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they've got $2,000 to build the best bang for the buck PC but they have to do it without internet they've got three days to do it and on the fourth day we find out who the winner is in this edition of scrapyard Wars brought to you by D brand day - first order of business is to make our sponsor facepalm and cringe at the same time by attempting to remove the D brand skin that's on my daily driver blade stealth and remove the skin that's on the unit they sent with their new camo pattern for me to use and then put this back on there without destroying anything oh wait my justification for this I'm demonstrating how D brand skins can be removed from your device's without leaving any residue because I don't want to reinstall all my crap on another laptop this is not this is not going well this is not gonna be reusable okay okay fresh idea just everybody oh wow yeah fresh idea swap the boot drive I just wasted 15 minutes but possibly gained myself back 20 that my friends is time management please turn on no I don't regret it this was theoretically a good way to save time it just didn't work out that way and you can't regret things that you could only have known in hindsight I had no way of knowing this would happen and it worked initially it wasn't till I put the cover on what why did putting the cover on briquette crap we got to build a computer so let's just let's just go I'm just gonna use this one and the brand will never work with us again maybe I deserve it I don't I don't want to buy stuff from Best Buy but one of the computers there the a10 7800 for under 200 bucks he's a pretty good deal it's not like it's not exactly a crazy processor but at that price point I think it's pretty damn good for price to performance kind of stuff that the difficult part right now is I can't check they've got a complete tower with and APU eight gigs ram two gigs or oh wait I need an SSD okay anyway they've got like open box and then they've got final clearance and when it's on final clearance it looks like if it's final clearance and an open box there is some room to negotiate 269 for CPU motherboard Ram case power supply that's not bad a parts store let's go to a memory express or something and see what they have to say the interesting thing about this challenge is that it's making us try new strategies and ones that you might not think of like it's crazy how different Best Buy looks and walking around in that store there's nothing to indicate that there's a deal to be had in anyway you have to go and talk to somebody actually we might not have to go all the way to memory express I think Canada computers took over all of NCIX as old leases so theoretically there's a Canada computers here it would appear that this lease was legitimately so terrible that nobody wanted it nope this NCIX still holy crap wow these guys just straight-up came over here my god well they're closed let's just put our sign on that you know what let's go they're very interesting store almost zero overlap with what NCIX used to sell and the first thing they told me when I walked in the door was no if you're looking for a computer hardware go to Memex ok do you have any used power spice what size like 500 600 that's maybe not a bad idea but I'm trying to see I don't see the other cable harnesses so let's do one graphics card 875 yeah yeah I might uh I might go for that thirty bucks okay 875 Watts thirty bucks probably gonna end up coming back and getting that but I want to make sure that I get the rest of my build before I start actually buying things and he said he can hold on to it for me it looks like it's been sitting about for a while it's probably okay if you go down the rep beside us behind us there's a store you'll see lots of graphics cars ok hi there I know you guys are more cellphone focused but I'm trying to ask around to see if anyone has spare computer parts um I know this is more cell phone based but hi I know this is more cell phone based but I'm looking for individual components for a computer it's only Tuesday so I'm not at this point yet but there's still time okay so they've got a pretty clever strategy for dealing with open box stuff here basically because they're a system builder as well they negotiate with people who are buying systems to include their open box hardware inside the system that way whoever buys the system gets a small this count but they don't have to discount it as much as they would have to if they were just selling open box hardware because they would have to open something for a system and they would have to test it to make sure it's working anyway so that's great for memory expresses business but it does nothing for us because they have literally no open box video cards or power supplies which means we'd be paying full retail and it turns out even a gtx 1050 at full retail price is freaking expensive I don't know how we're gonna find a good deal on a graphics card oh I left my water bottle in there someone's following me oh thank you I appreciate that whatever system I'm gonna end up with is probably not gonna have an SSD and it just occurred to me that AMD has a software called sin semi or something like that that lets you use an SSD to accelerate your boot hard drive ten bucks ok is that how much you would charge anyone who came in and wanted to buy it ok well I'll pay you ten dollars then so for better or for worse we've got a 64 gig SSD this definitely gives us enough to install an OS install for at night and run the whole thing off SSD or in the event that we get a system that already has a hard drive in it I think I can use it to accelerate the hard drive so one way or another we were gonna need an SSD and at ten bucks the price is right right thank you good sir pleasure doing business with you and take care you're gonna need that ten dollars just leave that there okay excuse me do you know this is a maybe a slightly offensive question to ask east what do you know where memory expresses No okay I just moved yet recently so okay I know we're in snow but it might not be but she lives the other yeah okay where's that the one that the whole games yeah it's a movie it's like a very good okay okay okay sweet okay thank you duh okay so I'll go there do you know where MMX is though as well go to both memory Express number three Road okay good enough perfect thank you very much sweet key squad just forever helpful this season of scrapyard wars if you haven't figured it out already is brought to you by D brand their new Nintendo switch skins are available now and you can also order tempered glass screen protectors these things look great and they're scratch resistant to keep you from damaging your device learn more at the link below uh hi a question for you do you guys deal in secondhand Hardware at all really oh okay um do you have anything that's kind of like older gaming system me you know what I'm really close I might just pop in I'm just gonna part we're just gonna have to get out and look for it oh hey there Deb what's a computer den interesting this isn't the same place but we could pop our heads in oh oh no this is it they just must have changed their name from Cloverdale computers to computer den alright okay so this power supply is nothing special it's it's an Acer it's an Acer special that's what I would call it no PCI Express power connector the 2600 nada K so we wouldn't be doing any overclocking and how firm are you on the 599 price for this guy I don't want to be like I don't want to be rude or anything but like that's not worth anywhere near the sticker like not even close a fraction of it yeah like 500 gig hard drive worthless okay we're getting that's closer okay good we aren't speaking the same language then yeah okay okay because I said tonight can I poke Mike can I poke my head around it any of these other things like what like what do you what do you got going on here I mean some of this stuff is pretty pretty bad yes yes oh let's go with that word all right okay so tell you what we will I'm gonna go I'm gonna go Scout a bit more but there's there's potential here okay all right you guys have been fantastic thank you very much we will we will talk again okay sounds good okay take care so the situation there is they've actually got a couple of v2z on like pretty old but it's got a pretty high clock speed so it turbos 23.7 I think they had it labeled but I'd have to double-check that and then they've also got a second gen core i7 so that would be it's a 2600 and the labeled prices are way off like way off like they wanted like $900 for the Xeon thing and like $600 for the core i7 box and these are without graphics cards or without useful ones but when I was like Gotham and all of a sudden things got quite a bit more reasonable we might we might have a lead here I do want to scout around a little bit more though if we can get a good deal on a tower then the next order of business is finding a graphics card and on the surface this seems simple but in practice it turns out it's actually really hard if you know anybody who knows anybody who has something that that would be super cool thank you okay sounds good thanks hi do you guys deal in used parts at all rather than making me feel old though this whole experience makes me feel a lot closer to the younger generation with their snapchats and their Twitter Grahams and all that then to the older generation that you know actually does look for information in here hey do you or anyone you know have a graphics card you're looking to sell a 530 that's not worth $50 sorry thanks anyway so we're on our way to Surrey micro net and I just realized I left my water bottle like my nice vacuum insulated water bottle at the computer den so one way or another we have to go back there it'll either be to make a purchase or it'll be for like the walk of shame hey I said I might buy something I'm not going to buy the way I need my water bottle back peace oh wow someone's calling who's this oh wow this might actually be something hello is that like a second hand Carter is that brand new uh-oh okay so um would there be a discount because it's not new okay what's your address so I tell Eddie look we're in Central City which is a lot better than it used to be but like don't leave anything valuable in the car a walking away I'm like sorr anything valuable Macari goes well you know that battery is worth a few hundred dollars nothing of value in the car even my DualShock 2 controllers borderline here okay so in summary he's got a gtx 570 and a radeon 6870 each for under a hundred dollars plus tax so 95 bucks unfortunately at least according to the shopkeep because I can't verify this online he figures that the 6870 is about equivalent to a modern 750 unfortunately I haven't heard back from buddy with the used 1070 since I told him that I really need a price before I drive all the way out there but it is used so there's at least some haggling to be done but like if he makes me drive all the way out there just to find out that he wants a Dornier retail for this thing that's gonna be a real waste of time okay so if bro who won't give me pricing over the phone needs me to go there we've got to go all the way to 43rd and Fraser which oh no yeah that's really far that's like 45 minutes at least Canada computers now open we made it to be weird walking into an old ncx location looking for SSD power supply and graphics card probably just SSD Goff's card though Perez's d don't get too excited I want your worst thing that you have our main leads right now are the computer that was forgotten in the back of the warehouse in Best Buy that we're getting a ludicrous deal on a power supply from some random dude that got pulled out of an alien we're in Crystal mall the derpiest least-expensive SSD I've like ever seen from Canada Computers 44 888 dollars yeah dude that's awesome ly horrible this looks like the worst SSD I've ever seen we have with no that's perfect that's absolutely perfect okay so Canada computers we found a 128 gigabyte muskan SSD looks like it's probably not very good but that is perfect for me and it's $44 and 88 cents which is actually a really good deal so far out of all the different places I've been to also we found a 1063 gig again really junky 1063 gig but it's only 320 bucks so those two things put together is quite cheap and a 1060 should easily be able to handle fortnight and everything else that were throwing at it in this competition because we're just doing 1080p so that's not too bad that put together with the $30.00 power supply that we found in Crystal wall and the platform from Best Buy with the a-10 is a pretty cheap pretty good setup because we're looking at like so 4430 we've had the 600 ish dollars so we were just leaving Canada computers and we accidentally found a memory express which is like right this way so memory express was super helpful they had really similar prices to Canada computers which is not surprising I was able to find a 500 watt power supply for fifty-five dollars so probably gonna go with that 875 that we found at that a place in crystal ball and a 1066 gig for 400 bucks it might be worth going with the six gig versions again I'm gonna have to try to wrack my brain on these things and kind of figure out which one I go I don't want to go with more and I have no idea I like I don't so maybe to SFU Surrey I talked to the IT Help Desk which was the plan and he didn't have anything or have any leads but he directed me to the computer science lounge which also didn't end up working out super well turns out they kind of semi closed the lounge at like 4:00 we got here at like 4:40 so most people were gone people that were there didn't have anything it didn't have any leads and all thought we were crazy so for us we're gonna end up buying everything from stores I don't feel like that is in the spirit of scrapyard wars but maybe I'm just failing and Linus is doing really well I'm kind of hoping that Linus has found some random person that was walking down the street and is like yeah I'll give you a gaming computer for 35 bucks I'm kidding we are gonna go back to the computer den and I'm just gonna negotiate a deal on one of those towers and I get get my water bottle back that's so that's that's where I'm in a bit of a tough place and it's hard to negotiate when you're sort of far away I can't ask you to take a loss on it because maybe someone else that come in and pay more but we'll buy that for a lot more money and I don't want to take away that opportunity but I'm I'm not I'm not a doofus so I can't pay I can't overpay for it so I'll tell you what you you use you sound like you need a good night's sleep so why don't we talk to more tired yeah no she told me she was sick already - all right yeah all right so we'll we'll talk we'll talk tomorrow see if see if you guys can can help me out here all right you two thank you I had really hoped those were just like Salvage machines I don't want these guys to like lose money on it to sell it to me but like it's if that markup is based on what they paid that's pretty rough I don't think they're gonna sell it for that either so everyone's sort of in a rough position right now I thought we were gonna close out today with the tower we're going back to the office after another full day of shopping having yielded nothing with addy brand skin your Nintendo switch and switch accessories are now slightly more durable not to mention never before deep brand uses high-quality authentic true texture 3m vinyl on every one of their products they feature unrivaled precision so they measure many times to ensure they have a factory fit for your product and not only do they look great but they protect against incidental damage and scratches their customer service robots aren't easy to work with and wonderful and their products are affordable and shipped worldwide check them out today at the link in the video description next time on scrapyard wars and at this point I have pretty much accepted that there is a most excellent chance that I'm gonna lose this thing honestly I'm thinking of just showing up there but that's a super pushy dick move I don't like literally two dollars is gonna break the bank and this one's on a three dollar sale I'm probably gonna go with this one yeah can we Ania grab sky