Modded Gaming PC Challenge - Scrapyard Wars Season 4 - Episode 1
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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6,946 words · ~34 min read
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all right so you guys pretty much know how this works at this point it is time
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again for scrapyard Wars but we're throwing a wrench into the rules once
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more we're going to have a bigger budget $900 per team and because that gives us
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enough money to build something that not only performs well but also looks good
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we've brought in BS mods professional computer modders extraordinaire to lend
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both me and Luca hand so a Welcome to our guests Bob and Rod and without
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further Ado let's get started
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so here we go guys the first thing we're going to throw at you is that you guys
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have to decide who gets to pick your
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teammate you guys are team captains some darts darts darts let's do it go for it
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you guys want practice throws or is it just like you got do cold got do cold try not
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to hit like come close please oh pretty
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good get on in there Ron so we doing closest distance yeah or like points
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closest distance
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no no way total hack oh wow you guys are
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good I mean all right so that makes it
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awkward though you have to be the one to choose I have to be the one to choose I
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got to go with the tall guy oh this
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guy oh yeah I mean I'm trying not to
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look disappointed right now no no I yeah
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I like I like our team because we've got clearly the Superior Hardware guy oh oh
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brutal and clearly the superior modern it's like clearly Superior at finding
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crack houses and and sniffing pain
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right and you know what and you know what there is there is a point there are
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points for creativity Kracken paint might not be a
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bad recipe we might even have to buy the paint like we can probably get like you
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know a two for one deal yeah get like a
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a case and a can of paint with it yeah
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and the crack pipe inside it's like a Kinder
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Surprise all right so let's get you guys laved up and uh let's go good luck May
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the best team win yeah all
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right no I didn't want to touch you hanging yeah don't hanging bro I'm not
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I'm not feeling good about this guy he didn't pick me all right let's go so
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here's the thing like if we're going to
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do something crazy like basically do a scratch build
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mhm now's the time to decide that uh I think if we just get a good case we can
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take a case and we can chop it up any way we want we can right not chop it up
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what if we went almost scratch build like where we go okay uh motherboard uh
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back plate and IO right we could yeah I
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mean if we found a case where we just gutted it and just used the parts we
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needed and then created a scratch Builder on that that's
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doable let's put that on ice for
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now we have a pretty big budget sort of
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M so what we need to think about is how
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hardcore we want to go after performance and how much attention we want to focus
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on looks cuz it's about a 50/50 grade
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why don't we brainstorm what we want the system to be a little bit more and then
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I'll make you come up with a price maybe we're doing this all wrong how do you
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start a mod do you decide the theme first it's all different when we were
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having our meeting this morning I was sitting over here and I saw these
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right I was thinking like maybe mad Maxi
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like it's some crazy like headpiece on it and like Mad Max would be inexpensive
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yeah exactly we just get like trash yeah
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Mad Mad Max I want to do that okay so I'm super down like that yeah Mad Max
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inspired okay I don't think I got the best partner out of the two available
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but I think I got the one that's best suited to my strs and more importantly
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my weaknesses uh Bob strength is pure
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working on the case uh whereas I don't
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really need Rod's talents when it comes to the PC Hardware side of things so I
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feel really good about the team that I ended up with however much shorter we
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may be than the other team okay so there's no pre-planning I have no idea
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so I was hoping you would have an idea but why don't we come up with a theme
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then why don't we do that first yeah uh
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I've got lonus and he's definitely awesome he definitely knows his stuff
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he's got a lot of tricks up his sleeve I think so we should come out pretty good
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I think we're going to win it um we
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could do like a victory theme
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Victory I mean how could the judges not choose a victory theme to
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win jeez no so I'm checking out stuff on
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Craigslist Canadian dollar is garbage so
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a lot of the stuff is actually super freaking expensive um this budget's not
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even looking like it's going to go that far um and you're checking out I'm going
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to check out there's a couple little for sale apps on Android our biggest
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challenge today was definitely Hardware availability was uh looking uh
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processors motherboards and video cards uh there's just not a lot out there for
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sale something to check out is uh I
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wonder if there's any small computer shops over the Border not to bring up
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this again lus always see seems to find some sort of crack shop or random
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woodworking shop where a guy walks out with a perfect set of computer
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components that are working very well for almost nothing so who knows I have
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never seen the Craigslist listings or any other listings for any of the things
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he's ever found anywhere so yeah he might find
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something I am a little worried right
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now this thing's kind of an interesting start that's pretty crazy looking
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actually it's all metal construction apart from the front I like the looks of
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it I could see this as a good case from modding this guy wants 20 bucks you see
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how these handles are yeah we could play off those handles for a paint theme um I
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could stripe those handles like like do like a RAC and stripe like come down and
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then go back and then or or even come all the way down Loop around like come
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down go over and then back up okay back
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to my victory idea what if we did a trophy case in the FR that almost has a
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trophy look too doesn't it yeah it does it has kind of
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a it kind of does cuz I almost think
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like it's there's so many chickens and so many eggs right now like we can't
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decide how much to spend on The Mod until we know how much the hardware
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costs we don't know how much we have to spend on the hardware until we find a case we can't have a case until we kind
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of know what the mod hi is this Oscar I am calling about your Craigslist posting
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for the silver mid tower computer case um okay can I come there right now make
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sure it has both side panels um do you have both side panels for it wonderful
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yep sounds good okay I'll see you
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shortly okay bye okay so roll down there let's roll
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down there um you know what um so we're going to need Hardware then after that
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so is there I mean should we you know what I'm going to a quick scan for some
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Hardware just to see if there's anything on the way or your 100 100% correct um I
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think what we should do is um I'm just
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going to start finding a bunch of a
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bunch of hardware and just sending out feelers okay cuz a lot of the time it's
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going to come down to you know who gets back to you or doesn't I am sort of
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worried about well they're going to run into the same issue unless they got some
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sneaky way to get it you know if this just comes down to q6600 again because
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the dollar is so screwed up that I think you're I think on that case we'd better
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off you know even if we had to totally hack one of those small form factors
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like that one of 2400 I still think you could do where did the 2400 it was like
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300 bucks here
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um that's a 2400 that's 350 there's one for 290 though I thought try try this HP
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one no this is a new one I was trying to look at no there was an HP that had a
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2500 in it that was a it was a on K
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2500 in I thought it was
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290 we found another system with an i7
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quad 2.8 GHz which is probably a uh i7
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860 uh we don't know what the power supply is it has 500 GB hard drive so
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whatever we'll have to replace that 8 GB of RAM which is good a graphics card so
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probably going to have to replace that uh but yeah it's 285 bucks so not a
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super terrible price for CP memory cuz memory is really expensive it is and
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it's standard form factor so the chassis is workable what kind of budget do you
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think we need for aesthetic you know I think with the Mad
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Max them it can be pretty minimal maybe like a 100 bucks we can uh I think get
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all the parts we need with a couple kinds of paint and we can hit like
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thrift stores and junkyards and just really scrape by so at 100
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bucks that brings us down to $ 800 with a graphics card at around $300 that
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brings us to 500 right that's actually a
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fair amount for the rest of the rig yeah well we could We're not gonna be able to
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go anywhere to pick up anything today probably so we could message people
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today right um we could message the system guy we're talking about we can
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message the power supply that we've already located and we can message like
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each team for graphics card just make sure that we have a lead mhm get a bunch
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of leads and then call these guys tomorrow here's an i5 750 for 70 bucks
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um you know what I should probably get the old spreadsheet going here that's
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not even that good of a deal though I'm not that stoked on that I
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mean look at this guy this guy wants 100 bucks for a Phenom
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2x6 holy crap this is this is by far the
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slimmest the Pickins yeah like that's
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there's hardly anything let's try different keywords
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all about the keywords let's try cor I5 as a keyword see what we what we pick up
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oh I don't want laptops
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2500k yep we saw this one oh um we can
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find out what kind of contact info he has though hi I was wondering if you
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guys had any like um for one like broken
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uh computer cases that you guys were thinking of getting rid of pretty cheap
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and for two uh components around the i7
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860 series or newer graphics cards like
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780s or 290s uh box it I mean I can I have stuff
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here that we're just have to take a drive out to to wipe something to go to
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recycling so you know I do have boxes here for sure um and the way'll process
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just have to know and for the video cards not that new definitely not okay
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that would be cool um what kind of like power supplies in the 500 watt option do
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you have not too sure I have to see what's in some of these machines um but
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some of these machines may have some I just have to take a look right okay so
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for that case you guys we're going to pitch could we pick that up for free
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or uh we taking the power SP I have to charge for it but if it's just a box
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then um yeah and even if it was just with the power spot be like 10 bucks if
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not kind of thing okay sweet um that would be awesome cool we can we can come
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pick it up like today if that's easy for you um tomorrow would be better actually
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sure that work how many how many you need um two two two would be great two
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okay no problem man just
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okay so we just contacted like a computer refurbishing company and we're
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going to get two free chassis for free worst case scenario the free chassis's
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uh steel it's metal of Steel exactly yeah yeah if we just take the side
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panels off we've got a big section of flat metal so we can hack some rope
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lights if we can go could we get a flame I think the
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theme so far is pretty cool Mad Max is something that I I very much enjoy in
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terms of aesthetic style yeah that would be like a torch flame of some just build
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our own tiki torch yeah it's just lamp
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oil and a leg Yeah like if we could get some fire that would stopped like if you
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had a with a regular front hard drive cage and you block it off and then vent
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it so it's just its own yeah outward
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vented you could have a flame right in the front of the that would be super
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cool okay so we want to use fire we have two free cases which we have mother
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boards that we just tear apart which is great um it won't take anything to build a
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tiki torch Ian no we can make it out of
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anything man yeah I can't there's nothing nothing what is going on here
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okay you know what let's get in the car let's get in
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the car let's go look at our case and let's go from there maybe we'll
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hit some pawn shop I'm going to get you on the Google while we drive do you get
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carick no okay awesome then I'll get you on the Google while we're driving and uh
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maybe you can find us some pawn shops and stuff and we'll see what we can find
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I'm going to be completely honest with you though at this stage in the
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competition I've never been this worried about straight up not being able to find
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hardware no way seriously it's um it is
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really have you is it because you're not cheating this time or is it because
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you're no it's um haha and no I I am just deeply
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worried about not only the pricing cuz I can deal with pricing I can lowball
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pricing there's just nothing available there's just nothing so we're going to
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have to I mean your idea of knocking on doors might not be that far door to door
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man door to door even here you never know look at all these businesses this
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is a sea of opportunity right here yep
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33 minutes okay awesome so I'll take that if you don't
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mind and then um you're on pawn shop
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Coquitlam Duty okay do you have any desktop style I wondered um do you have
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any PCs computers desktop computers used
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desktop PCS no we don't we only have laptop desktop no unfortunately no we
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don't we don't have any no we don't sir none huh do you got an old one laying
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around you just want to get rid of no I
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don't all right all right thank you
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sir table eggs of some coer yeah that's
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probably a $20 new item
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but they're a little bit harder to find they're not as commonly used that's like
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a sink uh me it's about the width of a
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chassis you couldn't cut it down well if you cut it down I think well I guess you
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probably could it's plastic but there's just some great yeah a dollar some
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meshing looks tubing 7 ft of
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it brand new it's only4
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bucks it's a set ft of tubing that would do our
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PCIe and our eight pin and the only thing we need some probably some bigger
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stuff for 24 the other Tube dude that
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might finish our wiring it it's not metal but the odds of getting metal
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that's like a good patina is probably pretty
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slim this is the burnby one there's like a Vancouver one which might be a lot
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better so uh we just uh pulled out our first uh Habitat Humanity ReStore and uh
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picked up some uh sleeving options we got some uh plastic we can use to sleeve
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our 24 pin 8 Pin PCIe and SATA and uh we
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also got this really cool uh cast iron grate that we may use for the top um
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vents for the fans or something to do with our awesome fire idea so uh now
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we're off to the next location and see what else we can find for modding
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supplies sure oh yeah that works perfectly so
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we're here at another uh Habitat for Humanity location trying to figure out
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lights for the front of the case G to go
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like that maybe that works though that
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goes right in what are those stain oh in
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powder form powder stains man you can make rust with powder form
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stains oh look at this red look at this brown
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it says green but if we sprinkle it on something if you mix these two
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together that might work it works
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that allow us to rust anything are they a dollar each purple's
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three rocks okay it's good idea too DN
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expensive we might use since we're going for this Mad Max theme the burlap got
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this super rustic look already it's got a patina and so we might be able to use
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it for something like a motherboard skirt uh accents on an
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SSD um who knows but it's got the right
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patina so I think it would work good with what we're going with so we got two
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sheets of burlap which R thinks he's going to be able to do some cool stuff
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with hopefully I think it looks good it'll fit the theme regardless and then
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got two hinges these hinges will work perfect if we want to make our case door
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open say like a Case laabs Case yeah now they have two more habitat for Habitat
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for Humanity locations so we're going to try to check those out see what we can do there we started actually going to
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the shops today I did start worrying a little bit and that worry did increase
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from shop shop that we went to to shop that we went to it reinforced that the
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Canadian dollar sucks because things that should have been like free or like
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a dollar were $15 $20 so we went to our
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next location we don't have a ton of time in terms of getting back to the
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office and uh apparently our next location has moved
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so yeah I'm not 100% sure of going to the next location but Rod is currently
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outside checking out some literally garbage uh which we might be able to
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take for free considering it's garbage
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uh but yeah I think that was a no not so
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much not so much yeah wire's been like
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copper stripped out of it by some crack addicts or something yeah we do have a
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few more options checking out actually literal Tech stores or uh thrift stores
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that aren't targeted at being home hardware stuff could actually help us in
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terms of like the headpiece and stuff on the front and hitting some scrapyards
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and that place that we're going to get some free things from might help us in
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terms of other like random pieces of metal and stuff that we want to put on
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the case huge fan oh thank you I was actually at the uh the Meetup and I got
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your signature too oh really don't remember you but that's awesome hey you
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got lube too yeah nice all right so
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let's have uh let's have a quick look at this bad boy
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here yes it is I didn't even recognize
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the model all right so got spot for 100
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so you can work with that right Bob so top mount power supply yeah yeah we can
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uh we'll figure something out there we
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might go like a big window like we might go right right out to the edges we can
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work with those though so these look like the original holes was this a was
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this a glass an acrylic window same thing probably you just cut that out to
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put the mesh in so so we pull this out
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we put it in the back we don't worry about the two fans
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necessarily and um so there's this has
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uh ventilation up top so um and then if
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cooling is a nonissue I think uh and you were 100% right this thing is easy to
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take off two screws so if we wanted to just have the spoiler this one still has
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the finishing pieces on it whereas this one doesn't anyway I could do a I could
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do a stripe going up this like this and then come and then so just have it come
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around and then come right right towards the front and then figure out how to
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incorporate it in the front so just make it like a really sporty kind of a look I
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like it what do you think I yeah I think
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I mean go for it for the price and everything I mean I think it's totally aable so all
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right like I just I just asked you that's so funny and then here we hit it
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and it's like boom he just he he knew exactly who he was looking at yep but
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it's awesome aord in accordance with the rules I did not leverage in any way who
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I was no we paid the amount we didn't try to talk them down we just NOP this
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is great see I have a witness for how
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how well it is that I adhere to the
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rules of scrapyard Wars I have a witness this time there won't be any accusations
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of lonus cheating when in fact he did not no cheating
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yet scrapyard Wars will return after this message from our sponsor
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both a 290 and a 780 SSD we messaged two
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two power supply we've messaged two like four or five okay so the computer right
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now is actually looking pretty okay cuz the system had a case with it so I think
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we should look up stuff for the Flames oil and a wick right and a wick
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right that's simple cuz we can make that for like a dollar okay and it will work
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but like we could do cool like if there's a face on the front or something
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we could have the eyes just kind of on fire with left boil and a wick
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right two two like Wicks coming out of
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like one reservoir yeah the other thing that's like kind of a crazy setup but I
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think it can be modified to work is a weed burner weed burner yeah like this
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no it's like a you hook it to like a 5 gon propane tank and then you oh shoots
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out it but like we could do cool like if there's a face on the front or something
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we could have the eyes just kind of on fire with lamp oil in a wig do you have
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any desktop style computers no we don't
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really take them anymore no the best place a little bit you have to be a good
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Challenger I give you the you
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from we can go anywhere we can go yeah we can go anywhere you know that Coan
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and Perry no sorry coast Meridian oh coast Meridian coast Meridian and Perry
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and Perry Oh yes okay the left side is
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at gas station at right side is a building huge sign says competed on
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computer by himself oh his name is
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Tony and tell him Nasser send you ner po
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poor you over there you're trying to remember all this stuff it's like yeah
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you know Westwood and you're kind of you're sitting there I'm looking at you
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going please I hope you do I don't I don't have a clue yeah Westwood's just
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an area I mean once people give you a cross street I don't understand why they
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feel the need to tell you what you know County it's in oh I know like he started
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he he was he was getting a little too deep
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yeah so we're heading to uh Tony's
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computer repair shop or whatever it was called but we're having a kind of a hard
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time finding that cross street um of coast Meridian and Perry
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we're not sure how to spell Perry and Coast meridian's kind of a big
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street okay so we're a little lost right now so I don't have anywhere else to
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go okay it's coast Meridian and prair
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okay not prry pulling it up okay well that'll help all right navigate me Bob
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Coast mury in a prairie Here We Go sir
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kind sketchy looking at least we're not doing it at
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night yeah I can get a little dicey
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okay it would have been nice if the uh
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knew the name of the
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shop okay I found it I found it there it
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is computers and laptops digital TV and
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stereo sales and repairs
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okay oh yeah desktop yeah yeah don't
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don't record anything scar us wrong that's that's about as useless a lead as
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we could have possibly had hey at least we don't ow five bucks now yeah at least
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it was close to uh at least it was close to the case we got already yeah we
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didn't have to go too far other than the circles we drove in to find it
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but if we buy that almost complete system from the guy
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with the SSD if we just do it bite the
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bullet then we'll know what we can spend on the rest we still need a GPU which I
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haven't looked into at all there's wab
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buy AMD r9290 for 250 like never mind
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you know people asking too much for sale there's people with want to buy posts
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what are we going to do okay um I'm
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looking we pull $500 on the tow on the
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on the the parts so we have what 900 to spend we have 900 to spend we already SP
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on a case we're at 880 so that's 520 that one had a power supply though that
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was okay right power supply was fine okay so if it has everything we need but
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a GPU that leaves us
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$400 I mean I will for a GPU and then
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are we just going to paint like are we just going to go okay we need acrylic
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we'll need a little bit of Hardware there's an Ace Hardware right there you want to just go walk we totally go we
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can just totally see what they got okay let's go see what's in Ace Hardware
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let's just let's jwalk Street and go see
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what's in Ace hard so these are pretty good we got a bannered any surface any
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angle titanium silver I mean what colors do you think I mean you want to you want
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to run and get the case and like bring it in and talk about it like so we're
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going to grab the case we're going to take it into the store and give it a
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little bit more thought while we can well we can visualize a little better
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here cuz I don't know about Bob but I don't visualize well when I can't look
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at my canvas fairly close to the original color here um little a little
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bit darker um but it should give us good coverage and we can paint the inside and
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then for if we want to get if we want to
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get crazy and do some striping I can either do it with the spray cans or I
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can do it with the airbrush where would you put the uh where would you want the
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stripe like would you do like the two stripes or like the so like if we if we
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came off of say say this handle and we
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did just like a a 1 in wide stripe and
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came down yeah we could either continue it follow this angle and and then carry
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it right here and go like out towards the front we could taper it out we could
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chop it up towards the end whatever or we can we could run it completely down
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if we kept both handles we could go like this bring it down across here back up
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and come back over this handle silver is a good color to use because it hides any
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kind of body work or dents and stuff like that really well lighter colors
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hide flaws and stuff really good sure so are we committed to the silver I think
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so let's do the silver silver is allaround good color because it's
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neutral enough that so if you so one way one way to pick paints is like let's say
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you come in here and you go I want to do a I want to do a blue but I want to use
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a second color okay so you can take this blue right here and you can go along
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here and you just look at it and go well I don't want want to use this with it
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right that looks pretty bad blue and yellow isn't too bad
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depending on what you're doing right you know and then you just keep on blue and
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silver that looks nice together blue and black looks good together so if you just
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hold it up and you go along just you know use your use your eye for your
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color choices and then so when you when you're talking about silver now you go
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along there and you go well gez silver and blue goes good silver and red goes
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good silver and orange goes silver and yellow looks good I mean you can't lose
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so we go with safe safe silver yep and then let's figure out our accent color
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once we find out what our hardware and we may go we may
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uh we may just airbrush that or something too so okay all right cool all
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right awesome Rock I feel really good about this case find I think 20 bucks
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for an allmetal case absolutely is a killer oh my God yeah we I mean there's
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we did not go wrong with this yep um I
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feel good about the pl for the paint the one thing that really worries
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me right now is Hardware I hate to spend all that money on that one setup but
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really it's a One-Stop shop and go and if we can solve that problem now done
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and we're ready to build then do you want to just go if we got done a whole
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day early and we just go play video
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games hello hi I'm calling about that uh
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computer on Craigslist again I had called earlier uh I had talked to you
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about uh leaving out the video card and the hard drive and you had said you
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could knock a 100 bucks total off uh that's correct yeah okay I was
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wondering if it would be okay for us to swing by and come have a look is it
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tomorrow okay uh bummer okay could I come tomorrow
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morning yeah that's fine okay sure thing
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um well we can't go get it now yeah so um but we can go find a piece of acrylic
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yeah so we're going to want a piece I think we're going to want a piece of
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acrylic for the window yeah so we're going to want something and it's big enough for that and then if we're
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talking about the inside as well so if we want to put like a false floor in it
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and that kind of stuff hi um we were told that you might have some acrylic
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scraps that we could buy I I haven't for you you do oh
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wonderful yeah and gotal Plastics okay yeah and they have a lot of scraps
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wonderful thank you so much that was very helpful acrylic
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accessories just in case you need you know one of these here we go so this is scrap
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L yeah this all the remnants that they have well that looks like a side panel
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window right there I look at that and I see side
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panel window yep we might have another
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little monkey wrench in our plan here uh
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he can't cut anything for us today you guys have a table saw or what kind of
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saw well the issue though is that we sure we can buy stuff today but we have
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to buy the whole piece right he can't cut it down the size going to be cheap
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we're it's not even going to how much was this one is it labeled he didn't no
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it's not but it'll be it shouldn't be very much we'll find out but it should
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not but that 3 mil and it's not 3 mil it's actually going to be four so
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um right oh yeah it's closer to four or
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even like five I don't know if they have that size though like I don't I don't
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know if that's a size that is oh that that's very close
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let's do that one that's very close well here do you want to yeah we we'll go see
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have a quick Vio at it see what you think yeah that's the one we need right there Brandon do you want to have a and
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our width is we need you know we're good there so that's so we just need that one
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and that one that gets our window that gets the inside pieces yeah and that
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gets our front bezel piece so we see what kind of deal he'll make us on this
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okay okay right and you think we got enough we're good yeah okay I'll grab
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the case I'm going to bat my eyes and stuff out
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that you better be prepared to do more than
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that okay so for both of them
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3450 3450 huh that's a big hit to the
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budget yeah so if we had to come back tomorrow and get
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pieces cut to size do you guys charge for like per cut or cuz like frankly we
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don't even need nearly this much okay tell tell you what like give
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it you for 24
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64 we're here and it's here and it's the right thickness and we don't do any more
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hunting okay fine and actually the the
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those two sizes are the same price in the I appreciate
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that so that's the that's the deal this
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is all clear right yes yes we do know
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that we had gotten that far at least Y yep
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we so mainstream uhuh whereas like you
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go into a place like that and you can find all kind do you have any idea how
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much this would have cost us at Home Depot up here uh I don't but I a fortune
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really yeah like a piece like a like a
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piece like this could be like 2030 bucks
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no problem so this stuff where I buy it at the sign shop that I usually go to
33:49
they have stuff and it's $250 cents a pound so this is like 2 lb right would
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have been five bucks America man I think I contributed about
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equally to the team today Bob's got the skills when it comes to how we're going
34:04
to actually paint the thing but uh I helped find the case I got the leads
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going on the actual PC Hardware that we're going to need so I'm feeling
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pretty good about what I did well you
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know I feel like we did okay today I think so um we didn't really get much
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done on the hardware side no but I like
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this case I think they're going to have a hard time beating this case yeah I
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think so too so tomorrow's plan of attack is to uh get a little bit of
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fabrication done and also secure
34:38
Hardware um we really need to get our Hardware in so that we can do some color
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choices on paint and uh uh we got a couple things to do first before we roll
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out the door so hopefully one of us can find hardware while one of us is working
34:50
on the case my biggest worry for the rest of the competition is whatever
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those guys are doing for their case mod because while ours is going to look
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really sharp and really clean and really good it's not going to be like way out
35:05
there so if they have like outer space alien theme or something then that might
35:10
be a big Advantage for them I think our biggest success of the day was finding
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that random shop that's going to be giving us two computer cases for free
35:18
and some random motherboards and maybe other stuff so hopefully that goes
35:23
really well and hopefully we can actually get more things from them
35:26
hopefully that's our our Linus' crack shop our biggest success today was um
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coming up with the right range of Hardware to hit on be right around Sandy
35:37
Bridge we wanted to have as many threads as possible on our processor tomorrow we
35:41
need to do a lot of stuff scrap Wars usually seems to have the first day as a
35:45
lot of like in office kind of planning stuff and then the second day has a lot
35:49
of actionable items so we have a few ideas in the literal fire department
35:53
which we've developed near the end of the day today so we need to go get our
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fire devices whatever assortment of things that ends up being uh we need to
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go get those cases and potentially more
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stuff from that place that we found randomly online um and we Yeah
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tomorrow's going to be a lot of actually going and getting the things that we
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planned on potentially getting today right now so we got actually a lot done
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I mean for first day we did a lot of shopping we got product we got we got it
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torn down we're ready it's yeah we're going to be a day early we
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might oh man yeah man I wish you'd find it in
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your heart to just hopefully go along with the three oh my God