BEST Value PC Challenge - Scrapyard Wars Season 3 - Episode 5
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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3,184 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 okay so we're back from free geek we got a whole bunch of our parts we've
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got a 77 775 motherboard 8 gigs of RAM a
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q6600 160 GB hard drive and a 550 W BFG
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tech power supply uh everything here I've tested except for the power supply
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and the graphics card so hopefully that all works out um right now what I'm
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trying to set up to do is hook all this stuff up in this corner I'm going to try
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to get a monitor and keyboard and mouse over here too and then I'm going to have
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my other desk where I'm doing my woodworking stuff right here so that
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while this is running like Windows updates and junk I can hopefully work on
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that so that once this is kind of done doing Windows updates and junk I can
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mount it onto the wooden board and then hoping tomorrow that I can more focus on
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overclocking and stuff all day because I really want to get that down I think I
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can overclock this card a bit I think I can overclock that CPU a bit so I want
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to take advantage of that extra performance so the one shitty thing
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about not having the screws here is worth the 20 bucks for sure but is that
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I can't screw in my DVI cable so it just
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goes to there cuz normally there's a screw in there that I would screw in to
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um so that's fine if I really wanted to I could use DisplayPort or HDMI
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um but I'm just going to use DVI for now because it's the cable that I have but
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I'm going to try to find screws to put in here just cuz it would be good form
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not because it's actually really needed I guess here goes
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nothing oh I was trying to document the
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issue with this graphics card but since we changed to my test bench power supply
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it's actually fine now which is pretty
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bad news because what that means is that
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our ghetto power supply works fine with
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a card that it's not plugged directly into but then doesn't work with a card
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that requires auxiliary power which means our
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7970 might not run off this power supply even if it is rated at enough wattage it
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might just be too crappy I'm muted damn it Taran how long
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have I been muted um have I been muted since I like went
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to the bathroom a billion years ago now because I've actually got time to spend
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with my CPU the rules for overclocking
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are that you can have an overclock but as soon as you run into stability issues
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during the testing phase you have to turn off your overclock and run again
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you don't get to like try and dial it in a little bit lower so it's working I
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guess this is good news in that it's a working graphics card and that the power
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supply is powering it but bad news in that I'm not getting my 20 bucks back if
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I want to know if it'll work with a 7970 if I want to know if I need another
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power supply what I could do is grab a
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7970 and test it nope we do not have one
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okay so that throws a bit of a monkey wrench
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into my plan that's okay though we'll just find
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another graphics card that draws a similar amount of power and go from
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there we may end up using this card after all o wow inaccessible boot device
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oh wow what what's going on here this computer is not happy now that we've
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installed a power hungry card there are a lot of power supplies on
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Craigslist nothing that cheap Corsair
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CX500 would do the trick yeah this is this is not this is not booting this is
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really bad and there's your buntu so the
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graphics card works the power supply Works everything else I already tested
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Works nice
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okay on this station here I'm going to focus on formatting into Windows I need
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to get uh Ubuntu off of here get into Windows on this drive and then over here
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I'm going to keep working on my little woodworking project trying to get this
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going using these sample pieces the sample po spy I have and Sample
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motherboard that I have to kind of work on the layout of how everything's going
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to actually be on here one other thing that
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I need to do is actually use this screw bin and possibly use another few things
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around the office to try to rig up the
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back of that graphic cars that actually has screws on it although that isn't a
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huge priority right now that would be kind of nice to do scrapyard Wars will
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be right back after these messages this episode of scrapyard Wars is brought to
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Wars so we have two terrible power supplies but together hopefully that
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equals one good power supply this is the
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goods and core i7 oh core i7 what 2600
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oh nice 6990
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180 even for that old of a card that's a
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deal I me this thing is a monster no so
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I think it actually here let me see will it fit in the case uh oh
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no oh my God all right so that's actually not going to fit in the case no
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fear though this stuff we just cut all
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this out right yeah actually this could probably even get yeah this will come
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out you want to take a guess on like how much we spent on all this stuff mm 350
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ah no it's like 550 okay so oh you spent
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30 on like one stick yeah dude RAM was
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tough RAM was really tough yeah you got taken for a ride but still the thing was
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we no one had any cheaper RAM you honestly have like pretty Primo stuff
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it's just this is the only concern at least you know the work right it's like
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it's brand new exactly yeah so that's the thing we want we have everything
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yeah so we have everything now we basically just need to make sure it works I'm a little worried because this
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needs this is like a 500 watt card so this needs two eight pins so we're going
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to have to make sure that these power supplies this power supply has Lord is
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gray let's see it's not that bad um so it has a six pin here and I think it's
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got an eight pin somewhere Sparkle power Sparkle power oh there's just a bunch of
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adapters here okay does do you have the extra two doesn't have the extra
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two wait what the what is going on here why are there so many adapters all these
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mole have adapters on them we should have looked at this before yeah so
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basically power supply right here tape it on cut this slash try to remove it
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I'm not sure if it can be unscrewed or not but we can remove this somehow I'm
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not really worried about that um and just hope that these two power supplies
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are enough for the core i7 and the 6990 sorry do you need an actual
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sander we have an actual sander yeah I have an actual sander oh is it a company
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tool thing I've been using it here sure so sure
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yeah I'm done with that yeah I'm done
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with that okay I will grab that the cuz
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are you using the uh yeah I know it's the wrong thing but it's actually kind
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of working actually pretty well did
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my I just sanded off the mark that I
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made for where I wanted to
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cut I'm not saying there's cheating involved but that's some point deduction
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little suspicious right there we we know that lonus was uh still sending messages
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after five was he yeah uh how do you know I asked him and he told
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me he's cheating so he's absolutely
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cheating cheating I'm calling about the
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CX500 power supply I can come get it today if you can do 20 sure why not um
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20 so I could yeah like if you just give me an address I can I can get there
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tonight no problem well if you leave now you can come to my house I I I still
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won't be at work yet so is that okay I live in Richmond though yeah okay yep a
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son of a okay how are we going to do this we got to go to Vancouver we got
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to go to Richmond and we got to go to Coquitlam and we are going to be all
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over the place for the next little bit here okay so he won't set it up to to
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show us it works but we have another
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option so we got a $20 power supply to
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go with our $100 graphics
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card and we'll just bring a computer with us to test it let's go
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okay I think we can I think we can hit all these places today as long as our
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back alley contact is on time I think we got
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this it's 3:00 and it's 10 minutes to our next
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destination you know what new plan
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because back alley guy wasn't able to
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meet until 4ish so we're going to go straight back
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to Coquitlam and then to the back alley
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and as long as we can get there before 5 if it takes us a little longer to drive
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back we technically haven't broken the rules you have to be done scrap yarding
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and head back at 5 new we're good I think the rule is you
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have to be back at 5:30 well it's all very gray anyway op
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right there 20 bucks y That's cook you
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oh you got it from NC I see tell from the NC sticker yeah okay
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cables are inside and presumably it works yeah pleasure doing business with
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you huge fan actually oh H yeah screw it
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okay here you go I well nothing that we
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know of at the moment I only have one of those though that's okay I can get an
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adapter just well I mean if it doesn't super work just let me know cuz I got we
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didn't have time to test our 7970 but the guy said we can come back tomorrow
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morning if we need a refund so at least
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we have the backup plan of using our 6850 and returning the 7970 so that's
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good and our quote from Google Maps right now is that we will arrive in the
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back alley at 458 he said we can have the sound card
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for free just if we just come pick it up
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I am going to have my system thank you thank you thank
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you all right all right we got our sound
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card so our back alley best friend
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hooked us up with an AIG G2 and a Sound
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Blaster live both of which are PCI graphics cards and at least one of which
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I'm hoping will both work and have drivers for Windows 7 which is what
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we've standardized on using so um as
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long as that's the case I have everything I need for my winning
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computer yeah so I feel better
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about telling you guys stuff I really Ed's been uh very helpful he's not been
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an impartial cameraman so we've been a team here but I I didn't know I wasn't
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supposed to help I didn't either very much not an impartial cameraman as you
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give you give us you give me a reason why escap the windowless dungeon the
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L so we may need to hurry up a little bit
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you got you got what you have 1 hour an hour and 50 minutes okay no no it's uh
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cut off it's 5 oh so you have this is helpful
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a smaller one okay oh do we need
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something to short the penss on the oh paper CLI paper clip yeah sure maybe you
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have a paper no what do you need it for how are you a
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Salesman without paperclip how are you a video without a paper clip you think I
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deal on paper pitch oh you get that you think this
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will actually work this sounds like we're about to die this out of the way a
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man installing it or are we uh I'm installing outside the case first to
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test it yeah let's build outside the case you're right we can't really build
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inside the case
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because okay memory's good no you cut out I can't get back at
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it it's way too tight especially with a big knife like this
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like this is a bad idea it's a really
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bad idea it's so
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tight SC I know I'm scaring me with this
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right now oh no I slightly damaged some of the
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sleeping uhoh that's not good oh yes
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okay we're good we're good we're good um okay slight problem this motherboard
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needs an eight pen connector and we only have a four also bad news this also has
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a four pin can we can each power supply
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power half the CPU too that seems like a horrible idea either we try to see if
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one four pin will work no no we got to do this let's try
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with one four pin let's hopefully that will work can we have a quick time check
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450 so we have 10 minutes do we just try it oh we need to still oh we need to
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still do the paperclip thing how is this going to work
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dude okay so this is a green you do not
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agree that's green yeah that is GRE okay and the one right beside it is black oh
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man I feel like you're not supposed to do this with a staple feel like you're not supposed to do this ever but
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especially not with a staple wait what you talking about oh
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no we don't have a way of turning this on screwdriver I've never done that
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before what are you talking about
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yes yes it works power supply power supply
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fan fan yes we did it okay we just need
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to make sure this is actually like posting but all the fans are running it
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looks like it's working need some sanding but there's my
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graphics card holding plate or my power supp holding plate maybe the power
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supply my computer is still setting up over there Windows 7 Professional is
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still applying my settings it's been doing that forever it's kind of getting
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annoying let's try this cool so just like I had kind of
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hoped um I don't actually even need this block it'll just hopefully look cool I
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hope it looks cool I really hope it looks cool school it looks like it works
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but it's not posting and we're over time this is seems like a horrible idea
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horrible idea but whatever let's do it they don't want to go in together what
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are you talking about we just squish it don't worry good enough good enough ter
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I know no no this power supply should be spinning right now I don't understand why it's not this should be
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working oh you're right oh come on
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oh dude I don't know if these are supposed to work together I don't think they not because you're not supposed to
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put that in side words no we we're going from mole to six pin and then going six
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pin eight pin like we did here except this time to power the CPU I actually
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have never even tried this I don't think it'll work but it could uh could it
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maybe I I have a feeling this shouldn't work if it does work it shouldn't work
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look at this what have we done no no it's not going work it's
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different okay so at this point I think we have to call it a day um the fan spin
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the two power supply thing actually works which is more than I thought I
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could say but it won't post and I think the problem is powering the motherboard
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so we have a 1 18 pen power connector for the CPU we only have a four pen from
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each power supply so neither of them are actually enough to get it to post um I'm
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assuming that's the problem because when we tried to plug in both four pin which
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which you're not really supposed to do um this power supply freaked out and stopped working so I'm pretty sure if we
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could get these two somehow between the two to power the CPU we would be good um
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so yeah I think we got to give up for the day and maybe tomorrow come up with
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like a game plan of like how we're going to power this thing but we're close but
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H this is the this is the best case this is the best case if it's just the eight
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pin we can't power it worst case is something here is broken in which case
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we are way more screwed okay I think
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it's time to call it a night until tomorrow sweet
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prince oh man I hope we can figure this out I really do next time on scrapyard
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Wars Burl fights his do ganger Nikki V
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you really want to throw down you want a rumble Punk Nick who are you talking to
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you have the same person