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welcome to scrapyard wars 2 episode a part 1 yeah that's how it's gonna be so today we've got a new challenge instead of just building a budget PC we're gonna build a budget PC and then we're going to water cool it we're gonna have a full budget of $500 $300 for our computer and a maximum of $200 for the water cooling parts but there's a twist we cannot use any off-the-shelf PC water cooling gear nada so it'll be judged in 5 sections 1 creativity 2 effectiveness 3 aesthetics for acoustics and then 5 is just overall we're gonna have a few ground rules as usual so number one is its tower only we don't have to source a monitor and keyboard and mouse number two is that there's no pre work or in between work we weren't allowed to doing research before the event and when all-out doing research like after worker and number three is going to get a bit of a curveball this time last time we said no help from friends family co-workers social media contacts whatever this time we're going to allow it but the panel of judges has been instructed that they are to deduct points from us depending on how much we take advantage of anyone other than our own wits and last is it really rules but we're just going to define what constitutes as a water cooling components so there's cooling blocks so your CPU water block or potentially GPU water block or whatever the heck else you decide to cool fittings tubing radiators fans pumps reservoirs or the coolant so that's it let's get started shall we yeah scrapyard wars me brat yard wards the time is now 2:30 go for we start alright you can count it I know mines right twelve nine thirteen nine eight seven twelve fifteen twenty eight thirteen twelve seventeen we are just gonna charge on out of here as if we have some idea what's going on let's just wait bye he's leaving alright I'm not gonna look at it from your little waste time by her family it's okay we'll get their attention they're gone why I kind of have a plan for this video there is no performance judgment criteria so it actually doesn't matter what PC that we decide to use so instead of stressing out about building a great PC I'm gonna go straight for water cooling parts and I'm just gonna kind of water cool whatever PC I find something that's actually critical for me is the lifeline component unlike Luke I am planning to use the lifeline in fact my strategy hinged on it so much that I was very very afraid we weren't going to allow them so Luke and I disagreed strongly about whether we should be allowed to have any kind of outside help I said yes he said no and Nick was actually the one who saved my bacon here by settling it and saying okay it should be allowed but the judges should factor it in because I have a neighbor who might be able to help me a little bit with this even though I know that I'm giving Luke the ability to leverage his dad who is crazy handy and has a lot of tools I want to find a computer really quick so I can figure out the whole layout for the socket so that I can try to start making blocks pretty much immediately so I don't want to spend a ton of time looking for a computer but I don't want it to be like garbage either I'm gonna go to probably an auto junkyard to find my radiator I'm heading to the pet store now for my pump I really don't have a plan in terms of the reservoir but I'm hoping that that I can come up with some kind of a good idea as far as that's concerned and then the blocks the blocks are gonna be the challenge and that's where my neighbor comes in he has a CNC mill so we are going to try to actually make a CPU block like a decent CPU block and a full cover GPU block that is the plan right now so let's get some trash talk going early hey you suck wall yeah take that Luke what a dick I'm not gonna play his silly little games time to be a man okay so we're looking at pumps and uh hmm these are all air pumps okay then okay so unfortunately they're doing some Rica jiggering of their inventory and the only one they have is this one right here which is like 80 bucks but they suggested that maybe if we go to Canadian Tire we can find something I am interested in finding something that's submersible though since one of the judgment categories is acoustics and having a submersible pump will make my system very quiet so that won't help me for now though I mean really we're not going about this the most efficient possible way right now but frankly I'm not that concerned we've got three days to pretty much build and water cool a computer and not get run over so I don't know maybe I should be more worried but I think we got this hi there I saw your gaming tower ad on Craigslist I was just wondering if you could give me a deal if I didn't take the monitor keyboard or mouse 200 bucks yeah okay can I come pick it up right now cool so he has a it's a classic case as you can see there you guys are gonna turn the monitor like that so you guys remember that case maybe from a long time ago it's not the greatest looking case but it's a classic case he does have a graphics card in it but it's super boring it's not the most interesting thing ever but it'll work I got it for 200 bucks so I have $100 to splurge on potentially an old graphics card that looks nice and potentially a better case because I saw some cases on there that were like 40 bucks and looks really nice I don't want to do something as ghetto as like a sawed-off milk jug but yeah I don't know what to use maybe like um maybe like one of those big gulp drink containers on the top with like like fittings coming down into the system or something why not one of those little goldfish aquarium things like terrible that you shouldn't use should I put a goldfish in my loop and a filter you could store our goldfish in one of these seems harmless okay so here's a submersible pump a hundred and ten dollars that would be literally over half of our budget there's cheaper stuff here but like the cheapest oh no at oh okay hold on a second the cheapest one is thirteen dollars but if that's the kind of flow rate we're talking about and only a one year warranty but then 20 bucks get a seventy it gets us 75 gallons per hour you know what we should remember this I'm not going to buy it now but that actually may be a solution whenever he's gonna do something that's like cheating or borderline cheating he usually makes sure that there's very defined rules around it so that he knows specifically how you can go around those rules so I'm wondering if he's going to just try to find things that are essentially the same but are not technically for water cooling I might yeah I might source another graphics card I might source a new case although this is a fairly classic case so I might also stick with this guy there's also a bit of metal I'm gonna be modding it quite ugly so you okay so this thing sucks but there's a lot of metal which I'm actually super downward beginning a better graphics card at this point is going to be a little sketchy because I was pretty sure in his ad I could totally be wrong but I was pretty sure in his ad I'm gonna put this in the back that he showed a 750 watt power supply that might have been the other computer I was looking at oh well I'll figure it out maybe no new graphics card probably new case because that one's actually fairly scratched up so we're gonna go home and try to I go to princess Auto because if I can get it block working for the CPU and like that's going to be the hardest thing so if I can source some materials and start trying to make a block work at all and I'll just make it for the CPU then I'll then I'll know that I have the methodology down that I should be able to do it again for the graphics card so I'll just do one at once and then try to reproduce that instead of trying to deal with getting two of them working at the exact same time okay so the last real story I want to go to before I start calling places and browsing online is Home Depot just because I think this is where I can probably find the tubing I need and that's the one piece of the puzzle where I'm not even sure if I'm going to be able to find it use so I need to know how much that costs before I shop for everything else so that whole strategy where you leave your car unlocked because there's nothing valuable in it anyway only works if you don't leave your like razor blade in your car they're like not that crazy expensive this this could work if I decide to bail on the on the reservoir right then I've got my key line so 250 here at Home Depot so it's time to do some napkin math let's figure out how much we know we're spending and then how much we have we have left to spend so so buying new a 20 here about 10 here actually we should call that 25 because the tax reservoir you know what I think I'm going to lock into the t line so that gives us about a hundred and fifty dollars for radiator so pump we can get away with saving one by getting us oh no we can't have a submersible pump now because of the frezz we need to obtain a reservoir or use the submersible pump chute so Canadian Tire really didn't like us we got threatened to be thrown in court so all that footage is gonna be thrown away but basically they're actually super helpful auto parts guy got me a part number for their cheapest radiator which is a hundred and eight dollars so that's not that cheap but could be workable in the budget I know the pump that I'm looking for is also about forty five fifty dollars so that's 150 bucks out of my budget right there and I would still need metal and fittings and a fish tank and two bro we can't afford all that I didn't think the radiator is gonna be hard so I would be looking for something fairly inexpensive but and preferably with a fan already on it but I'm not super picky about what exactly it is see radiator core for 25 dollars I'd be looking for a car radiator but I just I don't really care which one it is I'd just be looking for something relatively small like do you guys have any salvaged radiators that I could pick up oh really Wow you're the you're the first person with good news that I've talked to in the last hour um what would I be looking at for something like that I don't have a huge budget for it you think you're not really you - what right here I'm sure I can Big Joe for 50 bucks okay all right thank you so much here's some 20 bucks 1/2 inch 1/2 inch gas pipe new ok let's let's just let's call hi I'm calling about the copper pipe and I mean is there anything wrong with it all right okay wonderful thank you very much 30 to 50 feet that could work so here for Rhett we've got two leads on PCs the plan with the copper tube is that I'm basically just going to like bend it up and jam it inside the case so that it can take advantage of any of the air flow that's already coming through the case to cool the CPU and and hopefully the GPU so there it is there's our there's our copper copper tubing so in terms of bendability it looks like I will be able to hand Bend it I don't know with what amount of precision we have our first part again I'm not too concerned about the PC and we have one cooling component with leads on most of the rest what's a good day today I just realized I'm gonna have a mixed metal loop I was planning to use a heater core or something which is a lot of them are made of aluminum and then I was planning to make aluminum blocks now that I have the copper tubing I'm gonna have to budget for some kind of a corrosion inhibitor the judges probably won't know that anyway next time on scrapyard wars Linus whips it out my goodness it's so long Luke goes into a serious situation with a dremel tool he always had three fingers right