The All China PC

What happens when you build a computer out of parts made by China’s top “unknown in the West” brands? Is the RAM rammin? Is the SSD solid? Is the GPU a GPU-ty or more of a G-pee-ew stinky mess?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Processor
1:34 Motherboard
3:30 RAM
4:53 SSD
6:14 AIO CPU cooler
7:00 Case
8:02 GPU
9:41 Power Supply
12:10 Monitor
13:07 Turning it on
13:21 Mouse
14:38 Keyboard
16:59 Trying it all together
17:47 The BIOS & Mystery GPU Power Button
19:08 Gaming & Conclusion

[matthewjalovick]

You all know how with quantum physics a particle in superposition can technically be in two different states at once? I’m almost entirely certain that’s what’s happening with Bearded Linus and Beardless Linus. They both exist but they’re unaware of one another.

[billyeveryteen]

It's worth noting that the weight of the PSU doesn't necessarily mean much. It was pointed out to Linus before in a previous video that if China is manufacturing a PSU to only be sold or used in China, then they don't have to bother making them dual voltage, which would make it far lighter than a PSU intended to be used in both North America and Europe.

[mtzrkph]

The power supply being a Chinese power supply and likely intended for Chinese distribution is probably intended to run at 220 volts. Therefore, it probably is a true 1200 watt power supply and that's why it's so light because higher voltage, less amperage, you don't need such heavy wiring and components.

[KTC]

Hey Linus, thanks for the shoutout! Glad you're loving our stuff. From China to Amazon, KTC's on a roll! Happy gaming to all! 🎮

[ckh.joseph]

The subtitles which are like those comments on BiliBili are so hilarious. Wonder if it was Andy's idea

[mevans]

Meanwhile the All Japan PC is literally an office computer from 2002, built from before most regular PC users were born

[thehobnob]

The "Legacy compatibility mode" was introduced in a BIOS update back when Alder Lake was new in response to some game copy protection systems freaking out when tasks were shuffled between P- and E-cores - you should find it in pretty much every 12th/13th/14th-gen board's BIOS, though who knows where some folks bury it

[Batyalas]

17:18 my heart nearly dropped when you rotated the PC

[Li_Qifei]

BTW the prices you see on Chinese websites are all after tax. So what you see is what you gonna pay for in the end. There is no x plus tax thing.

[raiebread]

That 100 Acre Wood line caught me so off guard haha

[dabkevinhere]

Naming a power supply fire is a questionable move

[JLStudioCA]

One of the best videos you’ve done lately - with major kudos to the writing team for the hard research and providing viewers with ample context. Heard about this one upcoming from the WAN show, did not disappoint!

[kevin_mx]

That ZHITAI PC005 Active 1TB SSD is almost a 4-year old product.
YMTC do have some drives which offers much higher performance, like TiPlus 7100 (PCI-E gen 4 w/HMB), TiPro 7000 (PCI-E gen 4 w/DRAM cache), etc.
Combined with Maxio and Innogrit's PCI-E gen 4 controllers their speed is pretty awesome.
I personally have a few of them on my PC and NAS.

[zeyuzhang]

It’s a bit weird that PC005 is in the build. It’s the very first of YMTC’s SSDs with only 64-layer TLC and gen3 link and released back in 2020. Now they offer 232-layer NAND chips on their own Zhitai brand and many 3rd party SSDs in domestic market and are really competitive with micron or kioxia solutions. These SSDs often boasts higher erase/write counts (for example 3600TBW on a 2TB drive) and the price tends to be slightly lower. I’ve just shipped two drives from China to the states for my NAS and they are of great value👍

[amf]

9:00 being compared to Asus is bad in China because back in 2018, someone ordered a supposedly new ROG laptop online and when he went to the shop to retrieve and pay for it, he was informed that the laptop is in fact refurbished, and he also needed to pay more than what he initially agreed on, after some arguments he was beating by 5 Asus employees then thrown out of the store.

[IsleyNumber]

"100 acre Wood"
Yeah that's not getting the same subtitle on bilibili

[travisvaught]

This was a really cool build video. Especially appreciated the context on the different companies and who owned them and what other things they’ve done. Would love to see this repeated for other countries.

[TNGYun]

I bought every single component of my brother's pc whilst visiting family in china, then went back to the uk with it. An all white, rtx 3080 i5-12600k pc with a 2k 144hz monitor setup only costed £1000 all new

[darkcomlee]

The Zhitai PC005 SSD is made for Server storage XD, Zhitai 7000 series and 7100 series are made for personal PC storage.

[jasonluu]

From what I'm given to understand in regards to the CPU (worked in Military aerospace in the US): Any technology that is used on anything sensitive here in the US that is defined by the US gov. as such cannot be imported to China via these security laws for US based companies. These special editions are typically a way around that, by making it a different SKU with different performance or may slight tweaks in enough areas they can now be imported without bother from the government, it's the industries worst kept secret.