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shadow sponsored this video and the concept behind their service is pretty

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straightforward you install their app on your device whether it's a macbook

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Windows book full-size computer phone tablet or even an Android or apple tv

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you are magically dropped into a powerful Windows machine over the

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internet but what actually powers that gaming

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experience the cloud gets so often used as a hand

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wavy don't worry about how it works buzzword what does a gaming server

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actually look like to find out we convinced them to send one over to us

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to poke and prod at and this thing is

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actually way cooler than i expected

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using low latency hardware encoding a shadow cloud gaming server can run it up

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to 4k 60fps over the internet and it'll forward

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inputs from controllers keyboards mice and even other usb peripherals making it

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useful for gaming design video editing

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or just about anything else you can imagine but of course the ability to

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run those applications is only meaningful if you've got enough horses

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to really use them that is why every logged in shadow user

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gets their own dedicated hardware

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albeit not necessarily in the

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conventional sense what i expected to find in here was this

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this daughter board is what allows the system to be powered by a single 12 volt

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input and this is part of the open compute platform spec that reduces the

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cost of individual servers by taking the power and cooling and making them part

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of the complete cabinet rather than something that has to be integrated into

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every single server so you can see here we've got these gigantic chunky positive

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and negative wires here and then everything is split

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off to the individual components so these three right here are able to

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handle pci express power for up to three graphics cards the fans are handled

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right here this is a supplementary six pin pci express connector for the

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motherboard this right here is an 8 pin CPU power connector and this right here

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is a standard atx 24 pin power connector

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that is what i was not expecting to find

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inside this chassis i was actually expecting this motherboard to use some

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kind of just 12 volt only power input or

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something along those lines but because this is just a standard Gigabyte

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atx motherboard we can take off this cooler put something else on it and

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here we go plug in our own power supply and game on

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this thing right here and right now now

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when i said that every subscriber gets their own dedicated hardware i didn't

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necessarily mean that all of it would be dedicated so here to pop off this shroud

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you can actually see that while everyone obviously gets their own graphics card

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there's only one CPU in the system so depending on what tier it is you're

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going to have either four CPU cores or

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six CPU cores that are kind of carved out using virtualization from the CPU

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and then assigned a graphics card kind of like what we've done in the past with

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things like our seven gamers one CPU project

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as for memory because this CPU has a 6 channel memory controller each one of a

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hypothetical 3 people who have had this CPU carved up for them would get

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effectively dual channel memory worth of bandwidth so these are 8 gig sticks

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which means we've got a total of 64 gigs of RAM in this particular system

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that can be sliced up that means that as long as shadow has

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chosen their hardware wisely other than the overhead that comes along with

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virtualization which as we've shown in the past can be pretty minimal you are

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basically getting a gaming pc

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even though it looks absolutely nothing like one i mean

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where's the RGB am i right so let's go ahead and hook

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this puppy up shall we we have a small benchtop

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variable voltage power supply in the workshop but it is not even close to

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what we would need to run this entire machine

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off of this i didn't point this out before but you can actually see

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where the 12 volt to 5 volt and 3.3 volt

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conversion is happening on this daughter board over here because if it's not

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happening in the power supply then you're going to need it to happen here for that 24 pin connector everything

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else CPU fans pci express that's all native 12 volt so you don't have to do

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it just for the 24 pin connector here make sure you're subscribed because i've

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got a video coming up pretty soon where we're going to be one of the first to be

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hands on with a new motherboard and power supply standard that Intel is

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actually co-creating that would eliminate 5 volt and 3.3 volt

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from power supplies in general so it would just be 12 volt power going on to

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the motherboard come on come out of the thing the cable management is it's too

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tight it's too cable managed

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for shadow tech watching this going ooh what is he doing

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they knew who they sent it to you knew what this was this totally

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feels like cheating hooking up to the gaming server directly there's got to be

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a 10 gig card over here with sfp plus connectors but we don't have those just

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like randomly throughout our office uh usually they're more for fiber so we're

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going to go ahead and plug into this puppy right here uh wow that is

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that is really tight if we like bend this like this

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maybe we'll get that in there yeah there it is oh yeah

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oh yeah there you go no problem

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piece of cake this motherboard totally forgoes

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traditional just SATA connectors uh in

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favor of these puppies right here which are breakout connectors into four

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separate SATA connectors fortunately i've got an m.2 drive that should have a

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Windows operating system on it as well as some games and stuff

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and i'm just going to go ahead and pop that in you might have noticed that the

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server has no storage in it whatsoever

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that's because along with cooling and power

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storage is one of the other things that is removed from the individual servers

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and just placed elsewhere in the data center so that is what that high speed

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network connection is for that way no one's going to have a storage bottleneck

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when they're trying to load up their games or whatever let's see if it just fires up when we

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give it power oh power supply did

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nothing else it doesn't make any noise because all the fans are powered by the

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daughter board which is not powered

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so i lied we're gonna need a blowy matron

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after all here we go boys

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whoa i was trying to take off there uh is

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that supposed to happen i'm gonna go get a different one that

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could yeah not kill but definitely mame

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yeah this is less fun but it's definitely safer yeah i think i plugged

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into the secondary card which is not what i wanted to do okay hopefully

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that's all right no output to our monitor but by pulling

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out both of the graphics cards i was able to get into the BIOS on the onboard

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video so i have changed active video to PCIe device

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and the other thing that i want to change is you can see it set up to

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network boot that would normally make sense because the storage should be

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elsewhere in the data center i'm going to set it to my sabrint m.2 drive

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and hopefully save and exit

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show me the

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image lttstore.com need some water gotta

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replace all the sweat hello ah there you are

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yes good job fun fact apparently shadow added 240 hertz support they haven't

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completely rolled it out but if you manually select it it should work at

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1080p of course this is just running locally over displayport cable so

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there's no special magic right now there we go over 100 frames per second

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to shadow the tomb raider with a server CPU and a workstation graphics

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card not too shabby as you can see no amount of

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expensive gaming tech is going to make me good at rocket league but

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the good news is that i am getting a locked 250 frames per second how about

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them apples oh yeah gaming server for gamers

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of course this is ridiculous

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nobody's going to use this like this so

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i actually grabbed myself an Android tv

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box and a tv over there and we're gonna give it a shot like

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the real way some people use their shadows as their

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like primary computer because why not it's got a fast internet connection

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because it's right in a data center you can remote into it from anywhere which

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is super cool so obviously two factor

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very important feature just a little inconvenient for me right now

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4k 60fps

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let's fire up a game this uh this is their launcher or you can also just drop

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onto the desktop it's actually my first time playing around with it on the

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Android tv app even with all their voodoo magic

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there's no getting around Windows updates now everything's working properly 24

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milliseconds ping not terrible so that's a little less than two frames of latency

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which considering that we're connected to a server and our neighbors to the

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south actually not bad cool so apparently they've worked on

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this so that you can bring up the overlay even when you are in game which

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is pretty sweet believe it or not overcooked 2 is a game that i'm pretty

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sensitive to latency in i've played a fair bit of this game before the game

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launches actually a good time to have a look at what things like text will look

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like on a maxed out 70 megabit per second connection in fact it actually

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ends up looking quite sharp so there's a 4k display running at 4k and if you go

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have a close look at it if you were to just be

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working on documents in your shadow for whatever reason

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i would say that would be a highly acceptable experience

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oh you know what that's interesting the cursor

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looks a little weird but the actual text

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here is really good i can detect it obviously

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like i know what i'm looking for but

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this is among the best that i have seen

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when it comes to remote gaming image quality where i would really expect to

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see a lot of blockiness is in sort of

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big gradients like this like this overcast

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cloudy business that's going on under our hot air balloon but

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it's really not bad at all

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this is actually my first time formally trying shadow because last time i had to

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go to their office for it because they weren't able to get us hooked up with

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anything in canada no wonder people swear by this thing

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overcooked ii definitely benefits from its more cartoony art style though when

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you're playing something that's intended to look a little bit more

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cinematic or true to life the visual

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anomalies are definitely more noticeable

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but are also definitely acceptable in this

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case it's more the latency that i would

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notice playing something like a twitch shooter like do maternal

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this is on ultra violence mode oh see see the chainsaw there we go all

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right and we good oh come on stop

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man this game's fun uh yeah i'm basically just playing video

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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

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start playing video games yeah you can kind of see it in like the

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textures on the floor and stuff like that so when i move they'll get kind of

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blurry and then they kind of sharpen up

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like it's it's really not bad actually

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things that are farther away i tend to find it more noticeable and like when

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something rocks the building you can see it go kind of blurry

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there and then it sharpens back up so it's definitely noticeable to the

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trained eye you'd be able to feel the latency in a game like this for sure

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if you're playing something like you know more of like a tomb raider type

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game where it's more about puzzle solving and exploration then i wouldn't

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consider it to be nearly as much of an issue bottom line then shadow's value

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proposition is pretty unique even at their highest tier which is forty

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dollars a month for the hardware that they're going to bake into that tier it

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would take anywhere from three to five years just to buy that graphics card if

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you were paying 40 a month so the value

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is pretty good as long as you're willing to deal with remote access

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shadow's available nationwide in the u.s but the experience is obviously better

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the closer you are to one of their data centers and you can find the most updated information about where those

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are on their website there's currently four in the us

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the most important call to action today is if this looks interesting to you

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move fast because the last time we did a video about shadow we caused a month's

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long backlog on new account activations and no i'm not even kidding and if you

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want an ultra or infinite tier account once those become available you will

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need to already have a standard boost

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tier account they're constantly improving the service that overlay is

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absolutely awesome that usb pass-through stuff is crazy they're even working on a

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couple of really big things for the future so one of them is mouse and keyboard gaming

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support that's going to be coming with iOS 14 as well as vr support although it

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remains to be seen exactly how well that would work with the extra latency either

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way it's worth keeping an eye on these guys because they are doing some really

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cool stuff thanks for watching and thanks again to shadow for sponsoring

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this video and sending over the server this was actually pretty fun i've never

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seen an open compute project server before it's nice to get hands-on