 Scrapyard Wars! This episode of Scrapyard Wars was brought to you by dbrand. Okay, so we're back from FreeGeek. We got a whole bunch of our parts. We've got a 775 on the board, 8 gigs of RAM, a Q6600, a 160 gigabyte hard drive, and a 550 watt BFG tech power supply. Everything here I've tested except for the power supply and the graphics card, so hopefully that all works out. Right now what I'm trying to set up to do is hook all this stuff up in this corner, and we'll try to get a monitor and keyboard and mouse over here too. And then I'm going to have my other desk where I'm doing my woodworking stuff right here, so that while this is running like Windows updates and junk, I can hopefully work on that. So that once this is kind of done doing Windows updates and junk, I can mount it onto the wooden board, and then hoping tomorrow that I can more focus on overclocking and stuff all day, because I really want to get that down. I think I can overclock this card a bit. I think I can overclock that CPU a bit, so I want to take advantage of that extra performance. So the one shitty thing about not having the screws here is worth the 20 bucks for sure, but is that I can't screw in my DVI cable. So it just goes to there, because normally there's a screw in there that I would screw into. So that's fine. If I really wanted to, I could use DisplayPort or HDMI, but I'm just going to use DVI for now because it's the cable that I have. But I'm going to try to find screws to put in here just because it would be good form, not because it's actually really needed. I guess here goes nothing. I was trying to document the issue with this graphics card, but since we changed to my test bench power supply, it's actually fine now, which is pretty bad news because what that means is that our ghetto power supply works fine with a card that it's not plugged directly into, but then doesn't work with a card that requires auxiliary power, which means our 7970 might not run off this power supply, even if it is rated at enough wattage, it might just be too crappy. I'm muted. Damn it, Taron, how long have I been muted? Um... Have I been muted since I like went to the bathroom a billion years ago? Now because I've actually got some time to spend with my CPU, the rules for overclocking are that you can have an overclock, but as soon as you run into stability issues during the testing phase, you have to turn off your overclock and run again. You don't get to like try and dial it in a little bit lower. So it's working. I guess this is good news in that it's a working graphics card and that the power supply is powering it, but bad news in that I'm not getting my 20 bucks back. If I want to know if it'll work with a 7970, if I want to know if I need another power supply, what I could do is grab a 7970 and test it. Nope, we do not have one. Okay. So that throws a bit of a monkey wrench into my plan. That's okay, though. We'll just find another graphics card that draws a similar amount of power and go from there. We may end up using this card after all. Oh, wow. Inaccessible boot device. Oh, wow. What's going on here? This computer is not happy now that we've installed a power hungry card. There are a lot of power supplies on Craigslist. Nothing that cheap. Corsair CX500 would do the trick. Yeah, this is this is not this is not booting. This is really bad. And there's Ubuntu. So the graphics card works. The power supply works. Everything else I already tested works. Nice. Okay. On this station here, I'm going to focus on formatting into windows. I need to get Ubuntu off of here, get into windows on this drive. And then over here, I'm going to keep working on my little woodworking project, trying to get this going using these sample pieces, the sample power supply I have and sample motherboard that I have to kind of work on the layout of how everything's going to actually be on here. One other thing that I need to do is actually use this screw bin and possibly use another few things around the office to try to rig up the back of that graphics card that actually has screws on it. Although that isn't a huge priority right now. That would be kind of nice to do. 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 scrapyard wars. So we have two terrible power supplies, but together, hopefully that equals one good power supply. This is the goods. And Core i7. Oh, Core i7 what? 2600. Oh, nice. 69900, 180. Even for that old of a card, that's a good deal. Yeah, I mean this thing is a monster. I know. So I think it actually, here let me see, will it fit in the case? Uh oh, nope. Alright, so that's actually not going to fit in the case. No fear though. This stuff, we just cut all this out, right? Actually this could probably even get, yeah this will come out. You want to take a guess on how much we spent on all this stuff? 350. Ah, no, it's like 550. Okay. So. Oh, you spent 30 on like one stick? Yeah, dude, RAM was tough. RAM was really tough because. Yeah, but you got taken for a ride, but still. The thing was, no one had any cheaper RAM. You honestly have like pretty primo stuff. This is the only concern. At least it's a little work, right? Yeah, it's brand new, exactly. So that's the thing, we have everything now. We basically just need to make sure it works. I'm a little worried because this needs, this is like a 500 watt card. This needs two 8 pins. So we're going to have to make sure that these power supplies, this power supply has. Oh lord, it's gray. Let's see. It's not that bad. So it has a 6 pin here and I think it's got an 8 pin somewhere. Sparkle power. Sparkle power. Oh, there's just a bunch of adapters here. Okay, do you have the extra tube? It doesn't have the extra tube. Wait, what is going on here? Why are there so many adapters? All these Molex have adapters on them. We should have looked at this before. Yeah, so basically power supply right here, tape it on, cut this slash try to remove it. I'm not sure if it can be unscrewed or not, but we can remove this somehow. I'm not really worried about that. And just hope that these two power supplies are enough for the Core i7 and the 6990. Sorry. Do you need an actual sander? Do we have an actual sander? Yeah, I have an actual sander. Oh, is it a company tool thing? I've been using it here, so sure, yeah. I'm done with that. Yeah, you're good. I'm done with that. Okay. Why are you using this? Yeah, I know it's the wrong thing, but it's actually kind of working, actually pretty well. Did I...I just sanded off the mark that I made for where I wanted to cut. I'm not saying there's cheating involved, but a little suspicious right there. We know that Linus was still sending messages after Pi. Was he? Yeah. How do you know? I asked him and he told me. He's cheating. So he's absolutely cheating. I'm calling about the CX500 power supply. I can come get it today if you can do 20. Sure, why not? 20. So I could...yeah, like if you just give me an address, I can get there tonight, no problem. Well, if you leave now, you can come to my house. I still won't be at work yet, so is that okay? I live in Richmond though. Yeah, okay. Yep. Son of a bitch. Okay, how are we going to do this? We've got to go to Vancouver, we've got to go to Richmond, and we've got to go to Coquitlam. And we're going to be all over the place for the next little bit here. Okay, so he won't set it up to show us it works, but we have another option. So we've got a $20 power supply to go with our $100 graphics card. And we'll just bring a computer with us to test it. Let's go. Okay, I think we can hit all these places today. As long as our back alley contact is on time, I think we got this. It's 3 o'clock, and it's 10 minutes to our next destination. You know what? New plan, because back alley guy wasn't able to meet until four-ish. So we're going to go straight back to Coquitlam and then to the back alley. And as long as we can get there before five, if it takes us a little longer to drive back, we technically haven't broken the rules. You have to be done scrap yarding and head back at five. We're good. I think the rule is you have to be back at five thirty. Well, it's all very gray anyway. Hi. 20 bucks? Yep. That's good. Oh, you got it from NCIX, I see. Until from the NCIX sticker. Okay, cables are inside and presumably it works. Yeah. Pleasure doing business with you. Huge fan, actually. Yeah, screw it. Okay, here you go. Well, nothing that we know of at the moment. I only have one of those though. That's okay. I can get an adapter. Well, I mean, if it doesn't super work. Just let me know. We didn't have time to test our 7970, but the guy said we can come back tomorrow morning if we need a refund. So at least we have the backup plan of using our 6850 and returning the 7970. So that's good. And our quote from Google Maps right now is that we will arrive in the back alley at four fifty eight. He said we can have the sound card for free if we just come pick it up. I am gonna have my system. Thank you, thank you. All right, we got our sound card. So our back alley best friend hooked us up with an Audigy 2 and a Sound Blaster Live, both of which are PCI graphics cards and at least one of which I'm hoping will both work and have drivers for Windows 7, which is what we've standardized on using. So as long as that's the case, I have everything I need for my winning computer. Yeah, so I feel better about telling you guys stuff. I really, Ed's been very helpful. He's not been an impartial cameraman. So we've been a team here, but I didn't know I wasn't supposed to help. I didn't either. You're very much not an impartial cameraman, Ed. You give me a reason why Escape the Windowless Dungeon is a line of TV. So blind. We may need to re-implement. You have one hour and fifty minutes. Okay. No, no, no. It fell off this last chance. Oh, so you have fifty minutes. This is helpful. A smaller one. Oh, do we need something to short the pins on the paper clip? Yeah. Are you sure, maybe? Do you have a paper clip? No. What do you need it for? How are you a salesman without a paper clip? How are you a video editor without a paper clip? You think I'd be on a paper punch? Oh, you get that. I think this will actually work. This sounds like we're about to die. This out of the way. Are we installing it or are we building it outside the case first to test it? Yeah, let's build outside the case. You're right. We can't really build it inside the case because... Right. Okay, memory's good. No, you cut out. I can't get back at it. It's way too tight. Especially with a big knife like this. This is a bad idea. It's a really bad idea. It's so tight. I know. I'm scaring me with this right now. Oh, no. I slightly damaged some of this leaving. Uh-oh. That's not good. Yes. Okay, we're good. We're good. We're good. Okay, slight problem. This motherboard needs an 8-pin connector and we only have a 4. Also, bad news, this also has a 4-pin. Can we, can each power supply power half the CPU too? That seems like a horrible idea. Either we try to see if one 4-pin will work. No, no, no. We got to do this. Let's try it with one 4-pin. Hopefully that will work. Can we have a quick time check? 4.50 so we have 10 minutes. Do we just try it? We need to still do the paperclip thing. How is this going to work, dude? Okay, so this is a green. You and Drew and I agree that's green? Okay, and the one right beside it is black. I feel like you're not supposed to do this with a staple. I feel like you're not supposed to do this ever, but especially not with a staple. Wait, what are you talking about? Oh no. We don't have a way of turning this on. It's a screwdriver. I've never done that before. What are you talking about? Yes! Yes! It works! Power supply, power supply, fan, fan. Yes, we did it! Okay, we just need to make sure this is actually like posting, but all the fans are running. It looks like it's working. Need some sanding, but there's my graphics card holding plate or my power supply holding plate. Maybe the power supply. My computer is still setting up over there. Windows 7 Professional is still applying my settings. It's been doing that forever. It's kind of getting annoying. Let's try this. Cool. So just like I had kind of hoped, I don't actually even need this block. It'll just hopefully look cool. I hope it looks cool. I really hope it looks cool. It looks like it works, but it's not posting, and we're over time. This is...seems like a horrible idea. Horrible idea, but whatever. Let's do it. They don't want to go in together. What are you talking about? We squish it. Don't worry. Good enough. Good enough. I know. No, no, this power supply should be spinning right now. I don't understand why it's not... This should be working. Oh, you're right. Oh, come on. Oh, dude, I don't know if these are supposed to work together. I don't think they are. Because you're not supposed to put that in sideways. No, we're going from Molex to 6-pin, and then we're going from 6-pin to 8-pin like we did here, except this time to power the CPU. I actually have never even tried this. I don't think it'll work. But it could. Could it? Maybe? I have a feeling this shouldn't work. If it does work, it shouldn't work. Look at this. What have we done? No. No, it's not going to work. It's different. Okay, so at this point, I think we have to call it a day. The fan spin. The two power supply thing actually works, which is more than I thought I could say, but it won't post. And I think the problem is powering the motherboard. So we have a one 8-pin power connector for the CPU. We only have a 4-pin from each power supply. So neither of them are actually enough to get it to post. I'm assuming that's the problem, because when we tried to plug in both 4-pins, which you're not really supposed to do, this power supply freaked out and stopped working. So I'm pretty sure if we could get these two somehow between the two to power the CPU, it would be good. So yeah, I think we've got to give up for the day. And maybe tomorrow come up with a game plan of how we're going to power this thing. But we're close, but this is the best case. This is the best case if it's just the 8-pin, we can't power it. Worst case is something here is broken, in which case we are way more screwed. Okay, I think it's time to call it a night. Until tomorrow, sweet prince. Oh, man, I hope we can figure this out. I really do. Next time on Scrapyard Wars, Berkel fights his doppelganger, Nicky B. You really want to throw down? You want to rumble? Fuck! Nick, who are you talking to? You are the same person.