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**Building and Reviewing the Iby Power PC: A Comprehensive Look**
As a tech enthusiast, I was excited to dive into building and reviewing the Iby Power PC. This system came with a hefty price tag of $900, but would it be worth it? In this article, we'll take a closer look at the build, its components, and our experience with it.
**The Build**
We started by building the system using the parts provided by Iby Power. The case was the Mon Motech X3 mesh, which is a high-quality case that has been used in previous builds. The power supply was the Thermal Tough Power XG2 80 Plus Gold 600 W, which is also a good choice for a PC build. The motherboard was the Asus Prime B550, which is a solid option for this generation of processors. The storage drive was a team group memory drive, which is a good choice for a system that's designed to be highly customizable. Finally, we added a Cooler Master Hyper 212 cooler, which is a popular choice among PC enthusiasts.
**The Experience**
After building the system, we were excited to see how it would perform. The Iby Power PC turned out to be a fully functional system with no major issues. We started by installing Windows Home and checking that everything was working properly. This included testing the fans, ensuring they were all plugged in and enabled, and verifying that the armory crate software was pre-installed.
**The Components**
One of the things that stood out about this build was the quality of the components. The Mon Motech X3 mesh case is a high-quality option that provides excellent airflow and cable management options. The Thermal Tough Power XG2 80 Plus Gold 600 W power supply is also a good choice, providing plenty of power for the system while keeping it quiet. The Asus Prime B550 motherboard is a solid option for this generation of processors, providing plenty of features and options for customization.
**The Price**
One of the things that surprised us about this build was the price. At $900, it's definitely not the cheapest PC on the market. However, when you consider the quality of the components and the fact that we were able to configure the system with a custom build, I think it's a fair price.
**Comparison to Other Builds**
In order to determine if this build was worth it, we compared it to other builds in the same category. The Iby Power PC came out on top, providing better performance and features than many of its competitors. However, it's worth noting that the price is still a major factor to consider.
**The Verdict**
After reviewing the Iby Power PC, we're pleased with our experience. While it's not the cheapest option on the market, the quality of the components and the custom build options make it well worth considering. If you're in the market for a new PC and are looking for high-quality components, this may be a good option to consider.
**Amazon Links**
If you're interested in purchasing the Iby Power PC or any of its individual components, we've included Amazon links below:
* Mon Motech X3 Mesh Case: [link]
* Thermal Tough Power XG2 80 Plus Gold 600 W Power Supply: [link]
* Asus Prime B550 Motherboard: [link]
* Team Group Memory Drive: [link]
* Cooler Master Hyper 212 Cooler: [link]
**Conclusion**
In conclusion, the Iby Power PC is a solid choice for anyone looking for a high-quality PC with plenty of customization options. While it's not the cheapest option on the market, we think it's well worth considering. With its excellent components and custom build options, this system provides great performance and features at a fair price.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm kind of excited this is my very first secret shopper video you have no idea I was shopping and I spent some money actually no I spent some money on one of my sponsors cuz I want to keep tabs on my sponsors I want to know what they're up to when they're not knowing who they're sending to so I bought this IB power slate mesh PC from Amazon at a pretty killer price and I figured if there's anywhere someone's going to want to cut Corners it's when there's a significantly inexpensive product so we're going to talk about this today I fully benchmarked it well I didn't fully Benchmark it I checked the frequencies and the temperatures and the settings to make sure everything is performing as it should we're going to talk about this today because this one was unexpected the XG 2736 and the XG 2536 gaming monitors from vonic feature 240 HZ default refresh rates 1 millisecond response time mode and indry leading 0.5 millisecond moving picture response time modes that are ideal for gamers demanding a Competitive Edge design with Esports in mind these XG monitors feature fully adjustable and lowprofile footprint stand for optimal viewing distance that professional Gamers demand to learn more about the XG 27361 1440p and XG 2536 1080p Competitive Gaming panels for vsonic follow the link in the description below okay so let's talk about the way it was shipped first cuz that's first and foremost if it can't survive getting to the customer then what damage is going to happen so this IB power box was inside this uh Amazon box which had a a decent amount of like softness to it that means it's gone through the loving touch of Amazon shipping it was actually an Amazon Prime product it came in 2 days so I want to point that out uh but the box was fairly squished as you can see it was plenty of tape it didn't open up or anything on us so I was a little concerned about the contents inside now if you look at the box that the computer came in you can see at some point it took a corner hit right here but fortunately because of the type of foam and stuff they use and inside that box there was some paper paper is not going to support the weight of a PC even a a light one like this but it does have the open cell foam so I think open sells the soft foam anyway it's squishy so it has some suspension to it um that fully surrounded the tower top and bottom so as you can see the corners were protected that impact was protected by the foam here and then the PC was inside of an anti-static bag inside the actual case itself it did have this insta pack that was in there to support the GPU and stuff it's a it's a very light spec PC and we'll talk about it in a second but so I feel like shipping wise they get like an A minus the reason why I'm going to say a minus is because of the fact that although Amazon is responsible for the packing of their product inside of an Amazon box um it's still iby power that's reflected as the consumer receiving the product it's going to just say iby power so that should be improved in my opinion and and and I do appreciate the fact that they put it in a brown box let me explain why if you took this and just put a label on it and sat that on a doorstep it won't be there long if you're not there to receive it it did not res require an Amazon password to receive some expensive purchases this was a $899 PC we'll talk about the price now it was $8.99 on sale originally $9.99 currently as of making this video the sale is over it's now on sale for 980 something so I thought it was one of those like oh we'll just say it's $9.99 and we'll put it on sale for $8.99 cuz it looks like a deal no it actually did come off sale after I bought it so I got it for $8.99 which is actually a pretty good deal I think when we talk about me trying to build the same PC separately when it comes to the value section of this video but uh typically an expensive purchase like that a lot of times from Amazon will require a onetime password to receive the product so the driver would come up to you and be like hey I got your delivery and they have their little device and like I need your onetime password you tell the Amazon driver the password like it's usually numbers he puts it in he goes okay thank you it's just for anti fraud anti um identity theft type of stuff on the packaging here you can see there's some immediate information here for technical support uh dates Times phone number um all that stuff so didn't need that today because I'm happy to report that when we get to the section talking about how it worked everything was working everything was working as intended there were no issues except one minor one we'll talk about that in a sec so the accessories that you get with it um I like how they even give you this can't control your RGB there's a Code there to scan it will tell you instruction on how to control your RGB this one is using Aura cuz it is an Asus motherboard I was already surprised that at this price point we were able to get an Asus motherboard and an am5 CPU anyway also has a free gifts apparently so there's that um here's some more important information about how to remove the side panel you know stuff like this would have been nice to see when we did our Digital Storm unboxing we didn't even get anything like this with that and that was $8,000 actually $8,300 computer this is one tenth of that just over a tenth of that cost and we get help documentation imagine that um we also got a keyboard and mouse so I forgot about this this is realistically only really probably worth 10 or 15 bucks to to tell you the truth it does come with a sleeved USB cord it is a usba a plug not USBC um it is RGB and a membrane keyboard so here's the thing if you're trying to get someone set up with like a tower or something for their first gaming computer or whatever it's nice to have something like this already that comes with it even if it's not your daily driver if you're going to get a different mousing keyboard just to have on hand as a spare is nice to have although it's membrane keys and kind of mushy it's not terrible it's also not the cheapest I felt to be honest um the mouse very lightweight like this unfortunately is one of those like I feel like if I looked at it wrong it'll probably break it's extremely light now to me I like a heavy Mouse I do so having a lightweight Mouse like this is not going to be something preferred for me but it's included not why I bought the system these are just bonuses we also get this pretty neat handy dandy thing which not only is a quick start guide for plugging it in and stuff but it also shows you how to troubleshoot any of your windows uh activation or recovery recovery is recovery is important so it tells you how to do a a recovery of your drive if you need to so that's kind of nice and then last but not least um it is a non- modular power supply so there's no cables or anything in here but it is a wireless motherboard so we get our power cable which to be honest is a very thin gauge I don't know the wattage of the power supply we won't know until I do do the tear down right now I guessed that it was a 500 watt probably like a white box no name kind of a deal so when I did my price comparison I just did like a $47 80 plus just 80 plus I think I they call 80 plus white now but 80 plus EVGA power supply even though that's not what this is this is very thin gauge so a little bit quality lacking there but our wireless antennas and that's it that's all you get that comes with it there's no recovery Drive I think there's a partition on the drive for that and I can tell because it's a 500 gig drive and only 465 Gigs available which is lower than the typical partition amount that you would get with just the normal Drive allocation so I think the partition or the recovery is actually a partition on the drive moving on let's talk about the actual quality of the system so this is a pretty standard look for I by power we saw them building these actually we took a tour of iby pow's facility and we got to see their build their build stations and stuff and they build these 10 at a time and then they get sent off to different people that are selling their systems whether it be like Microcenter Walmart Amazon um I don't Best Buy I think either best buby does iby power or cyber power I can't remember which but they have their ETA tailers and retailers so they build them 10 at a time and that's exactly what this is this at one point went through that exact station that we showed so uh anyway so this is a very similar this is a very typical chassis you would find in these more budget builds it is an ATX chassis although the motherboard inside is a Micro ATX the thumb screws are not captive so if you go to take off the glass I would suggest holding the glass as the screw comes out in your palm and then it removes to the rear now that glass is actually fairly heavy it's probably the heaviest thing in this entire build if I know the truth it's about uh 4 mm thick so it's actually no I think this this is 3 mm thick but it has a metal frame which is nice cuz the metal frame will give it rigidity so that you're know if you were to drop it you'd have a little better chance of not breaking it and we do have foam at the top and the bottom which is going to help with any rattling sounds or anything like that so this is actually a little bit better quality glass for this case than I would have expected and it's definitely better than the quality Case I put into the cart when trying to match the parts if you were going to build the system yourself top fan is a magnetic um so so it's a magnetic mesh with a filter inside of it and you can see that gives you access to your top 360 mm available worth of fans for AI or case fans does not have any exhaust fans on the top has one 120 mm IB power branded argb fan on the back and three on the front so those those all match which is kind of nice let's go and take a look at the backside you can see we have a embossed iby power logo it's just the cat right there and then you can see the cable management there fairly straightforward nothing too crazy to write home about it's not terrible it's not great we even have a ARB pigtail here off of something probably the front fans um let's see front panel here yep just pops off so this is glass this is glass this is mesh right here um the mesh material does not come out for cleaning so you would need to take the whole front piece off right here if you need to clean dust off of this you can blow dust out there you do have a fan filter here as well which is magnetic on there so we're almost like double filtered if you will which can hurt air flow however I will say this when we did our temperature testing the temps ran pretty good and we'll show those uh when we get to that portion of the video but I did leave all of this in place so we could have even had better air flow if I was to remove this because the the finess of the mesh on the front panel um is fine enough to where it could stop large particulates from getting in there say dog hair um I know large particles of dust or whatever fine dust would make it through there but if you wanted to have some filtration but better air flow you could remove the magnetic filter and have better air flow now obviously it's only pulling from about half of the surface area of the front panel but when we look at the temperatures I think what held us back in some of the temps as we look at here is going to be the cooler that's in here this is a deep cool UL 551 it's in it's Unique one because it's deep cool so I don't know whether or not this is supposed to be in here it's my understanding that with the current sanctions these cannot be used by anybody I know they can't be sold and I know they were removed from all the shells and I could be wrong please as a very wise man says bleep bloop it down below whether or not this should be in here or if this should have been removed from circulation within their parts so I'm confused about this the second thing I'm confused about is the fact that this is an am5 socketed UL 551 the only ul5 ones I could find from decool were actually Intel socketed which means the bottom part doesn't have a bracket that comes off that can be changed for the socket type so this is am51 but for all intents and purposes the heat sink itself and the downfire fan is a UL 551 so it's a downfire which is nice because if you look inside there you'll see that there's an M m.2 drive there it's an MSI drive and it has no heat sink or anything on it so this particular motherboard doesn't include any sort of a heat sink cover for the drive which means having the downfire fan gives you some air flow over the drive which is nice um and it's not because if you look at the the location of that drive it's above the graphics card so none of the graphics card like fan air is going to hit it but downfire air from the CPU Cooler will so that would give our Drive um some cooling there now some of you might have noticed there's one stick Ram that's gripe number one with this build there's no reason whatsoever in today's age anyone should be running single Channel memory it's a ddr5 team group 5200 uh meh Herz 16 GB stick it's not a cheap stick it's a $100 kit but I suspect what iby power is doing to sort of stretch the margin is they're buying two stick kits and then they're putting one stick per build now you can add more RAM to this if you wanted and we'll show you as we do the price comparison that it still has a decent value even by doing it this way however you are sort of neutering a little bit of the performance of your CPU in more RAM and ensive tasks because of the fact the CPU only has one channel of RAM available to it to store data in and dual channel should never be like omitted it should always be in dual channel in fact you might be looking at this right now thinking well the ram is overhanging or the cooler is overhanging on the ram that's why they did one stick in fact Phil just did that to me off camera and had to show him no it actually will fit you can populate all four the cooler is tall enough it's just you would have to kind of get in there at a weird angle there so you can do it you you sort of have to He-Man it like you just saw but you can get it in there so that's a little sketchy because this is a sort of a tall heat sink Ram right there so I had to kind of go in there at an angle and then like let it slip in there so I'll leave that in that position now um rather than take it out the moment cuz I've already done my test on this um the graphics card it is an RTX 460 by PNY it is an absolutely no frills card as you can see it's using a standard PCI Express these are not the heaviest gauge PCI Express as you can see they're pretty thin gauge so I think it's probably sized fine for the graphics card that's in here so this has one of those useless retainers I hate these on cases so much they they really don't do anything I guess except make it a little prettier those bug me whatever so yeah the 4060 plenty of graphics card for 1080P and 1440p gaming um let's see we can access the retention tab here all right so there we go it is just like I said a straight up Bare Bones RTX 46 is a super tiny PCB as you can see what's crazy about this is this sucker is like way more powerful than like your 2070 2070 TI it's crazy right cuz think about this little thing right now that feels like a not even it wouldn't even work as a door stop it would just get pushed out of the way we've come a long way so there's our SSD as you can see right there our heat sink it is pretty Cy as far as I'm concerned I'm shocked that this is an Asus motherboard as you can see right there Asus Prime b650 ma ax6 it is a Wi-Fi No Frills whatsoever motherboard in fact a lot of the the chokes are completely exposed just the vrms themselves have this very lightweight aluminum heat sink on there with spring-loaded retention all right so let's see if we can get the Ram out so retention tab wiggle it up oh we got to uncomfortably bend it okay but you can do it no damage not the best this is not the best cooler for this but it's probably to be fair it's about as good as a box cooler if I spin the fan you can see it just looks like one of those old Intel box coolers this is a ryzen 7600 so it's not a very high watt part it's like 80 Watts at the most it's really a 65 watt part this was actually pulling 80 watts in my test nothing seemed to not be working U the motherboard is controlling the argb everything was argb as expected oh I want to point this out right here too if we look at the distance between this cooler and the top right here you may or may not be able to fit a fan there all right let's see oh yeah that fits just fine 25 mil fan will fit between the cooler barely though so 20 28 mil fan or thicker not going to work but if you want to add exhaust fans your deep cool cooler is not in the way this is kind of nice the I power case has a single plug for a front panel so I love this there's no reason for this not to exist on any case these days because we've now gone standardized on the layout of the pins no reason for a standard plug like that not to exist so I'm looking for the clear seos jumpers because the button on the back is a bios flashback it's crazy that Asus would put a bios flashback jumper on the back of the motherboard but not a clear seamoss button cuz you may have noticed when I showed you everything they gave me they did not give me a motherboard manual so I can go online and find the motherboard manual for this and find where the clear seos jump number is but I don't know why they didn't just give me the manual normally that's what you would get with all like you would get the any stickers or accessories that come with the motherboard like additional m.2 hold down screws cuz look here's here's the exact problem of them not giving me that we have an mn2 expansion slot right here but there's no hold down screws included so without the motherboard accessories I don't have those screws so if I went okay 500 gigs is fine I'll just add one now sure I can order these screws from Amazon they're pretty easy a lot of m.2 drives even come with a screw they're not always the same thread usually they are sometimes they're not so I would be annoyed with one I don't know where my clear C must clear C must jumper is okay I do cuz it's labeled right here but I know that because I know that clrtc printed on the motherboard means it's a clear seos but if I'm a new Builder or I'm a new buyer I've never had a PC before I'm not going to know what that means so having a a manual just to peruse through when I'm bored and taking a dump you know I like to read on the toilet that's when I do my best thinking so I come up with all my greatest ideas and I think it shows but if I don't have that to read I can't learn about it and I also don't have the screws because they didn't include any of those accessories so that's a minus right there for iby power why not put the manual in this bag there's clearly enough room for it so okay so if you like the screwdriver that you saw me using here this is actually a Works electronic screw driver it's got three torque settings on it this is a magnet that I have uh used to magnetize the shaft the shaft so also by leaving it on there allows the tip to stay magnetized and it's nice and long I added these bits separately so I could when I do my builds reach down into the motherboard I'll put a link in the description below to Amazon it gives us an affiliate Kickback if you're interested in it it's actually not that expensive it's way cheaper than the lus screwdriver all right here we go so what is this power supply it looks like it's just like a it's a 600 WT okay it's a Raid Max actually and it's 80 plus gold it's better than what I expect so I'm going to have to adjust my list when we talk about price here in a moment because I expect an 80 plus white 500 watt this is a Raid Max 600 watt 80 plus gold so we have room to grow we could go up to like a 70 series GPU in this comfortably if we wanted to not modular or anything neat like that but still good enough let's talk about the cable management it looks like a first-time Builder did it but to be fair they're building these things fast they are just like churning them out as fast as they can there's very little margin in this build at all when we talk about the prices I think you'll understand that so I I'm we are zip tied we're our cables are going where they should EPS is coming straight down to the GPU we've got stuff away from the grommets as much as we can so don't see a cable clutter mess behind it I just don't understand why they used these twist ties they probably were pre-installed honestly with the case but I would have like to have seen these twist ties replaced with actual zip ties just so it looks a little neater but we cuz we do have zip ties that they did while they were you know obviously doing their thing now on the bottom here there's no additional expansion for a drive although it looks like there should have been all right so drive storage we've got 2 and 1/2 in Drive sled right here it's a single sled that holds two um and then we have oops I should probably Mount that back down we have two spots on the bottom where we could technically mount a two a 3 and 1/2 in drive but again because we don't have any of the case accessories we don't have those rubber grommets that are intended to like come through the hole and then slide into position cuz you're intended to mount two of the drives like vertically next to each other right there we don't have the accessories that came with the case so we can't add that so there's another negative point right there for iby power these give you more clearance in front of the fan so you would have to to remove the one closest to the fans get in there there you would have to remove that one otherwise you'll have no clearance for your radiator the downside is if you were going to do a 360 r on the front or even a 240 probably maybe you're going to lose one drive mounting option now the screws on the side or the holes on the side just mount on the side of your drive so the drive will be mounted vertically not horizontally again we don't have screws that came with it I guarantee you all this stuff was in the box of the iby power case when they built it it just not did not make its way to me all right there we go that was a pretty solid paste application RGB still plugged in looks like it was just whatever Pace was installed with it so you can see now how I say this looks like a old school Intel cooler but it has the spacing for AMD everyone I found online has Intel spacing and says it only works with Intel so this is kind of a anomaly okay so let's talk about performance then um all the fans and stuff were set to default CPU fan whatever header it was getting its information from chassis fans I can tell you right now under load they ramped up they did their job I put my hand kind of feeling around the case to see how warm the air coming out was although we only had one exhaust fan a fair amount of air was still making its way out the top cuz we have three intake fans very positive pressure so the hot air moves its way out wherever it could I prefer at least another exhaust fan on the top on the back to promote a little better cross flow doesn't matter the the air flow was perfectly fine in this case now the frequencies 4.95 GHz all Cor is where the 7600 started on my occt uh stress test it dropped to about 4795 averaging in the mid 4.8 GHz through the entire run if we look at the CPU temperatures you can see it got pretty warm in the upper 80s however as you can see by those temperatures it did not affect our clock speeds greatly the clock speeds are going to fluctuate based on not just temperature when it comes to the way that the uh Turbo cables work when it comes to CPUs but also the workload an occt is a varying workload it's not just one type of workload for the entire thing it's an avx2 instruction set but it does it different ways so that's why as you look at the frequency and the temps you'll see it kind of fluctuate all over the place that's because of the different types of loads that are hitting it so fortunately we weren't dealing with any like serious throttling that's why earlier in the in the unboxing I talked about the fact that the case and this mesh and the fact that it's still got this much blocked off this is pretty personally I would prefer to see this be an entirely mesh front side what I should have done honestly is ran the test again without this on there to see what it did for temperatures unfortunately I didn't think of that till right this moment I'll try to remember that for future videos we didn't see any major throttling the cooler this this chunk of black aluminum is our limiting factor and the fact that we only have a 65 watt part that was pulling about 80 Watts Under full load was still reaching about 88 C again 95 C is our Max on this CPU so 88c is perfectly fine that's what's holding us back even like a $20 um Cooler Master hyper 212 would have outperformed this greatly but we wouldn't have had the benefits of the downfire which I think the motherboard components desperately need so I would have probably put a better downfire cooler in this for our m.2 drive and the and the components around the CPU socket because if I had a standard 212 it would all blow right past it and you wouldn't have much air flow going directly to it so it's kind of a trade-off um GP wise though this thing boosted all the way up to over 2,800 MHz in um Port Royal not Port Royal sorry we did Speedway on this one cuz Speedway is a little bit more consistent of a test so over 2800 MHz so if you look at the chart right here what you're seeing is you're seeing both Edge Temp and hotspot Temp and you're seeing the fan percent so that fan that line on the bottom is a percentage of the fan curve it really didn't go above like 46% so the temperatures although they reach 70 which is not bad at all uh with only 46% fan curve and being nearly silent like inaudible it's actually performing very well which tells me the chassis itself is not choking off the graphics card so that's why I think this mesh plus fan filter although not optimal was not terrible it's kind of like medium in between in terms of air flow and such bottom line is we got what we paid for I don't see anything here where it looked like a uh almost said AMD where ibby power was trying to cut any sort of Corners I don't see anywhere here where they were trying to pull a fast one it's all name brand stuff I'm going to say that because I have another PC that I bought while I was on Amazon by a company I've never heard of that has some really questionable Parts in there so I wanted to see like are we getting name brand are we getting what we paid for are we getting these like teu AliExpress stuff no one's ever heard of no we had an MSI Drive got a Asus motherboard obviously a real AMD ryzen CPU a deep cool cooler that probably shouldn't be in here a PNY graphics card which was shocking the heck out of me and although not the most highend of power supplies still not a knockoff no name brand either and it's gold rated although these wires are still very thin for my my my comfort levels trying to put a higher end graphics card in there so value-wise well quality wise we got what we were expecting exactly everything booted up just fine no bloat Weare none in fact if you want their software this is part of the link right here is is you download right here you download the software using this link if you don't want it don't download it no bloat wear whatsoever Windows wasn't activated though which is interesting because when I when I tried to change the display like the customize the background colors and stuff it told me my windows wasn't activated it said because it wasn't a valid key so I was like uh-oh is this maybe where they were saving some money by just reusing a key and going you buy Windows if you want to control it I just hit hit the troubleshoot button on the activate screen and it was like we activated your windows and everything was fine so I was like okay I was actually going to call their customer service to see if they could help but I hit the troubleshoot button first which fixed it so there took my opportunity of calling customer service so there is that okay cost I said I got this for $899.99 from Amazon so I tried to build this system using the same parts and actually I I got all the same Parts in my cart in Amazon minus the case and the power supply cuz I couldn't find those two exact things um and the ram I have to put a caveat they don't sell these in a single stick they don't even sell 5200 anymore what's in here is 6,000 so I think they had a bunch of these left over and that's why they were splitting them among systems and putting one stick in so I took the cost of a a pair is $100 for a pair and then I just said 50 bucks for one stick that's how I priced that out and then the case that I'm using right here is the mon montech X3 mesh I've used it's one I recently used in um uh Miami when I did that build with Austin so I actually like that case it's not bad and I do have $120 with a Windows Home in here so that's where I know a lot of you're going to get all mad now yes you can go and find places to get free windows cracked windows cheap Windows whatever if you put yourself in the perspective of a firsttime buyer they're not going to necessarily know about that or even had to do it safely so they're going to build the stuff and go oh yeah I need Windows and they're going to throw it in there because we got a legit copy of window Windows Home a Windows 11 home I put it in here so if you don't agree with that just minus the cost $119 from it we can and you can go from there so I got montech X3 case thermal tough power xg2 80 plus gold 600 wat power supply to basically probably a better quality than that one actually um $119 for Windows $38 for that exact MSI spadium spadium Drive uh PCI 4.0 00 GB drive but I put a Cooler Master hyper 212 cooler cuz it's better than this the team group memory as I said so we call it 50 bucks Asus Prime b550 motherboard the same PNY 4068 GB card and then the ryzen 7600 comes to a total of $987 minus 50 937 keep in mind right now at the time of making this video it's $983,000 is over so I would recommend waiting for it to go on sale again or even necessarily just buying it at that price if you feel this is worth it to you because you are now talking about a $50 Builder fee I hope they're getting these prices at a good margin because or these parts at a good margin because I can't see them making money that way they definitely didn't make money at the $8.99 I don't think so that's why I said this was a little surprising that we were able to get this fully functional working computer with name brand parts nothing funky like the G GPU wasn't running at its right speed uh Expo was enabled okay that was little things I was looking for was was Expo enabled were all fans plugged in was argb control working or it was pre-installed but not Armory crate which is interesting I'm actually a little bit relieved cuz I was like well that's going to be about a 4 million Wheel bus iby power is going to get thrown under if it turns out to be garbage Now iby power has had its struggles in the past and they recognize that and it's one of those things that they've worked very hard to alleviate over the last few years I had a good conversation with the CEO and co-founder of the company about the past and mistakes they've made and so I'm that's why I wanted to buy this without them knowing this I bought this this is not sponsored obviously I'm sure they've been watching this video the entire time Sweating Bullets because I am also going to be secret shopping their PC configurator with the custom build we did that they sent to us that they knew about we're going to rematch it or re recreate it without them knowing we're going to compare the two I I I'm okay with this I I don't have anything that really stands out to me that seems like this is a scam or this is any sort of taking advantage of someone pricing at a at a entry level price point yeah 900 bucks is still a lot of money but in terms of PC and in 2024 money it's not a lot of money so I'm I'm pleasantly surprised at how this turned out this is where you guys can comment down below if you think this was a good deal or not um you guys can I'll put a Amazon links are down there I I if it was on sale $88.99 once it might be on sale for $8.99 again which is a killer deal because my parts were more expensive because I bought it through Prime shipping was free all the parts if I bought them separately would have also had free shipping so no shipping cost to configure and and think about in there all right sound off down below how do you feel about this build I think for 900 bucks it is impossible to beat even at 930 or 980 it's a pretty good dealI'm kind of excited this is my very first secret shopper video you have no idea I was shopping and I spent some money actually no I spent some money on one of my sponsors cuz I want to keep tabs on my sponsors I want to know what they're up to when they're not knowing who they're sending to so I bought this IB power slate mesh PC from Amazon at a pretty killer price and I figured if there's anywhere someone's going to want to cut Corners it's when there's a significantly inexpensive product so we're going to talk about this today I fully benchmarked it well I didn't fully Benchmark it I checked the frequencies and the temperatures and the settings to make sure everything is 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Prime product it came in 2 days so I want to point that out uh but the box was fairly squished as you can see it was plenty of tape it didn't open up or anything on us so I was a little concerned about the contents inside now if you look at the box that the computer came in you can see at some point it took a corner hit right here but fortunately because of the type of foam and stuff they use and inside that box there was some paper paper is not going to support the weight of a PC even a a light one like this but it does have the open cell foam so I think open sells the soft foam anyway it's squishy so it has some suspension to it um that fully surrounded the tower top and bottom so as you can see the corners were protected that impact was protected by the foam here and then the PC was inside of an anti-static bag inside the actual case itself it did have this insta pack that was in there to support the GPU and stuff it's a it's a very light spec PC and we'll talk about it in a second but so I feel like shipping wise they get like an A minus the reason why I'm going to say a minus is because of the fact that although Amazon is responsible for the packing of their product inside of an Amazon box um it's still iby power that's reflected as the consumer receiving the product it's going to just say iby power so that should be improved in my opinion and and and I do appreciate the fact that they put it in a brown box let me explain why if you took this and just put a label on it and sat that on a doorstep it won't be there long if you're not there to receive it it did not res require an Amazon password to receive some expensive purchases this was a $899 PC we'll talk about the price now it was $8.99 on sale originally $9.99 currently as of making this video the sale is over it's now on sale for 980 something so I thought it was one of those like oh we'll just say it's $9.99 and we'll put it on sale for $8.99 cuz it looks like a deal no it actually did come off sale after I bought it so I got it for $8.99 which is actually a pretty good deal I think when we talk about me trying to build the same PC separately when it comes to the value section of this video but uh typically an expensive purchase like that a lot of times from Amazon will require a onetime password to receive the product so the driver would come up to you and be like hey I got your delivery and they have their little device and like I need your onetime password you tell the Amazon driver the password like it's usually numbers he puts it in he goes okay thank you it's just for anti fraud anti um identity theft type of stuff on the packaging here you can see there's some immediate information here for technical support uh dates Times phone number um all that stuff so didn't need that today because I'm happy to report that when we get to the section talking about how it worked everything was working everything was working as intended there were no issues except one minor one we'll talk about that in a sec so the accessories that you get with it um I like how they even give you this can't control your RGB there's a Code there to scan it will tell you instruction on how to control your RGB this one is using Aura cuz it is an Asus motherboard I was already surprised that at this price point we were able to get an Asus motherboard and an am5 CPU anyway also has a free gifts apparently so there's that um here's some more important information about how to remove the side panel you know stuff like this would have been nice to see when we did our Digital Storm unboxing we didn't even get anything like this with that and that was $8,000 actually $8,300 computer this is one tenth of that just over a tenth of that cost and we get help documentation imagine that um we also got a keyboard and mouse so I forgot about this this is realistically only really probably worth 10 or 15 bucks to to tell you the truth it does come with a sleeved USB cord it is a usba a plug not USBC um it is RGB and a membrane keyboard so here's the thing if you're trying to get someone set up with like a tower or something for their first gaming computer or whatever it's nice to have something like this already that comes with it even if it's not your daily driver if you're going to get a different mousing keyboard just to have on hand as a spare is nice to have although it's membrane keys and kind of mushy it's not terrible it's also not the cheapest I felt to be honest um the mouse very lightweight like this unfortunately is one of those like I feel like if I looked at it wrong it'll probably break it's extremely light now to me I like a heavy Mouse I do so having a lightweight Mouse like this is not going to be something preferred for me but it's included not why I bought the system these are just bonuses we also get this pretty neat handy dandy thing which not only is a quick start guide for plugging it in and stuff but it also shows you how to troubleshoot any of your windows uh activation or recovery recovery is recovery is important so it tells you how to do a a recovery of your drive if you need to so that's kind of nice and then last but not least um it is a non- modular power supply so there's no cables or anything in here but it is a wireless motherboard so we get our power cable which to be honest is a very thin gauge I don't know the wattage of the power supply we won't know until I do do the tear down right now I guessed that it was a 500 watt probably like a white box no name kind of a deal so when I did my price comparison I just did like a $47 80 plus just 80 plus I think I they call 80 plus white now but 80 plus EVGA power supply even though that's not what this is this is very thin gauge so a little bit quality lacking there but our wireless antennas and that's it that's all you get that comes with it there's no recovery Drive I think there's a partition on the drive for that and I can tell because it's a 500 gig drive and only 465 Gigs available which is lower than the typical partition amount that you would get with just the normal Drive allocation so I think the partition or the recovery is actually a partition on the drive moving on let's talk about the actual quality of the system so this is a pretty standard look for I by power we saw them building these actually we took a tour of iby pow's facility and we got to see their build their build stations and stuff and they build these 10 at a time and then they get sent off to different people that are selling their systems whether it be like Microcenter Walmart Amazon um I don't Best Buy I think either best buby does iby power or cyber power I can't remember which but they have their ETA tailers and retailers so they build them 10 at a time and that's exactly what this is this at one point went through that exact station that we showed so uh anyway so this is a very similar this is a very typical chassis you would find in these more budget builds it is an ATX chassis although the motherboard inside is a Micro ATX the thumb screws are not captive so if you go to take off the glass I would suggest holding the glass as the screw comes out in your palm and then it removes to the rear now that glass is actually fairly heavy it's probably the heaviest thing in this entire build if I know the truth it's about uh 4 mm thick so it's actually no I think this this is 3 mm thick but it has a metal frame which is nice cuz the metal frame will give it rigidity so that you're know if you were to drop it you'd have a little better chance of not breaking it and we do have foam at the top and the bottom which is going to help with any rattling sounds or anything like that so this is actually a little bit better quality glass for this case than I would have expected and it's definitely better than the quality Case I put into the cart when trying to match the parts if you were going to build the system yourself top fan is a magnetic um so so it's a magnetic mesh with a filter inside of it and you can see that gives you access to your top 360 mm available worth of fans for AI or case fans does not have any exhaust fans on the top has one 120 mm IB power branded argb fan on the back and three on the front so those those all match which is kind of nice let's go and take a look at the backside you can see we have a embossed iby power logo it's just the cat right there and then you can see the cable management there fairly straightforward nothing too crazy to write home about it's not terrible it's not great we even have a ARB pigtail here off of something probably the front fans um let's see front panel here yep just pops off so this is glass this is glass this is mesh right here um the mesh material does not come out for cleaning so you would need to take the whole front piece off right here if you need to clean dust off of this you can blow dust out there you do have a fan filter here as well which is magnetic on there so we're almost like double filtered if you will which can hurt air flow however I will say this when we did our temperature testing the temps ran pretty good and we'll show those uh when we get to that portion of the video but I did leave all of this in place so we could have even had better air flow if I was to remove this because the the finess of the mesh on the front panel um is fine enough to where it could stop large particulates from getting in there say dog hair um I know large particles of dust or whatever fine dust would make it through there but if you wanted to have some filtration but better air flow you could remove the magnetic filter and have better air flow now obviously it's only pulling from about half of the surface area of the front panel but when we look at the temperatures I think what held us back in some of the temps as we look at here is going to be the cooler that's in here this is a deep cool UL 551 it's in it's Unique one because it's deep cool so I don't know whether or not this is supposed to be in here it's my understanding that with the current sanctions these cannot be used by anybody I know they can't be sold and I know they were removed from all the shells and I could be wrong please as a very wise man says bleep bloop it down below whether or not this should be in here or if this should have been removed from circulation within their parts so I'm confused about this the second thing I'm confused about is the fact that this is an am5 socketed UL 551 the only ul5 ones I could find from decool were actually Intel socketed which means the bottom part doesn't have a bracket that comes off that can be changed for the socket type so this is am51 but for all intents and purposes the heat sink itself and the downfire fan is a UL 551 so it's a downfire which is nice because if you look inside there you'll see that there's an M m.2 drive there it's an MSI drive and it has no heat sink or anything on it so this particular motherboard doesn't include any sort of a heat sink cover for the drive which means having the downfire fan gives you some air flow over the drive which is nice um and it's not because if you look at the the location of that drive it's above the graphics card so none of the graphics card like fan air is going to hit it but downfire air from the CPU Cooler will so that would give our Drive um some cooling there now some of you might have noticed there's one stick Ram that's gripe number one with this build there's no reason whatsoever in today's age anyone should be running single Channel memory it's a ddr5 team group 5200 uh meh Herz 16 GB stick it's not a cheap stick it's a $100 kit but I suspect what iby power is doing to sort of stretch the margin is they're buying two stick kits and then they're putting one stick per build now you can add more RAM to this if you wanted and we'll show you as we do the price comparison that it still has a decent value even by doing it this way however you are sort of neutering a little bit of the performance of your CPU in more RAM and ensive tasks because of the fact the CPU only has one channel of RAM available to it to store data in and dual channel should never be like omitted it should always be in dual channel in fact you might be looking at this right now thinking well the ram is overhanging or the cooler is overhanging on the ram that's why they did one stick in fact Phil just did that to me off camera and had to show him no it actually will fit you can populate all four the cooler is tall enough it's just you would have to kind of get in there at a weird angle there so you can do it you you sort of have to He-Man it like you just saw but you can get it in there so that's a little sketchy because this is a sort of a tall heat sink Ram right there so I had to kind of go in there at an angle and then like let it slip in there so I'll leave that in that position now um rather than take it out the moment cuz I've already done my test on this um the graphics card it is an RTX 460 by PNY it is an absolutely no frills card as you can see it's using a standard PCI Express these are not the heaviest gauge PCI Express as you can see they're pretty thin gauge so I think it's probably sized fine for the graphics card that's in here so this has one of those useless retainers I hate these on cases so much they they really don't do anything I guess except make it a little prettier those bug me whatever so yeah the 4060 plenty of graphics card for 1080P and 1440p gaming um let's see we can access the retention tab here all right so there we go it is just like I said a straight up Bare Bones RTX 46 is a super tiny PCB as you can see what's crazy about this is this sucker is like way more powerful than like your 2070 2070 TI it's crazy right cuz think about this little thing right now that feels like a not even it wouldn't even work as a door stop it would just get pushed out of the way we've come a long way so there's our SSD as you can see right there our heat sink it is pretty Cy as far as I'm concerned I'm shocked that this is an Asus motherboard as you can see right there Asus Prime b650 ma ax6 it is a Wi-Fi No Frills whatsoever motherboard in fact a lot of the the chokes are completely exposed just the vrms themselves have this very lightweight aluminum heat sink on there with spring-loaded retention all right so let's see if we can get the Ram out so retention tab wiggle it up oh we got to uncomfortably bend it okay but you can do it no damage not the best this is not the best cooler for this but it's probably to be fair it's about as good as a box cooler if I spin the fan you can see it just looks like one of those old Intel box coolers this is a ryzen 7600 so it's not a very high watt part it's like 80 Watts at the most it's really a 65 watt part this was actually pulling 80 watts in my test nothing seemed to not be working U the motherboard is controlling the argb everything was argb as expected oh I want to point this out right here too if we look at the distance between this cooler and the top right here you may or may not be able to fit a fan there all right let's see oh yeah that fits just fine 25 mil fan will fit between the cooler barely though so 20 28 mil fan or thicker not going to work but if you want to add exhaust fans your deep cool cooler is not in the way this is kind of nice the I power case has a single plug for a front panel so I love this there's no reason for this not to exist on any case these days because we've now gone standardized on the layout of the pins no reason for a standard plug like that not to exist so I'm looking for the clear seos jumpers because the button on the back is a bios flashback it's crazy that Asus would put a bios flashback jumper on the back of the motherboard but not a clear seamoss button cuz you may have noticed when I showed you everything they gave me they did not give me a motherboard manual so I can go online and find the motherboard manual for this and find where the clear seos jump number is but I don't know why they didn't just give me the manual normally that's what you would get with all like you would get the any stickers or accessories that come with the motherboard like additional m.2 hold down screws cuz look here's here's the exact problem of them not giving me that we have an mn2 expansion slot right here but there's no hold down screws included so without the motherboard accessories I don't have those screws so if I went okay 500 gigs is fine I'll just add one now sure I can order these screws from Amazon they're pretty easy a lot of m.2 drives even come with a screw they're not always the same thread usually they are sometimes they're not so I would be annoyed with one I don't know where my clear C must clear C must jumper is okay I do cuz it's labeled right here but I know that because I know that clrtc printed on the motherboard means it's a clear seos but if I'm a new Builder or I'm a new buyer I've never had a PC before I'm not going to know what that means so having a a manual just to peruse through when I'm bored and taking a dump you know I like to read on the toilet that's when I do my best thinking so I come up with all my greatest ideas and I think it shows but if I don't have that to read I can't learn about it and I also don't have the screws because they didn't include any of those accessories so that's a minus right there for iby power why not put the manual in this bag there's clearly enough room for it so okay so if you like the screwdriver that you saw me using here this is actually a Works electronic screw driver it's got three torque settings on it this is a magnet that I have uh used to magnetize the shaft the shaft so also by leaving it on there allows the tip to stay magnetized and it's nice and long I added these bits separately so I could when I do my builds reach down into the motherboard I'll put a link in the description below to Amazon it gives us an affiliate Kickback if you're interested in it it's actually not that expensive it's way cheaper than the lus screwdriver all right here we go so what is this power supply it looks like it's just like a it's a 600 WT okay it's a Raid Max actually and it's 80 plus gold it's better than what I expect so I'm going to have to adjust my list when we talk about price here in a moment because I expect an 80 plus white 500 watt this is a Raid Max 600 watt 80 plus gold so we have room to grow we could go up to like a 70 series GPU in this comfortably if we wanted to not modular or anything neat like that but still good enough let's talk about the cable management it looks like a first-time Builder did it but to be fair they're building these things fast they are just like churning them out as fast as they can there's very little margin in this build at all when we talk about the prices I think you'll understand that so I I'm we are zip tied we're our cables are going where they should EPS is coming straight down to the GPU we've got stuff away from the grommets as much as we can so don't see a cable clutter mess behind it I just don't understand why they used these twist ties they probably were pre-installed honestly with the case but I would have like to have seen these twist ties replaced with actual zip ties just so it looks a little neater but we cuz we do have zip ties that they did while they were you know obviously doing their thing now on the bottom here there's no additional expansion for a drive although it looks like there should have been all right so drive storage we've got 2 and 1/2 in Drive sled right here it's a single sled that holds two um and then we have oops I should probably Mount that back down we have two spots on the bottom where we could technically mount a two a 3 and 1/2 in drive but again because we don't have any of the case accessories we don't have those rubber grommets that are intended to like come through the hole and then slide into position cuz you're intended to mount two of the drives like vertically next to each other right there we don't have the accessories that came with the case so we can't add that so there's another negative point right there for iby power these give you more clearance in front of the fan so you would have to to remove the one closest to the fans get in there there you would have to remove that one otherwise you'll have no clearance for your radiator the downside is if you were going to do a 360 r on the front or even a 240 probably maybe you're going to lose one drive mounting option now the screws on the side or the holes on the side just mount on the side of your drive so the drive will be mounted vertically not horizontally again we don't have screws that came with it I guarantee you all this stuff was in the box of the iby power case when they built it it just not did not make its way to me all right there we go that was a pretty solid paste application RGB still plugged in looks like it was just whatever Pace was installed with it so you can see now how I say this looks like a old school Intel cooler but it has the spacing for AMD everyone I found online has Intel spacing and says it only works with Intel so this is kind of a anomaly okay so let's talk about performance then um all the fans and stuff were set to default CPU fan whatever header it was getting its information from chassis fans I can tell you right now under load they ramped up they did their job I put my hand kind of feeling around the case to see how warm the air coming out was although we only had one exhaust fan a fair amount of air was still making its way out the top cuz we have three intake fans very positive pressure so the hot air moves its way out wherever it could I prefer at least another exhaust fan on the top on the back to promote a little better cross flow doesn't matter the the air flow was perfectly fine in this case now the frequencies 4.95 GHz all Cor is where the 7600 started on my occt uh stress test it dropped to about 4795 averaging in the mid 4.8 GHz through the entire run if we look at the CPU temperatures you can see it got pretty warm in the upper 80s however as you can see by those temperatures it did not affect our clock speeds greatly the clock speeds are going to fluctuate based on not just temperature when it comes to the way that the uh Turbo cables work when it comes to CPUs but also the workload an occt is a varying workload it's not just one type of workload for the entire thing it's an avx2 instruction set but it does it different ways so that's why as you look at the frequency and the temps you'll see it kind of fluctuate all over the place that's because of the different types of loads that are hitting it so fortunately we weren't dealing with any like serious throttling that's why earlier in the in the unboxing I talked about the fact that the case and this mesh and the fact that it's still got this much blocked off this is pretty personally I would prefer to see this be an entirely mesh front side what I should have done honestly is ran the test again without this on there to see what it did for temperatures unfortunately I didn't think of that till right this moment I'll try to remember that for future videos we didn't see any major throttling the cooler this this chunk of black aluminum is our limiting factor and the fact that we only have a 65 watt part that was pulling about 80 Watts Under full load was still reaching about 88 C again 95 C is our Max on this CPU so 88c is perfectly fine that's what's holding us back even like a $20 um Cooler Master hyper 212 would have outperformed this greatly but we wouldn't have had the benefits of the downfire which I think the motherboard components desperately need so I would have probably put a better downfire cooler in this for our m.2 drive and the and the components around the CPU socket because if I had a standard 212 it would all blow right past it and you wouldn't have much air flow going directly to it so it's kind of a trade-off um GP wise though this thing boosted all the way up to over 2,800 MHz in um Port Royal not Port Royal sorry we did Speedway on this one cuz Speedway is a little bit more consistent of a test so over 2800 MHz so if you look at the chart right here what you're seeing is you're seeing both Edge Temp and hotspot Temp and you're seeing the fan percent so that fan that line on the bottom is a percentage of the fan curve it really didn't go above like 46% so the temperatures although they reach 70 which is not bad at all uh with only 46% fan curve and being nearly silent like inaudible it's actually performing very well which tells me the chassis itself is not choking off the graphics card so that's why I think this mesh plus fan filter although not optimal was not terrible it's kind of like medium in between in terms of air flow and such bottom line is we got what we paid for I don't see anything here where it looked like a uh almost said AMD where ibby power was trying to cut any sort of Corners I don't see anywhere here where they were trying to pull a fast one it's all name brand stuff I'm going to say that because I have another PC that I bought while I was on Amazon by a company I've never heard of that has some really questionable Parts in there so I wanted to see like are we getting name brand are we getting what we paid for are we getting these like teu AliExpress stuff no one's ever heard of no we had an MSI Drive got a Asus motherboard obviously a real AMD ryzen CPU a deep cool cooler that probably shouldn't be in here a PNY graphics card which was shocking the heck out of me and although not the most highend of power supplies still not a knockoff no name brand either and it's gold rated although these wires are still very thin for my my my comfort levels trying to put a higher end graphics card in there so value-wise well quality wise we got what we were expecting exactly everything booted up just fine no bloat Weare none in fact if you want their software this is part of the link right here is is you download right here you download the software using this link if you don't want it don't download it no bloat wear whatsoever Windows wasn't activated though which is interesting because when I when I tried to change the display like the customize the background colors and stuff it told me my windows wasn't activated it said because it wasn't a valid key so I was like uh-oh is this maybe where they were saving some money by just reusing a key and going you buy Windows if you want to control it I just hit hit the troubleshoot button on the activate screen and it was like we activated your windows and everything was fine so I was like okay I was actually going to call their customer service to see if they could help but I hit the troubleshoot button first which fixed it so there took my opportunity of calling customer service so there is that okay cost I said I got this for $899.99 from Amazon so I tried to build this system using the same parts and actually I I got all the same Parts in my cart in Amazon minus the case and the power supply cuz I couldn't find those two exact things um and the ram I have to put a caveat they don't sell these in a single stick they don't even sell 5200 anymore what's in here is 6,000 so I think they had a bunch of these left over and that's why they were splitting them among systems and putting one stick in so I took the cost of a a pair is $100 for a pair and then I just said 50 bucks for one stick that's how I priced that out and then the case that I'm using right here is the mon montech X3 mesh I've used it's one I recently used in um uh Miami when I did that build with Austin so I actually like that case it's not bad and I do have $120 with a Windows Home in here so that's where I know a lot of you're going to get all mad now yes you can go and find places to get free windows cracked windows cheap Windows whatever if you put yourself in the perspective of a firsttime buyer they're not going to necessarily know about that or even had to do it safely so they're going to build the stuff and go oh yeah I need Windows and they're going to throw it in there because we got a legit copy of window Windows Home a Windows 11 home I put it in here so if you don't agree with that just minus the cost $119 from it we can and you can go from there so I got montech X3 case thermal tough power xg2 80 plus gold 600 wat power supply to basically probably a better quality than that one actually um $119 for Windows $38 for that exact MSI spadium spadium Drive uh PCI 4.0 00 GB drive but I put a Cooler Master hyper 212 cooler cuz it's better than this the team group memory as I said so we call it 50 bucks Asus Prime b550 motherboard the same PNY 4068 GB card and then the ryzen 7600 comes to a total of $987 minus 50 937 keep in mind right now at the time of making this video it's $983,000 is over so I would recommend waiting for it to go on sale again or even necessarily just buying it at that price if you feel this is worth it to you because you are now talking about a $50 Builder fee I hope they're getting these prices at a good margin because or these parts at a good margin because I can't see them making money that way they definitely didn't make money at the $8.99 I don't think so that's why I said this was a little surprising that we were able to get this fully functional working computer with name brand parts nothing funky like the G GPU wasn't running at its right speed uh Expo was enabled okay that was little things I was looking for was was Expo enabled were all fans plugged in was argb control working or it was pre-installed but not Armory crate which is interesting I'm actually a little bit relieved cuz I was like well that's going to be about a 4 million Wheel bus iby power is going to get thrown under if it turns out to be garbage Now iby power has had its struggles in the past and they recognize that and it's one of those things that they've worked very hard to alleviate over the last few years I had a good conversation with the CEO and co-founder of the company about the past and mistakes they've made and so I'm that's why I wanted to buy this without them knowing this I bought this this is not sponsored obviously I'm sure they've been watching this video the entire time Sweating Bullets because I am also going to be secret shopping their PC configurator with the custom build we did that they sent to us that they knew about we're going to rematch it or re recreate it without them knowing we're going to compare the two I I I'm okay with this I I don't have anything that really stands out to me that seems like this is a scam or this is any sort of taking advantage of someone pricing at a at a entry level price point yeah 900 bucks is still a lot of money but in terms of PC and in 2024 money it's not a lot of money so I'm I'm pleasantly surprised at how this turned out this is where you guys can comment down below if you think this was a good deal or not um you guys can I'll put a Amazon links are down there I I if it was on sale $88.99 once it might be on sale for $8.99 again which is a killer deal because my parts were more expensive because I bought it through Prime shipping was free all the parts if I bought them separately would have also had free shipping so no shipping cost to configure and and think about in there all right sound off down below how do you feel about this build I think for 900 bucks it is impossible to beat even at 930 or 980 it's a pretty good deal\n"