Worse Than Walmart: Dell G5 5000 PC’s Garbage Parts & Hidden Charges
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 Published On May 18, 2021

Our Dell G5 5000 pre-built gaming computer review looks at quality & Dell’s shady billing practices. One video won’t be enough to contain all the issues we had with Dell’s prebuilt.
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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.

Watch our Walmart Gaming PC tear-down:    • Walmart Gaming PC: How to Do Everythi...  
Watch our Pre-Built Buyer's Warnings:    • Warnings About Pre-Built PCs: Proprie...  

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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

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