Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S5:E3

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[WowAdonyz]

Thanks again Greg for fixing the system for me. It’s been running amazing and I’ve been playing for hours and no crashing.

[wrmblood]

That rear I/O was just depressing to look at.

[Fvviff]

Love your videos. My only advice as a viewer of your content for some time, try not to keep Apologizing all the time for not upgrading or changing something for someone. You already do ALOT for viewers if we are being honest compared to so many other tech youtubers I follow. The fact that you even do small upgrades for someone like a PC case, PSU, Fans, or w/e else is already going a LONG way. Appreciate your videos! keep up the good work

[gmcanepa]

I think the biggest peformance hit comes from the single stick of RAM. The owner should definitely upgrade that ASAP.

[redbeardrpg]

Great Wall is an OEM brand. They make power supplies for several reputable brands. That should be a decent power supply.

[watercannonscollaboration]

This PC almost completes OEM bingo: bad CPU cooler, barebones motherboard, sealed off case, single channel memory. At least it doesn’t have too much proprietary headers and PSUs so some of the parts were able to be reused which is always good

[Trainbuff]

I took a handful of DDR5 Laptop RAM, CR2032 batteries, & small NVMe drives, buried them in my backyard, and hopefully after placing them in the right soil and watering them everyday, will grow to be a tall and beautiful Hardware Tree

[ChrisHNgo]

Great wall is one of the big OEMs for PSU alot of the basic PSUs tend to be a rebrand of theirs

[FireDemon]

I feel bad for anyone that buys a pre-built like this one. Y'all deserve more than this!

[bbot]

That CPU cooler is so horrible. Wow that is a totally stripped-down motherboard. I've never seen one that stripped down.

[thseed]

May not have been the craziest repair troubleshoot, but I feel like helping address a pre-Built PC's issues is great. It shows people who might be afraid to take on their own build that it isn't that hard to do and that you don't always get what you pay for in the pre-Built segment. Great job and PC for the video

[anarcyu]

Great Wall are actually very legit. Corsair has (dunno if they still do) bought and relabelled Great wall units in the past, and other companies have done the same including dell. They are perfectly acceptable units

[Lowsky__]

Ahhh the classic Best Buy builds that always has issues. Best Buy’s way to get u to spend $100 just for them to tell u they don’t know what’s wrong with it.

[benbarnhart]

Great Wall makes great PSUs. They make private label PSUs.

Same with Super Flower and FSP.

[kirikayuumura]

Great Wall is an OEM PSU manufacturer and one of the biggest there is, of who other name brands use to make their PSU's, such as Corsair's "CX" and "TX-M" for an example.

[Mayden_America]

I had the "black screen 100% fan speed" issue on one of my previous systems before. Stress tests wouldn't cause it to happen, but certain games would. The problem was unrelated to thermals but was the *Asus* motherboard causing the issue. I swapped out the board for a different brand and the problem went away. I'm concerned that this PC might come back to you with the same issue.

[yourfavoritelawnguy]

My first pc was a prebuilt ASUS from BestBuy, it came in a funny shaped case that left me with zero upgrade options graphics card or ram wise. While I learned about pc's and pc building I started wanting more, so while I saved to buy all the pieces for a new pc I decided to mod/hack up my current proprietary shit box via a pcie riser and a standalone psu to power the gtx1080ti I had bought off craigslist, threw that 750ti in the trash so fast. Was so ready to do something with my new found love of pc's I ended up putting a water-cooling adapter plate and an AIO on the 1080ti, even though it ran perfectly cool before as it sat outside of the case and got fresh air coming from the air vent in my office. Long story short, don't buy a prebuilt that is not built using off the shelf parts.

[j.p.h.]

According to GN the Great Wall PSU is fine not good but not bad.

[stratuvarious]

It's disgusting to call your "high end" prebuilt line Republic of Gamers and not provide enough functional ports in the rear I/O for actual functionality.

[JosephKinney]

I’m not gonna give you crap for when you do or don’t give free upgrades. It’s your channel and, honestly, even a free diagnostic puts you ahead of most repair shops. I’ve seen some places charge upwards of $100 just to crack open the case and poke around. Folks need to stop whining and pay attention to all the free stuff you’re already giving away before an upgrade even happens. Keep up the good work. You’re truly doing your part and I’m happy you still get to earn a living through monetization of these videos.