{"video_id":"-EUQZr5nAyI","title":"Extras - Weird AliExpress expansion cards","channel":"FP Exclusives","show":"FP Exclusives","published_at":"2025-10-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":372,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":1.99,"text":"David: Yeah, isn't there a bunch of other cables you need to plug in? 2 00:00:02.020 --> 00:00:04.960 Plouffe: There are, and uh... it's very confusing. 3 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:06.760 Adam: So you need to hook up to your front panel. 4 00:00:06.760 --> 00:00:09.590 Plouffe: Yeah, so I gotta find... where's our front panel? 5 00:00:09.590 --> 00:00:10.460 Adam: So do you have a splitter? 6 00:00:10.490 --> 00:00:11.330 Plouffe: Oh, we don't have a case. 7 00:00:11.330 --> 00:00:12.100 David: ...extension. 8 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:14.460 Plouffe: That's just an extension for fans. 9 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:15.100 David: Ooooh. 10 00:00:15.130 --> 00:00:16.100 Plouffe: Because you've also got to hook up. 11 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:16.930 Adam: No, that's not- 12 00:00:17.030 --> 00:00:18.200 Plouffe: There's a fan, look. 13 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:19.000 Adam: Why would there be a fan? 14 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:22.940 Plouffe: There's two fan headers, one there, and one over there. 15 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:24.510 Adam: Dude you just about plugged into the wrong spot. 16 00:00:24.510 --> 00:00:25.280 Plouffe: Don't worry about it. 17 00:00:25.780 --> 00:00:26.840 Adam: Don't listen to that. 18 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:28.480 Plouffe: Well, maybe it's right. 19 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:29.210 Adam: The motherboard... 20 00:00:29.310 --> 00:00:30.750 Plouffe: It doesn't have it, it doesn't have it. 21 00:00:30.750 --> 00:00:31.620 Adam: Yes it does, it has it right there. 22 00:00:31.620 --> 00:00:32.250 Plouffe: Wait, does it? 23 00:00:32.350 --> 00:00:32.880 Plouffe: Oh sh**. 24 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:33.520 Adam: Yeah man. 25 00:00:33.650 --> 00:00:34.750 Plouffe: I didn't look at all, well... 26 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:36.920 Plouffe: is it in the right one or do I have to push it up? 27 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.090 Adam: Yeah, it looks like you kind of nailed- Wait, no, is that the wrong one? 28 00:00:40.290 --> 00:00:41.320 Here it is. 29 00:00:41.730 --> 00:00:42.390 Adam: Yeah, over here. 30 00:00:42.390 --> 00:00:44.360 Plouffe: I had it where I put it in the first place! 31 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:46.860 Adam: No, you had them oriented in the wrong manner. 32 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:47.630 Plouffe: Oh, they're up. 33 00:00:47.900 --> 00:00:49.330 Adam: Reset power switch. 34 00:00:49.330 --> 00:00:50.330 Plouffe: Oh okay, there we go. 35 00:00:50.330 --> 00:00:52.270 Adam: Well, those are backwards but it doesn't, doesn't really matter. 36 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:52.970 Plouffe: It doesn't matter, no. 37 00:00:52.970 --> 00:00:56.940 David: I literally had, I had that at home; it's a freaking missile launch box. 38 00:00:56.940 --> 00:00:57.470 Plouffe: It's pretty cool. 39 00:00:57.470 --> 00:00:59.480 David: It's way cooler, it's way cooler. 40 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:00.640 Plouffe: Did you have the one where you like flip the thing first? 41 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.280 David: Yeah! Oh yeah, oh yeah; and it was the same price as this. 42 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:06.150 Plouffe: I've seen one that has like, it's like a car starter, 43 00:01:06.150 --> 00:01:07.250 it's like an unlock, it's like- 44 00:01:07.250 --> 00:01:08.490 David: That's okay, that's alright. 45 00:01:08.490 --> 00:01:10.550 Plouffe: But, David can you start it from your phone? 46 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:11.520 David: Why would I want to? 47 00:01:11.660 --> 00:01:12.420 Plouffe: Maybe you do. 48 00:01:12.420 --> 00:01:15.590 Adam: What you didn't pitch to us is the- Do you know why there's a fan connector? 49 00:01:15.590 --> 00:01:15.930 Plouffe: Why. 50 00:01:15.930 --> 00:01:17.430 Adam: You can monitor fan speed. 51 00:01:17.430 --> 00:01:18.260 Plouffe: Oh, that's sick. 52 00:01:18.260 --> 00:01:18.760 David: In the app? 53 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.200 Plouffe: See? That's even better, that's even more. 54 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:23.300 Adam: Yeah... your CPU fan or you can like change it from afar; 55 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:25.540 so if you want to like remotely manage your **** box. 56 00:01:25.570 --> 00:01:27.640 David: Couldn't you do that from your PC itself? 57 00:01:27.670 --> 00:01:29.010 Plouffe: You could, but now you don't have to do. 58 00:01:29.010 --> 00:01:30.210 Adam: Now you can do it from your phone David. 59 00:01:30.210 --> 00:01:34.080 David: I could remote into my pc from my phone and do so much more? 60 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:35.210 Plouffe: but what if your computer... 61 00:01:35.210 --> 00:01:36.810 Adam: You're gonna remote your pc and like 62 00:01:36.810 --> 00:01:40.080 navigate around like a freaking idiot on the like a desktop interface. 63 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:45.590 David: Instead I'm gonna go into this app and be like oh 25000 RPM! Oh cool. 64 00:01:45.890 --> 00:01:46.490 Adam: Yeah. 65 00:01:47.990 --> 00:01:50.590 Elijah: You know what I'm thinking about? The amount of time it's taking to do this, 66 00:01:50.590 --> 00:01:54.160 versus the amount of time you're gonna save using the app in like the long run. 67 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:54.830 Adam: In like a year. 68 00:01:54.830 --> 00:01:57.800 Elijah: Which is, yeah it's gonna take you four years to get this time back. 69 00:01:57.830 --> 00:02:01.540 David: No, it's gonna take longer each time than pressing a goddamn button. 70 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:02.910 David: This is the- 71 00:02:03.010 --> 00:02:04.070 Plouffe: We only have to do it once. 72 00:02:04.070 --> 00:02:05.910 David: Where's the trash bin? We need to have it ready for this. 73 00:02:06.340 --> 00:02:08.010 Adam: They do have a special features section, 74 00:02:08.010 --> 00:02:10.850 and half of them are things you can just do on most motherboards. 75 00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:12.520 Adam: Like time to boot. 76 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.250 Adam: Most motherboards can do that, display your fan speed; 77 00:02:16.250 --> 00:02:18.390 I mean that's in the app, I guess that's kind of neat. 78 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:22.360 But automatic, when the computer's turned off it'll turn on automatically. 79 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:25.860 You can do that, you can do wake on LAN for almost any motherboard. 80 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:27.100 Plouffe: It's done. 81 00:02:27.630 --> 00:02:31.430 The computer is shut down so it tells me that's got that 25c? 82 00:02:31.540 --> 00:02:34.070 Plouffe: Which is probably, well yeah, okay sure, yeah that's about... 83 00:02:34.070 --> 00:02:35.710 Adam: So there is a thermometer on this then? 84 00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:36.740 Plouffe: It's probably getting the... 85 00:02:37.510 --> 00:02:38.880 Adam: Oh, it's running an idle like, like a- 86 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:40.110 Plouffe: Yeah, it's idle CPU. 87 00:02:40.210 --> 00:02:41.380 Adam: I didn't know an ambient temp would be... 88 00:02:41.380 --> 00:02:43.110 Plouffe: I am surprised it's going with it shut down. 89 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:43.680 Adam: So what do you think it is, 90 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.180 do you think we can breathe on it to make it hotter? 91 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:45.950 Plouffe: Do it. 92 00:02:46.220 --> 00:02:47.650 Adam: You can breathe on me to make me hotter. 93 00:02:49.190 --> 00:02:50.320 Plouffe: They have PCI. 94 00:02:50.350 --> 00:02:52.660 Adam: They have PCIe, there would be... 95 00:02:52.660 --> 00:02:53.560 David: EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! 96 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:54.490 Adam: PCIe slots; that would be good. 97 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.490 Adam: It also supports Windows Vista and 7, 98 00:02:56.530 --> 00:02:57.060 Plouffe: Oh, okay. 99 00:02:57.090 --> 00:02:58.460 Adam: as well as Linux because- 100 00:02:58.660 --> 00:02:59.900 Plouffe: Everyone loves Linux. 101 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:02.670 Adam: Yeah, it also says wint operating system; which you know what? 102 00:03:02.670 --> 00:03:05.270 I love his tweets, I wonder what his OS is like. 103 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.410 Adam: Um... yeah. 104 00:03:10.940 --> 00:03:12.240 Adam: Yeah, I don't know if it needs the molex; 105 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.080 I didn't have that much time, it came with no instructions. 106 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.920 Plouffe: That might just be if you're plugging in stuff that's powered of usb, and it needs power. 107 00:03:19.050 --> 00:03:19.650 Adam: That would be my guess. 108 00:03:19.650 --> 00:03:20.350 Elijah: Oh, interesting. 109 00:03:20.350 --> 00:03:20.680 Plouffe: Yeah. 110 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.990 Elijah: Like if you actually had like a 3.5 inch drive or something. 111 00:03:22.990 --> 00:03:25.790 Plouffe: Yeah, or if I have a light that's going to USB. 112 00:03:26.760 --> 00:03:27.660 Elijah: You're not wrong, I just... 113 00:03:27.660 --> 00:03:31.160 Plouffe: You say that, but I've got multiple fans and lights plugged into my computer. 114 00:03:31.160 --> 00:03:33.760 Plouffe: Can you do me a favor really quick and... 115 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:35.030 Plouffe: I want to check and make- 116 00:03:35.030 --> 00:03:36.930 One thing we didn't check is make sure my sensor is working, 117 00:03:36.930 --> 00:03:38.270 can you open like HWiNFO? 118 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:41.910 I have a feeling the CPU is not 26 degrees. 119 00:03:42.510 --> 00:03:45.140 Adam: We're just verifying Plouffe's thermometer claims, 120 00:03:45.180 --> 00:03:48.550 currently the CPU is at 43.4 degrees. 121 00:03:48.550 --> 00:03:49.310 Adam: I'm trying to- 122 00:03:49.350 --> 00:03:50.180 Plouffe: Fahrenheit right? 123 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:54.050 Adam: Uh, no. 124 00:03:54.180 --> 00:03:54.720 Plouffe: Damn it. 125 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:56.650 Adam: 20, it's 27? 126 00:03:58.220 --> 00:03:59.290 Adam: I'm trying to find like anything. 127 00:03:59.320 --> 00:04:01.790 Plouffe: Yeah, mine says 27 degrees Celsius. 128 00:04:01.790 --> 00:04:03.260 Elijah: It's probably something on your board. 129 00:04:03.260 --> 00:04:06.130 Plouffe: Yeah, it's probably just detecting the ambient temperature of the room. 130 00:04:06.260 --> 00:04:08.600 Adam: There's no way it's 27 degrees in here, we'd be cooking. 131 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:09.600 Adam: We'd be sweaty. 132 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:10.470 Plouffe: Under all the, if it's sitting- 133 00:04:10.530 --> 00:04:11.900 Plouffe: I'm pretty warm and sitting by the motherboard and with the lights. 134 00:04:11.900 --> 00:04:15.640 Adam: It's not 27 degrees guys, look, find the thermostat, y'all are crazy... 135 00:04:15.670 --> 00:04:18.680 Plouffe: I have one right here, it says 27 degrees. 136 00:04:21.780 --> 00:04:24.380 Plouffe: Okay, that's confirmed; you don't need to run Cinebench; 137 00:04:24.380 --> 00:04:26.620 Plouffe: I'm pretty confident that this isn't going to increase. 138 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.050 Elijah: You guys are moving this PCIe card so much. 139 00:04:30.050 --> 00:04:31.050 Plouffe: It's okay, it likes it. 140 00:04:31.150 --> 00:04:32.260 Plouffe: He's technically hot swap. 141 00:04:34.790 --> 00:04:36.690 Adam: I guess it's part of the spec, it's part of the spec. 142 00:04:36.690 --> 00:04:37.730 David: It's true, it's true.. 143 00:04:37.730 --> 00:04:38.260 Elijah: Yeah, it is. 144 00:04:38.260 --> 00:04:38.930 David: I just didn't know that. 145 00:04:39.060 --> 00:04:40.300 Adam: It is, let me just uh... 146 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:42.230 Elijah: I'm not saying we'll follow that. 147 00:04:42.230 --> 00:04:43.270 Plouffe: It's powering, and it's powering 148 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:45.100 in the other power connectors that's not hot swap. 149 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:46.000 David: Ah. 150 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:46.870 Adam: I just rescanned it. 151 00:04:46.870 --> 00:04:48.170 Plouffe: But if it only uses the 75 watts of the PC. 152 00:04:48.170 --> 00:04:49.470 Adam: Okay, now none of them are working. 153 00:04:49.910 --> 00:04:53.210 Elijah: I think this, I think you disconnected it when you guys moved it. 154 00:04:53.540 --> 00:04:55.350 Adam: Plug these, let's plug all of these in. 155 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:56.510 Elijah: stop moving. 156 00:04:56.610 --> 00:04:57.410 Adam: Dude, it's fine. 157 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:00.950 Plouffe: He's got the lock on there, oh it's not doing anything. 158 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:02.050 Plouffe: Okay, never mind. 159 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:04.250 Adam: So one of those drives is just dead. 160 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:05.620 Plouffe: That's cool. 161 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.760 Elijah: Alright, so we'll have to take your word that all three of them work. 162 00:05:08.790 --> 00:05:12.400 Adam: No, I do want to see it; because it says it has an equalizer, it has a usb. 163 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:14.560 Plouffe: Okay, plug it in; plug it in, plug it in, plug it in, plug it in, plug it in. 164 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:17.230 David: What are we going to test? What do we test with it? Do we have like- 165 00:05:17.270 --> 00:05:17.970 Adam: Well I just wanna- 166 00:05:17.970 --> 00:05:18.700 Elijah: I'll just sing. 167 00:05:19.370 --> 00:05:20.270 Adam: I just want to see the equalizer. 168 00:05:20.270 --> 00:05:21.710 Plouffe: Wow it's like he's in the room with me. 169 00:05:21.740 --> 00:05:22.740 Elijah: Can you turn it off? 170 00:05:22.740 --> 00:05:23.310 Plouffe: I can. 171 00:05:24.910 --> 00:05:25.410 Plouffe: You know- 172 00:05:25.410 --> 00:05:26.940 Man: Is there a point in plugging it in? 173 00:05:26.980 --> 00:05:28.180 Man 2: There's no point in plugging this in. 174 00:05:28.180 --> 00:05:28.580 Elijah: Oh. 175 00:05:28.580 --> 00:05:31.080 Plouffe: There's no- We don't, we can't see the equalizer app on it? 176 00:05:31.350 --> 00:05:34.420 Plouffe: Now I will say this is not a weird PCIe card. 177 00:05:34.420 --> 00:05:37.020 Adam: It is kind of weird, because I've never seen one where you can- 178 00:05:37.020 --> 00:05:37.520 Plouffe: Alright. 179 00:05:37.750 --> 00:05:40.790 Adam: It's very rare that you see these where you can just pull out, 180 00:05:41.390 --> 00:05:41.890 Plouffe: That's true. 181 00:05:41.890 --> 00:05:44.330 Adam: The antenna like on a PCIe card. 182 00:05:44.430 --> 00:05:47.760 Adam: Very common in a laptop that to have this be a replaceable module. 183 00:05:47.930 --> 00:05:48.900 Plouffe: But motherboards not so much. 184 00:05:48.900 --> 00:05:51.000 Adam: I'm wondering if like the purpose of this was maybe 185 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.270 like as a way of like testing the hardware, right? Because then you don't have to- 186 00:05:54.270 --> 00:05:55.570 Elijah: Oh, that's a good point actually. 187 00:05:55.670 --> 00:05:58.010 Adam: Yeah, like I- Well, I don't know; it still seems stupid and awful. 188 00:05:58.010 --> 00:06:00.210 David: I'm a big fan of making things, each- 189 00:06:00.210 --> 00:06:02.580 Adam: Sorry, I have like, I have like emotional trauma 190 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:04.780 regarding the freaking tiny... 191 00:06:04.780 --> 00:06:05.580 David: I hate those. 192 00:06:05.580 --> 00:06:07.380 little coax cables that they use. 193 00:06:07.380 --> 00:06:08.390 David: They need to make a better standard for that. 194 00:06:08.390 --> 00:06:09.520 Adam: They break immediately, 195 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:09.950 David: Yes. 196 00:06:09.950 --> 00:06:10.750 Adam: and like once they fall off you can never put them back on. 197 00:06:10.750 --> 00:06:11.550 David: Never put them back.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"David: Yeah, isn't there a bunch of other cables you need to plug in? 2 00:00:02.020 --> 00:00:04.960 Plouffe: There are, and uh... it's very confusing. 3 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:06.760 Adam: So you need to hook up to your front panel. 4 00:00:06.760 --> 00:00:09.590 Plouffe: Yeah, so I gotta find... where's our front panel? 5 00:00:09.590 --> 00:00:10.460 Adam: So do you have a splitter? 6 00:00:10.490 --> 00:00:11.330 Plouffe: Oh, we don't have a case. 7 00:00:11.330 --> 00:00:12.100 David: ...extension. 8 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:14.460 Plouffe: That's just an extension for fans. 9 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:15.100 David: Ooooh. 10 00:00:15.130 --> 00:00:16.100 Plouffe: Because you've also got to hook up. 11 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:16.930 Adam: No, that's not- 12 00:00:17.030 --> 00:00:18.200 Plouffe: There's a fan, look. 13 00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:19.000 Adam: Why would there be a fan? 14 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:22.940 Plouffe: There's two fan headers, one there, and one over there. 15 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:24.510 Adam: Dude you just about plugged into the wrong spot. 16 00:00:24.510 --> 00:00:25.280 Plouffe: Don't worry about it. 17 00:00:25.780 --> 00:00:26.840 Adam: Don't listen to that. 18 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:28.480 Plouffe: Well, maybe it's right. 19 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:29.210 Adam: The motherboard... 20 00:00:29.310 --> 00:00:30.750 Plouffe: It doesn't have it, it doesn't have it. 21 00:00:30.750 --> 00:00:31.620 Adam: Yes it does, it has it right there. 22 00:00:31.620 --> 00:00:32.250 Plouffe: Wait, does it? 23 00:00:32.350 --> 00:00:32.880 Plouffe: Oh sh**. 24 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:33.520 Adam: Yeah man. 25 00:00:33.650 --> 00:00:34.750 Plouffe: I didn't look at all, well... 26 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:36.920 Plouffe: is it in the right one or do I have to push it up? 27 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.090 Adam: Yeah, it looks like you kind of nailed- Wait, no, is that the wrong one? 28 00:00:40.290 --> 00:00:41.320 Here it is. 29 00:00:41.730 --> 00:00:42.390 Adam: Yeah, over here. 30 00:00:42.390 --> 00:00:44.360 Plouffe: I had it where I put it in the first place! 31 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:46.860 Adam: No, you had them oriented in the wrong manner. 32 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:47.630 Plouffe: Oh, they're up. 33 00:00:47.900 --> 00:00:49.330 Adam: Reset power switch. 34 00:00:49.330 --> 00:00:50.330 Plouffe: Oh okay, there we go. 35 00:00:50.330 --> 00:00:52.270 Adam: Well, those are backwards but it doesn't, doesn't really matter. 36 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:52.970 Plouffe: It doesn't matter, no. 37 00:00:52.970 --> 00:00:56.940 David: I literally had, I had that at home; it's a freaking missile launch box. 38 00:00:56.940 --> 00:00:57.470 Plouffe: It's pretty cool. 39 00:00:57.470 --> 00:00:59.480 David: It's way cooler, it's way cooler. 40 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:00.640 Plouffe: Did you have the one where you like flip the thing first? 41 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.280 David: Yeah! Oh yeah, oh yeah; and it was the same price as this. 42 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:06.150 Plouffe: I've seen one that has like, it's like a car starter, 43 00:01:06.150 --> 00:01:07.250 it's like an unlock, it's like- 44 00:01:07.250 --> 00:01:08.490 David: That's okay, that's alright. 45 00:01:08.490 --> 00:01:10.550 Plouffe: But, David can you start it from your phone? 46 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:11.520 David: Why would I want to? 47 00:01:11.660 --> 00:01:12.420 Plouffe: Maybe you do. 48 00:01:12.420 --> 00:01:15.590 Adam: What you didn't pitch to us is the- Do you know why there's a fan connector? 49 00:01:15.590 --> 00:01:15.930 Plouffe: Why. 50 00:01:15.930 --> 00:01:17.430 Adam: You can monitor fan speed. 51 00:01:17.430 --> 00:01:18.260 Plouffe: Oh, that's sick. 52 00:01:18.260 --> 00:01:18.760 David: In the app? 53 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.200 Plouffe: See? That's even better, that's even more. 54 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:23.300 Adam: Yeah... your CPU fan or you can like change it from afar; 55 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:25.540 so if you want to like remotely manage your **** box. 56 00:01:25.570 --> 00:01:27.640 David: Couldn't you do that from your PC itself? 57 00:01:27.670 --> 00:01:29.010 Plouffe: You could, but now you don't have to do. 58 00:01:29.010 --> 00:01:30.210 Adam: Now you can do it from your phone David. 59 00:01:30.210 --> 00:01:34.080 David: I could remote into my pc from my phone and do so much more? 60 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:35.210 Plouffe: but what if your computer... 61 00:01:35.210 --> 00:01:36.810 Adam: You're gonna remote your pc and like 62 00:01:36.810 --> 00:01:40.080 navigate around like a freaking idiot on the like a desktop interface. 63 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:45.590 David: Instead I'm gonna go into this app and be like oh 25000 RPM! Oh cool. 64 00:01:45.890 --> 00:01:46.490 Adam: Yeah. 65 00:01:47.990 --> 00:01:50.590 Elijah: You know what I'm thinking about? The amount of time it's taking to do this, 66 00:01:50.590 --> 00:01:54.160 versus the amount of time you're gonna save using the app in like the long run. 67 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:54.830 Adam: In like a year. 68 00:01:54.830 --> 00:01:57.800 Elijah: Which is, yeah it's gonna take you four years to get this time back. 69 00:01:57.830 --> 00:02:01.540 David: No, it's gonna take longer each time than pressing a goddamn button. 70 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:02.910 David: This is the- 71 00:02:03.010 --> 00:02:04.070 Plouffe: We only have to do it once. 72 00:02:04.070 --> 00:02:05.910 David: Where's the trash bin? We need to have it ready for this. 73 00:02:06.340 --> 00:02:08.010 Adam: They do have a special features section, 74 00:02:08.010 --> 00:02:10.850 and half of them are things you can just do on most motherboards. 75 00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:12.520 Adam: Like time to boot. 76 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.250 Adam: Most motherboards can do that, display your fan speed; 77 00:02:16.250 --> 00:02:18.390 I mean that's in the app, I guess that's kind of neat. 78 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:22.360 But automatic, when the computer's turned off it'll turn on automatically. 79 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:25.860 You can do that, you can do wake on LAN for almost any motherboard. 80 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:27.100 Plouffe: It's done. 81 00:02:27.630 --> 00:02:31.430 The computer is shut down so it tells me that's got that 25c? 82 00:02:31.540 --> 00:02:34.070 Plouffe: Which is probably, well yeah, okay sure, yeah that's about... 83 00:02:34.070 --> 00:02:35.710 Adam: So there is a thermometer on this then? 84 00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:36.740 Plouffe: It's probably getting the... 85 00:02:37.510 --> 00:02:38.880 Adam: Oh, it's running an idle like, like a- 86 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:40.110 Plouffe: Yeah, it's idle CPU. 87 00:02:40.210 --> 00:02:41.380 Adam: I didn't know an ambient temp would be... 88 00:02:41.380 --> 00:02:43.110 Plouffe: I am surprised it's going with it shut down. 89 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:43.680 Adam: So what do you think it is, 90 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.180 do you think we can breathe on it to make it hotter? 91 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:45.950 Plouffe: Do it. 92 00:02:46.220 --> 00:02:47.650 Adam: You can breathe on me to make me hotter. 93 00:02:49.190 --> 00:02:50.320 Plouffe: They have PCI. 94 00:02:50.350 --> 00:02:52.660 Adam: They have PCIe, there would be... 95 00:02:52.660 --> 00:02:53.560 David: EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! 96 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:54.490 Adam: PCIe slots; that would be good. 97 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.490 Adam: It also supports Windows Vista and 7, 98 00:02:56.530 --> 00:02:57.060 Plouffe: Oh, okay. 99 00:02:57.090 --> 00:02:58.460 Adam: as well as Linux because- 100 00:02:58.660 --> 00:02:59.900 Plouffe: Everyone loves Linux. 101 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:02.670 Adam: Yeah, it also says wint operating system; which you know what? 102 00:03:02.670 --> 00:03:05.270 I love his tweets, I wonder what his OS is like. 103 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.410 Adam: Um... yeah. 104 00:03:10.940 --> 00:03:12.240 Adam: Yeah, I don't know if it needs the molex; 105 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.080 I didn't have that much time, it came with no instructions. 106 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.920 Plouffe: That might just be if you're plugging in stuff that's powered of usb, and it needs power. 107 00:03:19.050 --> 00:03:19.650 Adam: That would be my guess. 108 00:03:19.650 --> 00:03:20.350 Elijah: Oh, interesting. 109 00:03:20.350 --> 00:03:20.680 Plouffe: Yeah. 110 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.990 Elijah: Like if you actually had like a 3.5 inch drive or something. 111 00:03:22.990 --> 00:03:25.790 Plouffe: Yeah, or if I have a light that's going to USB. 112 00:03:26.760 --> 00:03:27.660 Elijah: You're not wrong, I just... 113 00:03:27.660 --> 00:03:31.160 Plouffe: You say that, but I've got multiple fans and lights plugged into my computer. 114 00:03:31.160 --> 00:03:33.760 Plouffe: Can you do me a favor really quick and... 115 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:35.030 Plouffe: I want to check and make- 116 00:03:35.030 --> 00:03:36.930 One thing we didn't check is make sure my sensor is working, 117 00:03:36.930 --> 00:03:38.270 can you open like HWiNFO? 118 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:41.910 I have a feeling the CPU is not 26 degrees. 119 00:03:42.510 --> 00:03:45.140 Adam: We're just verifying Plouffe's thermometer claims, 120 00:03:45.180 --> 00:03:48.550 currently the CPU is at 43.4 degrees. 121 00:03:48.550 --> 00:03:49.310 Adam: I'm trying to- 122 00:03:49.350 --> 00:03:50.180 Plouffe: Fahrenheit right? 123 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:54.050 Adam: Uh, no. 124 00:03:54.180 --> 00:03:54.720 Plouffe: Damn it. 125 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:56.650 Adam: 20, it's 27? 126 00:03:58.220 --> 00:03:59.290 Adam: I'm trying to find like anything. 127 00:03:59.320 --> 00:04:01.790 Plouffe: Yeah, mine says 27 degrees Celsius. 128 00:04:01.790 --> 00:04:03.260 Elijah: It's probably something on your board. 129 00:04:03.260 --> 00:04:06.130 Plouffe: Yeah, it's probably just detecting the ambient temperature of the room. 130 00:04:06.260 --> 00:04:08.600 Adam: There's no way it's 27 degrees in here, we'd be cooking. 131 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:09.600 Adam: We'd be sweaty. 132 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:10.470 Plouffe: Under all the, if it's sitting- 133 00:04:10.530 --> 00:04:11.900 Plouffe: I'm pretty warm and sitting by the motherboard and with the lights. 134 00:04:11.900 --> 00:04:15.640 Adam: It's not 27 degrees guys, look, find the thermostat, y'all are crazy... 135 00:04:15.670 --> 00:04:18.680 Plouffe: I have one right here, it says 27 degrees. 136 00:04:21.780 --> 00:04:24.380 Plouffe: Okay, that's confirmed; you don't need to run Cinebench; 137 00:04:24.380 --> 00:04:26.620 Plouffe: I'm pretty confident that this isn't going to increase. 138 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.050 Elijah: You guys are moving this PCIe card so much. 139 00:04:30.050 --> 00:04:31.050 Plouffe: It's okay, it likes it. 140 00:04:31.150 --> 00:04:32.260 Plouffe: He's technically hot swap. 141 00:04:34.790 --> 00:04:36.690 Adam: I guess it's part of the spec, it's part of the spec. 142 00:04:36.690 --> 00:04:37.730 David: It's true, it's true.. 143 00:04:37.730 --> 00:04:38.260 Elijah: Yeah, it is. 144 00:04:38.260 --> 00:04:38.930 David: I just didn't know that. 145 00:04:39.060 --> 00:04:40.300 Adam: It is, let me just uh... 146 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:42.230 Elijah: I'm not saying we'll follow that. 147 00:04:42.230 --> 00:04:43.270 Plouffe: It's powering, and it's powering 148 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:45.100 in the other power connectors that's not hot swap. 149 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:46.000 David: Ah. 150 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:46.870 Adam: I just rescanned it. 151 00:04:46.870 --> 00:04:48.170 Plouffe: But if it only uses the 75 watts of the PC. 152 00:04:48.170 --> 00:04:49.470 Adam: Okay, now none of them are working. 153 00:04:49.910 --> 00:04:53.210 Elijah: I think this, I think you disconnected it when you guys moved it. 154 00:04:53.540 --> 00:04:55.350 Adam: Plug these, let's plug all of these in. 155 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:56.510 Elijah: stop moving. 156 00:04:56.610 --> 00:04:57.410 Adam: Dude, it's fine. 157 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:00.950 Plouffe: He's got the lock on there, oh it's not doing anything. 158 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:02.050 Plouffe: Okay, never mind. 159 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:04.250 Adam: So one of those drives is just dead. 160 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:05.620 Plouffe: That's cool. 161 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.760 Elijah: Alright, so we'll have to take your word that all three of them work. 162 00:05:08.790 --> 00:05:12.400 Adam: No, I do want to see it; because it says it has an equalizer, it has a usb. 163 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:14.560 Plouffe: Okay, plug it in; plug it in, plug it in, plug it in, plug it in, plug it in. 164 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:17.230 David: What are we going to test? What do we test with it? Do we have like- 165 00:05:17.270 --> 00:05:17.970 Adam: Well I just wanna- 166 00:05:17.970 --> 00:05:18.700 Elijah: I'll just sing. 167 00:05:19.370 --> 00:05:20.270 Adam: I just want to see the equalizer. 168 00:05:20.270 --> 00:05:21.710 Plouffe: Wow it's like he's in the room with me. 169 00:05:21.740 --> 00:05:22.740 Elijah: Can you turn it off? 170 00:05:22.740 --> 00:05:23.310 Plouffe: I can. 171 00:05:24.910 --> 00:05:25.410 Plouffe: You know- 172 00:05:25.410 --> 00:05:26.940 Man: Is there a point in plugging it in? 173 00:05:26.980 --> 00:05:28.180 Man 2: There's no point in plugging this in. 174 00:05:28.180 --> 00:05:28.580 Elijah: Oh. 175 00:05:28.580 --> 00:05:31.080 Plouffe: There's no- We don't, we can't see the equalizer app on it? 176 00:05:31.350 --> 00:05:34.420 Plouffe: Now I will say this is not a weird PCIe card. 177 00:05:34.420 --> 00:05:37.020 Adam: It is kind of weird, because I've never seen one where you can- 178 00:05:37.020 --> 00:05:37.520 Plouffe: Alright. 179 00:05:37.750 --> 00:05:40.790 Adam: It's very rare that you see these where you can just pull out, 180 00:05:41.390 --> 00:05:41.890 Plouffe: That's true. 181 00:05:41.890 --> 00:05:44.330 Adam: The antenna like on a PCIe card. 182 00:05:44.430 --> 00:05:47.760 Adam: Very common in a laptop that to have this be a replaceable module. 183 00:05:47.930 --> 00:05:48.900 Plouffe: But motherboards not so much. 184 00:05:48.900 --> 00:05:51.000 Adam: I'm wondering if like the purpose of this was maybe 185 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.270 like as a way of like testing the hardware, right? Because then you don't have to- 186 00:05:54.270 --> 00:05:55.570 Elijah: Oh, that's a good point actually. 187 00:05:55.670 --> 00:05:58.010 Adam: Yeah, like I- Well, I don't know; it still seems stupid and awful. 188 00:05:58.010 --> 00:06:00.210 David: I'm a big fan of making things, each- 189 00:06:00.210 --> 00:06:02.580 Adam: Sorry, I have like, I have like emotional trauma 190 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:04.780 regarding the freaking tiny... 191 00:06:04.780 --> 00:06:05.580 David: I hate those. 192 00:06:05.580 --> 00:06:07.380 little coax cables that they use. 193 00:06:07.380 --> 00:06:08.390 David: They need to make a better standard for that. 194 00:06:08.390 --> 00:06:09.520 Adam: They break immediately, 195 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:09.950 David: Yes. 196 00:06:09.950 --> 00:06:10.750 Adam: and like once they fall off you can never put them back on. 197 00:06:10.750 --> 00:06:11.550 David: Never put them back."}