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 offtheshelf PC water cooling gear. Nada.
Yeah. Scrapyard Wars.
Scrapyard Wars 2. The scrapping.
I yell over to Taran to tell Brandon that I need him to get the camera ready
so we can go. Um, and that never
happened. Brandon was never told. We're leaving now. It's about 12:30. Yeah. So,
we're late. Okay. So, my first hit for Aluminum Block Vancouver is from
Hardware Conucks. One of the first, good old Sugar J. One of the first
recommendations is Metal Mart. So,
Vancouver in the suburb of Langley.
Yeah, boy. We're practically sitting on one of
their locations. Okay. Awesome. All right. So,
here's what we're trying to do. We want to make a um a cooling block for a
computer component. There we go. Can you give me
some idea of what we'd be looking at for like a block of aluminum? Maybe yay yay
thick. Maybe yay big or Yeah. Like what
does that cost? Well, is that the like cheapo scrap bin? But
there's things like that. Yeah, that that's the one I actually saw right when
I walked in and I thought that looks pretty appealing. Yeah. Okay. I need it
today. And this is thick enough. So, um
So, like do you just sell it by the length or sell you 5 in or whatever you
want? So, how much does it cost?
I wasn't even able to pick that stupid thing up when I looked at it. And is
there a particular grade or like alloy that it is or Yeah.
6061 uh T6 alloy. Uh-huh. So, um that
meant nothing to me. It's uh it's
machinable um weldable. It's uh like a
structural type of aluminum. Okay. Um Okay.
Yeah. It's pretty decent quality. Pretty
decent qual. What a sales pitch. I like this guy. I didn't even know shops like
this existed. Just like here's a
ginormous metal rod. So 5 in would cost $661 after tax.
$6.61. Wow. It's uh 1475 foot. Not bad. Okay.
Um and then you guys have a charge for for cuts, right? First cut on that is
free. Every cut after is a dollar. Okay. Um hey, that's very reasonable.
Okay. Can I can I have a couple minutes with a napkin and a pen and kind of um
figure out what exactly I need? Yep. Fantastic. Thank you. Okay,
so CPU block. There's a couple different
ways we can go about this. We could go really small like the older Nexos Alpha
Cool blocks um that were only about yay
big, but what I worry about is we wouldn't
be with the camera.
Lionus is here. They're here. They're here.
Well, I'm just going to hide this diagram. What's in there? Nothing.
What's that? See you later. What is it? Bye. Show me.
This isn't awkward at all. I wonder what we're both doing.
Well, I guess we're going to we're going to we're going to get what we're getting
and then get out of here cuz if you give us 5 minutes, we're pretty
much we're allowed to stay in the store. Pretty much it.
Wow. All right.
We'll be we'll be back. We'll be back later then cuz I can't give away too
much of my plan.
You're leaving, too? Oh. Oh, I see. I
see. All right. All right. I'll see
you. Well, he's found a source for metal. We know this much.
Okay. So, I saw online that you guys could do fabrication. Not this location.
Not this location. Porks. Porks. Okay, that's fine. If I asked them, if I
showed them this, could they make me a plate with a little pod on it? Can I get
one? Probably. Yep. Um, what kind of
pod? It's I was looking for a copper
plate with holes through it so I could go through there. And then just any form
of dome pod that would go over top of the CPU.
You have to ask them. Um, it sounds like something they could do. They're pretty
talented up there. So, so Port Kels, can you give me the address manager?
I think we just saw Brandon and Luke on the road, but it couldn't be, you know.
H, no, we're not going to chase them. I think they're heading to Home Depot,
though. That's okay. We've already been to Home
Depot. Yeah. Well, I I have. You
haven't. All right. So, they're making
progress then. Oh, ball sack. This might be one
of the ones I really liked. Oh, but I can't get it till after five. Which one
is this? Never been overclocked. It's a
ble 150. You know what? You know what? This
isn't a in a Sonata 3 case.
Um, it's it's by the time we put a graphics card in it. Oh, we could afford
a better graphics card though than the one we're about to go. We're just going
to go see it. Yeah, we're going to go we're going to go see it. And you know
what though? Barring anything unforeseen, I'm just going to grab it, I
think.
Oh, we're getting pulled over. So, I know you're you're touching your phone,
which you can't do while you drive. Yes, sir. Super duper don't know.
Here for a Craigslist computer pickup.
So, this is it, you say?
This is an X58 based system. I did not see that one
coming. This is what we're going to be dealing
with. This card shouldn't be a problem.
Um although it's a really good thing that we didn't go and pick out a chunk
of aluminum for our CPU cooler based on an LGA75 socket size because this is
using LGA 1366.
Does it have a front fan in it or not? It does not. We are not going to
have a lot of air flow. So, I'm going to have to get really creative about how I
jam all of this in there to even have
any chance of cooling this thing. Okay.
Well, there you go. That's that's pretty much all of our PC budget right there.
The rest we have is cooling budget. Uh
you might want to count it. Yep. That is one
rancid front filter. Oh.
Whoa. Ready? I'm going to do it. Don't
be downwind. Which way is downwind? That way.
Oh. Oh, it's going back to the computer.
No. Get away from my
car. Oh, look at that. It's a feather.
There's a feather. the cooling for the CPU itself. Yeah. If
I just got a small amount of metal from you guys in a sheet um that I could put
on, could I just essentially epoxy a cap on there? Would that be
fine? The cost of fabrication was high, although that totally makes sense.
That's what they do here. Um, so getting it welded is probably not an option
right now. That would be super cool if I was doing this on my own and had more than a $200 budget, but I don't. So, I'm
going to fall back to the JB Weld solution. So, this probably sounds
terrible because it looks like they're cutting my sheet probably right there,
actually. Um, so I'm getting a copper sheet, little blocks of copper. It's
super cheap just to cut it. So, that's pretty nice. And then I'm going to have
to kind of cut it to size my own, drill the holes myself, and then I'm going to
hopefully find a copper or aluminum cap of some sort at uh Home Depot or
something. So, I just got in total the
copper plate for about six bucks. Um,
only because he had to sell it to me at a minimum quantity. Um, I didn't know
that until he was tilling me out. So, I probably should have just got more just
in case, but I didn't. So, oh well, I'll figure it out. I need more. It's not
that big of a deal. It wasn't that expensive. Um, and I'm sure if I go back
there, I can be like, "Here's the invoice. You charged me for half a pound. I only got
like.125 of a pound. Can you just give
me some more? And it might be fine. The cap cost about $2.75. Copper cap. It's
gross. I'm going to have to clean that up. But that's no problem. I'm not
worried about reservoir. I'm going to pretty much ignore reservoir as of right
now because I can just do the fallback
of like going to Safeway and buying a $1
2 L bottle of pop um and just like
pouring the pop out, cleaning it up, and then using that as a reservoir. But pump
and radiator is going to be a pretty serious problem. Um, radiator is going
to be expensive and large. So, there's the idea of just
buying a car radiator and there's also the idea of doing the copper coil thing,
but I'd kind of rather not. But, I'm going to buy a copper coil right now so
that I can cut it up and use parts of it. So, I guess we'll see what happens
from that. So, I got my copper tubing that I was looking for. This should be
small enough to fit into that cap that I was talking about. And it's actually
fairly flexible. So, I got a fair amount of it cuz it's not too expensive. And
I'm going to try to just use it as all my tubing. Um because that would
actually be be kind of nice because if I can just JB weld this into my blocks and
whatnot, then I can save money on fittings, which would be pretty sick.
But kind of funny story, while while I was in there, I wanted to ask if Brandon
could come in and film, and there was no one for me to ask. I couldn't find any
employees anywhere, which is fine. It's a more of a self-s served store and
we're in, uh, Princess Auto, by the way. So, um, I get up to the teller and I go
to buy my whole big roll of copper tubing and she's like, "Oh, did you get
it cut?" I'm like, "Oh, no, no, I just wanted to get all of it." And she's
like, "Oh, you should get it cut." So, I go back to get it cut. Some guy's trying to steal a whole bunch of stuff from the
store. He has his pockets completely full with like products literally coming
out of it. They're like, "You have to pay for that. You have to pay for that." So, he freaks out and just starts
throwing products down the aisles while leaving the store and just hucks
everything all over the place and then gets pissed off and leaves the store.
And then I get my thing cut and there's like a billion employees and I could have easily asked for Brandon to come in
and film, but I was finally done. So, let's
go. 50 bucks. So, what I saved on my
radiator, I may have actually just had to spend on
coolant. But I have my pump. I have my
coolant. I have my reservoir. I have my
rad. And we're going to go pick up the raw materials for our blocks. Now, I
just want to do a quick sanity check to make sure that my pump fits inside my
reservoir before we leave here. Oh, that's really close. Uh-oh. Oh, that's
quite restrictive at the inlet, isn't it? Oh, not too bad, actually. Okay,
hold on. Hold on just a gosh darn moment
here. These really are the world's worst suction cups,
though. Uh, we might get away with
that. This thing isn't going to seal anymore, though, that's for darn sure. I
guess I didn't really think of
that. Okay, so we're back at MetalMart.
Let's go ahead and have a close look at exactly what we need for metal for our
blocks. No, that's fine. Don't get the door for me or anything. Just hold that camera.
It's not even worth noting that guy. Actually, I don't know
who you got to pay for that kind of information.
I I don't I have a very I have a very fixed budget. That's part of the uh
competition. You wanted some um copper thing made. We sent him out
the other shop. Ah, I know what he wants. Copper plate. I know what he
wants. With holes in it and a dome. I know what he wants.
Dome or something. I have a better plan than him anyway. Pro trolls, man. Pro
trolls. You'll do it all day. Looks like
Man, this is I wish I had my calipers. And he's got digital calipers. Nice.
You're the man, man. Okay, so center to
center and then the
Oh, zero that bad boy again.
Ah, what did you do? Slice my hand. Wow, that's surprisingly deep for not drawing
blood. Oh, there's a little bit. Yeah, these are sharp, by the way, in case
anyone is wondering. Here's our order. We need
eight pieces. We need I'm basically just
buying two of each to give us a buffer to screw up. Okay, so our metal's
costing us 3837. I had I asked for a lot
more cuts than I had gotten my original quote on. So, this is definitely more
than I had necessarily wanted to spend on it, but uh I think 40
bucks for two water blocks I can find a
way to live with. So, that means we have
left in our budget for fittings, any
miscellaneous stuff. We've got
$85. Not bad. Not bad. I think we're still I think we're still uh I think
we're still okay. So, here, let's have a look at the
goods here. So, these two are going to
be those uh that's going to be that heat sink for the GPU um VRM. These bad boys
here are going to be my tops for my CPU
blocks, which are here. And then our GPU blocks. And this is heavy though. We're
going to have to take a lot of material out of this just for weight. So, we've
got two of those as well. So, we have two of everything so that we don't have
to leave the uh the CNC tomorrow. Uh oh.
Was the $2 a change? Yep. Okay. Awesome. Thank you very much. You're very
welcome. My good sir. Happy. And uh I
really hope this works. I have no backup plan.
Next time on Scrapyard Wars, the mayor of Cohog does the outro. Lionus climbs a
40ft tree. No, really. He actually climbs a tree. So, stay
tuned. All right, that's it. No more. It's going to get dumber and
dumber. My IQ is going to go down with it.