Cyberpower, Please Stop: 95°C 9800X3D Pre-Built Gaming PC Review

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Sponsor: Antec Flux Pro case on Amazon https://geni.us/CaPv We review Cyberpower's pre-built gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU in it. The system has all the right components, a competitive price, and a horrible cooling solution that throttles the CPU by 200 MHz all-core. It's an unfortunate story as old as our first reviews of Cyberpower's pre-built PCs. The 9800X3D overheats at 95 degrees Celsius under the 240mm liquid cooler, which we think is partly related to poor contact. The case is also deceptively closed off, despite appearing relatively open. We were disappointed by this one, as everything else about it was excellently done. OS install was clean, the BIOS was right, the drivers were recent, the build was overall good. Watch our prebuilt review playlist here:    • Crazy Bad ASUS Pre-Built Gaming PC for $25...   The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us:   / gamersnexus   RELATED PRODUCTS [Affiliate Links] NVIDIA RTX 5080 on Newegg: https://howl.link/8lw10muq33gob NVIDIA RTX 5080 on Amazon (once listed): https://geni.us/qGJPA AMD RX 7900 XTX on Newegg: https://howl.link/mtvba9dgdf7x4 AMD RX 7900 XTX on Amazon: https://geni.us/IOsQ NVIDIA RTX 5090 on Newegg: https://howl.link/mcb343fapkti6 NVIDIA RTX 5090 on Amazon: https://geni.us/CGgM6y AMD RX 7900 XT on Newegg: https://howl.link/33qsc2445zr2y AMD RX 7900 XT on Amazon: https://geni.us/7Buj AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU on Newegg: https://howl.link/o17puhoclww0v AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU on Amazon: https://geni.us/bsS1kFv TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - The Cyberpower PC Pre-Built 02:18 - The 9800X3D Pre-Built 05:36 - The Specs 07:30 - Tear-Down 12:40 - Cooler Removal 15:05 - Thermals for CPU 16:41 - Throttling 17:24 - Thermals for GPU, RAM 17:51 - Acoustic Testing and Noise Levels 18:36 - Power Consumption at the Wall 19:08 - Surprisingly Good BIOS, Windows Install 20:48 - Packaging, Accessories 22:50 - Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t:   / gamersnexus   f:   / gamersnexus   w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Test Lead Jeremy Clayton: Testing, Writing Vitalii Makhnovets: Camera Tim Phetdara: Editing