 We're gonna build a budget PC and then we're going to water cool it. We're gonna have a full budget of $500, $300 for our computer and a maximum of $200 for the water cooling parts. But there's a twist. We cannot use any off-the-shelf PC water cooling gear. Nada. Yeah! Scrapyard Wars! Woo! Wow! Scrapyard Wars 2 The Scrappin'ing I yell over to Taren to tell Brandon that I need him to get the camera ready so we can go. And that never happened. Brandon was never told. We're leaving now. It's about 12.30. Yeah, so we're late. Okay, so my first hit for Aluminum Block Vancouver is from Hardware Canucks. One of the first, good ol' Sugar J. One of the first recommendations is Metal Mart. So Vancouver, in the suburb of Langley. Yeah, boy! We're practically sitting on one of their locations. Okay, awesome. Alright, so here's what we're trying to do. We want to make a cooling block for a computer component. Yippity boop. There we go. Can you give me some idea of what we'd be looking at for like a block of aluminum? Maybe yay thick? Maybe yay big? Like a price on it? Yeah, what does that cost? Is that the cheapo scrap bin? But there's things like that. Yeah, that's the one I actually saw right when I walked in and I thought that looks pretty appealing. I need it today and this is thick enough. So do you just sell it by the length? I sell you five inches or whatever you want. So how much does it cost? I wasn't even able to pick that stupid thing up when I lifted it. And is there a particular grade or like alloy that it is? Yeah, 6061 C6 alloy. That meant nothing to me. It's machinable, weldable, it's like a structural type of aluminum. Okay. Okay! It's pretty decent quality. Pretty decent quality. What a sales pitch. I like this guy. I didn't even know shops like this existed. Just like, here's a ginormous metal rod. So five inches would cost 661 after tax. Six dollars and 61 cents? Wow. It's 1475 foot. Not bad. Okay. And then you guys have a charge for cuts, right? First cut on that is free. Every cut after is a dollar. Okay. Hey, that's very reasonable. Okay, can I have a couple minutes with a napkin and a pen and kind of figure out what exactly I need? Yeah, go ahead. Fantastic, thank you. Okay, so CPU block, there's a couple different ways we can go about this. We could go really small, like the older Nexus Alpha Cool blocks that were only about yay big. But what I worry about is we wouldn't be able to... Look! With the camera! Linus is here. They're here. They're here. Well. I'm just gonna hide this diagram. What's in there? Nothing. What's that? See you later. What is it? Bye. Show me. Uh, yeah. This isn't awkward at all. I wonder what we're both doing. Well, I guess we're gonna get what we're getting and then get out of here. Because if you give us five minutes, we're pretty much... I'm allowed to stay in the store. Pretty much. Wow. Alright. We'll be... we'll be back... we'll be back later then. Because I can't give away too much of my plan. You're leaving too? Oh, oh, I see, I see. Alright, alright, I'll see ya. Well, he's found a source for metal. We know this much. So I saw online that you guys could do fabrication? Not this location. Not this location? Port Kells. Port Kells. Okay, that's fine. If I asked... if I showed them this, could they make me a plate with a little pod on it? Probably, yeah. Um, what kind of pod? It's... I was looking for a plate with a little pod on it. Um, what kind of pod? It's... I was looking for a copper plate with holes through it so I could go through there. And then just any form of dome pod that would go over the top of the CBO. You got past them? Yeah, okay. It sounds like something they could do. They're pretty talented up there, so... So, Port Kells. Can you give me the address, please? I think we just saw Brandon and Luke on the road, but it couldn't be... you know... No, we're not gonna chase them. I think they're heading to Home Depot, though. That's okay. We've already been to Home Depot. Oh, I have. You haven't. Alright. So they're making progress, then. Oh, ballsack. This might be one of the ones I really liked. Oh, but I can't get it till after five. Which one is this? Never been overclocked. A blebity bleb... 150. You know what? You know what? This is in a Sonata 3 case. Um... It's... by the time we put a graphics card in it... Oh, we could afford a better graphics card, though, than the one we're about to go see. We're just gonna go see it. Yeah, we're gonna go see it. And... you know what? Though, barring anything unforeseen, I'm just gonna grab it, I think. Oh, we're getting pulled over. So, no, you're touching your foot, which you can't do while you drive. Yes, sir. Super duper don't know. Ah! Here for a Craigslist computer pickup. So... this is it, you say. This is an X58-based system. I did not see that one coming. This is what we're going to be dealing with. This card shouldn't be a problem. Um, although it's a really good thing. That we didn't go and pick out a chunk of aluminum for our CPU cooler based on an LGA 775 socket size. Because this is using LGA 1366. Does it have a front fan in it or not? It does not. We are not gonna have a lot of airflow. So I'm gonna have to get really creative about how I jam all of this in there. To even have air flow in there. I'm gonna be really creative about how I jam all of this in there. To even have any chance of cooling this thing. Okay, well there you go. That's pretty much all of our PC budget right there. The rest we have is cooling budget. Ah, you might want to count it. Yep. That is one rancid front filter. Whoa! I'm gonna do it. Don't be downwind. Which way is downwind? That way. Ahhhhhhhhhh! Ah, it's going back to the computer! No, get away from my car! Ahhhh! Look at that, it's a feather. There's a feather! The cooling for the CPU itself? Yeah. If I just got a small amount of metal from you guys in a sheet. That I could put on, could I just essentially epoxy a cap on there? Would that be fine? The cost of fabrication is high, although that totally makes sense. That's what they do here. So getting it welded is probably not an option right now. That would be super cool if I was doing this on my own and had more than a $200 budget. But I don't. So I'm gonna fall back to the JB Weld solution. So this probably sounds terrible because it looks like they're cutting my sheet probably right there actually. So I'm getting a copper sheet. A little box of copper. It's super cheap just to cut it. So that's pretty nice. And then I'm gonna have to kind of cut it to size my own, drill the holes myself. And then I'm gonna hopefully find a copper or aluminum cap of some sort at Home Depot or something. So I just got in total the copper plate for about $6. Only because he had to sell it to me at a minimum quantity. I didn't know that until he was tilling me out. So I probably should have just got more just in case, but I didn't. So oh well. I'll figure it out. If I need more, it's not that big of a deal. It wasn't that expensive. And I'm sure if I go back there I can be like, here's the invoice. You charged me for half a pound. I only got like 0.125 of a pound. Can you just give me some more? And it might be fine. The cap costs about $2.75. Copper cap. It's gross. I'm gonna have to clean that up, but that's no problem. I'm not worried about reservoir. I'm gonna pretty much ignore reservoir as of right now. Because I can just do the fallback of like going to Safeway and buying a $1 2-liter bottle of pop. Just like pouring the pop out, cleaning it up, and then using that as a reservoir. But pump and radiator is gonna be a pretty serious problem. Radiator is gonna be expensive and large. So there's the idea of just buying a car radiator and there's also the idea of doing the copper coil thing. But I'd kind of rather not. But I'm going to buy a copper coil right now so that I can cut it up and use parts of it. So I guess we'll see what happens from that. So I got my copper tubing that I was looking for. This should be small enough to fit into that cap that I was talking about. And it's actually fairly flexible. So I got a fair amount of it because it's not too expensive. And I'm gonna try to just use it as all my tubing. Because that would actually be kind of nice. Because if I can just JB weld this into my blocks and whatnot, then I can save money on fittings. Which would be pretty sick. But kind of funny story, while I was in there, I wanted to ask if Brandon could come in and film. And there was no one for me to ask. I couldn't find any employees anywhere. Which is fine. It's more of a self-serve store. And we're in Princess Auto, by the way. So I get up to the teller and I go to buy my whole big roll of copper tubing. And she's like, oh, did you get it cut? I'm like, oh, no, I just wanted to get all of it. And she's like, oh, you should get it cut. So I go back to get it cut. Some guy's trying to steal a whole bunch of stuff from the store. He has his pockets completely full with products literally coming out of it. And they're like, you have to pay for that. You have to pay for that. So he freaks out and just starts throwing products down the aisles while leaving the store. And just hucks everything all over the place and then gets pissed off and leaves the store. And then I get my thing cut and there's like a billion employees. And I could have easily asked for Brandon to come in and film, but I was finally done. So let's go. Fifty bucks. So what I saved on my radiator, I may have actually just had to spend on coolant. But I have my pump. I have my coolant. I have my reservoir. I have my rad and we're going to go pick up the raw materials for our blocks now. I just want to do a quick sanity check to make sure that my pump fits inside my reservoir before we leave here. Oh, that's really close. Oh, that's quite restrictive at the inlet, isn't it? Oh, not too bad actually. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Just a gosh darn moment here. These really are the world's worst suction cups though. We might get away with that. This thing isn't going to seal anymore though. That's for darn sure. I guess I didn't really think of that. Hmm. Okay. So we're back at Metal Mart. Let's go ahead and have a close look at exactly what we need for metal for our blocks. That's fine. Don't get the door for me or anything. Just hold that camera. It's not even working. I'm not even working. I'm always trying to be loose with that guy. Actually, I don't know who talked. You got to pay for that kind of thing for me. I have a very fixed budget. That's part of the competition. He wanted some copper thing made. We sent him off to the other shop. Ah, I know what he wants. I know what he wants. We're closing it and we're going. I know what he wants. That's okay. I have a better plan than him anyway. Pro trolls, man. Pro trolls. Looks like, man, this is, I wish I had my calipers. He's got digital calipers. You're the man, man. Okay, so center to center. And then he, oh. Zero that bad boy again. Ah, slice my hand. Wow, that's surprisingly deep for not drawing blood. Oh, there's a little bit. Yeah, these are sharp, by the way, in case anyone was wondering. Here's our order. We need eight pieces. We need, I'm basically just buying two of each to give us a buffer to screw up. Okay, so our metal's costing us 38.37. I have, I asked for a lot more cuts than I had gotten my original quote on. So this is definitely more than I had necessarily wanted to spend on it. But I think 40 bucks for two water blocks I can find a way to live with. So that means we have left in our budget for fittings, any miscellaneous stuff. We've got $85. Not bad. Not bad. I think we're still, I think we're still, I think we're still okay. So here, let's have a look at the goods here. So these two are going to be those, that's going to be that heat sink for the GPU VRM. These bad boys here are going to be my tops for my CPU blocks, which are here. And then our GPU blocks, and this is heavy though, we're going to have to take a lot of material out of this just for weight. So we've got two of those as well. So we have two of everything so that we don't have to leave the CNC tomorrow. Oh, was the $2 a change? Okay, awesome. Thank you very much. You're very welcome. Well good sir. Happy to help. And I really hope this works. I have no backup plan. Next time on Scrapyard Wars, the mayor of Kohawk does the outtrump. Linus climbs a 40 foot tree. No, really, he actually climbs a tree. So stay tuned. All right, that's it. No more. It's going to get dumber and dumber. My IQ is going to go down with it.