I Bought a Gaming PC at Best Buy… Am I Dumb?

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:38:12 +0000

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We were pleasantly surprised in 2016, and again in 2020, but can we still get a decent Gaming PC by wandering into a Best Buy and taking whatever the sales rep recommends? Our secret shopper finds out!

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Buy Fractal Design Focus G Mid-Tower Case: https://geni.us/zDEh

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/al....bum/supernova/id9368
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI
Listen on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/UxWkUw
Artist Link: http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:55 The Rules
1:31 Weirdest Advice Ever
2:28 What we got
3:53 The catch
5:14 His biggest mistake
6:06 What if we spec our own?
6:51 What if we build our own?
8:48 Who wins?
10:18 Outro