PC Part Disaster: Disappointment PC Build 2023 (Worst Parts of the Year)

The Disappointment PC series is a super fun way for us to reset and recalibrate our expectations as reviewers and consumers, because it forces us to look at a year's worth of the worst products. We already posted a bunch of Best Of round-ups, so now we need to look back and cherish the moments of complete and utter let-down from each of the big PC companies. This past year began with hope as cryptomining collapsed and released its deathgrip on GPU prices, only to give way to a newfound AI obsession from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel that ultimately began re-driving some of those prices back up. We also got to witness the pure hubris required to launch a 16GB RTX 4060 Ti for $500 and target it at "1080p gaming," perhaps challenged only by ASUS' best efforts to blame the customer when CPUs exploded in their motherboards. And of course, our thanks to Intel for sneaking its Snake Oil meme in right before the end of the year.

Your support on these projects -- even just watching and sharing with friends -- allows us to keep doing what we do, and we enjoy starting the year fresh with a fun project. Enjoy, everyone! And thank you for all your support in 2023. We hope you have a great year and look forward to serving you more reviews in 2024!


DISAPPOINTMENT SERIES

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - GPU AI OBSESSION
04:28 - The Worst Parts of the Year
05:50 - 4070 Ti Marketing Lies
08:36 - Samsung's Dying SSDs
09:15 - Used GPU Fraud
10:01 - CEO AI Memes, ft. Intel, AMD, & NVIDIA
12:46 - Bad Games: Starfield & Cities Skylines 2
15:27 - Origin Pre-Built Disaster
15:58 - SEVEN SEGMENT MINI-RANT
17:17 - Exploding CPUs & ASUS
18:55 - The 4060 Ti 16GB & RX 7600
20:50 - CPUs Give Us Hope - And Take It Away
23:45 - THE POSITIVES
25:55 - GN's 2024 Plans

** 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:


Host, Writing, Video Editing: Steve Burke
Camera, Video Editing: Vitalii Makhnovets
Video Editing: Tim Phetdara

[GamersNexus]

The team is super excited for our testing and content plans this year and we remain grateful that you all watch. Our goal is to keep providing even more useful content!

Watch previous Disappointment Builds:

[Beef]

"A self collapsing tesseract of bullshit" - Steve just summed up the entirety of the gaming, software and hardware market of the year 2023!

[botagasss]

This is the one tech channel that has kept on improving, stayed true to its values and continues to amaze us with their established scientific methods. This is the channel that I can still trust on being accurate, true, and if I'm being honest, this channel is the main focus in the tech world where even companies take notice to what you say. Thank you for keeping up with the news, releases and content up until now, and have a great rest of the new year!

[brutusthecat]

I just want to say, "Thanks Steve" and team for a great year of content, it really helped me in a new build this year!

[yakitatefreak]

Every time I start to fall away from the PC space, this "Disappointment PC Build" series seems to get me right back into the groove of watching tech YouTubers.

[FrenziedManbeast]

Great way to close out the year. GN should be proud of the work and service to the consumer for helping keep objective reporting a priority in the industry, instead of affiliate sponsored/driven video content. I will be continuing my Patreon and viewer support for the foreseeable future. As a final note you may find good to know: your latest memory manufacturing video was informative and entertaining. My wife normally wouldn't care about such content, but as she works in manufacturing she enjoyed both the editing and your excellent coverage of the process. Best of luck in 2024 from us in West Virginia.

[zachmullins]

Let me just say, I don't care how much this intro cost to make. This was one of the best things you guys have produced from an "artistic" stand point. As someone who comes here solely for the facts, cut and dry exactly as is...this was actually REALLY nice and cool. I don't know whose idea this was, but some more creative freedom like this moving forward would be great to see!

[Alkashar]

Only just returned to PC building after a decade long hiatus. I have to say i find your information and reviews to be right on the money . I am quite impressed - especially in regards to the 7 segment displays issue. As a Technician who works with a broad range of industrial equipment types from compactors/bailers, freight lifts, electric over hydraulic equipment and automated sytems. These are a must for diagnsotics. I am always pleased when i arrive to a faulted machine and find a 7 segment display - especially when the machine itself is located deep inside a sites facility. it reduces my need to bring in $2000 worth of equipment into hazardous environments to Diagnose the most basic issues.

[CelestialVeggie]

This is brilliant. Thanks Steve (and team)!

[StuccDude]

That intro deserves all the awards. That was amazing.

[soykac]

I love these vids. Wish the team had more time to do goofy shiz.

[TearyBoi]

Thanks Steve & Team for another fantastic year of objective, reliable and intelligently funny tech reviewing and reporting. Looking forward to all your big plans in 2024!

[dark___matter_]

Another year of PC memes down, another year to go 😂 thanks guys and God bless! ❤

[cavemandan]

Props to the editor. This video was paced amazingly and the cuts up the humor.

[anursedyuer]

Thank you Steve & team! Looking forward to another great year.

[tonderr]

Thanks for being the best channel on YouTube for me personally, and the only one that totally deserves support such as this!

[cymonthebest]

Holy crap. I commented in 2022 dissapointment build to release the 2023 now.... and you guys just did it.. thanks steve.

[Martial-Mat]

Can we please talk about the way that Asus' Armoury Crate is basically a hostile organism that takes over your PC, modifies a TON of critical system files, eats up a ton of system resources, all so that you can turn off the goddamned motherboard carnival lights when you turn your PC off?

[eflarsen]

$500 for 1080p gaming is still insane. the 7800XT is around $500 and it's for lower-FPS 4k gaming (and is the one i'm planning on putting in my 1440p build)

[robenglish]

I love the factory tours, please keep up that sort of content. Thank you again for an incredible 2023 Steve!