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All right, welcome to Scrap Yard Wars where Luke and I try to build the best computers we can

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with a set of guidelines and a fixed budget. So this is our first episode. We're looking for

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a lot of feedback from you guys about what we can do to make these fun and interesting in the

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future. But for today's challenge, we are keeping it very simple. $300 cash, the very best gaming rig

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that we can build with a few rules. So number one is no monitor or other peripherals required.

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We only have to build the tower. No worker research can be pre-done, so you can't like go on websites

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or Craigslist and try to find things before or in between. Each participant gets a total of eight

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hours to actually find everything, and then four hours to build it, tune it, and benchmark it.

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I'm not paying any overtime on this, so we are staying inside those guidelines. No leveraging

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friends, social media contacts, coworkers, or anything of that sort. Overclocking is allowed.

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We'll be measuring performance of the machines using 3D Mark Firestrike, 2Rader 2013, and Dirt 3.

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And along with the no peripherals thing, it's just a tower that you need, no operating system,

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or anything like that. So let's get to it, shall we? Scrap our doors!

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Here we go. You have exceeded your daily transaction limit. Please take your receipt. I see.

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Declined. Okay then. I'm going inside. I have the cashola.

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There you are. Thank you. All right. Let's go, shall we?

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Good luck.

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I should have known he'd never fall for that. I'm fairly sure he's going to waste time going

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back to the office. I brought a laptop with me, so I will begin immediately. I really hope it's

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charged. There's a store somewhere in Vancouver. I think it's called Reboot. It's a non-for-profit

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little store thing that kind of refurbishes computers and sells computers and does kind of

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cheap repairs and stuff for people that need it. And I think if I can participate in this contest

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and support a company that tries to, like they do really cheap computer repairs and I know they

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try to like, I think they do some charity giving computers to people and stuff. If I can help them

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out, get a cheap computer from them and participate in the contest, then that's doing many things well

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at once. So I'm going to try and see if I can do that. I'm going to contact them,

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figure out what their hours are, and go from there. Now we're rocking. Here.

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Jesus.

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All right. So should we start on, red flag deals used to be, used to be a haunt for me.

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I used to find a lot of good stuff there. The Linus Tech Tips, Bicell Trade, that Craig's list.

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Do you want me to call Anthony?

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Oh, that. No, we're not allowed to leverage friends. And this is where the like montage music has to

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come in. Dun, dun, dun, dun. That might be the best we can do.

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And then this guy also had a hard drive for 20 bucks.

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Oh, he looks rejected. Does he? Okay, good. Excellent.

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That means literally nothing. So an Intel Core 2 Duo with 80 Gigabyte hard drive.

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Oh God. And two gigabytes of RAM.

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For 50 bucks though. So that leaves me $250 to get a graphics card. Let me give them a call.

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This is why we don't make TV shows. It seems to be a pretty significant drop in price once you get

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to Core 2 Duo range. So I'm looking for that because I think that'll be fine for most of the

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games. It'll fall behind a bit for sure on Tomb Raider. Are they going to come to concede defeat?

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Where are they going? They're not allowed to take out more money. Oh, they're trying to film

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things better than just pointing the camera at me in the car. How innovative. That seems

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unnecessary. Whoa, this could be. Oh, is this that same freaking guy? Well, he has a case. He has a

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CX500 power supply too. If I hear back from this guy, I don't think Lou's going to think to check

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Kijiji. Okay, 45. And then this is a combo. And then this is a combo.

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Oh, computer cases with power supplies and other hardware.

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Phone calls only, please. All right, here we go.

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Hi. Hi, you have a craigslist listing for computer cases with power supplies and

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$10 or something. So do you have anything reasonably new with a 24 pin power supply and

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compatibility for a micro ATX board, like some kind of standard board, or is it all going to be

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non-standard like Dell HP stuff? That's an Athlon. Oh, okay. That's a little older than I need.

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I'm looking for an entry level gaming PC. If you can just tell me what CPUs the systems that you have.

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I'm very familiar with the hardware. I know what I'm looking for. I just need to know what you have.

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I can give you a contact with somebody who can tell you the parts you need.

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Oh, okay. That might actually be very helpful. What's your name? My name's Linus.

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Well, if you want to build a gaming tower, so then you need a fast motherboard,

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you need fast processor, but you realize that one is cheap, right? Okay.

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What I'm trying to accomplish is today, I want to find my platform. So everything I'll need.

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And then tomorrow, essentially, I want to spend the entire time finding the best possible price

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that I can on a GPU. That's like my whole plan tomorrow. Pick up. I just found another computer.

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Same price, but it's actually $5 cheaper. It has a 450 watt power supply. That's probably fine.

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Four gigs of RAM. So that's a slight improvement there. Four gigs of RAM. That's probably good enough.

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And then an E8400 again. I'm kind of surprised he hasn't just tried to like

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leave and go into some little computer shop and get them to give him a deal because of who he is.

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That was my full expectation the whole time. And then he put up

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the rule that we can't use our influence. I was like, wow, because that's exactly what I

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especially wanted to do. So now I'm not sure how he's going to cheat. I just know that he's going to.

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I never cheat. I never cheat at all. You know what we should do is we should look really excited

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when we pull out and we should look like we're heading somewhere. Okay. We'll give them a little

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farewell beep beep. I don't even know how to use Craigslist. First stop is going to be the Salvation

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Army Thrift Store. This isn't a computer. I'm scared. That was bad. That was really bad. I

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hope Linus's time is not not going better. I just throw the car under a semi. We'll be okay.

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We can avoid judgment at the end of the contest when we have no computer because there's no

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computers at thrift shops and Linus magically found something on Craigslist. I'm hoping that

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they don't have like computer savvy employees. So they might undervalue a certain tower compared

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to another one. Like they might price two of them at the same price and one of them is actually

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clearly better. Fingers crossed. Oh no. Is this literally a clothing store now?

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Hi. Hi. I'm actually contacting a few guys that are selling computer parts. May I ask

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which one? You got the phone number off. Gilbert. Yeah, that's right. Hi. I'm just generally looking

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for everything right now. I don't have any of the components locked in and I need to get everything

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by about midday tomorrow. It's a birthday present. What would we be looking at for something like a Q6600

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and a board? Oh, something like that. It's like $80. Dill leaves me needing a case power supply. Do

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you have any like super cheapo stupid stuff? Yeah, case and power supply. Okay. I'm not worried

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about the case looking great. He doesn't see real well. Well, I can throw the power supply case

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into the 200. For the 200? You know what? I will call you back before the end of your shop

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time today. So I'll call you back in the next hour or so and I'll let you know if I'm going to come

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by tomorrow morning and pick this stuff up. Sounds like this might be the deal that helps me out here.

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All right. Thank you very much. Take care. Maybe it was worthwhile to listen to that life story

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after all. We might have just gotten everything but a video card with $100 budget for a graphics

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card left over. Okay, that might be like plus tax because this is oh no. Well, let's hope it's not.

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I got an email back from the guy that I actually wanted to respond the most. This was the guy with

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the E8400 that had four gigabytes of DDR3 as well and the 500GB hard drive. It's not the greatest price

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but that's an option. He's available right now which is good. So I need to figure out if I can get a

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what I can get for a graphics card for 220 bucks. If I can get something

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good enough, which I think I can, I think I'll go with it. Line up speaking. Oh, hi,

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um, you know me about the Hacker bumper? Yes, I did. Oh, hi, hi. Nice to meet you,

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I'm actually a fan of yours. I was wondering, so what kind of place were you looking for the

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Hacker bumper? Okay, I gotta be up front with you. I can't leverage being me as a negotiation

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strategy. So you have to pretend that I'm not who I am. Oh yeah, no, I understand you have to feel

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like that. So I don't need a water-cooled card. I need an air-cooled card which means that since I

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I don't have any budget left over for the rest of the system, I pretty much have to get

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an all-in-one liquid cooler for $100 minus whatever I pay for your card.

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Right. So that's where I'm at. Okay. I have got no leads on an all-in-one liquid cooler and I have

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to have this done by the end of the day tomorrow. Okay, well um, have you looked on Craigslist for

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like, because there's another guy who's selling the Zalman cooler. Is there now? Pardon? Is there?

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Yes, there is the one guy with the $20 Zalman cooler for the $580. I see that. Because that would

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be just like an extra $20 on top of my card, right? Yeah, can you do $80? Sure, I guess I could, yeah.

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Okay, can I pick it up? Uh, can I pick it up today or tomorrow? Um, how about tomorrow?

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Can I come tomorrow morning? Um, sure, tomorrow morning. Yeah, sounds good. Um, where do you want to

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meet up? Uh, you're in Richmond, correct? Uh, no, I'm in Burnaby, actually. You're in Burnaby? Well,

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yeah, I can meet like, uh, where can you meet actually? I think I'm gonna be in Burnaby anyway.

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Like, I'm doing a bit of a, I'm doing a bit of computer hardware pickup stuff tomorrow, so.

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Oh, okay. Uh, I will be, I'll be around. So tell you what, why don't you just pick somewhere,

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somewhere safe near wherever it is you live, like a Starbucks or whatever,

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and then just let me know. You've got my number, so if you just text me the address and what time

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works for you, I'll be there tomorrow morning. Sure. Um, awesome sounds good, then I'll do $80.

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Sounds good. Okay, all right. All right, thanks. Thank you. Can I get an autograph? Just wondering.

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That would be no problem. All right, thanks. I'll talk to you later then. All right, take care.

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Thank you. Bye. Okay, we have secured a GTX 580 for $80. If they can get a slightly faster CPU than

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us, like maybe an 1155 core i5 quad core, something along those lines, even if they have a slightly

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lesser video card, they might still come out ahead. If they get a similar video card, better CPU,

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then we're in real trouble. But basically this is going to, I need to make sure our power supply

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has support for GTX 580. That's a pretty power hungry card. I wonder what they're up to.

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Hopefully spinning their wheels, finding nothing. All right, so I got the computer,

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everything works. He booted it up for me. I got to inspect everything. It's fine. I didn't

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hike them down anymore. So I got it for $80, which I think is fine. We'll have to see what

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line it's got, but that seems like an okay deal for an 8400 computer to me. The inside is really

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nice and clean. So I was happy to see that. Looks like he took good care of it or at least

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took good care of it right before I got there. Not entirely sure which one, but anyways,

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kind of baller RAM. I didn't expect this. Okay, maybe not actually baller, but it's gold plated,

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well not really gold plated, gold painted OCC memory, which I thought was kind of funny.

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There's the E8400. The fan, CPU fan and everything is in immaculate condition,

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which is great. Let me get this back in here one quick second. I thought it was kind of

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funny. The optical drive isn't even hooked up, but I wouldn't use it anyways. So the power supply

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though is kind of like the most sketchy balls thing ever. It's a power link 450 watt, but

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yeah, I don't know. No PCIe power whatsoever. There's two molexes though, so I can adapt

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her off for that. So I don't know. We'll just kind of have to see. So this will be my base

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platform. I'll see if I need to get a new power supply and then yeah, we'll go from there.

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This is really awkward because I've just made appointments with our GTX 580 water cooled card

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and our cooler for it, which are totaling $100, but someone just accepted our offer for $100

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on a 7950. So I'm going to do a little bit of research into overclocking the 580 and overclocking

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the 7950, but I'm going to feel like a real bad dude, but I might have to bail on those guys and

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take the better offer. The problem is that now I have to go get it tonight, which means I might

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have to take like the kids with me. So did we decide about going to get things tonight?

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Yes. No, you can't. I can't. Well, that's very interesting then. I have a call to make. Also,

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you can't do any more crazy stuff. You're cheating already. I'm not cheating. What are you doing

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right now? Replying to a message. Okay, I had to do other stuff. I've been back here for a bit.

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I had to record a voiceover and stuff. Have I been here? Have I been working? Is there actual?

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Oh, I don't know, Linus. Wow. Dicks. Linus Terrence got that big 4K monitor. Can I have that now?

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No. This is the 4K. That's not 4K anymore. Sorry, I can't come down to get anything tonight,

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so I might have to pass. If anything changes, I will give a call tomorrow to let you know.

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If it comes to that, then if it's not too much to ask, maybe take the card out with you and I

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could come to you wherever you happen to be, because it's a bit of a scavenger hunt situation

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I've got going on. Thanks. My number is 3101010 Pizza Hut. Good night. There. I'm done for the night.

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There. It's all I'm doing tonight.

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Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Linus gets a tetanus shot, Luke gets mugged, and Nick fights a dingo.

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You bloody dingo. None of that actually happens. Or does it?

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Previously on Scrapyard Wars, $300 cash, the very best gaming rig that we can build.

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That seems like an okay deal for an 8400 computer to me. Someone just accepted our offer for $100

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on a $7950. Sorry, I can't come down to get anything tonight, so I might have to pass.

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If anything. And now the conclusion. We're part of it.

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I've got a 500 watt Antec power supply that we're headed to pick up right now,

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and then the R9 290 I got for $180. So that's actually pretty sweet. We will go pick that up later.

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Did he say 290? Is that fast? What's a graphics card? Okay, so it's day two of our search,

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and we've got to find out where our destination is, so I'm not exactly sure where we're going.

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Okay, I have the address for our first appointment on my laptop, which battery is low.

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Scrapyard Wars 1. There we go. Now we're good.

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Okay, I really hope that's not it. I think it might be. Holy crap, this is some sketch.

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Okay, so this is 5332. Holy crap.

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This is like, this is some sketchy dealings.

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It's good to be there inviting.

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No parking. Well, they parked in front of it. Like, where does this door go?

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I don't know. There's some blood in there though.

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Hello. Are you Santa? Yes. Hi, I'm Linus. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too.

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This is Nick. He can turn off the camera if you want. No cameras today. That's fine.

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So our contact here got us pretty hooked up actually. He had the whole thing running on

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a test bench to show that it booted up and had core temp, CPUs, and installed and everything,

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so we could validate that everything's good to go. So this is an EP35DS3R, a pretty decent

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little board. It's got an extra chip on there for SATA2 RAID. We've got eight gigs of what appears to

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be mixed and matched. So we've got half Samsung, half Kingston DDR2, 800. There's a Q6600 on there

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with a cooler. And then we also just thrown in, got what appears to be the remains of a

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freezer 7. I think we can make use of that with an extra fan or something along those lines.

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And then we also got an EarthWatts 500 watt power supply, which was better than I was expecting.

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I actually didn't know what model of power supply we were going to get, but this has got two PCIe

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six pin connectors on it. So that means that powering our graphics card later isn't going to be a

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problem at all. And then I thought we were getting a 500 gig hard drive, and we actually ended up

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with a one terabyte hard drive. So, uh, oh yeah, right in the case. So there were a few sort of

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CoolerMaster Elite class options, or there was a Silverstone TJ04 that happens to be missing

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a couple of day covers. Well, I have some day covers. We've got a card reader, a floppy drive.

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Yeah, baby. So, uh, oh, and look, the Vancouver Olympic mascots. That was a bonus. I didn't even

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have to pay extra for that. All right. So I'm feeling pretty good. We just need the rest of

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this day to go well. Still need a graphics card. So I just got my, uh, Antec basic power 500 watt

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continuous power power supply, which is exactly what I was looking for. Looks like it's in good

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shape, clean, happy with all that kind of stuff. Well, I was talking to the guy though. I was like,

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yeah, thanks for doing this. Like, I know it's really short notice because I just emailed them this morning and it was his dad or whatever. Um, and he's like, yeah, it's been an interesting day.

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Someone was just here picking up a case and power supply like 20 minutes ago.

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What? Who do you think that is? There's like no way that isn't Linus. Except it wasn't.

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Man, we're probably so close. Oh, that would have been so funny if we were picking stuff up at the

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same time. Anyways, let's, let's go get some lunch because, you know, we're having a chill day.

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They're probably freaking out driving everywhere. So I had multiple leads on 79 50s for $100 and

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then I actually ended up with two GTX 580s lined up for $100. I decided I wanted 79 50s. So I

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bailed on all the 580s. I got back to what looked like a very promising 79 50 lead and then heard

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nothing. So this guy who's actually going to be on different job sites today, but I asked him

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very nicely yesterday to bring it with him in case I need it. I'm going to try and track him down

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next after we go meet up with the guy who I promised t-shirts to. Technically, I don't think

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we're allowed to use anything that we didn't get, but Luke will never know that I used my own.

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Yeah, that's true. We can always just lie to Luke. Right. Yes. Lying.

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Lying. Yes, it's right in there. Also, we just arrived to meet up with them. I was trying to

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figure out how to tell them I don't have the right shirt. Turns out I did grab the right shirts.

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We do have Linus Tech Tip shirts. So this will be, this will be a lot more successful than it

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otherwise would have been. Let's go. Hello gentlemen. Nice to meet you. Sorry I wasn't able to take

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the card unfortunately, but so I found a 79 50, which gives me about a 10% edge in GPU performance.

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So I got to take it. My plan for this, if I didn't get the Zalman, was I was just going to rip the

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block off and use like a stock Intel heatsink on the GPU core or something, which would have been

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awesome and like super ghetto, but I found the 79 50. So I kind of had to take it, but you had said

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you wanted me to sign something as well. I brought a silver pen. Smartass. There. The real Linus.

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All right. Since I showed up and didn't didn't buy anything actually. All right. Well, it's a

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pleasure to meet you gentlemen. We've got to get to our next appointment here and I'm going to go get

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like a hot chocolate or something, but I'll see you jams later. Wow, because we're not five minutes

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early. We're nine minutes early. It is now 140. He was supposed to be here at 115. So he just texted

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me saying he'll be here in one minute. But I'm like, it's fine. I guess 145.

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I got it, but he's super late. We gotta go. I don't like it when people are late. I especially

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don't like it when they're that late. And when I like clearly stated that it was important and I needed

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to go early.

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7950 guys said he'd call us back in 10 minutes and that was 18 minutes ago.

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Now the guy we just met with that we gave the t-shirt to, he has the 580 hydrocopper. So what

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I'm thinking, I haven't seen him leave yet. Not that I'm parked outside a star box like stalking

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someone. I haven't seen him leave yet. So if I don't hear back from 7950 guy, that's our backup

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plan. And we take that and then we try and get in touch with Zellman Cooler guy again and we go

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for it because that's down in Richmond, which is kind of far, but definitely doable. Mine is speaking.

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Okay, I'll be there in about half an hour as well. There you are. So let's have a look at our spoils.

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As long as it works, this will be the only piece we haven't validated. This is a pretty beefy looking

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card. This is a mostly rear exhaust style card. So it's got the cooling fan just above the VRM

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cooling piece right here. All right, I am feeling good. I don't know if this is technically cheating

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because it's just an aesthetic thing, but I'm going to try and find some aluminum

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face plates. I actually have some boxes of random junk that I'm taking to the office.

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This is like a $40 piece that realistically I wasn't, Luke's not going to believe I salvaged or

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got for nothing. These are what I actually need. Yeah, okay. All right, so I'm thinking we'll do

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the build off in here. So one person will take this desk surface and then the other person

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will set up a couple desks here and then we can use our pile of computer cases

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to construct like a wall, a wall like a barrier so that neither of us can see what the other is

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doing. So we've been back at HQ already for like two hours and Luke and Brandon are nowhere to

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be seen. They said we can start building at three. So given that it's 2.30 right now, we're pretty

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close. So let's get set up.

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This is going to be mad. I'm excited. This is going to be awesome. That's what I said before

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we turned the camera on and now we're doing it again. It's fake, but it is what I legitimately

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said. So is it fake? I don't know. No one knows. Okay, so are we doing the part show off? Oh,

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even though we have no alcohol and no cleaning cloths, I found this napkin on the floor. Oh,

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that's weird. It doesn't have a model number. Maybe this is an unreleased processor. I, I

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just, it has a model number. So there's our CPU. That's going to be a phenomenal performer.

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Here's our RAM. Okay. Here's our other RAM.

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All right. Here's our third set of RAM.

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Our fourth set of RAM. And our eighth set of RAM. And our 12th set of RAM.

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He's got a little bit of a viewing port back there. I got to be careful. He can see around

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that corner quite easily and he's a little rascally devil. I'd be careful with that one.

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That's the sound of a quality side panel being dropped right there.

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I would only drop it like that if I wasn't worried about damaging it because I have so many cases.

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I bought six cases. I thought that would probably be about, about par. Yeah,

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you probably only bought six cases because you're going to need six cases to end up with a fully

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functional one. Yeah. Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Luke runs out of gas in the bad part of town.

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Nick fights the Statue of Liberty. Yeah, I just don't really like freedom.

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This is kind of neat. I have cable managed this case a good dozen or two times before.

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This is actually a case with which I am intimately familiar. So I'm pretty excited about the

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opportunity to working it again. It's been quite some time. Now it does have tool-less

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bays here, but they're not exactly the world's most elegant system. This I won't need.

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So we're just going to tie this up.

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So this is actually not the correct threading for this piece. So we're kind of creating our own

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threads as we go. Linus has to clean out his entire PC to get started while Luke only has

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three parts to pop in to start overclocking. We're not sure what the outcome of this will be,

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but we do know it will be close.

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He just isn't cleaning his stuff because he didn't find an advantage rag like I did.

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Yes, the advantage rags are not real. So Linus is obviously in a stage of denial at the moment.

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It wasn't real. How could I hold it in my hand?

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Or we can try and jury rig this.

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Well, we can take this off without damaging it, without too much. I think we should go for it.

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So I think that's like

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all around a little bit. Do a little bit of research. See what this chip is capable of.

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See what this board is capable of. See what it's capable of. To hear them whispering, as if that'll help. I mean the shopping stage is done, Luke. So

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you know, the fact that you have crap hardware, no amount of keeping it secret

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is going to keep it secret forever. And then I'll tease you.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I'm sorry.

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Oh, shoot. I hope this has the right mounting hardware.

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Okay, so these are a little, uh, these are a little worse for the wear right here.

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See, there is a little trick. You just give me the old that.

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So here we can, oh, that is some lucky stuff right there. I forgot this.

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I don't have time for his shenanigans at this point in the competition

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because winners do not consort with people who don't win as hard.

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They don't consort with them. Yeah, that's right. Shoot. Got it in there once.

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Therefore, I can do it again. And that is why I have two children.

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Yeah, the only one around here with proof of his virility.

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How do you know? Because your mother would kill you in any other way.

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I can point.

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No, no, he's right. My mom would kill me. You'd be dead. Yeah, you'd actually be dead. Yeah.

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Did we bring out any zip ties? No, but there might be some in the screw bin.

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That'll do it.

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Okay. Oh, yeah.

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Oh, that is a thing of beauty right there.

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Fantastic. Oh, I'm feeling good today.

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Yeah, man. My mini-weeds are like, I ate them. I crapped them out.

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I ate them again. I took a picture. Put it on Instagram.

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Ew. This was a real score. Like, this was probably worth a good chunk of the budget right there.

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Come along just nicely. Why don't you get the hell out of here?

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Spy? We don't hate you over here. We accept your kind.

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Yeah, losers are stuck hanging out with the other losers.

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This is real good. This is trustworthy. That's the difference between this and snakes in the

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grass like Luke. Oh, I should have done this before I did the other thing. Oh, I don't know if

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it's going to reach. Are you missing my epic struggle over here? No one. Yes. Oh, yeah, that

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cable management. All right. All right, now we did specifically say that there would be

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demerit points for leaving the garage. And I don't need to leave the garage, but I do need to

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walk over here. So I'm averting my eyes. Berkel will hold this box. Are Taryn, is he still here?

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Okay, well, Berkel will supervise me. Here, I got, see my blinders? Okay, I got my blinders on.

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This box right here is called the fun box because there's a chair on top of it.

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For some reason. All right. See, this is something Luke wouldn't even think of needing.

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Probably because I wouldn't need it because I'm not terrible.

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Nice. One of these. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's get the oh, yeah, there we go. All right.

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So you got a system fired up over there. I hear keyboard strokes. No, not at all.

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I didn't finish installing all my drivers like half an hour ago.

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Oh, what's that sound? Is that a hard drive? Oh, interesting. Well, I, I wouldn't know what a

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hard drive sounds like. I mean, I'm all solid state over here, man. Here we go. Change to 340

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with the edge of the pants. We got a boot fight now.

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Okay, here's the moment we've all been waiting for.

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What? Oh, oh.

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Um, small problem. I mean, it's not a big problem. It's just a small one.

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Okay. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. We've got this. This is good. So I don't think we have that. We don't.

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Um, I wonder what we can get out of this baby. Wow, it's been a really long time.

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No, we're not going to quite go for that.

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About that. We're going to go for about that.

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So instead of aiming for like ultimate, why don't we aim for like high?

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I think we should go ultimate. You want, you want to go ultimate? Yeah. Well, that tells me. We know max possible settings in every game.

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That tells me a lot about the, uh, the way you waited your, uh, your system.

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I don't know how much it'll show on screen, but uh. Don't wake up my screen. Oh, okay.

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Wow, this takes a while to load. Okay.

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I literally didn't even change anything. I'm going to turn this off.

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I opened afterburner and typed in a number. Didn't press enter and the screen went black.

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Oh, all right. Yeah, there's nothing on screen.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, come on. What happened?

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You take your, you take your attempt. Oh, uh, I'll shut her down.

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It looks like I might need to dial back.

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Crash number one has happened. No, that's two crashes.

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I wasn't benching yet. You said that like it was horrible. Don't worry, mind if you start.

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No, no, my computer's better under load. It's like a rotary engine.

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I got to get up to a certain RPM before the video.

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I might be blaming you for this. What happened? I did nothing.

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Oh, whenever I open execute, what was the screen goes back? I was working on this last night. That was fun.

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I haven't touched it unless I came back here in the middle of the night.

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I've been supervised the entire time I've been here.

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All right. So this has an FPS counter on it. I guess we're going to see my score.

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So you might as well check it out. Oh, that artifacting. Does that count against me?

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I don't know. Like kind of. I don't know.

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I think that's just part of the benchmark.

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Frankly, I can't tell. Oh, no, there's some. Oh, okay.

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All right. I think, I think we have to call this one off.

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Okay. All right.

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Seriously. And then seriously,

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let's just float up 3D mark here.

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Well, I think I know something about his system.

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I'm fairly sure that's a reference cooler. That is a sound I've heard before. It has a particular tonality to it.

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What?

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That doesn't seem right. It's not running in a full.

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No, that's fine. All right. So how was yours here?

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That's looking higher.

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When we turn the fans feet down and try again.

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You still have to run the actual games. Don't be too smug. This is a graphics benchmark.

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I'm just happy I won one of them. I like a lot. I like two times. Was that?

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Is that how that math works? I think that was for two times.

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Oh, yeah. That's a crash. Unless your FPS is 1600.

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1900. 2200 and counting. It's getting its feet up.

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2600 and counting. It's ramping up. Do you see, do you see this clear glitching?

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So I went by it a hundred times? Glitch exploit. Wait up. No, I'm trying to get to 200 times your speed

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in a couple of seconds here. All right. Why don't you go ahead and shut that down and I'll take a run at this.

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This is the physics test.

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Yeah, you didn't know there was a physics test. They do suck at it. I did, actually. Oh, all right.

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So 5866 is the mark to beat. Okay. The first successful run.

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That's still higher. It's not as higher.

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It's still higher. I might have been drawing too much power. The hard drive is horrible.

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Like everything's kind of working properly. Did it start walking though?

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I feel like it started walking most of the time.

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Because remember, yeah, it was counting FPS.

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Look at my signs. There's a tearing. But look at the signs.

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They're still flickering. Not nearly as much though.

382
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I'm not saying a deduction point. All right. Here we go. Physics test.

383
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,480
Oh dear. So what were you getting here, 17 or something? Yeah.

384
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:24,880
Okay. Oh, that is terrible.

385
00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:29,360
That looks pretty smooth. You know what?

386
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:38,320
Oh, the mountains start falling. You get owned.

387
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:43,520
5866, I think.

388
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,600
What have you got? 5745.

389
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,800
All right. What the hell is this?

390
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,960
Yeah, just run it. Just run it. And then I'll go online. I'll see if that helps.

391
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:12,960
Fourth. That's appropriate. Wow.

392
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:18,400
Average FPS 66.6. Minimum 46.96.

393
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,520
That's a pretty respectable minimum. I don't know how bottlenecked you're going to be there.

394
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,040
I'm guessing 73. 73.

395
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,400
You're going to get, you know, I'm going to guess minimum 58.

396
00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:33,760
Yeah, I'm not going to guess at the average.

397
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,200
Oh, son. Son, you just got wrecked.

398
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,720
Okay. So here's Luke's results. Min 39.

399
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,440
Average 63.3. Here's Linus's results.

400
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,440
Min 56. Whoa.

401
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,960
Average 82.1. All right. Oh, oh, wow.

402
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,840
Production points were really bad. I originally thought you had a 79.50.

403
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:16,880
Now I'm pretty sure you have a 79.70, which means you spent about half of your budget

404
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,720
on your graphics card, I think.

405
00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:23,760
I know for sure you have a- You're wrong. I'm not going to say it wrong.

406
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:31,360
I know for sure you have a dual core CPU because you got absolutely destroyed.

407
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:35,280
You must have DDR2. And I think you've got four gigs of RAM.

408
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,680
How did you get a 290?

409
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,600
The thing that's going to blow your mind though, I have a Q6600.

410
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:54,000
I was right. Oh, what? Yeah. And that RAM and the dual core, I think was-

411
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,040
The dual core is a little rough, but I didn't think you were going to come out with a quad core.

412
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,760
Yeah, I got a quad core. That's a lot. I got a quad core. That's pretty cool.

413
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,760
So really the big winner. The big winner would have been probably

414
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,480
a combination of the two. They could get a 290, a Q6600, 8 gigs of RAM,

415
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,680
a good quality power supply, an aluminum fronted case.

416
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:15,840
If we took my card out of my system and put it in here, which is what that would have been,

417
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:20,720
that would be a pretty sick machine for 380 bucks. And that's still cheaper than all the consoles we looked at.

418
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:28,240
And you could still buy one or two games to equal the console price. I think for $300, if you can build a rig like this,

419
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,720
then guys, there is at the- You know, it's funny.

420
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:38,080
And I guess we'll make this the conclusion for this. We get this a lot, where people criticize us

421
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:45,120
for focusing really on the high end stuff and the brands that make the most sense at the high end.

422
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:50,240
And they ask us, well, why is that? There's such great value stuff out there on the low end.

423
00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:54,800
And the answer is that if either of us were going to build a $500 machine-

424
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,400
We'd do something like this. We would do this. We wouldn't be buying new.

425
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,480
I would have done exactly what I did for the graphics card, try and find one that I can get,

426
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:08,160
which shouldn't be that cheap. And then I would have not rush purchased that setup

427
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:12,480
because it came with a terrible motherboard. Because if you're smart and you're a good shopper,

428
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:18,720
both of us were doing this at the same time with only 48 hours to turn around all of these deals.

429
00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:24,400
Not even. We realistically only had seven or eight hours to contact people and pick up things.

430
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,320
And like go get them. We ended up with machines that we could easily resell

431
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:32,160
for more than what we paid. And to match this performance,

432
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,480
buying new from the store would cost at least 50% more or more.

433
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,640
So there you go guys. Used hardware. Good value. This was fun.

434
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,760
This was really fun. But you got wrecked. I did.

435
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,520
You got wrecked, son. That quad core, man. That quad core is pretty beast.

436
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:52,560
So thanks for watching guys. This has been the very first round of Scrapyard Wars.

437
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:57,120
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438
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,640
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439
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,920
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