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this episode of scrapyard wars was brought to you by deep brand 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 you know what the stupidest thing about me screwing up that formula is is that's exactly the formula that I used to use when I work to retail computer sales to help people understand how you know buying something that cost twice as much might effectively give them a way better value than if they bought something for half as much like if you're buying $1000 computer spending an extra hundred dollars on a graphics card that performs 30 percent better is still 30 percent more performance for 10 percent more budget in the grand scheme of things but I like for God and the really frustrating thing right now is that even if we hadn't already been late to meet this guy twice so I feel like I really have to go meet him even if that weren't the case I still have to go right now I have no time to go and plug some more cards into an updated formula and find out how they compare before I have to go meet him out so I basically could end up stuck with a $20.00 paperweight by the end of this I didn't bring my cash it's okay it's okay it's okay hello thank you this is uh this is gonna really help me a lot I have money I also have a sweater awesome I couldn't find a t-shirt so it's a hoodie that's alright better foods for terrible yesterday awesome we just heard back not that I'm touching that we just heard back from the back-alley guy I think we've got a lead on a sound card I'm gonna off from like five bucks so we need to be in Richmond and an hour and it's gonna take it's about 40 minutes to drive out there so we should be good on time and that's pretty much it last thing we're gonna have to do is go over and pick up some memory which I think ncx is actually gonna be the cheapest way there's not a whole lot of like cheap used memory so yeah I feel like we're doing really good we just need the graphics card and as long as that works and everything should be fine there then we're gonna be good so let's go Hey so that's the top slot so everything's good so just got it a free geek Vancouver I was pretty worried about that store and that ended up being amazing all any left is a power supply and I've spent two hundred and eighty dollars I should have asked about a power supply 700 watts some sketchy brands - I forgot I needed a power supply how much for this guy is it from one cable can I just put me going from one kid yeah I can probably go and then it has a I need yeah I need six plus two and I need six okay has awesome okay so give me one second how much you say thirty bucks there you go so done I guess free geek just cleaned me out for what was it a hundred and thirty dollars I got a 550 watt power supply at Q 6600 s 160 gigabyte hard drive a 775 motherboard and eight gigs of RAM so that means my final total comes to a hundred and eighty plus thirty so two hundred and ten plus one hundred three hundred and ten dollars so I'm ten dollars over the original scrapyard Wars budget and have a way better computer yes okay I keep telling myself I'm just gonna stop looking I'm going to go back and test the cards but I keep keep looking anyway I mean I just saw a 7990 listed or a 7970 listed for a hundred dollars even factoring in my twenty dollar loss on that card that's an FPS per dollar of almost point four that would be the winner if I could get it and here's something totally stupid here's a 69 90 in rich surely this guy doesn't think he's actually gonna get 180 dollars for that so why don't we send a text okay so after the 18 hour drive to where we are right now Richmond Richmond after the 18 hour drive to Richmond you ever take 17 hours we're here but we're actually here twenty minutes early so the dude lives in one of these apartment buildings over here so I guess we just wait for him oh there's a Toys R Us over there 20 minutes and Toys R Us hi I'm calling about the 6990 you have listed on Craigslist do you still have that yeah I do but there's a guy is picking up this afternoon if he doesn't shows up I will give you a call how's that um do you know the name of the guy picking it up no I don't oh okay yeah I think he's not likely to pick out though because he's using a California numbers so I don't know it's a browsable what oh okay um because I can come like I can come like right now because I have made a promise to him so I will wait till 2:00 if he doesn't shows up that I George okay how much did he offer what 80 oh okay I've had have to be okay um okay can you can you call me at 2:00 if he if he doesn't come get it by - sure yeah ah wait by a half an hour something like that are you weird relieved well I live out in Langley so the sooner you can let me know the sooner I can start driving because I really need it today okay yeah yeah I will give you a call okay all right thank you all right thank you okay right California California Austin's number gonna pick up a 69 handy in the city city of Richmond he is rocking a 69 90 okay interesting scrapyard wars we'll be right back after these messages this episode of scrapyard wars is brought to you by D 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 calm slash scrapyard wars so we're at the guy's place he's gonna let us test the card problem is do we film it because I feel super sketchy at going in some random guys house as he's testing graphics card for me and say by the way can we film I don't what you think I think our intention is to make a video this video is very important you push like we're asking right is it is it but what we didn't privacy if we ask hold on but if we say we want to record what happens he goes oh well I want twice as much money for the car she's saying we don't have a choice do it for the video no no but like if he knows - like this is not just some random couple guys who want to build a computer like what if he decides like he wants to raise the price of something I just really don't like recording like people's houses or like and I don't like recording in places where people don't like let me which I guess you're asking we don't have to tell them that we're shooting a YouTube video you just feel like hey uh can we just document this oh I've got the money okay we're tricks this that might be a little helpful and buy a graphics card so now we know Austin's after that card part of me wants to snipe it just to totally him but the other part of me is actually not even sure if that's that great of a card so we can plug this into the formula so 6990 at one hundred and eighty dollars would be approximately a sixty nine seventy times it's two ish so that's fifty seven so let's say times one point eight those games should scalp like pretty well so about a hundred and two so if he's paying a hundred and eighty bucks for that oh that is a bet see that's a better performance index on getting 0.36 damnit Austin well if I can snipe it I'm gonna alright so looks like everything works so we're here testing out the 6990 everything looks like it's running great on Diablo 3 so we're pretty much good there now pretty much all it's left for today we need to go pick up some memory and we'll be good to go so we might just have this bill ready boom so we successfully have an esse X at X Radeon 6992 me so yeah I think we're looking good right now umm so at this point we pretty much need to go to inside X and pick up four gigs of RAM which shouldn't be a big problem um that's the only kind of slight question right now is how much RAM do we actually want to get so four gig is gonna be a lot cheaper but we might have some stuttering issues I think par cry 4 is the thing that we're kind of worried about right now so it's gonna be like do we want to go for it or not I kind of played a little risky so I think we might go with four gigs of RAM especially if they end up making me pay for tax which I don't want to so but most important thing we have an awesome graphics card so we're set I've got to say now that we've got this beefy graphics card I've been way better at this point we really only need the memory and that should be like the easiest thing ever to get so putting in work right now so she can starting out cheap this one's I mean this was like a $600 graphics card I mean you set it at all a graphics card it's just a few years ago we got this thing for less than 200 so I don't know I feel like if we win this it's going to be because of this card if we lose this Skippy because of this card but I think we're going to win this because of this card so we've had a troubling morning we got our graphics card that I thought was a great deal turns out that according to my corrected calculations it was actually not a very good deal and we got some very useful intel on what our competitors are doing so Austin is going high-performance and he's going dual GPU which I really wish I had looked up the 69 I looked up almost every other dual GPU solution yesterday by keyword this one's been listed for a month and Austin offered asking price he's getting a 69 90 for a hundred and 80 bucks which by my calculation is going to cream me so we're on our way back to the office we're going to test what we have make sure it's running I'm going to do some shopping try and find a better graphics card deal and if I can find something that'll allow me to eat the $20 I wasted then I will go out and get it before I meet the back-alley guy again at 4:00 today dudes the NSA ex is right there it's right in that okay so do you want to drive over there or do you wish won't walk it what let's go get our memory now dude I'm feeling pretty pumped I really think that we're actually doing really good here eight gigs of RAM is way too that's crazy for the scrap yard war system we got we crazy and pretty crazy we got to save money do this is price to performance it's a serious business we gotta go we gotta go football game see if there's any other four gig just in case okay 2035 day nope you just got the four gig stick of the coarser membrane so won't be super fast will be a ton of memory but it should be just enough get through the numbers once we pick you'll be okay okay awesome man appreciate it we're good root beer all right we have officially all of our parts right now so to recap we picked up the case and one of our power supplies for $25 this morning we went to a computer shop we got our CPU our motherboard we've got the heatsink we got another power supply and we've got a card drive we got the graphics card just now and we just picked up the $30 kit of working memory as ads on the spot flying it out of here so we have all the parts we bought them all today and everything went pretty well actually it is 238 right now so now that do we have over two hours left but we get to delay a delicious root beer what you do you're too cheap to get anyone oh yeah so accidentally I just bought this out of the scrap yard works budget so all the parts we bought plus like two dollars for root beer oops let's taste pretty sweet though I think it's kind of worth it okay I'm a little nervous right now there we go you what is that this guy's awesome so the good news is that we found a lead on a graphics card that even if I have to throw away the $20 I spent on this will put me back out ahead or at least even with Austin 4 FPS per dollar but I haven't heard from the guy in about half an hour so I'm really hoping I hear back soon the bad news is our power supply we hoped would work is dead which means that our 400 watt backup power supply is only borderline capable of even supporting a 7970 if we get it there's also more bad news it looks like our 6850 might actually be dead which could also be good news because that gives us $20 back in our pocket if we can get a refund unlike in Austin's chances but never count Luke out I mean he might show up with some completely bizarro thing less time on scrapyard wars Austin gets a tetanus shot Luke gets captured by Vikings and - runs over a dog