welcome to Scrapyard Wars, where Luke and I compete to build the best computer on a fixed budget. And this year, it's going to be interesting because 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. Yeah, go, go, go. Do I keep all the money here? [Music] What? This year, the rules are mostly the same, except for one major change. Our teammate can make pickups after the 5:00 p.m. cutoff. We'll be bringing them in shortly. We still aren't allowed to research or plan off hours, nor are we allowed to use our industry connections or our influencer clout for deals, which has become harder as the channel has grown and my face has become a bit of a meme. That is why our first stop is a little unusual. There's actually one more change this year. You're not building just a

computer you're doing a full gaming setup for $800. Oh, so like monitor, keyboard, mouse, yes. Oh, I can do that. Desk, chair, desk too. Easy. Unless he defines chair, I'm just going to show up with a log. I don't need to Define anything 'cause there's three parts to the score. There's going to be Labs testing, there's going to be subjective judging, and then there will be a benchmark drag race at the end. Oh, so you need to impress the judges with your setup. Well, that is harder than isn't it. Yeah. Oh, it kind of gives you a box or nose. We're going to put on a few small pieces to aid you a little bit. Yeah, 'cause that's what I need. Make you look a little bit more tired, grumpy, haggard biker. Yeah, and you're a biker, you're probably getting all that hitting you clearly. I'm a little ways off from my close up, but that doesn't mean I can't start working on my plan of attack. We know the first name's Duke. What do

you think for the last name. I think you kind of mentioned off and a bit ago Sons of Anarchy. There was like teller Dax Morrow Morrow Duke Morrow. I like Duke Morrow that's a good one. You know what the end result for the makeup supposed to be. Have you given any thought to your identity as this finalized person? Not even a little bit. It might be time to do that. Pick what bike does Duke Morrow ride. I like that one. Okay, Luke has a full Alias ready to go. What I'm probably just going to cheap out and just be my grandpa boo. You need a whole identity. My grandpa's cool. I have a whole identity. I'm John. I'm from the Prairies as is tradition. We start by scoping out the usual secondhand marketplaces. Facebook has come up in a big way since the last time we did one of these. Craigslist is like dead now man. Looking at GPUs over on Facebook right now. I'm kind of wondering if my $100 on

jawwa would be best spent just getting a decent GPU, and then fighting my way through like crappy old Lenovo pre-builts that are local. Honestly, so far finding the things on Jawa seems the easiest, but I'm trying to make sure that I look everywhere. We'll shop around. A 6700 XT is like $400 Canadian Dollar on Facebook, and as low as $240 on Java, so it's like $320 bucks. Wow. Oh yeah, aside from pricing, there's a couple talking points. Put the market in the hands of Gamers. You can find parts, pre-built systems, new and used, and they've got individually vetted, verified sellers, so that's probably what I'm going to want to go with, so I can make sure that we get it shipped up here in time. That's exactly right. Are we considering things like shipping cost and stuff like that? No, no, no, no. We're getting it expedited, so it'll arrive tomorrow. They're not actually available in Canada. They're making an exception for us. I kind of wish they

were though looking at this right now meet your teammate what's up brother name is Duke Meo Duke so I've got a bit of a bad update for you okay turns out um never buying your own computer components and not reviewing computer components for I think 5 years since the last Gra spred Wars means I have no idea what's going on the what I've done is nothing well I have some good news okay I have a plan that I think will win us the game brother there's a whole bunch of mom and popop Tech shops or even just small Tech shops that do like small to medium businesses they have recycling piles oh we could probably just call them so get as much get like BC cases power supplies things like that when I was working at a place several years ago they were recycling eighth gens CPUs whoa I love this one thing that I was doing actually was Googling around for recycling places because something that won me a scrap R wars in the past was finding free geek

yeah yeah totally free geek is closed now oh yeah I forgot about that wo I like this deal what the hell is this Tower only 250 bucks core I 78700 32 gigs Ram this is obviously a custom build comes with a tower cooler woah wo cic 520 wat power supply dude I should just go buy this I might not even keep all that stuff I like 4 days I can flip some of that stuff we're going to turn a paperclip into a house let's go I'm going to be super formal in my communication I think that's going to be part of my Persona I don't have a lot of money what does he want to oh he wants to play fortnite I'm going to spell it wrong thank you John okay send message we're going to see how it goes apparently presentation is some amount of the judging I don't know how much like if we end up with kind of an ugly computer M my idea was that we hide it by like desk mounting the computer

basically, I have found a desk that had cable management holes in it, and all that kind of stuff. That was free. It says pickup available today, so we should offer like now. It's in Langley too, so it's nice and close. Overdale, this guy's like, Yeah, just come by and pick it up. So we will go pick it up today. H, this is interesting. What the hell is a Ryzen 54500? Oh, wait. Do I have a message back already? I'm not a gamer. You need to look at the specs and draw your own conclusions. Sorry, can you advise if this is the best deal you can offer me? All right, well, he got back to me really fast. That's a big improvement over the Craigslist days. What do I want my angle to be? I got to impress the judges. If all I had to do was build a fast computer, no problem. Who are the judges? Can we cater to the judges? Yeah, I'll tell you the judges. It's Nicole Plof and Riley.

so plof we need a good monitor and keyboard. Riley is going to want minimalism. I want to make sure that we try to spend nothing on desk chair things like computer case stuff like that, but we should still try to do cool things with it. I should start figuring out what I'm going to expect to pay for like a desk. I mean it's got to be free, right? Oh, it's free. As things that I'm a little bit concerned about is peripherals and monitor. Labs won't be testing the monitor, they'll just be testing the computer, but the monitor will be more sub experience. Wao, this monitor is 300 HZ for $175. Honestly, you might want to even just send it, that's really good. It's a 24 in 1080p 1 millisecond IPS slow motion. Dude, I can get leftover paint for like five bucks. Like if I painted up the walls near my setup and stuff, I think that'd go a long way. There's one system on Jawa that's like really sick.

it's like legitimately pretty well specked out. My biggest concern was that's American basic our budget. I think that'd be like $800. Yeah, so you have to get like a free monitor, free mouse, free keyboard, free desk, free chair. R it 400 bucks, man. There's some deals, of course. C Sonic Focus gm550, man will not come with storage, okay, that's what's missing on this buddy for 400. All right, hi just sending some messages, sending some messages. High lus never better. Oh God, okay, it was the reverse of what happened when he shaved his beard off. Honestly, things are going a little rough. Okay for team lonus and Sammy. Okay, I found a couple of pretty good deals. They are not responding to me. Oh, I found one okay deal. Buddy needs 2 hours of notice, but it's for a core i7-8700, which is okay, yeah, that's like worse than mine and I play games that run out of hamster wheel. So what I really want is a ryzen 3000 Series.

there's a couple good deals out there. One of them I can call, but I think it might be actually better if you place the call. So guess what, you're up now. We need a store. You're my daughter-in-law, so that's why you're communicating for me, okay? I'm trying to buy a gaming system for my grandson. I guess he's your son then. I'm 23, you could have a son, yeah, biologically speaking. Look, I'm not saying you're a responsible daughter-in-law. I don't have a lot of money. I'm a pensioner, okay? You have reached mailbox number. We're going to text. I guess that makes it a little bit easier. Okay, um, okay, go. Stand by. What I mean, you're good for now. Are you sure you're old man finger store? Should I type it off if we get the whole computer for free? We could spend the rest of the budget just on ploof monitor. His current monitor that he has, I'm down, but that all depends on you getting it.

for free. So why don't you call the tech shops? Yeah, maybe I should and see if they have a Rec seconding pile they let you dig through. This person's mailbox is full. You can okay. I guess we're calling somewhere else. So Luke is also doing this right now. You have reached mailbox number 64. Hey there, I was just calling. I just heard back from uh buddy with the $400 3600 machine. It's got a 1660 super in it already. We could probably flip that for a few bucks. B450a Pro Max 16 gigs rip Jaws 3600 Focus 550 W power supply. Serenity Now. Nice looking case. Okay, lots of nice looking fans and stuff will not come with storage. Exclamation mark. That's fine. We can find storage. I worry that this place is going to know my voice though 'cause I've definitely G you got me do it. Hi there, bit of a bit of a long shot but I've just been calling around trying to see if uh any of the computer shops have like a recycling

pile or something. If you've got anything you were planning on recycling, if I could sift through it, that would be fantastic. Yeah, I could. I could ask one of the bosses, would I be able to give you a call back? Yeah, absolutely. I really appreciate it. What was your name? L uh, Duke. Duke, Duke, yeah. Okay, I'll give you a call back. Okay, thank you. Holy crap. What's your name, Duke, by the way? They probably know who you are 'cause I've been there and they've talked about LMG, so this might be a little bit interesting. I hope they don't agree to do it just because they might have a sense of who you are. If they do, it should be fine 'cause it's free, right? Not really. Oh, I suspect it would be against the spirit of the competition. Ah, I see. But I'll try to be pretty convincing. This buddy has no GPU in it, okay, but does have storage. Okay, oh God. What's this now? I can help you out with that if you're not the most text-having.

oh, that's so helpful. I am asking my daughter-in-law to have a look at your listing for me. She is quite knowledgeable. No pressure though. What do you mean? No, I put things together. I've made one PC, that's it. You know how to graph data visualization, right? Yeah, I could do that on a MacBook. What time would we be looking at? I don't mind this one. Ideally, we should be picking up at least something today, or it's going to be a big waste of Tom's time to make me up. Can we come in? Oh, no pressure, an hour. Can we come? Takes an hour to get there, 1.5 hours. We're going to immediately flip this GPU, okay? 'Cause we're going to pick up something else, but we got basically everything else that we need here, other than storage. So, we just got to find storage. Do we have? We don't have one. Oh, okay, so you just wanted something else. Mhm. Where do you want to meet up? Oh God, we're going to need like an outfit.

for me by then well we're committed now Sammy should we call Black laab Glenn that's the guy who uh we did like buying out the mom and pop tech shop give it a shot. I'll give a call we'll see if Keith answers they picked up my recycling last week ah okay. [Music] yeah I'm going to ask him if he can do $25 off but I feel like I might have committed already am I going to be one of those guys that shows up $50 short and is like well do you want it or not no I hate those people I actually hate them I would be like I don't know this man someone just reached out to me so I'm not sure that's Luke they just low balled you they sound like a jerk pleasure doing business with you that sounds very Boomer I know well it's what I'm going for man yeah no response from any of the tech shops I'm going to feel so dumb if we buy a 3070 knowing we

can get the rest of the parts for like nothing. I agree so overall update. We're debating on buying 3070 on Jawwa and it is well priced on Java. It is actually well priced, uh, compared to our local area right now. But the issue we're potentially seeing is if we spend that little of our budget on a 3070 and we get the rest of the computer for very cheap, we could have theoretically bought a 3080. And so now we're trying to weigh our options of should we just bite the bullet and get the 3070? Should we wait for, for this one of the tech shops to call us? 'Cause maybe they'll say, Yeah, come look through our recycling pile. Well, we could buy the 3070, hear me out. Do you think someone here wants to buy a 3070? We sell it to them for $20 more. That is actually fine. You. I don't think we could sell it in, in, in the company, but if we were able to flip it on Facebook market like a day.

and a half. Yeah, 'cause it's showing up from Java if we buy that stuff has happened by the way. Yeah, it's just very hard. Let's see 3070. Okay, what's a 3070 going for? 2300. Wo, wo, wo. $260. Is this just like an amazing deal? The only thing we're going to get that might be better would be if we could get a 6800 XT. Okay, I don't think we're getting that. Maybe a 6,800 XT. What about a 3080 equivalent AMD card? That's what I'm looking for right now. Got it. Oh man. I'm a little scared to just take the first deal I see on Java, but like I think this is like the best deal. If Luke doesn't get this, I think he's like boned. The thing is that like I feel like if it's the official store, they would have tested it, question mark. That's true 'cause that's like a big chunk of change, right? And we can't get it back. Still going.

with that then, yeah, I think we're still going to go with it. Found a 100 Herz 1080p 22in monitor for 50 bucks, or we get that monitor that we saw, that super Overkill monitor 'cause if we get a 3070 or 3080, it'll be able to drive it. But then that monitor is 100 Canadian. It was, yeah, it, and it's all the Java money so we would only have 600 bucks left, which then would be 500 for a 3080 so we' have $100 $100 for the rest of the system and peripherals. There is a $75 one, it's 24 in 144, that's sick, isn't it? Yeah, 75 bucks, and then we have 25 bucks still on Java so spend it on that SSD. What's the most we can get for the max price of 25 bucks? We can get a 256 SATA or a 256 m.2, sheesh brother, or we spend 28 so we go $3 US to Canadian and we get a 480 sat.

you want to do that. I think that's that seems pretty good to me. Okay, we need to find out what the cheapest SSD we can get is. Oh, wait, buddy here has tons of them. Okay, no, no, we can. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so we can, we can get them for 20 bucks. Canadian locally. Now we're trying to make a commitment on the GPU so that we can have a pricing for the rest of the system, but we don't want to actually spend the money. So we're going to ask someone if we can make an agreement to buy the card and say, Can we pick it up tomorrow? With full intention to actually do that, but by saying we're going to pick it up tomorrow, we're buying ourselves the time to figure out if it's even technically possible. So that is 100% the goal. We're not going to try to bail on this person, um, but we want to lock in the deal. $380 and 800 system is insane. I can pick it up tomorrow. Is there any wiggle?

room on the price. Smiley face. I don't know if I'm deleting the smiley face. I don't know if Duke Mero would send a smiley face. Oh, sorry, yeah, you're Duke c i. Oh, I never checked my email. Whoo, whoo, whoo, I heard back from this guy. I'm 3 after 6 today. Okay, original Craigs List. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, but it only comes with 8 gigs of RAM, but it has a better motherboard. It has a Quadro 600. That's like really old. I think Quadro 600 is worth $5. Where do you see 4500 u in the posting? I mean, it says 4500. That's not a CPU. Wait, what the H is a ryzen 54500? Oh, it is a desktop chip. How okay with bending the rules are you? We're okay with that. What if we like bought this and then we went on like a

selling spree over the next bit because I think this deal is crazy. Okay, like I think this guy has no idea what this stuff is worth. There's five Noctua fans. The Noctua fans are worth $200. I say we do it, okay? And then we sell stuff, and then we have to sell stuff to get back under budget, okay? Luke would do the same thing. I don't know if we actually want to go with his name, but hey, young Mike, such a stupid name. What's up? If I come pick up today at 6, can you give me $20 off? See, this isn't so much a budget management exercise as a cash flow management exercise because the Jawwa cash hasn't left our wallet. So as long as by the time the Jawwa card arrives and the cash is back in our wallet by then, then we're good, okay? Right, I didn't hear anything, and I we'll allow it 'cause it sounds interesting. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Between these two deals, I think we're in really good shape because like Orizon

3600 is worth like 90 bucks. This is all mental math, which is not my specialty. Have you seen the tattoos? Wa, you got one by your eye. Damn, your nose is huge. I can't get over the nose. The nose is pretty huge. This side is enormous. Yeah, I really don't look that different. I think if I put a hat on though. Yeah, a hat would help. Here we go, here we go. We heard back. Okay, sure, sure, sure. 20 bucks off. We just got 20 bucks off. Let's go. $20 is the difference between victory and crushing defeat. Okay, in Scrapyard Wars, $20 is the difference between cute desk and not cute desk. That's true. And it'll get us points with Nicole, right? 'Cause she has a cat, right? Yes. I'm still on your head. All right, let's do it. I think you should do it. You want me to shave his head? You should shave his head. Why are we even doing this at all? Does he need to be convincing as well? Is Linus's person also getting disguised?

that a no the problem is Elijah is actually kind of recognizable. Uh, we do need to go to our first Port of Call very soon though. Here's what I'm thinking, Sammy. Okay, do you want to make a quick trip to the Valley Village? We have a separate budget for clothes for our outfit, okay. You got to help me out here. I'm fine if you try to actually style it. You don't have to go straight bald. What does style it mean? I don't know. Do a lower taper fade. Straight bald is the only style we know. I already regret it. I don't know if this is the right time to say it. I've never cut anyone's hair in my entire life. If you want to see the uh, the full, you know, uncut version of me brutalizing Elijah's hair, uh, check it out on Flow playay. And if you're not subscribed, there has never been a better time. We're going to be releasing every part of scrapyard world a little bit early on the platform. And that's on top of all.

the incredible content we have cooking at lm. g/f flat plane. But wait, there's more. If you're itching for even more Scrapyard Wars goodness, Jawa has an entire giveaway campaign running right now. They gave us a sneak peek, and I got to say, you're going to want to check it out for yourself. That's at the link below. Now back to the video. Sorry, I'm a little focused right now, but yeah, check it out. I appreciate him being focused. Oh my God, that's a lot of hair. I'm giving young Mike a buzz. What does that say? I don't want to this rip. Okay, I don't want it to be like white people can't read this or something. We're here at Valley Village. Line is giving $50 in cash. I was tasked to specifically get him a hat. We'll see what embarrassing things I can put him in there. His name's BJ, but he wears socks with sandals at the office, so I don't know how much worse it can get. $13.99. We'll go with this. I'm an adult.

but not like a real adult. I think this one is more fitting of a boomer man with a daughter-in-law who's 23 years old. So how much is this one? $7.99. It'd be really funny if we had a fedora. His head's kind of small, isn't it? Maybe we do have to go with a cap. Then we'll go with this one. It's very beige and sad. Pants are hard 'cause the thing is like he's so short. So I think getting shorts is like the safer option here. Khaki might work like he goes boating and fishing every once in a while. He sold his house for $3 million even though he bought it for $150,000. It matches. Okay, we're [Music]. Good. You look like that could just be your haircut. Yes, I did it. I mean same with you. I just look like I got you mentioned it. I think you said it well. I just look older and like I had some bad decisions. What do you mean great decisions now look here young man. My God.

he looks way different than I do. You don't look that different. You look older. We're hoping a hat is going to be a big part of the sale. I haven't seen myself yet. To be fair, you look older as well. Oh my God, you just look a lot older. I feel like you've maybe got a bit of an advantage here 'cause people will be like nice to the old grandpa trying to buy a computer for probably what I'm assuming you're going to say is you're like young. Gosh, I never thought of that. Oh, you just gave him advice. No, trust me, he was going to do it anyways. I'm buying a PC for my grandson. Yes, yeah. Have you seen the neck one yet? Oh, not bad actually. I like that. Yeah, it's good. You should get neck tattoos. No, you know you can have hats from here, right? Oh, a pirate hook. What, Elijah, whose team are you on? You could also just wear a freaking helmet. You know what, that sells the look.

a lot that I'm going to leave and get in my car. No, you want to go with, like, the Canadian flag. The Canadian flag is really good. This hat is definitely too small for me. I think it was a child-sized hat. You know what, your laugh is so distinctive though. I got to not laugh. Found any good deals? Yeah, actually I didn't. Nice. I got no good deals. Nice. All right, see you later. See you. Hi there, honey. Give me a kiss. Wow, that's actually like very realistic. Not bad, huh? No, it's pretty bad. How's it going? I mean, how's it going, young whipper snappers? My goodness, you young people. It's inspiring seeing y'all working so hard in here. The visual change is actually, people won't recognize you. I think I've seen the other team, and they look very much like the other team. Look at that. Callin speechless. Dad, well, you have a hat, but I bought you a dad hat, which also might work. We got to go, basically, like, immediately. So I'm just going to thr. This is a shirt.

still had the tag on it. Doesn't really matter what it says because I grabbed you a sweater. I grabbed you a sweater. Okay, maybe we'll throw the sweater on. And then I grabbed you like khaki shorts 'cause I wasn't I didn't want to buy long pants and have them be too long because okay, you know. So good luck. Go. I made sure that they didn't have weird stains or holes on them. So thanks. We are headed to Value Village to try to get the rest of my costume, like the clothing portions of my costume. Elijah is off to go pick up the desk and potentially other things from some warehouse. I'm hoping he can come out with a desk and a chair. Now my eyes ain't what they used to be. I think we're. I think we're going to turn right up there. Is that right? All right. What's this accent? Hold on. Hold on. Let me try again. You should have gotten coaching from Gary. I don't think any of these beat the

Canada hat and I close enough to the steering wheel. Oh, am I in the lane right now? Yeah, is it actually work? Yes, we just get this and then I can check what shirt I have in the car and go. Nice, yeah, well this is it. Yeah, first deal. Am I going to pass? I hope so. If you just like look down, maybe hopefully he's taller than you. So that's rich coming from you. Uh, am I going to get away with this? The voice you have to change the voice. [Music] Sorry, um, so we're yeah, we're here to pick up the PC. Our success hinges on selling some of the components that we' bought. His name is John, isn't that lius? I didn't tell you this, but I'm $80 over budget. Do you think he's faking selling stuff? This listing is being reviewed. Did Luke report it? That would be quite the actual move. Sorry for being difficult here.

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