 Scrapyard Wars! No! This episode of Scrapyard Wars was brought to you by dbrand. Alright, so it is the beginning of day two, and the very first thing we need to do is check email. Someone who emailed ahead of you has confirmed he is coming to buy it first thing in the morning, so don't come out before phoning me around 11 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. Dude, this guy! The guy with the 7950s replied back. So wait, we can get the 7950s. Oh no, we don't have time for this right now. We have to go right now. This is for the case. The guy is local, so it should not be that far. 25 minutes away. Day two of Scrapyard Wars. So, we are going to get that graphics card that I talked about yesterday, the R9 290 Gigabyte Windforce. And then, I have bad news. The motherboard, CPU, and cooler platform guy responded saying that he had a lot of 2 Gigabyte 6 of RAM, which is 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. We're at 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'm gonna 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. Nah, sorry. This card is too good for $35.00. $78.70. $40 firm for a broken card. What an idiot. Freaking tool. This guy didn't reply to any of my questions. Are you really the Linus 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. I knew this motherboard wasn't gonna 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 readout back here, but I can barely... No way! We got an ASUS ROG board, four gigs of working DDR2, a Q6600, 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 combo. 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 gonna find out about that in a minute here. Maybe we should spend some of our time obtaining a better cooler, because the Q6600 can run pretty hot when you overclock it. So having a really beefy cooler on there could be the ace up our sleeve. We gotta go. We might just lose the motherboard right now. Do we bail on this guy and try to get a different case? Okay, so it is 10.09 and everything is already going completely wrong. I'm pretty sure Luke is getting our motherboard right now. And I just realized the guy who has the case, who's supposedly local, is actually 25 minutes away. And this guy's expecting us to like show up in like five minutes. We might be a little screwed here. The good thing that might save us is that we have leads on both a 6990 and a pair of 7950s, both of which should be doable. 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 what we're gonna do is we're gonna 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. Yeah, we'll go to the computer shop and see what we can find. If that guy has a good motherboard, then we should be able to either pull off the 7950 or the 6990s. But it's gonna be tricky. So I have bad news and great news. The bad news is motherboard system guy still hasn't messaged me back. The good news is I got the graphics card for $180. 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. When 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 and it's missing two screws here and two screws here. So I was like, that's kind of weird and started complaining. And he gave me 20 bucks off. So I got a 290 aftermarket cooled card for $180, which is pretty sick. I just need to make sure that I have a computer to put it in. It is time to call FreeGeek and see how much they can save my ass. Hopefully entirely. Scrapyard Wars will be right back after these messages. One thing we do have going for us is that Luke, Linus, and I, we all had a chat this morning. Basically the idea is that we're all going to try to have all of our parts by the end of the day. But if we don't have everything today, we're going to have until noon tomorrow. So basically we'll have two hours tomorrow to go and get any last minute parts we need. So we should be able to get everything today and we'll do the build off tomorrow. So we don't really have to worry about putting together the systems. Although I know Luke has already got started on his. It sounded like that anyway. Okay, so we're here. We're about to pick up the case. Hopefully we don't get murdered. This is the first time we've actually used Craigslist for this little trip. So let's get some money and hopefully have a case. Hey, how's it going? Austin. Come on in. Thank you. Appreciate it. I don't accept returns unless I make sure everything works before you take it. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. It has officially begun. We have our case. And I'm going to say it's actually way more beefy than I thought it was. So let's see here. That's got a 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, is that one in the front? No. Still though, oh, we even have a 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 saber sheath and 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. He should be here shortly. And if he doesn't show up, it will be yours. It's not about getting more money, but more of a promise to keep. It will 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, too. He doesn't get home till seven 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 an hour out of the way. So there is a 6990. It's one hundred and eighty dollars. So we're going to meet him at two o'clock. So I just got the two hundred dollar R9 290 for one hundred and eighty 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 I gave him my phone number. He keeps on saying he's going to 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 that 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. I 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 FreeGeek stock is really starting to freak me out. So my new plan is I'm going to go to FreeGeek, 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 FreeGeek 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 FreeGeek. 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 6600s and other various quad cores. So I don't know, might not be screwed. Just really depends on what's at FreeGeek. Yeah, interested in QC600, 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 DG43GT. Did she say 35 and not 55? So I've got an ASUS P5Q motherboard, a QC600, a 120, 160, I don't remember, gigabyte hard drive spinning at 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 going to work at all. As you guys saw there, there was like Tim in the CPU socket and she rubbed the pins on the board. But anyways, 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 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. I used it a bunch yesterday. It's at like 65 percent battery. It's cray cray. Oh, wow. It's a sound driver. ASIO.SYS was what caused the problem. Interesting. Is this even? Oh, oh, wow. We might have to go back to our buddy there and get a sound card. This motherboard doesn't have on board sound. So today is 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 out. All right. So we are here at the computer store and hopefully we can get 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 were able to get a Core i7 2600, not overclockable, as well as the motherboard. So it will support crossfires. So we're good with the 6990. But the most important thing is we've got a seriously powerful CPU, a seriously powerful graphics card. We have a 160 gig hard drive because 15 bucks. And we just need it to run benchmarks. It's not really going to make a difference. And we have our second power supply. So this is actually a pretty beefy supply. It actually has an 8-pin and a 6-pin. So basically right now, I think we're in pretty good shape. I think once we glue this or tape this up to the top of the case, we're going to be set. So let's go do it. OK. 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. They're testing us film, which is awesome. FreeGeek is awesome. I need to mount this thing, though. Yeah, I think the heatsink has a problem. That really sucks because something that I do know doesn't work is this top slot. But they say that this one works. I want to make sure it works before I leave. The arm is broken off. That's why it won't sit. Ah. That explains a lot. I hate these freaking stock heatsinks, man. That's one side in. So the whole right side went in no problem at all. The whole right side is 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 computer. 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, Dennis nearly gets deported. I love Canada!