Scrapyard Wars 7 Pt. 3 - NO INTERNET
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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3,971 words · ~19 min read
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they've got two thousand dollars to build the best bang for the buck pc but
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they have to do it without internet they've got three days to do it and on
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the fourth day we find out who the winner is in this edition of scrapyard
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so it's day three and at this point i have pretty much
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accepted that there is a most excellent chance that i'm gonna
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lose this thing this is gonna come across a little desperate but i'm gonna text this guy
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yet again text number five
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uh hey didn't find a graphics card yesterday if
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i come down there can we talk about a price
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i can't believe that this guy wants me to drive all the
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way to his store it's like a 45 minute drive
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before he will even begin to talk about a price with me
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if the price was any good you'd think he would just tell me the price because
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then i'd be willing to drive 45 minutes so now that i'm
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not saying i need a price before i can come there
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he replies immediately within two minutes
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this guy sent me five freaking messages no three
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all right what were the messages
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the address the name of the shop and instructions to come around 12 because
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apparently i'm on his schedule
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i don't really like this guy i want to swing by geeks rs and have a
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look at their old workstations because if they're in similar condition to
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carols and if carol's fellow shopkeep guy
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is like yeah these are worth you know
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a couple hundred bucks then if we buy one from them for a
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couple hundred bucks we're not bad people so where did these
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turn up from did someone come in for some new machines and just kind of drop
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the old ones with you uh we got um reefer from geek and
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surrey they do lease returns
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oh really
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sorry what are they called
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g-e-e-p and you can just buy lease
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returns from them yes
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i've never if you need a business account or not but
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could i uh could i get a number for them
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these returns of course
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people who lease computers they need somewhere
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to give back the stuff that they basically paid for completely um i was
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given your number and extension by geeks r us um so they had said that if we were
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looking for an older workstation um you
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might be the guy to talk to sometimes depends
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would it be possible for me to come down there and and check and check it out
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we're not a retail store we're a big warehouse that sell large
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quantities of all fleece equipment
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and are you looking what are you looking for just one system or are you looking
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for unfortunately it would be just one
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yeah yeah um it's just i i i don't have a um a
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showroom or anything like that it's you know we're taking down skids and stuff
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like that to show us hey i can't do that i mean i i don't i don't need you to to
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tear down a skid for me or anything like that to just to show it but if you just
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have like a piece of paper that i can look at or an electronic listing i can
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kind of go yeah yeah that one um if you'd be willing to do this for me it
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would it would be awesome it would make my day
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what's okay email address um
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long story but i actually don't have access to email right now
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it's just it's not what we do we're we're not going to be able to
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provide the service or anything like that that that
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you're needing
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is that what you want i just want an older workstation
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uh i'll do the conversion on my own just something something with uh with a uh
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a quad core or six core xeon in it would be perfect as long as it has a decent
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power supply yeah i don't have any quad cores six cores
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and it's just really it's not it's not it's not what we do
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okay i'm just i'm just saying it's just not what we do
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okay okay but i appreciate you you
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trying and you know thanks for your call but uh no
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i don't think i'm gonna be able to do it for you okay all right thanks anyway
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what are you thinking honestly i'm thinking of just showing up
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there i don't i don't buy it
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we we do volume deals we have a first gen what does he what
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does he even mean by that i think he just doesn't want to do it so he's telling me they don't have it but
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there's no way how could they how could they have a building
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with skids of stuff that's not
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4th gen or 3rd gen or i don't know like is the owner or like
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is he just a sales guy that these guys deal with i don't know where like if
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he's the owner and i call back like he's probably going to tell whoever
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it is to not deal with me on principle but if he's just like one of the guys
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and i can talk to someone else maybe they will help me
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i could try just showing up at geep and seeing if someone will help me
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but that's a super pushy dick move
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i can try going back to carol and saying like
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hey best buy has an open box system that
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frankly i think is pretty comparable to this
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for 269 you know what can you do for me
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i don't think she's going to want to sell it though it says they open at 10 a.m but i guess
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not today uh i do know she's not feeling well so
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maybe they just aren't open yet
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all right so we're heading to best buy first thing to pick up that a10 based
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system because that price is just really hard to beat so i'm gonna try to go with
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that angle and then we're gonna head to crystal mall to go find that guy that
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gave us the 30 power supply deal i might actually try to buy it cheaper one of
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his power supplies because i realized the graphics cards i'm going to be
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buying probably only need one PCIe power so i probably don't need
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the extra power cable so i can go with
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the hopefully cheaper power supply so i'll talk to him about that also i might
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try to tone down the graphics card 179.99
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that sounds alright that looks like scrapyard wars to me it
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it that it is
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did he buy anything i don't think he bought anything okay
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okay thank you thank you i appreciate it
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interesting okay so for 203.16
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we have a computer we can technically compete with this right now i've even
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thought about it actually because the apu in here can technically play games
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so it actually might be worth just going with a 203 computer i'm still
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i'm still debating it i'm gonna drive around we're gonna look at other parts and see how we can do our pricing and
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whatnot but we have a computer we got it
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from best buy and someone tried to teach me how to mineral oil a computer which
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was actually like a really cool experience because i don't think he knew
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me and that's that's pretty sweet but yeah we have a computer time to move on
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let's go obviously it's not going to be the greatest thing in the world but yeah
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that for 14.99 wow this here dual fan
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single single tower 17 bucks for 17
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bucks um so that's what i mean you know
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if you're thinking about a hyper 212 yeah it's probably gonna put you over
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over what's gonna but 17 bucks is not too bad
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there to to stay in the spirit of the competition that like modding is
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involved i'll get a i'll get a cooler and then i think we're probably going to
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be done yeah okay cool i think
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yeah yeah
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i doubt like literally two dollars is gonna break the
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bank and this one's on a three dollar sale so i'm probably gonna go with this
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one yeah okay so we came out of their canada computers with a 44.88 SSD before
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tax and a like i think 16.99
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CPU cooler before attacks
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and we're done i think i think we're just going to go
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back to the office and build the computer now which seems weird because
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there's so much time left but i stood in front of their tech desk and just like
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wondered about things out loud about ah i wonder how well this CPU would do in
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the game without any other modifications and just kept standing there and kept
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openly pondering about things until they started searching on the internet i
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never asked them to i never asked them to at one point he's like
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but apparently an extremely similar a10
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processor got lows of 30 at fortnight
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high some of the settings were set to low but in general i think that's enough
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for me so we're coming from actually like way off the map over here and highway 10. we
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need to take highway 91. i actually don't know how much a 1070
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costs new right now so i'm not gonna have the context to
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know if this guy is trying to fleece us or not
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so i need to
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call memory express over the phone
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and ask for a price on a graphics card over the phone uh hi could i get a price
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on it on a gtx 1070
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our cheapest one is 690 right now actually
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i really hope that place isn't it computer repairs and vape shop
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one stop seems legit
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are we we're not even in the right place at all
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we need four three one nine this is so confusing
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okay so uh tempered glass protectors
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chargers uh repairing they do like phone unlocking
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all right karaoke songs hi
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the video i'm sorry i'm going to get the video oh
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cause he's uh he's helping me make a video about my my search here so his
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story for why he has the card very disjointed uh he said something about
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building a few systems and then he's got this one and then something
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about he built one for someone they ended up getting a zotac 1080. they
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didn't want this one but then the card's got a bunch of dust on it
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like none of those things add up
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but uh 400 bucks for a 1070 400 canadian it's a
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good deal i'm gonna buy it i think we just killed it
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like freaking killed it
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should i ask him if i can use this bathroom exactly
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no no not at all do you live very close by
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can i borrow your washroom or are you on the way somewhere
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ah okay forget it community
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center literally a block and a half away heck yeah thank you
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okay we got a lead you know what oh we should drive there i shouldn't just leave my car here in the alley
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there's a few things that i noticed one this thing has a dvd drive worth
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probably nothing but still it has a wireless lan and bluetooth
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card it's not on the motherboard it's a separate device
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and there's a two terabyte hard drive those are all things that are not
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required for this competition and i have a lot of time left so i might be able to
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go sell those because at my price point even like 20 bucks
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is a pretty good bump and if i can make up the cost that i spent on the cooler
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that might be pretty cool
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there it is
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so we're in fortnite and uh
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this is the lowest poly fortnite character i've ever seen it looks
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terrible current frame rate is 15.
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oh but the display so it's trying to run it at 4k
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so hopefully that's what's going on
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why can't i change the okay it's running way better now
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i think i'm gonna need a graphics card
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i pull the derp uh i don't often use apu's so i'm not
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like usually if i don't have a graphics card in a system you can kind of just
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run Windows update you get your CPU stuff everything's fine so i didn't have
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an AMD display driver
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which is very possibly what the problem was which is really
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really really really good if that's true
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and makes more sense because like that was pretty bad i
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expected more out of it than that well after in a game we'll have to see in a
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game but right now that gave us a hundred more FPS
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so we're in the loading area with tons of other people
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and it's bouncing all the way between like really depends what's going on but we're
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looking at like 60 to 70.
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hello
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hey so you need to ask possibly i yeah
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probably and i was wondering if i could maybe trade you for it
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i have a two terabyte hard drive
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so he's not going to trade me for the stuff
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which i probably should have seen coming honestly i thought he'd take the two
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terabyte hard drive because he's got some used stuff and it looks like he's
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building a computer back in there so i thought he might actually be able to use a two terabyte but
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i guess not i'm not surprised he didn't care about the optical drive or the wireless card but whatever let's move on
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what he does have is he's selling all of his power supplies for 30 bucks it
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doesn't matter if it's 550 watts 650 watts 875 watts they're 30 bucks so
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that's fine i might as well take the really nice one um
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he's also got a 950 and a 660 660 i
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don't want that the 950 is 80 bucks
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brandon thinks i should haggle him down i can try to do that he might go for it
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i need to do some math for a sec i need to think about this
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the more i think about it the more that gtx 1070 is both a blessing and a
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curse because on the one hand it's a great
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deal for a 1070. on the other hand i don't know that it's
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the best bang for the buck
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graphics card and it kind of handcuffs me
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because i no longer have the option of just showing up with an apu system now
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that i've spent 400 on a graphics card
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now i have to find something that doesn't bottleneck it too badly or this
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is going to be last season all over again well that was really disappointing
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um the guy i talked to at the receiving
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door in the back was actually pretty helpful he was like yeah we might have
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something like that maybe you can go upstairs and talk to our sales guy and
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he'll help you out but then on my way up
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someone intercepted me and i explained you know we're making a video
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documenting you know what you might do to try and get a a
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deal on a computer system and he was basically like
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well you can't do any of that here go away like
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this is a secure facility i don't know what the big deal is with their like old
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refurbished electronics and all that maybe it's
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far more valuable than i would guess um but they were like yep get out of
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here send us an email
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so for you guys out there something like a refurbisher like this might be an
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option but i don't think we're gonna get anything
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done i'm gonna try calling again
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i mean what's the worst i can do annoy him more
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i'll be like look i'm i'm outside i just want to come in and
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buy something but i i doubt it's going to go anywhere could i possibly see what
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you guys have i'd like to buy something right now if possible
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we don't we don't do it but we really don't
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the public um our building it's a secured building that we can asset
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management for for high-end customers and it's not public it's it's not a
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public building okay can can you talk to me outside
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know i don't it don't know how you're very persistent and i really don't know
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how to uh um to deal with yeah i i don't know
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all right thanks anyways
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okay so the surrey best buy in the nicest possible terms gave us a hard
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time about having a camera in their store and did their best to help us out with
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like an open box or a clearance deal or something like that but
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just did not have anything
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so we are seriously running out of options right now um
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i'm gonna call back cloverdale computers and see if they ever even opened up
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today hey carol yeah it's Linus
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a highlighter okay um can you do 350 for
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the tower um
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okay so let me think about it and i'm gonna call
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you right back okay thank you okay thank you
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without knowing what their cost structure is and knowing that they might
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not be the savviest buyers
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i did feel a little bad making an offer
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that was like a quarter of the sticker price
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but i mean they
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they bought it it's worth what it's worth i need a computer
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uh you want to come take it for 375.
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oh man are we oh do we have to oh do we have to ah three okay
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so okay so the math is based on what i could get an a10 7800 system and
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an upgraded power supply for which i think is pretty equivalent
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um can you do it for like
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oh man can you do it for
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360. all right okay
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cash deal cash deal cash deal yeah okay all right let's do
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it all right i'll be right there i'm back
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you're not going to believe the video card that i'm going to put
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it did not i see it it's still here
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very funny oh the guts ran away
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saw me coming did they yeah you're not going to believe the video
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card i got to put in it what do you got we got a gtx 1070 for 400 bucks really
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wow yeah so that consumed pretty much all of our budget but that's going to
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turn it into actually a pretty beastly gaming machine so um
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the one that's in here absolutely thank you
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totally a done deal holy shimoli
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well that's my receipt for uh
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that there that their cash purchase there
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for better or for worse this is what we've got
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gtx 1070
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gig sandisk x110
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uh this is just our usb for installing Windows off of that doesn't count
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and this lenovo workstation
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no way look where it came from
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of the three deals i think the highlight is the graphics card that SSD honestly
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is worth 10 bucks and that tower
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it's worth what i paid in the sense that
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compared to buying a machine brand new at best buy and then a power supply to
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put in it and then dremeling out the hard drive cages to cram in a graphics
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card and putting some holes in it for cooling it's worth it in the sense that compared
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to that it's an okay deal but
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if i had more time to shop and if i was able to shop online i could have done
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better than that tower hey okay we've got display output so
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theoretically that means we're not totally locked down we're booting
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Windows off a hard drive one thing i regret is wasting a lot of
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my time on the first day the sign on the back of the car the
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shirt those were completely stupid but the phone book
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that was actually an excellent investment even though it was kind of
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challenging to get one and the map was a
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hundred percent worth the seven dollars i'm confident that i have a working
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system and that i will have a working system
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don't know if this generation even worked like that i might
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