**Building Your Dream PC: A Review of NextGen OEM**

As a tech enthusiast, I've always been fascinated by pre-built PCs from various system integrators. In this review, I'll share my thoughts on NextGen OEM, a relatively newer company that recently reached out to me for feedback on their products.

My experience with NextGen OEM began when they asked me to try out one of their builds and provide some honest feedback. I was excited to dive in and see what they had to offer. Upon receiving the PC, I took some time to examine it carefully and evaluate its specs. To my surprise, their systems don't scream "outrageous or rip-off" on the low-end configuration, and the pricing was good, with a cost of $400 over the cost of physical parts.

However, as I delved deeper into the system, I noticed that the high-end configurations, such as the Meow Pro, work out to be around $400 over the cost of physical parts. While this isn't necessarily outrageous, it's not competitive either. In order for NextGen OEM to improve their pricing strategy, they could consider lowering the price a bit or offering more value at the same price point.

I also noticed that NextGen OEM doesn't offer as many options when it comes to CPU and graphics card choices. Most system integrators have a wide range of options spanning from Intel, Nvidia, and AMD. However, NextGen OEM seems to be sticking mainly to Intel and Nvidia, which may limit their appeal to customers who prefer AMD processors.

Another area for improvement is the price gap between their current configurations. The company has a significant $500 gap between their $950 build and their $1,450 configuration. This gap can be easily filled by tweaking existing options or adding more expensive components, such as a higher-end graphics card or a faster SSD.

In terms of customer service, NextGen OEM seems to be on the right track. They provided me with detailed information about the PC's specs, including the type of RAM, power supply model, and other details that may affect the system's performance. This level of transparency is essential for building trust with customers and setting themselves apart from competitors.

**What Matters Most When Choosing a System Integrator**

As someone who values price of performance above all else, I believe that it should be a top priority when choosing a system integrator. However, customer service and warranty are also crucial considerations. In my opinion, these two factors are closely tied to the overall value proposition of a system integrator.

If you were to recommend NextGen OEM to someone, whether it's a family member or friend, I would say that price of performance is still king, followed by customer service and warranty. Any extras, such as aesthetics or uniqueness of the builds, should be considered last but not least.

I'm curious to hear from my audience: what are some of the most important things you look for when choosing a system integrator? Is it price of performance, customer service, warranty, or something else entirely?

**A Word of Caution**

If you're considering purchasing one of NextGen OEM's pre-built PCs, I would encourage you to do your research and read reviews from multiple sources. While the company seems to be growing rapidly, they are still a relatively new player in the market.

As with any newcomer, there is always a risk that they may not live up to their promises or deliver on their product's specifications. However, based on my experience so far, I believe that NextGen OEM has some promising aspects and areas for improvement.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has interacted with NextGen OEM before watching this video – have you purchased one of their PCs? What was your experience like? Your feedback will help shape the company's strategy and ensure that they continue to meet the evolving needs of their customers.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI want to see if they've applied the micro code update for the issues that 13th and 14th gen Intel processors were having I think this is going to be one of the biggest things whether or not they pass or fail because lifetime labor warranty I thought that in the other section 3 years for labor versus lifetime labor I feel like there's a contradiction there in this box is a PC from a company called NextGen OEM I'd never heard of them until they reached out to me asking if I'd like to review one of their PCS and that's partially because they're a relatively newer system integrator they started out as a retail and wholesale business that sold PCS laptops and accessories from some of the big names like Dell HP Lenovo and then transitioned into pre-built gaming computers about a year ago I wanted to review this because one I like computers whether they're built by me or somebody else I enjoy them all the same I've never been an elitist when it comes to pre-builts I think they're a good way for people to get into the PC gaming space and then overtime transition into doing their own upgrades and eventually hopefully getting comfortable enough to build one from scratch and two I'm kind of curious to see what a newcomer to the space has to offer there's no shortage of companies to buy pre-builts from and more competition hopefully means more competitive pricing and raising the bar and customer service if a company wants to stay afloat so my hope is that this video will help anyone who may have come across next gen oam while looking for a pre-build and we're wondering if their systems are worth it or not and for transparency this video is not sponsored by them all opinions are my own and I was given no script or talking points and they do not get to see this video before it is released so yeah let's open this up and check it out all right so first things first the packaging this is a plain outer box this is good because you don't want to advertise if this is being shipped to your house and sitting on your front door or porch or whatever for or however long you don't want to advertise that there might be a multi th000 computer in here so it is plain packaging and we do have fragile stickers on all four sides so that's good to see whether or not these fragile stickers do anything when the delivery workers see it uh is one thing but at least they put the effort to put these on there we are greeted with a little thank you card we'll take a look at their website and their business and how they selling things uh in a bit but uh yeah so this is just a little thank you card all right so we've got bubble wrap there's more bubble wrap wedge down here as well yeah so we've got bubble wrap on all sides secondary box on the inside so it's double box for more protection so we always love to see that my mic was just pushed up against my skin so that first portion of the video might sound crappy I apologize for that I'm just going to put it up here just to make it simpler from here on out all right let's get this interior box out and we do have the box that the case for this build uh came in I'll put the specs of this build on the screen but this is an i7 13700 KF RTX 470 uh 32 GB of memory 1 tbte SSD this build goes for $2,000 on their website and I'll discuss pricing and value and all that later on once we get to that portion of the video but right now we are looking at the unboxing experience extra stuff like Sata cable from the motherboard box the Wi-Fi antenna and the the power cord yeah pretty thorough job with the packaging let me zoom into this uh it's probably still a little bit hard to see but yeah depending on the case that you have it shows you how to remove the panel pretty sure you just pull out and it pops yep so they did use expanding foam in here and it tells you to remove it carefully and and gently so that you're not moving parts around or bending them or ripping them out of their sockets so plug into the graphics card and not the motherboard when it comes to display so that's good to see cuz a lot of beginners people who would be buying pre-builts uh this is more common of a problem than you would think if you're a veteran uh PC user but as well as connecting things like the keyboard Mouse uh Wi-Fi antennas things like that so this is pretty nice to see uh I think this is kind of standard from a lot of the pre-builts that I've seen uh so yeah we'll put that to the side I think we should be good with being able to operate this computer but let's actually take a physical look at it and how it arrived I'm going to actually take this camera off the top now so I can get a closer look all right so I'm just taking a quick look through here to make sure everything is still slotted nothing came loose during Transportation okay yeah so that looks all good for this lineup system specifically it has that cute cat aesthetic going on with the kind of vibrant colors and they did a pretty good job uh color matching all the parts I'm going to get b-roll after the fact and then overlay it here without me like modifying anything just to show a better angle and lighting looking at at the fan configuration what do we got here we have intake from the side as well as from the bottom coming up and then exhaust in the back as well as the top through the 360 radiator nothing looks out of place so let's swap it around to the back and take off the side panel so looking at the back they did a pretty good job on the cable management they have a lot of things zip tied down to different tie down points and they've tucked in anything extra down here so this is a fully modular power supply and these are the stock cables that comes with it and this is all the extra stuff SATA connectors Molex stuff that's not really used but they've connected it and put it in the system so uh I mean it looks clean enough of a cable management job no real complaints there I think so long as it's not a complete Rat's Nest I'll give like a pass and fail grade and I would say this this definitely passes all right let me get this closed up so that we can power it on and the Moment of Truth all right the system is powering on and we've got all the LEDs lighting up oh bios I wanted to get into the BIOS before the windows dang it no weird sounds coming from the fans no weird pump noises or gurgling from the AIO looks good and sounds good so far all right we are in Windows so we are going to go to the BIOS but since it just freshly uh got into the OS I wanted to note something so gigabyte control center is asking if I want to install let me take a look on the programs list add remove program uh we do have Nvidia control panel so it looks like there's some form of drivers there uh and the gigabyte control center is not there people complain about you know all the like ASRock Asus gigabyte all their uh control centers this can be seen as good or bad so just noting it but it could go either way it's not a pro oron that gigabyte control center was not pre-installed on the system everything looks pretty much uh like stock windows in here I'm not seeing anything extra so that's good uh let me look at Nvidia control panel and take a look at the drivers we're looking at driver version 56070 56070 so that was July so from a few months ago yeah so when this was sent uh there was definitely newer driver versions than this so it does look like uh because they gave the completely fresh outof box experience um they did not put the latest drivers which you might not have the latest game ready drivers that might have some more optimization for specific titles that have been released but but something like this shouldn't be an issue and you can always update it yourself they're still going to work some people don't ever update their drivers unless something goes wrong but having old drivers by a couple of months is not a big deal but now I really do want to get into the BIOS because this is a 13th gen Intel system I want to see if they've applied the micro code update uh and updated the bios for the issues that 13th and 14th gen Intel processors were having so let's take a look at that I think this is going to be one of the biggest things whether or not they pass or fail so micro code 129 I believe that is the one for the instability fixes let me take a look real quick Intel's microc code 0 x12900 Ram frequencies but they do have the XMP enabled resizable bar is not enabled however and I mean I can see it going either way there are some use cases where enabling this uh has shown to have a slight decrease in performance but I think on average it is a small increase in performance I usually enable it myself it's not enabled here whether or not it's big deal to you or not I'm just pointing it out uh it is just a flick of a switch just like that but I'm going to leave it off uh because that's how it was uh so yeah I'm okay with the BIOS the biggest thing was that microc code update just for you know the customers who don't know about the issues so that uh they are protected from their PCS damaging themselves and then having to go through the hassle returns and being without their PC and things like that all right so I want to do a couple of things I want to stress test the system and also check it against like a demanding game for the stress test I want to see if you know with their workmanship everything installed it can run a demanding workload that basically stresses out all the components to the max load and the system is fine both temperature- wise and stability wise so it doesn't crash or gives any apparent issues so I've got a few programs here the first one being Prime 95 a classic but a good one uh so we're going to do small ffts for testing out all l12 and three caches and max power heat and CPU stress f mark here this is the updated for Mark for Mark 2 that's going to stress the graphics card specifically and then I do have Ida 64 to stress the system memory the ram so we are testing all the core components in here and this is going to be a pretty Overkill like day-to-day uses for what whatever you're going to be doing it is not going to stress your system to this degree but you know we go overboard just to make sure if it's good for that it should be good for pretty much anything you throw at it uh so yeah I'm I'm going to get this test started I also have Hardware info here which is going to give us all the information we need as to you know what's going on with the system so we have uh CPU GPU utilization temperatur so we can see for example here core usage 100% on all the threads uh we've got let's see yeah CPU is running pegged at 100% we've got the temperatures where is the thermal throttling yeah so if there's any throttling going on this is going to flag it and then down here we have the graphics card so we've got the same thing as a CPU temperatures multiple temperature sensors uh we've got the clocks the load all that there's a little clock down here I'm going to click that and it is going to go for I'm going to let it run for about an hour or so uh I'm going to do a longer stress test but for the sake of right now of the unboxing experience I do want to do a quicker one so I can then jump into games and look at what the temperatures are like there and then there's more stuff that I do want to talk about like the pricing of this system and take a look at their website and while I'm doing those things I can run a longer stress test in the background uh but yeah so I'm going to let this run for about an hour or so and then come back and we'll take a look uh and then move on all right so the test has actually been running for well over two hours now I got pulled away for a little bit and um yeah did not get to stop it at all and I did want to have it live running when I did start recording again but we can take a look at the time and on Hardware info since I last press the reset it is has been running for 2 hours and 14 minutes as well as if we go to Ida 64 and I don't know why it became so tiny I think it's because the fur Mark for whatever reason interacted with it because the furm mark set to 4K for some reason the resolution here got weird but for Hardware info it did not but anyways uh if we zoom in yeah so Ida has been running for over 2 hours as well I started it sooner so the clock uh has a couple more minutes on it and then Prime 95 is still running uh the torture test so we can go over and look at Hardware info actually so this has minimum maximum and average columns and uh pretty much since I press the reset for the whole two plus hour duration everything has been loaded up to 100% see the average here it's not 99.9 it has been fully underload this entire time being torture tested doing a stress test like this is pretty important when you either first buy a system like this whether it be from Next Gen o or from a different company or even if you built your own PC you should do a stress test like this because for one you want to identify any potential problems with hardware parts themselves can come with defects and issues that may not be apparent until they're under heavier load I put it through its paces and it passed no throttling no crazy temperatures uh no crashing none of that but yeah I'm okay with the stress this it it passed with flying color what I'm going to do now is I need to install Steam I just want to show a little bit of gameplay just to see what you would expect from a system like this all right so I'm loaded into thrown in Liberty now which is a decently hard game to run and it's really new very pretty Graphics is Unreal Engine 4 uh the draw distance on the like landscape and terrain on this game is crazy and the CPU because there's so many cores and threads usually games don't fully utilize them so uh you for especially I SS and I9 with the higher core and thread counts uh you're typically floating around like 30 to 40% uh there are some games that use it but most don't uh and then for the graphics card depending on what I'm showing on the scene it's it's going from like 80 to Almost 100% but yeah this game is gorgeous so looking at the FPS even though we are like above 100 uh I'm not focused as much on that as I am with the the temperatures that we're seeing while gaming so we are below 70 on both below 60 on the RTX 470 and below 70 on the 13700 KF yeah we've got a lot of buildings we've got a lot of players and NPCs got the castle right there here we get a little bit more of a balance the the graphics card is running at a lower load in the 60s to 70% range and because of that it's running cooler but now the CPU I guess with all the different uh MPC and other players around uh we're getting closer to almost like 50% on the CPU load and the temperatures have gone up but it's still in like the low to mid 60s um but yeah so this is throw limber let's let's throw on another game let's throw on Cyber Punk since I bet some of you are probably bored of this and don't care about MMOs so let's do a more mainstream game that is known to be difficult to run all right so we're in cyberpunk now and the settings I have are essentially it says custom because I changed the DLS to quality but pretty much I maxed out R tracing Ultra but that by default gives it dlss to Auto and I wanted quality just to make sure uh the cyberpunk kind of needs uh dlss just to run good especially with rate tracing um even on newer graphics card like the RTX 470 but this is pretty much max out rate tracing with DSS to help it out and the GPU is pegged like 99% High 90s essentially so pretty much at Max load and I added the fans information in here from Hardware info so we do see GPU and the the fan headers from the motherboard so for the graphics card I mean at Max load let me see we're at like mid 50° fans are running at about like 35% looking at the CPU we do get a little bit more CPU load than in thron in Liberty so about 50% uh pretty consistently and for all this speeds there the one that's 2700 RPM must be the pump I think the the case fans are the lower one at around 800 RPM and then the mobile fans that says 1,500 RPMs that's uh it must be the three fans that are attached to the aiio trying to you know push that air through the radiator so I'm pretty much good on the games there's um bunch of different titles that you can test on but again I'm not trying to look at like the specific performance per games the 13700 KF and the 4070 are going to perform how they perform um I'm just looking for you know passing stability test uh making sure temperatures aren't out of whack uh there's no apparent issues with gaming which across two heavy titles that I have just shown so far you know it's not like it was stuttering there's no artifacting no issues like that so I think I'm good with this portion of it so I'm going to go back to doing a longer stress test and I'll probably show some footage on the screen uh just to show like The Long dur to show that I think the system's going to do well uh but we can go over and start looking at their website and start talking about pricing this is a pretty clean looking website uh they've got their builds and they do have an exclusive partnership with seot so um that's why they're using so many seot parts when it comes to like power supply the cooler computer case any extra case fans keep on going down and they have a bunch of different sections new arrivals gaming series uh you know pretty much what you'd expect from uh system integrator website like this so let's take a look at their warranty real quick shall be free of defect and material and workmanship for 3 years for labor and one for parts which is pretty standard in uh quite a few companies that I've checked out if within 20 days of delivery you receive an item that's defective or determin that we made an error they'll gladly offer refund for the item price additionally we have a special 1 to1 exchange warranty to ensure that you Reed a replacement for a defective item we want to make sure you're completely satisfied with your product so this is pretty good because let's say you get a fully working shipped PC except there's something wrong with like the memory or the SSD or something like that something that's very easy to swap out yourself that is much more convenient than going through the hassle of reboxing up the entire PC shipping it over to them for however much shipping cost and for them to send it back with the working part them refunding the value of the item so that you can just go to Amazon to buy a working one and to slap it in and then have you know the PC up and running ready to go that is way less downtime than the waiting for shipping back and forth the cost of shipping so this is good and in their B section they are located in Houston Texas so uh yeah they're in Houston if you're local to them you can visit them uh weekdays typical uh business hours and closed on weekends so potentially some shipping savings if you are local to them so this is what they feel gives them their Competitive Edge so handcrafted gaming systems I mean for the most part everything is made by hand from all the other system integrators too there's not many companies building with robots yet at least not to my knowledge uh stress tested system so this is good I mean I ran it through it's running through the stress test in the back right there but I'll show or I would have shown on the screen that it should pass the rigorous test with no issues uh quality checked so again I mean I didn't find anything that was out of place physically or on the like uh software side of things bloatware free uh so this was true safe and fast shipping so yeah they're talking about how they're based in Texas uh allowing the fastest turnaround time which I mean they're right in the middle of the country so each Coast that they go to I guess that is a a benefit to that lifetime support uh most of these system integrators have free uh lifetime support lifetime warranty versus is Lifetime support so I get the technical support part but the warranty that's actually with the the parts and labor themselves Right comes with a us-based lifetime labor and technical support warranty lifetime labor warranty I thought that in the other section talked about the warranty coverage for period of three years for labor versus lifetime labor I I feel like they're saying two different things on like that legal e page versus this front landing page which uh like sounds good and all so either make it more clear what the difference is or what a US base lifetime labor support is um but yeah I feel like most people looking at these websites aren't looking into it this deep but this is my job to look at it this deep uh and to point things out that don't make sense to me or that could be misleading so yeah I mean I feel like most people more people would see this section than they would uh this you know terms and conditions section with the actual warranty coverage so uh if there's anything that does contradict each other which it seems like this might because we're talking about workmanship for a period of 3 years for labor yeah versus us-based lifetime labor and technical support warranty so you're putting lifetime labor in here if that means something else and I might just be understanding it wrong uh maybe it could be Rewritten now let's take a look at at their pre-built gaming species so they have their bestseller all models and limited edition Series so let's just check out all models and let's sort by low to high so they do have systems coming in at $900 so on the low end like $900 950 right here uh and then we scroll all the way to the last page and they have systems all the way up to $2300 they don't go super crazy high-end like3 $4,000 like some system integrators and On The Low End most system integrators don't do much cheaper than like the $8 $900 range any cheaper and it's not worth it because it doesn't make sense to do that on like a $700 system because you're paying so much for the labor on lower cost Parts but taking a look through the pricing here there is an interesting jump so this is sorted from low to high so you've got your $900 $950 systems here and then it just jumps up to100 where's all the like $4 $1,500 systems we're looking at all we clicked on all models and like if we go to in stock we do the same thing so like 950 to 19900 that's a huge jump if we look at the out of stock stuff just in case uh it's not selected for whatever reason it's the same thing the the price jumps from the N like under ,000 to almost $2,000 that's because this is not actually a other PCS that they have so if we go to preo gaming PC look at their limited edition series and we do the same sorting low to high they do have systems uh that are in closer to like the 1500 right in the middle there so why these ones don't show up in all PCS is kind of strange to me like when when I look up all models I would kind of expect everything that they have I understand this is limited edition then they should say all models except for limited edition it's okay to have a limited edition series section where it shows all these for people who want you know this extra you know cute cases and cases with designs and are themed out but I think when you click all models it should actually have all models especially for what I pointed out there where the price point was such a huge leap like going from n under ,000 to $1,900 there there so many customers who fit right in between that so just for like UI sake and usability I think the all models should have everything so that's my suggestion whether they implement or not is up to them but I think that's a reasonable ask they definitely got some good-look systems uh you know they're they're paying attention to Aesthetics using Color matching things like that and uh the person that reached out to me part of like the pitch uh is that you know they're a company that is looking to kind of build the void of like the lack of cute Aesthetics in the PC a pre-built PC market so that's why you know they got some of these these themed cases with the cute cats and things like that so I mean I I guess I could see that I this to me this company stood out initially because when I went to check out the website I saw these builds if you don't look at these builds you know anything like this it it looks like any other uh system integrator that exists out there but you don't see many of them kind of promoting as much of these like cute or what like not anime Aesthetics but like Kawaii cut SE themed bright vibrant colors you know oranges purples things like that I mean if that's what they're trying to do and leave their Mark in the space uh and Chase that Niche I mean I could see it working out there are plenty of people who do want cutesy uh gaming PCs one thing I did notice while looking through all their builds and I actually inquired about it is uh if you look at all the processors and the graphics cards you'll see that everything is Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel no AMD and graphics cards are all Nvidia they said that based on their market research they've seen that especially on the places they sell they don't only sell on their website they also sell their whole systems on Amazon and based on that they said that these Brands sell better and I'm actually not going to argue with them about that because if we look at the steam Hardware survey if we look at processor and video card usage by brand and I know steam Hardware survey is not like the perfect Source because not everybody gets the survey served to them and some people with multiple systems can take it and stuff like that but there's really not better publicly known information especially gamer specific so if we take a look at both of these right we've got Nvidia dominating you've got 77 versus 14% we're not even going to talk about Intel graphics cards but five times s more users who took the survey anyway Nvidia just straight up dominates the top of the chart I understand why they want to do that I would personally like to see them offer more AMD CPU and graphics card offerings Ju Just To See I think they'll sell decently well but you know if if they're going to just stick to these two Brands if it works for them then I I guess you know don't change what's not broken over on the processors I mean yeah we're comparing Intel versus AMD 67 versus 32 % as much as people you know love uh AMD and are Ming on the 14th and 13th gen kind of disaster the numbers are right here but you do have to consider also that uh a lot of Gamers also aren't using the newest Hardware a lot of people are gaming on older systems office PCS server workstations using zons things like that those all kind of skew towards Intel but it's not necessarily representative of most current one or two gen of Parts but yeah that's what they had to say about it I don't know if it's just cuz they're a smaller company and they just started out doing pre-built gaming feces and they want to keep their SKS uh under control but I think it would definitely be better to give people more choices so I'm looking at the highest end offerings we've got it sorted from high to low and I'm noticing a trend here uh basically all the systems have I9 in them I 93900 kfs and they max out at a 4070 TI there are no more powerful graphics cards than that and I'm noticing a similar Trend too anything with a 13700 KF it doesn't go any higher than a 4070 like we can go back a page uh we've got more i7 13700 kfs and it maxes out at the 4070 yeah so to me that's a little bit odd and I understand that there are use cases where people want a gaming PC but they might also be doing other things that may require more cores and threads and you know like a higher end CPU like the I9 so keep some of those options in there but I also think that there should be some options that either match that I9 a little bit better like maybe with a 4080 or 480 super uh or even some options where you knock down this I9 to an i7 and pair it with the 4070 TI the 13700 KF can handle more than the 407s that they're kind of maxing these out at on the builds that they're offering if you know you're going to be offering gaming PCs that arear targeted more for gamers than anything they're going to be playing titles that are newer chipa demanding games and they're going to want these higher end builds to be running at higher resolutions you know at Max or close to max out settings your graphics card is going to be the bottom neck an i7 13700 KF can easily handle way more powerful graphics cards than a 4070 it can handle 4080 4080 super just fine at the settings that a lot of people are playing these games at when they are buying those graphics cards yeah you're going to get way more performance out of upping your graphics card than a CPU so um I yeah I think they could do a little bit of work with the way that they're pairing some of the parts at the highend uh looking at the mid and low end I think those were fine the system that they sent over for me we can start taking a look at right now it's the game ma Pro which is actually sold out right now so I showed the specs on the screen earlier but let's take a look at what the listing shows the case uh the motherboard the exact motherboard which is nice you don't always see that um and then the CPU Cooler which is they should really put seot on here this is a seot cooler but they just put the Frozen 360 like just like the case says seot I think they should put seot here for the memory they don't put any of the specs they just list the capacity which is the 2x6 32 gigs and the ddr5 but no speeds I'm okay with them not putting the brand on there because most system integrators don't due to you know they they're constantly changing Supply so they could be if pricing for one vendor or company is better you know one month or quarter than another they can change that but I think the speed should definitely be put on there and I think when I looked at another PC give me one second to bring it up I think they do list it yeah so here's the cheaper build which we'll also take a look at this one's the $900 one they do list the speed on here so I mean for consistency sake and just for more information for the buyer I'd like to see the speed here for the SSD we do have a 1 terb m.2 let me go back to the other listing that's how they listed as well so I'm okay with the brand not being put on there they used The crucial P3 which I think is fine but it is a Gen 4 SSD and I think putting that would actually help them in this case because people might think that they're just completely cheaping out and maybe even using a gen 3 Drive uh so if they're going to be using Gen 4 drives on this one put that for the fans they again they put the hq12 it is Seagle fans I think they should just put it uh don't make me you know go to their have to go to the products page and look up like oh is the hq12 oh yes the hq12 is Seagle tap so yeah just have it there so that there's less clicking around for the customer for the wireless okay it's built-in Wi-Fi on the motherboard Windows 11 home so we are missing power supply information on this page so the power supply that they use in the system is the Seagle mu 750g so it's a gold rated power supply and uh seot does have power supplies on the PSU tier list but not this model I'm thinking this is either a newer one or there's a lot of power supplies missing on the PSU tier list it's just because there's not enough testers out there for all the power supplies this mu 750g they do have a lot of the information about it and including the tap ology which is the important part for a lot of the power supplies on the tier list especially in the speculative positions where there hasn't been testing done on it but just based on the internals you can kind of tell the quality of the power supply they do uh put the chroma testing information on here which I'm not super familiar with but for anyone who else who is and maybe more knowledgeable you can take a look at this so this is yeah P 5.0 compliant um and they do have the top ology primary and secondary information on here with a shot of the internals so I think it's a matter of time until this power supply gets on the tier list and just based on what I see about it this is going to strongly likely be a b tier power supply speculative of course until they test it we're not going to know for sure but just based on like topology and internals and just on the information that they do give here which a lot of power supplies uh you know all this information is not made really available I I think this is a strong B tier so I always like to do a price comparison between what system integrator sell their PCS for versus what you could build it for on PC part piaker to see whatever that price difference is that's how much they're charging for their labor the warranty that they're providing in any customer service and troubleshooting so I do have this list right here which I've built to be as close to what next gen OEM is offering seot is surprisingly not on PC part picker at all there are some parts but they don't even have prices associated with them so for those just for the ease of viewing I picked parts that are pretty similar and match the price of what they're selling the same components for on the next gen OEM website like this thermalite Frozen prism it's a 360 AIO that's 70 bucks and that's how much the seot AO 360 is the graphics card they didn't have the arrow version anymore but they did have this Asus dual one in white so I chose this and I did include the windows home retail so you can do the mental math on this yourself if you uh you know don't value the Windows key I think it's kind of tough for system integrators because they can't just use those gray Market OEM keys I don't think it's a really fair comparison to expect system integrators to use like $15 gry Market CD keys because I think that would actually be illegal and they can only be used once before you change hardware and you have to buy a new key now I understand understand people are very budget conscience and want to save money and the majority of Gamers out there or just PC users in general do not buy A1 100 plus doll Windows CD key I added it in here because they I checked you can check what kind of key it is they are using a retail key which means you can transfer that key no matter how many times you switch your Hardware up and change it that key will work infinite number of times it doesn't bring value to the majority of people out there unfortunately and I don't know how much system integrators personally pay for retail Keys hopefully they're not paying uh you know anywhere close to $135 right here but I added it in here we can do the mental math to subtract that 100ish dollars uh if you're going to assume a cheaper key is anywhere from like 15 20 or 30 bucks but looking at the total we do come out to $1,700 so compared to building it yourself they are charging what looks to be about $300 on their high-end system or $400 if you take out the 100ish doll Windows key that is definitely not the cheapest that I've seen I've seen companies go down to around 150 to 200 but this is also not the most expensive either I have seen uh companies charge upwards of 500 I would say this is kind of in the on the higher end and it's mainly due to that Windows key when you take that off it makes it $400 which I think to a lot of buyers is not very attractive you have to consider that this is a company they have you know rent to pay electricity to keep the lights on employees to pay it's not the same as you building in your the basement of your house or your mom's house or something like that where essentially there is no additional cost running a business costs money do keep in mind that I am just looking at what they have here and not the fact that 14th gen is out and 15 gen is around the corner you have to do this exercise at every point in time you're considering buying the system don't just watch this video and it's like a 6 months old video by the time you're watching it and just take it you know for what I'm saying here the pricing is always going to be changing so you got to do the same exercise yourself it doesn't take that long and determine if the value is good for you I'm just kind of showing you the steps that I take to determine the value and now let's take a look at their most affordable option the Pioneer for $900 so we've got an Intel i5 12400 F RTX 360 TI 650 Y8 plus gold power supply case is a seot gremlin 6 h610 motherboard it's a seot cooler and just from the picture it looks uh like a little bit nicer than a thermal right so cuz it's got the RGB on that top plate as well as the RGB fan but it looks like a standard uh you know four to six heat pipe air cooler Tower cooler uh then we have the memory again which they do list out the speed which is good I'm okay with it not having the brand SSD would like to see if this is a gen 3 or a Gen 4 SSD but you've got a half terabyte here we've got some seot yeah wait wait wait wait wait yeah Seagle they list the fans out as the Seagle and for here they don't even though it's the same it's not the exact same fans because it's the hq12 pros in white but this one is the hq12 pro meow the orange one specifically it's just these small consistency things Wi-Fi and Bluetooth operating system Windows 11 again uh warranty so yeah I mean this is a nice looking build and looking at the PC part picker list for this build uh I pretty much done the same thing where any of the seot parts that for whatever reason didn't show up on Amazon I chose something that is pretty equivalent price and you know performance- Wise in the same tier like cooler that I chose for 40 bucks and you can see that it is a little bit nicer than the typical thermalite ones it does have the RGB plate on top as well as this has six heat pipes so it's it costs more um you could definitely find a six heat pipe thermal right one with an RGB fan for probably like 25 or 30 bucks I'm just putting as equivalent as I can to what they have and that's one of the things with buying from system integrators is you're kind of locked in especially these pre-builts sometimes they might use parts that aren't the most bang for buck value like uh like their cooler that you know they're saying is worth uh 40 bucks we know that thermalite has very similar performing coolers for 15 dollar less so um I mean I'm not going to knock them for that that though pretty much every system integrated does this you can go to any system integrator out there look at some of their pre-builts and say oh yes I could used a cheaper motherboard a cheaper power supply a cheaper case so again not a knock to them just something for you as like a consumer or someone trying to learn from this uh keep that in mind uh but I match everything as much as I can like for the SSD I just threw in a half terabyte like budget drive as a team group mp33 it is a gen 3 drive so it's a little bit cheaper I don't know if they're using a Gen 4 Drive uh it would help their case out because they're using a more expensive one and then I just put in a you know 3060 TI the Zotac one that they showed in this picture uh that's like 400 bucks which is not worth it and it's because the 30 series is starting to kind of be phased out so um the prices on them on places like new EG and Amazon eventually are going to be really bad as third party sellers become the only ones who are selling them and they never sell it for MSRP or close to it they always get some stupid marked up price but uh I did find one that was 320 which was more on the reasonable side so I put it on here and uh for the case uh again this case goes for 60 bucks on NextGen oem's website so I chose a white 60 dollar case with three RGB fans um and their power supply I messed up on this one I think let me see so let me change this out there we go so for the power supply I just chose whatever was 50 bucks because the seag uh I'm assuming they're going to be using the GM just based on the picture that is the GM 650 gold model that goes for 50 bucks on Amazon I also have the windows in here again at 134 but if we look at the total um if we do value windows at that ridiculous price then their build fee is very reasonable here surprisingly reasonable uh coming in only at $860 so that's a $40 build fee but we take out the windows key let's minus like $100 then it becomes around $450 build V which I think for a $900 system I think that that is totally reasonable so yeah just depending on how you look at that Windows key even in worst case scenario taking this out and putting in like a $15 key it's still a very reasonable build fee for a system that is this low in price so I I think they're actually they must be selling quite a bit of these systems because uh this is pretty competitive all right I think I'm good with checking out their website and doing the price comparison so let's get back over to the BC and wrap this video up so here are my closing thoughts on nextg OEM we'll start with the positives regarding the physical PC itself the quality of workmanship is good there are no screws left unturn cable management was clean everything was plugged into the right spots fans were facing the right direction uh B was updated for the micro code no blo Weare in Windows etc etc you know all the pretty standard stuff and to be honest there's not a lot of things that you can really do in this department to like go above and beyond but on the flip side there are a lot of things that you can do wrong and get docked points and you know I didn't see any of that here so that's a good thing I did consider whether or not this could be a cherry-picked sample or if it's actually represent ative for the rest of their builds and that's something that you can't really perfectly gauge even if you do a secret shopper Style video because outliers do exist and a company can have you know a thousand builds and if one of those come out subpar it's not representative that all of their builds are bad they can have 999 perfect ones and have one bad one that ends up on a secret shopper and now uh you know everybody thinks that their builds suck when that's totally not the case at all no company has a 100% track record not even the best ones So to that I will say you know this video now exists Forever on the internet with their name attached to it and with the build quality that has been shown so it'd be in their best interest to keep up with the quality of their builds to this level putting out anything noticeably lower quality is going to essentially be shooting themselves in the foot and hurt their reputation in the long run if people do see a discrepancy when they buy their system and if they do the research and come across this uh and see that there is a big difference but yeah that's just something wanted to bring up because I know that's probably the first thing that people think of for a video like this don't worry I think of it too hopefully what I just said is going to keep them accountable if they weren't already but also on the side of positive things you know while the cute aesthetic for a build like this isn't for me I know plenty of people who would love something like this in this style of a PC and there's definitely a market for it so you know if that's what they want to do to make themselves stand out uh then I think that's great that they're serving that segment of the market and it's not like they're not providing you know more conventional looking builds they're doing that as well another positive for me is that I do like that they're using power supplies that on paper are higher quality than some of the mystery stuff out there that companies use to cut Corners I do want to see the specific models added to each of their listings to make that more clear and as far as pricing goes uh this is a positive and we're going to transition into some of the things I think they can improve on so I think their pricing is fair sure you're going to have some other companies that might be a little cheaper and you're going to have some that might be a little more expensive but overall you can kind of just tell by looking at the price in specs uh and to me their systems don't scream outrageous or ripoff on the low-end system the pricing was good the cost on top of the parts was very fair and very competitive uh but at the high-end uh like with this meow Pro they work out to be around $400 over the cost of physical parts $300 over if you also include the OS in there but again I don't think many people value windows at $100 even even if it is a retail key uh so you kind of have to take that into consideration it's not the most ridiculous build fee I've seen but it's definitely not the most competitive either and to address that they can do a couple of things uh one they can lower the price a little bit or two they can offer a little bit more for the same price like for this build at $2,000 I kind of hope to see at least a 2 tbte SSD in there 2 terabytes are what like around 100 bucks $100 is 5% of a $2,000 system I I think that can be managed all while keeping the same price uh that brings more value to the customers and I still think they should be making a decent profit at the end of the day speaking on other things that I think can be improved I'd like to see more options in terms of you know carrying AMD CPUs and graphics cards I don't know of any other company out there that strictly sticks to only Intel and Nvidia from like big to medium to even the super small system integrators most of them have options spanning all three of the companies another improve M I'd like to see would also be to fill in those gaps between that like $950 to $1,450 systems that they have in their lineup that's a $500 Gap there's a lot of configurations that can fit between there just add a couple you know this is pretty easy to do too because you can just take a lot of an existing option like the $950 build and just choose like a graphics card that's a100 or $200 more or like up that SSD from a 512 to a 1 tbyte you know do that and boom you've just filled out your $1,200 segment the last thing I do want to hit on are the smaller points that I did mention earlier regarding the website just adding the more information like the ram speeds power supply model uh just include that kind of stuff it may seem minor but it's that kind of stuff that can make a difference when your competitor spells it out and you don't listing these things out should be the standard not the exception and if you're not at least meeting the standard you can potentially lose out on some sales but yeah that's going to wrap it up for this video though I've been talking and giving my thoughts for long enough now it's time to hear from you all let me know down in the comments what are some of the most important things to you when you look at a system integrator for a pre-built PC even if it's not for yourself because you're you know allmighty and can build your own but if you were to recommend it to someone whether it be family or friend or ex stranger on the internet that have made the firm decision to get a pre-built what are you looking for for me price of performance is King followed by customer service and warranty and then any extras like Aesthetics or uniqueness of the builds uh that kind of comes last but that's just my personal preferences and I'm curious to hear your thoughts and your priorities also sound off in the comments if any of you out there have heard of NextGen OEM before seeing this video I'm very curious because yeah I had not heard of them before they reached out to me if you found this video because you were considering one of their builds and you found this while you're doing your research let me know as well I have a feeling over time there's going to be more and more of those comments because they are a relatively newer company whatever comments you guys leave they're not going to be just for me either because I'm sure next gen oam is going to be watching this video for my feedback as well as checking out the comments and reading what y'all have to say as well that's going to be it for me though I want to thank you all as always for watching and for continuing to support the Channel I want to thank the channel members as always for their above and beyond support uh as always be safe out there and I'll see you all down in the comments as well as the next stream and or video byeI want to see if they've applied the micro code update for the issues that 13th and 14th gen Intel processors were having I think this is going to be one of the biggest things whether or not they pass or fail because lifetime labor warranty I thought that in the other section 3 years for labor versus lifetime labor I feel like there's a contradiction there in this box is a PC from a company called NextGen OEM I'd never heard of them until they reached out to me asking if I'd like to review one of their PCS and that's partially because they're a relatively newer system integrator they started out as a retail and wholesale business that sold PCS laptops and accessories from some of the big names like Dell HP Lenovo and then transitioned into pre-built gaming computers about a year ago I wanted to review this because one I like computers whether they're built by me or somebody else I enjoy them all the same I've never been an elitist when it comes to pre-builts I think they're a good way for people to get into the PC gaming space and then overtime transition into doing their own upgrades and eventually hopefully getting comfortable enough to build one from scratch and two I'm kind of curious to see what a newcomer to the space has to offer there's no shortage of companies to buy pre-builts from and more competition hopefully means more competitive pricing and raising the bar and customer service if a company wants to stay afloat so my hope is that this video will help anyone who may have come across next gen oam while looking for a pre-build and we're wondering if their systems are worth it or not and for transparency this video is not sponsored by them all opinions are my own and I was given no script or talking points and they do not get to see this video before it is released so yeah let's open this up and check it out all right so first things first the packaging this is a plain outer box this is good because you don't want to advertise if this is being shipped to your house and sitting on your front door or porch or whatever for or however long you don't want to advertise that there might be a multi th000 computer in here so it is plain packaging and we do have fragile stickers on all four sides so that's good to see whether or not these fragile stickers do anything when the delivery workers see it uh is one thing but at least they put the effort to put these on there we are greeted with a little thank you card we'll take a look at their website and their business and how they selling things uh in a bit but uh yeah so this is just a little thank you card all right so we've got bubble wrap there's more bubble wrap wedge down here as well yeah so we've got bubble wrap on all sides secondary box on the inside so it's double box for more protection so we always love to see that my mic was just pushed up against my skin so that first portion of the video might sound crappy I apologize for that I'm just going to put it up here just to make it simpler from here on out all right let's get this interior box out and we do have the box that the case for this build uh came in I'll put the specs of this build on the screen but this is an i7 13700 KF RTX 470 uh 32 GB of memory 1 tbte SSD this build goes for $2,000 on their website and I'll discuss pricing and value and all that later on once we get to that portion of the video but right now we are looking at the unboxing experience extra stuff like Sata cable from the motherboard box the Wi-Fi antenna and the the power cord yeah pretty thorough job with the packaging let me zoom into this uh it's probably still a little bit hard to see but yeah depending on the case that you have it shows you how to remove the panel pretty sure you just pull out and it pops yep so they did use expanding foam in here and it tells you to remove it carefully and and gently so that you're not moving parts around or bending them or ripping them out of their sockets so plug into the graphics card and not the motherboard when it comes to display so that's good to see cuz a lot of beginners people who would be buying pre-builts uh this is more common of a problem than you would think if you're a veteran uh PC user but as well as connecting things like the keyboard Mouse uh Wi-Fi antennas things like that so this is pretty nice to see uh I think this is kind of standard from a lot of the pre-builts that I've seen uh so yeah we'll put that to the side I think we should be good with being able to operate this computer but let's actually take a physical look at it and how it arrived I'm going to actually take this camera off the top now so I can get a closer look all right so I'm just taking a quick look through here to make sure everything is still slotted nothing came loose during Transportation okay yeah so that looks all good for this lineup system specifically it has that cute cat aesthetic going on with the kind of vibrant colors and they did a pretty good job uh color matching all the parts I'm going to get b-roll after the fact and then overlay it here without me like modifying anything just to show a better angle and lighting looking at at the fan configuration what do we got here we have intake from the side as well as from the bottom coming up and then exhaust in the back as well as the top through the 360 radiator nothing looks out of place so let's swap it around to the back and take off the side panel so looking at the back they did a pretty good job on the cable management they have a lot of things zip tied down to different tie down points and they've tucked in anything extra down here so this is a fully modular power supply and these are the stock cables that comes with it and this is all the extra stuff SATA connectors Molex stuff that's not really used but they've connected it and put it in the system so uh I mean it looks clean enough of a cable management job no real complaints there I think so long as it's not a complete Rat's Nest I'll give like a pass and fail grade and I would say this this definitely passes all right let me get this closed up so that we can power it on and the Moment of Truth all right the system is powering on and we've got all the LEDs lighting up oh bios I wanted to get into the BIOS before the windows dang it no weird sounds coming from the fans no weird pump noises or gurgling from the AIO looks good and sounds good so far all right we are in Windows so we are going to go to the BIOS but since it just freshly uh got into the OS I wanted to note something so gigabyte control center is asking if I want to install let me take a look on the programs list add remove program uh we do have Nvidia control panel so it looks like there's some form of drivers there uh and the gigabyte control center is not there people complain about you know all the like ASRock Asus gigabyte all their uh control centers this can be seen as good or bad so just noting it but it could go either way it's not a pro oron that gigabyte control center was not pre-installed on the system everything looks pretty much uh like stock windows in here I'm not seeing anything extra so that's good uh let me look at Nvidia control panel and take a look at the drivers we're looking at driver version 56070 56070 so that was July so from a few months ago yeah so when this was sent uh there was definitely newer driver versions than this so it does look like uh because they gave the completely fresh outof box experience um they did not put the latest drivers which you might not have the latest game ready drivers that might have some more optimization for specific titles that have been released but but something like this shouldn't be an issue and you can always update it yourself they're still going to work some people don't ever update their drivers unless something goes wrong but having old drivers by a couple of months is not a big deal but now I really do want to get into the BIOS because this is a 13th gen Intel system I want to see if they've applied the micro code update uh and updated the bios for the issues that 13th and 14th gen Intel processors were having so let's take a look at that I think this is going to be one of the biggest things whether or not they pass or fail so micro code 129 I believe that is the one for the instability fixes let me take a look real quick Intel's microc code 0 x12900 Ram frequencies but they do have the XMP enabled resizable bar is not enabled however and I mean I can see it going either way there are some use cases where enabling this uh has shown to have a slight decrease in performance but I think on average it is a small increase in performance I usually enable it myself it's not enabled here whether or not it's big deal to you or not I'm just pointing it out uh it is just a flick of a switch just like that but I'm going to leave it off uh because that's how it was uh so yeah I'm okay with the BIOS the biggest thing was that microc code update just for you know the customers who don't know about the issues so that uh they are protected from their PCS damaging themselves and then having to go through the hassle returns and being without their PC and things like that all right so I want to do a couple of things I want to stress test the system and also check it against like a demanding game for the stress test I want to see if you know with their workmanship everything installed it can run a demanding workload that basically stresses out all the components to the max load and the system is fine both temperature- wise and stability wise so it doesn't crash or gives any apparent issues so I've got a few programs here the first one being Prime 95 a classic but a good one uh so we're going to do small ffts for testing out all l12 and three caches and max power heat and CPU stress f mark here this is the updated for Mark for Mark 2 that's going to stress the graphics card specifically and then I do have Ida 64 to stress the system memory the ram so we are testing all the core components in here and this is going to be a pretty Overkill like day-to-day uses for what whatever you're going to be doing it is not going to stress your system to this degree but you know we go overboard just to make sure if it's good for that it should be good for pretty much anything you throw at it uh so yeah I'm I'm going to get this test started I also have Hardware info here which is going to give us all the information we need as to you know what's going on with the system so we have uh CPU GPU utilization temperatur so we can see for example here core usage 100% on all the threads uh we've got let's see yeah CPU is running pegged at 100% we've got the temperatures where is the thermal throttling yeah so if there's any throttling going on this is going to flag it and then down here we have the graphics card so we've got the same thing as a CPU temperatures multiple temperature sensors uh we've got the clocks the load all that there's a little clock down here I'm going to click that and it is going to go for I'm going to let it run for about an hour or so uh I'm going to do a longer stress test but for the sake of right now of the unboxing experience I do want to do a quicker one so I can then jump into games and look at what the temperatures are like there and then there's more stuff that I do want to talk about like the pricing of this system and take a look at their website and while I'm doing those things I can run a longer stress test in the background uh but yeah so I'm going to let this run for about an hour or so and then come back and we'll take a look uh and then move on all right so the test has actually been running for well over two hours now I got pulled away for a little bit and um yeah did not get to stop it at all and I did want to have it live running when I did start recording again but we can take a look at the time and on Hardware info since I last press the reset it is has been running for 2 hours and 14 minutes as well as if we go to Ida 64 and I don't know why it became so tiny I think it's because the fur Mark for whatever reason interacted with it because the furm mark set to 4K for some reason the resolution here got weird but for Hardware info it did not but anyways uh if we zoom in yeah so Ida has been running for over 2 hours as well I started it sooner so the clock uh has a couple more minutes on it and then Prime 95 is still running uh the torture test so we can go over and look at Hardware info actually so this has minimum maximum and average columns and uh pretty much since I press the reset for the whole two plus hour duration everything has been loaded up to 100% see the average here it's not 99.9 it has been fully underload this entire time being torture tested doing a stress test like this is pretty important when you either first buy a system like this whether it be from Next Gen o or from a different company or even if you built your own PC you should do a stress test like this because for one you want to identify any potential problems with hardware parts themselves can come with defects and issues that may not be apparent until they're under heavier load I put it through its paces and it passed no throttling no crazy temperatures uh no crashing none of that but yeah I'm okay with the stress this it it passed with flying color what I'm going to do now is I need to install Steam I just want to show a little bit of gameplay just to see what you would expect from a system like this all right so I'm loaded into thrown in Liberty now which is a decently hard game to run and it's really new very pretty Graphics is Unreal Engine 4 uh the draw distance on the like landscape and terrain on this game is crazy and the CPU because there's so many cores and threads usually games don't fully utilize them so uh you for especially I SS and I9 with the higher core and thread counts uh you're typically floating around like 30 to 40% uh there are some games that use it but most don't uh and then for the graphics card depending on what I'm showing on the scene it's it's going from like 80 to Almost 100% but yeah this game is gorgeous so looking at the FPS even though we are like above 100 uh I'm not focused as much on that as I am with the the temperatures that we're seeing while gaming so we are below 70 on both below 60 on the RTX 470 and below 70 on the 13700 KF yeah we've got a lot of buildings we've got a lot of players and NPCs got the castle right there here we get a little bit more of a balance the the graphics card is running at a lower load in the 60s to 70% range and because of that it's running cooler but now the CPU I guess with all the different uh MPC and other players around uh we're getting closer to almost like 50% on the CPU load and the temperatures have gone up but it's still in like the low to mid 60s um but yeah so this is throw limber let's let's throw on another game let's throw on Cyber Punk since I bet some of you are probably bored of this and don't care about MMOs so let's do a more mainstream game that is known to be difficult to run all right so we're in cyberpunk now and the settings I have are essentially it says custom because I changed the DLS to quality but pretty much I maxed out R tracing Ultra but that by default gives it dlss to Auto and I wanted quality just to make sure uh the cyberpunk kind of needs uh dlss just to run good especially with rate tracing um even on newer graphics card like the RTX 470 but this is pretty much max out rate tracing with DSS to help it out and the GPU is pegged like 99% High 90s essentially so pretty much at Max load and I added the fans information in here from Hardware info so we do see GPU and the the fan headers from the motherboard so for the graphics card I mean at Max load let me see we're at like mid 50° fans are running at about like 35% looking at the CPU we do get a little bit more CPU load than in thron in Liberty so about 50% uh pretty consistently and for all this speeds there the one that's 2700 RPM must be the pump I think the the case fans are the lower one at around 800 RPM and then the mobile fans that says 1,500 RPMs that's uh it must be the three fans that are attached to the aiio trying to you know push that air through the radiator so I'm pretty much good on the games there's um bunch of different titles that you can test on but again I'm not trying to look at like the specific performance per games the 13700 KF and the 4070 are going to perform how they perform um I'm just looking for you know passing stability test uh making sure temperatures aren't out of whack uh there's no apparent issues with gaming which across two heavy titles that I have just shown so far you know it's not like it was stuttering there's no artifacting no issues like that so I think I'm good with this portion of it so I'm going to go back to doing a longer stress test and I'll probably show some footage on the screen uh just to show like The Long dur to show that I think the system's going to do well uh but we can go over and start looking at their website and start talking about pricing this is a pretty clean looking website uh they've got their builds and they do have an exclusive partnership with seot so um that's why they're using so many seot parts when it comes to like power supply the cooler computer case any extra case fans keep on going down and they have a bunch of different sections new arrivals gaming series uh you know pretty much what you'd expect from uh system integrator website like this so let's take a look at their warranty real quick shall be free of defect and material and workmanship for 3 years for labor and one for parts which is pretty standard in uh quite a few companies that I've checked out if within 20 days of delivery you receive an item that's defective or determin that we made an error they'll gladly offer refund for the item price additionally we have a special 1 to1 exchange warranty to ensure that you Reed a replacement for a defective item we want to make sure you're completely satisfied with your product so this is pretty good because let's say you get a fully working shipped PC except there's something wrong with like the memory or the SSD or something like that something that's very easy to swap out yourself that is much more convenient than going through the hassle of reboxing up the entire PC shipping it over to them for however much shipping cost and for them to send it back with the working part them refunding the value of the item so that you can just go to Amazon to buy a working one and to slap it in and then have you know the PC up and running ready to go that is way less downtime than the waiting for shipping back and forth the cost of shipping so this is good and in their B section they are located in Houston Texas so uh yeah they're in Houston if you're local to them you can visit them uh weekdays typical uh business hours and closed on weekends so potentially some shipping savings if you are local to them so this is what they feel gives them their Competitive Edge so handcrafted gaming systems I mean for the most part everything is made by hand from all the other system integrators too there's not many companies building with robots yet at least not to my knowledge uh stress tested system so this is good I mean I ran it through it's running through the stress test in the back right there but I'll show or I would have shown on the screen that it should pass the rigorous test with no issues uh quality checked so again I mean I didn't find anything that was out of place physically or on the like uh software side of things bloatware free uh so this was true safe and fast shipping so yeah they're talking about how they're based in Texas uh allowing the fastest turnaround time which I mean they're right in the middle of the country so each Coast that they go to I guess that is a a benefit to that lifetime support uh most of these system integrators have free uh lifetime support lifetime warranty versus is Lifetime support so I get the technical support part but the warranty that's actually with the the parts and labor themselves Right comes with a us-based lifetime labor and technical support warranty lifetime labor warranty I thought that in the other section talked about the warranty coverage for period of three years for labor versus lifetime labor I I feel like they're saying two different things on like that legal e page versus this front landing page which uh like sounds good and all so either make it more clear what the difference is or what a US base lifetime labor support is um but yeah I feel like most people looking at these websites aren't looking into it this deep but this is my job to look at it this deep uh and to point things out that don't make sense to me or that could be misleading so yeah I mean I feel like most people more people would see this section than they would uh this you know terms and conditions section with the actual warranty coverage so uh if there's anything that does contradict each other which it seems like this might because we're talking about workmanship for a period of 3 years for labor yeah versus us-based lifetime labor and technical support warranty so you're putting lifetime labor in here if that means something else and I might just be understanding it wrong uh maybe it could be Rewritten now let's take a look at at their pre-built gaming species so they have their bestseller all models and limited edition Series so let's just check out all models and let's sort by low to high so they do have systems coming in at $900 so on the low end like $900 950 right here uh and then we scroll all the way to the last page and they have systems all the way up to $2300 they don't go super crazy high-end like3 $4,000 like some system integrators and On The Low End most system integrators don't do much cheaper than like the $8 $900 range any cheaper and it's not worth it because it doesn't make sense to do that on like a $700 system because you're paying so much for the labor on lower cost Parts but taking a look through the pricing here there is an interesting jump so this is sorted from low to high so you've got your $900 $950 systems here and then it just jumps up to100 where's all the like $4 $1,500 systems we're looking at all we clicked on all models and like if we go to in stock we do the same thing so like 950 to 19900 that's a huge jump if we look at the out of stock stuff just in case uh it's not selected for whatever reason it's the same thing the the price jumps from the N like under ,000 to almost $2,000 that's because this is not actually a other PCS that they have so if we go to preo gaming PC look at their limited edition series and we do the same sorting low to high they do have systems uh that are in closer to like the 1500 right in the middle there so why these ones don't show up in all PCS is kind of strange to me like when when I look up all models I would kind of expect everything that they have I understand this is limited edition then they should say all models except for limited edition it's okay to have a limited edition series section where it shows all these for people who want you know this extra you know cute cases and cases with designs and are themed out but I think when you click all models it should actually have all models especially for what I pointed out there where the price point was such a huge leap like going from n under ,000 to $1,900 there there so many customers who fit right in between that so just for like UI sake and usability I think the all models should have everything so that's my suggestion whether they implement or not is up to them but I think that's a reasonable ask they definitely got some good-look systems uh you know they're they're paying attention to Aesthetics using Color matching things like that and uh the person that reached out to me part of like the pitch uh is that you know they're a company that is looking to kind of build the void of like the lack of cute Aesthetics in the PC a pre-built PC market so that's why you know they got some of these these themed cases with the cute cats and things like that so I mean I I guess I could see that I this to me this company stood out initially because when I went to check out the website I saw these builds if you don't look at these builds you know anything like this it it looks like any other uh system integrator that exists out there but you don't see many of them kind of promoting as much of these like cute or what like not anime Aesthetics but like Kawaii cut SE themed bright vibrant colors you know oranges purples things like that I mean if that's what they're trying to do and leave their Mark in the space uh and Chase that Niche I mean I could see it working out there are plenty of people who do want cutesy uh gaming PCs one thing I did notice while looking through all their builds and I actually inquired about it is uh if you look at all the processors and the graphics cards you'll see that everything is Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel no AMD and graphics cards are all Nvidia they said that based on their market research they've seen that especially on the places they sell they don't only sell on their website they also sell their whole systems on Amazon and based on that they said that these Brands sell better and I'm actually not going to argue with them about that because if we look at the steam Hardware survey if we look at processor and video card usage by brand and I know steam Hardware survey is not like the perfect Source because not everybody gets the survey served to them and some people with multiple systems can take it and stuff like that but there's really not better publicly known information especially gamer specific so if we take a look at both of these right we've got Nvidia dominating you've got 77 versus 14% we're not even going to talk about Intel graphics cards but five times s more users who took the survey anyway Nvidia just straight up dominates the top of the chart I understand why they want to do that I would personally like to see them offer more AMD CPU and graphics card offerings Ju Just To See I think they'll sell decently well but you know if if they're going to just stick to these two Brands if it works for them then I I guess you know don't change what's not broken over on the processors I mean yeah we're comparing Intel versus AMD 67 versus 32 % as much as people you know love uh AMD and are Ming on the 14th and 13th gen kind of disaster the numbers are right here but you do have to consider also that uh a lot of Gamers also aren't using the newest Hardware a lot of people are gaming on older systems office PCS server workstations using zons things like that those all kind of skew towards Intel but it's not necessarily representative of most current one or two gen of Parts but yeah that's what they had to say about it I don't know if it's just cuz they're a smaller company and they just started out doing pre-built gaming feces and they want to keep their SKS uh under control but I think it would definitely be better to give people more choices so I'm looking at the highest end offerings we've got it sorted from high to low and I'm noticing a trend here uh basically all the systems have I9 in them I 93900 kfs and they max out at a 4070 TI there are no more powerful graphics cards than that and I'm noticing a similar Trend too anything with a 13700 KF it doesn't go any higher than a 4070 like we can go back a page uh we've got more i7 13700 kfs and it maxes out at the 4070 yeah so to me that's a little bit odd and I understand that there are use cases where people want a gaming PC but they might also be doing other things that may require more cores and threads and you know like a higher end CPU like the I9 so keep some of those options in there but I also think that there should be some options that either match that I9 a little bit better like maybe with a 4080 or 480 super uh or even some options where you knock down this I9 to an i7 and pair it with the 4070 TI the 13700 KF can handle more than the 407s that they're kind of maxing these out at on the builds that they're offering if you know you're going to be offering gaming PCs that arear targeted more for gamers than anything they're going to be playing titles that are newer chipa demanding games and they're going to want these higher end builds to be running at higher resolutions you know at Max or close to max out settings your graphics card is going to be the bottom neck an i7 13700 KF can easily handle way more powerful graphics cards than a 4070 it can handle 4080 4080 super just fine at the settings that a lot of people are playing these games at when they are buying those graphics cards yeah you're going to get way more performance out of upping your graphics card than a CPU so um I yeah I think they could do a little bit of work with the way that they're pairing some of the parts at the highend uh looking at the mid and low end I think those were fine the system that they sent over for me we can start taking a look at right now it's the game ma Pro which is actually sold out right now so I showed the specs on the screen earlier but let's take a look at what the listing shows the case uh the motherboard the exact motherboard which is nice you don't always see that um and then the CPU Cooler which is they should really put seot on here this is a seot cooler but they just put the Frozen 360 like just like the case says seot I think they should put seot here for the memory they don't put any of the specs they just list the capacity which is the 2x6 32 gigs and the ddr5 but no speeds I'm okay with them not putting the brand on there because most system integrators don't due to you know they they're constantly changing Supply so they could be if pricing for one vendor or company is better you know one month or quarter than another they can change that but I think the speed should definitely be put on there and I think when I looked at another PC give me one second to bring it up I think they do list it yeah so here's the cheaper build which we'll also take a look at this one's the $900 one they do list the speed on here so I mean for consistency sake and just for more information for the buyer I'd like to see the speed here for the SSD we do have a 1 terb m.2 let me go back to the other listing that's how they listed as well so I'm okay with the brand not being put on there they used The crucial P3 which I think is fine but it is a Gen 4 SSD and I think putting that would actually help them in this case because people might think that they're just completely cheaping out and maybe even using a gen 3 Drive uh so if they're going to be using Gen 4 drives on this one put that for the fans they again they put the hq12 it is Seagle fans I think they should just put it uh don't make me you know go to their have to go to the products page and look up like oh is the hq12 oh yes the hq12 is Seagle tap so yeah just have it there so that there's less clicking around for the customer for the wireless okay it's built-in Wi-Fi on the motherboard Windows 11 home so we are missing power supply information on this page so the power supply that they use in the system is the Seagle mu 750g so it's a gold rated power supply and uh seot does have power supplies on the PSU tier list but not this model I'm thinking this is either a newer one or there's a lot of power supplies missing on the PSU tier list it's just because there's not enough testers out there for all the power supplies this mu 750g they do have a lot of the information about it and including the tap ology which is the important part for a lot of the power supplies on the tier list especially in the speculative positions where there hasn't been testing done on it but just based on the internals you can kind of tell the quality of the power supply they do uh put the chroma testing information on here which I'm not super familiar with but for anyone who else who is and maybe more knowledgeable you can take a look at this so this is yeah P 5.0 compliant um and they do have the top ology primary and secondary information on here with a shot of the internals so I think it's a matter of time until this power supply gets on the tier list and just based on what I see about it this is going to strongly likely be a b tier power supply speculative of course until they test it we're not going to know for sure but just based on like topology and internals and just on the information that they do give here which a lot of power supplies uh you know all this information is not made really available I I think this is a strong B tier so I always like to do a price comparison between what system integrator sell their PCS for versus what you could build it for on PC part piaker to see whatever that price difference is that's how much they're charging for their labor the warranty that they're providing in any customer service and troubleshooting so I do have this list right here which I've built to be as close to what next gen OEM is offering seot is surprisingly not on PC part picker at all there are some parts but they don't even have prices associated with them so for those just for the ease of viewing I picked parts that are pretty similar and match the price of what they're selling the same components for on the next gen OEM website like this thermalite Frozen prism it's a 360 AIO that's 70 bucks and that's how much the seot AO 360 is the graphics card they didn't have the arrow version anymore but they did have this Asus dual one in white so I chose this and I did include the windows home retail so you can do the mental math on this yourself if you uh you know don't value the Windows key I think it's kind of tough for system integrators because they can't just use those gray Market OEM keys I don't think it's a really fair comparison to expect system integrators to use like $15 gry Market CD keys because I think that would actually be illegal and they can only be used once before you change hardware and you have to buy a new key now I understand understand people are very budget conscience and want to save money and the majority of Gamers out there or just PC users in general do not buy A1 100 plus doll Windows CD key I added it in here because they I checked you can check what kind of key it is they are using a retail key which means you can transfer that key no matter how many times you switch your Hardware up and change it that key will work infinite number of times it doesn't bring value to the majority of people out there unfortunately and I don't know how much system integrators personally pay for retail Keys hopefully they're not paying uh you know anywhere close to $135 right here but I added it in here we can do the mental math to subtract that 100ish dollars uh if you're going to assume a cheaper key is anywhere from like 15 20 or 30 bucks but looking at the total we do come out to $1,700 so compared to building it yourself they are charging what looks to be about $300 on their high-end system or $400 if you take out the 100ish doll Windows key that is definitely not the cheapest that I've seen I've seen companies go down to around 150 to 200 but this is also not the most expensive either I have seen uh companies charge upwards of 500 I would say this is kind of in the on the higher end and it's mainly due to that Windows key when you take that off it makes it $400 which I think to a lot of buyers is not very attractive you have to consider that this is a company they have you know rent to pay electricity to keep the lights on employees to pay it's not the same as you building in your the basement of your house or your mom's house or something like that where essentially there is no additional cost running a business costs money do keep in mind that I am just looking at what they have here and not the fact that 14th gen is out and 15 gen is around the corner you have to do this exercise at every point in time you're considering buying the system don't just watch this video and it's like a 6 months old video by the time you're watching it and just take it you know for what I'm saying here the pricing is always going to be changing so you got to do the same exercise yourself it doesn't take that long and determine if the value is good for you I'm just kind of showing you the steps that I take to determine the value and now let's take a look at their most affordable option the Pioneer for $900 so we've got an Intel i5 12400 F RTX 360 TI 650 Y8 plus gold power supply case is a seot gremlin 6 h610 motherboard it's a seot cooler and just from the picture it looks uh like a little bit nicer than a thermal right so cuz it's got the RGB on that top plate as well as the RGB fan but it looks like a standard uh you know four to six heat pipe air cooler Tower cooler uh then we have the memory again which they do list out the speed which is good I'm okay with it not having the brand SSD would like to see if this is a gen 3 or a Gen 4 SSD but you've got a half terabyte here we've got some seot yeah wait wait wait wait wait yeah Seagle they list the fans out as the Seagle and for here they don't even though it's the same it's not the exact same fans because it's the hq12 pros in white but this one is the hq12 pro meow the orange one specifically it's just these small consistency things Wi-Fi and Bluetooth operating system Windows 11 again uh warranty so yeah I mean this is a nice looking build and looking at the PC part picker list for this build uh I pretty much done the same thing where any of the seot parts that for whatever reason didn't show up on Amazon I chose something that is pretty equivalent price and you know performance- Wise in the same tier like cooler that I chose for 40 bucks and you can see that it is a little bit nicer than the typical thermalite ones it does have the RGB plate on top as well as this has six heat pipes so it's it costs more um you could definitely find a six heat pipe thermal right one with an RGB fan for probably like 25 or 30 bucks I'm just putting as equivalent as I can to what they have and that's one of the things with buying from system integrators is you're kind of locked in especially these pre-builts sometimes they might use parts that aren't the most bang for buck value like uh like their cooler that you know they're saying is worth uh 40 bucks we know that thermalite has very similar performing coolers for 15 dollar less so um I mean I'm not going to knock them for that that though pretty much every system integrated does this you can go to any system integrator out there look at some of their pre-builts and say oh yes I could used a cheaper motherboard a cheaper power supply a cheaper case so again not a knock to them just something for you as like a consumer or someone trying to learn from this uh keep that in mind uh but I match everything as much as I can like for the SSD I just threw in a half terabyte like budget drive as a team group mp33 it is a gen 3 drive so it's a little bit cheaper I don't know if they're using a Gen 4 Drive uh it would help their case out because they're using a more expensive one and then I just put in a you know 3060 TI the Zotac one that they showed in this picture uh that's like 400 bucks which is not worth it and it's because the 30 series is starting to kind of be phased out so um the prices on them on places like new EG and Amazon eventually are going to be really bad as third party sellers become the only ones who are selling them and they never sell it for MSRP or close to it they always get some stupid marked up price but uh I did find one that was 320 which was more on the reasonable side so I put it on here and uh for the case uh again this case goes for 60 bucks on NextGen oem's website so I chose a white 60 dollar case with three RGB fans um and their power supply I messed up on this one I think let me see so let me change this out there we go so for the power supply I just chose whatever was 50 bucks because the seag uh I'm assuming they're going to be using the GM just based on the picture that is the GM 650 gold model that goes for 50 bucks on Amazon I also have the windows in here again at 134 but if we look at the total um if we do value windows at that ridiculous price then their build fee is very reasonable here surprisingly reasonable uh coming in only at $860 so that's a $40 build fee but we take out the windows key let's minus like $100 then it becomes around $450 build V which I think for a $900 system I think that that is totally reasonable so yeah just depending on how you look at that Windows key even in worst case scenario taking this out and putting in like a $15 key it's still a very reasonable build fee for a system that is this low in price so I I think they're actually they must be selling quite a bit of these systems because uh this is pretty competitive all right I think I'm good with checking out their website and doing the price comparison so let's get back over to the BC and wrap this video up so here are my closing thoughts on nextg OEM we'll start with the positives regarding the physical PC itself the quality of workmanship is good there are no screws left unturn cable management was clean everything was plugged into the right spots fans were facing the right direction uh B was updated for the micro code no blo Weare in Windows etc etc you know all the pretty standard stuff and to be honest there's not a lot of things that you can really do in this department to like go above and beyond but on the flip side there are a lot of things that you can do wrong and get docked points and you know I didn't see any of that here so that's a good thing I did consider whether or not this could be a cherry-picked sample or if it's actually represent ative for the rest of their builds and that's something that you can't really perfectly gauge even if you do a secret shopper Style video because outliers do exist and a company can have you know a thousand builds and if one of those come out subpar it's not representative that all of their builds are bad they can have 999 perfect ones and have one bad one that ends up on a secret shopper and now uh you know everybody thinks that their builds suck when that's totally not the case at all no company has a 100% track record not even the best ones So to that I will say you know this video now exists Forever on the internet with their name attached to it and with the build quality that has been shown so it'd be in their best interest to keep up with the quality of their builds to this level putting out anything noticeably lower quality is going to essentially be shooting themselves in the foot and hurt their reputation in the long run if people do see a discrepancy when they buy their system and if they do the research and come across this uh and see that there is a big difference but yeah that's just something wanted to bring up because I know that's probably the first thing that people think of for a video like this don't worry I think of it too hopefully what I just said is going to keep them accountable if they weren't already but also on the side of positive things you know while the cute aesthetic for a build like this isn't for me I know plenty of people who would love something like this in this style of a PC and there's definitely a market for it so you know if that's what they want to do to make themselves stand out uh then I think that's great that they're serving that segment of the market and it's not like they're not providing you know more conventional looking builds they're doing that as well another positive for me is that I do like that they're using power supplies that on paper are higher quality than some of the mystery stuff out there that companies use to cut Corners I do want to see the specific models added to each of their listings to make that more clear and as far as pricing goes uh this is a positive and we're going to transition into some of the things I think they can improve on so I think their pricing is fair sure you're going to have some other companies that might be a little cheaper and you're going to have some that might be a little more expensive but overall you can kind of just tell by looking at the price in specs uh and to me their systems don't scream outrageous or ripoff on the low-end system the pricing was good the cost on top of the parts was very fair and very competitive uh but at the high-end uh like with this meow Pro they work out to be around $400 over the cost of physical parts $300 over if you also include the OS in there but again I don't think many people value windows at $100 even even if it is a retail key uh so you kind of have to take that into consideration it's not the most ridiculous build fee I've seen but it's definitely not the most competitive either and to address that they can do a couple of things uh one they can lower the price a little bit or two they can offer a little bit more for the same price like for this build at $2,000 I kind of hope to see at least a 2 tbte SSD in there 2 terabytes are what like around 100 bucks $100 is 5% of a $2,000 system I I think that can be managed all while keeping the same price uh that brings more value to the customers and I still think they should be making a decent profit at the end of the day speaking on other things that I think can be improved I'd like to see more options in terms of you know carrying AMD CPUs and graphics cards I don't know of any other company out there that strictly sticks to only Intel and Nvidia from like big to medium to even the super small system integrators most of them have options spanning all three of the companies another improve M I'd like to see would also be to fill in those gaps between that like $950 to $1,450 systems that they have in their lineup that's a $500 Gap there's a lot of configurations that can fit between there just add a couple you know this is pretty easy to do too because you can just take a lot of an existing option like the $950 build and just choose like a graphics card that's a100 or $200 more or like up that SSD from a 512 to a 1 tbyte you know do that and boom you've just filled out your $1,200 segment the last thing I do want to hit on are the smaller points that I did mention earlier regarding the website just adding the more information like the ram speeds power supply model uh just include that kind of stuff it may seem minor but it's that kind of stuff that can make a difference when your competitor spells it out and you don't listing these things out should be the standard not the exception and if you're not at least meeting the standard you can potentially lose out on some sales but yeah that's going to wrap it up for this video though I've been talking and giving my thoughts for long enough now it's time to hear from you all let me know down in the comments what are some of the most important things to you when you look at a system integrator for a pre-built PC even if it's not for yourself because you're you know allmighty and can build your own but if you were to recommend it to someone whether it be family or friend or ex stranger on the internet that have made the firm decision to get a pre-built what are you looking for for me price of performance is King followed by customer service and warranty and then any extras like Aesthetics or uniqueness of the builds uh that kind of comes last but that's just my personal preferences and I'm curious to hear your thoughts and your priorities also sound off in the comments if any of you out there have heard of NextGen OEM before seeing this video I'm very curious because yeah I had not heard of them before they reached out to me if you found this video because you were considering one of their builds and you found this while you're doing your research let me know as well I have a feeling over time there's going to be more and more of those comments because they are a relatively newer company whatever comments you guys leave they're not going to be just for me either because I'm sure next gen oam is going to be watching this video for my feedback as well as checking out the comments and reading what y'all have to say as well that's going to be it for me though I want to thank you all as always for watching and for continuing to support the Channel I want to thank the channel members as always for their above and beyond support uh as always be safe out there and I'll see you all down in the comments as well as the next stream and or video bye\n"