Worse Than Walmart: Dell G5 5000 PC’s Garbage Parts & Hidden Charges
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Published 2021-05-18
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This is our review of the Dell G5 5000 gaming PC, an i5-10400F model with a GTX 1660 Super and a single stick of 8GB of RAM. This part focuses on the build quality, the shady billing practices (of our separate Alienware PC we bought), and the proprietary, unusable nature of the components Dell selected. This thing is worse than the Walmart PC we reviewed, because at least that system could have its parts mostly salvaged into something else. Our gaming, thermal, noise, and power benchmarks for the Dell G5 5000 will run in a second video, publishing a day after this one, so be sure to subscribe for that.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Dell is Actually Insane
04:18 - Dell G5 Specs & Pricing
05:28 - Dell Tried to 'Hack' Us
07:06 - Tear-Down of the Dell G5 5000
11:49 - Dell's Weird PSU & Other Components
17:19 - Hiding Under the Front Panel
19:53 - CPU Cooler is LOAD-BEARING
21:37 - Summarizing the Proprietary Components
24:19 - Sketchy Billing Tactics
27:45 - Conclusion: DO NOT BUY
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Host, Writing: Steve Burke
Video: Andrew Coleman, Keegan Gallick
Testing (part 2): Patrick Lathan
All Comments (21)
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'worse than walmart' that really says a lot
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2004: Dude! You’re getting a Dell! 2021: Dude... You’re getting a Dell?
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Charging for a free item = illegal Telling the customer you didnt mean to let them know you committed fraud on purpose = priceless
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I've known since the 1990's, that the easiest way to tell if a Dell computer is garbage or not, is to look at the nameplate. If it says Dell, it's going to be garbage and should be avoided.
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Dell: starts to recover from being savaged by Linus. Steve: Ahem.
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This looks like a computer built to last a week longer than your warranty.
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I can't believe they put a side panel window on that monstrosity like you'd actually want to see what's inside it
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Labeling a paid service as “free” definitely seems illegal, and responding to it by trying to hide it in other more obscure line items or mixed into the total PC cost seems significantly more illegal That’s like getting accused of murder and telling the cops to “give me a second to get rid of these bloody clothes”
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Its like they thought of every single method to stop you from upgrading anything, Louis Rossman would love this thing..
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"Load bearing cpu cooler" might be the best thing I've heard since "out of the box thermals"
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Dell literally tried to upsell Linus on the same sneaky charges in 2 secret shopper episodes! Extremely shady.
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The window makes perfect sense. It's actually a vintage display model that's meant to show your kids what their father's computer look like
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"There are good prebuilts out there. In theory. We're working on finding them for you." We feel you Steve
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Dell: We're gonna do the cheapest, shittiest-looking internals we can (not) get away with. Also Dell: Let's put a window on it!
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When you add RGB it's called Alienware.
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The funniest part of this video is Steve crediting Dell for not putting the front IO in the front panel only to find out what's really happening later
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"So, what you're saying here is not that you didn't intend to charge me this $67, you just regret that I was able to notice it." Dell: "Yes."
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Remember when the Dell actor "DUDE you're getting a Dell" guy got caught smoking weed and they fired him? It was SO weird. I was always told weed was a Gateway drug.
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I regularly come back to this video to remember even though life might be going shit sometimes, at least im not like dell. I've seen this video at least 5 times and i still cant get over how dell made every part inside look like absolute grabage, to a point where its genuinely impressive.
