This RIDICULOUS MSI Pre-Built Did Not Survive The Video...

[@cjwright1960]

The perfect blend of: desktop lack of mobility combined with the expected lack of performance from a laptop. MSI has done it!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

They really did nail it! 😂

[@heliumhubcryptocollective9337]

ps if its not you. ..file a complaint with both youtube and the fbi, this is identity theft, fraud, if its not and should be reported to law enforcement.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@heliumhubcryptocollective9337 Hey! I just replied to your email. I’m sorry about that, these bots are really hard to deal with. I run TheoJoe’a anti bot thing several times a day and they just keep coming back.

[@ShowbizSpy1]

As soon as the bots start affecting momma Susan, then I think YT will do something meaningful about it.

[@fbi-information]

David do you guys send winning gifts to people who comments to your videos? Somebody contacted me about some stuff I apparently won from your channel but I think it might be a scam...

[@mattyspage]

It's so frustrating to handicap a system by leaving out $40 of ram!

[@raven4k998]

it Happens all the time though

[@sniggles05]

For MSI a 8GB Module of RAM do not cost 40 Dollars. They get this Stuff cheaper. I think 10-20 Dollar per Module.

[@heroe1486]

@@sniggles05 probably even less than that

[@EllaBananas]

Imo its more than just frustrating, its downright shit. The whole reason someone would buy a prebuilt is so they dont have to worry about specifics like this, they want someone else to make sure the hardware is working as it should. The complete lack of care most prebuilt pc and laptop manufacturers have for their end product is straight up disgusting. "just throw some leds lights and a garish case over it, the morons will still buy it" Long term, stupid half thought out decisions like this are going to wreck them, but they dont care because of the short term gains they get by ripping people off. And yes. I do consider kneecapping the performance of a pc by half assed thermals and shitty rams config, ripping your customers off. They paid for that hardware, you have a duty to let it perform the best it can.

[@coreross]

That CPU cooler needs its own review video, to see how it cools something a bit more powerful :D

[@buddylovesvideogames]

Woah, didn't expect to see a coreross in the wild

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

That’s a great suggestion. That cooler really is weird. 😂

[@raven4k998]

well for a laptop the coolers is so way over sized and powered for a laptop

[@jackahunalaguna217]

Hy ross, where's the new r6s vid?

[@alexanderunknown8605]

12900K or 9900K at least😂

[@basslover8863]

The quality and humour of these videos this guy should have over a million subs. The amount of creativity too. He doesn’t copy any other tech KZbinr either so it’s refreshing to watch his videos

[@psttech4290]

lol right after this vid he went and copied another tech youtuber

[@startedtech]

Huh, whenever I saw pictures of this a few years ago I thought it was bigger and just used standard components. Didn't expect this bizarro layout!

[@MrPruske]

Ms-why??

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I know right! What a weird PC.

[@Alkastik]

@@DawidDoesTechStuffshow someone that thinks prebuilts are better than customs and say "welcome to the world of prebuilts'

[@AnnaDoes]

I was also surprised at how little it was and with such a compact layout!

[@Ferrari255GTO]

Prebuilds often bring the most surprises... almost never good ones

[@busterscrugs]

People really underestimate how much performance they're leaving on the table with a single stick. My buddy had a Ryzem 2600 build that he had kneecapped with a single 8GB stick of 2400MT/s. I told him he'd be much happier if he upgraded his RAM, but he didn't listen and ended up building an entirely new PC less than a year later. 🤦‍♂️

[@Gatorade69]

People can be stubborn...

[@blacklistedwarlock8550]

Should I upgrade it?

[@goa141no6]

Yeah, right now the good old gamer is making memory tuning and max tuning makes Ryzen 2700 perform as a Ryzen 3700 Wich is fantastic.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@goa141no6 But sadly a memory tuned 3700 doesn't quite reach a 5700 :D Still, memory bandwith i often overlooked. People look at that fast i7 and the "4GB nvidia graphics with DirectX 12" (which turns out a 1030 or something like that in the end) and ignore the fact that fast RAM in dual (or more) channel is just much faster. I noticed that stuff even on a Pentium 4 build with DDR2 and a Pentium 3 build with SDRAM I have here. Sure, upgrading the CPU and GPU will give more performance, but maybe you already have the fastest CPU for the board and hit the limit it can run at and your pgraphics card is the best you can afford, a rather inexpensive memory upgrade can go a long way.

[@Badtaste21]

Imagine selling a still decent PC because you feel the performance isn't enough for you anymore but actually another used 8GB SO-DIMM for ~15$ could double the performance in some instances - and it could have done so many years ago. I don't know whether to laugh or to feel bad for the previous owner.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I know right. They could have had so much more performance for the years they had it.

[@jeffnickels2279]

They probably never knew it had that other slot

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@Jay Dee The joker story was definitely how it really happened. 😂 The only reason I thought maybe they ran it like that was because they left their 1Tb NVMe drive in the system. Why take out some laptop ram and leave a dope SSD you dropped in. But you’re right, Batman is the only explanation.

[@nothin1456]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff lollll

[@netii126]

And whats even more annoying - manufacturers of such PCs calling themselves "gaming" companies and then doing shit like that for a few dollars more profit. Shows how little they acutally care about their customers having a good time with their products.

[@GR-cd2kx]

When I saw you changing out the GPU I was like : cool , he’ll hook up the GPU to another power supply. And then when you didn’t do that, I was like: yeah this isn’t going to end well.

[@zetectic7968]

"It smells like PC death" 😄 The common theme in your pre-builds is that the manufacture says let's design a PC and then cripple it by either having single channel memory or poorly cooled so that it thermal throttles. Got to love those speciality PSUs that will cost 1/2 the purchase price of the PC to replace. My 1st 2 PCs were bought as a package, since then built my own so as not to be ripped off.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh yeah! It’s wild home common these short comings are in prebuilts. Although like you said, they are still a good way to get people into the hobby.

[@erich6860]

Gotta sell upgrades somehow.

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

Two Ram Stick are only included in their "Extreme Gaming" packages.

[@Gatorade69]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Or in my case I was out of the PC building scene for years and I had to buy a prebuilt just to get a damn graphics card. Now I'm working on upgrading it a bit but all in all I feel like I dodged a bullet. I have decent components and really good thermals. Skytech > Alienware any day of the week... Still would have loved to build it myself however.

[@twiztedclown]

@@Gatorade69 could have made the mistake I did going gaming laptop the 3080 in it seems to perform worse than my 2080 super and far more problems. Now I know it's a laptop you have to downgrade the max wattage but it was a 3080 which in canada is no less than $1200 msrp as is for a stripped down dual fan. Now granted I sold the desktop to my brother as he was really struggling to get into the space, but damn the laptop has about $700 on my entire pc setup and is meh. Love the looks love the feel of my zephyrus just mediocre on the performance.

[@TheAruruu]

That power supply actually looks like a short server power supply to me. Maybe take some measurements of the PSU and do a little looking around for server power supplies to see if you can upgrade it to like, 600w? should allow the rig to have relevance again.

[@Baze_Ezra]

I am legitmately amazed that the fold-outy.... Ears?.. weren't wifi antennae. Since that seemed to be a custom'ish motherboard for that case, it would've been a nice touch.

[@Gatorade69]

Oh, haha. I thought those were WiFi Antenna.

[@menix2384]

Those seem to just be headphone holders from the marketing pictures, kinda neat still

[@Krimpzz]

Yeah surprisingly not many people know about the Aegis 3 PC I actually bought this in 2018 its the Special Edition MSI Aegis 3 8th Gen Plus. Alot of words but its upgraded with a GTX 1070 TI and i7-8700 (non K Version) 16GB of Ram Performs good in 1080p and 1440p just needs a graphics card upgrade. Idk what i could put in there though its super small in the insides.

[@AnnaDoes]

I know right! What a missed opportunity on MSI's side.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I know right! I forgot to mention it in the video, but I was outraged when I say they weren’t antennae.

[@TheNightquaker]

8:35 I like how there is "UH NO" text on the RAM stick. It's like it didn't want to be part of this Frankenstein's monster of a PC.

[@hardrivethrutown]

Looks like a FlexATX PSU, might be able to get a semi-decent replacement

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I’ve been looking online for one. Really hoping we can get the 3080 ti running in here. 😂

[@Deathcultify]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff there's some flex psu's from Geeek, I know FSP also makes some flex psu's with higher wattage. Maybe from sff groups on reddit/facebook have some. Had a used delta one before but had this noisy fan, if I switch it with a noctua wouldn't have been ideal since the fan would have been more expensive than psu 2nd hand price I got it from.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@Deathcultify Oh yeah, spending more on the fan than the PSU is a bit much. 😅 Someone else mentioned an FSP unit, I’ll have a look and see if it has the correct connectors for this system. Thanks for the feedback.

[@samihyppia8472]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff suppppppp Dawiddd dudeeeeeeee PC murderer hahahahhaha, that was a fun one! :D PS. Gimme a free PC! xD

[@mm8tech370]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff I’d recommend the 7660b. It isn’t by a brand you’ve probably heard of, but it’s one of the best flex psus out there

[@Hdtjdjbszh]

that case is actually kind of amazing, with some basic mods it would be a great little gaming rig

[@raven4k998]

yeah she just needs a beefier power supply and your golden for a rtx gpu without worrying about the psu burning itself out trying to run it

[@startedtech]

I think that's a flexATX PSU so I think you could replace it easily enough. (Or at least as easy as it is in this sardine can) Edit: of course it's flexATX but still not standard, why'd I expect more from a prebuilt lol

[@HighCastle0824]

Could definitely replace it. Silverstone makes a decent 600W option.

[@ogrooster69]

I run an ENP 600w (7660B) in my Velka 3 build -- I drive a 3700x and 2070 off that. Cabling shout be long enough for this MSI tower

[@Fay7666]

450W is good tho, I ran a 7700K (stock) and a 1080Ti with a Corsair SF450. And I'd trust an FSP OEM just fine.

[@TheGameBench]

It's nice that they used a standard form factor... unlike SOME people.

[@Durbanite2010]

@@HighCastle0824 the Silverstone you're talking about is £200 here in the UK on Amazon. Oof. No thanks, I'd rather scrap the PC and recover what you can from the parts.

[@gp75motorsports]

13:26 "That is a fan" I concur

[@Sundayinthelife]

I would love to see you replace the power supply with a better one that fits in that form factor and max that case out if at all possible

[@luckyowl10]

a decent FLX PSU that can run a 3080 TI might cost more than that whole computer

[@Sundayinthelife]

@@luckyowl10 this is Dawid does tech stuff.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

For sure! I’ve been looking for one that might handle the 3080 ti. Will definitely do a follow up video.

[@Sundayinthelife]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff heck yeah

[@Rentta]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Yeah the 600w silverstone platinium one probably can.

[@sevx1nchannel742]

R.I.P prebuilt PC you will not be forgotten 🙏

[@an3k]

There may be a fuse that you can replace but you'll need to be very well protected and discharge the capacitors. However, it's also possible that this PSU only has a single use OCP.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Yeah that’s an interesting point. Either way, I’m going to look for a better PSU to see if I can get that 3080 ti running in there.

[@RuggedKnight]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff unless it showed up weird on youtube it definitely looked like you popped the big cap in the middle of the PSU

[@empoy65]

@@RuggedKnight yeah noticed that too, looks like it was cracked open though it was not bulging

[@rdoursenaud]

@@empoy65 Nah the cap is fine

[@rdoursenaud]

@Just Ice Nope, just a huge inrush current demanded by the GPU is enough to blow protection circuitry and/or fuses(There might be several).

[@Chozo4]

It makes sense it failed but not in that way as you stated. It was actually expected since the supply is dual rail with a 24A cap on each rail. Usually 1 rail is dedicated to the CPU, the other to the GPU+drives+everything else depending on supply. That means the 3080ti was feeding off a shared 288W total... which wasn't much at all considering other components.

[@kelmanl4]

Plus a bad power supply would have killed other components rather than just itself. Atleast the built in protections work.

[@BenState]

not on an EPS rated PSU. Only ATX 1.1 standard and earlier

[@jaroslavcharvat5171]

I have been using laptops for the past seven years now, but upgrading the ram to the max possible specs of the machine is always the first thing I have done so far, having carefully selected the ones that are able to do so. Well mainly for graphics editing and panoramas, but I suppose the games didn't protest too much either.

[@BeastofBourdon]

Considering that cpu has a 65W TDP and should be boosting to 4.2 GHz, I'm guessing it was being artificially restricted by a bios setting. Also, why not attempt to power it with another power supply? Other than it not fitting in the case, it should still work for testing purposes unless the motherboard has some non-standard power connectors.

[@raven4k998]

probably needs a laptop desktop power supply I am guessing some sort of retard connector was used to prevent your idea from working after all this is MSI after all making the desktop they can do it after all Dawid does say that he can't upgrade the power supply which only confirms this cause if he could connect another power supply to power it he would reguardless of how derpy it may look just to see if it still works

[@itIsI988]

That's because of Intel's turbo spec. 4.2GHz is only for single core loads, 4.1 for two core and 4.0 for three and four core loads. Mine does the same even though all of the power limits etc are disabled.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And unless it is a truly horrible OEM implementation, the board should still allow to set single core boost for all core loads.

[@OfficialKrayoon]

mine is GTX 1080 and have water cooling system with the same case, MSI Aegis X

[@AnnaDoes]

I would also like to note that this PC is (was) surprisingly small... It really looks like a transformer helmet or something. It also smelt like it was a well worn transformer helmet XD

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

It did really smell like a well worn helmet. 😂

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Anna, it smells even worse now it's a Dead Well Worn Transformer Helmet 😳

[@SchoolforHackers]

Oooh, stale sweaty head smell. Bonus.

[@workpc3351]

@@baxkw006s NOP

[@Tc4ify]

I have to commend Dawid for finally using some new background music!

[@Zacyz125]

I have an old MSI gaming pc that i have been using for like 7 or so years. I5 7400. 1050ti. And i upgraded the 8gb stick of laptop memory to a 16 gb stick. Has been pretty solid actually lol

[@Mashamazzi]

Why not 2 8s?

[@Zacyz125]

@@Mashamazzi because to my knowledge... my MB only has one slot. But this video kinda made me wonder if there is a second slot hiding on the backside of my MB. the backside of it though is basically impossible to access without taking the whole damn thing apart.

[@timmy7201]

@@Zacyz125 That's why you shouldn't buy an OEM system, to avoid proprietary nonsense like this. My old custom system is 13 years, upgraded it many times over the years. I7-920, 20GB ddr3, GTX980 4GB, Samsung EVO 250GB (Sata2) and WD-Red 3TB, ... I've a newer gaming righ, so it's mainly used for work related tasks these days (software development, Eagle CAD software). It's sometimes used for gaming during LAN parties with friends at my house, the old setup is still going strong after more than a decade. Plays most of my games at 30 fps or more, in high or ultra settings at 1080p or 1440p.

[@Zacyz125]

@@timmy7201 eh it is what it is. Paid $650 for it like 7 ish years ago and it came with mouse and keyboard as well. and it has never skipped a beat and always done its duty. It does suck that its not more upgradeable but im more than happy with the job it has done over the years.

[@timmy7201]

@@Zacyz125 $650? That doesn't actually sound that bad... Was there a GPU included, or did you have to buy one separately?

[@microcar14]

Ship everything to gamer nexus and do a collab. this would be perfect

[@sunnifung2403]

Dawid: This PSU cannot be replaced. Flex ATX PSUs: Am I a joke to you?

[@rossclutterbuck1060]

it may b Flex ATX form factor, but it's not ATX spec connectors. That's the point.

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

@@rossclutterbuck1060 So? He has the connectors on hand

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I had a falling out with flex a couple years back, and we don’t speak anymore.

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Hey man we all have that one which went down that way xD

[@rossclutterbuck1060]

@@TheOriginalFaxon lolwhut? Are you suggesting Dawid buys a new FlexATX and then repins it with the connectors from the dead PSU?

[@shocknaw]

Worth the 2 unskippable 15 second ads

[@alexwasik3272]

That’s a super cool case, I wish they still made a prebuilt like that

[@wizdude]

i loved your diagnosis of "thermal management via ram kneecapping situations". it's not as funny as we might think. sometimes it's all about the manufacturer just selling more units without really caring what the performance actually is.

[@HELLACRY]

Love the effort pain and work you put in this video! Especially love the before and afters, felt bad seeing you have to struggle to remove the gpu lol. Keep it up Dawid! 😁😊👍

[@DemonSliime]

Bro, “it smells like someone else’s house,” has become an insult I use frequently to confuse people now. Thank you for broadening my horizons.

[@CSHracer]

People have mentioned flex atx, but it looks to be in a 1U Server format. I have a LAN case from 15 years ago that uses one. Currently I've been running a 500w modular SeaSonic unit.

[@nightreaper006]

Just that reference to a "Gundam head" had me cracked up cuz that's the first thing that came to mind wondering if there's a Gundam edition motherboard 😅

[@jussinator]

Great video as ever! Serious question - what does a youtuber in your position do with an older gpu like the 1070 from the broken pc? Do you sell it? Keep it in case you need it at some stage? Just curious - keep up the great work!

[@AnnaDoes]

Heyyy Juss :) Dawid tends to keep as many components around for future videos. He never knows when he might need an old GPU to compare with something else, etc etc. When/if he's 'done' with a component then we usually donate them to our local Free Geek.

[@jussinator]

@@AnnaDoes Thanks for replying to my questions - it's great to hear that stuff like the gpu finds its way to people who need it. Keep up the great work!

[@hicknopunk]

Compute in a linux box?

[@matthewritchie9990]

dawids got a huge set of balls opening that power supply like that

[@luckyowl10]

The moment I saw this PC has a stand built-in I knew it's going to be a fun trash OEM PC. I had no idea Dawid will try to power a 400W+ GPU with a FLX 450W BRONZE PSU. I expected some fire down there in the basement xd

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

A 350W TDP GPU with 400+W power spikes.

[@radekgabriel3276]

13:15 - that's probably the first time ever that I can hear Dawid being really scared... :O

[@SN3Gaming_]

I have to admit that case is cool looking, I feel like as though it can be modded to run better.

[@mintymus]

What a cool project. Hilarious looking computer. It's amazing you were able to get the new mobo to fit in there! I love these kinds of videos.

[@xdxot1c230]

Alma got angry that you stole it's 1070, so it decided to attempt a homicide on your 3080 ti lol

[@ChairmanMeow1]

I have never understood why people buy things that arent upgradeable.

[@Sheovion]

maybe the PSU had a protect fuse or something, at least the really older non-80 plus ones had so when they got overcharged from the wall, they would just sacrifice the fuse instead of blowing up the PC

[@raven4k998]

not likely he said the smell which means something cooked inside the power supply probably also the fuse resets if that had blown once everything's powered off plus listen to him at 15:10 that smell is not a blown fuse

[@Sheovion]

@@raven4k998 makes sense so i guess the PSU is even worse than i expected, 80 PLUS PSUs should turn themselves off once harmful behavior is detected

[@raven4k998]

@@Sheovion it's worse then that watch Timmy joes video on him blowing up a pos 500 non 80 plus even power supply he had to under clock components so it would blow up cause it otherwise kept shutting off to protect it self from dying from him being a moron with it which shows how much of a pos that power supply is for not even trying to save itself just going for it till it dies

[@klocugh12]

You'd need to take DMM and ring every element for continuity to know what died here. That could take some time obviously, especially since desoldering would likely be necessary. Also note that when fuse blows, just replacing it is not generally good enough. It blew for a reason, and when you replace it, it might blow again if you don't find and address the fault. It's pretty much like taking cough syrup when you have pneumonia.

[@raven4k998]

@@klocugh12 exactly

[@jblbassslayer3108]

bro if that moving "ear" was a wireless antena i'd be dead rn 💀

[@xdxot1c230]

Hey Dawid, im wondering if you resell pc's, cause you have accumulated a lot of Alma infected pc's lol, so do you lay them to rest in your graveyard? or do u resell them?

[@fracturedlife1393]

DDT: Shipping Alma worldwide since forever

[@xanderblackstar8236]

Great video Dawid. Thank you for mentioning the HUD issue, I really wish developers would make it possible to set the HUD to 16:9, exactly for reasons you mention. I have been gaming on a Samsung G9 for about two years now and I love my ultrawide for gaming, when it works. Sadly not all games support it. Which can be frustrating, but when it works ... amazing!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Or in general having a setting for HUD aspect ratio separate from the main resolution. Or even better, having adjustable "safe corners" where no UI elements show up. I mean, TF2 has different FOV settings for the general environment and the viewmodel, so it isn't a big stretch from there.

[@MIK33EY]

BTW: Quite an interesting way of putting things together by MSI - can't say I've ever seen an ITX mainboard crossed with a laptop before. Gotta give those old MSI engineers credit for thinking outside the envelope - shame they've all apparently since left MSI and now they just churn out the same stuff as everyone else. Seems the case engineers haven't left what with them still producing chocked off sweat-lodges, but hey, at least they're not as bad as Dell.

[@reaperreaper5098]

I've seen mITX boards with SODIMM slots before, actually own one. Asrock makes a ton of them. They're generally running soldered on Pentium/Celeron CPUs, and are super low power, with really, really basic passive coolers.

[@Daivd1111]

I searched 'bad case matter?' on google and stumbled on your 2 year old video about good and bad cheap cases. And now I am marathoning your videos, sometime it is like fracking oil, and you suddenly found an interesting channel

[@watchmustafa]

People worldwide suffered because they couldn't find a GPU not even now with MSRP prices. Meanwhile, Dawid is risking a 3080 TI´s life just for crapy pre-build.

[@AnnaDoes]

For your entertainment

[@jamesvozar1]

How do you not have more subs, this is just as useful as Jays two cents but actually funny, not just trying to be.

[@jamescameron1861]

I wonder who actually buys a rig like this? It's a genuine question

[@erito9507]

kids and parents who only buy it because it looks cool and has gaming written on it

[@thatzaliasguy]

This man just called a Type-A USB port, a "square" port... Clearly that's a rectangle man!

[@vollhorst140]

It is incredible how msi managed to produce a relatively big pc with so little space inside.

[@megachonk9440]

Not really, all of these highly unorthodox cases in weird shapes tend to have very little practical space. Pretty much everything in a PC is a square or rectangular shape. When you start adding 63 degree angles into the case or whatever, nothing is going to fit well at all.

[@lushG678]

Dawid destroys tech stuff

[@dollarbill93]

PSU is not done yet, likely just an internal fuse blown, they are sometimes labelled as a surface mount 0ohmR resistor. Quick fix once psu is liberated from the housing, lets see a vid, with a slow pan so we can inspect the capacitors and stuff. Fun vid mate.

[@kajurn791]

Buy a 750w flex PSU and try it again!

[@georgeprice4212]

Dawid: Let’s try this video card and see what happens Computer: Awhellnaw! (Power supply kills itself)

[@razemahith5704]

Try to turn on the pc with another power supply :) and check that system working still

[@rzeo7540]

Yeah 🐵

[@zink1701]

This case reminded me of something. It’s just missing the PC master race meme guy stood on top of the case shouting down to all the console peasantry.

[@GODSPEEDseven]

Well, compared to an Alienware, this isn't bad at all!

[@tomasgarraxia5375]

True

[@hanes2]

Looks like a pc case from 2007

[@PeBoVision]

When I buy a pre-built from a company like Dell, I know I will be damned with proprietory parts. But I would expect MSI who make mobo's and peripherals themselves, to use off the shelf components - especially the power supply! You didn't kill it Dawid, "clever" design killed it. (although plugging a 3080 into a bizarro-world 450W power supply is quite daring). Which raises the question...did the PSU have adeqaute connectors to even feed a 3080 ???

[@theblev3650]

12:27 reminds me of when linus tried to use 2 3090s in sli, opened tomb raider, took one step forward in the game and it crashed

[@James_Is_Good_At_nothing]

Dawid is the type of chad where his crush asks him out

[@grahamjohnston5964]

Mate, I’ve spent this week opening returned routers(as a job, not a kink). That house smell thing is so true.

[@roblyc632]

Probably the most hideous gaming case I have seen in my 50 year life! You have my ultimate respect Dawid where your sense of humour defies your wallet! Enjoy those 'Military grade components' 🤣

[@rossclutterbuck1060]

that case is positively gorgeous compared to the Kolink Big Chungus

[@DraftySatyr]

@@rossclutterbuck1060 Noooo! Why did you make me look at that??? 🤢🤮

[@rossclutterbuck1060]

@@DraftySatyr sorry

[@djsnowpdx]

Just noticed Dawid uploads 18:9 video. Nice! Great for the widescreen. The jokes are also funnier on a serious looking display.

[@jeremyreeder]

Lol Darwin gpu's are so fed up with being put into shit systems they are starting nuke everything he puts them in. The great gpu scarce now becomes the great gpu revolt.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah, I don’t think my GPUs like me very much. 😅

[@steelfox1448]

@@DawidDoesTechStuffyour name is Darwin now

[@steelfox1448]

Deal with it

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@steelfox1448 😂

[@arandomcommenter412]

@@steelfox1448 He’s going to create the theory of natural selection

[@Viking8888]

Besides it running in single channel, that single stick of RAM also had a single rank. Big difference when you have dual rank RAM vs. single rank. Linus did a video regarding this several months back and it accounted for as much as a 23 percent loss when in dual channel mode. Imagine how much single channel, single rank would do to kneecap performance.

[@XeonProductions]

Before you killed the power supply it really wasn't a bad prebuilt. I was expecting Dell levels of horrible when I saw that case and cooling design, but it surprisingly worked out.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It would still do much better in a different case. Something with better airflow and a GPU mount that doesn't restrict access. Some nice SFF build would be possible.SO-DIMM usually means you don't have the space for desktop RAM, which leads me to believe that board itself was more designed for a small system.

[@tweakpc]

But that is the difference between good and bad power supplies, with the latter one you can also dispose the rest of the hardware too. Also, you can replace the power supply that looks like Flex PSU

[@recoilrob324]

FSP normally makes a pretty stout power supply that will test over the rated current...for a little bit before the fuse blows. Not exactly sure why someone would use a fuse rather than a circuit breaker....perhaps cost? Would have been interesting to have a watt meter on the system when it crashed...those 3080's really suck the juice.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh you think a fuse just popped? I’m going to buy a replacement PSU and see if we can get the 3080 running in there.

[@PaoloBussola]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff are you sure that 3080ti has the right measures tu put in contact fan with cpu heatpipes? You didn't have time to check cpu temperature in game.

[@SuperMiramis]

When i bought a budget pc for a few years back. That pc came with a 450 W power supply. It came with 1060 (2gb) card and only 8 gig of ram. I decide to do a medium budget upgrade to it. First i bought the same card as you used in this video. But i didnt use it after checking the box for minimum reqirements. The card needs a power supply on minimun 500W. Then i decide to go for KA 1660 ti (6gb) graphic card instead. That card "only" needed 400 W. Then i didnt need to change the power sypply. Then i put in one more 8 gb ram to it. So the specs are: Asus Rog. Clock speed 3ghz, 16 gb ram, 250 gb sdd, KA GTX 1660 Ti graphic card with 6 gb memory. My goal was to get it upgrade so i could play Goat Simulator 3 on it, and yes. It runs it wery well on full settings. A little bit old pc, but it still does the job. It accept 4K settings as well. Nice video David. 🙂

[@sakaraist]

That PSU dying without tripping any protections is a bit concerning. The curious part of me says you should sent it to Gamers Nexus to see what happened.

[@wizdude]

So we could watch a 30 minute video of Steve doing an entire breakdown, including all the e-mails between him, the manufacturer, some relevant government department and next thing you know there will be a nation-wide recall of the flippy dick case based on Steve's demo of how it will explode on demand :-) :-)

[@rdoursenaud]

What you call dying *is* tripping protection! The fact that the GPU survived is proof. There are protections that are single use (Think fuses) and needs replacement parts to work again.

[@dashcamandy2242]

Steve could start a "Better Than Gigabyte" rating for power supplies! LOL

[@kelmanl4]

It died so the other components could live. He's was trying to draw twice the wattage with those parts and that's the protection a £30 psu vs £600 worth of components is a big difference. A bad power supply would have killed everything.

[@axelotl86]

The inside of this PC looks like one of those Shuttle systems back in the early 2000s

[@FlowMichael]

The 3080ti is like the Diablo that Dankpods has, a ridiculously powerful piece of tech that destroys inferior technology.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah, it really is a destroyer of worlds.

[@goldenyoshi924]

Agreed

[@Bare_Essence]

That was an "interesting" internal case design. Steve at Gamers Nexus needs to get one of these. It may make his hair fall out. The 7700K was actually not doing bad. 80ishC is high but not totally crazy. I was surprised that little heatsink and remote heat pipe worked that well. You never mentioned how loud it was. You should have looked at the paste under the CPU cooler at some point. I wonder if a re-paste could help at all. The 3080 Ti would have been fine with that PSU if you just shut off the LEDs :)

[@jesserangel7035]

Only thing heinous about that PC is that it comes with single laptop ram stick.

[@therealbeast660]

Tronicsfix would be a good dude to send that psu too.

[@AyBee9725]

Oh so the US Govt killed Optimus Prime and sold his head to a Chinese PC company to reverse engineer into crappy gaming PCs? Totally lines up. Also, I’m sad this is not a Linodeo, and yes I will keep using that word until you do the same Dawid 😂😂

[@gamingtalent2888]

Lets go, we want more Linodeos.

[@apersonnamedjune]

Idk why but the fact that you used the cover for the art book to represent Battlefield V is REALLY funny to me Also, GOD THE LAPTOP MEMORY IS SENDING ME

[@NickSteps2998]

I left the new Kendrick album to watch Dawid torture this MSI prebuild

[@4RT1LL3RY]

Ampere is know to spike to 3x TDP for brief periods, that PSU's OCP had no chance to trip before it cooked from the 30amp to 80amp several millisecond jump.

[@foramoreperfectamerica8490]

Dawid your videos always inform me and make me laugh.

[@JoshuaG]

You had me scared there for a second, LOL, guess you'll have to Frankenstein that pre-built with a normal ATX power supply.

[@ippo_1702]

"IT'S A GUNDAM!" ah... my childhood. What fond memories :)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The RAM change shows that Intel also benefits from fast dual channel memory. In fact, it goes back at least 20 years that faster memory gives you better performance, but in most cases the GPU comes first and the CPU second before the RAM in terms of what you actually gain.

[@sprigs4041]

its hilarious because there is a gundam called the aegis, but its color scheme and aesthetic make it look more like color inverted epyon

[@amouramarie]

I have this machine! Though, mine came with a 1080 GPU in it, and 2 sticks of 8gb (laptop) RAM. My issue was also the PSU. I cannibalized the 1080, SSD and HDD into my first effort at building my own PC (turned out great!), but I think I will hang onto this case and custom components in case I feel like making a project out of it sometime down the line. I am still enough of a little girl at heart that I think the Transformers head is pretty rad, and I'd probably regret it if I got rid of it!

[@Richard_M_86]

Last year i bought a LENOVO IdeaCentre G5, because i was looking for a desktop/laptop to game on (GPU in old laptop died) and was actually waiting for a specific gaming laptop to be released, when i could buy this desktop for 45% of the price (was an error on a website but it got delivered). So i paid 432 euro for a OEM build (which is not great), but for so little money i had (in a time of crsis: high tech prices due tot shortages) an Intel i5 11400F, MSI 1660 Super, 512GB NVME SSD and 1x16GB RAM. After about a month i purchased a second (same serialnumber) 16GB stick and i had up to 80% more fps in games. Only downside is that other things can be a bottlenneck now, but my point is: i was amazed by the performance difference because of the second RAM stick.

[@sburton015]

My main gaming PC has an MSI motherboard, but I built it myself. It has an MSI x99a motherboard with an Intel Core i7-6800k CPU, 16 gb of ddr4 ram 3200 mhz in quad channel, and a GTX 1080 graphics card. A high end PC from 2016.

[@stiffchris9720]

"Basically, we're gonna figure it out." Famous last words.

[@bufanda]

You can buy a new PSU for it those Flex Powersupplys are fairly common and even a 700W 80 Plus Platinum from FSP is available so a 3080Ti wouldn't kill it. And I don't know this PSU type but there could be a glass fuse in it which is blown and may be replaceable so the PC would run again.

[@kbhasi]

Oh my, that power supply looks like the same kind of power supply that's in my NAS!

[@willm5032]

I love the subtle, understated, tasteful case design.

[@Cr480mx]

I have the brother to this, the infinite A series with the i7-7700, 1070, and came with 2 8gb sticks of ram. Got it in 2016, and been running it since. It's been able to handle everything at Med graphics or better at 1080p. Honestly couldn't be happier. Been debating on throwing another 2 sticks of 8gb of ram in for kicks and giggles to see what would happen...

[@nicklasdamsgaard4655]

Dawid Kills Tech Stuff, nice!

[@technkhaus5457]

I guess that the fuse popped! You just need to check it and if it's the fuse, solder a new one in. Oh and btw, great video ^^

[@MrArthurdivino]

this man risking his 3080ti FE for the sake of our entertainment, kudos my friend