$300 Budget Gaming PC Challenge - Scrapyard Wars Episode 1b
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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2,042 words · ~10 min read
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previously on scrapyard wars 300 cash
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the very best gaming rig that we can build it seems like an okay deal for an
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8400 computer to me someone just accepted our offer for 100 on a 79.50
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sorry i can't come down to get anything tonight so i might have to pass
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if anything and now the conclusion or part of it
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i've got a 500 watt antec power supply
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that we're headed to pick up right now and then the r9 290 i got for 180 so
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that's actually pretty sweet we will go pick that up later did he say 290 is
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that fast what's a graphics card okay so
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it's day two of our search and uh we've gotta find out where our
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destination is so i'm not exactly sure where we're going okay i have the
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address for our first appointment
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on my laptop which battery is low
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ah scrap yard wars one
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there we go now we're good
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okay i really hope that's not it
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i think it might be holy crap this is some sketch
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okay so this is five three three two holy crap
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this is like this is some sketchy demons
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no parking well they parked in front of it where like where does this door go i
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don't know there's some blood in there though
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hello are you santa hi i'm Linus
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nice to meet you too this is uh nick he can turn off the
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camera if you want no cameras today that's fine
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so our contact here got us pretty hooked up actually he had the whole thing
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running on a test bench to show that it booted up and had core temp
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CPU z installed and everything so we could validate that everything's good to
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go so this is an ep 35 ds3r a pretty decent
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little board it's got an extra chip on there for SATA ii raid we've got eight
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gigs of uh what appears to be mix and
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match so we've got half samsung half kingston ddr2 800. there's a q6600 on
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there with a cooler um and then we also
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just thrown in got what appears to be the remains of a freezer seven i think
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we can make use of that with uh with an extra fan or something along
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those lines and then we also got an earth watts 500
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watt power supply which was uh better than i was expecting i actually didn't
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know what model of power supply we were gonna get but this has got two PCIe six
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pin connectors on it so that means that powering our graphics card later isn't
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gonna be a problem at all and then i thought we were getting a 500
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gig hard drive and we actually ended up with
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a one terabyte hard drive so uh oh yeah
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right in the case so there were a few sort of cooler
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master elite class options or there was
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a silverstone tj04 that happens to be missing a couple of bay covers well
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i have some bay covers we've got a card
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reader a floppy drive yeah baby
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so uh oh and look the vancouver olympic
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mascots that was a bonus i didn't even have to pay extra for that
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all right so i'm feeling pretty good we just need the rest of this day to go well
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still need a graphics card so i just got my uh antique basic power 500 watt
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continuous power power supply which is exactly what i was looking for looks like it's in good shape clean happy with
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all that kind of stuff while i was talking to the guy though i was like
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yeah thanks for doing this like i know it's really short notice because i just emailed them this morning and it was his
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dad or whatever and he's like yeah it's been an interesting day someone was just here
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picking up a case in power supply like 20 minutes ago
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what who do you think that is there's like no way that isn't Linus except it
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wasn't man we're probably so close
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oh that would have been so funny if we were picking stuff up at the same time
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anyways let's let's go get some lunch because you know we're having a chill day
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they're probably freaking out driving everywhere so i had
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multiple leads on 79 50s for 100 and
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then i actually ended up with two gtx 580s lined up for a hundred dollars i
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decided i wanted 79.50 so i bailed on all the 580s i got back to what looked
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like a very promising 7950 lead and then heard nothing so this guy who's actually
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going to be on different job sites today but i asked
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him very nicely yesterday to bring it with him in case i need it i'm going to
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try and track him down next after we go meet up with the guy who i promised
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t-shirts to technically i don't think we're allowed
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to use anything that we didn't get
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but luke will never know that i used my own uh
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yeah that's true and we can always just lie to luke
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right yes lying is it lioness
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lie yes it's right in there well so we just arrived to meet up with
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them i was trying to figure out how to tell them i don't have the right shirt
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turns out i did grab the right shirts
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we do have Linus tech tip shirts so
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uh this will be this will be a lot more successful than it otherwise would have
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been let's go ah hello gentlemen
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nice to meet you sorry i wasn't able to take the card
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unfortunately but uh so i found a 7950
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which gives me about a 10 edge in GPU performance yes so i got to take it
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my my plan for this if i didn't get the zalman
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uh was i was just going to rip the block off and use like a stock Intel heatsink
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on the GPU core or something which would have been awesome and like super ghetto
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but i found the 7950 so i kind of had to take it
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but you had said you wanted me to sign something as well i brought a silver pen
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smart ass there thank you the real Linus
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all right since i showed up and didn't didn't buy
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anything actually all right well it's a pleasure to meet
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you gentlemen we've got to get to our next appointment here and uh i'm gonna
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go get like a hot chocolate or something but i'll see you gems later
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wow cause we're not five minutes early we're
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nine minutes early it is now
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1 40. he was supposed to be here at 1 15.
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so he just texted me saying he'll be here
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in one minute um but
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i'm like it's fine i guess
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145.
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i got it but he's really we gotta go
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i don't like it when people are late i especially don't like it when they're
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that late and when i like clearly stated that it was important
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and i needed to go early
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79.50 guy said he'd call us back in 10 minutes and that was 18 minutes ago
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now the guy we just met with that we gave
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the t-shirt to he has the 580 hydrocopper
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so what i'm thinking i haven't seen him leave yet
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not that i'm parked outside the starbucks like stalking someone i haven't seen him
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leave yet um so if i don't hear back from 79 50 guy
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that's our backup plan and we take that and then we try and get in touch with
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zalman cooler guy again and and we go for it because that's down in richmond
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uh which is kind of far but but definitely doable
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mine is speaking okay i'll be there in about half an hour as well um there you
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are so let's have a look at our spoils as long as it works
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this will be the only piece we haven't validated this is a pretty beefy looking
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card this is a mostly rear exhaust style
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card so it's got the uh it's got the cooling
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fan just above the uh vrm cooling piece
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right here all right i am feeling good
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i don't know if this is technically cheating because it's just an aesthetic
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thing but uh i'm gonna try and find some aluminum faceplates i actually have some
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boxes of random junk that i'm taking to the office this is like a forty dollar
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piece that realistically i wasn't luke's not gonna
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believe i salvaged or got for nothing these
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are what i actually need
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yeah okay all right so i'm thinking we'll do the
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build off in here so one person will take this desk
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surface and then the other person will set up a
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couple desks here and then we can use our pile of computer
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cases um to construct like like a wall a wall
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like a barrier so that neither of us can see what the other is doing so we've
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been back at hq already for like two hours and uh
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luke and uh brandon are
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nowhere to be seen they said we can start building at three so given that
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it's 2 30 right now we're pretty close so
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let's get set up
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do
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is going to be awesome that's what i said before we turned the camera on and
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now we're doing it again it's fake but it is what i legitimately said so is it
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fake i don't know no one knows
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okay so are we doing the part part show-off
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oh even though we have no alcohol and no cleaning cloths i found this
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napkin on the floor oh that's weird it doesn't have a model number maybe this
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is an unreleased processor i digest it
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has a model number so there's our CPU that's going to be a
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phenomenal performer
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here's our RAM okay
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here's our other ramp
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all right here's our third set of RAM
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our fourth set of RAM
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and our eighth set of RAM
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and our 12th set of RAM and our eight
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he's got a little bit of a viewing port back there
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i gotta be careful he can see around that corner quite easily and he's a
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little rascally devil gotta be careful with that one
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that's the sound of a quality side panel
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being dropped right there
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i would only drop it like that if i wasn't worried about damaging it because
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i have so many cases i bought six cases i thought that would
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probably be about about par yeah you probably only bought six cases
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because you're gonna need six cases to end up with a fully functional one yep
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next time on scrap yard wars luke runs out of gas in the bad part of town nick
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fights the statue of liberty yeah i just don't really like freedom
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how's what what how was the bathroom what about them oh yeah your bathroom
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cleaning what no it's not it's his week this week i think no last week i missed
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it oh i stayed late editing a video last week
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so i was kind of not in the mood to do garbage and also i forgot
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you