Gadgetory

we're going to build a budget PC and then we're going to water coolant we're going to 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 yeah scrapyard Wars scrapyard Wars - and thus gravity yell over to Terran to tell Brandon that I need him to get the camera ready so we can go and that never happened Brandon was never told we're leaving now it's about 12:30 yeah so we're late okay so my first hit for aluminum block Vancouver is from Hardware Canucks one of the first good old sugar J one of the first recommendations is metal Mart so Vancouver in the suburb of Langley yeah boy we're practically sitting on one of their locations okay awesome all right so here's what we're trying to do we want to make a cooling block for a computer component tippity booth there we go can you give me some idea of what we'd be looking at for like a block of aluminum maybe a yay thick maybe gay big yeah like what what does that cost is that the like cheapo scrap bin but there's things like that yeah that that's the one I actually saw right when I walked in and I thought that looks pretty appealing I need it today and this is thick enough yeah so um so like do you just sell it by the length or so yeah so how much does it cost I wasn't even able to pick that stupid deal and is there a particular grade or like Alloway that it is yeah 6061 uh-huh I meant nothing to me it's a this machinable it's a like a structural aluminum okay okay pretty decent quality what a sales pitch I like this guy you know shops like this existent just like here's a ginormous metal rod five inches with 661 f2 times six dollars and 61 cents Wow but not bad okay um and then you guys have a charge for four cuts right first cut on that is free every cut after the dollars okay um hey that's very reasonable okay can I can I have a couple minutes with a napkin and a pen and kind of figure out what exactly I need fantastic thank you okay so CPU block there's a couple different ways we can go about this we could go really small like the older Nexus alpha cool blocks that were only about yay big but what I worry about is we would the camera why this is here they're here I'm just gonna hide this diagram what's in there nothing what's that see you later what is it I I show me this isn't awkward at all I wonder what we're both doing oh I guess we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna get what we're getting and then get out of here cuz if you give us five minutes we're pretty much allowed to stay in the store pretty much that all right we'll be we'll be back we'll be back later then cuz I can't give away too much of my plan you're leaving too oh oh I see I see alright alright I'll see ya well he's found a source for metal you know this much so I saw online that you guys could do fabrication not this occasion for tales okay that's fine if I asked that if I showed them this could they make me a plate with a little pot on it what kind of POD it's I was looking for a copper plate with holes through it so I could go through there and then just any form of dome pot that would go over top of the CPU yep ask them yeah okay sounds like they could do yeah up there so so port kills can you give me the address Rangers I think we just saw Brandon and Luke on the road but it couldn't be you know uh no we're not gonna chase them I think they're heading to Home Depot though that's okay we've already been hearing people oh alright so they're making progress then oh ballsack this might be one of the ones I really liked all but I can't get it till after 5:00 which one is this never been overclocked of levity blue 150 you know what you know what this isn't sauce in a Sonata three case um it's it's by the time you put a graphics card in it oh we could afford a better graphics card though than the one we're about to ghost we're just gonna go see it yeah we're gonna go we're gonna go see it and you know what though barring anything unforeseen I'm just gonna grab it I think oh we're getting pulled over so I know you're not you're clutching your boat what you can't do what you drive yes sir SuperDuper don't know here for a Craigslist computer pickup so this is it you say this is an ex 58 based system I did not see that one came this is what we're going to be dealing with this card shouldn't be a problem although it's a really good thing that we didn't go and pick out a chunk of aluminum for our CPU cooler based on an LGA 775 socket size because this is using LGA 1366 does I have a front fan in it or not it does not we are not going to have a lot of airflow so I'm gonna have to get really creative about how I Jam all of this in there to even have any chance of cooling this thing okay well there you go that's that's pretty much all of our PC budget right there the rest we have is cooling budget I want to count it yep that is one rancid front filter wha-ha-ha ready I'm gonna do it don't be downwind stupid that way ah oh it's going back to the computer no get away from my card oh that's a feather there's a feather yeah yeah if I just got a small amount of metal from you guys in a sheet that I could put on could I just essentially epoxy a cap on there would that be fine the cost of fabrication is high although that totally makes sense that's what they do here so getting it welded is probably not an option right now that would be super cool if I was doing this on my own and had more than a 200 dollar budget but I don't so I'm going to call back to jb weld station so this probably sounds terrible because it looks like they're cutting my sheet probably right there actually so I'm getting a copper sheet little blocks of copper it's super cheap just to cut it so that's pretty nice and then I'm gonna have to kind of cut it to size my own drill the holes myself and then I'm going to hopefully find a copper or aluminum cap of some sort at a Home Depot or something so I just got in total the copper plate for about 6 bucks only because he had to sell it to me at a minimum quantity rush I didn't know that until he was telling me out so I probably should just got more just in case but I didn't so well I'll figure it out I need more it's not that big a deal it wasn't that expensive and I'm sure if I go back there I can be like here's the invoice you charged me for half a pound only got like 0.125 of a pound can you just give me some more and it might be fine the the cap cost about two dollars and seventy five cents copper cap it's gross I'm gonna have to clean that up but that's no problem I'm not worried about reservoir I'm going to pretty much ignore reservoir as of right now because I can just do the fallback of like going to Safeway and buying a $1 2-liter bottle of Pop just like pouring the pop out cleaning it up and then using that as a reservoir but pump and Radiator is going to be a pretty serious problem radiators going to be expensive and large so there's the idea of just buying a car radiator and there's also the idea of doing the copper coil thing but I'd kind of rather not but I'm going to buy a copper coil right now so I can cut it up and use parts of it so I guess we'll see what happens from that so I got my copper tubing that I was looking for this should be small enough to fit into that cap that I was talking about and it's actually fairly flexible so I got a fair amount of it because it's not too expensive and I'm going to try to just use it as all my tubing because that would actually be kind of nice because if I can just jb weld this into my blocks and whatnot then I can save money on fittings which would be pretty sick but kind of funny so well while I was in there I wanted to ask if Brandon could come in and film and there was no one for me to ask I couldn't find any employees anywhere which is fine it's a more of a self-serve store and we're in a princess auto by the way so I get up to the teller and I go to buy my whole big roll of copper tubing and she's like oh did you get it cut I'm like oh no I just wanted to get all of it and she's like oh you should get a cut so I go back to get it cut some guys trying to steal a whole bunch of stuff in the store he has his pockets completely full with like products literally coming out of it now like you have to pay for that you have to pay for that so he freaks out and just starts throwing products down the aisles while leaving the store and just Hux everything all over the place and then gets pissed off and leaves the store and then I get my thing cut and there's like a billion employees and I could have easily asked for Brendan to come in and film but I was finally done so let's go 50 bucks so what I saved on my radiator I may have actually just had to spend on coolant but I have my pump I have my coolant I have my reservoir I have my rad and we're going to go pick up the raw materials for our blocks now I just want to do a quick sanity check to make sure that my pump fits inside my reservoir before we leave here oh that's really close oh that's quite restrictive at the inlet isn't it oh not too bad actually hey hold on hold on just a gosh-darn moment here it's really are the world's worst suction cups though I might get away with that this thing isn't gonna seal anymore that's for darn sure I guess I didn't really think of that hmm okay so we're back at metal Mart let's go ahead and have a close look at exactly what we need for metal for our blocks that's fine go get the door for me or anything just hold that camera will you ask me loose get it back you got it you got a paper I I have a very I have a very fixed budget that's part of the competition you wanted some ah I know what either well plate analyze both and I know what he wants that's okay oh I have a better plan than him anyway Pro trolls man Pro Tools it all day looks like madness is I wish I had my calipers he's got two counters you're the man man so Center to Center and then zero that bad boy again ah I do sliced my hand Wow that's surprisingly deep for not drawing blood oh there's a little bit yeah these are sharp by the way in case anyone's right here's our order you need eight pieces we need I'm basically just buying two of each to give us a buffer to screw up okay so our medals costing us 38 37 I have I asked for a lot more cuts than I had gotten my original quote on so this is definitely more than I had necessarily wanted to spend on it but I think 40 bucks for two water blocks I can find a way to live with so that means we have left in our budget for fittings any miscellaneous stuff we've got eighty-five dollars not bad not bad I think we're still I think we're still think we're still okay so here let's have a look at the goods here so these two are going to be those that's going to be that heat sink for the GPU vrm these bad boys here are going to be my tops for my CPU blocks which are here and then our GPU blocks this is heavy though we're going to have to take a lot of material out of this just for weight so we've got two of those as well so we have two of everything so that we don't have to leave the the CNC tomorrow Oh what's the $2 a change okay awesome thank you very much my good sir and I really hope this works I have no backup plan next time on scrapyard wars the mayor of Quahog does the outro - climbs a 40-foot tree no really he actually climbs a tree so stay tuned alright that's it no more it's gonna get dumber and dumber my IQs gonna go down with