 Welcome to Season 5 of Scrapyard Wars. The competition is going to be hotter than ever because Luke and I are traveling to sunny California to take on, yes we're going to be on a team for the first time, Paul from Paul's Hardware and Kyle from Awesome Sauce News Network Bit, WIT. It's a team battle, everyone gets 500 American US dollars to build the best RGB gaming computer they can. Make sure it's all there, you know him. And go! Oh yeah, and it's brought to you by iFixit and FreshBooks. Okay, ready guys? Three, two, one, Scrapyard Wars! Okay go go go, let's go. What are you doing with the money? We gotta get started. Two teams try to build the best gaming rig they can for 500 dollars. The rules are simple, you work within the set hours, you buy the parts you use, and you can't use your influence as a YouTuber to get deals. Oh, and the best RGB computer gets a 10% score bonus. Welcome to Scrapyard Wars. Get the money? Okay, so who's going to stay? Close enough. Where does everybody build? But you guys can be there, we'll go there. We're there, you guys are in the kitchen? Sure. Okay, all right, we get the uh, we get, wow. They apparently have a lot of confidence that I think is unjustified. Because these guys are, these guys are cruising for a uh, cruising for a bruising here. We need laptops, stat, because we don't know what the heck is going on. We gotta remember that we don't know anything around here. Right, and also that this isn't the real money, this is Paul and Kyle's money that we have to give back to them. Kind of hungry, we haven't had lunch yet. Yeah, I know. We should probably eat. It's a good place to be. Okay, we have time for lunch. Take water? You know what, why are you guys hoarding all the water? Like it's really hot here, and we're gonna need our water. So this is your money, so we'll need that. Okay. How are you guys getting money? We'll have to go get the real money from the hotel room where I left it. But it's okay. I can just give you some of this money, and then you can bring that tomorrow if that saves some time. Well, we left it on like the counter in the bathroom, and we didn't put the do not disturb on, and it's like a thousand dollars of actual money. So I actually don't know if we're gonna go back to the hotel room, I think I'm just gonna roll the dice on the money on the counter, because we've only got two and a half days effectively. We started so late. We've never worked together, I don't even know what to say to you. I know, I'm just automatically looking things up. Yeah, I'm like- I'm looking at goodwill electronic recycling right now. Okay, okay, so how about I start tracking down what's on Craig's- Do they have Kijiji here? I don't know about Kijiji here, I don't really think so. Because Kijiji is owned by eBay, and eBay is bigger in the States. Now you were saying this earlier, like they might not know that Orange County is pretty near nearby here. So if we're lucky, they might end up hitting up LA Craig's List, which is going to be like hell of traffic. Is this Ontario, Canada? Pre-Geek Toronto, yeah, no dice. Yeah, if they're looking at LA, this is our home field advantage. If they're looking at LA traffic, or if they're looking at LA traffic, if they're looking at LA locations, they might get all the way into LA, which is to the north. But we're like right on the border to go south, Orange County. I think our initial goal should be to try to find a really cheap, complete system that somebody's selling, that we can get base components like a case and a power supply, that we can get like dirt cheap. And then for our, I think the RGB integration is going to be a challenge, but I feel like we might consider, all right, we do have an ace in the hole, an option, which is MicroSense. Yeah, should we head out or? I just realized that we can't leave them here though, because I have to lock the door. I love how that we get the workshop. This is awesome. Except they said it's going to be really hot and that has central air and this doesn't. Oh, so we thought that they were... No, I didn't. You claimed the workshop. So you knew that we were getting on immediately. Great. You were like, we take the workshop and I was like, oh crap. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry to interrupt. We just realized we all need to leave together, because I need to lock the door. Otherwise it will be unlocked. And just whenever we go. This isn't Canada, guys. I know. We lock our doors. People will kill us. Do you have a second key? Yeah, do you have a key? Like I'm, I realize I'm asking for a lot. Does the garage door work? Garage door is not really an option, unfortunately. All right. I have an idea, but we'll discuss when the cameras are off. Okay. So here it is. Strictly platonic. Here we go. Wait, what am I doing? So LA sucks. What I mean by this is there's like nothing there in terms of used PC parts. Everything's MacBooks. You know what I think the first thing we have to do is, is get our bearings. Like maybe the reason you can't find anything for Ontario is that that's not like a relevant thing. Yeah. Where's like Orange County and where's like Hollywood and. Hollywood's like an hour away. I just mean like. I hear you. So these are like, are these counties? I don't. Is El Monte. These are all really small. Okay. So Los Angeles is like a fairways that way. I don't even know where Hollywood is. All I know is there's a big sign that I've never seen, even though I've been to LA like quite a few times. These guys are leaving already. You guys are leaving already. I mean, you understand what happens in this area with traffic after it gets past like. It's past 2 p.m. It's not like it's going to matter. There will be traffic. We're everywhere. That's all that matters. Don't do anything. Yeah, it's like chapter 2. You guys are screwed. Okay, bye. Well, what are we going to do? I hate you. I have a feeling they're just going to Kyle's house. Oh, that makes sense. Those guys are so full of. You know what? I think that these guys actually, if they actually intend to get out there today, are going to be in for a rude surprise in terms of like. Research matters. Yeah, how not efficient that is. Maybe it was kind of unfair and like **** of us to stack the teams like this. I don't know, man. Then again, like I'm going to be killing myself, not killing myself, but kicking myself at the very least for saying something like that. And then potentially losing. And then potentially losing. I think we'll be OK. So figure out somebody bribe the judges. What if we had food that is somehow associated with the system that they could eat and the food was colored red, green and blue? Like green eggs and ham type of thing like on the power supply. I don't know. Maybe like I said, call it crazy. I'm just I'm trying to spitball here. Potentially. Just throwing out ideas. We're going to make like a, you know, like a fast food run right before we get to the judges then and like maybe like put all the food inside the case when they open it up. You know, it's like dinner served. Exactly. Make us win. That should work out perfectly. That or paint. I mean, I mean, if we can't if we can't find anything that lights up RGB. Maybe there's some things that are house. Maybe there's some things that light up at your house that aren't necessarily. Oh, I guess we couldn't use anything. I think we have to buy everything. Buy everything. I'm going to call this place right now. OK. Hey, Jared, I was wondering if you guys sell any like sort of pre-built systems that are somewhat or fully functional? No, we do not. Sorry about that. I'm Kyle from Bitwit. I'm Kyle from Bitwit, you idiot. It was Mr. Chance to meet me. God. All right. 909. I thought I thought we weren't allowed to go into the 909. That's a dangerous area. What? No, it's not. Is it? 909. That's it's nothing crack heads. That means that means they'll be willing to sell computer parts for really cheap. Kyle and I obviously go back for quite a while. We work together at New Egg. We do a regular, regular weekly live show on Tuesday evenings, 530 p.m. Pacific time. And it's been good so far. I think we have a good basic understanding of like, you know, working together and everything. So that's good. We're pretty used to each other's vibe and can really feed on each other's ideas and things like that. We're really good at bouncing back and forth ideas. So so far, it's been a pretty positive experience. What's the rule? What's the rule? It looks like if we crack heads, if we bought some crack or something at like a really good rate, let's say we knew a guy, right, and then we could bring it out to that area and perhaps we could trade up, you know, and get more for our for they would all just kind of come screwing I don't know what the rules are with Scrapyard Wars for like an intermediary form of currency or Sometimes I can be a little sporadic and scatterbrained and he brings back the focus, but then I can sort of drive the urgency. So I think it's a nice balancing act. Hi, I was wondering if you guys sell any pre-built computer systems? No, we don't. So I'm thinking I'm thinking this might be a good area to kind of have as a base of operations. We're in rolling heights right now. New Egg is located just a few blocks that way as well as quite a few of the larger manufacturers of parts like MSI's over there, Gigabytes over there, Zotac's over there. So there's a lot of kind of techie people in that, you know, who might work with actually work with them directly. Not that we're like trying to find anyone we know, but I feel like I feel like in this area we could find some. That's a good idea. So I think maybe get some food and while we're sitting down we can make some calls via Craigslist or something like that. I think if we get food then we've already won really. That's probably true. You can't hunt for computer parts on an empty stomach. From minute zero you have to bust or else you're just gonna fail. I'm so glad that we stopped here at Lee's Sandwiches, purveyors of fine Vietnamese baguette based sandwiches and stuff to eat and recoup and gather our thoughts. I agree. Also we're so overconfident I think. So FreshBooks' sponsorship is that we use the FreshBooks app to track all of our expenses. So we could do time tracking but like we're not billing for anything we're doing. But you basically just go like this and then you just like put what it is Oh that's pretty easy. And how much it was and the currency. That's probably gonna be easier to track than like... And then you attach receipts so you just take a picture. Perfect. Yes cool. I don't know why we were ever using a spreadsheet for this before. I'm sorry I will get Excel open at some point here and everything will be fine. Hi I was just wondering if you guys still use computer parts? Parts? Yeah. Maybe what are you looking for? Generally no but what do you got what you need? Basically we're like we're trying to build a pretty good gaming system for a friend. But we've only got like a few hundred bucks so we don't have a huge budget. And we were thinking maybe buying used would be a good idea. So my guess is you'd be interested in Windows machines parts. Well I don't know what you're looking for. It's specific. All we do is match for a song. Oh okay yeah I think I think we were looking for something. We were looking for Windows so thank you very much then. If you look at PC parts on Craigslist it comes up with Mac Maglock power adapters. It's all Macs. Macs to the Macs. MacBook Air. iMac. MacBook Pro. Apple Mac Remote. This is what I'm dealing with here. We should just build a Mac. Like what are we expecting for 500 US dollars? So someone wants 400 bucks for an R7 370 FX83 28 gigs RAM 1 TB hard drive. Holy s*** this is not like as cheap as I was sort of hoping it would be. There's a 970 for 190 bucks. Should we decide now? Like do we go for the RGB modifier or do we forget about it? I think we don't focus on it. At least at the start. Do you think they're gonna go for it? We could try and do it creatively. Like we could buy like red green and blue paint. Yeah I thought about that but making that look genuinely cool might be difficult. Maybe not if we had enough time. Like it's hot here so paint would dry really fast. Have you ever done like cornering? Cornering. Like use a few different emails and phone numbers to lowball super f*** hard and then like do a more reasonable one. You're such an a**hole. I've never done that on Scrapyard Wars I don't think. Okay should I get on creating a few gmails? I have a few. Of course you do. Okay so we're half an hour in and I have got the Scrapyard Wars 5 dock open. In my activated copy of Word. That's where I'm at. I got honestly almost nothing done for the first hour. Stand stick rush. Hi I was just wondering if you guys sell used computer parts? No nothing like that we don't sell parts. Hi I was wondering if you guys have used computer components for sale? Uh I mean you could check around with there's a shop called stand stick garage. You can check with those guys. I really hope those guys are like not finding anything right now because there's not a lot of time. I just found a really good deal on Craigslist. It was a 2500k. Over $100k. It was a 2500k overclockable for 90 bucks in Garden Grove but I kind of screwed up. I emailed him from my business email. So he knows if he recognizes me but in any way shape or form that means we can't do the deal. Technically rules of Scrapyard Wars so I'm really hoping that I'm not as popular. If he doesn't recognize you then we would just want to confirm yes we will pay this much and we will come and get it and then it wouldn't matter because we would have confirmed the price beforehand. Right. Okay so Inland Empire uh Norco actually we have a i5 2500k based system. This is a complete system for $450. Uh Corsair memory looks like an 8 gig it seems like two 4 gig sticks. P67 motherboard a GTX 950 graphics card so that's not that great but a Seasonic 600 watt power supply. OCZ 240 gig SSD and even some like LED red LED fans and stuff so. Maybe we could reply and ask him if we could just omit the GTX 950 since we don't need it. As well as like there was like bundling some other crappy gaming peripherals. Motherboard or keyboard and mouse. Maybe if we could just eliminate those and try to talk him down on price because right now it's $450 which is most of our budget but if we can cut that down to like $350 or something. Do you think ketchup and mustard cables count as RGB? Oh oh oh Kyle Kyle did you you didn't leave your backpack did you? Uh laptop. No. What kind of careless did you do to get in? We need we need to do something today though we need to we gotta stop somewhere. We need to interact with other humans. It feels like we haven't done anything. It's like we went to Lee's and ate sandwiches which was delicious. I don't regret that. In fact we could just go back there again tomorrow I think. Oh my god what if we just like went to a scrap yard and like found some metal and like bent it. I mean we've got iFixit kits. Yeah make it work. So what does the iFixit Pro-Tech Tool Kit have in it? Um okay we've got a 64-bit screwdriver kit. Is that is that is that good for bending metal? Uh I mean it'll help us like fix it together. No okay it's got their their prying tools. I'm thinking steel sheet steel. No not what that's for. Suction cups for removing screens. Um we've got uh we've got ESD safe tweezers and ESD wrist strap. So this looks great for stabbing you for terrible ideas. That was your idea stab yourself. That was not my idea. To bend the metal? Oh that was my idea. I said I was gonna make it out of wood. Okay well okay so the iFixit kit is good for lots of things. Like like making a case out of wood. Like making no it's not good for making a case out of wood. You can screw it together. It's good for reasonable things. Hi I called up um computer recycling team and was recommended to you. I'm looking to buy some used computer components. I have a Beak Light 800 watt fully modular power supply into a C90X SLI Gigabyte board. That's a 1150 socket. That's all brand new. That's sitting in a tower. We also have gaming towers. We have CPU coolers power suppliers. All that stuff's all brand new never been touched. We're pretty comfortable with DIY and used stuff. Like we would we don't have that kind of a budget. Like I can already tell that power supply is gonna be like half of what we would have to spend. Well everything is 50% off of what original price is. Okay um so you said you're gonna have some more used do those motherboards that you had to go through tomorrow do those have CPUs and RAM in them as well like could we dig through the pile? Oh we're actually all out of CPUs and RAM at the moment when that stuff comes in it's gone within 10 hours. The best stuff goes quick along with graphics cards. We buy everything wholesale so we just buy pallets of stuff and sometimes we get lucky sometimes we don't but 90% of the stuff that we get in as far as gaming stuff is all brand new never been opened so yeah just just shoot me a text tomorrow morning and I'll you know give you a time uh either I'll be here or what time he can be here. Great yeah thanks. All right cool. What? 50% or more off of ticket. For brand for like wholesale stuff I guess it makes sense because this is where all like this is where basically all the computer parts for North America come in so I guess it's more likely like for there to be a palette of random motherboards that like didn't sell or whatever. I don't know I don't know if we're gonna do very well with that though to be honest because like if he only has the motherboard like bundles that's where you. No I know I know but I often find like like how many scrapyard wars have we had to buy a power supply at the very end? Yeah. Like almost every time. Yeah. And he's got a 50% off power supply. Yeah but like even a be quiet 800 watt at 50% off is still like a hundred dollars. Yeah so you should spend like 40 bucks 30 bucks on a power supply. Yeah. Okay. This is a 2400 3.1 gigahertz. It has four gigs of DDR3 I think 250. Oh okay we've seen we've seen significantly better pricing on that kind of era stuff so I might I might have to pass on that one but I'll call you back if our other leads fall through then. Asshole. Take care. Okay thanks. Did he say asshole? Absolutely. Ah well that's a lot nicer of a thing to say. Yeah. Okay so there's a full gaming PC for $450 which is right up there with our budget but it's almost good to go it's got an FX9590 hyper 212 Evo an R9 390 which is a sapphire card 390 is still pretty solid 16 gigs of DDR3 725 watt power supply this thing is pretty much good to go right out the gate especially because it's got a Phanteks P400 which is a fairly new case it's a very recent case that has RGB LEDs in it and a two terabyte hard drive the only thing that's missing here is an SSD at least in the looks of it so that would give us 50 bucks for an SSD if we're just putting the OS on it probably don't need more than a 60 gig SSD which we should be able to find for that price. I'm emailing him right now the only issue is that he lives in Calabasas he or she lives in Calabasas he or she lives in Calabasas which is probably an hour 15 drive one way without traffic. We're not having too much luck with Craigslist so far we've found some listings but we haven't heard back from anyone we've contacted yet so I have installed letgo which is an app that just allows you to take a picture or something and then offer it to people to trade stuff there does seem to be a decent amount of stuff in here I found this listing for three computer towers so just a case but they're nine bucks each and if we can knock out a you know the decent case that'll fit everything and looks okay for nine dollars then I'll feel like we accomplished something today. Hi this message is for Jason um I'm calling about uh oh can I start this over? Thank you goodbye oh crap 9.80 for 175 motherf**kers yeah if you come over I don't mind hooking it back up to my rig running it through a benchmark I'm off today anytime let's go okay so I realized we don't have an address yet but that's okay not gummies so we'll go back to the hotel while we wait for him to get back to us on the address I finally feel like we have a purpose let's go. Yeah this is Lilia from JE components um you messaged us on eBay so you guys had some zions listed correct? Uh yeah. Were they 56.70? Sorry I've messaged quite a few people. Yeah 56.70 uh right now we have them listed for 110. Can you do any better than that? Were you looking for the pair or? I I did want a pair of them because the board that we were able to find or like we're kind of scraping together bits and pieces here. Uh the best we can do right now is 100 for both. 100 for both? Yeah yeah like if we can't build a system for 325 like then we should probably just stop making scrapyard worse because we clearly suck. Shoot there's more than one of the exact same address like one of them's in Fullerton one of them's in Whittier I think there's actually more. Does it say on his Craigslist ad? Oh I'll check I'll check that's in the dock right? Yep. Okay I'll check. Oh crap I think Bakersfield is in a different place altogether. Oh my god this is two hours away. Yeah I'll call Paul. We can ask for mercy. Yeah if you were them would you give us mercy? I have before. Yeah but you're uh you're soft and weak like that. So we wanted to know you know given the late start today you know what would be the odds of doing like a longer a longer pick up tonight you know? Go straight go straight go straight go straight. Yeah the main issue is that Kyle can't uh actually he's probably gonna get picked up in about a half an hour. Okay okay okay you know. I tried to talk him out of it he said no you know he just said I don't care. Yeah. You were scrap yard work or anything. Yeah you know I just I really thought you guys were cool which is well no he's he's not he's not saying no to us he's just saying that Kyle has to go. We're just wondering if we can go drive somewhere and drive back. So basically what you're saying is that Kyle's being pretty inconsiderate then. I'm definitely passing the buck yeah but you know we don't want to stretch the rules or bend them out of shape or go 18 hours overtime or anything like that. Okay all right I can respect that I can respect that. I'm just I'm just gonna be thinking about how much I respect that if you call me and you need a tool or whatever you know well well you know we're not vengeful though so uh all right all right thanks Paul. I've never known you to be. Okay thanks Paul thanks Paul thanks thanks thanks Paul. Okay. Thanks for nothing Paul you f**k. Yeah uh so the Linus was asking if we could extend tonight during a time period when he knows you will not be here. That's BS I already told him that I wouldn't be available after 5 30 or 6. So unless you want to go alone but I don't know if that's. I wouldn't seem appropriate especially because I might get mugged. Oh yeah. And I know that your jiu-jitsu skills are probably. That would be horrible. If you got mugged I don't like that would traumatize me. Yeah. You know like I don't know if I could handle that you getting mugged. If we have to pay a hundred dollars for the CPUs we get the 24 gigs of ram the dual socket board the 175 GTX 980 the 40 dollar case if we can get the SSD for 35 with no tax um and we can get the hard drive for 10 dollars then we are going to be we're going to be 25 dollars over over 25 dollars over. I was testing them out and one of them uh was defective so I threw it away. Okay so it's. I only have two. So it's two drives for 10 bucks? Yeah you can have them for 10 bucks it's fine. I'll I'll get them both for 10 bucks. Okay I'm calling up um Michael here. Let's see if Michael is going to come down from 250 to 175 on that there video card. If I could talk to him maybe I can reason with him. I don't blame people for not picking up my calls. I must show up on the caller ID like terrible person. Hello? Hi is this Michael? Oh yeah hi. Hi um I saw your Craigslist ad for an MSI GTX 980. Yeah yeah um yeah I'm interested but I I hate to be I hate to be one of those people but I only have 175 bucks. Are you able to do that? Um sorry sorry I got work right now. I can I can come get it like tomorrow like quick sale at least. It has that going for it. Um I can't 175 I'm sorry. How many what's them or just one? I I only I only have 175 so unless you wanted to do both of them for 175 it's definitely just one. Sorry I can't do that. What's the best you can do? For one the best I can do is 20 bucks. Is what sorry? It's 220. 180? 220. Oh 220 oh okay yeah I definitely misheard you there. Um yeah okay thank you so much I just I don't think that's in the cards for me right now. I really appreciate it though. Actually actually I could do two. What's that sorry? You two 200. 200? Yeah. I'm on a you know what I should probably tell you like sort of what's going on here. Um basically one of our buddies is moving away he doesn't have a gaming rig and everybody scraped together 500 bucks that's all we've got. Um and so we're trying to get kind of everything for that and basically we've budgeted it out and we've got 175 for the video card like that's kind of where I'm at and I can maybe stretch like another 10 bucks. Like could you do 185? You know what I can do 185. You can do 185? Yeah. Okay that is incredibly incredibly cool of you. I think we can hold on I think we can make this work. If we can get an SSD for 35 dollars and I get the CPUs from the other shop where there's no tax and we do and we do 16 gigs of ram instead of 24 then we're at 498 dollars and 17 cents. Maybe I should have negotiated on the two dollars and 50 cents. So far we've got like what two bucks not even quite? Uh yeah two dollars left. So we've got about two dollars. You're not gonna negotiate on the 750. If I can get this guy if I can get this guy to 750 then we'll have four dollars and 50 cents. Oh my god. If we drive five hours then we'll have fourteen dollars and 50 cents which is probably enough to do something RGB. We could probably do something RGB for free. Like if we just wanted to like be idiots and like find red things and like leaves. Fantastic. That one works? You try it out? Absolutely. Cool. Yeah that one works. Okay done deal pleasure doing business with you thank you very much. Does this have two drives in it? This might have two drives in it. Maybe it's like a raid thing? Is that what the dual interfaces are for? Maybe there's actually two drives? We'll have to see but. You know what's really funny is iFixit sponsored this and we actually have to disassemble hard drive. Day one we have a thing. Well two things. With that our day's sort of done though. I think we got this yeah well it's six o'clock exactly. We're we're just out getting food. Yeah I have food. Look food Brandon food. Safe food. Yeah we're not we're not doing scrap yard wars anymore we're just we're just getting some food. Don't worry about it. Okay so let's uh let's drive back to the restaurant that we um are at right now. Okay. Okay so this is day two scrap yard wars. Day one Paul and I didn't really get any parts. No one's here from the other team right? They can't hear us. Okay so we didn't get any parts yesterday so all the emails that I sent out was just casting a really wide net. Just being very polite and trying to see if anyone would reply. I'm following up with all those people now like my house is on fire and we're all about to die because um we only have one more day of this. Tomorrow is pretty much judgment day so pretty much we need to start parting things together. Hopefully by the end of tonight early tomorrow morning so um we're just gonna have to see if uh if people respond to a sense of urgency. And can tell in the tone of my emails that this is a matter of life or death. I'm terrified. I feel like we've made some real connections on a deep emotional human level with the people that we're trying to negotiate with and that's important for getting the best deals. Sorry but I'm trying to get rid of the whole computer not interested in parting out. Screw you! Kyle has some strategic he's working on right now. We'll see if that works out. I'm not really sure. Um are you serious right now? Yeah. You're literally cleaning your car. That's important. In day two of Scrapyard Wars. We need to be able to see clearly out the windows to the computer hardware that's outside. You should not have Windex in your hand unless it's for a side panel window. Damn it. All right first stop for today is Fullerton California. Lovely town established in 1898. Get to the point Paul. Uh sorry. There's a guy there with cases. He has I think he has four of them. Some of them have some parts still in them. Given that he's got four and he wants like nine bucks for them and it sounds like he might even just be like just please take these. It might be just kind of a good stepping off point. Get something in hand. Very minimal investments and we're really hoping there might be a power supply in one of them that's usable too. In other news I just got a reply from the dude that has a CPU and motherboard. It's a K-SKU. I can't even remember. I probably have 2600k. It's all board right now but it's a good CPU and motherboard. And this is the guy who didn't want to meet us at lunch because on his lunch break from work because he said it was going to take too long to disassemble the system. I told him that I'm a full-time system builder and I could provide any assistance if possible and he said that won't speed things up. I just need to unscrew everything including my specialty mounted liquid cooler from the board. Can you text me at this number? So we got a number from him. Okay. That's good. So faster communication. He said that would be faster. I might be able to work something out. I'm okay with you. We're okay. You know me. I mean I've got so much stuff listed on Craigslist. I have so much stuff listed on let go and offer up. That afterwards I'll drop the price and just. You just got to clear it out. Yeah. Are each of these 10 bucks or what's actually the pricing on? This full working one? About 30. 25 30. For this 10 10. That one five. Do you know what's inside of that by the way? It's an XP. There's a modem in there. Yeah here look guys. So it's also potentially a proprietary power supply so the power supply will not work for us. Yeah. It's proprietary so it doesn't have the. You guys are looking for something? We're trying to part out an entire system as quickly and as inexpensively as possible. This is the basic game. So there's a hard drive in there. But I do appreciate you contacting me. I do appreciate you following up. Of course. I like people like that because I can drop the price and get rid of all this stuff. Yeah. My wife can be happy. I can be happy. You can be happy. This is an ATX chassis. It could work. It's got a window. So technically we'd be able to put some RGB lighting in it and it would shine through. Nothing else is really usable. The hard drive is only 40 gig and it looks like we don't have the correct pins or anything on that motherboard. Well the motherboard is just super outdated. I don't even know what chipset it is. But the case looks good though. The case could work. How much did you say for this one again? Like nine dollars. That is very strange. Once you're happy guys I just can't hold this stuff. You can't stack it back in the garage. I feel you. Yeah. So this one doesn't have a window. Yeah it's time to find buyers for stuff. I haven't had a job for over a year guys. Yeah. I tend to hold on to things and keep things. I feel you. Are you sold on this one or? I think this will work. It's got the space we need. Is it a standard power supply mount? Yeah it's a typical standard ATX power supply mount. All right that'll work. What about this girl? We like the window on this guy because that's one of the chips. I could tell his wife was just like if you bring any of these home you'd like I'm going to continue to be mad at you or whatever. So I offered to like we can just take another one. Like the cases were in pretty bad shape. They weren't going to be able to be sold to anyone besides people doing something like this. Honestly if you just to help you out with the wife situation or whatever I'll take one of them if you just want to get rid of it and and come home with a little bit less stuff. I mean I'll probably end up recycling it honestly but uh I mean if that helps you. Take that one in. This one? Yep. Okay you can do that. All right. Sir for this guy right here no change needed. Extra doll is a sign of gratitude. Thank you so much this is perfect. This is exactly what we're looking for right now. So yes you've just made our day. Success. We should just call it here. Good. Yeah. Just taking his his fully built system and just presented that. Set a good score of one. Yeah all right. This is one. Okay day two. Um not a lot of good communication overnight. So I but at least we have these really basic looking hard drives. So there's that. Yeah. So um I heard back from a lot of guys I messaged about GTX 980s. 185 is definitely our best deal. Okay. Uh this guy said 200. This guy's this guy's the 175 but the five hour round trip drive which I don't. I think we shouldn't kill it yet. I'll just. Don't don't close the communication line. Yes. Yeah. I'll leave him hanging which is just not very considerate. A little bit rude but it's fine. Okay so I'm not gonna lie that's some of the bad news for today. The place with the bulk of the components. Motherboard, RAM, tower, SSD. I haven't heard back from them since the afternoon yesterday and I've emailed them at the end of the day yesterday and first thing this morning and what I said was we found the CPUs cheaper somewhere else so that freed up some budget and I wanted to take the tower for 40, the motherboard for 75, 16 gigs not 24 gigs of RAM for 40 which is like per DIMM. That's the price they gave and the 128 gig SSD. I didn't try to negotiate. I left it at 45 bucks and I was like okay that should be 200 plus tax. I haven't heard from them and they said once you place an order it's a one day lead time. Oh yeah we have much bigger problems right now. IT Recycler Pro isn't Palo Alto. Oh. If they respond we could take a flight. Technically flying is not against the rules. It is a transport cost. Transport costs are not within the fixed budget. You know what? I'm out. You look up Ontario, I'll look up LAX. LAX is only about an hour and a half drive from here. How are we going to transport a server back on the plane? You know what? There's a non-stop flight from 745 tonight to 9. Do they have Uber Chopper here? Hi. This might be kind of a stupid question but is it possible to charter a flight to San Fran? From where? From LA? Yeah no it's not too good. What date and time are you looking at? Well that's where it gets kind of stupid. It would probably be today. What time today? So we don't know yet. Long story short we're filming a thing and there's a part that we'll know probably within the next hour or two. There's a part that we need and the only way to get it might be to go pick it up in San Francisco. So we would need a flight up there and then a flight back. Okay how many passengers are we looking at? Two. Three. Three. Three. Sorry there's a camera operator. Just so you're aware a lot of folks associate us with helicopters. Totally correct but for a trip like this I'd probably push you towards an airplane. It's actually going to be a little bit more cost effective for you guys. I've never flown in a helicopter. It would be super cool so maybe I could get a price for both? Yeah absolutely that's no problem. I hate to do this to you but can I have like kind of a ball park? Like are we looking at two thousand or twenty thousand just so I know what I'm dealing with? And it's round trip we would need to come back. So we'd probably have to pay for an hour of sitting on the airfield I guess is how that works right? Yeah yeah I'll see which operator we go with. Yeah so it looks like it would be about six grand away. Okay got it. Thank you. That seems reasonable. That seems like if we don't have another choice we're gonna have to go for it so. All right well we'll see if we can bring the cost down as much as possible and when you reconnect with us we should have a few options for you okay? Okay thanks man. You're welcome. Okay okay bye. Well I think we need to explore other options so Virgin has a non-stop from 6 30 to 8 o'clock from LAX to SFO so tonight is our late pickup night that flight is only 292 dollars so if we were to get a hotel there or you know what we could do here's a crazy thought what if we flew there and drove back? I was actually kind of thinking if you stay if we like check in the car here say we need to pick it up again and just get it from the same guys and then drive back so we fly out at like five tonight or something and then just drive back. And it would be quite late when we'd get back. It's better for the server though. Dude we're gonna end up here all day again like we got to get out and get moving we need some other okay here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna call the guy with the CPUs the guy who works at the like film studio maybe they have the rest of the workstation and I have other good news the guys that I called and talked to who were willing to do the cash deal on the CPUs yeah but their pricing wasn't any better those guys are local local in Inglewood okay so they haven't replied to my email saying all the stuff I needed though but they're local and they said we could go there okay now I feel terrible because I was like the guy that I've strung along for so long was his name Justin I'm like emailing him being like yeah what time can we come today the earlier the better now I look like a total a**hole it's like oh we didn't realize that you're in a completely different city because we're idiots just don't say that I feel like we want we would like to present it to him like later tonight if we flew there at night we wouldn't even be able to go into their shop they'd be closed yeah there's earlier flights though oh that was the earliest one I saw are you sure the earlier ones aren't like 17 hours with like multiple stops yeah they'll be closed for sure unless we were able to get on one 15 minutes ago right because I think it's like like morning and then like evening studio guys not picking up I'm gonna call je components here I can't believe I overlooked that I spent all this time like basically we built the entire strategy around getting that bare bones from those guys this is like not good je components might be an okay alternative though hi I called into you guys yesterday about um we're putting together actually it's like a gaming computer but we think we can use some server hardware for it okay um I did send you an email but our situation has changed a little bit um we found a really cheap source for the cpus but we still need uh ram motherboard chassis and power supply and cooling as well as a cheap ssd are we are we able to come in like did you guys have just kind of random dual socket motherboards and some we're actually looking for a tower chassis not a rack mount chassis if possible sure thank you so much we're kind of desperate shoot honestly I haven't found anything like as big and professional looking as these guys though I will oh 12 30 and oh that's in an hour and a half that's not bad that's from Ontario to sfo2 that's a good flight yeah we'd have to know from Justin like how much is it 235 235 bucks yep okay and then we'd be back by 6 30 it's an hour and a half hey Justin it's uh it's ash calling from our emails yesterday if we were able to get there before five would we be able to get it today is it possible I think we could go ahead and get uh make that happen get uh make that happen um email me your shipping address and I'll take care of it okay great thank you right there okay bye so are we catching the plane hold on we might have a slight problem shipping address I didn't account for tax for the ssd in our budget we're two dollars over I should have let you negotiate on the hard drive look you were right and I was wrong do you feel good about it no should we just show up and be two dollars short I don't think they're gonna let us get away with that no these guys are like kind of legit Michael might we're pushing our meeting out with him another day like we're kind of screwing Michael so we're screwing Michael and omid and we expect one of them to give us a two dollar discount well let's get the let's get moving one way or another like we don't have a choice there's no other flight not really what time do we have to be at the airport uh 12 20 12 20 at the airport yeah so we have 45 minutes can we get to Michael first oh my god and passports here I'm grabbing your iFixit kit let's go where's Michael yeah we'll figure it out no I have mine I have mine let's just get the out of here will these cases help Paul and Kyle tower above the competition will Luke and Linus make their flight or are they destined to be grounded find out next time on scrapyard war