**A Roller Coaster of Emotions: My Experience with an Aliexpress Pre-Built System**

I must say, it could have been much worse that's definitely a first in my pre-built buying journey i've never had a system show up with dead components in it but i guess it was bound to happen at some point that estranged ram kit with half the sticks missing uh was was the problem both the sticks were dead i couldn't get the system to boot up with either of them in it uh it did work with the initial windows install though so it seems like it's not a bilingual ram kit the windows install just killed both of them but now that we have our own tree dizzy set in the system it's running very well which brings us to the gaming performance.

**Gaming Performance**

As you can see, the system runs very well while playing Battlefield 5. Both the CPU and the GPU are averaging at about 60 degrees Celsius which is good for those two components and that temperature is stuck all the way through my benchmarking so that's that's impressive well done little abomination Aliexpress kind of half dead system now after doing the performance benchmarks there was one more thing that i wanted to address which was the mad pre-built thermal paste situation we had going on there really was thermal paste all over the system so i opened up the AIO and had a look lo and behold there was a whole lot of thermal paste.

**Thermal Paste Issues**

Oh, there is there is a lot of thermal paste on there oh that's that's like the best buy build all over again oh my look at all of that and then down there on the actual CPU yeah this is a lot of thermal paste after cleaning that up i actually tried to remount the AIO properly and i now more understand why this system was so badly put together and it's because this VAC case is just so badly designed the metal strips that you have to mount the AIO to is so thick that the screws don't really reach the screw hole in the AIO and if you put any pressure on it they just pop out so that's why we had all those loose screws lying around and one screw left holding the whole AIO in so that's a pretty big design flaw.

**Design Flaws**

And just getting to any of the screw holes is so difficult in this vacuum case because of just they're all hidden under bits of metal it's really annoying other massive design problems with this case include the fact that the power supply sits right at the front at a weird angle so it means to get the power cable to it you have to route it through the system and then bring it up at a very very obtuse angle to get that power cord in there which just feels highly precarious.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Aliexpress pre-built was a roller coaster of emotions. I was so excited when i was busy unboxing the system that i couldn't stop making weird overly sexual moan noises oh look there we go oh there we go it really made my editing process a lot harder to try and cut down on those as much as possible but then it turned into a pretty frustrating experience having to diagnose the ram issue and then finally remounting the AIO properly made me so angry i just wanted to just huck the thing out a window at a point but considering the fact that we got something that looks like a not very well built custom system as opposed to just an off-the-shelf crap box i think it could have been way worse than it was quite frankly.

**Future Plans**

And on that note, I ended up also buying a sub 400 gaming pre-built off of Aliexpress which should be showing up in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned to the channel if you want to see that that's gonna be a very interesting video. On that note, if you like this video please like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye-bye.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat we have in this box is a thousand four hundred dollar aliexpress pre-built which on  the website looks ridiculous honestly i haven't been this excited to get in a box for a very long  time uh but before we get into that we have a sponsor for today's video that helped us pay  for this ridiculous pre-build today's video is sponsored by squarespace which is the easiest  way to get your shiny new website up and running squarespace makes it really straightforward for  you to get a trendy website up and running with all of these awesome templates that  you can easily modify to fit whatever it is you needed to do squarespace also has easily  accessible e-commerce features which means that you can sell your macaroni art online with very  little hassle and then you can modify the seo so that you are the top macaroni art sellers search  on the google if that sounds good to you head over to squarespace.com for a free trial and then once  you're finished playing around and setting up your website and you're ready to launch go to  squarespace.com forward slash david to save 10 of your first purchase of a website or domain  thank you very much squarespace for sponsoring this videonow before we get into the box i just want to bring your attention to this document  here which states that the value of the system in here is 282 us dollars  now if i don't remember correctly i paid closer to a thousand four hundred dollars for this system  and i'm guessing that the reason that they put that value down there is so that you don't have  to pay as much for import tax now if anybody from the canadian equivalent of the irs are watching  i did not ask for this this is not my fault i promise and here we have the box which is entirely  covered in brown tape which kind of makes me feel like there's some guy in a factory in china  whose entire job it is to just cover cardboard boxes with tape i have to say tape man you did  a wonderful job it's very evenly covered in tape moving to the side of the box it seems like the  case is by a company called zaginol i think is how you say that which sounds suspiciously likeoh we have a box within an open box the box under here is actually  oh there we go we can actually start to see a bit of it which is just getting my juices flowingand then as you can see over here we have the grape pot which is just the best combination of  words i've seen in a while in here we can see that the case is actually very well packaged  soft soft foam and a very exciting looking pc case in there let's let's get it out of the boxpull that off like that oh this thing looks genuinely spectacular oh that something rolling  around in there which i don't like the sound of we've got some dirty bubble wrap which is  a staple of aliexpress products oh it looks so amazing oh it's got a strix card in it so as  you can see in here there's actually a strix card down there we've got an evga power supply and some  motherboard action we're gonna pull this back oh it's not a very good mounting mechanism but these  screws look really amazing there we go revealing the inside so as you can see here we have the  strix rtx card i'm not entirely sure what this is i'm guessing it's a 2060 but we'll have a closer  look at it soon that's crazy because like a 2 000 strix pre-built doesn't have a strix card in it so  that's exciting and then here we've got more foam to protect the graphics card and then we have the  system down there you can already see a bunch of big issues with it but it's fine really hope this  system actually fires up okay so straight off the bat there are clearly some issues with it first  off uh the aio is not mounted down properly so if you can see here they just didn't screw it down on  one side and then over here you can see that the ram is actually not in the correct slots for it to  operate its dual channel why is ram so difficult to get right on these damn prebuilts i don't  understand it but we have two sticks of ram and they're tri-dizzy as well which is crazy it's ddr4  3000 and seems to have been a part of a 32 gig kit so we only got we only got half of the ram kit  here and then in terms of the graphics card this is a strix rtx 2060 which does seem to be used  the motherboard is a tough gaming asus board which actually looks like a pretty impressive  motherboard for a pre-built and then we have this strix card over here that has custom sleeving on  it which is really cool unfortunately the actual motherboard power is just the standard connector  uh but still you get you get cables up here it also seems like somebody blew their thermal paste  load all over the system there is a lot of random bits of thermal base around the place  there are also some loose screws lying around which is always  always a great sign as you can see from the side it is a very  flimsy case but that is without the side panel on this side so maybe that helps stabilize it a bit  power supply-wise it's got an evga g3650 in it which is a good power supply around  back um there's not the best cable management situation going on here you can see the same  goes for around the top here but that's something that we can pretty easily fix honestly the the  raw components that we have here are actually very impressive considering what we paid for it it does  suspiciously seem like the system was assembled by somebody who genuinely couldn't be asked so  with that let's put the side panels back on and fire it up to see if the system actually worksconsidering that it was clearly built by a trained orangutan  i am not super hopeful but let's see what happens i do have explosion cam ready in case something in  case something goes wrong uh but yeah let's just i think this is the power button oh sounds of water  moving that is a very satisfying power button i have to i didn't plug the monitor in oh it  does look really awesome oh look at that we're in um there may be a bit of a problem because  it seems like windows may be in chinese a little bit um can i change that can i likeokay update time i've reinstalled windows on it and then during the first boot cycle  it blue screen it was a ram code error so i may uh just fix the ram configuration  and then maybe that'll help i don't know whoever built this system spilled a whole  bunch of thermal paste all over the ram slots here the diagnostic led down here says that  there's something wrong with the ram so i'm going to try one stick at a time and see if  at least one of them works and then i'll kind of swap it out for a different kit okay so i have a  cheap ram kit in here that i know for a fact works uh so let's see what it does with that  oh it's actually booted with that now i have my own true dizzy kit in here uh so hopefully  it works with this one oh that is so much less catastrophic than the motherboard being dead  um it still sucks but you know it could have been much worse that's definitely a first in my  pre-built buying journey i've never had a system show up with dead components in it but i guess it  was bound to happen at some point that estranged ram kit with half the sticks missing uh was was  the problem both the sticks were dead i couldn't get the system to boot up with either of them in  it uh it did work with the initial windows install though so it seems like it's not a bilingual ram  kit the windows install just killed both of them but now that we have our own tree dizzy  set in the system it's running very well which brings us to the gaming performancesoas you can see the system runs very well while playing battlefield 5 both the cpu  and the gpu are averaging at about 60 degrees celsius which is good for those two components  and that temperature is stuck all the way through my benchmarking so that's that's impressive well  done little abomination aliexpress kind of half dead system now after doing the performance  benchmarks there was one more thing that i wanted to address which was the mad pre-built thermal  paste situation we had going on there really was thermal paste all over the system so  i opened up the aio and had a look lo and behold there was a whole lot of thermal pasteoh there is there is a lot of thermal paste on there oh that's that's like the that's like the  best buy build all over again oh my look at all of that and then down there on the actual cpu  yeah this is a lot of thermal paste after cleaning that up i actually tried to remount the aio  properly and i now more understand why this system was so badly put together and it's  because this vac case is just so badly designed the metal strips that you have to mount the aio to  is so thick that the screws don't really reach the screw hole in the aio and if you put any  pressure on it they just pop out so that's why we had all those loose screws lying around and one  screw left holding the whole aio in so that's a pretty big design flaw and just getting to any of  the screw holes is so difficult in this vacuum case because of just they're all hidden under  bits of metal it's really annoying other massive design problems with this case include the fact  that the power supply sits right at the front at a weird angle so it means to get the power cable  to it you have to route it through the system and then bring it up at a very very obtuse angle to  get that power cord in there which just feels highly precarious in conclusion the aliexpress  pre-built was a roller coaster of emotions i was so excited when i was busy unboxing the system  that i couldn't stop making weird overly sexual moan noises oh look there we go oh there we goit really made my editing process a lot harder to try and cut down on those as much as possible  but then it turned into a pretty frustrating experience having to diagnose the ram issue and  then finally remounting the aio properly made me so angry i just wanted to just  huck the thing out a window at a point but considering the fact that we got something that  looks like a not very well built custom system as opposed to just an off-the-shelf crap box  i think it could have been way worse than it was quite frankly  and on that note i ended up also buying a sub 400 gaming pre-built off of aliexpress which  should be showing up in the next couple of weeks so stop to the channel if you want to see that  that's gonna be a very interesting video on that note if you like this video please like  and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next video bye-bye