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HUGE Upset Victory – $1500 PC Secret Shopper 3 – Part 4

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It’s finally here, Secret Shopper Part 4! Where we tested all of our $1500 prebuilts and crown the winner. Who could the most winning-est system integrator be?

Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1549426-huge-upset-victory-1500-pc-secret-shopper-3-part-4/

Check out where we shopped!

Dell: https://lmg.gg/biUia
CyberPowerPC: https://lmg.gg/vbaVv
HP: https://lmg.gg/yaMa5
iBUYPOWER: https://lmg.gg/9bTM8
MAINGEAR: https://lmg.gg/BnQRA
NZXT: https://lmg.gg/ZgAhD
OriginPC: https://lmg.gg/cwz5d
Starforge Systems: https://lmg.gg/1HwMI

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo – Supernova
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana – Sugar High
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:51 DELL
3:25 CYBERPOWER
5:46 HP
8:05 IBUYPOWER
12:29 MAINGEAR
14:52 NZXT
17:26 STARFORGE
19:55 Gaming Benchmarks
22:49 And the winner is…
23:38 Outro

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47 thoughts on “HUGE Upset Victory – $1500 PC Secret Shopper 3 – Part 4

  • I am a bit curious whether or not these secret shopper videos (from LTT and others) have any effect on pre-built market. I understand that average buyer is rather foolish, but surely these come up quickly when just browsing pre-built reviews on youtube. Then again, I might give too much credit to the average person.

  • 23:40
    Sounds like somebody forgot to silence their cellphone on the set…

  • I'd like to see Lenovo in here next year with their legion line up over Dell. Its clear, dell is borderline a scam when it comes to gaming computers.

  • dell basically has never updated their actual BIOS. just tweaked it for new chipsets.

  • For the issues with iBUYPOWER and the motherboard, after working with Geek Squad and identifying this issue. It is because iBUYPOWER, will usually tack on a Y1 or Y2 to the end of the model number for the motherboard. This essentially allows them to have a custom BIOS created for ease of build, BUT MSI (or other board makers) software will not recognize the motherboard even if it is a genuine MSI board. It is labeled on the board itself, and if you look into it further, the motherboard legitimately "forgets" that the board is a MSI PRO B760-VC and instead thinks it is a MSI PRO B760-VC-Y1, which technically is not a legitimate motherboard. The only way around that is a very specific series of events that someone listed, I cannot find them now, but it was long and tedious to get a version of motherboard that can be updated.

  • I really dislike all the ways dell prevents you from upgrading your device. This has been true for as long as I can remember.

  • This video looks amazing on my OLED thanks to the HDR. Nice work LTT.

  • the best part about HP is they are actually trying to innovate with some of their models, like that custom case a year ago that separated the Radiator from the rest of the pc in its own raised section so that it wasn't pushing warm recycled air through the rad. It didn't have totally game changing performance differences, but its stuff like that which really tells me these guys care about trying to make a good product.

  • I love these! Can't wait for the next one. Only show my spouse will watch

  • I suspect the PugetBench Davinci issue was precisely to do with AMD. I have an AMD laptop and I've wanted to switch to Davinci for editing but it refuses to work on this system and I have read that AMD GPU drivers just do not get along well with Davinci.

  • One company that was missed: Build Redux. Despite it being an LLT sponsor, I'm curious to see how they perform.

  • Love this series hope to see it again next year!!

  • is there a table somewhere in or outside the video comparing the components of each build,
    not sure if i missed it somewhere

  • XMP being on… is there a liability or labor cost or something to dissuade these guys from turning it on?

  • here we go! my 3070 ti is dying and now i need a new gpu or pc..
    edit: waited all that time for part 4 and felt a little bored throughout, and got fed like 2-3 ads. Not including the ads I'd get without YT premium. Jeez

  • Not many complete system buyers have the know how to make the systems perform the best. so please test with the settings they are sent. When that is done you can make changes. But they should be tested as they come without changing anything.

  • lots of companies and lots of pointless specs. most people are on pcs that are either second hand or are at least 4 years old. PCs need a complete change.

  • this is the one video that these companies dread and waits for… this is where who is needs to prepare for the added customers and who needs to be taking notes on what they should do better. we the users and people look at these to see who is gonna be our next PC from.. (if your not gonna build one your self). thank you LTT crew for your dedication and effort to give us the most honest and best PC that we could want .. happy holidays and happy newyears to you and all

  • I have a HP P6 2003W been my main machine until 2020. Ran basic games like American Truck simulator, Farming simulator 19 and Roblox fine. Never had a slow desktop experience. Planing to upgrade it to 6600 or 7600 with a 3600 or 5600.

  • On the subject of your ugreen sponsor
    I have a very niche use case of a laptop cart, well, about 12 laptop carts, that house 36 laptops each. I cannot wait for a 35-45w charger that is only the size of a standard north american 3 prong plug.
    For one it would fit nicely in that little elastic strap on the back of my steamdeck case, but also these laptop carts can be cleaned up so much instead of needing a power brick that sits in a basket with a bunch of cables, the cable can just run directly from the strip through the cable management, and to the laptop.

    Edit, while i'd also be happy with a power strip that just has USB-C ports but that would basically be a custom solution just for that cart, and locks me out of using other charging methods in the future.

  • On the next, can you put relative dates not absolute? "August 20th 2023" for GPU drivers, I don't know when you filmed this or when the PCs arrived, so not sure how good that is.

  • Clearly the ram setup of the cyberpowerPC is killing it in the benchmarks.
    Anything with almost 2GB OF RAM 😂needed like Dota2 it won’t matter but for a AAA title dual channel low latency memory will make a huge difference especially at 1080p

  • next time please include some european options. PCSpecialist are pretty big and operate in several countries.

  • DELL, wow, CD Rom drive in it, i need that !

  • You definitely should have left xmp and everything disabled if it didn't come enabled. Test it out of the box as is.

  • Benchmarking Dota in a locally-hosted bots game is a terrible idea. It uses a client-as-terminal model, which means that during an actual multiplayer game no calculations are done client-side; it all happens on Valve servers and the client just receives data to display. So, when you run a game locally, you load the CPU with running the server and bots’ AI, while in an actual multiplayer game Dota uses almost no CPU power

  • Would never give HP my money after their anti-consumer printer scanners that force you to buy subscription ink just to use the scanner. Once the trust is gone, it's gone forever.

  • Respectful FEEDBACK: You guys should have Fahrenheit shown also for us Americans. It saves us a lot of time so we don’t have to convert C to F. Anyway. Still love these kind of vids. Keep em coming and have a happy New Years.

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