so the traditional way to build a gaming machine you got your monitor you got
your gaming tower and they're separate
not today so colorful of all people
reached out to sponsor a video featuring the igame g1
a gaming all-in-one that i thought was pretty cool
until i cracked open the box and had a look at this thing
that's it it's that thin you compare
that to some other gaming monitor and it's like wait a minute they put a
whole pc in there too let's check this thing out shall we
accessories packing
whatever they sponsored this video they knew what they were getting total victim blaming here right now but uh i'm not
even sorry so honestly speaking guys i know almost as little about this thing
as you do because colorful did send me over
a one-pager but the problem is that it
really was actually exactly one page
there's almost no information on it so i do know that it has an 8th gen hk series
processor an rtx 2080 and it features a
144 hertz 1440p HDR 400 monitor all
integrated into this single unit i do wonder a little bit about colorful's
customers though like do they really need a warning about not touching the
screen when you're when you're using it i guess people are used to touch screens
it's the younger generation you know accessory package pretty straightforward
got your power cord you got your massive power brick because yes my friends this
puppy is looking at needing anywhere up to about
330 watts of power i'm actually kind of impressed they've got those kinds of
specs with a passive external power supply it's quite possible that in
addition to the mobile CPU colorful is also using a mobile GPU but we're going
to find out exactly what kind of turbo speeds we can get out of it in just a
moment here i o wise we've got three usb
type a's a usb type c Ethernet of some sort we're gonna find out how fast that
is our power in HDMI in and out see this
is what i'm talking about why doesn't every aio have this because
one day eventually this computer will be slow and it would be really nice if it
could still be used as a monitor and this one can and then finally we've also
got that is presumably a DisplayPort out and a kensington lock so the entire
bottom has your on-screen display controls your headphone and microphone
jack nice to see dedicated jacks for those as well as a whole whack of
ventilation the bottom here looks like a speaker grille with an array mic as well
as that's either an ambient light sensor or a webcam hard to tell at this point
we will find that out later and then there we go the entire top of the unit
more ventilation and the back more ventilation
and the sides more ventilation so these
like gamery accents that are on the back of the monitor are actually
just gamery ventilation oh i saw this oh
that's cool i thought this was maybe the power button but it's actually a switch
for the webcam so i see what's going on down here the
ambient sensor is like over here somewhere this is a Windows hello enabled webcam and then it just has a
privacy shield on it so you've got sound control reset
reposition osd information brightness contrast a white
point adjustment overscan and resizing
and input select and that is pretty much
it so what it looks like is that it's more like
a monitor connected to a computer and less of like an embedded displayport
display being connected directly to a mobile GPU but the only way for us to
find that out for sure would be to crack it open which i do intend to do first
let's get some games loaded on this thing it really is impressive how thin
this thing is like it just looks like a monitor so however the cooling system
intakes which is probably through these vents here as well as the bottom it's
definitely exhausting at the top oh right i wanted to find out how fast the
Ethernet is gigabit okay so just regular gigabit we can see here it's definitely
a mobile GPU in there because the connector here is laptop display and no
outstanding motion blur issues which is really lucky because
given that there's not a ton of fine control in the osd they could have
easily cranked up something like the overdrive strength and you could have
ended up with a bunch of weird artifacts depending on how they decided to tune in
and it looks like they've taken a fairly sensible middle of the road approach to
it oh that was inevitable
it's got RGB lighting all right so while we wait for some
games to install let's go ahead and explore the config a little bit more
i've loaded up a couple utilities here so first of all in the NVIDIA driver
we're definitely running at 2560 by 1440 144 hertz but for those curious no it's
not running in g-sync although i will do a driver update and see if that
situation changes our CPU is a core i9 8950 hk so it's a 6
core processor 2.9 gigahertz base and i haven't really hit it hard enough to see
what it'll boost to but you can see right here just dragging a window around
it is boosting to 4.2 gigahertz actually that's probably fairly representative
now that i think about it because we're also installing doom in the background
that's not bad so our all-core turbo is hovering around 3.45 gigahertz not too
shabby we can definitely hear the fan ramp up though
now she going oh and it's done already that is not a
bad score 1100 pretty good for a mobile chip let's try r20
so it's a little bit on the louder side for a desktop because remember we're
using laptop components it's a super slim design so it's like really more
like a laptop but like flat and in the form of a
monitor but temps are well under control
our max there was 70 degrees on the hottest core which is perfectly
reasonable for some one of these six core core i9s in fact better than we see
in laptops really because realistically because they are able to take in air
from the bottom and exhausted out the top they actually have quite a bit more
cooling flexibility here as for our score we are right up there with a 7 700
k so we've got a clock speed disadvantage but of course we've got two
more cores meaning that you could expect to get some legitimate work whether it's
you know photo editing or graphic design or even light video editing done on
something like this what we don't know yet is whether it's a max q or a max p
that is quiet versus performance design
alright we've got some games installed but before we launch them i want to play
a fun little game that i like called find the SSD oem part number it's more
fun than it sounds so you fire up task manager and you can see some basic
information we've got a 512 gig NVMe SSD from samsung and then a whole bunch of
gobbledygook over here so we're gonna go ahead and
key that what is usually some kind of part number into google and we end up
with two hits one hit dang that's really not much but that
tells us all that we need to know this is a samsung pm 981 so it's not
necessarily the same as a 970 pro but it's a little bit better than a 970 evo
meaning that you are looking at current gen flagship samsung NVMe SSD
performance on this thing not a bad thing to have one thing that was
noticeable about the config overall actually is that it's got two terabytes
of hard drive based storage as well so
it really seems like the config here is optimized for something like a lan cafe
where you want to save space you want high performance got rtx 2080 got it six
core CPU but you don't necessarily mean the top of the line performance and you
need enough space to have a big game library but you also don't need it to be
that fast so you can go ahead and throw a hard drive in for that very
interesting 144 hertz v-sync off
graphics let's crank them highest with no motion blur
so i noticed the in-game volume was a little louder than i wanted and my
immediate reaction was to go into the osd and adjust the volume in there but
nope nope there we go software volume control only
my friends let's run the benchmark i love that high refresh rate ips
monitors are a thing now like it used to be you either had
gaming performance or non-eye searing color fidelity
why not both now ramped up really strongly there for
a second but it seems like the way they've tuned the fan curve
has it ramping up aggressively against a
new heavy load but then actually dialing back a little bit it's not the kind of
thing that you would hear over headphones for example but if you
weren't using headphones the fan noise is clearly audible all right fantastic
so average FPS of around 90 with details absolutely cranked and
60 degrees max not bad
i guess that's what happens when you can build what would effectively be a
27-inch laptop you've got a ton more space for
cooling so our core clocks are up in the
1700 megahertz or so range that is not
too shabby for a mobile GPU
i got to say it is really impressive how far the tech has come in the last few
years like this is a great gaming experience
literally built into the back of a monitor so it's sitting next to that
skull trail machine that i actually showed a little while ago so this is
what a super high-end gaming rig looked like 11 years ago actually guys if
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on this one we're going to be taking our skull trail machine and hooking it up with two rtx 2080 ti's in sli just to
see what happens in the meantime though
what is going on here does that one screw just lift up the whole thing
so you turn this thing that's why it was so hard to turn and there's like a
little mechanism in there you see that that like pries up the computer
oh i think i got it yep there it goes
he's a madman ladies and gentlemen oh yep there it is we got three sides
and once you got three sides the battle is basically over oh
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okay interesting
they've actually packed the entire
pc inside this shielded
enclosure so a lot of what i thought was
ventilation holes actually isn't so all
that stuff along the bottom seems to be just kind of for for styling so the
front is speaker grilles for these two large speakers here and then those ones
at the back are intakes and actually the vast majority of the cooling is handled
by these two large heat exchangers here each of
which has two heat pipes and like i had suggested this one is dedicated to
cooling the CPU with just this one thick heat pipe and then this one does most of
the heavy lifting for the GPU with a third heat pipe presumably coming off
the GPU going over to this one now that we've gone this far i don't think
there's any way that we can avoid taking off the shield though i sort of assumed
everything would be kind of bare inside but it's much more tightly integrated
than some of the gaming aios that i've seen in the past
look at this that has got to be the thickest thermal pad i've ever seen now normally you
probably wouldn't bother with a thermal pad on something like this but because
of the way they've designed the cooling with almost no sort of just general
airflow in here and most of the cooling handle by taking this heat and moving it
out via heat pipes and then expelling it i can see why they'd feel like they need
to do that so this our m.2 drive here is also cooled by a thermal pad up against
this giant heat spreader so that's what it actually is it seems to be more of a
heat spreader here's our Intel wireless
and then as i had guessed it our CPU is handled by the one heat pipe and our GPU
and memory is handled by these three and that explains why our thermals were so
good because these are chunky heat pipes pretty impressed by those i just want to
see if there's more sodium slots down there really does not look like it like
maybe there's somewhere else to solder them on but i don't think the actual
mounts are soldered on so the last thing of note here is that we do have an
additional m.2 slot so we could expand our storage again should we see fit
so that's it that's all guys if you like this teardown we've actually got a
monitor repair guide that you're definitely going to want to check out and bye