$6600 Nightmare Prebuilt Gaming PC - Corsair & Origin Genesis Review

Watch the tear-down of the Origin PC here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhw0ZnlWrxI Quick notes: At ~25:00 for the conclusion, the source for the messages got flipped -- it should read "Corsair to GamersNexus" and "GamersNexus to Corsair" in opposite. The context is obviously super clear in the video but the direction of conversation is wrong in text. Also: Corsair/Origin changed their website prior to publishing this review because we told them it was coming. They improved some customer clarity things (we mentioned that in the video though) where they fixed language on the shipping materials. That was a result of this process. Until 2/27/23, we're donating 10% of GN store revenue to the Kramden Institute - grab an item here: store.gamersnexus.net/ (Kramden Institute is a local-to-us e-waste recycling and technology education facility. We love working with them and have a lot of respect for what they do for this industry. If you'd prefer to donate directly to them, you can do so here! kramden.org/ And again, if you grab a GN coaster pack, mouse mat, modmat, or any other item between now and 2/27/23, 10% of that will also go to them! Pre-built reviews playlist! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflZYG5DWPg&list=PLsuV…

Glad Steve let the Corsair fans co-host this review with him.

6k for a B series motherboard build is next level insane

The price AND the sound of an industrial A/C unit, incredible!

I spent 25 years around fighter aircraft. Hearing that PC took me back to my days on the flight line.

Twice in this video I thought "man, he is being so strict" right before remembering that this is a 6.6k rig. He is right, there are no excuses.

It cannot be this hard to make a good prebuilt.

I used to work for Corsair/Origin down here in Miami and I can tell you first hand NO computer gets properly treated in that place, everyone is overworked and underpaid and constantly berated by the "higher ups" who literally have no idea what they are doing and couldn't "manage" their way out of a paper bag let alone a warehouse floor with extremely unsatisfied employees. So sad to say most of that dissatisfaction is taken out on the products themselves, we get to a point that we just don't F'ing care the very few times a PC gets VIP treatment is when we get word ahead of time that Linus or anyone of you guys is purchasing a computer for review and the only reason those computers get any sort of extra treatment is because we get collectively threatened by the higher ups. I eventually quit the job and told them all to F Off and nearly got into a fist fight with one of the managers who was a total rat and pathetic excuse of a "man", I will never purchase any corsair product and that sadly falls into the Origin tree as well.

It isn't the price point that matters, it's the markup. If you are selling $3000 components for $6000, a significant portion of that extra needs to go into QC before shipping, not just CS after. The same is true at the $400 price point, if the component cost is sub $200.

Maybe their idea on the bad fan curve was, "if someone is getting 12 fans they want to know they have 12 fans, make them as loud as possible."

It amazes me every time how so many companies fail to build adult legos.

For a $6600 PC, Origin should ensure that all the BIOS and the drivers in the system are up to date, before shipping it out to the customers. Totally inexcusable, thank you Steve and everyone at GN for your honest review. Much appreciated for all your hard work.

I saw this before and reviewed again today because my friend is dealing with an Origin Nightmare of his own; he's got an Origin system that died 1 month after the 1-year warranty ended. Origin offered basically zero options except to pay to return the entire system, in the crate, for an OOW repair, obviously very expensive just to ship it. We ended up narrowing the problem down to a failed CPU, which is a tray version of 10940X...so no warranty for the owner and is an obsolete socket that would cost $850 to get a replacement CPU, which is pointless since a 13900k is only $560 today. We are going to replace the board and CPU but have noticed that for $6000 a lot of things were missing, particularly the CD key for the Windows 10 license, there is no parts kit for the Corsair H150i AIO, so he's got a nice cooler but only mounting hardware for Intel CPUs....It also did not come with the rest of the cables for the Corsair RM1000x, missing 5x 6-pin cables and the other 2x 6+2 pin cables. I think for a $6000 prebuilt, besides all the things you mentioned in this video, the buyers should at least get all the parts that these "retail" components would have come with. Otherwise, it was a huge disadvantage for my friend to buy one of these (verses self-built) with all OEM status parts that have no warranty and no accessories or retail box goodies included.

It looks like the iCUE fan curve was set up for coolant temp, but they instead pegged it to the CPU temp, which is a truly stunning oversight. I can't believe nobody noticed it.

I can imagine the moment of horror when the Origin rep read the "What do you do to check a pre build?" question came in.

I feel like this is the more "grown up" and technical channel. He does such a good job going through the machines and finding the good/bad. The same things I generally notice and care about so it's nice seeing it on the channel.

13:37 From my experience with a Corsair H100i AIO, those fan curves were meant to be tied to the temperature of the water inside the cooling loop, but for some reason, they didn't bother to adjust them so that the fans follow a different "Quiet" preset when measuring air/component temperature directly. This was likely done so that if your using an AIO on default settings, opening a program won't cause your fans to ramp up suddenly when the CPU briefly has a temperature spike.

"All these problems could easily be fixed by calling our customer support." You're right, let me just get this thing strapped back up on the palette and ship it back to you for repairs!

GOD, these prebuilt videos are so much fun to watch. You can absolutely tell that Steve and the team must have a lot of fun making them as well.

The way these videos are made its very informative and relaxing at the same time. Love pulling these up on the second monitor while doing something