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It's been 7 years and I'm back in Wang Bay in Shenzhen, China, the world's

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largest tech mall with one simple goal. To buy a sick gaming PC, build it and

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give it to a lucky LT viewer. You know, >> I don't know what to say. I'm in stocks.

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Thank you. >> Thank you, bro. >> Like we do. But I've got a small

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problem. See, obviously I want to get the best possible deal for my new

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friend, but I've heard that uh foreigners don't always get the best

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deal. That is where Daniel comes in. >> Hello.

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>> He's been our loyal guide and interpreter throughout this trip, and

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he's going to help me figure out just how much I'm losing or gaining by being

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an English-sp speakaking la. I think you got it.

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>> Nice. Now, for an English-speaking segue for a sponsor, the brand liners.

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Trust me, bro.

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Oh man, I forgot how overwhelming this place is. Good gravy. They have

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everything here from IC's to security cameras to drones to musical

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instruments. And we're only on the second floor.

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The fourth floor alone probably has more PC hardware packed into [music] it than

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all of the computer retailer that I used to work at. And that served all of

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Western Canada. They've got shops that look more like a

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showroom or part of a chain. They've got ones that just have all the inventory

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piled up on the floor. But what they all have in common is they are packed to the

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gills with tech. Not all of it new, mind you, but the sheer volume of it is just

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so impressive. Where else could I buy AMD Epics in bulk or readybuilt AI

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servers? That's not what I'm after today, though. So, let's head downstairs

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and find a more gaming [music] oriented shop.

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To keep things simple, I'm going to go in there, lay out my budget, and buy

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whatever they recommend. If they ask me questions about my use case, I will

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answer them as best I can. But if they ask me technical questions, I'm just

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going to say, "Yeah, I don't really know too much. My friend's going to put it

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together for me." >> Hi. >> Hello.

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Oh, English. >> No.

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>> Oh, under budget. Um, [music] my friend

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has WeChat. Yeah, I'm on the fifth floor. 5252. Oh, hey, [applause]

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>> hold on. You exceeded the daily limit. >> Yeah. >> Uh-oh. Sorry. Your bank declined the

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card. >> Oh, come on. >> Let me try the other. >> Yeah. Try the verifying succeeded. Okay.

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>> Hey. Okay. Oh, this way. Okay. Okay. Okay.

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Bye. >> Bye.

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We got it. Let's go check out our hall. Just need to find a place to build. Is

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this recommended by internet celebrities or for them?

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The bench I built on last time is occupado at the moment. So, how about

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these stairs to nowhere? I don't think anybody needs to use them.

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Overall, the process was pretty straightforward. He asked me if my system was for gaming. Clarified my

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budget. Asked me what color of chassis I wanted. Showed me that all the parts

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were brand new and sealed, assuring me that they all had a 3-year warranty, and

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told me that I'm getting all top tier brands, which I was mostly vibing with

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until he pulled out this Prime power supply. While I am familiar with the C

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Sonic Prime lineup, I'm less familiar with the Gog Hunters Prime lineup. It

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says here it's manufactured by Great Wall, though, so yeah, they'd be a tier

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one. Let's see what else we got. I was a little surprised to see him go Intel.

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And then I realized it's a 14th gen. You

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know, the last time Intel made a CPU that people wanted to use for gaming.

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It's an OEM chip, so I'm not sure where he gets the idea that I'm getting a

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3-year warranty on it. But hey, I'm not going to be here in 3 years. And six

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performance cores and eight efficiency cores should be a pretty good choice for

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what I'm trying to do. Whoops. I only

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got single channel memory. If it was DDR5, that might not be the

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end of the world. But DDR4 [music]

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single CH. Are there two of these?

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Nope. No. No. I don't I think this is just

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fans. >> Only fans.

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I mean, it's 32 gigs, so it's not like he even cheaped out, but like, bud.

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Then for our SSD, we've got a Kingston NV3 1 TBTE. He did confirm with me that

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this was enough capacity. Do I have a cash?

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That's a negatory, Captain. It is a Gen 4 drive, though, so it should give us

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okay performance. Now, I just got to figure out how to install it without a

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tool. Bam. and never travel anywhere without it.

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All right, let's crack open our case and have a look. Not familiar [music] with

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Golden Field, but it looks pretty decent on the show floor and they got nice high

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quality packing materials. So, that's

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two things about them.

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Made ourselves a little somewhat stable [music] platform.

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You can't make this up, man. [laughter]

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>> No. Well, it'll be good for cooling.

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Damn. I was about to say the next thing we

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want to do is get the panels off and put them inside the box for safekeeping.

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my handling errors aside, the case looks pretty decent. It supports back to front

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motherboards, lots of room for fans, and

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both the front and side panel come off for nice, easy access while you're

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This cooler brand I've heard of before, but only because it's Golden Field,

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which I just heard of. Did they sell me too many fans? I've got three RGB fans

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pre-installed on here, plus another set.

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Where the hell am I supposed to put them all? They use nice broadhead screws for

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this AIO. It's maybe not quite as secure as using a washer, but it's certainly a

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lot more convenient. After what feels like 84 years of installing fans, I

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finally got them all in. I don't think we're going to have the most ideal

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layout for air flow, but hey, I have the pretty side of all the fans facing in.

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So there you go. Now I just got to deal with this side. Let's take a look at our

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power supply. Now, no modular interface,

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so that means more cable management. It's not heavy. Not the only indicator

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of power supply quality. I'm sure if Lucas from the lab was here, he could

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tell us, you know, exactly how good it is.

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But it also isn't typically a great sign. What does 80 plus 230 volt EU

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mean? Does that mean it's only 80 plus

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in the EU? Oh wow.

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This is not a universal input power supply. From what I can find, 80 plus

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230 volt is a thing. But it is worth noting that pretty much any power supply

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worth its salt these days has active PFC

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and would be able to [music] accept any voltage input. So I don't know if I'm

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feeling too great about this one. Oh yeah, these cables feel really cheap,

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too. Let's take a look at our GPU. Oh, good. Unlike many 50 series cards, this

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8 gig dual 5060 Ti from ASUS does use an

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older PCIe power connector, so we will be able to plug it in. I'm not super

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psyched to be getting an 8 gig card at this price, but I haven't done a direct

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comparison to Western pricing yet, so I don't know whether to blame NVIDIA or uh

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the shop. Now, for a couple finishing touches. Get these peels off. I'm a

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really weird busker. Doesn't stop people

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from watching me, though. Not a bad little build. Or is it? Time to take a

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closer look at this. Well, the fans were a good price anyway. 140 Chinese yen for

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seven of them. That [music] comes out to about $2.80

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each for RGB infinity mirror fans. [music]

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As for the rest of it, 7,900 Chinese UN comes to around $1,19.

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So, how does that compare to [music] our new egg bill? So that's $1,243.

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>> Really? So we beat it by [music] 130 bucks. Plus, you're probably paying tax

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and shipping on top of that. >> Definitely. Yes. >> This is all in. Well, at the very

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[music] least, then I didn't get a bad deal compared to back home. But the

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question is, can Daniel get a better deal? Before we send agent Daniel in

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there, I got a few questions for you. Where are you from? >> I'm from Shanghai.

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>> Shanghai. Okay. So, how long you lived in Canada? >> For about 6 years.

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>> Do you think you can still pass for a native speaker? Yeah, I'm pretty confident I can do that.

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>> Okay, cool. So, the basics is this. You've got $1,100 to spend.

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>> Okay. >> You're a gamer. You're not interested in streaming or video editing or anything

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like that. If they ask what games you want to play,

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>> I don't know, League. >> League. >> Blackmith. >> Blackmith. That's good stuff.

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>> Yep. You have a 1080p monitor. We want to end up with a very similar build. You

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want a terabyte of storage and you don't need Windows. >> Got it. >> What do you think is going to happen?

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>> Uhoh. >> I'm going to let you finish. I'll tell you what's going to happen. We saw it

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getting breakfast for our hotel rooms. How much did you pay for 3 days?

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>> Oh, I paid 99. >> We paid >> over 200.

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>> Yes. 210. Exactly. >> Why? >> They made me subscribe to their WeChat

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account and um that [music] gave me a discount. >> I I paid with WeChat.

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>> You have WeChat, too? What the heck? >> There you go. Boom. There's your answer.

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>> Wow. >> Guess we'll see. All right. Let's go.

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Just kidding. You're on your own. See you. >> Wait, what? Okay. Well, I can't be seen

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with you.

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we have some bad news. That shop is closed. So, let's think about plan B.

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>> Any luck? >> Unfortunately, no. That original shop was closed, but we did go get a quote

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from a different shop. >> Oh. Uh, okay. You're getting a 5070.

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>> 70? Yep. >> What the? >> But they cheap out on the CPU, I guess.

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12th gen. >> That's not Where's my quote? Well, okay.

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but then Wait, what's this? Plus 160. >> This is a double tower air cooler, so I

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don't get AIO water cooling. >> Okay, so if we're being realistic, you

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got a pretty similar markup to me. You just got someone who understood the

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assignment a little bit better for a gaming PC. >> So, we focus a lot on Wukong. That's the

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most demanding game. And you said better GPU, better game. >> And in fairness, I never told the first

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shop that I wanted to play Blackmmith Wukong. Of course, I didn't say I didn't

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want to play it. So, either way, it's pretty clear to me that markupwise,

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neither of us really got much of a

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better deal or worse deal. >> Yeah, it it seems like the difference is mainly just the opinion of the builder,

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like what they thought was best for our systems. >> Yeah. The closest comparable we have is

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that we both got 32 gigs of RAM. >> Yeah. He's giving me a single stick as

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well. >> Yeah. And you paid 10 CNY less.

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>> Pretty darn close. Okay. So, you also got a crappy power supply.

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>> I I asked him about getting a better one. He said a Corsair would cost a,000

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where this is a U 360 bucks. >> Corsair would be a lot better of a power

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supply. But actually this is another comparable then because I also got a

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Great Wall power supply and you paid 10 CNY more.

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>> So if we look at the two direct comparables we have >> it's just like random variable like

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between different shops. >> Yeah. So bottom line, whether you're

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buying back home or you're buying here, you're probably paying pretty similar

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for similar quality of components cuz yeah, it was more from Newegg, but we

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also got higher quality parts. Like by the time we spent that much more on a

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brand new power supply, we're probably right in the same ballpark. Let's give away a PC. Probably no one's going to

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say anything cuz they don't want it cuz it's broken.

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[laughter] >> Where do we go? Do we just start walking?

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>> Can I get a photo? >> Sure, why not?

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Such a random place that you're here. >> Yeah, it's very random.

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>> Okay, hold on. Take another picture. >> Another one. >> This picture is of you getting a new PC.

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>> Thank you. Thank you. >> Congratulations.

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>> Are you Are you serious? >> Yeah. >> What? Wait, no. You >> Well, don't drop it.

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>> I'm not going to drop it. >> I already I already dropped it once. See? >> You sure?

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>> Yeah. >> Oh, >> I'm sure I dropped it once. Yeah, it it it shattered a little bit. It's

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>> Oh my god. >> It's good for air flow. >> You just take take that panel off. I

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don't think I have the luggage for this, but I'm going to try. >> You know what? I believe in you. Oh,

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here. I'm going to put I'm going to put one of these Holland mics on you.

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>> There you go. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Use a box, too. >> Is this the most This is the most random

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day of my life. [laughter] >> Thank you so much. >> Are you a gamer?

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>> No, my brother is, but I'm not. Yeah. >> Guess what? Now you are. >> Oh, thank you. Um, I'll get into it.

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[laughter] >> Thank you. >> So, what brings you to uh Shenzhen?

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>> Um, obligatory family holiday. So, >> Oh, heck yeah. Okay. What brings you

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What brings you here? >> Uh, obligatory making videos holiday.

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>> Very nice. Very nice. >> No, I'm I'm here for a couple of factory tours. And then I was like, well, I'm

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back at the place that I got all stressed out building a PC with Scotty

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from Strange Parts 7 years ago, so I'll return and face my final boss again.

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>> Oh, thank you, man. This is uh really really random, but thank you. I appreciate

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>> really convenient. Here, I'm going to do one of these. >> All good, man. Thank you. All right. I

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got to figure out a way to get this back to my hotel, but um thank you. Yeah. All

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>> Thanks, guys. >> All right, that was pretty random. Now,

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