I Bought a $300 Gaming PC on TaoBao

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• Velly good video Linus 🙂

• by the way, really love your reviews, non biased and informative

• Hey,before your give out a judgement,renumber it's 300 bucks.

• 这种我们一般称之为 炸弹机 里面没有一个东西是知名品牌 e5邪教 以及长期用于区块链服务的显卡和服务器内存条 很多都是大陆外大船邮过来的处理器和内存 属于是出口转内销了🤣

• I read it like taco Bell 😭

• 这么说吧，我是中国人，老莱视频里买的电脑就是黑心商家出售的，这种套路在中国电商平台到处都是，这根本没有什么可以评价的价值😂😂😂

• Зионщики здесь? 😉

• Well, in Russia (atleast, like, couple of years ago) Xeon enthusiasts were so all over the place, it was almost sickening.
  There was, atleast one, basically a war between couple of youtubers, one was saying something like "xeons are best, buy them with my totally not affiliated link below" and other was saying something along the lines of "amd chips are better, even though they might require some tinkering".
  I dont remember where it all went but hey, its still a thing, for like 50$ to get somewhat capable xeon paired with memory and mobo, still sounds good, isnt it?

• Man, thank god for add blocker

• This computer isn't just running "a cracked version of Windows 10 Enterprise", it's running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (it can be seen at around 10:00). It's a version of Windows without any Microsoft bloatware that isn't strictly necessary for the computer to run, and it's meant for servers. LTSC stands for Long Term Support Channel, and the support window is 10 years! So this computer will get updates up to at least 2026, assuming that Windows 10 came out in 2016.

• some additional information from a Chinese friend here
  Typically Taobao is more like a giant grocery store, we would not prefer to buy any electronic gadgets from it (not for any tech enthusiast) unless it is a store opened by a very famous influencer. (like LTT, it's not common for influencers in China to set up a website just for spelling merchants)
  There is another platform called Jindong we use to buy tech stuff, and big companies' official store is often set up in JD as well (eg. intel, Asus, gigabytes, Ugreen, Seagate, western digital, and so on)
  And we prefer to build our computers than buy an already built system like this because there are lots of sellers who use almost broken parts to build systems and sell them at a high price for profit (like this time) once a customer gets tricked they quickly close their store change a name and start selling again
  and this happens on all platforms
  I'm not sure if you are tricked or not this time
  That old Xeon CPU in China is called garbage(costs around 60～70 bucks each, which is around 10 dollars) because it's most likely to be used in rough conditions, and also GPU probably came from a mining farm
  it's not just used parts, it's a bomb that will explode at any second

• the case looks better than the Antec case it seems to have copied, Dark Avenger (DA601) that I currently own.

  I had to remove the front because i wasn't getting enough airflow.

• 有点想笑，神秘的东方力量

• rep gaming pc

• 之前還有一個10美元左右的😅雖然我都叫他炸彈

• My dad has that exact same screw driver in his motorcycle that he got in 2003 and he uses it still to this day

• Why yall have 120 V power bro

• 14:58

  please, don't insult all other post soviet countries that are also part of this community. we are not russian. same way that you are not british even if you speak the same language. you can even see at 15:04 that there is ukrainian currency mentioned in the forum post. Ukraine is not russian. we are literally being killed and you still call the community "russian"

  tldr: "russian speaking" – ok. "russian COMMUNITY" – hell no

• That Cisco stick of ram came from a UCS blade, cheeky server 😛

• 17:22 Where are the links?

• As a Chinese audience, one thing I really dislike about Linus is that when he mentions Chinese electronic products or makes reviews, he will buy loads of products on Chinese websites that even the Chinese themselves think are low-end, in order to conform to the most stereotypes about China. The fact is that China, like many countries, is keen on high-quality and excellent products. These low-end products only exist to allow more low-budget customers to buy them. The fact is that quality products can be purchased in China, and even better priced products

• Pre-pandemic, at least 50% of my company was on desktops. A year or two before, it would have been closer to 80%. As of this year, I don't know that I've seen even one. Unfortunately, the days of buying used office desktops is probably passing quickly. Furthermore, 10 years ago or so, work laptops were much more serviceable. Today, they are generally junk and not worth updating by the time we replace them.

• Actually, if you build these stuff yourself, you just need $200. But you can't get that screwdriver🤣

• this video is great. Vellygood job everyone! lmao

• It's been like 2 years I've been playing on a Xeon E5 1660 V4 (gift) and a Huananzhi X99 motherboard and tbh ? I have no issue at all, yeah not W11 compatible and i can't put my computer to sleep (it shuts down) but for stock frequencies onnthe CPU, slight OC on the GPU, wifi card (hit or miss on that side though, but i use VR so ethernet cable required), normal NVME storage and sub 2080 GPUs it's damn perfect.

  Doesn't support 256GB of ram somehow (octo ? Channel) so i have 128 in quad, but it well over what i need for VR lol. So yeah i love those custom boards :3

• You can get a used gaming pc with a 1080ti for 3-400 gbp.

• Linus was kidding at 9:48 but not really lmaooooo

• Even charged with high international shipping fees, there are still many goodies in Taobao offering unmatched price in the US market. Recently I been looking for a HDMI 2.1 capable KVM and everything from Amazon is over $100 all the way up to several hundred. However in Taobao you can easily find deals below $40 that is actually superior than the $200 counterparts at Amazon. Same things goes for many other PC parts as well…

• Who orders in Antarctica😅

• I think its okay that they're reusing clearly still good items in new products.

• 12:18 that crosshair should be illegal

• 牛逼

• Zoro lost again 😂

• What the hell, I have the exact same rocket ship arrow keys on a cheap-ass keyboard I have on a secondary computer. They're black instead of white, though, and nothing else on the keyboard looks the same.

• I have two Machinist mobos. One has a 22 core xeon with ddr3 as a home server running proxmox. The other is the fastest 16 core xeon with ddr4. It replaced the 6600 in my desktop (while using the original memory with 2 additional sticks). I've run some of the benchmark that Linus uses and have matched a number of them to his AM5 Ryzens and an Intel. I'm not sure how it is able to keep up. Maybe I'm not doing the benchmark right. Anyway, it does a lot of blender and the pcie is a bottle neck to the 3070TI, but at <$200 USD, it has proven a decent upgrade. It will eventually get replaced by a Ryzen when rent goes down

• is there anybody can tell me what's the meaning of the rap- "On the streets late at night, cause I'm small." I am learning English.

• Spend $300, reformat it and install normal Windows and have a serviceable PC for a few years? I've seen worse deals.

• So much screen tear

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