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Full-size desktops are great

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for playing the latest AAA games at high frame rates,

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or if you need the extra muscle for video editing,

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3D rendering, or computer-assisted design.

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But if we're being honest, for most people,

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a thin and light basic laptop

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is more than enough these days

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and comes with the extra benefits of portability

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and convenience that you simply don't get with a desktop.

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The real bummer is when you end up having to buy both,

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a desktop for your gaming or your heavy work

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and a laptop for when you're out and about.

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I mean, why bother having two full CPUs

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installed on two motherboards

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when you can only really use one at a time?

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If only there was a solution

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where just by plugging one cable

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into that laptop you already own,

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you could extend it with a full-size desktop,

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all the peripherals and expansion you could want,

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and even a powerful graphics card.

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And I mean, while I'm dreaming,

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what if wireless charging was simply built

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right into a desk?

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Oh, wait, it is.

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And we did all that stuff.

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And we're gonna show you exactly how it works

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So step zero for making your very own

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one cable desk dock thing

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is having a compatible laptop.

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You don't get dual 4K monitors,

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10 gig file transfers,

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and 85 watts of charging

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through a regular old micro USB port and cable.

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No, for this to work,

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you need a laptop with at least one Thunderbolt 3 port.

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And we would strongly recommend finding one

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that has a four by PCI express lane interface.

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So Thunderbolt 3 looks like a normal USB type C port,

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except for this little lightning bolt emblem

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that isn't even always there.

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So the Thunderbolt 3 port

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on our 2018 Razer Blade Stealth, for example,

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is totally unmarked.

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If you need to double check your device,

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you can always search for it

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on the Thunderbolt Technology website.

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Now, for the most important part,

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for step one, plan your layout.

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At a minimum, your desktop is going to need

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a Thunderbolt 3 hub for everything to run through.

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Luckily for us, CalDigit was kind enough

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to send us their flagship TS3 Plus,

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which can provide 85 watts of power.

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That's enough to charge a MacBook Pro.

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And it's got enough ports for your peripherals,

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wired internet, and a 10 gigabit external drive.

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Oh, also up to two 4K monitors.

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Now, you could just get a 4K monitor,

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get a device like this,

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and call it a day with no other parts necessary.

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But to make our setup really special,

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we wanted to add an external graphics card enclosure

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so that our desktop not only makes our laptop easier to use

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with a monitor and peripherals and, you know,

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lots of ports and all that,

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but also substantially more powerful.

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So that ended up making things a bit more complicated.

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For starters, while Thunderbolt 3 does support daisy chain,

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up to six devices off of a single port,

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you can't just plug your graphics card into your dock.

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you'll get awful latency at best,

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and at worst, random crashes or total non-functionality.

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Okay, so we just switch the order then, right?

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Laptop to eGPU, eGPU to dock, oh.

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So at the time of writing, the odds of your eGPU having two ports

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on it for daisy chaining are pretty low.

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The only options we're aware of are the Blackmagic eGPU,

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which only works with Macs, the Akitio Node Duo,

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which is designed to hold two cards,

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but at only half the bandwidth each,

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and the Akitio Node Pro,

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which is exactly what we ended up using.

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It solves our problems, but it has a gotcha.

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Even though our TS3 Plus hub can deliver 85 watts of power,

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your laptop only receives power

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from the device that it is directly connected to.

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So in our case, that's the Node Pro,

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whose Thunderbolt 3 ports can only deliver

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up to 60 watts of power.

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So machines with higher power demands,

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like the MacBook Pro, could end up trickle charging.

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Fortunately for us, that is not the case

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for my Blade Stealth 2017, so our journey continues.

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Step two then, choose a suitable desk.

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As you can see, our finished desk dock

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is completely stealthed,

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meaning that even though it's got

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integrated wireless charging and a freaking graphics card,

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you can't see either of those things

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when you're sitting at the desk.

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And that is only possible because of the planning

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that we did back in step one.

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So we limited our options to ones

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with enough cabinet space and thickness

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to contain all of our devices and our cables,

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with obvious cable management runs for bonus points.

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This one fit the bill nicely,

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and we're mostly thrilled

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with how the finished product looks.

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But we're gonna stop short of a recommendation here

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because the desk's build quality

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is a bit of a disappointment.

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It's basically Ikea level.

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It even uses the same dowels and hardware,

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but it was at least twice what you'd expect to pay

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at the blue and yellow store.

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And it is full of little oversights,

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like these holes here that aren't even big enough

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to accommodate the screws that are included with the desk.

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Now it's time for power tools.

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Step three is to hide the eGPU inside the desk somehow.

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Our desk arrived before our eGPU did,

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but the on paper specs indicated

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that it was just a bit smaller than the cabinet.

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That is as long as the drawers weren't in the way.

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So we made room by shortening the drawers.

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This created an empty space at the back of the cabinet

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while maintaining the original look.

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And what's really cool is that these drawers

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can still be used to hold a couple of pens

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or like a single banana.

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When it actually arrived though,

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we did find out that once you accounted for cables

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and drawer rails, there really wasn't enough room

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for the giant eGPU chassis.

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Fortunately, we were able to extract the parts that matter

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and then prop them up on a janky frame made out of scrap wood

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that did fit inside the hollowed cabinet.

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One more thing, we learned from our last desk project

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that cooling is super important.

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So we used a hole saw to bore a four fan breezeway,

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then used fan splitters

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to connect our fans to the single fan header

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that was already on the Node Pros PCB.

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Step three was installing an invisible wireless charger.

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Now the original plan here was to simply cut

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a charging pad sized hole in the top of the desk

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and then have the exposed pad kind of poking through.

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But then we remembered,

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hey, we have a giant CNC router and an Alex.

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So he programmed a basic design, including a cable channel.

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And after a couple of test cuts to make sure

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that this low quality chipboard didn't just explode

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on contact with the blade,

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we were able to carve out a recess for the charging pad

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to nest into from the bottom,

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leaving the surface of the desk intact,

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but as thin as possible

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to maximize the charging pad's effectiveness.

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Then we added these classy dots

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to show you where the heck the thing is.

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Cool, right?

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Step four was mounting the Thunderbolt 3 hub.

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So the TS3 Plus has IO on the front

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that we wanted to be able to access.

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And the TS3 Plus has IO on the back

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that we wanted to be able to access.

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So we had to use Velcro tape on the top

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to mount it to the underside of the desk.

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This gives us both a discreet, slick looking finish

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and the ability to pull the device off easily

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instead of contorting our spines

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in the event that we need to plug something into the back.

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Step five, cable management.

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Our desk did come with cable management holes in the middle,

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but we added a few more of our own

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so that we could route all of the cables

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from the inside of the desk and the cabinet,

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and the table leg.

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the only loose cable that you should ever have to interact

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with is the Thunderbolt 3 cable

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that you plug into your machine.

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And this is cool.

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It can actually go on either side of this divider down here,

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thanks to the hole that we drilled at the back.

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That means that it doesn't matter which side of your device

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your Thunderbolt 3 port is on.

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So that's how we did it,

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but let me show you guys how it works.

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So first, I have to configure my laptop

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to not go to sleep when I close the lid.

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Obviously, I could have set up the desk

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so that the laptop goes here,

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and then it just stays open

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and I could use it as a second monitor or whatever else,

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but we were going for the cleanest setup.

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I can go ahead and close the lid

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and it's not gonna go to sleep.

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You can just kinda tuck it in there.

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Now we give it like somewhere between five and 10 seconds,

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and our monitor should come to life.

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Our peripherals should, come on baby, start working.

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There we go.

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If I hop over to device manager,

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we might even be able to catch it showing up here.

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Nope, it's already there.

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GeForce GTX 1080 TI.

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that means that we are actually in a position

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where we can play AAA level games on our Ultrabook

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just with this one cable.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and fire up Rise of the Tomb Raider.

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One other really cool thing

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that I don't actually have set up here

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is that with some of the other high-speed USB ports

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on the back of this CalDigit device,

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you could also do something like have a high-speed

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either SSD or hard drive that you've got pre-attached

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and then just like, I don't know, taped to the top

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or even just hanging out back there,

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like plugged into something like this.

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And then what would happen is

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even if you didn't have a ton of storage on your laptop,

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you could plug it in and boom,

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your Steam library with hundreds of gigabytes of games

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would automatically be remapped.

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And then accessible to you.

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That's something that actually already works fairly well.

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So let's go ahead and continue our game here.

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So this is Rise of the Tomb Raider running at mostly high.

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I've got motion blur disabled

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and a couple of other things that I just kind of prefer.

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But this is that mostly high details running at 75,

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70 to 75 frames per second.

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And the coolest thing about it is actually something

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that probably won't be obvious

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to you guys watching right now.

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And that's this.

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So my microphone's right here.

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It's basically silent.

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So for peace of mind, next time around,

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I'd probably put an 80 millimeter fan in the back

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and just have it draw some air across the laptop.

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But honestly, we left it running

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for over an hour yesterday in a game

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and our CPU never hit above 65 degrees.

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So it was chilly in our warehouse,

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but basically at room temperature,

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you'd never see above about 75.

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And then our GPU stayed downright frosty

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with all those cooling fans circulating air in the cabinet.

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Honestly, the loudest fan in this thing

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is the one in the included power supply

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from the Akitio Node Pro.

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So to do it again, I do the cooling fan

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and then probably swap out that power supply.

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Silverstone has some really great options

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for semi silent units.

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They've got like an 800 watt

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that I think the fan only turns on

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if you draw over like two or 300 watts of power.

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So something like that would make this whole setup,

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not just stealthy to the eye, but also stealthy to the ear.

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All right.

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Well, because we kind of have to,

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let's fire up Fortnite and have a look at what it thinks

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will be the ideal settings for our system here.

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50% off what?

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Do I have to pay for that?

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You gotta be kidding me.

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What is this?

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So it has defaulted us to our,

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I don't know why there's a frame rate limit.

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You know what?

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I'm just gonna do this myself.

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Motion blur, off.

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No, God, why would anyone want that?

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All right, not bad.

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So we're running in the neighborhood

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70 to 80 FPS.

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I've seen dips down to 55 or 60.

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Let's go ahead and jump out of the battle bus here.

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Yep, so around 50 at the lowest as we're falling.

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So I could probably improve that

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by dropping a couple things down to medium,

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but overall, very playable.

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And remember, this is at 3840 by 1600 resolution

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running off of a laptop CPU.

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Super impressed.

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I mean, I could take his plane, right?

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Yeah.

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Wee!

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Bye loser.

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I'm definitely getting a little bit of chop

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that I wouldn't be expecting.

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I think there's a little bit more tuning required

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to get this running as smoothly as I would expect

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for the FPS that we're getting.

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We gotta get out of here.

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We gotta get out of here.

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Oh, damn.

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So maybe a couple more things to tweak here.

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Now that I've seen this fall down once,

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some kind of reinforcement so it stays in place better.

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Probably a good idea.

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Also, using a mouse directly on a desk surface

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is not something I'd recommend.

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If we had thought for certain

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that there was no way we were gonna damage the table,

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what we would have really wanted to do

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was route out exactly the shape of a mouse pad

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and then have it recessed in the table.

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That's something we'd probably wanna do on a V2,

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but I mean, other than that,

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I'm super proud of the result here.

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I gave James the task of creating the cleanest setup,

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bar none, and as far as I'm concerned, mission accomplished.

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I think the only thing left now

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is maybe to do like an updated version

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for our MacBook user viewers

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with maybe a couple of the tweaks that we've talked about,

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but we'll see.

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Let us know in the comments

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if you'd like to see a follow-up.

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And yes, the animation smoothness is way better

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as soon as I dropped the render resolution

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down a little bit.

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I think it was just struggling a bit at basically 4K.