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Budget (shoe string GBP): Country: GB Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: windows10 64bit, nfs , gta, farcry web browsing, 4k hdr 60hz Couch Gaming (lg 4k hdr 65"tv) (NO PC MONITOR) Other details Current rig: (i7 3770 3.4Ghz, gtx 660 non ti, zh77a-g43 lga 1155, 12gb ddr3 ram, 120gb win7 ssd, 500gb games hdd, generic HP psu, ps4 controller Hi guys i am new here I don't really understand a lot pc builds and stuff (i do clean and replace my cooling cpu/gpu paste) I am on a shoe string budget looking for sec,hand parts LIST to Upgrade Any ideas are welcome Thank you in advance Ps: english not native to me ....sorry for my spelling ( i am bulgarian)

Hi guys (especially LINUS), Are we allowed to copy the "Scrap Yard Wars" series in our country (Austria), making videos like you guys do. We will also credit You for inventing this series! We here have a pretty descent computer parts site, where useed components are very cheep and easily to get so we thaught it would be nice to make this too. Thanks sev PS: I'm watching every video since ~5 months

HI im Evan From Philippines. i cant Afford Buying a new PC so i came up with Laptop to Desktop Idea -old MSI laptop 1.6GHz Overclocked to 3.3GHz Dual Core AMD Radeon HD 6320 and 6GB DDR3 RAM -Case made from wood and stolen plastic cabinet cover. -added 2 Fans from a old computer. -$1 LED light -old PSU to Power the fans and the Led -old 17' square type Monitor - $7 Gaming Keyboard and mouse Bundle -old Edifier speakers and some red Duct Tape to match our red LED. $8 total Expenses

Where the **** are the scrap yard videos? Or did i just waste 30 dollars on some highschool bullshit web forums?

I think they should have a random perk system at the start of the show (Like pick out of the hat) Things like: Can buy one brand new component Cant spend over a certain amount of money on one item Got an unlimited amount to spend on an item Case must include.... You must complete "set task" before actually going out to buy anything Just spit balling Anyone like this any of these idea? Post some of your own, would love to read!

Hello Linus Media Group and fans, My name is Brendin and I'm here to present a scrap yard type build I am about to send off to a friend. First I would like to preface this build with a story about my friends. Nearly two years ago my best friend Zach introduced me to a guy named Steve that he had met through a game of League of Legends. Since that time Steve has been the most friendly person I've ever met; the three of us chat/play games 4-5 times a week, we aren't afraid to share any personal problems or achievements between each other. Think of it as an online support group for one another. Zach and I live in Edmonton, and Steve lives in the States. We always ask him to come visit us because we feel there would be a lot for him to see and do when all the festivals that run during the summer time, and even if you hate shopping you still need to check out West Edmonton Mall! Although we were sorta kinda joking about him flying up here just to see us, he really thought about it and he decided he was going to save up his money, build a new computer and possibly make a trip to Edmonton to hang out with us, cool right!? Well, all of those plans are now on hold, for a couple of days he mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth. Zach and Steve normally stay in contact through snap-chat because we had a ranked team in League of Legends, so that was the easiest way to get a hold of him when we didn't see him online. When he finally replied, he returns with the crappiest news of all time, he was in the hospital because he was diagnosed with leukemia. Thankfully he has health insurance, but the entirety of his wages goes towards living expenses and the medication for treating leukemia. He caught the leukemia in time, it seems with the medication it will stay in remission and not effect his life expectancy (a silver lining i suppose). Now Steve cannot make a trip to Canada, or at the very least build a new pc. His current rig is an old dual core athlon, with a cheap 512mb graphics card from early 2007/09 doesn't seem to run anything other than moba's. The HDD is old and the pc sometimes hates it when he tries to run a game and discord at the same time. It's slow, frustrating and sounds like the pc is on its last leg with the problems it's been giving him. With Christmas coming around the corner, and myself having consistent 30-40hr work weeks, I finally have some disposable income after being in school for the last 5 years. Zach and I decided to put together a "scrap yard wars" type build with a budget of $300 split between us to surprise Steve with a brand spankin' old but new PC! The build is complete now, and I hope to ship it to him tomorrow, he has no idea what is coming. All he knows is that we are sending him a gift in the mail. I'm very excited for his reaction. For the last two weeks I kept a close eye on Kijiji for any deals on used pc parts. Here is what I found. I decided to search for the cpu/mobo first, as I feels that would be the hardest part, you rarely find compatible cpu/mobo's on the Edmonton Kijij being sold at the same time, Unless its an entire prebuilt PC. Oh boy I think I struck gold on day one. Someone was selling the Linus Tech Tips Scrap Yard Wars cliche build!! I found a listing for a Q6600 CPU with a motherboard and 6gb of ram for $80! It had 2x (2GB) of Patriot Ram and 2x (1GB) of crucial DDR2 ram for a total of 6gb, perfect! More than 4gb thankfully, but not quite 8. Oh well! He threw in a 500gb HDD and DVD drive for $25, so I took that just in case I needed it. The motherboard is an EVGA nForce 780i! This thing was high quality back in the day! If I remember reading the manual correctly, it has (3) 16x PCI-E slots, that's crazy! Anyone reading this should check out this board online, It had to have been a beast back in its day. Now it was time for a video card, I found an HD 6850 for $40, I thought it would be able to handle Overwatch on Med/low settings. I was wrong, oh so very wrong. I didn't think the 6850 would be so pathetic. It's back on Kijiji and my search began for another video card. People kept flaking out, no one wanted to meet up, or they made no effort to schedule a time. I found a 690 for $100! But it sold pretty quickly after the ad was posted, sad life. I found some over priced used cards all over the place, then I found 3 750ti's for $70-$100/ea. One guy was selling two, he said he would sell me one, but he stopped contacting me after a while, then I found another guy selling some weird off brand 750ti from a new dell desktop he bought. The card was hardly used, if at all. I managed to get this from him for $80. I forgot I had my brother's old Corsair HX650 PSU in my closet, he needed a new one because he upgraded his PC to be VR ready, and he threw out the extra modular power cables when he build his pc a couple of years ago. So this cost me 0$. There are literally zero cases for an ATX build on Kijiji for the Edmonton area! I didn't want to spend $70 at the local Memory Express. Thankfully Zach remembered he had his old torn apart PC in his mothers basement from 2009. That's just one more item we don't have to purchase! The first iteration of this build was right after I picked up that 6850. I installed windows on that old 500gb HDD, nope, not good. The drive is slow, clunky and was pinned to 100% usage just by loading up a program. I needed to figure something else out. There was a 120gb SSD in my PC that I had for a W7 partition to run Rocksmith 2014, for some reason the guitar cable only works on windows 7. But I had not played in a while, so I decided to pull it out of my system and use it for this build. I decided I'll replace that later at my own cost. I found a brand new on on kijiji for $45, so we'll factor that price into this build. That's better. An SSD in a budget build. So fast, so snappy, and overall a joy to worth with. I kept the 500gb drive in there for storage and general program/older game installations. (I needed 2 SATA cables for $5 each, I seemed to have given all my extra ones away over the years). I forgot old cases had no cable management holes, were sharp everywhere and poorly layed out. Don't judge my cables, I gave up. I'm tired and I work tomorrow morning haha. I want this shipped ASAP so he can enjoy it before Christmas. You may notice the picture above has a different set of ram in it, It turns out the case Zach brought over had the motherboard ram and cpu in it, so I stole the 4gb of ram from Zach's system and swapped out the 2x (1GB) sticks we had. Now we have a total of 8GB!. Again, no additional cost. Now that the PC is built, we have to overclock it right!? Well, I'm not the greatest or most patient for overclocking, so I went for a small overclock. I unlinked the FSB frequency in the BIOS so I didn't have to mess around with the RAM. I managed to boost the Q6600 from 2.4ghz up to 3.26 by turning up the frequency and setting the voltage to auto. It seems to give it enough voltage on its own. Prime 95 ran for a few hours with no problems (sorry I didn't do the PC master race 24-48 hr test). At 3.3ghz or higher prime 95 runs into problems after a couple of minutes. I decided to stop at 3.26. It was loud and hot with the stock cooler, so I picked up a CoolerMaster Hyper T2 for $23. The 750ti works pretty well, if you look in the above photo's it has some pitiful cooler on it, but it doesn't go over 71C when bench-marking it on Heaven Benchmark. I got about 225 extra on the Core clock, good enough I suppose. It gave me a few extra frames in Overwatch and Guild Wars 2. Both run at playable frame rates on high/med settings at 1080p. I wanted to go into a more in-depth overclocking adventure with base results and end results with more games, but I don't have the time right now. Sorry for the lack of content with regards to overclocking. CPU/RAM/Mobo = $80 Graphics Card = $80 SSD = $45 HDD = $20 Sata Cables = $10 CPU Cooler = $23 Everything else = Free! That's a total of $258! Not bad If I say so myself. Shipping is going to hurt, that will most likely be $100. Maybe this Christmas a group of 3-5 friends can pool together some money to buy used parts to build a PC for another friend in need. Zach and I are planning a road trip to the States to meet up with Steve in August of 2017, nothing like a 14-16 hour drive! I'm excited to meet him in person, and I cannot wait for his reaction when he receives this PC. Thanks for reading this build log, I hope everyone enjoys the holidays this year.

Idea: Collab with minimum of 3 TechTubers from various locations. The challenge can be anything, but it has to take place in their home area. That means someone like Jay would be limited to his area in California and Steve from Gamer’s Nexus would be limited to his area of North Carolina to find parts. Then for judging, they fly to LMG HQ. Ideally, the contestants would have their own camera operator. Jay has Phil, Kyle has Chris or Heather, and Steve has his camera guy (Sorry Steve’s camera guy. I don’t remember your name). It’s a lot of work, but a neat twist none the less. Let me know how you would expand this idea.

there is now scrap yard wars pt 7 this is gonna be awesome. Maybe next time you could try to make the smallest pc case and make a custom case! and one of the rankings is best airflow and thermals!

I was watching the video, left for a few moments, and when I came back the video was gone.

Linus PLEAAAAAAASE do another series of scrap yard wars like about 2 new episodes if possible, please man! i missed that show so freakin' much, i know how to build a sick pc though through that specific show, but i had lots of fun watching it back then when u used to make vids about it, so please Linus consider bringing it back to the channel, and actually it'll be amazing now for this time to bring it back on the channel. Thanks for ur time, i hope you're having a great day, be safe and peace out!

Found out Linus had an IMDb page, thought you guys might find it as amusing as I did,

I personally would love to see it again!

Show off your price to performance beast!!! It has to be your own PC. Let's get started! Mine: $1089.93 CPU Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor $250.00 (used) CPU Cooler Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $89.99 (new) Motherboard Asus Maximus VI Gene Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard $87.00 (used) Memory Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory $100.00 (new a few years ago) Storage Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $56.00 (used) Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $84.00 (used) Video Card MSI Radeon R9 390X 8GB Video Card $166.00 (New, I know. LOL) Case Corsair Air 240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case $89.99 (new) Power Supply SeaSonic X Series 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $74.00 (new) Case Fan Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 37.9 CFM 120mm Fans $26.99 (new) Corsair Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition (2-Pack) 62.7 CFM 120mm Fans $26.99 (new) Corsair Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition (2-Pack) 62.7 CFM 120mm Fans $26.99 (new) Arctic Cooling Arctic F8 PWM 31.0 CFM 80mm Fan $5.99 (new) Arctic Cooling Arctic F8 PWM 31.0 CFM 80mm Fan $5.99 (new) Total (Purchased): $1089.93