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I'm gonna offer like 15 bucks, because this has been listed for quite some time. I'm going to tell the guy that I need it for a school project to fix it, and that I can't afford to pay for it. I'm gonna try and get it for free. Alright, I heard back from the 280X guy from before. 160, he says, is the lowest he can do on that. So that might put that out of our price range, if we can get something like a GTX 280 or 285 for 30 to 40 bucks. I don't think that's gonna perform four times better. 40 bucks, someone's apparently coming tonight at 6.30 for it. Okay, maybe I should find out if I should offer a bit more than asking. I'll find out what other SSDs are going for, because the fact that someone's coming to pick it up means it's definitely worth the 40 bucks. Okay, there are like no SSDs on Craigslist. Okay, so we're running into a bit of a dead end on our SSD search. The one that I wanted on Craigslist that I contacted... Oh! He's gotten back to me! Whoa! He wants me there by 3 PM, we're done. Okay, yeah, let's do it. I'm giving him a call. The other guy was gonna come at 12, and then he said he couldn't come until 6.30, and if I still had it, that'd be great kind of thing. And so I had to reply to him one minute before getting yours, so I thought, okay, I think you guys should be fine with someone coming before. So we are on our way to go get the SSD that I sniped. Some guy was supposed to show up at 12, and then rescheduled to 6.30. I sent in a lowball offer, but I'm getting it for asking if I come before that guy. So I'm on my way there, but I'm a little bit worried too, because this gives me only two days left, and I haven't even compiled my graphics card price to performance database yet. We gotta drive 45 minutes, then as soon as we are done there, we gotta meet up with someone else where I don't even know what they have, and that gives me two days to compile my graphics card price to performance database, figure out what card I'm buying, hope that Austin and Luke haven't bought it yet, and then go get it, not to mention the rest of the components. One thing I'm a little worried about is, so I'm asking some of these guys, like, hey, are you available tomorrow to be picked up? Because it's 3 o'clock right now. It's a little kind of actually sketchy, because a lot of people are getting off work around 5 o'clock or so, so I wonder what we actually are gonna do about that restriction, because it would be really, really bad if a lot of this stuff was available, but it's like, oh, can we meet at 6 o'clock or something? So in that case, cheating? Question mark, question mark, question mark. We're just hanging out. I haven't had a lot of time to hang out with my buddy Ed, so we just wanted to hang out, catch up, think about just how much Linus is cheating, because he's cheating. Oh, yes. He's cheating a ton. He did it on both the last ones. Right, yeah, so it seems like a safe bet. I wonder, should we cheat too? Does that make sense? We should all cheat, right? Maybe. Yeah, let's cheat, right? You're cheating, of course, right? I'm actually not. Well, I'm not either, but I just assume, like, in theory, that you should probably be cheating. If Linus is doing it, we should be doing it too. Just saying that, so have fun. Thank you. Okay, so I just messaged the guy for the 290. I told him I can be there for 1030, so hopefully that works out. I really, really hope the guy with the setup that I want to buy, the motherboard, CPU cooler, and CPU, messages me back, because that would work out just great. So now that Luke's back, we need to be way more stealthy. I don't know, was he here for a while? Was he here talking about anything? He's too nice to do that. He wasn't listening. Okay, I don't think I said anything. I think we're good. Luke's nice. He wouldn't cheat. So, 79.70, $400. And I think the best part is this. So we have a Z77 saber-tooth board for $30. The reason it's $30 is because two of the ramp slots don't work. But we don't care about that. What we care about is not only is it also in this place that's right by 79.70, but 30 bucks. Let's find a more private place. Can we go upstairs or something? You're looking? I don't actually have anything here, but you guys left your stuff on the freaking table, didn't you? Is that your guys' stuff? No. What are you doing? Why did you abandon your stuff? Wow. They think the box is on the set. What were they? That was a system Linus and I built on Saturday. So those are actually our new parts, and they're sitting there. Do we need to make sure they think that? Here, hang on. Come with me. Let me just subtly try to sneak that computer away. So stealthy. Wow. Hey, I just wanted to call and warn you. I saw some sketchy-looking dudes running through the warehouse with some computer parts. They're running around with what looked like new computer parts, so I'm sure it's not yours, because you're probably smart enough to buy old computer parts. Thanks, man. Yeah, I appreciate it, but actually we haven't bought anything yet. We're just strategizing today. We were just cleaning up the... You told me earlier that you had bought everything. Well, we bought everything in our minds, but we're not going to really get around to actually paying it up until tomorrow, so don't worry about it. Okay. Yeah, cool. Sorry about that misunderstanding. We're just cleaning up the office. I'm just making sure you guys are okay. We're just cleaning up the office, making sure everything's nice and neat and tidy. That's fair. That's fair. I appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Have a good one. Okay. Now that we can talk freely, we need to work out a few more things. None of these people have gotten back to me, which is still a little stressful, but if we get this Core i3, we would need a heatsink for it, we would need the memory, and we would need some kind of drive, whether it's a hard drive or SSD. We might be able to swing an SSD. I mean, max, we're going to pay it $60 for a brand new SSD, so I feel like we could probably get something cheaper, but if not, it's not the end of the world. So we're looking at probably like a $300 build right now. That's actually not that bad. Scrapyard Wars will be right back after these messages. This episode of Scrapyard Wars is brought to you by dbrand, makers of the precision cut vinyl skins that you'll see on the phones and notebooks of our contestants. They offer a wide variety of styles and colors and support for the coolest devices, including the PlayStation 4, Galaxy Note 5, and iPhone 6S. Protect the body of your devices and make them look great at dbrand.com slash scrapyardwars. I officially sent my offer to the guy that wants to sell me the motherboard CPU and cooler for $80, so we'll see what he says about that. He told me earlier that he won't be able to check to see if he has RAM until 7 o'clock tonight, so I'm not going to make any final purchasing decisions on memory until he gets back to me then, but I'm looking for some leads for memory right now. I also told them if you have some cheap low-end hard drive laying around to let me know. So right now I'm messaging a different dude who ended up being Kevin's Used Computers or something like that. It's a used computer store around here for a power supply. I'm hoping I can get one fairly cheap off of him, and yeah, just trying to do some legwork on some other stuff, but we're doing pretty good. Pretty good. I think Brian and I are going to stop and get lunch pretty soon here. Alright, so we got a 120 gig SSD for $38 Canadian, my friends. That could win us this competition if it helps us win PCMark. And the guy with the broken 480 wants it for $25. $25 for what? It's broken. It's legit broken. So I offered him 10. Alright, so we're rolling around to the literal back alley here. Holy crap. What the hell is this? It's a crack fight. Right? I don't know. Oh, okay. And this one? You don't want people fishing through this bin if they don't know what they're doing. That's an exposed power supply. If you accidentally bridge a contact on that, there's capacitors. Someone could actually die. Okay, that was some legit scrapyard digging. I found a literal pile of Sempron CPUs, okay? I've got 4 gigs of DDR2. I've got a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Yes, my friends, I have a Q6600. And potentially I have an ASUS Commando board. If any of it works. I spent $60 of my budget on stuff where I am legit really not sure if any of it works. But I also got an Antec Smart Power 450 watt power supply with a PCI Express power connector. Alright, so so far my brilliant strategy of lowballing everyone is not going too well. Not getting a ton of replies and this one guy is extremely combative here. Something about, why would you offer less than half? You looking to get told off? So I'm kind of thinking I'm going to come back with asking price was out to lunch. Not my fault. People don't know what their stuff is worth. Here's a card that performs better with multiple ones listed for 50ish. Good luck with your sale, brah. Some might say that this is cheating. I would respond with that I don't think that they understand scrapyard wars. Because I got something from the scrap. And I'm turning it into a thing. And if that isn't the meaning of scrapyard wars, then I don't know what is. No way, we just heard back from the guy with the $25.6850. That is by far our best one yet with other people telling me off about asking my mom for money. We've done awesome. We have a, oh my iced tea is running down the roof. Oh no. Maybe I can get it, hold on. Really? Yeah I'm going to pull over. Hazards. Hold on maybe it's still up there. I don't think it is. Maybe it's still up there. Ah damn it. You lost your iced tea? Yeah it's all over the roof of the car. Okay so an email from the Z77 people just came in. I have more than 10 people emailing me about it but I don't have time to meet in Skye's train station and stuff. The only time available this week is tomorrow 11 to 5. And I have someone who said he is coming. So if you're really interested come around 11 and email me before you come. I think we need to go AMD because I think what's helping us a lot with the AMD cards is the fact that tons of people are using them for like bitcoin and litecoin mining. Which means that there's tons of these cards around and they're pretty cheap because they've been abused. So that's helping us a lot. So that's why there's so many 7950 and 7970s out here. But none of these people are getting back to me. If we do the i3 and the 7970 we're talking 280. If we bump that up to a Core i5 and a 6990 we're looking at 420. Actually 419. But the problem is the power supply. We absolutely need some kind of other power supply for this. So we're talking about a lot more money. But a Core i5 and a 6990 that's pretty solid. And we're still talking about definitely well under $500. Okay so I just texted the guy about the 6990. So if we do the 6990 and the Core i5 the little power supply that we have is not going to work. So what we might have to do is go back to the idea of putting an extra power supply on the top of the rig and just wiring it straight for the graphics card. In fact it would be powering at half the graphics card. Probably not the smartest idea. It should work in theory. Okay so to recap we have a Core i5 2400 at Kevin's used computer. We also can get a 250G hard drive there. Most likely we can get some kind of cheap power supply as a secondary for our graphics card. We have a case. We have our second power supply. We have a motherboard. We have the memory which we can just pick up at NCIX. It's like $30. No big deal. And we have the graphics card which we will pick up in Richmond at some point. I will text the guy here in a minute. 6990. That sounds like a computer to me. Are we forgetting anything? Was that salvageable? Did I just salvage that? We got the motherboard to mount. It works. The spacing is okay. The power supply will mount here or up here. So it's the actual power supply that I get is probably going to be a little bit longer. So let's say it goes to here. Cables come out of here. Cut it this way. Cut it this way. But I want to build a wall that it can sit against. I'm going to cut it with a circular saw. Okay. So this isn't me helping. This is me making sure he doesn't cut his own hand off. Looks like you're hard at work over here. I'm done. Are you happy, Austin? I'm happy that you're five minutes late. I'm very happy. I think I'm going to get some extra time. So you got some wood going on? It's a smart move for a computer build. I usually have wood. I just thought I'd incorporate it in a build. It's natural. You want to make sure you have course. One thing, I wanted to use power tools in a good, safe environment. Second thing, it's only five minutes and it's supposed to be transit time and I'm already here. So I don't really think it's that big of a deal. Also, to be fair, you were in my space when I could have been working. I don't think so. I also think you're not supposed to be in my space. I'm pretty sure you... And I believe I asked you to leave and you did not. You can't say that the outside is your space. You can't say that the entire outside is your space. You worked in two different areas of the office. I needed tools from over there and couldn't go over there because your parts were over there. So I waited until later. Oh. Oh. I've got to say thank you for not looking at all the parts that I bought. Wait, I thought you didn't buy any parts. I didn't buy any parts. Zero. Zero parts. Nothing bought whatsoever. I'm just having fun and this is all for a good sport. Don't worry about it. Does Luke have enough wood? Does the crack pipeline as found still work? Find out next time on Scrapyard Wars.