now we know it's been done already but come on in fairness we thought about doing this a long time
ago it just takes a while for stuff to ship from wish.com you guys loved our amazon
and monoprice pc build so much
that we couldn't resist the urge to do it again
but with a sketchier twist so uh strap on guys
because i can pretty much guarantee
that this is not gonna go according to plan
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let's start unpacking this stuff so first up is our case you can tell that
is super high quality because even with my weak sauce left ARM i am easily
manhandling it here let's go ahead and do a nice little peel for you guys
ah yes
oh oh that was not a good deal
you know what the case though actually feels better quality than the plastic
cup oh crap i bent it
uh so i was holding it by the i o cutout
actually warped it a little bit i think i'll pick it up the way you're intended
to from now on features wise though this actually doesn't look that bad we've got
three front usbs including a usb 3 power
reset uh front ports we've got wow an
easily removable magnetic fan filter with room for a couple of 120 millimeter
fans up here it actually includes what appears to be a 120 millimeter RGB fan
although it may just be that the label is red green and blue
the side panel mounts in like this tempered glass style but this is in fact
an acrylic side panel and then check this out it's got that punched out style
back panel so you've actually got a little bit of room for cable management
back here i mean not a ton but a little bit is better than nothing that is a
weird fan like it's a 120 millimeter frame but
those blades are tiny so this is what i'm talking about look
how big the blades are on that 120 millimeter versus the other
one it's like a 90 millimeter fan in a
120 millimeter frame it's got this like thick
frame on it it's weird now this is a cool feature you've actually got color
coding on your switches and your leds here and it seems to correspond to the
colors that at least some manufacturers use i'm pretty sure ASUS uses blue for
reset how much should we pay for this thing
what so apparently cases are not actually a great deal on wish.com
at least it has a tempered glass front panel all right let's open up our next mystery
package here ah a motherboard
what is with all the bubble wrap around this thing
i mean in fairness it still looks like it was
got dropkicked so there's a couple
takeaways here one all the extra packaging seems to be
justified and two the way that they're applying their extra packaging is not
very effective oh
so that's interesting yeah this motherboard is not that at all um
full testing okay all right
so this is clearly a very used board was it clear from the listing that it was
gonna be used okay how much did we pay for this bad boy
46 for an h61 board that's not even a good
deal why do people buy this stuff and like do you know how much these socket
covers cost if you buy them in bulk i know pennies
they put a piece of paper in look at this
that's it that's their that's their socket cover now in fairness it doesn't
look like there are any bent pins so that's good but that's still not how i would have
preferred it done all right we also apparently have a CPU
and it comes in what looks like a compact flash
card case which i guess is kind of cute
it's an Intel core i3 2130
i guess this was just what CPU they had that was compatible with what board they
had kind of thing how much should we pay for this guy
50 bucks seriously
this is a rip-off so already for the price of this CPU and
motherboard we probably could have gotten like an old dell business pc that
would have included case power supply uh probably a drive some RAM and we
could have just like thrown a graphics card in it but what that
so i was informed before we started that i actually have two options for coolers
i have this great wall heatsink cooler
i am kind of liking this this is actually very similar to the old
xalman flower coolers that used to be popular back in the
socket 754 days so that's candidate number one and
candidate number two is actually an aio liquid cooler
i mean it shouldn't surprise me given that they're all basically made in china
anyway but this
looks very very similar in materials and
construction to what you'd get from an aio cooler that
you purchased just normally off of amazon or whatever
tubing wise like seems like the materials they're using are okay it feels like an aluminum radiator it's
pretty light but that should be fine except that there's a copper block
except that some manufacturers do that i don't know what they're doing i think
they're crazy okay you know what if the aio fits
then we're gonna go with that but uh it's no guarantee that we're
gonna be able to get it in here because even though this does have mounts for
dual 120 millimeter fans up here that doesn't mean that there's going to be
enough clearance once we install a power supply and no in fact there isn't so it looks
like we cannot use our aio cooler and we are unfortunately going to be stuck with
our regular heatsink so how much were each of those
so our theme continues of our prices not necessarily being
outlandishly bad on these ones i'd say
80 bucks for like a i don't know kind of decent looking aio is
fine but it's certainly not special
okay so it should just be a matter of throwing our clips on here
and clip one and clip
two give it a little
wiggle and plug in did we also buy RAM off wish oh
there it is oh wow that is some uh
hey they wait a second wait a second
i am pretty sure that they don't have the rights to use this image
so this is vaseki high performance ddr
and you can tell that they're really high budget and care a lot about their
packaging when they use the same packaging for everything from ddr3 1333
to ddr4 3200 like ah
it's some of this something like that let's go ahead and
install this stuff so this is uh ddr3 1333 i'm super glad we spent money on
this how much did we spend forty dollars
on eight gigs you know what i think that's actually not entirely
unreasonable the funny thing about memory is when like a new memory spec
like ddr2 or ddr3 or whatever just comes out it's really expensive and
then it gets cheap when the entire market adopts it then it gets expensive
again when it becomes like old technology and it's more niche all right so there we go
friends i'm going to plug our case fan into the bottom of the motherboard here
wow that's really curious this case you
know it actually looked okay at the start there
but it is pretty unexceptional like
check this out our bottom fan here which is pre-installed and it seems to me that
the reason it's pre-installed is that almost none of the other fan mounts are
even going to be accessible because of the tempered glass panel here and the
power supply here actually interferes with what would be the bottom slot if we
had a full four slot matx motherboard
like this this thing this thing is not very well thought out at all
now seems like a good opportunity to get back to our solid state drive uh
it's another vasecchi product this is the v800 256g at least this one is
clearly labeled but i do have to wonder if this is kind of an old box
like didn't sand force get acquired like a thousand years ago by someone i'd be
surprised if it even uses a sandforce controller wow oh just it just comes
apart well maybe we can see what it uses
this is nothing to do with sand force whatsoever it's a silicon magic
controller but not the one that's listed online which is actually good because at
least this one SATA 3 unlike the SATA 2 one that it says this product uses
unfortunately this is in fact a dram cashless SSD there is no
RAM on it whatsoever and we did a video about that a while back explaining why
that is a terrible terrible terrible idea and in some cases you might even
get better performance out of a mechanical hard drive compared to a
cashless SSD so
there you go i mean it's nothing we didn't already know but we wouldn't recommend this
let's install it in our computer how much did i pay for that
56 i mean capacity for capacity that's not
a terrible deal but for like a piece of crap SSD like this one that's not a good
deal
oh boy when your sli
still uses a lowercase i because you haven't updated any of your
materials since like 2010.
oh boy now let's have a look at our connectors
here so
we've got two leads each of which are
a molex and a SATA wow this wiring
it's so cheap even the plastic for the connectors
feels cheap on a positive note i do think we have
all the connectors we need four pin for the CPU
24 pin for the motherboard six pin for oh right graphics card
so
this one we're pretty sure is a rip-off actually
how much did speaking of rip-offs how much did i pay for this piece of garbage
31 bucks that's overpriced
not that you should ever use even like a good 31 power supply in
like a decent machine power supply is one of those things it's
just not worth it to cheap out on and wow look at this thing
so if i had to guess i would say
that this is a 460 ti or a 560. what is it
a 1060 it doesn't even have a 6 pin power connector on it 1060 my ass
wait NVIDIA's 10 series doesn't even have vga support
oh you how much did i pay for this
45 bucks well at least the price was right all right
let's go ahead and install this piece of hot garbage
now normally your power supply is supposed to be the one that comes with your mounting
screws but either they fell out of the gaping hole
in the bottom of the box or they just weren't included so what we're
going to do is we're going to salvage
a couple of what appear to be power supply compatible screws but that seem
to have been intended for expansion cards so what's our total bill for the tower
380 with the air cooler option
that is brutal that is so much more than i would pay
for this now our pc is done but what we still
don't know is how true any of the
manufacturers claims were about their products to find that out we're gonna
have to actually install Windows on it and fire it up but before we can do that
of course we're going to need some peripherals
let's start with the zulang wolf
rainbow light k16 game keyboard
wow
this may be the lightest keyboard that i
have ever felt then also from the same brand i think although this time it's in
chinese instead of english but it's the same logo here
we've got some kind of gaming mouse i guess
that is quite literally the spongiest click that i have ever felt on anything
you can even see a lot of that travel is being absorbed by the pcb underneath see
how much that port is moving that is grody
okay this i've actually seen this mouse pad is a pretty good deal all right how
much did the peripherals cost us
and that includes the mouse pad well at least the price is right for the
peripherals because these are definitely like 10 dollar worthy
peripherals over here all right so this is it ladies and gentlemen
our epic gaming setup
is now ready for a Windows install and a gaming test
we'll be right back all right so we're getting some games downloading we're gonna get some drivers
installed but before we do that i've got an update for you this power
supply was even worse than we expected
not only did it suck it didn't work at all so we had to pull in just a tx 750
in order to get the system powered up at all the good news is that once we did that we were at least able to get
Windows installed yeah it's clear by this point that this is not a build that
you guys would want to emulate but get subscribed if you're not already because
we're going to have a rise and build guide coming up pretty soon that's going to be more uh
by the book now let's take some time to explore what
kind of hardware we've really ended up with here so we'll fire up hardware info
fire up our device manager and uh see what we're looking at one thing i
figured out already is this computer is not very fast
all right so we're going to start with device manager here you can see all of our drivers auto installed for like our
chipset and all that kind of stuff it's older hardware so Windows just knows
what to do with that so it turns out this is in fact a core i3 2130 so that's
good i guess okay all right gigabit Ethernet blah blah everything here looks
fine but we don't have a GPU driver yet so that's not showing up so it says here
we've got a gtx 1050 ti and we've actually got the NVIDIA drivers
unpacking in the background here but we fire up hardware info and this is
hilarious sandy bridge processor fake NVIDIA gtx
1050 ti fake it's not it's not one fake is not enough for this two fakes
so this is a gf-116 which if i recall correctly
is fermi that is an old old GPU unfortunately
because it's not reporting anything here we have no way of knowing at this time
which one it is so the only way to find out is going to be to try and get some
real drivers installed so that it can hopefully identify itself correctly
so let's try the NVIDIA installer here and see what happens oh wow it successfully
installed the driver it still reports as a 1050 ti
interesting so i thought we were actually going to have to install off the included driver
disk with like these hacky drivers on it
see that looks really legitimate but it seems like the driver did manage to
install and they have even tricked NVIDIA control panel
into thinking that this is a 1050 ti now with that said we haven't tried to
launch a game yet all right so we've run into our first hiccup while attempting to
press alt z to see just a quick and dirty frame counter in the game
um i got into GeForce experience here and
went to configure my settings and
theoretically we meet the system requirements because we have a 600
series or higher but in practice the the configuration
button just doesn't work and when you go to press alt z nothing
comes up because no this is not in fact a 600
series GPU so we're just going to have to eyeball
it
yay oh no
so the good news is this is running smoothly the bad news is that this is
rocket league it's not exactly known for being a particularly demanding title
and i'm dead we found our problem
fermi only had HDMI 1.3
so that was limited to 2048 by 1536 at
75 hertz that's a little bit not quite
enough for 2560 by 1440 60 hertz which
is the native resolution of this monitor so when we try to run it
uh confusion ensues
so i think the last thing for us to do is figure out exactly what graphics card
we're dealing with here so we're going to go ahead and run 3dmark we're going to use the directx 11 fire strike and
we're going to have a look at what kinds of systems perform similarly to ours in
GPU performance and it crashed
what can you tell me about this error the workload produced no results
so this could be either of a couple things it could be that 3dmark was
expecting the GPU to support features that it in fact didn't
and some kind of error occurred or it could be part of 3dmark's anti-cheating
procedures to double check if something is misreporting itself as something else
so that people couldn't you know flash rtx 2080 tis to
gtx 1050 ti's and then you know completely dominate the leaderboards um
either way it looks like we will not in fact be able to run 3dmark to validate
what our graphics card is which at this point in the video i think is fine
anyway because it really doesn't change the conclusion anytime you're buying
something and what you get is not what it said it was that's a bad
deal and frankly speaking even most of
the things that were what they said they were going to be
weren't amazing deals either so the old adage definitely holds true here if
something seems too good to be true
it probably is i think the cooler is
about the only thing in this computer that i think
is even remotely worth getting it's got
pretty cool RGB lighting effects and for what 17 bucks
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oh my toe ah sandals okay it's the one
disadvantage there you go guys
i think that's where i hit it so whatever happened here
someone was not happy about delivering this package