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The video idea was good, the execution not so much. 
 
A- Where did you find a Xeon E5 2667v3 for $69? The only ones i can find around that price point at "ES"  samples with broken QPI and memory channels that perform worst than a stock 2640v3. 
 
B-The idea of getting a 6900k was doomed to fail : there are very few chinese X99 motherboards capable of (barely) holding an unlocked CPU above 4GHz OC. Naming them : Huananzhi X99 F8/TF/T8 and Jingsha D8. Or one could get an used MSI X99 mpower for US$ 162. By picking up the 6900K you basically spent your budget and self-destruct your project into a motherboard designed to run 2620v3 and 2640v3. 
 
A much better solution, inside budget, would be a Xeon E5 1650v1 for US$ 55 and a Huananzhi x79 2.49pc (Luxury 2.1) for US$ 82, plus some server DDR3 1866 on the cheap. That would not only save money but  build a PC whose VRMs are not a fire hazard. 

I lack surety to be able to make assumptions about upcoming needs.  Motherboard is hefty enough to take a bigger cpu if needed.  I worry for one that current nvme may be high priced and low speed for what will be needed.  My move would be a single large SATA SSD and no HDD as it won’t affect current game loads much, and if an nvme turns out to be needed later at least there would be room.  Could go into the nvme 3.0 rather than the nvme 4.0 slot I guess.  Might make things a tad messy later.  If it turns out fast 4.0 nvme is needed I suppose the nvme SSD could be turned into cache for the HDD with primocache or whatever will be available then.

The channels you are missing are both VHF-High which is notoriously difficult with contemporary indoor antennas. UHF under 30 is similarly difficult. Your antenna is an "amplified" unit which is something of a consumer scam. When the amplification mode is on it tends to introduce noise, or the impression of a lost signal with DTV. In other words, you don't have to fool around with the antenna you have. Return it.
 
There are very few good amplified antennas intended to be used indoors. In New York, a sea of steel construction and RF interference, hesitate to use such a unit unless you are pretty far out in the suburbs.
 
New York is THE priority market. Signals tend to be strong and clear unless you are among the many, many obstructions in Manhattan and Brooklyn or a particularly low part of Queens. Most important is your proximity to One World Trade Center and the Empire State Bldg from which the mentioned channels broadcast. Reception through a building can be a complicating factor if you are in an apartment on the wrong side for maximum reception.
 
Also, seconding Tyler the Antenna Man. He knows his stuff and stays on top of it.
 
Assuming you are within 20 miles of the broadcast towers, you may choose among the following for good results.
 
Mohu Leaf or Arc. The Leaf is the one all the other flat antennas are copying. Arc is not designed to fit in a window.
Antennas Direct ClearStream Eclipse
Channel Master Flatenna 35. CM being the old, tried and true brand in this category.
 
If you are further out or just want the maximum indoor unit, devise some kind of stand or support and stick an Antennas Direct ClearStream 2V in the window and be done with it.

you could get a snowman cpu cooler on aliexpress if you want cheap air cooling. 

It's "Sexy Sexy" by Stephane Michel Huguenin.  Not sure you'll be able to find it anywhere except APM Music (we use the service to get songs for videos).

Ok, look. I know the video was a bit of fluff. For whatever reason, despite "China builds" or whatever being something of a trend right now, my go-to guys for both pretty good information and watching a bunch of dudes muck around with stuff just can't be bothered for some reason. Acknowledging I don't have the credibility to say something like this, this video was beneath your typically high standard.
 
The dance-break, glamour shot was deliciously silly. Credit where it's due.
 
The folks from LMG actively and consciously purchased a 400 watt power supply and then dismissed the power supply as junk. I mean, it almost certainly is not of a outside-of-Asia-market standard, but that's ridiculous. The gimmick with AX shopping is to go at it on that marketplace's own terms. Instead of trying to get something of a Western standard, go for a "garbage patch" board, an old Xeon, quad-channel DDR3 ECC for effectively modern memory speed, and a 1660, if even that much of a GPU. "Cheap and cheerful" was coined for a reason.
 
And get the above items for under $600 delivered to the US, Canada will almost certainly be different or not and who the [heck] knows anymore about shipping. This isn't the first time deliberately expensive parts were ordered and then judged not to be worth the expense. That is defying the object of the exercise. I don't have the credibility to hold you guys to a higher standard. I'm just some old retired geek, but you are just better than this. /old

No worries
 
 
 
 
I'm sensing a trend here 🤣

Fine. Typed on my Huananzhi ZD3, 1650v2, RX 470D machine I built (in 2019) for $400. A good-value machine might come when I get really bored again.
 
The object of the exercise is to build a respectable, if not exemplary, gaming PC for under US$1114.08 including shipping from Aliexpress. This is the admitted price of the LTT all-Aliexpress build minus peripherals. Peripherals being a maelstrom into which I shall not wander. Apologizing for formatting, but after copy and paste from a word processor, I've grown tired of fighting the formatting.
 
This is a more powerful build in some respects than your correspondent would devise without a budget to fill.
 
Miyconst-approved motherboard, memory and CPU: (Intel Xeon E5 2678 v3, 12c 24t, 3.30 GHz on 22 nm)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001146681791.html
$316.64 inclusive of shipping to the US
MAXSUN GeForce RTX 2060 Terminator (not especially good value
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001027567757.html
$378.81 inclusive of shipping to the US
KingDian SSD 512 GB NVME (not a bargain for this class of NVME)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32955472430.html
$52.97 inclusive of shipping to the US
KingDian SSD 1 TB SATA
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32985030187.html
$89.28 inclusive of shipping to the US
 
Snowman 90mm 2011 CPU cooler (4-pin, no led, 2 fans)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000307321126.html
$27.94 inclusive of shipping to the US
 
Snowman 1-to-10 4-pin fan hub
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000309479715.html
$8.61 inclusive of shipping to the US
 
Snowman 120mm “faux rgb” case fans (package of six, black preferred for lower price, only four are required)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000309479715.html
$33.61 inclusive of shipping to the US
 
Crappy MATX case (bad value)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33013655848.html
$50.75 “ships from United States” inclusive of shipping to the United States
 
Segotep 700P 80 plus platinum, 600w power supply (utterly tragic value)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32824114589.html
$119.99 inclusive of shipping to the US
 
This totals, inclusive of shipping, US$1078.60, and will very likely not only boot but run its own GPU. By purchasing the bad-value items locally (at least in the US), you would save over $150 on the build.
 
A similar PCPP build, just thrown together, (2700x, 2060 KO, 32 GB, Rosewill case) came in at about $980.

Made an account just to leave some feedback to this video, because I feel there's just so much wasted potential. This could be an interesting build because most people outside Europe and USA/Canada have those exact same brands as mainstream. Taking the B450 Battle Ax for an example, was a good-selling motherboard in Brazil because it used to be the cheapest B450 available year-round, when MSI, Asus and other name brands struggled with stock issues and high prices. People stopped buying the Battle Ax after a local tech youtuber managed to set the board's VRMS on fire with an OC'd 2700X, which prompted a response from the manufacturer saying that it was an isolated issue and a hardware revision would follow up shortly to replace said model.
 
Anyways, instead of troubleshooting the build, Linus just gave away and did absolutely nothing with the machine, leaving the viewers empty-handed. No comments whatsoever on the mouse, keyboard and headset, those were just thrown away, never being actually used. In those types of video, when Linus finds out that the weird AliExpress tech is actually decent, it's a very nice surprise for the viewer that might be looking into buying new stuff. And his opinion is worth a lot.
 
The builds on the channel became kinda generic, it's usually a combination of the best i9 available with the top nVidia card, a different case and sponsored brands for the rest. Too predictable.

Ok, look. I know the video was a bit of fluff. For whatever reason, despite "China builds" or whatever being something of a trend right now, my go-to guys for both pretty good information and watching a bunch of dudes muck around with stuff just can't be bothered for some reason. Acknowledging I don't have the credibility to say something like this, this video was beneath your typically high standard.
 
The dance-break, glamour shot was deliciously silly. Credit where it's due.
 
The folks from LMG actively and consciously purchased a 400 watt power supply and then dismissed the power supply as junk. I mean, it almost certainly is not of a outside-of-Asia-market standard, but that's ridiculous. The gimmick with AX shopping is to go at it on that marketplace's own terms. Instead of trying to get something of a Western standard, go for a "garbage patch" board, an old Xeon, quad-channel DDR3 ECC for effectively modern memory speed, and a 1660, if even that much of a GPU. "Cheap and cheerful" was coined for a reason.
 
And get the above items for under $600 delivered to the US, Canada will almost certainly be different or not and who the [heck] knows anymore about shipping. This isn't the first time deliberately expensive parts were ordered and then judged not to be worth the expense. That is defying the object of the exercise. I don't have the credibility to hold you guys to a higher standard. I'm just some old retired geek, but you are just better than this. /old

Ok, look. I know the video was a bit of fluff. For whatever reason, despite "China builds" or whatever being something of a trend right now, my go-to guys for both pretty good information and watching a bunch of dudes muck around with stuff just can't be bothered for some reason. Acknowledging I don't have the credibility to say something like this, this video was beneath your typically high standard.
 
The dance-break, glamour shot was deliciously silly. Credit where it's due.
 
The folks from LMG actively and consciously purchased a 400 watt power supply and then dismissed the power supply as junk. I mean, it almost certainly is not of a outside-of-Asia-market standard, but that's ridiculous. The gimmick with AX shopping is to go at it on that marketplace's own terms. Instead of trying to get something of a Western standard, go for a "garbage patch" board, an old Xeon, quad-channel DDR3 ECC for effectively modern memory speed, and a 1660, if even that much of a GPU. "Cheap and cheerful" was coined for a reason.
 
And get the above items for under $600 delivered to the US, Canada will almost certainly be different or not and who the [heck] knows anymore about shipping. This isn't the first time deliberately expensive parts were ordered and then judged not to be worth the expense. That is defying the object of the exercise. I don't have the credibility to hold you guys to a higher standard. I'm just some old retired geek, but you are just better than this. /old

I was very surprized to see Ryzen in this build. What's the reason of buying it, when you can buy used Xeon there? If the point was to make the cheapest pc from aliexpress, you should've gone with X79 or X99 Huanan Zhi motherboard with Xeon. It will use DDR3, which is also very cheap.
 
Example:
12 core CPU for just about 100$ https://aliexpress.ru/item/10000181392680.html
gaming motherboard for it, ~70$ https://aliexpress.ru/item/33057387836.html
32gb DDR3 ecc reg ram, ~65$ https://aliexpress.ru/item/4000409529087.html

Ok, look. I know the video was a bit of fluff. For whatever reason, despite "China builds" or whatever being something of a trend right now, my go-to guys for both pretty good information and watching a bunch of dudes muck around with stuff just can't be bothered for some reason. Acknowledging I don't have the credibility to say something like this, this video was beneath your typically high standard.
 
The dance-break, glamour shot was deliciously silly. Credit where it's due.
 
The folks from LMG actively and consciously purchased a 400 watt power supply and then dismissed the power supply as junk. I mean, it almost certainly is not of a outside-of-Asia-market standard, but that's ridiculous. The gimmick with AX shopping is to go at it on that marketplace's own terms. Instead of trying to get something of a Western standard, go for a "garbage patch" board, an old Xeon, quad-channel DDR3 ECC for effectively modern memory speed, and a 1660, if even that much of a GPU. "Cheap and cheerful" was coined for a reason.
 
And get the above items for under $600 delivered to the US, Canada will almost certainly be different or not and who the [heck] knows anymore about shipping. This isn't the first time deliberately expensive parts were ordered and then judged not to be worth the expense. That is defying the object of the exercise. I don't have the credibility to hold you guys to a higher standard. I'm just some old retired geek, but you are just better than this. /old

Ok, look. I know the video was a bit of fluff. For whatever reason, despite "China builds" or whatever being something of a trend right now, my go-to guys for both pretty good information and watching a bunch of dudes muck around with stuff just can't be bothered for some reason. Acknowledging I don't have the credibility to say something like this, this video was beneath your typically high standard.
 
The dance-break, glamour shot was deliciously silly. Credit where it's due.
 
The folks from LMG actively and consciously purchased a 400 watt power supply and then dismissed the power supply as junk. I mean, it almost certainly is not of a outside-of-Asia-market standard, but that's ridiculous. The gimmick with AX shopping is to go at it on that marketplace's own terms. Instead of trying to get something of a Western standard, go for a "garbage patch" board, an old Xeon, quad-channel DDR3 ECC for effectively modern memory speed, and a 1660, if even that much of a GPU. "Cheap and cheerful" was coined for a reason.
 
And get the above items for under $600 delivered to the US, Canada will almost certainly be different or not and who the [heck] knows anymore about shipping. This isn't the first time deliberately expensive parts were ordered and then judged not to be worth the expense. That is defying the object of the exercise. I don't have the credibility to hold you guys to a higher standard. I'm just some old retired geek, but you are just better than this. /old

Who cares about specs, we are here for the Ali-Express-Dance