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So as you can see we got our million dollar plaque, million dollar subscriber plaque, and then we got our multiple hundred thousand, well some say it is, but I don't think it's really gold.

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But my actual favorite, it does, and then the silver ones too, like if that's all solid that's quite a bit of money.

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So welcome to Scrapyard Wars! You guys might be wondering, what's up with all the mad stacks? Well this Scrapyard Wars is going to be a little bit different.

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We are going to build a computer, we are going to build a good value computer, but there is no set budget.

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The challenge today with our special guest, Austin Evans, is to build the best bang for the buck computer.

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We'll be using five different benchmarks, Tomb Raider, Far Cry 4, Cinebench, PCMark, and 3DMark Fire Strike to determine who has gotten the most possible value for their money.

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Scrapyard Wars!

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Okay, so I don't know about you guys, but I got my D brand phone, I got my chest strap done up.

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Oh, you got the real stuff right there. Yeah, you got the real stuff right there. Me too bro, so let's go, no holds barred, Scrapyard Wars.

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No holds barred? Peace bros.

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Wait, actually I need my laptop, where does my laptop go? Here it is, okay.

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I really have to pee. Let's go dude. How do we get out of here?

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Alright, so basically my plan right now is...

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Oh there we go, okay. Totally thought the door was locked.

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Alright, so the plan right now is to just get out of here. So I think it looks way more legit if we're like not here, so...

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Where are we going? That's a great question. Let's not be here, let's just drive a little ways and figure this out.

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So, okay, potential problem number one. I actually haven't even done any pre-thought.

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I've been so busy that I haven't had any time to figure out how I'm going to tackle this challenge.

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Potential problem number two. There's three of us this time.

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There's going to be Craigslist crap that's listed two weeks ago that they get no calls about and they're going to have three people calling them today.

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So it's just going to be a race against the clock to win Scrapyard Wars 3, which obviously means it's a great idea that I'm sitting here on a couch.

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I should really get going. So we're going to try to save some money by avoiding a case and try to build everything onto like a cardboard box or something.

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It's all about price to performance. So if I spend like even half the budget, I almost feel like we're going to go over because...

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I don't know, I'm thinking like $600, $700, something like that. Do you know of a cool spot around here?

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Like I know my hotels over here. What's a cool spot like we could hang out?

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We're in Langley.

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So nowhere. Oh, that is some wicked gas. We're not in the car yet though, so it's okay.

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Oh man. Oh wow. That's like, that is some outdoor grade gas.

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One of my biggest concerns is that I think we're going to be fighting for parts.

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I think we're going to be fighting for parts because I don't think there's actually that many for sale right now.

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I'm wondering if it has something to do with the Canadian dollar being in the tank at the moment.

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Is that mine? It is sitting on the ground.

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It's my tip. Damn.

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So one of our dastardly plans is to send responses from Craigslist ad posters to those guys that they never actually messaged.

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So we'll try and get them off the trail, get them confused.

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So we're all going to be on Craigslist.

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We're all going to be trying to find the same deals or maybe not.

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Because the way that I see it, there's actually a few different ways to tackle this.

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We can try and get the cheapest possible computer that is at least capable of running the benchmarks and hope the other guys spend way more.

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Or we can go for the traditional bang for the buck PC somewhere in the 7 to 1100 dollar range and win the benchmarks and hope the other guys aren't able to get great value for the dollar.

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I frankly don't know what the answer is right now.

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What if we try to do like a hundred dollar gaming PC build?

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I don't know if it's necessarily going to be awesome, but it's price to performance, right?

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So if this is as 10th as good as if they spend a thousand dollars, then we actually win.

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So this could work. It's only $10 and it's even here. This could work. Maybe.

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Okay, so I just got a $220 offer on a R9 290.

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Box of video cards. Oh, we're calling this guy.

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We're calling this guy. That looks like an 8600 GTS.

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We can just taking up space on a shelf. If we can get that for like two bucks or five bucks or something, we might be in pretty good shape. It's an option.

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So I'm calling the guy with R9 280 for 130 bucks.

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I'm going to offer him 120. If he doesn't take it, I'm still going to do 130.

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Can you do 120 bucks? Awesome. When do you want me to come pick it up?

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Yeah, yeah, but Port Moody's like a city. Like I need to know where.

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Okay, so I got a R9 280 for 120 bucks. I really wanted to get that 290, but I don't think the price per performance is worth it when the 290 would be over $100 or basically exactly $100 more.

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I don't know. There's some funny math there because you have to calculate in the whole rest of the system as well.

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But I think a 280 is going to be good and I think I need to move on to other things. So I'll go with that.

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If I'm learning anything from this is that people like to really overprice their old PC hardware.

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Like people like to like, oh, my, my six year old gaming PC is worth $800. It was worth $1,200 five years ago.

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No, dude, it's worth like $300. Get over yourself. Canadian used market in general is just because the turnover is so low.

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Yeah, dude. Yeah, I mean, I'm just seeing tons of junk here and every once in a while I see something cool.

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Like, yeah, okay. So this is a G4 7,900 for $50. I mean, it's got S video on it. It's not going to be worth $50.

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I don't care what you say. Wow. A lot of this stuff is pretty brutal. Is that a 9,600 for 10 bucks though? That's not bad.

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Let's save that in the numbers sheet.

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The best thing to do. This is going to be a disadvantage for Austin in this whole competition because he hasn't done this before.

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But the best thing to do is right in the first couple hours put out as many feelers as possible.

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Yeah, you're right. This does take a long time.

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I also totally want to find like a pawn shop or something.

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You can turn off the car. Oh, dude, that's a good idea.

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That's a great idea. I like the car just like runs out. There's a Q9650 CPU. I'm still potentially interested in that if I can get it for the right price.

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I think we're going to need a quad core to win. That Cinebench is going to make a big difference.

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I wonder how Austin's doing at this point.

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Like New City, like he doesn't even know where any of these sub regions are.

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Like he's going to be like, oh, Yale town. That's probably pretty close.

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Okay. I think we might have found something here. A pair of 7950 graphics cards for $150 and that's both of them.

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So basically one of them, actually they were both used for Bitcoin mining, but I don't really care.

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As long as it works for long enough where I can actually like benchmark, that could work.

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$150. Where is this? 13th Avenue. Is that Burnaby?

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Was that anywhere near? Burnaby newest?

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Do you have any idea where that is? I'm trying to work on system.

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So what I'm trying to find now, I have a graphics card. I'm probably not going to look for a case.

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And so what I'm looking for right now is motherboard, processor, memory, essentially.

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And a hard drive, I guess. But I might try to sneak an SSD in there if I can.

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I just don't know if it'll be worth it. Because most of our benchmarks are CPU or GPU.

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I think you might be able to get a new SSD for a random...

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It probably wouldn't be that. It's probably not that much cheaper. But we also maybe try to get that guy down a little bit.

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So this guy wants $60 for a 120 gig SSD. That is so not happening.

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$60 firm price. You can buy brand new 240 gigs for $98.

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I thought you should know Luke almost lost his money.

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Yeah, I was just wondering if you were interested in selling parts of it at all?

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Yeah, that's a pretty good point. I was only interested in the motherboard, processor, RAM, and potentially power supply.

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I call him up. I'm like, are you interested in selling just the parts?

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And he's like, oh yeah, totally. That was my first idea when I was going to put it on Craigslist.

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I was just going to part it out. And he ends the phone call like, well I'm okay with selling the parts if you buy all of them.

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That was a R9 280 for $120.

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I don't know if that's necessarily the best deal I could get,

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they're kind of scarce right now. I can't find very many of them.

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So I had a whole bunch of graphics card options and was like, okay, I just want to get that out of the way.

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I should have maybe done that later. But whatever, I'm really trying to find my platform right now and having a little bit of trouble with it.

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Dude, I think this might be it. $150 for $279.50? That's going to kill it.

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All right, this is we totally need to go this way. So now let's try to find some other parts and start calling.

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That's totally the way to go, dude. That's that's it. That's that those are our cards right there.

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So for a lot of the components, I'm just going to be kind of browsing what's out there and buying whatever.

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But for the graphics card, I think I have to shop a little bit smarter.

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So I'm going to be using Unantex Bench Repository in order to compare graphics cards across the generations.

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And then from looking at it briefly, I'm feeling pretty good about the approach of going with a Tahiti based card.

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So either a $280 or $280X or a $79.50 or $79.70, I think that's where we're going to get the best bang for our buck.

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So I'm going to low ball this $280X and kind of go from there.

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Okay, so this is how I write a Craigslist email.

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How's it going? I saw you listing for the pair of $79.50.

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I plan on building a gaming PC and was wondering if you've made sure they can game.

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I don't plan on mining, but want to make sure both cards are fully working.

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Thanks, because I've got to be polite. I'm in Canada. So fire that off and hopefully we hear back.

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Okay, I'm just being like a little bitch. Hi, I'm contacting you about the $280X or sale.

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Are you firm on the price? I don't think I can spend that much.

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Whenever someone contacts you like that, whenever they open with that, they're a loser.

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I'm not like a loser, but like getting a better price makes you a winner, yo.

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But, uh, be a little bitch. Hey, here's a good deal on an SSD.

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Let's see if this guy has a phone number. $40 bucks, call.

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All right, I'm going to offer $30 for a 120 gig.

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If I can get it, I'm feeling really good about my storage drive.

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Who uses a home phone number? I can't even text that.

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I'm going to play every game in the book.

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SSD on Craigslist. I can come get it today if you can do $30.

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Do you have anything else for sale? I'm trying to build a budget gaming PC for a friend of mine who's moving away.

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Who could say no to someone trying to buy a present?

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Maybe next time it'll be like my sixth sister or something.

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She broke her ARM and she can't go out much, so we're getting her gaming computer.

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Look, you might be judging me here, but I have a competition to win, so yeah.

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I did say no holds barred. This is the guy with the lots of older computer stuff.

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Um, he says come take a look. Should we just, should we just go check it out?

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Okay, I've come across an interesting discovery. There's a 7950 GX2.

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That's a dual GPU card. The guy's asking 25 bucks.

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If I can get that for like $10 or something,

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I could be in really good shape.

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No, that's a DirectX 9 part.

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Okay, I knew, I knew when we were choosing the benchmarks that we should have gone with

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something older than Far Cry 4,

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but it looks like you have to run it on DX10 or DX11 hardware.

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So right now I've switched from buying that R9 280 to an R9 290.

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I haven't told the 280 guy yet because the 290 guy seems a little bit flaky,

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so I think I'm going to wait until I get an actual confirm from him.

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So the next problem we have is just having to power these two 7950s.

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So I started looking around, there are not a lot of power supplies.

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We might be able to find something used, but just out of curiosity, I looked on NCIX.

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It's going to be like $97 to get like a Corsair CX750.

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We might end up having to buy some new stuff, because the options on Craigslist are not as solid as I was hoping.

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And plus, a lot of these people think that stuff is worth way more than it actually is.

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So we're super stressed on time right now, so much so that we're having delicious sushi because, you know, we got this.

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Okay, so I found something decent here. So this guy has an older computer, but he's willing to part it out.

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So you get a Cooler Master case with a DB writer for $20,

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and there's a power supply, a 500 watt power supply for $30.

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That could work, but I don't think the 7950s is going to be enough to power them.

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What if we get two really cheap power supplies?

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Oh, and like tape one at the top or something? Yeah.

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Dude, that would be so cool! So like we basically just like have like one 500 watt power supply in the system,

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like we like tape another one to the top just to power the other graphic card.

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I almost want to do that purely because of how ridiculous it would be.

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It might not even save us any money, that would be awesome. Now we're going to go try to hit up some local computer stores,

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maybe try to find like some used cases. We still need like a motherboard and memory.

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Okay, so I do not realize this is going to be an Apple specialist.

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I mean, we're here, we might as well try.

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Yo, you have the MacBook, right?

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Okay, so slight change of plans. We just left the MacBook at the restaurant.

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No big deal, but that was my bad.

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So let's try to get back to there before this MacBook gets stolen.

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I can't believe I just walked off. That's neither of us saw that, right?

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Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Luke's mom finally gets her revenge on Linus.

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Austin's surprise visit from a friendly grizzly bear turns hairy.

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Linus reveals the deep dark secret behind his obsession with sandals.

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Dude, we're stupid, mostly me, but still.

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We totally just left the brand new MacBook sitting at the table.

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Oh God, this is terrible.

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Oh man. Alright, let's see what this thing got.

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Oh man, I can't believe we just did that. We just totally just left a brand new laptop just sitting on the table.

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Oh my God, that would be so bad if it... If it's gone, oh no.

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Don't talk like that, man. I can't believe we just did that.

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Alright. Please be there.

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Thank you. Thank you so much.

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We deserve that. That was dumb. We even left the leftovers.

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I like how she even got us the leftovers.

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This guy's trying to sell a dead GTX-40. I was like, GTX-480, 30 bucks.

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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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I don't know. I don't know. This guy's trying to sell a dead GTX-40.

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I was like, GTX-480, 30 bucks.

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I am going to do it.

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I'm going to do it. I'm going to low ball them.

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I'm going to offer like 15 bucks because this has been listed for quite some time.

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I'm going to tell the guy that I need it for a school project to fix it

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and that I can't afford to pay for it. I'm going to try and get it for free.

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Alright, I heard back from the 280X guy from before.

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The 160, he says, is the lowest he can do on that.

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So that might put that out of our price range if we can get something like a GTX-280 or

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285 for 30 to 40 bucks. I don't think that's going to perform four times better.

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Oh, shoot. The SSD for 39 bucks.

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Someone's apparently coming tonight at 630 for it.

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Okay, maybe I should find out if I should offer a bit more than asking.

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I'll find out what other SSDs are going for because the fact that someone's coming to pick it up

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is definitely worth the 40 bucks.

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Okay, there are like no SSDs on Craigslist.

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Okay, so we're running into a bit of a dead end on our SSD search.

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The one that I wanted on Craigslist that I contacted.

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Oh, he's gotten back to me. Whoa.

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He wants me there by 3pm. We're done. Okay.

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Yeah, let's do it. I'm giving him a call.

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Do you have a guy? I was going to come at 12 and then he said he couldn't come until 630

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and if I still had it, that'd be great kind of thing.

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And so I had replied to him one minute before getting yours.

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So I thought, okay, I think I should respond with a piece if someone comes before me.

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So we are on our way to go get the SSD that I sniped.

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Some guy was supposed to show up at 12 and then rescheduled to 630.

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I sent in a low ball offer, but I'm getting it for asking if I come before that guy.

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So I'm on my way there, but I'm a little bit worried too because this gives me only two days left

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and I haven't even compiled my graphics card price to performance database yet.

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We got to drive 45 minutes. Then as soon as we are done there, we got to meet up with someone else where I don't even know what they have.

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And that gives me two days to compile my graphics card price to performance database.

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Figure out what card I'm buying. Hope that Austin and Luke haven't bought it yet and then go get it.

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Not to mention the rest of the components.

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One thing I'm a little worried about is, so I'm asking some of these guys like,

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hey, are you available tomorrow to be picked up? Because it's three o'clock right now.

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It's a little kind of actually sketchy because a lot of people are getting off work around five o'clock or so.

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So I wonder what we actually are going to do about that restriction because it would be really, really bad

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if a lot of the stuff was available, but it's like, oh, can we meet at like six o'clock or something?

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So in that case, cheating.

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Question mark, question mark, question mark. We're just hanging out.

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I haven't had a lot of time to hang out with my buddy Ed.

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So we wanted to hang out, catch up, think about just how much line is cheating because he's cheating.

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Oh yes. He's cheating a ton. He did it on both the last ones.

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Right, yeah. So it seems like a safe bet. I wonder, should we cheat too?

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Does that make sense? We should all cheat, right? Maybe.

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Let's cheat, right? You're cheating, of course, right? I'm actually not.

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Well, I'm not either, but I just assume like in theory that you should probably be cheating.

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If Linus is doing it, we should be doing it too. Just saying that.

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Have fun. Thank you. Okay.

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So I just messaged the guy for the 290. I told him I can be there for 1030.

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So hopefully that works out. I really, really hope the guy with the setup that I want to buy, the motherboard CPU cooler

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messages me back because that would work out just great.

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So now that Luke's back, we need to be way more stealthy.

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I don't know. Is he here for a while? Is he here as talking about anything?

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He's too nice to do that. He wasn't listening. Okay.

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I don't think I say anything. I think we're good. Luke's nice.

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He wouldn't cheat. So $79.70 for $100.

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And I think the best part is this. So we have a C77 saber tooth board for $30.

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The reason it's $30 is because two of the RAM slots don't work, but we don't care about

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that. What we care about is not only is it also in this place that's right by the $79.70, but

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$30 box. Let's find a more private place.

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Go upstairs or something.

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That's why I'm looking. You're looking?

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I'm looking the other way. I don't actually have anything here, but you guys left your stuff on the freaking table,

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didn't you? Yeah. Is that you guys' stuff?

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No. What are you doing?

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Why do you abandon your stuff?

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Wow.

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They think the box is on the second ARM.

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What were they? That was a system Linus and I built on Saturday.

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So those are actually our new parts and they're sitting there. Do we need to make sure they think that?

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Here, hang on. Let's come with me. Let me just subtly try to sneak that computer away.

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So stealthy.

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Wow.

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Hey, I just wanted to call and warn you. I saw some sketchy looking dudes running through the warehouse with some computer parts.

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They're running around with what looked like new computer parts, so I'm sure it's not yours

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because you're probably smart enough to buy old computer parts.

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Thanks, man. Yeah, no, I appreciate it, but actually we haven't bought anything yet.

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We're just strategizing today. No, you told me earlier that you had bought everything.

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Well, we bought everything in our minds, but we are not going to really get around

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actually picking it up till tomorrow, so don't worry about it. Oh, okay.

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Yeah, cool. Sorry about that misunderstanding. We're just cleaning up the office.

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I'm just making sure you guys are okay. Oh, of course, dude. We're golden.

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We're just cleaning up the office, making sure everything's nice and neat and tidy.

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That's fair. That's fair. I appreciate that.

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Thanks a lot. Have a good one. Okay, now that we can talk freely, we need to work out a few more things.

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None of these people have gotten back to me, which is still a little stressful, but so

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if we get this Core i3, we would need a heat sink for it.

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We would need the memory, and we would need some kind of drive, whether it's a hard drive

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or SSD. We might be able to swing an SSD.

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I mean, max, we're going to pay $60 for a brand new SSD.

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So I feel like we could probably get something cheaper, but if not, it's not the end of the

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world. So we're looking at probably like a $300 build right now.

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That's actually not that bad. I officially sent my offer to the guy that wants to sell me the motherboard CPU and cooler

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for $80, so we'll see what he says about that.

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He told me earlier that he won't be able to check to see if he has RAM until 7 o'clock

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tonight, so I'm not going to make any final purchasing decisions on memory until he gets

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back to me then, but I'm looking for some leads for memory right now.

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I also told them if you have some cheap low end hard drive laying around to let me know.

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So right now, I'm messaging a different dude who ended up being Kevin's used computers

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or something like that. It's a used computer store around here for a power supply.

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I'm hoping I can get one fairly cheap off of him and yeah, just trying to do some legwork

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on some other stuff, but we're doing pretty good. Pretty good.

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I think Brandon and I are going to stop and get lunch pretty soon here.

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All right, so we got a 120 gig SSD for $38 Canadian, my friends.

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That could win us this competition if it helps us win PCMark.

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And the guy with the broken 480 wants it for $25.

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$25 for what? It's broken.

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It's legit broken. So I offered him 10.

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All right, so we're rolling around to the literal back alley here.

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Holy crap. What the hell is this?

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Oh, shit. It's a crack fight. Right?

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Oh. I don't know.

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Oh, okay. And this one?

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Okay, wait. You don't want people fishing through this bin if they don't know what they're doing.

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That's an exposed power supply. If you accidentally bridge a contact on that, there's capacitors.

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Someone could actually die. Okay, that was some legit, like, scrapyard digging.

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I found a literal pile of Sempron CPUs, okay?

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I've got 4 gigs of DDR2.

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I've got a Core 2 Quad Q6600.

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Yes, my friends. I have a Q6600.

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And potentially I have an ASUS Commando board.

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If any of it works, I spent $60 of my budget on stuff where I am legit, really not sure if any of it works.

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But I also got an Antec SmartPower 450W power supply with a PCI Express power connector.

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Alright, so so far my brilliant strategy of lowballing everyone is not going too well.

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Not getting a ton of replies, and this one guy is extremely combative here.

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Something about, why would you offer less than half?

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You looking to get told off? So I'm kind of thinking I'm going to come back with asking price was out to lunch.

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Not my fault people don't know what their stuff is worth.

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Here's a card that performs better with multiple ones listed for 50-ish.

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Good luck with your sale, brah.

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Some might say that this is cheating.

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I would respond with that I don't think that they understand scrapyard voice.

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Because I got something from the scrap, and I'm turning it into a thing.

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And if that isn't the meaning of scrapyard voice, then I don't know what is.

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No way, we just heard back from the guy with the $25.68.50.

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That is by far our best one yet, with other people telling me off about asking my mom for money.

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We've done awesome. We have a, oh, my iced tea is running down the roof.

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Oh no. Maybe I can get it, hold on.

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Really? Yeah, I'm going to pull over.

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Hazards. Hold on, maybe it's still up there.

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I don't think it is. Maybe it's still up there. Ah, damn it.

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You lost your iced tea? Yeah, it's all over the roof of the car.

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Okay, so an email from the Z77 people just came in.

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I have more than 10 people emailing me about it, but I don't have time to meet in Skye's train station and stuff.

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The only time available this week is tomorrow 11-5, and I have someone who said he is coming.

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So if you're really interested, come around 11 and email me before you come.

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I think we need to go AMD, because I think what's helping us a lot with the AMD cards is the fact that tons of people are using them for Bitcoin and Litecoin mining,

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which means that there's tons of these cards around, and they're pretty cheap because they've been abused.

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So that's helping us a lot. So that's why there's so many 7950 and 7970s out here, but none of these people are getting back to me.

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If we do the i3 and the 7970, we're talking 280.

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If we bump that up to a Core i5 and a 6990, we're looking at 420, actually 419.

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But the problem is the power supply. We absolutely need some kind of other power supply for this.

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So we're talking about a lot more money, but a Core i5 and 6990, that's pretty solid, and we're still talking about definitely well under $500.

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Okay, so I just texted the guy about the 6990.

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So if we do the 6990 and the Core i5, the little power supply that we have is not going to work.

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So what we might have to do is go back to the idea of putting an extra power supply on the top of the rig

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and just wiring it straight for the graphics card. In fact, it would be power out of half the graphics card.

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Probably not the smartest idea.

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It should work in theory.

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Okay, so the recap. We have a Core i5 2400 at Kevin's used computer.

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We also can get a 250K hard drive there.

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Most likely we can get some kind of cheap power supply as a secondary for our graphics card.

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We have a case. We have our second power supply.

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We have a motherboard. We have the memory, which we can just pick up at NCIX.

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It's like 30 bucks, no big deal. And we have the graphics card, which we will pick up in Richmond at some point.

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I will text the guy kind of minute 6990.

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That sounds like a computer to me. Are we forgetting anything?

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Was that salvageable? Did I just salvage that?

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We got the motherboard to mount. It works.

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The spacing is okay. The power spy will mount here or up here.

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So it's the actual power spy that I get is probably going to be a little bit longer.

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So let's say it goes to here. Cables come out of here.

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Cut it this way. Cut it this way.

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But I want to build a wall that it can sit against. I'm going to cut it with a circular saw.

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Okay, so this isn't me helping. This is me making sure he doesn't cut his own hand off.

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Looks like you're hard at work over here.

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I'm done. Are you happy, Austin? I'm happy that you're five minutes late.

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I'm very happy. I think I'm going to get some extra time.

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So you got some wood going on? It's a smart move for a computer build.

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I usually have wood. I just thought I'd incorporate it.

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In a build. It's natural. You want to make sure you have.

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Of course. One thing, I wanted to use power tools in a good, safe environment.

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Second thing, it's only five minutes and it's supposed to be transit time and I'm already here.

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So I don't really think it's that big of a deal. Also, to be fair, you were in my space when I could have been working.

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I don't think so. I also think you're not supposed to be in my space.

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And I believe I asked you to leave and you did not. You can't say that the outside is your space.

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I can't say that the entire outside is your space. You worked in two different areas of the office.

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I needed tools from over there and couldn't go over there because your parts were over there.

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So I waited until later. Oh, okay.

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I've got to say thank you for not looking at all the parts that I bought.

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Wait, I thought you didn't buy any parts. I didn't buy any parts.

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Zero parts. Nothing bought whatsoever.

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I'm just having fun and this is all for a good sport.

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Don't worry about it. Does Luke have enough wood?

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Does the crack pipe line is found still work?

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Find out next time on Scrap Yard Wars.

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Alright, so it is the beginning of day two and the very first thing we need to do is check email.

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Someone who emailed ahead of you has confirmed he is coming to buy it first thing in the morning.

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So don't come out before phoning me around 11 and make sure it's still available.

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This is Luke. I know it. It is absolutely Luke.

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Aw man, we're not going to have enough time. Dude, this guy...

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What? The guy with the 7950s replied back.

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So wait, we can get the 7950s. Oh no, we don't have time for this right now.

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We have to go right now. Oh, this is for the case.

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The guy is local, so it should not be that far.

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Oh, 25 minutes away.

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Day two of Scrap Yard Wars. So, we are going to get that graphics card that I talked about yesterday.

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The R9290 Gigabyte Wind Force.

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And then, I have bad news.

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The motherboard CPU and cooler platform guy responded saying that he had a lot of 2GB 6 of RAM.

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Which is good news. And then also told me that he forgot to bring it to work with him today.

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And that he might not be able to tomorrow.

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So I was distracted trying to have Brandon email motherboard guy.

404
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000
So I went the wrong way on the highway.

405
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:16,000
So I'm going to pick up the graphics card where BCIT, he's waiting, I'm late, I'm going to go.

406
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,000
I actually heard back from a fair number of my low ball graphics card offers.

407
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:28,000
So it's a good thing I did this before running out and picking up that $20 video card that I arranged yesterday.

408
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Because if I can find something better, I'm going to just bail on that guy.

409
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,000
So first up, we've got a GTX 460 for $30.

410
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000
The guy came down from, or up from my offer of $20.

411
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:44,000
GTX 550 Ti. Nah, sorry, this card is too good for $35 ball.

412
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000
$78.70. $40 firm for a broken card.

413
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,000
What an idiot. Freaking tool. This guy didn't reply to any of my questions.

414
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Are you really the line of Sebastian from NCIX?

415
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000
Okay, so no useful leads whatsoever.

416
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Let's get down to business. So I decided I'm going to go for the one shot, you know, homerun swing right off the bat here.

417
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:17,000
I'm going to load literally all of this hardware up and I'm going to see if it boots.

418
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000
And if it does, then I am in really good shape for the rest of the day.

419
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
And if it doesn't, and we got nothing.

420
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000
I knew this motherboard wasn't going to work.

421
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Why did I even let myself think it might fall?

422
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,000
Another shot here with a proper power supply and see if maybe that's the issue.

423
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:43,000
The display on the back, it actually has a post readout back here, but I can bear no way.

424
00:33:43,000 --> 00:34:00,000
We got an ASUS ROG board, four gigs of working DDR2, a Q6600, and a broken power supply,

425
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:07,000
which I'm totally okay with, for $60.

426
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000
So I know what we're doing today.

427
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
We need to obtain a new power supply.

428
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Okay, I'm okay with that. We need to obtain a case and what's great about that is it's really easy to find a case power supply combos.

429
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000
So we need to go out and get a case power supply combo.

430
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:29,000
We still need to potentially find a graphics card, but I'm going to find out about that in a minute here.

431
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Maybe we should spend some of our time obtaining a better cooler because the Q6600 can run pretty hot when you overclock it.

432
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,000
So having a really beefy cooler on there could be the ace up our sleeve.

433
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000
We got to go. We might just lose the motherboard right now.

434
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,000
Do we bail on this guy and try to get a different case?

435
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Okay, so it is 10.09 and everything is already going completely wrong.

436
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000
I'm pretty sure Luke is getting our motherboard right now.

437
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,000
And I just realized the guy who has the case, who's supposedly local, is actually 25 minutes away.

438
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:08,000
And this guy is expecting us to like show up in like five minutes.

439
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:18,000
We might be a little screwed here. The good thing that might save us is that we have leads on both a 69.90 and a pair of 79.50s, both of which should be doable.

440
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:23,000
So I think what we're going to do is we're going to go to this guy's house, pick up the case and the power supply,

441
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,000
and then what we're going to do is we're going to go and grab, see what kind of stuff we can get at the computer shop.

442
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Because that's, we don't have any other appointments.

443
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000
I don't think we might.

444
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:41,000
Yeah, we'll go to the computer shop and see what we can find. If that guy has a good motherboard, then we should be able to either pull off the 79.50 or the 69.90s.

445
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:49,000
But it's going to be tricky. So I have bad news and great news. The bad news is motherboard system guy still hasn't messaged me back.

446
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,000
Good news is I got the graphics card for $180.

447
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
I saved $20. How did I do that?

448
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Well, I checked out the card before he gave it to me.

449
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:07,000
It's a 290, everything's fine, but there's one little oddity.

450
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000
When I went to go take it out of the bag, I noticed this.

451
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000
There's no screws right there.

452
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:21,000
There's one screw holding the plate on here, but it's missing a screw here and it's missing two screws here and two screws here.

453
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:26,000
So I was like, that's kind of weird to start a complaining and he gave me 20 bucks off.

454
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:33,000
So I got a 290 aftermarket cooled card for $180, which is pretty sick.

455
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000
I just need to make sure that I have a computer to put it in.

456
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:46,000
It is time to call free geek and see how much they can save my ass, hopefully entirely.

457
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,000
One thing we do have going for us is that Luke Linus and I, we all had a chat this morning

458
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,000
and basically the idea is that we're all going to try to have all of our parts by the end of the day.

459
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,000
But if we don't have everything today, we're going to have until noon tomorrow.

460
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000
So basically we'll have two hours tomorrow to go and get any last minute parts we need.

461
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,000
So we should be able to get everything today and then we'll do the build off tomorrow.

462
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:12,000
So we don't really have to worry about putting together the systems, although I know Luke has already got started on his.

463
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:17,000
It sounded like that anyway. Okay, so we're here. We're about to pick up the case.

464
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Hopefully you don't get murdered. This is the first time we've actually used Craigslist for this little trip.

465
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,000
So let's get some money and hopefully have a case.

466
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000
Hey, hi. How's it going? Austin, thank you. Appreciate it.

467
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Okay, thank you. Appreciate it. It has officially begun. We have our case.

468
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,000
And I've got to say it's actually way more beeping than I thought it was.

469
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000
So let's see here.

470
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,000
That's got a lock on it. There we go.

471
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,000
That's actually pretty solid. And he showed me the power supply does work.

472
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000
We have a 120 fan in the back. Actually, is that one in the front?

473
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,000
No. Still though. Oh, we even have a safety cable front panel.

474
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,000
All right. I think we're in business. It's a little beat up, but it'll totally do for 25 bucks.

475
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,000
It's a good start. So the guy with the sabertooth on the motherboard replied,

476
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:17,000
he'll let me know if it's sold or not. He got multiple replies. And I have the first who first responded the first chance.

477
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000
He should be here shortly. And if he doesn't show up, it'll be yours.

478
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,000
It's not about getting more money, but more of a promise to keep. It'll be yours for the same price. If other guys doesn't show up.

479
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:30,000
So 7950 guy just replied, basically, we're kind of out of luck on this too.

480
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:37,000
He doesn't get home till seven o'clock. He could do it tomorrow, but that would eat up the little bit of time we would have.

481
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:44,000
And we'd have to drive like an hour out of the way. So there is a 6990. It's $180. So we're going to meet him at two o'clock.

482
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:53,000
So I just got the $200 R9 290 for 180 bucks because it was missing a couple screws on the IO plate,

483
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:59,000
which while they're nice to have, the card will run without it.

484
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:06,000
And I'm hoping that there might be some spare ones for that in the spare screw bin at work.

485
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:11,000
The motherboard and system guy still has not messaged me back.

486
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,000
He's at work. I can't be mad, but this guy is getting a little frustrating to deal with.

487
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,000
I gave him my phone number. He keeps on saying he's going to text me and he has not.

488
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,000
And that would be a lot easier to communicate with him over text messages.

489
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000
He said he was going to check for RAM last night. He did.

490
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:33,000
I also told him to bring the stuff to work so that I could pick it up for a moment at work.

491
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,000
And he did not because he apparently forgot or didn't read that email or something.

492
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Kind of think he just forgot. So I've got a graphics card and I've got a line on a power supply,

493
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
which I'm going to pick up later today. Other than that, it's unknown.

494
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,000
And the free geek stock is really starting to freak me out.

495
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,000
So my new plan is I'm going to go to free geek, figure out what they have.

496
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,000
If they have everything I need, which is very unlikely, but if they do, I'll just pick it all up.

497
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:03,000
If they don't, I will just kind of post up probably near free geek in the car,

498
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,000
do as much research as I can online, try to plan all the appointments I can for the stuff that I can,

499
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,000
and then fill out the holes that I can't find with stuff at free geek.

500
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Hopefully that will work. I had a lot of backup plans last night and most of them are gone now,

501
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:30,000
but there's still a few that seem to be on the fence of guys that have 6600s and other various quad cores.

502
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,000
So I don't know.

503
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Might not be screwed. Just really depends on what's at free geek.

504
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:49,000
Yeah, interested in QC600, interested in a board that it can go in, and a fairly low capacity hard drive.

505
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,000
So our options right now, this is actually way better than I expected.

506
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:58,000
This place is super cool, is $30 for an Intel DG43 GT.

507
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Did she say 35 and not 55?

508
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:10,000
So I've got an ASUS P5Q motherboard, a QC600, a 120, 160, I don't remember,

509
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:16,000
a Gigabyte hard drive spinning at a 7200 RPM, and it was a little vague,

510
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,000
but I think 8 gigs of RAM, all for $100.

511
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:32,000
I'm a little bit worried that this thing isn't going to work at all. As you guys saw there, there was like Tim in the CPU socket and she rubbed the pins on the board.

512
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,000
But anyways, I think this will be good.

513
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:41,000
Okay, so I'm throwing my Windows 7 test build on here to find out what exactly this graphics card is.

514
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:52,000
I cannot believe we can't believe that board works.

515
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:58,000
I do have to say one cool thing about the MacBook Air is that I forgot to charge it,

516
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000
used it a bunch yesterday, it's at like 65% battery.

517
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:08,000
It's cray-cray. Oh, wow, it's a sound driver.

518
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Accio.sys was what caused the problem.

519
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Interesting. Does this even...

520
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Oh. Oh wow.

521
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:26,000
We might have to go back to our buddy there and get a sound card.

522
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,000
This motherboard doesn't have onboard sound.

523
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:38,000
So today's going well so far. I have determined that my motherboard by some freaking miracle works.

524
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,000
The RAM is all correctly detected. The CPU is correctly detected.

525
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,000
It even has drivers for up to Windows 8.1.

526
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,000
So we're going to be able to run all of our benchmarks.

527
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:54,000
I have arranged to go out and pick up the graphics card that we figured out yesterday.

528
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:03,000
And I've reached out to back alley crack pipe computer owner Guy about going and getting a sound card

529
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,000
because that is the thing that probably had that motherboard in the scrap heap.

530
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,000
I don't have a sound card for it. So if we hear back from him, maybe we can get a case while we're there,

531
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,000
which leaves us with the optional step of obtaining a power supply

532
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,000
because I could use the one from the computer inside.

533
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000
And that is about it. We're in really good shape.

534
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:31,000
It is time to boogie. So I'm just going to cover up my progress so far.

535
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:41,000
And head out. All right. So we are here at the computer store and hopefully we can get a lot of what we need

536
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,000
because we need roughly everything right now.

537
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:53,000
So let's give it a try. Hey, so basically we were able to get a lot of what we needed.

538
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,000
So we were able to get a core i7-2600 not overclockable as well as the motherboard.

539
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,000
So it will support crossfires. So we're good with the 6990.

540
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,000
But the most important thing is we've got a seriously powerful CPU.

541
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:14,000
Grab a seriously powerful graphics card. We have a 160 gig hard drive because 15 bucks and we just need to run benchmarks.

542
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,000
It's not really going to make a difference. And we have our second power supply.

543
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,000
So this is actually a pretty beefy supply. It actually has an 8-pin and a 6-pin.

544
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,000
So basically right now, I think we're in pretty good shape.

545
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,000
I think once we like glue this or tape this up to the top of the case, we're going to be set.

546
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:36,000
So let's go do it. Okay. So they had a problem mounting the stock heatsink, but the price is good.

547
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:41,000
So I really want to make sure it works. So they let me back into their testing area, which is awesome.

548
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,000
They're letting us film, which is awesome. FreeGeek is awesome.

549
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,000
I need to mount this thing though.

550
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,000
Yeah. I think the heatsink has a problem.

551
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:57,000
That really sucks because something that I do know doesn't work is this top slot.

552
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,000
But they say that this one works.

553
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,000
I want to make sure it works before I leave.

554
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,000
The ARM is broken off. That's why I won't sit.

555
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:12,000
That explains a lot. I hate these freaking stock heatsinks, man.

556
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,000
That's one side in. So the whole right side went in.

557
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:25,000
No problem at all. The whole right side's in. The left side on the other hand is just not working out for me very well.

558
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:30,000
I'm having second thoughts about my video card matrix strategy.

559
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:38,000
What I realized is I'm calculating FPS per dollar as a function of only the cost of the graphics card.

560
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,000
I have not factored in the rest of the computer.

561
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:53,000
So if a graphics card costs $10 more, that doesn't mean that if I'm spending $20, I'm spending 50% more.

562
00:45:53,000 --> 00:46:03,000
I better get 50% more FPS. That means that compared to the rest of the cost of the system, I might be spending 10% more.

563
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,000
I only have to get 10% more FPS.

564
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:13,000
So basically, the more expensive graphics cards might be totally worthwhile,

565
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:19,000
even if they don't score as many FPS per dollar compared to a low-end one.

566
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Dennis nearly gets deported.

567
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:34,000
So basically, the more expensive graphics cards might be totally worthwhile,

568
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:40,000
even if they don't score as many FPS per dollar compared to a low-end one.

569
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,000
You know what the stupidest thing about me screwing up that formula is?

570
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:50,000
That's exactly the formula that I used to use when I worked retail computer sales

571
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:56,000
to help people understand how buying something that costs twice as much

572
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:02,000
might effectively give them a way better value than if they bought something for half as much.

573
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:10,000
If you're buying a $1,000 computer, spending an extra $100 on a graphics card that performs 30% better

574
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:18,000
is still 30% more performance for 10% more budget in the grand scheme of things, but I forgot.

575
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:26,000
And the really frustrating thing right now is that even if we hadn't already been late to meet this guy twice,

576
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,000
so I feel like I really have to go meet him,

577
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:36,000
even if that weren't the case, I still have to go right now.

578
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,000
I have no time to go and plug some more cards into an updated formula

579
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:45,000
and find out how they compare before I have to go meet him now.

580
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:50,000
So I basically could end up stuck with a $20 paperweight by the end of this.

581
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,000
I didn't bring my cash! It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

582
00:47:54,000 --> 00:48:03,000
Hello! Thank you! This is going to really help me a lot.

583
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:09,000
I have money. I also have a sweater. I couldn't find a t-shirt, so it's a hoodie.

584
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,000
That's alright, it's even better.

585
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Awesome! We just heard back from the back alley guy.

586
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:30,000
I think we've got a lead on a sound card. I'm going to offer him like $5.

587
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:35,000
So we need to be in Richmond in an hour, and it's going to take us about 40 minutes to drive out there,

588
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,000
so we should be good on time. And that's pretty much it.

589
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,000
The last thing we're going to have to do is go over and pick up some memory,

590
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:49,000
which I think NCIX is actually going to be the cheapest way. There's not a whole lot of cheap used memory, so yeah, I feel like we're doing really good.

591
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:53,000
We just need the graphics card, and as long as that works and everything should be fine there,

592
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,000
then we're going to be good, so let's go!

593
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:04,000
Hey! So that's the top slot, so everything's good.

594
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:08,000
So, just got out of Free Geek Vancouver. I was pretty worried about that store,

595
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:13,000
and I ended up being amazing. All I need left is a power supply, and I've spent $280.

596
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:27,000
I should have asked about a power supply. 700 watts. Some sketchy brands too.

597
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:33,000
I forgot I needed a power supply. How much for this guy?

598
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,000
It's one. Is it from one cable? Can I just put them together?

599
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,000
Oh yeah. Yeah, I can just put them together. And then it has a...

600
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:45,000
I need, yeah, I need 6 plus 2, and I need 6, which it has.

601
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Awesome. Okay, so give me one second. How much did you say? 30 bucks?

602
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:57,000
There you go. So, done. I guess Free Geek just cleaned me out for, what was it?

603
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:04,000
$130. I got a 550 watt power supply, a Q6600, a 160 Gigabyte hard drive,

604
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:09,000
a 775 motherboard, and 8 gigs of RAM.

605
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:20,000
So that means my final total comes to $180 plus 30, so $210 plus $310.

606
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:27,000
So I'm $10 over the original Scrapyard Wars budget, and have a way better computer.

607
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:32,000
Yes! Okay, I keep telling myself, I'm just going to stop looking.

608
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:38,000
I'm going to go back and test the cards, but I keep looking anyway.

609
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:46,000
I mean, I just saw a $79.70 listed for $100.

610
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:54,000
Even factoring in my $20 loss on that card, that's an FPS per dollar of almost .4.

611
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,000
That would be the winner, if I could get it.

612
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,000
I mean, here's something totally stupid. Here's a $69.90 in Richmond.

613
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:08,000
Surely this guy doesn't think he's actually going to get $180 for that, so why don't we send a text?

614
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Okay, so after the 18 hour drive to, where are we right now?

615
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,000
Richmond. Richmond. After the 18 hour drive to Richmond, you ever take 17 hours?

616
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:22,000
We're here, but we're actually here 20 minutes early. So, the dude lives in one of these apartment buildings over here.

617
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,000
So, I guess we just wait for him? Oh dude, there's a Toys R Us over there.

618
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:33,000
20 minutes in Toys R Us. Hi, I'm calling about the $69.90 you have listed on Craigslist. Do you still have that?

619
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:38,000
Yeah, I do, but this guy is picking up this afternoon.

620
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:43,000
If he doesn't show up, I will give you a call. How's that?

621
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,000
Do you know the name of the guy picking it up?

622
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,000
No, I don't. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think...

623
00:51:49,000 --> 00:52:00,000
He's not likely to pick it up though, because he's using a California number, so I don't know if it's a route or what.

624
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:06,000
Oh, okay. Because I can come like right now.

625
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Because I have made a promise to him, so I will wait till 2 if he doesn't show up, then it's yours.

626
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,000
Okay, how much did he offer?

627
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,000
180. Oh, okay. Okay, I'd have to...

628
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:28,000
Okay, can you call me at 2 if he doesn't come get it by 2?

629
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:34,000
Sure, yeah. I will wait by half an hour or something like that. We're to leave.

630
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:41,000
Well, I live out in Langley, so the sooner you can let me know, the sooner I can start driving, because I really need it today.

631
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Okay. Yeah, yeah, I will give you a call.

632
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,000
Okay, alright, thank you. Alright, thank you.

633
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,000
Okay, bye.

634
00:52:53,000 --> 00:53:07,000
California, California, Austin's number, going to pick up a $69.90 in the city, city of Richmond.

635
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:12,000
He is rocking a $69.90.

636
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:18,000
Okay, interesting. So we're at the guy's place, he's gonna let us test the card. The problem is, do we film it?

637
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:25,000
Because I feel super sketchy at going to some random guy's house as he's testing a graphics card for me and saying, by the way, can we film?

638
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:30,000
I don't know, what do you think? Well, I think our intention is to make a video.

639
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:36,000
This video is very important, yeah. Like, we're asking, right? Is it an invasion of privacy if we ask?

640
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:42,000
Hold on, but if we say, we want to record, what happens if he goes, oh, well, I want twice as much money for the car or something.

641
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:49,000
We don't have a choice, dude. We don't have to record the video. No, no, no, but like, if he knows, like, this is not just some random couple guys who want to build a computer.

642
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Like, what if he decides, like, he wants to raise the price or something? I just really don't like recording, like, people's houses or, like, in, I don't like recording in places where people don't like, let me, which I guess is not...

643
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,000
Well, that's why you're asking. We don't have to tell them that we're shooting a YouTube video.

644
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:06,000
We can just be like, hey, can we just document this?

645
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,000
Oh, I forgot the money.

646
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,000
That might be a little helpful in buying a graphics card.

647
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,000
So now we know Austin's after that card.

648
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:30,000
Part of me wants to snipe it just to totally f**k him, but the other part of me is actually not even sure if that's that great of a card.

649
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,000
So we can plug this into the formula.

650
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:43,000
So $69.90 at $180 would be approximately a $69.70 times two-ish.

651
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:48,000
So that's 57. So let's say times 1.8.

652
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:52,000
Those games should scale pretty well. So about $102.

653
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:56,000
So if he's paying $180 for that...

654
00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:00,000
Oh, that is a... See, that's a better performance index than I'm getting.

655
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,000
$0.36.

656
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:14,000
Damn it, Austin. Well, if I can snipe it, I'm gonna.

657
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,000
All right. So looks like everything works.

658
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,000
So we're here testing out the $69.90. Everything looks like it's running great on Diablo 3.

659
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:27,000
So we're pretty much good there. Now, pretty much all that's left for today is we need to go pick up some memory and we'll be good to go.

660
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,000
So we might just have this bill ready.

661
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:35,000
Boom! So we successfully have an X at X, ready on $69.90.

662
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,000
This is a huge card compared to me.

663
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:42,000
So, yeah, I think we're looking good right now.

664
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:49,000
So at this point, we pretty much just need to go to Intel EX and pick up four gigs of RAM, which shouldn't be a big problem.

665
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,000
That's the only kind of slight question right now is how much RAM do we actually want to get?

666
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:59,000
So four gigs are gonna be a lot cheaper, but we might have some stuttering issues.

667
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,000
I think Far Cry 4 is the thing that we're kind of a little worried about right now.

668
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,000
So it's gonna be like, do we want to go for it or not?

669
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:09,000
I kind of want to play the little risky, so I think we might go with four gigs of RAM,

670
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,000
especially if they end up making me pay for tax, which I don't want to do.

671
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:18,000
So... But most important thing, we have an awesome graphics card, so we're set.

672
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:25,000
Mostly. I've got to say, now that we've got this beefy graphics card, I'm feeling way better.

673
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:29,000
At this point, we really only need the memory, and that should be like the easiest thing ever to get.

674
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:34,000
So, putting in work right now, especially considering how cheap this one is.

675
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:39,000
I mean, this was like a $600 graphics card. I mean, a $700 graphics card just a few years ago.

676
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,000
We got this thing for less than $200. So, I don't know.

677
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,000
I feel like if we win this, it's gonna be because of this card.

678
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,000
If we lose this, it's gonna be because of this card.

679
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,000
But I think we're gonna win this because of this card.

680
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:59,000
So, we've had a troubling morning. We got our graphics card that I thought was a great deal.

681
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:09,000
Turns out that according to my corrected calculations, it was actually not a very good deal,

682
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:14,000
and we got some very useful Intel on what our competitors are doing.

683
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:23,000
So, Austin is going high performance, and he's going dual GPU, which I really wish I had looked up the $6,990.

684
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:29,000
I looked up almost every other dual GPU solution yesterday by keyword.

685
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:33,000
This one's been listed for a month, and Austin offered asking price.

686
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:41,000
He's getting a $69.90 for $180, which, by my calculation, is going to cream me.

687
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,000
So, we're on our way back to the office.

688
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:49,000
We're gonna test what we have, make sure it's running.

689
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:55,000
I am going to do some shopping, try and find a better graphics card deal.

690
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:00,000
And if I can find something that'll allow me to eat the $20 I wasted,

691
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:07,000
then I will go out and get it before I meet the back alley guy again at four today.

692
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,000
Dude, the NSAX is right there. It's right in that...

693
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,000
Okay, so, do you want to drive over there, or do you want to walk it?

694
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,000
Let's go get our memory now, dude. I'm feeling pretty pumped.

695
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:24,000
I really think that we're actually doing really good here. 8GB of RAM is way too... that's crazy for a scrapyard system.

696
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:28,000
It's pretty crazy. We got to save money, dude. This is price to performance.

697
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,000
It's a serious business. We got to go for 4GB.

698
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:35,000
Let's see if there's any other 4GB, just in case.

699
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,000
Okay, 20...

700
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:43,000
30... 5. There you go.

701
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,000
Just got the 4GB stick of the CoreStare memory, so...

702
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:51,000
Won't be super fast, won't be a ton of memory, but it should be just enough to get through.

703
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,000
Okay, awesome, man. Appreciate it.

704
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,000
We're good.

705
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:03,000
Root beer. Alright, we have officially all of our parts right now.

706
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:08,000
So, to recap, we picked up the case and one of our power supplies for $25 this morning.

707
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:14,000
We went to a computer shop, we got our CPU, our motherboard, we got the heat sink,

708
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:19,000
we got another power supply, and we got a car drive.

709
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:25,000
We got the graphics card just now, and we just picked up the $30 kit of 4GB of memory

710
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:31,000
as it's on the spot, flying it out of here. So, we have all the parts and we bought them all today, and everything went pretty well, actually.

711
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:36,000
This is $238 right now, so not only do we have over two hours left,

712
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:40,000
but we get to enjoy a delicious root beer.

713
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:43,000
Well, you do. You're too cheap to get me one.

714
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,000
Oh, yeah. So, accidentally, I just bought this out of the Scrapyard Wars budget,

715
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,000
so all the parts we bought, plus like $2 for root beer.

716
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:56,000
Oops. This tastes pretty sweet, though. I think it was kind of worth it.

717
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,000
Okay, I'm a little nervous right now.

718
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,000
What is that?

719
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,000
Did this guy sell us a graphics card anyway?

720
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:36,000
So, the good news is that we found a lead on a graphics card that even if I have to throw away the $20 I spent on this,

721
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:43,000
will put me back out ahead, or at least even with Austin, for FPS per dollar.

722
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:48,000
But I haven't heard from the guy in about half an hour, so I'm really hoping I hear back soon.

723
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:53,000
The bad news is our power supply we hoped would work is dead,

724
01:00:53,000 --> 01:01:04,000
which means that our 400 watt backup power supply is only borderline capable of even supporting a 7970 if we get it.

725
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:10,000
There's also more bad news. It looks like our 6850 might actually be dead,

726
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:18,000
which could also be good news because that gives us $20 back in our pocket if we can get a refund.

727
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:26,000
I'm liking Austin's chances, but never count Luke out. I mean, he might show up with some completely bizarro thing.

728
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:30,000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Austin gets a tetanus shot.

729
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:35,000
Luke gets captured by Vikings, and Linus runs over a dog.

730
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:39,000
Okay, so we're back from free geek. We got a whole bunch of our parts.

731
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:49,000
We've got a 775 on the board, 8 gigs of RAM, a QC600, a 160 Gigabyte hard drive, and a 550 watt BFG tech power supply.

732
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:56,000
Everything here I've tested except for the power supply and the graphics card, so hopefully that all works out.

733
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:01,000
Right now what I'm trying to set up to do is hook all this stuff up in this corner,

734
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:08,000
and then I'm going to have my other desk where I'm doing my woodworking stuff right here

735
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:13,000
so that while this is running Windows updates and junk, I can hopefully work on that.

736
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:18,000
So that once this is done doing Windows updates and junk, I can mount it onto the wooden board

737
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:23,000
and then hoping tomorrow that I can more focus on overclocking and stuff all day

738
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:27,000
because I really want to get that down. I think I can overclock this card a bit.

739
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:31,000
I think I can overclock that CPU a bit, so I want to take advantage of that extra performance.

740
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:35,000
So the one thing about not having the screws here is worth the 20 bucks for sure,

741
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:41,000
but is that I can't screw in my DVI cable, so it just goes to there

742
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:44,000
because normally there's a screw in there that I would screw into.

743
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:50,000
So that's fine. If I really wanted to, I could use DisplayPort or HDMI,

744
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,000
but I'm just going to use DVI for now because it's the cable that I have,

745
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:58,000
but I'm going to try to find screws to put in here just because it would be good form

746
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:03,000
because it's actually really needed. I guess here goes nothing.

747
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:07,000
I was trying to document the issue with this graphics card,

748
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:13,000
but since we changed to my test bench power supply, it's actually fine now,

749
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:22,000
which is pretty bad news because what that means is that our ghetto power supply works fine

750
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:27,000
with a card that it's not plugged directly into, but then doesn't work

751
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:34,000
with a card that requires auxiliary power, which means our 7970 might not run off this power supply

752
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,000
even if it is rated at enough wattage. It might just be too crappy.

753
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:42,000
I'm muted. Damn it, Terian. How long have I been muted?

754
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:47,000
Have I been muted since I went to the bathroom a billion years ago?

755
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:51,000
Now, because I've actually got some time to spend with my CPU,

756
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:55,000
the rules for overclocking are that you can have an overclock,

757
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:00,000
but as soon as you run into stability issues during the testing phase,

758
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:05,000
you have to turn off your overclock and run again. You don't get to try and dial it in a little bit lower.

759
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:09,000
So it's working. I guess this is good news in that it's a working graphics card

760
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:13,000
and that the power supply is powering it, but bad news in that I'm not getting my 20 bucks back.

761
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:20,000
If I want to know if it'll work with a 7970, if I want to know if I need another power supply,

762
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:27,000
what I could do is grab a 7970 and test it.

763
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:36,000
Nope, we do not have one. Okay, so that throws a bit of a monkey wrench into my plan.

764
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:42,000
That's okay though. We'll just find another graphics card that draws a similar amount of power and go from there.

765
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:48,000
We may end up using this card after all. Oh wow, inaccessible boot device.

766
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:56,000
Oh wow, what's going on here? This computer is not happy now that we've installed a power hungry card.

767
01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:01,000
There are a lot of power supplies on Craigslist. Nothing that cheap.

768
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:08,000
Corsair CX500 would do the trick. Yeah, this is not booting. This is really bad.

769
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:17,000
And there's Ubuntu. So the graphics card works. The power supply works. Everything else I already tested works.

770
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,000
Nice.

771
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:27,000
Okay, on this station here I'm going to focus on formatting into Windows.

772
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:31,000
Ubuntu off of here, get into Windows on this drive.

773
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:37,000
And then over here, I'm going to keep working on my little woodworking project.

774
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:48,000
I'm trying to get this going using these sample pieces, the sample power supply I have and sample motherboard that I have to kind of work on the layout of how everything's going to actually be on here.

775
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:59,000
One other thing that I need to do is actually use this screw bin and possibly use another few things around the office to try to rig up the back of that graphics card that actually has screws on it.

776
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:06,000
Although that isn't a huge priority right now. That would be kind of nice to do.

777
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:11,000
So we have two terrible power supplies, but together hopefully that equals one good power supply.

778
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:15,000
This is the goods.

779
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,000
And Core i7. Oh, Core i7 what?

780
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:24,000
2600. 6990, 180.

781
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,000
Even for that old of a card, that's a good deal.

782
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,000
Yeah, I mean this thing is a monster.

783
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:33,000
So I think it actually here, let me see, will it fit in the case?

784
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,000
Uh oh, no.

785
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:40,000
Alright, so that's actually not going to fit in the case. No fear though.

786
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:43,000
This stuff, we just cut all this out right?

787
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:46,000
Yeah. Actually this could probably even get, yeah this will come out.

788
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:49,000
You want to take a guess on like how much we spent on all this stuff?

789
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:53,000
350. No, it's like 550.

790
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:57,000
Okay. So. You spent 30 on like one stick.

791
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:00,000
Yeah dude, RAM was tough. RAM was really tough because.

792
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:05,000
I think you got taken for a ride but still. The thing was we, no one had any cheaper RAM.

793
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,000
You honestly have like pretty primo stuff.

794
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,000
Yeah. This is the only concern.

795
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:14,000
At least for the work, right? Yeah, it's brand new, exactly. Yeah.

796
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,000
So that's the thing we want to, we have everything. Yeah, so we have everything now.

797
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:22,000
We basically just need to make sure it works. I'm a little worried because this needs, this is like a 500 watt card.

798
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:28,000
So this needs two 8 pins. So we're going to have to make sure that these power supplies, this power supply has.

799
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:31,000
Oh lord, it's gray. It's not that bad.

800
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,000
So it has a six pin here and I think it's got an eight pins on there.

801
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:38,000
Sparkle power. Sparkle power. Oh, there's just a bunch of adapters.

802
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:43,000
Okay, do you have the extra two? It doesn't have the extra two.

803
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,000
Wait, what is going on here?

804
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:49,000
Why are there so many adapters? All these mollusks have adapters on them.

805
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:57,000
We should have looked at this before. Yeah. So basically power supply right here, tape it on, cut this slash, try to remove it.

806
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:01,000
I'm not sure if it can be unscrewed or not, but we can remove this somehow.

807
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:07,000
I'm not really worried about that. And just hope that these two power supplies are enough for the Core i7 and the 6990.

808
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,000
Sorry. Do you need an actual sander?

809
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:14,000
Do you have an actual sander? Yeah, I have an actual sander.

810
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:18,000
Is it a company tool thing? I've been using it here.

811
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:22,000
So sure. Yeah. I'm done with that.

812
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:28,000
I'm done with that. What are you using this for?

813
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:31,000
Yeah, I know it's the wrong thing, but it's actually kind of working.

814
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:35,000
Actually pretty well. Did my...

815
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:42,000
I just sanded off the mark that I made for where I wanted to cut.

816
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:46,000
I'm not saying there's cheating involved, but... That's a point deduction.

817
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:53,000
A little suspicious right there. We know that Linus was still sending messages after five.

818
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:58,000
Yeah. How do you know? I asked him and he told me.

819
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:03,000
He's cheating. So he's absolutely cheating.

820
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:07,000
I'm calling about the CX500 power supply.

821
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:11,000
I can come get it today if you can do 20. Sure, why not?

822
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:17,000
20. So I could... Yeah, like if you just give me an address, I can get there tonight, no problem.

823
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:22,000
Well, if you leave now, you can come to my house. I still won't be at work yet, so is that okay?

824
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,000
Yeah, okay. Yep. Son of a bitch.

825
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:32,000
Okay, how are we going to do this? We've got to go to Vancouver, we've got to go to Richmond, and we've got to go to Coquitlam.

826
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:36,000
And we are going to be all over the place for the next little bit here.

827
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:42,000
Okay, so he won't set it up to show us it works, but we have another option.

828
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:50,000
So we've got a $20 power supply to go with our $100 graphics card.

829
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:54,000
And we'll just bring a computer with us to test it.

830
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,000
Let's go.

831
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:02,000
Okay, I think we can hit all these places today.

832
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:10,000
As long as our back alley contact is on time, I think we got this.

833
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:19,000
It's three o'clock, and it's ten minutes to our next destination.

834
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:30,000
You know what? New plan, because back alley guy wasn't able to meet until four-ish.

835
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:36,000
So we're going to go straight back to Coquitlam and then to the back alley.

836
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:40,000
And as long as we can get there before five, if it takes us a little longer to drive back,

837
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:47,000
we technically haven't broken the rules. You have to be done scrap yarding and head back at five.

838
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:52,000
New, we're good. I think the rule is you have to be back at 5.30.

839
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:56,000
Well, it's all very gray anyway. That option's right there.

840
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:59,000
$20? Yep. Let's cook you.

841
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:04,000
Oh, you got it from NCIX, I see. Tell from the NCIX sticker.

842
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:08,000
Yeah. Okay, cables are inside, and presumably it works.

843
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:11,000
Yeah. Pleasure doing business with you. Huge fan, actually.

844
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,000
Oh. Yeah, screw it. Okay, here you go.

845
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:17,000
Well, nothing that we know of at the moment.

846
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:20,000
I only have one of those though. That's okay. I can get an adapter.

847
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:24,000
Well, I mean, if it doesn't super work, just let me know because I got, yeah.

848
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:28,000
We didn't have time to test our $79.70, but the guy said we can come back tomorrow morning

849
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:37,000
if we need a refund. So at least we have the backup plan of using our $68.50 and returning the $79.70.

850
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:45,000
So that's good. And our quote from Google Maps right now is that we will arrive in the back alley at $458.

851
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:50,000
He said we can have the sound card for free, just if we just come pick it up.

852
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:53,000
I am going to have my system.

853
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:56,000
Thank you, thank you.

854
01:11:56,000 --> 01:12:01,000
All right, we got our sound cards.

855
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:08,000
So our back alley best friend hooked us up with an Audigee 2 and a Sound Blaster Live,

856
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:14,000
both of which are PCI graphics cards, and at least one of which I'm hoping will both

857
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:20,000
work and have drivers for Windows 7, which is what we've standardized on using.

858
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:29,000
So as long as that's the case, I have everything I need for my winning computer.

859
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:34,000
Yeah, so I feel better about telling you guys stuff.

860
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:37,000
Ed's been very helpful.

861
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,000
He's not been an impartial cameraman, so we've been a team here.

862
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:43,000
I didn't know I wasn't supposed to help.

863
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,000
It's very much not an impartial cameraman at all.

864
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:51,000
You give me a reason why the scape of Windows don't use a line of PCI.

865
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:59,000
So why? You have one hour and 50 minutes.

866
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:02,000
I don't know, it's half the time.

867
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:06,000
Oh, so you have 50 minutes. This is helpful.

868
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,000
A smaller one.

869
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:12,000
Oh, do we need something to short the pins on the... Oh, paperclip.

870
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:15,000
Paperclip? Yeah. Yeah.

871
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,000
Share with me? Do you have a paperclip?

872
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,000
No. What do you need it for?

873
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:24,000
How are you a salesman with that paperclip?

874
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:27,000
How are you a video editor without a paperclip?

875
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,000
You think I deal with paper punch?

876
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Oh, you get that. I think this will actually work.

877
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,000
This sounds like we're about to die.

878
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,000
Are you installing it or are we... I'm installing it.

879
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:46,000
Yeah, let's build outside the case, you're right. You can't really build inside the case because...

880
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:52,000
Okay, memory's good. No, you cut out!

881
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:56,000
I can't get back at it. It's way too tight. Especially with a big knife like this.

882
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:03,000
This is a bad idea. It's a really bad idea.

883
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:04,000
It's so tight.

884
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:09,000
I know, I'm scaring me with this right now.

885
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:16,000
Oh no, I slightly damaged some of the sleeping. Uh-oh, that's not good.

886
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:21,000
Yes, okay, we're good, we're good, we're good. Okay, slight problem.

887
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:24,000
This motherboard needs an 8-pin connector and we only have a 4.

888
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,000
Also bad news is this also has a 4-pin. Can we...

889
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:30,000
Couldn't each power supply power half the CPU too?

890
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:35,000
That seems like a horrible idea. Either we try to see if one 4-pin will work.

891
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:38,000
No, no, we gotta do this. Let's try it with one 4-pin.

892
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:41,000
Hopefully that will work. Can we have a quick time check?

893
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:44,000
450, so we have 10 minutes. Do we just try it?

894
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:48,000
We need to still do the paperclip thing. How is this gonna work, dude?

895
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:54,000
Okay, so this is a green. You and I agree that's green.

896
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:58,000
Okay, and the one right beside it is black. I feel like you're not supposed to do this with a staple.

897
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,000
I feel like you're not supposed to do this ever, but especially not with a staple.

898
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:06,000
Wait, what are you doing? Oh, no!

899
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,000
We don't have a way of turning this on.

900
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:11,000
I've never done that before, what are you doing?

901
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:15,000
Yes! Yes!

902
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:20,000
It works! Power supply, power supply, fan, fan.

903
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:24,000
Yes, we did it! Okay, we just need to make sure this is actually like posting,

904
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,000
but all the fans are running, it looks like it's working.

905
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,000
I need some sanding, but there's my graphics card holding plate,

906
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:34,000
my power supply holding plate, maybe the power supply.

907
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:39,000
My computer is still setting up over there. Windows 7 Professional is still applying my settings.

908
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:42,000
It's been doing that forever. It's kind of getting annoying.

909
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:48,000
Let's try this. Cool, so just like I kind of hoped,

910
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:52,000
I don't actually even need this block. It'll just hopefully look cool.

911
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:55,000
I hope it looks cool. I really hope it looks cool.

912
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:58,000
It looks like it works, but it's not posting,

913
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:02,000
and we're over time. This is, seems like a horrible idea, horrible idea,

914
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:06,000
but whatever, let's do it. If they don't want to go in together, what are you talking about?

915
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:10,000
Let me just squish it, don't worry. Good enough, good enough.

916
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,000
I know. No, no, no, this power supply should be spinning right now.

917
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,000
I don't understand why it's not. This should be working.

918
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,000
Oh, you're right.

919
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:22,000
Oh, come on.

920
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:27,000
Oh, dude, I don't know if these are supposed to work together.

921
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:30,000
Because you're not supposed to put that in somewhere.

922
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,000
No, we're going from molex to six pin,

923
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:37,000
and I'm going to six pin, eight pin like we did here, except this time to power the CPU.

924
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:42,000
I actually have never even tried this. I don't think it'll work, but it could.

925
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:48,000
Could it? Maybe? I have a feeling this shouldn't work.

926
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,000
If it does work, it shouldn't work. Look at this.

927
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:56,000
What have we done? No, no, it's not gonna work.

928
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:01,000
It's different. Okay, so at this point, I think we have to call it a day.

929
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,000
The fan spin. The two power supply thing actually works,

930
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:08,000
which is more than I thought I could say, but it won't post.

931
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:13,000
And I think the problem is powering the motherboard. So we have a one eight pin power connector for the CPU.

932
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,000
We only have a four pin from each power supply.

933
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:20,000
So neither of them are actually enough to get it to post.

934
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:24,000
I'm assuming that's the problem, because when we tried to plug in both four pins,

935
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:28,000
which you're not really supposed to do, this power supply freaked out and stopped working.

936
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:32,000
So I'm pretty sure if we could get these two somehow

937
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:36,000
between the two to power the CPU, it would be good.

938
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:41,000
So yeah, I think we gotta give up for the day and maybe tomorrow come up with a game plan

939
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:47,000
of how we're gonna power this thing, but we're close, but this is the best case.

940
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:50,000
This is the best case if it's just the eight pin. We can't power it.

941
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:53,000
Worst case is something here is broken,

942
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,000
in which case we are way more screwed.

943
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:59,000
Okay, I think it's time to call it a night.

944
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:02,000
Until tomorrow, sweet prince.

945
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:07,000
Oh man, I hope we can figure this out. I really do.

946
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:12,000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Birkel fights his doppelganger, Nicky V.

947
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:16,000
You really wanna throw down? You wanna rumble fun? Man, how are you talking to?

948
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:19,000
You had the same person. All right, Scrapyard Wars day three.

949
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:22,000
Our internet is down.

950
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:25,000
Basically, we're upgrading to one gig,

951
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:28,000
and I don't know how many of you are Canadian

952
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:32,000
or have heard of Telus, but they're sort of legendarily terrible.

953
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:36,000
And there was apparently some kind of data entry error

954
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:39,000
while they were changing our internet.

955
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:42,000
They were probably typing with their faces, as usual.

956
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:46,000
So that kinda probably hampers me a lot more than anyone else,

957
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:50,000
which really sucks, because now was supposed to be the time

958
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:53,000
that I was finishing downloads and installs.

959
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:58,000
So I guess what I'm going to do now is

960
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:01,000
try to install everything onto the board,

961
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,000
which is actually what I wanted to do later.

962
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:07,000
But whatever. This is ridiculous.

963
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:10,000
But if it works, who cares?

964
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:13,000
DisplayPort no signal. Oh, good call.

965
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:17,000
So let's get the graphics card out of the equation.

966
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:21,000
Oh, oh! I saw something flashed like half a second.

967
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:25,000
Yes! We have video. Okay, okay, guys.

968
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,000
Ah, okay.

969
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:32,000
That's kind of what I was afraid of. That four pin's probably not going to be enough

970
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,000
to keep the CPU fed.

971
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:40,000
Like I expected, my wood thing's not really tall enough,

972
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:44,000
because I didn't take into account the height of the Velcro.

973
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:55,000
Okay. Well, that's good. It's mounted and it still posts.

974
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:58,000
So that's a good sign.

975
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,000
So we moved where we were, if you didn't notice,

976
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:04,000
because it will hopefully be better for filming reasons

977
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:09,000
or whatever yet, but we should be theoretically sitting at about 3 GHz.

978
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:13,000
And I think our memory is still at about 720 MHz.

979
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:19,000
CPU is running at 3.24 GHz.

980
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:25,000
I must have screwed up, but I made it faster than I expected.

981
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:28,000
And it's not crashing.

982
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:35,000
Might need a bigger pilot hole, but we're going to see.

983
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:38,000
The wood was not super happy about that.

984
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,000
I can't wait for the comments on this.

985
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:45,000
Oh my God, Luke, you did that so wrong. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.

986
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:51,000
I really don't know if this is going to help me tie the vision line at all.

987
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:54,000
I was hoping these were grippier than my skin,

988
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,000
but I don't know if that's true anymore.

989
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,000
Oh, it does totally seem to be true.

990
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:03,000
That's awesome. Okay. That's good.

991
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:07,000
If this overclock works, honestly, I'd be happy.

992
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:11,000
I think with this overclock and the overclock that I have on the CPU,

993
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:16,000
but I'll have about three hours left. So what I need to do is save this overclock to a profile.

994
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:20,000
I already have my CPU's overclock saved to a profile.

995
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:25,000
And hopefully doing a little bit more cable management stuff just to make it look better.

996
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:28,000
Even though that's not a metric, it would be nice.

997
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:32,000
B sync off. Apply.

998
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:38,000
It did not like that.

999
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:43,000
Okay. After the benchmark ran, it crashed.

1000
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:50,000
And I don't know why it crashed. So what I need to do now is figure out if it was my GPU or if it was my CPU.

1001
01:21:50,000 --> 01:22:00,000
So what I just did was I changed my overall total power limit from 150% to 125%.

1002
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:05,000
And I changed my applied voltage from 100 millivolts to 50 millivolts.

1003
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:09,000
Whoa. What?

1004
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:15,000
Okay. My GPU is not very happy right now.

1005
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:20,000
It's not hot. I think it's not even a voltage or something.

1006
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:23,000
Okay. So I turned things down and they're actually running faster.

1007
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:29,000
So at $310, I just got, damn it.

1008
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:32,000
Why does it keep doing that?

1009
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,000
At the same part after like the same amount of time.

1010
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:39,000
Okay. So after some troubleshooting, I think I know what's going on.

1011
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:45,000
So we, instead of using our two like really crappy power supplies, we're using one power supply that's somewhat decent.

1012
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:49,000
And this is now powering the graphics card and it's got eight pins to the CPU.

1013
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:55,000
So the eight pin was absolutely the problem. The four pin, it was enough to get it to post, but it's not enough to actually do anything.

1014
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,000
So the CPU, I feel like is good as long as we have an eight pin.

1015
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:04,000
We've now switched around the power supplies so that the graphics card has its own dedicated power supply.

1016
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,000
The power supplies enough to spin the fan fully up. That's good.

1017
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:13,000
So we're still using the four pin. It's not going to be stable whatsoever, but this is more to just see if our two power supplies.

1018
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:16,000
Yes. It's posted. Okay.

1019
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:26,000
We're in business. We're in business. The only thing we basically need to do right now is get the four pin to four pin plus MOLIX adapter.

1020
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:31,000
Okay. Success. We have the one tiny adapter that costs $7 that we needed.

1021
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:37,000
So with our new eight pin, we can see that the CPU is boosting up to like 3.6 gigahertz or so.

1022
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,000
And then it's coming back down, but it seems to be working.

1023
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:43,000
Look at this. We're stable 100% with only the four pin.

1024
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:47,000
This immediately crashed. Oh no.

1025
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:52,000
Memory management. No. It didn't do anything.

1026
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:57,000
It's just as unstable as with the four pin. Oh no.

1027
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:02,000
Maybe it's the power supply. Maybe this 300 watt supply is just not enough to power it.

1028
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:11,000
Okay. So basically right now, we've swapped out the memory we bought with some other memory just to see if it's the RAM that's the problem.

1029
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:15,000
I mean, this is a brand new state. This is like the only brand new component in the build.

1030
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:19,000
It would be really weird if this was the part that didn't work. This is longer than it was before.

1031
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:23,000
The memory may have been the issue. We may have got some defective brand new memory.

1032
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:28,000
Wow. The only other thing we can think about is trying this RAM in a different slot.

1033
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:33,000
So I'm going to go ahead and start the stress test. So it only lasted like five seconds before.

1034
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:38,000
Wow. Is this going to be stable? Was it literally just changing the slot on the motherboard?

1035
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,000
I'm a genius. Dude. High five.

1036
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:44,000
Yes. Okay. Let's tear this stuff down.

1037
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:47,000
Oh no. We should probably play a game. Just play a game.

1038
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:51,000
Okay. Yes. Which one thing with this build?

1039
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:55,000
Something is weird with this motherboard. It freaks out every single...

1040
01:24:55,000 --> 01:25:00,000
Oh no. So we have to go return this memory because it's broken.

1041
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,000
It just fell out. That's awesome. Two o'clock.

1042
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:09,000
We have less than two hours to make sure this works and build the whole computer, get benchmarks ready.

1043
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:14,000
We do not have another opportunity. If this does not work, we might just be out of it.

1044
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,000
Oh man. Coming down to the wire.

1045
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:20,000
Oh. Okay. She posts.

1046
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:28,000
Tis a good sign. Well, either our motherboard has two dead PCI slots or our sound blaster autogy two is dead.

1047
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:32,000
Fortunately, we grabbed a couple sound cards at the time.

1048
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:35,000
So let's go ahead and try another one.

1049
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:42,000
So our internet is down at the office this morning which has made progress a little slower than I'd like.

1050
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:45,000
But there is good news. I've got Windows 7 installed.

1051
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:49,000
My graphics card seems to be working for the most part.

1052
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:54,000
Although I haven't run anything 3D yet because I don't have drivers for it at the moment.

1053
01:25:54,000 --> 01:26:03,000
There's some bad news though. Both my autogy two, which I had high hopes for, and my sound blaster live are dead.

1054
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:10,000
So I will have to accept that I will be running a system that only has HDMI audio.

1055
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:13,000
Oh. Oh. Oh.

1056
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:16,000
He said, oh, we're up. We're up. We're up.

1057
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:29,000
Internet's up. Yay. So this is exciting because I am many hours away from competition crunch time and I've got almost all of my benchmarks installed.

1058
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:36,000
All my drivers installed. I can start getting baseline readings and then tuning things and finding out how it goes from there.

1059
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:40,000
Okay. 76.5 FPS average.

1060
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:43,000
I'm feeling a little tense today. It's 12.

1061
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:50,000
I haven't started my build yet and this initial Cinevenge run is really ugly.

1062
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:58,000
Like if those guys ran out and got a 3770K or something like that, they'll be pulling off triple my score.

1063
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:10,000
Thanks to the improved architecture, hyperthreading, and at least unlike Austin, I'm not running around picking up components now because I'm fairly certain they did not go out for lunch.

1064
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:20,000
So for the benefit of our competitor over there, I'm going to do a quick run through of all the awesome components that I've got over on my side.

1065
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:25,000
First, this gaming grade motherboard.

1066
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:30,000
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at that.

1067
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:34,000
So many games. That's a gaming sound.

1068
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:38,000
Is it going to play Pac-Man? It can be Pac-Man.

1069
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:42,000
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

1070
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:46,000
Next up, we have the finest power supply ever made.

1071
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:53,000
I mean, it was a miracle that I was even able to find these, let alone afford it with my budget.

1072
01:27:54,000 --> 01:28:04,000
Next up, this genuine USB 2.0 4-port expansion card and 56K modem.

1073
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:07,000
I'm going to need one of these. I don't want to tell them about that, though.

1074
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:13,000
That's my secret weapon. Massive cooler for like wicked overclocking.

1075
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:17,000
Intel 750 series PCI Express SSD.

1076
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:21,000
We didn't even pay for that. And this.

1077
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:26,000
Put the 750 series SSD down again.

1078
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:31,000
Yeah, that doesn't really sound right. I don't think that's a 750 series SSD.

1079
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:36,000
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm just standing over here lying about what computer parts I have.

1080
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:41,000
My name's Linus. My voice isn't quite that high.

1081
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:44,000
Let's put one of our 750 series SSDs away for now.

1082
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:47,000
Now you have two. I always had two.

1083
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:50,000
So this is actually broken.

1084
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:58,000
Definitely. We have so much extra hardware that literally half of our parts could be broken.

1085
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:02,000
And we would have no problem whatsoever. So I'm just going to go get another one.

1086
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:06,000
All right. So just in case, I brought some of our extra, extra hardware.

1087
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:11,000
That isn't the stuff that we actually need, you know, right now.

1088
01:29:11,000 --> 01:29:19,000
Just installing our bolt-on Hemi. They're lying to us and we were so honest with them about the computer that we're building.

1089
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:24,000
You mean you don't believe that I have a Hemi?

1090
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:27,000
Well, I did believe you.

1091
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:34,000
I wanted to believe. I was just moving stuff around to try to do cable management.

1092
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:37,000
And the computer froze up.

1093
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:42,000
Hopefully that's not actually a problem. It's probably just random.

1094
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:45,000
Old hard drives and stuff.

1095
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:04,000
My computer's straight up doesn't move properly anymore.

1096
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:07,000
I have no idea what happened.

1097
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:11,000
It blew screen randomly and now it doesn't properly turn on.

1098
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:14,000
I'm pretty disappointed.

1099
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:21,000
So we just went from our game benchmark acting weird to our computer completely not turning on

1100
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:27,000
to our computer turning on, but now Windows is freaking out and super unhappy.

1101
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:33,000
I moved the graphics card down one slot because FreeGeek Vancouver said that that top slot wasn't working.

1102
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:39,000
I had no problems with that top slot working, but I'm just trying to minimize issues at this point

1103
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:46,000
because there's about three hours to go and I really want to be running all of the benches that I have to run

1104
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:50,000
and know what my scores are going to be before I walk into the final.

1105
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:58,000
So I'm in the process of building my troll system, which has all of the worst of every component that I have.

1106
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:03,000
This is legit one of the most stressful moments of my whole life.

1107
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:07,000
That's a slight exaggeration, but I'm super hardcore stressed right now.

1108
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:13,000
Oh man, do we actually do it? I don't even want to get my hopes up right now, but like this looks good.

1109
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:18,000
This is the only CPU intensive test. If it finishes this, that's pretty much means that we're good.

1110
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:21,000
Nothing else should hit the CPU this hard for this long.

1111
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:25,000
All right, we're in business. Dude, that's awesome.

1112
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:29,000
Oh, look at that. Like butter.

1113
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:33,000
Wow. That's the way it is.

1114
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:38,000
Yeah, I think that works.

1115
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:52,000
It's perfect. It's actually not that bad. Everything else has just been like typical sort of like random computer problems,

1116
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:55,000
like dead memory or like not having the right adapter or whatever.

1117
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:58,000
But if it works together, we did a great job.

1118
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:02,000
It is terrible, but you just literally told me to do this like five seconds ago and I agreed.

1119
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:06,000
What have we done, dude? This is not cool.

1120
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:10,000
What have we done? 30 seconds ago, you were taking credit.

1121
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:13,000
Like this is all awesome, Ned. We're such a great team.

1122
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:17,000
And we actually see what it is. Just like, I have nothing to do with this.

1123
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:22,000
This is the greatest thing ever. Thermal paste looks fine.

1124
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:25,000
There's a lot of it, but it looks fine.

1125
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:28,000
Oh my God, yeah, there's still gunk in the CPU socket.

1126
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:32,000
That could super be what it is. Wow.

1127
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:36,000
It's currently 226.

1128
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:40,000
Meaning assuming it's 230, we've got an hour and a half left.

1129
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:44,000
So if that was the problem, I think I'm still doing okay.

1130
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:47,000
If that wasn't the problem, I could be totally screwed.

1131
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:50,000
At this point, my computer doesn't make it through Firestrike.

1132
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:55,000
If I completely fail a benchmark, I'm done.

1133
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:59,000
So right now we're testing CPU overclock only, no GPU overclock.

1134
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:05,000
We just did a successful Firestrike run completely all the way through with no overclock.

1135
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:08,000
Now we're testing 3.24 on this guy.

1136
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:12,000
I can't believe it just crashed.

1137
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:15,000
I feel like sick.

1138
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:21,000
I don't feel good at all. If that just crashed because of the overclock, that's fine.

1139
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:25,000
If that just crashed for any other reason, I'm screwed.

1140
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:34,000
So as of right now, if I apply literally any amount of overclock to my CPU, my memory, or my graphics card,

1141
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:37,000
even one at a time, I can't run a benchmark.

1142
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:41,000
150 gigs, that's not right. Oh, it is a 150 gig hard drive.

1143
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:46,000
Oh no, it's not big enough. We only have a 150 gig hard drive and there's a 200 gig SSD.

1144
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:50,000
We're going to have to install Windows from scratch because we don't have any way of finding Windows.

1145
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:52,000
No, we don't have time.

1146
01:33:53,000 --> 01:33:56,000
Uh, yeah, I've got it. Give me a sec.

1147
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,000
We have a flash drive. You have a flash drive? Yeah, I got it from Linus.

1148
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:02,000
Oh, you should have told me that. I did. Oh.

1149
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:05,000
Just now. And upstairs too. Thank you.

1150
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:08,000
I'm going to be slightly late, so... Slightly late. You don't have an operating system.

1151
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:13,000
You're also live. Okay, so our CPU temperatures are well within reason,

1152
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:19,000
and we're going to do some stability testing at 3.2 gigahertz and go back and work on our troll system.

1153
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:21,000
Here we go.

1154
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:26,000
Um, I don't know if our troll system is going to end up working.

1155
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:29,000
I have tried to get it to post.

1156
01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:36,000
I've tried two separate motherboards. And honestly, we're at the point now where I don't have a ton of extra time to spend on it.

1157
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:40,000
So, I'm still going to go over there and like be working on it from time to time,

1158
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:48,000
but I'm probably better off focusing right now on my main system because I only have an hour and 40 minutes

1159
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:53,000
to dial in a GPU overclock and mod the case and build in it.

1160
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:56,000
Those are the three main mods.

1161
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:00,000
Make the motherboard fit. Make the power supply fit.

1162
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:10,000
I guess that's only two. With a couple of drill holes, um, we can make this work.

1163
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:15,000
Now, here's something that I actually had sort of forgotten about.

1164
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:22,000
We need to make sure that this baby is going to fit here.

1165
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:27,000
So far, it is looking like a bit of a no-go.

1166
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:39,000
I've never trusted this kind of standoff, so it's fine,

1167
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:43,000
but I'm going to tape over them just in case I cannot afford

1168
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:46,000
to kill any more components at this stage in the game.

1169
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:52,000
So, apparently overclocking my CPU but not applying voltage kind of worked.

1170
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:58,000
Overclocking my GPU and not applying voltage. Nah, not even like a little bit.

1171
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:06,000
Barely got into that bench at all. So, we're going to reset the graphics card overclock, just run it at stock, whatever.

1172
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:11,000
So, there's nine minutes left. I'm just going to set it to the last overclock that worked.

1173
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:15,000
You can do it! Believe in yourself!

1174
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,000
Come on!

1175
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:22,000
Wow. Done! Hands down!

1176
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:26,000
It's overclocked. Linus, stop! I'm done.

1177
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:29,000
Okay, so Windows is installing right now.

1178
01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:32,000
Basically, after this, we need to install our benchmarks. We need to install our...

1179
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:36,000
Hi, what's up? This is overclocked.

1180
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:40,000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars... Austin becomes a wizard.

1181
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:45,000
Linus doesn't have to cheat, but he does. Luke's house burns to the ground.

1182
01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:48,000
And that's all. Come see it.

1183
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:51,000
Next time. On Scrapyard Wars. Yeah.

1184
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:55,000
Scrapyard Wars!

1185
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:06,000
This episode of Scrapyard Wars was brought to you by Dbrand.

1186
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:10,000
I can run now. Where's Austin?

1187
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:15,000
I don't... Based on Nick coming in and asking if we're supposed to be done,

1188
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:18,000
I'm thinking Austin is not done.

1189
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:23,000
He walked over to me and was like, how did you install Windows 7 with 20 minutes left?

1190
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:26,000
I was like pretty sure he was trolling. I don't mind that.

1191
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:32,000
Like, the system's done. Like, the thing is, is like, the first time we did Scrapyard Wars,

1192
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:36,000
the benchmark period included, like, installing software.

1193
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:39,000
Yo, yo, yo, hold on, hold on. Pause everything.

1194
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:44,000
What's going on right now with the install? Uh, well, Luke's not letting me put my front bezel back on,

1195
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:47,000
because it's after four o'clock. What about software?

1196
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:51,000
Uh, we were just talking about that. I don't even have a way of installing all the benchmarks.

1197
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:54,000
I do not know your logins or anything, so I can't do that. That's a good point.

1198
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:57,000
So I think we should... The software should be... Tell you...

1199
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:00,000
My computer is 100% done hardware-wise. Uh-huh, okay.

1200
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:04,000
I love how both the other... contestants are taking more time to do...

1201
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:09,000
Yo, you can put the camera down, it's fine. I didn't totally just accidentally install 32-bit Windows.

1202
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:14,000
So I'm currently installing 64-bit Windows. Didn't realize that there was a 32-bit Windows thing on that key.

1203
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:19,000
So... I think the troll system deserves to see the light of day.

1204
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:25,000
So I'm just gonna... put all this in here.

1205
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:32,000
There's nobody, look. We're not coming through with any kind of monster computer or anything.

1206
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:34,000
The cover's not helping much.

1207
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:38,000
Uh...

1208
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:44,000
So we've decided to do the unveil in two stages.

1209
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:47,000
Stage one, we unveil the hardware.

1210
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:51,000
Stage two, we all run our benchmark scores.

1211
01:38:51,000 --> 01:39:00,000
Therefore, unveiling the performance. Stage three, we unveil the prices that we paid.

1212
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:04,000
So Austin, you're up first. Alright, so...

1213
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:09,000
Introducing the greatest system I've ever built.

1214
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:11,000
That's not saying much.

1215
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:19,000
Why does it have a power supply on the top?

1216
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:23,000
It has a power supply on the top because... it has two power supplies.

1217
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:30,000
Okay, so basically, you guys just seem shocked and amazed.

1218
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:34,000
You know what? I get it. I was going to do that.

1219
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:37,000
Oh, really? If I had gotten that graphics card.

1220
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:41,000
Oh! That was the component that I knew you had.

1221
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:44,000
Really? I called the guy and I was like,

1222
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:47,000
can I come get it first? And the guy's like,

1223
01:39:47,000 --> 01:39:52,000
no, I already told him I'll give it to him. So unless he doesn't show up, you can't have it.

1224
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:56,000
But I'll tell you what, if he doesn't show up by two, you can have it.

1225
01:39:56,000 --> 01:40:00,000
And he goes... But I don't think he's gonna show up.

1226
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:04,000
He's got a California number. You totally got me. Okay, so this needs some serious power.

1227
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:07,000
This power supply is purely for the graphics card.

1228
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:11,000
Yeah, I figured that out. Which is... It is a $69.90.

1229
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:14,000
I saw that. I actually almost went for that. A $69.90.

1230
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:18,000
So we're talking dual GPUs. We also have a Core i7-2600.

1231
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:21,000
Not K. The motherboard's not overclockable either.

1232
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:25,000
So it's pretty much like if it works at stock,

1233
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:30,000
I'm gonna be really happy with it. That is the scrappinator.

1234
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:34,000
There you go. Alright.

1235
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:38,000
Interesting. Alright, well... That's what I expected.

1236
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:41,000
Alright. This looks awesome. This...

1237
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:45,000
Oh! Wow!

1238
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:49,000
What the hell? What?

1239
01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:56,000
This, my machine, is called the Scrap Hole.

1240
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:59,000
Because it's where I buried

1241
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:02,000
all the extra hardware that I ended up with.

1242
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:03,000
Okay.

1243
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:09,000
Wow. Okay. So, I'll start...

1244
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:12,000
We're on a firefight right now. I'll start at the top.

1245
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:19,000
Okay. This is an IPIBL-LB, LGA-775 motherboard.

1246
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:23,000
DDR2, my friends. Unfortunately, it doesn't support the Pentium 4 processor.

1247
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:27,000
This works, by the way. At least it did before I did that to it.

1248
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:34,000
This is a vintage USB 2.0 expansion card.

1249
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:39,000
This is a broken Autogy 2.

1250
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:42,000
This is the most disgusting piece of hardware

1251
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:45,000
that I have ever laid eyes on. It smells.

1252
01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:49,000
The computer we pulled this from literally had a used crack pipe inside it.

1253
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:52,000
Nice. Really? That's awesome.

1254
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:55,000
Literally. That's good. That's a good thing.

1255
01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:57,000
This is a 200 GS.

1256
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:01,000
Power there. This is a working 6850.

1257
01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:04,000
This is a Sound Blaster Live, also dead.

1258
01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:06,000
This is a heatsink.

1259
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:11,000
So, you found some way... This is my army of hard drives.

1260
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:15,000
You found some way to go to an actual scrap yard and get all this stuff for basically...

1261
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:18,000
The hard drives may or may not work. I'm not sure.

1262
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:21,000
Let's see. Under there is a Pentium 4 processor.

1263
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:24,000
Really? This RAM I borrowed.

1264
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:27,000
So, this actually is not... I did not obtain the RAM.

1265
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:30,000
And that Foxconn board... I don't know.

1266
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:34,000
It made those beeping sounds you heard earlier. But you don't have RAM in your system now.

1267
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:38,000
Because... But no, you can't add anything now.

1268
01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:41,000
What is this? Oh, he has another computer.

1269
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:44,000
What is this? I think this is all just a waste.

1270
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:47,000
BC and a 6850? That looks like a fairly decent car.

1271
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:49,000
I think he has a whole other computer.

1272
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:54,000
Because I think he went to a scrap yard and actually got all this stuff for basically...

1273
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:57,000
This is... The Leaning Tower...

1274
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:59,000
Of Scrapza.

1275
01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:04,000
Why do you have two full computers? This is my actual...

1276
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:07,000
Computer. Why don't you just lay it on its side?

1277
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:10,000
Why do you lean it? I like it this way. So, there's...

1278
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:14,000
Yeah, there's no reason. Okay. So, this is my...

1279
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:20,000
Q6600. Yes, I went Q6600 again.

1280
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:23,000
Fair enough, fair enough. Four gigs of DDR2 memory.

1281
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:28,000
They're okay. My 7970 ghost.

1282
01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:31,000
That was actually modded by the original owner, believe it or not.

1283
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:35,000
This Commando ROG motherboard

1284
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:39,000
was literally pulled out of a scrap pile of motherboards.

1285
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:43,000
See, this is what I'm saying. He found somewhere... He should have like $18 on this entire rig.

1286
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:46,000
Literally. Well, I have a 7970.

1287
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:49,000
I mean, come on. Okay, this is $25. Yeah, $25.

1288
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:53,000
So, that, my friends, is the Leaning Tower of Scrapza.

1289
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:57,000
So, can I just ask a question? What's the deal with all this stuff

1290
01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:01,000
if you have this computer right here? We can't ask about price right now,

1291
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:04,000
but you went to some scrap junk place and got a whole bunch of this.

1292
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:07,000
And you said this is a radio at $6850? That's a $6850.

1293
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:09,000
It works.

1294
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:13,000
But I'm factoring all this into my price.

1295
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:18,000
I mean, readily suspended right now. Or like cost of metal weight.

1296
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:25,000
Okay, so I'll get the scrap hole out of the way. It does actually really stink.

1297
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:27,000
It smells like a gross computer.

1298
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:32,000
I knew it. Oh! I knew it.

1299
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:37,000
I basically told you. You asked me some stupid-ass question on the first day.

1300
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:42,000
Basically, this isn't... Why is there fishing line on it?

1301
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:46,000
This is awesome. I like this immediately.

1302
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:49,000
So, it's a Q6600.

1303
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:52,000
I wasn't supposed to have one of those. I was supposed to have a different processor

1304
01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:56,000
than that guy bailed on me. So, I like scrambled and was able to get this.

1305
01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:58,000
This is a BFG tech power spot.

1306
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:03,000
Here we go. Benchmark number one.

1307
01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:09,000
Cinebench R15. Three, two, one, go!

1308
01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:12,000
And I think we all know who is winning this one.

1309
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:16,000
You know, maybe. Just possibly. Oh, yeah!

1310
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,000
Well, he has eight threads, which is sort of an issue.

1311
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:22,000
His name isn't Austin.

1312
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:26,000
So, this is... I spent a fair chunk more on this i7

1313
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:30,000
almost entirely for this test. So, hopefully I beat you guys by a lot.

1314
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:33,000
I'm feeling pretty good. I'm crushing Luke.

1315
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:38,000
Yeah, actually, what's going on? Don't you guys have the same CPU? Yeah, mine has some issues.

1316
01:45:38,000 --> 01:45:41,000
615. 316.

1317
01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:45,000
Oh, almost double. 316 for Linus.

1318
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:48,000
I'm like 267. 267. That's not bad.

1319
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:52,000
All right. So, our first benchmark scores are in.

1320
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:55,000
Shall we run PCMark next? Yes, let's do it.

1321
01:45:55,000 --> 01:45:58,000
Ready? Three, two, one.

1322
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:04,000
Go. Okay. I'm counting on Austin's like crashing or something

1323
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:07,000
because he's going to crush the PCMark score as well.

1324
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:11,000
Aw, man. The PCMark vantage has crashed.

1325
01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:14,000
So, what do we do now? Is that Theresa your overclocks?

1326
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:17,000
I don't know. Do I get to try one more time? Because I've had it run.

1327
01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:21,000
I think that's fair. The rule technically says yes to the reset of the box.

1328
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:26,000
It's up to you. I think I'm going to be a little lenient on this one.

1329
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:30,000
Mostly because I also want a little lenient if I have some issues in a minute, so...

1330
01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:35,000
That was mainly your rule. I know.

1331
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:38,000
You were the one that was hard for me. I don't think that's why it crashed.

1332
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:42,000
Yeah, that's why. So, what's the deal with this? That does not look right.

1333
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:45,000
Yeah, yours is doing... That might be because of your dual GPUs.

1334
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:50,000
You think it's just like not... No, that's part of the image manipulation benchmark, I think.

1335
01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:53,000
Oh, is it? It's not doing that. This is what mine looks like.

1336
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:56,000
Yeah, mine's being super screwy. Look at that.

1337
01:46:56,000 --> 01:47:00,000
Crashed again. Yep, I guess I got a dial back to my overclock.

1338
01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:03,000
Wow. Turn it off. Yep.

1339
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:07,000
Which is really sh**. Snooty-tooty.

1340
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:11,000
Just in general, it's a good life skill to be able to turn that off.

1341
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:16,000
So, do I get to keep my Cinebench then? Yeah, I think...

1342
01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:20,000
Because it worked. It completed that test. But his system isn't stable.

1343
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:25,000
So, I failed my PC mark run, which means I had to reset my CPU overclock,

1344
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:28,000
taking me from 3.2 to 2.4 GHz,

1345
01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:32,000
which in Cinebench basically amounted to

1346
01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:35,000
about two-thirds of the score that I got.

1347
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:38,000
Now, we're going to have a look at our PC mark results.

1348
01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:44,000
How are we going to submit results, or are we just saving them?

1349
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:48,000
Yep, click submit results, and let's find out how much it affected me in PC mark.

1350
01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:52,000
My score is zero. That does not sound particularly right.

1351
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:56,000
Oh. Okay, so Austin's machine straight up derped,

1352
01:47:56,000 --> 01:47:59,000
and I appear to be in a position where

1353
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:04,000
and I apparently crushed Luke.

1354
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:11,000
How is your CPU image manipulation? Hard drive importing pictures to Windows Photo Gallery!

1355
01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:13,000
Yes!

1356
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:20,000
I just... Oh, the SSD paid off hardcore.

1357
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,000
You just got creamed.

1358
01:48:24,000 --> 01:48:27,000
All right, 3D mark fire strike time. Let's do it!

1359
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:29,000
Ready, set, go!

1360
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:35,000
Now, we decided that unless Austin's actually in contention,

1361
01:48:35,000 --> 01:48:38,000
which I don't think either of us really thinks is going to happen

1362
01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:42,000
on this side of the table here, unless Austin's actually in contention,

1363
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:45,000
we're just going to throw out his PC mark score.

1364
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:48,000
It just wouldn't finish. So we'll see how the rest of it goes.

1365
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:53,000
If he's in contention, it's likely we'll assign him a similar score

1366
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:55,000
to what Luke has.

1367
01:48:56,000 --> 01:49:00,000
Your CPU is probably helping with... Wait, Crossfire's still on, right?

1368
01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:03,000
Ah, yes. It is. Yeah, it's easier.

1369
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:06,000
Yeah. Okay. So...

1370
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:10,000
Oh no! Luke's crushing us both.

1371
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:15,000
Don't worry though, there's the CPU. That's what I was saying, I wasn't entirely sure.

1372
01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:20,000
My second testing launch. What if we have to turn off that graphics card over to our computer?

1373
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:24,000
I hope not. It says running system info though.

1374
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:27,000
What does that even mean? You're on... Is this the physics one?

1375
01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:30,000
Yeah. So you're probably... Oh wow, that's really good.

1376
01:49:30,000 --> 01:49:33,000
That's super good. That's scary. That's going to crush your score.

1377
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:36,000
Yep. Let alone now. Did you just crash?

1378
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:39,000
A lot slower. Uh, wow, yes. Did you just crash, dude?

1379
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:42,000
Yeah. Oh wow. Rip.

1380
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:45,000
What does that have? And reset your graphics. There's tons of grapple bitches.

1381
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:46,000
No!

1382
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:52,000
No! Oh, I'm running at stock settings.

1383
01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:55,000
All right, I'm in the second test.

1384
01:49:55,000 --> 01:50:00,000
Yeah! I like it. I've already done this twice, it's my favorite.

1385
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:04,000
There was no lower enthusiasm. Yeah, the reenactment was flawless.

1386
01:50:04,000 --> 01:50:07,000
Okay, so let's put Aston's score in.

1387
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:12,000
55-46. 55-80. Ty, you barely beat me.

1388
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:16,000
I beat Aston in Fire Strike.

1389
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:19,000
55-46 versus 55-80, that's pretty close.

1390
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:24,000
All right. All of the generators. So, uh, Luke's a little behind.

1391
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:29,000
She fairly did a really well. You know, which is exactly where I like him.

1392
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:33,000
So let's go ahead and Aston and I are going to start the Tomb Raider benchmark.

1393
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:39,000
All right. Ooh, whoa, that's lower than, uh, whoa, that's lower than I thought it would be.

1394
01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:42,000
Okay, no, that's fine. Average 109.

1395
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:50,000
Minimum 87. Okay, so Aston comes in at 109 even.

1396
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:54,000
Yes. With me coming in at 84.9.

1397
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:57,000
Okay, all right, let's run Far Cry 4.

1398
01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:01,000
Okay, so here's the update.

1399
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:10,000
We are swapping out Aston's graphics card with an R9 270 to rerun PCMark and give us approximately the equivalent of,

1400
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:16,000
if this card were to run with a single GPU, what his PCMark score would be.

1401
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:21,000
We know it's an approximation, but the cold hard truth is nobody actually runs PCMark Vantage.

1402
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:24,000
So who cares? We're going to live with the approximation.

1403
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:30,000
On Luke's system, we are running him off of an uninterruptible power supply to condition the power,

1404
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:35,000
because I've seen this before where cheap power supplies will actually be able to handle a system,

1405
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:38,000
but won't be able to handle crummy power coming off the wall,

1406
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:42,000
which with all these systems running off the same outlet may in fact be the case here.

1407
01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:46,000
We don't want to penalize him for bad wall power.

1408
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:49,000
For my system, we are apparently rerunning my Cinebench.

1409
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:53,000
I was doing it so that there was something running.

1410
01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:58,000
But otherwise, I have completed all of my benchmarks.

1411
01:51:58,000 --> 01:52:03,000
67.11, he got a score. Okay, do I get my OC back?

1412
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:07,000
I don't know, man. It's because of the UPS, those dirty wall power.

1413
01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:11,000
Is that fair? I think at this point, we all just need to take a week.

1414
01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:15,000
Do I get another crack with my overclock? Yeah, so that's just like a spiral.

1415
01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:18,000
Maybe that is the dirty wall power.

1416
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:21,000
Okay, so you go on a UPS. But then after you run everything.

1417
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:25,000
Yeah, come on, we're done here. I don't know, like what?

1418
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:29,000
It's, I don't care. Okay, well there's, oh, my score wasn't that bad.

1419
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:34,000
242. So I'm doing my last test in Far Cry 4 right now.

1420
01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:39,000
Yeah, it's not running very well. I don't know why it's not running very well.

1421
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:42,000
I think low 40s, but I don't know.

1422
01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:45,000
So I have good news, guys. Hey, it's done.

1423
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:48,000
It's done and 97.80.

1424
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:51,000
Oh.

1425
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:54,000
So even without an SSD, I was almost able to beat it.

1426
01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:57,000
So mine's just really low on that one. Yeah.

1427
01:52:57,000 --> 01:53:00,000
Oh man. But you crushed the graphics.

1428
01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:05,000
You do crush the graphics. I think we should let Luke just use his old benchmark score.

1429
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:13,000
So the final scores are Austin with 455 out of 500 points.

1430
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:24,000
All right. Linus with 362 out of 500 points and Luke with 386 out of 500 points.

1431
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:32,000
Wow. So now all that's left is the cash count.

1432
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:35,000
I don't know what any of these coins are.

1433
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:40,000
Okay, this is a dollar, 589.

1434
01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:43,000
I just used my calculator for something. Yeah, let me do that real quick.

1435
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:47,000
I spent 310. Oh.

1436
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:50,000
I spent $218.

1437
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:53,000
Final price per dollar. The score is really high though.

1438
01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:56,000
Wait. Score per dollar.

1439
01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:59,000
Higher is better. Good job.

1440
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:04,000
Good job. Officially wrecked. I think we called it.

1441
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:07,000
Linus won by 40%. Okay, let's go.

1442
01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:16,000
Okay, let's go, let's go, let's go. All right. I had actually, this is kind of a funny story, if I had lost by $40, I would have been so

1443
01:54:16,000 --> 01:54:21,000
mad because the guy with the Q6600 offered it to me for 40.

1444
01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:26,000
And I was like, no man, here's another 20 bucks.

1445
01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:29,000
Really? I'm going to fleece you slightly less.

1446
01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:35,000
Oh my goodness. Wow. Now I was betting heavy on my SSD.

1447
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:38,000
I paid $38 for my SSD.

1448
01:54:38,000 --> 01:54:41,000
Wow. Which is a good deal still. Yeah.

1449
01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:48,000
It's a great deal. Yeah. But when you consider my $238 budget.

1450
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:52,000
Dude, I paid $25 to my 150 gig hard drive.

1451
01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:55,000
25 bucks? I paid $10 for mine.

1452
01:54:55,000 --> 01:55:00,000
You got wrecked on your hard drive. Okay, my motherboard and CPU, I was supposed to have a 9550 and some other board.

1453
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:04,000
That guy, I showed you, I had 18 emails back and forth and stuff.

1454
01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:07,000
Oh, you were supposed to bring it to work. Oh, I forgot it.

1455
01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:11,000
So I had to scramble and find some other solution. This was on the second day.

1456
01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:14,000
So like, there's basically no way I'm going to be able to set an appointment and have

1457
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:19,000
that appointment in the same day. I ended up going to Free Geek Vancouver, which we've been talking about doing a thing.

1458
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:22,000
I got a Q6600 for 17 bucks.

1459
01:55:22,000 --> 01:55:26,000
What? That motherboard's 35. That hard drive was 10.

1460
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:29,000
Dude. All that RAM was 40. I should have got four gigs.

1461
01:55:29,000 --> 01:55:33,000
I think I would have been way more competitive if I got four gigs. All that RAM was only 40 bucks.

1462
01:55:33,000 --> 01:55:37,000
And that power supply, which actually murdered me and I should have bought the other one

1463
01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:41,000
that I was going to buy from Kevin's stupid website.

1464
01:55:41,000 --> 01:55:44,000
But it was 30 bucks.

1465
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:47,000
Okay. So why don't we close this out?

1466
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:50,000
Austin, it was your first Scrapyard Wars.

1467
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:54,000
You came in on unfamiliar turf. How do you feel about your result?

1468
01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:57,000
I feel like I spent way too much money. That was the big problem.

1469
01:55:57,000 --> 01:56:04,000
I way misjudged the budget. And I, to be totally honest, my build probably shouldn't have worked.

1470
01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:08,000
Like how close I cut it to actually getting everything working at the last second.

1471
01:56:08,000 --> 01:56:11,000
Like it should really, should not have worked.

1472
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:14,000
I was still tweaking stuff too. In your defense, my build shouldn't have worked either.

1473
01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:17,000
The motherboard, when you see how that motherboard was packed.

1474
01:56:17,000 --> 01:56:20,000
My power supply barely works. We were all, that happens every time, dude.

1475
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:24,000
It's Scrapyard Wars. Don't say something about that. I was like an hour and a half out.

1476
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:29,000
Like I don't have a working system. I might just be disqualified and like just not having anything to show.

1477
01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:33,000
Aw man, that was brutal. But do you feel good about not getting disqualified?

1478
01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:36,000
I feel so good. Like the second I finished the build was like, you know what?

1479
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:40,000
I don't even care if I come dead last. I just built the system, this crazy contraption.

1480
01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:43,000
It actually works. So happy. I'm still happy.

1481
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:46,000
Which is good because you did come dead last. Yes, I did.

1482
01:56:46,000 --> 01:56:49,000
All right. How do you feel about your performance today? Honestly, pretty good.

1483
01:56:49,000 --> 01:56:53,000
I'm happy with the Freaky Vancouver stuff. I think I actually did quite well.

1484
01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:56,000
You just got a crazy deal, which is, that's Scrapyard Wars.

1485
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:59,000
That's totally fair. I just wish I actually bought that Corsair power supply.

1486
01:56:59,000 --> 01:57:03,000
That's the only regret I have. I would have had pretty good overclocks and everything.

1487
01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:06,000
You still would have won. I just would have been happy with my system overall.

1488
01:57:06,000 --> 01:57:09,000
But yeah, I wouldn't have changed much just power supply.

1489
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:16,000
So what I would have changed is I wouldn't have bought an extra $20 graphics card.

1490
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:22,000
So I'm just going to, for the sake of running numbers, I'm going to drop 20 bucks off my score here.

1491
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:26,000
I wouldn't have tipped the guy 20 bucks.

1492
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:34,000
That's crazy, dude. And my FPS per dollar score would have been literally more than double Austin's

1493
01:57:34,000 --> 01:57:43,000
and would have been about 25% better than Luke's.

1494
01:57:43,000 --> 01:57:46,000
So I feel really great about my performance overall.

1495
01:57:46,000 --> 01:57:51,000
You did a good job, dude. As a purist, I really would have liked to find a working sound device.

1496
01:57:51,000 --> 01:57:57,000
I would have spent another five bucks to get a working sound card. That is like, it's 100% fair because there was no sound benchmarks.

1497
01:57:57,000 --> 01:58:00,000
But that is, if it was a system you were using, that's a little brutal.

1498
01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:06,000
Only evidence. Right. And I would have liked to spend time properly on my case.

1499
01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:14,000
I would have liked to present a more finished build. If I'd had a full mother day, I also would have built my troll system.

1500
01:58:14,000 --> 01:58:19,000
Dude, that was awesome. Part of the problem was I didn't even have time to install Windows on it.

1501
01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:22,000
But overall, had fun. Had a blast.

1502
01:58:22,000 --> 01:58:26,000
It was so much fun. Me too. Interesting because you don't know what the other people are doing.

1503
01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:33,000
Yeah. That was the hardest part. Honestly, I was getting pretty close to guessing near the end, but the whole time, the duration.

1504
01:58:33,000 --> 01:58:36,000
You had no idea what you were competing against.

1505
01:58:36,000 --> 01:58:43,000
In terms of price. Right. I had no idea you were spending what you were spending.

1506
01:58:43,000 --> 01:58:46,000
You were confusing the whole time. So thanks for watching, guys.

1507
01:58:46,000 --> 01:58:49,000
I hope you enjoyed Scrap Yard War Season 3.

1508
01:58:49,000 --> 01:58:52,000
We'll see you again next time.

1509
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:55,000
Drop a like on the video and subscribe. And I'll like this one.

1510
01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:59,000
Scrap Yard War! Scrap Yard War! Good job, guys.

1511
01:58:59,000 --> 01:59:03,000
All right. Awkward 395s.

1512
01:59:03,000 --> 01:59:06,000
Yeah! Sloppy flight.