South Korea's CRAZY Tech Malls: $1000 Gaming PC
I'm currently in Seoul standing in front of the Yongsang electronics Market which according to the internet is in a bit of a state of decay but I don't know from the outside this place looks pretty wild so let's go in there and see what kind of gaming PCs and just general Tech you can buy here we also check out another Electronics Market on the other end of the city which genuinely blew my mind and bought $1,000 gaming system but before then today's video is sponsored by be quiet's new light Wings LX BS a more budget focused version of The Amazing be quiet light wings that still got it where it counts like its performance and dazzling lighting W my favorite thing about them is that they use a standard three pin Daisy chainable RGB connector so you don't need to buy a hub to use them furthering their wallet friendly nature so if this sounds good to you click on the link down below to get some be quiet lightwing LX fan action [Music] look at that we've already got a pile of graphics cards glued together I'm assuming those are empty boxes but I don't know now we haven't even gone inside yet and I already don't know what the internet's on about there's amazing stuff going on here you can get a wraith cooler for I think that's $2 and then underneath the $2 wraith coolers there is a 4 490 box so I think I think we're going to get some good stuff here once inside there are two hallways of tech Madness seemingly stretching infinitely now just first thing in through the front door there's already a whole list of of pre-build systems available now I'll have the exchange rate kind of pop up on the screen now but it ranges from about $400 to like $11,000 for a system with an RTX 360 in it all the way up to like a $5,000 system with a49 in it look at that that's a Linus system over here although this shelf is in front of a shop that looks very closed so I don't know if we're going to be able to get any of those and then right on the other side of that there's kind of a laptop shop with some some good-looking deals on gaming laptops and look at those systems now it's only taken us about 5 minutes to find a majestic waifu system it looks awesome uh with a custom Loop although it doesn't have Ram in it for some reason oh never mind it's just got a single stick in it what that is outrageous that's clearly what The Internet's been going on about the first couple of shops focused on some interestingly put together showcase systems and systems for specific games which is an interesting idea next to which was a shop clearly owned by a man with a deep erotic love for fans I have never seen such fan density before it was honestly borderline emasculated by it I have never seen that many fans in one place just a wall of heavy heavy duty server fans look at all of that and after wanding past some more shops with a whole bunch of graphics cards and custom keyboards in it I started to notice a trend there seemingly a huge market for used old alien Wares look at that bad boy awesome old Alienware gaming laptop that you can buy and there's even new ones on an Asus box hell yeah more old Alienware systems this is the third shop we've seen with a bunch of them but this shop had more to offer than just old Alienware yo this place has the sickest systems look at that like figurine in it and then above that is like an open Hardline system look at all these piecs the I think that's a one piece figurine one is also either like an x299 or an x99 paste system oh look at this I just noticed that's definitely some dual CPU action in there because we went early on a Monday morning a bunch of the shops were closed but it was like losing a couple of drops of rain in a thunderstorm and the thunderstorm soon revealed what would quickly become my favorite shop this keyboard store had a bewildering array of custom keyboards in every shape size color and switch they've got uh keyboards with a whole bunch of different switches on so you can test the switches to uh to decide which one works for you ooh this one's really nice it also had the friendliest shopkeeper he was just excited to see other people excited about his Wares I loved this place but soon we had to return to our journey through the infinite Madness that is the yongsang electronics market now next to the Logitech shop which is already pretty exciting there is a dedicated noock TOA shop that is madness that's so that's like dream stuff right there whole selection of noct fans even the little tiny ones it's so cute what's interesting is they've also got a bunch of tiny like chipset fans and stuff which I didn't know noctua also made you can buy them individually here [Music] here's a version of the RX 580 I've never seen before this place has a whole bunch of 3D printers as well that's really cool we then discovered an umbilical cord connecting to another building full of Tech Stop if anything this building was even more jam-packed with stuff literally stacked floor to ceiling [Music] so we've spent a while walking around this Tech market and it is very similar to the shenzen tech Market which is amazing I love these kinds of places and what's cool about this stuff here is that it's not just all current gen stuff there's a whole bunch of like older laptops and graphics cards so you can buy at pretty much any price point and another thing is you don't really see customers walking around most most of the activity is just people carting stuff around so I think that all of these shops do most of their selling online which is kind of similar to how it works in the shenz and Tech markets and stuff now uh so that kind of makes sense uh but it's a shame because it's such a cool place to wander around shopping for stuff you can even get a bunch of cerons and stuff here under the the pile of ram got a bunch of gaming systems going as well with various component configurations so with a bunch of these motherboards you actually have CPU combos as well so it's like CPU motherboard and then a wraith cooler all kind of prepackaged like that for you which is a really nice touch it makes shopping here really really easy at that bad boy such a variety of hardware and then here again is this Hardware configuration which seems very common for systems here and below that is a used alternative with some more GPU power and while you're at it you can buy a $3 power supply for your hobby as an amateur arsonist again a whole range we've got from a GTX 200 series that's amazing I really like that you can get all those stuff like that above that is your motherboard combos 2700x with motherboard and cooler for about $150 Canadian and then up here is some newer graphics cards with like a 3060 TI uh or even like a 2060 going for about $180 Canadian dollar so a lot of these shops have amazing uh showcase systems look at this one it's beautiful so this shop looks like they've got two systems of parts that they need to build so whenever somebody's coming back that's going to happen and soon after admiring the shop that makes every connector known to man we made a shocking realization okay it starting to dawn on me that this place is potentially massive cuz we just spent the last I think hour exploring one floor and there's at least four of them there's like a whole bunch up here as well initially the additional floor seemed like more of the same a bunch of shops with graphics cards and mechanical keyboards but after just a bit of walking the people started to thin out and were replaced by boxes lots and lots of boxes just so many boxes like how is there this much of it oh this shop just has the most baller looking servers and then just more infinite stuff down there that's a great Shar conveniently if you get tired of your box Safari there are some boots to sleep in [Music] and after hours of wandering around this wild Maze We remembered that there was another Electronics Market in a different part of the city that we still wanted to see so we made a quick pit stop at the best shop in the world to buy some sexy mechanical keyboards at great prices and then embarked on our 40-minute journey to another Electronics Market in the Kung Nom District next we decided to head over the river to the K Tech mall and what's really exciting about this one is that it's got a dedicated console area so can't wait to see that however initially CJ was real disappointed the escalators may have been fancy but once you got into the floors it just looked like an office building with some washing machines in it trying my best to hide my disappointment we powered ahead until until we hit the fourth floor where everything changed this may be the single largest collection of highi I have ever seen every speaker ampen Source you can imagine spanning decades I was this giddy as a teenager that just discovered incognito mode massive Wilson look at that what's so wild about this place is you wander around what looks like an open pan office and then there's just a shop with a bunch of massive other on guard horn speakers in it which sells for a spleen shattering $170,000 and then right next to that is another shop with just Madness it's everywhere I have never seen this much Hi-Fi in one place ever before this place is crazy but unfortunately we're not here for oil Baron high five so soon I had to peel myself away and go in search of some gaming Hardware although interestingly on the fifth floor there were a couple of pretty sad sad looking used cell phone [Music] stores and then when you get to the sixth floor I mean this is still exciting it's not quite as exciting as the fourth floor but there's also a lot of these PC stalls everywhere now as with Yong son the flashier stores with all the piles of graphics cards live immediately around the escalator but once you move deeper into the floor it just descends into madness and because every floor of cuch J is this massive semiopen plan office esque space it somehow manages to feel both emptier and much Fuller than yongsan and there's just so much random stuff everywhere so in between all of these shops selling various combinations of PC it's just a random organ shop it's one of the things that's so Random about the space it feels like you're walking around an office complex hey look at that it's one of those HP servers that we did a video on like 4 years ago it's nice to see one of those standing around but then we found some something that thematically fits in with the whole looted middle management office Vibe and we've also noticed a whole bunch of printers with the ink mounted externally like this and we can't really figure out why that is our best guess is that it's because it's a lot more ink than you can fit inside the printer and it's easier to change out but it is pretty ratchet you can also get a glad wrapped photocopier another thing that stood out to me in both the markets was that for a country that manufactures most of the world's high-end displays most of the mon monitors you could buy looked like they were fished out of a dumpster behind a failing accounting firm but after quite some time wandering around the couple of PC floors having a great time some PC mudes poking out under the bit of tarp oh there's even like a like a galley up there in case you need to protect your gal there is a katana hanging out underneath it we decided to stop at a stall and buy our $1,000 gaming system which meant discussing specs with another lovely shopkeeper so we just negotiated for $1,000 build with the nicest man ever there are so many super friendly vendors here it's cool uh so yeah I'm curious to see how it turns out and the best part about it is we didn't have to get a $4,000 year-long membership like with Best Buy to get the system built so we left our new friend to the very reasonably priced assembly of our new gaming system and headed to the console floor as you get closer to the ninth floor things get more figurin and this is console gaming Paradise look at all of stuff and this is one of like dozens of stores you can just see down there and again this place has just several generations of console stuff and once we moved past the initial escalator line of shops we were drowned in an ocean of figurines and as we all know where there is a swarm of anime figurines there's always also a swarm of anime figurines oh oh my this is clearly the hentti shop oh my God it's everywhere I don't know Anna seems really excited by what's going on here yeah look at her although apparently the anime figurines were just a small corner of a massive ecosystem again these places feel infinite you just walk in this you just keep walking and it just keeps being more of this stuff and this floor with its increasingly massive figurines was by far the most popular of any of the areas we've been in so far across from that is some full siiz Dragon Ball Z action oh I that needs to I need to just not don't look at that yeah and I just made a really good point this is like akiabara without the super annoying music everywhere blaring at you and with that realization soon we found some more consoles oh this CRT is out of life and here you can try out the brand new Xbox 360 now unfortunately the coolest shop on this console floor didn't want us filming in it but I can still tell you about it they have just a huge selection of older consoles standing around with an insane collection of games for each of the generations so if you want some older console action the Small's a really good place to go but all of the naked anime figurines have gotten us really hungry so I think with that we're going to go get lunch and then we'll pick up our gaming system but before we see what kind of gaming PC we got for $1,000 there's one more aspect of the South Korean PC gaming Market we saw evidence of everywhere now the PC is not done yet but it gives us a bit of time to talk about some something we discovered while researching this trip in South Korea if you don't own a gaming PC you can go to a PC land Center and rent some time onone and these centers are called PC Banks and you see them everywhere walking around the city just PC logos and blazoned everywhere and we were lucky enough to have the owner of the first one we wandered into just show us around a bit so let's check it out when you first wander into your premium PC Bang You're greeted by a large space dripping with gamer energy and then if you have a membership you're paying about a do for 40 minutes but you can go up to a 2day Sprint that's pretty badass uh and then over here is without membership so then it costs a little bit more and you can't get it for as long uh but obviously we don't live here so that's what we're going to do and next to that screen are all the snacks and smoking room you could want and there's even a kitchen where you can order meals from your PC without ever having to get up and once you've paid for your time you can decide between a setup with either a larger $200 40 HZ display or smaller super high refresh rate displays depending on what kind of games you're playing in terms of peripherals you get a nice mechanical keyboard and you get a selection of two mice so you can actually decide which one you want to use which is pretty cool up there is your headset and it is a headset so it comes with a mic so that you can shout at strangers on the internet in your PC bang it's awesome and once you first log into your system of choice it takes quite a while to fire up but once it fires up you immediately see why the system immediately bombards you with ads and every bit of preloaded software imaginable now in terms of specs all of these systems have an i52 400 16 gigs of RAM and an RTX 360 in it now luckily they do come with a huge amount of games pre-installed most of which I don't recognize but that doesn't matter and you can also log into your own Steam account if you want to play online using that oh and in your rental they also include access to Netflix Amazon Prime and a whole bunch of streaming services which I think is a nice touch and there even couples's seats ooo you can also order and pay for a huge variety of food straight from your seat so you legitimately never have to leave in terms of gaming I would definitely recommend the setup with the higher refresh rate Asus displays cuz the ones that I was using wasn't particularly good but the system ran the games well and the seats were very comfortable although despite the fact that they clean the setup after every use the peripherals did feel a little bit like a grab handle in a heavily used Metro they really are a keeped in gamer oh and the second your time runs out the windows instance just closes deleting all of your game data so you need to be real careful that you're not mid round of doto when that happens but yeah the PC bang was awesome the owner was super accommodating and I get why these are so popular but with that let's go pick up our ,000 gaming system and see how that turned [Music] out so we finally have our $1,000 gaming system that we bought from the the nicest man ever so I'm really excited to see what kind of job he did putting it together now in terms of accessories we've gotten some SATA cables screws and a little a little wipy down cloth now interestingly for the system we did have to buy a full retail copy of Windows which is outrageous and that makes up like 10% of the cost of the system so if we didn't have to do that we may have been able to get some better components but this thing's still going to be pretty powerful now in terms of the case we've got some Zolman case with a whole bunch of ventilation on the front the top and the back which is good and we even get four RGB fans in the box now in terms of I/O it's perfectly fine it's computery we have a power supply that doesn't immediately look terrible so that's good uh but let's get the side panel off and then we can talk about the specs in the system I mean from here it looks like he did a really good job in terms of cable management and stuff and what's interesting about this yeah it was like $ 30 Canadian do for him to build the system which interestingly is less than you would pay pay a month for the Best Buy subscription and that didn't even include any labor cost it's a reasonable side panel mechanism cuz you've at least got little knobbies that hold it in place so that's very good uh and then on the inside of the system wow now the first thing that you'll notice is unfortunately we do have a stock Intel cooler ooh now this cooler isn't completely terrible especially for a 12400 f it should do a reasonable job but we'll test out a little bit later I couldn't fit a better cooler into the budget and the person that helped us spec the system didn't seem particularly concerned about it 32 gigs of ddr5 it is very generic sticks so we don't have any heat sinks or whatever but again that should get the job done it's dual channel it's a lot of capacity so that's nice the motherboard is some b760 gigabyte variant and then in terms of storage we've got a 512 gig nvme drive we almost got a 1 tbte Samsung 980 which is like a pretty fancy nvme drive but instead we got a I think this is a wd SN 850 oh never mind it's not four we've got six fans there's two more in the top now our biggest Splurge was definitely the graphics card this is an RTX 4060 it's a three fan variant we did almost get an RTX 30 50 but it was the 6 gig version of it and there was no way I was going to buy another one of those pieces of crap but generally in terms of cable management he did an excellent job look at all the cable ties under here it's like it's such a neat run and back at the apartment I took the back off to reveal a human centipede of Molex connectors for the fans but in all fairness it has been beautifully cable managed and I've never heard of the power supply before but it's got a cybernetics bronze rating so it likely isn't a complete dumpster fire so I guess now all it's left to do is we got to take it back to the apartment and see how it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] runs whoa It's So Heavy because the shell is aluminum the whole reason a keyboard like this is exciting is oh I think this was $90 although even before firing up this system I noticed a problem this motherboard doesn't have a Wi-Fi card in it and there's no ethernet in this random room that I'm in at the moment although uh apparently you can use your iPhone as a modem so we we'll see if we can do that but first let's power it on ooh so much of light he there we go but my a was shortlived because despite the at making it look real easy I just couldn't get my iPhone to work as a [Music] modem so I've spent the last hour trying to get my phone to connect to the PC as a modem now this is something which according to the entire internet is super straightforward you just plug it in allow personal hotspot and it works the problem is it it doesn't work like that because you need itunes drivers apparently so I downloaded iTunes on a device that does have Wi-Fi and and I've installed it on here but it still doesn't work now when I install iTunes on the on the laptop with internet connected to it then it works because clearly iTunes needs to download the drivers so as far as I understand it you need internet on the device that you're trying to get internet on in order to get your phone to get internet on the device that doesn't have internet on it which is just the most Apple thing ever but anyway I've decided that I'm just going to go buy a Wi-Fi card okay so I'm back from the tech mold this was the option I could find it's not ideal but it'll give us internet so that's fine and when it comes to the system's gaming performance it was good yay we finally have gaming happening after a whole morning of struggling but this is cyberpunk at 1080p ultra settings and our 4060 based system is handling it well o CPU wise the the temperatures are it kind of hovers between acceptable and hairy occasionally while we were loading into the game it would hit high 80s which isn't ideal and it's a little bit whiny but aside from that the system is running very well we've got a huge amount of RAM and at 1080p it it's just is good but I'm curious to see where the temperatures top out so let's let's drive around a bit and and see where this goes it's been a while with me driving around and oh it's it's getting toast y uh it occasionally jumps up to very high 80° C and it's pretty noisy uh but to be fair for a stock Intel cooler this is actually kind of wild performance the fact that it's not running 2,000 de C is is impressive but generally we got a lot of performance out of our $1,000 system at 1080p the system will run the crap out of most games and it's only when you push the CPU really hard the temperatures get a bit hairy and the fact that the assembly was so cheap means nobody needs to use a pre-build here and with that South Korean Tech markets are awesome and if you ever have an opportunity to go check them out I'd highly recommend it everybody's also very friendly and accommodating so it's just generally a really nice experience if you enjoyed the video subscribe to the channel maybe watch another video suggestion will pop up in a second and until the next video thank you for watching bye-bye [Music] m [Music]
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