Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at the latest in SCAM technology, which seemingly gets better every year, and it feels like my duty to see just how things are progressing. So join me for the hillairty, and genuinely suprising adventure that was ordering an RTX 5090 straight from China for $30...Some may even say that it turned out well.

What did I buy? - 0:00
Opening the RTX5090 from China - 1:05
A Beautiful "Thank You" Letter - 1:44
Random Documentation? - 2:32
The RTX5090!!! - 3:13
Lets Plug it in! - 4:05
Does it install Drivers? - 4:48
How are they getting away with this? -5:30
What is this thing???- 5:56
Trying to make it run 3D Mark - 7:03
Investigating the specs - 7:55
Teardown time - 8:29
So WHAT are these things? and What are the Specs? - 9:11
Overclocking and Thermal Issues - 11:32
The Card has issues - 13:04
The (Scam) Benchmarks!
Well that was good? But what are the issues? - 25:30
Scam Progression News! - 27:53
Thermals - 30:03
NVENC Kinda works - 31:48
How BAD of a SCAM was it? - 32:30

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Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: Nvidia Geforce "RTX 5090" ... Yeah sure
RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz