 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. So it's day three, and at this point, I have pretty much accepted that there is a most excellent chance that I'm gonna lose this thing. This is gonna come across a little desperate, but I'm gonna text this guy yet again. Text number five. Hey, didn't find a graphics card yesterday. If I come down there, can we talk about a price? I can't believe that this guy wants me to drive all the way to his store. It's like a 45 minute drive before he will even begin to talk about a price with me. If the price was any good, you'd think he would just tell me the price because then I'd be willing to drive 45 minutes. So now that I'm not saying I need a price before I can come there, he replies immediately, within two minutes. This guy sent me five fricking messages, no, three. All right. What were the messages? The address, the name of the shop, and instructions to come around 12, because apparently I'm on his schedule. I don't really like this guy. I wanna swing by Geeks R Us and have a look at their old workstations because if they're in similar condition to Carol's, and if Carol's fellow shopkeep guy is like, yeah, these are worth a couple hundred bucks, then if we buy one from them for a couple hundred bucks, we're not bad people. So where did these turn up from? Did someone come in for some new machines and just kind of drop the old ones with you? We got a reefer from Geek. Sorry, they do lease returns. Oh really? Sorry, what are they called? GEEP. GEEP, and you can just buy lease returns from them? Yes. I've never. I don't know if you need a business account or not. Could I get a number for them? Yes. Lease returns, of course. People who lease computers, they need somewhere to give back the stuff that they basically paid for completely. I was given your number and extension by GeeksRUs. So they had said that if we were looking for an older workstation, you might be the guy to talk to. And sometimes, depends on what we have. We'll check it for you. Would it be possible for me to come down there and check it out? We're not a retail store. We're a big warehouse that does large quantities of all-lease equipment. And what are you looking for? Just one system, or are you looking for? Unfortunately, it would be just one. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, I don't have a showroom or anything like that. It's, you know, we're taking down skids and stuff like that to show. I can't do that. I mean, I don't need you to tear down a skid for me or anything like that just to show it. But if you just have like a piece of paper that I can look at or an electronic listing, I can kind of go, yeah, yeah, that one. If you'd be willing to do this for me, it would be awesome. It would make my day. Okay, well, I can send you a list of what your email address is. Long story, but I actually don't have access to email right now. Yeah. Yeah, it's just, yeah, you know, it's, it's just, it's not what we do. We're not gonna be able to provide the service or anything like that, that you're in need of. No, I really- You want a gaming machine? Is that what you want? I just want an older workstation. For gaming. I'll do the conversion on my own. Just something with a quad core or six core Xeon and it would be perfect as long as it has a decent power supply. Yeah, I don't have any quad cores, six cores, Xeon. And it's just really, it's not, it's not, it's not what we do, okay? I'm just saying it's just not what we do. Okay. Okay, but appreciate you trying and, you know, thanks for your call, but no, I don't think I'm gonna be able to do it for you, okay? All right, thanks anyway. Thanks, give it away. 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Or third gen or, I don't know, like is the owner or like, is he just a sales guy that these guys deal with? I don't know. Like if he's the owner and I call back, like he's probably gonna tell whoever it is to not deal with me on principle. But if he's just like one of the guys and I can talk to someone else, maybe they will help me. I could try just showing up at Geep and seeing if someone will help me, but that's a super pushy dick move. I can try going back to Carol and saying like, hey, Best Buy has an open box system that frankly I think is pretty comparable to this. For 269, what can you do for me? I don't think she's gonna wanna sell it though. It says they open at 10 a.m., but I guess not today. I do know she's not feeling well, so maybe they just aren't open yet. All right, so we're heading to Best Buy first thing to pick up that A10 based system because that price is just really hard to beat. So I'm gonna try to go with that angle. And then we're gonna head to Crystal Mall to go find that guy that gave us the $30 power supply deal. I might actually try to buy it cheaper, one of his power supplies, because I realize the graphics cards I'm gonna be buying probably only need one PCIe power. So I probably don't need the extra power cable so I can go with the hopefully cheaper power supply. So I'll talk to him about that. Also, I might try to tone down the graphics card. 17999. That sounds about right. That looks like Scrapyard wars to me. It is. Oh man. Scrapyard wars. Linus was in here yesterday. Was he? Yeah. You guys are a little bit of a... Did he buy anything? I don't think he bought anything. Okay. No. Okay. I think he did. Thank you, thank you, I appreciate it. Interesting. Okay, so for $203.16, we have a computer. We can technically compete with this right now. I've even thought about it actually, because the APU in here can technically play games. So it actually might be worth just going with a $203 computer. I'm still debating it. I'm gonna drive around, we're gonna look at other parts and see how we can do our pricing and whatnot. But we have a computer. We got it from Best Buy, and someone tried to teach me how to mineral oil a computer, which was actually a really cool experience, because I don't think he knew me, and that's pretty sweet. But yeah, we have a computer. Time to move on. Let's go. Obviously it's not gonna be the greatest thing in the world, but that for $14.99. Wow. This here, dual fan, single tower. For 17 bucks. For 17 bucks. So that's what I mean. If you're thinking about a Hyper 212, yeah, it's probably gonna put you over what's gonna... But 17 bucks is not too bad. $15. There. To stay in the spirit of the competition that modding is involved, I'll get a cooler. And then I think we're probably gonna be done. Yeah, okay, cool. I think. Yeah, take your pick. Yeah. I doubt literally $2 is gonna break the bank, and this one's on a $3 sale, so I'm probably gonna go with this one. Okay, so we came out of their Canada computers with a $44.88 SSD before tax, and a like, I think $16.99 CPU cooler before tax, and we're done? I think we're just gonna go back to the office and build a computer now, which seems weird, because there's so much time left, but I stood in front of their tech desk and just wondered about things out loud, about, ah, I wonder how well this CPU would do in the game without any other modifications, and just kept standing there and kept openly pondering about things until they started searching on the internet. I never asked them to. I never asked them to. At one point, he's like. But apparently, an extremely similar A10 processor got lows of 30 at Fortnite High. Some of the settings were set to low, but in general, I think that's enough for me. So we're coming from actually way off the map over here on Highway 10. We need to take Highway 91. I actually don't know how much a 1070 costs new right now, so I'm not gonna have the context to know if this guy's trying to fleece us or not. So I need to call Memory Express over the phone and ask for a price on a graphics card over the phone. Hi, could I get a price on a GTX 1070? 1070. Our cheapest one is 690 right now. R630, actually. I really hope that place isn't it. Computer repairs and vape shop. One stop. Seems legit. Are we, we're not even in the right place at all. We need 4319. This is so confusing. Okay, so tempered glass protectors, chargers, repairing, they do like phone unlocking, karaoke songs. Hi. Oh. I'm sorry? Oh, because he's helping me make a video about my search here. So his story for why he has the card, very disjointed. He said something about building a few systems and then he's got this one and then something about he built one for someone, they ended up getting a Zotac 1080. They didn't want this one, but then the card's got a bunch of dust on it. Like, none of those things add up, but 400 bucks for a 1070. 400 Canadian, it's a good deal, I'm gonna buy it. I think we just killed it. Like, fricking killed it. Should I ask him if I can use his bathroom? Yeah, exactly. No, no, not at all. Do you live very close by? Can I borrow your washroom? Or are you on the way somewhere? Oh, no, I don't live that way. Ah, okay, forget it. Community center? Salt Lake Community Center is literally a block and a half away. Heck yeah, thank you. Okay, we got a lead. You know what? Oh, we should drive there. I shouldn't just leave my car here in the alley. There's a few things that I noticed. One, this thing has a DVD drive worth probably nothing, but still, it has a wireless LAN and Bluetooth card. It's not on the motherboard, it's a separate device. And there's a two terabyte hard drive. Those are all things that are not required for this competition, and I have a lot of time left. So I might be able to go sell those, because at my price point, even like 20 bucks is a pretty good bump. And if I can make up the cost that I spent on the cooler, that might be pretty cool. There it is. So we're in Fortnite, and this is the lowest poly Fortnite character I've ever seen. It looks terrible. Current frame rate is 15. Oh, but the display, so it's trying to run it at 4K. So hopefully that's what's going on. Why can't I change the, okay, it's running way better now. I think we need a graphics card. I pull the derp. I don't often use APUs, so I'm not, like usually if I don't have a graphics card in the system, you can kind of just run Windows Update, you get your CPU stuff, everything's fine. So I didn't have an AMD display driver, which is very possibly what the problem was, which is really, really, really, really good, if that's true. And makes more sense, because like that was pretty bad. I expected more out of it than that. We'll have to see in a game, we'll have to see in a game, but right now that gave us a hundred more FPS. So we're in the loading area with tons of other people, and it's bouncing all the way between like, really depends what's going on, but we're looking at like 60 to 70. Hello. So you need to have a pass-by? I, yeah, probably. And I was wondering if I could maybe trade you for it. I have a two-tire bike hard drive. So he's not gonna trade me for the stuff, which I probably should have seen coming. Honestly, I thought he'd take the two-terabyte hard drive because he's got some used stuff and it looks like he's building a computer back in there. So I thought he might actually be able to use a two-terabyte, but I guess not. I'm not surprised he didn't care about the optical drive or the wireless card, but whatever, let's move on. What he does have is he's selling all of his power supplies for 30 bucks. It doesn't matter if it's 550 watts, 650 watts, 875 watts, they're 30 bucks. So that's fine. Might as well take the really nice one. He's also got a 950 and a 660. 660, I don't want that. The 950 is 80 bucks. Brandon thinks I should haggle him down. I can try to do that. He might go for it. Oh. I need to do some math for a sec. I need to think about this. The more I think about it, the more that GTX 1070 is both a blessing and a curse. Cause on the one hand, it's a great deal for a 1070. On the other hand, I don't know that it's the best bang for the buck graphics card. And it kind of handcuffs me because I no longer have the option of just showing up with an APU system. Now that I've spent $400 on a graphics card. Now I have to find something that doesn't bottleneck it too badly. Or this is gonna be last season all over again. Well, that was really disappointing. The guy I talked to at the receiving door in the back was actually pretty helpful. He was like, yeah, we might have something like that. Maybe you can go upstairs and talk to our sales guy and he'll help you out. But then on my way up, someone intercepted me and I explained, we're making a video documenting what you might do to try and get a deal on a computer system. And he was basically like, well, you can't do any of that here. Go away. This is a secure facility. I don't know what the big deal is with their old refurbished electronics and all of that. Maybe it's far more valuable than I would guess. But they were like, yep, get out of here. Send us an email. So for you guys out there, something like a refurbisher like this might be an option, but I don't think we're gonna get anything done. I'm gonna try calling again. I mean, what's the worst I can do? Annoy him more? And I'll be like, look, I'm outside. I just wanna come in and buy something, but I doubt it's gonna go anywhere. Could I possibly see what you guys have? I'd like to buy something right now if possible. We don't do it, but we really don't, bring the public into our building. It's a secure building that we do asset management for high-end customers. And it's not public. It's not a public building. Okay, can you talk to me outside it? You know, I don't know how. You're very persistent, and I really don't know how to deal with you. I don't know. All right, thanks anyways. Okay, thanks, bye-bye. Okay, so the Surrey Best Buy in the nicest possible terms gave us a hard time about having a camera in their store and did their best to help us out with like an open box or a clearance deal or something like that, but just did not have anything. So we are seriously running out of options right now. I'm gonna call back Cloverdale computers and see if they ever even opened up today. Hey, Carol, yeah, it's Linus. Hi, Linus. Okay, can you do 350 for the tower? Okay, so let me think about it, and I'm gonna call you right back. Okay. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Without knowing what their cost structure is and knowing that they might not be the savviest buyers, I did feel a little bad making an offer that was like a quarter of the sticker price, but I mean, they bought it. It's worth what it's worth. I need a computer. You wanna come take it for 375? Oh, man, do we have to, oh, three, okay. Oh, three, okay. Okay, so the math is based on what I could get an A10 7800 system and an upgraded power supply for, which I think is pretty equivalent. Can you do it for like, oh, man. Can you do it for 360? All right. Okay, cash deal? Okay. Cash deal? Cash deal, yeah. Okay, all right, let's do it. All right, I'll be right there. I'm back. You're not gonna believe the video card that I'm gonna put in it. The computer ran away. It did not. I see it, it's still here. Very funny. No, the guts ran away. Saw me coming, did they? Yeah, I don't get it. You're not gonna believe the video card I got to put in it. What do you got? We got a GTX 1070 for 400 bucks. Really? Wow. Yeah. That consumed pretty much all of our budget, but that's gonna turn it into actually a pretty beastly gaming machine, so. The game is so cheap, can I have the video card? The one that's in here? Absolutely. Thank you. Totally a done deal. Holy-sham-oley. Well, that's my receipt for that there cash purchase there. For better or for worse, this is what we've got. GTX 1070. 64 gig SanDisk X110. This is just our USB for installing windows off of. That doesn't count. And this Lenovo workstation. No way. Look where it came from. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Ah, ha ha. Oh. Of the three deals, I think the highlight is the graphics card. That SSD, honestly, is worth 10 bucks. And that tower, it's worth what I paid in the sense that compared to buying a machine brand new at Best Buy and then a power supply to put in it and then drumming out the hard drive cages to cram in a graphics card and putting some holes in it for cooling, it's worth it in the sense that compared to that, it's an okay deal. But if I had more time to shop and if I was able to shop online, I could have done better than that tower. Hey. Hey, we've got display output. So theoretically that means we're not totally locked down. Rebooting windows off a hard drive. One thing I regret is wasting a lot of my time on the first day. The sign on the back of the car, the shirt, those were completely stupid. But the phone book, that was actually an excellent investment, even though it was kind of challenging to get one. And the map was 100% worth the $7. I'm confident that I have a working system and that I will have a working system. 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