BEST Value PC Challenge - Scrapyard Wars Season 3 - Episode 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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3,150 words · ~15 min read
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scrapyard
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War this episode of scrapyard Wars was brought to you by
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dbrand dude we're stupid mostly me but
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still we totally just left a brand new Macbook sitting at the table oh God this
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is terrible
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oh man all right let's see what this thing got oh man I can't believe we just
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did that we just totally just left our brand new laptop just sitting on the
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table oh my God that would be so bad if it if it's gone oh no don't don't talk
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like that man I cannot believe we just did
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that all right please be there
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thank you thank you so
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much oh we deserve that that was dumb we
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even left the leftovers I like how she even got us the
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leftovers this guy's trying to sell a dead gtx480 I was like gtx480 30 bucks I
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am going to do do it I'm going to do it I'm going to I'm going to low ball them
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I'm going to offer like 15 bucks cuz this has been listed for quite some time
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I'm going to tell the guy that I need it for a school project to fix it and that
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I can't afford to pay for it I'm going to try and get it for free all right I
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heard back from the uh 280X guy from before 160 he says is the lowest he can
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do on that so that might put that out of
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our price range if we can get something like a GTX 280 or 85 for 30 to 40 bucks
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I don't think that's going to perform four times better oh shoot the SSD for
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39 bucks someone's apparently coming tonight at 6:30 for it okay maybe I
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should find out if I should offer a bit more than asking I'll find out what
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other ssds are going for cuz the fact that someone's coming to pick it up
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means it's definitely worth the 40 bucks
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K there are like no ssds on Craigs
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List okay so we're running into a bit of a dead end on our SSD search the one
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that I wanted on Craig's List that I contact oh he's gotten back to
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me wo he wants me there by 3:00 p.m. we're done okay yeah let's do it I'm
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giving him a call the other guy was going to come at 12: and then he said he
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couldn't come till 6:30 and if I still had it that'd be great kind of thing and
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so uh so I had to reply to one minute
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before getting yours so I thought okay I think I fine with with if someone comes
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before so where are on our way to go get the SSD that I sniped some guy was
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supposed to show up at 12:00 and then rescheduled to 6:30 I sent in a lowball
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offer but I'm getting it for asking if I come before that guy so I'm on my way
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there but I'm a little bit worried too
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because this gives me only 2 days left and I haven't even compiled my graphics
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card price to Performance database yet
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we got to drive 45 minutes then as soon as we are done there we got to meet up
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with someone else where I don't even know what they have and that gives me 2
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days to compile my graphics card price to Performance database figure out what
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card I'm buying hope that Austin and Luke haven't bought it yet and then go
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get it uh not to mention the rest of the components one thing I'm a little
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worried about is so I'm asking some of these guys like hey are you available
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tomorrow to be picked up um because it's 3:00 right now it's a little kind of
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actually sketchy because a lot of people are you know getting off work around 5:00 or so so I wonder what we actually
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are going to do about that restriction cuz it would be really really bad if
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like a lot of the stuff was available but it's like oh can we meet like six o'clock or something so in that case
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cheating question mark question mark question mark um we're just uh just just
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hanging out I I haven't had a lot of time to hang out with my buddy Ed so
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we've just we wanted to hang out catch up um think about just like how much
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line is cheating cuz he's cheating oh yes he's cheating a ton so he did on
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both the last ones right yeah so it seems like a safe bet I wonder should we cheat too do that that make sense we we
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should all cheat right yeah let's cheat right you're cheating of course right
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I'm actually not well well I'm not either but I just assume like in theory
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that you should probably be cheating if lus is doing we should be doing it too just Sayang that so have fun thank
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you okay so I just messaged the guy for the 290 I told him I can be there for
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10:30 so hopefully that works out I
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really really hope the guy with the
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setup that I want to buy the motherboard CPU Cooler and CPU messages me back
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because that would work out just great so now that Luke's back we need to be
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way more stealthy I don't know was he here for a while but he he us talking
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about anything he's too nice to do that he wasn't listening okay I don't think I
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say anything I think we're good Luke's nice he wouldn't cheat so $ 7970 for
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$100 and I think the best part is this so we have an 77 saber-tooth board for
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$30 the reason it's $30 is because two of the RAM slots don't work but we don't
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care about that we care about is not only is it also in this place that's
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right by the 7970 but 30 bucks let's
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find a more private place can go upstairs or
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something I'm looking you're looking that's I don't actually have
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anything here but you guys left your stuff on the freaking table didn't you
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yeah is that your guys' stuff
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no what are you doing why do you abandon your
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stuff wow
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they think uh the boxes on the set were
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ours what were they uh that was a system
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Linus and I built on Saturday so those are actually our new parts and they're sitting there do we need to like make
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sure they think that uh here hang on just come with me let let me uh just
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subtly try to like sneak that computer away
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so stealthy
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wow hey I just wanted to call and warn you I saw some like sketchy looking
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dudes running through the warehouse with some computer parts uh they they're
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running around with what looked like new computer parts so I'm sure it's not yours cuz you're probably smart enough
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to buy old computer parts thanks man yeah no I appreciate it but actually we haven't bought anything yet we're just
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uh we're just strategizing today we wouldn't we were just cleaning up told
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you told me earlier that you had bought everything well we bought everything in
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our minds but we were not going to really get around actually picking it up till tomorrow so don't worry about it
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okay yeah cool cleaning the office I'm
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just making sure you guys are okay oh of course dude we we're golden we're just cleaning up the office making sure that
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everything's nice and neat and tidy that's fair that's fair I appreciate
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that thanks a lot have a good one okay now that we can talk freely we need to
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work out a few more things um none of these people have gotten back to me
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which is still a little stressful but um so if we get this core I3 we would need
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a uh heat sink for it we would need the memory and we would need some kind of
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Drive whether it's a hard drive or SSD we might be able to swing an SSD um I
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mean Max we're going to pay is $60 for a brand new SSD so I feel like we could
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probably get something cheaper but if not it's not the end of the world um so
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we're looking at probably like a $300 build right now that's actually not that
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sent my offer to the guy that wants to sell me the motherboard CPU and cooler
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for 80 bucks so we'll see what he says about that uh he told me earlier that he
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won't be able to check to see if he has RAM until 7:00 tonight so I'm not going
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to make any final purchasing decisions on memory until he gets back to me then
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um but I'm looking for some leads for memory right now I also told them if you
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have some cheap low-end power uh hard drive laying around to let me know um so
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right now I'm messaging a different dude who ended up being Kevin's used
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computers or something like that it's a used computer store around here for a
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power supply I'm hoping I can get one fairly cheap off of him and yeah just
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trying to do some leg work on some other stuff but we're doing pretty good pretty
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good I think Brandon and I are going to stop and get lunch pretty soon here all
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right so we got a 120 gig SSD for $38
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Canadian my friends that could win us
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this competition if it helps us win PC Mark and the guy with the broken 480
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wants it for $25 $25 for what it's broken it's legit
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broken so I offered him 10 all right so
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we're rolling around to the literal back alley here here holy crap what the hell
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is this it's a crack fight right oh I
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don't know man away oh okay and this one
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okay when uh you don't want people fishing through this bin if they don't
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know what they're doing that's an exposed power supply if you accidentally
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Bridge a contact on that there's capacitors someone could actually die
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okay that that was some legit
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like scrapyard digging I found a literal
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pile of semon CPUs okay I've got 4 gigs
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of ddr2 I've got a core2 quad
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q6600 yes my friends I have a
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q6600 and potentially I have an assus
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Commando board if any of it works I spent $60 of
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my budget on stuff where I am legit
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really not sure if any of it works but I
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also got an antech smart power 450 W
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power supply with a PCI Express power
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connector all right so so far my brilliant strategy of lowballing
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everyone is not going too well not getting a ton of replies and this one
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guy is extremely combative here
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something about why would you offer less than half you looking to get told off so
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I'm kind of thinking I'm going to come back with uh asking price was out to
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lunch not my fault people don't know what their stuff is worth here's a card
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that performs better with multiple ones listed for 50ish good luck with your
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sale bruh some might say that this is
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cheating I would respond with that I don't think that
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they understand scrapyard
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Wars because I got something from the
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scrap and I'm I'm turning it into a
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thing and if that isn't the meaning of scrapyard Wars then I don't know what it
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is no way we just heard back from the guy with the
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$256 A50 that is by far our best one yet
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with other people telling me off about asking my mom for money we've done
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awesome we have a oh my iced tea is running down the roof oh no uh maybe I
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can get it hold on really yeah I'm going to pull over
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hazards hold on maybe it's maybe it's still up there I don't think it is maybe
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it's still up there ah damn it you lost
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your I tea yeah it's all over the roof of the
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car okay so an email from the z77 people just came in I have more than 10 people
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emailing me about it but I don't have time to meet in Sky Train Station and
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stuff only time available this week is tomorrow 11:5 and I have someone who
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said he is coming so if you're really interested coming around 11:00 and email me before come I think we got to need to
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go AMD cuz I think what's helping us a lot with the AMD cards is the fact that
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tons of people are using them for like Bitcoin and Litecoin mining which means that there's tons of these cards around
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and they're pretty cheap because they've been abused so that's helping us a lot
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so that's why there's so many 7950 and 797s out here but um none of these
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people are getting back to me if we do the I3 and the 7970 we're talking 280 if
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we bump that up to 4 i5 and a 6990 we are looking at
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420 actually 419 so uh but the problem
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is the power supply we absolutely need some kind of other power supply for this
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so we're talking about a lot more money but a core I 5 6990 that's pretty solid
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and we're still talking about definitely well under $500 okay so I just texted
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the guy about the 6990 so if we do the 6990 and the cor I5 the little power
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supply that we have is not going to work so what we might have to do is go back
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to the idea of putting an extra power supply on the top of the rig and just
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wiring it straight for the graphics card in fact it would be powering like half the graphics card
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uh probably not the smartest idea it
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should work in theory okay so to recap
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we have a core i52400 at Kevin's used computer we also can get a 250 K hard
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drive there most likely we can get some kind of cheap power supply as a
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secondary for our uh for our graphics card um we have a case we have our
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second power supply we have a motherboard we have the memory which we
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can just pick up at NCIX it's like 30 bucks no big deal um and we have the
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graphics card which we will pick up en Richmond at some point I will text the guy here in a minute
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6990 that sounds like a computer to me are we forgetting anything was that
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salvageable did I just Salvage that we got the motherboard to mount it works
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the spacing is okay the power spy will Mount here or up here so it's the actual
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power sply that I get is probably going to be a little bit longer so let's say it goes to here cables come out of here
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cut it this way cut it this way um but I want to build a wall that it can sit
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against I'm going to cut it with a circular saw okay so this isn't me
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helping this is me making sure he doesn't cut his own hand
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off looks like you're hard at work over here I'm done you happy Austin I'm happy
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that you're 5 minutes late I'm very happy I think I'm going to get some
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extra time so you got some uh some wood going on it's a smart move for computer
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build I I usually have wood I just thought I'd incorporate in a build I
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mean it's natural like you want to make sure yeah of course one thing I wanted
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to use power tools in a good safe environment um second thing it's only 5
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minutes and it's supposed to be Transit time and I'm already here so I don't
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really think it's that big of a deal not going over time also to be fair you were
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in my space when I could have been working h no I don't think so I also
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think you're not supposed to be in my space I'm pretty sure I believe I asked
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you to leave and you did not you can't say that the outside is your space you
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can't say that the entire outside is your space you worked in two different
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areas of the office I needed tools from over there and couldn't go over there
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cuz your parts were over there so I waited until later oh oh well okay I've
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got to say thank you for not looking at all the parts side
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bought wait I thought you didn't buy any parts I didn't buy any parts zero zero
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Parts nothing bought whatsoever I'm just having fun and uh this is all for a good
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sport don't worry about it does Luke
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have enough wood does the crack pip line is found still work find out next time
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on scrapyard Wars