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The first card you removed is a MXM form factor. I still think you should try to hook up a laptop GPU to that just to see for if it would work for the shits and giggles
Unfortunately, when components are close enough, the fan is usually required to run so fast that the motor of the fan can contribute to overheating, defeating the purpose.
@@HardWhereHero I think not, my pentium D ran VLC for a while in my living room as a media player, only retired it since the power supply caught smoke, with windows 7/Linux it will be a dream
@@JohnWardButOn420 These things were like $850+ on release back in 2012, and the only one I see on ebay now is $750. It makes absolutely no sense to buy one as a media box when you can just get a much better NUC or SBC with today technology, better performance and better price, in a similar form-factor. It's basically e-waste that you would have to compromise with 720p video and go through the pains shown in the full video to even get it to work.
Screw efficiency, I cool my PC with brute force. On a serious note tho, I am confused why is that one fan on the top, it's a tube, it seems obvious to try and push air straight through it. Maybe there's some heat component not touching the sink that needs extra airflow?
@@megan00b8What I'm thinking is that the bigger fan could either be pulling or pushing air through, while the smaller one would be doing the opposite, possibly creating an air current to pull cooler air from the bottom so it goes between the heatsink fins and then gets pushed or pulled through the length of the find by the bigger fan. So the small fan is there just to help create an airflow but not to directly cool the device. Something like that. Edit. Seems like it could be pulling air from the side through the IO shield gaps. Maybe.
My dad actually worked on these. They were going to be modular, which is pretty sweet. They would have master, graphical, compute, storage, etc. units that could all be wired together via the ePCI-e ports. That's right, external PCI-e, which is basically modern thunderbolt. He did their BIOS, one of only a few guys. I thought these were so cool, and its a shame they lost funding and had to sell the project (they ran out of funding).
Look closely at the four oddly shaped USB ports without the lightning symbol. Those are either ePCI-e or eSATA, but I don't remember which off the top of my head.
Tbh government can fund these yet they waste money extra on their own families members being staffs with high positions doing nothing, or giving extra money to corrupted companies that don’t even make any innovations or developments except using cheapest materials to build most disappointing 💩 that even monkeys can manage better.
@@Hamburger_Z I dunno, I suppose not but like he’s a tech fiddler? I dunno. It’s not just this guy, lots of folks like to review things without understanding the reasons for design.., ie engineering or manufacturing challenges. However naturally his comment was to provoke emotion, which was successful in my case :-)
Sure the brace was removed... However despite not having a brace at all my 10lb gpu doesn't wiggle like that. So him showing that let's me know the components were not made well.
That may look odd for people used to the ATA Form Factor motherboards, but there has been long precedent for that style of digital device construction. Many Industrial 'panel mount' devices are built that way; one 'motherboard just behind the front face, to mount the displays and controls, and multiple 'daughterboards' that perform the actual conversion/process control functions running parallel to the sides and plugging into the motherboard on the front. the back of the device is where the connections typically are, and the frame has tracks that keep the daughterboards stable and aligned. This also allows for easy assembly of various models at the factory: A) The mother board and front face are the same across all models. B) Daughterboard 1 (on the left) has the processor, the power inputs and process control outputs, allowing for multiple working voltage ranges and output styles based on which card is inserted. C) Daughterboard 3 (on the right) has the sensor inputs, allowing for various types of systems to be monitored, again, based on the card. D) Daughterboard 2 (in the center) has the hardware and connectors for the Industrial Network (Modbus, CANNet, RS-232) again, depending on the card used. By mixing and matchi9ng the cards, the manufacturer can produce a wide range of devices from a few separate parts, without having to store unpopular combinations on the self and without long 'lead times,' as the required devices are simply assembled from the parts bins, boxed up, and labeled for the selections chosen.
@justinnamuco9096 Define "better." This form factor is more compact, yes, but the ATA form factor has the advantages of Modularity, Standards, and Heat Dissipation The Modularity allows you to change the configuration easily by adding or removing daughterboards at will. The standardized data busses (which have changed and evolved over time) mean that any manufacturer can make an expansion board that is garunteed to
Work with any current ATA motherboard. The ATA form factor also allows for several options of heat dissipation. There's a reason that the ATA form factor has stuck around since the days of the IBM AT computer.
But instead modern computers start being built with coolers the size of this entire Cube PC just to cool the processor. I think that's totally ridiculous these days, and I never would have thought that coolers would have to be that size or people would have to use water coolers just to get their computer to work with the newer processors that produce so much heat an air cooler almost isn't feasible.
Until somebody finds out a more efficient cooling than air/water we cannot reduce the size of the overall machine without always fall behind on the typical things. Like handheld PCs are a thing already but i feel like battery/cooling are the things that stop us from truly evolving.
@@TortureBot The reason for that is simple. Modern semiconductors are hitting physics limits to their size. Meaningfully scaling down isn't particularly viable anymore, so the efficient way to pack on more computing power is to simply add more components, running at higher speeds. More components at higher speeds will generate *significantly* more heat in the same size footprint.
@TheAttacker732 I understand what you're talking about. Transistors can't get much smaller and the more you pack close together, the more heat you're going to have. I just can't believe they haven't found a better way to cool PCs than running liquid all around inside them, causing trouble and a mess for a lot of people. It just seems like if they can't get much smaller with the transistors they would start coming up with better ways to cool the systems or innovate in a way that we can have new types of transistors that can be physically smaller. From reading, it looks like they are about as small as they can get but since they changed the original transistor invented decades ago to be made from different material, I would have to think they're going to find something new to make transistors out of that can somehow be even smaller physically or operate even faster. I'm getting older, I know. But it's a strange thing to see processors go from no heatsink, to heatsink/fan, to massive heatsink/fan, & finally to water coolers, lol.
This thing is genius. I love how the whole design locks itself together when assembled. Such a cool and unique design to minimize size and utilize space efficiently.
In case you're wondering, no, that's not how the gamecube is designed. The optical drive takes up most of the height with the motherboard sitting underneath.
@@Rockethead293 seriously why this advice? i will say first time start with mouth so u finish your first finish quickly and move on with the high pressure then you can go inside for long time in round 2 (which for her it's long round 1) better than having a really short round 1 and disappointing
Fun fact, we manufacture some boxes for militar stuff that are more or less designed in the same way. A few rails, some slide in covers and everything just comes together beautifully like this. Cheap and compact. And if well designed, no wiggle of internal components.
I had those at my job handling the surveillance streams. They all ran really hot and would frequently freeze. They accumulated dust pretty quickly too. Still think they were pretty cool tho.
Just watched the video and its actually great! Spoilers tho: The cube is a suspected to be a steam machine prototype and is called the Xi3 Piston. It has 8GB of DDR3 RAM which is locked to 4GB without a bios update. The CPU is an AMD R-464L APU with Radeon 7760 Trinity Devastator graphics. It plays classic valve games like half-life/2 and portal really well but pretty much crashes for csgo2. Highly recommend watching the video tho, its worth it.
The wobble of the boards didn't matter as the chassis had channels that kept them stable and stopped movement. Rip Xi3. :_( These things were super cool back in the day. I'd love to see someone make an updated model with a reimagined design.
