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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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Power supply, I'm probably going to have to get on its own.

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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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$60 for an SSD. That could be, that could be alright. Maybe.

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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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So I'll see if I can get him to be a little bit more realistic.

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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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So so far I've got a graphics card that I'm picking up at $3 something.

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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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but I wanted to move on to System because I did notice that a lot of my target processors,

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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.

00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:16.000
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

00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.000
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?

00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:22.000
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?

00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.000
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.

00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:54.000
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.

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:17.000
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,

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:21.000
which means that there's tons of these cards around, and they're pretty cheap because they've been abused.

00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:28.000
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.

00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:32.000
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.

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:44.000
But the problem is the power supply. We absolutely need some kind of other power supply for this.

00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:52.000
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.

00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.000
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.

00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:06.000
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

00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:10.000
and just wiring it straight for the graphics card. In fact, it would be power out of half the graphics card.

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:13.000
Probably not the smartest idea.

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:16.000
It should work in theory.

00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:20.000
Okay, so the recap. We have a Core i5 2400 at Kevin's used computer.

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.000
We also can get a 250K hard drive there.

00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:28.000
Most likely we can get some kind of cheap power supply as a secondary for our graphics card.

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:31.000
We have a case. We have our second power supply.

00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:36.000
We have a motherboard. We have the memory, which we can just pick up at NCIX.

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:41.000
It's like 30 bucks, no big deal. And we have the graphics card, which we will pick up in Richmond at some point.

00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.000
I will text the guy kind of minute 6990.

00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:47.000
That sounds like a computer to me. Are we forgetting anything?

00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:50.000
Was that salvageable? Did I just salvage that?

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.000
We got the motherboard to mount. It works.

00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:58.000
The spacing is okay. The power spy will mount here or up here.

00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:01.000
So it's the actual power spy that I get is probably going to be a little bit longer.

00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:04.000
So let's say it goes to here. Cables come out of here.

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.000
Cut it this way. Cut it this way.

00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.000
But I want to build a wall that it can sit against. I'm going to cut it with a circular saw.

00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.000
Okay, so this isn't me helping. This is me making sure he doesn't cut his own hand off.

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:28.000
Looks like you're hard at work over here.

00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:32.000
I'm done. Are you happy, Austin? I'm happy that you're five minutes late.

00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.000
I'm very happy. I think I'm going to get some extra time.

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:39.000
So you got some wood going on? It's a smart move for a computer build.

00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:43.000
I usually have wood. I just thought I'd incorporate it.

00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:46.000
In a build. It's natural. You want to make sure you have.

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:51.000
Of course. One thing, I wanted to use power tools in a good, safe environment.

00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:56.000
Second thing, it's only five minutes and it's supposed to be transit time and I'm already here.

00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:02.000
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.

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:07.000
I don't think so. I also think you're not supposed to be in my space.

00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:12.000
And I believe I asked you to leave and you did not. You can't say that the outside is your space.

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:17.000
I can't say that the entire outside is your space. You worked in two different areas of the office.

00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:20.000
I needed tools from over there and couldn't go over there because your parts were over there.

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.000
So I waited until later. Oh, okay.

00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:29.000
I've got to say thank you for not looking at all the parts that I bought.

00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.000
Wait, I thought you didn't buy any parts. I didn't buy any parts.

00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.000
Zero parts. Nothing bought whatsoever.

00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.000
I'm just having fun and this is all for a good sport.

00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:43.000
Don't worry about it. Does Luke have enough wood?

00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:46.000
Does the crack pipe line is found still work?

00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:49.000
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.

00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.000
Someone who emailed ahead of you has confirmed he is coming to buy it first thing in the morning.

00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.000
So don't come out before phoning me around 11 and make sure it's still available.

00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.000
This is Luke. I know it. It is absolutely Luke.

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:06.000
Aw man, we're not going to have enough time. Dude, this guy...

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:09.000
What? The guy with the 7950s replied back.

00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:13.000
So wait, we can get the 7950s. Oh no, we don't have time for this right now.

00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:17.000
We have to go right now. Oh, this is for the case.

00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:20.000
The guy is local, so it should not be that far.

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.000
Oh, 25 minutes away.

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:29.000
Day two of Scrap Yard Wars. So, we are going to get that graphics card that I talked about yesterday.

00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:33.000
The R9290 Gigabyte Wind Force.

00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.000
And then, I have bad news.

00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:47.000
The motherboard CPU and cooler platform guy responded saying that he had a lot of 2GB 6 of RAM.

00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:55.000
Which is good news. And then also told me that he forgot to bring it to work with him today.

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:58.000
And that he might not be able to tomorrow.

00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:06.000
So I was distracted trying to have Brandon email motherboard guy.

00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:09.000
So I went the wrong way on the highway.

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.

00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.000
I actually heard back from a fair number of my low ball graphics card offers.

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.

00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.000
Because if I can find something better, I'm going to just bail on that guy.

00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:35.000
So first up, we've got a GTX 460 for $30.

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:38.000
The guy came down from, or up from my offer of $20.

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:44.000
GTX 550 Ti. Nah, sorry, this card is too good for $35 ball.

00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:48.000
$78.70. $40 firm for a broken card.

00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:53.000
What an idiot. Freaking tool. This guy didn't reply to any of my questions.

00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:56.000
Are you really the line of Sebastian from NCIX?

00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.000
Okay, so no useful leads whatsoever.

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.

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.

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.

00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.000
And if it doesn't, and we got nothing.

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.000
I knew this motherboard wasn't going to work.

00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:32.000
Why did I even let myself think it might fall?

00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.000
Another shot here with a proper power supply and see if maybe that's the issue.

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.

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,

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:07.000
which I'm totally okay with, for $60.

00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.000
So I know what we're doing today.

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.000
We need to obtain a new power supply.

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.

00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.000
So we need to go out and get a case power supply combo.

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.

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.

00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:42.000
So having a really beefy cooler on there could be the ace up our sleeve.

00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:46.000
We got to go. We might just lose the motherboard right now.

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:49.000
Do we bail on this guy and try to get a different case?

00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:55.000
Okay, so it is 10.09 and everything is already going completely wrong.

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.000
I'm pretty sure Luke is getting our motherboard right now.

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.

00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:08.000
And this guy is expecting us to like show up in like five minutes.

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.

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,

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.

00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.000
Because that's, we don't have any other appointments.

00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:34.000
I don't think we might.

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.

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.

00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:54.000
Good news is I got the graphics card for $180.

00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.000
I saved $20. How did I do that?

00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:00.000
Well, I checked out the card before he gave it to me.

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:07.000
It's a 290, everything's fine, but there's one little oddity.

00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.000
When I went to go take it out of the bag, I noticed this.

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:13.000
There's no screws right there.

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.

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.

00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:33.000
So I got a 290 aftermarket cooled card for $180, which is pretty sick.

00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:38.000
I just need to make sure that I have a computer to put it in.

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.

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

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.

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.000
But if we don't have everything today, we're going to have until noon tomorrow.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:26.000
So let's get some money and hopefully have a case.

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:30.000
Hey, hi. How's it going? Austin, thank you. Appreciate it.

00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.000
Okay, thank you. Appreciate it. It has officially begun. We have our case.

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.

00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.000
So let's see here.

00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:48.000
That's got a lock on it. There we go.

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:54.000
That's actually pretty solid. And he showed me the power supply does work.

00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.000
We have a 120 fan in the back. Actually, is that one in the front?

00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:02.000
No. Still though. Oh, we even have a safety cable front panel.

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.

00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:12.000
It's a good start. So the guy with the sabertooth on the motherboard replied,

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.

00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.000
He should be here shortly. And if he doesn't show up, it'll be yours.

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.

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:30.000
So 7950 guy just replied, basically, we're kind of out of luck on this too.

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.

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.

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,

00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:59.000
which while they're nice to have, the card will run without it.

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.

00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:11.000
The motherboard and system guy still has not messaged me back.

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.

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.

00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:25.000
And that would be a lot easier to communicate with him over text messages.

00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:28.000
He said he was going to check for RAM last night. He did.

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.

00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:38.000
And he did not because he apparently forgot or didn't read that email or something.

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,

00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.000
which I'm going to pick up later today. Other than that, it's unknown.

00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:49.000
And the free geek stock is really starting to freak me out.

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.

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.

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,

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,

00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:13.000
and then fill out the holes that I can't find with stuff at free geek.

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,

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.

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.000
So I don't know.

00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:39.000
Might not be screwed. Just really depends on what's at free geek.

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.

00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.000
So our options right now, this is actually way better than I expected.

00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:58.000
This place is super cool, is $30 for an Intel DG43 GT.

00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:01.000
Did she say 35 and not 55?

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,

00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:16.000
a Gigabyte hard drive spinning at a 7200 RPM, and it was a little vague,

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:20.000
but I think 8 gigs of RAM, all for $100.

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.

00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:35.000
But anyways, I think this will be good.

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.

00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:52.000
I cannot believe we can't believe that board works.

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,

00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.000
used it a bunch yesterday, it's at like 65% battery.

00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:08.000
It's cray-cray. Oh, wow, it's a sound driver.

00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:11.000
Accio.sys was what caused the problem.

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:15.000
Interesting. Does this even...

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.000
Oh. Oh wow.

00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:26.000
We might have to go back to our buddy there and get a sound card.

00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:31.000
This motherboard doesn't have onboard sound.

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.

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:42.000
The RAM is all correctly detected. The CPU is correctly detected.

00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.000
It even has drivers for up to Windows 8.1.

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:48.000
So we're going to be able to run all of our benchmarks.

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.

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

00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:08.000
because that is the thing that probably had that motherboard in the scrap heap.

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,

00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:19.000
which leaves us with the optional step of obtaining a power supply

00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:22.000
because I could use the one from the computer inside.

00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.000
And that is about it. We're in really good shape.

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.

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

00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:45.000
because we need roughly everything right now.

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.

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.

00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:02.000
So it will support crossfires. So we're good with the 6990.

00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.000
But the most important thing is we've got a seriously powerful CPU.

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.

00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:17.000
It's not really going to make a difference. And we have our second power supply.

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.

00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:25.000
So basically right now, I think we're in pretty good shape.

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.

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.

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.

00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.000
They're letting us film, which is awesome. FreeGeek is awesome.

00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.000
I need to mount this thing though.

00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:51.000
Yeah. I think the heatsink has a problem.

00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:57.000
That really sucks because something that I do know doesn't work is this top slot.

00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:00.000
But they say that this one works.

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.000
I want to make sure it works before I leave.

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.000
The ARM is broken off. That's why I won't sit.

00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:12.000
That explains a lot. I hate these freaking stock heatsinks, man.

00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:16.000
That's one side in. So the whole right side went in.

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.

00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:30.000
I'm having second thoughts about my video card matrix strategy.

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.

00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:42.000
I have not factored in the rest of the computer.

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.

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.

00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:07.000
I only have to get 10% more FPS.

00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:13.000
So basically, the more expensive graphics cards might be totally worthwhile,

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.

00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:23.000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Dennis nearly gets deported.

00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:34.000
So basically, the more expensive graphics cards might be totally worthwhile,

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.

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:44.000
You know what the stupidest thing about me screwing up that formula is?

00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:50.000
That's exactly the formula that I used to use when I worked retail computer sales

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:56.000
to help people understand how buying something that costs twice as much

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.

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

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.

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,

00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:29.000
so I feel like I really have to go meet him,

00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:36.000
even if that weren't the case, I still have to go right now.

00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.000
I have no time to go and plug some more cards into an updated formula

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:45.000
and find out how they compare before I have to go meet him now.

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:50.000
So I basically could end up stuck with a $20 paperweight by the end of this.

00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:54.000
I didn't bring my cash! It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

00:47:54.000 --> 00:48:03.000
Hello! Thank you! This is going to really help me a lot.

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.

00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.000
That's alright, it's even better.

00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:25.000
Awesome! We just heard back from the back alley guy.

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.

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,

00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.000
so we should be good on time. And that's pretty much it.

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,

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.

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,

00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:57.000
then we're going to be good, so let's go!

00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:04.000
Hey! So that's the top slot, so everything's good.

00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:08.000
So, just got out of Free Geek Vancouver. I was pretty worried about that store,

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.

00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:27.000
I should have asked about a power supply. 700 watts. Some sketchy brands too.

00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:33.000
I forgot I needed a power supply. How much for this guy?

00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:36.000
It's one. Is it from one cable? Can I just put them together?

00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:39.000
Oh yeah. Yeah, I can just put them together. And then it has a...

00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:45.000
I need, yeah, I need 6 plus 2, and I need 6, which it has.

00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.000
Awesome. Okay, so give me one second. How much did you say? 30 bucks?

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?

00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:04.000
$130. I got a 550 watt power supply, a Q6600, a 160 Gigabyte hard drive,

00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:09.000
a 775 motherboard, and 8 gigs of RAM.

00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:20.000
So that means my final total comes to $180 plus 30, so $210 plus $310.

00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:27.000
So I'm $10 over the original Scrapyard Wars budget, and have a way better computer.

00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:32.000
Yes! Okay, I keep telling myself, I'm just going to stop looking.

00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:38.000
I'm going to go back and test the cards, but I keep looking anyway.

00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:46.000
I mean, I just saw a $79.70 listed for $100.

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.

00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.000
That would be the winner, if I could get it.

00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:03.000
I mean, here's something totally stupid. Here's a $69.90 in Richmond.

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?

00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:12.000
Okay, so after the 18 hour drive to, where are we right now?

00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:16.000
Richmond. Richmond. After the 18 hour drive to Richmond, you ever take 17 hours?

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.

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.

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?

00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:38.000
Yeah, I do, but this guy is picking up this afternoon.

00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:43.000
If he doesn't show up, I will give you a call. How's that?

00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:46.000
Do you know the name of the guy picking it up?

00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:49.000
No, I don't. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think...

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.

00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:06.000
Oh, okay. Because I can come like right now.

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.

00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:18.000
Okay, how much did he offer?

00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:22.000
180. Oh, okay. Okay, I'd have to...

00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:28.000
Okay, can you call me at 2 if he doesn't come get it by 2?

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.

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.

00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.000
Okay. Yeah, yeah, I will give you a call.

00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:47.000
Okay, alright, thank you. Alright, thank you.

00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:49.000
Okay, bye.

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.

00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:12.000
He is rocking a $69.90.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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...

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.

00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.000
We can just be like, hey, can we just document this?

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:08.000
Oh, I forgot the money.

00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:13.000
That might be a little helpful in buying a graphics card.

00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:18.000
So now we know Austin's after that card.

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.

00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:33.000
So we can plug this into the formula.

00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:43.000
So $69.90 at $180 would be approximately a $69.70 times two-ish.

00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:48.000
So that's 57. So let's say times 1.8.

00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:52.000
Those games should scale pretty well. So about $102.

00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:56.000
So if he's paying $180 for that...

00:54:56.000 --> 00:55:00.000
Oh, that is a... See, that's a better performance index than I'm getting.

00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000
$0.36.

00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:14.000
Damn it, Austin. Well, if I can snipe it, I'm gonna.

00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:17.000
All right. So looks like everything works.

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.

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.

00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.000
So we might just have this bill ready.

00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:35.000
Boom! So we successfully have an X at X, ready on $69.90.

00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.000
This is a huge card compared to me.

00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:42.000
So, yeah, I think we're looking good right now.

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.

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?

00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:59.000
So four gigs are gonna be a lot cheaper, but we might have some stuttering issues.

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.

00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:05.000
So it's gonna be like, do we want to go for it or not?

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,

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.

00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:18.000
So... But most important thing, we have an awesome graphics card, so we're set.

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.

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.

00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:34.000
So, putting in work right now, especially considering how cheap this one is.

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.

00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:43.000
We got this thing for less than $200. So, I don't know.

00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:46.000
I feel like if we win this, it's gonna be because of this card.

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:49.000
If we lose this, it's gonna be because of this card.

00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:52.000
But I think we're gonna win this because of this card.

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.

00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:09.000
Turns out that according to my corrected calculations, it was actually not a very good deal,

00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:14.000
and we got some very useful Intel on what our competitors are doing.

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.

00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:29.000
I looked up almost every other dual GPU solution yesterday by keyword.

00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:33.000
This one's been listed for a month, and Austin offered asking price.

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.

00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:45.000
So, we're on our way back to the office.

00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.000
We're gonna test what we have, make sure it's running.

00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:55.000
I am going to do some shopping, try and find a better graphics card deal.

00:57:55.000 --> 00:58:00.000
And if I can find something that'll allow me to eat the $20 I wasted,

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.

00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:11.000
Dude, the NSAX is right there. It's right in that...

00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:15.000
Okay, so, do you want to drive over there, or do you want to walk it?

00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.000
Let's go get our memory now, dude. I'm feeling pretty pumped.

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.

00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.000
It's pretty crazy. We got to save money, dude. This is price to performance.

00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:31.000
It's a serious business. We got to go for 4GB.

00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:35.000
Let's see if there's any other 4GB, just in case.

00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:39.000
Okay, 20...

00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:43.000
30... 5. There you go.

00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:46.000
Just got the 4GB stick of the CoreStare memory, so...

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.

00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:54.000
Okay, awesome, man. Appreciate it.

00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:56.000
We're good.

00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:03.000
Root beer. Alright, we have officially all of our parts right now.

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.

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,

00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:19.000
we got another power supply, and we got a car drive.

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

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.

00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:36.000
This is $238 right now, so not only do we have over two hours left,

00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:40.000
but we get to enjoy a delicious root beer.

00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:43.000
Well, you do. You're too cheap to get me one.

00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:47.000
Oh, yeah. So, accidentally, I just bought this out of the Scrapyard Wars budget,

00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:50.000
so all the parts we bought, plus like $2 for root beer.

00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:56.000
Oops. This tastes pretty sweet, though. I think it was kind of worth it.

00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:59.000
Okay, I'm a little nervous right now.

01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:05.000
What is that?

01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:20.000
Did this guy sell us a graphics card anyway?

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,

01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:43.000
will put me back out ahead, or at least even with Austin, for FPS per dollar.

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.

01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:53.000
The bad news is our power supply we hoped would work is dead,

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.

01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:10.000
There's also more bad news. It looks like our 6850 might actually be dead,

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.

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.

01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:30.000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Austin gets a tetanus shot.

01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.000
Luke gets captured by Vikings, and Linus runs over a dog.

01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:39.000
Okay, so we're back from free geek. We got a whole bunch of our parts.

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.

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.

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,

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

01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:13.000
so that while this is running Windows updates and junk, I can hopefully work on that.

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

01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:23.000
and then hoping tomorrow that I can more focus on overclocking and stuff all day

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.

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.

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,

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

01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:44.000
because normally there's a screw in there that I would screw into.

01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:50.000
So that's fine. If I really wanted to, I could use DisplayPort or HDMI,

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,

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

01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:03.000
because it's actually really needed. I guess here goes nothing.

01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:07.000
I was trying to document the issue with this graphics card,

01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:13.000
but since we changed to my test bench power supply, it's actually fine now,

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

01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:27.000
with a card that it's not plugged directly into, but then doesn't work

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

01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:38.000
even if it is rated at enough wattage. It might just be too crappy.

01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:42.000
I'm muted. Damn it, Terian. How long have I been muted?

01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:47.000
Have I been muted since I went to the bathroom a billion years ago?

01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:51.000
Now, because I've actually got some time to spend with my CPU,

01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:55.000
the rules for overclocking are that you can have an overclock,

01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:00.000
but as soon as you run into stability issues during the testing phase,

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.

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

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.

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,

01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:27.000
what I could do is grab a 7970 and test it.

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.

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.

01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:48.000
We may end up using this card after all. Oh wow, inaccessible boot device.

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.

01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:01.000
There are a lot of power supplies on Craigslist. Nothing that cheap.

01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:08.000
Corsair CX500 would do the trick. Yeah, this is not booting. This is really bad.

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.

01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:20.000
Nice.

01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:27.000
Okay, on this station here I'm going to focus on formatting into Windows.

01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:31.000
Ubuntu off of here, get into Windows on this drive.

01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:37.000
And then over here, I'm going to keep working on my little woodworking project.

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.

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.

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.

01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:11.000
So we have two terrible power supplies, but together hopefully that equals one good power supply.

01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:15.000
This is the goods.

01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:18.000
And Core i7. Oh, Core i7 what?

01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:24.000
2600. 6990, 180.

01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:27.000
Even for that old of a card, that's a good deal.

01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:30.000
Yeah, I mean this thing is a monster.

01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:33.000
So I think it actually here, let me see, will it fit in the case?

01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:36.000
Uh oh, no.

01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:40.000
Alright, so that's actually not going to fit in the case. No fear though.

01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:43.000
This stuff, we just cut all this out right?

01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:46.000
Yeah. Actually this could probably even get, yeah this will come out.

01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:49.000
You want to take a guess on like how much we spent on all this stuff?

01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:53.000
350. No, it's like 550.

01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:57.000
Okay. So. You spent 30 on like one stick.

01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.000
Yeah dude, RAM was tough. RAM was really tough because.

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.

01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:08.000
You honestly have like pretty primo stuff.

01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:11.000
Yeah. This is the only concern.

01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.000
At least for the work, right? Yeah, it's brand new, exactly. Yeah.

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.

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.

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.

01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:31.000
Oh lord, it's gray. It's not that bad.

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.

01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:38.000
Sparkle power. Sparkle power. Oh, there's just a bunch of adapters.

01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:43.000
Okay, do you have the extra two? It doesn't have the extra two.

01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:46.000
Wait, what is going on here?

01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:49.000
Why are there so many adapters? All these mollusks have adapters on them.

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.

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.

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.

01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:10.000
Sorry. Do you need an actual sander?

01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:14.000
Do you have an actual sander? Yeah, I have an actual sander.

01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:18.000
Is it a company tool thing? I've been using it here.

01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:22.000
So sure. Yeah. I'm done with that.

01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:28.000
I'm done with that. What are you using this for?

01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:31.000
Yeah, I know it's the wrong thing, but it's actually kind of working.

01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:35.000
Actually pretty well. Did my...

01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:42.000
I just sanded off the mark that I made for where I wanted to cut.

01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:46.000
I'm not saying there's cheating involved, but... That's a point deduction.

01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:53.000
A little suspicious right there. We know that Linus was still sending messages after five.

01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:58.000
Yeah. How do you know? I asked him and he told me.

01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:03.000
He's cheating. So he's absolutely cheating.

01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:07.000
I'm calling about the CX500 power supply.

01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:11.000
I can come get it today if you can do 20. Sure, why not?

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.

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?

01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:25.000
Yeah, okay. Yep. Son of a bitch.

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.

01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:36.000
And we are going to be all over the place for the next little bit here.

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.

01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:50.000
So we've got a $20 power supply to go with our $100 graphics card.

01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:54.000
And we'll just bring a computer with us to test it.

01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:56.000
Let's go.

01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:02.000
Okay, I think we can hit all these places today.

01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:10.000
As long as our back alley contact is on time, I think we got this.

01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:19.000
It's three o'clock, and it's ten minutes to our next destination.

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.

01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:36.000
So we're going to go straight back to Coquitlam and then to the back alley.

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,

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.

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.

01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:56.000
Well, it's all very gray anyway. That option's right there.

01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:59.000
$20? Yep. Let's cook you.

01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:04.000
Oh, you got it from NCIX, I see. Tell from the NCIX sticker.

01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:08.000
Yeah. Okay, cables are inside, and presumably it works.

01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:11.000
Yeah. Pleasure doing business with you. Huge fan, actually.

01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:14.000
Oh. Yeah, screw it. Okay, here you go.

01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:17.000
Well, nothing that we know of at the moment.

01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:20.000
I only have one of those though. That's okay. I can get an adapter.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:53.000
I am going to have my system.

01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:56.000
Thank you, thank you.

01:11:56.000 --> 01:12:01.000
All right, we got our sound cards.

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,

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

01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:20.000
work and have drivers for Windows 7, which is what we've standardized on using.

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.

01:12:29.000 --> 01:12:34.000
Yeah, so I feel better about telling you guys stuff.

01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:37.000
Ed's been very helpful.

01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:40.000
He's not been an impartial cameraman, so we've been a team here.

01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:43.000
I didn't know I wasn't supposed to help.

01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:46.000
It's very much not an impartial cameraman at all.

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.

01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:59.000
So why? You have one hour and 50 minutes.

01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:02.000
I don't know, it's half the time.

01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:06.000
Oh, so you have 50 minutes. This is helpful.

01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:09.000
A smaller one.

01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:12.000
Oh, do we need something to short the pins on the... Oh, paperclip.

01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:15.000
Paperclip? Yeah. Yeah.

01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:18.000
Share with me? Do you have a paperclip?

01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:21.000
No. What do you need it for?

01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:24.000
How are you a salesman with that paperclip?

01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:27.000
How are you a video editor without a paperclip?

01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.000
You think I deal with paper punch?

01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:33.000
Oh, you get that. I think this will actually work.

01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:35.000
This sounds like we're about to die.

01:13:36.000 --> 01:13:39.000
Are you installing it or are we... I'm installing it.

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...

01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:52.000
Okay, memory's good. No, you cut out!

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.

01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:03.000
This is a bad idea. It's a really bad idea.

01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:04.000
It's so tight.

01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:09.000
I know, I'm scaring me with this right now.

01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:16.000
Oh no, I slightly damaged some of the sleeping. Uh-oh, that's not good.

01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:21.000
Yes, okay, we're good, we're good, we're good. Okay, slight problem.

01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:24.000
This motherboard needs an 8-pin connector and we only have a 4.

01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:27.000
Also bad news is this also has a 4-pin. Can we...

01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:30.000
Couldn't each power supply power half the CPU too?

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.

01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:38.000
No, no, we gotta do this. Let's try it with one 4-pin.

01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:41.000
Hopefully that will work. Can we have a quick time check?

01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:44.000
450, so we have 10 minutes. Do we just try it?

01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:48.000
We need to still do the paperclip thing. How is this gonna work, dude?

01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:54.000
Okay, so this is a green. You and I agree that's green.

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.

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.

01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:06.000
Wait, what are you doing? Oh, no!

01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:08.000
We don't have a way of turning this on.

01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:11.000
I've never done that before, what are you doing?

01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:15.000
Yes! Yes!

01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:20.000
It works! Power supply, power supply, fan, fan.

01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:24.000
Yes, we did it! Okay, we just need to make sure this is actually like posting,

01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:27.000
but all the fans are running, it looks like it's working.

01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:31.000
I need some sanding, but there's my graphics card holding plate,

01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:34.000
my power supply holding plate, maybe the power supply.

01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:39.000
My computer is still setting up over there. Windows 7 Professional is still applying my settings.

01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:42.000
It's been doing that forever. It's kind of getting annoying.

01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:48.000
Let's try this. Cool, so just like I kind of hoped,

01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:52.000
I don't actually even need this block. It'll just hopefully look cool.

01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:55.000
I hope it looks cool. I really hope it looks cool.

01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:58.000
It looks like it works, but it's not posting,

01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:02.000
and we're over time. This is, seems like a horrible idea, horrible idea,

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?

01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:10.000
Let me just squish it, don't worry. Good enough, good enough.

01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:13.000
I know. No, no, no, this power supply should be spinning right now.

01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:15.000
I don't understand why it's not. This should be working.

01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:19.000
Oh, you're right.

01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:22.000
Oh, come on.

01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:27.000
Oh, dude, I don't know if these are supposed to work together.

01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:30.000
Because you're not supposed to put that in somewhere.

01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:33.000
No, we're going from molex to six pin,

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.

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.

01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:48.000
Could it? Maybe? I have a feeling this shouldn't work.

01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:51.000
If it does work, it shouldn't work. Look at this.

01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:56.000
What have we done? No, no, it's not gonna work.

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.

01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:04.000
The fan spin. The two power supply thing actually works,

01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:08.000
which is more than I thought I could say, but it won't post.

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.

01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:16.000
We only have a four pin from each power supply.

01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:20.000
So neither of them are actually enough to get it to post.

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,

01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:28.000
which you're not really supposed to do, this power supply freaked out and stopped working.

01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:32.000
So I'm pretty sure if we could get these two somehow

01:17:32.000 --> 01:17:36.000
between the two to power the CPU, it would be good.

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

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.

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.

01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:53.000
Worst case is something here is broken,

01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:56.000
in which case we are way more screwed.

01:17:56.000 --> 01:17:59.000
Okay, I think it's time to call it a night.

01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:02.000
Until tomorrow, sweet prince.

01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:07.000
Oh man, I hope we can figure this out. I really do.

01:18:07.000 --> 01:18:12.000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Birkel fights his doppelganger, Nicky V.

01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:16.000
You really wanna throw down? You wanna rumble fun? Man, how are you talking to?

01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:19.000
You had the same person. All right, Scrapyard Wars day three.

01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:22.000
Our internet is down.

01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:25.000
Basically, we're upgrading to one gig,

01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:28.000
and I don't know how many of you are Canadian

01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:32.000
or have heard of Telus, but they're sort of legendarily terrible.

01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:36.000
And there was apparently some kind of data entry error

01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:39.000
while they were changing our internet.

01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:42.000
They were probably typing with their faces, as usual.

01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:46.000
So that kinda probably hampers me a lot more than anyone else,

01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:50.000
which really sucks, because now was supposed to be the time

01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:53.000
that I was finishing downloads and installs.

01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:58.000
So I guess what I'm going to do now is

01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:01.000
try to install everything onto the board,

01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:04.000
which is actually what I wanted to do later.

01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:07.000
But whatever. This is ridiculous.

01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:10.000
But if it works, who cares?

01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:13.000
DisplayPort no signal. Oh, good call.

01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:17.000
So let's get the graphics card out of the equation.

01:19:17.000 --> 01:19:21.000
Oh, oh! I saw something flashed like half a second.

01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:25.000
Yes! We have video. Okay, okay, guys.

01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:28.000
Ah, okay.

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

01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:34.000
to keep the CPU fed.

01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:40.000
Like I expected, my wood thing's not really tall enough,

01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:44.000
because I didn't take into account the height of the Velcro.

01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:55.000
Okay. Well, that's good. It's mounted and it still posts.

01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:58.000
So that's a good sign.

01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:01.000
So we moved where we were, if you didn't notice,

01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:04.000
because it will hopefully be better for filming reasons

01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:09.000
or whatever yet, but we should be theoretically sitting at about 3 GHz.

01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:13.000
And I think our memory is still at about 720 MHz.

01:20:13.000 --> 01:20:19.000
CPU is running at 3.24 GHz.

01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:25.000
I must have screwed up, but I made it faster than I expected.

01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:28.000
And it's not crashing.

01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:35.000
Might need a bigger pilot hole, but we're going to see.

01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:38.000
The wood was not super happy about that.

01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:41.000
I can't wait for the comments on this.

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.

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.

01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:54.000
I was hoping these were grippier than my skin,

01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:57.000
but I don't know if that's true anymore.

01:20:57.000 --> 01:21:00.000
Oh, it does totally seem to be true.

01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:03.000
That's awesome. Okay. That's good.

01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:07.000
If this overclock works, honestly, I'd be happy.

01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:11.000
I think with this overclock and the overclock that I have on the CPU,

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.

01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:20.000
I already have my CPU's overclock saved to a profile.

01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:25.000
And hopefully doing a little bit more cable management stuff just to make it look better.

01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:28.000
Even though that's not a metric, it would be nice.

01:21:28.000 --> 01:21:32.000
B sync off. Apply.

01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:38.000
It did not like that.

01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:43.000
Okay. After the benchmark ran, it crashed.

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.

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%.

01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:05.000
And I changed my applied voltage from 100 millivolts to 50 millivolts.

01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:09.000
Whoa. What?

01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:15.000
Okay. My GPU is not very happy right now.

01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:20.000
It's not hot. I think it's not even a voltage or something.

01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:23.000
Okay. So I turned things down and they're actually running faster.

01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:29.000
So at $310, I just got, damn it.

01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:32.000
Why does it keep doing that?

01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:35.000
At the same part after like the same amount of time.

01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:39.000
Okay. So after some troubleshooting, I think I know what's going on.

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.

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.

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.

01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:58.000
So the CPU, I feel like is good as long as we have an eight pin.

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.

01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:07.000
The power supplies enough to spin the fan fully up. That's good.

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.

01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:16.000
Yes. It's posted. Okay.

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.

01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:31.000
Okay. Success. We have the one tiny adapter that costs $7 that we needed.

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.

01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:40.000
And then it's coming back down, but it seems to be working.

01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:43.000
Look at this. We're stable 100% with only the four pin.

01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:47.000
This immediately crashed. Oh no.

01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:52.000
Memory management. No. It didn't do anything.

01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:57.000
It's just as unstable as with the four pin. Oh no.

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.

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.

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.

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.

01:24:19.000 --> 01:24:23.000
The memory may have been the issue. We may have got some defective brand new memory.

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.

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.

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?

01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:41.000
I'm a genius. Dude. High five.

01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:44.000
Yes. Okay. Let's tear this stuff down.

01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:47.000
Oh no. We should probably play a game. Just play a game.

01:24:47.000 --> 01:24:51.000
Okay. Yes. Which one thing with this build?

01:24:51.000 --> 01:24:55.000
Something is weird with this motherboard. It freaks out every single...

01:24:55.000 --> 01:25:00.000
Oh no. So we have to go return this memory because it's broken.

01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:03.000
It just fell out. That's awesome. Two o'clock.

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.

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.

01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:17.000
Oh man. Coming down to the wire.

01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:20.000
Oh. Okay. She posts.

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.

01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:32.000
Fortunately, we grabbed a couple sound cards at the time.

01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:35.000
So let's go ahead and try another one.

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.

01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:45.000
But there is good news. I've got Windows 7 installed.

01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:49.000
My graphics card seems to be working for the most part.

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.

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.

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.

01:26:10.000 --> 01:26:13.000
Oh. Oh. Oh.

01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:16.000
He said, oh, we're up. We're up. We're up.

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.

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.

01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:40.000
Okay. 76.5 FPS average.

01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:43.000
I'm feeling a little tense today. It's 12.

01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:50.000
I haven't started my build yet and this initial Cinevenge run is really ugly.

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.

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.

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.

01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:25.000
First, this gaming grade motherboard.

01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:30.000
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at that.

01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:34.000
So many games. That's a gaming sound.

01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:38.000
Is it going to play Pac-Man? It can be Pac-Man.

01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:42.000
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

01:27:42.000 --> 01:27:46.000
Next up, we have the finest power supply ever made.

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.

01:27:54.000 --> 01:28:04.000
Next up, this genuine USB 2.0 4-port expansion card and 56K modem.

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.

01:28:07.000 --> 01:28:13.000
That's my secret weapon. Massive cooler for like wicked overclocking.

01:28:13.000 --> 01:28:17.000
Intel 750 series PCI Express SSD.

01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:21.000
We didn't even pay for that. And this.

01:28:21.000 --> 01:28:26.000
Put the 750 series SSD down again.

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.

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.

01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:41.000
My name's Linus. My voice isn't quite that high.

01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:44.000
Let's put one of our 750 series SSDs away for now.

01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:47.000
Now you have two. I always had two.

01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:50.000
So this is actually broken.

01:28:50.000 --> 01:28:58.000
Definitely. We have so much extra hardware that literally half of our parts could be broken.

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.

01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:06.000
All right. So just in case, I brought some of our extra, extra hardware.

01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:11.000
That isn't the stuff that we actually need, you know, right now.

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.

01:29:19.000 --> 01:29:24.000
You mean you don't believe that I have a Hemi?

01:29:24.000 --> 01:29:27.000
Well, I did believe you.

01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:34.000
I wanted to believe. I was just moving stuff around to try to do cable management.

01:29:34.000 --> 01:29:37.000
And the computer froze up.

01:29:37.000 --> 01:29:42.000
Hopefully that's not actually a problem. It's probably just random.

01:29:42.000 --> 01:29:45.000
Old hard drives and stuff.

01:30:01.000 --> 01:30:04.000
My computer's straight up doesn't move properly anymore.

01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:07.000
I have no idea what happened.

01:30:07.000 --> 01:30:11.000
It blew screen randomly and now it doesn't properly turn on.

01:30:11.000 --> 01:30:14.000
I'm pretty disappointed.

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

01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:27.000
to our computer turning on, but now Windows is freaking out and super unhappy.

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.

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

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

01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:50.000
and know what my scores are going to be before I walk into the final.

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.

01:30:58.000 --> 01:31:03.000
This is legit one of the most stressful moments of my whole life.

01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:07.000
That's a slight exaggeration, but I'm super hardcore stressed right now.

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.

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.

01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.000
Nothing else should hit the CPU this hard for this long.

01:31:21.000 --> 01:31:25.000
All right, we're in business. Dude, that's awesome.

01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:29.000
Oh, look at that. Like butter.

01:31:29.000 --> 01:31:33.000
Wow. That's the way it is.

01:31:33.000 --> 01:31:38.000
Yeah, I think that works.

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,

01:31:52.000 --> 01:31:55.000
like dead memory or like not having the right adapter or whatever.

01:31:55.000 --> 01:31:58.000
But if it works together, we did a great job.

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.

01:32:02.000 --> 01:32:06.000
What have we done, dude? This is not cool.

01:32:06.000 --> 01:32:10.000
What have we done? 30 seconds ago, you were taking credit.

01:32:10.000 --> 01:32:13.000
Like this is all awesome, Ned. We're such a great team.

01:32:13.000 --> 01:32:17.000
And we actually see what it is. Just like, I have nothing to do with this.

01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:22.000
This is the greatest thing ever. Thermal paste looks fine.

01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:25.000
There's a lot of it, but it looks fine.

01:32:25.000 --> 01:32:28.000
Oh my God, yeah, there's still gunk in the CPU socket.

01:32:28.000 --> 01:32:32.000
That could super be what it is. Wow.

01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:36.000
It's currently 226.

01:32:36.000 --> 01:32:40.000
Meaning assuming it's 230, we've got an hour and a half left.

01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:44.000
So if that was the problem, I think I'm still doing okay.

01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:47.000
If that wasn't the problem, I could be totally screwed.

01:32:47.000 --> 01:32:50.000
At this point, my computer doesn't make it through Firestrike.

01:32:50.000 --> 01:32:55.000
If I completely fail a benchmark, I'm done.

01:32:55.000 --> 01:32:59.000
So right now we're testing CPU overclock only, no GPU overclock.

01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:05.000
We just did a successful Firestrike run completely all the way through with no overclock.

01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:08.000
Now we're testing 3.24 on this guy.

01:33:08.000 --> 01:33:12.000
I can't believe it just crashed.

01:33:12.000 --> 01:33:15.000
I feel like sick.

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.

01:33:21.000 --> 01:33:25.000
If that just crashed for any other reason, I'm screwed.

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,

01:33:34.000 --> 01:33:37.000
even one at a time, I can't run a benchmark.

01:33:37.000 --> 01:33:41.000
150 gigs, that's not right. Oh, it is a 150 gig hard drive.

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.

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.

01:33:50.000 --> 01:33:52.000
No, we don't have time.

01:33:53.000 --> 01:33:56.000
Uh, yeah, I've got it. Give me a sec.

01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:59.000
We have a flash drive. You have a flash drive? Yeah, I got it from Linus.

01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:02.000
Oh, you should have told me that. I did. Oh.

01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:05.000
Just now. And upstairs too. Thank you.

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.

01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:13.000
You're also live. Okay, so our CPU temperatures are well within reason,

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.

01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:21.000
Here we go.

01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:26.000
Um, I don't know if our troll system is going to end up working.

01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:29.000
I have tried to get it to post.

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.

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,

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

01:34:48.000 --> 01:34:53.000
to dial in a GPU overclock and mod the case and build in it.

01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:56.000
Those are the three main mods.

01:34:56.000 --> 01:35:00.000
Make the motherboard fit. Make the power supply fit.

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.

01:35:10.000 --> 01:35:15.000
Now, here's something that I actually had sort of forgotten about.

01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:22.000
We need to make sure that this baby is going to fit here.

01:35:22.000 --> 01:35:27.000
So far, it is looking like a bit of a no-go.

01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:39.000
I've never trusted this kind of standoff, so it's fine,

01:35:39.000 --> 01:35:43.000
but I'm going to tape over them just in case I cannot afford

01:35:43.000 --> 01:35:46.000
to kill any more components at this stage in the game.

01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:52.000
So, apparently overclocking my CPU but not applying voltage kind of worked.

01:35:52.000 --> 01:35:58.000
Overclocking my GPU and not applying voltage. Nah, not even like a little bit.

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.

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.

01:36:11.000 --> 01:36:15.000
You can do it! Believe in yourself!

01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:17.000
Come on!

01:36:19.000 --> 01:36:22.000
Wow. Done! Hands down!

01:36:22.000 --> 01:36:26.000
It's overclocked. Linus, stop! I'm done.

01:36:26.000 --> 01:36:29.000
Okay, so Windows is installing right now.

01:36:29.000 --> 01:36:32.000
Basically, after this, we need to install our benchmarks. We need to install our...

01:36:32.000 --> 01:36:36.000
Hi, what's up? This is overclocked.

01:36:36.000 --> 01:36:40.000
Next time on Scrapyard Wars... Austin becomes a wizard.

01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:45.000
Linus doesn't have to cheat, but he does. Luke's house burns to the ground.

01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:48.000
And that's all. Come see it.

01:36:48.000 --> 01:36:51.000
Next time. On Scrapyard Wars. Yeah.

01:36:52.000 --> 01:36:55.000
Scrapyard Wars!

01:37:02.000 --> 01:37:06.000
This episode of Scrapyard Wars was brought to you by Dbrand.

01:37:07.000 --> 01:37:10.000
I can run now. Where's Austin?

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,

01:37:15.000 --> 01:37:18.000
I'm thinking Austin is not done.

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?

01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:26.000
I was like pretty sure he was trolling. I don't mind that.

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,

01:37:32.000 --> 01:37:36.000
the benchmark period included, like, installing software.

01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:39.000
Yo, yo, yo, hold on, hold on. Pause everything.

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,

01:37:44.000 --> 01:37:47.000
because it's after four o'clock. What about software?

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.

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.

01:37:54.000 --> 01:37:57.000
So I think we should... The software should be... Tell you...

01:37:57.000 --> 01:38:00.000
My computer is 100% done hardware-wise. Uh-huh, okay.

01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:04.000
I love how both the other... contestants are taking more time to do...

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.

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.

01:38:14.000 --> 01:38:19.000
So... I think the troll system deserves to see the light of day.

01:38:21.000 --> 01:38:25.000
So I'm just gonna... put all this in here.

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.

01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:34.000
The cover's not helping much.

01:38:37.000 --> 01:38:38.000
Uh...

01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:44.000
So we've decided to do the unveil in two stages.

01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:47.000
Stage one, we unveil the hardware.

01:38:47.000 --> 01:38:51.000
Stage two, we all run our benchmark scores.

01:38:51.000 --> 01:39:00.000
Therefore, unveiling the performance. Stage three, we unveil the prices that we paid.

01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:04.000
So Austin, you're up first. Alright, so...

01:39:05.000 --> 01:39:09.000
Introducing the greatest system I've ever built.

01:39:09.000 --> 01:39:11.000
That's not saying much.

01:39:16.000 --> 01:39:19.000
Why does it have a power supply on the top?

01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:23.000
It has a power supply on the top because... it has two power supplies.

01:39:26.000 --> 01:39:30.000
Okay, so basically, you guys just seem shocked and amazed.

01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:34.000
You know what? I get it. I was going to do that.

01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:37.000
Oh, really? If I had gotten that graphics card.

01:39:37.000 --> 01:39:41.000
Oh! That was the component that I knew you had.

01:39:41.000 --> 01:39:44.000
Really? I called the guy and I was like,

01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:47.000
can I come get it first? And the guy's like,

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.

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.

01:39:56.000 --> 01:40:00.000
And he goes... But I don't think he's gonna show up.

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.

01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:07.000
This power supply is purely for the graphics card.

01:40:07.000 --> 01:40:11.000
Yeah, I figured that out. Which is... It is a $69.90.

01:40:11.000 --> 01:40:14.000
I saw that. I actually almost went for that. A $69.90.

01:40:14.000 --> 01:40:18.000
So we're talking dual GPUs. We also have a Core i7-2600.

01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:21.000
Not K. The motherboard's not overclockable either.

01:40:21.000 --> 01:40:25.000
So it's pretty much like if it works at stock,

01:40:25.000 --> 01:40:30.000
I'm gonna be really happy with it. That is the scrappinator.

01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:34.000
There you go. Alright.

01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:38.000
Interesting. Alright, well... That's what I expected.

01:40:38.000 --> 01:40:41.000
Alright. This looks awesome. This...

01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:45.000
Oh! Wow!

01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:49.000
What the hell? What?

01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:56.000
This, my machine, is called the Scrap Hole.

01:40:56.000 --> 01:40:59.000
Because it's where I buried

01:40:59.000 --> 01:41:02.000
all the extra hardware that I ended up with.

01:41:02.000 --> 01:41:03.000
Okay.

01:41:06.000 --> 01:41:09.000
Wow. Okay. So, I'll start...

01:41:09.000 --> 01:41:12.000
We're on a firefight right now. I'll start at the top.

01:41:13.000 --> 01:41:19.000
Okay. This is an IPIBL-LB, LGA-775 motherboard.

01:41:19.000 --> 01:41:23.000
DDR2, my friends. Unfortunately, it doesn't support the Pentium 4 processor.

01:41:23.000 --> 01:41:27.000
This works, by the way. At least it did before I did that to it.

01:41:27.000 --> 01:41:34.000
This is a vintage USB 2.0 expansion card.

01:41:34.000 --> 01:41:39.000
This is a broken Autogy 2.

01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:42.000
This is the most disgusting piece of hardware

01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:45.000
that I have ever laid eyes on. It smells.

01:41:45.000 --> 01:41:49.000
The computer we pulled this from literally had a used crack pipe inside it.

01:41:49.000 --> 01:41:52.000
Nice. Really? That's awesome.

01:41:52.000 --> 01:41:55.000
Literally. That's good. That's a good thing.

01:41:55.000 --> 01:41:57.000
This is a 200 GS.

01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:01.000
Power there. This is a working 6850.

01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:04.000
This is a Sound Blaster Live, also dead.

01:42:04.000 --> 01:42:06.000
This is a heatsink.

01:42:08.000 --> 01:42:11.000
So, you found some way... This is my army of hard drives.

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...

01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:18.000
The hard drives may or may not work. I'm not sure.

01:42:18.000 --> 01:42:21.000
Let's see. Under there is a Pentium 4 processor.

01:42:21.000 --> 01:42:24.000
Really? This RAM I borrowed.

01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:27.000
So, this actually is not... I did not obtain the RAM.

01:42:27.000 --> 01:42:30.000
And that Foxconn board... I don't know.

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.

01:42:34.000 --> 01:42:38.000
Because... But no, you can't add anything now.

01:42:38.000 --> 01:42:41.000
What is this? Oh, he has another computer.

01:42:41.000 --> 01:42:44.000
What is this? I think this is all just a waste.

01:42:44.000 --> 01:42:47.000
BC and a 6850? That looks like a fairly decent car.

01:42:47.000 --> 01:42:49.000
I think he has a whole other computer.

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...

01:42:54.000 --> 01:42:57.000
This is... The Leaning Tower...

01:42:57.000 --> 01:42:59.000
Of Scrapza.

01:43:00.000 --> 01:43:04.000
Why do you have two full computers? This is my actual...

01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:07.000
Computer. Why don't you just lay it on its side?

01:43:07.000 --> 01:43:10.000
Why do you lean it? I like it this way. So, there's...

01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:14.000
Yeah, there's no reason. Okay. So, this is my...

01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:20.000
Q6600. Yes, I went Q6600 again.

01:43:20.000 --> 01:43:23.000
Fair enough, fair enough. Four gigs of DDR2 memory.

01:43:23.000 --> 01:43:28.000
They're okay. My 7970 ghost.

01:43:28.000 --> 01:43:31.000
That was actually modded by the original owner, believe it or not.

01:43:31.000 --> 01:43:35.000
This Commando ROG motherboard

01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:39.000
was literally pulled out of a scrap pile of motherboards.

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.

01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:46.000
Literally. Well, I have a 7970.

01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:49.000
I mean, come on. Okay, this is $25. Yeah, $25.

01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:53.000
So, that, my friends, is the Leaning Tower of Scrapza.

01:43:53.000 --> 01:43:57.000
So, can I just ask a question? What's the deal with all this stuff

01:43:57.000 --> 01:44:01.000
if you have this computer right here? We can't ask about price right now,

01:44:01.000 --> 01:44:04.000
but you went to some scrap junk place and got a whole bunch of this.

01:44:04.000 --> 01:44:07.000
And you said this is a radio at $6850? That's a $6850.

01:44:07.000 --> 01:44:09.000
It works.

01:44:11.000 --> 01:44:13.000
But I'm factoring all this into my price.

01:44:14.000 --> 01:44:18.000
I mean, readily suspended right now. Or like cost of metal weight.

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.

01:44:25.000 --> 01:44:27.000
It smells like a gross computer.

01:44:28.000 --> 01:44:32.000
I knew it. Oh! I knew it.

01:44:32.000 --> 01:44:37.000
I basically told you. You asked me some stupid-ass question on the first day.

01:44:37.000 --> 01:44:42.000
Basically, this isn't... Why is there fishing line on it?

01:44:43.000 --> 01:44:46.000
This is awesome. I like this immediately.

01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:49.000
So, it's a Q6600.

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

01:44:52.000 --> 01:44:56.000
than that guy bailed on me. So, I like scrambled and was able to get this.

01:44:56.000 --> 01:44:58.000
This is a BFG tech power spot.

01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:03.000
Here we go. Benchmark number one.

01:45:03.000 --> 01:45:09.000
Cinebench R15. Three, two, one, go!

01:45:09.000 --> 01:45:12.000
And I think we all know who is winning this one.

01:45:12.000 --> 01:45:16.000
You know, maybe. Just possibly. Oh, yeah!

01:45:16.000 --> 01:45:19.000
Well, he has eight threads, which is sort of an issue.

01:45:20.000 --> 01:45:22.000
His name isn't Austin.

01:45:23.000 --> 01:45:26.000
So, this is... I spent a fair chunk more on this i7

01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:30.000
almost entirely for this test. So, hopefully I beat you guys by a lot.

01:45:30.000 --> 01:45:33.000
I'm feeling pretty good. I'm crushing Luke.

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.

01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:41.000
615. 316.

01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:45.000
Oh, almost double. 316 for Linus.

01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:48.000
I'm like 267. 267. That's not bad.

01:45:48.000 --> 01:45:52.000
All right. So, our first benchmark scores are in.

01:45:52.000 --> 01:45:55.000
Shall we run PCMark next? Yes, let's do it.

01:45:55.000 --> 01:45:58.000
Ready? Three, two, one.

01:45:59.000 --> 01:46:04.000
Go. Okay. I'm counting on Austin's like crashing or something

01:46:04.000 --> 01:46:07.000
because he's going to crush the PCMark score as well.

01:46:07.000 --> 01:46:11.000
Aw, man. The PCMark vantage has crashed.

01:46:11.000 --> 01:46:14.000
So, what do we do now? Is that Theresa your overclocks?

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.

01:46:17.000 --> 01:46:21.000
I think that's fair. The rule technically says yes to the reset of the box.

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.

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...

01:46:32.000 --> 01:46:35.000
That was mainly your rule. I know.

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.

01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:42.000
Yeah, that's why. So, what's the deal with this? That does not look right.

01:46:42.000 --> 01:46:45.000
Yeah, yours is doing... That might be because of your dual GPUs.

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.

01:46:50.000 --> 01:46:53.000
Oh, is it? It's not doing that. This is what mine looks like.

01:46:53.000 --> 01:46:56.000
Yeah, mine's being super screwy. Look at that.

01:46:56.000 --> 01:47:00.000
Crashed again. Yep, I guess I got a dial back to my overclock.

01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:03.000
Wow. Turn it off. Yep.

01:47:03.000 --> 01:47:07.000
Which is really sh**. Snooty-tooty.

01:47:07.000 --> 01:47:11.000
Just in general, it's a good life skill to be able to turn that off.

01:47:13.000 --> 01:47:16.000
So, do I get to keep my Cinebench then? Yeah, I think...

01:47:16.000 --> 01:47:20.000
Because it worked. It completed that test. But his system isn't stable.

01:47:20.000 --> 01:47:25.000
So, I failed my PC mark run, which means I had to reset my CPU overclock,

01:47:25.000 --> 01:47:28.000
taking me from 3.2 to 2.4 GHz,

01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:32.000
which in Cinebench basically amounted to

01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:35.000
about two-thirds of the score that I got.

01:47:35.000 --> 01:47:38.000
Now, we're going to have a look at our PC mark results.

01:47:41.000 --> 01:47:44.000
How are we going to submit results, or are we just saving them?

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.

01:47:49.000 --> 01:47:52.000
My score is zero. That does not sound particularly right.

01:47:52.000 --> 01:47:56.000
Oh. Okay, so Austin's machine straight up derped,

01:47:56.000 --> 01:47:59.000
and I appear to be in a position where

01:48:00.000 --> 01:48:04.000
and I apparently crushed Luke.

01:48:05.000 --> 01:48:11.000
How is your CPU image manipulation? Hard drive importing pictures to Windows Photo Gallery!

01:48:12.000 --> 01:48:13.000
Yes!

01:48:15.000 --> 01:48:20.000
I just... Oh, the SSD paid off hardcore.

01:48:21.000 --> 01:48:23.000
You just got creamed.

01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:27.000
All right, 3D mark fire strike time. Let's do it!

01:48:27.000 --> 01:48:29.000
Ready, set, go!

01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:35.000
Now, we decided that unless Austin's actually in contention,

01:48:35.000 --> 01:48:38.000
which I don't think either of us really thinks is going to happen

01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:42.000
on this side of the table here, unless Austin's actually in contention,

01:48:42.000 --> 01:48:45.000
we're just going to throw out his PC mark score.

01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:48.000
It just wouldn't finish. So we'll see how the rest of it goes.

01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:53.000
If he's in contention, it's likely we'll assign him a similar score

01:48:53.000 --> 01:48:55.000
to what Luke has.

01:48:56.000 --> 01:49:00.000
Your CPU is probably helping with... Wait, Crossfire's still on, right?

01:49:00.000 --> 01:49:03.000
Ah, yes. It is. Yeah, it's easier.

01:49:03.000 --> 01:49:06.000
Yeah. Okay. So...

01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:10.000
Oh no! Luke's crushing us both.

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.

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?

01:49:20.000 --> 01:49:24.000
I hope not. It says running system info though.

01:49:24.000 --> 01:49:27.000
What does that even mean? You're on... Is this the physics one?

01:49:27.000 --> 01:49:30.000
Yeah. So you're probably... Oh wow, that's really good.

01:49:30.000 --> 01:49:33.000
That's super good. That's scary. That's going to crush your score.

01:49:33.000 --> 01:49:36.000
Yep. Let alone now. Did you just crash?

01:49:36.000 --> 01:49:39.000
A lot slower. Uh, wow, yes. Did you just crash, dude?

01:49:39.000 --> 01:49:42.000
Yeah. Oh wow. Rip.

01:49:42.000 --> 01:49:45.000
What does that have? And reset your graphics. There's tons of grapple bitches.

01:49:45.000 --> 01:49:46.000
No!

01:49:48.000 --> 01:49:52.000
No! Oh, I'm running at stock settings.

01:49:52.000 --> 01:49:55.000
All right, I'm in the second test.

01:49:55.000 --> 01:50:00.000
Yeah! I like it. I've already done this twice, it's my favorite.

01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:04.000
There was no lower enthusiasm. Yeah, the reenactment was flawless.

01:50:04.000 --> 01:50:07.000
Okay, so let's put Aston's score in.

01:50:07.000 --> 01:50:12.000
55-46. 55-80. Ty, you barely beat me.

01:50:12.000 --> 01:50:16.000
I beat Aston in Fire Strike.

01:50:16.000 --> 01:50:19.000
55-46 versus 55-80, that's pretty close.

01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:24.000
All right. All of the generators. So, uh, Luke's a little behind.

01:50:24.000 --> 01:50:29.000
She fairly did a really well. You know, which is exactly where I like him.

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.

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.

01:50:39.000 --> 01:50:42.000
Okay, no, that's fine. Average 109.

01:50:42.000 --> 01:50:50.000
Minimum 87. Okay, so Aston comes in at 109 even.

01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:54.000
Yes. With me coming in at 84.9.

01:50:54.000 --> 01:50:57.000
Okay, all right, let's run Far Cry 4.

01:50:57.000 --> 01:51:01.000
Okay, so here's the update.

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,

01:51:10.000 --> 01:51:16.000
if this card were to run with a single GPU, what his PCMark score would be.

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.

01:51:21.000 --> 01:51:24.000
So who cares? We're going to live with the approximation.

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,

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,

01:51:35.000 --> 01:51:38.000
but won't be able to handle crummy power coming off the wall,

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.

01:51:42.000 --> 01:51:46.000
We don't want to penalize him for bad wall power.

01:51:46.000 --> 01:51:49.000
For my system, we are apparently rerunning my Cinebench.

01:51:49.000 --> 01:51:53.000
I was doing it so that there was something running.

01:51:53.000 --> 01:51:58.000
But otherwise, I have completed all of my benchmarks.

01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:03.000
67.11, he got a score. Okay, do I get my OC back?

01:52:03.000 --> 01:52:07.000
I don't know, man. It's because of the UPS, those dirty wall power.

01:52:07.000 --> 01:52:11.000
Is that fair? I think at this point, we all just need to take a week.

01:52:11.000 --> 01:52:15.000
Do I get another crack with my overclock? Yeah, so that's just like a spiral.

01:52:15.000 --> 01:52:18.000
Maybe that is the dirty wall power.

01:52:18.000 --> 01:52:21.000
Okay, so you go on a UPS. But then after you run everything.

01:52:21.000 --> 01:52:25.000
Yeah, come on, we're done here. I don't know, like what?

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.

01:52:29.000 --> 01:52:34.000
242. So I'm doing my last test in Far Cry 4 right now.

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.

01:52:39.000 --> 01:52:42.000
I think low 40s, but I don't know.

01:52:42.000 --> 01:52:45.000
So I have good news, guys. Hey, it's done.

01:52:45.000 --> 01:52:48.000
It's done and 97.80.

01:52:48.000 --> 01:52:51.000
Oh.

01:52:51.000 --> 01:52:54.000
So even without an SSD, I was almost able to beat it.

01:52:54.000 --> 01:52:57.000
So mine's just really low on that one. Yeah.

01:52:57.000 --> 01:53:00.000
Oh man. But you crushed the graphics.

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.

01:53:05.000 --> 01:53:13.000
So the final scores are Austin with 455 out of 500 points.

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.

01:53:24.000 --> 01:53:32.000
Wow. So now all that's left is the cash count.

01:53:32.000 --> 01:53:35.000
I don't know what any of these coins are.

01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:40.000
Okay, this is a dollar, 589.

01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:43.000
I just used my calculator for something. Yeah, let me do that real quick.

01:53:43.000 --> 01:53:47.000
I spent 310. Oh.

01:53:47.000 --> 01:53:50.000
I spent $218.

01:53:50.000 --> 01:53:53.000
Final price per dollar. The score is really high though.

01:53:53.000 --> 01:53:56.000
Wait. Score per dollar.

01:53:56.000 --> 01:53:59.000
Higher is better. Good job.

01:53:59.000 --> 01:54:04.000
Good job. Officially wrecked. I think we called it.

01:54:04.000 --> 01:54:07.000
Linus won by 40%. Okay, let's go.

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

01:54:16.000 --> 01:54:21.000
mad because the guy with the Q6600 offered it to me for 40.

01:54:21.000 --> 01:54:26.000
And I was like, no man, here's another 20 bucks.

01:54:26.000 --> 01:54:29.000
Really? I'm going to fleece you slightly less.

01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:35.000
Oh my goodness. Wow. Now I was betting heavy on my SSD.

01:54:35.000 --> 01:54:38.000
I paid $38 for my SSD.

01:54:38.000 --> 01:54:41.000
Wow. Which is a good deal still. Yeah.

01:54:41.000 --> 01:54:48.000
It's a great deal. Yeah. But when you consider my $238 budget.

01:54:48.000 --> 01:54:52.000
Dude, I paid $25 to my 150 gig hard drive.

01:54:52.000 --> 01:54:55.000
25 bucks? I paid $10 for mine.

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.

01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:04.000
That guy, I showed you, I had 18 emails back and forth and stuff.

01:55:04.000 --> 01:55:07.000
Oh, you were supposed to bring it to work. Oh, I forgot it.

01:55:07.000 --> 01:55:11.000
So I had to scramble and find some other solution. This was on the second day.

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

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.

01:55:19.000 --> 01:55:22.000
I got a Q6600 for 17 bucks.

01:55:22.000 --> 01:55:26.000
What? That motherboard's 35. That hard drive was 10.

01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:29.000
Dude. All that RAM was 40. I should have got four gigs.

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.

01:55:33.000 --> 01:55:37.000
And that power supply, which actually murdered me and I should have bought the other one

01:55:37.000 --> 01:55:41.000
that I was going to buy from Kevin's stupid website.

01:55:41.000 --> 01:55:44.000
But it was 30 bucks.

01:55:44.000 --> 01:55:47.000
Okay. So why don't we close this out?

01:55:47.000 --> 01:55:50.000
Austin, it was your first Scrapyard Wars.

01:55:50.000 --> 01:55:54.000
You came in on unfamiliar turf. How do you feel about your result?

01:55:54.000 --> 01:55:57.000
I feel like I spent way too much money. That was the big problem.

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.

01:56:04.000 --> 01:56:08.000
Like how close I cut it to actually getting everything working at the last second.

01:56:08.000 --> 01:56:11.000
Like it should really, should not have worked.

01:56:11.000 --> 01:56:14.000
I was still tweaking stuff too. In your defense, my build shouldn't have worked either.

01:56:14.000 --> 01:56:17.000
The motherboard, when you see how that motherboard was packed.

01:56:17.000 --> 01:56:20.000
My power supply barely works. We were all, that happens every time, dude.

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.

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.

01:56:29.000 --> 01:56:33.000
Aw man, that was brutal. But do you feel good about not getting disqualified?

01:56:33.000 --> 01:56:36.000
I feel so good. Like the second I finished the build was like, you know what?

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.

01:56:40.000 --> 01:56:43.000
It actually works. So happy. I'm still happy.

01:56:43.000 --> 01:56:46.000
Which is good because you did come dead last. Yes, I did.

01:56:46.000 --> 01:56:49.000
All right. How do you feel about your performance today? Honestly, pretty good.

01:56:49.000 --> 01:56:53.000
I'm happy with the Freaky Vancouver stuff. I think I actually did quite well.

01:56:53.000 --> 01:56:56.000
You just got a crazy deal, which is, that's Scrapyard Wars.

01:56:56.000 --> 01:56:59.000
That's totally fair. I just wish I actually bought that Corsair power supply.

01:56:59.000 --> 01:57:03.000
That's the only regret I have. I would have had pretty good overclocks and everything.

01:57:03.000 --> 01:57:06.000
You still would have won. I just would have been happy with my system overall.

01:57:06.000 --> 01:57:09.000
But yeah, I wouldn't have changed much just power supply.

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.

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.

01:57:22.000 --> 01:57:26.000
I wouldn't have tipped the guy 20 bucks.

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

01:57:34.000 --> 01:57:43.000
and would have been about 25% better than Luke's.

01:57:43.000 --> 01:57:46.000
So I feel really great about my performance overall.

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.

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.

01:57:57.000 --> 01:58:00.000
But that is, if it was a system you were using, that's a little brutal.

01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:06.000
Only evidence. Right. And I would have liked to spend time properly on my case.

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.

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.

01:58:19.000 --> 01:58:22.000
But overall, had fun. Had a blast.

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.

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.

01:58:33.000 --> 01:58:36.000
You had no idea what you were competing against.

01:58:36.000 --> 01:58:43.000
In terms of price. Right. I had no idea you were spending what you were spending.

01:58:43.000 --> 01:58:46.000
You were confusing the whole time. So thanks for watching, guys.

01:58:46.000 --> 01:58:49.000
I hope you enjoyed Scrap Yard War Season 3.

01:58:49.000 --> 01:58:52.000
We'll see you again next time.

01:58:52.000 --> 01:58:55.000
Drop a like on the video and subscribe. And I'll like this one.

01:58:55.000 --> 01:58:59.000
Scrap Yard War! Scrap Yard War! Good job, guys.

01:58:59.000 --> 01:59:03.000
All right. Awkward 395s.

01:59:03.000 --> 01:59:06.000
Yeah! Sloppy flight.