Scrapyard Wars: Building a Gaming Setup on a Budget

In Scrapyard Wars, Luke competes to build a computer setup on an $800 budget, facing challenges and making deals for components.

### Scrapyard Wars: The Ultimate Budget PC Building Competition
* 💻  Luke and Linus compete to build the best gaming setup with an **$800 budget**, including a **$100 sponsor credit**.
* 🛠️  They visit various sellers to buy components, including a **3080 GPU** and a **Ryzen 7700 system**, while also **selling unnecessary parts to stay within budget**.
* 🧰  Linus disguises himself with makeup and a hat to avoid being recognized at a computer shop, where they hope to **buy additional components**.
* 📱  Sammy manages online listings and negotiations, including a potential buyer named "**Name**" for multiple components.
* 🕵️‍♂️  Linus and Lindsay (disguised as his sister) enter the computer shop to potentially buy more parts, with Linus wearing a **hidden microphone**.
* ⏳  Time pressure increases as they need to complete the setup before the **final challenge at the end of the week**.
* 💸  They consider various deals and potential component swaps to **optimize performance** and **stay within budget**.
* 🏆  The competition intensifies as they race against the clock to complete their setups and face the **ultimate Gauntlet** to determine the **winner of Scrapyard Wars**.

welcome to Scrapyard Wars where Luke and I compete to build the best computer on a fixed budget. We get to play with an enormous $800, including a hundred bucks to spend on whatever we want from our sponsor Jawa. You're not building just a computer, you're doing a full gaming setup. Oh, so like monitor, keyboard, mouse, yes, desk, chair, desk. At the end of the week, our setups will be put through the ultimate Gauntlet to find out who wins Scrapyard Wars. [Music] First deal, am I going to get away with this? The voice, you have to change the voice. Sorry. Hello, um, so we're, yeah, we're here to pick up the PC. Yeah, you can come in. Oh, thank you very much. Um, yeah, it's upstairs. It's there. Just like photos. I'll log in. You guys can take a look around, make sure it works. Okay, thank you. Great. I'm going to have to take most of those drives out. Okay, yeah, no problem. Should be good to go. Thank you very much. We can just wait.

outside if that works for you. I'll just wait here. Hello. Hi. No problem, take your time. You seem pretty good with those machines. Uh, yeah. I've had a bit of practice here and there. How do you find this? That's a cool screwdriver. Yeah, it is pretty nice. I actually used it today to change an oil filter on my car. Prettyyy. Oh, where did you get it? Uh, from a guy called LS. Hi, Mango. Your name is Mango, right? Sorry. He's a door-to-door salesman or no, just online. YouTube, actually. Kind of looks like you. Yeah, I one. Do you have the cash? Thank you. So, 1, 2, 3, 400. Thank you very much. One question for you. When did you figure out who we were? Um, I saw your car in the background, unfortunately. And it's a very distinct R, but the deal was not affected by real. Okay. Didn't really know until you guys kind out here and on the car outside. Okay, tell me, would you be able to tell? I think the eyes are kind of a dead giveaway. That's my makeup artist, right.

there we we hired a a professional from the industry to come in and uh that's the shtick this season. it's a nice screwdriver you got there. yeah, it's been pretty good. I haven't lost anything, thankfully. that's okay. there's bits available from from where from LTT LTT store.com. that's right. you better believe it. yeah, you know what's funny? we were like we saw the screwdriver. he brought it out in the Box. I was like M. yeah, how's the screwdriver? that looks cool. and then he was like, yeah, it kind of looks like you. I was like we got busted. you know what? as long as it doesn't affect the deal, then it's legal. yo, that's pretty good. do you want to know the best part? they were literally across the street from the labs building. what? I literally got in the truck and just went boom. and they were like, oh, you're from lonus, right? I'm like, yep. it's free though, cuz we already agreed to free.

Beforehand, the deal was already made. The deal was made. I don't want us to be cheating, but yeah, there's a little bit of sus stuff. There's soundproofing on the underneath of it, and there's a bunch of like white splatters. We can clean it, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No black lights. One of the guys agreed to $500 for 3080. That leaves us with $194. There's a decent amount of systems available at around that price. Usually i5s, i7s around like 7th eth gen. Power supply is going to be our issue. Some of these brands I've never heard of, so that does sketch me a little bit. You know what's not sketchy though? Buying from Jawa. Jawa is an online marketplace for buying and selling new and used computers and parts, and Jawa vets their verified sellers to make sure they're providing the community with top deals and service. And best of all, you're protected every time you make a purchase through the Jawa money-back guarantee.

check them out using the link in the description and enter their scrapyard Wars giveaway. More on that later. Bye. If they're like 7 years old, throwing a 3080 on it might be a little o because of the big spikes, right? It does, but if we have three of them, it's redundancy. Each pie power connector is a different power supply. Would that be three power supplies and then one for the motherboard, one for the drive, so we end up buying like five power supplies. We go get a power bar, and it's just part of the build. You have to have this power. He's going to look at the computer at the end. He's be like, Why are there five power cables coming off of this? Uh, I just don't. I don't know if it works. Everyone is saying don't do it in forums, but nobody's saying you can't do. The one we're getting recommends a 750 watt. Yeah, but for a system with one in it, like how much power draw is just a

3080 taking uh 320 watt according to Zotac site so we could get away with like a 400 watt. You can't no way why no no I'm just saying just a 400 just for the GPU. Yeah yeah yeah yeah this we we are fairly committed to multiple power supp. We also need to be ready to kill our babies and move on from this idea Tom am I allowed to drink. It's hard though um just move the out of the way you got it all right should we have a look at what we scored okay yeah cuz I never got a close look at it cuz I was pretending to not know what's going on confused. Okay we're just going to pull over right here so we have a full system basically without storage right six core processor 16 gigs Ram this GPU is going to go cuz we bought that one on job already so what that means is Sammy we need to start creating listings for any of this stuff that we are not going to keep okay like now cuz we got to sell.

this stuff. I didn't tell you this but I'm $80 over budget right now. Okay, the good news is the total stuff that we're buying for $780, right, is about $1,150 worth of stuff. Okay, however, we're probably going to have to sell it soon, so we have to undercut ourselves, and so we have to sell it for less than 1,00 bucks. [Applause] Yeah, how do you want to do division of labor here? Uh, you take it out, and I can make the listing look pretty. Okay, you might have to dilate that a little. So, do you want to grab pictures then? Y, uh, the ram we're keeping. I don't think we can afford this cooler. The other system has a stock cooler, so we're going to use that instead. Do, do you, do you, so shme, do you, you, you got this, she's got this. I just want to get these listings up as soon as possible because coming in under budget at all is reliant on us selling at least some of it. Oh God this

is definitely dirtier than I initially realized. No judgment though, no judgment. Okay, are you ready to take the next picture? Yeah, okay. Do you want to grab this? Oh my God, a snake! Kidding, kidding. Okay, so this GPU is going to go. Let's get the back panel off here. You've man hands, can you hold this? Yeah, should. Oh, you know what we should do though? We should clean the goop off the bottom, make it shinier. Oh no, don't touch that, it'll get all over your hands forever. Should we post it right away or can we wait until I clean it up and make it look nicer? No, no, we're going to clean it up right now, we got this. Don't even trip. Okay, hi, sorry. Yep, technically legal what we're doing, a little weird but legal weird, yes. There's also dust on the outside, I'm working on it. Any luck, is it working? No, you're breathing it all in. Next time you drink water, it'll taste like dirt. So let's put that on the dirty side, okay? She couldn't

of cleans up pretty decent here yep. Oh, I guess I'll probably write the posts. Or you know what, I can help you. Wait, do you get carick? No, nice. So I can dictate when we're in the car and you can post. Okay, we got this. Hey, wao wao w, we ended up with a hard drive that I wasn't expecting. Oh, uh, I told them we'd give it back to him if we found any storage. Oh, for crying out loud, it's the biggest one. Bloody hell, Daniel, that was his name, right? Yep. This power supply we're keeping, so there's no point extracting all of this yet, but the case is going to go. I think I have enough photos. I think this, like, on the Porsche logo. Yeah, but then if we try to get a better price, they'll be like, you don't need that money. Yeah, that, and if Luke sees it, he'll know it's us. Yeah, we can bait Luke and then ghost him. That's the best. It's not actually about saving money first.

I'm going to clean this CPU. This CPU is going to go. We've got another one that's almost exactly the same. It actually boosts a little lower, but it's a weird 4500 that most people don't seem to have heard of, so they're going for a lot less. So I'd rather take the small performance hit and get the most money back possible. This CPU is one of the most liquid things we have. It should be really easy to move. Okay, do you feel ridiculous yet? Yes, good. That means you're doing it right. Hold on, we might want to do this, but this would be the sketchiest possible. They have LT Edition knock to a fans. It would be very hard for them to not recognize us. Duke and what was it, Young Mic or whatever. What is it? What is it? AMD Ryzen 54500. Oh, it's only a 430 W power supply. Do you think if we say, Hey, no hard drive, no Quadro, no power supply, maybe in a case, no case, I mean you could go for it. Just be

like 125 bucks posted 18 days ago. That's a long time ago. Why isn't it selling? That's one stick of memory. Maybe that's why people aren't buying it. But like maybe the guy's willing to take the RAM out too. Like, Hey brother, we really just need the motherboard and CPU. Everything else can go away. Honestly, we don't need the GPU. Hello, we're back. You forgot your hard drive. Yeah, I was looking for it in there and I couldn't find it. It was in the hard drive sled. You don't happen to have the mounting hardware for that CPU Cooler for like other sockets? Oh, I do. And since I'm at it, the motherboard box as well. Do you have the motherboard accessories? I have both of those. All right, success. Awesome. See you later. Have a good one, man. That worked out great. Oh, look at that. We've got thermal compound and everything. We appear to have the full complement of mounting hardware for our cooler. Let's take a photo of our combo. Okay. Oh my good. Okay, we still got to get.

the case. Just going to do a quick wipe down. Don't worry, we got this. It'll be worth it when we see Luke's crying face at the end. He'll cry real tears. Interesting take on a friendship. Look, if you can't delight in the tears of your friends, then you know really what is there in life. A lot of other things like food, but imagine if you could season your food with Luke's tears. This is the best place to do this. There is no better method. Also, the fact that lonus had his LTT keychain out. Oh yeah, that did not help. Do we have everything we need? Oh, son of a gun, Daniel. I feel bad, but I really need the modular cables from this power supply. Hello, we're sorry. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Sorry to be a pain in the butt. I promise not to knock on your door again. I'll ring the bell. Okay, it's older, but it has more cores and more threads. It's a Ryzen 7700, so it's first.

gen ryzen that's pretty good, but it comes with the motherboard. 16 gigs of RAM, that's pry. 750 W power supply, that's amazing. No GPU nor storage, that's fine. 170, that's amazing. It's a 3.7 GHz turbo at 8 cores, 16 threads. Do you think they're going to have eight cores? They'll probably beat us on CPU. I don't feel like they're going to. They might. I don't feel if they're going to get a 3080. This was listen 4 days ago, and he says he's unable to test it, unfortunately. But like 170, and that gives us the rest of the system 'cause it's 16 gigs of RGB Ram, bro, it's good. I don't think it's necessarily the best thing we could possibly find. This other system that I found where we'd have to like hopefully get them to take some things out of it like the quadro and stuff, which is way less likely, yeah, would be better, but it's less likely, this one.

sounds pretty realistic. Like, even if he didn't take a deal with us, yeah, it works 'cause it's the whole still in our budget too. So, we should start moving on that. This guy's in Kitum. Do you want me to lowball him, or do you want me to say, Hey, before I lowball, I always open with, 'Is this available? I can pick it up either tomorrow. Basically, be like, I'm committed. I can come to you and get it. I'm not one of those people asking for delivery, and I have cash I can give you now. Our success hinges on selling some of the components that we bought 'cause we've got a lot of duplicates in our first two deals. So, Sammy is working on getting all of our posts up on Facebook Marketplace right now. We're going to land back at the office, and she's going to have about half an hour more overlapping with me where we can kind of plan out the rest of her night, and then she gets another 3 hours, so she's going

to go pick up our next deal pretty much right away when we get back. And then, dude, I have no idea beyond that, Sammy. We're going to have to figure that out, yeah. Oh, you can monitor if people want to buy our stuff. The guy on the 13080 wants to pick it up after 6:00 p.m. tomorrow, which doesn't work. We were supposed to deliver the systems to Labs at 6:00 p.m. Can we get after 6:00 p.m. today? That is then for sure locking us in to this, and we're like we're in deep, brother. That means tomorrow is going to, yeah, but we would have some time to find another system before then, sure. Okay, can I pick it up today? Okay, uh, title Corsair carbide 275r computer case. I would go gaming case or yeah, oh yeah, PC or computer is probably there a search right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so gaming PC computer case, yep, let's go full SEO, baby, let's go. The dude wants you to pick up

the 380 at 6:15 p.m. today. Yeah, that's fine. I can do it. Are we committing to it? Are we committing to it? 3080. Oh man, I think this decision is going to make or break if we win scrap your Wars right now. Yeah, hi. I have other people offering full price. Can you do 200 an hour ago? Oh, my second deal backed off on the $20 discount. I suspect the other person offering full price is Luke. It's a really, really good deal. I'm a little surprised he found it though, but at this point I'd rather pay the extra 20 bucks knowing that I'll just have to sell a little bit more and know that he's not getting that deal. It's a really good deal. Okay, we got to focus in pretty hard on finding a system because right now we actually have no leads that have responded. This guy's selling a Ryzen 5 3600 for 65 bucks but just the CPU. So it's like we need to find.

the rest of the platform. Let's go. I found a motherboard for $120, which would put us at $185. So we need $10 for RAM and power supply. Like maybe if I talk them down, we'll get lucky. But the guy who listed the CPU listed it 4 minutes ago. Message him, try to talk him down. It's worth it. We don't have anything right now. We got to chase everything we possibly can. We got a hit on our listing. Which one? Which one on the CPU already. They're friends with 18 people, including your wife on Facebook. Wait, it's Luke Duke Maro. Yeah, it's Luke. What a piece of... Nice try, Luke. Yeah, got him. Oh, okay. I messaged the CPU guy and I said, Hey, I have cash and can pick up tomorrow. He just responded with, Nice try, Luke. Wait, but now he knows it's us. Oh, yeah. Maybe we shouldn't have said that. His name is John. Who is this guy? Wait, John Stuck. Isn't that Lius? Isn't that Lius his name? He saw it. Unlucky. We

should have wasted his time. Oh, that sucks. I thought we had a real bite. How is it? I wonder if he doesn't even have it yet and he's like pre-listing it. Hi John, buyer name, would you take 40 cash for this for the CPU? 40 bucks. I can reply with 55. What did we list it for? Uh, 65. Do you want to check what the other listings for the 3600 are on Facebook Marketplace? 'Cause I think we're already the lowest. Other people are listing it for 60. Let's offer him 50. We can do 50. Yeah, we'll don't say we. Oh, what is it? Check Facebook Messenger. Check Facebook Messenger. Which one? Which one? Which one? Check Facebook Messenger. Holy sh, dude, we're back in it, brother. Let's go. Okay, so that was the guy who had the Ryzen 7700 and a 750 W power supply and 16 gigs of RAM for 170. For 170 bucks, meaning we will have 25 bucks as wiggle room to do like dude at 1700. So good.

think it's good. It's a little old. Got another bite on the Corsair case. I thought the case was going to be hard to sell. You must have taken great photos. Sammy, yes, maybe the Duke should have chosen to be a king. Then he would have a crown. Are you going to be fielding messages all night selling this stuff? 'Cause like, I can't believe how active these posts are. It can't be real. I can reply to multiple people at the same time. Got that Zoomer energy. Love it. Do you just sell CPU, GPU, and in case, or do you have a motherboard too? Yeah, I got a motherboard. We have a motherboard too. No, we, sorry, I can more or less guarantee you they'll have a better processor. Are they going to have a better GPU? I mean, they do have a better processor, right? Now they have 3600 and they're selling it. Them selling a processor has me pretty concerned. All right, well, well, hold on. So what all is he interested in? Can we add it up? Because it occurred to

me with how we're kind of pricing things according to how it is on Facebook, and then like discounting a bit. I don't actually know for sure that we're making money. Like I haven't checked, you know. This listing is being reviewed. Did someone like report it? Did Luke report it? That would be quite the move. I'm worried they're going to make the benchmarks like super lame, like really heavy, like storage and CPU based, which like no one will ever do or use or care about. You guys in the comments can show how upset you are. You would want a 3080, right? Right, right, right. And you can have it. If you want a shot at that 3080 and Luke's entire system, you're going to want to check out Jawwa giveaway campaign for Scrapyard Wars. Every week, they'll have new prizes to give away, including Jawa gift cards, a pre-built gaming PC with a 4080 super, and some super secret prizes to be revealed later. So go get entered using the link in the description. Got to.

go yeah wait we may not have actually uh oh this may not be smart maybe that's why so many people are messaging us though maybe our pricing is a little bit uh too low a little stressed this may have just been an exercise in doing the math swapping cash back for cash okay we'll be fine though we'll be fine let's get the 1,700 that power supply alone is for our whole system let's just send it you want to pick that up tonight if possible yeah so like 6:15 is the GPU where was the GPU did the guy get back to you I don't know oh he hasn't responded after you sent that 20 minutes ago do you think he's faking selling stuff he he just read it right now I watched him so I should I just ask him if he wants me to pick it up now I say I got off work early I Pi up now okay so I need to do that yeah I got off work early I can go pick it up now I'm doing

a lot of driving. I'm driving all the way to Richmond to pick up a 3080. I'm then driving all the way to quam to pick up that uh ryzen 7 system. I need to go ask ACC counting to break this into 20s cuz I don't really want to show up and be like do you have 30 yo brother. I got Hondos. Yeah day two starting. I got the GPU yesterday and I got the full tower. The guy did recognize me which was fun. The haircut didn't work. You were still okay with 170 though. That's what you agreed on. So I'm not using my influence to get a deal. The rules Tech tips. I never thought this day would come and we bought it for literally what he listed at. Yeah cuz we suck at bargaining. We haven't tested it yet. We're going to test the GPU in the computer make sure it works. We have $25 left. We still need to get keyboard mouse mouse pad and chair. We really need to verify the TPU.

works yeah how'd it go the seller from Craigslist. They haven't responded so I tried texting them again. Hopefully they'll reply. They're not replying to me and I text. So I went and I sat in his Lobby and kept emailing him, hi I'm here, and then eventually I picked it up. We have it right here. I didn't get to plug it in 'cause we were in the lobby. Otherwise, I sat there and I hit refresh until 9:00 p.m. all night to see if we got more messages. Didn't really get many, so I'm a little worried about selling right now. We need to buy more stuff before we can even sell anything though. We don't even have storage. Oh, so we're going to pick up storage at around 11:20, and we're going to pick up a keyboard at 11. We still need a mouse and monitor and a desk and a chair. A desk desks are free. We just have to find one where the person is available. So here's our 3080.

it's quite dusty, but the guy told me he, like, just pulled it out of his computer to go do the sale, so I'm hoping that's accurate. Oh, oh crap, is it long enough? Okay, it's a snug fit, but it does fit in the computer case. That I'm not worried about. We can always make things fit. The power supply that it comes with, I opened it up. It's 750 bronze from Thermaltake. We're pushing the limits here on, like, if this GPU is going to be fine. Didn't even realize we bought such new hardware. Still has the plastic peel on. Look at that, brand new case, basically. Andy would be disappointed I peeled it, but you know what, that's fine. All right, let's power it on. Oh, okay, switch was off. Let's power it on. It kicked off a lot of [Music] dust. Do you hear that? I do. That fan does not sound healthy. I think it's this front one. Hey, there you go. There it is, Ryzen 7700, 8-core processor, got our 16

gigs of RAM, so our memory 2133. Not the fastest, definitely not. That's pretty slow, but you know what, we have 38. I found us a desk. It's a solid wood desk. Oh, that guy lies. That's not solid wood. I saw that one. Those are MDF desks. You know what, at this point, I uh think we might just have to go with it though. Can you throw in a chair? Yes, but they are old. That is okay. I mean we might as well. If we don't want it, we can find another one. So I need to go get that keyboard, like now. Uh, I should be done very shortly. It's 40 minutes away. That's gone up since I looked it up. I can message them. Okay, I don't think we'll make it in time for the SSD, Linus. I may lose this one, but damn it, I'm going look good doing it. He said 1110 is the latest he can do. Got to leave. Okay, we got to go then. I'm coming. Okay, now. Oh God, we need

to get these products listed can I take apart a computer in the back seat I guess we're doing that hey look at that this Nas build has one of those old LTT Edition n ff12 fans oh hello good good how are you good um I talked with my boss are you available tomorrow by CH o unfortunately no it would have to be today that's the tech shop that we called yesterday calling back I worry that this place is going to know my voice though cuz I've definitely called you me do it what was your name L uh Duke I think it should be fine okay awesome thanks sorry for sorry for being difficult here don't be sorry 11:30 this morning okay great okay so we might have some pretty major curveballs cuz that's the shop and they could potentially have keyboard mouse yes for us which would save us the 10 bucks some audio thing probably not but they would also probably have ddr4 Ram so if we really want to we could look at the speed and

go to 32 gigs or we could find faster memory might also be a possibility for a platform swap. Yeah, this could, like, this could really change, dramatically change things. According to this board, it says it has an NVMe slot. I don't see it though, so I don't know if it's on the back or under the GPU. So, I'm going to pull this back out and take a quick look. Oh, yeah, there it is. Okay, cool. I also am going to take out the RAM. I want to see what speed we have on this just so when we go look there, maybe they have faster or if they have similar, we could potentially go from 16 to 32 or something. A lot up in the air right now. So, I took the RAM out. It actually does support up to 3200, so we could just enable XMP and hopefully get that full performance, much better than 2133 or whoever it was. How are the listings going? I might have a buyer for a bunch of stuff. This name guy might want RAM.

CPU case, Mobo, and GPU. He's making me kind of a low offer, but um, we are over budget right now and we need some money. We just need the SSD, we need a monitor, monitor, that's the thing. Literally doing the makeup on the way there. This is quite funny. I love this, right, a little bit of balancing, all right, banking right, nice, okay, nice, okay, well, we're here. All right, I misspelled outside three times, okay, well, that's never matter. How do I look? Great, never better. Hi, for the keyboard, um, I don't have cash on me. Can I e-transfer you at all? Okay, so it was $10, right? And can I take a look at the keyboard? Thank you. Do you want to try it out? Do you think you'll like this one? They have the WD gamer. Okay, thank you, it's good. Okay, thank you. Uh, let me know if you get it or it should be sent. Sounds good, yeah, thank you very much. Have a good day. Okay, thank you. I don't know, he glanced at me a couple

times, but I'm not sure if he suspected anything. I need the address for the second place. Oh yeah, for sure. Um, sorry. Yeah, for sure. And can you let them know that we're on our way? We'll be there around 11:25. Hi, this is Duke. I'm on the road now. The current ETA is 11:40. Does that still work? Uh, yeah, sure. I'll let them know you'll be there. Your name, Luke or Duke? Duke. Duke. Duke. Okay, comes up as Luke, so I was like, did I get your name wrong? Oh yeah, that's a weird thing with Facebook. Um, I actually changed my name quite a few years back, but Facebook sometimes just doesn't. It sends the old one. I don't know. Okay, yeah, I'll let them know you said you're going to be there 11:40. Okay, sounds good. I never messaged them on Facebook. That's caller ID. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, no. Well, we'll see how this goes. We're good. Yeah. I'm just going to

powder man buddy here wants $250 for Ryzen 3600 with cooler, and motherboard, and the Corsair case, and 8 gigs of RAM, and the 1660 super, and the cx430 power supply. That pretty much leaves us with only like kind of worthless stuff. That's basically all we can sell. That puts us back in the green though. How much in the green by like 80-90 bucks? I'm going to do $250 with the cougar case. I'm going to say final offer so we keep the nice case from Daniel. It'd be nice to be able to move all this to one person. We don't have like a week to dick around selling to half a dozen different people. Where the hell is Dunbar Community Center? He wants us to go all the way out to Vancouver. That is in the middle of nowhere. I don't live in Dunbar. Should I offer to come all the way to Dunbar for an extra 10 bucks? 10-15-15

I'm being a fair guy. I'm a fair guy. Oh man, we are bang on time for this guy. Let's go. What is this for? Okay, hello. Hello. Hi. Nice to meet you. Yes, this is John. All right. Hi. Yes, can I get you to put in your e-transfer? No cash only. Oh. Oh, we have 100. I have a change. Oh, okay. Perfect. So John, I did test and sent you the uh, the screenshot of the test. Did you see it on the messenger? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Thank you very much. Do you want to give him the cash? Yeah, any much. Yes, yes. That's I'm kind of in a rush too. Oh, no worries. Thank you very much. Thank you. Have a great day. Okay, thank you. I'll walk slower for you. Hi, young lady. I um, I don't think I got mated either the last two. No, no. I was like a little sus 'cause he like smiled a bit too much. Yeah, I think he was. I think he was just friendly. Hey, Tom. Hey, Tom. Right there, buddy. All right. Rock on. Let's go. All

right bye-bye let me find out if this name guy if we got to deal with him. Have we confirmed a time with the desk guy? Uh, he said anytime before 5. Hell yeah, that's super flexible. Okay, that helps a lot. Where's he at? Uh, somewhere in Sui. Okay, beautiful, beautiful. Oh, you know what, we might pull this off. All right, so we're almost at the computer shop. I am getting progressively more worried that they're going to recognize me, but I will be going in with Lindsay, uh, who is my sister. Yes, okay, yeah, second Sister. We're, yeah, and we're building a computer for our other sister's son, our nephew Ryan. Yes, uh, who is seven. Here's the whole. I got to add in the hat, this is the full Ensemble, um, which is not a word I will be saying while we're inside. A biker would never say that word, no, I don't think so, yeah. PA get up, this is a get up, yeah. This name PA offered $10 fee and meet in the afternoon. I think we might

have to take it, I guess. If that's the best we got, that's the best we got. And ruthless. He's getting a great deal. The good news is his deal wasn't as good as mine, so I'm still out ahead. Let's go. One thing I will tell you about Name No is he is not getting these KN to a fans. I'm going to swap them out for the fans that are in that other system. I got five knock to a fans in here. He's getting zero of them. Oh my God, see, I was afraid of this. Our mass storage Sammy is going to be a a mobile 2 and 1/2 in hard drive. Look, look at the little thing. Hello, we are here. Um, I've got to leave you guys behind now, but we're going to we're going to go in there and try to get her done, which is something he would say. All right, so keyboard, mouse, desk pad, speakers, speakers, chair if they have a chair, uh, you could get a second power supply just in case if there's Ram.

that's like similar speed or slow like slightly slower, but we can get more of it. That might also be better. Yeah, yeah, okay. And then platform swap. If I don't know, they're recycling 11th gens or something like you don't think they'll have an AMD. They never we never dealt with AMD when we built the systems unless they're recycling someone else's computer that is AMD. All right, let me try to hide the mics real quick. Yeah, make sure mics are hidden. I'm like so nervous. I don't know why. I'm not even going in there, and I'm the nervous one. I'm wearing a wire, dude. I think I'm just going to have one wire coming down, but I honestly don't think they're going to notice it. I think him going in with Lindsay is actually going to help a ton too. Okay, cool. Co, see you guys in a bit. You ready? Yeah, we'll make it work. Yeah, or we won't. It'll be funny either way. My name's still Lindsay.

right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're still going to be okay, but we have to go like now. No, it's stuck on CPU. Are you kidding me? Oh no, no, no, no, no. This is bad. Are you murdering innocent civilians? Yes, good. That's a mentality we need in Scrapyard Wars, Duke.

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Building a Budget Gaming Setup: Scrapyard Wars

Two competitors, Luke and the speaker, are given $800 to build a gaming setup, including a PC and accessories, with a sponsorship from Jawa.

They encounter some suspicions and challenges while trying to make the best out of their budget, including considering multiple power supplies for the PC.

Jawa is highlighted as a reliable marketplace for buying and selling new and used computers and parts, offering a money-back guarantee.

Two individuals are discussing the need to sell various computer parts to stay within budget.

They plan to create listings for the items they are not keeping and are considering undercutting themselves to ensure a quick sale.

The pair also discusses the strategy for dividing the labor of cleaning and posting the items for sale.

Negotiating the Purchase of Computer Components

A buyer is looking to purchase specific computer parts, willing to negotiate and travel for the right deal.

The buyer is strategizing on selling duplicate components to make new purchases.

They are also facing scheduling conflicts and time constraints for picking up and delivering the systems.

A person is trying to secure a good deal on computer parts, facing competition from someone named Luke.

They are actively messaging and negotiating with multiple sellers to complete the PC build.

Despite setbacks and encountering a deceptive seller, they ultimately find success in making the purchases within their budget.

The speaker is uncertain about the profitability of their pricing strategy for tech equipment.

They are also experiencing challenges in selling and purchasing items, while feeling the pressure to acquire more equipment for their setup.

The process involves obtaining various components, such as a GPU, storage, keyboard, mouse, monitor, desk, and chair, with some items still needed.

A tight fit in the computer case, using a 750 bronze power supply from Thermaltake, and pushing the limits with the new GPU.

The Ryzen 7700 8-core processor and 16GB of slow RAM were successfully installed.

The possibility of major changes with the tech shop's offerings, including the potential for a platform swap and upgrading to 32GB of faster RAM.

The computer also has an NVMe slot, allowing for potential performance improvements.

Negotiating Computer Parts and Making Sales

A person is trying to sell computer parts to stay within budget, considering offers and trying to make a profit.

They are also in a rush to buy an SSD and a monitor while multitasking with makeup.

The individual is using e-transfers and cash to make purchases and is on the way to meet a seller for a Ryzen 3600, GPU, and other components, while considering the location and the selling price.

Planning a Covert Computer Mission with "Name"

A man is planning a covert mission to a computer shop with his sister to build a computer for his nephew.

They are trying to negotiate a deal with "Name" for parts and are nervous about being recognized.

The mission hits a snag when they encounter a problem with the CPU.