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this episode of scrapyard wars was brought to you by deep brand all right so it is the beginning of day two and the very first thing we do is check email someone who emailed ahead of you has confirmed he is coming to buy it there first thing in the morning so don't come out before phoning me around 11:00 and make sure it's still available this is Luke I know it it is absolutely Luke oh man we're not gonna have enough time oh the guy with the 79 50s reply back so we can get the city 915 oh no we don't have time for this right now we have to you have to go right now oh this is for the case each the guys local so it should not be that far Oh 25 minutes away day two scrapyard wars oh we are going to get that graphics card that I talked about yesterday the r9 290 gigabyte wind force and then I have bad news the motherboard CPU and cooler platform guy responded saying that he had a lot of two gigabyte six of RAM his good news and then also told me that he forgot to bring it to work with him today and that he might not be able to tomorrow so I was distracted trying to have Brandon email motherboard guy so I went the wrong way on the highway so I'm going to pick up the graphics card where BCIT he's waiting I'm late I'm gonna go I actually heard back from a fair number of my lowball graphics card offers so it's a good thing I did this before running out and picking up that $20 video card that I arranged yesterday because if I can find something better i'ma just bail on that guy so first up we've got a GTX 460 for 30 bucks the guy came down from or up from my offer of 20 gtx 550 ti na sorry this card is too good for $35 well 7870 $40 firm for a broken card what an idiot frickin tool this guy didn't reply to any of my questions are you really the line of sebastian from NCIX okay so no useful leads whatsoever let's get down to business so I decided I'm gonna go for the one shot you know home run swing right off the bat here I'm gonna load literally all of this hardware up and I'm gonna see if it boots and if it does then I am in really good shape for the rest of the day and if it doesn't and we got nothing ah I knew this motherboard wasn't going to work why did I even let myself think it might balls another shot here with a proper power supply and see if maybe that's the issue the display on the back it actually has a post read up back here but I can fit no way we got Anna soos our og board for gigs of working ddr2 IQ 6600 and a broken power supply which I'm totally okay with for 60 bucks so I know what we're doing today we need to obtain a new power supply okay I'm okay with that we need to obtain a case and what's great about that is it's really easy to find a case power supply combos so we need to go out and get a case power supply combo we still need to potentially find a graphics card but I'm going to find out about that in a minute here maybe we should spend some of our time obtaining a better cooler because the cue 6,600 can run pretty hot when you overclock it so having a really beefy cooler on there could be the ace up our sleeve ah we got to go we might just lose a motherboard right now do we bail on this guy and try to get it from case okay so it is 10:09 and everything is already going completely wrong I'm pretty sure Lucas getting our motherboard right now and I just realized the guy who has the case who supposedly locals actually 25 minutes away and this guy is expecting us to like show up and like 5 minutes you might be a little screwed here the good thing that might save us is that we have leads on both a 69 90 and a pair of 79 50s both of which should be doable really so I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to this guy's house pick up the case and the power supply and then we're gonna do is we're going to go and grab see what kind of stuff we can get at the computer shop because that's we don't have any other appointments I don't think we might um yeah we'll go to the computer shop and see what we can find if the guy has a good motherboard then we should be able to either pull off 7950 or the 69 90s but it's gonna be tricky so I have bad news and great news the bad news is a motherboard system guy still hasn't messaged me back good news is I got the graphics card for 180 dollars I saved 20 bucks how did I do that well I checked out the card before he gave it to me it's a 290 everything's fine but there's one little oddity and I went to go take it out of the bag I noticed this there's no screws right there there's one screw holding the plate on here but it's missing a screw here it's missing two here in two screws here so I was like that's kind of weird started complaining and he gave me 20 bucks off so I got a 290 after market cooled card for a hundred and eighty dollars which is pretty sick I just need to make sure that I have a computer to put it in it is time to call free geek and see how much they can save my ass hopefully entirely scrapyard Wars we'll be right back after these messages 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about to pick up the case hopefully don't get murdered this is the first time we've actually use Craigslist for this little trip so get some money and hopefully have a case Hey hi says go on Austin I thank you appreciate don't separate those others our Michelin welcome for you okay thank you appreciate it it is officially view again we have our case and I'm gonna say it's actually way more beefy and I thought it was so see here let's got lock on it there we go that's actually pretty solid and he showed me the power supply does work we have a 120 fan in the back actually that one in the front no still though oh we even have a SATA cable front panel all right I think we're in business it's a little beat up but it'll totally do for 25 bucks it's a good start so the guy with the sabre-tooth motherboard replied he'll let me know if it's sold or not he got multiple replies and I have the first who first responded the first chance you should be here shortly and if he doesn't show up it'll be yours it's not about getting more money but more of a promise to keep Oh be yours for the same price if other guys doesn't show up so 7950 guy just replied basically we're kind of out of luck on this - he doesn't get home till 7 o'clock he could do it tomorrow but that would eat up the little bit of time we would have and we'd have to drive like a power out of the way so there is a 69 90 it's $180 so we're gonna meet him at 2 o'clock so I just got the $200 r9 290 for a hundred and 80 bucks because it was missing a couple screws on the i/o plate which while they're nice to have the card will run without it and I'm hoping that there might be some spare ones for that in the in the spare screw bin at work the motherboard and system guy still has not messaged me back he's at work I can't be mad but this guy is getting a little frustrating to deal with he's never had my phone number he keeps on saying he's gonna text me and he has not and that would be a lot easier to communicate with him over text messages he said he's going to check for ram last night he did I also told him to bring the stuff to work so I could pick it up from him at work and he did not because he apparently forgot or didn't read that email or something kind of think he just forgot so I've got a graphics card and I've got a line on a power supply which I'm going to pick up later today other than that it's unknown and the free geek stock is really starting to freak me out so my new plan is I'm going to go to free geek figure out what they have if they have everything I need which is very unlikely but if they do I'll just pick it all up if they don't I will just kind of post up probably near free geek in the car do as much research as I can online try to plan all the appointments I can for the stuff that I can and then fill out the holes that I can't find with stuff at free geek hopefully that will work I had a lot of backup plans last night and most of them are gone now but there's still a few that seem to be on the fence of guys that have 66 hundreds and other various quad cores so I don't know might not be screwed just really depends on what's it freaking ya interested in QC 600 interested in a board that it can go in and a fairly low capacity hard drive so our options right now this is actually way better than I expected this place is super cool is $30 for an Intel DG 43 GT did she say 35 and not 55 so I've got an Asus p5q motherboard IQ 6600 a 120 160 I don't remember gigabyte hard drive spinning it up 7200 rpm and it was a little vague but I think 8 gigs of ram all for 100 bucks I'm a little bit worried that this thing isn't gonna work at all as you guys saw there there was like Tim in the CPU socket and she rubbed the pins on the board and did that duh but anyways I think it'll I think this will be good ok so I'm throwing my Windows 7 test build on here to find out what exactly this graphics card is I cannot believe we got can't believe that board works I do have to say one cool thing about the MacBook Air is that I forgot to charge it used it a bunch yesterday it's at like 65 percent battery cray-cray oh wow it's a sound driver a co dot sis was what caused the problem interesting does this even oh oh wow um we might have to go back to our buddy there and get a sound card this motherboard doesn't have onboard sound so today's going well so far I have determined that my motherboard by some freaking miracle works the RAM is all correctly detected the CPU is correctly detected it even has drivers for up to Windows 8.1 so we're going to be able to run all of our benchmarks I have arranged to go out and pick up the graphics card that we figured out yesterday and I've reached out to back alley crack pipe computer owner guy about going and getting a sound card because that is the thing that probably had that motherboard in the scrap heap I don't have a sound card for it so if we hear back from him maybe we can get a case while we're there which leaves us with the optional step of obtaining a power supply because I could use the one from the computer inside and that is about it we're in really good shape it is time to boogie so I'm just going to cover up my progress so far and head oh all right so we are here at the computer store and hopefully we'd be in a lot of what we need because we need roughly everything right now so let's give it a try Hey so basically we were able to get a lot of what we needed so we're able to get a core i7 2609 well close the motherboard so it will support crossfire so we're good with the 6990 but the most important thing is we've got a seriously powerful CPU we have a seriously powerful graphics card we have a 160 gig hard drive because 15 bucks and we just need to run benchmarks it's not all going to make a difference and we have our second power supply so this is actually a pretty beefy supply it actually has an eight pin and a 6 pin so basically right now I think we're in pretty good shape I think once we look glue this or tape this up to the top of the case granby set so let's go do it okay so they had a problem mounting the stock heatsink but the price is good so I really want to make sure it works so they let me back into their testing area which is awesome letting us film which is awesome free geek is awesome I need to note this thing though yeah it's I think the heatsink has a problem that really sucks because something that I do know doesn't work is this top salaat but they say that this one works I want to make sure it works before I mean the the arm is broken off that's why it won't shoot yeah I hate these freaking stock heat sinks man that's one side in so the whole right side went in no problem at all the whole right sides in the left side on the other hand is just not working out for me very well I'm having second thoughts about my video card matrix strategy what I realized is I'm calculating FPS per dollar as a function of only the cost of the graphics card I have not factored in the rest of the compute so if a graphics card costs $10 more that doesn't mean that if I'm spending $20 I'm spending 50% more I better get 50% more FPS that means that compared to the rest of the cost of the system I might be spending 10% more I only have to get 10% more FPS so basically the more expensive graphics cards might be totally worthwhile even if they don't score as many FPS per dollar compared to a low-end one next time on scrapyard wars then it's nearly gets deported don't worry one jonatha