It's been 7 years and I'm back in Wang Bay in Shenzhen, China, the world's
largest tech mall with one simple goal. To buy a sick gaming PC, build it and
give it to a lucky LT viewer. You know, >> I don't know what to say. I'm in stocks.
Thank you. >> Thank you, bro. >> Like we do. But I've got a small
problem. See, obviously I want to get the best possible deal for my new
friend, but I've heard that uh foreigners don't always get the best
deal. That is where Daniel comes in. >> Hello.
>> He's been our loyal guide and interpreter throughout this trip, and
he's going to help me figure out just how much I'm losing or gaining by being
an English-sp speakaking la. I think you got it.
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Trust me, bro.
Oh man, I forgot how overwhelming this place is. Good gravy. They have
everything here from IC's to security cameras to drones to musical
instruments. And we're only on the second floor.
The fourth floor alone probably has more PC hardware packed into [music] it than
all of the computer retailer that I used to work at. And that served all of
Western Canada. 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 in common is they are packed to the
gills with tech. Not all of it new, mind you, but the sheer volume of it is just
so impressive. Where else could I buy AMD Epics in bulk or readybuilt AI
servers? That's not what I'm after today, though. So, let's head downstairs
and find a more gaming [music] oriented shop.
To keep things simple, I'm going to go in there, lay out my budget, and buy
whatever they recommend. If they ask me questions about my use case, I will
answer them as best I can. But if they ask me technical questions, I'm just
going to say, "Yeah, I don't really know too much. My friend's going to put it
together for me." >> Hi. >> Hello.
Oh, English. >> No.
>> Oh, under budget. Um, [music] my friend
has WeChat. Yeah, I'm on the fifth floor. 5252. Oh, hey, [applause]
>> hold on. You exceeded the daily limit. >> Yeah. >> Uh-oh. Sorry. Your bank declined the
card. >> Oh, come on. >> Let me try the other. >> Yeah. Try the verifying succeeded. Okay.
>> Hey. Okay. Oh, this way. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Bye. >> Bye.
We got it. Let's go check out our hall. Just need to find a place to build. Is
this recommended by internet celebrities or for them?
The bench I built on last time is occupado at the moment. So, how about
these stairs to nowhere? I don't think anybody needs to use them.
Overall, the process was pretty straightforward. He asked me if my system was for gaming. Clarified my
budget. Asked me what color of chassis I wanted. Showed me that all the parts
were brand new and sealed, assuring me that they all had a 3-year warranty, and
told me that I'm getting all top tier brands, which I was mostly vibing with
until he pulled out this Prime power supply. While I am familiar with the C
Sonic Prime lineup, I'm less familiar with the Gog Hunters Prime lineup. It
says here it's manufactured by Great Wall, though, so yeah, they'd be a tier
one. 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. You
know, the last time Intel made a CPU that people wanted to use for gaming.
It's an OEM chip, so I'm not sure where he gets the idea that I'm getting a
3-year warranty on it. But hey, I'm not going to be here in 3 years. And six
performance cores and eight efficiency cores should be a pretty good choice for
what I'm trying to do. Whoops. I only
got single channel memory. If it was DDR5, that might not be the
end of the world. But DDR4 [music]
single CH. Are there two of these?
Nope. No. No. I don't I think this is just
fans. >> Only fans.
I mean, it's 32 gigs, so it's not like he even cheaped out, but like, bud.
Then for our SSD, we've got a Kingston NV3 1 TBTE. He did confirm with me that
this was enough capacity. Do I have a cash?
That's a negatory, Captain. It is a Gen 4 drive, though, so it should give us
okay performance. Now, I just got to figure out how to install it without a
tool. Bam. and never travel anywhere without it.
All right, let's crack open our case and have a look. Not familiar [music] with
Golden Field, but it looks pretty decent on the show floor and they got nice high
quality packing materials. So, that's
two things about them.
Made ourselves a little somewhat stable [music] platform.
You can't make this up, man. [laughter]
>> No. Well, it'll be good for cooling.
Damn. I was about to say the next thing we
want to do is get the panels off and put them inside the box for safekeeping.
Okay. Well, um,
my handling errors aside, the case looks pretty decent. It supports back to front
motherboards, lots of room for fans, and
both the front and side panel come off for nice, easy access while you're
building.
This cooler brand I've heard of before, but only because it's Golden Field,
which I just heard of. Did they sell me too many fans? I've got three RGB fans
pre-installed on here, plus another set.
Where the hell am I supposed to put them all? They use nice broadhead screws for
this AIO. It's maybe not quite as secure as using a washer, but it's certainly a
lot more convenient. After what feels like 84 years of installing fans, I
finally got them all in. I don't think we're going to have the most ideal
layout for air flow, but hey, I have the pretty side of all the fans facing in.
So there you go. Now I just got to deal with this side. Let's take a look at our
power supply. Now, no modular interface,
so that means more cable management. It's not heavy. Not the only indicator
of power supply quality. I'm sure if Lucas from the lab was here, he could
tell us, you know, exactly how good it is.
But it also isn't typically a great sign. What does 80 plus 230 volt EU
mean? Does that mean it's only 80 plus
in the EU? Oh wow.
This is not a universal input power supply. From what I can find, 80 plus
230 volt is a thing. But it is worth noting that pretty much any power supply
worth its salt these days has active PFC
and would be able to [music] accept any voltage input. So I don't know if I'm
feeling too great about this one. Oh yeah, these cables feel really cheap,
too. Let's take a look at our GPU. Oh, good. Unlike many 50 series cards, this
8 gig dual 5060 Ti from ASUS does use an
older PCIe power connector, so we will be able to plug it in. I'm not super
psyched to be getting an 8 gig card at this price, but I haven't done a direct
comparison to Western pricing yet, so I don't know whether to blame NVIDIA or uh
the shop. Now, for a couple finishing touches. Get these peels off. I'm a
really weird busker. Doesn't stop people
from watching me, though. Not a bad little build. Or is it? Time to take a
closer look at this. Well, the fans were a good price anyway. 140 Chinese yen for
seven of them. That [music] comes out to about $2.80
each for RGB infinity mirror fans. [music]
As for the rest of it, 7,900 Chinese UN comes to around $1,19.
So, how does that compare to [music] our new egg bill? So that's $1,243.
>> Really? So we beat it by [music] 130 bucks. Plus, you're probably paying tax
and shipping on top of that. >> Definitely. Yes. >> This is all in. Well, at the very
[music] least, then I didn't get a bad deal compared to back home. But the
question is, can Daniel get a better deal? Before we send agent Daniel in
there, I got a few questions for you. Where are you from? >> I'm from Shanghai.
>> Shanghai. Okay. So, how long you lived in Canada? >> For about 6 years.
>> Do you think you can still pass for a native speaker? Yeah, I'm pretty confident I can do that.
>> Okay, cool. So, the basics is this. You've got $1,100 to spend.
>> Okay. >> You're a gamer. You're not interested in streaming or video editing or anything
like that. If they ask what games you want to play,
>> I don't know, League. >> League. >> Blackmith. >> Blackmith. That's good stuff.
>> Yep. You have a 1080p monitor. We want to end up with a very similar build. You
want a terabyte of storage and you don't need Windows. >> Got it. >> What do you think is going to happen?
>> Uhoh. >> I'm going to let you finish. I'll tell you what's going to happen. We saw it
getting breakfast for our hotel rooms. How much did you pay for 3 days?
>> Oh, I paid 99. >> We paid >> over 200.
>> Yes. 210. Exactly. >> Why? >> They made me subscribe to their WeChat
account and um that [music] gave me a discount. >> I I paid with WeChat.
>> You have WeChat, too? What the heck? >> There you go. Boom. There's your answer.
>> Wow. >> Guess we'll see. All right. Let's go.
Just kidding. You're on your own. See you. >> Wait, what? Okay. Well, I can't be seen
with you.
>> Okay,
we have some bad news. That shop is closed. So, let's think about plan B.
We got it. Let's go tell us.
>> Any luck? >> Unfortunately, no. That original shop was closed, but we did go get a quote
from a different shop. >> Oh. Uh, okay. You're getting a 5070.
>> 70? Yep. >> What the? >> But they cheap out on the CPU, I guess.
12th gen. >> That's not Where's my quote? Well, okay.
Yeah, I spent another 100 CNY on my CPU,
but then Wait, what's this? Plus 160. >> This is a double tower air cooler, so I
don't get AIO water cooling. >> Okay, so if we're being realistic, you
got a pretty similar markup to me. You just got someone who understood the
assignment a little bit better for a gaming PC. >> So, we focus a lot on Wukong. That's the
most demanding game. And you said better GPU, better game. >> And in fairness, I never told the first
shop that I wanted to play Blackmmith Wukong. Of course, I didn't say I didn't
want to play it. So, either way, it's pretty clear to me that markupwise,
neither of us really got much of a
better deal or worse deal. >> Yeah, it it seems like the difference is mainly just the opinion of the builder,
like what they thought was best for our systems. >> Yeah. The closest comparable we have is
that we both got 32 gigs of RAM. >> Yeah. He's giving me a single stick as
well. >> Yeah. And you paid 10 CNY less.
>> Pretty darn close. Okay. So, you also got a crappy power supply.
>> I I asked him about getting a better one. He said a Corsair would cost a,000
where this is a U 360 bucks. >> 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 and you paid 10 CNY more.
>> So if we look at the two direct comparables we have >> it's just like random variable like
between different shops. >> Yeah. So bottom line, whether you're
buying back home or you're buying here, you're probably paying pretty similar
for similar quality of components cuz yeah, it was more from Newegg, but we
also got higher quality parts. Like by the time we spent that much more on a
brand new power supply, we're probably right in the same ballpark. Let's give away a PC. Probably no one's going to
say anything cuz they don't want it cuz it's broken.
[laughter] >> Where do we go? Do we just start walking?
>> Can I get a photo? >> Sure, why not?
Such a random place that you're here. >> Yeah, it's very random.
>> Okay, hold on. Take another picture. >> Another one. >> This picture is of you getting a new PC.
>> Thank you. Thank you. >> Congratulations.
>> Are you Are you serious? >> Yeah. >> What? Wait, no. You >> Well, don't drop it.
>> I'm not going to drop it. >> I already I already dropped it once. See? >> You sure?
>> Yeah. >> Oh, >> I'm sure I dropped it once. Yeah, it it it shattered a little bit. It's
>> Oh my god. >> It's good for air flow. >> You just take take that panel off. I
don't think I have the luggage for this, but I'm going to try. >> You know what? I believe in you. Oh,
here. I'm going to put I'm going to put one of these Holland mics on you.
>> There you go. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Use a box, too. >> Is this the most This is the most random
day of my life. [laughter] >> Thank you so much. >> Are you a gamer?
>> No, my brother is, but I'm not. Yeah. >> Guess what? Now you are. >> Oh, thank you. Um, I'll get into it.
[laughter] >> Thank you. >> So, what brings you to uh Shenzhen?
>> Um, obligatory family holiday. So, >> Oh, heck yeah. Okay. What brings you
What brings you here? >> Uh, obligatory making videos holiday.
>> Very nice. Very nice. >> No, I'm I'm here for a couple of factory tours. And then I was like, well, I'm
back at the place that I got all stressed out building a PC with Scotty
from Strange Parts 7 years ago, so I'll return and face my final boss again.
>> Oh, thank you, man. This is uh really really random, but thank you. I appreciate
>> really convenient. Here, I'm going to do one of these. >> All good, man. Thank you. All right. I
got to figure out a way to get this back to my hotel, but um thank you. Yeah. All
right. Let's go get some >> back down under. [laughter]
>> Thanks, guys. >> All right, that was pretty random. Now,
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