1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 It's been seven years and I'm back in Huasheng Bay in Shenzhen, China, the world's largest 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:11,360 tech mall with one simple goal, to buy a sick gaming PC, build it, and give it to a lucky 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:18,800 LTT viewer. You know, like we do, but I've got a small problem. 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:23,760 See, obviously I want to get the best possible deal for my new friend, but I've heard that 5 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,800 foreigners don't always get the best deal. 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,800 That is where Daniel comes in. Hello. 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,080 He's been our loyal guide and interpreter throughout this trip and he's going to help 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:39,800 me figure out just how much I'm losing or gaining by being an English-speaking Laowai. 9 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,200 Laowai, I think you got it. Nice. 10 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:50,480 Now for an English-speaking Segway for our sponsor. Oh man, I forgot how overwhelming this place is. 11 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:57,800 Good gravy. They have everything here, from ICs, to security cameras, to drones, to musical instruments, 12 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,680 and we're only on the second floor. 13 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:08,120 The fourth floor alone probably has more PC hardware packed into it than all of the computer 14 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:13,720 retailer that I used to work at, and that served all of Western Canada. 15 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:20,680 They've got shops that look more like a showroom or part of a chain. They've got ones that just have all the inventory piled up on the floor, but what they all have 16 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,720 in common is they are packed to the gills with tech. 17 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,760 Not all of it new, mind you. But the sheer volume of it is just so impressive. 18 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,040 Where else could I buy AMD Epics in bulk? 19 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:38,680 Already built AI servers. That's not what I'm after today though, so let's head downstairs and find a more gaming-oriented 20 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:44,760 shop. To keep things simple, I'm going to go in there, lay out my budget, and buy whatever 21 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,840 they recommend. If they ask me questions about my use case, I will answer them as best I can, but if they 22 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,840 ask me technical questions, I'm just going to say, yeah, I don't really know too much. 23 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,200 My friend's going to put it together for me. Hi. 24 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,200 Hello. Oh, English? No. 25 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,520 Oh, under budget. 26 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,520 My friend has WeChat. Yeah, I'm on the 5th floor, 5252. 27 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,520 Oh, hey. Hold on. 28 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,120 You exceeded the daily limit. Yeah. Uh-oh. 29 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,120 Sorry, your bank declined the card. Oh, come on. Let me try the other one. 30 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,120 Yeah, try the verifying succeeded. 31 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,240 Okay then. Yay. 32 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,240 Okay. Oh, this way. Okay. 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,240 Okay. Okay. Bye. 34 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,520 Woo, we got it. 35 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,800 Let's go check out our hall. Just need to find a place to build. 36 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,920 Is this recommended by internet celebrities or for them? 37 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:49,720 The bench I built on last time is occupado at the moment, so how about these stairs to 38 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,880 nowhere? I don't think anybody needs to use them. 39 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,160 While the process was pretty straightforward, he asked me if my system was for gaming, clarified 40 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,600 my budget, asked me what color of chassis I wanted, showed me that all the parts were 41 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,160 brand new and sealed, assuring me that they all have a three-year warranty, and told me 42 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:12,600 that I'm getting all top-tier brands, which I was mostly vibing with until he pulled out 43 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:19,760 this Prime power supply. While I am familiar with the C-Sonic Prime lineup, I'm less familiar with the Goghunter's 44 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,760 Prime lineup. It says here it's manufactured by Great Wall though, so yeah, they'd be a tier one. 45 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:33,520 Let's see what else we got. I was a little surprised to see him go Intel, and then I realized it's a 14th gen. 46 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,480 You know, the last time Intel made a CPU that people wanted to use for gaming. 47 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,800 It's an OEM chip, so I'm not sure where he gets the idea that I'm getting a three-year 48 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,040 warranty on it, but hey, I'm not going to be here in three years, and six performance 49 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,920 cores and eight efficiency cores should be a pretty good choice for what I'm trying to 50 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:55,040 do. Whoops. I only got single-channel memory. 51 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:01,520 If it was DDR5, that might not be the end of the world, but DDR4, single-channel... 52 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,520 Are there two of these? Nope. 53 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,280 No, no, I don't, I think this is just fans. 54 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:17,960 Only fans. I mean, it's 32 gigs, so it's not like he even cheaped out, but like, bad. 55 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,560 Then for our SSD, we've got a Kingston NV3-1 terabyte. 56 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:28,920 He did confirm with me that this was enough capacity to have a cache. 57 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:34,800 That's a negatory captain. It is a Gen 4 drive though, so it should give us okay performance. 58 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,400 Now I just got to figure out how to install it without a tool. Damn. 59 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,200 I never travel anywhere without it. 60 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:50,680 All right, let's crack open our case and have a look. 61 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:55,280 Not familiar with Golden Field, but it looks pretty decent on the show floor and they've 62 00:04:55,280 --> 00:05:04,600 got nice high-quality packing materials, so that's two things about them. 63 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:14,600 We're going to get ourselves a little somewhat stable platform. 64 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:19,920 You can't make this shit up, man. 65 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,520 No! Well, it'll be good for cooling. 66 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:34,320 Damn. I was about to say the next thing we want to do is get the panels off and put them inside 67 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:41,960 the box for safekeeping. Okay, well, my handling error is aside. 68 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:49,280 The case looks pretty decent. It supports back-to-front motherboards, lots of room for fans, and both the front and side 69 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:59,160 panel come off for nice easy access while you're building. 70 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,920 This cooler brand I've heard of before, but only because it's Golden Field, which I just 71 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,240 heard of. Did they sell me too many fans? 72 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,280 I've got three RGB fans pre-installed on here, plus another set. 73 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:15,080 Where the hell am I supposed to put them all? 74 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:22,240 They use nice broad-head screws for this AIO. It's maybe not quite as secure as using a washer, but it's certainly a lot more convenient. 75 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:27,840 After what feels like 84 years of installing fans, I finally got them all in. 76 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:32,560 I don't think we're going to have the most ideal layout for Airflow, but hey, I have 77 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,680 the pretty side of all the fans facing in, so there you go. 78 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:41,320 Now I just got to deal with this side. Let's take a look at our power supply now. 79 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,680 No modular interface, so that means more cable management. 80 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:49,600 It's not heavy. Not the only indicator of power supply quality. 81 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:55,240 I'm sure if Lucas from the lab was here, he could tell us exactly how good it is. 82 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,160 But it also isn't typically a great sign. 83 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,800 What does 80 plus 230 volt EU mean? 84 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,120 Does that mean it's only 80 plus in the EU? 85 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:12,800 Oh wow. This is not a universal input power supply. 86 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,560 From what I can find, 80 plus 230 volt is a thing, but it is worth noting that pretty 87 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:23,520 much any power supply worth at Salt these days has active PFC and would be able to accept 88 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:28,680 any voltage input, so I don't know if I'm feeling too great about this one. 89 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,120 Oh yeah, these cables feel really cheap too. Let's take a look at our GPU. 90 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:40,680 Oh good. Unlike many 50 series cards, this 8 gig dual 5060 Ti from ASUS does use an older PCIe 91 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,960 power connector, so we'll be able to plug it in. 92 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,480 I'm not super psyched to be getting an 8 gig card at this price, but I haven't done a direct 93 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:53,480 comparison to Western pricing yet, so I don't know whether to blame NVIDIA or the shop. 94 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,040 Now for a couple finishing touches, get these peels off. 95 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:03,200 I'm a really weird busker. It doesn't stop people from watching me though. 96 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,240 Not a bad little build. Or is it? 97 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:13,920 Time to take a closer look at this. Well the fans were a good price anyway, 140 Chinese yen for 7 of them. 98 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:22,000 That comes out to about $2.80 each for RGB Infinity Mirror fans. 99 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,680 As for the rest of it, 7,900 Chinese yen comes to around $1,109 US dollars, so how 100 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:32,240 does that compare to our new egg bill? So that's $1,243 US dollars. 101 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:38,000 Really? So we beat it by 130 bucks, plus you're probably paying tax and shipping on top of that. 102 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,600 This is all in. Well at the very least then, I didn't get a bad deal compared to back home, but the question 103 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,800 is can Daniel get a better deal? 104 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,000 Before we send Agent Daniel in there, I've got a few questions for you. 105 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Where are you from? Shanghai. Shanghai, okay. 106 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,800 So how long have you lived in Canada? For about 6 years. Do you think you can still pass for a native speaker? 107 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,840 Yeah, I'm pretty confident I can do that. Okay, cool. So the basics is this. 108 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,920 You've got $1,100 US dollars to spend. 109 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,200 You're a gamer. You're not interested in streaming or video editing or anything like that. 110 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,600 If they ask what games you want to play, I don't know. 111 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,600 League? Blackmith. Blackmith, that's good stuff. 112 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,000 Yep, you have a 1080p monitor. We want to end up with a very similar build. 113 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,360 You want a terabyte of storage and you don't need Windows. What do you think is going to happen? 114 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,000 I'm going to let you finish. I'll tell you what's going to happen. 115 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,480 We saw it getting breakfast for our hotel rooms. How much did you pay for three days? 116 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,480 I paid $99. We paid over $200. 117 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,640 Yes, $210, exactly. Why? 118 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,440 They made me subscribe to their WeChat account and that gave me a discount. 119 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,760 I paid with WeChat too. You have WeChat too? What the heck? 120 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,760 There you go. Boom. There's your answer. 121 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:52,000 Wow. Guess we'll see. All right, let's go. 122 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Just kidding, you're on your own. See ya. Wait, what? 123 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Okay. Well, I can't be seen with you. They left so early? 124 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Yes. They left so early? 125 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Yes. Okay. Okay. 126 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:12,000 We have some bad news. 127 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:18,000 That shop is closed, so let's think of a plan B. 128 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:29,240 We got it. 129 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,240 Let's go to Linus. Any luck? 130 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,240 Unfortunately, no. That original shop was closed, but we did get a quote from a different shop. 131 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,240 Oh, okay. You're getting a 50-70. 132 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,240 70, yep. What the fuck? But they cheaped out on the CPU, I guess. 133 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,240 Top gen. That's not your... Where's my quote? 134 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:54,240 Well, okay, yeah. I spent another 100 CNY on my CPU, but wait, what's this? 135 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:59,480 Plus 160. This is a double-tower air cooler, so I don't get AIO water cooling. 136 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:05,080 Okay. So for being realistic, you got a pretty similar markup to me. 137 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,400 You just got someone who understood the assignment a little bit better for a gaming PC. 138 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,840 We focused a lot on Wukong. That's the most demanding game. Right. 139 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:17,640 We said better GPU, better game. And in fairness, I never told the first shop that I wanted to play Blacksmith Wukong. 140 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:25,800 Of course, I didn't say I didn't want to play it. So either way, it's pretty clear to me that markup-wise, neither of us really got much 141 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:31,040 of a better deal or worse deal. Yeah. It seems like the difference is mainly just the opinion of the builder, like what they 142 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:37,200 thought was best for our systems. Yeah. The closest comparable we have is that we both got 32 gigs of RAM. 143 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:42,480 Yeah, he's giving me a single stick as well. Yeah. And you paid 10 CNY less. 144 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,480 Pretty darn close. Okay. So you also got a crappy power supply. 145 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:50,560 Yeah. I asked him about getting a better one. He said a Corsair would cost a thousand, where this is a 360 bucks. 146 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:57,120 A Corsair would be a lot better of a power supply. But actually, this is another comparable then, because I also got a great wall power supply 147 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:03,520 and you paid 10 CNY more. So if we look at the two direct comparables we have, it's just like random variable between 148 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:09,440 different shops. Yeah. So bottom line, whether you're buying back home or you're buying here, you're probably 149 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:14,880 paying pretty similar for similar quality of components, because yeah, it was more from 150 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,000 New Egg, but we also got higher quality parts. 151 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,720 Like by the time we spent that much more on a brand name power supply, we're probably right in the same ballpark. 152 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:28,280 Let's give away a PC. Probably no one's going to say anything because they don't want it because it's broken. 153 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,280 Where do we go? Did we just start walking? Sure. 154 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:36,520 Why not? It's such a random place that you hate. 155 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,040 It's very random. Okay, hold on. 156 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,960 Take another picture. This picture is of you getting a new PC. 157 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,960 Congratulations. Are you serious? Yeah. 158 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,960 What? Wait, no. Don't drop it. 159 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,960 I'm not going to drop it. I already dropped it once. Are you sure? 160 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,960 Yeah. Oh, I'm sure I dropped it once. Yeah, it shattered a little bit. 161 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,960 Oh my God. It's good for airflow. You just take that panel off. 162 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,680 I think I have the luggage for this, but I'm going to try. You know what? 163 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:09,040 I believe in you. Oh, here. I'm going to put one of these Hollyland mics on you. 164 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,040 There you go. Thank you. Thank you. 165 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,040 This is the most random day of my life. 166 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,040 Thank you so much. Are you a gamer? 167 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,440 No, my brother is, but I'm not. Guess what? Now you are. 168 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:25,440 Oh, thank you. I'll get into it. Thank you. 169 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,240 So what brings you to Shenzhen? Obligatory family holiday. 170 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,240 Oh, heck yeah. Okay. What brings you here? 171 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,240 Obligatory making videos holiday. Very nice. 172 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,040 Yeah, no, I'm here for a couple of factory tours, and then I was like, well, I'm back 173 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:43,240 at the place that I got all stressed out building a PC with Scotty from Strange Parts 174 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,240 seven years ago. So I'll return and face my final boss again. 175 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,240 All right. Thank you, man. This is really, really random. 176 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,240 But thank you. Really, really convenient here. So I'm going to do one of these. 177 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,240 All good, man. Thank you. All right. 178 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,240 I've got to figure out a way to get this back to my hotel. But thank you. Yeah. 179 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,240 All right. Let's go get some drinks. Back down under. 180 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,240 Thanks, guys. All right. That was pretty random. 181 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:10,240 Now we just need a random, hopefully in English this time segway to our sponsor. 182 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,240 If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out the last time I was here building a PC 183 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:21,520 with Scotty from Strange Parts. It was stressful, but only because I gave myself a very difficult challenge, trying to build 184 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,640 a PC with only parts that I have never heard of before.