Walmart vs. CyberPower for Worst Pre-Built PC: Overheating GMA 4600 BST
19,769CyberPower PC's GMA-4600-BST is one of the worst pre-builts we've worked with in the last few years and thermal throttles its Ryzen CPU like crazy.
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In this review of CyberPower's GMA-4600-BST gaming PC Build, we show severe oversights that include failure to initialize a hard drive and using cooling solutions and an enclosure that overheat the Ryzen 3700X CPU included in the build. This is easily one of the worst pre-builts we've worked with. We bought this retail and experienced it just like a real customer, so it's concerning that something as simple as drive initialization isn't getting caught in QC. CyberPower tells us that it has now enacted additional QC steps to ensure this doesn't happen again, and that it has taken our feedback to improve its process, but it simply shouldn't have happened to begin with. Even with the drive issue solved, we still had problems with the SATA power cable nearly losing contact and the system throttling itself down to a fraction of expected performance.
If you're looking for an AMD Ryzen pre-built gaming PC, this isn't the one to buy.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Cyberpower GMA 4600 BST
03:36 - What You Get
04:46 - Problems Out of the Box
07:27 - What Cyberpower Got Right
08:36 - Thermal Testing Methodology and Torture Test
10:34 - CPU Frequency
11:50 - Fan RPM
12:22 - 3DMark Firestrike Extreme Torture
13:25 - Teardown
21:24 - Examining the Motherboard
27:05 - Conclusion
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Host, Editorial: Steve Burke
Testing: Patrick Lathan
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman