This $5000 MSI Gaming Pre-Built Is WILD...

**The Review: A 5,000 Dollar Gaming System Put to the Test**

I'm kind of gonna have to eat my words from the beginning of the video because considering what's happening here they are very good. The ambient temperature in the room is 16 degrees Celsius so that helps but it's barely breaking a sweat here but it's only been a short period of time so let's game for a while and then I'll get back to you on the temperatures. So, I've been playing for about 45 minutes now and temperature wise I'm actually really impressed with the system.

I was expecting some serious throttling under load given the price point and power consumption, but it seems like MSI has pulled off a major upset here. The system is indeed hot, but not to the extent that I was expecting. It's barely noticeable in terms of temperatures, which is pretty wild considering how expensive this thing is supposed to be.

Next up we have Cyberpunk running at 4K Ultra settings and this is where things start to get a little tough because we're not quite consistently sitting at 60 frames per second and bear in mind this is without Ray tracing. The system is still able to handle some demanding games, but it's clear that the price point is a major bottleneck when it comes to smooth gameplay.

On the other hand, running Ultra settings with Ray tracing is where things really start to fall apart. Cyberpunk does not mess about especially at 4K let's set it up to Psycho and see what that does it's pretty crazy to see a five thousand dollar system brought to its knees like this but there's another way around it we can use some of this whoa that's made a huge difference turning quality DLSS on we have gotten like three times the frame rate pretty much.

But, let's not forget about performance. When I said earlier that the system was performing like a roided up Olympian, I wasn't kidding. The 40-90 in this system is able to handle some demanding games and applications with ease. Running Battlefield 5 at 4K Ultra settings is a breeze for this thing, and it's clear that MSI has done an excellent job of squeezing as much performance out of this powerful CPU.

I've got mixed feelings about the build quality on this system. On the one hand, I'm really impressed by how well it performs for its price point. On the other hand, I just can't get past the fact that the build quality would be unacceptable on a system costing a fifth of the price if I pay five thousand dollars for a PC it better be hewn from mithril not just made from a wafer tin with a bunch of plastic crap glued to it.

And so, there you have it. The MSI 5,000 dollar gaming system put to the test and it's clear that this thing is capable of some amazing things when it comes to performance and power handling. But, at the same time, I just can't shake the feeling that this thing would be a complete joke if it cost an even fraction of what it does.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI very rarely accept pre-builts from companies for videos but when MSI reached out to me out  of the blue offering to send over this Beast standing next to me I just couldn't say no for  a couple of reasons the first one is considering my history with MSI prebuilts oh that's not good  oh no I killed it I guess I guess one wasn't that bad probably not gonna poison your drinking water  I think it's hilarious that MSI thought it was a good idea to send a system to me and the second  reason is MSI took some of the most powerful Hardware in the world and stuffed it into a  case that looks like this and I just can't see a way in which that does not end terriblythank youI wonder what kind of E-Waste peripherals the system this fancy comes with it's oh  although in all fairness MSI prebuilts do usually come with some Primo e-wastewe've got some nice raised cool marketing on the box and in this box we get  a power cable a 16 pin power adapter for NVIDIA graphics card some case mounting crap and a big  cleaning cloth for them fingerprints but no E-Waste peripherals it's very heavy   this is very well packaged so your game unlimited system should survive even the most negligent  delivery person thank you I see why they gave you the microfiber cloth with itokayI really hope this system was reviewed by someone before me because if this is the state they come  out of the factory in that is not a good sign because I couldn't have soiled it that hard  just unboxing it right and while I was trying and failing to wipe all of the mysterious grease off  it I couldn't help but notice some shocking build quality oh it's put together like a Tesla what  the hell aside from none of the panels fitting together correctly the material choices were  much less high-end gaming system and More Dollar Store Lego plastic look at that and aside from  the Fisher Price build quality I'm just not sold on the way it looks I don't know the aesthetic  to me kind of looks like something that was the result of the vivisection of several different  pieces and they just like glued the resulting bits together on the front we've got this control panel  thing which is like a touch screen which lets you do things next to that is what looks like a strip  of Illumination we have what looks like more functional front ventilation in front of this  pretty big ventilated panel over the side of the system and it looks reasonably porous so I don't  know maybe I overreacted maybe temperatures will be fine and then on top of the system next to this  very cool branding we have even more ventilation oh and in terms of front i o it's pretty good and  you know what they say there's nothing classier than super low quality piano black plastic  around the back we've got the standard pre-built small exhaust fan above which is a very exciting  graphics card which we'll talk about out in a second and finally on the back in terms of rear  i o it's pretty anemic for a system in this weight class now in terms of ventilation this  case looks better than I was expecting from the pictures but then you remember that there is an  I9 3900 KF in here and an RTX 4090 which results in a combined potential TDP of 700 Watts so yeah  I don't know I think we're gonna have to open it up and have a look at the cooling solution in hereoh yeah that comes off very easily and then under that wow there is some serious cooling  under there never mind and this side panel seems very porous like we can see the case through  it but the build quality on it is unsettlingly alienwarey look at that but putting that aside  in here we have some serious Hardware up here is our RTX 4090 which I can't wait to see how this  performs and it's a 4090 with a decent cooler on it as far as I understand this is the Ventus 3  version of it which also has this Silent Storm cooling thing attached to the top which we'll  have a closer look at in a second on the side we've got a 280 mil radiator for the CPU which  is a pretty chunky boy below that is some MSI power supply which again will have a closer look  at later on next to which is a mechanical Drive which is quite funny to see on a system this fancyoh that like slides open cool okay that is a concerningly soft plastic radiator Mount  and the interior is very OEM gray it's also a real Bare Bones looking motherboard in here it  does have dual Channel Ram but for almost five thousand dollars it doesn't get any points for  that especially considering it looks like Ram they dug out of a boom somewhere power supply  wise we have a thousand watt standard ATX MSI unit which should be enough for the systemforeignthey did really take a page out of alienware's book and just glue a bunch of plastic crap to  the outside of an office PC case oh that's a bit disappointing apparently the  Silent Storm cooling thing is just a doctor that funnels air into the 4090. I don't know  I was kind of expecting something a bit more high-tech than just a bit of plastic okay so  with that let's reassemble the plastic fantastic and see what kind of temperatures we get while  gaming which I am really excited to see oh yeah MSI also sent over this monitor with  the system for some reason so we're going to use it to test the system withcome onoh the screen is flashing a dragon at me oh they're clearly very proud of the design  of the thing because the background also has it on I'm not sure if I want to see it twice  um but you know at least the wallpaper version does look like it's insignificantly better  condition oh Norton yeah we'll look at VD in a second oh here is our 13 900 KF and this is  our 64 gigs of RAM which is running at its base frequency so they didn't set it at the rated speed  of the ram which is a bit of a shame but we'll test the performance impact of that later in the  video when it comes to the venereal bloatware situation the system was pretty good aside from  Norton there wasn't a whole lot on there there is the standard MSI control center thing that wants  you to download more crap but other than that it's pretty clean now that we've fired up the system I  do quickly want to look at the functionality of the screen which you can see I've barely  touched and it's already disgusting this is the kind of stuff that you can do with it shortcut  for example lets you launch software on your desktop from here and as you can see it's very  very responsive there's also a gaming mode which as far as I can tell doesn't do anything although  I think you can set up gaming profiles in the MSI software for it oh yeah and you can also set  your RGB to different colors with it very useful um so yeah let's play some games on it   now I'm starting off with GTA 5 purely out of habit and at 4K very high settings we are pegged  at about 190 frames per second which is the point as you can see where GTA 5 starts to descend into  a stutter Fest so GTA 5 is basically unplayable because of well it running too well   so now with Battlefield 5 we are running at 4K Ultra settings and we're occasionally bumping  off the frame rate limiter so let me quickly deal with that so we've uncapped our frame rate and  we're almost at 300 frames per second and 4K Ultra settings so that is pretty wild temperature wise  I'm kind of gonna have to eat my words from the beginning of the video because considering what's  happening here they are very good the ambient temperature in the room is 16 degrees Celsius so  that helps but it's barely breaking a sweat here but it's only been a short period of time so let's  game for a while and then I'll get back to you on the temperatures so I've been playing for about  45 minutes now and temperature wise I'm actually really impressed with the system it is Audibleyou know you can hear it but in this 16 degree celsius room we are getting very  reasonable temperatures and in terms of performance it's crazy this 40 90  runs Battlefield 5 at 4K Ultra settings like its 1080p mediumnext up we have cyberpunk running at 4K Ultra settings and this is where things start to  get a little tough because we're not quite consistently sitting at 60 frames per second  and bear in mind this is without Ray tracing on the system is quite noisy but for this kind  of like OEM pre-built in the form factor it's not nearly as noisy as you would expect and  considering that all of the ventilation is on oh oh terrible things are happening uh considering  that all of the ventilation is on the other side of the case if you have the system on your right  hand side it kind of blows the noise in that direction so having said that let's move over  to some Ray tracing action Ultra so that's the same settings that we have for everything else  40 frames per second wow cyberpunk does not mess about especially at 4K let's set it up to Psycho  and see what that does it's pretty crazy to see a five thousand dollar system brought to its knees  like this but there's another way around it we can use some of this whoa that's made a huge  difference turning quality dlss on we have gotten like three times the frame rate pretty much that  we got before and considering that it's DLS S4 4K and we're actually using a 1440p panel here  you can't really notice the dlss is on anyway enough screwing around with cyberpunk let's  set the ram to its rated speed and see how much that helps the performancenow in terms of BIOS this is an MSI system and they do motherboards so we actually get a usable  looking bios useful looking but it turns out it's one of the most useless bioses on any MSI system  I've looked at so far how does that make any sense it does have some pretend overclocking features  but I couldn't set the XMP profiles for the ram so it was stuck with the base ddr5 speed at least  you can turn on rebar which was off by default so there's that so at the end of the day temperature  wise the system was a whole lot better than I was expecting it really could have been a dumpster  fire and it wasn't and it also performs like a roided up Olympian but it cost five thousand  dollars and has a 40 90 in it obviously it does and I just can't get past the fact that the build  quality would be unacceptable on a system costing a fifth of the price if I pay five thousand  dollars for a PC it better be hewned from mithril not just made from a wafer tin with a bunch of  plastic crap glued to it anyway with that thank you MSI for sending over the system and um yeah  with that it brings me to the end of the video thank you for watching and until the next one byethank you