THANK YOU to you all for the support this year! 2023 saw a lot of new types of content and research, including the move into ITX reviews, our new sound testing, and our educational tour series coming back. We can't wait to get into 2024, especially with all the reviews we have lined-up right now! Get the LIMITED 2023 Disappointment Shirt in Cotton: store.gamersnexus.net/products/disappointment-pc-2023-cotton Or in Heather Charcoal! store.gamersnexus.net/products/disappointment-pc-2023-heather - Buying these directly supports our 2024 testing while also getting you a LIMITED, commemorative shirt that specifically helps fund our educational content, reporting, and impartial testing and commentary. These are IN STOCK & SHIPPING NOW and sell out very fast every year, so if you want one, order soon! 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: Disappointment Build 2022: ua-cam.com/video/k-LQua3toJ0/v-deo.html Disappointment Build 2021: ua-cam.com/video/KHhUtAOmGKc/v-deo.html Disappointment Build 2020: ua-cam.com/video/hGnBI0rDgA4/v-deo.html Disappointment Build 2019: ua-cam.com/video/YO_xDzDOua4/v-deo.html Disappointment Build 2018: ua-cam.com/video/3PNuE7N-prM/v-deo.html Disappointment Build 2017: ua-cam.com/video/9tbD-vX-Kks/v-deo.html
I was probably going to order this year's Disappointment shirt anyway (regret not buying the past ones!) but definitely love the 2023 design. As an AI and news obsessed person I just knew I had to have this one; still watching the video, but the intro and meme bits are cracking me up 😁. Ordered the heather version. Thanks, Steve! 😎
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!
This is the channel that I can still trust on being accurate and more importantly, this is the channel to own up to it and be honest and transparent in case something goes wrong and they do release something inaccurate or false. Jays2cents probably too but they are more of a build/unboxing/showcase channel than a real benchmarking/tech channel. Igor put way to much into Pascal with and his flawed fan results but had to backpedal, correct and apologize which he did, also a goat. I didn't like his early assumptions on 12VHPWR fires/meltdowns either but seeing how 12VHPWR is still a mess, even if he was only half right, he was one of the first to shine a light on the issue. LMG and their unboxing lab are a joke anyways and Linus himself is a businessman, not a geek anymore and it shows. GN is still GOAT, time to order some stuff from the shop I guess!
@@jonasduell9953 what I find it funny is how no one seems to notice or care how GN will rightfully criticize Nvidia for their recent products but still make marketing segments for them like when speaking with their thermal engineer. It's all marketing from here because GN is a for-profit group. Inherently, due to the nature of this dark world works, there's always going to be that thin veil of looking after the audience but it's going to cost us.
@@BleedForTheWorld I totally understand your point but compare their sponsored ads for e.g. cases, they mention that the case "had scored high" or "received a positive review" during their last tests. Same with visiting an engineer be it Intel or Nvidia. Publicizing how much development, tech and thought goes into modern air cooling solutions is - at least in my books - totally different than mindlessly repeating mandated points of sale off of a teleprompter in a prewritten ad like most channels do. And while those visits, excursions, collaborations with Kingpin, you name it seem advertisement, I actually doubt that GN really has a big benefit. A techquickie LMG style with 2 sponsored and 2 youtube ads would be faster, less effort and more money without ever leaving the studio. And those engineers are good guys, while obviously working for the big corpos, they have no say about market scheming, scalping, false advertisement, unfair behavior. They try to make good stuff, why not give them a platform.
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!
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 UA-camrs.
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.
$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)
I had a 1070 and I upgraded to a 4070 and I upgraded my CPU and mobo with a z790 and a 13700k and I recently dipped in 4k gaming and I am hoping I can get a 4080 super I hope there is Founders edition
@@thealien_ali3382i would recommend the 7900XTX for 4k. Or the XT. Especially with those amounts of vram. Unless ur only nolifing cyberpunk where you might actually enjoy the 4080 more
Dude, that is a 1440p card. Unless you are running maxed out. Ray tracing it in the most demanding AAA games... You will definitely get over 100 FPS if you tweak settings just slightly and can still keep ultra textures and lighting
@@ts757arse What do you mean... did you watch the video? This one was more creative than what they usually do, with the skits, and cool cinematography. Yeah sure, ChatGPT did the research for their videos as well.
I first joined this channel to learn more about the individual parts of computers and understand the difference between all the different kinds of GPU's, Hard Drives, etc. This channel has really taught me a lot. I look forward to learning more from your informative, enjoyable content.
Just bought the disappointment tour shirt. Still have the 2018 version. My wife laughed afterwards, when I was wearing it, and she saw Steve wearing it too. "Hey! That's your shirt!" she exclaimed. I said "How weird is that?" She had no idea I bought it here. 😁
This has been an amazing year for GN as a whole. I love how the team has improved in pretty much all aspects: field expertise, industry areas tackled, editing skills, general entertainment (specially while keeping the information that needs to be presented), and so on. Granted, none of this is anything "new" per say, since you have been staying in that same development track for years now, but makes me glad to see the channel evolving at it's own pace, in it's own terms. And it always puts a smile on my face to see Steve flexing those Chinese language skills.
I bought a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 based on your review, and I am very happy with it so far, decently easy install, my only issue is that it now blocks all the light in my PC so I am thinking of getting an LED strip for the rear of the case :D Thank you to the entire GN Staff for keeping it real and drama free
Another positive is improvement from Arc drivers and also, FINALLY, a new entrant in the 75W GPU space in the form of the 6GB A380 (can be had in half-height as well to give some life to that old Optiplex that's laying around).
You should do a review of the Disappointment PC Build 2023 itself with full thermals and benchmarks. Do it as snarky as can be. I wanted this ever since you started doing these. I think it'd go over well.
Ahh, what a pleasant surprise to see this morning when I got up! Starting my day with coffee and a GN video is fantastic! You guys slammed this one out of the ballpark, really great editing and cinematography, especially for that intro! That was awesome! I love seeing how you guys have grown year after year with those and the growth is very obvious! This one was especially good, really taking pointers from throughout the year to include, like the ChatGPT and all, it really made it very "2023"! Good job all and, "thanks, Steve!" Back to you in the studio. But maybe first, take a breather, have a coffee or beer or whatever you all like, and then come back blazing like the big league champs you all are!
Gaming, and pc building is just getting worse, and worse, and worse. Its getting so ridiculous how much lies corporations are allowed to get away with, and all they have to do is just apologize then release a plan with multiple steps, and then go back to doing the same thing. Games are also costing hundreds of dollars now just to access a fully made content. The price gouging is absolutely insane.
The most dissappointing thing I had to deal with tech-wise this year was a bad CPU and how its symptoms masqueraded as a host of other problems... I was fortunate to catch it within the RMA period and was able to get something new and even built a whole second machine as a backup in case i have another problem like that again! (it's got the Arc A770 LE because why the hell not!)
Speaking of Mobos, remember when they came with manuals and not just a QR code? Also Gigabyte decided on my new mobo that all the troubleshooting LEDs (which are ALL red) should be right next to each other. At least my old mobo for my 3770k (from 2012) separated the LEDs and put them next to the component it represented.
These videos are some of the only ones that get an instant like from me. Thanks for another year of tech goodness and I hope 2024 is even better for you all!
Got into PC building in the later half of last year and just got a 990 Pro SSD for Christmas. I had no idea about the firmware issue.... will be updating ASAP. TY!
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!
I'd love to see thermal paste/ pad testing. There's so many for sale now that I tend to just stick with two tried and true pastes, but I am curious how the others perform. Especially long term on GPUs as pump out can be quite bad the hotter the dies get.
It's intriguing that GN has not include 12vhpwr connector in the list. That's the biggest fire hazzard of the year and this problem is still pressist even now.
The connector itself isn't really the Issue it's the fact they are not getting plugged in all the way and the pins aren't making proper contact causing that pin to heat up enough to start Melting the Plastic
2023 was interesting. Between motherboard voltages & 12VHWPR am happy I went with a 7900XTX and aged 12th gen. BG3 was really good (still is), so 2023 wasn't all bad.
7900x for me and also 7900 xtx and well my 6800xt died a few days before warranty expired but I got the money back right for the start of the 7900xtx and well bg3 is just a masterpiece I own starfield but could never get myself to get past character creation 2023 games for me: BG3, Age of Wonders 4, Mods with a bit of Skyrim
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?
HELL YEAH! I looks forward to this every year! I just got me 2 of the Disappoint T-Shirts! Now I can't wait to watch the video! Here is to another great year of GN Content! ALL HAIL Tech Jesus and Ocular Moses!
@@GamersNexus Appreciate you Steve! I still watch every video even if I don't comment as much as I used to. I will be working at the same Casino's that I am sure you will be at next week for CES, would love to meet you in person one of these days. But regardless, keep up the awesome content Steve, its awesome that there is someone with integrity keeping these companies on their toes! Have a safe trip to my city!
Disappointment Tour shirt is always my holiday gift to myself every year! Here's to another year, who knows what will happen to make next years shirt❤👏
Here's to another year of fighting the good fight, keeping the C-suites accountable, and making informative, factual, entertaining videos. You guys really are the top of the mountain. I'm looking forward to some more case reviews, especially in ITX where the market has seen some recent innovation. SSUPD Meshroom S V2 review please!!
I would appreciate an educational series about why modern cpu's are fast and what modern software does to be so slow. People need to know why they are paying for really fast cpu and photoshop still takes minute to launch
I built a PC a month ago with a an Asus x670e and 7800X3D combo, and a Samsun 990 Pro. The BIOS was well before the big update, too. Hell yeah, cursed parts.
Every single year.. i am waiting for this legendary masterpiece. And.. the seven segment display.. it saved my ass so many times. It should be on EVERY SINGLE MOTHERBOARD (X and Z series, high end B series?)
I like where GN is heading. Verity of content is very cool and I really look forward into everything new that appears on channel (instead of just another HW News or performance review). Also, these new intros that continous to appear in videos are just cherry on top.
The manufacturers screwed themselves by placing such emphasis on resolution. Here we are several years on and 1080 and below is still an absolute majority on the steam hardware survey, 1440 has taken nearly 1/3rd but anything above that is a tiny addressable market. Meanwhile the product segmentation in GPUs is insane.
Yes, that should have been added here too, but somehow GN thinks it was simply user error that GPUs went on fire. No, as I told before: if it's too easy to make a mistake, it's bad design, especially when it comes to a huge safety issue and high GPU prices.
@@SirWolf2018Give it one more amp and the thing burns to a crisp. The safety limit is 51 Amps at 20°C and the 4090 CAN reach 50 Amps (and higher than 20°C, since it's a GPU) PCI-SIG and Intel are the people who worked on this crap, they honestly deserve all the hate. Nvidia really didn't do anything wrong here by using the standart given to them.
It's amazing that you have become so trusted and renown, that you're able to host so many awesome guests and have access to on-site manufacturing tours.
I'd love to see a tour of TSMC, or another chip fab plant. Specifically to see the process of creating the wafers. Ie. from raw silicon to fully printed wafers. As well as the process of cutting them up and turning them into individual products. Would be super cool to see. Thanks for a lot of great content GN, keep up the good work!
Great intro. Only thing I think would make it better would be to have the "build me" letters dripping in -blood- snake oil. I wonder if this year nvidia will target 320x240 resolution in their new video cards. I really want something that can run doom(1993) properly with lots of AI upscaling and DLSS :D :P Happy new year to all :)
Anyone else appreciate how the production values keep going up in GN videos, but they haven’t once turned into generic UA-cam clickbait or meme humor? Even their comedy is grounded and higher brow
I really loved the video with Stone and helping him get the boards. I had classes like his in high school, but not to that level. It was basically the CCNA course over two years. His response when you told him what was happening was great.
Steve (and team) thank you for staying focused on a footprint of good content, done with a small crew, that keeps the bar high. When I think about your channel's own high and low points as a long time viewer: The great: - Great balance of human analysis and technical depth - Remains a stand out channel for content that you can get no where else like the EVGA story, industry updates, etc - Love the work done on acoustics, thermals, and continuing to advance frame rate analysis/diagnostics The improvement points: - Beware getting dragged into rants with other channels, you can be right and STILL be dragged down by the content, the key is emotional balance, not letting factual analysis devolve into name calling or interpretive gray area - As much of a diligent pro as Steve is - might want to consider adding a second on-camera colleague which creates opportunity to tag team content and build resilience in the GN brand to make content if something happens to Steve or Steve just needs a break
These Honest no-bullshit vids is why you are THE go-to channel for real and relevant info on everything a Computer enthusiast/gamer can ask for. Thank you for everything you've done to keep Manufacturers honest and informing all of us what to watch for, both good and bad. Can't wait to see what you have for us in 2024!! Gamers Nexus rocks!
As an idea for a series, maybe an introduction to building a pc? I work with a lot of youth and young adults who want to learn about this, but I'm missing a lot of information and experience to properly teach them the ins and outs of building computers. Parts selections, things to be aware of, safety tips, common troubleshooting, stuff like that.
I forgot about the 7900x3d too, they definitely could have dropped that from the lineup of 3d's. I don't think they needed the 7950x3d either but I'm still glad we got to see it. Maybe they just wanted to have another avenue to sell a certain bin of the 6 core chiplets.
Baldur's Gate 3 was 3 years available to purchase as they fixed the many many, many bugs they had. And still needed many patches after launch. It's not an out of nowhere game release, it's a game that's had 3 years of being purchasable and receiving community feedback. The only real great thing, was that they correctly labeled it "early access". Otherwise, it's the standard gaming afair of releasing a game before its ready.
Love your reporting as always! Your unbiased and honest reporting and reviews is what keeps this industry somewhat honest and on their toes to keep consumers happy, or at least try to be.
great piece of content although I'm amazed the whole LTT situation didn't make the list of disappointments unless of course you feel like and decided they don't deserve any more airtime and/or promotion of their channel, even if it is negative promotion. just to echo what others have already said, one of the biggest thank you recognitions has to go to you guys for continuing to put out content of the highest calibre with good ethics and accountability at the forefront of what you do. You set the bar high for others to follow and this should be both recognised and commended.
THANK YOU to you all for the support this year! 2023 saw a lot of new types of content and research, including the move into ITX reviews, our new sound testing, and our educational tour series coming back. We can't wait to get into 2024, especially with all the reviews we have lined-up right now! Get the LIMITED 2023 Disappointment Shirt in Cotton: store.gamersnexus.net/products/disappointment-pc-2023-cotton
Or in Heather Charcoal! store.gamersnexus.net/products/disappointment-pc-2023-heather - Buying these directly supports our 2024 testing while also getting you a LIMITED, commemorative shirt that specifically helps fund our educational content, reporting, and impartial testing and commentary. These are IN STOCK & SHIPPING NOW and sell out very fast every year, so if you want one, order soon!
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:
Disappointment Build 2022: ua-cam.com/video/k-LQua3toJ0/v-deo.html
Disappointment Build 2021: ua-cam.com/video/KHhUtAOmGKc/v-deo.html
Disappointment Build 2020: ua-cam.com/video/hGnBI0rDgA4/v-deo.html
Disappointment Build 2019: ua-cam.com/video/YO_xDzDOua4/v-deo.html
Disappointment Build 2018: ua-cam.com/video/3PNuE7N-prM/v-deo.html
Disappointment Build 2017: ua-cam.com/video/9tbD-vX-Kks/v-deo.html
Loved the intro 😊
Keep up the amazing work as always man 🔥🔥
I was probably going to order this year's Disappointment shirt anyway (regret not buying the past ones!) but definitely love the 2023 design.
As an AI and news obsessed person I just knew I had to have this one; still watching the video, but the intro and meme bits are cracking me up 😁. Ordered the heather version. Thanks, Steve! 😎
Best one yet. Cant wait for more dissapointments in 2024
I really love the educational tours! Best insight into the process.
"A self collapsing tesseract of bullshit" - Steve just summed up the entirety of the gaming, software and hardware market of the year 2023!
No. He summed up the entirety of 2023
Gaming in 2023 is bullshit? What a take.
This was a pretty good year I thought lol
@@kristophersouza8104right. One of the best years ever for games
@@cdurkinz yeah, same
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!
Thank you so much for the extremely kind words of encouragement!
This is the channel that I can still trust on being accurate and more importantly, this is the channel to own up to it and be honest and transparent in case something goes wrong and they do release something inaccurate or false.
Jays2cents probably too but they are more of a build/unboxing/showcase channel than a real benchmarking/tech channel.
Igor put way to much into Pascal with and his flawed fan results but had to backpedal, correct and apologize which he did, also a goat. I didn't like his early assumptions on 12VHPWR fires/meltdowns either but seeing how 12VHPWR is still a mess, even if he was only half right, he was one of the first to shine a light on the issue. LMG and their unboxing lab are a joke anyways and Linus himself is a businessman, not a geek anymore and it shows.
GN is still GOAT, time to order some stuff from the shop I guess!
@@jonasduell9953he’s not paying you
@@jonasduell9953 what I find it funny is how no one seems to notice or care how GN will rightfully criticize Nvidia for their recent products but still make marketing segments for them like when speaking with their thermal engineer. It's all marketing from here because GN is a for-profit group. Inherently, due to the nature of this dark world works, there's always going to be that thin veil of looking after the audience but it's going to cost us.
@@BleedForTheWorld I totally understand your point but compare their sponsored ads for e.g. cases, they mention that the case "had scored high" or "received a positive review" during their last tests.
Same with visiting an engineer be it Intel or Nvidia. Publicizing how much development, tech and thought goes into modern air cooling solutions is - at least in my books - totally different than mindlessly repeating mandated points of sale off of a teleprompter in a prewritten ad like most channels do.
And while those visits, excursions, collaborations with Kingpin, you name it seem advertisement, I actually doubt that GN really has a big benefit. A techquickie LMG style with 2 sponsored and 2 youtube ads would be faster, less effort and more money without ever leaving the studio.
And those engineers are good guys, while obviously working for the big corpos, they have no say about market scheming, scalping, false advertisement, unfair behavior. They try to make good stuff, why not give them a platform.
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!
Yes yes yes! I second this
I third this!
I fourth this.
me too 🙂@@nzt29
I hope that it was the cooked 7800x3d
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 UA-camrs.
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.
Thanks for sharing! We're hoping those videos are interesting to a wider audience!
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!
Pun intended 😂
"Back to you, Steve"
That intro deserves all the awards. That was amazing.
Therapist : Is the disappointment pc in the room with us?
Me : THEY"RE EVERYWHERE RUN FUCJKERS RUN AADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Props to the editor. This video was paced amazingly and the cuts up the humor.
Holy crap. I commented in 2022 dissapointment build to release the 2023 now.... and you guys just did it.. thanks steve.
That was all we needed to be convinced it was time!
Thanks Steve.
Thanks steve
Thanks Steve
@@GamersNexus
@@GamersNexus Back to you Steve. :)
I love the factory tours, please keep up that sort of content. Thank you again for an incredible 2023 Steve!
$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)
I had a 1070 and I upgraded to a 4070 and I upgraded my CPU and mobo with a z790 and a 13700k and I recently dipped in 4k gaming and I am hoping I can get a 4080 super I hope there is Founders edition
@@thealien_ali3382i would recommend the 7900XTX for 4k. Or the XT. Especially with those amounts of vram. Unless ur only nolifing cyberpunk where you might actually enjoy the 4080 more
its a 1440p card, i have also just bought one, replacing my rtx3060ti. it can do 4k but its not its strong point. but way faster then the rtx3060ti
Dude, that is a 1440p card. Unless you are running maxed out. Ray tracing it in the most demanding AAA games... You will definitely get over 100 FPS if you tweak settings just slightly and can still keep ultra textures and lighting
No mention of the the 12VHPWR connector debacle, not a consumer issue, still needs to be recalled and changed. My 4080 burnt up with it in fully.
I love these vids. Wish the team had more time to do goofy shiz.
It's a fun way for us to explore the creative side in between the reviews!
@@ts757arse What do you mean... did you watch the video? This one was more creative than what they usually do, with the skits, and cool cinematography. Yeah sure, ChatGPT did the research for their videos as well.
@@ts757arseI do not appreciate the joke
@@ts757arse bad joke
I first joined this channel to learn more about the individual parts of computers and understand the difference between all the different kinds of GPU's, Hard Drives, etc. This channel has really taught me a lot. I look forward to learning more from your informative, enjoyable content.
Just bought the disappointment tour shirt. Still have the 2018 version. My wife laughed afterwards, when I was wearing it, and she saw Steve wearing it too. "Hey! That's your shirt!" she exclaimed. I said "How weird is that?" She had no idea I bought it here. 😁
Hahaha, that's awesome. Love that story!
Your opening cinematic segments each year get better and better.
I think the terrible design of the 12V HDPWR video card connector deserves a special mention. Low key surprised it hasn't caused a house fire yet.
This has been an amazing year for GN as a whole. I love how the team has improved in pretty much all aspects: field expertise, industry areas tackled, editing skills, general entertainment (specially while keeping the information that needs to be presented), and so on.
Granted, none of this is anything "new" per say, since you have been staying in that same development track for years now, but makes me glad to see the channel evolving at it's own pace, in it's own terms.
And it always puts a smile on my face to see Steve flexing those Chinese language skills.
Thank you so much for the very kind words. That's incredibly thoughtful of you to put into writing like that.
Loved this year end recap and esp absolutely loved the Microcenter Shopping episode with Mr Stone.
I bought a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 based on your review, and I am very happy with it so far, decently easy install, my only issue is that it now blocks all the light in my PC so I am thinking of getting an LED strip for the rear of the case :D
Thank you to the entire GN Staff for keeping it real and drama free
Great cooler for not a lot of money.
I have one on my 5800x3d and it never goes above 64 degrees.
Another positive is improvement from Arc drivers and also, FINALLY, a new entrant in the 75W GPU space in the form of the 6GB A380 (can be had in half-height as well to give some life to that old Optiplex that's laying around).
to be fair, there was not realy a way for intel, to make the drivers worse...
But will the card require Resizable BAR to perform well? Older optiplexi won't support it.
@@brianmiller1077depends on the game.
You should do a review of the Disappointment PC Build 2023 itself with full thermals and benchmarks. Do it as snarky as can be. I wanted this ever since you started doing these. I think it'd go over well.
Thank you Steve & team! Looking forward to another great year.
Ahh, what a pleasant surprise to see this morning when I got up! Starting my day with coffee and a GN video is fantastic! You guys slammed this one out of the ballpark, really great editing and cinematography, especially for that intro! That was awesome! I love seeing how you guys have grown year after year with those and the growth is very obvious! This one was especially good, really taking pointers from throughout the year to include, like the ChatGPT and all, it really made it very "2023"! Good job all and, "thanks, Steve!"
Back to you in the studio. But maybe first, take a breather, have a coffee or beer or whatever you all like, and then come back blazing like the big league champs you all are!
Thanks for another year of amazing quality and awesome PC tech journalism!
Thank you for the kind words! We're hard at work to start this year off strong as well!
And pure editing gold! Thanks Steve and Team : )
I'm convinced he carries the 4090 like a key chain
That intro skit was super cinematic! Really enjoyed the whole video. Looking forward to another year of GN content!
Loved this and purchased a shirt. I look forward to this video every year, thanks Steve!
Gaming, and pc building is just getting worse, and worse, and worse. Its getting so ridiculous how much lies corporations are allowed to get away with, and all they have to do is just apologize then release a plan with multiple steps, and then go back to doing the same thing. Games are also costing hundreds of dollars now just to access a fully made content. The price gouging is absolutely insane.
The editing is actually insane in this one. Probably the funniest and most spiteful Disappointment Build special to date.
“Insane” lol you’re easily impressed
The most dissappointing thing I had to deal with tech-wise this year was a bad CPU and how its symptoms masqueraded as a host of other problems... I was fortunate to catch it within the RMA period and was able to get something new and even built a whole second machine as a backup in case i have another problem like that again! (it's got the Arc A770 LE because why the hell not!)
Speaking of Mobos, remember when they came with manuals and not just a QR code?
Also Gigabyte decided on my new mobo that all the troubleshooting LEDs (which are ALL red) should be right next to each other. At least my old mobo for my 3770k (from 2012) separated the LEDs and put them next to the component it represented.
My gigabyte one hides them behind the gpu😂
My MSI B550-A Pro I've just bought a month ago has manual.
I remember when video cards came with video cables.
I have an asus z790 mobo and it has a paper manual
Don't you know? You're supposed to shut up and be grateful that our Motherboard overlords are willing to give us debug LEDs at all.
I love the sass that GN has started putting in these while still keeping things serious and informational.
These videos are some of the only ones that get an instant like from me.
Thanks for another year of tech goodness and I hope 2024 is even better for you all!
What an intro! XD
Happy 2024 to Steve, the GN team and PC gamers all over the world!
Another year of PC memes down, another year to go 😂 thanks guys and God bless! ❤
The memes will continue until products improve!
@@GamersNexus given the inherent nature of most (not all, but most) companies, I think we’ll have a surplus of memes for the foreseeable future lol!
@@GamersNexus You mean the memes will continue until companies improve.
you production value has gone up 1000% all the new videos are fantastic you guys are killing it !!!
Got into PC building in the later half of last year and just got a 990 Pro SSD for Christmas. I had no idea about the firmware issue.... will be updating ASAP. TY!
This is brilliant. Thanks Steve (and team)!
Thank you!
@@GamersNexus Intel: Yeah, thanks, Steve!
Back to you, Steve.
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!
I'd love to see thermal paste/ pad testing. There's so many for sale now that I tend to just stick with two tried and true pastes, but I am curious how the others perform. Especially long term on GPUs as pump out can be quite bad the hotter the dies get.
This would be good. There's a channel that does a lot of this, I believe it's called snarks domain (I think)
It's worth checking out
I would really enjoy seeing a round up of motherboards and you walking through the bios for each of them. It's something I'd love to get to know more
Ah I love these disappointment videos. Bought 4 shirts this time! Thanks Steve & the team!
It's intriguing that GN has not include 12vhpwr connector in the list. That's the biggest fire hazzard of the year and this problem is still pressist even now.
That'd require Steve to admit he was wrong and that's not happening. You'll have tech leakers admit that before him lol.
The connector itself isn't really the Issue it's the fact they are not getting plugged in all the way and the pins aren't making proper contact causing that pin to heat up enough to start Melting the Plastic
@@deltasixgaming you are an idiot if you believed that.
It was already included on the Disappointment 2022 list
@@deltasixgaming The connector itself really IS the core issue. Watch the recent video by der8auer on it.
surprised not many people are saying anything about it - but loved the intro! it's definitely been a year
2023 was interesting. Between motherboard voltages & 12VHWPR am happy I went with a 7900XTX and aged 12th gen. BG3 was really good (still is), so 2023 wasn't all bad.
7900x for me and also 7900 xtx and well my 6800xt died a few days before warranty expired but I got the money back right for the start of the 7900xtx and well bg3 is just a masterpiece I own starfield but could never get myself to get past character creation
2023 games for me: BG3, Age of Wonders 4, Mods with a bit of Skyrim
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?
HELL YEAH! I looks forward to this every year! I just got me 2 of the Disappoint T-Shirts! Now I can't wait to watch the video! Here is to another great year of GN Content! ALL HAIL Tech Jesus and Ocular Moses!
Great to see you around, Evocati Productions!
@@GamersNexus Appreciate you Steve! I still watch every video even if I don't comment as much as I used to. I will be working at the same Casino's that I am sure you will be at next week for CES, would love to meet you in person one of these days. But regardless, keep up the awesome content Steve, its awesome that there is someone with integrity keeping these companies on their toes! Have a safe trip to my city!
Now there's a name I have not heard in a long time 👋
look all the cool cats are here. Hope you all have a great 2024.
Disappointment Tour shirt is always my holiday gift to myself every year! Here's to another year, who knows what will happen to make next years shirt❤👏
I'm sorry, Steve, I'm afraid I can't do that 🤖
it looks like you’re trying to write a GPU review, Would you like help with that??
Never paused/rewound/replayed an intro so many times to get all the chatgpt scripts, bloody brilliant stuff ❤
Here's to another year of fighting the good fight, keeping the C-suites accountable, and making informative, factual, entertaining videos. You guys really are the top of the mountain. I'm looking forward to some more case reviews, especially in ITX where the market has seen some recent innovation. SSUPD Meshroom S V2 review please!!
Thanks for 2023, Id love seeing more about power supplies and like redundant systems in servers and calculating power budgets and such nowadays
I forgot how absolutely savage GN can be.
His roasts are BRUTAL
Thanks for being the best channel on UA-cam for me personally, and the only one that totally deserves support such as this!
That intro was definitely something to behold, my lord. Keep up the good work, guys!
I would appreciate an educational series about why modern cpu's are fast and what modern software does to be so slow. People need to know why they are paying for really fast cpu and photoshop still takes minute to launch
That's not "modern" software, it still runs based on the old initial code in 90% of the cases. Because rewriting "functioning" code costs money 😆
I built a PC a month ago with a an Asus x670e and 7800X3D combo, and a Samsun 990 Pro. The BIOS was well before the big update, too. Hell yeah, cursed parts.
Did 12VHPWR make it on the list along with the gaslighting that it's the customer's fault when it burns?
Nope he dismissed it and it is issue. I don't get Steve on this. Northridgefix had dozens of 4090 repairs of those connectors.
Every single year.. i am waiting for this legendary masterpiece.
And.. the seven segment display.. it saved my ass so many times. It should be on EVERY SINGLE MOTHERBOARD (X and Z series, high end B series?)
Happy New Year, Steve and everyone at Gamers Nexus! May 2024 bring us more exciting hardware and less snake oil from any company.
Haven’t even finished the video and I’m already dying 😂😂😂 Thanks Steve!
I like where GN is heading. Verity of content is very cool and I really look forward into everything new that appears on channel (instead of just another HW News or performance review). Also, these new intros that continous to appear in videos are just cherry on top.
I've been waiting for this year's disappointment build. I can't justify a modmat or set of tools, but I can always use a shirt. Thanks, Steve.
The manufacturers screwed themselves by placing such emphasis on resolution. Here we are several years on and 1080 and below is still an absolute majority on the steam hardware survey, 1440 has taken nearly 1/3rd but anything above that is a tiny addressable market. Meanwhile the product segmentation in GPUs is insane.
Great video! Shout-out to the 4090/4080 power connector also, which is insane.
Yes, that should have been added here too, but somehow GN thinks it was simply user error that GPUs went on fire. No, as I told before: if it's too easy to make a mistake, it's bad design, especially when it comes to a huge safety issue and high GPU prices.
@@SirWolf2018Give it one more amp and the thing burns to a crisp. The safety limit is 51 Amps at 20°C and the 4090 CAN reach 50 Amps (and higher than 20°C, since it's a GPU)
PCI-SIG and Intel are the people who worked on this crap, they honestly deserve all the hate. Nvidia really didn't do anything wrong here by using the standart given to them.
*Thanks Steve!*
Always informative as well as entertaining - learned about tesseracts today 😂
Cheers to a Happy New Year for everyone!
It's amazing that you have become so trusted and renown, that you're able to host so many awesome guests and have access to on-site manufacturing tours.
the humor in this video was on point literally everywhere, just fantastic
"asus has the best warranty" out of that printer had me :D
You all did great work this year for the consumer and industry. ❤
I'd love to see a tour of TSMC, or another chip fab plant. Specifically to see the process of creating the wafers. Ie. from raw silicon to fully printed wafers. As well as the process of cutting them up and turning them into individual products. Would be super cool to see.
Thanks for a lot of great content GN, keep up the good work!
I love that there is an Intel 486 SX lying on the disappointment tour 2023 shirt.
This was the cpu of my first PC. This one didn't disappoint!
That intro was another banger, very well done Steve and the team at gamers nexus.
Great intro. Only thing I think would make it better would be to have the "build me" letters dripping in -blood- snake oil.
I wonder if this year nvidia will target 320x240 resolution in their new video cards. I really want something that can run doom(1993) properly with lots of AI upscaling and DLSS :D :P
Happy new year to all :)
Anyone else appreciate how the production values keep going up in GN videos, but they haven’t once turned into generic UA-cam clickbait or meme humor? Even their comedy is grounded and higher brow
So glad I watched this again! The "improved" script for the 4060Ti has so much gold! Thanks Steve and now back to you Steve.
These intros get better every year. Thanks for another great year of coverage and unfearing journalism.
I really loved the video with Stone and helping him get the boards. I had classes like his in high school, but not to that level. It was basically the CCNA course over two years. His response when you told him what was happening was great.
You need to add disclaimer to your videos that no hardware or AI was harmed during filming as people may get PTSD
Steve (and team) thank you for staying focused on a footprint of good content, done with a small crew, that keeps the bar high. When I think about your channel's own high and low points as a long time viewer:
The great:
- Great balance of human analysis and technical depth
- Remains a stand out channel for content that you can get no where else like the EVGA story, industry updates, etc
- Love the work done on acoustics, thermals, and continuing to advance frame rate analysis/diagnostics
The improvement points:
- Beware getting dragged into rants with other channels, you can be right and STILL be dragged down by the content, the key is emotional balance, not letting factual analysis devolve into name calling or interpretive gray area
- As much of a diligent pro as Steve is - might want to consider adding a second on-camera colleague which creates opportunity to tag team content and build resilience in the GN brand to make content if something happens to Steve or Steve just needs a break
I had a few of those AI induced nightmares. Very accurate portrayal I gotta say.
These Honest no-bullshit vids is why you are THE go-to channel for real and relevant info on everything a Computer enthusiast/gamer can ask for. Thank you for everything you've done to keep Manufacturers honest and informing all of us what to watch for, both good and bad. Can't wait to see what you have for us in 2024!!
Gamers Nexus rocks!
Love the humor and direction the channel is going. Keep it up guys!
I learned so much from you. Love you guys!
That opening, wow. That couldn't have been easy to edit.
Full team effort on that one! Vitalii really killed it on the filming, lighting, and that final build sequence!
@@GamersNexusthe video overall is brilliant thank u Steve Ur awesome
As an idea for a series, maybe an introduction to building a pc? I work with a lot of youth and young adults who want to learn about this, but I'm missing a lot of information and experience to properly teach them the ins and outs of building computers. Parts selections, things to be aware of, safety tips, common troubleshooting, stuff like that.
I forgot about the 7900x3d too, they definitely could have dropped that from the lineup of 3d's. I don't think they needed the 7950x3d either but I'm still glad we got to see it. Maybe they just wanted to have another avenue to sell a certain bin of the 6 core chiplets.
I look forward to this video each year more than any other :)
The Tech space would be so different if not for Gamers Nexus, and not in a good way. Kinda scary to think about
Love how the into perfectly summed this year like literally everything claims to have “ai” now. Next will be a pencil sharpener with ai lol
No, next will be the pencil itself.
Coupled with your intelligent, AI power iPaper.
Baldur's Gate 3 was 3 years available to purchase as they fixed the many many, many bugs they had. And still needed many patches after launch. It's not an out of nowhere game release, it's a game that's had 3 years of being purchasable and receiving community feedback.
The only real great thing, was that they correctly labeled it "early access". Otherwise, it's the standard gaming afair of releasing a game before its ready.
Glad to see a last-minute entrant make the cut (metal fans)
We snuck those in there right at the end! Glad you noticed.
Wait I totally missed it. Timestamp? Was waiting for a comment on that from GN.
@@802Garage they didn't get a mention, they just got included in the opening B-roll
@@Collin_J Ahhh I thought it was at the end so I rewatched the final bits of the video. 😂
Love your reporting as always! Your unbiased and honest reporting and reviews is what keeps this industry somewhat honest and on their toes to keep consumers happy, or at least try to be.
As an unironic owner of 4060ti for local ai, I had a really good laugh!
Really outdid yourself on this one, Steve.
Happy new year!
Same, cheapest way to get 16gb of modern vram
The intro was awesome, you really made me laugh^^
Thank you all for what you do and I wish you the best possible 2024!
I think the front of the T-shirt should have been an exploded diagam of a 12VHPWR connector. That would of been fire
careful if the shirt is woven right might be a real fire like the connector itself
Usually order 2 shirts but this year got 2 gray and 1 black. Thanks Steve.
great piece of content although I'm amazed the whole LTT situation didn't make the list of disappointments unless of course you feel like and decided they don't deserve any more airtime and/or promotion of their channel, even if it is negative promotion. just to echo what others have already said, one of the biggest thank you recognitions has to go to you guys for continuing to put out content of the highest calibre with good ethics and accountability at the forefront of what you do. You set the bar high for others to follow and this should be both recognised and commended.
It's on there under "new data every time." We did feel it didn't need a spot in the video, though, as the video was focused on products.