Tech YouTuber Optimizing Gaming PCs With Components Recommended by Amazon – How Good Are These “Recommendations” Really?

How easy is it to upgrade a system just with tips from Amazon? A YouTuber tried it and was pleasantly surprised.

There is a category on Amazon called Amazon Tape. The platform itself writes: “Amazon advice recommends highly rated products with a good performance ratio that can be shipped immediately.”

YouTuber “Dawid Does Tech Stuff” created a special challenge. He just wanted to upgrade a gaming PC with Amazon-recommended components under that label.

But how good are these “tips” and how good is the system really? We’ve included the full video for “Dawid Does Tech Stuff” here for you:

Amazon tips vary in quality and usefulness

What kind of system does he want to improve? It is based on a gaming system from Amazon for about 400 euros. Inside is the Ryzen 5 4600G, that is, a processor with a graphics unit. No “real” graphics card is installed in this system.

Bought the following promotions:

• Coolermaster Masterfan MF120 Halo (Chassis Fan)
• Extension cable from EZDIY
• SYY thermal paste (thermal paste)
• Crucial PCIE 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD
• Airgoo RGB strips
• Perless Assassin 120 SE (CPU Cooler)
• MSI RTX 3060 (graphics card)

Particularly interesting: Amazon doesn’t recommend its own products, like its CPU cooler.

How do promotions work? Unsurprisingly, the GeForce RTX 3060 is of course a major upgrade over the Ryzen 5 4600G. However, the YouTuber explains that he was going to buy the Radeon RX 6600 privately. Because this way you could have saved another 150 euros.

The remaining upgrades were ok: the thermal paste cuts a good shape and cools properly, the LED strips keep turning off automatically and the CPU cooler doesn’t have a good built-in fan. The complete disaster wasn’t part of the upgrades.

Gaming system upgrades don’t have to be expensive

Upgrading an old system or a new entry-level system can be done with just a few tricks. There are many useful upgrades that don’t have to cost a lot of money. Replacing your hard drive with an SSD hard drive often works wonders.

It usually turns out that expanding main memory is not very complicated and often not expensive. You can get good working memory for less than 40€ and you can use it to increase the long term memory of your system.

However, if your system is very old, it may be worth buying a completely new system before having to replace every component yourself.

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