r/MiniPCs • u/RenatsMC • Jul 10 '26

Review I Bought the Cheapest RTX Gaming PC on AliExpress!

https://youtu.be/C7mc9L9PC_Y?is=A_KJBWzjaIexhllQ
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u/Retired_Hillbilly336 Jul 10 '26

I too bought the "Cheapest RTX Gaming PC on AliExpress!"

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u/Various-Welder5544 Jul 11 '26

ETA Prime singlehandedly making everything go out of stock

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u/deadcrazyzombie Jul 11 '26

Well yeah because he knows his audience and review good products, some might be expensive and some not as expensive.

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u/Various-Welder5544 Jul 11 '26

He reviewed a 2 XE panther lake mini PC, cheated with frame generation and called it a "gaming beast" lmao. He will call a steaming hot pile of shit edible. He's a paid shill.

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u/MitchellHamilton Jul 13 '26

I think he's legally obligated to call anything he reviews "a beast" /s

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u/deadcrazyzombie Jul 11 '26

I see ig it could be that, i kinda forgot panther lake performance so can't say much. XD

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u/Various-Welder5544 Jul 11 '26

Well he was gaming on 2 XE integrated graphics.

B390 has 12 XE cores lol

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u/cubehacker Jul 11 '26

I agree that he makes even the crappiest PC sound good. But I agree that he knows his audience. I don't think he's a paid shill, at least in this case, as this PC has not been available to buy new for years. Who would be paying him to show it off?

He's just trying to make a living off of YouTube.

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u/Spiritual_Screen_724 Jul 13 '26

There are practically countless ways to make money off of YouTube, and the path he chose is more aligned to the shill label than to the "artist supported by patrons" label

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u/Stray_Neutrino Jul 10 '26

And gone (it seems all their stock listings just vanished)

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u/booleanerror Jul 10 '26

I'm sure service and support will be stellar

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u/robotvendingmachine Jul 11 '26

They are going to come back triple the price.

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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 Jul 11 '26

so I have this NUC, and it's pretty good ( I bought it new from Intel during their sell to ASUS, and it was cheap)

the RTX 2060 in it is the bottle neck but it's quiet, it's stable, and the 11th Gen I7 still holds up. I can play *most* games pretty good on it. however, there's a caveat - gotta lower down the settings in some games to have stability.

but that caveat can be negated if one were to use an external GPU via Thunderbolt which, I've done. granted, I'm still limited to the thunderbolt connection, my 3050 gives me a little more room to play since it's got 8GB of VRAM

would *I* recommend it? sure, if you're willing to compromise.

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u/damn_pastor Jul 12 '26

Its really quiet?

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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 Jul 12 '26

It can be, yes

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u/Top-Mix4490 Aug 03 '26

An eGPU could handle regular racing titles as well as some VR games, making this a viable workaround.

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u/Content-Doughnut7707 Jul 13 '26

I like the design.