Sponsor: Hyte Y70 Case on Amazon https://geni.us/p2lWP (or blue Y70 on Amazon https://geni.us/586E5q) We bought the ASUS G22CH-DH978 pre-built gaming PC to review, originally priced at $2500. The pre-built PC is one of the worst-configured, and combined with misleading marketing, wins the award of being the worst pre-built we've reviewed so far. ASUS misses the mark on CPU clocks massively, performs equivalently to an i7-13700K in some tests we ran (despite it being a 14900K), and is intentionally power throttled just like the Corsair One i500 that we reviewed. Watch our review of an ACTUALLY GOOD pre-built gaming PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1oHs73Fn4 Watch our Corsair One i500 review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqm4V-8F-7k The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - ASUS' Terrible Prebuilt (G22CH-DH978) 02:55 - They Can't Even Get the Specs Right 05:00 - The Definition of Cyberpunk 05:47 - Just Lie 06:20 - Price Comparison 08:35 - Benchmarks & DOWNCLOCKED CPU 10:59 - A Short Tear-Down 18:55 - Packaging Review 19:25 - Accessories & Bad Instructions 20:55 - BIOS Issues 22:13 - Windows Bloat 23:22 - Thermal Benchmarks 24:32 - Acoustic Testing 25:16 - Noise Sample of not a mini-fridge 25:41 - ASUS G22CH Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Test Lead, Writing Mike Gaglione: Editing, Camera Jeremy Clayton: Writing, Testing Tim Phetdara: Camera, Editing

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Driving Gamers Nexus to title “Worst prebuilt so far” jesus Asus what have you done?

    • Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      26·
      6 days ago

      Errors in spec sheet and instruction guide, tools-less design, that needs tools, tempered glass panel, that isn’t glass, proprietary hardware, slow laptop RAM, CPU that runs 1.3GHz below spec, loud/annoying sound, bloatware.

      Good packaging though.

        • JohnnyCanuckEnglish
          9·
          6 days ago

          Usually heat management (which means they probably didn’t install sufficient cooling).

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          Power (heat) modern (especially high end) CPUs and GPUs can see some impressive reductions in power with not too much of a hit to performance.

          My 4090 underclocked basically as far as it will go draws about 200 watts under normal loads, 250-300 under pretty extreme loads. But the performance penalty is only like 15%

          Normally when you want to save power in a desktop device you just throw a laptop CPU or GPU in there because those are tuned for better performance per watt…. Or just not an Intel CPU because AMD is so much better in that regard.