Building a PC... using only Wish.com

- Now we know it's already been done, but let's go. To be fair, we thought about doing this a long time ago. It just takes a while to ship things from Wish.com. You guys loved our PC versions from Amazon and Monoprice so much that we couldn't resist doing it again, but with a more sketchy twist. So buckle up, guys, because I can guarantee you that this is not going to go as planned. Speaking of unforeseen events, I should have planned a better transition to our sponsor, GlassWire. With GlassWire, you can monitor the applications on your PC to see if any of them are suspicious or misbehaving.

Check it out at the link below and use offer code linus to get 25% off GlassWire. (upbeat electronic music) Alright, first step, put on my LTT hoodie, lttstore.com. Step two, let's start unpacking this stuff. So, first is our case. You can tell it's very high quality because even with my weak left sauce arm, I can easily manipulate it here. Let's go ahead and do a little scrub for you guys. (Plastic creaking) Oh, yes. (Plastic crunch) Uh-oh, that wasn't a good shell. You know what, though, the case actually feels better quality than the plastic. Oh, oh, shit, I folded it.

So I was holding it by the IO clipping (laughs) and I actually warped it a little bit. I think I'll pick it up as planned from now on. However, as far as features go, this actually doesn't look that bad. We have three front USBs, including a USB three, power, reset, front ports, we have, wow, an easily removable magnetic fan filter with room for a couple of 120 millimeter fans up here. It actually includes what appears to be a 120-millimeter RGB fan, although it may just be labeled red, green, and blue. The side panel is mounted with this style of tempered glass, but it is actually an acrylic side panel.

And then look at this. It has that perforated style back panel. So you have a little bit of room back here for cable management. I don't want to say a ton, but a little is better than none. That's a strange fan. As if it were a 120 millimeter frame, but those sheets are small. So this is what I'm talking about. Look how big the blades on that 120 millimeter one are compared to the other one. It's like a 90 millimeter fan in a 120 millimeter frame. It has a thick frame, it's strange. This is a cool feature. In fact, here you have a color code on your switches and your LEDs.

And it seems to correspond to the colors used by at least some manufacturers. I'm pretty sure ASUS uses blue for rebooting. How much do we pay for this? - 97 US dollars. - Nine what! So apparently the cases aren't a great deal on Wish.com. At least it has a tempered glass front panel. Alright, let's open our next mystery package here. Ah, a motherboard. (Plastic crunch) What's with all the bubble wrap around this thing? I mean, (laughs) to be fair, it still looks like he got kicked. So here are a couple of takeaways. First, all the extra packaging seems justified.

And two, the way they apply the extra packaging is not very effective. (laughs) Oh, that's interesting. Yes, this motherboard is not that at all. Full test, okay. Alright. So this is clearly a very used board. Was it clear from the list what was going to be used? Well, how much did we pay for this bad boy? - 46 dollars. - 46 dollars for an H61 plate? That's not even good business. Why do people buy these things? And do you know how much these outlet covers cost if you buy them in bulk? I know, pennies. They put a piece of paper on it.

Look at this. That's it, that's the plug cover on it. Now, to be fair, it doesn't look like there are any bent pins, so that's fine. But it's still not how I would have preferred it to be done. Alright, apparently we also have a CPU. And it comes in what looks like a Compact Flash card case, which I guess is pretty cute. It is an Intel Core i3-2130. I assume this was the CPU they had that was compatible with the board they had. How much do we pay for this guy? - $49. - 50 dollars? Oh really?

This is a fraud. So for the price of this CPU and motherboard, we probably could have gotten an old Dell business PC that would have included a case, power supply, probably a drive, and some RAM. I could have just thrown a graphics card at it, but what the hell. Before I begin, I was informed that I actually have two options for refrigerators. I have this Great Wall heatsink. I kinda like this. This is actually very similar to the old Zalman flower coolers that used to be popular on the socket 754 days ago. So that's candidate number one.

And candidate number two is actually an AIO liquid cooler. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised, since they're all basically made in China anyway. But this looks very, very similar in materials and construction to what you would get from an AIO cooler that you normally buy on Amazon or whatever. As for the tubes, it seems like the materials they are

using

are fine. It looks like an aluminum radiator, it's quite light. But that should be fine, except there is a copper block, except some manufacturers do that. I don't know what they're doing, it's a little crazy. Okay, you know what?

If the AIO fits, then we'll go with that. But there's no guarantee we'll be able to fit it in here, because even though it has supports for dual 120 millimeter fans up here, that doesn't mean there'll be enough room once we install a power supply. And no, in fact, there isn't. So it looks like we can't use our AIO cooler and unfortunately we'll be stuck with our usual heatsink. So how much did each of them cost? -So the air cooler was $17 and the AIO was $80. - So our theme continues: our prices are not necessarily outrageously bad on these.

I'd say $80 for, I don't know, a pretty decent looking AIO is okay, but it's certainly not special. So it should be a matter of throwing our clips here. And clip one and clip two, move it a little bit and connect it. Do we also buy RAM on Wish? Ah, there it is. Oh, wow. That's something, hey, wait a second. Wait a second. I'm pretty sure they don't have the rights to use this image. This is Vaseky's high performance DDR. And you can tell they have a really high budget and care a lot about their packaging when they use the same packaging for everything from DDR3 1333 to DDR4 3200.

Like, ah, it's something like this, something like that. Let's go ahead and install these things. This is a DDR3 1333. I am very glad I spent money on this. How much do we spend? - $40. $40 for eight concerts. Did you know? I think that's actually not entirely unreasonable. The funny thing about memory is that when a new memory specification comes out, like DDR2 or DDR3 or whatever, it's very expensive. And then it becomes cheap when the entire market adopts it. Then it becomes expensive again when it becomes like an old technology and becomes more specialized. Alright, here we go, friends.

I'm going to attach our case fan to the bottom of the motherboard here. Wow, that's really curious. This case, you know, actually seemed fine at first, but it's nothing exceptional. Look at this. Our bottom fan here, which is pre-installed, and it seems to me that the reason it's pre-installed is that almost none of the other fan mounts will be accessible because of the tempered glass panel here and the power supply here, it actually interferes with What the bottom slot would be if we had a full four-slot mATX motherboard. As if this isn't very well thought out at all.

Now seems like a good opportunity to go back to our solid state drive. It is another Vaseky product. This is the V800 256G. At least this one is clearly labeled. But I have to wonder if this is an old box. Didn't someone buy SandForce like 1,000 years ago? I'd be surprised if it even used a SandForce controller. Whoa, oh, it just falls apart. Now maybe we can see what he uses. This has nothing to do with SandForce at all. It's a Silicon Magic controller, but not the one listed online, which is actually good because at least this one is SATA 3, unlike the SATA 2 that this product says it uses.

Unfortunately, this is, in fact, a cashless DRAM SSD. It doesn't have any RAM. And a while ago we made a video about that explaining why it's a terrible, terrible, terrible idea. And in some cases, you may even get better performance from a mechanical hard drive compared to a cashless SSD. There you go. I mean, it's nothing we didn't already know, but we wouldn't recommend it. Let's install it on our computer. How much did I pay for that? - You paid, I think, 56 dollars. -56 dollars? I mean capacity for capacity, that's not a terrible deal. But for a shitty SSD like this, it's not a good deal.

Oh boy. When your SLI still uses a lowercase i because you haven't updated any of your stuff since 2010. (laughs) Oh wow. Now let's take a look at our connectors here. So, we have two cables, each of which is a Molex and a SATA. Wow, this wiring is very cheap. Even the plastic on the connectors looks cheap. On a positive note, I think we have all the connectors we need. Four pins for the CPU, 24 pins for the motherboard, six pins for, of course, the graphics card. So, we are pretty sure this one is a scam. Actually, how much did I pay, speaking of scams, for this garbage? - $31. -31 dollars?

That's too expensive. Not that you should use even a good $31 PSU in a decent machine. A power supply is one of those things, it's just not worth the expense. And wow, look at this. So if I had to guess I would say it's a 460 Ti or a 560, what is it? - That's a 1060. - A 1060? It doesn't even have a six-pin power connector. 1060, my ass. Wait, the Nvidia 10 series doesn't even support VGA. Oh you. How much did I pay for this? - $45. - 45 dollars. Well, at least the price was right. Alright, let's go ahead and install this piece as hot trash.

Now normally your power supply is supposed to be the one that came with the mounting screws, but they either fell out of the hole in the bottom of the case or they just weren't included. So what we're going to do is recover a couple of what appear to be power supply compatible screws, but which appear to have been designed for expansion cards. So what's our total bill for the tower? - - With the air cooler, it costs $380. - $380 with air cooler option. That's brutal. That's a lot more than I would pay for this. Now our PC is ready, but what we still don't know is how true the manufacturer's claims about their products were.

To find out, we will have to install Windows and turn it on. But before we can do that, of course, we'll need some peripherals. Let's start with the Ziyou Lang Wolf Rainbow Light K16 gaming keyboard. Wow. This may be the lightest keyboard you have ever felt. Then also from the same brand I think, although this time it's in Chinese instead of English, but here it's the same logo, we have a kind of gaming mouse I guess. That is literally the spongiest click I have ever felt on anything. You can even see that much of that travel is absorbed by the PCB underneath.

See how much that port moves? That's gross. Well, I've actually seen this. This mouse pad is a good deal. Alright, how much did the peripherals cost us? - The grand total is $56.33. - And does that include the mouse pad? - That includes the mouse pad. Well, at least the price is right for the peripherals, because these are definitely $10 peripherals here. Alright, that's it, ladies and gentlemen. Our epic gaming setup is now ready for a Windows installation and gaming test. We'll be right back. Alright, we're downloading some games. We will install some drivers. But before we do that, I have an update for you.

This power supply was even worse than we expected. Not

only

did it suck, but it didn't work at all. So we had to use a TX750 to power the system. The good news is that once we did that, we were at least able to install Windows. Yes, by now it's clear that this is not a build you guys would want to emulate. But subscribe if you're not already, because we'll be publishing a Ryzen build guide very soon. It will be more according to the rules. Now let's take some time to explore what kind of hardware we actually end up with here.

So we'll turn on hardware information, turn on our device manager, and see what we're looking at. One thing I already discovered is that this computer is not very fast. (Laughs) Alright, we'll start with the device manager. You can see all of our automatically installed drivers, like our chipset and all that kind of stuff. It's older hardware, so Windows knows what to do with it. So it turns out that this is, in fact, a Core i3-2130. So that's good, I guess. Okay, okay, gigabit, ethernet, blah blah, everything hereseems fine, but we don't have a GPU driver yet.

So that doesn't appear. It says here that we have a GTX 1050 Ti. In fact, here we have the Nvidia drivers unzipping in the background. But we activate hardware information and this is very funny. Sandy Bridge processor, fake Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti. It is not, a fake is not enough for this. Two fakes. This is a GF116 which, if I remember correctly, is Fermi. That is a very, very old GPU. Unfortunately, because you don't report anything here, we have no way of knowing at this time which one it is. So the

only

way to find out will be to try installing some real drivers so that it can hopefully identify itself correctly.

So let's try the Nvidia installer here and see what happens. Oh, wow. He successfully installed the driver. It's still reported as 1050 Ti, interesting. So I thought we were actually going to have to install the driver disk included with these hacky drivers. Look, that seems really legit. But it looks like the driver managed to install and they even tricked the Nvidia control panel into thinking it was a 1050 Ti. That being said, we haven't tried launching any games yet. Alright, we ran into our first hiccup when trying to press Alt Z to see just a quick and dirty frame counter in the game.

I went into GeForce Experience here and went to configure my settings. And in theory we meet the system requirements because we have a 600 series or higher, but in practice the configuration button simply does not work. And when you press alt Z, nothing appears because, no, this is not actually a 600 series GPU. So we'll just have to look at it. (laughs) Yes, oh, no. The good news is that this is working without problems. The bad news is that this is Rocket League. It is not exactly characterized by being a particularly demanding title. And I'm dead. We found our problem.

Fermi only had HDMI 1.3. So that was limited to 2048 for 1536 at 75 hertz. That's a bit insufficient for 2560 by 1440, 60 hertz, which is the native resolution of this monitor. So when we try to run it, confusion arises. So I think the last thing we have left to do is figure out exactly what graphics card we're dealing with here. So, we'll go ahead and run 3DMark. We will use DirectX 11 Fire Strike. And we'll see what types of systems perform similarly to ours in GPU performance. And it crashed. What can you tell me about this error? The workload produced no results.

So this could be a couple of things. It could be that 3DMark was expecting the GPU to support features that it, in fact, didn't support and some sort of error occurred, or it could be part of 3DMarks' anti-cheat procedures to check if something is being erroneously reported as something else. , so that people couldn't, you know, upgrade RTX 2080 Ti to GTX 1050 Ti and then, you know, completely dominate the leaderboards. Either way, it looks like we won't actually be able to run 3DMark to validate what our graphics card is, which, at this point in the video, I think is fine anyway, because it doesn't really change the conclusion. .

Any time you buy something and what you get is not what it says, it's a bad deal. And, frankly speaking, even most of the things that were what they said they were going to be, weren't amazing deals either. So, the old saying definitely holds true here. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I think the cooler is the only thing on this computer that I think is even remotely worth getting. It has cool RGB lighting effects and why, $17? I suposs you are well. Speaking of which, our sponsor. - Knock Knock. - I don't want any.

Ha, do you understand? I don't have to say who's there because I have a Ring Doorbell. Ring wants you to know who is at your door without even getting up. And the Ring Doorbell Camera Kit includes Video Doorbell 2, Spotlight Camera, and Solar Security Signal. Video Doorbell 2 has a motion sensor camera with 1080 HD resolution and 160 degrees of view. It features two-way audio and is powered by a battery or eight to 24-volt AC doorbell wiring. The featured camera also has 10 ADP and features two-way talk, as well as LED lights, battery or solar power in this case. And it can also act as a siren.

And your solar safety sign is designed to act as a general deterrent since they know they will be monitored if they are going to be near your property. The whole kit is great as you can use it to turn away unwanted guests, and my personal favorite of course is to let the Amazon delivery driver know, know, wait, wait, wait a second, I'm coming. . Don't leave, don't leave with my package, I want it today. So enjoy peace of mind with the Ring Doorbell Camera Kit. It is compatible with iOS, Android, Mac and Windows, and we have it linked in the video description.

So thanks for watching, guys. If you want to buy a GPU that isn't a scam, check out our recent GPU Buyer's Guide. It covers everything currently on the market at different prices. See you. (hits the ball) Oh, my toe. Ah, sandals, okay, that's the only downside. There you have it, guys. I think that's where I hit him. So whatever happens here (laughs), someone was not happy with the delivery of this package.