Gaming on a GPU

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0:48 And please enjoy our feature presentation.

0:51 Following up on the theme of the Arduino gaming video

0:55 of gaming on what appears to be more of a uh peripheral,

1:01 until we can reasonably build entire computers again,

1:04 I am going to keep gaming on components.

1:07 This may be the fastest I have ever lied to you with the title.

1:10 This is not a graphics card.

1:12 But come on, can you blame me for thinking so?

1:14 She sure be looking like a graphics card.

1:17 She sure be smelling like a graphics card.

1:20 She sure be tasting like Someone has not been kind to this IO plate.

1:29 But look at that.

1:29 It's like a bracket like a graphics card.

1:32 What are we doing here?

1:34 Does your graphics card have removable RAM?

1:37 Putting this on eBay pronto.

1:39 It doesn't say what size it is.

1:42 It's just got this little tiger guy.

1:44 Hello, tiger guy.

1:45 Tiger guy is the king.

1:47 Oh, and it's his 20th anniversary.

1:49 Congratulations.

1:51 Wow, I didn't know we were in the presence of married royalty.

1:54 We could not possibly depart with him.

1:57 So, if you haven't figured it out already, yeah, this is an entire computer.

2:00 SATA port, SSDM, SATA slot.

2:03 Look at this.

2:04 It's even got like front panel connectors.

2:06 You could hook this up to a case and mount it on a motherboard.

2:11 Well, I would not recommend doing that.

2:12 I'm pretty sure that's why the tape was on the contacts for the PCIe slot there.

2:16 I'm pretty sure this is a reverse PCIe connector.

2:21 You're supposed to plug a graphics card into it,

2:24 but as you can see, the connectors are the same.

2:28 You can't You cannot plug Damn.

2:29 Is this what lesbians feel like?

2:31 But like every homosexual couple, we have toys that make everything work out.

2:39 You just do this.

2:40 I believe that's how you're supposed to use this.

2:43 I'm a third party observer here and I don't like it.

2:46 Okay, but before we get a little too crazy,

2:49 we should probably just power that thing up and see what the heck it even is.

2:52 Oh, it's VGA only.

2:55 I apologize in advance.

2:57 Let's get that dirty boy involved.

2:59 Something's missing.

3:01 Power.

3:02 How do power?

3:02 [music] Do we just use the GPU six pin?

3:05 I need to get a whole power supply for this.

3:08 I will surely not regret plugging it into a 1,000W e- machine power supply.

3:15 It do be an Acer kind of gadget.

3:17 I guess I will also surely not regret shoving a wire inside of it to turn it on.

3:23 It was these two pins, right?

3:25 No.

3:26 No, it was these two pins.

3:28 Yeah, there we go.

3:29 Yeah, don't mind me just plugging raw wire into like

3:32 random pins of the power supply that weren't the right ones.

3:34 No fire insurance guy.

3:36 You didn't hear that.

3:37 For a thing that's not a graphics card,

3:39 it sure do be using the graphics [music] card connector.

3:42 I don't see another way to plug this in.

3:44 I assume this is it.

3:46 Nothing on the back.

3:47 No, cuz there's a chance that that's an output

3:50 for the graphics card you plug in here.

3:52 I think that's pretty unlikely though.

3:53 Okay, here's our setup.

3:57 No, I can do better than that.

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4:10 What?

4:10 [laughter] What?

4:12 Wait, hold on.

4:12 Let Let me show you why this is crazy.

4:14 What if I told you that this was 3D printed?

4:18 3D printed.

4:20 And it's this translucent.

4:22 Yep.

4:22 Okay.

4:23 This is gorgeous.

4:24 Oh, it looks so good.

4:26 Imagine if you had a GPU that looked like this in your PC.

4:30 all transparent atomic purple and everything.

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4:56 Oh my goodness, it just looks so good.

4:59 And now this is the part of the video where

5:01 I'm going to pretend like I'm not recording this way after

5:04 the fact and I'm actually going to disassemble it so that it

5:07 doesn't have the case anymore for the rest of the video.

5:09 And hopefully you believe it.

5:12 Power supply on.

5:20 He beeps and then turns off and then turns on again

5:24 and then turns off and now the power supply is off.

5:27 What?

5:27 You just need a little boop.

5:33 Huh?

5:33 I need the dedated power button.

5:35 We may be having a VGA capturing moment.

5:39 [sighs] I really don't want to get the Counter Strike monitor.

5:44 I really hate that thing.

5:46 And there's no room on the table right now.

5:49 Wait, turn back off.

5:50 What are you doing?

5:51 Turn on.

5:53 The dedated button has done nothing for us.

5:57 out of all my monitors.

5:59 Why does this one have to keep being the most useful?

6:02 Okay, well, it's posted.

6:03 Let's try to get into the BIOS.

6:05 God, this thing is heavy.

6:06 Pentium G630.

6:09 Sounds old.

6:10 Well, it's at least DDR3.

6:11 4 gigs of RAM.

6:13 Cougar Point.

6:15 Two core two thread.

6:17 Woohoo.

6:18 Okay, I'm sorry.

6:19 I can't do this.

6:19 Where's an adapter?

6:21 A working adapter.

6:22 Adapter two.

6:24 Hey, there we go.

6:25 BGA to HDMI can be such a pain in the ass that I actually

6:28 bought three adapters cuz I didn't know if any of them were going to work.

6:31 Shame on Benfay.

6:33 Shame.

6:34 Your adapter did not work.

6:35 It is trying to load my Intel undies.

6:38 I don't have a Pixie server.

6:40 Come on, just skip this part.

6:41 What if we just unplug the Ethernet now that we've got the capture all set up.

6:46 I did want to introduce you to his mother, Taicho, on Tik Tok.

6:51 This is the fellow gamer that sent this thing over for this video.

6:54 You should go check them out because they are a zany one

6:57 and they also make videos about random old hardware just like this.

7:00 Thanks again, dude.

7:01 No snoopingas.

7:03 This is actually a pretty stout BIOS.

7:05 There's a lot going on in here.

7:07 USB 3 support enabled with what port?

7:10 Aelia configuration?

7:12 Aelia docking support.

7:14 HDMI.

7:15 We don't I wish graphics configuration.

7:17 Oh, it supports pegging.

7:19 It appears that we are at maximum turbo.

7:22 I'm on as well as our GTT size aperture set.

7:26 No, we can go up on that one.

7:27 We are maxing.

7:28 Oh, this is a lot of options to allocate memory for the iGPU.

7:32 Do you know where we're going with this one?

7:34 Low power mode.

7:35 No.

7:36 Performance analyzers.

7:37 No.

7:37 No.

7:38 Janies.

7:38 Backlight control.

7:39 What the I think this BIOS has options for like a built-in LCD,

7:43 which definitely goes on a graphics card.

7:45 Well, now that we've configured the hell out of that BIOS,

7:47 I suppose we need a boot device.

7:50 You would surely not regret [music] the Xi3 100.

7:54 Actually, I think you would.

7:55 I'm pretty sure it's broken.

7:56 256 GB Samsung Mat.

7:59 And our Steam OS flavor of the day is everybody's favorite.

8:05 The flash drive does not fit.

8:08 It is too dummy thick.

8:09 I want to see if we can use this adapter.

8:12 It's literally just a USB front panel plugged to USB.

8:15 That goes in there.

8:17 And then this plugs into our quote unquote motherboard.

8:20 Go.

8:23 Hell yeah.

8:24 Oh, your BIOS does not support CSM legacy boot.

8:28 The storage device is likely to fail soon.

8:30 Off to a good start.

8:32 Okay, UEFI this time.

8:34 Not going to lie, I wasn't even sure if this thing was going to support UEFI.

8:38 American Mega Trends brand.

8:40 My favorite computer.

8:42 We're back.

8:42 We're still likely to fail soon, but we're back.

8:45 install.

8:46 This has to be the most uncompatible hardware

8:50 for Basite that we've ever had to install Basite on.

8:53 Actually, the EyeBoss server may have been worse.

8:56 Did I try Basite?

8:57 I don't remember.

8:58 I'm so glad that this installer is like really nice now.

9:01 I used to accidentally wipe my flash drive all the time with the old one.

9:05 [laughter] All right, one moment while I remake my Bazite installer.

9:10 Good times.

9:12 Oh, we have frozen.

9:15 Is it actually?

9:16 Yeah.

9:17 Yeah, that's frozen.

9:18 Okay.

9:18 Power off.

9:19 Power on.

9:22 Hello.

9:23 Power off.

9:24 On.

9:26 Uh-oh.

9:27 The virus called Bazite has broken my computer.

9:31 On.

9:33 Yay.

9:35 So, why did that happen?

9:36 Could it possibly be that my storage device is likely to fail soon?

9:40 No, I don't think so.

9:41 My guess is that we ran out of RAM.

9:43 Seems to be a common theme nowadays on this channel.

9:45 You're only at 4.7 GB of RAM.

9:47 Come on, you're not out.

9:49 Are you frozen?

9:51 Thanks, Nvidia.

9:52 And we have no swap space, but I don't know if it would be a good idea to make

9:55 swap space on our SSD here because we're writing the OS to the SSD.

10:00 I mean, could we use the flash drive for swap space?

10:03 I don't see why not.

10:04 Yeah, that should be doable.

10:06 We're only using like 8 gigabytes of the 128 GB flash drive.

10:11 Okay, let me set that up real quick.

10:13 Hooray, we've downloaded more RAM.

10:16 The fact that we've had to do this in the installer

10:19 and not even in the OS itself yet.

10:21 Yeah, that's not a good sign.

10:22 It also does not show that we have more swap, but it does in the terminal.

10:26 So, I am terminally okay with that.

10:29 Attemp number two, go.

10:30 Oh, there we go.

10:31 Whoa.

10:31 Whoa.

10:32 Hey, slow down there.

10:33 You have a swap to use.

10:34 remember.

10:36 Oh, the desktop has crashed.

10:38 It's okay.

10:38 It looks like it freed up a bunch of RAM.

10:40 We're stable.

10:41 Swap space is being used.

10:43 Memories creeping back up.

10:44 Unfortunately, the desktop has rejoined us.

10:47 The installer is not loving life, but uh he's chugging on.

10:51 While that suffers, I want to find out more about this thing.

10:54 The best identifier I've got here is K9 ETH.

10:57 ETH better not stand for Ethereum.

11:00 I'm going to be a little upset if this is some stupid crypto thing.

11:02 Oh, you know it's good when you Google it.

11:05 And the first result is from made in China.

11:08 Oh, well, yeah, there it is.

11:09 That is the uncool green one.

11:11 We have the cool black one, not integrated graphics.

11:15 Are you sure?

11:16 I didn't even consider that.

11:18 Oh, no.

11:18 Is there some horrible dedicated GPU on this?

11:21 The IBOS had that.

11:23 There was some just horrific built-in Well, not builtin.

11:26 It was built into the motherboard GPU on that thing, and it was also VGA only.

11:31 I will be quite bummed if that appears to be the case.

11:34 It can self-replicate at 50,000 pieces per year.

11:37 Very impressive.

11:38 I think this is the kind of thing that it was like supposed to go on where

11:41 you could just stack up a whole bunch

11:42 of them and then connect them all to power.

11:44 Something like that.

11:45 I don't know.

11:45 That doesn't really work if this connector works the way I think

11:48 it does where you can just couple it to like a GPU.

11:50 I I don't know.

11:51 I don't know.

11:51 You can tell I did my research for this video as always.

11:56 Socket 2 LGA1 1155.

11:58 Wait, what?

11:59 That would imply that our CPU is replace Oh, dear God, it is replaceable.

12:04 Oh.

12:05 [laughter] Oh, okay.

12:07 We'll save that for later.

12:09 Also known as unknown.

12:11 Oh, it has mini PCIe.

12:12 I don't think that's correct.

12:14 This is assuredly MSATA.

12:16 It was sold by RNO Tech.

12:18 Our company specializes in various industries.

12:22 [clears throat] It seems like they kind of just be around on Chinese websites.

12:27 $1,880.

12:29 She better game good for that price.

12:31 Oh, shoot.

12:33 USB 9.

12:34 Okay, consider my expectations raised.

12:38 Uh, consider my expectations lowered.

12:41 What does it get?

12:42 Blob.

12:43 I'm not buying the blob.

12:45 [music] Sorry.

12:45 No space left on device.

12:47 It's got a 256 gig SSD.

12:49 What are you talking about?

12:50 You are only using 2% of the drive.

12:53 What's the deal?

12:54 I don't know what to do.

12:57 Hello.

12:58 I don't care about your pig f, dude.

13:01 Okay, enough of this.

13:02 Let me show you why on the eighth day, God created test benches.

13:07 We can take our lovely Bazite installer and bring it to this monstrosity.

13:11 Plug her in.

13:12 Take our SSD and put it in this stupid little adapter.

13:15 Then boot this computer up on this screen.

13:18 Run through the installer again.

13:19 Take the SSD out.

13:20 Pop it back into the dingus.

13:22 And then in theory, um, gaming.

13:24 Also, with MS SATAS and M.2s and stuff like

13:27 that, you don't actually have to push this down.

13:29 You kind of really only push it down if you're like a little or something.

13:36 Anyway, successfully installed.

13:38 Back in she goes.

13:39 Welcome back.

13:41 Well, it's undy time again.

13:42 And I didn't think we'd get this far.

13:47 Gaming.

13:48 Okay, the first thing I got to know, did it set up more swap space?

13:53 A little.

13:54 We're going to need more than that.

13:55 Oh, remember how I said it can give the iGPU an entire gig of RAM?

14:00 That leaves us with [laughter] 2.8 gigs of RAM for the system.

14:03 We're approaching Arduino spec territory.

14:06 I have given it 16 GB of swap RAM.

14:10 We will be unstoppable.

14:11 Reboot.

14:12 Oh no, that's some deadotation.

14:15 over 17 gigs of RAM.

14:18 Who says you have to be all AMD on Basite?

14:20 Not me.

14:21 We are running the incredibly coveted Intel Intel combo,

14:25 I am pretty sure that we're just using the integrated graphics,

14:28 not some weird cursed onboard dedicated thing like I thought earlier.

14:31 And you know, for a dual core Pentium from oh 15 years ago,

14:36 it's actually pretty snappy.

14:38 Let's go with Left for Dead, Lego Star Wars, [music] CS2, and HalfLife 2.

14:43 We haven't seen CS2 completely itself in a while.

14:46 I think that'll be fun.

14:46 In the past, it's been uh interesting.

14:50 All right, here it is.

14:50 Halflife 2 15 FPS in the menu.

14:53 I think we can roll with that.

14:55 I could not possibly tell you why it's registering as an i78550U.

15:01 I think I might have accidentally hardcoded that into the performance overlay.

15:05 Oh, wasn't that the CPU that the Google Meet had?

15:08 Yeah, I haven't used Mango Hut in a while.

15:10 Okay, I kind of fixed it.

15:11 It shows the GPU properly, but it's super tiny.

15:14 And the CPU name is also just CPU now.

15:16 It's a Pentium something or other.

15:18 I don't know.

15:18 I don't remember.

15:19 New game.

15:19 Go.

15:22 Huh.

15:23 Well, this is a new one.

15:24 Failed to lock index buffer in C mesh.

15:27 DirectX8 lock index buffer.

15:29 In all my years of playing this game on stupid hardware,

15:33 this is truly a new one.

15:35 Okay.

15:38 Hm.

15:39 I'm going to download the older copy of the game.

15:44 Maybe that one will work.

15:46 Okay.

15:47 Steam legacy version.

15:48 Go.

15:49 Do we want to play HalfLife 2 or do we want to I think this time we'll what?

15:59 Uh Proton Experimental.

16:01 Isn't there a native Linux version of this game?

16:03 Why are we even using Proton at all?

16:06 What is happening?

16:06 This is running really worse.

16:08 And we're just on the Valve guy.

16:11 Zero FPS.

16:12 Why is it like Times New Roman?

16:16 What is happening?

16:17 This is horrible.

16:19 It's running so poorly that I can't even change the video settings.

16:24 This is torture.

16:25 I I clicked low.

16:26 This bird is just going at it back there at like 0.1 FPS.

16:30 Okay, this this cannot be the way.

16:33 Okay, don't do that.

16:34 We're going to go back to the current version.

16:37 I was recording the audio in Audacity,

16:39 but it looks like it has left us at some point.

16:42 Can't get any audio out of the VGA, so I didn't really have a choice.

16:45 Hold on.

16:46 We're going on a side quest.

16:48 I want sound.

16:49 So, this thing has the front panel header for a headphone jack.

16:53 But, we don't have a case to plug that into with a headphone jack.

16:56 But what I do have is a headphone jack.

16:58 And I can plug this headphone jack into this headphone cable.

17:01 And then I can poke things with my multimeter until it beeps.

17:06 Oh, there's one.

17:08 Right pin is left audio.

17:10 How intuitive.

17:11 Left pin is right audio.

17:13 Okay.

17:13 So then solder a wire to ground.

17:16 One for left audio.

17:18 One for right audio.

17:19 Find the right pins on the Google.

17:21 Wait a second.

17:22 That says JLPC.

17:25 That's uh that's for TPM.

17:28 There's no audio header.

17:30 [laughter] In another world, this would have been a great side quest.

17:34 Oh well.

17:36 Halfife 2.

17:36 No audio.

17:37 It's just weird to me that it can load the background, but it can't load a map.

17:42 In the Source engine, the backgrounds are maps.

17:45 Oh, sup Joey.

17:46 Subscribe to Joey Cheerio.

17:47 Maybe I'll just try a map that isn't the very first one in the game.

17:54 [music] K.

17:56 Does it really just have beef with the first map?

18:01 Okay.

18:02 What?

18:03 Okay.

18:04 Sure, dude.

18:05 Sure.

18:05 Rise and shine, Mr.

18:07 Yeah, I know.

18:08 Subscribe to Joey Cheerio.

18:09 Okay, so about 30 FPS now that we've

18:13 seemingly done absolutely nothing to get this working.

18:16 50 FPS even.

18:17 Yes, I was the only one on that train.

18:19 I don't even need audio.

18:21 I can just hear this game in my eyeballs.

18:28 This is the part where he says, "You hear what Dr.

18:30 Breen just said?" Don't worry, I checked with Grock.

18:32 He said it was true.

18:33 This is running pretty good.

18:34 I'm really glad I had the brain power to switch

18:37 back to the 20th anniversary build with the native Linux port,

18:41 so we won't be getting like 0.1 FPS this time.

18:45 I just noticed how thin this chair leg is.

18:48 Combine engineering at its finest.

18:50 Is it actually like one unit thick or less than one?

18:55 Look, I can just make it disappear.

18:57 [laughter] Great Scott gold.

18:58 I've seen enough.

18:59 We're running at like 50% CPU usage, 42° C.

19:04 This ain't nothing.

19:04 This ain't nothing.

19:06 Lego Star Wars.

19:09 This looks like it's working pretty good.

19:12 Wow.

19:14 Over 1 second frame times.

19:16 Solid.

19:16 Please let me turn off enhanced graphics, please.

19:21 Well, that's technically better.

19:23 Why does it do this?

19:24 I like how we're not even hitting the limitations of the hardware really.

19:28 I mean, we're probably running out of RAM pretty bad,

19:30 but as far as the CPU, it's just sitting there 58%, 38°, no big deal.

19:36 You know, you don't you don't got to work that hard.

19:37 60% that's a healthy day's work.

19:40 This is a nice and consistent uh 3FPS.

19:44 Oh, never mind.

19:45 Not consistent.

19:46 Now I remember why I only ever test computers on Valve games.

19:50 Okay, that is unplayable.

19:51 Goodbye.

19:52 I'm kind of in the middle of a torrential downpour right now,

19:55 so apologies for the hurricane noises.

19:57 Let's hope the rain subsides and I don't end up left for dead.

20:02 Stacking the deck in our favor.

20:04 640x 480 seems good.

20:06 Okay, now she's working for it.

20:07 And we're just loading.

20:12 I don't know if we're going to load.

20:16 Been loading for a while.

20:18 Started to call myself Osama bin Laden.

20:21 Things are happening in theory.

20:24 [music] The screen has turned white.

20:28 Don't know if that's a good thing.

20:29 Is this desirable?

20:32 Okay.

20:32 Well, let's close that.

20:36 Oh, come on.

20:36 NO.

20:37 NO.

20:37 NO.

20:38 OH, YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

20:40 AH, I should have been patient.

20:42 Okay, starting again.

20:43 I'm going to come back to this in 10 minutes.

20:45 If it doesn't work, I'm going to be a little sad.

20:50 Okay, it has been 22 minutes.

20:52 I'm starting to think that something I did

20:55 by screwing around with the OS actually somehow got

20:58 the game to run cuz it doesn't look like it's going to do it on its own.

21:00 I'm going to alt tab back in.

21:05 Wait, is the loading bar further now?

21:11 [music] What?

21:11 Why do you have to What?

21:13 [music] Wait, did it load?

21:17 [music] Yep.

21:20 Look at that.

21:21 Okay.

21:21 Yep.

21:22 This is horrifying.

21:23 And I've already wasted enough time on this stupid game.

21:26 So, we're moving on.

21:27 Now, on to a game that I know will respect my time.

21:29 And as a good faith offering, I will even let you process your Vulcan shaders.

21:38 Nope.

21:37 That's it.

21:38 You're not even going to try proton experimental 800 by 600 window mode.

21:43 Come on.

21:46 Wait.

21:52 Hello.

21:53 We are running.

21:56 Uh, that's about it.

21:59 Should I go out of it and alt tab back in?

22:03 Seemed to fix the last game.

22:07 No escape.

22:09 Nothing.

22:10 I think it might be DOA.

22:12 I admit maybe my expectations for this guy were a little too high,

22:17 but I don't think all is lost.

22:19 No, friends.

22:20 We have the technology.

22:22 The boy can be upgraded.

22:24 RAM 8 GB going in.

22:27 Our CPU upgradable.

22:29 Oh, that's some old thermal paste to the legendary i73770K.

22:37 The best CPU that I could buy on eBay that goes into this socket.

22:42 Our paste thermal.

22:44 Oh, it's separating.

22:45 Also, what am I doing?

22:47 This is [music] way too much.

22:48 We are spread and ready to receive.

22:51 Our cooler not upgraded.

22:53 I couldn't be bothered to find one that would fit the bracket.

22:56 GPU AMD RX 480 uh connected.

23:09 The coupler thing uh doesn't seem to work,

23:11 but that's okay because I came prepared and I

23:13 have a cable one of the same thing.

23:15 So, we'll just turn it on.

23:20 No boot.

23:23 No.

23:24 Oh.

23:25 Oh, that smells bad.

23:26 Oh no, no, no, no, no.

23:27 Oh no.

23:27 Oh no.

23:28 The [music] chipset is very warm.

23:31 Oh no.

23:32 I want to see if it is permanently broken.

23:35 Please.

23:41 Oh.

23:44 Oh, come on.

23:48 Oh.

23:48 Oh, those are the beeps of life.

23:50 That's crazy.

23:51 Sorry for making you stinking.

23:53 Apparently, it didn't do that much damage.

23:55 Uh, don't know how this guy's going to be doing.

23:58 So, if it didn't do that much damage, should we try again?

24:02 Maybe we just needed [music] to let out a little bit of magic smoke.

24:05 It had too much.

24:07 Nope.

24:08 Nope.

24:08 Nope.

24:09 No computer that works should smell like that.

24:11 Okay.

24:11 Well, um, this sucks.

24:14 I assumed this is the way that you made them communicate.

24:17 Uh, now I'm really secondguing if this [music]

24:20 is a thing that you can do at all.

24:21 The mystery is unfolding.

24:23 So, I look up the model number, right?

24:25 It comes back with this big server looking thing.

24:27 There's a photo on here.

24:29 Looks like this.

24:30 There's our little guy.

24:31 But look at him.

24:32 They've got him plugged into the matrix here.

24:34 I don't want those.

24:35 Those are for like hard drives.

24:36 Hard drives are not gaming.

24:37 Not at all.

24:38 But [music] there is one one tiny buy one PCIe slot.

24:44 There is nothing stopping you from plugging a full-size GPU into that.

24:48 Yeah, we'd only be at buy one, but I I mean, my method sure didn't work.

24:52 Whatever keeps the magic smoke in, I guess, is what we're going to have to use.

24:55 But then there's the other problem of Hold on.

24:59 But there's also this really tiny one.

25:01 And look, it's super cheap.

25:03 But then, ah, the product has been removed from the shelves.

25:06 Should we look at something else?

25:08 This one would be great.

25:09 It's so tiny.

25:10 And look at that.

25:10 You get an M.2 or no, that's a mini PCIe, but you get a buy one.

25:14 This is like a buy four or something.

25:15 There's the M.2 right there.

25:17 This one would be great, but it's been removed from the shelves.

25:20 And then there's this one.

25:22 Same kind of thing going on, but it's also completely different,

25:25 but this one is on some kind of open- source hardware website.

25:28 That is a suspicious right half of your logo.

25:31 Open design.

25:32 Can I just make this?

25:37 No way.

25:38 I'm going to look into that.

25:39 But also, hold on.

25:40 There was one more thing on Taoba.

25:42 There was this.

25:42 Yeah, it it's huge.

25:44 I don't know how to leave the mobile site, but anyway.

25:46 Look at this.

25:48 Somebody somewhere has some kind of like direct connector kind of thing.

25:53 This is the holy grail.

25:55 However, if you take a look, this is not exactly the same kind of thing.

25:59 The board layout and the IO and everything.

26:01 It's just it's not the same.

26:02 So maybe this is justopium and we can't have that.

26:05 I'm a little bummed that this open- source

26:07 one just uses like buy one PCIe slots.

26:10 So we're really not going to get the best out of our GPU,

26:12 but it might be our only hope.

26:14 Oh, wait a second.

26:15 What do we have here?

26:16 I wonder if this is where the magic smoke came out of.

26:19 Wait a second.

26:20 No, this is this is like all wrong.

26:22 Look at this.

26:23 See how the pins are grouped on this one?

26:25 That's a single.

26:26 Those two are paired together.

26:27 That's a single, but it's very thick on this one.

26:30 Look [music] at that.

26:30 They just put them all together.

26:32 All six of those are on the same plane.

26:35 Look.

26:35 No, that's not how that's supposed to work.

26:36 You've got present sensing, two 12vt rails, a ground, Jag 2, JTAG 3.

26:42 Those are all very different.

26:43 And this thing just slapped them all together.

26:45 Well, yeah.

26:46 No This didn't work.

26:50 Here's where we are now.

26:51 This PCB from Open Source Hardware Hub.

26:54 That one is definitely our best bet.

26:56 Oops.

26:56 I don't live in China.

26:58 That means that that website hates me and they won't

27:00 take my money because they're taking my lack of Chineseeness personally.

27:04 Any day now.

27:05 Luckily, I can simply steal the design files

27:07 using the advanced hacking technique called file export.

27:10 Then I can go upload them to PCB way,

27:12 who does take money from people who were born Chinaally challenged like myself.

27:17 Unfortunately though, the files I can download from Open Source Hardware Hub

27:20 are not sufficient for replicating that PCB through PCB way.

27:25 The included bill of materials, which specifies the exact part numbers

27:28 of the components needed to make the thing,

27:30 is sorely lacking in exact part numbers needed to build the thing.

27:34 Unfortunately, it's kind of tough to get a PCB made without

27:37 telling them the stuff that they need to make the PCB.

27:39 But I told him to just send it anyway,

27:41 half assembled, and I'll figure out the rest.

27:44 Did I figure out the rest?

27:47 No, because I haven't gotten the PCB in the mail yet,

27:50 therefore making that question stupid and dumb.

27:53 But considering how much is going to be missing from that board,

27:56 and the fact that it's already been nearly 3

27:58 months since I recorded the bulk of this video,

28:00 I've decided that it's finally time to just take out the trash.

28:04 The trash being this video.

28:05 The dumpster is your eyeballs.

28:07 I hope you enjoyed this moldy video.

28:10 So, thank you for consuming this health hazard of a video.

28:14 I am going to go and eat a Costco hot dog now.

28:19 And I hope you will too.

28:23 [music]