 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 dbrand. Day two. First order of business is to make our sponsor facepalm and cringe at the same time. By attempting to remove the dbrand skin that's on my daily driver blade stealth. And remove the skin that's on the unit they sent with their new camel pattern for me to use. And then put this back on there without destroying anything. Or wait, my justification for this. I'm demonstrating how dbrand skins can be removed from your devices without leaving any residue. Because I don't want to reinstall all my crap on another laptop. This is not going well. This is not going to be reusable. Okay, okay, fresh idea. Just... everybody... oh wow, yeah. Oh, fresh idea. Oh crap. 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 until I put the cover on. What? Why did putting the cover on brick it? Oh crap. We got to go build a computer. So let's just, let's just go. I'm just going to use this one and dbrand will never work with us again. And 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, is 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. The difficult part right now is I can't check. They've got a complete tower with an APU, 8 gigs RAM, 2 gig drive. Oh wait, I need an SSD. Oh crap. 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 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. 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 any way. 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's old leases. So theoretically, there's a Canada computers here. And 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 like, oh, well, they're closed. Let's just put our sign on that. You know what? Let's go there. 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 computer hardware, go to MIMX. OK. Do you have any used power supplies? What size? Like 500, 600. This may be not a bad idea, but I'm trying to see. I don't see the other cable harnesses. So let's see one graphics card. 875. Max power. Yeah. Yeah. I might go for that. Sure. 30 bucks. OK. 875 watts. 30 bucks. Probably going to end up coming back and getting that. But I want to make sure that I can get the rest of my bill before I start actually buying things. And he said he can hold on to it for me. Looks like it's been sitting in the back for a while. It's probably OK. If you go down the ramp beside us, behind us is a store. You'll see lots of graphics cards. OK. Hi there. I know you guys are more cell phone focused, but I'm trying to ask around to see if anyone has spare computer parts. I know this is more cell phone based, but 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. OK. 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 discount, 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 and make sure it's working anyway. So that's great for Memory Express's 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 going to 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 going to end up with is probably not going to have an SSD, and it just occurred to me that AMD has a software called SenseMI or something like that that lets you use an SSD to accelerate your boot hard drive. Ten bucks? Okay. Is that how much you would charge anyone who came in and wanted to buy it? I'd probably give it away. Okay. 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 Fortnite, 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 going to need an SSD, and at ten bucks, the price is right. All right. Thank you, good sir. Pleasure doing business with you. And take care. You're going to need that ten dollars. Yeah. I'll just leave that there. Okay. Excuse me. Do you know, this is maybe a slightly offensive question to ask you, Swad. Do you know where Memory Express is? Memory Express? Honestly, I don't. No? Okay. I just moved here recently, so... Oh, okay. Yeah, no worries. No worries. But ending here might not be because you moved here. Yeah, okay. I just know where the Canada computer is. Where's that? The one that, you know, all the NCIS and everything, they got replaced by Canada computers. Okay. Okay. Okay, sweet. Okay. Thank you. Okay, so I'll go there. Do you know where Memex is though as well? Sorry, what's your name? So I can go to both. Memory Express. Oh, Memory Express. The nearest one's in Richmond. It's like our number three road. Number three road. Okay. Good enough. Perfect. Thank you very much. Sweet. Geek Squad, just forever helpful. This season of Scrapyard Wars, if you hadn't figured it out already, is brought to you by dbrand. 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. Question for you. Uh-huh? Do you guys deal in secondhand hardware at all? Uh, yes, we do. Really? Oh, okay. Do you have anything that's kind of like older gaming system-y? Okay, so, uh, uh, uh, yeah, I do. What exactly are you looking for? You know what? I'm really close. I might just pop in. I'm just gonna park. We're just gonna have to get out and look for it. Call them. Oh. Computer den? What's 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. Um, it's an Acer, it's an Acer special is what I would call it. No PCI Express power connector. Um, it's a 2600, not a 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. Like, 500 gig hard drive, worthless. Okay, we're getting, that's closer. Okay, good, we are speaking the same language then. Okay. Okay, because I said... Can I poke my head around at any of these other things? Like, what do you got going on here? I mean, some of this stuff is pretty bad. It's old. Yes, yes, old. Let's go with that word. It's a reasonable amount. Alright, okay, so tell you what, we will, I'm going to go scout a bit more, but... Keep that in mind. There's potential here. Okay, alright. You guys have been fantastic. Thank you very much. We will talk again. Okay, sounds good. Okay, take care. So the situation there is they've actually got a couple of V2 Xeons. It's like pretty old, but it's got a pretty high clock speed. So turbos to 3.7, 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, come on, you know, come on. All of a sudden things got quite a bit more reasonable. 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 would be super cool. Thank you. No worries. Okay. Okay. Sounds good. Thanks. Hi. Do you guys deal in used parts at all? Cheapest best one that I have that would only handle gaming would be the SIG Force GTX 1050 Ti and the 289. 289. Got it. I understand. Basically, we've got some older PCI cards. We've also got a fairly good selection of HPP cards. Rather than making me feel old though, this whole experience makes me feel a lot closer to the younger generation with their Snapchat and their Twitter grams and all of that. Then to the older generation that, you know, actually does look for information in here. There you are. Hey, do you or anyone you know have a graphics card you're looking to sell? A 530? That's not worth $50. All right. Thanks anyway. So we're on our way to Surrey Micronet. 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. By the way, I need my water bottle back. Peace. So technically. Oh, wow. Someone's calling. Who's this? Oh, wow. This might actually be something. Hello? Hello. I'm just returning a call. Yeah, I get an ASUS here. Oh, it's the ASUS Turbo GTX 1070. 8G. Is that like a secondhand card or is that brand new? This is like out of the box and it's working properly. There's no problem with this one. Oh, OK. So would there be a discount because it's not new? Yeah, just come over here and let's talk about the price. OK, what's your address? So I tell Ed, look, we're in Central City, which is a lot better than it used to be. Like, don't leave anything valuable in the car. We're walking away. I'm like, is there anything valuable in the car? He goes, well, you know, that battery is worth a few hundred dollars. Nothing of value in the car. Even my DualShock 2 controller is borderline here. OK, so in summary, he's got a GTX 570 and a Radeon 6870, each for under a hundred dollars plus tax. So ninety five 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 at or near retail for this thing, that's going to be a real waste of time. OK, 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 forty third and Fraser, which are oh no. Yeah, that's really far. That's like forty five minutes at least. Canada computers now open. We made it. It's going to be weird walking into an old NCX location looking for SSD, power supply and graphics card. Probably just SSD and graphics card, though. Sure. For SSD, 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 where in Crystal Mall, the derpiest, least expensive SSD I've like ever seen from Canada computers. Forty four dollars and eighty eight cents. Dude, that's awesomely horrible. This looks like the worst SSD I've ever seen. We have no, that's perfect. That's absolutely perfect. OK, so Canada computers, we found a 128 gigabyte Mushkin SSD. Looks like it's probably not very good, but that is perfect for me. And it's forty four dollars and eighty eight cents, which is actually a really good deal so far out of all the different places I've been to. Also, we found a 1060 gig again, really junky 1060 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 Fortnite and everything else that we're throwing at it in this competition because we're just doing 1080p. So that's not too bad. That put together with the thirty dollar power supply that we found in Crystal Mall and the platform from Best Buy with the A10 is a pretty cheap, pretty good setup because we're looking at like forty four thirty, make that six hundred 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 going to go with that eight seventy five that we found at that place in Crystal Mall and a 1060 six gig for four hundred bucks. It might be worth going with the six gig versions. Again, I'm going to have to try to rack my brain on these things and kind of figure out which one I want to go with more. And I have no idea. I like I don't know. So we made it 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 four. We got here at like four forty. 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 going to 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're going to go back to the computer den and I'm just going to 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. Long way away. The two or three hundred buck mark. That's about it. Anything higher than that is just not so it'll never go anywhere. I mean, I can't ask you to take a loss on it because maybe someone else will come in and pay more. But I don't know what to pay for it. The only thing is sometimes you get the odd doofus that comes in and we'll buy that for a lot more money. And I don't want to take away that opportunity. We got some hillbillies living around here. But I'm I'm not I'm not a doofus, so I can't pay. I can't overpay for it. Get rid of one of the cheaper price. The other one will just tack the other money on. So I'll tell you what you you you sound like you need a good night's sleep. So why don't we talk to you? I'm tired. Yeah. No, she told me she was sick already, too. So she's sick, too. Sick and tired. All right. 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 too. 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 going to sell it for that either. So everyone's sort of in a rough position right now. I thought we were going to close out today with a tower. 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I doubt like literally two dollars is going to break the bank. And this one's on a three dollar sale. So I'm probably going to go with this one. I think I'm going to need a graphics card.