$300 Budget Gaming PC Challenge - Scrapyard Wars Episode 1c
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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2,545 words · ~12 min read
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this is kind of neat I have cable managed this case um a good dozen or two
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times before this is actually a case with which I am intimately familiar so
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um I'm I'm pretty excited about the opportunity to work in it again it's
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been quite some time now it does have
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toolless uh Bays here but they are not
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exactly the world's most elegant system this I won't
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need so we're just going to try this
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up so this is actually not the correct
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threading for this piece so we're kind of creating our own threads as we
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go lonus has to clean out his entire PC
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to get started while Luke only has three parts to pop in to start overclocking
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we're not sure what the outcome of this will be but we do know it will be close
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he just isn't cleaning his stuff cuz he didn't find an advantage rag like I did
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yeah see Advantage Rags are not real so
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lanus is obviously in a stage of denial
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at the moment it wasn't real how could I hold it in my
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hand having already used his Advantage rag the Linus can be seen here using a
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box or his
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underwear or we can try and jury rig
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this uh well we can take this off without damaging it without without too
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much I think we should go for it I think
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that like fiddle around for a little bit do a
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little bit research see what this chip is capable of see what this board is
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capable of see what see I hear them Whispering as if that'll
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help I mean the shopping stage is done Luke so uh you know the fact that you
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have crap Hardware uh no amount of keeping it
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secret is going to keep it secret forever and then I'll tease you oh yeah
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I forgot about that I'm sorry oh shoot I hope this has the right mounting
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hardware in there oh hold
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on okay so these are a little uh these are a little worse for the wear right
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here so there here's a little trick you just give them the old
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that so here we can
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oh that is some rookie stuff right there I forgot
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this I don't have time for his Shenanigans at this point in the
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competition because winners do not
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consort with people who don't win as
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hard they don't consort with them yeah
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that's right a shoot got it in there
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once therefore I can do it again and that is why I have two children
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yeah the only one around here with proof of his
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virility how do you know cuz your mother would kill you the
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way he good
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point no no he's right my mom would kill me you'd be dead yeah you'd actually be
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dead
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yep did we bring out any zip ties no but
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there might be some in the screw
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bin that'll do
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it okay oh
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yeah oh that is a thing of beauty right
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there fantastic oh I'm feeling good today
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today yeah man my Mini Wheats are like I
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ate them I crapped them out I ate them again I took a picture put it on
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Instagram this was a real score like
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this was probably worth a good chunk of the budget right
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there coming along just nicely why don't you get the hell out of
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here spy we don't hate you over here we
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accept your kind yeah losers are stuck hanging out with the other
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losers this is real good this is
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trustworthy that's the difference between this and Snakes in the Grass
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like
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Luke oh I should have done this before I did the other thing oh oh I don't know
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if it's going to reach are you missing my epic struggle
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over here never
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mind yes
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oh yeah that table
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management all right um all right now we
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did specifically say that there would be demerit points for leaving the garage
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and I don't need to leave the garage but I do need to walk over here so uh I'm
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averting my eyes Burl will uh Burl will
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hold this box or Taran is he still
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here okay well someone someone will Burl
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will supervise me here I got see my blinders yeah okay I got my blinders on
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this box right here is called the fun box because there's a chair on top of
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it for some
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reason all right see this is something Luke wouldn't even think of needing
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probably cuz I wouldn't need it cuz I'm not terrible
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nice one of
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these oh yeah oh
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yeah let's get the oh yeah moment there we go all
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right see you got a system fired up over there I hear keyboard Strokes no not at
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all I didn't finish installing all my drivers like half an hour
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ago oh what's that sound is that a hard drive oh interesting well I wouldn't
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know what a hard drive sounds like I mean I'm all solid state over here
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man here we go Chang to 340 with the
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magic hands it'll boot
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fine okay uh here's the moment we've all
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been waiting for
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mhm mhm what
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oh done set your download yet um small problem I mean it's not a
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big problem it's just a small one okay oh yes oh yes we got this this
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is good so I don't think we have that no
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we don't um I wonder what we can get out of
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this baby wow it's been a really long
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time no we're not going to quite go for that go
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for about that we're going to go for
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about that
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instead of aiming for like ultimate why don't we aim for like
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hi I think we should go ultimate you want you want to go ultimate yeah well
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that tells Max possible settings in every game that tells me a lot about the
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uh the way you weighted your uh your system good I don't know how much it'll
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show on screen but uh don't my screen oh
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okay
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wow this takes a while to load
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okay look what happened
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there I literally didn't even change anything I'm going to turn this
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off I opened After Burner and typed in a number didn't press enter and the screen
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went black oh all right here it goes yeah
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there's nothing on
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screen
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oh oh oh oh oh oh oh come on what
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happened you take your you take your attempt I'll uh I'll shutter down it
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looks like I might need to dial back a
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thing crashing one has happened no
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that's two crashes I wasn't benching yet
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oh you said that like it was it's a
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horrible don't worry mine didn't even start yet no my computer's better under
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load it's like a rotary engine I got to get up to a certain RPM before the
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computer actually runs I might be blaming you for this
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what happened I I did nothing oh whenever I open executables the screen
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goes black I was working on this last night and it was fine I haven't touched
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it unless I came back here in the middle of the night I've been supervised the entire time
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I've been here probably massively overused in so
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this has an FPS counter on it I guess we're going to see my score so you might
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as well uh check it out
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that tearing whoa oh that artifacting does
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that count against me I don't know I kind of I don't
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know I think that's just part of
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the frankly I can't tell oh no there's
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some oh okay all right I think I think we have to call this one
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off okay all
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right seriously and then uh seriously
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let's just load Up 3D Mark
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here well I think I know something about his system I'm fairly sure that's a
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reference cooler that is a sound I've heard before it has a particular
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tonality to
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it what it's terrible that doesn't seem
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right it's not running in a full no it's
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fine all right so
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how how was yours here that's looking
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higher turn the fans feed down and try it
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again you still have to run actual games don't be too smug this is a graphics
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Benchmark I'm just happy I won one of them I like a lot like two times was
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that is that how that math works I think that was about two
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times oh yeah
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that's a crash unless your FPS is uh
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1,600 it's 1900 I'm 2200 in counting
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speed 2600 in counting it's ramping up do you see do you see this clear
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glitching 100 times glitch exploit wait up no I'm trying to get it to 200 times
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your speed in a couple seconds here all right why don't you go ahead and shut
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that down and I'll take a run at this
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this is the physics test yeah you didn't know there was a
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physics test did you I did actually oh all
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right so 5866 is the mark to beat okay
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the first successful run perhaps still higher it's not as
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higher nope still higher I might have been
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drawing too much power that a hard drive is horrible I know like everything's
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kind of working properly I didn't it did it start walking though I feel like it
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started walking I don't
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remember cuz remember yeah it was counting FPS it
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crashed look at my signs is but look at the signs they're
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still flicker not nearly as much though
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I'm not I'm not saying a deduction plan all right here we go physics
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test oh dear so what were you getting here 17 or something yeah
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okay oh that is
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terrible oo that looks pretty smooth you know what you're
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oh oh the mountains start falling you get really bad you get
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owned wow what did you get 5866 I think
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what have you got
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5745 what all
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right what the hell is
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this yeah just run it just run it and then we'll and then I'll go online I'll
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see if that
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helps fourth that's appropriate wow
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average FPS 66.6 minimum minimum
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4696 that's a pretty respectable minimum I don't know how bottlenecked you're
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going to be there smooth I'm guessing
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73 73 you're going to get you know I'm
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going to guess minimum 58 yeah I'm not going to get at the
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average oh son son you just got wrecked
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okay so here's Luke's results Min 39
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average 63.3 here's Linus's results Min
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56 whoa average 82.1 all right oh oh wow
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deduction points for really bad ensure Swift Victory with Corsair's
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highly responsive lightweight gaming mouse the saber RGB click now to learn
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more I originally thought you had a 7950 now I'm pretty sure you have a
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7970 which means you spent about half of your budget on your graphics card I
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think I know for sure you have you're
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wrong wrong I know for sure you have a
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dual core CPU because you because you
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got absolutely destroyed you must have
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ddr2 and I think you've got four gigs of RAM
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you how did you get a
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290 the the thing that's going to blow your mine though I have a q6600 ah I was
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right oh what yeah and that that that
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RAM and the dual core I think was the dual core is a little rough but I didn't
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think you were going to come out with a quad core yeah I got a quad a I got a
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quad core cool so really the big winner
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the big winner would have been probably a combination of the two they could get
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a 290 a Q66 8 gigs of RAM a good quality
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power supply an aluminum fronted case if we took my card out of my system and put
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it in here which is what that would have been that would be a pretty sick machine
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for 380 bucks and that's still cheaper than all the consoles we looked at and
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you could still buy one or two games to equal the console price I I think for
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$300 if you can build a rig like this
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then guys like there is at the you know
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it's funny and I guess we'll make this the conclusion for this we get this a
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lot where people uh criticize us for focusing really on the high-end stuff
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and and the brands that make the most sense at the highend and they ask us
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well why is that there's such great value stuff out there on the low end and
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the answer is that if either of us were going to build a $500 machine we'd do
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something like this we would do this we wouldn't be buying new I would have done
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exactly what I did for the graphics card try and find one that I can get which
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shouldn't be that cheap and then I would have not rush purchase that setup cuz it
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came with a terrible motherboard cuz if you're smart and you're a good shopper
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both of us were doing this at the same time with only 48 hours to turn around
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all of these deals not even we realistically only had seven or eight
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hours to contact people and pick up things and like go get them we ended up
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with machines that we could easily resell for more than what we paid and to
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match this performance buying new from the store would cost at least 50% more
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or more so there you go guys used Hardware good value this was fun this
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was really fun but you got wrecked you
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got wrecked son that quadcore man that quadcore is pretty Beast so thanks for
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watching guys this has been the very first round of scrapyard Wars we have
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lots of great ideas coming for this series let us know in the comments if
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than anything else we've done don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you guys again next time thanks for watching
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guys hey you remember how you voted for
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Luke well you should feel bad for being
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wrong