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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
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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
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Driving Gamers Nexus to title “Worst prebuilt so far” jesus Asus what have you done?
What’s the point of underclocking the CPU?
Usually heat management (which means they probably didn’t install sufficient cooling).
Weirdly the temps were good, with like 20c headroom. Steve speculated it might be the VRM. It’s a weird custom mainboard with laptop RAM, but normal, socketable desktop CPU.
Ohhhh, wow. Ridiculous.
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.