I recently purchased an Asus pre-built gaming PC that has been a mixed bag of experiences. The system is equipped with the latest AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, but despite its impressive specs, it's been a struggle to get it to perform smoothly.

One of the first issues I noticed was the sound of the CPU cooler. It's very loud and obnoxious, especially when it's sitting next to my desk. The noise is not just annoying, but it's also disturbing because it seems like it's trying to alert me that something is wrong with the system.

Despite the loud noise, the power delivery on the system has seemed to be handling the CPU well, keeping temperatures in check. However, when it comes to core clock speeds, the system starts to struggle. The Ryzen 9 5900X can reach speeds of up to 3.7 GHz, but the system only manages to reach a maximum frequency of around 2.5 GHz.

I've also noticed that the system has a tendency to throttle the CPU when it gets hot. This means that if I'm running demanding games or applications, the CPU will start to slow down to prevent overheating. While this might seem like a good thing, it's actually frustrating because it means that the system is not able to reach its full potential.

One of the things that really frustrates me about this system is the way that Asus has cut corners on the motherboard and cooling components. The VRMs (power delivery modules) are not properly cooled, which can cause temperatures to rise when running demanding workloads. This means that the system starts to struggle and eventually overheats.

I was actually standing at the Best Buy where I purchased this system, watching people buy computers, and it was really sad. These people have no idea what they're buying, they just know that they want a gaming PC and don't care about the details. That's where companies like Asus come in, and it's their job to educate these customers about what they need.

Asus is better than this, but sometimes they make mistakes. The fact that they took advantage of people who don't know what they're buying is just naughty. They should be helping these customers out, not taking advantage of them.

In conclusion, the Asus pre-built gaming PC has been a mixed bag of experiences. While it's had some impressive moments, it's also struggled with issues like loud CPU coolers and poor power delivery. If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe to my channel for more content like this. Check out all of my social media links in the description below.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni woke up on wednesday morning and i thought to myself i wonder how many terrible gaming  pre-built i can buy before my wife divorces me so to put this to the test i got into my  car and drove to the local best buy to see what stock they had and when i got there one  of the first systems i saw was a 2 000 canadian dollar asus strix gaming system i looked at its  specs and i thought oh that's pretty decent ah what did they do to the inside of it and feeling  a nerd rant bubbling up inside i just had to buy it and push my luck with my wife but luckily we  have a video sponsor today so that does help out a little bit today's video is sponsored by govi  more specifically by their rgbic knightships this is an awesome way to turn your loser tv  into a dope ass rgb tv in the package you get two 5 meter rgb strips look at all this rgb  and this is only one of the rolls these govi rgbic strip lights display multiple colors  simultaneously on one strip and govi has a really nice app that actually works which is surprising  for this kind of accessory and it also works with alexa alexa turn tv off okay so if you think these  govi rgb ic light strips look awesome check them out in the link in the description belowhmmwow this box is massive and it reminds me a little bit of like a tacky version  of the monolith in 2001 a space odysseyinside we have the eye of sauron uh this just seems to be the accessories we've got  very high quality packing foam it actually reminds me quite a bit of the alienware pre-built packing  firm it seems to be very well packaged so i don't think that even the world's most  disgruntled dhl employee will be able to destroy it oh oh wow that almost ended really badly  what do you think of it you're comfy there we go at least we oh i hit the light fixture  as i was about to brag about not dropping this system apparently this is what a thousand five  hundred dollar asus republic of gamers pre-built looks like from best buy and on the surface it's  pretty promising we've got some ventilation in the front that actually goes into the case  on the top we've got more ventilation it's also got a top handle which not only means that nerd  on a budget will love it but you can also pump some fat iron in between gaming sessionshere is a headphone hanger i think uh which is a pretty good idea although that's very flimsy  i wouldn't trust my headphones on there as far as front i o goes it's got some ports it's also  got the appropriate nvidia rtx and ryzen 7 badging on the front which is worth many ep points on the  back behind the motherboard tray there's actually also some ventilation it does look very gamery and  it's not really going to help much for airflow i can't imagine but you know it's the thought that  counts it's got a pretty basic rear i o and what's most worrying about it is the fact that it's got a  dinosaur video output so yeah that's that's never an amazing sign it's only once you get to the side  panel that my nerd hemorrhoid starts throbbing you've got this glass i think it's glass side  panel and then behind all of that there's well none of that looks particularly promisingnow when just looking straight into the side of the system like that you can  already see a couple of pretty pretty big oofs with this system and again  it has a glass side panel on it so if you're buying one of these you can see these problems  now the first one is the fact that it's only got one 16 gig stick of ram and this is kind of like  throwing acid in an athlete's face before they have to do the hundred meters sprint it's just  such a stupid way to your system uh but let's see what speed this ram is in here  we have a ddr4 3200 megahertz now if it actually runs at that speed out of the box we're gonna  be losing about 20 percent of our gaming performance compared to two eight gig sticks  running in dual channel just because ryzen is a real memory bandwidth hog although if  it runs slower than that out of the box we're gonna lose a lot of gaming performance so asus  i hope you overclock this bad boy the second very big oof here which is this terrible looking little  cooler what is that this cooler is so tiny and it's sitting on a ryzen 7 3700x which is an 8  core 16 thread hot boy cpu using this cooler for this processor is kind of like trying to  put out a volcano with a super soaker at least i assume i mean maybe the airflow in the case will  compensate for it a bit i'm really interested to see what kind of temperatures we're gonna get with  this little small pp cooler as far as the graphics card goes this system is an nvidia rtx 2070 super  in it which is a great graphics card at this price point i just wish they didn't have a blower cooler  on it but looking around inside here this case has great airflow even though it only has one exhaust  fan so yeah i'm really curious to see what kind of temperatures we'll get and then another issue  that you can just kind of see through the side of the case is this motherboard has a pretty  terrible looking power delivery now for those of you losers that don't know what that means  basically one of the motherboards main jobs is to provide enough power to the processor so that it  can do all of its calculations and math and stuff but if the motherboard can't provide enough power  to the processor it's not going to be able to math as hard as it needs to and looking at this  motherboard pairing it with a power hungry cpu like the ryzen 7 3700x may be a little bit like  getting a tour de france athlete to compete on a tricycle made of their own tiers or it's  gonna be perfectly fine we'll have to wait till the thermals and the testing later in the video  i actually can't see what power supply that is i think all of the information is on the other  side of the unit i've unscrewed it but the way that they've set this up means that i'm gonna  have to pretty much entirely disassemble the system and unplug everything to get this unit  out so i'm gonna look on the internet and see what information i can find about itthe guy at best buy very excitedly told me that this gaming pre-built comes with  a mouse and keyboard so i'm hoping they're going to be gaming  great because i'm going to use them for this video oh oh oh no oh this is just  premium quality right there maybe the mouse will be better because it comes in this  sweet republic of gamers box oh geez oh no just this is like the worst mouse i've ever seenit's the moment of truth i'm so excited to switch this on and see what happens oh hereoh oh okay so we've got some some lighting effect happening this keyboard and mouse are are really  interesting i i think the technical term for what these are is is e-waste don't use no no basic  no no no now the most important step to evaluating the desktop user experience of a pre-built  is by having a look at all of the venereal disease installed on it i mean bloatware that it has  installed on it and straight off the bat it's got armory crate on it which is like asus's software  i am not a huge fan of armory crane it behaves quite suspiciously like a virus from the 90s  so i i don't love that that's on there but it's got a bunch of asus stuff in this asus prebuilt  so i guess you don't have much of a choice there it's good to see mcafee make a return uh i did a  video on an alienware pre-built a while ago and it actually didn't come with mcafee installed on  it out of the box so i felt a little bit scammed so it's nice to see that terrible bit of antivirus  on here other than that you've got the microsoft office stuff which is fairly run-of-the-mill and  then other than that it's not that bad it doesn't have much crap on it the ram is actually running  at 3 200 megahertz which is good that straight out of the box it's clocked to the speed that it  should be running it's still single channel though 2 terabyte games drive which is pretty good and  there's a 500 gig nvme ssd installed so this is a promising system but it just has these little  issues with it that ruins it uh potentially we'll see what kind of gaming performance  we get and what kind of temperatures and clock speeds we get with the cputhe gaming performance is perfectly reasonable in a vacuum all of the games at 1080p ran very  well except for crisis but that's because it was programmed by a room full of bonobos  oh yeah and escape from tarkov was running weirdly badly at these settings i actually have very  similar specifications to the system in my editing rig and i was getting better frame rates at 1440p  than i was at 1080p on this system so that's pretty weird now to diagnose this all i'm  going to do is i'm going to switch out that abomination of a single 16 gig stick for two  8 gig sticks to see how much of a difference that makes now i'm only going to compare like  a couple of games here because i've already done all of these tests with pretty much this exact  system so if you want more detail on that check out the video linked in the description below  but as you can see here with battlefield 5 you're getting about 20 more gaming performance exactly  as i said so yeah i'm clearly a professional that knows what he's talking about and then  when it comes to escape from tarkov the game ran way better like way better it felt significantly  better and that memory bandwidth really kills that game's gaming performance now i  want to briefly mention the temperatures again because they are under control on this system  although it does get very noisy and the fact that the case actually has pretty good airflow  is a bit of an issue here because there's nothing to obstruct all of the noise  of that shouting little cooler so it is very obnoxious on a desk next to yousurprisingly the power delivery seems to be handling that cpu very well the temperatures  weren't getting too hot although when it comes to the core clock it does run about 200 megahertz  slower than the core frequency on my editing system with a motherboard that has a really  good power delivery yeah it's pretty surprising it's it's handling it better than i thought so  it seems like everything's reasonably dandy here i mean you lose about 20 of your gaming performance  and it's very shouty but at least it's not hot and the power delivery can handle the chip  but that's what gaming what happens if you use a slightly more serious workload something like  ida 64 and fermark and with this admittedly fairly unreasonable workload you can see that the system  is really starting to sweat here that cooler is shouting louder than everand the cpu just bounces off of 100 degrees celsius every now and then it's not thermally  throttling yet but it's very nearly there the same goes for the motherboard's power delivery  which is sitting at 90 degrees celsius it's right on the edge of catching on fire here and that just  being on the border of catching on fire but never quite hitting that point is one of the things that  irritates me so much about this system and it brings me to the rant conclusion of this video  david's rant time and with that it brings me to my conclusion and it's rant time because  for the last year i've been buying a bunch of these off-the-shelf pre-built to see  if any of them are decent and this asus one is very close to being one of the best options on  the market all they needed to do was put a better motherboard in it with four ram  slots so that they could have two eight gig sticks in there with decent performance and  still offer future upgradeability if the vrm had proper cooling on it it would have been able to  more than just barely handle the cpu and if they put a proper cpu cooler on there it would be able  to run games without shouting like a banshee with its testicles caught in a door and that is just  the pre-built sob story all of the pre-built i look at have some major unnecessary compromise  and at a thousand five hundred dollars you shouldn't be making that compromise and the  reason that these companies cut these corners is because they know that the average consumer who  buys a pre-built at best buy doesn't know that this stuff's important they know that more ram  is better and that they may need a bigger hard drive and that an i7 is better than an i5 for some  reason but they don't know that they need decent cooling on their vrms or dual channel memory i was  actually standing waiting at the best buy while i bought this system watching a bunch of people  buying computers there and it's actually really sad because they're a bunch of noobs that don't  know anything about computers they just know what they want to do with it and nothing more and then  a company like asus and hp and alienware and all of those companies take advantage of these people  you're not supposed to be taking advantage of your customers you're supposed to be helping them out  asus you're better than that you know what you're doing like don't don't do stuff like this to your  consumer because you're taking advantage of them and that's naughty very very naughty so yeah with  that if you enjoyed this video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one  and check out all of my social media links in the description below and until the next video bye