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look like to find out we convinced them to send one over to us to poke and prod at and this thing is actually way cooler than i expected using low latency hardware encoding a shadow cloud gaming server can run it up to 4k 60fps over the internet and it'll forward inputs from controllers keyboards mice and even other usb peripherals making it useful for gaming design video editing or just about anything else you can imagine but of course the ability to run those applications is only meaningful if you've got enough horses to really use them that is why every logged in shadow user gets their own dedicated hardware albeit not necessarily in the conventional sense what i expected to find in here was this this daughter board is what allows the system to be powered by a single 12 volt input and this is part of the open compute platform spec that reduces the cost of individual servers by taking the power and cooling and making them part of the complete cabinet rather than something that has to 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would be dedicated so here to pop off this shroud you can actually see that while everyone obviously gets their own graphics card there's only one CPU in the system so depending on what tier it is you're going to have either four CPU cores or six CPU cores that are kind of carved out using virtualization from the CPU and then assigned a graphics card kind of like what we've done in the past with things like our seven gamers one CPU project as for memory because this CPU has a 6 channel memory controller each one of a hypothetical 3 people who have had this CPU carved up for them would get effectively dual channel memory worth of bandwidth so these are 8 gig sticks which means we've got a total of 64 gigs of RAM in this particular system that can be sliced up that means that as long as shadow has chosen their hardware wisely other than the overhead that comes along with virtualization which as we've shown in the past can be pretty minimal you are basically getting a gaming pc even though it looks absolutely nothing like one i mean where's the RGB am i right so let's go ahead and hook this puppy up shall we we have a small benchtop variable voltage power supply in the workshop but it is not even close to what we would need to run this entire machine off of this i didn't point this out before but you can actually see where the 12 volt to 5 volt and 3.3 volt conversion is happening on this daughter board over here because if it's not happening in the power supply then you're going to need it to happen here for that 24 pin connector everything else CPU fans pci express that's all native 12 volt so you don't have to do it just for the 24 pin connector here make sure you're subscribed because i've got a video coming up pretty soon where we're going to be one of the first to be hands on with a new motherboard and power supply standard that Intel is actually co-creating that would eliminate 5 volt and 3.3 volt from power supplies in general so it would just be 12 volt power going on to the motherboard come on come out of the thing the cable management is it's too tight it's too cable managed for shadow tech watching this going ooh what is he doing they knew who they sent it to you knew what this was this totally feels like cheating hooking up to the gaming server directly there's got to be a 10 gig card over here with sfp plus connectors but we don't have those just like randomly throughout our office uh usually they're more for fiber so we're going to go ahead and plug into this puppy right here uh wow that is that is really tight if we like bend this like this maybe we'll get that in there yeah there it is oh yeah oh yeah there you go no problem piece of cake this motherboard totally forgoes traditional just SATA connectors uh in favor of these puppies right here which are breakout connectors into four separate SATA connectors fortunately i've got an m.2 drive that should have a Windows operating system on it as well as some games and stuff and i'm just going to go ahead and pop that in you might have noticed that the server has no storage in it whatsoever that's because along with cooling and power storage is one of the other things that is removed from the individual servers and just placed elsewhere in the data center so that is what that high speed network connection is for that way no one's going to have a storage bottleneck when they're trying to load up their games or whatever let's see if it just fires up when we give it power oh power supply did nothing else it doesn't make any noise because all the fans are powered by the daughter board which is not powered so i lied we're gonna need a blowy matron after all here we go boys whoa i was trying to take off there uh is that supposed to happen i'm gonna go get a different one that could yeah not kill but definitely mame yeah this is less fun but it's definitely safer yeah i think i plugged into the secondary card which is not what i wanted to do okay hopefully that's all right no output to our monitor but by pulling out both of the graphics cards i was able to get into the BIOS on the onboard video so i have changed active video to PCIe device and the other thing that i want to change is you can see it set up to network boot that would normally make sense because the storage should be elsewhere in the data center i'm going to set it to my sabrint m.2 drive and hopefully save and exit show me the image lttstore.com need some water gotta replace all the sweat hello ah there you are yes good job fun fact apparently shadow added 240 hertz support they haven't completely rolled it out but if you manually select it it should work at 1080p of course this is just running locally over displayport cable so there's no special magic right now there we go over 100 frames per second to shadow the tomb raider with a server CPU and a workstation graphics card not too shabby as you can see no amount of expensive gaming tech is going to make me good at rocket league but the good news is that i am getting a locked 250 frames per second how about them apples oh yeah gaming server for gamers of course this is ridiculous nobody's going to use this like this so i actually grabbed myself an Android tv box and a tv over there and we're gonna give it a shot like the real way some people use their shadows as their like primary computer because why not it's got a fast internet connection because it's right in a data center you can remote into it from anywhere which is super cool so obviously two factor very important feature just a little inconvenient for me right now 4k 60fps let's fire up a game this uh this is their launcher or you can also just drop onto the desktop it's actually my first time playing around with it on the Android tv app even with all their voodoo magic there's no getting around Windows updates now everything's working properly 24 milliseconds ping not terrible so that's a little less than two frames of latency which considering that we're connected to a server and our neighbors to the south actually not bad cool so apparently they've worked on this so that you can bring up the overlay even when you are in game which is pretty sweet believe it or not overcooked 2 is a game that i'm pretty sensitive to latency in i've played a fair bit of this game before the game launches actually a good time to have a look at what things like text will look like on a maxed out 70 megabit per second connection in fact it actually ends up looking quite sharp so there's a 4k display running at 4k and if you go have a close look at it if you were to just be working on documents in your shadow for whatever reason i would say that would be a highly acceptable experience oh you know what that's interesting the cursor looks a little weird but the actual text here is really good i can detect it obviously like i know what i'm looking for but this is among the best that i have seen when it comes to remote gaming image quality where i would really expect to see a lot of blockiness is in sort of big gradients like this like this overcast cloudy business that's going on under our hot air balloon but it's really not bad at all this is actually my first time formally trying shadow because last time i had to go to their office for it because they weren't able to get us hooked up with anything in canada no wonder people swear by this thing overcooked ii definitely benefits from its more cartoony art style though when you're playing something that's intended to look a little bit more cinematic or true to life the visual anomalies are definitely more noticeable but are also definitely acceptable in this case it's more the latency that i would notice playing something like a twitch shooter like do maternal this is on ultra violence mode oh see see the chainsaw there we go all right and we good oh come on stop man this game's fun uh yeah i'm basically just playing video games now that's always a good sign when i'm trying something out and i kind of forget that i'm evaluating and i just start playing video games yeah you can kind of see it in like the textures on the floor and stuff like that so when i move they'll get kind of blurry and then they kind of sharpen up like it's it's really not bad actually things that are farther away i tend to find it more noticeable and like when something rocks the building you can see it go kind of blurry there and then it sharpens back up so it's definitely noticeable to the trained eye you'd be able to feel the latency in a game like this for sure if you're playing something like you know more of like a tomb raider type game where it's more about puzzle solving and exploration then i wouldn't consider it to be nearly as much of an issue bottom line then shadow's value proposition is pretty unique even at their highest tier which is forty dollars a month for the hardware that they're going to bake into that tier it would take anywhere from three to five years just to buy that graphics card if you were paying 40 a month so the value is pretty good as long as you're willing to deal with remote access shadow's available nationwide in the u.s but the experience is obviously better the closer you are to one of their data centers and you can find the most updated information about where those are on their website there's currently four in the us the most important call to action today is if this looks interesting to you move fast because the last time we did a video about shadow we caused a month's long backlog on new account activations and no i'm not even kidding and if you want an ultra or infinite tier account once those become available you will need to already have a standard boost tier account they're constantly improving the service that overlay is absolutely awesome that usb pass-through stuff is crazy they're even working on a couple of really big things for the future so one of them is mouse and keyboard gaming support that's going to be coming with iOS 14 as well as vr support although it remains to be seen exactly how well that would work with the extra latency either way it's worth keeping an eye on these guys because they are doing some really cool stuff thanks for watching and thanks again to shadow for sponsoring this video and sending over the server this was actually pretty fun i've never seen an open compute project server before it's nice to get hands-on"}