BEST Value PC Challenge - Scrapyard Wars Season 3 - Episode 7 (Finale)
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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3,861 words · ~19 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 I can run now so let's run now
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where's Austin I don't based on Nick
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coming in and asking if we're supposed to be done I'm thinking Austin is not
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done he walked over to me and was like how did you install Windows 7 with 20
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minutes left I was like pretty sure he was trolling I don't mind that like the
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system's done like the thing is is like the first time we did scrapyard Wars The
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Benchmark period included like installing software yo yo yo yo hold on
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hold on pause everything what's going on right now with the install uh well
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Luke's not letting me put my front bezel back on because it's after 4:00 what
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about software uh we were just talking I don't even have a way of installing all
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the benchmarks I do not know you're or anything so I can't do that that's a
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good point so I think we should the software should be my computer is 100%
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done Hardware wise uhhuh okay I love how both the other contestants are taking
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more time to do you know the C you can put the camera down it's fine I didn't
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totally just accidentally install 32-bit Windows so I'm currently installing
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64-bit Windows did not realize that there was a 32-bit Windows thing on that
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key so I think the troll system deserves
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to see the light of day so I'm just going
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to put all this in
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here there's nobody look we're not coming through with any kind of monster
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computer or anything the cover is not helping
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much H so we've decided to do the unveil in
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two stages stage one we unveil the
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hardware stage two we all run our
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benchmark scores therefore unveiling the performance stage
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three we unveil the prices that we paid
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yeah so Austin you're up first all right
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so introducing the greatest system I've
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ever built that's not saying
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much what why does it have a power supply on the top it has a power supply
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on the top because it has two power
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supplies okay so basically you guys just
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seem shocked and amazed you know what I get it I was going to do that oh really
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if I had gotten that graphics card oh
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that was the component that I knew you had really I called the guy and I was
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like can I come get it first and the guy's like no I I already told him I'll
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give it to him so unless he doesn't show up you can't have it but I'll tell you
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what if he doesn't show up by two you can have it and he goes and he goes but
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I don't think he's going to show up he's got a California number you totally got
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me all right so this needs some serious power this power supply is purely for
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the graphics card yeah which is figured that out it is a 6990 I saw that I
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actually almost went for that a 6990 so we're got talking dual gpus we also have
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a core i7 2600 not K the motherboard's
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not clockable either so it's pretty much
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like if it works at stock I'm going to be really happy with it that is the
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scrapin nator there you go all right
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interesting all right well I expected
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all right this looks awesome
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this
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oh what the hell
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what this my machine is called the scrap
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hole because it's where I
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buried all the extra Hardware that I ended up with
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okay wow so uh I'll start horrified right now
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I'll start at the top okay this is an IPI BL lb
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lga775 motherboard ddr2 my friends
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unfortunately it doesn't support the Pentium 4 processor this works by the
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way at least it did before I did that to it this is a vintage USB 2.0 expansion
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card okay this slightly horrified is a
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broken igy
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to this is the most disgusting piece of Hardware that I have ever laid eyes on
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it smells the computer we pulled this from literally had a used crack pipe
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inside it nice really that's awesome
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literally no that's good that's a good thing this is a working 9500
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GS power there this is a working 6850
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this is a sound blaster live also dead
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this is a heat sink so you found some way this is my
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Army of hard drives you found some way to go to an actual scrapyard and get all
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this stuff for basically the hard drives may or may not work I'm not
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sure under there is a Pentium 4 processor
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this RAM I borrowed so this actually is not I did not obtain the RAM and uh that
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foxcon board I don't know it made those beeping sounds you heard earlier but you
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don't have RAM in your system now because but no you can't add
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anything now what is oh he has another
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computer what is this I think this is all just a waste BC had a 6850 that
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looks like a fairly decent car I think he has a whole another
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computer cuz I think he went to a SC yard and like actually got all this
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stuff for like basically this is the leaning tower of
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scrapa why do you have two full computers this is my actual computer why
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don't you just lay it on its side why do you lean it I like it this way so
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there's yeah there's no reason okay so th this is my
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q6600 yes I went q6600 again fair enough fair enough 4
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gigs of ddr2 memory they're okay my
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7970 ghost uh that was actually modded
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by the original owner believe it or not this Commando Rog motherboard was
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literally pulled out of a scrap pile of motherboards this is what I'm saying he
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found somewhere he spent like $18 on this entire rig literally well I have a
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7970 I mean come on okay it's a $25 yeah $25 so that my friends
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is the leaning tower of scrap so can I just ask a
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question what's the deal with all this stuff if you have this computer right
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here we can't ask what price right now but he been to some scrap junk place and
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got a whole bunch of this for and you said this is a a radio 6850 that's a
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6850 it
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works but I'm factoring all this into my
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price I'm incredibly suspicious or cost
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of metal weight that's what I okay so I'll get
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the scrap hole out of the way it does actually really stink like gross
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computer I knew it oh I knew it you
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basically told you you asked me some stupid ass question on the first day
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basically this isn't SE why is there fishing line on
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it this is awesome I like this immediately so it's it's a q6600 I
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wasn't supposed to have one of those I was supposed to have a different processor than that guy bailed on me so
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I like scrambled and was able to get this this is a BFG tech power
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spot yeah here we go scrapyard Wars will be right back after these messages this
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we go Benchmark number one cinebench
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R15 3 two one go and I think we all know
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who is winning this one you know maybe just possibly oh yeah well he has eight
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threads which is sort of an issue yeah
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oh if the name isn't Austin so this is I spent a fair chunk
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more on this i7 almost entirely for this test so hopefully I beat you guys by a
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lot cuz I will I'm feeling pretty good I'm crushing Luke yeah actually what's
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going on I don't you guys have the same CPU yeah mine has some issues
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615 316 oh almost double 316 for lonus
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I'm like 267 267 that's not bad all
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right so our first benchmark scores are
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in shall we run PC Mark next yes let's do it ready three two
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one go okay I'm counting on Austin's
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like crashing or something because he's going to crush the PC Mark score as well
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oh man PC Mark Advantage has
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crashed so what do we do now to reset your over I don't know do I get to try
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one more time cuz I've I've had it run I think that's fair the rule technically
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says he has to immed I think I'm going to I'm going to
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be a little leion on this one it's mostly because I also want a little
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lenience if I have some issues in a minute
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so that was mainly your rule I you you
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were the one that was Hardcore about it I know I just I don't think that's why it crashed yeah that's what's the deal
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with this that does not look great yeah yours is doing that might be because of
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your dual gpus you think it's just like not no that's part of the image uh
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manipulation Benchmark I think oh is it it's not doing that this is what mine looks like yeah mine's being super
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screwy look at that crashed again oh yep
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I guess I got to I guess I got to dial back to my overclock wow turn it off
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yep which is really yeah which is really
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shooty snoody tooy just in general it's a good life
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skill to be able to turn that off so we do I get to keep my cine bench
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then yeah I think it cuz it worked it completed that test but his system isn't
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stable so I failed my PC Mark run which
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means I had to set my CPU overclock taking me from 3.2 to 2.4 GHz which in
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cinebench um basically amounted to about
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2/3 of the score that I got uh now we're
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going to have a look at our PC Mark
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results how are we going to submit results or we just saving yep click
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submit results and let's find out how much it affected me in PC
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Mark uh my score is zero that does not sound particularly right oh okay okay so
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Austin's machine straight up derped and I apparently crushed Luke but
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that's how's your CPU image manipulation hard drive importing pictures to Windows
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Photo Gallery yes why do I not see any this
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stuff what I just oh the SSD paid off
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hardcore okay wait you just got
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creamed all right 3D Mark fire strike time let's do Do It Ready set go now we
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decided that unless Austin's actually in
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contention which I don't think either of us really thinks is going to happen on
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this side of the table here rude unless Austin's actually in contention we're
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just going to throw out his PC Mark score it just wouldn't finish so we'll
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see how the rest of it goes if he's in contention it's likely will assign him a
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similar score to what Luke has you're
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is probably wait Crossfire still on right uh yes it is yeah it's yeah okay
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so oh no you're like Luke's crushing us
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both don't worry though there's the CPU that's why I was saying I wasn't
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entirely my second test didn't launch wonder if we'll have to turn off
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that graphics card over clock hope not
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it says running system info though what does that even mean you're on is this a
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physics now yeah so you're probably oh wow that's really good that's super good
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that's going to crush your score yep let alone now it's a lot slower uh wow yes
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you just crashed dude yeah oh wow rip to
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reset your graphics tons tons of Graal
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no no what is this oh I'm running at
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stock settings all right I'm in the second
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test yeah I like it nobody's done this
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twice it's my favorite there was no lower enthusiasm
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yeah the reenactment was Flawless okay so let's put Austin's
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score 5546
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5580 high or you barely beat me I beat
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Austine fire strike 5546 versus 5580
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that's pretty close all right only Raiders so uh Luke's a little behind to
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be fair I waited a really long which is exactly where I like
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him so let's go ahead and Austin and I are going to start the Tomb Raider
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Benchmark all right whoa that's lower than uh whoa
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that's lower than I thought it would be okay no that's fine average
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1097 okay so Austin comes in at
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109 even with me coming in at
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84.9 okay all right let's run Far Cry 4
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okay so here's the update we are
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swapping out Austin's graphics card with an
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r9270 to rerun PC Mark and give us
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approximately the equivalent of if this card were to run with a single GPU what
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his PC Mark score would be we know it's an approximation but the cold hard truth
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is nobody actually runs PC Mark Vantage so who cares we're going to live with
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the approximation on Luke system we we
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are running him off of an uninterruptible power supply to
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condition the power because I've seen this before where cheap power supplies
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will actually be able to handle a system but won't be able to handle crummy power
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coming off the wall which with all these systems running off the same Outlet May
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in fact be the case here and we don't want to penalize him for bad wall power
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for my system we are apparently rerunning my cin bench I was doing it so
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there was I was doing it so that there was something running to be of course
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but otherwise I have completed all all of my benchmarks 6711 he got a score
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okay right do I get my OC back I don't
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know man it's cuz of the UPS it dirty wall power is that fair it had nothing
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to do I think at this point we all just need to take what we can do do I get
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another crack with my overclock yeah see like that's just like a a a spiral maybe
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that is the dirty wall power okay so you go on ups but have to
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yeah come on we're done here I don't know like what it's I don't care
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whatever okay well there's oh my score wasn't that bad 242 so I'm doing my last
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test in Far Cry 4 right now yeah it's not running very well I
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don't know why it's not running very well I think low 40s but I don't know uh
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so I have good news guys hey it's done
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it's done and 9780
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oh so even with added SSD I was almost
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able to beat so mine's just really low on that one yeah oh man but you crushed
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the graphics you did crush the graphics I think we should let Luke just use his
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old Benchmark score so the final scores
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are Austin with
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455 out of 500 points all right lonus
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with 362 out of 500 points and Luke with
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386 out of 500 points wow so now
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all that's left is the cash
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count I don't know any of any of these coins are holy okay this is a dollar uh
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5989 I just used my calculator for yeah let let me do that real quick I spent
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310 I spent $218 final price per dollar the score is
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really high though wait score per dollar
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higher is better good job good job
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officially wrecked I think I called it
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lus one by 40% okay let's go okay let's
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go let's go let's go all right I had actually this is kind of a funny story
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if I had lost by $40 I would have been so mad because the
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guy with the q6600 offered it to me for
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40 and I was like no man here's another
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20 bucks really I'm going to fleece you slightly
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less oh my goodness wow now I was
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betting heavy on my SSD I I paid $38 for my SSD wow which is
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a good deal still yeah it's a great deal yeah but when you consider my
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$238 budget dude I paid $25 for my 150 gig
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hard drive 25 bucks I paid $10 for mine you
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got wrecked on your hardrive okay my my motherboard and CPU I was supposed to
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have a 9550 and some other board that guy I showed you I had 18 emails back
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and forth and stuff just oh he supposed to bring it to work oh I forgot it so I
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had to scramble and find some other solution this was on the second day so
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like there's basically no way I'm going to be able to set an appointment and have that appointment in the same day I
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ended up going to free geek Vancouver which we've been talking about doing a
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thing I got a q6600 for 17 bucks what
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that motherboard's 35 that hard drive was 10
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all that RAM was 40 I should have got gigs I think I would have been way more
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competitive if I got gigs all that RAM was only 40 bucks and that power supply
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which actually murdered me and I should have bought the other one that I was
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going to buy from Kevin's stupid website
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um but it it was 30 bucks okay so why
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don't we close this out Austin it was your first scrapyard Wars you came in on
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unfamiliar Turf how do you feel about your result I feel like I spent way too
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much money that was the big problem I way misjudged the budget and I to be
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totally honest my build probably shouldn't have worked like how close I
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cut it to actually getting everything working at the last second like it
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should really should not have worked like the second TW your defense my build
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shouldn't have worked either the motherboard when you see how that motherboard was packed my power SP
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barely works we were all that happens every time dude it's scrapyard Wars
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don't worry I was I was like an hour and a half out like I don't have a working
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system I might just like disqualified and like just not have anything to show
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oh man that was that was brutal dud but do you feel good about not getting
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disqualified I feel so good like the second I finished the build I was like you know what I don't even care if I
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come dead last I just built this system this crazy Contraption it actually works
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so happy I'm still happy which is good because you did come dead last yes I did
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all right how do you feel about your performance today honestly pretty good I'm happy with the free geek Vancouver
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stuff um I think I actually did quite well you just got a crazy deal which is
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that's scrapyard War that's totally fair I just wish I actually bought that
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Corsair power supply that's the only regret I have I would have had pretty
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good overclocks and everything you still would have won I just would have been happy with my system overall but yeah I
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I wouldn't have changed much just power supply so what I would have changed is I
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wouldn't have bought an extra $20 graphics card so I'm just going to for
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the sake of running numbers I'm going to drop 20 bucks off my score here um I
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wouldn't have tipped the guy 20 bucks
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That's crazy dude see and my FPS per dollar score would have been literally
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more than double Austin's and would have
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been uh about
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25% better than Lukes so I feel really
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great about my performance overall you did a good job dude yeah as a purist I
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really would have liked to find a working sound device I would have spent another five bucks to get a working
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sound card that is like it's 100% Fair because there was no sound benchmarks
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but that is if it was a system you were using that's a little brutal only having
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yep um and I would have liked to spend
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time properly on my case I would have liked to present a more finished build
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if I'd had a full another day I also
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would have built my troll system was awesome part of the problem was I didn't
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even have time to install Windows on it yeah but overall had fun had a blast it
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was so much fun me too interesting because you don't know what the other
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people that was the hardest part honestly I was
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getting pretty close to guessing near the end but the whole time the duration
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I no IDE you had no idea what you were competing against in terms of price yeah
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right I had no idea you were spending what you were spending and
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I you were confusing the whole time so
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thanks for watching guys I hope you enjoyed scrapyard War season 3 we'll see
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you again next time drop a like on the
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video and subscribe and all that good
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good job guys all right awkward nude high fives
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yeah sloppy fight done