Scrapyard Wars 7 (Unofficial)

[A_Mediocre_Kangaroo_Farmer]

A scrapyard wars where all the parts needed are already acquired but hidden in the "Battlefield". They are given paintball/airsoft/lasertag weaponry and have to find and gather the parts needed while trying to fight off the other team. It is split into many rounds and there are GPU rounds PSU rounds case rounds etc. The final round is the CPU and motherboard round where the teams have to find a matching set.

 

Every round has many low tier pieces a few mid tier and 1-2 high tier ones.

 

@nicklmg Please make it happen

[xedalpha]

10 hours ago, mankeez said:

The thing is yours stands out. It's the most down to earth, reasonable option and which I now want to watch so If you dont get LTT working on it imma get mad at you (kidding obviously)

You win. Time to shout into the void and see if it shouts back...or bans me.

 

*Inhales*. Yo, @LinusTech, might I have a brief moment of your attention?

 

*hides*

[Tech_Dreamer]

$1000-$1500 budget "scrapyard wars"? oh you mean "Average budget build wars"?

[mankeez]

10 hours ago, KhandakeF said:

The Corsair RGB fans Kyle reviewed?

No, the LTT special noctua edition.

[Vode]

Scrapyard Wars Aussie edition with Bryan from TechYesCity!!

[Jasco1997]

$500 budget, 48 hours nonstop with no down-time and no breaks

[Canada EH]

On 11/7/2017 at 3:12 PM, mankeez said:

I have a probably great idea for SYW7. They should do like they did in the second one, but with 1200$ budget because it'd be super funny to watch linus break a 1080 Ti while trying to watercool it ??

$1200 aint no scrap yard

Its gotta be cheaper then that, its gotta be scrap yard prices.

[Canada EH]

5 minutes ago, Jasco1997 said:

$500 budget, 48 hours nonstop with no down-time and no breaks

Live stream for charity donations and giving the pc's to needy familes, but I doubt they'd ever do that. They dont even wear poppies for our veterans.

[Cajmo]

On 07/11/2017 at 10:23 PM, Tomsta said:

Come to London and do the £1337 build again but with public transport not included, public transport in London in very expensive

Not if you stay inside Zone 1. Then it's like £6 a day.

[NoCarrier]

three ideas..

 

1. teams with people chosen from the community.  Luke and Linus would advise/judge and award prizes

2. retro hardware!  set limits by year... all the hardware must accomplish a certain goal but can't be newer than XXXX year/time period. the older the rig, the more points it scores.

3. no cars! public transport, walking, or bicycle only. 

[Canada EH]

Go to an e-recycler, and the teams are given one hour to scrounge their intake, and Linus gives free advertising to that e-recycler!

 

E.R.A. - Electronic Recycling Association

www.era.ca

 

ENCORP Return It

return-it.ca/electronics

 

FREE GEEK

freegeekvancouver.org

 

 

[GDRRiley]

5 hours ago, Cajmo said:

Not if you stay inside Zone 1. Then it's like £6 a day.

or outside of it.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

12 hours ago, NoCarrier said:

1. teams with people chosen from the community.  Luke and Linus would advise/judge and award prizes

For an extra bit of challenge, have people setting up the systems who were born AFTER PCIe and SATA came out.

(This should actually be after the next section, I just can't move it on mobile.)

 

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2. retro hardware!  set limits by year... all the hardware must accomplish a certain goal but can't be newer than XXXX year/time period. the older the rig, the more points it scores.

I would especially like to see this!  I want to see Linus and crew struggle with parts that don't support any type of auto-configuration or plug-and-play.

 

For expansion slot interface, it can't use any technology released after 1991.  (PCI came out in 1992.)  ISA would be used - you had to manually configure IRQ line, I/O address, DMA channel, etc.

 

Peripheral devices aren't allowed to use interfaces from after 1993.  (USB development began in 1994.)  Instead, use serial, parallel, game and 5-pin DIN ports.  (Also, try to avoid PS/2.)

 

Also no DVI or newer either - use DE9 D-Sub connectors for display outputs.  (DE15, what VGA uses, may be allowable if there's no auto-configuration or hot plugging supported.)  (Display interface should be no newer than 1986 - the VGA connector came out in 1987.)

 

Internal storage devices are prohibited from using interfaces from after 1985.  (IDE was designed in 1986.)  They'll need to manually configure things like cylinders, heads, sectors/track, write pre-compensation,, landing zone, interleave, etc.

 

For PSU/mobo/case design, it has to be from 1994 or earlier.  (ATX came out in 1995.)  Watch out when plugging in the mobo power connector - if it's done wrong, BANG!

 

RAM should be individual DIP chips - no SIMMs (invented in 1982) or newer are to be used.

 

Basically the system would use serial ports, DIN connectors, DE9 D-Sub, ISA slots, ST-506 interface hard drives, etc.

 

Oh, and a command line only OS should be used.  (A GUI is only allowed specifically to run games that require it, it cannot be used to aid in setup. In no case is any Windows OS newer than 3.11 allowed if a GUI is used at all.)

 

 

 

The builders can have people old enough to have experience in those legacy things coaching them verbally (no hands-on except for emergencies, for example one of Linus's kids, or someone else born after NVMe or LGA 2011/1150 was invented, has plugged in an AT power connector wrong and has their other hand on the power switch about to turn it on), as well as being their competition.

 

I'd like to see some other tech tubers and maybe a few Twitch streamers participate in building said systems as well.

 

A lot of the games played would be the older DOS games, with the most graphically intense ones probably being Wolfenstein 3D or the original DOOM.

 

 

Oh, and another video I'd like to see sometime is the aftermath of @LinusTech Drop Tips dropping a mechanical hard drive WHILE it's being accessed.

[Kamjam21xx]

Make it a live streamed event with gps monitoring and such, and you get 1 day start to finish.

[Quadriplegic]

I would agree about setting a limit for date, but I would say it has to be (somewhat) modern system. I mean, one of the points of Scrapyard Wars is to build a machine that is capable of something, right? 

[Ezzy-525]

21 minutes ago, Kamjam21xx said:

Make it a live streamed event with gps monitoring and such, and you get 1 day start to finish.

A live stream would be a little tedious for a full day (considering there would be quite a bit of downtime waiting for replies and travelling etc.).

 

It would essentially end up like that raw 2hr video they did as proof of when they bought processors and compared them with the review samples they got.

 

I much prefer the "from the ground up" idea.

 

Also, I'd much prefer it to go back to just Linus v Luke (at a stretch have other LMG employees take part). I understand that collaborations with other YouTubers is good for views but crossovers don't always work. The only duo I'd be willing to watch against Linus and Luke (Team name: Lie-Nus and LukeWasWrong) is Kyle and Paul (Team Name: Awesome Hardware...obviously). I know it happened in Season 5...but I like the dynamic that the 4 of them had.

 

@bitwit Any possibility of you and Paul jumping back in for another Scrapyard Wars against the boys?

[Kamjam21xx]

Id sit and watch it live streamed for like 5 hours on a sunday @Ezzy-525

 

Ya never know the turnout until ya try.

[Ezzy-525]

3 minutes ago, Kamjam21xx said:

Id sit and watch it live streamed for like 5 hours on a sunday @Ezzy-525

 

Ya never know the turnout until ya try.

To be fair...I probably would too 

 

But with all the driving and whatnot, it might not hold viewers.

[Adrafu]

How about no money just influence?