previously on scrapyard wars 300 cash
the very best gaming rig that we can build it seems like an okay deal for an
8400 computer to me someone just accepted our offer for 100 on a 79.50
sorry i can't come down to get anything tonight so i might have to pass
if anything and now the conclusion or part of it
i've got a 500 watt antec power supply
that we're headed to pick up right now and then the r9 290 i got for 180 so
that's actually pretty sweet we will go pick that up later did he say 290 is
that fast what's a graphics card okay so
it's day two of our search and uh we've gotta find out where our
destination is so i'm not exactly sure where we're going okay i have the
address for our first appointment
on my laptop which battery is low
ah scrap yard wars one
there we go now we're good
okay i really hope that's not it
i think it might be holy crap this is some sketch
okay so this is five three three two holy crap
this is like this is some sketchy demons
no parking well they parked in front of it where like where does this door go i
don't know there's some blood in there though
hello are you santa hi i'm Linus
nice to meet you too this is uh nick he can turn off the
camera if you want no cameras today that's fine
so our contact here got us pretty hooked up actually he had the whole thing
running on a test bench to show that it booted up and had core temp
CPU z installed and everything so we could validate that everything's good to
go so this is an ep 35 ds3r a pretty decent
little board it's got an extra chip on there for SATA ii raid we've got eight
gigs of uh what appears to be mix and
match so we've got half samsung half kingston ddr2 800. there's a q6600 on
there with a cooler um and then we also
just thrown in got what appears to be the remains of a freezer seven i think
we can make use of that with uh with an extra fan or something along
those lines and then we also got an earth watts 500
watt power supply which was uh better than i was expecting i actually didn't
know what model of power supply we were gonna get but this has got two PCIe six
pin connectors on it so that means that powering our graphics card later isn't
gonna be a problem at all and then i thought we were getting a 500
gig hard drive and we actually ended up with
a one terabyte hard drive so uh oh yeah
right in the case so there were a few sort of cooler
master elite class options or there was
a silverstone tj04 that happens to be missing a couple of bay covers well
i have some bay covers we've got a card
reader a floppy drive yeah baby
so uh oh and look the vancouver olympic
mascots that was a bonus i didn't even have to pay extra for that
all right so i'm feeling pretty good we just need the rest of this day to go well
still need a graphics card so i just got my uh antique basic power 500 watt
continuous power power supply which is exactly what i was looking for looks like it's in good shape clean happy with
all that kind of stuff while i was talking to the guy though i was like
yeah thanks for doing this like i know it's really short notice because i just emailed them this morning and it was his
dad or whatever and he's like yeah it's been an interesting day someone was just here
picking up a case in power supply like 20 minutes ago
what who do you think that is there's like no way that isn't Linus except it
wasn't man we're probably so close
oh that would have been so funny if we were picking stuff up at the same time
anyways let's let's go get some lunch because you know we're having a chill day
they're probably freaking out driving everywhere so i had
multiple leads on 79 50s for 100 and
then i actually ended up with two gtx 580s lined up for a hundred dollars i
decided i wanted 79.50 so i bailed on all the 580s i got back to what looked
like a very promising 7950 lead and then heard nothing so this guy who's actually
going to be on different job sites today but i asked
him very nicely yesterday to bring it with him in case i need it i'm going to
try and track him down next after we go meet up with the guy who i promised
t-shirts to technically i don't think we're allowed
to use anything that we didn't get
but luke will never know that i used my own uh
yeah that's true and we can always just lie to luke
right yes lying is it lioness
lie yes it's right in there well so we just arrived to meet up with
them i was trying to figure out how to tell them i don't have the right shirt
turns out i did grab the right shirts
we do have Linus tech tip shirts so
uh this will be this will be a lot more successful than it otherwise would have
been let's go ah hello gentlemen
nice to meet you sorry i wasn't able to take the card
unfortunately but uh so i found a 7950
which gives me about a 10 edge in GPU performance yes so i got to take it
my my plan for this if i didn't get the zalman
uh was i was just going to rip the block off and use like a stock Intel heatsink
on the GPU core or something which would have been awesome and like super ghetto
but i found the 7950 so i kind of had to take it
but you had said you wanted me to sign something as well i brought a silver pen
smart ass there thank you the real Linus
all right since i showed up and didn't didn't buy
anything actually all right well it's a pleasure to meet
you gentlemen we've got to get to our next appointment here and uh i'm gonna
go get like a hot chocolate or something but i'll see you gems later
wow cause we're not five minutes early we're
nine minutes early it is now
1 40. he was supposed to be here at 1 15.
so he just texted me saying he'll be here
in one minute um but
i'm like it's fine i guess
145.
i got it but he's really we gotta go
i don't like it when people are late i especially don't like it when they're
that late and when i like clearly stated that it was important
and i needed to go early
79.50 guy said he'd call us back in 10 minutes and that was 18 minutes ago
now the guy we just met with that we gave
the t-shirt to he has the 580 hydrocopper
so what i'm thinking i haven't seen him leave yet
not that i'm parked outside the starbucks like stalking someone i haven't seen him
leave yet um so if i don't hear back from 79 50 guy
that's our backup plan and we take that and then we try and get in touch with
zalman cooler guy again and and we go for it because that's down in richmond
uh which is kind of far but but definitely doable
mine is speaking okay i'll be there in about half an hour as well um there you
are so let's have a look at our spoils as long as it works
this will be the only piece we haven't validated this is a pretty beefy looking
card this is a mostly rear exhaust style
card so it's got the uh it's got the cooling
fan just above the uh vrm cooling piece
right here all right i am feeling good
i don't know if this is technically cheating because it's just an aesthetic
thing but uh i'm gonna try and find some aluminum faceplates i actually have some
boxes of random junk that i'm taking to the office this is like a forty dollar
piece that realistically i wasn't luke's not gonna
believe i salvaged or got for nothing these
are what i actually need
yeah okay all right so i'm thinking we'll do the
build off in here so one person will take this desk
surface and then the other person will set up a
couple desks here and then we can use our pile of computer
cases um to construct like like a wall a wall
like a barrier so that neither of us can see what the other is doing so we've
been back at hq already for like two hours and uh
luke and uh brandon are
nowhere to be seen they said we can start building at three so given that
it's 2 30 right now we're pretty close so
let's get set up
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is going to be awesome that's what i said before we turned the camera on and
now we're doing it again it's fake but it is what i legitimately said so is it
fake i don't know no one knows
okay so are we doing the part part show-off
oh even though we have no alcohol and no cleaning cloths i found this
napkin on the floor oh that's weird it doesn't have a model number maybe this
is an unreleased processor i digest it
has a model number so there's our CPU that's going to be a
phenomenal performer
here's our RAM okay
here's our other ramp
all right here's our third set of RAM
our fourth set of RAM
and our eighth set of RAM
and our 12th set of RAM and our eight
he's got a little bit of a viewing port back there
i gotta be careful he can see around that corner quite easily and he's a
little rascally devil gotta be careful with that one
that's the sound of a quality side panel
being dropped right there
i would only drop it like that if i wasn't worried about damaging it because
i have so many cases i bought six cases i thought that would
probably be about about par yeah you probably only bought six cases
because you're gonna need six cases to end up with a fully functional one yep
next time on scrap yard wars luke runs out of gas in the bad part of town nick
fights the statue of liberty yeah i just don't really like freedom
how's what what how was the bathroom what about them oh yeah your bathroom
cleaning what no it's not it's his week this week i think no last week i missed
it oh i stayed late editing a video last week
so i was kind of not in the mood to do garbage and also i forgot
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