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all right so you guys pretty much know how this works at this point it is time again for scrapyard wars but we're throwing a wrench into the rules once more we're gonna have a bigger budget $900 per team and because that gives us enough money to build something that not only performs well but also looks good we've brought in BS mods professional computer modders extraordinaire to lend both me and Luca Han so welcome to our guests Bob and rod and without further ado let's get started okay so it's day two we're getting started a little late cuz the camera people slept in or got stuck at the auto shop both of them go figure um but it's okay because this only sets back our plan to finish an entire day early by about an hour yeah we'll be fine we'll be fine okay my biggest concern going into today was that we would not find hardware because there was pretty much nothing out there and we got almost no replies on the messages that we sent out midway through and towards the end of the day yesterday so there's a couple things that came through this morning I actually heard from two gtx 780 s one of them sort of disqualified himself um what's your best offer will it be in one of your videos oh yeah so he knows what's up yeah the other guy says yep I can do that also are you Linus from - tech toast so I'm gonna take that one because he doesn't actually know right and he said yep I can do that first we had contacted a guy who had and unfortunately he recognized linus right away and blew the whole deal because the rule is that he can't use any kind of influence to make a deal make a purchase whenever and so technically as soon as the guy figures out it's Linus you know it's kind of against the rules so far I think we're doing a grand total of okay I think we have a pretty interesting theme although we don't have enough stuff for that theme currently but we have some leads which might work out we have a whole bunch of hardware leads which seem to be pretty good but then I don't really know what the actual hardware target is this time around because it's a very flexible budget and there's two different things that you're going for and then like the availability of parts right now is and things are really expensive because the Canadian dollar is so yeah I think we're doing ok we are going to max traders max traders is a scrap yard place like family owned thing that said that we might be able to pick some pick some stuff out of their yard so we're gonna go check them out first so we're after some hopefully rusty bits that will fit in with like the iron that we got yesterday in the burlap and stuff that maybe already has a patina that we won't have to paint or change at all stuff ready to go yeah the the main computer that we're looking at which is a I 7 860 machine with 8 gigs of RAM they want 285 for it we asked them for 260 I said no so we asked them what they could do and you said candy much so we'll probably give an offer like maybe 275 and see if he'll do that just to try to get a snake for 10 bucks for more aesthetic work or a better SST stuff cool old bit in this engine I think is some rust in there yeah sweet alright oh man yeah we're at max traders this is a place kind of me where I grew up I knew about it there's some pretty cool stuff here hopefully it works out we got to go walk around and try some things out try to stay out of the workers way so hopefully this goes well remember copper stuff is gonna be worth more this stuff looks super cool but like just to like have it on there it could look pretty damn cool that looks awesome heavies gonna cost right well probably there's a small like motor that was pretty amazing it was exactly what I was looking for I wanted bins of junk and we're able to dig through those bins and find some pretty cool stuff really a motor looking thing big alternator that's it Hannah I mean like I'm not sure if you need the whole I don't know if we have enough space in a case but if you had just the front pulley part that's what I was kind of even looking at these guys like okay two of these on a shaft and put a belt on them you get the impression of like a motor without like the tons of space yeah yeah so there's two matching ones there and there have them watch it yeah I almost wonder like a rubber belt almost seems a little bit out of place with a piece of metal chain going around and it's like on the back off a little bit maybe yet we can find a piece of metal chain that would be pretty cool looking there's another piston that one's busted but see these look good c15 say Matt back these are perfect back to Chevy v8 Pistons that may be a lot more confidence in the team yeah I was a little bit worried about it my biggest concern going into day two was getting anything to match the theme at all because that wasn't really going very well so far and I think we conquered that so it's good it's a it's a critical item so this is just garbage bin but these are water lines that they've cut the brass fittings off of so it's pretty much just a stainless steel line that's garbage and then we're perfect for sleeping also you like smoke stacks of the topper so yeah we've got that great that's going to take up a huge portion that's good point it's good for me but so may be slightly smaller diameter yeah yeah that's pretty cool it's pretty big but it's pretty cool I can't find this gage anywhere easy it's 480 kilovolts so thousand volt scales so something you would use to measure the voltage incoming to like a transformer before it hits your house power only down at 110 volts or so megawatts million Watts multiple households worth of electricity so power plants maybe produce somewhere a big power plant that powers the entire city produces maybe 150 mega watts so this is badass bodies at Walmart yeah yeah we're gonna buy a bunch of them we're doing a weird art project thing we're trying to make a computer that looks kind of mad maxi oh cool yeah another for sick we'll get more awesome that one's got gas anism to make sure you have the yeah yeah yeah good call thank you appreciate that there's no awesome cool so we got these for free oh my god sweet so that's that's $45 we're at the tips yeah thrift stores on the first day were pretty rough but max was actually pretty awesome I was hoping for a lot from max I've been there a few times and Cyn seen some pretty epic things that would have been awesome but their inventory is rapidly rotating because they just Salvage scavenge and get rid of everything that they have all the time that's kind of their whole business so you never really know what to expect there but I was very happy with max so we are able to get the 780 for 300 so what that means is if we meet up with the guy with the CPU motherboard and RAM for 500 right away we spend 300 on a 780 that gives you thirty two dollars and seventy five cents to finish your mod oh my god thirty-two dollars almost 33 Canadian yes oh I mean what do you even still need though we need a little bit of hardware just some just some like you know small small bolts and really not a lot so I can't believe I'm saying it but we might be fine with that okay I also kind of need a CPU cooler so how much more of that can you give oh my god okay um I can ask CPU motherboard guys cuz me yeah if we can get one for like 10 bucks I just really like we're okay we talked to him already about not needing the video card and not needing the hard drive but we don't need the case right we don't need a case at all anymore why don't we ask them cuz this guy's not more than he could sell the case for maybe 20 or 30 bucks yeah you know what so why don't we start by seeing if we can get a CPU cooler instead of a case right and then go from there also do we still need paint did you bring some I brought some I think I have enough for what we're gonna do okay why don't we go have a look okay okay okay let's go check that first before we before we scrapyard wars will 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blue we can just add some white hi this is Linus calling I was gonna pick up the the CPU combo yesterday and I know I'm calling a little late um do you mind if I head out there now if I don't need the case are you able to take off like another 20 bucks yeah yeah uh I can do it yeah you know what I don't want to be stuck in a cave but I work in computers - I know you do as well um yeah I just old enough to keep that I don't go home I see a bull what was it like a 300 300 or something like that machine you have to watch our corner of the trailer the picture okay okay um yeah this guy was cheaper than the other guy beat the guy with the reference part was the one who's like OMG is it gonna be in a video oh yeah for a lower floors over there I mean strix cards look pretty good and I could change this red right here I can change that to the same colors and stuff Cera's oh that's not a big deal as far as painting so and I can actually I can paint the whole thing silver and then paint these blue to match so it tricks out the car okay we're good there okay so we're still good but the budget is not looking good right now this guy wants 40 bucks for an Evo - what oh there's no yeah look at these are all stock that's all stuff wait is that an Arctic cooling logo that's on that last picture 53 minutes this place is not close well okay yeah but I don't think we have much of a choice we really haven't found anything better every time I come to Canada though I do like it it's just something about it just seems really cool and people are really I don't know they seem pretty genuine and pretty cool running around downtown Vancouver and seeing how many hot women are running around on the streets actually so has nothing to do with the bill but that was definitely a surprise for me soon as I could be on this floor check out this analog elevators awesome - this is Bob okay all right so uh what you got which way are we going yes you're here so what was how much was it it was hundred bucks off rate so which was 195 I was there is there any way you would go to just sit honey never pulled for star 75 I'm not willing to pay asking price and things like that and you know there's a little bit of negotiation involved with five bucks I don't care et writers at 85 bucks for as well so to me it's all non-existent stuff can we do 485 every a little bit how you want to pull it out through yes I don't care I mean we're we're that tight on the budget that we like every dollar is tight critical at this point he said I want to do the day if you want to put that's fine later okay I went and I left my stupid screwdriver in the car lady thank you okay awesome oh I got it I got it I got it okay so that was a brilliant stroke of negotiation getting that extra 10 bucks because that 10 bucks could be the difference between having a heat sink and being able to afford our video card and not so we actually did really well here we paid for 85 and we got ourselves a 2600 we got ourselves it looks like yeah that's eight gigs of yep it's a 4x2 gig kit but it's got a heat spreader on it so we can paint that you can work with that we got ourselves an overclocking capable motherboard we've got a decent power supply CX 600 is not in a fantastic power supply but it's decent and it's sleeved not very nicely but it's slim and we've got a 250 gig SSD which while not really necessary to win you know maybe we can maybe we can position it sort of prominently in our system to get judges to recognize we have like a really good FST um I'm not that impressed with the fans no they're just basic I mean we've got you know just got basic black fans we've got 140 ml oh we we could use another 120 ml but we prefer another one with some blue LEDs however we did get exactly three of those which we needed so those will fit and will look good enough I'm still okay spending the 20 bucks on that coolermaster it's not really eye-catching you know I don't see why we can't return our money do you want to I was just gonna get some pictures and we'll just post my post on Craigslist yeah like tens lightly ten why don't we do what bucks let's say 20 bucks - that's a good case for 20 bucks let's say 20 bucks delivered I just heard back from 780 guy he says sorry for the delayed reply but I'm busy later today and can only meet Thursday you should follow other leads if you have it I'm just gonna I'm gonna like I'm just gonna beg should I throw in the ten bucks we just got like said I don't know well you know what I'll just I'll just beg first any I'm just saying I have a car and I can come anywhere I'm gonna fix my spelling people people like it better when he can spell okay I've got a guy with I've got a guy with an r9 390 but his original post is asking 400 and this is like new inbox it's brand-new from RMA I don't know how much he's gonna move what can we offer this guy he's given me a number to call so I can call him now yeah I'm just gonna turn off the engine here so right now I had 300 allocated for the GTX 780 and I had 20 allocated for a cooler and I had given you $22 for the rest of your modding supplies so if we can dress up our cooler we can save that money okay but then we can't we pretty much can't overclock a 2600 I actually don't even know if it's a 2600 K or a 2600 because that's a K 2500 K with a decent cooler is going to overclock enough to make a big difference if we can spend the 20 bucks on the cooler it is a 2500 K it is an overclockable chip how about this let's give ourselves give me can I have 10 bucks to find a cooler you think I can get a cooler for 10 bucks okay so then we offer this guy 330 330 for the for the r9 390 I mean it's definitely we got to have it we're kind of what's he asking he's asking 400 yeah and like you and I know but 390 is just a 290 with some more RAM well if we say like cash money right now we're down the street you know maybe yeah that gives you two dollars and 75 cents for the rest of the mod so that's enough to basically buy a couple like pieces of metal to cover those holes in the panel that's what we're looking at here oh actually all I'm gonna be getting is nuts and bolts I have nuts and bolt you I could beg for change can we beg for change on this challenge I'm not sure dude you've seen I'm not afraid to ask for a discount so I'm if I have to stand on a street corner with a cup saying you know scrapyard Wars please help whatever I need a GTX is you know 19 I'm not gonna lie nitu GJ you know whatever no I'm not homeless yes I am desperate please help hi I'm calling about the r9 390 uh yeah yeah that's right oh hold on just one second yeah yeah this is Linus so I am in a bit of a bind in terms of how much I have to spend on this I had a GTX 780 lined up um and that guy just completely bailed on me and now I'm really stuck would you be able to do 325 I can come right now I thought that 390 deal was done until the guy opened his mouth and goes it sounds like you are your - from - tactics right are you doing a scrapper you scrub your floor's devastated I was devastated oh great now I can't now I can't buy from you because it's against the rules okay well that's unfortunate okay well hi okay no problem okay well thanks anyway oh okay okay bye fortunately Bob had a great idea okay what's what's the ruling what if I call him and ask him the same question he isn't gonna know me that's true um how do we get you to call him can we find like a payphone I can't use my influence and he has no knowledge of me whatsoever that's true he doesn't know that I'm doing this map yard wars with you he doesn't know my name he doesn't know anything I'm Joe Blow just like anybody else they would call him hateful kiss me his phone huh seems okay got Brendan Bob nice for your phone I really hope the porn way I really hope he doesn't put two and two together here hey I'm calling about that 390 that you have for sale would you be able to go down to like 325 325 it right you get lower then yeah I'm just I'm trying to work with your not to be Bunyan it kind of is I mean I guess if I if I if I pinched I could probably add like another 10 bucks so I could probably squeeze 335 do you do you have any deeper go ahead yeah go ahead well do you have any need for like do computer stuff we have like a an tech case it's pretty cool that could maybe throw in or something to help soften it up a little bit did you need it right now yeah I'm in Toronto my I'm just doing this my card before brothers in Vancouver Burnaby and he won't get home until 7:00 the yeah tonight yeah tonight could we could we meet up tomorrow morning Oh today I just I just gave him a text he says he'll be available to be who you let you test it out or do whatever you like with it okay so today it's fine just letting you know that it would be later so um so what do you think on that price of me which do you think we would be able to do the 325 it would I mean I know you don't know me but it certainly certainly helped me out you can put in another key you can put in another again yeah that's the last I got I won't be able to eat or anything but I'll do it yeah how did fifty can i pickle me back in like my head not normal okay sure yeah very definitely okay okay I'll definitely call back thank you then my name is Bob down to the frickin wire why is it always down to the wire hi hey it's Bob again you got a in a good place now where you can talk uh yeah about that uh I just got a email reply from another guy who's uh want to buy my card you didn't say it sounds like he didn't ask about bargaining or anything but uh do you mind if I wait for his reply um man how was she'd find in your heart to just hopefully go along the tree 35 okay it's just uh I'm working on a project and it's like I just read it yeah um so you just want to hear if they're gonna okay yeah I understand I'll give him like an hour okay so if you don't hear back in one hour do we have a deal for the 335 uh yeah you're awesome man you are awesome okay all right so I'm looking at a 6990 that I found it's only $200 and so now I want to tap into some benchmarks especially at 1440p since it may have a limited B ramp and see if maybe that's an opportunity it's it's actually really inexpensive compared to what other cards we're looking at right now so we just got two cases for free they've actually got some componentes this one it's a motherboard graphics card and a USB card so at power supplies 50 pounds 5fc power supplies we were able to do something with those maybe doing properly this I'm sorry I stood off the ball working with that 12 all me where's all the computers that were fully built that was kind of insane I really didn't expect they were going to give us that I don't know if it'll help us at all in the end but it might so through you may have scored a sign or not I don't know don't ask questions ed did you notice the guy said heads all right when we walked in yeah I was like so did I yeah I thought it was the other employees name what awesome here's on the ground don't worry about it I'm not too worried about not having to GPU or SSD today because we can get that but if we have the rest of the base system we can start working and start focusing in on some of the aesthetics okay so basically the situation is that we're finding ourselves not having enough time today to turn things around quickly enough right but we kind of saw you guys mixing paint I'm sorry we kind of saw you guys mixing paint and doing some work mixing paint yeah we actually know a hundred percent we have we did not mix anything I saw Bob hanging out minuses workshop shaking some paint can you mean shaking a paint can what does that have to do with anything he was getting ready I don't I don't I don't think we should get extra time things happened we got to fight our way through it oh I see how this is gonna be I wasn't shaking I was a mixing any pain at all I was shaking a paint bottle just goofing around but not actually that's not even what we're using that's of no consequence to me we weren't doing any work whatsoever Wow all right all right well I I see how this is gonna be I see how this is gonna be then so so basically my proposal since we were supposed to have a full day today is that we should be allowed to have the time that we didn't have this morning and we can use it either today or tomorrow or the morning of Thursday so that way depending on how scheduling works out people can come in early they can stay late or whatever but we can get that hour and a half back so I'm like I'm letting you make the color and let you make the call cuz I'm gonna I'm gonna put my best and I'm gonna put my best competitive system forward either way but it would it would help us a lot to have the time that we didn't have and it would probably help you guys to if you're being honest what do you want what do you think I'm good either way I don't want them to put up a second-rate system so sure I guess we'll give it to you okay all right all right sounds good sounds good okay bye yeah I think they really need that time and we probably don't need it as much but who knows sometimes you do end up see they're needing the time yeah I will slowly start cutting windows and all that fabrication work it's going to take some time and it depends where we I mean you don't know until you're probably down in your last couple hours if you need that time or not yeah I think I'm pretty scrappy and can make you know know what sacrifices I can make timewise yeah okay okay let's get that meeting lined up as soon as we can because an arc r9 394 335 that's killer so the graphics card guy lives in Surrey which is really close to the office so we're going to try to go to the office for 5:30 and hang around for a little bit to not use any of our extra time or use as little as possible and then we're going to go meet up with him really quickly and then come back so we can use maybe like 2025 minutes hopefully or maybe 30 minutes of our extra time then still have an hour for later on and have our GPU hopefully the rest of the day today we can get an acrylic thing for our side panel that we want to make we can hopefully get the system and if everything goes well SSD and power supply as well right so we're at home people we're trying to kill some time so that some guys can actually messages back and we're gonna see if we can get a clear acrylic panel for the window so we're into a hardware store we're not really allowed filming inside particular hardware store we got an acrylic or plexiglass panel thing which should look pretty cool and then we got some interesting paints graphics card we're picking it up later on but the system is a worry and the frustrating thing is so much hinges on that because it's so many components in one purchase and last scrapyard Wars I have a similar thing happened which is actually why I end up having to go free geek where I had a system lined up and then the guy just disappeared off facing the planet and I had to end up going to free geek so hopefully that doesn't happen again because I don't really want scrapper dwarfs to turn into free geek is obviously the best thing to do all the time forever even though it kind of is because it's just kind of boring so hopefully we get this system Oh oh shoot pop it again ha leaning up against bush there was a port of like mid 90s for tailgate I think it might be aluminum it's pretty soft it's a chunk of sheet metal and if we use humano we only need 1820 inches so I grabbed it and fold it in half kind of and shoved it in the trunk now it fits now fits so we went to Canadian Tire got some tiki torches got some tiki torch oil and some propane for our other fire stuff we got whole bunch of fire things we also got 10 cents and Canadian Tire money yes we're set now maybe we can upgrade our SSD with a can Canadian Tire money seriously probably worth like twice as much as normal Canadian money so there you go so we have our 2 CH a C's that we got for free and instead of using the chassis that hopefully we're going to get with the system we could use the 2 CH a C's and the advantage of that is we could cut a chassis and decide if something works or doesn't work and we have a second chance that's identical then we could just move side panels back and forth with or cannibalize parts from our build is going to incorporate fire weird we're gonna get this one works it's fully off it was not there we go safety warnings but know how to's which you know if they tell you how to use it would probably be a form of saving there you go oh oh my god our fire elements are actually going very well I'm not too worried about the fire elements at all we might add more if anything to be completely honest is so sick this one's like puncture punctured I don't know if it actually has a hole but it's like it was sorry impacted not pleasure how big was that flame though is that gonna do it again yeah but that's not exactly what MIT was supposed to have in there that was the whole wake on fire yeah Oh do it Oh coming up couple cloves pop stuff now I've got these kind of scallops feel like things and this might actually look even better and now we deceptively get the positioning of the piston so we've got the fire we want to block the fire completely so want to be a little bit offset blame on I think that's gonna be pretty sick that's awesome so we're ready to call him back um we're a little late actually yeah it's 225 can I have your phone wait no you called Alec Brandon's phone okay Brandon can I have you're not gonna like this text what hey got a reply from the other guy he says he's willing to pay the full 400 so I'm gonna have to take his offer sorry whoa hold on no we just won the lottery how freaking badass is that did he ever confirm that no but that's what he's getting this 40 bucks