Fixing This TERRIBLE Amazon "Gaming PC" Went...Well

do you know what I want more than anything  in the world a gaming computer with a new   Nvidia graphics card in it so maybe my friends on  fortnite won't tease me about my dad leaving me   anymore I know what I'll do I'll guilt my mom into  buying me the cheapest one of those off Amazon I'm sure that won't end terribly [Music] foreign I saved to me from their terrible PC buying  decisions which may or may not be the reason   why their dad left by punching Timmy in their  tummy and stealing it from them and in today's   video I'm going to first laugh at it and then  turn it into something actually not terrible   oh that's not good potentially but first video  sponsor tessellation monohedral tiling tetramino   and pentamino I Now understand these very  impressive words and many others thanks to   today's video sponsor brilliant.org brilliant  is the best way for you to learn intimidating   topics like math and computer science  interactively from the comfort of the   least ergonomic position you can manage on your  couch I'm learning I've enjoyed their beautiful   geometry course but you can try any of  the thousands of lessons brilliant has   to offer free for 30 days just visit the link  brilliant.org forward slash David or click the   link below and the first two 100 of you will get  20 off of brilliant's annual premium subscription [Music]   this glorified Nas looking thing which funnily  enough shipped with a driver disc it doesn't   have a hole for apparently has an RTX 4070 in it  paired with some internal Hardware that wasn't   considered particularly powerful when it first  launched several Generations ago so we should be   getting about 30 utilization on our 4070 if we're  lucky luckily for the aforementioned Timmy Market   this freakishly endowed Nas does have some plastic  RGB crap on the front which is good we also get buttons on the front and I guess usable front io  on this side we've got this brushed metal finish   with ventilation holes cut in it it doesn't look  like there's much getting through there but in   all fairness to shuttle I don't think they had a  4070 in mind when they designed this case around   the back there's a lot more going on we've got  a suspiciously small power supply next to that   there's some fin stack peeking through I assume  that's for the CPU Cooler and below that we've got   very nas-esque IO we even have redundant ethernet  very nice and then finally below are hilarious   quality control past sticker we have the back  of our 4070 looking a bit out of place back here oh the first thing you see is the little Zotac  RTX 4070 and what's cool about this card is I   think it's the smallest version available of the  4070 so it's great for stuffing and tight holes   and then here we've got the passage where you  normally install all of your hard drives with   some cooling for those hard drives as well  but because we've only got an SSD in the   front here most of that airflow will be hitting  the CPU Cooler which we have further back here   now the CPU Cooler is fascinating because we  have our actual fin stack back here and then   our four heat pipes that lead to the CPU a bit  further off on the motherboard which is quite a   neat solution but it does present an immediate  problem our motherboard is not standard ITX or   matx it's some weird proprietary shape which  is gonna make upgrading a bit more difficult   aside from that our power supply is also a bit  funky it's a 500 watt unit with three pretty   puny 12 volt rails and it's not sfx so it may  be a bit more difficult to swap this out even   without the upgrade I'm curious to see how this  500 watt power supply holds up with the 4070. oh   actually going back to the C CPU this system  has an Intel i5 7400 in it a baby quad core   back from the dark ages of gaming CPUs putting  a 4070 in here is like putting a doberman heart   in a Chihuahua those two things just anatomically  aren't compatible and to top it all off they just   put a single 8 gig stick of ram in here as per  the law of physics that dictates this crap so   not only do we have way too loseria CPU in here  for the RTX 4070 they also kneecapped it what   like what but on that note let's fire it up to  see just how much they've kneecapped it [Music] whoa that's quite the authoritative startup  right there oh that RGB is like being high   beamed in the face wow that's quite the  overclocking app we've got there let's see   if it translates to Ram being at the correct  speed no it it doesn't they brag about 3 200   megahertz RAM on the box but it's just Santa  2400 megahertz we don't have any bloatware   on here because not even McAfee would pay to  be put on this system which tells you a lot you see to me that's exactly why you gotta you  gotta spec your system up properly because you   may have a 600 GPU damn is that what those  cost you may have a 600 brand new GPU in   your system but if you pair it with a Nas  CPU from 18 years ago you're gonna get 60   frames per second at 1080p High settings now  to try and overcome the graphics card falling   asleep while waiting for the CPU to catch up  as you can see from the utilization crashing   down to 20 I cranked up the resolution  but the CPU was a bottleneck even at   4K I I guess we can try some newer games  but this pretty much illustrates my point   graphics card doesn't even really know that gaming  is happening at least with a game like cyberpunk   you can see that the CPU isn't a bottleneck at  oh no it still is it still is a problem in this   game too and then with the last of us we have a  frame time graph that makes it look like we're   mid generation defining earthquake that's less  than ideal now after initially testing the Timmy   baiter I did drop a proper kit of ram in there  which was not as easy as you would imagine I   had to try a couple of different Ram kits and  it took the system a long time to figure out   what to do with the new RAM and because of the  useless bios I couldn't set the ram any higher   than 2400 megahertz but once we actually got into  a game the performance got a lot better but the   RTX 4070 is still barely hitting 40 utilization  so clearly this is just a terrible system but   let's see if we can upgrade this system to unlock  the full potential of the RTX 4070 inside [Music]   the first thing I wanted to establish was if I  could replace the archaic deformed motherboard in   the system with a modern ITX one not only does the  i o line up with the pcie slot for the graphics   card but we at least have two holes that seems to  line up so we just need to hope that there's at   least one hole down here that lines up and then  we should be good but let's tear it down and see   foreign [Music] it seems like all of the front  i o crap in the Tommy baiter is standard [Music]   oh look at our cute little Zotac 4070 about  to be liberated from its bottleneck hell   hopefully it doesn't catch on fire now  and now that we've got the graphics card   out we get a better indication of the  screw situation down here which is not   looking very good for our ITX motherboard  I'm pretty sure we're not going to have   more than two screws holding that board in  place that's fine you know it's as long as   we're not going to go throwing this out  of airplanes it shouldn't be a problem and then with the power supply it becomes  an even weirder angle look at that [Music] but after having unplugged the hordes of cables  I couldn't get the motherboard out I am at least   60 sure that the CPU Cooler is also a mounting  point oh there we go oh that is some bone dry   thermal paste okay never mind that was  not what was keeping it in place but it's   nothing a quick shimmy couldn't fix oh there  we go such an unnecessarily long motherboard   oh so they used a bunch of thermal pads between  the motherboard and the case that's interesting   one thing that is very promising is we do actually  have standoff mounts in the bottom of this case   for normal motherboard shapes so without amazing  news I'm gonna go prep a new core system [Music] okay it's snuck under there so  that's good so we can just kind of I'll even test footed and everything but  because of this dude power supply placement   I got the alignment wrong so it doesn't fit  which means I need to use a much smaller CPU   Cooler it's annoying well I guess my  next option is this little cooler that   be quiet sent over which is apparently  good for a hundred Watts worth of TDP   feels very very unbelievably tight I can't  imagine combining this tiny cooler with a   12 600k and that case isn't going to end  in a house fire but let's see what happens it fits but I immediately ran into another problem  the standoff I used was a recovering victim of   cross threading and all of the other ones I had  lying around had a different issue so the problem   with every other standoff I have is that they're  taller than the stock ones so the motherboard is   going to be at a little bit of an angle but  I didn't have any other options so I just   powered ahead okay there we go the standoff you  mounted Tron works yes this is a bit of a high   difference but it's not that bad let's see what  happens when we drop a graphics card in [Music]   oh that's not ideal but a bit of a panel  gaps never hurt anyone comfortable with   the knowledge I fixed all the problems I  powered ahead reassembling the system now   the next problem that I'm very excited about  running into is that the connector for the   power button doesn't reach the motherboard oh  that came off real fast oh that may actually   be really easy to fix so what they've done is  routed the front panel connectors underneath   this little daughter board thing so I undid  all of the cable routing they did hoping I   could just get a little bit more cable length  to reach the motherboard oh it reaches yay oh   okay very good after which I immediately ran into  yet another problem oh no come on we're so close the CPU power doesn't reach luckily I have  sleeved extension cables that we can use   very convenient and with that I finished  reassembling the significantly upgraded Timmy   baiter 9000 and installed a fresh copy of windows  so I could get to some gaming which went well oh no this has not gone well at all look at those  CPU temperatures I mean it's still clocked okay   but a hundred degrees Celsius is way too high now  if you ignore the fact that the CPU is hovering   around 100 degrees Celsius the performance is way  better with Battlefield 5 at 1080p we're getting   double the frame rate with the same graphics  card which is also now running very hot but I   think if we can reign in those CPU temperatures  we can do even better which hopefully won't lead   to spontaneous GPU combustion oh oh that is all  concerningly hot in here and after burning my   hand on the inside of the PC I had a genius idea I  may not have official mounting for a 120mm AIO but   what if I just kind of rest it on the inside  no it's super not gonna work is it super not   gonna work it's gonna be a lot of effort to see  oh I after I have to try clearly Overjoyed at   the prospect of tearing the system down again I  powered ahead anyway so I could Mount the AIO to   the CPU and see if I could finangle even more  performance into the timovator this feels like   there's no way it's gonna work why does it  fit less than it did when I test fit it what   in the world but despite my whinging the  motherboard is in the more stuffing I did   the more it looked like this was actually gonna  work until I tried closing up the case I don't   know if I consider that bulging fitting does  that count I don't think that counts oh that   is so close it's just bumping up against  this damn power supply beam that's been   in the way the whole time at this point I  guess there's nothing left for it [Music]   oh that was not the sound of a of a Dremel falling  on the ground due to negligence so now after my   very professional drilling job which definitely  didn't break a drill bit uh I think I should just   be able to yay satisfied with a job well done I  reassembled the Tommy baiter with great excitement [Music]   and we didn't even break this QC sticker  which means the manufacturer will have no   way of knowing we tampered with the system smart oh yes that's so much better we're hovering around  60 degrees Celsius on the CPU and we're close to   a hundred percent utilization on our RTX 4070 and  this is at 1080p we even got another healthy dose   of more performance especially in the one percent  lows so what I'm going to do now is game for a   while so that we heat up all of the liquid in the  AIO to see where the temperatures top out [Music]   okay well it's been a while and while on the  CPU we're getting close to 70 degrees Celsius   it does sound like there's a jet turbine on  the desk next to me but at least we're not   sitting at 100 degrees Celsius on the  CPU so I'd say yeah at the end of the   day we didn't a pretty good job making the  Tommy baiter an actual proper gaming system   that is very noisy thank you for watching  and until the next video bye-bye [Music]

Channel: Dawid Does Tech Stuff

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Length: 16min 15sec (975 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 01 2023