Prebuilt Gamers Nexus: ASUS G22CH-DH978 pre-built, "worse than Dell"

[Skripka]

Beve Sturke, in his continuing quest to find pre-builts worth a damn...stumbled into this $2,500USD Asus 11.6L mouthful at MicroCenter. It didn't go well. LOL.

NOTE, all Steve's criticisms of Asus outright wrong marketing...are still live on the Asus ROG website as of now:

ROG G22CH | Desktops | ROG USA

Introducing the ROG G22CH, a small form factor chassis housing top-tier components. Featuring up to an Intel Core i9-13900KF and up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU.

rog.asus.com

 

[Phuncz]

Haven't seen this one, but all the other ones. It's insane how so many pre-builts are lacking in shipping protection (mainly graphics card) and quality control (mainly motherboard connectors).

 

[hrh_ginsterbusch]

Yeah, I saw this one, too. Thought about commenting on this with a link to my current build, because: Its exactly 11.6L, too. And I'm doing air-cooling, and am in the process of optimization using air ducts, custom CPU limits etc. pp. But do I have cooling issues? Not really.

Does it cost about the same?
Roughly speaking: Yes ..?

Actually its about 300 - 400 Euro (or USD) cheaper, but the Ryzen 9 7950X still beats the 14900K any time, even when in 105W Eco mode. With my cooling optimization, next step is manual 120W "Eco" mode + PBO. By then, should kick it out of the ball park

cu, w0lf.