I Bought Another $1400 Aliexpress Gaming Pre-Built...

look ugh mr tape man still has their job  although i will say the straightness and the   general quality of the tape job has definitely  gone downhill so i'm thinking maybe they've   received a 10-year position but anyway about six  months ago at this point i spent a thousand four   hundred dollars on a gaming pc from aliexpress  and aside from it being a little bit rough around   the edges it was an awesome system although  it's been six months and considering that the   global pc market's been on a heavy drug binge for  like a year now i thought what does a thousand   four hundred dollars buy you on aliexpress at the  moment is it going to be better is it going to be   worse is it going to have flesh-eating bacteria  in the box i don't know but we're going to find   out today but before we get into that it's time  for today's video sponsor that helped me pay   for this box tape today's video is sponsored  by the elgato wave 3 usb microphone which i'm   actually using to record this audio this is what  it sounds like when i provocatively whisper into   the microphone the microphone uses a premium  condenser capsule that picks up audio in a   cardioid polar pattern the elgato wave 3 also has  a physical volume gain knob right on the front   of the microphone making it really easy to adjust  your levels on the fly the elgato wave 3 also has   a capacitive mute button right on the top of the  microphone so that you can shout at your neighbors   mid-stream without getting banned on twitch so  considering the wave 3's noob friendly plug and   play functionality mixed with its excellent audio  quality this is an amazing option for anybody who   wants to step up their audio game thank you very  much elgato wave 3 for sponsoring today's video [Music]   now before we de-robe the system and play around  with its insides i just want to walk you through   the experience that i had with the seller  ibsen because it was actually really pleasant   when i ordered the system on aliexpress i  cheaped out and got the aliexpress shipping   and after maybe a day i got a message from  the seller saying that they don't trust the   aliexpress shipping so they'll give me a  free upgrade to the dhl shipping which was   i was very excited about that and it meant that  the system took two weeks to arrive from placing   the order which for aliexpress is real impressive  so let's open it up and have a look at what we got now aside from the uncharacteristically amateur  box tape job the box has actually suffered   quite a beating in its journey with dhl and then  another weird thing aside from that is that it has   lithium battery warnings on it which  would make sense if this was a laptop   but but it's not a laptop so yeah i'm  curious to see what batteries are in here oh this is a very flimsy box and in there   uh we have what looks like a significantly  less interesting pc than last time [Music]   someone fell out i really like the inclusion of  these two little packets of air that'll really   make all the difference i don't know if you can  see any of this on camera but looking through   there there are some worrying things going on  the graphics card's actually not installed i'm   kind of hoping it's in this box uh because  it's it doesn't seem to be in the case but   we'll check that out in a second let's first  just have a closer look at the system [Music] after unboxing this system i was greeted by this it seems like dhl still hosts its illegal  underground pre-built fights however i don't think   it's entirely dhl's fault if the seller had used  higher quality foam and double boxed the system   maybe it would have survived dhl's mild curb  stomping but with that let's have a closer   look at this interesting looking case the case is  definitely less pink than last time but it's still   quite interesting i've never seen this case before  on the front you've got this kind of like metal   metal-ish plate on the front with a bit of  ventilation that i don't think does much   and then we've got this this plate with the power  button on it and some more ventilation behind that   and on the top not much going on in terms of  ventilation but it's another one of those metal   plates the front i o is on the side here which i  actually think is a really good spot for front i o   especially if you have your system on the  desk next to you on the side we've got   very restricted ventilation and a dent in  terms of rear i o it looks distinctly 2012   gaming system uh we we don't have a graphics  card i don't see it lying on the inside of   the case i think it's definitely in  that other box uh which which we'll   talk about in a bit and then finally we  have the power supply which is by corsair oh it's a nice glass panel whoa okay  there's there's a lot going on in here   let's start with the positives we have dual  channel ram isn't that nice look oh two sticks   i think this is 16 gigs and then right next  to that we have an aio it is designed by   cooler master and as you can see it's  got these cute rigid thin little tubes under there we have a ryzen 5 3600 which is a  six core 12 thread cpu and we should get pretty   decent temperatures with this aio now when  it comes to the motherboard i don't actually   recognize this it is an asus b450m which i don't  think i've seen for sale locally and it does seem   to be quite a basic motherboard you can see  that that is not much of a power delivery we   have over there under that we have a decent wd  500 gig nvme drive which has this kind of seal   that protects the the screw underneath again i've  not really seen that before and if you have a   closer look at the pcie slot you can see we have  some thermal paste splatter i think that thermal   paste [ __ ] is a fairly standard feature on  aliexpress species because this is the third one   out of three that i've seen with it on these front  three fans are doing some experimental choking   with that solid front panel and these two fans in  the top are also definitely not doing anything in   fact the only bit of the case that even remotely  resembles actual functioning ventilation doesn't   have fans on it it's like the only bit of the  case that doesn't have fans on it it's a bit of   a brave move now up until this point again the  eagle-eyed of you would have noticed that there   is no graphics card so let's go check out that  box and hope that the graphics card's in there   now supposedly we we should have  an rtx 3060 in here so so let's see   what version of the card we got oh that actually  looks like a really awesome version of the card   oh look at that we've got a tough gaming  version of the rtx 3060 and that is   quite a good looking card we've got a huge  heatsink on here with a very open-air design   and on the back we've got some tire tread  effect for some reason but i guess you   know what they say nothing says premium  gaming hardware like roadkill [Music] whoa damn when you take the back panel off  you can really see how structural the damage   is that it suffered in shipping that sucks  this system really got its ass handed to it   i think i'm gonna message the seller and see  what they have to say about it the rear cable   management is pretty good everything's routed  relatively neatly around the case and then we   have this huge uh fan hub that controls  all of the useless fans around the case   and then in terms of power supply we have  this corosair vs 550 unit it's a 550 watt   power supply it's very basic but it it should  be okay and it should get the job done so with   that let's put the graphics card in here fire  it up and see what kind of vd we have on here [Music] okay um every time i see this case i just feel  bad for it damn uh but yeah it's the moment of   truth let's see if it's still work okay i  don't know why that's happening it's it's   seizuring quite hard is oh yes we do have a  signal out now the ram is running at 26 66   megahertz as opposed to 3 000 megahertz and as  you can see no settings were changed in the bios   i don't know why they thought that ecstasy induced  rave was the best default setting for the lighting   wow there really is nothing on here this  is a completely virgin windows install   that's amazing i don't think i've ever seen that  on an on a pre-built system okay i've installed   aura creator i've also installed armory crate  and looked on both of them it seems like that   rgb isn't plugged into the rgb header on the  motherboard so we don't have like software   control of it i don't know i'm gonna have to  figure out how to get it to not be running in a   seizure mode so let me just open up the back and  have a closer look at what's going on over there   okay so we've got rgb problems that we have to  deal with which as you all know is my favorite   thing in the world to do but anyway we have  this fan hub rgb thing which has a bunch of   warranty void if removed stickers which is quite  funny because for some reason according to them   unplugging a fan voids your warranty which is a  bit weird but anyway this i think also controls   the rgb now there is this controller which i  think may change the rgb settings okay well   let me actually test that okay so we have  the death flashing happening here let's see yes that does change it that is actually really  irritating because it means the only way to   change it from the just seizure inducing rgb vomit  spectrum death whatever is by opening your back   panel and and using this little controller now  i do think that you can plug this into the rgb   header on your motherboard for software control  i think that's what this cable is but it's not   been plugged in uh it ends up here i think this  is the header a few moments later so after an   unacceptable amount of struggling i've freed this  little rgb header which i assume is the thing that   gives this controller a software rgb support i  don't know that for a fact because the label is   in what i think is mandarin and and i can't read  mandarin so i'm just going to plug it into an   rgb header on the motherboard and hopefully  nothing explodes well nothing's immediately   exploded so that's that's good now let's see  if we do actually have software control of the   rgb because i just want to gauge how infuriated i  should be about the fact that it wasn't plugged in   uh search for devices it's not compatible with  aura sync so that's why it's not plugged in that   kind of explains that which really makes that  out of the box rgb configuration an interesting   stylistic choice but anyway let's see what kind of  gaming experience we get with this system [Music]   at this point we're about 50 minutes into the  session of battlefield v almost at an hour and   the temperatures have been stable for ages they're  really good this is like the best pre-built gaming   temps i've ever had that huge cooler on the rtx  3060 is clearly overkill considering that we've   we've barely touched 56 degrees celsius through  this entire session which is crazy even the cpu   is doing fine at 62c it does feel like there's  a bit of a cpu bottleneck here with battlefield   5 at 1080p we're running at high settings and  this is with the ram running at 2666 megahertz   as opposed to 3 000 megahertz but this has been a  very good gaming experience now the frame rate's   been jumping between about 110 and like 140  frames per second which feels really good but   let's have a look at a wider variety of games and  then we'll compare it to its 6 month older brother [Music]   that gaming performance is pretty good  um i was expecting better for a system   with an rtx 3060 in it but at 1080p for  more demanding games at higher settings   we were still getting a solid high  refresh rate gaming experience which   yeah that's that's what more could you want  right but how does it compare to the previous   system that we bought six months ago on paper  it seems like it should be clear cut that system   has an rtx 2060 in it whereas this system has a  3060 in it however aside from just the graphics   card pretty much everything else in that six  month old system was better we got a 10700f   in there which gives you two more cores we've  got a better motherboard a better power supply   a better ai oh a more interesting case and it's  pink which should account for some performance   differential so let's let's do some comparative  benchmarks to see how far we've come in six months [Music]   now these results had me a bit confused because  despite having a faster graphics card the results   were pretty much the same and it's not like the  ryzen 5 3600 is a bad cpu it shouldn't be holding   back the system that much but to test this i  re-ran the battlefield 5 benchmarks at 1440p   and lo and behold the rtx 3060 based system  did pull ahead of the older system now what i   thought then was maybe the reason that the ryzen  3600 was struggling was because i was running the   two systems in the out of the box configuration  the way they shipped from the the ibsen seller   uh so the ram was running at 2666 megahertz on  the ryzen 5 system so i set the ram to its max   3000 megahertz speed and well it didn't make that  big of a difference so yes the gaming performance   is pretty similar at 1080p and at 1440p you'll  get more performance out of the newer system and   then the last thing i want to talk about before we  finish off this video is i actually reached out to   the aliexpress seller ibsen and i was like hey  guys uh did you accidentally check the alleyway   beating option while filling out the dhl shipping  form because the case came came quite brutalized   so they asked me to send photos of the  damage and if the pc was still working   so i sent them photos of the damage and  told them that yes the pc was still working   so they then very politely apologized  and said that no what we'll negotiate   reparations for this problem uh how about we  send you 20 bucks what am i going to do with   20 am i just going to like rub it on the bit of  damage on the case and hope that it fixes it i was   kind of hoping that at least replaced the case  because you know it's partially their fault if   they packaged the system better it wouldn't have  arrived as damaged even though dhl decided to play   hacky sack with the package or whatever in their  defense at least they shipped the system without   the graphics card actually mounted otherwise that  thick boy would have ripped that system apart so at the end of the day after six  months on aliexpress we were getting   very similar gaming performance in fact weirdly  similar gaming performance but at least we didn't   go backwards right and as is always the case with  aliexpress you get really interesting hardware   configurations for the money but then there are  like huge asterisks behind it you're either going   to get a bunch of shipping damage or your ram is  not going to work or you're going to have very   difficult to deal with rgb seizure happening which  means if you're considering buying an aliexpress   system which depending on where you live in the  world may be one of your best bets but if you're   going to go into one of these systems i wouldn't  recommend doing it unless you have at least some   ability to diagnose problems with a system  if you go into one of these aliexpress pcs as   a complete noob with no idea how to fix  stuff that may be a bit of a route to tears   oh and on a final final note i just looked  on a local canadian kind of pc shop chain   called canada computers and they actually have  pretty much the identical core specifications   to the system so a ryzen 5 3600 an rtx 3060  16 gigs of ram and like a 500 gig nvme ssd   for quite a lot less than what this system cost  even after taxing you don't have to worry about   shipping because you can just go pick it up at  the local shop so subscribe to the channel and   comment down below letting me know if you want to  see that video comparing like a canadian pre-built   to an aliexpress pre-built i think that could  be pretty interesting and that brings me to the   end of the video so thank you very much for  watching and until the next time bye [Music]

Channel: Dawid Does Tech Stuff

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Keywords: aliexpress, gaming pc, $1400 PC from Aliexpress, prebuilt, rtx 3060, gaming, computer, tech, dawid does tech stuff, 2021, pc, graphics card, budget gaming computer

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Length: 17min 27sec (1047 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 25 2021