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dbrand all right so it is the beginning of day two and the very first thing we
need to do is check email someone who emailed ahead of you has confirmed he is coming to buy at first thing in the
morning so don't come out before phone me around 1100 to make sure it's still available this is Luke I know it it is
absolutely Luke oh man we're not going to have enough time dude this guy what
the guy with the 7950 is replied back so wait we can get the
7950 oh no we don't have time for this right now we have to we have to go right
now oh this is for the case it the guy's
local so it should not be that far ah 25 minutes away day two of scrapyard
Wars so we are going to get that
graphics card that I talked about yesterday the r9290 uh Gigabyte wind
Force and then I have bad
news the motherboard CPU and cooler platform guy responded
saying that he had a lot of 2 GB 6 of
RAM which is good news and
then also told me that he forgot to
bring it to work with him today and that he might not be able to tomorrow so I
was distracted trying to uh have Brandon email motherboard
guy uh so I went the wrong way on the
highway so I'm going to pick up the graphics card we're at BCIT he's waiting
I'm late I'm going to go I actually heard back from a fair
number of my lowball graphics card offers so it's a good thing I did this
before running out and picking up that $20 video card that I arranged yesterday
cuz if I can find something better I'm going just bail on that guy so first up
we've got a GTX 460 for 30 bucks the guy
came down from or up from my offer of 20 GTX 550 TI nah sorry this card is too
good for $35 LOL 7870 $40 firm for a
broken card what an idiot a freaking tool this guy didn't reply to any of my
questions are you really the line of Sebastian from
NC okay so no useful leads whatsoever
let's get down to business so I decided I'm going to go for the one
shot you know home run swing right off
the bat here I'm going to load literally
all of this Hardware up and I'm going to
see if it boots and if it does then I am in really good shape for the rest of the
day and if it doesn't and we got nothing a I knew this
motherboard wasn't going to work why did I even let myself think it might
balls give it another shot here with a
proper power supply and see if maybe that's the issue the display on the back
it actually has a post read up back here but I can bar no
way we
got an ASUS Rog board 4 gigs of working
ddr2 a
q6600 and a broken power supply which I'm totally okay with
for 60
bucks so I know what we're doing today
we need to obtain a new power supply
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 so we need to go out
and get a case power supply combo we still need to potentially find a
graphics card but I'm going to find out about that in a minute here maybe we
should spend some of our time obtaining a better cooler cuz the q6600 can run
pretty hot when you overclock it so having a really beefy cooler on there
could be the ace up Our Sleeve we got to go we might just lose
the motherboard right now do we bail on this guy and try to get a different case
Okay so it is 10:09 and everything is
already going completely wrong um I'm pretty sure Luke is getting our mother
board right now and I just realized the guy who has the case who's supposedly
local is actually 25 minutes away and this guy's expecting us to like show
up in like 5 minutes we might be a little screwed here the good thing that
might save us is that we have leads on both a 6990 and a pair of 7950 both of
which should be doable 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 and then what we're
going to do is we're going to go and grab um see what kind of stuff we can
get at the computer shop because that's uh we don't have any other
appointments I don't think we might
um yeah we'll go to the computer shop and see what we can find if the guy has
a good motherboard then we should be able to either pull off the 7950 or the
6990 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 good news is I got the graphics card for $180 I saved
20 bucks how did I do that well I
checked out the card before he gave it to me it's a 290 everything's fine but
there's one little Oddity when I went to
go take it out of the bag I noticed this there's no
screws right there there's one screw
holding the plate on here but there it's missing a screw here and it's missing
two screws here and two screws here so I
was like that's kind of weird started complaining and he gave me 20 bucks off
so I got a 290 aftermarket cooled card
for $180 which is pretty sick sck I just
need to make sure that I have a computer to put it
in it is time to call free geek and see
how much they can save my ass hopefully
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do have going for us is that uh Luke lonus and I we all had a chat this
morning and basically the idea is is that we're all going to try to have all
of our parts by the end of the day but if we don't have everything today we're
going to have until noon tomorrow so basic we'll have 2 hours tomorrow to go
and get any last minute parts we need so
we should be able to get everything today and we'll do the build off tomorrow so we don't have to worry about
putting together the systems although I know Lucas already got started on his
sounded like that anyway okay so we're here we're about to pick up the case um
hopefully we don't get murdered this is the first time we've actually used Craigslist for this little trip so let's
get some money and hopefully have a case
hey hi how's it going Austin thank you appreciate
it I don't said we make sure everything well before you take it okay thank you
appreciate it it is officially begun we have our case and I've got to say say it's actually way more beefy than I
thought it was so see
here oh it's got a lock on it there we
go that's actually pretty solid and he showed me the power supply does work we
have a 120 fan in the back actually is that one in the front no still though oh
we even have a s cable front panel all
right I think we're in business it's a little beat up but it'll totally do for
25 bucks it's good start so the guy with
the saber teeth motherboard replied 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 he should be here shortly and if he doesn't show up it'll be yours 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 so 7950 guy just replied basically we're
kind of out of luck on this too he doesn't get home till 7:00 he could do
it tomorrow but that would eat up the little bit of time we would have and
we'd have to drive like an hour out out of the way so there is a $69.90 it's
$180 so we're going to meet him at 2:00
so I just got the $200 r9290 for 180
bucks because it was missing a couple screws on the io plate which while
they're nice to have the card will run without it um and I'm hoping that there
might be some spare ones for that in the in the spare screw bin at work
um the motherboard and S system guy
still has not messaged me back he's at work I can't be mad but this guy is
getting a little frustrating to deal with he's never I gave him my phone
number he keeps on saying he's going to text me and he has not um and that would
be a lot easier to communicate with him over text messages uh he said he was
going to check for RAM last night he did uh I also told him to bring the stuff to
work so that I could pick it up from him at work and he did not because he
apparently forgot or didn't read that email or something kind of think he just
forgot so I've got a graphics card and I've got a line on a power supply which
I'm going to pick up later today other than that it's unknown and the free geek
stock is really starting to freak me out so my new plan is I'm going to go to
free geek figure out what they have if they have everything I need which is very unlikely but if they do I'll just
pick it all up if they don't I will just kind of post up probably near free geek
in the car do as much research as I can online try to plan all the appointments
I can for the stuff that I can and then fill out the holes that I can't find
with stuff at free geek hopefully that will work um I had a lot of backup plans
last night and most of them are gone now
but there's still a few that seem to be on the fence of guys that have 6600s and
other various quad cores so in 600 I
know might not be screwed just really
depends on what's at free geek
yeah interested in q600 interested in a board that it can go in and a fairly low
capacity hard drive what do we have so
our options right now this is actually way better than I expected this place is
super cool is um $30 for an Intel DG 43
GT did she say 35 and not 55 so I've got
an ASUS p5q motherboard a q6600 a 20 160
I don't remember Gigabyte hard drive spinning at uh 7200 RPM and it was a
little vague but I think 8 gigs of RAM
all for 100 bucks 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 and did the
the but anyways I think it'll I think this will be good okay so I'm throwing
my Windows 7 test build on here to find out what exactly this graphics card is I
cannot believe we
C can't believe that board
works all right I do have to say one
cool thing about the MacBook Air is that I forgot to charge it used it a bunch
yesterday it's at like 65% battery it's cray cray
oh wow it's a sound driver AIO dosis was what caused the
problem interesting does this
even oh oh wow um we might have to go back to
our buddy there and get a sound
card this motherboard doesn't have onboard sound
so today's going well so far I have determined that my motherboard by some
freaking Miracle Works uh the RAM is all
correctly detected the CPU is correctly detected it even has drivers for up to
Windows 8.1 so we're going to be able to run all of our benchmarks I have
arranged to go out and pick up the graphics card that we figured out
yesterday and I've reached out to back
alley crackpipe computer owner guy about
going and getting a sound card because that is the thing that probably had that
motherboard in the scrap Heap 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 which leaves us with
the optional step of obtaining a power
supply because I could use the one from the computer inside and that is about it
we're in really good shape it is time to Boogie so I'm just going to cover up my
progress so far and head out all right so we are
here at the computer store and hopefully we can get a lot of what
we need because we need um roughly
everything right now so let's give it a
try hey so basically we were able to get
a lot of what we needed so we're able to get a Core i7 2600 not overclockable as
well as the motherboard so it will support crossfires so we're good with
the 6990 um but the most important thing is
we've got a seriously powerful CPU have a seriously powerful graphics card we
have a 160 gig hard drive because 15
bucks and we just need it to run benchmarks it's not really going to make a difference and we have our second
power supply so this is actually a pretty beefy Supply it actually has an 8
pin and a six pin so basically right now
I think we're in pretty good shape I think once we' Like Glue this or tap
this up to the top of the case we're going to be set so let's going do it
okay so they had a problem mounting the stock heat sink um but the price is good
so I really want to make sure works so they let me back into their testing area
which is awesome they're letting us film which is awesome free geek is awesome I
need to mount this thing though yeah it's I think the heat sink
has a problem that really sucks cuz something
that I do know doesn't work is this top
slot but they say that this one works I
want to make sure it works before I leave uh the the ARM is broken off
that's why it won't sit yeah that explains a lot I hate these freaking
stock heat sinks man that's one side in
so the whole right side went in 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
I'm having second thoughts about my video card Matrix strategy what I
realized is I'm calculating FPS per
dollar as a function of only the cost of
the graphics card I have not factored in the rest of the
computer so if a graphics card costs $10
more that doesn't mean that if I'm
spending $20 I'm spending 50% more 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 I only have
to get 10% more FPS so basically the more expensive
graphics cards might be totally worthwhile even if they don't score as
many FPS per dollar compared to a low-end one next time on scrapyard Wars
Dennis nearly gets deported