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one of our favorite pastimes here at Linus tech tips is buying weird

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technology off aliexpress waiting the requisite 4 to 12 weeks for it to arrive

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and opening it up for all of you because

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i mean let's be honest it's an adventure

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every time which raises the question Linus how is it even possible that you

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guys haven't thought to build an entire computer with nothing but parts off

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aliexpress well we did

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and we're doing it

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the hell is this

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and why is it brought to you by glass wire with glasswire you can keep track

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of the weird stuff that's connecting to your pc even when you're not using it

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and you can see if a strange device joins your Wi-Fi and block it instantly

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get 25 off today using code Linus at the link in the video description

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the ground rules for our little experiment today were pretty simple

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build a pretty powerful gaming rig without spending so much money that you

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could have bought it somewhere other than aliexpress we went for the best

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bang for the butt components that we could find and in cases where there was

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a tie we went with the more aliexpress

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option we don't actually have all of the parts that we ordered back on june the

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3rd because as i alluded to before shipping time was anywhere from around a

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week to four months to after five months just

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cancelling our order out of nowhere but you don't wait to build your pc because

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your fans didn't arrive so we just grabbed a handful of fans we had kicking

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around that looked kind of aliexpressy and we're gonna get this going we

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actually have to build our own case which of course means that we get some

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very aliexpress instructions oh they must have printed this with their um

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definitely legit version of autodesk education like education like version

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this is a virtual water cooling computer case good cooling function has a good

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diy transform space fantastic so it

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offers for five dollars the option to customize it yeah but but

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they didn't customize it and just gave us our money back

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but sarah had already created the design and we own a laser cutter so

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nude they included gloves that's actually very important for an acrylic

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case because otherwise it is going to look disgusting by the time you're done

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i think there is about a 95 chance that i'm going to finish building the whole

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rest of the computer before you do that not because you suck because that looks

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terrible over here i'm going to begin with the motherboard this is the battle

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axe b450m hd from colorful this puppy

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was 87.54 with shipping which is not

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actually a great deal since uh matx b450 boards can be had for like

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80 bucks on newegg but uh was the best we could do for a

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motherboard from aliexpress we're actually off to a pretty good start in

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terms of fit and finish fits

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nice it doesn't come out or anything so far i have peeled off one of these i

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think the longest part of this whole thing is going to be just removing the

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stupid protective tape our CPU is a really funny one now obviously it's a

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b450 board so we're going to be putting a regular old AMD CPU in it that doesn't

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sound particularly aliexpress until you consider that this ryzen 7

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2700 is 10 cheaper than according to pc part

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picker that has ever been sold for the seller offers a

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lifetime warranty and from the listing

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it seems like it might be refurbished or not we don't know you know what no this

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looks brand new huh like it doesn't come with a cooler

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that's probably that 10 price delta oh now RAM i am expecting to be able to

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find some very very chinese RAM this

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comes with a little tiny broom curiously

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the broom is probably the most chinese thing about this memory because it's

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clearly using micron chips which to my knowledge are not manufactured in china

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so only the module assembly is probably done there superior quality lifetime

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warranty factory wholesale professional service what is 163.com the website that

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you can go on there and to look at news and they also have like their email

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service so this is just like a free email oh yeah i'm sure that lifetime

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warranty is gonna work out great for you 10 bash

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wow it's actually rated at 3 200 megahertz cl 16. that's not bad

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but then 16 gigs of RAM for about 60

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dollars and change is about par for the course off sites like newegg so

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the lesson here is don't buy RAM off aliexpress not because this isn't going

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to work it'll probably work it's micron chips but just because why

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so far the instructions are actually not too bad so i feel like this is going to

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go relatively smoothly the biggest thing

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is if you're not experienced putting stuff like this together it would be

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really easy to like over tighten one of these screws and just blow up all the acrylic so just be

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careful of that and you should be fine is this just completely not the same

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thing you ordered at all i'm so confused did you order two

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coolers i'm going to go see if we have the actual cooler okay

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bye-bye hey we got the snowman

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this pup will run you just under 40 dollars with shipping and that's if you

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select the with deer option but i'm not actually sure oh it's

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picked with a picture of it sure

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that's better this is weird so each of these fans actually has

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five conductors and then two of them are just terminated

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with heat shrink and just hanging off over here and the other four are

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hardwired into a single four pin power connector so

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you don't need a y adapter or anything like that to mount it which is pretty

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cool but i also just i wonder what that wire was for this says right on the

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package AMD and Intel

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but this is clearly an AMD only mount right here and i don't see any other

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accessories it's a good thing we went AMD for our system how little would you

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have to pay yourself to justify assembling your own case versus just

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paying a little bit extra and getting one that's already built i don't know like for something like this i'd prefer

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to build it myself because then i know that like it's all built correctly i'd say it

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mostly just depends on if like you think this looks cool for some reason what is

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a bit interesting is that all of these they kind of slide into like the 80 20

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rails that we have here and then they like have little notches that hold it

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together except for the bottom one which instead of sliding

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in just lays on the bottom oh i

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understand why it's so that there's additional intake room on the bottom

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it's a foot oh yeah

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i see that's not a great approach but

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they also could have just had this come down further they definitely could have the last piece we can assemble before

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alex is done with the case is the SSD at

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60 bucks this can be anywhere from a great deal all the way to a total ripoff

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and we have no way of knowing because the website for

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golden fur's 512 gig NVMe SSD says mm

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the pcb color flash chips type flash chip number may

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different depend on each batch one thing i really do want to know is if this is a

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dram-less design so that's why i'm peeling the sticker off here and it is

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so it's not great dang it i think i lost the bet

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i lost the game i'm gonna do it tool-less style how does this go in

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hey so i won then nice man i love working here

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not from the work the work is yeah it's work but i love you guys

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all right let's uh

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let's go ahead and put this ihope shield in does it only stick in from the one

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side it definitely doesn't grab as well as it did on the other side but it's in

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ah

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hey fortunately we've got that uh

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that other cooler the alzai that we thought was for this build but actually

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we don't know what it's for we can use this yay

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that worked out also RGB

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uh okay now i'm good alex no zip ties

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required it's beautiful hey there it is this motherboard has two fan headers

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including the CPU header but it does have an RGB header on board oh sick this

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lack of fan headers has unexpected consequences so i had to string together

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one molex to four pin and then two y

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splitters in order to get the four fan connectors that i need to plug in all

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the rest of my fans here the best part is that we're not really

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saving any money the only thing i know for sure is that

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the power supply is either going to make this less stable

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or more stable now we're not sure yet if this is 800

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watts or a thousand watts

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we do know that it is non-modular and we

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are expecting it to have all of the cables and connectors we need and wow

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be incredible classy

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this don't hate the game

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hate the game player you ready for the weight comparison

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1200 grams all right um hmm 1900 grams

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also the cables are supported by the table

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also that's an 850. also it's an 850 watt power supply dare me to plug this

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into an rtx 3090 no

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theoretically it'll run it actually it won't

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so much for my theory about it helping with the structural rigidity at all this

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i'm expecting to actually be fine once again colorful is the only

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real like decent brand over in china that i can

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think of that we don't also have access to either in europe or north america so

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this was the most aliexpress thing we could find as for why we went 2000

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series instead of 3000 series well like

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i said we waited a long time for these parts and the 2000 series was relevant

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when we ordered this in fairness i don't think i can get the card out without

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tearing apart the case but truthfully

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that's not saying much

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after some scrubbing it looks like the laser did go through i don't know wait

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there how's that can you see it can you see the shirt

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got him lttstore.com alex

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yeah yeah done goofed

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it's keyed it only goes on one way

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the last thing i want to see before we try out the whole aliexpress gaming

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experience yeah there's peripherals too guys is if adding this other side panel

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helps the rigidity a little bit theoretically it should this is now a

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box instead of uh whatever we had before

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it's better it's a lot better

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you know it's like hey you know

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not even coming apart at all ah that's a case right yeah

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remember my theory about the air intake under the power supply there huh all we

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got is this little sliver right here the rest of it the acrylic goes all the way

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down to the table oh these are these are liar RGB fans like you were talking

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about

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own

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led light mouse pad oh

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my god look at this graphic what even is this

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did you know this had like a giant like undead dragon thing on it

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thick and smooth waterproof and comfortable i think that about describes

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it i've got a keyboard with uh

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g-shan uh blue clicky switches

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uh but when you press it it does definitely have the kakakaka sound yes

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that's not a bad automata pf4 you know

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this is far from the worst like

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cheap aliexpress gaming mouse that i've encountered a bmw 3360 sensor compatible

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with all kinds of motherboard Windows xp7 810 operating system dang this is 27

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it actually feels like pretty good rubber grip like huh this is a little

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less confidence inspiring but hey at least it's got a braided cable this is

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the most hardcore braided cable that i have ever encountered aliexpress gaming

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time we ready boys and girls give it the little reach around here oh is that

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plugged into the wall did you hit the power button oh hey there we go oh no i

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don't think it plugs in all the way alex because of a clearance issue with the

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acrylic it's like almost it almost goes in all right wait i think the mic is

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wait what just happened computer reset we are we are rebooting sir okay forget

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it we're just we're just not gonna have audio all right well one thing down

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already oh is it just

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giving audio to the monitor no i checked yeah it is supposed to be RGB what's

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going on oh hey there it is oh wow that's

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really not very bright um i mean in the dark we'd be able to see

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it you'll have to come get a close-up of that i doubt you'll be able to see it otherwise wait did this just reboot

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again what the crap i don't think it was from plugging in the front panel audio i

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just rebooted again

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i'm back on the sign in screen do you think it's the power supply i think

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there's a very solid chance it's the power supply yes yeah it makes sense as

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soon as we'd start to pull from the GPU this thing probably just

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can't keep up i mean do we have hardware info could

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and that my friends is why you don't buy your power supply on aliexpress.com

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in fact there's really no good reason to buy any

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of this stuff on aliexpress is there i mean if you absolutely had to have this case

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i guess it is unlike other cases on the market and so

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that would be the place to get it but everything else here is available

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for the same price and or less on reputable sites like newegg amazon or

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micro center and you don't run the risk of waiting you know four months or even

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never for your product to arrive so

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there you have it aliexpress it's a thing and that's about the

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up to cover myself and i whacked the bottom of the table oh so really hard no

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it's okay ow like i dented my hand

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all right