$300 Budget Gaming PC Challenge - Scrapyard Wars Episode 1a

all right welcome to scrapyard wars where Luke and I try to build the best computers we can with a set of guidelines and a fixed budget so this is our first episode where I'm looking for a lot of feedback from you guys about what we can do to make these fun and interesting in the future but for today's challenge we are keeping it very simple $300 cash the very best gaming rig that we can build with a few rules so number one is no monitor or other peripherals required we only have to build the tower no worker research can be pre done so you can't like go on websites or Craigslist and try to find things before or in-between each participant gets a total of eight hours to actually find everything and then four hours to build it tune it and benchmark it cuz I'm not paying any Overtown on this so we are staying inside those guidelines no leveraging friends social media contacts co-workers or anything of that sort overclocking is allowed we'll be measuring performance of the machines using 3d mark firestrike Tomb Raider 2013 and dirt three and along with the new peripherals thing it's just a tower that you need no operating system or anything like that so let's get to it shall we retro floors [Music] yeah yeah we know you have exceeded your daily transaction limit please take your receipt I see declined okay then i'ma go inside I have the cashola alright let's go shall we good luck I should have known he'd never fall for that I'm fairly sure he's going to waste time going back to the office I brought a laptop with me so I will begin immediately I really hope it's charged there's a store somewhere in Vancouver I think it's called reboot it's a non-for-profit little store thing that kind of refurbishes computers and sells computers and does kind of cheap repairs and stuff for people that need it and I think if I can participate in this contest and support a company that tries to like they do really cheap computer repairs and I know they try to like I think they do some charity giving computers to people and stuff if I can help them out get a cheap computer from them and participate in the contest then that's doing many things well at once so I'm gonna try and see if I can do that I'm going to contact them figure what their hours are and go from there now we're rockin yeah Jesus [Laughter] all right so should we started on red flag deals used to be used to be a haunt for me I used to find a lot of good stuff there the Linus tech tips buy sell trade that Craigslist you want me to call Anthony ah oh oh that no we're not allowed to leverage friends and this is where the like montage music has to come in don't don't buy a laptop that might be the best we can do and then this guy also had a hard drive for 20 bucks oh he likes it does he okay good excellent that means literally nothing so an intel core2duo with 80 gigabyte hard drive Oh God and two gigabytes of RAM for 50 bucks though so it leaves me $250 to get a guy off his card let me give them a call [Music] this is why we don't make TV shows there seems to be a pretty significant drop in price once you get to court you do arrange so I'm looking for that because I think that'll be fine for most of the games it'll fall behind a bit for sure on tomb raider are they gonna come to concede defeat are they going they're not allowed to take out more money oh they're trying to film things better than just pointing the camera at me in the car cutsies whoa this could be Oh is this that same freakin guy well he has a case he has a CX 500 power supply - if I hear back from this guy I don't think Luke's gonna think to check Kijiji okay 45 and then this is a combo and then this is a combo whoo computer cases with power supplies and other hardware phone calls only please all right here we go hi hi you have a Craigslist listing for computer cases with power supplies and $10 or something so do you have anything reasonably new with a 24-pin power supply and compatibility for a micro ATX board like some kind of standard board or is it all gonna be non-standard like Dell HP stuff that's an Athlon oh okay that's a little older than I need I'm looking for an entry level gaming PC if you can just tell me what CPUs the system's that you have I'm very familiar with the ha I'm very familiar with the hardware I know what I'm looking for I just need to know what you have oh okay that that might actually be very helpful my name is Linus what I'm trying to accomplish is today I want to find my platform so everything I'll need and then tomorrow essentially I want to spend the entire time finding the best possible price that I can on a GPU it's like my whole plan tomorrow pick up I I just found another computer same price but it's actually five dollars cheaper has a 450 watt power supply that's probably fine 4 gigs of ram so that's a slight improvement there 4 gigs around that's probably good enough and then any 8400 again kind of surprised he hasn't just tried to like leave and go into some little computer shop and get them to give him a deal because of who he is that was my full expectation the whole time and then he put up the rule that we can't use our influence I was like wow because that's exactly what I expect you're going to do mm-hmm so now I'm not sure how he's gonna cheat I just know that he's going to you know what we should do is we should look really excited when we pull out and and we should look like we're heading somewhere ok we'll give them a little little farewell beep beep you know I don't even know how to use Craigslist first stop is going to be the Salvation Army thrift store this isn't a computer [Music] how was bad that was really bad I hope lionesses time is not not going better I just throw the car under us and he will be ok we can afraid we could afford judgement at the end of the at the end of the contest when we have no computer because there's no computers at thrift shops and - magically found something on Craigslist I'm hoping that they don't have like computer savvy employees so they might undervalue a certain Tower compared to another one like that my price to them at the same price and one of them is actually clearly better fingers crossed [Music] is this literally a clothing store now [Music] hi hi I'm actually contacting a few guys that are selling computer parts may I ask which one Dilbert uh yeah that's right hi I'm just generally looking for everything right now I don't have any of the components locked in and I need to get everything by about midday tomorrow it's a birthday present what would we be looking at for something like a Q 6600 and a bored still leaves me needing case power supply do you have any like super cheap Oh stupid stuff yeah case and power supply okay I'm not worried about the case looking great he doesn't see real well [Music] you know what look I will call you back before the end of your shop time today so I'll call you back in the next hour or so and I'll let you know if I'm gonna come by tomorrow morning and pick this stuff up sounds like this might be the deal that helps me out here all right thank you very much take care maybe it was worth while to listen to that life story after all we might have just gotten everything but a video card with a hundred dollar budget for a graphics card left over okay that might be like plus tax well let's hope it's not I got an email back from the guy that I actually wanted to respond the most this was the guy with the 8,400 that had four gigabytes of ddr3 as well and the 500 gigabyte hard drive it's not the greatest price but that's an option he's available right now which is good so I need to figure out if I can get a what I can get for a graphics card for 220 bucks if I can get something good enough which I think I can I think I'll go with it - mica yes I did okay I got it I got to be upfront with you I can't leverage being me as a negotiation strategy so you have to pretend that I'm not who I am so I don't need a water-cooled card I need an air-cooled card which means that since I I don't have any budget left over for the rest of the system I pretty much have to get an all-in-one liquid cooler for $100 - whatever I pay for your card so that's where I'm at I have got no leads on an all-in-one liquid cooler and I have to have this done by the end of the day tomorrow is bear now Israel I see that yeah can you do 80 okay can I pick it up can I pick it up today or tomorrow can I come tomorrow morning you're in Richmond correct you're in Burnaby I think I'm gonna be in Burnaby anyway like I'm doing a bit of I'm doing a bit of computer hardware pick up stuff tomorrow so I will be I'll be around so tell you what why don't you just pick somewhere somewhere safe near wherever it is you live like a Starbucks or whatever and then just let me let me know you've got my number so if you just text me the address and what time works for you I'll be there tomorrow morning okay all right thank you that would be no problem all right take care okay we have secured a GTX 580 for $80 if they can get a slightly faster CPU than us like maybe an 1155 core i5 quad core something along those lines even if they have a slightly lesser video card they might still come out ahead if they get a similar video card better CPU then we're in real trouble but basically this is gonna I need to make sure our power supply has support for GTX 580 that's a pretty power hungry card hopefully spinning their wheels finding nothing all right so I got the computer everything works he booted it up for me I got to inspect everything it's fine I didn't haggle him down anymore so I got it for 80 bucks which i think is fine we'll have to see what Linus got but that seems like an okay deal for an 8400 computer to me the inside is really nice and clean so I was happy to see that it looks like he took good care of it or at least took good care of it right before I got there yeah not entirely sure which one but anyways kind of baller Ram I didn't expect of it okay maybe not absolutely baller but it's gold plated well not really gold plated gold painted ocz memory which I thought was kind of funny there's the e 8400 the fan CPU fan and everything is in immaculate condition which is great let me get this back in here one quick second I thought it was kind of funny the optical drive isn't even hooked up but I wouldn't use it anyway so the power supply though is kind of like the most sketchy balls thing ever it's a power link 450 watt but yeah I don't know no PCIe power whatsoever there's two molex as those so I can adapter off for that so I don't know we're just gonna have to see so this will be my base platform I'll see if I need to get a new power supply and then yeah this is really awkward because I've just made appointments with our GTX 580 water-cooled card and our cooler for it which are totaling $100 but someone just accepted our offer for $100 on a 79 50 so I'm gonna do a little bit of research into overclocking the 580 and overclocking the 7950 but I'm gonna feel like a real bad dude but I might have to bail on those guys and take the better offer the problem is that now I have to go get it tonight which means I might have to take like the kids with me so save on select Intel Core i7 processors and 730 series SSDs with instant rebates during Valentine's week February 14th to 21st 2015 click now to learn more so did we decide about going to get things tonight I can't well that's very interesting then I have a call to make [Music] I'm not cheating replying to a message there wasn't okay I had to I had no I had to do other stuff I've been back here for a bit I had to like record a voiceover and stuff no have I been here have I been working Wow dicks sorry I can't come down to get anything tonight so I might have to pass if anything changes I will I will give a call tomorrow to to let you know if it comes to that then if it's not too much to ask maybe take the card out with you and I could come to you wherever you happen to be because it's a bit of a scavenger hunt situation I've got going on Thanks my number is 3 10 10 10 Pizza Hut good night there I'm done for the night there it's all I'm doing tonight next time on scrapyard wars linus gets a tetanus shot Luke gets mugged and Nick fights a demon God none of that actually happens or does it

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 6,049,901

Rating: 4.9359436 out of 5

Keywords: scrapyard wars, computer, build, pc, $300, budget, gaming, competition, benchmark, Personal Computer (Video Game Platform), Gaming Computer (Literature Subject), Video Game Culture, Video Game (Industry), console, killer

Id: x1JA24KCAjE

Length: 17min 26sec (1046 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 14 2015

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