it's finally that time of the year again for our annual AliExpress gaming pre-built purchase this
time around I spent about a thousand one hundred Canadian dollars on this system that's including
tax and shipping by the way and I'm really excited to see what kind of weird and wonderful creation
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now the first thing that I've noticed about this system aside from the couple of bruises on the
box is that we don't get the prestigious work of box tape man but I think the reason for this is
that I didn't buy the system from the AliExpress gaming pre-built kingpins IPS i instead bought it
from a seller called MXZ and they probably still need to earn box tape man's Trust
okay oh well what we lose in box tape man effort MXZ makes up for in Spades with a
box slathered in the gameriest shape and the box has a red undercarriage MXZ you spoil us
on top of the box we get a power cable and some Wi-Fi antenna in an unnecessarily fancy bag
although interestingly they did send the wrong power plug and we also get a quick start guide
important wow that is a very nicely printed and clear quick start guide good job the foam
situation is a little bare there's not a whole bunch of it but at least the bit that is there
is nice soft foam I do want to put this thin piece of foam back for when I remove the PC
foreign
interesting looking system first off it is in a gigabyte case that I've never seen before
which has three RGB fans in the front that are a greater risk of choking than a three-year-old in
a Lego factory because the closest thing we have to front ventilation is this obscenely dense slat
paneling but at least we have that RGB ping going and at least again we have some top ventilation
with actual fans populating it these are set up for exhaust though I do want to test what turning
these around will do later on for the temperatures but we'll worry about that when we get to the
testing phase it's back and then up here we have some very usable front I O with a dedicated RGB
button which should make you the Envy of all your 12 year old friends and around the pack we have a
perfectly serviceable looking i o some exciting looking graphics card action with a Wi-Fi card
and some power supply which we'll have a closer look at later but with that let's open her up
this is stupid mouth
oh very good we've got an expanded foam insert which is a great way of
protecting a PC while shipping although they are a bit of a pain to get out
oh and they've added even more foam for good measure although I feel like this is a placebo
bit of foam at best and under all of that is our reasonably snazzy looking system the first thing
that I notice is that shiny dual Channel Ram kit very good this is a 16 gig kit of Kirkland brand
Ram it seems like running at 3200 megahertz and next that we have the good old stock AMD cooler
I can't remember what CPUs under there presumably an AMD one but we'll figure that out later we've
also got a 500 gig gigabyte nvme drive and a very basic looking gigabyte b450 motherboard
which should get the job done but it's really nothing fancy and then in terms of the graphics
card we've got an MSI Ventus RTX 2060 super which may be a bit of an older graphics card but it's
still very capable I think we'll find out a bit later on closer inspection of the graphics card
there seems to be a cable that is very very close to doing some terrible things to that graphics
card fan we'll see what happens when we start it up and in terms of power supply we get this
DK 5.0 premium power supply that I've never seen before so let's open up the back and investigate
oh that's a loose panel nice nothing like a good old Molex centipede always
great to see other than that cable Management's pretty solid back here
although I do want to get that power supply out and have a closer look at it
somehow again we managed to get a power supply that I've never seen before after like four
years of doing this I don't know how that keeps happening but apparently it's a 500 watt 80 plus
bronze rated premium power supply what more could you want with that I'm gonna stuff its
guts back in and then we can fire it up to see what kind of venereal disease we're working with
exciting stuff we get to see if it actually powers on whoa that's a unique color palette
and it's very much alive with Windows 10 on it nonetheless in terms of VD
there's basically nothing which is kind of standard for these AliExpress systems the CPU
in here is a ryzen 540 500 a chip that I've never had a look at before so I'm curious to see how it
keeps up with that 2060 super oh no they forgot to enable the xmps that's real naughty MXZ which
I think means we should see what kind of gaming performance we get out of this system but first
this is
another day another time I drive out of Franklin's house here at 1080p High settings the system is
um not not doing a whole lot we're hovering about 40 utilization for both the graphics
card and the CPU although what that does mean is we are seeing very good
temperatures I mean we haven't even hit 50 degrees Celsius on the GPU yet the system
is also nice and quiet despite the fact that we have 8 million Molex fans going
they're not the noisiest Molex fans you know that's very good let's try a different game
uh the the CPU is struggling a little bit to keep up with the RTX 2060 super in here
but we are getting when it's not stuttering but that's standard Battlefield 5. we are
getting about 120 frames per second and now that we have actual utilization happening
the temperatures have climbed quite a bit especially on the CPU we're getting close
to 70 degrees Celsius which isn't bad it really isn't with that let me play for a bit more and
see what the temperature is top out so I've been playing Battlefield 5 for a bit now and
the temperatures are exactly the same so what I want to do next is enable the xmps to see
how much of a difference that makes and then we'll try some real soul-crushing new games
foreign I think it's running a little bit better when we look at the standardized benchmarks you
can see that the main difference is actually the one percent lows so you know you don't have as
big dips in terms of the frame rate basically turn xmps on is the point we all have ingrained
into our eyelids at this point the same goes for Battlefield 5. it's not a life-changing Difference
by any means but at least we're getting some higher one percent lows which always makes the
game feel a bit better and besides it just took one press of a button basically oh I forgot that I
wanted to swap those top fans around to an intake to see if that helps the temperatures let me do
that before I try and ruin this species innocence with Last of Us and other game
you can just tell these are some Primo quality fans oh
okay well we may have shaved off about three degrees Celsius of our CPU but it's just moved
on to our GPU I don't know if that's worth it it's getting hotter as well it it keeps
climbing now it's also definitely noisier so I I have clearly made a bit of a whoopsie
oh wow this system runs the crap out of cyberpunk this is 1080p medium settings so it's not super
cranked in terms of settings but it's over 80. sometimes it's good let's actually see
if we can pull off high we're getting a very similar frame rate in fact oh here's the fancy
car again found it yeah the system is a little beast although uh cyberpunk isn't necessarily the
creme de La Creme of system crotch punchers anymore so let's try some even newer games
at 1080p high it's not going super well but for a game like the last of us this
is pretty playable and these are high settings so you can drop them down a bit
if you if you feel the need to oh very very reflective hole down there it does
feel a bit heavy if that makes sense but this is very much a game that's running
and then finally we have it's too dark I can't see anything the video game running at 1080p 4
gig High I think we are getting over 60 frames per second it's running nicely it's actually running
better than the last of us was running although we do also have some stuttering going on but yeah
the graphics the bit that you can see of it does look very nice and yeah the system's running it
well which brings me to the end of my slightly more than annual look at an AliExpress gaming
pre-build considering the price I think it held up well although I do want some context so I'm gonna
go and buy a similarly priced system from Best Buy so we can do a bit of a pre-built shootout
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