Welcome to Scrapyard Wars 2 episode a
part one. Yeah, that's how it's going to be. So today we've got a new challenge.
Instead of just building a budget PC, we're going to build a budget PC and
then we're going to water cool it. We're going to have a full budget of $500.
$300 for our computer and a maximum of $200 for the water cooling parts. But
there's a twist. We cannot use any
offthe-shelf PC water cooling gear.
Nada. So, it'll be judged in five sections. One, creativity. Two,
effectiveness. Three, aesthetics. Four, acoustics. And then five is just
overall. We're going to have a few ground rules as usual. So, number one is
it's tower only. We don't have to source a monitor and keyboard and mouse. Number
two is that there's no pre-work or in between work. We weren't allowed doing
research before the event, and we're not allowed doing research like after work or anything. And number three is going
to get a bit of a curveball this time. Last time we said no help from friends,
family, co-workers, social media contacts, whatever. This time we're
going to allow it, but the panel of judges has been instructed that they are
to deduct points from us depending on
how much we take advantage of anyone other than our own wits. And last isn't
really rules, but we're just going to define what constitutes as a water cooling component. So there's cooling
blocks. So, your CPU water block or potentially GPU water block or whatever
the heck else you decide to cool. Um, fittings, tubing, radiators, fans,
pumps, reservoirs, or the coolant.
So, that's it. Let's get started, shall we? Yeah. Scrapyard
Wars. Scrapyard Wars.
The time is now 2:30. Go before we start. All right, you can count it. I
know mine's right. 12 9 13 9 8 7 12 15
28 13 12 17 Okay,
we are just going to charge on out of here as if we have some idea what's
going on. Let's just wave by. He's leaving.
All right, I'm not going to look at him. I'm going to let him waste time by harming
at me. Are they ignoring us? It's okay. We'll get their attention.
They're gone. I think they're
gone.
Bye. I kind of have a plan for this
video. There is no performance judgment criteria. So, it
actually doesn't matter what PC that we decide to use. So, instead of stressing
out about building a great PC, I'm going
to go straight for water cooling parts
and I'm just going to kind of water cool whatever PC I find. Something that's
actually critical for me is the lifeline
component. Unlike Luke, I am planning to
use the lifeline. And in fact, my strategy hinged on it so much that I was
very, very afraid we weren't going to allow them. So Luke and I disagreed
strongly about whether we should be allowed to have any kind of outside
help. I said yes, he said no. And Nick
was actually the one who saved my bacon here by settling it and saying, "Okay,
it should be allowed, but the judges should factor it in because I have a
neighbor who might be able to help me a little bit with this." Even though I
know that I'm giving Luke the ability to leverage his dad, who is crazy handy and
has a lot of tools, I want to find a
uh a computer really quick so I can figure out the hole layout for the
socket so that I can try to start making blocks pretty much immediately. Um, so I
don't want to spend a ton of time looking for a computer.
Uh, but I don't want it to be like garbage either. I'm going to go to
probably an auto junkyard to find my
radiator. I'm heading to the pet store now for my pump. I really don't have a
plan in terms of the reservoir, but I'm hoping that um that I
can come up with some kind of a good idea as far as that's concerned. And
then the blocks, the blocks are going to be the challenge. And that's where my
neighbor comes in. He has a CNC mill. So, we are going to try to
actually make a CPU block, like a decent
CPU block and a full cover GPU block.
That is the plan right now. So, let's
get some trash talk going early. Hey, you suck, lol. Yeah, take that, Luke.
What a dick. I'm not going to play his silly little games. Time to be a man.
Okay, so we're looking at pumps and
uh these are all air pumps. Okay,
then. Okay, so unfortunately they are
doing some recajjiggering of their inventory and the only one they have is
this one right here which is like 80 bucks. But they suggested that maybe if
we go to Canadian Tire we can find something. I am interested in finding
something that's submersible though since one of the judgment categories is
acoustics and having a submersible pump will make my system very
quiet. So that yeah won't help me for
now though. I mean really we're not going about this the most efficient
possible way right now. But frankly I'm not that concerned. We've got 3 days to
pretty much build and water cool a computer and not get run over.
So I don't know. Maybe I should be more worried. But I think we got this. Hi
there. I saw your gaming tower ad on Craigslist.
Um, I was just wondering if you could give me a deal if I didn't take the
monitor, keyboard, or mouse.
Um, yeah, I can let it go, I don't know,
200 bucks. Two two something.
200. Yeah. Yeah, I could do 200. Okay.
Uh, can I come pick it up right now?
Cool. So, he has
a it's a classic case as you can see
there. You guys, I'm going to turn the monitor like that. Um, some of you guys
remember that case maybe from a long time ago. It's not the greatest looking case, but it's a classic case. He does
have a graphics card in it, but it's super boring. Um, it's not the most
interesting thing ever, but it'll work. And I got it for
200 bucks. So, I have $100 to splurge on
potentially an old graphics card that looks nice and potentially a better case
cuz I saw some cases on there that were like 40 bucks and uh looks really nice.
I don't want to do something as ghetto as like a sawoff milk jug.
But yeah, I don't know what to use. Maybe like um maybe like one of those
big gulp drink containers on the top with like like fittings coming down into
the system or something. Why not one of those uh little goldfish aquarium things
that are like terrible that you shouldn't use? But should I put a
goldfish in my loop and a filter? We could store our goldfish in one of
these. Seems harmless. Okay, so here's a
submersible pump. $110. That would be literally over half
of our budget. Um there's cheaper stuff
here, but like the cheapest Oh, no. at Oh, okay.
Hold on a second. The cheapest one is $13. But if that's the kind of flow rate
we're talking about and only a one-year
warranty, but then 20 bucks get us 70 gets us 75 gallons per hour. You know
what? We should remember this. I'm not going to buy it now, but that actually
may be a solution. whenever he's going to do something that's like cheating or
borderline cheating, uh, he usually makes sure that there's very defined
rules around it. Um, so that he knows
specifically how he can go around those rules. So, I'm wondering if he's going
to just try to find things that
are essentially the same but are not
technically for water cooling. I might. Yeah, I might source another graphics
card. I might source a new case. Although, this is a fairly classic case.
So, I might also stick with this guy. There's also a bit of metal and I'm
going to be modding it quite heavily. So, there you go. Feel free to
count. Okay, so this thing sucks, but
there's a lot of metal, which I'm actually super down with.
But getting a better graphics card at this point is going to be a little sketchy because I was pretty sure in his
ad, I could totally be wrong, but I was pretty sure in his ad I'm going to put
this in the back. Um, that he showed a 750 watt power
supply. That might have been the other computer I was looking at. Oh well, I'll
figure it out. Maybe no new graphics card. Probably new case cuz that one's
actually fairly scratched up. Um, so we're going to go home and try to go to
Princess Auto because if I can get a block working for
the CPU and like that that's going to be the
hardest thing. So, if I can source some materials and start trying to make a
block work at all um, and I'll just make it for the CPU,
then I'll then I'll know that I have the methodology down. Then I should be able
to do it again for the graphics card. I'll just do one at once and then try to
reproduce that instead of trying to deal
with getting two of them working at the exact same time. Okay, so the last real
store I want to go to before I start um
calling places and browsing online is Home Depot, just cuz I think this is
where I can probably find the tubing I need.
And that's the one piece of the puzzle where I'm not even sure if I'm going to
be able to find it used. So, I need to know how much that costs before I shop
for everything else. So, that whole strategy where you leave your car
unlocked cuz there's nothing valuable in it anyway only works if you don't leave
your like razor blade in your car.
They're like not that crazy expensive.
Like this. This could work. Uh if I decide to bail on the on the reservoir
outright, then I've got my tea line. So, that's only uh 250 here at Home Depot.
So, it's time to do some napkin math. Let's figure out how much we know we're
spending and then how much we have we have left to spend. So, um, so buying
new, we need 20 here. We need about 10
here. Actually, we should call that 25 cuz of tax. Uh, reservoir. You know
what? I think I'm going to lock into the Tline. So, that gives us about
$150 for radiator. So, pump. We can get away with
saving one by getting us Oh, no. Can't have a submersible pump now because of
the rez. Oh, we need to obtain a reservoir
if we use a submersible pump.
Shoot. So, Canadian Tire really didn't like us. We got threatened to be thrown
in court. So, all that footage is going to be thrown away. But basically,
they're actually super helpful auto parts guy got me a part number for their
cheapest radiator, which is $108. So,
that's Not that cheap, but could be workable in
the budget. I know the pump that I'm looking for is also about
$4550. So, that's 150 bucks out of my
budget right there. And I would still need metal and fittings and a fish
tank and tubing.
So, I probably can't afford all of that.
I didn't think the radiator was going to be hard.
Um, so I would be looking for something fairly inexpensive, but and preferably
with a fan already on it, but I'm not super picky about what exactly it is.
See, radiator core for $25. I'd be looking for a car radiator, but I just I
don't really care which one it is. I'd just be looking for something relatively small,
like, do you guys have any salvage radiators that I could pick up? Yeah, I
got a bunch of them. Oh, really? Wow.
You're the you're the first person with good news that I've talked to in the
last hour. Um, what would I be looking at for
something like that? I don't have a huge budget for it. $150 or any kind of
thing, but uh, since you're not really fluffy as to what radiator, I'm sure I
can dig something out for 50 bucks. Okay. All right. Thank you so much.
Copper pipe. Oh, here's some 20 bucks. 1/2 in half inch gas pipe new. Okay.
Let's let's just let's call. Hi, I'm calling about the copper pipe and I mean
is there anything wrong with it? No, it's brand new. Okay, wonderful. Thank
you very much. 30 to 50 ft. That could
work. So, here's where we're at. We've got two leads on PCs. The plan with the
copper tube is that I'm basically just going to like bend it up and jam it
inside the case so that it can take advantage of any of the air flow that's
already coming through the case to cool the CPU and and hopefully the GPU. So,
there it is. There's our there's our copper copper tubing. So, in terms of
bendability, it looks like I will be able to hand bend it. I don't know with
what amount of precision. We have our first part. Again, I'm not too concerned
about the PC. And we have one cooling component with leads on most of the
rest. It was a good day
today. Oh, I just realized I'm going to have a
mixed metal loop. I was planning to use a heater core or something, which is a
lot of them are made of aluminum. And then I was planning to make aluminum
blocks. Now that I have the copper tubing, I'm gonna have to budget for
some kind of uh corrosion inhibitor. The judges probably won't
know that anyway. Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Lionus
whips it out. Oh my goodness, it's so long. And Luke comes into a serious
situation with the Dremel tool. He always had three fingers, right?