one of our favorite pastimes here at Linus tech tips is buying weird
technology off aliexpress waiting the requisite 4 to 12 weeks for it to arrive
and opening it up for all of you because
i mean let's be honest it's an adventure
every time which raises the question Linus how is it even possible that you
guys haven't thought to build an entire computer with nothing but parts off
aliexpress well we did
and we're doing it
the hell is this
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the ground rules for our little experiment today were pretty simple
build a pretty powerful gaming rig without spending so much money that you
could have bought it somewhere other than aliexpress we went for the best
bang for the butt components that we could find and in cases where there was
a tie we went with the more aliexpress
option we don't actually have all of the parts that we ordered back on june the
3rd because as i alluded to before shipping time was anywhere from around a
week to four months to after five months just
cancelling our order out of nowhere but you don't wait to build your pc because
your fans didn't arrive so we just grabbed a handful of fans we had kicking
around that looked kind of aliexpressy and we're gonna get this going we
actually have to build our own case which of course means that we get some
very aliexpress instructions oh they must have printed this with their um
definitely legit version of autodesk education like education like version
this is a virtual water cooling computer case good cooling function has a good
diy transform space fantastic so it
offers for five dollars the option to customize it yeah but but
they didn't customize it and just gave us our money back
but sarah had already created the design and we own a laser cutter so
nude they included gloves that's actually very important for an acrylic
case because otherwise it is going to look disgusting by the time you're done
i think there is about a 95 chance that i'm going to finish building the whole
rest of the computer before you do that not because you suck because that looks
terrible over here i'm going to begin with the motherboard this is the battle
axe b450m hd from colorful this puppy
was 87.54 with shipping which is not
actually a great deal since uh matx b450 boards can be had for like
80 bucks on newegg but uh was the best we could do for a
motherboard from aliexpress we're actually off to a pretty good start in
terms of fit and finish fits
nice it doesn't come out or anything so far i have peeled off one of these i
think the longest part of this whole thing is going to be just removing the
stupid protective tape our CPU is a really funny one now obviously it's a
b450 board so we're going to be putting a regular old AMD CPU in it that doesn't
sound particularly aliexpress until you consider that this ryzen 7
2700 is 10 cheaper than according to pc part
picker that has ever been sold for the seller offers a
lifetime warranty and from the listing
it seems like it might be refurbished or not we don't know you know what no this
looks brand new huh like it doesn't come with a cooler
that's probably that 10 price delta oh now RAM i am expecting to be able to
find some very very chinese RAM this
comes with a little tiny broom curiously
the broom is probably the most chinese thing about this memory because it's
clearly using micron chips which to my knowledge are not manufactured in china
so only the module assembly is probably done there superior quality lifetime
warranty factory wholesale professional service what is 163.com the website that
you can go on there and to look at news and they also have like their email
service so this is just like a free email oh yeah i'm sure that lifetime
warranty is gonna work out great for you 10 bash
wow it's actually rated at 3 200 megahertz cl 16. that's not bad
but then 16 gigs of RAM for about 60
dollars and change is about par for the course off sites like newegg so
the lesson here is don't buy RAM off aliexpress not because this isn't going
to work it'll probably work it's micron chips but just because why
so far the instructions are actually not too bad so i feel like this is going to
go relatively smoothly the biggest thing
is if you're not experienced putting stuff like this together it would be
really easy to like over tighten one of these screws and just blow up all the acrylic so just be
careful of that and you should be fine is this just completely not the same
thing you ordered at all i'm so confused did you order two
coolers i'm going to go see if we have the actual cooler okay
bye-bye hey we got the snowman
this pup will run you just under 40 dollars with shipping and that's if you
select the with deer option but i'm not actually sure oh it's
picked with a picture of it sure
that's better this is weird so each of these fans actually has
five conductors and then two of them are just terminated
with heat shrink and just hanging off over here and the other four are
hardwired into a single four pin power connector so
you don't need a y adapter or anything like that to mount it which is pretty
cool but i also just i wonder what that wire was for this says right on the
package AMD and Intel
but this is clearly an AMD only mount right here and i don't see any other
accessories it's a good thing we went AMD for our system how little would you
have to pay yourself to justify assembling your own case versus just
paying a little bit extra and getting one that's already built i don't know like for something like this i'd prefer
to build it myself because then i know that like it's all built correctly i'd say it
mostly just depends on if like you think this looks cool for some reason what is
a bit interesting is that all of these they kind of slide into like the 80 20
rails that we have here and then they like have little notches that hold it
together except for the bottom one which instead of sliding
in just lays on the bottom oh i
understand why it's so that there's additional intake room on the bottom
it's a foot oh yeah
i see that's not a great approach but
they also could have just had this come down further they definitely could have the last piece we can assemble before
alex is done with the case is the SSD at
60 bucks this can be anywhere from a great deal all the way to a total ripoff
and we have no way of knowing because the website for
golden fur's 512 gig NVMe SSD says mm
the pcb color flash chips type flash chip number may
different depend on each batch one thing i really do want to know is if this is a
dram-less design so that's why i'm peeling the sticker off here and it is
so it's not great dang it i think i lost the bet
i lost the game i'm gonna do it tool-less style how does this go in
hey so i won then nice man i love working here
not from the work the work is yeah it's work but i love you guys
all right let's uh
let's go ahead and put this ihope shield in does it only stick in from the one
side it definitely doesn't grab as well as it did on the other side but it's in
ah
hey fortunately we've got that uh
that other cooler the alzai that we thought was for this build but actually
we don't know what it's for we can use this yay
that worked out also RGB
uh okay now i'm good alex no zip ties
required it's beautiful hey there it is this motherboard has two fan headers
including the CPU header but it does have an RGB header on board oh sick this
lack of fan headers has unexpected consequences so i had to string together
one molex to four pin and then two y
splitters in order to get the four fan connectors that i need to plug in all
the rest of my fans here the best part is that we're not really
saving any money the only thing i know for sure is that
the power supply is either going to make this less stable
or more stable now we're not sure yet if this is 800
watts or a thousand watts
we do know that it is non-modular and we
are expecting it to have all of the cables and connectors we need and wow
be incredible classy
this don't hate the game
hate the game player you ready for the weight comparison
1200 grams all right um hmm 1900 grams
also the cables are supported by the table
also that's an 850. also it's an 850 watt power supply dare me to plug this
into an rtx 3090 no
theoretically it'll run it actually it won't
so much for my theory about it helping with the structural rigidity at all this
i'm expecting to actually be fine once again colorful is the only
real like decent brand over in china that i can
think of that we don't also have access to either in europe or north america so
this was the most aliexpress thing we could find as for why we went 2000
series instead of 3000 series well like
i said we waited a long time for these parts and the 2000 series was relevant
when we ordered this in fairness i don't think i can get the card out without
tearing apart the case but truthfully
that's not saying much
after some scrubbing it looks like the laser did go through i don't know wait
there how's that can you see it can you see the shirt
got him lttstore.com alex
yeah yeah done goofed
it's keyed it only goes on one way
the last thing i want to see before we try out the whole aliexpress gaming
experience yeah there's peripherals too guys is if adding this other side panel
helps the rigidity a little bit theoretically it should this is now a
box instead of uh whatever we had before
it's better it's a lot better
you know it's like hey you know
not even coming apart at all ah that's a case right yeah
remember my theory about the air intake under the power supply there huh all we
got is this little sliver right here the rest of it the acrylic goes all the way
down to the table oh these are these are liar RGB fans like you were talking
about
own
led light mouse pad oh
my god look at this graphic what even is this
did you know this had like a giant like undead dragon thing on it
thick and smooth waterproof and comfortable i think that about describes
it i've got a keyboard with uh
g-shan uh blue clicky switches
uh but when you press it it does definitely have the kakakaka sound yes
that's not a bad automata pf4 you know
this is far from the worst like
cheap aliexpress gaming mouse that i've encountered a bmw 3360 sensor compatible
with all kinds of motherboard Windows xp7 810 operating system dang this is 27
it actually feels like pretty good rubber grip like huh this is a little
less confidence inspiring but hey at least it's got a braided cable this is
the most hardcore braided cable that i have ever encountered aliexpress gaming
time we ready boys and girls give it the little reach around here oh is that
plugged into the wall did you hit the power button oh hey there we go oh no i
don't think it plugs in all the way alex because of a clearance issue with the
acrylic it's like almost it almost goes in all right wait i think the mic is
wait what just happened computer reset we are we are rebooting sir okay forget
it we're just we're just not gonna have audio all right well one thing down
already oh is it just
giving audio to the monitor no i checked yeah it is supposed to be RGB what's
going on oh hey there it is oh wow that's
really not very bright um i mean in the dark we'd be able to see
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
again what the crap i don't think it was from plugging in the front panel audio i
just rebooted again
i'm back on the sign in screen do you think it's the power supply i think
there's a very solid chance it's the power supply yes yeah it makes sense as
soon as we'd start to pull from the GPU this thing probably just
can't keep up i mean do we have hardware info could
and that my friends is why you don't buy your power supply on aliexpress.com
in fact there's really no good reason to buy any
of this stuff on aliexpress is there i mean if you absolutely had to have this case
i guess it is unlike other cases on the market and so
that would be the place to get it but everything else here is available
for the same price and or less on reputable sites like newegg amazon or
micro center and you don't run the risk of waiting you know four months or even
never for your product to arrive so
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
it's okay ow like i dented my hand
all right