Driving Gamers Nexus to title “Worst prebuilt so far” jesus Asus what have you done?
1.3GHz downclocking?!??!
What the fuck asus get your shit together
Edit:
Finished watching the review and gods… Asus this is the most pathetic display of a half-assed prebuilt in existence. At this point I have to wonder if they just hooked up an assembly line to chatgpt or something cause this infuriatingly awful.Fuck you Asus.
Your poor attempts only lowers the bar for the PC industry. At this point no one should buy any of your products just like NZXT’s.
TL;DW?
Errors in spec sheet and instruction guide, tools-less design, that needs tools, tempered glass panel, that isn’t glass, proprietary hardware, slow laptop RAM, CPU that runs 1.3GHz below spec, loud/annoying sound, bloatware.
Good packaging though.
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.
Thank you from me as well! +1
Thank you!
Just when Asus thought their shittiness had been forgotten about
i’ll play the other side here for a minute.
multiple rants about a shipping screw.
rants about the slow laptop sodimm ram, then they went online and compared prices of different speeds of desktop dimms instead. this, after they nitpicked the web site’s specs down to the millimeter.
everything they did was ‘as shipped’. they didn’t update windows, they didn’t update bios, they didn’t update drivers…
my guess is this system was built back before bios and microcode updates were available to fix the problems of 13/14th gen silicon drawing too much power, and the lower power envelope was the only corrective action available at the time.
i would like to see an honest follow-up on a fully updated and patched system.
