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so as you can see we got a million-dollar plaque really subscriber plaque and then we got our multiple hundred thousand evolved some things but I don't think it's really cool but my actual like favorite lot of life it does and then the silver ones too like if that's all solid that's quite a bit of money and then so welcome to scrapyard Wars you guys might be wondering what's up with all the mad stacks will this scrapyard Wars is gonna be a little bit different we are going to build a computer we are gonna build a good value computer but there is no set budget the challenge today with our special guest Austin Evans is to build the best bang for the buck computer will be using five different benchmarks Tomb Raider far cry 4 sentiment PC mark and 3d mark fire strike to determine who has gotten the most possible value for their money all right friends care package from debrand D brand skin ah yes sirs so we got an s6 edge+ we got a note 5 and we've got yes my friends MacBook Airs pearl okay so these are the tools that we'll be using to do all of our scrapyard Waring thanks to thee brand let's see I think my MacBook Air is supposed to be like a special one so orange yes I believe that one is that one is it so you guys can flip over the other two because I am totally going for this is a new orange finish from them that looks absolutely sickle that I gotta say I like the wood grain that orange is pretty I was mad at my wood grain if I got wood grain on the laptop sure I'd always want me okay so out of all you guys but I got my D brand phone I got my chest strap done up oh you got the real stuff right yeah you got the real stuff right yeah me too bro so let's go no-holds-barred scrapyard Wars holds board he's gross wait I should I need my laptop where does my laptop go here it is okay really happy let's go dude uh have you got here okay alright basically my plan right now is oh there we go okay totally thought the door was locked all right so the plan right now is to just get out of here so I think it looks way more legit if we're like not here so we're going it's a great question uh-uh let's not be here let's just drive a little ways and figure this out so okay potential problem number one I actually haven't even done any pre thought I've been so busy that I haven't had any time to figure out how I'm gonna tackle this challenge potential problem number two there's three of us this time there's gonna be Craigslist crap that's listed two weeks ago that they get no calls about and I'm gonna have three people calling them today so we it is gonna be a race against the clock to win scrapyard wars three which obviously means it's a great idea that I'm sitting here on a couch I should I should really get going it's gonna try to save some money by avoiding a case build everything to make a cardboard box or something it's all about price to performance so if I spend like even half the budget I almost feel like we're gonna go over because I know I'm thinking like six seven hundred dollars something like that you know of a cool spot around here like I know my hotels over here what's a cool spot like we could hang out so nowhere oh that is some wicked gas we're not in the car yet though so it's okay oh man oh wow that's like that is some outdoor grade gas one of my biggest concerns is that I think we're gonna be fighting for parts I think we're gonna be fighting for parts because I don't think there's actually that many for sale right now I'm wondering if it has something to do with the Canadian dollar being in the tank at the moment it's my tip so one of our dastardly plans is to send responses from Craigslist ad posters to those guys that they never actually messaged so we'll try and we'll try and get them off the trail get them confused so we're all gonna be on Craigslist we're all gonna be trying to find the same deals or maybe not because the way that I see it there's actually a few different ways to tackle this we can try and get the cheapest possible computer that is at least capable of running the benchmarks and hope the other guys spend way more or we can go for like the traditional bang for the buck PC somewhere in the seven to eleven hundred dollar range and win the benchmarks and hope the other guys aren't able to get great value for the dollar I frankly don't know what the answer is right now yeah what if we try to do like a hundred dollar gaming PC build I don't know if it's necessarily going to be awesome but its price to performance right so if this is as tenth as good as if they spend $1,000 then we actually win so this could work it's only ten dollars and it's even here this could work maybe okay so I just got a two hundred and twenty dollar offer on a box of video cards oh we're calling this guy we're calling this guy that looks like an 8600 GT s like if we can just taking up space on a shelf if we can get that for like two bucks or five bucks or something we might be in pretty good shape it's an option so I'm calling the guy with our 9280 430 bucks I'm gonna offer him our twenty can you do 120 bucks awesome when do you want me to come pick it up yeah yeah but Port Moody is like a city like I need to know where okay so I got a r9 280 for 120 bucks I really want to get that 290 but I don't think the price per performance is worth it when the 290 would be over $100 or no basically exactly $100 more I don't know there's there's some funny math there because you have to calculate it in the whole rest of the system as well but I think it's you eighties gonna be good and I think I need to move on to other things so I'll go with that if I'm learning anything from this is that people like to really over price their old PC hardware like people like trying oh my my six-year-old gaming PC's worth $800 it was worth $1200 five years ago no dude it's worth like 300 ollars get over yourself maybe in the used market in general is just because that turnover is so low yeah dude yeah I mean I'm just seeing tons of junk here and everyone so I see something cool like okay so this is a g4 7900 for $50 I mean it's got s-video on it it's not gonna be worth $50 I don't care what you say Wow a lot of this stuff is pretty brutal is that a 9600 for 10 bucks though that's not bad let's save that in the numbers sheet the best thing to do this is gonna be a disadvantage for Austin in this whole competition because he hasn't done this before but the best thing to do is write in the first couple hours put out as many feelers as possible yeah you're right this does take a long time I also totally want to find like I got pawn shop not it all right oh that's a good idea that's a great idea yeah I like the car just like runs out there's a queue 9650 cpu I'm still potentially interested in that if I can get it for the right price I think we're gonna need a quad-core to win that Cinebench is gonna make a big difference I wonder how Austin's doing at this point like new city like he doesn't even know where any of these sub regions are like he's gonna be like Oh Yaletown that's probably pretty close okay I think we might have found something here a pair of 7950 graphics cards for $150 and that's both of them so basically one of them actually they were both used for Bitcoin mining but I don't really care as long as it works for long enough where I can actually like benchmark that could work $150 where's this 13th Avenue is that Burnaby what was that anywhere near Burnaby newest did any idea where that is scrapyard wars we'll be right back after these messages this episode of scrapyard wars is brought to you by deep brand makers of the precision cut vinyl skins that you'll see on the phones and notebooks of our contestants they offer a wide variety of styles and colors and support for the coolest devices including the PlayStation 4 galaxy note 5 and iPhone 6s protect the body of your devices and make them look great at be brand.com slash scrapyard wars trying to work on the system so what I'm trying to find now I have a graphics card I'm really not gonna look for a case power so I'm probably gonna have to get on its own and so what I'm looking for right now is a motherboard processor memory essentially and a hard drive I guess but I might try to sneak an SSD in there if I can I just don't know if it'll be worth it because most of our benchmarks are CPU and GPU $60 for an SSD that could be that could be all right maybe I think you might be able to get a new SSD it would probably wouldnt be that it's find out that much cheaper but we also maybe try to get that guy down a little bit so this guy wants 60 bucks for a 120 gig SSD that is so not happening $60 Ferb price you can buy brand new 240 gigs for $98 so I'll see if I can get him to be a little bit more realistic yeah I was just wondering if you were interested in selling parts of it at all yeah it's a pretty good point I was only interested in the motherboard processor Ram and potentially power supply I call him up I'm like are you interested in selling just the parts and he's like oh yeah totally that was my first idea when I was gonna be on Craigslist was I was just gonna part it out and he ends the phone call like well I'm okay with selling the parts if you buy all of them so so far I've got a graphics card that I'm picking up a hat to read something that was a r9 280 for a hundred and twenty bucks I don't know if that's like necessarily the best deal I could get but I wanted to move on to system because I did notice that a lot of my processors they're kind of scarce right now I can't find very many of them so I had a whole graphics card options I'm just like okay I just want to get that out of the way I should have maybe done that later but whatever I'm really trying to find my platform right now having a little bit of trouble with it dude I think this might be it $150 for 279 50s that's gonna kill it all right this is this is we totally need to go this way so now let's try to find some other parts and start calling that's totally way to go dude that's that's it that's that those are our cards right there so for a lot of the components I'm just gonna be kind of browsing what's out there and buying whatever but for the graphics card I think I have to shop a little bit smarter so I'm gonna be using on in text bench repository in order to compare graphics cards across the generations and then from looking at it briefly I'm feeling pretty good about the approach of going with a Tahiti based card so either a 280 or 280 X or a 79 50 or 70 970 I think that's where we're gonna get the best bang for our buck so I'm gonna lowball this to 80 X and kind of go from there okay so this is how I write a Craigslist email how's it going sorry you're listing for the pair of 79 50s I plan on building a gaming PC and was wondering if you've made sure they can gain I don't plan on mining but want to make sure both cards are fully working thanks cuz I've got to be polite I'm in Canada so fire that off and hopefully we hear back okay I'm just being like a little bitch hi I'm contacting you about the 280 extra sale are you firm on the price I don't think I can spend that much whenever someone contacts you like that are they open with that well not like a loser but like getting a better price makes you a winner yo but uh in a little bitch hey here's a good deal on an SSD let's see if this guy has a phone number 40 bucks call all right I'm gonna offer I'm gonna offer 30 for a 120 gig if I can get it I'm feeling really good about my storage drive who uses a home phone number I can't even text that so I'm gonna I'm gonna just I'm gonna play every game in the book sisty on Craigslist I can come get it today if you can do $30 do you have anything else for sale I'm trying to build a budget gaming PC for a friend of mine who's moving away maybe next time it'll be like my six sister or something she broke her arm and she can't go out much so we're getting her gaming computer look you might be judging me here but I have a competition to win so yeah I did say no-holds-barred this is the guy with the lots of older computer stuff come he says come take a look should we just should we just go check it out okay I've come across an interesting discovery there's a 7950 GX - that's a dual GPU card the guys asking 25 bucks if I can get that for like $10 or something I could be in a really good shape no that's a DirectX 9 part okay I knew I knew when we were choosing the benchmarks that we should have gone with something older than far cry 4 but it looks like you have to run it on DX 10 or dx11 hardware so right now I've switched from buying that that r9 280 to an arnai 200 or 290 I haven't told the 280 guy yet because the 290 guys seems a little bit flaky so I'm think I'm gonna wait until I get a actual confirm from him so the next problem we have is just having to power these 279 50s so I started looking around there are not a lot of power supplies we might be able to find something used but just out of curiosity I looked on NCIX it's gonna be like 97 dollars to get like a corsair ZX 750 we might have happen to buy some new stuff because the options on Craigslist or not is as solid as I was hoping and plus there are a lot of people think that stuff is worth way more than actually is so we're super stressed on time right now so much so that we're having delicious sushi because you know we got this okay so I found something decent here so this guy has an older computer but he's willing to part it out so you get a cool master case with a DB right 20 bucks and there's a power supply a 500 watt power supply for 30 bucks that can work but I don't think that's something 950 is claiming to power though what if we get to really keep power supplies oh and like tape one in the top or something yeah cool so like we basically just tell you how like one 500 watt power spike in the system like with like tape another one to the top just to power the other graphics card I almost want to do that purely because of how ridiculous it would be it might not even save us any money that would be awesome now we're gonna go try to hit up some local computer stores maybe try to find like some used cases we still need like a motherboard and memory okay so I didn't realize there's gonna be an apple specialist I mean we're here we might as well try yo you have a Mac right okay so slight change of plans we just left the MacBook at the restaurant no big deal but uh that was my bad so let's uh take it back to the air before uh this MacBook gets stolen I can't believe I just walked off bets neither of us saw that right next time on scrapyard wars Luke's mom finally gets her revenge on Linus Austen's surprise visit from a friendly grizzly bear turns hairy Linus reveals the deep dark secret behind his obsession with sandals