$500 PC TEAM BATTLE - Scrapyard Wars Season 5 - Ep2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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8,273 words · ~41 min read
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two teams try to build the best gaming rig they can for $500 the rules are
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simple you work within the set hours you buy the parts you use and you can't use
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your influence as a YouTuber to get deals oh and the best RGB computer gets
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a 10% score bonus welcome to Scrapyard
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Wars and now we got to figure out where to go next cuz we were hoping by now the
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uh South Orange County option would would be where we could go but um we
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discovered the motherboard was h61 which you can't overclock with so it
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wouldn't be much point if getting a 2600k with an h61 motherboard also was
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ECS which we've got we've got uh a second
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guy John who has the same CPU 2600k but
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he actually has a z68 board which we could overclock with and he's an eliso
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vijo which is about the same direction as the last guy so it could work out I
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texted him um offer 200 for both of them he hasn't replied yet I'm just going to
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call him maybe are you going to call your guy first or do you want me to call
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my guy so I'm in Santa Anna so yeah I'm
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in Santa Anna okay um we could honestly
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come by right now if if you're available we would probably be maybe 20 minutes or
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so but uh obviously if you're not busy
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yeah we're uh we're open until 5:00 p.m.
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I can piex you the address and uh yeah feel free to drop bar okay yeah just uh
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text me over the address and we'll be on our way so maretta guy with the 2600k
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and the ECS motherboard that's 861 which we cannot overclock on um I asked him if
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we could omit the motherboard for a cheaper price I offered him 160 bucks
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for 2600k 8 gigs of memory which is dual
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Channel and uh 180 s gig SSD which 180
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gigs that capacity means we probably wouldn't need a hard drive so that could
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also save us some money and some time he seems like a pretty reasonable guy but
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he also doesn't want to get ripped off obviously so this could really go either
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way guy in maretta with the 2600k just replied to our $160 offer and said I
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will pass I think he's bluffing maybe he's bluffing are you are you bluffing
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are youting me are you sh me this is an
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industrial area or commercial Zone and I
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don't know again it's going to be situation they're either going to try to barter really hard and get as much money
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out of us as possible or or if they really just have a bunch of stuff stored
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and they want to get rid of it then maybe we can maybe we can negotiate so
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we've uh we've come to a place they have lots of parts and they seem to be pretty
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reasonable prices and they have some slightly older stuff but not too old so
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lots of options here just matter what they have on hand uh we're trying to
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definitely get a power supply right now and uh they might have gpus as well
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which could be really nice he walked into the uh Ellen place or alen place
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the alen warehouse um there were a couple people who sort of looked at me
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and Paul and kind of raised an eyebrow like I recognize you and fortunately
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they weren't employees so I think that helped but I think you obviously edel
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also helped us and like kind of like nudged the guy the fans and was like sh you know quiet X on the Paul and Kyle
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say or whatever but it was cool to meet them after the deal was done to sort of
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you know shake hands and be like hey what's up thanks for not ruining
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everything for us so it all worked out they were mentioning some talk of some
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fairly affordable 900 series GeForce cards which definitely pequ our interest
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I think very very overclockable that's the nice thing indeed and you know
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they've got uh Power Supplies hard drives they also have a z97 board for
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like 50 bucks or something I'm currently trying to email a guy for a
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4670k potentially um if we can get that hooked up that'd be pretty nice that'd
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be sweet so uh we just came out pretty fat
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with some components here we got a power supply uh from Rose will and we got a
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power supply so we've got some wiggle room there for power T4 cooler z97
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motherboard no CPU yet and also a hard drive we got all this for what 80 bucks
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80 bucks so this place is called Elon wholesale and we found them via a
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Craigslist ad for cases um and it was just like what we were looking for a
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warehouse just piled with stuff all slightly old and willing to make a deal
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for uh quite a few parts so this definitely gives us some wiggle room we
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spent less than $100 and uh we need we need to locate
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the big ticket items though CPU graphics card yeah so we're going to need uh
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Haswell no no yeah Haswell or Devil's Canyon something like that we're looking
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for a 4690k right now um I've got a few leads on Craigslist hopefully that works
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out and we we're also missing a modular cable for this power supply for the for
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the peripherals we'll have to work that out but uh yeah as a tool yeah tool yes
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okay all right so we got we got a potential strategy we can go with here
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too since we don't have a GPU yet but we do have a motherboard with video outs so
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let's say we don't get the GPU till tonight or that someone wants to meet in the evening one of us could stay back
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and get the system up and running and Windows loaded and stuff while somebody
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else goes out to pick up a GPU and that would we can do that right yeah we can
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split up we never told there were no
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rules sign these twins or anything all right I think it's lunchtime though yeah
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I'm hungry so right now we're meeting up with a guy named John who by some
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miracle is selling his 4690k Core i5 for
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140 bucks seems like there's no strs attached I guess we'll find out when we
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get there but that's uh that's putting us in even better shape than we are now
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um if we can get that part sold for that much very close to that yeah it's very
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close it was only 12-minute drive from where we had had lunch like I said we're
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on our way there now so um I think at that point we just need the main part
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after this assuming that we don't get mugged here uh is going to be the graphics card that gives us plenty of
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time we've got all the rest of today it's only what 1:30 p.m. and we're
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already getting a pretty decent CPU and a bunch of other stuff so yeah
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we well I guess I could have just waited till I got in the car yeah so he said he
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was running it at 4.4 to 4.6 which is at 1.3 1.2 Vols 1.3 volts
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it's my keys that'll do that'll do pig
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yep okay so we're looking up gtx980 TI
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at this point we only have about 170 to 200 bucks to spend 200 really if we need
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to we can return the RGB LEDs I'm down to do that for a 980 TI I'm looking
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right now on Craigslist they're all like $300 and up but I I pretty much have
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crafted an email that I'm sending out to this guy uh saying hello can I can give
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you $200 cash for the GTX 98 TI and I'll
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drive to you I know that's a pretty low offer but that's literally all the money
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I have left and I need that card more than anything if you've ever wanted to
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pay it forward to a fellow bro this is your chance take it before it's too late
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and I'm planning to copy paste that to all the GTX 980ti owners on Craigslist
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right now so we'll see what happens I hope there's no one who's like selling
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more than one of them and gets a message from both oh oh RAM update RAM update so RAM
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guy RAM guy the guy who had all the RAM that's why we called him RAM guy he
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actually came back finally after all day of Silence he was like I can do it for
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20 bucks so that's $10 off of other RAM
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guy so I'm going to cancel other RAM guy and go with primary RAM guy and get it
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for like 10 bucks less and then we can put towards a better graphics card you
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know what you know what Kyle what what that's RAM
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tastic okay so once I convinced elus and
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Brandon that it might not be the worst idea to get on a plane and go to Paulo
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Alto we took off I had to get us to the
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hotel immediately once we got to the hotel I threw the car in park ran inside
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got both all three of our
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passports and we sort of made it
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wait what uh hold on if this guy has a
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phone number I'm going to call right now this guy has a phone number this guy has
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uh has a dual Zeon
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workstation
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57 SSD keep that in mind I know I know
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he wants 450 but we don't need all of the stuff you Hollywood this is Megan
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how may I help you hi I'm calling about a listing that um Matthew there put on
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Craigs List all right um what was the
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listing for it was for a z800 dual zon
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workstation all right and your name uh my name is Ash Ash let me transfer you
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over to someone I think Matthew is actually out right now but I have someone else who can help you out just a
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moment great thank you hello this is Tim hi I'm calling
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about um I think you guys actually have more than one workstation listed on
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Craigs List yeah what's going on okay I
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am it's a kind of a long story but I am
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in kind of a a bind here um so here's
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what I I need basically RAM a dual socket motherboard
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and like a case power supply cooling
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solution SSD um and in a perfect world if you guys had like an old SSD
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that would be that would be amazing as well okay all right yeah let me find out
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about that and then I'll get right back cash that would be that would be super
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amazing sorry I didn't catch your name oh my name is Tim Tim or Timothy Tim
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okay uh great to meet you and I I I really really really really hope you can
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help us out here that would be super duper awesome all right sounds good yeah
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let me just talk it over and then I'll give you a call back I'd say within you
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know next 15 20 minutes that would be perfect thank you okay all right right
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talk to soon okay bye okay so let's just start driving towards the airport and
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then if we hear back from the local workstation
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guys uh then we will stop driving towards the airport like basically the
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next hour we either win this competition
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or we lose and like we have nothing I can cry
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like I'll cry if that's what it takes I need the system okay it's been 19
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minutes I'm calling call it it's 19
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minutes what was his name what was his name Tim Tim Tim
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Tim hi I'm calling for
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Tim Tim yeah I don't have a Tim here wait um the
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wrong number again oh I'm confused may maybe I maybe I dialed the wrong number
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I'm I'm sorry I'll have to I'll have to try again sorry okay
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okay who did I just
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call I don't know who I just called and I don't have the number for these guys
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anymore oh my god well Tim I don't
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know okay no no I I remember what I searched for I searched for
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Zeon well there there's your 20 minutes
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this is like not funny anymore like I like you know I like the T for the sake
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of the show but oh this is it oh [ __ ] I called the wrong number I have no idea
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who I just
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called New Media Hol this is may I help
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you hi I'm calling for Tim for Tim uh is
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this what was your name again uh my name's Ash Ash yeah right sorry just one
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moment let me go grab him for you awesome thank you so I'm so sorry to call again apologize for me please no no
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worries you're fine you're fine so our PC guyy he's out right now
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he's going to be back probably about 30 minutes he said that he can double check
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the computer cuz there's a few things he'd have to check before we can sell it
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um but that we may have one I don't know how long you're going to be in town but
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I I have your contact so I can give you a call as soon as he gets back and he's checking the system okay I pretty much
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need to drive there right now it's like really it's a very long really stupid
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story but um so so like is it is it like
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so okay so if he's giving me the go-ahead on that my pricing is not
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totally unreasonable can we just can we just
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come there we're we're really techy we could even test it for you guys so you
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don't have to hassle around with like whether it works or not and we're not
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asking for warranty or anything like that um that i' I'd have to find out I
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think the price would be a little more it probably be closer to like three um
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but that I would have to I would have to talk to him and and make
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sure okay uh hold on let me let me pull
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up my spread we're working on a really a really fixed budget here
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um closer to so would it be 300 with the SSD and
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CPUs uh well we uh the one the unit that
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we have it doesn't have a CPU inside um and then the other one it didn't have a
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hard drive either so it' be without those two oh
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no we have to go okay um but as as soon
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as he gets back I can have him contact you guys just to you know kind of see where you're at and see if we can still
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work something out
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um I honestly I have to know in like the
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next two minutes could could I call could I call a Sal and see if I can work
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something out with him uh yeah do you want to do that and
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then uh just uh give me a call back or something that yeah sure could could I
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get his cell number I'm so sorry well he's he's actually driving right now so
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he's he's not even in the office oh no
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yeah as soon as he gets back he'd have to check on the specs and then uh kind
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of do the the clean process and make sure everything is you know wiped and
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everything's gone okay yeah okay
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um okay okay okay
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uh okay what time is your flight uh
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basic like if we can't if we can't get
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something done with you guys we we have have to go try and book something at the
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counter and and walk on like immediately
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um like we're we're we're we're in the parking
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lot okay I see I mean I I'm pretty sure
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let me check I I know I have a system that's probably ready to go but that's going to have you know the hard drive
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that's going to have like everything in there and it's going to be closer to our our price that we have online um which
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I'm sure it's over like 300 I'm sure it's closer to like four um but that's
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what the system is like ready to go but I can I mean if you guys want to do
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something like that I can check on there we can we can't do that like we can
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Franken frankensteining together something is much easier and better for
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us
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um okay okay I'll I'll just have to let
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you know if anything changes thank you okay yeah no problem sorry about that
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okay thanks anyways all righty yeah all right take care circling we have eight
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we have8 minutes okay Park Park like I I
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don't know we got to call them then schedule for tomorrow cuz if we can't
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schedule for tomorrow then we don't have
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a system anyways okay and we just have to go to Michael and get a system there
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yeah just go just go park I'm going to call Michael right
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now I thought these guys were going to come through it seemed like we were
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pretty close to being able to get something done
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like I don't think we can I don't think we can fly out there cuz like we're
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still $2 over even if everything goes according to plan hi
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Michael hey um um having a rough day to
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be perfectly honest are you in the shop right now are you able to uh basically every
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other deal we've tried to get done here is collapsing around us right
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now um um you had said you had decent
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towers that we could put the video card in for like pretty affordable like what
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kind of specs are you
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talking I just I'm looking to my left right now I see a pretty Co Cooler
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Master HF Cas it's kind of old but you can do it in there I'll throw you guys
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um I'll throw you guys a Lenovo S center it's an i7 3770 8 gigs of RAM and a
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terabite hard drive
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oh for how much would that be
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um what do you think about uh what do you think about
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200 200 okay so we would still
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need let just can you okay this is going
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to um this might this might be annoying
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but could you could you do an SSD for that and then could we bail on the video
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card you want you want to bail on the video card okay so we we have
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a um so long story we have to build the
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best computer we can here for 500 and we
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had a lead on a 980 TI for 300 oh nice okay
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um you know you know what Ash Ash Ash
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yeah all right man I'll throw in the video card I'll throw in the SSD I have
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a 120 let me see I got a
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120 is it 120 or 60 I mean would you be
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cool with a 60 or does it need to be 120 120 would help a
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lot Samsung 128 that's D here and uh my
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boss now so I'm going to try to help me out okay you have just saved our day in
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a lot of ways that won't be clear until until all this plays out um we are
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we are we are driving there right now
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um wow okay so just to confirm 3770 8
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gigs RAM um some motherboard uh yeah now
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I'm going to let you know right now it's a small for Factor but the motherboard can fit in normal cases yeah yeah okay
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that that's cool that's fine um it's not like it's not like one of those like
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weird architectures like in the HPS and and like the Del off no it's like you
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could [ __ ] the in the other case cool do do you have a model number for it by any
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chance man uh yeah sorry to rush off I'm
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with another customer right now let me see if I can okay Ju Just go bail you've
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done you've done enough we're on our way we're coming all right I'll see you soon
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okay thanks
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dude uh all right okay okay so how much
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is that Holy we just got CPU motherboard
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RAM SSD and case oh my God I don't know oh I'm oh I God I hope he's including a
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power supply 200 bucks so so worst case scenario we take
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the 980 also from Michael we get everything from one
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source and we still have a 3770 with a GTX 980 yeah but if we can
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I'm going to start following up 980 TI leads so the good news is I don't
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actually know how much time we waste we wasted some time 40 minutes to
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Michaels I got to let I got to let Omid
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know that we don't need those CPUs and Justin that we're not picking
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up the system and justtin know that we're not taking
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it cuz they're currently trying to part that out for us yeah
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okay now I get to send all the [ __ ] emails okay well I'm going to let Justin
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down first because we're definitely not
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going to follow Alto yeah whereas I'm
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still going to follow up the workstation lead I'm going to see if we can get the
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dual CPUs done so I'm going to keep Omid
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hanging still yeah okay hey Justin um I feel terrible but
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we just found a 3770 gaming CPU for is it okay really
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really no I doubt it for really really cheap and we're going that route instead
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you guys were awesome and I'll recommend
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you to everyone I know hi is this
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Anthony yeah hi I'm calling about your
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980 on Craigslist oh okay can um you know I I
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actually just sold it um last
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night I offered this guy
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275 and he said thanks for the offer but as it stands I'm still offering the
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cheapest 9980 TI and he's right what if
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I say should I just go straight to our limit just go okay
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290 let's see if we'll do it I would say
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what about 280 and a 1 ter hard drive
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external okay but we don't actually know that we're getting that hard drive we
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know we're getting the SSD like he might want to like he's already Michael's
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already doing us a lot of favors here I don't think he owes us a hard drive at
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this point I want to offer 290 I want to get
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a card and give us a sec Let's do let's
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do Michael first we're like right here let's just see what we got God I feel
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like I've been in that car forever okay so we're we have been in that car forever we're here at Michael's shop
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let's go in and see uh See if we're going to get a deal done here oh my
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fly's undone um oh wait wait uh I will
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let you film if I get a picture
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oh you look like someone I know
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Ash dude oh my God oh my God okay look
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guy guy that I was just been texting right now 215 he said 2115 I'm free
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right now 215 for a 980 TI if if we get this hard we win
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scrapyard Wars I I do not think lonus and Luke are getting a 90ti I mean they
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might do some like crappy SLI stuff or but dude this is a 980 TI a Devil's
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Canyon this is a freaking miracle if we pull this off so I I tried to get some
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cheap ssds honestly we just got the $45
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one from Micro Center if we're going to get this 98 TI for 215 bucks we need to
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return some stuff that we bought the SSD is a place we can cut Corners if we can
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just get a 32 gig or even a 64 gig for less than 45 bucks and also the RGB LEDs
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I just H up a guy on Craigslist to see if I could get his strip and not him two
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strip but his LED strip and a controller for $10 which is uh half the cost it
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would save us an additional $10 on the Strip uh kit that we just got at Micro
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Center which would give us technically enough to buy the 90ti but I got to do
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this quickly because I don't know how long this offer is going to stand I mean
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he might be second guessing himself right now like 215 am I really going to
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do 215 for 9ti so I got to I got to act fast right now
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my chance could go quite soon
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wait stop did you stop filming no right he just replied hi I was just about to
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replace the ad I have a bunch of items including HDMI cables don't care the RGB
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light controller a fan five input connectors
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Etc that I am selling as a lot for $20 no it's part of the lot and I want to
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sell everything together and not piece it out really he's going to sell it as a
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lot RGB strips with with freaking HDMI CA who who's looking for those two exact
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things for 20 bucks which is the same that we paid for the current kit we have
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I'm going to I'm going to try to I'm going to try to work some magic here all right so we got this modular SATA cable
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we need to make sure that we want to make this work with this power supply so
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in a SATA plug here you have five different actual leads going in there
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the black is ground uh the yellow is 12vt the red is 5vt and I believe the
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Orange is 3.3 volt I'm going to double check that to make sure I've got that
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right cuz I don't do this often enough to have that memorized I should have it memorized but anyway if I figure what's
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coming out of here then I can repin the plugs on this end cuz I've got the
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extraction tool just Swip them switch them around to match up with the proper voltage and then this should work cuz we
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got to have this for our SSD and our hard drive and uh uh since we've got
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some fans that need Molex plugs probably also need to do the same thing with this
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one with Molex okay GTX 9 TI guy replied
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he said uh well first off he wants to meet at a police station I think I
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scared him a little bit by now but he uh he also said he wants to do the
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trade-off before dark so so he's a vampire um possibly that would make me
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scared of him actually no he would not be a vamp we can we can be care we can
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know that he's not a vampire sorry I had that backwards we should bring garlic just in case but anyway do you think 7
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p.m. is reasonable yeah if we go south there shouldn't be too much traffic and
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coming back North is where it'll be rough so if we can meet him right when it's hopefully letting up then getting
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back here shouldn't be quite as bad and then hopefully Starbucks guy or RGB LED
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guy would be down to meet up at 7:30ish in Rancho
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at the Starbucks that he mentioned um uh 98 TI guy can meet right now he wants to
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meet before dark but he actually has to be somewhere by 5:30 which is in just
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over an hour so I have to go right now I'm texting him right now that I'm on my
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way cuz we're not going to get another chance like this wi of Truth see if my
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rewiring worked say plug goes
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in take my hands off of it while I flip
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the switch
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beautiful tada proper voltage reporting on all the
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rails so it looks like looks like we're good Moment of
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Truth that's a good
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sign you grew up with sisters maybe you learned how to do this I actually have
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no idea what I'm doing Lucy I'm
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home did you bring dinner I got a little surprise for you is it tasty rhymes with
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M Rady Pi mine just a hint that is gorgeous
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it's the amp extreme too I know it's not even like a reference model that's
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beautiful it's awesome and and dual Channel 8 gigs 2x4 1600 I believe
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hopefully it works it's not the prettiest but if it's functional hey
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yeah but uh this is really where it's at it was
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functional I think I did that when I got in the car too it was really funny cuz
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you know how I kept sweetening sweetening the pot I was like you will
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be rewarded if you if you uh embark on this on this Leap of Faith by doing
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business with me you know you you'll have a reward or something and like I'm
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like I show up I'm like all right so you know who the line of tech tips is he's
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like no no and I'm like so and I had to
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explain to him like five minutes of like scrambling like oh my gosh what if he
27:22
doesn't want to do it now and I'm just like talking if he's got like 4 million
27:25
subscribers and I'm going to like shout shout out your names like I was do you
27:28
have a website he's like no I'm like do you have like a name you have a name I
27:31
can say your name he's like Evan I'm like all right Evan Evan great and and
27:35
he's like so wait that's the reward you were talking about I'm like you're
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famous yeah but he was he was a super
27:42
cool guy so um he ended up going through with it so we got this bad boy although
27:48
slight catch um it was agreed 215 but I
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didn't have exact and I forgot to ask him for change so I gave him 220 for it
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but I think if we return the s SD and the RGB kit that we got at Micro Center
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we just barely break even so it should be okay all right
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so looking good I even have front panel connectors wired up wow look at you yep
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the fpcs in the house just getting work done sexy yes fresh fresh books has
28:16
actually been pretty useful um helping me keep track of all the stuff that
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we've been spending
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gtx980 TI boy
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I think our strong point is certainly the GTX 980ti um I think that's probably
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going to surprise them I don't think that they're going to see it coming uh
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and and that's sort of what I'm guessing
28:41
right now because I feel more confident in the graphics card in our graphics card than our CPU I think that they
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might have a faster performing CPU but not necessarily as quick of a graphics
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card so it'll be interesting to see how that balances out and how that all plays
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out when we actually run the tests uh
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just real this does not have a removable Drive cage how long is that yeah that
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was the only thing that I was concerned about is that it is a fairly beefy GPU
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worst case scenario we can just hacksaw this out of here but it's probably a
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good 11 12 in uh here let's let's take a
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look is that I don't know oh no can
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you wait seriously oh no
29:28
there's no way we're just going to have to rip that
29:31
out yeah we'll just have to rip it out you have tools that can cut through that
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yeah okay it's not going to be clean though doesn't have to be clean it's
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fine you know Aesthetics is not nearly important as cage is it's riveted in
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here too so it's okay we'll uh we'll
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find a way we'll fit that sucker in there it's the last thing we
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do it's this piece you just cut the end
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of the shr off right that might be easier will it work without
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it I don't know I mean it should it's just it's just plastic but I mean i' I'd
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rather not do that if we can avoid it yeah I'd rather yeah mess up the $10
30:11
case than the $300 graphics card yes um
30:16
oh wait wait uh I will let you film if I get a
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picture a you look like someone I know
30:26
Ash OH like a like did you know when we were on the phone or did you just know
30:30
when we showed up no oh okay good hold
30:34
that thought when we arrived at Michael's shop um I immediately
30:39
suspected that he knew who we
30:44
were I mean this guy was way too nice so
30:48
sorry Ash just give me one second yeah oh no no no carry on look they have
30:51
water I really
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appreciate they are on a
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this
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cool cool um so can you show us the
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sister that would have been bad so what
31:28
we get them by the truck load cool okay
31:31
do you have um wait was that so it was a 3770 right do you have something that
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will take a full height graphics card um I could throw in a case for a little bit
31:40
extra and that the motherboard will fit that we can chop it okay let's uh oh I
31:45
don't want to do that we don't have that's
31:50
stupid okay yeah I was looking for
31:53
something that could fit a fullsize graphics card when you were asking for
31:56
the 980 yeah yeah uh yeah that's the best I could get you right now as far as
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i7s are concerned I mean I got a I mean
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we're pretty flexible if we're allowed to kind of tool around a bit and mix and
32:10
match um do you know how to get this side panel off I'm not demonstrating my
32:15
uh my skills here oh there we
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go okay a workstation Build Together
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potentially a workstation um I mean really it's like
32:29
what we're uh okay yeah this power supply won't work with a standard case
32:33
either so we got to be careful on that one so this is a
32:38
3770 8 G RAM Max 240 watt Max okay so
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our power supply is definitely definitely going to be a
32:47
problem um would you guys happen to be looking for a power supply so we okay so
32:52
here's here's the so the deal that we
32:55
were trying to do was a dual socket workstation that we were we were going
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to get for 300 and then we're stupid the
33:04
place we were talking to is in Pao Alto
33:07
so we clearly a little far away it's a little far away if we're on a budget
33:10
clearly plane tickets are not going to work very well
33:15
yeah for that budget it's a little out there um so we were going to get that
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for 300 and then we were going to pair it with the 980 we were going to get
33:25
from you for 200 and our Max budget is
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00 um however if we can so we I'm I've
33:33
actually got like six different 980 TI guys kind of on the go for
33:39
around a little over three so like
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310 so we basically need the rest of the system for 200 which means that um if we
33:49
can't get a third generation core i7
33:53
maybe we could work with you on something not third generation uh 2600
33:58
far i7 but we do need a fullsize tower that
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can fit I don't think this is going to work cuz let me see Mo this right over
34:09
here here I can this power supply looks like
34:16
junk this is an i7 2600 so the good news is this is the
34:21
kind of shop that we were looking for wow that is the dest heat sink
34:29
design I think I've ever seen so and
34:33
this might be the proprietar EST
34:37
motherboard this must be like btx or something like this is HP I don't even
34:42
think it is but like this power supply
34:46
is non-standard like there's very little
34:49
that's usable in here but if this system didn't
34:54
work that could actually work in our favor he has a bare 2600 a bare 2600 CPU
35:02
yeah what about a motherboard though do you want to go in there we'd have to
35:05
find an overclockable board 2600 k no no
35:09
no you can still overclock those a little bit even though they're not K oh
35:12
okay that's a thing seems fine I think so there we are now I don't know the ti
35:18
I believe is two of those two of the eights I think so I can set you up with
35:22
one terabyte I could do a 60 gig SSD for
35:25
15 what if we don't need a hard drive have a hard drive already is 15 PR drive
35:31
this I would have to do for um
35:37
35 60 gig for 15 is Windows even Windows
35:42
10 even going to fit on that with all the crap on it I I do budget builds from
35:45
here all the time I said window I on there but that still puts us at 195 and
35:50
we still need a case and a power
35:54
supply we have $5 I could uh $5 case in
35:58
power supply combo oh God I could I could I could get
36:03
you guys I like no one's going to notice the the power supply missing but the but
36:07
you guys hauling that thing out I'm it's I'm going to be asked about it cuz I've
36:11
asked for that case for a while so you know if it's
36:14
missing I could no one's going to notice if you if you walk out over the power
36:17
supply okay promise what if we find a different a different like Bare Bones to
36:22
start from sure sure then then then that'll give us a little more room cuz
36:25
if we can find something ATX with a decent power supply but as far as as far
36:29
as i7 is concerned that's a cheap the Leno is the cheapest I'm going to be able to get you can we do can we start
36:34
doing like CPU swaps and swap an i5 for
36:37
an i7 and as long as they're the same uh
36:40
same socket like you can make it quick can we play mix and match we can move
36:45
fast if you show us the systems and say do a CPU swap I 53470 oh wait maybe I
36:50
did look at this one maybe there was a reason though oh the power supply was
36:54
crappy but we could work with that because we could they could have a as
36:58
long as there's a power supply on the test bench and there's a power supply in
37:01
the system hold on a second oh boy where did
37:05
I put this okay side panels here okay cool uh where was that this one has bio
37:09
support though okay okay I'm feeling I'm
37:13
feeling okay right now HP Pro looks cooler do you think so it's shiny and
37:18
stuff you like this one uh the the desktop the lying down flat one has a
37:23
3770 in it so we were going to take the chip from one of the
37:28
and put it in there got it and take that and put it in here yeah well my boss
37:33
does Char my judgment so uh yeah do your thing okay thank you your judgment is ex
37:38
I think it's excellent too he's like yeah man I trust your judgment so uh you
37:41
know do whatever you got to do to make the customer happy you know what Luke you like this one better right I just
37:47
thought the front looked cool thought the front looked cool okay there's
37:50
pretty much no other reason there actually you're
37:55
using this one does look a little roomier and this
37:59
one like an 80 mm fan could just walk
38:03
away right if we needed a fan I think we should take this one okay thanks so much
38:07
you've been way too
38:16
helpful hey Michael do you have a 92 mm fan by any
38:20
chance or 90 does this look like that to you let me see that's an 80
38:28
that's a that's a 92 but I can't take your CPU Cooler
38:34
found what kind of computer shop is this any way you don't have a 92 mm fan I'm
38:39
taking my business elsewhere no we're not no we're we're not okay you called
38:44
my bluff shop you called my bluff we're not going
38:48
anywhere find another Shop with a missing
38:54
boss yeah
38:58
oh crap this fan has a uh proprietary
39:01
four pin connector on it uh what are the odds you have a sacrificial dead fan
39:06
that I can splice a standard connector
39:10
onto I don't ask for much I
39:13
know if we were going to go with a 980 I mean this would be probably the
39:20
980 okay let me see if I've heard back from any of our 980 TI
39:26
leads who 275 FTW
39:31
980ti that's sick that gives us a few bucks to work with keep a little bit
39:37
power supply money priorities we got a 980
39:40
TI I mean let's try this but are you
39:45
weighing those for power supply well no
39:48
it's like it's a quick way to know what kind of system I'm dealing with like how
39:53
much they spend on the heat sink and the power supply like yeah and the you know
39:57
the overall build of the chassis it's an indicator okay it's not the be all I'm
40:00
going to join you I'm going to weigh some it's not the be all and end all obviously I'm going to weigh some
40:05
systems okay well I'm going to start digging out one that I found that looks
40:08
kind of promising here I don't think we're going to find anything better than
40:12
what we have um like honestly that uh
40:16
that that old workstation looked kind of promising
40:19
but I mean do you want to go do you want
40:23
to go full ghetto and do two power supplies we can it's kind of been done
40:28
before but uh you got to do what you got to do not effectively that's
40:34
true wow I mean is it because you're in
40:38
the Sun that you feel the need to throw so much shade right now like I just see
40:44
just dropping facts dude I'm just droing I mean this is a vanquished opponent I'm
40:48
just dropping facts man this is a vanquished opponent man it's just I mean
40:53
you're taking all your salt and you're rubbing it right in the wound
40:59
dude what if we found a power supply in that scrap Heap is that $10 would you
41:05
have did you see something in there that you liked I saw something that's like
41:08
probably not that far off this just a power supply yeah that'll be $10 that's
41:12
$10 okay even though it was in the scrap Heap yeah oh
41:17
okay oh scraps I can sell two for half but I got a I got to sell it to you got
41:22
to sell it to me for yeah cuz I'm going to hear about it if five
41:25
bucks five bucks for the keep one from
41:28
the from the 771 workstation and if that fails we don't have enough to buy a
41:33
power spot no we don't so that deals on
41:37
the table so that's a gamble I say we maybe sit on it okay could we come back
41:42
tomorrow and buy a power supply for five bucks off the
41:46
scra yeah that's what I'm saying okay so we sit on that get the system though cuz
41:50
we need to start like to um I have some power supplies on my own if you guys
41:53
want to give me a call beforehand I'll get here what I have personally and sure
41:58
yeah and obious that's good okay awesome
42:02
okay but I was allowed to swap these power supplies okay okay so I'm going to
42:06
do I you know what I'm gambling I'm going for the thermal take over the hp1
42:11
okay I mean at least it has PCI Express connectors and what I've heard is that
42:16
it's just a range that you get so if we
42:19
get lucky then that might be all we need I mean we're gambling no matter what we
42:22
do at this point yeah what we do what whatever we do is going to be a risk
42:28
okay thank thank you okay screwed
42:34
in l
42:37
oh where are the I mean
42:42
uh as North Hollywood okay so I'll I'll
42:46
just go I'll cut straight to the point um we found one we haven't actually gone
42:50
to pick it up yet but it's a little far away from us but we found one for
42:55
275 um is that is that close to what you
42:59
were able to charge for it or should we just go get the other
43:04
one you could do it for 250 what what kind of card is
43:09
it is it a reference or like a could I
43:13
get the exact model sorry it has a water cooler on
43:18
it yeah
43:22
250 North Hollywood yeah uh let me let
43:26
me just uh are are you wanting to TI it's a 980
43:33
TI uh hold on a second we might we might have ourselves a deal did you want to
43:38
get together today like very
43:43
soon my phone just died oh my goodness
43:47
my power just turned off oh terrible
43:51
next week on scrapyard Wars okay so what
43:55
we have to know then though is is um I
43:58
see there's a little note in the Box uh
44:01
when did you figure out who we were do you think just talking about blatant
44:06
cheating now at this point