Shopping For PCs In 2023 Is A COMPLETE Minefield...
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I went to go shopping for content and realised what a nightmare it must be for new gamers.
Let me know what you think I should buy for future videos.
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Honestly, whenever you ask "should i buy this" and its ebay or AliExpress the answer for me is a resounding yes because those videos tend to turn out pretty fun
Whenever someone asks me if a pre built they're looking at is good or not I always ask if it's from eBay, alliexpress or Amazon. If the answers yes, then it's overpriced junk 😂
RS232 its a serial port, not video output
And my knowing what it is while he does not, makes me feel really old
Tbf it's not too dis-similar to VGA
@@Dracossaintthe port looks similar, but it's 9 pins instead of 15
@@volvo09I know and I am familiar with the port. Just you know
I love the videos where you buy old Alienware PC's and upgrade them, and i'd think it would be cool to continue that although, any content you produce we're gonna watch, because hands down its all great, Nice Job making this video!
I really enjoy making those videos too. I bought that bad boy. Can’t wait to check it out.
Thank you for the encouraging words. 😃
@dawid Miss you buddy
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I once bought an off brand gaming mouse from local e-shop. It was a Mantis 780 and guess what 780 stands for? Grams… I had a full metal body mouse that periodically shortened itself out and had to be replugged to work again
One of those fitness/exercise mice 😁 You need force to push it, and occasionally it gives you a shock so you wouldn't slack :P
Have a great vacation! I look forward to future content, computing chaos and comedy as you always provide. My favorite by far...
Thanks! It’s been great so far. 😃
Everyday that goes by I learn to appreciate consoles more.
I have a fully built gaming PC that was a pain in the ass to find all the parts I wanted for, and get to post and have all my drivers updated constantly.
I can appreciate the simplicity that is just picking up an Xbox or playstation, pressing the power button and playing immediately and all games are properly optimized. Even though it's 60fps I don't mind.
😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh god, not the drivers. Constantly? try like once every month or two for graphics drivers, and almost never for anything else.
@@romeocrumb1 facts, cant even remember the last time I updated my drivers.
There's nothing wrong with that, bro. Sometimes you just want to play a game without any hassle, I understand that. For me though, the tinkering and optimization is part of the fun.
consoles are great for families with kids or when your girlfriend comes over & wants to pick up a controller & game with you for an hour. computers are very anti social in that matter unless it’s online
@@makuIamost of the games I play on PC are usually single player offline games so it already feels lonely.
damn im hyped for your upcoming videos on that aliexpress "pc" and that ebay alienware, cool vid
RS 232 is a fancy name for the old serial ports of the '90s.
RE: the MiniPC thing.
What to remember is, like you said in the video, it's basically a laptop in a box. Depending on cooling etc it might perform better but overall, it's a laptop in a box.
I picked up a GEEKOM Mini IT12 w/ an i7 and couldn't be happier with it for a Blu-Ray ripping, emailing, web browsing, TH-cam watching, Moonlight Game Streaming super box.
Local gaming on it, with the "amazing" Intel Iris? Yeah... there is a reason I use Moonlight from my primary gaming rig.
Of course, I bought this before I saw companies like Minisforum were selling AMD models with what is recognized as just under GTX 1050ish levels of graphic capability. When this machine needs to be replaced, I am fairly confident that is the route I would go.
I too was mesmerized by that ridiculous one with the crazy power button but went more traditional instead since I wanted to hide it behind my monitor anyway. lol
Enjoy your vacation Dawid! And thanks for giving me some giggles, smiles, and laughs.
That’s why I bought a prebuilt middle of the road from NZXT, I built several of my own 20 years ago and right after I bought the prebuilt gaming PC I decided to build my own NAS using a fractal case and Unraid. The terminology and options are CRAZEE!
Finally you do this, I've been wanting to get a solid PC but could only find your older vids, and yeah. It's a nightmare now. I've never built or made a PC, and I don't have a ton of cash, but I want something solid.
I just went through this hell hole of a mine field by building my own. The last one I built over 10 years ago is still running perfectly fine. It turned out to be such a good investment I don't even consider buying someone else's overpriced crap box. I wound up using Micro Center's PC Builder to match the components with the ever expanding budget. Coming in at just shy of $900 I fell I did pretty good for the mid-level PC I was going for.
I’m pretty much a casual pc gamer, last pc I built was a pentium 4 with 1 gig ram and I don’t even remember what video card back then but it was like 03-04 if I remember correctly so I was completely lost. I ended up building a pc with a MSI B550 motherboard and a ryzen 5 3600, 1tb Samsung NVMe SSD, 16 gigs of Corsair vengeance DDR4 ram and a amd Radeon rx580 video card and I’m able to play everything I want mainly gta 5 and resident evil 4 remake
Its crazy. I built my current rig for 1200 and that's including all the peripherals. It has a 5600x and a 6700xt in it with 32GB of ram and 2 m.2 drives
Have a nice holiday Dawid. And as always great fun to watch.
I built my PC with mostly used components. My current setup has components I’ve paid about $1000 for (granted my case was a birthday gift from a friend, so it’s not included in that figure). I’m running an I9-11900k and an RX 7900XT, with 32gb of ddr4 3200mhz, a 1tb NVME boot drive, and a 1tb Sata SSD for additional storage, powered by a Seasonic 1250w gold power supply. The RAM, Storage, and 360mm AIO CPU cooler were new, but the rest was used.
Aww :( Well, I hope you have fun on your vacation Dawid, I'll miss your videos :D
I talked to that Melissa Ruth seller at 5:18 to see if she’d knock the price down tremendously. She refused because she wanted to get more than what she put in for it. It has 2011 parts and an encrypted hard drive
The Royal Flexpai was actually the first commercially available Folding phone, hence why it had such ridiculous hinge.
Hi Dawid. Great content as always. There are still great deals on eBay. Recently I won an auction for a pre build configuration with R7 5700G, ASRock A520 motherboard, 16GB Patriot DDR4 3200, 1TB Kingston nvme, 650W PSU, all in a fancy minitower case full with RGB fans for just a EUR117. I added a brand new Gigabyte RX6600 for another EUR180 for a great budget build on a cheap.
A few months back I bought a PC off of Aliexpress, one of those that is sort of a NAS but sort of a PC too.... I wanted it to put Ubuntu server on to test things locally without needing a remote server. Neat thing, round thing "Topton 2-Bay NAS N1 PRO AMD Ryzen 5 5500U" for a reasonable amount of local toilet paper. Holds two full size hard drives (if you want to NAS with it) and two M.2 drive slots. Came with windows on it. You can put NAS software on it, you can put Ubuntu (I did, easily) or run it under windows to just share drives. Neat little thing, absolutely cannot be upgraded but cool as hell. Aliexpress is my place to go for all sorts of stupid things, if you can think of it someone probably has it there.
0:25 that skytech setup, 12700f and 4070 for 2407$ seems to have a lot of air, even with 300$ off coupon
That cyborg green alienware pc gave me flashbacks to my childhood and seeing ads for em in tech magazines
I know they don't have the best reputation but I just got the
y60 case
Rtx 4070
I9 13900kf
Asus prime mother board
2tb of storage for 1899
From ibuypower
After 2 weeks with it .. I'm very happy . All fans were also upgraded from the standard non controllable fans .
The one I got was the rdy-002 system from the website
Personally to speck it out and build myself didn't save a whole lot
9:30 RS-232 is a serial port, it has nothing to do with *any* video output. It does seem to have a composite out (CVBS) and a digital video out (SDI) though.
7:43 oh... you were talking about the mini PC 😅
5:43
The old Alienware has an nForce 680i SLI motherboard. Which was pretty high end for the time. It also offers a lot of features in terms of CPU overclocking and RAM settings, and other gadgets. Which wasn't standard at the time, but can be found on almost every motherboard today.
The motherboard is very difficult to find these days and is probably worth $150 - $200 on its own.
The right motherboard for a high-end retro PC.
have a good holiday man!
7:43 I agree, get the configuration that'd get the biggest heat-load and see how easily it throttles. Maybe you could get some content for trying stupid measures to cool it
Dawid if you have a Sam’s Club near you, you need to check if they have prebuilts there, I went to one today and they had like three
Thank you. Personally felt it has been a long time since the whole "convert an Optiplex" option, should have been dead an buried given what you spend vs what prices are at present.
I'm actually working on a tiny pc review with a amd 680m, it's not a bad chip and even supports ray tracing. I was even able to play diablo 4 at 1080 medium settings at about 60 fps.
Some of them omit the model number all together. I was looking at a few and they just say i7 or i5, but nowhere on the page is any info on what generation it is. This makes it even more difficult for solo builders like myself to sell custom builds. Someone thinks that the $300 PC is the same as the $800 system I will quote them for. They have even said well this one has an i7. They think you are trying to get one over on them when in actuality you are trying to help them. I am glad you made this video.
I’d love to see you mess around with some gaming laptops in the 1000$ or less price range. The demand for both mobile and laptop gaming is rising
the weard screen with joystick thing would be quite interesting to see
Great videos, I’ve learnt a lot. I love seeing you upgrade components to make the PCs run better. What I’d like to see is a video where you use the same latest graphics card ( 4060 or 3070 for example) then use the same power supply and ram. But start off strong with the suitable CPU/mobo then test it with every second intel gen and mobo going backwards till the performance is terrible and or beyond. For example, use a 12400, then 10400, then 8400. Or the XX500 or XX700 series CPUs. Everyone seems to think we always need the latest gear. But your proven sometimes one component upgrade is all you need. Thanks for the content.
I love the Rosetta Stone image!
I won't spoil it for the other viewers, but... pause the video and read the stone!
We miss dawid. I am sad without my daily dose of mad Canadian do tech stuff. I hope he come back.
Funnily enough i actually have an rtx a2000 6gb gpu and a i7-2600 lol. would love to see that video does anyone have a link?
2 1/2 months ago I got a HP Victus with AMD Ryzen 7 5700G RX 6600 XT 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHz 512 GB M.2 and 500w power supply it was refurbished for $600 at Microcenter best price pre built I have ever seen. If you look around you can still get a decent mid range gaming pre built for $550 to $750 like I did.
BUY THE GREEN ALIENWARE (of course you already did)
Those core 2s should be horridly slow, can't wait!
Aaaargh! The amount of explaining I have to do whenever a relative call me after their child's new pc doesn't work. All you're getting from most of those websites are used spare parts.
I always get some laughs from Dawid. I was drawn in by the topic that seemed relevant to a budget gamer, and right out of the gate he's professing his love for using it as occasion to buy more Ali Express etc. 😁
I'd really be interested in a video about the newest Lenovo gaming prebuilts...
2023 if you need a prebuilt gaming pc, look at Lenovo's Legion tower series for best deals when they have sales.
I'd love to see the AliExpress gaming mice lol. And the mechanical keyboard laptop too!
rs232 is a control protocal for controlling other devices, its the SDI connection thats gonna be your video feed.
What about looking at a pre built for a set amount then seeing if you can build one cheaper and much more powerful but with parts from the second hand market? Would be a good way to show newcomers that you don't always have to spend big on a pre built system?
man.........
there is something about 8000 series,no matter how much time passes my body still fills with joy whenever i see a 8800 gtx
I think a really cool video would be to pick up a super cheap Dell or HP Thin Client and try to get game streaming working on them. I've seen some Dell Wyse 3040s with 2GB of RAM and some old Atom CPU and 16GB of (upgradeable) storage for as low as $20 recently.
have a good holiday
i cannot wait for the video with the fukushima green alienware case, i love to see people building in these wacky cases more than reviewing wacky prebuilds
We just got the R16 with the 3060TI and 12th Gen I7 for my son for about 1300 USD. I made sure it was liquid cooled. Its ugly but so far its doing great and its super quiet.
Ah nice, Dawid prearing for TH-cam- December already :)
RS-232 is serial and used for control like camera control.
Enjoy your holiday Dawid , well deserved.
Do a video of you operating the farming equipment.!?? You know you can dig it!
I came across an Alienware like that but it was gray. Had a GTS 250 and an Athlon II X4 of some kind. Slapped an X79 2997 V2 and 32gb of RAM with a 5700 XT for a bit before the GPU shit itself 😢
"I you're just a filthy casual..."
>looks at own my user name<
Why have I been summoned?
I got a used ThinkPad from 2020 for 200 Euro with an Ryzen 3 4450U.
That thing is between an i7 6700 and an i7 7700 in CPU performance an the iGPU is not much slower than an RX 550.
Do it! I would do the I7 version because of heat and power limits.
LTT actually reviewed something like he had at 10:00, but it didn't have that good of a CPU in it but the keyboard was really good
That is why I suggest and help people to buy a custom.
stuffing a VGA cable into a serial port (RS232) will end in tears
Your last trip brought some nice new videos so I wouldn’t mind that again, but perhaps this time it is more actual vacation and not trip to computex and then visit Japan when you are so far East anyway, lol.
Dawid, how did you pass up the PC with the hench power button ? There was another Chatreey PC that even had " 8G VRAM arrive !!!" :O
I would like to see the mini-pc with the intresting power butten, because, i think you could change the watt with the button as well...
RS232 is a serial port my man, that was like the early 90's version of USB, LOL!
Enjoy that break Dawid
For those prices get a Steam Deck. the dock mode would do everything a kid would need and less headache
the fact that you have no idea what RS232 is makes your content even more entertaining.
I agree with Dawid...ever since the Mining boom,buying a console have been much more lucrative. Couple with the fact that steam released steam deck.
You should do a head to head death battle of various different aliexpress miniPCs
Can't wait for your video about that Alienwere pc XD
I picked up a 4090 for $1900CAD. Seemed a fair price. Check prebuilders regularly because sometimes they they have REALLY good deals.
someone else might have written this, doe rs232 is another name for serial (i.e Serial port)
That Alienware case is so nice!!!
LOL... just sold an HP Z220 for $250 with an i7 3770, 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, 1TB HDD and a GTX 1060 6GB... and the Z220 has a 400 watt PSU with PCIe power. I had that system listed for MONTHS. It's been a bitch to sell, yet people are out there getting reamed up the ass with no lube buying these things.
I was very lucky when I got my PC 🙏 I got a prebuilt in November 2020 with a 3080. It was the last 3080 they had and after that they didn't have 3080's for 6 months+ and no where else online had them either. If I wanted to get everything separate and build it myself I was looking at like 3k. The price I paid entirely for my pc was what people were trying to sell just the 3080 alone! My pc runs any game so far perfect and I've only need to upgrade the RAM. Might upgrade the CPU down the line, but it's done me good 👌 can't imagine trying to get a pc now in the current climate.
10:07 I think I saw a video on LTT about a very similar machine. The keyboard and the screen are surprisingly good, but the performance is terrible... could be really interesting with more powerful hardware in it.
that laptop with an rs232 port would be really nice to code a plc on, nowadays we need an adaptor for the rs232, instead of a direct rs232 to rs232 cable
I built a system a couple of years ago and the mobo still had the serial port header. I always give my computers a DB9 com port for programming PICs.
Thanks Dawid for this!
The optiplex I think is a bit of a scourge on the budget gaming PC market, there's a ton of them out there, they're cheap, but the worst part is they actually look decent... Like if I wanted to build a PC on the cheap the optiplex is a trap, the diamonds in the rough are retired workstations, HP Z440, Dell Precision 7810, Lenovo Thinkstation P500; these are all haswell so we're looking at IPC like the 4th gen optiplexs, but with workstations you more often get some GPU power connections so you're not limited to a 1650 at absolute best... Heck I'm seeing Thinkstation P520s under $200 US which will get you a Skylake xeon on LGA 2066 and should have GPU power connectors.
For under $400 US you might be able to get your hands on a workstation with a skylake xeon, and an RTX 2060 or if you prefer an older higher class card like a 1080. You give up the IPC of a new system sure, but what else do you give up? Core count? nah, how many you want, 10, 12, 18 not a problem. Memory performance? I mean it's DDR4 ECC so the speeds probably aren't ripping fast but you've got 4 memory channels, so even at the slowest 2133 MT/s that's 2133x4, which sounds a whole lot like 4266x2 to me. GPU support? I mean there might need to be proprietary cables or possibly a proprietary PSU swap with some models of workstation but it was planned from the outset for these to have GPUs, in fact it's a requirement.
i really thought you were just fooling around on this channel but you actually know way more than i thought i would never guess the cpu/gpu in that alienware machine
He’s a actual expert, he just doesn’t see himself as one and jokes about not knowing what he’s doing lol
@@yyeezyy630 because of these jokes i just couldn't realise he is an expert
Hey Dawid, RS 232 is a serial port. So it is incompatible with VGA.
That little PC from Ali Express with that i9 12900H and 3050 TI would be cool to check out!
I like how Temu stores your previous search history 😂
Don't buy the Flexpai folding phone! It's four years old, I checked it out on MWC 2019 and already then it was very bad - hardware and software. But looking forward to the green Alienware PC!
Please do a video on Alienware 7500 case with new hardware. Enjoy your holiday.
That Dellienware would be sick with the qx600 from the same gen. I had that cpu with 2 8800gtxs in sli back in the day and it was boss for its time.
RS232 is a parallel port and has nothing to do with video output.
Cheap out the Toposh 7in mini laptop. Very oddball, and kind of a pain to get Linux working on, but fantastic form factor. I love mine after all that work. Far better battery life compare to windows as well
RS232 is a serial connection not a video one
08:05 - This PC Case looks awesome! Dawid pls buy it, and make a video ))))
Ye I rly like those amd igpu mini PCs for gaming, I got a morefine with the r7 7840hs for under 500.. on temu actually. The current price is 523. It runs games marginally worse than my Acer laptop 10th Gen i7 w a 1050ti.
I’d be happy just getting my HP Envy tower PC back up and running…
For 600CAD you could, could...find a notebook with a GTX1660Ti, 2060,3050...Yes it's mobile and not a desktop but still. Without a lot of moving parts these days all a notebook needs is adequate cooling and they'll work for a long while.
I bought an r9 7940hs mini pc by GMKtec recently. It seems to me that it doesn’t have adequate cooling for gaming. I ended up drilling a bunch of holes in the top cover to stop ram and ssd from overheating lol. I use it mostly for work (spreadsheets and python scripts) and it’s completely fine for that.