We secret shopped them. They shipped. And now it's time for us to solve the
mystery of which PC gaming company
offers the best out ofbox experience. We'll be looking everywhere for clues.
How long did they take to arrive? What's included in the box? Was the box
protective enough for the dangerous shipping process? And at the end, we'll
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don't we open up with one that's bound to be amusing, my dear Plson? Good old
Dell. Good's a strong word. According to our case file, we're
off to a very good start here, receiving our system just two full business days
after we placed our order online. We also get a one-year warranty that is not
just remote diagnosis, but apparently includes on-site
service. The box issues any frills like
full color printing, but is extremely high quality. And you can tell that Dell
has a lot of experience moving systems around the world. Not only does it have
dual corrugated layers, but it is extremely thick and the paper layers on
both sides give it exceptional rigidity. There are a couple of others that are
quite similar. Star Forge may be on par. As for HP, well, they're close, but no
cigar. You know all about dual layers, don't
you, Lilock? Dual layers. The backpack.
Oh, he solved the mystery of how to hurt my feelings. I'm not expecting too much
in terms of accessories. And I got it. They've even
costed down your classic C13 power connector. It has slightly less copper
in it. Stargazer brand. That is the cheapest C13 I've ever seen in my life.
Wi-Fi antenna. It's nice that the system has Wi-Fi, although it's less of an
exceptional feature these days than it was the first time we did a Secret
Shopper. And that's it. No keyboard, no
mouse. Dell has finally come around to the idea that after 50 odd years of the
personal computer industry, we probably already have a keyboard and mouse
kicking around. I actually consider that to be a
plus. Oh, I don't consider this to be a
plus, though. This is a reasonably high quality foam, but I don't like to see it
in this day and age. It's completely non-recyclable. This will just live in a
landfill forever. Now we get to take a
look at the system itself. Years ago, Dell moved beyond boring beige boxes,
and now they're bringing them back. This
is XPS. Do you remember when XPS systems
looked cool? It's more gray than beige. It doesn't look like a gaming computer.
No, but but it looks like a computer. She also didn't sell us a gaming
computer. We bought an XPS. I don't mind
having a peel, but this is a really
annoying one. With that said, the front IO actually kind of outstanding. Four
USB ports, two of which are charging optimized, one of which operates at 10
GB per second. We also get a headphone microphone combo jack and an SD card
reader. Plenty of ventilation on the front, the side, and at the back with a
120 mm exhaust. And then our rear IO is
Wow, we get a 20 GB USBC port here, as
well as full 5.1 analog audio for all
six people who are using it. Our Wi-Fi antennas don't take up any of our
limited IO space. And it appears that opening up the chassis is as simple as
unlocking this one captive
screw. And yes, it is. Huh. Oh, look at that. Nice little
guide for how to install a GPU or power
supply or hard drive. That'll save them some service calls. Coming over to the
inside. Wow, do I ever like this GPU mount. It uses a combination of these
plastic pieces on rails and this metal extension to basically prevent it from
going anywhere in shipping. I'm extremely confident in this. So far, my
only complaint though is that they didn't have a little sticker on the back for the motherboard IO. Ah, yes. It's an
elementary thing they could have done better. That's right. Unfortunately,
there's another thing that immediately stands out to me, and that is the single
16 GB stick of 32 gigs. So, they weren't
even cheaping out. No. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. I actually had
trouble finding 32 gig single sticks at
this speed and everything, like just sold individually when I was trying to
figure out pricing for all the different systems, cuz no one would buy that. you
would get 216 gig stick or 232,
but DDR5 does work a lot better in single
stick configurations. I'm not saying it's perfect, no, but it's not as bad as
DDR4 days. He is right. But what he
won't be able to defend is this power supply. Dell has gone to 12vt only power
for their motherboards, which is good for efficiency, but bad for
intercompatibility. So, when it comes time to upgrade this thing, which you
will need to given that it is only a
460W unit, you will have to get a specific Dell power supply. A lot of the
other things are intercompatible, though. Look at that. Nice little
courtesy connectors for a hard drive upgrade, SATA power, and data. Two
easily accessible M.2 slots, one of which is open for future upgrades.
Interchangeable Wi-Fi card. And would you look at that? A second courtesy
connector for a potential second hard drive upgrade. That's really nice. Wish
I could say the same about the CPU cooler. That could hurt them when it's
time to test thermals. Overall though, I
kind of like this package. It's well constructed. Ease of use is very high as
long as you uh don't want to upgrade the proprietary motherboard or power supply.
and they should have one of the best performing CPUs out of the bunch as long
as that single stick of memory doesn't kneecap it. All right, why don't we move
on to Main Gear. One last thing while he
brings that down is we tried to build an identical system on PC Part Picker and
without making major compromises to the specs or features simply weren't able to
do it for the same price, even ignoring the cost of a Windows license. That
doesn't mean that we would normally choose this exact spec, but it does mean
that we at least weren't getting ripped off on the hardware. This does not look
as promising. It took 9 days to reach us. We've got a downgraded CPU, a
downgraded GPU, and we actually spent a
little bit more overall. We still get a 1-year warranty, and we get an RGB
exhaust fan, but only, excuse me, 16 GB
of memory, albeit in dual channel mode. Let's take a look at the packaging. Ah,
you know what? I think Main Gear gets pretty good grades for their packaging,
too. It was hard to tell because of the way that it's cut at the edges, but
that's a really nice box. Ooh, and they've got that fancy chemical
expanding foam as well. Zero points for environmental friendliness, but massive
points for being willing to spend on your packing material. And would you
look at this? Are they trying to impress me? The whole system is double
boxed. Calling it right now. Zero damage
to the main gear system.
Whoa. Something still managed to almost kick all the way through it. Oh, too bad
I already made that call. If only video editing existed. Look at that. Like that
weak ass kick was going to make it through this chemical expanding foam in
here. Hey, very nice. Builder QA final
inspection. Love to see it. Also, this
really sets the boutique builders apart from the tier 1's. BIOS flashing. Latest
drivers. Love it. That's probably why it took 9 days to get here.
More foam. Oh man, that's a nice foam.
Look at that bounce.
Oh, that doesn't count as damage. Before
we check out the system, let's have a look at the accessories. We've got a
couple cute little stickers here. Decent quality power cord. Thank
you, Main Gear. Or should I say MSI, who makes the power supply that's included
with this system. By the way, that is a big difference between this and our
Dell. It's a 650 W unit, which should give us some room to grow. A lot better
than a 460 W unit. In this little
baggie, we've got all the random little bits and
pieces that came with any of our hardware. RGB controller and a battery
for it. Moving on to the system. IO is
pretty strong. We lose out on one of those USB ports and that SD card reader,
but we've got a little bit more USB at the back, which is nice to see. Also
love to see all the ventilation back top and front. There's a little gap around
there. magnetic front plate here that reveals
three 120 mm cooling fans. And now
without further ado, let's go ahead and pop off the side panel. Now, it is worth
noting that this is the MG1 Silver. And Main Gear actually reached out to us
after we placed our order offering us the MG1 Gold, which was technically
within our budget, but we didn't take it because, well, we don't normally factor
in shipping. It was $177 with this unit.
And they over budget before we even do
the upgrade. Yeah. And the upgrade would have put it just at around like
1385,400 right at the top of it. So they would have effectively have had 10% more
budget compared to anyone else. Yeah. But we do really appreciate the offer. I
mean, hey, it's nice to come in with a deal after the fact. They've already made the sale. I can see why their
shipping is so expensive. They spend this much on their packing materials and
the system works. or well maybe the system works. I haven't
actually tried it yet. What are we looking at here? Total of four cooling
fans, one RGB, what looks like an OEM Cooler
Master tower cooler. Much more robust
looking than what we saw in the Dell. Dual channel memory. I'm still
disappointed with the spec, but what I'm not disappointed by is the expansion.
Compared to the Dell, which only had one PCIe slot available, this one has three.
Although it is worth noting they're not as impressive as they look. Those are
16x physical slots, but they're only wired up for PCIe by one electrically.
There's a 3D printed bracket that I didn't notice before. I don't know if
that's providing much support for the GPU, but it's certainly not providing
zero support for the GPU. As I would
expect, superb build quality from Main
Gear. My goodness, does this thing ever look nice. But there is one little thing
that I would argue that they overlooked. There are two PCIe Gen 4x4 slots on this
motherboard. One of which is pretty easy to access up here. That's where they
installed my SSD. And the other of which is under my GPU. If they'd put my boot
SSD under the GPU, I wouldn't have to remove my GPU in order to upgrade. There
is a third slot down here, but that one operates off the chipset, and it is a a
slower slot. Unlike Dell, we were able to beat Main Gear's price with a DIY
system by about $150. But it is worth noting that a DIY
system wouldn't include Main Gear's lifetime tech support, which from our
experience has been pretty good, at least in the past. We'll find out if
it's still good a little bit later in the series. Who should we move on to
next? Maybe we'll finish off the top shelf with Cyberpower. Cyberpower it is.
Let's do it. This one could be a little more
interesting. See, Cyberpower actually cancelled our order because they thought
we were scammers. Yeah. Which we kind of were. You know, when you buy six
computers on one credit card over the course of 2 days using someone else's
credit card, it raises a few flags cuz we didn't want anybody to know it was
us. Yeah. Um so they canceled it. We got the email. I was out Monday, Tuesday, so
I didn't get it until Wednesday. And then by the time we went to go order it
Yeah, that box is bad. Um, by the time we get went to go order our new
computer, that one was sold out. And so, we went with the next cheapest thing,
uh, which is now also sold out. So, here's the plan. We're going to test
both the original configuration and the one we ended up with and give you guys
kind of a price to performance number for both, even though there are a couple
of little differences in the configurations. Okay, what do we got?
You got a keyboard. You know, the box would have been okay if it didn't completely fall apart. And this foam is
great. This is some of the best foam we've seen so far, which it better be
because they're relying on a single box and single foam piece to keep the system
safe and also keep our included keyboard and mouse safe. This is our first
included set of peripherals. Let's go. You know what? Let's start by unboxing
these. As far as free included keyboards go,
it's mushy, but like I mean, it's got RGB, I'm sure. Yeah. And you know, you
know, how's the mess? These clicks are
okay. Sure. These ones. On-site tech support. Ooh, they
got a nice little guide to how to take off the side panel, take out packing
materials, where to plug GPUs in. Never
into the DVI port. Clearly, this
documentation was done a while ago. We also get our nicest C13 power cable yet.
She's the same gauge, but nice and flexible. Look at that.
She's almost moldable. Wi-Fi antenna. And that's about it. That's what I want
to see on all of these. It's a single sticker and it just makes it super
obvious. Like, no, don't plug your monitors into that. No, plug it in way
down here. But there's nothing. Wait, nothing.
What? Okay. Well, that went a little It went a little too far. But like,
whatever. Look, if you're going to idiot proof it, you got to actually idiot
proof it. That is the cheapest case we've seen
yet. Cheaper than down little OEM Cooler
Master Affair. Well, yeah, we only get two USBAs on the front. Oh, we do get a
tempered glass side panel, though, and what looks like ample ventilation. This
whole thing is perforated, and we've got top vents with what looks like a
removable mesh. Well, there we go. as well as a 120
millimeter rear RGB exhaust fan. All
right, let's take out Oh, wow. This is an That's an Wow, that's an aggressive
stick. Oh, it leaves residue. It left residue on my mesh. Why
Cyber Power? Why? Do not like that. Oh. Oh, it's all
over here, too. Look at
this. The sticker comes with some downsides. Okay, but it's worth the
headaches later. Hey, comes with a three-year labor
warranty, though. What does that even mean on a
computer? You ship it back, they work on it. No cyber power, please. Reasonable
rear IO before we get into the insides. Dude, I don't think this foam in here is
supporting anything. Watch. I can move this GPU and
it doesn't move the foam.
Oh. O. Whoa. That's a lot of RGB fans
included. Three in the front, one in the back, and oh goodness sakes. Is this
another 4068 gig?
Yikes. 2 terb of storage to go along
with our 16 gigs of RAM, though. Wait,
is that another single stick? 14th gen Core i5. This time
around, it's notable that not a single one of our system builders was using an
Intel Core Ultra. Other than that, there's not too
much to say here. Let's have a look at the build quality on the back
side. Not bad. Good. Even no courtesy cables,
though. That's a really nice inclusion from Dell if you ever want to throw in a
hard drive. And on that note, there's only a single M.2 slot available for
expansion that way. It's weird though because other than that, it seems like a
pretty featured board, including dual front USBC connectors, neither of which
we're using. And then adding to the weirdness, there's no USBC on the back
either. I don't have super high hopes for this one, but at least it's got
enough storage to install a handful of modern games. How'd it do compared to PC
Part Picker Plon? This one was easy to beat at $1,200. That's the listing,
right? But we only purchased it. It was on sale for 1,000 bucks. Oh, so it's a
lot harder, but I think if you check it out. Yeah, we've managed just over a
grand. The problem is Windows licenses, right? So, we can't beat it technically.
No, not on sale. Let's move on to our
next suspect, Mr. Packard. Hulet. Mr.
Hwlet Packard. Well, Mr. Hwlet and Mr. Packard.
We don't need to split hairs. Elementary.
Uh, HP was a major headache. Um, they canceled our order twice. What? Yeah.
When you buy a lot of computers with the credit card fraud. Ah. And it doesn't
help that Miss Katesson put her name as
the billing address instead of her grandmother's name. The worst part is
they canceled it. I reached out looking for our order because we didn't get a
notification. What? They just canled it without telling us. They just canceled
it without telling us. And then after I worked with an agent to reorder the
computer and verify it's all good, they canceled it again. And there was another
lack of notice. So I had to reach out a second time and confirm what was even
the problem with our order and why it got cancelled in the first place and why we never got a notification. I complain.
I was very mad. But look at this
eco-friendly packing material. Yeah, that's true, actually. It's beautiful.
Wow. That'll break down. Yeah, this is great. I mean, once we got the order in,
it came in only four business days. I don't like that it's a big plastic bag.
Yeah. Wait, what? They did the nice foam cardboard stuff and then they got this
giant plastic bag. Oh, what? How do you
Oh, this is how they want you to take it out. I would not trust that plastic. I'm
sure it's fine. Like, it's probably I get it. I get it. It's strong enough,
but I would not feel comfortable. It's smart enough. And gosh darn it, people
like it. I I don't It's a reference. He
gets it. By the time our order was
finally actually placed, it came in at
$300 cheaper than the original. They gave us a sale discount, but I said, you
know, in terms of price and performance, this is weeks later from us trying to
place the original order, so I'm keeping the original price. Got it. That makes
sense, cuz that's a more fair apples to apples
comparison against the other systems. Pretty solid IO, though. Got a type-C on
the front. Actually nice feeling build
quality, too. Tempered glass. I do like this. Yeah, it feels really
solid. Lots of ventilation everywhere.
That is a pinner looking GPU, though.
Yeah, but you know what's nice? It's going to be really easy to take it out,
pop the lock on the PCIe slot. Yes.
No 7.1 audio jacks, though.
No, that's okay. It's got mic and headphone. Who cares? It's fine.
I realized I missed going over the accessories because I just missed them.
This is it. You get a quick start guide, which refreshingly actually refers to
this specific system with actual pictures of this chassis. So, that's
kind of cool. And you get a power cable with this adorable little interrogation
sock on the end. What? I'm a detective. What? How am
I What am I How am I supposed to interpret this? Set them free.
Now, are you ready to talk? I don't think Sherlock Holmes interrogates
people like that. Ooh, captive thumb screws on the side panel. Won't be
losing those. Not that I would lose them, and
if I did, I'd find them because I'm a
detective. And lots of cooling. This is refreshing for an OEM system. dual 120
mm fans in the front, an adequate enough looking stock cooler, and a single 120
mm in the back. Not the most amazing cable management, but nothing that's
going to functionally harm the system. And it's reusable, so you can kind of
undo these cable ties, redo your wiring, and then cinch it back up. Uh, did they
leave a courtesy cable for me? It looks like they might
have. Ah, yes, they did. both power and
data in case I wanted to add a hard drive after the fact. Thank you very
much for that, HP. Also, wow, got a
whole RGB and fan control hub in here.
That is not something to be taken for granted at this price point. And you
can't take for granted good specs either. This was the first system that
we were able to dramatically beat in price on PC Part
Picker. Pretty much across the board, this is a class losing configuration.
They managed to use dual channel memory, but just 16 gigs of it. They've got the
same 1 TB of storage as almost everybody else, but the secondary slots's really
hard to reach under the GPU. They use standard MATX and ATX style motherboard
and power supply, which is great when you need to upgrade because you're
probably going to need to cuz that's just a 500 W 80 Plus bronze power
supply. Meaning that if you ever want to upgrade this RTX 4060, which is on the
lower end of our configurations, you might need a new one of those. I mean,
hey, it's got a swappable Wi-Fi slot. There's got to be some redeeming quality
here. They threw in free shipping, but
only a one-year warranty. Man, I think it's time to move on. Let's check out
the I by Power. You want to do I by Power? I do. Okay. That's kind of cool.
They put all the specs on the outer box. Yeah. This is the one that we had to
order from Amazon. They said, you know, we don't have any, but you can buy it
from Best Buy or Amazon. Here's the kind you want, the trace mesh. Best Buy
wouldn't send it to us cuz we're across the border. Amazon did send it to us,
but we picked it up from, you know, Blaine. It'll be interesting to see how
customer support goes. They do have support for systems not bought directly
through Cyberpunk. Oh, yeah. Look at that. First thing you see when you open
it up, thank you for your purchase. Here's a quick start guide and reach out
to us for support. Here's our phone number. Perfect. I think they're
probably one of the most improved over the span of Secret Shop. Really? Yeah.
In the early days, they were pretty like, yeah, we throw parts into a box
and um this looks really professional.
Decent shipping box, nothing amazing,
but good foam. And you can tell the box
is obviously bespoke because it has the exact specs of our system right on the
outside of it. So, either they do such volume that they're ordering these from
third parties preprinted, or they actually do box printing in house. I'm
not sure which. Five business days for delivery. Though, realistically, that
comes more down to Amazon than it does to IY Power. And a pretty barebones
accessory package, but we got a power cable, SATA
cable, and a Wi-Fi antenna. Oh, man.
Wait, where the hell was the HP's Wi-Fi antenna? It had Wi-Fi. You know what? It
doesn't matter. I'm over the HP. I've moved on to new friend. Do not return to
store. Contact tech support. They really want us to contact tech support. Don't
worry, I buy power. We will. Probably the biggest difference between this year
and last year so far at least is the lack of keyboard and mouse. Yeah, we got
one, I think. Yeah. From Cyberpower. Last year, almost everyone sent one.
Oh, speak of the devil. No,
no. You were the chosen one. I by power
responsive plunger key. The hell does
that mean? Hey, there's an anime girl with devil horns on the in the middle
though. You know it's for gamers. That's very usable.
Is it better than the cyber power? The price is right.
I think it is better than the cyber power. And yeah, it does seem sturdier.
very usable. Yeah, mouse feels cheaper.
It's funny because the OEMs used to be the kings of unnecessary bloat in your
package. Like you literally couldn't unselect a keyboard mouse if you wanted
to. And then now it's like the mid-tier PC builders that are going and creating
the more valueoriented
package. Oo, that's not good. Oh, there goes my
Oh boy. Oh, I buy power. Uh-oh. Oh,
where do we start? They've got one of those expanding FOMO
magigs. Uh oh, shoot. No, no. I H. Now
I'm just g Now I'm discombobulated. Let's start with the IO, even though the
case is now open. Top IO, two USB 3s, a
type-C. Love to see it. Hey, they've got
your favorite sticker. Let's see if it leaves a bunch of residue this time. Yes, it's not going to leave residue.
I'm calling it now.
Parfait. Totally good. Oh, I buy power.
What? What? What? An elementary mistake. Look at the rear
IO. This cable. Oh, I mean, I fixed it
pretty easily, but it was covering the PS2 port. The rear IO is very solid.
Everything you could want, including a PS2 port that with a quick fix, we are
able to access. Miraculously, this tempered glass side panel did not get
damaged. Hey, they've got another good
sticker. They don't let you plug in the power until you have seen their warning
about the instructions. I didn't really need it, though, cuz my phone came with
classic easy remove action. Triple 120 mm RGB fans in the
front. Another 120 mm fan in the back.
What looks like some kind of rebranded Hyper 212 alike. Nice mounting mechanism
on there and really solid cable
management. Man, if the side panel hadn't come flying off the case right as
we opened it, I'd be having a really good experience so far. Even this one,
the screw is loose. I wonder if this is just a symptom of being shipped multiple
times. Once to the reseller and then once to me. Man, what is up with all
these RGB hubs and fan hubs and stuff
these days? Give the people what they want. Yeah, no kidding. Oh, wow. How
that? Ooh, somebody cranked this zip tie
tight and just about ripped this connector off of here, though. Nice
standard components across the board, though, including a pretty solid
full-sized ATX motherboard with dual M.2 slots, the expansion of which is easy to
get at. Although, oh, that's a whoopsy
by power. Where's my M.2 mounting
hardware? It's not in here. They didn't give me the extra screw and they didn't
pre-install it for me. How am I supposed to put an M.2 in there? Tape it down.
No. Three PCI expansion slots, including
one PCIe by4. And is that 32 gigs of
dual channel memory running a little slower than the others, though. That
could hurt them. Although, they'll probably make up some ground with that
14700F CPU. Uh, my GPU is not on the
sheet. It's a 4060. Okay. A lot of that going around
this time. Oo, a two TB SSD though. Lots of
storage, twice as much as the competition. Egods, we've deduced
something off camera. After double-checking our invoice, it seems we
ordered a 4060 Ti and 1 TB of storage,
not a 4060 and 2 TB of storage. We
reached out first to Foravor Electronics, our Amazon third party
seller, but they never got back to us. So we contacted I by power directly who
informed us that for favor is in fact not one of their authorized resellers
and they implied that they may have done this on purpose.
Scoundrulous. I by power suggested we initiate a return on Amazon but instead
we'll simply also be testing this PC in both configurations.
This isn't quite I by power's fault, but I do believe they should have informed
Miss Katesson who the authorized resellers were if they were going to
send her to an authorized reseller. Back to the
investigation. Who the hell is High Power? It's apparently 80 plus gold
certified and it doesn't immediately feel like garbage, but I don't have a
lot of familiarity with this particular brand. Overall, good package. Speaking
of packages, how about a system from someone whose logo looks like one? A
two-part file on this one. That's always a good sign. Four business days for
delivery across the board. Good delivery
times this year. So, there's a part shortage, but only for good stuff that
people want. For RTX 4060s, you can get as many of them as you need, as fast as
you want, cuz Yep. And we got another No, we
didn't. Star Forge went radon for their
graphics. This could be a different result. Oh, excellent packing materials.
Well, at least the box. Let's see this foam. Oh, excellent packing materials.
Double boxed. There's no way there's anything
wrong with this thing. I'm calling it.
Oh, look at those accessories, too. They included my stuff. Because
that's the thing, anyone who's using custom components is going to get all
these accessories, right? It's just a question of whether they actually
forward it through to you. So, where the heck's my M.2 screw I by power. Sorry, I
only want to keep that. You hear the weight of that box?
That's a quality box.
Well, decent front IO, single type A,
single type-C headphone microphone combo jack. Decent again, 2 and 1/2 gig
networking. Do like to see that these days, especially for a system that could
be geared towards content creation given their pedigree. Good looking cooling,
dual 120 mm RGB fans here, a single in
the back. Quality Fantex case with a tempered glass side panel, tempered
glass front panel. man, especially
considering this was one of the more affordable of our systems. If anything,
we probably underspent on it and we should have gotten the Horizon 3 Pro.
But the only difference is that one has an upgraded GPU. So, we're kind of
thinking we'll look at both configurations when we do our performance testing. We'll just swap the
GPU out ourselves for a 7700 XT. Let's
go ahead and crack this open. Overall, man, pretty decent looking config. They
didn't cheap out on any of the classic places where you cheap out. 650 W power
supply. Expanding foam all over the inside of the system to keep things safe
and it doesn't just immediately fall out so you can tell it's actually supporting
anything. Oh yeah, buddy. Oh yeah,
buddy. Called it. These guys know how to pack a
system. Uh
oh, this one doesn't come out. Oh man,
look at the way it's yanking on this cooler, man. Oh, what a nice cooler.
Best-in-class cooler for sure. But
um Oh boy, I can't remove this without cutting
it. Oh yeah, I didn't look at my accessories yet. Whoops. Okay, maybe the
quick start guide tells me to go get a knife and cut this apart. Power cable
and Wi-Fi antenna. But I I hear other
things in here. I hear things. Okay. Extra modular cables for
my power supply.
And what? They removed the ILM. That is
weird. This is nice though. They pre-installed the M.2 mounting hardware
for me. And over here, they've got what appears to be a courtesy cable because I
don't believe this configuration has a hard drive. And there's definitely a
SATA plugged in there. All right, let's figure out how to get this bloody foam
out.
Oh god. Oh wait, no. Maybe it's okay.
Okay. Yeah, I think we're good. Pretty darn nice looking build. Oh. Oh. A.
You're going to have infinity mirror fans and you're not going to remove the peels for me. Dude, look at all this
thermal goop. It's like oozing out from under the
Oh, that is something to note is even if you have a one-year warranty with your
system integrator, some of the individual components may have
additional warranty coverage. For instance, this Tforce memory from I
believe it's Team Group, right? Yeah. This has like lifetime warranty on it,
assuming that it's not an, you know, OEM only special skew for system builders
that has less warranty or something like that. Um, and if they're using retail
Intel CPUs, for instance, those have a three-year warranty. So, it's in your
best interest if a system integrator doesn't do anything that would violate
those warranty terms. Oh, speaking of the RAM, how much is
there? Dual 8 gigs, but hey, at least it's dual channel. 1 TB of storage this
time from Kingston. Nice cable management in the back. Nothing to
really stand out as a cut corner in here, as expected. There's my courtesy
cable and they included all of the mounting hardware for our case. That is
a major major bonus because if I ever
want to do any kind of maintenance, boom, I've got everything I need exactly
where I would expect to find it inside my computer. Dude, this is going to be a
cont. It's not touching anything right now, but these exposed leads should not
be here. if they accidentally contact metal short. Aside from the couple of
weird things, it's looking pretty good for
Star Forge. And this looks like a good time
to tease the next episode, which is going to be contacting everyone's tech
support. What kind of issue should we fabricate this time? What if the GPU
doesn't seat properly and it doesn't output anything? What if it doesn't?
Then that's a problem. Then we'll contact tech support. And if you want to
see this early, all of our secret shopper is going to be up a few days
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