Scrapyard Wars: Building a Budget Gaming PC Challenge

Scrapyard Wars showcases intense competition as Luke and Lindsy race to build the best computer on a budget.

### Scrapyard Wars: Building a Budget Gaming PC Challenge
* 🛠️  Luke and Linus compete to build the best gaming PC on a fixed budget of **$800, including $100 from sponsor Jawa**.
* 🖥️  Luke's team opts for a **Ryzen 4500 CPU** and a **Zotac 3070 GPU**, while Linus' team goes for a **Ryzen 3600 CPU** and an **unknown GPU**.
* 💰  The teams negotiate deals with various sellers and encounter challenges, such as **BIOS updates** and **component compatibility**.
* 🏆  The systems are completed and handed over for testing, with Luke's team confident in their **GPU performance** but unsure about **CPU benchmarks**.
* 🔧  Last-minute adjustments are made, such as **repasting the GPU** and **enabling XMP profiles on the RAM**.
* ⏱️  There is some tension with the organizer, David, regarding **storage requirements for benchmarks**, but the issue is **resolved**.
* 🎮  The teams prepare for benchmark testing, with Luke's team avoiding CPU-heavy games due to their **potential bottleneck**.
* 📊  The final results and winner of the challenge will be determined by **benchmark performance** and **system testing**.

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] You ready? Yeah, we'll make it work. My name's still Lindsy, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, we're trying to make a computer for our nephew Ryan right now. We're mostly looking for a keyboard, a mouse, maybe a power supply if there's one of those. Sorry, I'm not 100% up on the terminology, but the main parts I'm hoping the disguise is working. Aizen system, Ryzen 1700. See, look, this one is right underneath the here. Would you mind if I ripped that one out? Would that be okay? Also some RAM maybe, but it would need to be DDR4, which I think that might be DDR.

three yeah, some power supplies here. All these are going to be 350. What? I don't have a screwdriver with me here. Um, do you have one with you? Or I... We can go upstairs and grab one from there too. Okay, we've got another youth shelf upstairs with stuff. I'll see if there's anything else up there. Cool, thank you very much. Okay, they literally just walked right in front of the car. I know this guy knows me. I used to come here and get free Tech all the time, so it's going to be a little sus. Unfortunately, the platform we currently have is DDR4, but I appreciate the look. Found M. Oh, nice. Okay, awesome. It was a box about this size, and it just had a whole bunch of scrap. That's okay. I appreciate it. Power supply and the mouse will come in handy. Good luck finding the rest of the pieces. Thank you. Now that this is concluded, I will say I noticed the LTT screwdriver. Did you recognize me at all? I do, yeah. Might be a little easier without the

glasses without the glasses and the uh NE tattoos, the beard, and the tattoos and stuff. When we were about to leave, he gave me a few looks that were like a little longer than they probably normally would have been, and you, I could tell he was like trying to pierce the glasses a little bit. And then we went inside, and he handed me the LTD screwdriver, and I was like, well, all right. And I was like, okay, from here on, if he offers anything like crazy, then we, I'm going to have to say no. But we got an old Power Man 350-watt power supply. I think this is like an IBM Thinkpad mouse. So all we need now technically is a keyboard, audio solution, and a chair AIO. This mouse sucks. We're probably still going to want to buy that combo set, and we don't need the audio today, is that right? I guess technically not. We could get the audio tomorrow, so we're doing okay actually. So I think we should head back and try to get this computer going.

All right, I'm adjusting lanes. Oh my God, done. Woohoo! Hey, there we go. Oh, just, you know, part of the life. Have to have a constant makeup person. Brother, what's up, brother? Here's the rundown. Our GPU arrived from Java, which means combined with storage, we have everything to put together our final computer. We've got the deal to sell most of our leftovers, but it's way in Vancouver, super far away, and the deal sucks. H whole offered $10 fee and me 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. With all that said, priority number one is to get this damn sweater off. I'm dying right now. It's so warm. Okay, let's get the system built. Have you ever built a computer before? Yes. Okay, good. Build a computer, go. No kidding, I'll help. Okay, let's do this thing. I have a gift for you. Oh, these Jaa special edition screwdrivers. Get rid of this one. This one's gone. Look at these Beau

colors from our sponsor Jawa. Well, I mean, it's from us, isn't it? Yeah, we made it, but we wouldn't have made it without their colors. Thanks, Jaa. We're actually going to be giving some of these away on Flow plane at the end of this, and Jaa is also going to be giving some away, so go to check them out online. I'm taking all of the whoa. Thanks, Daniel. And then let's get all these cheap fans out of here, and then we're going to replace them with the no toas that are in the other case. Oh yeah, that's something you can do, Sammy. Do I also get a Jawa audition screwdriver for now? Thank you. Wow, lots of KN to of fans. Oh yeah, no, Sami's got more. What? Yeah, more fans. Oh, I found us some speakers. Sammy, check out these speakers. Yo, 20 bucks. You smell like glue. Well, you smell like we're about to get a good deal. That's good. Thank you. 6 p.m. Ah, sorry. You're doing great, Sammy. How is the

selling going. I don't think anyone else has messaged. So when are we supposed to meet, pal? I haven't confirmed yet, but this afternoon. Oh my God, it's afternoon. We do not want to get stuck in rush hour traffic today. No, I know it doesn't really matter, but it's not getting these nocta fans. We want the nocta fans. Question for you, lus. Are you doing Windows 10 or 11? Well, unlike some people, I'm compatible with Windows 11. What do you know about the other system? I know that I'm compatible with Windows 11, and they're asking about Windows 10, so I say we're on Windows 11. I don't know how to scoot this fan in. It's really tight. Okay, there you go. I don't want to break anything. No, no, you're good. If you break it, just remember this guy's. Oh, okay. One thing I'm concerned about is we bargained with no one. We tried with the gpus, and they were both just like no, and those were a lot cheaper than the rest.

of the market. We probably should have tried to bargain with the 170 guy for the system, but once he recognized you, I couldn't bargain anymore. And it wasn't worth not getting it at that point 'cause we needed something. We're going to lose CPU stuff. We will. I guarantee you they'll have a better CPU. Plus, it's going to take a more rounded approach. I bet you his setup is going to be nicer in general. I bet you he's going to have a better CPU, and then we're going to come in with the club with nails driven through it of a 3080. Be like, What's up? You want to go big? Update. We've got a new buyer. His name is Budd. He's willing to take the stock cooler instead of the Hyper 212, but he wants the better motherboard. But he's way closer, and I talked him into taking the Cougar C. Yeah, let's go. So let's get this board out of here because we're no longer using it.

Okay, and we got to get the CPU swapped, and we got to get out of here, and I got to put my beard back on. When are we meeting him? Uh, we're meeting him before 2:30. As soon as I told Pal that I had another offer, he's like, Well, what's the deal? Oh, all of a sudden he wants to negotiate. You know what, you Pal, in all fairness, I respect the hustle. I do respect the hustle. Respect what we did to other people in previous shows, and this one messages me like, Bro, I swear nobody keeps their word these days. Whatever, man, enjoy. And I'm like, If he backs out, I'll let you know. He goes, He ain't. Oh, so knows what a good deal it is. You Pal, one more. This cooler is going with this board. This CPU comes out though, so that's our 4500, and then our 3600 is going to go in here. You could throw like a tiny bit more goop on there, but the goop that's on there is probably F. You know what, here, here, goop.

transplant. Oh yeah, should we take a photo of it before we put it on? No, he wants to boot it up while we're there. Wants to see it post, which makes sense. So what I was thinking was, oh, that's a lot, whatever. So what I was thinking was, we will just build it. Can we try to post it before we leave? Yeah, do we have another RAM stick? He gets one RAM stick. Oh, he gets one RAM stick. Why am I? You're building his system. Oh, I see. These fans, you can just basically find anywhere that looks like that and just kind of plug them in. Management, who is she? I don't think we're going to do cable management on this bad boy. Nice, got it. Perfect, thank you. Hard drive is in, everything's in. The reason I want to see this post before we go is that if for whatever reason this system does not work, now is the time for us to tell, hey, look, sorry, we can't spare the motherboard or whatever, you know, this is

mostly Daniel's system anyway. We've got his RAM, his cooler, his motherboard. It's just the CPU from the weird Craigslist guy. All right, okay, all my fan spin. That's a good sign. GPU fan spin. Thank you, Jawa. Show me an output anytime, buddy. It's okay, sometimes it takes a minute or two. No HDMI signal from your device going into standby mode. I wonder if it needs a BIOS update. Well, we're going to have to gamble. We've got to go meet the guy. Let's make sure that this one posts. Now's the time. Hey, oh, there we go. Let's power it off. Here's what we're going to do, Sammy. We are going to do the world's fastest BIOS update. I need that CPU, this CPU, the one that's in there. So here's what I want to see. I want to see this motherboard post with a definitely compatible CPU. All right, not stressed, not stressed. It's still not posting. No, it's stuck on CPU. Are you kidding me? Oh no, no, no, no, no. This is bad. Did we plug

it into the GP power supply correctly. Yeah, come on, come on, come on. Oh, I think it's doing stuff. It's doing stuff. Oh, thank God. Okay, okay. I am sweating absolute buckets right now. And Flash, come on, come on, come on, come on. No, no, this is fine. Everything's fine. What time is it? At 5 to do. We're still going to be okay, but we have to go like now. Hey, here we go. Yeah, so the BIOS on this board is from 2020. So that's why it wasn't posting with this 40,000 series chip. Just hadn't had support added for it yet. This is good. Let's take a moment and talk about one of the great features of Java. If you want to skip the hassle of listing your GPU for sale on a marketplace, you can sell it directly to Jaa to help offset the cost of your upgrade. Hilariously, after all the negotiations with the guy that we're selling this one to, we actually would have gotten a very similar offer from

Jawa, so we could have just saved the trouble. Check out Java, and you can also participate in the giveaways that they have lined up for Scrapyard Wars. Thanks for sponsoring this series. Jawa, what's our ETA, Sammy? Uh, 17 minutes plus sweat over a few minutes, so it should be 20. Hell yeah, here it is. I need to see it post with this chip. This is it. This is where we find out if it posts with the 4500. The compatibility list says yes. Theoretically, it's [Music] fine. Yes. Okay, let's go. The t-shirt's not great. Literally says LT on it. Or he just doesn't know who we are. This is it. Hi, further PC. I'm just going to go into task manager and like just plug in my mouse. Oh yeah, no storage, right? No, so it's not going to boot into task manager. It'll just be the BIOS, but it posts. Yeah, yeah, it looks good to me. Sounds good. Okay, okay. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Thank you. Have a good day. Uh

young man, do you uh, do you know Linus Tech Tips? Yeah, oh really, would you recognize them if you saw, wait no way, do you want to be in the video? Are you serious? Yeah, wait really, hi, hi. I always thought if I saw you, you'd see them in the video, not recognizing like, oh if I saw them I would know, now I don't. We got him, I didn't, it's fake dude, I'm not this old B old. What are you trying to say right now? That went about as well as it could have possibly gone Tom. You missed it, but this was someone who regularly watches the channel, watches the podcast, literally knew we were doing Scrapyard Wars right now. He's like, I hope, and still didn't make me very good, good work man. So what's our next stop to pick up the desk, right? We need the truck, we're going back, yeah we got to go back, we'll pick up a chair and lunch and then come back, and then at 400 p.m. it sounds like we're going to pick up the keyboard.

mouse keyboard mouse mouse pad. Okay, while Luke is out getting some more stuff, I was taking this to the shop to give it a dust, and holy crap, I am glad I did. This is nasty and a fire hazard. Oh my God. Okay, so we got the chair. It's in the back. We strapped it down. I don't know how excited they were to see Duke. They said nothing, zero words when I got to the door. I picked it up, said thanks, still no response, left nothing. But hey, we got a chair. There we go, a little bit better. There's still a tiny bit of dust in there, but I don't want to take the air compressor too hard 'cause it'll spin that fan. This is more than clean for kind of this top-down look here, and even just from the back. So I think we're going to be good there. We made a decision really early on because we were trying to get things shipped on time from Jawa where we were going to get a standard SATA SSD because we weren't sure what platform we were going to end.

up with, and if it was even going to have an m.2 slot or whatever else, but that's not like a normal problem that you would have if you were doing this. We're actually upgrading because we found that the best SSD option that we could find was an m.2 off of Jawa. Anyways, luckily, we've been able to do a bit of a swap there. We found this Patriot p300 on Jawa, which was great. We unfortunately can't get it in time to Canada, but that's okay. The judges deemed that this Intel 660p is more than equivalent enough for us to install in our system. That way, we'd actually have a system to turn in today. Thankfully, I think that SSD might actually save us, saved one of our benchmarks. I still don't think we're necessarily going to win that one. They might have a better platform. They have a better one with more cache or something. We'll still lose almost certainly all the other CPU-bound benchmarks, but hopefully, we crush the GPU ones enough, and I hope

they let us put R tracing on 'cause if they let us put R tracing on we will destroy certainly whatever they have. Are you nervous? You look nervous. No, I'm not nervous. You look super nervous. It's DDR4, right? Yeah. You know, if it doesn't work, we can just plant some like thermite in there, and when they go to start Benchmark, we just light it all on fire and be like, Whoops. As part of our promoting things that are available on LTT store.com, each team got one of our PTM 7950 phase change thermal pads. These are a great thermal pad material from Honeywell that performs really, really well. Super easy to apply. You don't have to deal with any kind of liquid metal type nonsense. It's non-conductive, and we're going to use that to get really great temps on our CPU. But I'm also considering maybe putting it on the GPU. Is it worth it to tear the cooler off this thing? What's our budget? So, we got 130 bucks. Monitor, mouse, mouse pad, desk.

chair and everything else. This is so doable. I messaged someone with a Logitech mouse earlier. Did I hear P? Oh, he's available from 4:30 to 5:30. How much is this guy? 15 bucks for a Hyperion 402. Maybe ask Buddy if he has a mouse pad. Can... well, he's only available from 4:30, so we need to go pick up the desk. Okay, first, and then we will go to Mouse guy. Well, 15 bucks for a mouse pad or for a mouse, right? I was going to tell you I wouldn't normally bother to repaste a GPU this new. It's probably fine, but knowing that the judges are going to be looking at temperatures, I'm going to repaste this thing. Ben Q 144 Hertz. He's willing to take 70. 24 in monitor comes with DVI cable and power cord. DVI cable might be a bit loose, but that monitor might be uh DVI only for high refresh rate as well. It's disced uh specs DP 1.2.

let's just do it. I can stop looking at DP to DVI adapters, but we have to pick up the desk first. If we want to leave, we have to leave basically now. You grabbing the other end of this for me? How bad is it? It's fine. Nothing broke. Okay, that was fun. Pencil's downtime today, right? For the computer, hoping for five. No, no, you'll have the computer before. Oh yeah, yeah, that's fine. Six is fine. I'll have the computer for you before we go out again. Yeah, ideally, you and Luke will go together to hand the computers off. We have like four stops to make in the next couple of hours here. We need to go now, but Windows update. Okay, Windows update. This guy's down for another $5. Thank you so much, negotiator. Nice, you were the best. Period. It's possible this hard drive does not work. Sammy, you dropped it. Hey, ah, sorry. Yeah, definitely not detected. I know that much. I mean, we don't need it. I don't think we need it as long as they're not

installing too large of games. How much is our SSD? Our SSD was 20 bucks. No, but like how much store? 256. Oh, that's fine. Should be okay. Can you swing by an occasionally Windows update? Yes. I also haven't put the latest NVIDIA drivers on. I can do that. Other than that, she's tuned. Let's go. I feel like where Sammy is really going to come into her own as the superior assistant is tomorrow when we're setting everything up to be aesthetic. 'Cause Elijah's got a lot going for him. He's pretty tech-savvy, very enthusiastic, but aesthetic sense. Sammy, you got him right? Yeah, so casual. All right, we are off to our last pickup of the day. We are trying to get a keyboard, mouse, and mouse pad combo for 10 bucks. Then that'll leave us with just an audio setup that we need to get. So we're hoping with, you know, basically the entire day of tomorrow, we're going to be able to pick up some free speakers or something from somewhere. I won't have

the makeup tomorrow. Hopefully, whoever wants to sell it to us won't recognize me. All right, well, Luke and Glenn are still out. I am going to attempt to enable XMP. We'll change that to XMP profile one. Let's see if our computer boots again. Now it's starting up again, which is good. Oh, maybe not. Oh, oh, oh, oh, come on, BIOS. Okay, that's good. Memory 3200. Look at that. Eight. Oh, this is getting me excited. I've been very stressed just trying to get everything installed and working. Like, I'm confident it's going to boot, and I'm confident we're going to be fine, but it's just I'm still nervous. Yeah, so we're on like a 2017 BIOS. That's not great. Let's update this. So we got back from the keyboard, mouse, and mouse pad. I think it's a win. I won't show you all the stuff now because of like dangers of driving, but ooh, that doesn't sound that great, actually. It's definitely like a cheap no.

back plate. Look at that. Kind of like a knockoff mechanical keyboard, but it's a mechanical keyboard technically. And the mouse is another one of those. Kind of like it looks like maybe like a final mouse or something like that. It's not. And we technically have a mouse pad, so it's okay stuff considering we got it for 10 bucks. I'm very, very happy with it. Mouse guy. I was like, would you go down to 10? He left me on red. I say, okay, no problem. I'll still come pick up around 5. Now just where the devil are you going, Sammy? This is like a strip mall. Yeah, it's a business. They're giving away desks and chairs, and they close at 5:00 p.m. Wait, oh my God, that would be hilarious. This is my real TI's office. No way. What? We might get an opportunity to see if I can pass to someone who knows me reasonably well. Hi, um, we were told to come here for a desk to pick up. Let's go. We'll grab the desk first. Okay, yeah, it's

pretty heavy, uh. Ben still work out of this office? Yes, he does. Is he here right now? Uh, he was. Why? Watch my hands, all those. Put that corner right there. Yep, there we go. So, the green one's greener, but that one's kind of better condition. Yeah, I think we should take the one in better condition. Take the gray one. Okay, yeah. Uh, do you mind if I see if Ben's around? Sure, you can go off. Okay, thanks so much. Okay, hello. Uh, the ladies downstairs said you were giving away some desk. I just wanted to say thank you. Hey, welcome. Recognize me yet? He bought a house from you. Oh, more than just that. The getup is we're shooting a video. This is one of my team members. We're filming you. Sorry, Ben. Sorry to ambush you like that. Anyway, thanks for the desk. You're welcome. All right, see you later, Ben. Oh, the look on his face is hilarious. So, Ben sold us the El, the LMG office. He represented us when we bought the lab. Yeah, he sold me and

Ivon, our first home. No, we go way back with Ben. Wait, DVI out on the board. Yeah, PS2. It's like first-gen Ryzen, bro. It works. Okay, okay. Oh, you want to know the best part? To get the board updated to the latest BIOS, I had to do five BIOS updates 'cause I couldn't jump from the original. It was on the original normal. It was on 2017, but it booted. We'll see how it goes. There is one fan on the Zotac that is off balance, and so when it stops, it'll get lopsided, and then when we reboot, it picks up again. But I can fix it by just like kind of giving it another go. Should we just tape it so it doesn't ever spin? So here's where we can really game the performance. That Labs tests is not final performance as long as our system is stable when we drag race it. It's fine. The things that Labs testing that are our final is things like noise. So we take the tape off tomorrow? Yes, I'm so

down pull the limiter out. Uh, well, this is just cyberpunk being cyberpunk, starting to take off, dude. We are averaging 60 FPS, you murdering innocent civilians. Yes, that's what that's a mentality we need in scrapyard, Duke. Good training, young Mike. We got to use that on the streets. What quality setting is we're Ultra at 1080p? That's pretty sick. That is pretty loud, though, and I don't think we're going to be able to use side panels, not on either. Sure, yeah, that's not better at all, is it? Kicking off a lot of heat? No, and the air volume is also very bad. Yeah, these fans are pretty rinky-dinky. Should have just taken that whole system from stratum, just pulled the fans out of it, 'cause having no fans in the top too is like kind of rough. Yeah, you going to be able to mess with fan profiles and stuff too? Yeah, I mean, our GPU is getting up to 87°, 88°. Maybe we shouldn't mess with fan.

profiles yeah CPU is at 50. Our CPU is like fine actually. Taping plan was fun but when it's cranked up that was on Q yeah wow when it's cranked up the fan is fine and honestly I think we might need it yeah let's just let her be loud. She's just a loud computer cuz I think people got to realize like GPUs are loud push can we steal some of the sound foam. What happens if we like I think it just is loud though yeah I don't think it's going to help that much yeah I'm trying to I'm trying to game but we got zero minutes left so I think we just got to kind of line isn't back yet so you got bit more time a cou more minutes yeah we're ready and he's late. That traditionally comes with downsides I'm just saying what the downsides are varies. I don't know there's been crazy ones where it was like 10% every 10 minutes or something every 10 minutes.

over the deadline was minus 10%. I believe to your score, and it sort of depends on how late he is. Like, if you're like 5 minutes late, it's like, Who gives a? But if he shows up at 6, that's kind of a big deal. I saw I messaged them being asking what the UTA was, so typical lus always late. Yeah, I gave them permission to pick something up later, but I told them they had to be back at 5:00 to do this, so they're late for that part of it. I said Sammy could pick it up till 6:00, 'cause I technically they're on 10 till 600. I might just send you in Sammy for this pickup. Oh man, like now I'm negotiating with David. Apparently, we don't have enough storage for all the benchmarks. Maybe we should have looked at what the Benchmark requirements were. Okay, that's not going to work for tomorrow. He says, Oh man, I mean, uh, can we get a random hard? We have to get it done.

by today. I don't know what's going on. Yeah, how are we going to get another drive? I mean, we can afford it. Yeah, I had no idea we were going to need more than 256 gigs. So, it's this complex here. Hey, what unit was it? We don't know where this, what unit this guy lives, and he's not responding. So, the mouse deal is dead. I guess so. Bummer. Now, David's calling me. Hey, David, how are you? I'm not going to lie. I still have not looked at the benchmark requirements. I suppose it mentions that we need some amount of storage. It's not specifically specified that you need a certain amount of storage. Um, then I guess we won't get anything docked for that. That's not true. Hold on, hold on just a gosh darn minute here. If it's not a requirement, it's not a requirement. Uh, it's an implied requirement that the benchmarks need to be installed. You can't have an implied requirement, sir. Is the problem that your drive is broken? Yes, my drive is broken, but I had

one working drive, so I figured I was in good shape. Drive works. Which one? The 750. I just plugged it in, and it detected right away. Really? Oh, Mouse just replied. Sorry. Well, then that's great. So, we'll use the hard drive. So, what I had intended to do actually was set them up as tiered storage, but we can delay so Luke can go hand his PC in. They can start the testing on his. Then, when you get back, you can set up the tiered storage. No, I don't. I don't think I'm going to be able to 'cause to set up tiered storage, you have to install to the hard drive. Can you just tell me what the benchmarks are? And then, uh, uh, I can pull it up just like you could have based on the document I sent out earlier today. We have never had it in the past that you have to have all the benchmarks on the drive at a time. So, if that wasn't explicitly in the rules, I expect there to be no penalty for this and the fact

that I happen to have a working drive. It turns out that's a bonus. Did you really think we were going to all stand around, do that, or are you just playing a game to try and win? We've done that before. No, I'm serious. So, the amount of storage, unless it's explicitly laid out, is just whatever it is, and you just install whatever you need when you need it. When we've tested in the past, okay, that's what the subjective scoring is for, is bring your storage there. That's going to be up to the judges, but yeah, it will affect the subjective scoring. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. No, no, I knew that. So, David put whatever the most storage-dependent ones are on the SSD and then put everything else on the hard drive, I guess. Okay, sounds good. All right, thanks, David. We doing this thing? How much was it? 15. Hello, Mouse guy. Yeah, here's the mouse. Oh, thank you. Great. Do you think you'll like this? Yep, lots of buttons, gamer. Yeah, it's good. It's my

ex-girlfriend. Oh, oh, sorry to hear that. No, no, no, it's fine. Oh, then I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, I built a computer for her and everything. So, uh, so 15. Yeah, okay. How'd you learn to use, uh, build computers? It's pretty easy, like honestly. If you watch on YouTube, it's super easy to do. What's like a good channel? Yeah, we got to build one right now, so. Oh, really? Yeah, just what would we look up, you think? Like honestly, uh, NCIX will do for like 100 bucks too if you're like very unsure about like what you're doing. No good channel, sir. I don't think NC is in business. M Express. Oh, okay. What was that channel that, uh, that, that you knew? Uh, Linus Tech Tips. Oh, okay. Oh, Linus is, he's really good. Oh, okay, really? Yeah, I heard he's from Vancouver. I think he's in Langley. Yeah, a really small world. Yeah, yeah, okay, thank you. Would you want to be in one of Linus' videos? I mean, I think

you're wearing his shirt right now, so really, yeah, really. Am I look like him? Yeah, do I do I look like him? Yes, you do. Are you sure? Yeah, okay. How long did it take you to recognize me? I actually thought I recognized you pretty early, and then I noticed the shirt. Damn, the damn shirt. I had the sweater in there. We've been running around today, man. Thankfully, I think that SSD might actually save us, saved one of our benchmarks, so it'll take a second to cook up, 'cause that's just what Steam does. Our disc usage is climbing. We're at 627, 700 to, dude, I'm so happy about, and like our CPU is unpacking on all threads, dude. If they have to download to that hard drive, yeah, they're screwed. They're screwed, brother. Okay, so we're heading to our next protocol. I'm not in David's good books right now. I'm kind of afraid to ask him for a favor, but we might need to be allowed to pick something up a little bit after 600 today. It's 5:30, not here.

it's a little ridiculous. Like, it honestly probably doesn't even matter for the competition, but I just want him to cook. We did it. You were ready in time. We crossed the Finish Line. I'm proud of our child. I'd be happy with this computer. Me too. Do you think that you have the better system when compared to Linus? It's always hard to tell. We saw a CPU that he was selling. Knowing how he tends to approach these challenges, I think he'll have strong points that are weak points for us, and I think we'll have strong points that are weak points for him. So, I really don't know how it's going to come out. Our strongest point is GPU. Our weakest point is everything else. But our weakest points aren't like that weak. Like, the CPU is pretty solid. We were running some stuff like in Cyberpunk. We had no CPU-bound issues, even with the 380. I guess we'll see how Labs deals with it, 'cause that's going to be the real test. It'll suffer in some

areas. I suspect he has a better processor. I think that'll be our hardest point. Have you guys put any thought into the benchmark? You get to choose because we know we're CPU-limited. We're going to definitely be avoiding picking those games. We don't want to do no Counter-Strike. That's what we're currently thinking. Probably Tomb Raider, if I remember correctly from my days. Tomb Raider scaled really well with CPU and GPU, but... and GPU is the big important part of that. And I'm guessing because you are running a 3080, you want to have your settings cranked high resolution. We would love to do ray tracing on everything. We just want to put that out there right now. It's 2024. You should just have ray tracing. I don't understand why this is even a conversation. Any amount of time of our lives spent without ray tracing from here on is a waste. So, I believe Tom's Hardware said it first: What is life without ray tracing? Yeah, exactly. It's time to hand your system in for testing all.

right here it goes oh boy don't fail me [Music] now hey there brother hello m m Miss David hi I can hear you now okay we're going to arrive at our second last stop for today at 6 your second last stop at 6 well that's what I was going to tell you is it would certainly be convenient for us to do one more stop today after 6 but we we don't need to but we would prefer to do our last stop today in costume which has a clear content benefit and then take a small time penalty tomorrow yeah fine sure all right that's about the best outcome we could have hoped for Sammy yep and what are we picking up at this spot again uh monitor sorry I just have a hard time hi uh we're here to pick up a monitor uh you can come on inside oh thank you hey sorry SC through the garage oh sorry Hi good thank you so I'll just take this or do you want to give him the cash oh

thank you. And then again, like I was saying, though the cord is a little bit ficky, so like sometimes you'll notice that it'll cut out in and out. So um, we have another one I think. Thank you very much. Have a great day. No worries. Take care, guys. Thank you. Take care. Take care. I don't think you recognized us. No, I don't think so. Uh shoot, Sammy, didn't you say this one had display port? Yeah, we looked it up. Uh, I think it's a different model. Oh, doesn't have display port. This will be interesting. I think what might end up happening is we might have to get a display port to DVI adapter if we want to run it 120 Hertz. So we'll have to see how it goes. Shoot, this may have been a miscalculation, this monitor, but that's okay. That's okay. Overall, overall, it's going to be a really good package. We've got a monitor. Wait, are we at Luke's complex? Holy sh, we are at Luke's building right now for

our last pickup of the day. This is Luke's response here. Oh, there. That's it right there. Look, thank I just don't use them. Oh sure, so there you are. As long as someone can use them, then oh great, thank you. Okay, I really appreciate that. No worries. All right, take care. Yeah, okay. All right, thank you. Not so much as a Second Glance. Some nice little edifier speakers. 20 bucks. Let's do it. We made it. Our last pickup was at 6:30, so you can penalize us however you see fit. Well, how do you think you did? Your system's basically complete. We had a few options for configuration. We almost ended up with a 3600, but we ended up with a 4500 Ryzen processor because the speed was almost the same and the price that we were able to get flipping our 3600 was better 'cause the 4500 nobody knew what the heck it was. We got our hands on a 3070 for what I thought was a pretty good

deal 16 gigs of RAM. XMP worked just like that. Needed a BIOS update in order for everything to be hunky-dory. But I think it's a great system for the price overall. I still don't know how much we paid for it. Well, we'll price out some Ed parts and we'll find out for ourselves. But our first inspection so far, we did open it up, we're actually quite surprised to see, oh okay, secret surprise. Well, what's the point of me talking to him? I thought he supposed to tell me how my system's doing. You should have read documents I sent you. I'm building a gaming PC. We shared a test plan. We got input from everybody on how to best break, or sorry, test your system. It's a great gaming system. It's a great gaming system for gamers. I guess we're going to find out tomorrow. Thanks for watching this video. Comparison is the thief of joy. That's what this is all about. It's very creative. I give this actually a full 25. What? Look at these numbers.

though this testing that I definitely extensively did on my own before turning over the system. Also, wow, wow, is that ever quiet. What's my CPU temps at? Hey, get out of here. Get out. I'm allowed to see. This is my damn system. I can look at whatever CPU temps I want. Get out of here.

The Situation gets Desperate - Scrapyard Wars 2024 PT3

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Scrapyard Wars: Building a Computer on a Budget

Luke and the narrator are competing to build the best computer for their nephew Ryan with an $800 budget, including $100 from their sponsor, Jawa.

They are searching for essential components like a keyboard, mouse, power supply, and RAM, while also dealing with a familiar face from their tech scavenging days.

With the arrival of the GPU from Jawa and a plan to sell leftovers, they focus on building the final computer and offering giveaways for special edition screwdrivers.

The team is rushing to meet a buyer for a computer system, trying to avoid rush hour traffic.

They are negotiating with multiple sellers for components and have secured a new buyer willing to take the stock cooler.

As they work on the build, they encounter issues with the system posting and are pressed for time to meet the buyer.

The BIOS on the motherboard was from 2020, causing compatibility issues with the 40,000 series chip.

Java offers a hassle-free way to sell GPUs and is sponsoring the series with giveaways.

The team successfully posts with the new chip, picks up a chair and SSD, and makes a last-minute swap for an Intel 660p to complete the system in time.

The team is using a PTM 7950 phase change thermal pad to improve CPU temperatures and considering it for the GPU as well.

With a budget of $130, they are making quick stops to gather essential equipment like a monitor, mouse, and desk.

The plan is to set everything up aesthetically the next day, while also updating the computer's BIOS and drivers for optimal performance.

Picking Up a Desk and Setting Up a Gaming System

The narrator finds a mechanical keyboard and mouse for $10 and goes to a strip mall to pick up a desk.

They unexpectedly meet Ben, who has a long history with the narrator, and thank him for the desk.

The narrator then sets up a gaming system, dealing with fan issues and noise, while trying to optimize performance for gaming.

Last-Minute Negotiations and Tech Troubles

The team is dealing with late arrivals and storage issues for benchmarks, leading to last-minute negotiations.

A broken drive complicates the situation, but a working drive is found just in time.

The conversation shifts to computer building tips and Linus Tech Tips' influence, creating a lighthearted moment amidst the chaos.

Running Against the Clock: A Day of Tech Challenges

The narrator and their partner are wearing similar shirts, leading to a humorous recognition moment.

They discuss their computer system's performance, highlighting their strong GPU and solid CPU.

The duo is planning their benchmark games, aiming for high-resolution settings and ray tracing, while also coordinating with a third person for a last-minute monitor pickup.

The speaker's cord is ficky, causing occasional cutouts.

They had a miscalculation with a monitor's display port, potentially needing an adapter for 120Hz.

The speaker's last pickup was at Luke's building, and they successfully configured a gaming PC with a Ryzen 4500 processor and a 3070 graphics card.