Scrapyard Wars: Building PCs on a Budget Challenge

Luke and his teammate must optimize their computer setup for Scrapyard Wars, despite time constraints and unexpected challenges.

### Scrapyard Wars: The Race to Build the Best Computer on a Budget
* 💻  Welcome to Scrapyard Wars, where competitors Luke and the narrator aim to **build the best computer** with an **$800 budget**, including **$100 from their sponsor, Jawa**.
* ⏳  On day four, the systems are completed and tested, but there’s a focus on **final tweaks and setup**, despite facing a **time penalty due to tardiness**.
* 🎲  The teams are subjected to a punishment of **playing board games for an hour**, stemming from one team member's **failure to follow instructions**, which adds a layer of **tension to the competition**.
* 🛒  Jawa is highlighted as a **valuable resource for finding great deals on computer parts**, with a giveaway of the **built computers and special edition screwdrivers**.
* 🎨  As the competition intensifies, the teams discuss their setups, including aesthetics and functionality, and the **importance of cable management and audio quality** in their final scores.
* 📊  The judging rubric is revealed, emphasizing categories like **aesthetics, sound, creativity, and overall effectiveness**, which will determine the winner.
* 🔧  The teams scramble to find last-minute peripherals, such as a **microphone and mouse pad**, while managing their **remaining budget effectively**.
* ⏰  With just moments to spare, the teams rush to finalize their setups, leading to a **frantic conclusion** as the judges prepare to **evaluate their work**.

### Scrapyard Wars: A Battle of Creative PC Setups
* 🔧  The participants expressed satisfaction with their setups, noting that it **exceeded their expectations** despite some challenges, including **time management during the setup process**.
* 💻  The final stretch featured three experts evaluating the systems, with each providing unique perspectives on the **aesthetics, sound, and overall effectiveness** of the setups.
* 🎨  One setup showcased a **comfortable and clean design** with personal touches, while the other was described as having a **more cluttered and sketchy appearance**, earning **lower aesthetic scores**.
* 🎶  The sound quality of both systems was assessed, with one system having **larger speakers and an amplifier**, while the other had headphones that were deemed **"crusty" and less appealing**.
* 📊  The judges scored the setups based on creativity, with one being praised for its **problem-solving approach** while the other was recognized for its **inviting atmosphere**, leading to mixed scores across categories.
* 🏆  Ultimately, the competition concluded with Team Ry winning Scrapyard Wars 2024, thanks to their **superior performance in sound and thermal management**, despite a close overall score.
* 🎉  The episode ended with a shoutout to the sponsor, Jawa, and an invitation for viewers to **comment on their preferred setup**, highlighting the **community engagement aspect** of the event.

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. At the end of the week, our setups will be put through the ultimate Gauntlet to find out who wins Scrapyard Wars. [Music] It's day four. The systems are done. They're tested, although there is still time for us to tweak them for better performance. Yes, there's still time to tweak them, but the big focus today is going to be on the setup, which is going to be a big advantage for us, except for one small problem. We're going to have a little less time today. Yes, that's right. They were so late yesterday. We're going to delay them by the equivalent amount of time. You can penalize us however you see fit for the next hour. These two are going to have to play board games. Oh no, like board games. The real punishment is because Lonus didn't read my

instructions yesterday. I'm going to steal all the instructions from every game. What do you mean read the instructions please no yeah no I'm not going to take that. You pulled in the parking lot at 7:00. We were told to be done at 5:00. You were 2 hours late. What a joke. This whole thing's a sham. I don't like it when dad's argue. You know what realistically we don't even need the time. We got this. Does that mean we get to go. You're good to go. You're free. Yeah no punishment. Okay we're going to go. You got got the monitor. You got to start clocking the 1700. Let's get going going. Might want to use another chair just to keep this one in good condition cuz the wheels broken. So Coen names the only Clues you're allowed to give is one word at a time. For example like model you could be like train sure this is going to be too easy. Have you seen how well we communicate. I have not it.

communicate so well at being late. Wa, this is the monitor we got. Dang, thanks Jawa, you got that right. Me from the past, huge thank you to Jawa for sponsoring Scrap Dread Wars. Jawa is the online marketplace where both teams found great deals on new and used computers and parts, like the monitor or Linus' GPU. And Jawa vets each one of their verified sellers to make sure they are providing the community with top deals and service. Check them out using the link in the description and enter their Scrapyard Wars giveaway. They're going to be giving away the computers we built and signed Jawa special edition screwdrivers. Oh, I want one. Is that a high-end mechanical key? I'm just trying to taunt them with our mechanical keyboard now. Sport three, sport three. One of them has to be Cricket, yep. One of them has to be Dance, yep. And one of them's got to be Stadium, yes. Let's go. I noticed your cable management isn't particularly nice, so I have a gift for

you, which is the magnetic Cable Management Arts. Oh, nice LTT store.com. This is actually a nice kit. There's another layer too. There's stuff. Bel it w. Observe for two. Well, watch. Yes, and spy. Yes, yes, yes. Let's go. I had a little bit of a revelation. I was trying to type in Steam, and it wasn't the smoothest experience. So, I've opened a keyboard tester. It's registering like 30% of the keys. I am not happy right now. One of the judges is Ayoob, so that's definitely going to come back and bite them. I just tried our first overclock, and it crashed when rendering. I'm going to try adjusting the voltage on it and see if that'll help. This is my first time overclocking. I've never overclocked before. I'm glad this is news for both of us. So, are we done our punishment now? Y, you're free to go. I've had far worse punishments. Should have had far worse punishments. Got them. Deal with it, Luke. Oh, I will. Everything can be ready for

the judges at 2: p.m. 2: p.m. I thought we had a full day today they'll show up at 4:00 then no problem when are we going to judge and Benchmark and stuff are we stay until like midnight no this is the last day line is Oh what you go so we need to get the mouse pad and leave a tuny under the guy's mat yes let's figure out where we want our desk this is an option okay I think we can just leave it like this that's also an option I like this really with the lamp and the wood how much of like the space are we allowed to use to help with our aesthetic here you can't take items from the sets and use them on your desk but if you want to put stuff elsewhere around that's fine wait but they have the cute corner that's not fair oh we didn't even think about using that thanks lonus yeah The C Corner is off limit okay if we can't use the c corner

We should just try to use that corner. I just don't think we should be able to use anything, to be honest. It should be like this, the desk right here. What kind of food is on this side panel? But I'm going to remove all of it. I'm going to double-check our budget. Don't we have to figure out an adapter, Sammy? Didn't you say this one had a display port? We might have to get a display port to DVI adapter if we want to run it 120 HZ, so we'll have to see how it goes. Um, I'm going to plug it in and find out for sure. We have $30 remaining. I'm thinking we hit up a mini so, 'cause it's actually kind of close. This one's a Guilford also. I think if we just got a Guilford straight up, yeah, there's a bunch of dollar stores there, stuff. Okay, how we doing? We're holding at this now 3.65. I mean, it's a lot better than it was. It's better than three, and it hasn't

crashed yet, kind of expecting more, but it's a good idea to find a stable, good place. You will also get a care package of magnetic management arches from LTT store.com. Very nice. So, we can use that to make sure everything looks really clean aesthetically. Do you want it facing forward? Facing forward, probably. All right, cool. Tilt this a little bit so that you can see absolutely 'cause we've got this expansive desk. See, these guys are all sign language whispery. We've Got Confidence, that's why we talk out loud about how freaking awesome our setup is. We're just bored 'cause we're already done. Uh-huh, sure. I have a question for both teams. Did you read the judging rubric? Nope, nope. By the time you sent it to us, we already had everything procured, so it's not like we could... Well, let me help both teams out by telling you how you will be judged by the judges. So, there's going to be four categories. There is Aesthetics worth 25.

points there is sound worth 10 points, and that's partly the PC noise, but also how good the audio will be. There is strategem or creativity, as I like to call, worth 25 points. So, judging how creative is the setup, how neat are the solutions, and then effectiveness for 40 points. So, how much would you like to use a setup, and that's combined into a sweeping score, and that's scoring metric I like to call the asses score. The asses score, yeah, aesthetic sound strategy effectiveness, and then a sweeping score. I might have these for free. I have a bunch of people I'm talking to right now. This is the one that I think it's these were LG speakers. I assumed it would work on a computer. I saw a picture on the back. That's speaker wire. I think the person messaged me by the looks of your profile. You seem like a funny guy, and I appreciate your joke offer, but honestly, these are kind of muffled and junky speakers, not anything close to what I thought when I got them. If you

want them. You can have it for free, but then no refunds. They're not taking my $2.7 very seriously. Okay, so we are going to go pick up some speakers, but as we've been driving, my phone's been popping off with messages. So we might be able to pick up a keyboard while we're out as well. Well, there's a few free keyboards around. We might have an option. Do you want to grab the peripherals? You know what? For a $10 keyboard, it's not the worst. Oh yeah, just needs a little bit of cleanup, and then it's good to go. Honestly, it's not even that bad. It's not that bad. There are no weird gross fingernails in there. Yeah, maybe we focus on other priorities. All right, so we're just going to Guilford now. Um, I guess this is kind. We're going to set things up right. Do you want to plug everything in and make sure it works first? It wouldn't be a bad idea. Yes. Yeah, so here we go, just confirming Labs didn't break.

our computer real quick here. Let me, oh yeah, good call. We could still replace this if we need to. Okay, the whole keyboard works and mouse too. This is actually the first time we fired up the mouse. It probably won't track well on that, so no, it's actually doing okay. Okay, great. I did a bit of a goof. I thought those speakers looked like computer speakers. Those are home theater speakers. They have speaker wire connections, but that guy was awesome. Gave me just a bunch of extra stuff for free. One of those things is this. He said it's just like some piece of junk he got off AliExpress. Said it barely works and massively overheats, but I will let you know there's left and right audio inputs. So with a Y adapter, we can run these speakers. Oh my God, we're on our way to a dollar store SL cool kitchy stuff store to pick up some things to beautify our setup a little bit. We've got a $30 budget basically to get a mouse pad and beautification question for you, Sammy.

yes, seeing how much of the score is audio, right? Do we need a mic? We can try to find something at mini so, and then our worst-case scenario, if we can't get a mouse pad for a decent price, is we just drive to that place and leave it to any the under the guy's mat. Yep, hopefully, he still has it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, oh my God, this is not that cheap though, dude, but this is the branded stuff. This is officially licensed, so it's more expensive. I see Care Bear's battery bank, man. That 30 bucks is not going to go very far, dude. Maybe there's a dollar store here. There is a dollar store here. We'll see what budget we have, but I think Dollar Store candies can be pretty good. You're not wrong, you're not wrong. One thing I was a little concerned about was that strip. Yeah, it's like, okay, yep, we're talking about the same, some kind of like sticker. What do you think of just like whatever this is, like a piece of ribbon or

something across the front there, but then this is a little wide. Okay, you want to just go with the silver or the... We go with the silver. That's a cute little basket, yeah, for $150. Not bad. This fit like I almost... Oh, $1.75. Oh, that matches our chair too. Yeah, okay, go with this. That's the one. Is that our candy dish or is that something else? That's our candy dish. Oh yeah, I was going to look up USB microphone. It's $10 for a Blue Snowball ice, but we have... We have an hour and it's AUM. That's close to here. Okay, here's a black Blue Snowball for 20 bucks. I mean, how badly do you think we need a mic? It was like a quarter of the score for audio. You're right, yeah, and like we can... No, no, because we can still get this and some candy and some candy and a microphone. Maybe hard for a dollar. Wait, did you just say hard mints? Yeah, okay, Boomer. Maybe we do like these. I'm like, hey, your

previous candy was for Boomer. She goes, Here, let me improve that with Werther's Originals. Literally, my grandfather. Ranch, my grandfather is the only person I've ever seen eat a Werther's original. Jolly Ranchers are a good bet. Oh, wo wo wo, $10 Blue Ice. Uh, just responded to me up right now. What is your ETA? Can holy crap tops 10 bucks anytime is fine, just let me know before you come, okay? We sent the money, money sent. I sent you my money, please respond. Did you ask him if it's fully functional? I mean, I didn't really read the listing, like new. Okay, great, please hold. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. Hey, where was the address for the mouse pad? Oh, she left. I'm on my own now. Well, uh, it was nice having a teammate while it lasted. Super lucky, I guess she just wanted to get rid of them, but we got a keyboard and headphones. I don't know if any of it works, there was no opportunity to try it, so got some macros and guess what we

still have left $2.7. Did you just like Rob someone? The person with all the speakers, that's the person who messaged me and was like, I looked at your profile, you seem like a funny guy. Ended up giving me all of this stuff. This stuff, bit of a problem. He also gave me this thing. I don't know if we can use this. Forget about that, but he gave me this. Oh bum, it's got an ax. We can plug it into the computer with this. He solved the problem without me even bringing up that it was a problem. We could mount it in like a CO nicely, like under the desk here, something. Yeah, the keyboard. What's this story? Some lady was just trying to get rid of stuff. These were a thing when I was a teenager. I don't know if it's going to work. What are you doing? What's your story? What's going on? Okay, so I have some before and after pictures. This was just with a CPU overclock on Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p with everything on Ultra.

including R Trace Shadows did a little bit of GPU overclocking. It's not much, but anything higher I went, we started thermal throttling, which then means we were getting lower. Let's not bother with that 4 FPS when you're out of less than 100. Yeah, it's like 5%. Let's make sure I don't have to keep running out, so let's test this really keyboard. Yeah, sure. I don't know if any of this is going to work. Literally everything that I have right now. I have headphones. I have a new key. Well, this is nasty. It's not new. Lights, lights, lights. Okay, there you go. Okay, but we need to see notepad. Oh, that's almost like my old dream keyboard. Cool. We have a functional keyboard. Headphones. It has a mic. I didn't even think about that. Play some noise. Uh, H. Uh, Play Some Noise. We got working headphones. Nice. Crank them. Crank them. [Music] Brother, that's what 0 sounds like. Let's go. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. Oh, we have 12. $1 with tax. We have 10 bucks.

essentially, so we go buy something cute. Do they have a figure for 10 bucks? Wait, we don't have any stationary to put our little sign out. Nicole goes by penu pandering. Uh, well, how much is it? $4.99. We have five more dollars, so this we're going to leave our little notes on, like guide to fully appreciating our system or whatever. Is this $22.99? Yeah, if we get this penguin. Okay, [ __ ] win. Yes, going to gamble on a blind box that might have a blue penguin in it. Okay, which one? This one has less space, this one has ears, and this one's taller, and this one's taller. We want a kind of shaky one 'cause this one's a little lower, or one that has more space on the side, so if you shake it like, well, that one has no space on the side. No, try this one. Oh, this one is good, I think. Okay, do we want this one? I think, okay, we're going for it. We'll take these items, please. You have a

membership with us. Oh no, thank you. Um, just for membership. Okay, I will be a member. Thank you. Uh, let's go get our microphone. I sent them an ETA already. The reason why we bought this is because we saw a little penguin in here that we really want. Okay, 3, 2, 1. So you can't see through the bag. You pull it open. Oh my God, we got the dock our penguin. Let's go. We're going to win. Oh my God, for $3. And all you had to do was sacrifice your personal information to Miniso. Yes, great. Thank you. Problem. All right, take care. And it works. Uh, yeah, it works. Okay, great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Oh, do we have mouse pad address? Yeah, I have. Oh, you got it? Yeah. Based on the current timing, we are going to arrive back to the office with about 5 to 10 minutes to cable manage and for Sammy to accent that front piece. And like, it's going to be tight. And if Buddy didn't leave the mouse pad out, we are not going.

to have a mouse pad which is going to cost us big time. I'm a touch worried that we've put absolutely zero tuning into our system. I think our best bet for that is to kind of spin it as a win. So like as part of our system presentation, we talk about how like the system is not just for you know Extreme Gaming or whatever. It's stable enough for anything you'd need to do, explicitly not overclocked in any way. Rock Solid stable, like that kind of thing. Okay, okay. Oh, the guy replied. Oh, so sorry, I forgot to leave it outside. Wait, we're not going to have tomorrow. Okay, oh sh, we have $5 left. I should have confirmed with him. Okay, there's got to be a Canada Computers or a Memory Express somewhere around here as well. Memory Express Langley. Are we going to make it in time? We can make it. Calling Memory Express Langley. This location is open Monday through Friday. Long story, no time to tell it. I need the cheapest mouse pad possible. What is your cheapest mouse pad that you

have in stock. I'm talking like five bucks. The cheapest we do have is five bucks. Can you do five bucks including tax? Like, can I give you a $5 bill? Um, yeah, should work out. Yeah, thank you so much. I'll be there in 5 minutes. Yes, hi, look at that. Here's $5. You want to type the phone number? Don't worry. Can I get a receipt? Do you have something for like $7? Uh, next one up goes to like 15. 15, okay, then it's going to be this. Then doesn't really have a rubber backing. Here's what we're going to do, Sammy. The first thing we do when we get back, we plug in a glue gun, okay? And we glue it down to the table so that they can't tell exactly how we glue this, and then it'll be a rubber thing. Oh, that'll work. You have a great day. Thank you so much. Take care. Not going to lie, this is barely a mouse pad. This is a piece of foam that you can put a mouse on, but

we'll take it how I'm imagining this. I could almost see either the computer on the right outside or underneath on the inside. 'Cause if it's underneath on the inside, we will need to drill another hole. If it's on the outside, we don't need to 'cause we could theoretically just have everything run up along the back. I feel like if it's on the desk, it's going to make it not very even, like to the eyes. I like the idea of the speakers and no tower. I think it's pretty cool. I'm just wondering about the amp. I think we still drill. We can run these speaker wires directly off the back nice and neatly. They can come up and in this way, and it can be mounted there, something like that. Are you going to get a drill? Yeah, right now. All right, I'm going to go try to get a wheel. Is there anything else in here? No. Hey, get out of here. Get out of here. I'm not looking. I'm not looking. It's okay. I'm com. Look away. Look

away look at your own. As we were driving up today, I spotted two chairs in the wild. I don't think I want the chairs; the chairs are a little gnarly, but the wheels. That was easier than I expected. I don't know if it's like compatible or anything. Well, there's always tape. No way. Solved that is sick. Squiggly is the way to [Music] go. Uh, I got two just in case. It occurs to me I never thought to take a close look at this cable. Said it was a little flaky. What, buddy? Let's try this other one. Might have gotten Bamboozled. Okay, well, that sure as heck isn't it. Well, that is the flakiness of the cable revealed. Come on, come on, what? You know what I think it is? This adapter doesn't support that. Do you have another adapter? Maybe. Okay, do the cable management first. Okay, I'm on it. All right, going to get everything starting to wire before we plug. Mount this wiring it while it's mounted might be difficult.

but I don't know. We don't have much time, though. We got to move real fast. Technically, I think we have 12 minutes. Oh my god, really? I am not going to get this perfect. I'm getting stuff off, but there's things here that I believe have lived here for a while. Can you give me a time check? 15? Yeah, we officially only have 10 minutes left. Okay, magnetic cable management time balls, not game banter. How are you guys doing for time? Uh, never better. I'm okay with adding some time if you want. Never better. Okay, I may have to swap out a defective cable, but that's my only concern. And it comes with stickers. I don't know, feel like off to the side is a little bit better. I don't know if it's exactly centered. Okay, but it's pretty. I'm going with it then. Okay, that is wired in, and then we can plug headphones in up here. Yeah, I think we're okay. Just keep cable matching. You've got 3 minutes, and I'm

going to keep cleaning. This isn't movie magic. This isn't reality TV show magic. We're actually just running out of time. It doesn't look very nice, but it either looks nice or it works. Does it feel okay? It's a little lumpy. Oh, it is okay. Do more glue. Where's all my adapters? Be at here if you can go that way. That's better. I can go through the front though if it needs to. Uh, that is plugged in. That's plugged in. It works. 25 seconds. Lint roller. Are you able to um make the mouse pad a little bit less horrible first? It pencils down exactly how you leave it in 15 seconds. I don't have time to fix the glue. Uh, I may not have a working computer in 15 seconds. We got just slide against the wall. Five. Can everybody get like one more minute? Three, two, one. Is the screen on this okay? Everyone pencils down. You guys need another minute, huh? They can have another minute. They don't need another minute. Nope. We don't. Yeah, it's done. Way to go.

every every bu you did it. I think we did great. Look at the setup. Yeah, I think we did pretty good. It was better than I expected. I don't know if I've ever been this sweaty at the end of a scrapyard Wars. I think we overestimated how much time we had to do the setup itself, but I'm happy with it. It looks good, but it looks [Music] good. We are here in the final stretch of scrapyard Wars, and we have our three experts: Nicholas plof, our displaying keyboard expert; Nicole Yun, our Aesthetics expert; and Riley, yeah, that's regular guy. Wait, can I be Vibes Riley murdog Vibes? Yeah, you don't know which system is which, right? No. Why don't we start over here? Oh, this is it. This is it. I thought this was something somebody left here by accident. I'm really impressed that they have a chair this time around. Not bad, not bad. Oh, okay, this is a short person-friendly. I like that. The keyboard, yikes, is that like orange dried-up goop?

yum. Is this bribery? Absolutely. How do we split that three ways? We could get maybe a small Slurpee. They got a 3080 in here. Oh wow, who did they steal this from? Okay, these headphones are also orange, crusty. What? Where is this coming from? Extra flavor, yay. There it is. That's not bad. Odd stains on the chair. I'll sit down anyway. Honestly, I'm pretty impressed by the speakers. One thing that I don't think Nicole touched on is, uh, looks like they got a DAC here, high-quality stereo audio amplifier. Okay, it's just an amp. It's not a, oh, it's just an amp. Still though, to drive these massive bookshelf speakers, I don't even know if you can call them bookshelf at this point. Headphones aren't amazing, but they're not bad, and they got a mic. You know, it's not the best monitor they've ever used, but for the price point that they got to, that's not bad. They really hear the fans around spinning up. That's why they've got the

speakers and the headphones, and I love the zooming mouse pad. They have a mouse pad, yeah, wow. That orange crusty definitely is High Fidelity up close. That's got some crust on it. Okay, well, this is very smooth, obviously. I mean, like, we got a 3080, 144 HZ screen. One thing that's irritating to me as someone whose desk is on the set where we film is a loud PC. I cannot abide a loud PC, and this one is very loud. It's all red all the time. Yes, I would have liked something a little, something a little more. They're also not showing it off at all. I just shoved it in a corner. If you're putting this forward to be judged, why are you hiding in a corner? This is a big desk. You could easily put that up here. So, I mean, minus some points for shame on their part. Overall vibes, I mean, for $800 for this complete setup, that's not bad at all. Don't give your scores yet. It's time to go look at the

other system and immediately wow this looks way better to me. It's so comfortable. You've got some personal effects. Look at that. Look at that little penguin. It's so happy to see me. They're showing off their system. It's nice and clean. There's no sign of any orange crusty anywhere. You know, there are even more personal effects. Oh, that's so cute. There's candy. See, this is a station I would be happy to sit at and use. Let's see how it feels. So right off the bat, the monitor is much less impressive, but it's cute. I don't understand what's going on with this mouse pad. There has to be some kind of crusty. There's okay, one second. That's something blue crusty. Crusty blue crusty. Ah, the elusive blue variant. Interesting. I guess that does provide grip. Mouse is very fancy, and then there's a nice blue microphone. Ooh, with a cute little bow. Very nice. Quiet knock to a fans. One LT Edition modern platform runs with runs Windows 11. Oh, I didn't

even think about that one keyboard is nicer. It's still mechanical, but it feels better. Newer feels pretty good. It's definitely, I'm guessing, 60 HZ, also 1080p. Okay, that's fine. They're on a budget. Edifier speakers, they're much smaller than the huge bookshelf towers that were over there. I don't think they're doing something. These aren't bad. I think they're pretty similar. They also mentioned zero overclocking for gaming every day, so it's going to be nice and stable, allegedly. W, the bribes are really getting you. Yeah, oh, I'm such a sucker for candy. The frame rate is a cable issue, but this monitor's capable of higher refresh rates, allegedly. So the refresh rate issue was really like, uh, we're speeding to the end of the Finish Line only to trip, kind of. Oh, I'm so torn. I hate that this is stuck at 60. I think it's the better computer, but I think ultimately a way worse monitor. We got a DP 1.4 8K thing, yo, going into dongle to

That's not their fault. That's not their fault. What do you mean it's not their fault? That's something they had to think about when they were. They should have thought about it. No free lunches here. So I had some immediate thoughts upon coming over here. The vibe is immediately more welcoming just because of the high contrast between the dark peripherals in the PCS and stuff and the lighter desk over there. We got a darker desk and dark peripherals. It just kind of looks like, I think the word is Dink. Is there no headset? There was no headset on this one. If anything, I would expect that one to not have headphones instead of this one. This one looks like you've taken the, uh, how it appears to other people into account. I don't know what, who I represent when I say that. Uh, 60 FPS is like just fine for me in most things. Ooh, ooh, ooh, this, yeah, yeah, I, I, I, I can tell that it's 60. Nice. Boomer scored. See, and I think I'm already getting used

to the 60, and this is the thing. Have you ever heard the term comparison is the thief of joy? That's what this is all about. And they scored on us. God damn it. It's not screaming. Oh yeah, that's... I can't even hear it at all. It's not making any sound. Who's this guy? What's his name? It's a friend. It's funny, you know. I wouldn't guess that something like that would work on me, but it does. I like that. It's... I like that he's there. I don't like the ribbon though. Did they do this to cover... Oh okay, you're disassembling the... Well, I didn't... I didn't know I would be disass... I mean, that's shoddy workmanship. Wait, that's the same... That's a blue glue. That's a blue crusty. The rabbit hole goes deeper. What's up guys? Hey, if you want to see the whole uncut, uncensored version of us judging these systems, head on over to Floatplane. What happens on

float plane stays there all right. See you later. Before we get to the judges' score, I want to announce what settings the benchmarks will be run at for the teams. Okay, for Red Dead Redemption, medium. Okay, for Cyberpunk, medium. No R tracing. Oh, however, yeah. I mean, if you had read the benchmark document, you would know that you get to pick a benchmark and every single setting at which it runs at. We're going to pick Shadow of the Tomb Raider. What? It's way better. I tested both. I promise you it's better. And L Sammy, have you picked your benchmark? Do you even know what the choices are? No, you can pick from the list. We'll take F123 low. Okay, the judges have conferred, and it's time for their scores in the category of aesthetics. This one over here is nice, lots of room, but it looks a little old. 17 out of 25. This setup gives me sketchy and hidden in a basement where things that shouldn't happen are happening. Oh, so I give this a 15. What kind of den is it called? Goon.

cave yeah a goon cave. I largely agree with Nicole on this one. It doesn't seem right. I'm giving it a 10. The next category is sound. This system had bigger speakers. I'm not saying they're better, but they're bigger. And it had an amp. I'm giving this one also headphones a temp. While it had both headphones and speakers, the headphones were so crusty that I didn't want to put them on. I forgot to clean those. No, no. I gave four each for having both. They both work, so a total of eight. I also appreciate that this one had speakers and headphones, but as Nicole said, they're kind of crusty. I'm giving this one an eight. Next category, stratem or also known as creativity, total creativity. I think it's not bad. I'm going to give it an 18 out of 25. I actually think that they were incredibly creative with what they've done here. They tried so hard to hide every sketchy part of the system, even with a tempered glass panel that was

pushed up against the desk. It's very creative. It's full of problem-solving. I'd give this actually a full 25. What? Let's go right there, buddy. Very good. Despite the aesthetic being concerning, the strategy here is clear. They wanted a high frame rate, and they achieved it. I think so. I'm giving it a 23. Can only get frame rates that are so high with that CPU. Uh, it's pretty good actually. Well, and the monitor is capable of it. Burn it actually is capable. We would know. The last category is the effectiveness of the system. How much would you like to use this setup? I'm very torn. I don't like most of the peripherals. I do love the monitor. I'm going to give it a 30. As much as it's creepy and kind of sketchy, kind of crusty gross, it's very usable. It performs well. I give this a 30. If I'm thinking about this as something I'm going to be coming and sitting repeatedly at, uh, it's not very inviting, but you know, it's not horrible. I'm

giving it uh 20 out of 40. I will tabulate these scores, but it is time to move on to system number two. It's much prettier and more inviting, so I'm going to give it a 25. It gets full points. I really like the whole thing, super comfy, brought me joy. The only thing was the mouse pad that kind of got me. I'd give this a 23. I'm giving it a 20. I like the contrast, the light desk, dark peripherals. It's inviting, but there's also some weird stuff going on there. Not having a pair of headphones and being stuck with desktop mic and speakers. I'm giving it more like a seven. If the other was a full 10, I'd actually give this a six because while they weren't as gross, they didn't really blow me out of the water. I like headphones a bit more than speakers, so I'm going to give this one a seven. Next category is stratagem. They tried real hard. I think overall they tried real hard. Hey, hey, I do love candy. I love

candy in terms of creativity. I genuinely like it. Without the bribe, I'd still give it a 23. I was very impressed, but the fact that both the mouse pad and the monitor were kind of jank, I'd give this a 23. I forgot what I gave this one, but I wanted to give them the same score because they went for different things, but they both kind of achieved what they were going for. 23, 23, me. And the last category is Effectiveness. I'm incredibly torn. I really prefer that monitor, but the peripherals on this one in terms of mouse and keyboard and just overall smoothness of using the computer was a lot better. So I'm going to give it a 35. Just the fact that sitting at the station, it doesn't make me not want to touch anything and to shy away. It brings me comfort and joy. This gets a 35. I definitely wanted to use this one a lot more, and despite the lower frame rate, the overpowered hardware made things smooth. So this is a 30 for me, you guys.

better hope you win some benchmarks. Yeah, we're going to... that concludes the judging. Thank you, expert judges. You may now leave. Please, please leave. Please leave. I'm going to tabulate the score, and while I do that, the contestants are going to take a look at each other's systems. Your chair is actually... this is horrendous. I think there might be more shmoo on your setup. I think they just saw the bright desk compared to darker peripherals and thought it was nicer. I think yours is actually more goon cave than ours is. Like, this armrest on this chair is gross. It messes... that's a sound. Ours doesn't move great either. Yeah, you pulled your wheel off of a dumpster chair. You know, I didn't have time to tune the [Music] sub. Yeah, I wish I had tuned that first. What is that? Is that a 3060 or 3070? 3070. That's the 3070 from Jawa. Yeah, so that was my original idea as well. This is a Ryzen 5 4500. Nice. We've got 16 gigs of

3200 Ram. We did manage to enable XMP. It worked immediately. 3600. Never mind. So, 3600 is a big advantage for CPU performance for us here. You had no time to overclock though, right? I had no time to overclock 'cause we cranked a bunch more performance out of the 1700. Yeah, but your Zen one. How many CES is this one again? Is it? But they're fast. They're much faster. And we have faster Ram. Let's see your goon cave setup. Yeah, hell yeah. Welcome to the dungeon. Oh, this front fan is barely spinning. Yes, I wonder if your GPU is just like starving. It's probably starving. This case has literally no front intake. Yes, we were trying to get more fans and stuff. It kind of ran out of time. This was a very short scrap Wars. We also, we had lots of fans. Yeah, and lots of cases. Yeah, we have headphones. Maybe if you've gotten that Cris. We have a mouse pad. Yeah, nice Mouse. It's so broke. It jumped. You're supposed to have light mice. They're

supposed to be light. It jumped out of my hands. The glor. It fell down behind. Oh, from Zu Lang wolf brand. Hey, it's actually all right if you don't smash it anyways. There's a good, there's a recess portion at the back of the desk that we thought about mounting the computer on instead of having it in a case. Oh yeah, but that was another like we don't have enough time for this situation. I can't believe this monitor. How much you get it? $75 off Jaa. Okay, that's a good deal. It was actually sick figuring out the balance was really tough. Um, what' you pay for that GPU? 500, 500 CAD. Yeah, I still like our deal better. I'm sorry. The original I had decided 3070 immediately on. Yeah, we saw that deal and we were like like we should buy the 3070, spend the rest on everything else, and then it was like but the like turbo gas gas gas option is buy a $500 380. So we just like did it for fun and now we'll see what

happens. Your XMP is not working. Uh, it should. It was not working during when the judges were there. What, Elijah? It was. I literally had it on, and I unplugged and moved it here. When Mom and Dad start fighting, that's fine. We'll just re... We'll use one of our reruns. You can set X&P now 'cause you're like allowed to overclock. Oh, are we? All right, see you later. Well, we're just going to rely on software. We're going to download Ryzen Master software, and we're going to download MSI Afterburner, and we're basically just going to turn the power knobs all the way to the end and hope for the best. So, we are 65 higher. That was the only stable I could get. And then we do have XMP. I mean, there's not much for us to do in the 10 minutes overclocking time 'cause we're already pretty dialed in. We'll do C bench first. All right, we're just hitting start on single core. Start on single core. Hey, we're done. 72 points, boys.

that's uh lower than your lab score, so we're going to go with your lab. That's lower than our lab score. That's 74. Well, okay. Hey, there we go. 60. All right. Multicore. Are we giving it a moment to like chill or we just nice try. We're running. Oh, okay. Going. What's your score? 564. 545. 545. That's close though. Yeah. I don't know if I would dance that much. We knew you going to win CPU benchmarks. Uh, GPU. This is where Things Fall Apart a little bit. All right. 3, 2, 1, go. What was your score? 12, 653. What was yours? 10, 135. Sorry, 10, 135. Well, I think we know who won that one. What do we do next? It is now the blender render. Okay. Am I missing something here? Is this going to take 46 minutes? No, it should be like 90 seconds. Okay. Yeah. Time remaining 41 minutes. Let's just skip this one and do the lap score. Yeah, sure, fine. What are the scores? Lower is better. Linus got 99.96%.

what's next? We're doing Red Dead cool. So then we just hit run Benchmark. Yeah, okay. 3, 2, 1, go. Are you guys done? We're almost done. Almost 9.96, 80.2. All right, next one is Cyberpunk on medium. Wait, so did we win this one? You did win that one, yes. So medium, no ray tracing. That sucks so much. I was specifically confident in Cyberpunk, and the fact that we're running it so low makes me not very confident, to be honest. Okay, what was your average? They're scoring 98.53, 105.32, Team Balanced. Okay, next one, F1, everything low. It's close, but we needed to win that, so I think that's kind of it. Oh, did it crash? I don't know, did they crash? Good thing we chose this game. Tone down the GPU a tiny bit. Oh, should we tone down the CPU? That was what was unstable before. Just do it like very, very slightly. Got to Huff it, Huff that copium detail pret well wa. Okay, 194, 194. Okay, let's come have a

looky boo all right let's see average were lower 190 but that's not that bad. They were supposed to spank you on this one. This is their chosen Benchmark but we still win a win is a win win's a win a win is a win. Well our chosen Benchmark is shadow of the Tomb Raider move on Luke W is a w bit I had to reboot. I hope our GPU overclock was on on nope it wasn't wait what yeah look's going to kill me is that legit oh my God. Elijah forgot to initialize the GPU clock after we restarted so that was completely not overclocked well turn it on now quick for the last one yeah we did you can still win this yeah sure so on Graphics everything the preset is highest okay oh yeah R Trace Shadow to ultra okay [ __ ] is this the last Benchmark this is the last Benchmark it all comes down to this we'd have to beat them by 20% or more on this Benchmark okay here we go here we

go that's a butt nice butt so many butts. That's what this setup was made for. Even get that you're too down. Come on, man, it's fine. What is it? What is it? You guys want. I'm sure, yeah. I don't know why it was so bad. Guess what, ours was 78, 90, 90. Wow, that's so weird. Do you want to know what's, you know, you know, you want to know what's crazy. I can't hear what you're saying over the sound of your fans. That's fair. Oh damn, you want to know the worst part, Glenn. I have a picture here of me getting 94. Okay, I guess I have a 92. Don't they get to keep the better of their two tests though? Yeah, that's true. So if they got a better score when Labs tested it, theoretically Labs didn't test this one, this is a chosen one. They tested it and got a better one. So you could be really kind and give them that, David. Every time I do that, I lose the game over it, you know.

that right. How much confidence do you have in your system? You know what? I'll do it again. They can have it. Yeah, okay. What was your highest score, Elijah? He had 94, 94, 95, 95 on our average FPS. It's insanely close when it comes to these Benchmark drag races. Out of a possible 900 score, it's only 13 points of difference, and team Lus is ahead by those 13 points with 764 by 751. But there's two different modifiers. There's the judging differential, which they... So the average score for Luke's team was 71.3, okay? And the average score for Linus's team was 85.6. So it's a 14.3 boost to their score. Team Bal, we just like fall over. And when it came down to the labs differential, which was a 15% boost to the winner, we have five categories, so someone needs to win three categories in order to take that win. You guys will crush us on sound, but your drive might.

hurt you if they actually are you let them talk first. The category is the out-of-the-box experience, which is a little bit of a subjective experience. The winner of that one was Luke, so one Luke, zero L. You can take it up with Labs, okay? I like Labs. Now, the second test was thermals, and it was close. Luke actually had better CPU thermals, but your GPU thermals were very problematic. You had a hot spot of 104 on the GPU, broken fan, he didn't, broken fan. And so, Lonus takes that category, one-one, baby, repasting for the win. Then we tested memory speeds, and it was really, really close, even though the specs are different. But Lonus did edge, Lonus, no Ed, Lius, Lus edged Luke just a little bit on this one. But then it was storage, and even if I only included Linus's SSD score, he still would have lost to Luke 22. We did spend a notable amount of extra money on assistant, but unfortunately for Luke's team, the last category was sound. Got you. And so, the winner of Scrapyard Wars.

2024 is team Ry. Good job. I'm ready for him to start crying. Yeah, we have to gather the tears so I can season my food. And the tears you have as tattoos don't count. I asked for those. You should have told. Oh yeah, it's probably better you didn't. Yeah, probably. And it's probably better you guys didn't miss any of this year's scrapyard Wars. I hope you guys enjoyed this. We'll see you again next time. Oh yeah, shout out Jawa for sponsoring this video. And we all got good deals on Jawa. If you guys like these systems, they're going to be available for giveaway on Jawa. So get over to java. That's super cool. And they're actually really legit. And one is really loud. Leave a comment under the video letting us know which system you'd rather have. Uh, well, let the people decide yours. I mean, it's pretty nice. Ah, if you didn't get that system that I wanted, we would have crushed that.

The Final Showdown - Scrapyard Wars 2024 PT 4

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Scrapyard Wars: Building the Best Computer

Luke and the narrator are competing to build the best computer on an $800 budget, with a $100 bonus from their sponsor, Jawa.

They face a time penalty for being late, but manage to complete their setups and focus on final tweaks.

The episode features challenges, cable management gifts, overclocking attempts, and a race against time to be ready for the judges.

The team is organizing a workspace with a care package of magnetic management arches for a clean aesthetic.

They are being judged on four categories: aesthetics, sound, strategy, and effectiveness, with a total score called the "asses score.

" While picking up speakers and a keyboard, they also plan to beautify the setup with items from a dollar store, considering the importance of audio for the judging score.

Last-Minute Tech Haul and Penguin Surprise

The narrator reflects on the quirky candy choices and a hectic day of collecting tech items, including a keyboard and headphones, from a generous stranger.

70 left, they decide to buy a cute penguin figure from a store, which turns out to be a successful gamble.

As they rush to manage cables and finalize their setup, they realize they might miss out on a crucial mouse pad, leading to a last-minute dash to a nearby store.

The speaker's setup involved a $5 mouse pad and a glue gun for a rubber backing.

They faced challenges with cable management and a defective adapter, racing against the clock to complete the setup.

In the end, they were satisfied with the result, despite the chaos and time constraints.

One setup features a loud PC with a 3080, orange crusty headphones, and impressive speakers, while the other offers a more inviting atmosphere with personal effects and a quieter fan.

The first setup has a 144Hz screen and massive bookshelf speakers, while the second has a 60Hz monitor and smaller Edifier speakers.

Both setups have their pros and cons, but the second one feels more welcoming and considerate of the user's experience.

Judging Computer Setup Aesthetics and Effectiveness

The judges evaluated two computer setups based on aesthetics, sound, creativity, and effectiveness.

The first setup received mixed scores, with a total of 10 for aesthetics, 8 for sound, 18 for creativity, and 30 for effectiveness.

The second setup, which was more inviting, scored higher with 25 for aesthetics, 7 for sound, 23 for creativity, and 35 for effectiveness.

The judges noted the contrast between the two setups and discussed their similarities and differences while tabulating the final scores.

The team enabled XMP for their RAM, boosting it to 3600MHz for better CPU performance.

They faced challenges with their setup, including a lack of front intake fans and a tight timeline for overclocking.

Despite the difficulties, they managed to run benchmarks, with one team winning the CPU performance and the other team taking the lead in GPU performance.

The teams had a close competition, with Luke's team initially struggling due to a GPU overclocking mistake.

The final benchmark was crucial, with only a 13-point difference in scores.

Ultimately, Team Ry won the Scrapyard Wars 2024, with each team winning different categories.