that one. Those are MDF desks. You know what? At this point, I think we might just have to go with
it though. Can you throw in a chair? Yes, but they are old. That is okay. I mean, we might as well.
If we don't want it, we can find another one. So I need to go get that keyboard like now. I should
be done very shortly. It's 40 minutes away. That's gone up since I looked it up. I can message them.
Okay. I don't think we'll make it in time for the SSD Linus. I may lose this one, but damn it,
I'm gonna look good doing it. He said 1110 is the latest he can do. Okay, we gotta go then.
I'm coming. Okay. Now. Oh God, we need to get these products listed. Can I take apart a computer in
the backseat? I guess we're doing that. Hey, look at that. This NAS build has one of those old
LTT edition and FF12 fans. Oh. Hello. Good. Good. How are you? Good. I talked with my boss, so
are you available tomorrow? Oh, unfortunately, no. It would have to be today. That's the tech shop
that we called yesterday calling back. I worry that this place is going to know my voice though,
because I've definitely called her. You got me good. What's your name? Luke. Duke. Duke? I think it's
Okay, awesome. Thanks. Sorry for, sorry for being difficult here.
1130 this morning. Okay, great. Okay, so we might have some pretty major curve balls because that's
the shop. And they could potentially have a keyboard mouse. Yes. For us, which would save us the 10
bucks. Some audio thing, probably not. But they would also probably have DDR4 RAM. So if we really
want to, we could look at the speed and go to 32 gigs or we could find faster memory. It also
be a possibility for a platform swap. Yeah. This could like, this could really change a lot dramatically
change things. According to this board, it says it has an NVMe slot. I don't see it though. So I
don't know if it's on the back or under the GPU. So I'm going to pull this back out and take a quick
look. Yeah, there it is. Okay, cool. I also I'm going to take out the RAM. I want to see what speed
we have on this. Just so when we go look there, maybe they have faster or if they have similar,
we could potentially go from 16 to 32 or something. A lot up in the air right now. So I took the RAM
out. It actually does support up to 3200. So we could just enable XMP and hopefully get that full
performance much better than 2133 or whatever it was. How are the listings going? I might have a
buyer for a bunch of stuff. This guy might want RAM, CPU, case, MOBO and GPU. Okay. He's making me
kind of a low offer, but we are over budget right now and we need some money. We just need the SSD.
We need a monitor. Monitor. That's the thing. Literally doing the makeup on the way there.
This is quite funny. I love this. A little bit of balancing. All right. Baking right. Nice.
Okay. Nice. Okay. Well, we're here. All right. I misspelled outside three times. Okay. Well,
that's never better. How do I look? Great. Never better. Hi. For the keyboard, I don't have cash
on me. Can I e-transfer you at all? Okay. So it was $10, right? And can I take a look at the keyboard?
Thank you. Do you want to try it out? Do you think I'll like this one? We have the WASD
Gamer. Okay. Thank you. It's good. It's good. Okay. Thank you. Let me know if you get it or
it should be sent. Sounds good. Yeah. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Okay. Thank you.
I don't know. He glanced at me a couple of times, but I'm not sure if he suspected anything.
I need the address for the second place. Oh, yeah, for sure. Sorry. Yeah, for sure.
And can you let them know that we're on our way? We'll be there around 11.25.
Hi, this is Duke. I'm on the road now. The current ETA is 11.40. Does that still work?
Yeah, sure. I'll let them know if you're there. Do you need a loop or a loop? Duke. Duke. Okay. It comes up as a loop. So, like, did I get your name wrong?
Oh, yeah. That's a weird thing with Facebook. I actually changed my name
quite a few years back, but Facebook sometimes just doesn't. It sends the old one. I don't know.
Okay. Yeah, I'll let them know if you're going to be there at 11.40.
Okay. Sounds good. I never messaged them on Facebook. That's caller ID.
Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, no. Well, we'll see how this goes. We're good?
Yeah. I'm just going to powder it. Man, buddy here wants $250 for a Ryzen 3600 with Cooler and
motherboard and the Corsair case and 8 gigs of RAM and the 1660 Super and the CX430 power supply.
That pretty much leaves us with only, like, kind of worthless stuff. That's basically all we can
sell. That puts us back in the green, though. How much in the green? By, like, 80, 90 bucks.
I'm going to do 250 with the Cougar case. I'm going to say final offer.
So we keep the nice case from Daniel. Yep. It'd be nice to be able to move all this to one person.
We don't have, like, a week to dick around selling to half a dozen different people.
Where the hell is Dunbar Community Center? He wants us to go all the way out to Vancouver.
That is in the middle of f***ing nowhere. I don't live in Dunbar. Should I offer to come all the
way to Dunbar for an extra 10 bucks? 10. 15? 15. I'm being a fair guy. I'm a fair guy.
Oh man, we are bang on time for this guy. Let's go. What does this work?
Hello. Hello. Hi, nice to meet you. Yes, this is John. Hi. Yes. Can I get you to put in your
e-transfer? No, cash only. Oh, we have 100. I have a change. Oh, okay. Perfect. So, John, I did test
and they sent you the screenshot of the test. Oh, good. Can you see it on the messages? Yeah.
Yeah. Okay, great. Thank you very much. Do you want to give him the cash? Yeah.
80 bucks? Yes. Thank you. I'm kind of in a rush here. Oh, no worries. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Have a great day. Thank you. Okay, thank you. I'll walk slow for you. Hi, young lady.
I don't think I got mated either the last two. No. No. I was, like, a little sus because he,
like, smiled a bit too much. Yeah, I think he was just friendly. Hey, Tom. Hey, Tom. Right there,
buddy. All right. Rock on. Let's go. All right. Bye-bye. Let me find out if this guy, if we
got a deal with him, have we confirmed a time with the desk guy? He said anytime before five. Hell,
yeah, that's super flexible. Okay, that helps a lot. Where is he at? Somewhere in Surrey. Okay,
beautiful. Beautiful. You know what? We might pull this off. All right, so we're almost at the
computer shop. I am getting progressively more worried that they're going to recognize me,
but I will be going in with Lindsay, who is my sister. Yes. Okay. Yeah, we're building a computer
for our other sister's son, our nephew, Ryan, who is seven. Here's the whole, I got to add in the
hat. This is the full ensemble, which is not a word I will be saying while we're inside.
A biker would never say that word. No, I don't think so. Yeah. Full get up. This is a get up.
This f*****g offered $10 fee and me in the afternoon. I think we might have to take it. I
guess if that's the best we got, that's the best we got. F*****g ruthless. He's getting a great deal.
The good news is his deal wasn't as good as mine. So I'm still out ahead. Let's go. One thing I will
tell you about Pal knows he is not getting these knock to a fans. I'm going to swap them out for
the fans that are in that other system. We've got five knock to a fans in here. He's getting zero
of them. Oh my God. See, I was afraid of this. Our mass storage, Sammy, is going to be a mobile
two and a half inch hard drive. Look at the little thing. Hello. We are here. I've got to leave you
guys behind now, but we're going to go in there and try to get her done, which is something he
would say. All right. So keyboard, mouse, desk pad, speakers, chair. If they have a chair, you
could get a second power supply just in case. If there's RAM, that's like similar speed or
like slightly slower, but we can get more of it. That might also be better. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And
then platform swap. If I don't know, they're recycling 11th gens or something like, you don't
think they'll have an AMD? They never, we never dealt with AMD when we built the systems unless
they're recycling someone else's computer. That is AMD. All right. Let me try to hide the mics
real quick. Yeah. Make sure mics are hidden. I'm like so nervous. I don't know why. I'm not even
going in there and I'm the nervous one. I'm wearing a wire, dude. I think I'm just going to have one
wire coming down, but honestly, I don't think they're going to notice it. I think him going in
with Lindsay is actually going to help a ton too. Okay, cool. All right. See you guys in a bit. You're
ready? Yeah. We'll make it work. Yeah. Or we won't. It'll be funny. Yeah. My name's still Lindsay
right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're trying to make a computer for our nephew, Ryan. Right now,
we're mostly looking for a keyboard, a mouse, maybe a power supply if there's one of those.
Sorry, I'm not 100% up on the terminology, but the main part I'm hoping the disguise is working then.
Horizon. Horizon 1700. Yeah. Would you mind if I ripped that one out? Yeah. Would that be okay?
Also, some RAM maybe, but it would need to be DDR4, which I think that might be 3. Yeah. Some
power supplies here. All of these are going to be 351. I don't have a screwdriver with me here.
Do you have one with you or we can go upstairs and grab one from there too? Okay.
Cool. Thank you very much. Okay, they literally just like walk right in front of the car. I know
this guy who knows me. I used to come here and get free tech all the time, so it's going to be a little
size. Unfortunately, the platform we currently have is the DDR4, but I appreciate the look.
Oh, nice. Okay. Awesome.
That's okay. I appreciate it. Power supply in the mouse will come in handy.
Good luck finding the rest of the pieces. Thank you. Now that this is concluded,
I will say I noticed the LTT screwdriver. Did you recognize me at all?
I do. Yeah. Might be a little easier without the glasses.
We have the glasses and the tattoos. The beard and the tattoos and stuff.
When we were about to leave, he gave me a few looks that were like a little longer than they
probably normally would have been. I could tell he was like trying to pierce the glasses a little
bit and then we went inside and he handed me the LTT screwdriver and I was like, well, all right.
I was like, okay, from here on, if he offers anything like crazy, then I'm going to have to
say no, but we got an old PowerMan 350 watt power supply. I think this is like an IBM Thinkpad
mouse. So all we need now technically is a keyboard, audio solution and a chair and audio.
This mouse sucks. We're probably still going to want to buy that combo set and we don't need
the audio today. Is that right? I guess technically not. We could get the audio tomorrow. So we're
doing okay, actually. So I think we should head back and try to get this computer going.
All right, I'm adjusting lanes.
Hey, there we go. Oh, just, you know, part of the life.
Have to have a constant makeup person. What's up, brother? Here's the rundown. Our GPU arrived
from Java, which means combined with storage, we have everything to put together our final computer.
We've got the deal to sell most of our leftovers, but it's way in Vancouver, super far away and
the deal sucks. This whole offered $10 fee and me in the afternoon. I think we might have to take
it. I guess if that's the best we got, that's the best we got. With all that said, priority number
one is to get this damn sweater off. I'm dying right now. It's so warm. Okay, let's get a system
built. Have you ever built a computer before? Yes. Okay, good. Build a computer. Go. No kidding,
I'll help. Okay, let's do this thing. I have a gift for you. Oh, these Java special edition
screwdrivers. Oh, get rid of this one. This one's gone. Oh, okay. Yeah, this is great.
Are our sponsor Java? Well, I mean, it's from us, isn't it? Yeah, we made it, but we wouldn't have
made it without their colors. Thanks, Java. We're actually going to be giving some of these away
on Flowplain at the end of this and Java is also going to be giving some away. So
you want to check them out online? I'm taking all of the, whoa. Thanks, Daniel. And then let's get
all of these cheap fans out of here and then we're going to replace them with the Noctwiz that are
in the other case. Oh, yeah, that's something you can do, Sammy. Do I also get a Java edition
screwdriver for now? Thank you. Wow, lots of Noctua fans. Oh yeah, no, Sammy's got more.
What? Yeah. More fans. Oh, I found us some speakers. Sammy, check out these speakers,
yo. 20 bucks. You smell like glue. Well, you smell like we're about to get a good deal. 20 bucks.
That's good. Thank you, speaker guy. 6 p.m. Ah, sorry. You're doing great, Sammy.
How is the selling going? I don't think anyone else has messaged. So when are we supposed to
meet Pal? I haven't confirmed yet, but this afternoon. Oh my God, it's afternoon. We do not
want to get stuck in rush hour traffic today. No. I know it doesn't really matter, but it's not
getting these Noctua fans. We want the Noctua fans. Question for you, Linus. Are you doing Windows 10
or 11? Well, unlike some people, I'm compatible with Windows 11. What do you know about the
other system? I know that I'm compatible with Windows 11 and they're asking about Windows 10.
So I say we're on Windows 11. I don't know how to suit this fan and it's really tight.
Okay. There you go. I don't want to break anything. No, no, you're good. If you break it,
just remember this guy's a hole. Oh, okay. One thing I'm concerned about is we bargained with
no one. We tried with the GPUs and they are both just like, no. And those were a lot cheaper than
the rest of the market. We probably should have tried to bargain with 170 guy for the system,
but once he recognized you, I couldn't bargain anymore. And it wasn't worth
not getting it at that point because we needed something. We're going to lose CPU stuff. We will.
I guarantee you they'll have a better CPU. Linus is going to take a more rounded approach. I
bet you his setup is going to be nicer in general. I bet you he's going to have a better CPU. And
then we're going to come in with the like the club with nails driven through it of a 3080.
You're like, what's up? You want to go? Big update. We've got a new buyer. Okay. His name's
better motherboard, but he's way closer. And I talked him into taking the Cougar case. Yes.
Let's go. So let's get this board out of here because we're no longer using it. Okay. And we
got to get the CPU swapped and we got to get out of here. And I got to put my beard back on. When
are we meeting him? We're meeting him before 230. As soon as I told pal that I had another offer,
he's like, well, what's the deal? All of a sudden he wants to negotiate. You know what? F*** you.
Pal. In all fairness, I respect the hustle. I do respect the hustle. I respect how we did to
other people in previous shows. And this one. F***ing pal. That just means like, bro, I swear
nobody keeps their word these days. Whatever, man. Enjoy. Enjoy. And I'm like, if he backs out,
I'll let you know. He goes, he ain't. Oh, so now he knows what a good deal it is. F*** you. Pal.
One more. This cooler is going with this board. This CPU comes out though. So that's our 4500.
Okay. And then our 3600 is going to go in here. You could throw like a tiny bit more goop on there,
but the goop that's on there is probably fun. You know what? Here. Here. Goop transplant.
Oh, yeah. Should we take a photo of it before we put it on? No, he wants to boot it up while
we're there. Buddy wants to see it post, which makes sense. So what I was thinking was, oh,
that's a lot. Whatever. So what I was thinking was we will just build it. Can we try to post it
before we leave? Yeah. Do we have another Ramstick? He gets one Ramstick. Oh, he gets one Ramstick.
Why am I? You're building his system. Oh, I see. These fans, you can just basically find
anywhere that looks like that and just kind of plug them in. So there's, I don't think we're
going to do cable management on this bad boy. Nice. Got it. Perfect. Thank you. Hard drives in,
everything's in. The reason I want to see this post before we go is that if for whatever reason,
this system does not work. Now is the time for us to tell Buddy, hey, look, sorry,
we can't spare the motherboard or whatever. You know, this is mostly Daniel's system anyway.
We've got his RAM, his cooler, his motherboard. It's just the CPU from the weird Craigslist guy.
All right. Okay. All my fans spin. That's a good sign. GPU fans spin. Thank you, Jawa. Show me an
output. Your time, buddy. It's okay. Sometimes it takes a minute or two. No HDMI signal from your
device going in this time by mode. I wonder if it needs a BIOS update. Well, we're going to have
to gamble. We've got to go meet the guy. Let's make sure that this one posts. Now's the time. Oh,
there we go. Let's power it off. Here's what we're going to do, Sammy. We are going to do the world's
fastest BIOS update. I need that CPU. The CPU? The one that's in there. So here's what I want to see.
I want to see this motherboard post with a definitely compatible CPU. All right. Not stressed.
Not stressed. It's still not posting. No, it's stuck on CPU. Are you kidding me? Oh, no, no, no, no,
no. This is bad. Did we plug it into the GPU power supply correctly? Yep. Come on. Come on.
Oh, I think it's doing stuff. It's doing stuff. Oh, thank God. Okay. Okay. I am sweating absolute
buckets right now and flash. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. No, no, this is fine. Everything's
fine. What time is it? We're still going to be okay, but we have to go like now. Hey, here we go.
Yeah. So the BIOS on this board is from 2020. So that's why it wasn't posting with this 4000
series chip. Just hadn't had support added for it yet. This is good. Let's take a moment and talk
about one of the great features of Java. If you want to skip the hassle of listing your GPU for
sale on a marketplace, you can sell it directly to Java to help offset the cost of your upgrade.
Hilariously, after all the negotiations with the guy that we're selling this one to,
we actually would have gotten a very similar offer from Java. So we could have just saved the
trouble. Check out java.gg. And you can also participate in the giveaways that they have
lined up for scrapyard bores. Thanks for sponsoring this series, Java. What's our ETA, Sammy?
17 minutes plus whatever a few minutes. So it should be 20. Hell yeah. Here it is. I need to see
it post with this chip. This is it. This is where we find out if it posts with the 4500. I mean,
the compatibility list says yes. Theoretically, it's fine. Yes. Okay, let's go. The t-shirt's
not great. Literally says LTT on it. Or he just doesn't know who we are. This is it. Hi. Further PC.
I'm just going to go into task manager. Oh yeah, no storage right? No. So it's not going to boot
into task manager. It'll just be the BIOS, but it posts. Yeah, it looks good to me. Sounds good.
Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Thank you. Have a good day.
Young man, do you know Linus Tech Tips? Yeah. Oh, really? Would you recognize him if you saw him?
Wait, no way. Do you want to be in the video? Are you serious? Yeah. Wait, really? Hi.
I always thought if I saw, you guys see them in the video, not recognize, they're like,
oh, if I saw him, I would know. No, I don't. We got him. I didn't. It's fake. Dude, I'm not this old.
It's a big battle. What are you trying to say right now? That went about as well as it could
have possibly gone. Tom, you missed it, but this was someone who regularly watches the channel,
watches the podcast, literally knew we were doing scrapyard wars right now. He's like, I hope.
And still didn't make me. Very good. Good work, man. So what's our next stop? To pick up the
desk, right? But we need the truck. We're going back. Yeah, we got to go back. We'll pick up a chair
and lunch and then come back. And then at 4pm, it sounds like we're going to pick up the keyboard
mouse. Keyboard mouse, mouse pad. Okay. Well, Luke is out getting some more stuff. I was taking
this to the shop to give it a dust and holy crap. I am glad I did. This is nasty and a fire hazard.
Okay. So we got the chair. It's in the back. We strapped it down. I don't know how excited
they were to see Duke. They said nothing, zero words. When I got to the door, I picked it up,
said thanks. Still no response left. Nothing. But hey, we got a chair. There we go. A little bit
better. There's still a tiny bit of dust in there, but I don't want to take the air compressor too
hard because it'll spin that fan. This is more than clean for kind of this top down look here
and even just from the back. So I think we're going to be good there. We made a decision
really early on because we were trying to get things shipped on time from Java where we were
going to get a standard SATA SSD because we weren't sure what platform we were going to end up with
and if it was even going to have an M.2 slot or whatever else. But that's not like a normal problem
that you would have if you were doing this. We're actually upgrading because we found that the best
SSD option that we could find was an M.2 off of Java anyways. Luckily, we've been able to do a bit
of a swap there. We found this Patriot P300 on Java, which was great. We unfortunately can't get it
in time to Canada, but that's okay. The judges deemed that this Intel 660p is more than equivalent
enough for us to install in our system. That way, we'd actually have a system to turn in today.
Thankfully, I think that SSD might actually like save us. Saved one of our benchmarks. I still
don't think we're necessarily going to win that one. They might have a better platform. They have
a better one with like more cash or something. We'll still lose almost certainly all the other
CPU bound benchmarks, but hopefully we crush the GPU ones enough. And I hope they let us put Ray
Tracing on. Because if they let us put Ray Tracing on, we will destroy certainly whatever they have.
Are you nervous? You look nervous. No, I'm not nervous. You look super nervous.
It's DDR4, right? Yeah. You know, if it doesn't work, we can just plant some like
thermite in there. And when they go to start benchmarking, we'll just light it all on fire.
We'll be like, whoops. As part of our promoting things that are available on LTTstore.com, each team
got one of our PTM7950 phase change thermal pads. These are great thermal pad material from Honeywell
that performs really, really well. Super easy to apply. You don't have to deal with any kind of
liquid metal type nonsense. It's non-conductive. And we're going to use that to get really great
temps on our CPU. But I'm also considering maybe putting it on the GPU. Is it worth it to tear
the cooler off this thing? What's our budget? So we've got 130 bucks. Monitor mouse, mouse pad,
desk chair, and everything else. This is so doable. I messaged someone with a Logitech mouse earlier.
Did I hear back? Oh, he's available from 430 to 530. How much is this guy? 15 bucks for a
Hyperion 402. Maybe ask Buddy if he has a mouse pad. Well, he's only available from 430. So we need
to go pick up the desk first and then we will go to mouse guy. Well, 15 bucks for a mouse pad
or for a mouse. Right. I was going to tell you, I wouldn't normally bother to repaste a GPU this
new. It's probably fine. But knowing that the judges are going to be looking at temperatures,
I'm going to repaste this thing. Ben Q, 144 Hertz. He's willing to take 70, 24 inch monitor. Comes
with DVI cable and power cord. DVI cable might be a bit loose. But that monitor might be DVI only
for higher refresh rate as well. It's just continued. Specs. DP 1.2. Let's just do it. I can stop
looking at DP to DVI adapters. But we have to pick up the desk first. If we want to leave, we have
to leave basically now. Are you grabbing the other end of this for me? Yeah. How bad is it? It's
fine. Nothing, nothing wrong. Okay, that was fun. Pencil is downtime today, right? For the computer
hoping for five. No, no, you'll have the computer before. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's fine. Six is fine.
I'll have the computer for you before we go out again. Yeah. Ideally, you and Luke will go
together to hand the computers off. We have like four stops to make in the next couple hours here.
We need to go now. But Windows update. Okay. Windows update. This guy's down for another five
dollars. Thank you so much. Negotiators. You're the best period. It's possible this hard drive
does not work. Sammy, you dropped it, hey? Sorry. Yeah. It's definitely not detected. I know that
much. I mean, we don't need it. I don't think we need it. As long as they're not installing
too large of games. How much is our SSD? Our SSD was 20 bucks. No, but like how much stored? 256.
Oh, that's fine. Should be okay. Can you swing by an occasionally Windows update? Yes. I also
haven't put the latest NVIDIA drivers on. I can do that. Other than that, she's tuned. Let's go.
I feel like where Sammy is really going to come into her own as the superior assistant
is tomorrow when we're setting everything up to be aesthetic because Elijah's got a lot going for
him. It's pretty tech savvy, very enthusiastic, but aesthetic sense. Sammy, you got him, right?
Yeah. It's so casual. All right. We are off to our last pickup of the day. We are trying to get a
keyboard mouse and mousepad combo for 10 bucks. Then that'll leave us with just an audio setup
that we need to get. So we're hoping with, you know, basically the entire day of tomorrow,
we're going to be able to pick up some free speakers or something from somewhere.
I won't have the makeup tomorrow. Hopefully whoever wants to sell it to us won't recognize me.
All right. Well, Luke and Glenn are still out. I am going to attempt to enable XMP. We'll change
that to XMP profile one. Let's see if our computer boots again. It's starting up again, which is good.
Oh, maybe not. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I'm on BIOS. Okay. That's good. Memory, 3200. Look at that.
This is getting me excited. I've been very stressed just trying to get everything installed
and working. Like I'm confident it's going to boot and I'm confident we're going to be fine,
but it's just I'm still nervous. Yeah. So we're on like a 2017 BIOS. That's not great. Let's update
this. So we got back from the keyboard mouse and mouse pad. I think it's a win. I won't show you
all the stuff now because of like dangers of driving, but that doesn't sound like great actually.
It's definitely like a cheap no-back plate. Look at that. Kind of like knockoff mechanical keyboard,
but it's a mechanical keyboard technically. And the mouse is another one of those kind of like,
it looks like maybe like a final mouse or something like that. It's not.
And we technically have a mouse pad. So it's okay stuff. Considering we got it for 10 bucks,
I'm very, very happy with it. Mouse guy. Yeah. I was like, would you go down to 10? He left me
unread. I say, okay, no problem. I'll still come pick up around five. Now, just where the devil
are we going, Sammy? This is like a strip ball. Yeah, it's a business. They're giving away desks
and chairs and they close at 5pm. Wait. Oh my God. That would be hilarious. This is my realtor's
office. No way. What? We might get an opportunity to see if I can pass to someone who knows me
reasonably well. Hi. We were told to come here for a desk to pick up. Let's go. We'll grab the desk
first. Does Ben still work out of this office? Is he here right now? Let me watch my hands.
All those 10 hours. Right there. Yep. There we go. So the green one's greener, but that one's
kind of a better condition. Yeah, I think we should take the one in better condition. Take the
gray one. Okay. Do you mind if I see if Ben's around? Sure. You can go now. Okay. Thanks so much.
Hello. The ladies downstairs said you were giving away some desks. I just wanted to say thank you.
Hey, welcome.
Recognize me yet? He bought a house for me. Oh, more than just that. The get up is we're shooting
a video. This is one of my team members. We're filming you. Sorry, Ben. Sorry to ambush you
like that. Anyway, thanks for the desk. All right. See you later, Ben. Oh, the look on his face. It's
hilarious. So Ben sold us the LMG office. He represented us when we bought the lab.
He sold me and Yvonne our first home. No, we go way back with Ben. Wait, DVI out on the board?
Yeah. PS2? It's like first gen Ryzen, bro. It works. Okay. Okay. Oh, you're on the best part. To get
the board updated to the latest BIOS, I had to do five BIOS updates because I couldn't jump from
the original. Yeah, yeah. It was on the original. That's pretty normal, actually. It was on 2017,
but it booted. We'll see how it goes. There is one fan on the Zotac that is off balance,
and so when it stops, it'll get lopsided. And then when we reboot, it picks up again. But I can
fix it by just like kind of giving it another go. Should we just tape it so it doesn't ever spin?
So here's where we can really gain. The performance that Labs tests is not final performance.
As long as our system is stable when we drag race it, it's fine. The things that Labs testing
that are final is things like noise. So we take the tape off tomorrow. Yes. I'm so down. Pull the
limiter out. Well, this is just cyberpunk being cyberpunk. Starting to take off, dude. We are
averaging 60 FPS though. Are you murdering innocent civilians? Yes, that's good. That's a mentality
we need in this graph yard. Duke. Good training, young Mike. We got to use that on the streets.
What quality setting is this? We're on like ultra at 1080p. That's pretty sick. That is pretty loud
though, and I don't think we're going to be able to use this. Well, the side panel is not on either.
Sure, yeah. That's not better at all. Is it kicking off a lot of heat? No. And the air volume is also
very bad. Yeah, these fans are pretty rinky-dinky. I should have just taken that whole system from
stratum. Yeah. Pulled the fans out of it. Because having no fans in the top too is like kind of
rough. Yeah. You'll be able to mess with fan profiles and stuff too. Yeah. I mean, our GPU is
getting up to 87 degrees, 88 degrees. Maybe we shouldn't mess with fan profiles. Yeah, CPU is
at 50. Our CPU is like fine actually. Taping plan was fun. Yeah. But when it's cranked up,
that was on cue. Yeah. Well, when it's cranked up, the fan is fine. And honestly,
I think we might need it. Yeah, let's just let her be loud. She's just allowed. Because I think
people got to realize like GPUs are loud. Can we steal some of the sound foam? What happens if we like
I think it just is loud though. Yeah, I don't think it's going to help that much. Yeah. I'm
trying to I'm trying to gain, but we got zero minutes left. So I think we just got to kind of
the line. This isn't back yet. So you got a bit more time. Yeah, we're ready. He's late. That
traditionally comes with downsides. I'm just saying what the downsides are
varies. I don't know. There's been crazy ones where it was like 10% every 10 minutes. Yeah.
Every 10 minutes over the deadline was minus 10% I believe to your score. And it sort of depends
on how late it is. Like if you're like five minutes late, it's like who gives a ****. But
if he shows up at six. That's kind of a big deal. I saw that message. I'm being asking what the ETA
was. So typical Linus always late. Yeah, I gave them permission to pick something up later, but
I told them they had to be back at five to do this. So they're late for that part of it.
I said Sammy could pick it up till six because I technically they're on 10 till six. I might
just send you and Sammy for this pickup. Oh man. I'm negotiating with David. Apparently we don't
have enough storage for all the benchmarks. Maybe we should have looked at what the benchmark
requirements were. Yeah, that's not going to work for tomorrow, he says. Oh man. I mean,
do we get a random hard drive? We have to get it done by today. I don't know what's going on. Yeah,
how are we going to get another drive? I mean, we can afford it. Yeah. I had no idea we were
going to need more than 256 gigs. So it's this complex here. Hey, what unit was it? We don't
know where this what unit this guy lives and he's not responding. So the mouse steal is dead.
I guess so. Bummer. Now David's calling me. Hey David. How are you? I'm not going to lie. I still
have not looked at the benchmark requirements. I suppose it mentions that we need some amount of
storage. It's not specifically specified that you need a certain amount of storage. Then I guess
we won't get anything docked for that. That's not true. Hold on, hold on, just a gosh darn minute
here. If it's not a requirement, it's not a requirement. It's an implied requirement that
the benchmark need to be installed. You can't have an implied requirement, sir. Is the problem that
your drive is broken? Yes, my drive is broken. But I had one working drive, so I figured I was in
good shape. Your drive works. What? Which one? The 750? I just plugged it in and then detected right
away. Really? Oh, mouse guy. Just replied, sorry. Well then that's great. So we'll use the hard drive?
So what I had intended to do actually was set them up as tiered storage, but... We can delay
so Luke can go hand his PC in. They can start the testing on his. Then when you get back,
you can set up the tiered storage. No, I don't think I'm going to be able to. Because to set up
tiered storage, you have to install to the hard drive. Can you just tell me what the benchmarks
are and then... I can pull it up. Just like you could have, based on the document I sent out
earlier today. We have never had it in the past that you have to have all the benchmarks on the
drive at a time. So if that wasn't explicitly in the rules, I expect there to be no penalty for
this. And the fact that I happen to have a working drive, it turns out that's a bonus.
Did you really think we were going to all stand around do that, or are you just playing a game
to try and win? We've done that before. No, I'm serious. The amount of storage, unless it's
explicitly laid out, is just whatever it is. And you just install whatever you need when you need
it. When we've tested in the past. Okay, that's what the subjective scoring is for. It's to bring
you to marriage there. That's going to be up to the judges. But yeah, it will affect the subjective
scoring. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. No, no, I knew that. So David, put whatever the most storage dependent
ones are on the SSD and then put everything else on the hard drive, I guess. Okay, sounds good.
All right, thanks, David. We doing this thing? How much was it? 15. Hello, mouse guy. Oh, thank you.
Great. Do you think I like this? Yep. Lots of buttons, gamer. Yeah, it's good. It's my ex-girlfriend.
Oh, sorry to hear that. No, no, no, that's fine. Then I'm glad to hear that.
I built a computer for and everything. So 15? Yeah. Okay. How'd you learn to
build computers? It's pretty easy. Like, honestly, if you watch on YouTube, it's super easy to do.
What's like a good channel? Yeah, we got to build one right now. So. Oh, really? Yeah. Just what would
we look up, you think? Like, honestly, NCI-X will do it for like a hundred bucks, too. If you're
like very unsure about like what you're doing. No good channel, sir. I don't think NCI-X is in
business. I'm very surprised. Oh, what was that channel that you knew? Linus Tech Tips. Oh, okay.
Oh, Linus is, he's really good. Oh, okay, really? Yeah, I heard he's from Vancouver. I think he's in
Langley. Yeah, it's a really small world. Yeah, yeah. Okay, thank you. Would you want to be in one of
Linus' videos? I mean, I think you're wearing his shirt right now. Really? Yeah. Really, am I? I like him.
Yeah. Do I? Do I look like him? Yes, you do. Are you sure? Yeah. Okay, how long did it take you
to recognize me? I actually thought I recognized you pretty early and then I noticed the shirt.
The damn shirt. I had the sweater in there. We've been running around today, man. Thankfully,
I think that SSD might actually like save us. Saved one of our benchmarks. So, it'll take
a second to cook up because that's just what Steam does. Our disk usage is climbing. We're at 627,
6700. I'm happy about that, too, dude. I'm so happy about that. And like our CPU is unpacking on all
threads. Dude, if they have to download to that hard drive. Yeah, they're screwed. They're screwed.
Okay, so we're heading to our next protocol. I'm not in David's Good Books right now. I'm kind of
afraid to ask him for our favor, but we might need to be allowed to pick something up a little bit
after six today. It's 530. Yeah, it's actually... Linus is still not here. It's a little ridiculous.
Like, honestly, probably doesn't even matter if we competition, but I just want him to cook.
We did it. You were ready in time. We crossed the finish line. I'm proud of our child.
I'd be happy with this computer. Me, too. Do you think that you have the better system when compared
to Linus? It's always hard to tell. We saw a CPU that he was selling. Knowing how he tends to approach
these challenges, I think he'll have strong points that are weak points for us. And I think we'll have
strong points that are weak points for him. So, I really don't know how it's going to come out. Our strongest point is GPU. Our weakest point is everything else. But our weakest points aren't
like that weak. Like, the CPU is pretty solid. We were running some stuff. Like, in Cyberpunk,
we had no CPU bound issues, even with the 3080. I guess we'll see how Labs deals with it, because
that's going to be the real test. It'll suffer in some areas. I suspect he has a better processor.
I think that'll be our hardest point. Have you guys put any thought into the benchmark you get to
choose? Because we know we're CPU limited, we're going to definitely be avoiding picking those
games. We don't want to do no counter strike. That's what we're currently thinking. Probably
Tomb Raider. If I remember correctly, from my days, Tomb Raider scaled really well with CPU and GPU.
But, and GPU is the big important part of that. I'm guessing because you are running a 3080,
you want to have your settings cranked. Yes. High resolution. We would love to do ray tracing on
everything. We just want to put that out there right now. It's 2024. You should just have ray
tracing. I don't understand why this is even a conversation. Any amount of time of our lives
spent without ray tracing from here on is a waste. So, I believe Tom's hardware said it first.
What is life without ray tracing? Yeah, exactly. It's time to hand your system in for testing.
All right, here it goes. Oh boy. Don't fail me now.
Hey there, brother. Hello. Mr. David. Hi, I can hear you now. Okay, we're going to arrive at our
second last stop for today at six. Your second last stop at six. Well, that's what I was going to
tell you. Is it would certainly be convenient for us to do one more stop today after six.
But we don't need to. But we would prefer to do our last stop today in costume, which has a clear
content benefit. And then take a small time penalty tomorrow. Yeah, fine. Sure. All right.
That's about the best outcome we could have hoped for, Sammy. Yep. And what are we picking up at
this spot again? A monitor. Sorry, just had a hard time. Hi. We're here to pick up a monitor.
Oh, thank you. Hey, sorry, skip through the garage. Oh, sorry. Hi. Thank you. So, I'll just take this.
Do you want to give him the cash? Oh, thank you. And then again, like I was saying, the cord is a
little bit finicky. Yeah, no problem. So, like sometimes you'll notice that it'll cut out in
the know. So. We have another one. Yeah. Thank you very much. Have a great day. No worries.
Take care. Take care. Take care. I don't think you recognized us. No, I don't think so.
Shoot. Sammy, didn't you say this one had DisplayPort? Yeah, we looked it up. I think it's a
different model. Oh. It doesn't have DisplayPort. This will be interesting. I think what might end
up happening is we might have to get a DisplayPort to DVI adapter if we want to run at 120 hertz.
So, we'll have to see how it goes. Shoot. This may have been a miscalculation, this monitor, but
that's okay. That's okay. Overall, overall, it's going to be a really good package. We've got a
monitor. Wait, are we at Luke's complex? Holy s***. We are at Luke's building right now
for our last pickup of the day. This is Luke's response here. Hello there. That's it right there.
Oh, great. Thank you. No, I just don't use them. Oh, sure. There you are. As long as someone can
use them, then... Oh, great. Thank you. Okay. I really appreciate that. No worries. All right. Take
care. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Not so much as a second glance. Some nice little edifier
speakers. 20 bucks. Let's do it. We made it. Our last pickup was at 630. So, you can penalize us
however you see fit. How do you think you did? Your system's basically complete. We had a few
options for configuration. We almost ended up with a 3600, but we ended up with a 4500 Ryzen
processor because the speed was almost the same and the price that we were able to get flipping
our 3600 was better because the 4500, nobody knew what the heck it was. We got our hands on a 3070
for what I thought was a pretty good deal. 16 gigs RAM. XMP worked just like that. It did a
BIOS update in order for everything to be hunky-dory, but I think it's a great system for the price.
Overall, I still don't know how much we paid for it. Well, we'll price out some used parts and
we'll find out for ourselves, but our first inspection so far, we did open it up. We're
actually quite surprised. Don't tell him. Oh, okay. Secret. What's the point of me talking to him?
I thought he's supposed to tell me how my system's doing. You should have read the document I sent
to you. I built the gaming PC. We shared a test plan. We got input from everybody on how to best
break or sorry, test your system. It's a great gaming system. It's a great gaming system for
gamers. I guess we're going to find out tomorrow. Thanks for watching this video.
It's day four. The systems are done. They're tested, although there is still time for us to tweak
them for better performance. Yes, there's still time to tweak them, but the big focus today is
going to be on the setup, which is going to be a big advantage for us except for one small problem.
We're going to have a little less time today. Yes, that's right. They were so late yesterday.
We're going to delay them by the equivalent amount of time. You can penalize us however you see fit.
For the next hour, these two are going to have to play board games. Oh, no. Like board games.
The real punishment is because Linus didn't read my instructions yesterday. I'm going to steal
all the instructions from every game. What do you mean? Read the instructions, please. No. Yeah.
No, I'm not going to say that. You pulled in the parking lot at seven. We were told to be done at
five. You were two hours late. What a joke. This whole thing's a sham. I don't like it when
dads argue. You know what? Realistically, we don't even need the time. We got this. Does that mean
we get to go? You're good to go. You're free. Yeah. No punishment. Okay, we're going to go. We've got
to go to the monitor. You've got to start clocking the 1700. Let's get going. I want to use another
charger just to keep this one in good condition. Just the wheels. So, code names. The only
clues you're allowed to give is one word at a time. For example, like model, you could be like
train. Sure. This is going to be too easy. Have you seen how well we communicate? I have not.
It communicates so well at being late. Whoa. This is the monitor we got. Dang. Thanks, Jawa.
Is that a high-end mechanical key? I'm just trying to taunt them with our mechanical keyboard right
now. Sport three. Sport three. One of them has to be cricket. Yep. One of them has to be dance. Yep.
And one of them's got to be stadium. Yes. Let's go. I noticed your cable management isn't
particularly nice, so I have a gift for you, which is the Magnetic Cable Management Arts.
LTCstore.com. This is an actually nice kit. There's another layer too. There's stuff below it.
Wow. Observe for two. We'll watch. Yes. And spy. Yes. Yes. Let's go.
I had a little bit of a revelation. I was trying to type in steam and it wasn't
the smoothest experience, so I've opened a keyboard tester.
It's registering like 30% of the keys. I am not happy right now. One of the judges is a keyboard
knob, so that's definitely going to come back and bite them. I just tried our first overclock
and it crashed when rendering. I'm going to try adjusting the voltage on it
and see if that'll help. This is my first time overclocking.
I've never overclocked before. I'm glad this is the news for both of us.
So are we done our punishment now? Yep. You're free to go. I've had far worse punishments.
Should have had far worse punishments. Got them. Deal with it, Luke. Oh, I will.
Everything can be ready for the judges at 2pm. 2pm? I thought we had a full day today.
Don't show up at 4pm then, no problem. When are we going to judge and benchmark and stuff?
Are we saying until like midnight? No, this is the last day, Linus. Oh, what? You go.
So we need to get the mouse pad and leave a toonie under the guy's mat. Yes. Let's figure out
where we want our desk. This is an option. Okay, I think we can just leave it like this.
That's also an option. I like this. Really? With the lamp, when the wood. How much of the space
are we allowed to use to help with our aesthetic here? You can't take items from the sets and use
them on your desk, but if you want to put stuff elsewhere around, that's fine. Wait, but they have
the cute corner. That's not fair. Oh, we didn't even think about using that. Thanks, Linus. Yeah,
the cute corner's off limits. Okay, if we can't use the cute corner, we should just try to use
that corner. I just don't think we should be able to use anything to be honest. It should be like
this, the desk, right here. What kind of food is on this side panel, but I'm going to remove all of it.
I'm in a double checker budget. Don't we have to figure out an adapter?
Sammy, didn't you say this one had DisplayPort? We might have to get a DisplayPort to DVI
adapter if we want to run at 120 Hertz, so we'll have to see how it goes. I'm going to plug it in
and find out for sure. We have $30. $30 for me. I'm thinking we hit up a mini soap because it's
actually kind of closed. This one's a Guilford. Also, I think if we just got a Guilford straight
up. Yeah, there's a bunch of dollar stores there and stuff. Okay. How we doing? We're holding at this
now, 3.65. I mean, it's a lot better than it was. It's better than three and it hasn't crashed yet.
Kind of expecting more, but it's a good idea to find a stable, good place. You will also get a
care package of magnetic cable management arches from LTTstore.com. Very nice, so we can use that to
make sure everything looks really clean. Aesthetically, do you want it facing forward? Facing forward
probably. All right, cool. Tilt this a little bit so that you can see. Absolutely, because we've got
this expansive desk. See, these guys are all sign language-y whispering. We've got confidence.
That's why we talk out loud about how freaking awesome our setup is. We're just bored because
we're already done. Uh-huh, sure. I have a question for both teams. Did you read the judging rubric?
Nope, nope. By the time he sent it to us, we already had everything procured, so it's not like we could.
Well, let me help both teams out by telling you how you will be judged by the judges. So there's
going to be four categories. There is aesthetics worth 25 points. There is sound worth 10 points,
and that's partly the PC noise, but also how good the audio will be. There is stratagem or
creativity, as I like to call, worth 25 points. So judging how creative is the setup, how neat are
the solutions, and then effectiveness for 40 points. So how much would you like to use a setup?
And that's combined into a sweeping score, and that's scoring metric I like to call the asses score.
The asses score? Yeah, aesthetics, sounds, stratagem, effectiveness, and then a sweeping score.
I might have these for free. I have a bunch of people I'm talking to right now. This is the one that
I think it's... These were LG speakers. I assumed it would work. I'm on a computer. I saw a picture
on the back. That's speaker wire, I think. The person messaged me. By the looks of your profile,
you seem like a funny guy, and I appreciate your joke offer. But honestly, these are kind of
muffled and junky speakers. Not anything close to what I thought when I got them. If you want them,
you can have it for free, but then no refunds. They're not taking my two dollars and 17 cents
very seriously. Okay, so we are going to go pick up some speakers, but as we've been driving,
my phone's been popping off with messages, so we might be able to pick up a keyboard while we're
out as well. There's a few free keyboards around. We might have an option. Do you want to grab the
peripherals? You want for a $10 keyboard, it's not the worst. Oh yeah, it just needs a little bit
of cleanup, and then it's good to go. Honestly, it's not even that bad. It's not that bad. There are
no weird gross fingernails in there. Yeah, maybe we focus on other priorities. All right, so we're
just going to Guildford now, and I guess this is kind of everything in it. We're going to set
things up, right? Do you want to plug everything in and make sure it works first? It wouldn't be a
bad idea. Yes. Yeah, so here we go. Just confirming Labs didn't break our computer real quick here.
Let me... Oh yeah, good call. We could still replace this if we need to. Okay, the whole keyboard
works, and mouse too. This is actually the first time we've fired up the mouse. It probably won't
track well on that, so... No, it's actually doing okay. Okay, great. I did a bit of a goof. I thought
those speakers looked like computer speakers. Those are home theater speakers. They have speaker wire
connections, but that guy was awesome. Gave me just a bunch of extra stuff for free. One of those
things is this. He said it's just like some piece of junk he got off AliExpress. He said it barely
works and massively overheats, but I will let you know there's left and right audio inputs. So with
a Y adapter, we can run these speakers. Oh my god. We're on our way to a dollar store slash cool
kitschy stuff store to pick up some things to beautify our setup a little bit. We've got a $30
budget basically to get a mouse pad and beautification. Question for you, Sammy. Yes. Seeing how much of the
score is audio, do we need a mic? We can try to find something at Miniso. And then our worst case
scenario, if we can't get a mouse pad for a decent price, is we just drive to that place and leave
it to any end of the guy's map? Yep. Hopefully he still has it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Oh my
god. This is not that cheap though, dude. But this is the branded stuff. This is officially licensed,
so it's more expensive. I see. Care Bears Battery Bank. Man, that $30 is not going to go very far,
dude. Maybe there's a dollar store here. There is a dollar store here. We'll see what budget we have.
But I think dollars or candies can be pretty good. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. One thing I
was a little concerned about was that strip. Yeah, it's like, yep, we're talking about the same thing.
Making it some kind of like sticker. What do you think of just like whatever this is? Like a piece
of ribbon or something across the front there. But then this is a little wide. Okay, you want to
just go with the silver or the off? Yeah, we'll go with the silver. That's a cute little basket.
Yeah, for $1.50, not bad. This fits. You don't like that, almost. Oh, $1.75. Oh, that matches our chair
too. Yeah. Okay, we'll go with this. That's the one. Is that our candy dish or is that something
else? That's our candy dish. Oh yeah, I was going to look up USB microphone. It's $10 for a blue
snowball ice. But we have an hour and it's a coquitlam. That's close to here. Okay. Here's a black
blue snowball for $20. I mean, how badly do you think we need a mic? It was like a quarter of the
score for audio. You're right. Yeah. And like we can, no, no, because we can still get this. Yeah,
we can still get this and some candy and a microphone. Maybe. It's hard mince for a dollar.
Wait, did you just say hard mince? Yeah. Okay, boomer. Maybe we do like these. I'm like, hey,
your previous candy was for boomers. She goes, here, let me improve that with Werther's Originals.
Literally my grandfather. My grandfather is the only person I've ever seen eat a Werther's
Original. Jolly ranchers are a good bet. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. $10 blue ice. Just responded to me.
Right now. What is your ETA? Holy crap. $10. Anytime is fine. Just let me know before you come.
Okay, we sent the money. Money sent. I sent you my money. Please respond. Did you ask him if it's
fully functional? I mean, I didn't really read the listing. Working great. Used like new. Okay, great.
Please hold. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. Hey, where was the address for the mouse pad? Oh,
she left. I'm on my own now. Well, it was nice having a teammate while it lasted. Super lucky.
I guess she just wanted to get rid of them, but we got a keyboard and headphones. I don't know
if any of it works. There was no opportunity to try it. So. Got some macros. And guess what we
still have left? $2 and same. Did you just like rob someone? The person with all the speakers,
that's the person who messaged me and was like, I looked at your profile. You seem like a funny guy.
Ended up giving me all of this stuff. This stuff, bit of a problem. He also gave me this thing. I
don't know if we can use this. Forget about that. But he gave me this. Oh, it's got an ox. We can
plug it into the computer with this. He solved the problem without me even bringing off that it
was a problem. We could mount it like a nice spot under the desk here. Yeah, the keyboard. What's
this story? Some lady was just trying to get rid of stuff. These were a thing when I was a teenager.
I don't know if it's going to work. What are you doing? What's your story? What's going on? Okay,
so I have some before and after pictures. This was just with a CPU overclock on Shadow the Tomb
Raider. Okay, 1080p with everything on ultra, including Ray Tray shadows. Did a little bit of
GPU overclocking. It's not much, but anything higher I went, we started thermal throttling,
which then means we were getting lower. Let's not bother with that. 4fps when you're out of
less than 100. Yeah, it's like 5%. Let's make sure I don't have to keep running out. So let's test
this really quick. The keyboard? Yeah, sure. I don't know if any of this is going to work. Literally everything that I have right now. I have headphones. I have a new keyboard. This is nasty. It's not new.
Lights, lights, lights. Okay, there you go. Okay, but wait, we need to see. No pad. Oh, that's
almost like my old dream keyboard. Cool. We have a functional keyboard. Headphones. It has a
mic. I didn't even think about that. Play some noise. Play some noise. We got working headphones.
Nice. Crank them. Crank them, brother. That's what zero dollars sounds like. Let's go.
Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. Oh, we have 12 dollars. Yes. With tax, we have 10 bucks,
essentially. So we go buy something cute. Do they have a figure for 10 bucks? Wait,
we don't have any stationery to put our little sign out.
Okay. Nicole goes by Pengu. Pandering. How much is it? $4.99. We have five more dollars. Okay. So
this we're going to leave our little notes on, like guide to fully appreciating our system or
whatever. Is this $2.99? Yeah. If we get this penguin. Okay. We're gonna gamble on a blind box
that might have a blue penguin in it. Okay, which one? This one has less space. This one has ears
and this one's taller and this one's taller. We want to kind of shake you on because this one's
a little lower or one that has like more space on the side. So if you shake it like... Well,
that one has no space on the side. No. Try this one. Oh, this one is good. Okay. Do we want this
one? I think. Okay. We're going for it. We'll take these items, please. Oh, no. Thank you.
Okay. I will be a member. Thank you. Let's go get our microphone. I sent them an ETA already.
The reason why we bought this is because we saw a little penguin in here that we really want.
Okay. Three, two, one. So you can't see through the bag. You pull it open. Oh my god, we got the
penguin. We got the penguin. We're in a win. Oh my god. For $3. And all you had to do was sacrifice
your personal information to the mini-sew. Yes.
Great. Thank you. All right. Take care. And it works? Okay. Great. Thank you so much.
Do we have a mouse pad address? Yeah, I have. Oh, you got it? Yeah. Based on the current timing,
we are going to arrive back to the office with about five to 10 minutes to cable manage and for
Sammy to accent that front piece and like, it's going to be tight. And if Buddy didn't leave the
mouse pad out, we are not going to have a mouse pad, which is going to cost us big time. I'm a
touch worried that we've put absolutely zero tuning into our system. I think our best bet for
that is to kind of spin it as a win. So like as part of our system presentation, we talk about
how like the system's not just for, you know, extreme gaming or whatever. It's stable enough
for anything you'd need to do explicitly, not overclocked in any way. Rock solid stable,
like that kind of thing. Okay. Okay. Oh, the guy replied. Oh, so sorry. I forgot to leave it outside.
Wait, we're not going to have this tomorrow. Okay. Oh, we have $5 left. I should have confirmed
with him. Okay. There's got to be a Canada computers or a memory express somewhere around here as well.
Memory Express Langley. Are we going to make it in time? We can make it calling memory express Langley.
This location is open Monday through Friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Long story.
No time to tell it. I need the cheapest mouse pad possible. What is your cheapest mouse pad that
you have in stock? I'm talking like five bucks. Can you do five bucks, including tax? Like,
can I give you like a $5 bill? Yeah, it should work out. Yeah. Thank you so much. I'll be there in
five minutes. Yes. Hi, look at that. Here's $5. Can I get a receipt? Do you have something for
like $7? 15. Okay. I think it's going to be this then. It doesn't really have a rubber backing.
Here's what we're going to do, Sammy. The first thing we do when we get back, we plug in a glue gun
and we glue it down to the table so that they can't tell exactly how cheap it is. No, we glue
this and then it'll be a rubber thing. Oh, that'll work. Thank you. Have a good day. Thank you so
much. Take care. Not going to lie. This is barely a mouse pad. This is a piece of foam that you
can put a mouse on, but we'll take it. How I'm imagining this is I could almost see either the
computer on the right outside or underneath on the inside because if it's underneath on the inside,
we will need to drill another hole. If it's on the outside, we don't need to because we could
theoretically just have everything run up along the back. I feel like if it's on the desk, it's
going to make it not very even, like to the eyes. I like the idea of the speakers in no tower. I
think it's pretty cool. I'm just wondering about the amp. I think we still drill. We can run these
speaker wires directly off the back. Nice and neatly. They can come up and in this way and it
can be mounted there. Something like that. Are you going to get a drill? Yeah, right now. All right,
I'm going to go try to get a wheel. Is there anything else in here? Nope. Hey, get out of here.
Get out of here. I'm not looking. I'm not looking. It's okay. I'm looking at your own s***. Look at
your own s***. As we were driving up today, I spotted two chairs in the wild. I don't think I want
the chairs. The chairs are a little gnarly, but the wheels. I was easier than I expected.
I don't know if it's like compatible or anything. Well, there's always tape.
No way.
Solved. That is sick. Squiggly is the way to go.
I got two just in case this occurs to me. I never thought to take a close look at this
cable. So it was a little flaky. What? Buddy, let's try this other one. Might have gotten bamboozled.
Okay. Well, that sure is s***, isn't it? Well, that is the flakiness of the cable revealed. Come on.
Come on. What? You know what I think it is? This adapter doesn't support that. Do you have another
adapter? Maybe. Okay. Do the cable management first? Okay. I'm on it. All right. I'm going to get
everything starting to wire before we mount this. Wiring it while it's mounted might be difficult,
but I don't know. We don't have much time though. We've got to move real fast. Technically, I think we have 12 minutes. Oh my God, really? I am not going to get this perfect. I'm getting stuff
off, but there's things here that I believe have lived here for a while. Can you give me a time
check? 150. Yeah, we officially only have 10 minutes. Okay, magnetic cable management time.
Not game banter. How are you guys doing for time? Never better. I'm okay with adding some time if
you want. Never better. Okay. I may have to swap out a defective cable, but that's my only concern.
And it comes with sticks. I don't know. I feel like off to the side is a little bit
better. I don't know if it's exactly centered. Okay. But it's pretty. I'm going with it then.
Okay. That is wired in. And then we can plug headphones in up here. Yeah. I think we're okay.
Just keep cable managing. You've got three minutes and I'm going to keep cleaning. This isn't
movie magic. This isn't reality TV show magic. We're actually just running out of time.
It doesn't look very nice, but it either looks nice or it works. Does it feel okay? It's a little
lumpy. Oh, it is. Okay. Do more glue. Where's all my adapters be out here? If you can go that way,
that's better. I can go through the front though if it needs to. That is plugged in. That's plugged
in. It works. 25 seconds. Lint roller. Are you able to make the mouse pad a little bit less
horrible first? It moves around too much. And it'll pencil down exactly how you leave it in 15
seconds. I don't have time to fix the glue. I may not have a working computer in 15 seconds.
We're going to just slide against the wall. Five. Can everybody get like one more minute? Three,
two, one. Is the screen on? This. Okay. Everyone pencils down. You guys need another minute, huh?
They can have another minute. They don't need another minute. Nope, we don't. Yeah, it's done.
Way to go, everybody. You did it. I think we did great. Look at the setup. Yeah,
I think we did pretty good. It was better than I expected. I don't know if I've ever been this
sweaty at the end of the Scrapyard Wars. I think we overestimated how much time we had
to do the setup itself. But I'm happy with it. It looks good. But it looks good.
We are here in the final stretch of Scrapyard Wars, and we have our three experts. Nicholas
Plouffe, our displaying keyboard expert. Nicole Yu, our aesthetics expert. And Riley.
Yeah, that's regular guy. Wait, can I be Vibes? Riley Murdock. Vibes. Yeah. You don't know which
system is which, right? No. Why don't we start over here? Oh, this is it. This is it. I thought
this was something somebody left here by accident. I'm really impressed that they have a chair this
time around. Not bad. Not bad. Oh, okay. This is a short person friendly. I like that. The keyboard.
Yikes. Is that like orange dried up goop? Yum. Is this bribery? Absolutely. How do we split that
three ways? We could give maybe a small slurpee. They got a 3080 in here. Oh, wow. Who did they
steal this from? Okay, these headphones are also orange crusty. What? Where is this coming from?
Extra flavor. Yay, there it is. That's not bad. Odd stains on the chair. I'll sit down anyway.
Honestly, I'm pretty impressed by the speakers. One thing that I don't think Nicole touched on is
looks like they got a DAC here. Hi-Fi stereo audio amplifier. Okay. It's just an amp. It's not a
DAC. Oh, it's just an amp still though to drive these massive bookshelf speakers. I don't even
know if you can call them bookshelf at this point. Headphones aren't amazing, but they're not bad.
And they got a mic. You know, it's not the best monitor they've ever used. But for the price
point that they got to, that's not bad. They really hear the fans around about it. They're spinning up.
That's why they've got the speakers and the headphones. And I love the Zooming mouse pad. They
have a mouse pad. Yeah. Wow. That orange crusty definitely is high fidelity up close. It's got
some crust on it. Okay. Well, this is very smooth, obviously. I mean, like, you've got a 3080,
144 Hertz screen. One thing that's irritating to me as someone whose desk is on the set where we film
is a loud PC. I cannot abide a loud PC. And this one is very loud. It's all red all the time.
Yes. I would have liked something a little something a little bit more. They're also not
showing it off at all. They just shoved it in a corner. If you're putting this forward to be judged,
why are you hiding in a corner? This is a big desk. You could you could easily put that up here.
So I mean, minus some points for shame on their part. Overall vibes. I mean, for $800 for this
complete setup, that's not bad at all. Don't give your scores yet. Yeah, it's time to go look at the
other system. Immediately. Wow. This looks way better to me. It's so comfortable. You've got
some personal effects. Look at that. Look at that little penguin. It's so happy to see me. They're
showing off their system. It's nice and clean. There's no sign of any orange crusty anywhere.
You know, there are even more personal effects. Oh, that's so cute. There's candy. See, this is
a station I would be happy to sit at and use. Let's see how it feels. So right off the bat,
the monitor is much less impressive, but it's cute. I don't understand what's going on with
this mouse pad. There has to be some kind of crusty. There's okay. One second.
That's something. Blue crusty. The elusive blue. Very interesting. I guess that does provide
grip. Mouse is very fancy. And then there's a nice blue microphone with a cute little bow. Very nice.
Quiet. Knocked to a fans. One LTT edition modern platform. Runs Windows 11. Oh,
I didn't even think about that one. Keyboard is nicer. It's still mechanical, but it feels better
newer. Feels pretty good. It's definitely, I'm guessing, 60 Hertz. Also 1080p. Okay, that's fine.
They're on a budget. Edifier speakers. They're much smaller than the huge bookshelf towers that
were over there. They also mentioned zero overclocking for gaming every day. So it's going to be nice
and stable, allegedly. Well, the bribes are really getting you. Yeah. Oh, I'm such a sucker for candy.
The frame rate is a cable issue, but this monitor's capable of higher refresh rates.
So the refresh rate issue was really like, we're speeding to the end of the finish line
only to trip. Kind of. Oh, I'm so torn. I hate that this is stuck at 60. I think it's the
better computer, but I think ultimately a way worse monitor. We got a DP 1.4 AK thing going into
a dongle to DVI. That's not their fault. That's not their fault. What do you mean it's not their
fault? That's something they had to think about when they were. They should have thought about it.
No free lunches here. So I had some immediate thoughts upon coming over here. The vibe is
immediately more welcoming just because of the high contrast between the dark peripherals and the
PCs and stuff and the lighter desk. Over there, we got a darker desk and dark peripherals. It just
kind of looks like, I think the word is dink. Is there no headset? There was no headset on this one.
If anything, I would expect that one to not have had phones instead of this one. This one looks
like you've taken the how it appears to other people into account. I don't know who I represent
when I say that 60 FPS is like just fine for me in most things. Oh, oh, oh, oh.
This is, yeah, yeah, I can tell that it's 60. Nice. Boomer scored. See, and I think I'm already
getting used to the 60. And this is the thing. Have you ever heard the term comparison is the
thief of joy? That's what this is all about. And they scored on us. God damn it. It's not screaming.
Oh yeah, I can't even hear it at all. It's not making any sound. Who's this guy? What's his name?
It's friend. It's funny. You know, I wouldn't guess that something like that would work on me,
but it does. I like that. I like that he's there. I don't like the ribbon though. Did they do this
to cover? Oh, okay, you're disassembling. Well, I didn't know I would be disassembling. I mean,
that's shoddy workmanship. Wait, that's the same. That's a blue glue. That's a blue crusty. The
rabbit hole goes deeper. What's up guys? Hey, if you want to see the whole uncut, uncensored version
of us judging these systems, head on over to Floatplane. What happens on Floatplane stays there.
All right, see you later. Before we get to the judge's score, I want to announce
what settings the benchmarks will be run at for the teams. Okay. For red ever redemption,
medium. Okay. For cyberpunk, medium no ray tracing. Oh, however, if you had read the benchmark
document, you would know that you get to pick a benchmark and every single setting at which it
runs at. We're going to pick shadow of the Tomb Raider. What? It's way better. I tested both.
I promise you it's better. And have you picked your benchmark? Do you even know what the choices
are? No. You can pick from the list. We'll take F123 low. Okay. The judges have conferred and
it's time for their scores in the category of aesthetics. This one over here is nice, lots of
room, but it looks a little old 17 out of 25. This setup gives me sketchy and hidden in a basement
where things that shouldn't happen are happening. Oh. So I give this a 15. What kind of den is it
called? Goon cave? Yeah, I'm a goon cave. I largely agree with Nicole on this one. It doesn't seem
right. I'm giving it a 10. The next category is sound. This system had bigger speakers. I'm not
saying they're better, but they're bigger and it had an amp. I'm giving this one also headphones,
a 10. While it had both headphones and speakers, the headphones were so crusty that I didn't want
to put them on. I forgot to clean those. I gave four each for having both. They both work, so a
total of eight. I also appreciate that this one had speakers and headphones, but as Nicole said,
they're kind of crusty. I'm giving this one an eight. Next category, stratagem or also known as
creativity. Total creativity. I think it's not bad. I'm going to give it an 18 out of 25. I actually
think that they were incredibly creative with what they've done here. They tried so hard to hide
every sketchy part of the system. Even with the tempered glass panel that was pushed up against
the desk. It was very creative. It's full of problem solving. I'd give this actually a full 25.
Very good. Despite the aesthetic being concerning, the strategy here is clear. They wanted high
frame rate and they achieved it, I think, so I'm giving it a 23. They only get frame rates that
are so high with that CPU. It's pretty good actually. Well, and the monitor is capable of it.
It actually is capable. We wouldn't know. The last category is the effectiveness of the system.
How much would you like to use this setup? I'm very torn. I don't like most of the peripherals.
I do love the monitor. I'm going to give it a 30. As much as it's creepy and kind of sketchy,
kind of crusty, gross, it's very usable. It performs well. I give this a 30. If I'm thinking
about this as something I'm going to be coming and sitting repeatedly at, it's not very inviting,
but it's not horrible. I'm giving it a 20 out of 40. I will tabulate these scores,
but it is time to move on to system number two. It's much prettier and more inviting,
so I'm going to give it a 25. It gets full points. I really liked the whole thing. Super comfy.
Brought me joy. The only thing was the mouse pad that kind of got me. I'd give this a 23.
I'm giving it a 20. I like the contrast, the light desk, dark peripherals it's inviting,
but there's also some weird stuff going on there. Not having a pair of headphones and
being stuck with desktop mic and speakers, I'm giving it more like a seven if the other was
a full 10. I'd actually give this a six because while they weren't as gross, they didn't really
blow me out of the water. I like headphones a bit more than speakers, so I'm going to give this one
a seven. Next category is stratagem. They tried real hard, I think overall. They tried real hard.
Hey, hey, hey. I do love candy. I love candy. In terms of creativity, I genuinely like it.
Without the bribe, I'd still give it a 23. I was very impressed, but the fact that both the mouse
pad and the monitor were kind of jank, I'd give this a 23. I forgot what I gave this one, but I
wanted to give them the same score because they went for different things, but they both kind of
achieved what they were going for. 23, 23 and me. And the last category is effectiveness. I'm
incredibly torn. I really prefer that monitor, but the peripherals on this one in terms of mouse and
keyboard and just overall smoothness of using the computer was a lot better, so I'm going to give it
a 35. Just the fact that sitting at the station, it doesn't make me not want to touch anything
and to shy away. It brings me comfort and joy. This gets a 35. I definitely wanted to use this one
a lot more, and despite the lower frame rate, the overpowered hardware made things smooth,
so this is a 30 for me. You guys better help you win some benchmarks. Yeah. We're going to.
That concludes the judging. Thank you, expert judges. You may now leave. Please, please leave.
Please leave. I'm going to tabulate the score, and while I do that, the contestants are going to
take a look at each other's systems. Your chair is actually. This is horrendous. I think there
might be more schmoo on your setup. I think they just saw the bright desk compared to darker
peripherals and thought it was nicer. I think yours is actually more goon cavey than ours is.
No. Like this armrest on this chair is gross. It moves. That's a sound. Ours doesn't move great.
You pulled your wheel off of a dumpster chair. You know, I didn't have time to tune the sub.
Yeah, I wish I had tuned that first. What is that? Is that a 3060 or 3070?
3070. That's the 3070 from Java. Yeah, so that was my original idea. This is a Ryzen 5 4500.
Nice. We've got 16 gigs of 3200 RAM. We did manage to enable XMP. It like worked immediately.
3,600 number. So 3,600 is a big advantage for CPU performance for us here. You had no time to
overclock though, right? I had no time to overclock. Because we cranked a bunch more
performance out of the 1,700. Yeah, but your Zen 1. How many cores does this one again? It's six.
But they're fast. They're much faster and we have faster RAM. Let's see your goon cave setup.
Yeah. Hell yeah. Welcome to the dungeon. Oh, this front fan is barely spinning. Yes. I wonder if
your GPU is just like starving. It's probably starving. This case has literally no front
intake. Yes. We were trying to get more fans and stuff kind of ran out of time. This was a very
short scrap drive worse. We also had lots of fans. Yeah. And lots of cases. Yeah. We have headphones.
Maybe if you've gotten that crisis. We have a mouse pad. Yeah. Nice mouse.
You're supposed to have light mice. They're supposed to be light. It jumped out of my hands.
Oh, it fell down behind. Oh, from Ziu Lang Wolf brand. It's actually all right if you don't
smash it. Anyways, there's a recess. There's a recess portion at the back of the desk that we
thought about mounting the computer on instead of having it in a case. Oh, yeah. But that was
another like, we don't have enough time for this situation. Yeah. I can't believe this monitor.
How much did you get it? 75 US dollars off Java. Yeah. Okay. That's a good deal. It was actually
sick. Figuring out the balance was really tough. Would you pay for that GPU? 500. 500 CAD. Yeah.
I still like our deal better. I'm sorry. The original, I had decided 3070 immediately on
Yeah, we saw that deal and we were like, that is probably like, we should buy the 3070,
spend the rest on everything else. And then it was like, but the like turbo gas, gas, gas option
is buy a $500 3080. So we just like did it for fun. Then now we'll see what happens. Your XMP is
not working. It should. It was not working during when the judges were there. What? It was, I
literally had it on and I unplugged and moved it here. Then mom and dad start fighting. That's fine.
We'll use one of our reruns. You can set XMP now because you're like allowed to overclock.
Oh, are we? All right. See you later. Well, we're just going to rely on software. We're going to download Ryzen Master software and we're going to download MSI Afterburner and we're basically
just going to turn the power knobs all the way to the end and help for the best. So we are 0.65
higher. That was the only stable I could get. And then we do have XMP. I mean, there's not much
for us to do in the 10 minutes overclocking time because we're already pretty dull then. We'll do Cinebench first. All right. We're just hitting start on single core. Start on single core.
Hey, we're done. 72 points, please. That's lower than your lab score. So we're going to go with
your lab score. That's lower than our lab score. That's 74. Okay. Hey, there we go. 60. All right.
Multi-core. Are we giving it a moment to like chill? Nope. Nice try. We're running. Oh, okay.
Going. What's your score? 564. 545. 545. That's close though. I don't know if I would dance that
much. We knew you're going to win CPU benchmark. Okay, next is GPU. This is where things fall apart
a little bit. All right. Three, two, one, go. What was your score? 12,653. What was yours?
10135. 10135. Well, I think we know who won that one. What do we do next? It is now the blender
renderer. Okay. Am I missing something here? Is this going to take 46 minutes? No, it should be
like 90 seconds. Okay. Yeah. It's time remaining 41 minutes. Let's just skip this one and do the
lab score. Yeah, sure. Fine. What are the scores? Lower is better. Linus got 99.96 seconds and Luke
got 89.39 seconds. 10 seconds off. That's a worse cap than I had hoped for. What's next?
We're doing Red Dead. Cool. So then we just hit run benchmark. Yeah. Three, two, one, go.
Are you guys done? We're almost done. Almost. 97.96. 80.2. All right. Next one is cyberpunk on
medium. Wait, so did we win this one? You did win that one. Yes. It's a medium, no break tracing.
That sucks so much. I was specifically confident in cyberpunk and the fact that we're running it
so low makes me not very confident to be honest. Okay. What was your average? Their score is 98.53.
105.32. Team balanced. Okay. Next one, F1. Everything low. It's close, but we needed to win
that. So I think that's kind of it. Oh, did it crash? I don't know. Did they crash? Good thing
we chose this game. They're toned down the GPU. Tiny bit. Oh, should we turn them on the CPU?
That was what was unstable before. Just do it like very, very slightly.
Got to huff it. Huff that copium. D.W said low.
Okay. 194. 194 again. Let's come have a looky boo. All right, let's see. Average were lower.
190. But that's not that bad. They were supposed to spank you on this one. This is their chosen
benchmark. But we still win. A win is a win. A win is a win. Well, our chosen benchmark is
Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Move on, Luke. W is a W. I had to reboot. I hope our GPU overclock was
on. Nope, it wasn't. Wait, what? Yeah. Looks gonna fucking kill me. Is that legit? Oh my god.
Elijah forgot to initialize the GPU clock after we restarted, so that was completely not overclocked.
Well, turn it on now quick for the last one. Yeah, we did. You can still win this.
Yeah, sure. So on graphics, everything, the preset is highest. Oh yeah, Raytrace Shadow to
Ultra. Okay. Is this the last benchmark? This is the last benchmark. It all comes down to this.
You'd have to beat them by 20% or more on this benchmark. Okay, here we go, here we go.
That's a butt. Nice. That's another butt. So many butts. That's what this setup was made for.
You even get that? You're two down. Come on, man. It's fine. What is it? What is it?
You guys won, I'm sure. Yeah. I don't know why it was so bad. Guess what ours was. 78. 90. 90.
Wow. That's so weird. Do you want to know what's, do you want to know where? You know, you want to know what's crazy? I can't hear what you're saying over the sound of your fans.
That's fair. Oh, damn. You want to know the worst part, Glenn? I have a picture here of me
getting 94. Okay, I guess I have a 92. Don't they get to keep the better of their two tests though?
Yeah, that's true. So if they got a better score when Labs tested it theoretically. Labs didn't test
this one. This is a chosen one. They tested it and got a better one. So you could be really kind
and give them that. David, every time I do that, I lose the game over it. You know that, right?
How much confidence do you have in your system? You know what? I'll do it again. They can have it.
Okay, what was your highest score, Elijah? He had 94. 94? 95 on our average FPS.
It's insanely close. When it comes to these benchmark drag races out of a possible 900 score,
it's only 13 points of difference. And Team Linus is ahead by those 13 points with 764
by 751. But there's two different modifiers. There's the judging differential.
So the average score for Luke's team was 71.3. Okay. And the average score for Linus's team
was 85.6. So it's a 14.3 boost to their score. What do we do? Do we just like fall over?
And when it came down to the Labs differential, which was a 15% boost to the winner,
we have five categories. So someone needs to win three categories in order
to take that win. You guys will crush us in the sound, but your drive might hurt you if they
actually test it. Are you gonna let them talk? First category is the out of the box experience,
which is a little bit of a subjective experience. The winner of that one was Luke. So one Luke,
zero Linus. You can take it up with the Labs. Okay. I like Labs now. Second test was thermals.
And it was close. Luke actually had better CPU thermals, but your GPU thermals were very problematic.
You had a hotspot of 104 on the GPU. They have a broken fan. He didn't tell us about it. And so
Linus takes that category 1-1, baby. Repasting for the win. Then we tested memory speeds,
and it was really, really close, even though the specs are different, but Linus did out
Linus. No, Linus. Linus edged Luke just a little bit on this one. But then it was storage. And
even if I only included Linus's SSD score, he still would have lost to Luke. Two, two. We did spend
a notable amount of extra money on our SSD. But an opportunity for Luke's team, the last category
was sound. And so the winner of Scrapyard Wars, 2024, is Tim Linus.
I'm ready for him to start crying. Yeah, we have to gather the tears so I can season my food.
And the tears you have as tattoos don't count. I asked for those. You should have told, oh yeah,
it's probably better you didn't. Yeah, probably. And it's probably better you guys didn't miss any
of this year's Scrapyard Wars. I hope you guys enjoyed this. We'll see you again next time.
Oh yeah, shout out Jawa for sponsoring this video. We all got good deals on Jawa. Yeah,
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comment under the video letting us know which system you'd rather have. We'll let the people decide.
Yours. I mean, it's pretty nice. If you didn't get that system that I wanted, we would have crushed that.