$500 PC TEAM BATTLE - Scrapyard Wars Season 5 - Ep3
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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8,133 words · ~40 min read
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hey yep i can hear you sorry about that my phone died um i'm unplugged into my
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battery bank now okay uh 250 uh we can be there in about an hour and a half is
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that does that work for you hour and a half
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um is that like 4 30
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that would be about 4 30.
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can i get the exact address now and then i can give you the more accurate eta
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sure no problem fantastic okay awesome let's let's do a
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deal honey so how much is it total uh we'll go ahead and do the i7
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so what did i say you said 180 for the i7 system
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um why is there a hard drive written here
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15 for the SSD and then what else did we
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what else did we take um just five bucks for the van that was it
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really you're gonna charge me for the fan now fair enough i'm not gonna charge you for the fan i was you're asking what
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else you took he's only he's charging me for the fan because i told him it was
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worth something you do
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not paint no damn no it's fine so it's 195 195 okay i allowed to i have
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a window of how much i could charge for these things and that's pretty standard okay okay so then
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we're good because yes he did figure out who we were
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exactly um because your alias is
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and you're wearing a shirt ash ketchum
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the email is not supposed to be used for craigslist it's just a burner email
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email it's just a burner email
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nice to meet you you need to do pictures can we do that yes definitely yeah
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thank you but it's cool as long as we bought the
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system square absolutely yeah
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we can't take an advantage
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i really don't think that could have gone any better we have a possibly
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serviceable power supply yeah so we got a 3770 eight gigs of RAM i really wanted
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16 gigs of RAM i know but it just it won't help with the benchmarks you're
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right i know i get it uh so we have CPU RAM motherboard case maybe a power
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supply and we've got a lead on a 980 ti
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for 250 bucks that we're gonna start driving to get to
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right now which is insanity so let's go
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i will believe this graphics card when it's like in our system and on and
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doesn't crash before you run a benchmark it's 250 dollars
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for an iti and like he calls you
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you say we have one for 275 that's far away that we are willing to get can you
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price it at the same amount and he says no it's cheaper
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and it's also water cooled like i don't i don't i think he just wants to move it
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so we left there with almost a full system it just didn't have a graphics
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card and the power supply was a little sketchy but while we were there Linus
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got a call with a lead for a 980 ti so our plan at that point was just to go
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and we secured a deal where we could come back to css possibly and buy
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another power supply if we needed to do some weird power supply system thing and
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we took off an hour and a half to somewhere completely different to pick
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up a 980 ti that happened to be water cooled
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man that was sick paul and khan might be able to hear me through the door so i'm trying to keep this down but that was
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awesome after that everything must go entire
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store on sale i want to go to radio shack can we can we go to can we go to
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radio back well we wait yeah i have a radio show
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no one has said no okay could you be less of a dick
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okay so what we have to know then though is um
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i see there's a little note in the box uh when did you figure out who we were
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kind of
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the thing is though i didn't know it was going to be you or not because
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your voice is a little different it is imperative
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that you would have done this deal
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for 250 for someone else yeah i've been trying to sell for a while okay what
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when was the first time you posted on craigslist like two weeks ago okay it's
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been a while okay not many people are gamers okay
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okay so that's fine
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i'm sure yeah we would have it would have killed
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us to uh to arrive here and find out we couldn't
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buy this from you is there a fan okay so we actually need to make a decision
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right now on the power supply do we take the power supply which gives
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us 15 for the theme is it possible that we
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could pick up the power supply tomorrow if we decide we want it yeah
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i'll be here i think i think we should just take it
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i think you're wrong i don't think so i think you're wrong i think we should how
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am i wrong you're wrong in that i really don't think that thermaltake is gonna power
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this thing but if it does work
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then we have i guess he already knows this anyways if it does work then we have 45 dollars for
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RGB which is like pretty wicked
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10 man four out of the six benchmarks we can
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build tonight four out of the six benchmarks are gaming yeah okay
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this has a water cooler on it we can probably make up our stupid 10
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just by being able to power it properly and we can find leaves on the side of
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the road
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buy some flowers for four bucks for red
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more flowers for blue if we like cut a hole in the side panel have the flowers
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coming out creative okay fine i think we take the power supply
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whatever man okay okay sorry graphics card power supply
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yeah sorry we're we've never actually worked together on
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this before so we're discovering that first time we really don't get along
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that we were really worried about the power
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supply because if we got a 980 ti but couldn't power it
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we have a super amazing computer that can't
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complete any benchmarks and we end up disqualified so we have 15 left
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for RGB lighting or do you just want to get your RAM when we do leaves yeah i
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could get my RAM maybe let's i want my rams
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thank you thank you is it possible i figured that was coming is that the
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errand you were running were you grabbing sharpies yep
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yeah okay but you got to tell me were you grabbing sharpies just in case
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just in case okay you never know we might have to like write a contract or
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something with it okay okay all right all right
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if nothing else he seems pretty adamant yep
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and that is a fresh package of sharpies yes it is
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you know what i'm i'm i'm going with it
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his story is good and on the phone he let nothing yeah
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i'll give you that on the phone like he was even confusing and stuff yeah
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he knew us the theory there is that he didn't know us right away we ended up
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calling him a whole bunch of times and very frantically unlike almost anyone
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would and with Linus's voice
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so the theory is that he didn't figure it out until after he offered us
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everything and after we had finalized pricing because the idea in our heads is
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that he went back and watched some youtube videos and then was like yeah that is his voice for sure and then went
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out and bought sharpies and that's why he was late for the meetup because he
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figured it out way later on there's an hour and a half window there where he could have figured it out
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and he swears up and down that he would have sold it for that much to anyone
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because he's been trying to sell it for two weeks and hasn't been able to move it
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uh okay so i did grab the note which was
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still on the seat of his car so let's see what it says
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it says huge fan Linus hope you win
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would would he gamble
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and put a note in the box thinking
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okay some random that part sketches me out more than almost anything else
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so i don't i don't think we're in the wrong
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i don't like it yeah i don't have to like if paul and
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kyle are a little salty i'll get it
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but we also have done our due diligence
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okay so we might have a slight change of plans here um instead of you going to
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pick up well first off i just found this ad on craigslist 25
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for a 64 gig SSD which would be exactly what we're
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looking for 25 is five dollars out of our budget though we only have 20 bucks
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for an SSD so what i'm thinking is instead of you going to rancho to to
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pick up that RGB strip for 10 just maybe cancel on that guy and use
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five of those dollars to get this SSD we can use the other five
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you had a great idea earlier instead of using RGB leds if we just spent five
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bucks on like um red multi-colored like electrical tape
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and we could just tape up the the case the system make it look nice do some
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racing stripes type of thing can we can block over any any open holes or
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anything exactly the other good thing about this place is if they're available today
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they're sort of in the same area where at least the same direction as micro
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center so it could also save us some time instead of us having to split off right now in different directions so you
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worked you worked some magic yesterday with the 980 ti i think you should try
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it on this guy and see if you can get one for 20. that's a good ass because
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there's 64 good gig SSD actually i think this is the guy z
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who called yesterday okay i remember he was like oh man i hope you guys do you
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know can find him or whatever but it didn't sound like he was willing to budge okay i'm hoping to god that he's
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not sold out of them because i can't remember if he mentioned that yesterday on the phone if like that's why he
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couldn't help us or if it was a budget thing he says several several sounds
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like that it was posted a week ago so i think we might still be in the clear
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okay so i'm gonna give him a call right
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i'm now gonna stand here you know in hindsight i really wish that
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i had exact change for the 980 ti guy because that would mean we'd technically
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have five extra dollars at our disposal but
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you know technically since Linus never gave us the money to spend and
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we're using your money wasn't that your money that you tipped
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him with and not the money from the company it technically was yeah that
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was my money that was in my pocket that
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seems perfectly fair to me in my pants
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so i think that was my money i think anything in
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your pants should be fair again so does that mean we can now offer five extra
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dollars to any offer that we attach to an SSD right now
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uh let's ask the audience what do you think audience
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is where you shake the camera up and down to make the yes motion
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no that looks like i know what you're doing right now but you gotta go
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all right there we go now we're talking all right five dollars here we go i don't know
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i've seen Linus do shady or [ __ ] on this show that's a good point and uh
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obviously if he had just given us the money up front
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rather than leaving it in the bathroom at the hotel that would have been way more concrete there would be no no
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debate yeah i think he purposely left it open just to see how we would react it's
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sort of a social experiment he's seeing if we can strategize this and find a way
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to work around clearly his his mistakes i think actually that would mean we have
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six extra dollars because you gave an extra dollar to the the case guy i gave
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him 10 instead of right okay i'm gonna start making 26 offers on ssds beautiful
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so on offer up we have found 120 gig Corsair
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drive it says it's open box but never been used so it's
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actually pretty fast drive 120 gigs
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that's 30 bucks it's in woodier which is pretty close to here
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but there's only make offer options so we had to send him a message through the
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website and we have no idea if he's actually going to respond but it was
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only posted two days ago so
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seems seems like a viable possibility he also has five five-star reviews so
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that's good too so i am having some success uh as far as
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finding listings with offer up which i haven't used before but
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very similar to let go just people take a quick picture post it um
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found 180 gig one it's about 18 miles away
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of course that Corsair one i've reached out to about five or six people so far
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which is some quick messages there's a few more here now that i've expanded the
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search range but we don't want to have to drive too far we don't have that much time
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but an SSD like
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as soon as possible we got to get Windows starting to load get games
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good to go we now have about four and a half hours left until we're
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supposed to end okay okay
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there's a possibility we have a reply two minutes ago
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uh 80 gig until for 25.
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done um can pick up any time
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this is it this is the one
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way immediately get the address and split up really
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quick i'll do the i'll go to micro center you can get the drive
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two thirds of the competition gone i think we're pretty good shape i think we have a pretty good amount of hardware uh
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going on uh obviously we have some some hurdles to get past today gotta get the
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SSD set up gotta get Windows installed gotta do some modding gotta handle the
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RGB stuff so we have a lot of work ahead of us but we do have i think a decent
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amount of time i feel like we're we're where we should be at this point in the competition so very optimistic i think
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and uh we also have some bribes for the judge so that's gonna help too
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uh we need to make this
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fit in here
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that's what she said more actually
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that's true because this is more important than that
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but in order to do this we will require some power
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i'm sure that's fine to do this we need power tools
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like this one
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black and decker
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that i'm going to try to do with this first it's a little bit more precision we do i do have a jigsaw available too
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if the dremel the rotary it's not a dremel but
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it is rotary tool if it doesn't work then
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pull out the big guns go with a jigsaw completely differently than what paul's
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been working on i started with 20 he was like that's way
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too low i offered 30 and he said the lowest i
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can do is 35. he's all the way in fontana so i was like if i can drive 45
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minutes to you please if you can do 30 i will drive all the way to you he said
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finally okay i'll take 30. and he's going to meet me at best buy in orange
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so it's closer to me beautiful that is okay so much better so right now right
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now uh well actually he hasn't confirmed when but um that's the only thing that
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could screw this up is if he's like i can't meet till like 5 pm or something because we need it now if you can
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confirm that you can meet within the next hour then go go go and i'll tell
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huntington beach guy that we're going to back out
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or you could just go go go anyway and we'll wait until honey to bci responds
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you're going the same direction for both of them so that's good yeah okay
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so actually we have we have two options now for ssds we can go paul's route for
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80 gig SSD 25 or we can go 30 dollars for a 128 gig
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SSD on my end your your guy would save us five dollars
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and we can put that towards more um RGB tape
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for the system so even though it's a bit further away
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it might be worth it so see where the bombs is it's off edinger and that's the
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same exit you get off of to go to micro center so it's probably just west today
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okay then geez i don't want to like okay then um
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ask him what time he can meet and i already asked 1pm 1pm he said cool yes
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we can meet us at vaughn's off springdale ninja so okay you just go
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right now okay uh let me get i should probably go straight there then
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right yeah before i hit micro center
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it's right here now i get to tell this guy like hey all
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that haggling that i threw your way um
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never mind what kind of messages to you you know
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although i don't burn my bridge just yet just in case this guy doesn't work out
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so uh i'm gonna email this to you which email should i send it just uh yeah
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actually do the uh do you have my other one i should
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cky
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see you guys
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let's snap off oh look at that that's beautiful it'll
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do the next next thing which is bend in and out of the way
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all right so now it's not lining up i don't know i'm an idiot
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i'm an idiot
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i measured for i measured for the top pc uh damn it need to do a little bit
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more cutting i measured for the top pci bracket
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which is a 1x not not the second PCIe bracket
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which is actually the 16x the card needs to plug
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no worries
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okay yes
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yes
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[ __ ] yeah wait let me try that again
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nope don't do it no i'm becoming more and more happy with uh
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with the case mod that we did here um you know
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slip shot though it may be look it's acting as a GPU support right there it's
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resting let's look at the big ass GPU triple slot design normally it'd be
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drooping down like a limp dick but now it's just
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direct i guess so this is this is really temporary and
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honestly just because i'm uh just trying to figure out some solution
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we have two five and a quarter inch open bays at the front the case did not come
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with with covers for it's gonna be this is gonna be a new trend i think people
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are gonna start doing this Intel's gonna have a ton of pressure on
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them to make like really nice looking CPU boxes so people can put them on
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display so i just got back i got a couple things
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one of which is the 80 gig SSD that we currently have Windows loading on right
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now it's installing it is functional Windows is installed onto it so uh it
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just loaded i got to do driver updates and get everything transferred over as
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far as games and tests from this system
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okay so we've got all of our expenses entered now
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and everything seems to be kosher
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here's everything we've got so far we've got our craigslist ad screenshotted and
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our invoice is entered and we've got 15 left
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for everything we could possibly need to put together our machine
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and take a shot at the 10 RGB bonus
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hit me with what you got first so um
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a couple things i'm getting all of our software and games for all the
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benchmarking later so that we can start benchmarking as fast as possible second
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thing second thing i located a grocery store
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that is rather close so if we still want to go with the flowers idea we can do
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that i was sort of thinking we could punch a hole in the side panel and have
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the flowers like coming out of the case red green and blue flowers yeah
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okay which should be actually like not that hard to get in terms of colors let
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me hit you with an idea i had this morning because
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you've been on you've been on the craigslist there's an email in the craigslist
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i haven't heard back from anybody yet okay but wouldn't you imagine
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that in late march christmas lights
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might be pretty cheap oh my god um
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yeah and blue is actually not that uncommon for christmas lights
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so i haven't heard back from anybody yet but
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i also found another lead check out this place
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led for everything.com
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is located 15 minutes from here here's an RGB waterproof led strip kit with
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controller that would have packs on it is too expensive well hold on hold on
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but what i'm thinking is we don't need
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uh what is this this is a five meter
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roll oh wow so we could show up there
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and we could be like okay we'll take like
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scrap strips we have 15
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can you do it would you rather do RGB led strips or like some weird thing
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with flowers i don't know i'm torn i'd love to know if strips with
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a controller are an option like i feel
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better having the lighting and then trying to
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figure out if there's like
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some green like on a box that we could cut out to like
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like i don't know like do some decoration
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i don't think we have a huge bid in the RGB realm so my kind of concept is that
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go get my RAM no
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i didn't say that because we have to win the like oh that's creative vote you
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know what i mean right instead of to just like that's a really good
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implementation of RGB i don't think we're gonna win that vote but if we do
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christmas lights we could go straight cancer
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and we could buy five meters of lights and just light them up
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and chuck them in there like i'm sure those guys are gonna have
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real RGB lighting we decided to go a different route uh instead of RGB
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lighting altogether we're just gonna use tape because i think it's a little bit
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clever and quite frankly led lights are a little bit
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overplayed it's like it's like i took a class in this or
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something it's just so so beautiful
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things are proceeding with the system itself uh SSD's installed i'm going to
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tuck that stuff in there and put the side panel on panel on once kyle's
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finished with it it's a little i got a little freaked out for a minute uh when
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i first installed Windows it it was really sluggish like doing anything
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just pulling up the Windows menu it seemed like it was just
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like i would click Windows mini it would take five or ten seconds before it would actually pull up i think it was just
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doing background Windows 10 initial installation setup stuff at that time uh
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and there was no wi-fi or no internet at first but that kicked in too so i had to
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re do a couple restarts but now everything seems back up to speed i just
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installed steam so i gotta copy games and uh i also did drivers on this so i'm
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gonna do that right now the only thing i can think to do is kind of create this
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uh staggered effect with the various colors that we have
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um and then i'm gonna work my way inward i also kind of want to do some sort of
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fun border around the window itself but i'm just kind of letting the ideas come
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to me but uh it's very time consuming i'm just hoping
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that it will eventually pay off
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oh i was just gonna say i wish i had a
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magnetic uh thing to put all these screws on
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well my fix-it sponsor
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okay
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oh security measures
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it's fine
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why do you drop everything it didn't i didn't drop it i put it down really fast
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did you hear an impact i yes
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on your foot yeah i put it down on my foot really fast
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it's okay i'll get it
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there no problem
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you didn't used to drop everything now you had said you were thinking
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radiator on the bottom but i got to tell you i'm actually no no the door
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on the door oh on the side panels like the tubes are actually really long
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shoot
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that's fine that'll be fine that'll be fine and we could do some cool mod
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anyways where they like come out of the door a little bit if we really wanted to so are you thinking like that yeah and
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then as an intake we could like okay yeah yeah i can do
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that cut like yeah like intakes all
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along here and then this might actually end up being somewhat useful as an
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intake another option is like
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this seems to be multiple pieces here
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look this pops off whatever this is
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what happens if we take this out i wonder if it ends up looking really
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cool um that's not gonna look cool ah yeah
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that might not look that good okay well let me let me finish this anyway
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it'll be easier to mod that face if you want to though yep
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possibly
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so this does not look good
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no how to mount the power supply
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okay so you said you had an idea i have one that you're not gonna like so you go
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first i wanna hear the idea i'm not gonna like
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if we decide that we don't need this absolutely we test everything out of the
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system everything's fine yeah cause like i i think
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this is actually versus doing a dual power supply like janky thing where we
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have because we don't have a jumper we'd have to pay like 10
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for one of those power supply dual psu jumper things
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which we have but like really yeah um i
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think this is a better bet to run this whole system
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so okay so if we decide we don't need if we decide we don't need this yeah we
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could there's space here we could open the top up
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sheer the back off cut a hole around it and make a mounting
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plate with this using these screw holes that are already
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nicely threaded why wouldn't i like that that was the same idea i was gonna pitch
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here
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look at how much clearance there is inside here
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yeah and then just like so take cut a hole in here for the
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modular interface that would be easier
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so i'm gonna have to not destroy it but like definitely use a
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soldering iron and dismantle it if i wanted to come out of here
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hi i'm just wondering uh i was looking at your
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3528 RGB waterproof led strip kit and i
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was just thinking like i don't need the power supply and i don't need that many
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leds so i was just wondering if you guys had like cheaper options if you don't
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need as many things like maybe you just have some scrap RGB led strips around
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and don't need those and we just get those in a clicker
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but if you need i can remove the power supply from the kit set so
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they will be cheaper yeah okay um
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we have about 15 bucks
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exactly nothing nothing like we like we
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have a five and we have a 10 and that is the total amount of money that we have
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uh what do you think we could get for that
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oh actually for 15 so you mean that you want us to ship it to you or you no we
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can we can come pick it up for sure if you can pick up from our location we
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can just choose this car you can just buy the
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entire 5050 lgbtq set for 15
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with the power supply so cash no tax
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uh low test yeah it's fine 15 feet yeah
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okay okay i think we've got a deal what was the address
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a minute i thought we were only doing the bottom
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right my bad
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i think i did the same thing you did oh shoot okay i don't think it'll look
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that bad okay
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in other news our stress test uh both ida 64 for the
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CPU and combustor plasma for the GPU are
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going strong and GPU is at 43 degrees
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yep that was with the front completely off yeah
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and the side off oh no no i know i know no no this isn't like this is not final
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temps i just mean everything's running smoothly under like worst case scenario
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we leave the side panel off and we just
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fill it with RGB and we lose RGB and then we destroy
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anyways yes we're talking about how classy our
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victory is going to be at this point which matters which does matter
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which does matter both care about that we do both care about that
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what there's ac in the garage
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you knew this i didn't know this
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it is freaking hot in here i would have turned it on
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i told you yesterday that it exists
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okay well i don't know how to turn it maybe you haven't
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we don't need to put anything on the heart of dewey yeah we do we have an 80
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gig SSD oh we actually have to put
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the games on the hard drive i thought we were just running them from the
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from the uh external so if they buy if
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someone if one of you guys buys a bad part off craigslist that ends up not
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working you get that money back
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if you buy a bad part yeah or if it breaks
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or if it breaks
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our rule has always been you got to deal with it no one's ever done that
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well people have broken things
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you may recall that in scrap yard war season four
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i broke a motherboard and then had to repair it
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i mean are they gonna not have a system you know what yeah
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i'm feeling pretty charitable if they got a broken part
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should we sure yeah yeah you know what that's
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that's the confidence level in this room let's let's go buy our second 980 ti
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yeah yeah let's do that
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in this case today
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it would be that you like get the money back and you can reuse the money i guess
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oh i see but that won't help us out by training now to be honest great
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so clean the case power supply mount radiator mount for the front which is
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basically just a matter of drilling a few holes yeah um
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side panel Windows i have two of now because i found this
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thing under here oh seriously
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yeah it's actually like slightly bigger too
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nice so we have two side panel Windows from the power supply nice so we have
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like a couple strategically placed classy Windows yeah
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so front vent cover mod we have to do that
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and then we have to uh re-splice the fan connectors
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so um i'm gonna like assign things
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does that look pretty good sure okay we're not gonna get back from our RGB
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errand until a little after two i still don't have all the games
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installed and oh install games
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so we can maybe teamwork that once we're done the actual physical assembly
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because i'm not going to want to overclock the GPU until we've got the side panel back on anyway
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okay all right let's go get some RGB strips
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let me do some decelerating oh sure okay
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hello hello uh we called in earlier um
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uh 50 50 for 15 bucks okay so we got our clicker which doesn't
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work super well but it works enough for us there's our five meters of leds power
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adapter ir receiver power cable
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everything's good we are good to go and our freshbooks expenses total 500
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us dollars exactly not a penny to spare i'm gonna go get
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some food in there let's get some noms and let's get these installed i love
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that we have five meters of RGB
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what if we just like it has adhesive backing right
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what if we just take our five meters and just put an insane amount of it on the
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outside and just be like we have the most RGB
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we should get the highest score because we have the most RGB
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it is a score rating remember they asked like what are the different categories
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when we were just like RGB
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bearing in mind who our celebrity judge is
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i think we both know that isn't going to fly there's your approximate cut out for
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the window turn that into straight lines
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it's approx we're in a hurry
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okay thanks dude
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so we we have a we have a kind of a
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it's like the one part that you think is just that throwaway item that you don't
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even have to worry about 160 gig drive
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uh we got it from the wholesale place the guy popped it into a a toaster and
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tested it while we were there pulled up crystal disc info and it was fine it was
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recognizing but he didn't eject it or do anything he just pulled the drive out of
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the thing while it was still spinning and i was
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i like know i should have said something more to be honest but now that drive is not
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showing up anywhere in device manager so we are
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kind of we have a problem because we only have an 80 gig SSD and we still have gta 5
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and 4r to drop on and those are like i mean
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we need the space on the mechanical drive so
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we will need to either throw ourselves at the mercy of of Linus
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who's always benevolent and forgiving and not take this to
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as to his advantage at all or we could send
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ed into the garage to grab one of the existing 160 gig drives that i have in
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there that are completely functional and cheat does it count if we give ed
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ten dollars for the hard drive what if we just give ed ten dollars
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yeah ed you want ten dollars it sends you out that way it's legit and not
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cheating at all yeah i mean at this point like we're not
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gonna get away with anything well yeah any chance we had of that was ruined
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when we like let ed record us with our with our shady plans i think we should
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talk to Linus first okay
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and just see what he says okay
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i think this is an opportunity for team imba to throw a bone
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to team loser over there if you guys can extract the drive you can have it
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oh really yes is this is this a trick is this a trap the trap is that we are so
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great that we have enough extra hardware to make up for your guys's failings
35:53
okay so apparently Linus and luke have so much hardware
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according to Linus that this is actually an overflow and they
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just handed this off to us they said if we could extract the drive and it worked properly
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then you know they've basically just thrown us a bone so
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let's see if this works i'm going to go ahead and crack it open
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this looks like a job for i fix it
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let's see so it looks like we need i don't know what you call that one but
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i know what it looks like
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4.6 gigahertz on the CPU it's getting pretty warm hitting mid to upper 80s
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on the coors 2. actually core 2 hit 92
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package hit 93. so that's about as warm as we want and i don't think i can do
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anything further about securing that CPU cooler anything more i think this is the
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big drawback of the t4 versus like a hyper 212. um we did hit 665. as far as
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the score goes so we're probably okay but if they have an eight core if they
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have a 47 70 or even like a 30 even a 37 70k that's
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overclocked then we'll probably get beat there but if they have a straight quad
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core i think we have a pretty good chance
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thanks fix it
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um
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so it's ide
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do we have a an ide to SATA
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no oh you know what though
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i mean i do have an ide to say to usb dav or ide to usb adapter let's just use
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that extern and just have the drive external
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you can still stick it in the case somehow you know
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i don't have well there's nowhere to route these to plug
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in via uh an usb
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header just pop it in there right like
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unscrew it from there and just keep it inside what
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the front usb header usb ports
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the adapter plugs into like a usb cable like that needs to plug into one of the
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plugs on the back of the system yeah that's what you said take one of those
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disconnect it just plug it direct straight into the front or why not oh
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those might be usb 1
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which would severely limit the drive's capability so what if we what if we did
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usb three in the back yeah yes two or three is fine
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but we didn't even need that adapter which
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i'm pretty sure is in the garage and i don't think i know exactly where it is
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again i'd have to go out there or something
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so um
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do you think it would be easy
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i would it'd be what yeah i have a big idea where it is i mean i
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could send you in there not you people on the camera but you ed
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i could send you in there to uh investigate if you want
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yeah see if you can hunt it down go do our bidding
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so cupboards you remember the drawers in the bottom three plastic drawers
39:21
so latest adapter works it's got ide on that side
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plugs in right there and then usb and then it comes with a
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power adapter to plug in like a molex plug there or SATA um but since we are
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going to try to install this internally we can just use one of the molex plugs already in
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the case hopefully that will work what if
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if we plugged into the back if we wanted to just make it a little bit more
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hidden would it be possible to like just route the cable around maybe cut out a little
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hole here and actually have the drive in the uh
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we have we have space back there
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because like i was just gonna have it right here the adapter would stick off
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right there right there i have the drive right here yeah and
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then i can just feed that cable out through one of these
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okay and plug it in the back yeah it works okay let me do that
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it's there we have a disk that we can initialize
40:24
all thanks to Linus and luke never mind device is not ready
40:28
when was the last time you get really really excited that you had a floppy connector
40:33
at the end of this uh the end of this modular cable there is a
40:37
floppy connector and i have no idea if this is going to make a difference at all but i can actually
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just plug this into the adapter they're going to look at this
40:45
and what the hell is going on with that hard drive in there i think that might
40:48
have done it because when i plugged it in the light came on on the adapter in
40:52
there so plugged in here to the hard drive and then looped back there to plug in the
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ide to usb adapter
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should be good hold on
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well the drive still says it's not ready so
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i don't know what else to do to attempt to
41:15
get this drive to work uh it came out of a you know seagate external device
41:21
whatever so my thoughts are either that it's dead
41:25
or there's some something malfunctioning with it or
41:29
there's some advanced disc initialization thing that i
41:35
apparently don't know how to do because i just keep getting the devices not
41:38
ready and uh so i don't know
41:46
goddamn hard drive i'm gonna just start cutting this guy go
41:50
go yeah go we don't we have no time to measure
41:55
gta is installed okay
41:58
problem what i got like an inch cutting disc is
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now that i was going slow i was letting the
42:06
dremel do the work and everything it just like
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so there's just like a gash jig
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oh god have you ever used a jigsaw
42:20
not a long time i have what about a um
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an angle grinder do you think he has one of those that would be great
42:31
hey paul do you have an angle grinder
42:35
do you have another cutting blade no angle grinder
42:39
thinks he might have another like one more cutting blade but doesn't
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know where it is if it's the same type if it's not a hardened cutting blade i'm
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not gonna make it through
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bring it in let's have a look at it it's pretty bad
42:56
any idea how we're going to cut the case i haven't found anything that would work
43:00
because this looks abominable yeah it looks pretty terrible
43:05
so basically no way to cut this then
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okay well what else is on the list what else is a high priority for you
43:15
i've got front vent cover mod but like
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i'm out of blades we can't and we can't even like cut this for oh this is
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aluminum okay we might have been able to cut this but like yeah yeah
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and then psu mount okay get the power
43:32
supply out maybe disconnect all the modular cables sure
43:35
okay well we've got 25 minutes to build a computer that works and it already
43:40
works so this can't go that badly it's just a
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matter of like our aesthetic scores will be terrible yeah get that disconnected
43:49
uh give me that i'll play with that you get the drives installed yeah sure and i
43:53
gotta get the rad installed too should i even dust it maybe just go outside and be like
43:59
okay there you go we have like an hour and a half two
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hours uh we probably don't have time to
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go out and get another drive we don't have money left to go out and get
44:09
another drive so we were stuck trying to figure out how to work that one or
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like we really we really had no other options so um thankfully Linus offered
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us you know threw us a bone and offered us this c8 enclosure that had a drive in
44:25
it that's uh but pulling it out we found it was ide
44:29
ide drives obviously have a completely different connector that our board
44:32
doesn't even have tried to use a usb adapter
44:36
that one eventually also turns out was bad and would not format at all so yeah
44:41
we really had no other choice but to take extreme
44:46
measures it's recognized
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it's there nicholas it's already initialized it didn't need
44:54
to be initialized it was already initialized and formatted oh
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so this is connected to the adapter
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yeah i powered it differently but i think there is an issue with plugging in
45:06
the power both to the drive and to the adapter when it's connected
45:11
via usb something like that anyway i'm going to format this
45:14
which one is this system reserved and local disk
45:18
this is the uh the this is the ide drive
45:21
that Linus said we could use of course
45:25
why would it be anything else it's the exact specific id drive he said
45:30
you guys use this drive and we said okay it's the wd successfully in the drive
45:34
dispute kyle did did it come unplugged did he get bumped did it did that get
45:38
switched off we wanted to thank you ed for uh for joining our criminal uh
45:44
uh group or cabal or i don't know what that's called sorry if you were
45:47
incriminated um but we appreciate you risking everything to go and uh get us
45:52
another drive um you did get one that was still ide
45:58
we still appreciate that though somehow it still had the same issue
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and we had three drives that didn't work and
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so so i guess all that is to say for any of
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you at home we did what we did because we had no
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other choice
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luke and lannis are almost done but without any tools can their RGB solution
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make the cut and hard drive trouble pushes paul and
46:25
kyle to the limit just how far will they go to stay in the game