WEBVTT 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 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 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:18.800 LTT viewer. You know, like we do, but I've got a small problem. 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 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.800 foreigners don't always get the best deal. 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.800 That is where Daniel comes in. Hello. 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 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. 00:00:39.800 --> 00:00:43.200 Laowai, I think you got it. Nice. 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. 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:57.800 Good gravy. They have everything here, from ICs, to security cameras, to drones, to musical instruments, 00:00:57.800 --> 00:01:02.680 and we're only on the second floor. 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 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:13.720 retailer that I used to work at, and that served all of Western Canada. 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 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:24.720 in common is they are packed to the gills with tech. 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. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:33.040 Where else could I buy AMD Epics in bulk? 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 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 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 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. 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.200 My friend's going to put it together for me. Hi. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.200 Hello. Oh, English? No. 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.520 Oh, under budget. 00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:08.520 My friend has WeChat. Yeah, I'm on the 5th floor, 5252. 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.520 Oh, hey. Hold on. 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:16.120 You exceeded the daily limit. Yeah. Uh-oh. 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:20.120 Sorry, your bank declined the card. Oh, come on. Let me try the other one. 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.120 Yeah, try the verifying succeeded. 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.240 Okay then. Yay. 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.240 Okay. Oh, this way. Okay. 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:32.240 Okay. Okay. Bye. 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.520 Woo, we got it. 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:40.800 Let's go check out our hall. Just need to find a place to build. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.920 Is this recommended by internet celebrities or for them? 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 00:02:49.720 --> 00:02:53.880 nowhere? I don't think anybody needs to use them. 00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:58.160 While the process was pretty straightforward, he asked me if my system was for gaming, clarified 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.480 You know, the last time Intel made a CPU that people wanted to use for gaming. 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 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 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 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:55.040 do. Whoops. I only got single-channel memory. 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... 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.520 Are there two of these? Nope. 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:08.280 No, no, I don't, I think this is just fans. 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. 00:04:17.960 --> 00:04:21.560 Then for our SSD, we've got a Kingston NV3-1 terabyte. 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:28.920 He did confirm with me that this was enough capacity to have a cache. 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. 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:38.400 Now I just got to figure out how to install it without a tool. Damn. 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:43.200 I never travel anywhere without it. 00:04:43.200 --> 00:04:50.680 All right, let's crack open our case and have a look. 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 00:04:55.280 --> 00:05:04.600 got nice high-quality packing materials, so that's two things about them. 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:14.600 We're going to get ourselves a little somewhat stable platform. 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:19.920 You can't make this shit up, man. 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:25.520 No! Well, it'll be good for cooling. 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 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:41.960 the box for safekeeping. Okay, well, my handling error is aside. 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 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:59.160 panel come off for nice easy access while you're building. 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 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.240 heard of. Did they sell me too many fans? 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:11.280 I've got three RGB fans pre-installed on here, plus another set. 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:15.080 Where the hell am I supposed to put them all? 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. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:27.840 After what feels like 84 years of installing fans, I finally got them all in. 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 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:36.680 the pretty side of all the fans facing in, so there you go. 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. 00:06:41.320 --> 00:06:44.680 No modular interface, so that means more cable management. 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:49.600 It's not heavy. Not the only indicator of power supply quality. 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. 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.160 But it also isn't typically a great sign. 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.800 What does 80 plus 230 volt EU mean? 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:07.120 Does that mean it's only 80 plus in the EU? 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:12.800 Oh wow. This is not a universal input power supply. 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 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 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. 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:33.120 Oh yeah, these cables feel really cheap too. Let's take a look at our GPU. 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 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.960 power connector, so we'll be able to plug it in. 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 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. 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.040 Now for a couple finishing touches, get these peels off. 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:03.200 I'm a really weird busker. It doesn't stop people from watching me though. 00:08:03.200 --> 00:08:06.240 Not a bad little build. Or is it? 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. 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:22.000 That comes out to about $2.80 each for RGB Infinity Mirror fans. 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 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:32.240 does that compare to our new egg bill? So that's $1,243 US dollars. 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. 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 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.800 is can Daniel get a better deal? 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:50.000 Before we send Agent Daniel in there, I've got a few questions for you. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.000 Where are you from? Shanghai. Shanghai, okay. 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? 00:08:56.800 --> 00:09:00.840 Yeah, I'm pretty confident I can do that. Okay, cool. So the basics is this. 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.920 You've got $1,100 US dollars to spend. 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. 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.600 If they ask what games you want to play, I don't know. 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.600 League? Blackmith. Blackmith, that's good stuff. 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:18.000 Yep, you have a 1080p monitor. We want to end up with a very similar build. 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? 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.000 I'm going to let you finish. I'll tell you what's going to happen. 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? 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.480 I paid $99. We paid over $200. 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.640 Yes, $210, exactly. Why? 00:09:37.640 --> 00:09:41.440 They made me subscribe to their WeChat account and that gave me a discount. 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.760 I paid with WeChat too. You have WeChat too? What the heck? 00:09:44.760 --> 00:09:47.760 There you go. Boom. There's your answer. 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:52.000 Wow. Guess we'll see. All right, let's go. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:55.000 Just kidding, you're on your own. See ya. Wait, what? 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.000 Okay. Well, I can't be seen with you. They left so early? 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.000 Yes. They left so early? 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.000 Yes. Okay. Okay. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:12.000 We have some bad news. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:18.000 That shop is closed, so let's think of a plan B. 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:29.240 We got it. 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:32.240 Let's go to Linus. Any luck? 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. 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:40.240 Oh, okay. You're getting a 50-70. 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.240 70, yep. What the fuck? But they cheaped out on the CPU, I guess. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.240 Top gen. That's not your... Where's my quote? 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:54.240 Well, okay, yeah. I spent another 100 CNY on my CPU, but wait, what's this? 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. 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:05.080 Okay. So for being realistic, you got a pretty similar markup to me. 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:09.400 You just got someone who understood the assignment a little bit better for a gaming PC. 00:11:09.400 --> 00:11:12.840 We focused a lot on Wukong. That's the most demanding game. Right. 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. 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 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 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. 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. 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.480 Pretty darn close. Okay. So you also got a crappy power supply. 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. 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 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 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 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:14.880 paying pretty similar for similar quality of components, because yeah, it was more from 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:18.000 New Egg, but we also got higher quality parts. 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. 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. 00:12:28.280 --> 00:12:31.280 Where do we go? Did we just start walking? Sure. 00:12:31.280 --> 00:12:36.520 Why not? It's such a random place that you hate. 00:12:36.520 --> 00:12:40.040 It's very random. Okay, hold on. 00:12:40.040 --> 00:12:43.960 Take another picture. This picture is of you getting a new PC. 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.960 Congratulations. Are you serious? Yeah. 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.960 What? Wait, no. Don't drop it. 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:54.960 I'm not going to drop it. I already dropped it once. Are you sure? 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:57.960 Yeah. Oh, I'm sure I dropped it once. Yeah, it shattered a little bit. 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:00.960 Oh my God. It's good for airflow. You just take that panel off. 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? 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. 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:12.040 There you go. Thank you. Thank you. 00:13:12.040 --> 00:13:15.040 This is the most random day of my life. 00:13:15.040 --> 00:13:18.040 Thank you so much. Are you a gamer? 00:13:18.040 --> 00:13:21.440 No, my brother is, but I'm not. Guess what? Now you are. 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.440 Oh, thank you. I'll get into it. Thank you. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.240 So what brings you to Shenzhen? Obligatory family holiday. 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.240 Oh, heck yeah. Okay. What brings you here? 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.240 Obligatory making videos holiday. Very nice. 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 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 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:47.240 seven years ago. So I'll return and face my final boss again. 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:50.240 All right. Thank you, man. This is really, really random. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.240 But thank you. Really, really convenient here. So I'm going to do one of these. 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:56.240 All good, man. Thank you. All right. 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. 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:02.240 All right. Let's go get some drinks. Back down under. 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:05.240 Thanks, guys. All right. That was pretty random. 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:10.240 Now we just need a random, hopefully in English this time segway to our sponsor. 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 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 00:14:21.520 --> 00:14:24.640 a PC with only parts that I have never heard of before.