- Hey guys, it's Jared.
Today we're gonna be building
the lowest rated PC on Amazon.
Also, Iffy's here.
- Hey!
- My guy.
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Amazon makes it very difficult
to search for the lowest rated things.
I don't know why they wouldn't want
to make that easy for me to find.
- Yeah.
- But Brandon and I spent hours
scouring Amazon for the worst
PC products we could find,
and we're just gonna see if they make a computer
that can run anything.
And if it works, we'll give it to Zach.
- Yeah.
- So, let's just like dig in.
- I like this because, you know,
big things come in small packages.
- Is it? - I'm gonna guess
this is the ram.
- It felt ram-y to me.
- It felt ram-y.
Oo, so this one is a four gigabyte 1333 MHZ DDR3.
- I thought I bought two.
- No, it looks like it's just one.
- Oh, that's not a lot of ram.
There are four ratings.
What do people gotta say?
"Trash, worthless."
Someone else says,
"The item I received looks nothing like this."
- Looks like this.
- It looks like it's glowing on the image.
- Yeah, yeah, but I think you shouldn't
think this is gonna glow.
- Well, that's false advertising.
So, yeah, the general consensus is it just doesn't work.
It's also like kind of heavy for ram.
- Yeah.
- That heat Sync is like plates of metal.
- Yeah, that's all it is.
- Mystery item number two.
Speaking of heat management.
- This is hilarious.
- [Jared] The Alseye Eddy 120RD RGB Cooler Fan.
- I mean, I wouldn't go with this one.
This heat sync is a monster.
- That thing's way bigger than I thought is was gonna be.
- Oh, yeah, no, these are.
- That's insane.
K, this guy's a three star review.
Two ratings.
One is a five star, one is a one star.
(Iffy laughs)
- That's why it's the three star.
- So, we don't know.
One person just rated it one star
'cause it's not compatible with their motherboard
that they were using.
- Oh, so this might actually be good.
- That might be okay. - Yeah.
The other one says,
"Works like a champ and lights up red."
- This, I think, might actually be a solid part.
- Hell, yeah.
- I'm gonna do another guess of what's in this.
This is that weird storage that you got.
It's another envelope inside. (Jared gasps)
- It's the cooling paste.
I got a three star cooling paste.
- Okay.
- [Jared] This is the Coollaboratory Liquid Extreme
Thermal Compound Paste.
- The one star says,
"What a pain, it barely came with any,
and what it did come with is a pain to work with."
- How big is your CPU?
What are you using this for?
The other one says, "Easy to apply, works as advertised."
Five stars.
- This is another one that I think might be fine.
- Moving along, we got a twofer in here.
We got our power brick, that's a heavy one,
and this guy, I'm so excited about this.
This is the Intenso 2.5 inch solid state drive
SATA III 128 gigabytes.
It feels like an empty box.
- Yeah.
(Jared laughs)
- You know, everyone knows the trusted brand Intenso.
- I wanna open her up, see what she looks like.
It's yellow on the listing, so I want a yellow hard drive.
It's not yellow, I'm mad.
I bought this specifically for these settings.
- Now we have Stability Power PC Power supply.
- [Jared] Super ventilation.
- Yeah. - Low noise.
Oh, sure.
- It's 750 watts.
- Special dust protection.
- That's all, there are no real information beyond that.
- Someone said it fried their motherboard.
Someone else said it's not even 300 watts.
"It exploded the fuse after two hours, do not buy this."
Is that just, like, dusty already in there?
What is this?
- It looks like rust, yeah.
Look, that definitely looks like rust,
yep, it's already rusted.
- This already looks like it's
gonna be really bad news. - This definitely looks like
when you ask your grandma for a PC
for Christmas, "You know, I know
"you wanna play your fork-knife,
"I went ahead and got them, you know, them DPC parts."
- [Jared] This has just people's handwriting on it.
- [Iffy] Oh my God, yes.
- [Jared] The serial number is handwritten.
Literal hours looking for a motherboard
that was poorly rated and that we had never heard of before.
Sofobod H61 motherboard providing two times eight gigabyte
Dims DDR3 slots, two and a half stars with nine ratings.
Cost us $85 bucks.
- Item four, CPU removal
without further destruction of board.
- What does that mean?
Do not continue.
Read the entire brief building manual
before removing this cover, the pins
under this cover are extremely fragile.
Do not touch the pins!
- They keep emphasizing it.
So I think they have very delicate pins.
- Oh, you think that might be
like a corner cutting situation?
- So, like as soon as we try and mount it,
- And everything?
- Also, this is a very tiny motherboard, mini-ATX.
- Mirco-ATX.
Someone rated it five stars just screaming,
"It works!"
Which, I can only assume they're excited
because, as we are, no one's expecting this
to work. - To work, yeah.
People either say, "Highly recommended for cheap PC builds,"
or "It's dead on arrival."
- Yeah, this already just looks like such a mess.
- Let's find out what's in this bag.
- Oh!
- That's our GPU.
I've ordered three graphics cards.
The first two never arrived.
This was the first one to even arrive.
- It is Nvidia.
(laughs)
Oh, a 1050 Ti.
- It says it's a 1050 Ti.
Kay, what I paid for was a GTX 1050 Ti graphics card.
It looks like the picture.
They didn't catfish us.
But is that a 1050?
Let's look at the reviews.
We got a "Doesn't work."
We got a "Not a 1050 Ti, not a new card."
- " Choking on ch..." - And you will receive a 550.
Is likely a used card as well.
- Also, it is a
generic video box. - Yeah, Yeah.
It doesn't have a number. - No brand.
- "Not worth it."
"Scam."
"Don't buy a cheap video card."
"Scam."
So everyone's saying it's a scam.
I paid $70.00.
- I'm looking at the 550 card, I mean, honestly,
- It's similar, but--
- They're running for $250.
We still got a deal.
So far we're at three products where the reviews
said it refused to turn on.
Last but not least...
Ah!
- [Jared] This is the
Apevia Trinity-F Mid Tower Gaming PC Case.
With four full-sized, tempered glass panels.
Top USB3/USB-2 audio ports,
and six times cross-blade RGB fans.
- This tower costed more than the GPU.
- But you've still got the plastic on her.
She's new at least.
I like the look of this.
- This is like, the standard tempered glass look.
- She was $86 with one and a half stars.
Two ratings.
Brandon says, "Amazing looking case, performs terribly."
How does the case perform badly?
- Is some light fan control.
That's about it.
Three fans already put in is pretty solid deal.
- Someone said airflow is complete garbage.
- Ah.
(Iffy laughs)
- "Bad case, worst case I ever purchased."
- "Cheap fan plugs and no ventilation."
- We'll have to like plug-and-play to really
see the lack of ventilation.
Also, like I said, we don't know the fan speeds.
- That's true.
They could just--
- Be slow.
- They could not turn on.
- That's also true.
- And then on the one final piece that we are missing,
is a CPU.
So there are only like two main brands of CPUs on Amazon.
- Yeah, Intel and AMD.
- Yes, they just don't really sell bad products.
So, we couldn't find any like
bootleg CPUs on Amazon. - Yeah.
- So we're just stealin' one from the old gaming PC
that we had that we used to stream on.
I got permission from my boss.
- We're goin' with the i7-6700K.
- Not too bad.
We've done a lot of unboxing.
Now it's time to get down to the actual build.
I don't fell great.
- Yeah, I know.
This is gonna be wild.
- It's build time.
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- Careful, those very delicate pins.
- Yeah.
- I hear the pins just like breaking.
(laughs)
- I know.
- It looks like it's not fitting.
'Cause this is supposed to go in that.
This isn't the right shape.
- Let's just compare sockets.
This is 1151 socket.
This says LGA 1155.
- So that's just not gonna fit?
- Yeah, no, it's just flat out,
this is not gonna fit.
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- So, it's been a couple of days.
We ordered a CPU we know will
fit this motherboard on Amazon.
It arrived in such a state
that I thought it deserved its own unboxing, too.
- Oh, yeah.
- So, let's bring that CPU out.
This is her.
- Handle with care.
- This is how it arrived from Amazon.
Wrapped-up in some bubble wrap, within some bubble-wrap
within some pink.
- i3-2100.
Ah.
- An old one.
Kind of okay.
- No, that's great.
- It could play a game.
- Oh, yeah. - Maybe.
So, this is the Amazon Renewed Intel Core i3-2100
Dual Core $44.99.
A pretty nice price.
- I'm ready to build this thing.
I'm excited.
- Let's just put it together.
- Yeah.
- Let's try this build one more time.
(Jared laughs)
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- Oo.
- Off to a good start.
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- [Jared] I can't get around
how empty this case is gonna be.
(Jared laughs)
- Yeah.
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(gasping)
- [Jared] Oh my lord!
It fits!
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- This looks so bad!
Just like none of these things feel premium in any way.
(Iffy laughs)
- Which, I mean, they're not.
- Yeah.
- I buy premium things for myself.
I would never buy any of this, ever.
- [Iffy] There should be a plastic thing that goes--
where's the box for that?
- [Jared] I remember seeing that.
(paper crumpling)
- We are missing the mount for the cooling fan.
So, we are now Jerry-Rigging this with twist ties
that came from other parts of the computer
to hold it to the motherboard.
The build goes on.
What in the world are you doing?
- [Iffy] I spilled some of the coolant,
and I can't seem to clean it up.
(Jared laughs)
No, it's just worse.
- This is like the most Frankenstein computer
I think I've ever witnessed in my life.
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- [Iffy] Since this isn't a build for beauty,
we're just gonna plug this bad-boy right in here.
- [Jared] Oh, just let her float.
That's all the pieces.
- Yeah.
I think all we need to do now is try to turn it on.
- Oh, we didn't even plug in any of this stuff back here.
That's plugged into a power cable.
Okay, we're gonna plug it in.
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- [Iffy] We don't get this power button to work we can't
turn it on.
- [Jared] Huh!
- [Iffy] You saw a little action there.
- [Jared] Wait, what happened?
I don't understand.
- [Iffy] Maybe if I hold it down.
(laughing)
- What?
- Let's see if this works.
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- It sounds like an old picture machine.
(laughs loudly)
- It turns on!
- Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
This cable keeps touching the fan.
- No biggie.
- It's on.
Ohh!
- Baby, yeah!
- [Jared] I can't believe it turned on.
(laughing)
- [Iffy] Oh, this is the ugliest thing ever, Bru!
- [Jared] These colors are so bad!
Hut to this set up to play a game.
(snap)
Okay, we got so close.
- Yeah.
- We have tried many things.
We are not getting a signal to our monitor.
- We're gettin' a black screen and that's it.
- I might need to do some tinkering on my own.
- Okay.
- I will take her back to my lair
and try to figure this out.
Please forget that this every happened.
Thank you so much for your time.
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- We're back.
It's been--
- It's been a process.
- Off the bat, don't do this.
- I challenge you Linus Tech Tips and JayTwoCents
like, I wanna see what they'd do.
- I would, yeah.
- If they'd make it work
or if they would do their improvements.
- Well, yesterday, the motherboard just started smoking.
- That's a bad habit,
hard to kick. - That's a-
(laughs)
- With the motherboard out of the picture,
that also meant that our RAM
didn't fit the motherboard that we had.
And also means that the CPU that we had didn't fit
the motherbaord that we had.
So, this is about 50% a one star rated PC.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's count it.
So, motherboard is good.
You CPU, good.
The RAM, good.
PSU, one star.
Graphics card, one star.
Case, one star.
- The hard drive, I think like two and a half stars.
- Yeah.
It seems like it's a little more than half one star still.
So, we're still in the game.
- Okay
(laughs)
Let's start with the case.
- Besides the wiring, that's about it.
It seems pretty good.
The airflow feels pretty good, too.
I'm not mad at this case.
Also, one thing that I'm not the biggest fan of,
the fan control.
No fan speed.
Uh, no true customization.
Really, you just get to choose three different colors.
- The GPU, one of the reviews for the GPU
said that you wouldn't get the 1050 Ti,
but we got the graphics card that we ordered,
and the computer says it's a 1050 Ti.
That was cheap.
We got that for like 70 bucks.
- Yeah, so, if you're trying to build a PC on a budget,
maybe not this brand but a 1050 Ti may be the way to.
Or maybe you wanna risk it and go for this brand.
- The hard drive, the read write speed's
actually not that bad.
It seems to be holding up okay.
We got Windows working.
Everything's doing what it's supposed to.
As far as I'm concerned, if I was leaving a review,
I would rate it like four or five stars.
The case, I think I would review like three stars.
- How nice.
I would probably give it like a two and a half.
- The rusted-ass power supply.
I was worried that would blow-up,
but that seems to be powering - Yeah.
- this thing just fine.
We have a ton of fans in here.
- You know, yeah,
- Stop playing Solitaire for a second
and talk about the power supply.
- The power supply went full Bon Jovi and said,
"I'm still standing." (sings)
- Someone said it fried their motherboard.
It is not frying any of our things,
but in terms of power supply,
it's doing its job and it's doing it quietly.
I also would rate that like four or five stars.
The point of me rating these
isn't to suggest that you get them.
- (giggles) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Is it a one star computer?
I don't think so.
Is it a four or five star computer?
Also not. - Definitely not.
- This could crap out on us tomorrow.
- We're shootin' a video.
I really got into Spider.
- I understand.
- It's like, "I don't want a hint,
"but I will take it," ya know?
Why are ya laughing at me, huh?
- Because we are still--
- Yeah, Yeah.
- This is a video about this computer.
- Yeah well, I'll tell ya this much.
- How's it playing, how's it playing?
(loud laughing)
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- Oh, my god, you guys.
I got it to play Overwatch.
She runs.
Good job, girl.
I'm proud of you.
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