WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.240 Okay, so I'm sitting in my office looking at a motherboard 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:03.080 and I'm like, all right, 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.280 so you got all these PCI Express slots, right? 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:06.640 The graphics card goes here, 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:08.560 but then you got all these other ones. 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:11.200 What are people actually putting on these things? 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:13.120 So I started clicking around on AliExpress. 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:16.480 I'm like, wow, there's some really weird stuff 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.200 that you can put in a PCI Express slot. 00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:21.740 So I issued a challenge. 00:00:21.740 --> 00:00:24.720 Actually, rather I asked Jake to issue a challenge 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:27.560 to four other members of our writing staff 00:00:27.560 --> 00:00:31.760 to scour eBay, Wish, AliExpress and more 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:33.740 and find what they believe is 00:00:33.740 --> 00:00:38.740 the weirdest PCI Express expansion card. 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.200 We've provided no definition for weirdest. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:45.440 It's going to be down to judgment from your peers 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:49.160 who managed to find the weirdest thing. 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:52.920 And I'm participating as well, so. 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:54.400 And Dennis is here in spirit. 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:56.200 And the winner gets a trophy, right? 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:57.320 Yes, and it's engraved 00:00:57.320 --> 00:00:58.160 in everything. 00:00:58.160 --> 00:00:58.980 Where is it? 00:00:58.980 --> 00:00:59.820 Well, you can't see it yet. 00:00:59.820 --> 00:01:00.660 You have to show it to them. 00:01:00.660 --> 00:01:01.480 It's a surprise. 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:02.460 You know what's not a surprise? 00:01:02.460 --> 00:01:05.500 The fact that I'm going to segue to our sponsor right now. 00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:07.900 With Pulseway, you can remotely monitor, manage, 00:01:07.900 --> 00:01:09.880 and control all of your Windows, Mac, 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:11.940 and Linux machines from one app. 00:01:11.940 --> 00:01:13.360 Create your free account today 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:23.990 at the link in the video description. 00:01:23.990 --> 00:01:25.530 Two, all right, Riley, you're going first. 00:01:25.530 --> 00:01:26.370 All right. 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:29.320 Okay, Riley's first. 00:01:29.320 --> 00:01:31.660 See how nonchalant I am about this? 00:01:31.660 --> 00:01:33.360 Because that's the amount of confidence I have. 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:35.380 Stop it, only I can. 00:01:35.380 --> 00:01:36.660 Not one, not two. 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:37.880 Not three. 00:01:37.880 --> 00:01:39.600 Wait, are these just mining risers? 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:40.440 Listen. 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:41.340 It's a cool one. 00:01:41.340 --> 00:01:42.580 Wait, you had to buy these? 00:01:42.580 --> 00:01:46.080 This is a small, very small PCIe card. 00:01:46.080 --> 00:01:47.660 Ever seen something like that? 00:01:47.660 --> 00:01:48.500 What's that? 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:49.660 USB ports. 00:01:49.660 --> 00:01:50.520 Yeah. 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:51.800 That goes in there. 00:01:51.800 --> 00:01:52.640 Yeah. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.400 USB into a USB. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:55.420 Yeah. 00:01:55.420 --> 00:01:57.440 Do you know the potential of this? 00:01:57.440 --> 00:01:58.280 No. 00:01:58.280 --> 00:01:59.600 You could just keep going forever. 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:00.760 Adding more and more. 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:01.600 Let's find out. 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:02.440 PCI cards. 00:02:02.440 --> 00:02:03.260 Okay, so. 00:02:03.260 --> 00:02:04.100 Look, that goes in here. 00:02:04.100 --> 00:02:04.980 Can we just? 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:06.400 Wait, wait, whoa, the bench is on. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.240 Wait, wait, wait. 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:08.060 No, I turned it off. 00:02:08.060 --> 00:02:09.280 Turn the power supply off. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.300 No, that can't go in there. 00:02:10.300 --> 00:02:11.300 That can't go in there. 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:12.140 Yes, it can. 00:02:12.140 --> 00:02:14.740 No, I don't think this is a PCIe X16 00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:15.580 or whatever it is. 00:02:15.580 --> 00:02:16.420 Yes, it is. 00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:17.260 Is it? 00:02:17.260 --> 00:02:18.100 Yes. 00:02:18.100 --> 00:02:18.940 Kind of the entire point. 00:02:18.940 --> 00:02:19.920 Riley, did you even know what you were buying? 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:20.940 No, I didn't. 00:02:20.940 --> 00:02:21.780 Okay. 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:22.620 Huzzah. 00:02:22.620 --> 00:02:26.140 So our USB graphics card is working. 00:02:26.140 --> 00:02:28.060 So what is this, like a PLX chip here? 00:02:28.060 --> 00:02:30.640 Definitely, that's definitely what it is. 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:31.880 Yes, please. 00:02:31.880 --> 00:02:32.820 I have no idea. 00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:35.400 Like, what is the pin mapping here though? 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:36.400 Like. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.220 This is what you call a USB port. 00:02:38.220 --> 00:02:39.540 There's only nine conductors. 00:02:39.540 --> 00:02:40.380 Yeah. 00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:41.220 Well, that's all you need. 00:02:41.220 --> 00:02:42.160 I suppose you don't need that many. 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:43.880 Okay, well, it works. 00:02:43.880 --> 00:02:44.720 So like. 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:45.860 Does it have ray tracing? 00:02:45.860 --> 00:02:46.700 Yeah. 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:49.340 So this is an RTX 2070 on, what is this? 00:02:49.340 --> 00:02:50.180 8700K. 00:02:50.180 --> 00:02:51.020 An 8700K. 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:52.820 So we should be expecting somewhere in the neighborhood 00:02:52.820 --> 00:02:55.370 of 250 plus FPS. 00:02:55.370 --> 00:02:56.210 Okay. 00:02:56.210 --> 00:02:58.390 Well, let's see how we do here then, shall we? 00:02:58.390 --> 00:03:01.790 Yeah, so basically what's happening is 00:03:01.790 --> 00:03:04.550 instead of just converting PCI Express 00:03:04.550 --> 00:03:05.490 to a USB-K, 00:03:05.490 --> 00:03:08.370 which is kind of like just using a PCI Express riser, 00:03:08.370 --> 00:03:10.890 except you're using the USB connector and cable, 00:03:12.190 --> 00:03:15.570 it's taking the same PCIe 1X interface, 00:03:15.570 --> 00:03:19.330 using some kind of a PLX or hub chip of some sort 00:03:19.330 --> 00:03:20.550 or switching chip, 00:03:20.550 --> 00:03:23.170 and then it's turning the single 1X interface 00:03:23.170 --> 00:03:26.370 into four 1X interfaces. 00:03:26.370 --> 00:03:28.550 And so this is probably fine, 00:03:28.550 --> 00:03:30.570 but if we were to hook four graphics cards up 00:03:30.570 --> 00:03:31.650 at the same time, 00:03:31.650 --> 00:03:33.810 and all four of them were actually doing something. 00:03:33.810 --> 00:03:34.650 We'd be chugging. 00:03:34.650 --> 00:03:35.490 We'd be, 00:03:35.490 --> 00:03:36.330 not. 00:03:36.330 --> 00:03:37.310 And you don't want to do that right now. 00:03:37.310 --> 00:03:38.150 Gaming-wise. 00:03:38.150 --> 00:03:38.990 You don't want to try that. 00:03:38.990 --> 00:03:39.810 What, daisy-chaining? 00:03:39.810 --> 00:03:41.450 No, I don't think there's any point daisy-chaining them, 00:03:41.450 --> 00:03:42.550 but running all four of them. 00:03:42.550 --> 00:03:43.370 Yes. 00:03:43.370 --> 00:03:44.190 You could. 00:03:44.190 --> 00:03:45.030 Let's do it. 00:03:45.030 --> 00:03:45.870 Just try daisy-chaining it once. 00:03:45.870 --> 00:03:47.110 Okay, turn the power supply off. 00:03:47.110 --> 00:03:47.950 All right. 00:03:47.950 --> 00:03:48.790 If you factor out the- 00:03:48.790 --> 00:03:49.630 Really? 00:03:49.630 --> 00:03:50.820 Shorting out the board. 00:03:50.820 --> 00:03:52.080 Oh, power move. 00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:54.760 You know what? 00:03:54.760 --> 00:03:55.600 It did it. 00:03:55.600 --> 00:03:57.400 That FPS though is not, 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:58.700 this was not ideal. 00:03:58.700 --> 00:03:59.520 Okay. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:00.360 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:01.200 We lost. 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:02.500 We just cut our FPS in half. 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:04.800 Just see how many noobs you can pwn. 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:05.660 That's pretty rough. 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:06.940 Oh! 00:04:06.940 --> 00:04:08.460 Man, you're time traveling. 00:04:08.460 --> 00:04:10.460 For your consideration, 00:04:10.460 --> 00:04:13.760 you have before you a system that could enable you 00:04:13.760 --> 00:04:18.580 to place a GPU anywhere in your house 00:04:18.580 --> 00:04:22.520 while keeping your regular PC right next to you. 00:04:22.520 --> 00:04:25.690 So, pretty awesome. 00:04:25.690 --> 00:04:27.690 But at what cost? 00:04:27.690 --> 00:04:30.110 At the cost of a few frames. 00:04:30.110 --> 00:04:30.930 A few. 00:04:30.930 --> 00:04:31.750 What is that? 00:04:31.750 --> 00:04:34.960 What are frames? 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:38.920 And here we have a PCI oscilloscope. 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:41.540 Whoa. 00:04:41.540 --> 00:04:43.720 Wait, it's PCI? 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:44.560 Oh. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:45.560 Oh. 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:47.740 How does that work? 00:04:47.740 --> 00:04:48.700 Wait, how does that work? 00:04:48.700 --> 00:04:52.480 Well, I assumed you would get at least a PCI express card. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:53.320 Oh! 00:04:53.320 --> 00:04:54.160 Excuse me. 00:04:55.140 --> 00:04:58.660 I thought there was sort of a minimum bar here for like- 00:04:58.660 --> 00:05:03.060 Actually, you told me specifically PCIe or PCI. 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:03.900 That's true. 00:05:03.900 --> 00:05:06.040 This was a conversation that we had. 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:07.560 Okay, well then why didn't your test bench 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:08.780 have a PCI slot on it, smart guy? 00:05:08.780 --> 00:05:11.740 Well, I wasn't expecting anybody to do it, 00:05:11.740 --> 00:05:14.800 especially for something that costs $600. 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:15.640 More like seven. 00:05:15.640 --> 00:05:16.980 $700. 00:05:16.980 --> 00:05:18.180 Are those PCIs? 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:19.620 No, those are PCI-X. 00:05:19.620 --> 00:05:20.520 See you later. 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:24.680 What are those? 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:25.840 Is that the right one? 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:27.820 No, that's not that. 00:05:27.820 --> 00:05:29.080 That's not a PCI, right? 00:05:29.080 --> 00:05:29.920 Yeah, that's PCI. 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:30.860 Wait, what? 00:05:30.860 --> 00:05:32.160 We can't. 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:33.300 Yeah, nothing's happening. 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:35.020 Yeah, it doesn't post with it in it, 00:05:35.020 --> 00:05:41.030 so there's nothing that we can reconfigure to. 00:05:41.030 --> 00:05:41.870 So, this is something 00:05:41.870 --> 00:05:45.030 that is actually pretty cool for me. 00:05:45.030 --> 00:05:46.890 So, that's a 7950GX2. 00:05:46.890 --> 00:05:47.730 Yes. 00:05:47.730 --> 00:05:49.190 I thought this was super cool 00:05:49.190 --> 00:05:50.630 because I had never seen 00:05:50.630 --> 00:05:53.430 that this is how they used to actually do dual GPU cards. 00:05:53.430 --> 00:05:54.270 Basic. 00:05:54.270 --> 00:05:55.630 It's literally two, 00:05:55.630 --> 00:05:56.770 Riley didn't even know. 00:05:56.770 --> 00:05:57.730 I think it's cool. 00:05:57.730 --> 00:05:58.570 Yeah. 00:05:58.570 --> 00:05:59.510 I've never seen this. 00:05:59.510 --> 00:06:02.470 Instead of like your Titan Z, Zed, whatever, 00:06:02.470 --> 00:06:03.550 if you're Canadian or not, 00:06:03.550 --> 00:06:05.310 how they had those two GPUs on one card, 00:06:05.310 --> 00:06:07.550 they actually just gave you two cards 00:06:07.550 --> 00:06:09.650 that were like duct taped together 00:06:09.650 --> 00:06:11.870 and you get one slot and you just stick it in. 00:06:11.870 --> 00:06:14.850 And that's how you did quad SLI back in the day. 00:06:14.850 --> 00:06:15.690 GPU sandwich. 00:06:15.690 --> 00:06:16.550 You made two of these. 00:06:16.550 --> 00:06:17.990 Yeah. 00:06:17.990 --> 00:06:19.530 So, this one apparently worked, 00:06:19.530 --> 00:06:20.750 but when I got it, 00:06:20.750 --> 00:06:22.890 actually had one of the capacitors knocked off 00:06:22.890 --> 00:06:24.230 and then this one was like falling off. 00:06:24.230 --> 00:06:25.830 So, did you hot glue it on? 00:06:25.830 --> 00:06:26.670 No, hold on. 00:06:26.670 --> 00:06:28.330 I stole this capacitor from another motherboard 00:06:28.330 --> 00:06:30.890 because the leads were broken 00:06:30.890 --> 00:06:32.990 and then to kind of keep it from breaking, 00:06:32.990 --> 00:06:35.690 I put some hot glue on there as a sort of elastic. 00:06:35.690 --> 00:06:37.590 So, hopefully it works. 00:06:37.590 --> 00:06:40.290 I put a lot of, that genuinely took me like an hour. 00:06:40.290 --> 00:06:41.730 This was back when they used to 00:06:42.130 --> 00:06:45.710 really falsely advertise these cards. 00:06:45.710 --> 00:06:50.430 So, it's got one gig, 512 bit on the back, 00:06:50.430 --> 00:06:52.190 but I'm pretty sure what they mean is 00:06:52.190 --> 00:06:55.230 two times 512 megabytes. 00:06:55.230 --> 00:06:56.510 Let's check our eBay ad here. 00:06:56.510 --> 00:06:57.350 256 bit. 00:06:57.350 --> 00:06:59.250 Oh, I'm looking at the card itself. 00:06:59.250 --> 00:07:01.430 I'm saying our eBay seller was an honest guy. 00:07:01.430 --> 00:07:02.270 Okay. 00:07:02.270 --> 00:07:03.670 He said two by half a gig. 00:07:03.670 --> 00:07:04.510 Okay. 00:07:04.510 --> 00:07:05.330 He's a good guy. 00:07:05.330 --> 00:07:06.170 Oh my God, it worked. 00:07:06.170 --> 00:07:07.010 Yay! 00:07:07.010 --> 00:07:07.850 Shut up. 00:07:07.850 --> 00:07:09.690 That's sweet. 00:07:09.690 --> 00:07:10.570 I don't know. 00:07:10.570 --> 00:07:12.350 Getting pretty close to Alex territory. 00:07:12.350 --> 00:07:13.450 Here. 00:07:13.450 --> 00:07:14.730 Hey, the computer turned on. 00:07:14.730 --> 00:07:16.130 That's true. 00:07:16.130 --> 00:07:17.310 That's pretty different. 00:07:17.310 --> 00:07:18.990 You're on the podium. 00:07:18.990 --> 00:07:20.430 You can believe whatever you want. 00:07:20.430 --> 00:07:23.030 There's no way there's a Windows 10 driver. 00:07:23.030 --> 00:07:26.110 I'd be surprised if there's a Windows 7 driver for this. 00:07:26.110 --> 00:07:28.770 That's a dead video card. 00:07:28.770 --> 00:07:30.290 He said it was working. 00:07:30.290 --> 00:07:35.290 So, these look like dead pixels kind of, but they're not. 00:07:35.650 --> 00:07:37.270 Please don't waste time DDUing it. 00:07:37.270 --> 00:07:39.030 Just, you can try and install your driver, 00:07:39.030 --> 00:07:42.070 but like it's not gonna work and your card is broken. 00:07:42.070 --> 00:07:43.170 It lets you select it. 00:07:43.170 --> 00:07:46.430 And then it's like, yeah. 00:07:46.430 --> 00:07:49.130 I can't believe how much money you guys spent on- 00:07:49.130 --> 00:07:50.370 $70. 00:07:50.370 --> 00:07:52.410 And not working hardware. 00:07:52.410 --> 00:07:53.670 It was damaged in shipping though. 00:07:53.670 --> 00:07:55.630 30 bucks. 00:07:55.630 --> 00:07:57.850 You don't sound convinced. 00:07:57.850 --> 00:07:58.980 Yes! 00:07:58.980 --> 00:07:59.820 Woo! 00:07:59.820 --> 00:08:00.660 We're in the BIOS. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.140 Oh, and this is the deluxe. 00:08:07.140 --> 00:08:08.220 Nice. 00:08:09.870 --> 00:08:10.710 All right. 00:08:10.710 --> 00:08:11.550 Get them. 00:08:11.550 --> 00:08:12.390 Nice. 00:08:12.390 --> 00:08:13.230 We're really- 00:08:13.230 --> 00:08:13.530 Nice. 00:08:13.730 --> 00:08:16.550 It's like a horse race where the horse and race in first. 00:08:16.550 --> 00:08:17.390 Okay. 00:08:17.390 --> 00:08:19.070 So you have other problems coming for you though. 00:08:19.070 --> 00:08:21.010 No race defined. 00:08:21.010 --> 00:08:23.430 What OS were you planning to boot here? 00:08:24.420 --> 00:08:26.320 I have Windows 7 32 bit. 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:27.160 Oh yeah. 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:28.000 On that drive. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:28.840 Oh yeah? 00:08:28.840 --> 00:08:29.680 Yeah. 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:30.520 Oh yeah. 00:08:30.520 --> 00:08:31.360 Is that not gonna happen? 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:32.180 No. 00:08:32.180 --> 00:08:33.020 No? 00:08:33.020 --> 00:08:33.860 Okay. 00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:35.320 What do I boot on this? 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:36.180 XP. 00:08:36.180 --> 00:08:37.420 Oh, Jesus. 00:08:37.420 --> 00:08:39.560 Oh, it's working. 00:08:39.560 --> 00:08:41.790 Look at these pads. 00:08:41.790 --> 00:08:42.630 Okay, to be fair. 00:08:42.630 --> 00:08:43.490 It's like this graphics card. 00:08:43.490 --> 00:08:45.610 This graphics card transports the character models 00:08:45.610 --> 00:08:47.350 back to the era it came from. 00:08:48.670 --> 00:08:51.270 Are you telling me right now that this is working 00:08:51.270 --> 00:08:54.350 because I'm physically holding a capacitor in place 00:08:54.350 --> 00:08:55.270 on the graphics card? 00:08:55.270 --> 00:08:57.010 Let's try that and go in a minute. 00:08:57.010 --> 00:08:58.210 Like, is your finger comfortable? 00:08:58.210 --> 00:08:59.050 Are you good? 00:08:59.050 --> 00:09:01.370 It's kind of warm, but I'm fine. 00:09:02.660 --> 00:09:03.500 All right. 00:09:03.500 --> 00:09:04.760 How do we save? 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:06.380 I assume that just saved. 00:09:06.380 --> 00:09:07.220 Don't, why would you- 00:09:07.220 --> 00:09:08.060 Oh my God. 00:09:08.060 --> 00:09:08.900 What? 00:09:08.900 --> 00:09:09.740 No way! 00:09:09.740 --> 00:09:10.580 You have to get a shot. 00:09:10.580 --> 00:09:11.420 Can you please play? 00:09:11.420 --> 00:09:12.260 Oh. 00:09:12.260 --> 00:09:13.100 I saw it. 00:09:13.100 --> 00:09:15.400 This is starting to burn my finger. 00:09:15.400 --> 00:09:16.980 Here, tag me in, buddy. 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:18.780 Oh, you gotta, you can't just let. 00:09:20.300 --> 00:09:21.140 What? 00:09:21.140 --> 00:09:21.980 That's what did it? 00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:22.820 It just stopped? 00:09:22.820 --> 00:09:23.660 You can't just let go. 00:09:23.660 --> 00:09:25.020 It stopped as soon as I let go. 00:09:25.020 --> 00:09:27.020 Oh, this thing is holding on the power. 00:09:27.020 --> 00:09:27.860 Oh, Colonel. 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:30.700 That's, that's Jake right there. 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:32.960 Why did you let go? 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:34.700 Look at my finger. 00:09:34.700 --> 00:09:35.540 Look at my finger. 00:09:35.540 --> 00:09:36.380 Give me a shot of it. 00:09:36.380 --> 00:09:37.220 I'm just gonna give it the old. 00:09:37.220 --> 00:09:38.490 Oh God. 00:09:38.490 --> 00:09:41.110 There we are. 00:09:41.110 --> 00:09:44.530 Literally repairing this graphics card with scotch tape. 00:09:44.670 --> 00:09:45.510 And the same artifacts. 00:09:45.510 --> 00:09:46.810 That's crappy. 00:09:46.810 --> 00:09:48.990 Wait, are you telling me that the tape is doing a better job 00:09:48.990 --> 00:09:51.110 than Riley ever could? 00:09:51.110 --> 00:09:52.470 My finger was burning. 00:09:52.470 --> 00:09:53.410 You let go of it. 00:09:53.410 --> 00:09:54.250 You could have like- 00:09:54.250 --> 00:09:55.610 What do you want me to do? 00:09:55.610 --> 00:09:56.450 Okay, it's working. 00:09:56.450 --> 00:09:57.970 Claiming at about eight FPS. 00:09:57.970 --> 00:10:00.490 Oh, I got, I assisted. 00:10:01.490 --> 00:10:02.550 Oh, okay. 00:10:02.550 --> 00:10:04.390 No artifacts. 00:10:04.390 --> 00:10:07.030 No artifacts, it's the best GPU. 00:10:08.210 --> 00:10:12.050 No artifacts to speak of. 00:10:12.050 --> 00:10:13.810 This is exactly what we need right now. 00:10:13.810 --> 00:10:16.110 You plug this in, it's a fan. 00:10:16.110 --> 00:10:18.130 Ostensibly, it just blows air right away. 00:10:18.130 --> 00:10:19.650 And the bonus part is- 00:10:19.650 --> 00:10:20.930 Right away. 00:10:20.930 --> 00:10:23.150 It can cool down your glued on capacitors 00:10:23.150 --> 00:10:24.510 and make your other stuff work. 00:10:24.510 --> 00:10:25.350 Was this planned? 00:10:25.350 --> 00:10:26.790 Value on value. 00:10:26.790 --> 00:10:27.610 Was this planned? 00:10:27.610 --> 00:10:28.950 No, that's just how handy these are. 00:10:28.950 --> 00:10:30.170 You need this in your life right now. 00:10:30.170 --> 00:10:31.430 Let me show you how this works. 00:10:31.430 --> 00:10:32.670 You know what's really good about them? 00:10:32.670 --> 00:10:34.910 I'm pretty sure the plastic is UV reactive. 00:10:34.910 --> 00:10:38.720 Jesus. 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:40.260 We really need it. 00:10:40.260 --> 00:10:42.460 This is how those infomercials always start. 00:10:45.610 --> 00:10:47.530 Look, the package says- 00:10:47.530 --> 00:10:48.370 Comes with headphones. 00:10:48.370 --> 00:10:49.610 Light it up. 00:10:50.400 --> 00:10:51.640 It's lit. 00:10:51.640 --> 00:10:52.480 What the heck? 00:10:53.860 --> 00:10:55.040 This doesn't even count. 00:10:55.040 --> 00:10:57.480 It doesn't even have anything. 00:10:57.480 --> 00:10:58.800 We might need to modify it. 00:10:58.800 --> 00:11:01.240 The slot, like, yeah, it slots in. 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:02.260 It's for PCI. 00:11:02.260 --> 00:11:03.900 This is super old. 00:11:03.900 --> 00:11:07.640 Oh, we can use it to cool my stuff. 00:11:07.640 --> 00:11:10.560 I think it came with Amazon Prime, actually. 00:11:10.560 --> 00:11:12.340 This was in stock, ready to go. 00:11:12.340 --> 00:11:14.320 I'm confused as to like, 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.620 why does it look like it's a children's toy 00:11:16.620 --> 00:11:18.180 from a dollar store? 00:11:18.180 --> 00:11:19.860 Because this used to be the style 00:11:19.860 --> 00:11:20.780 when it came to like, 00:11:20.780 --> 00:11:22.120 hardcore PC modding. 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:23.240 I'm not even joking. 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:27.060 Unlike some people, I only spent $20. 00:11:27.060 --> 00:11:29.020 But wait, there's more. 00:11:29.020 --> 00:11:31.400 Look at this little dial. 00:11:31.400 --> 00:11:35.290 You can go from low to high AF. 00:11:35.290 --> 00:11:40.360 It does fit in a PCIe slot, sort of. 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.640 So it's going to blow air at the front. 00:11:42.640 --> 00:11:44.280 What about the- 00:11:44.280 --> 00:11:47.340 Thank goodness for ROG shielding stuff. 00:11:47.340 --> 00:11:49.000 Okay, it's fine, I'll do it. 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:52.920 Okay. 00:11:52.920 --> 00:11:53.620 Um. Here we go. 00:11:53.620 --> 00:11:55.500 Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. 00:11:55.500 --> 00:11:56.780 I'll put it down on the low setting. 00:11:56.780 --> 00:11:58.040 Oh my God. 00:11:58.040 --> 00:12:00.440 And it turned off, but the lights are on. 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:03.420 Little lower, little lower, yep. 00:12:03.420 --> 00:12:04.940 Is it too much? 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:08.100 One fan works. 00:12:08.100 --> 00:12:09.360 Wait, really? 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.080 It might not be enough power. 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:14.020 No, it's plenty of power. 00:12:14.020 --> 00:12:16.580 Barely even blowing any air. 00:12:16.580 --> 00:12:18.020 Okay, so James is done. 00:12:18.020 --> 00:12:18.860 I still need to go. 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:21.880 But in the meantime, we have an update over in Alex land. 00:12:21.880 --> 00:12:23.880 We have a hard drive detected. 00:12:24.260 --> 00:12:26.330 Optical drive detected. 00:12:26.330 --> 00:12:34.650 And theoretically, we have a Windows XP boot CD. 00:12:34.650 --> 00:12:38.450 Have you ever seen an Ethernet card this small? 00:12:38.450 --> 00:12:39.950 Yeah, the one that I'd had. 00:12:39.950 --> 00:12:42.070 Yeah, but it's USB. 00:12:42.070 --> 00:12:43.190 Oh, an Ethernet card. 00:12:46.950 --> 00:12:49.410 This is how I intend to plug it in. 00:12:49.410 --> 00:12:54.180 Now, you'll have to give me a moment, gentlemen. 00:12:54.180 --> 00:12:57.370 Ahem. 00:12:57.370 --> 00:13:01.230 So first, I will be needing, ah, yes. 00:13:01.230 --> 00:13:06.230 The Vakind mini PCIe to PCIe converter wireless. 00:13:08.050 --> 00:13:09.700 This. 00:13:09.700 --> 00:13:11.160 Oh, I wait, that's not that interesting. 00:13:11.160 --> 00:13:12.000 All right. 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:13.640 I need an iFixit kit as well. 00:13:13.640 --> 00:13:16.880 I, I have my sincere doubts as to whether 00:13:16.880 --> 00:13:18.440 or not this is going to work. 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:22.720 At this point, we have gone from PCI Express 1X 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.460 to mini PCIe to PCMCIA. 00:13:27.690 --> 00:13:30.350 I just need this. 00:13:30.350 --> 00:13:31.810 Here. 00:13:31.810 --> 00:13:32.730 Here we go. 00:13:34.030 --> 00:13:37.110 So this goes in, this is PCMCIA. 00:13:37.110 --> 00:13:39.070 It was an old laptop expansion standard. 00:13:39.070 --> 00:13:41.100 Is it going this way? 00:13:41.100 --> 00:13:41.940 This way or this way? 00:13:41.940 --> 00:13:44.060 I don't actually know. 00:13:44.060 --> 00:13:45.080 That way. 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:46.140 Yep, okay. 00:13:46.140 --> 00:13:46.980 Cool. 00:13:46.980 --> 00:13:48.140 I like that spring action. 00:13:48.140 --> 00:13:52.530 To USB. 00:13:52.530 --> 00:13:54.140 Wait, what? 00:13:54.140 --> 00:13:55.820 Hold on, ladies and gentlemen. 00:13:55.820 --> 00:13:58.440 Is the USB port on the end of the PC and the CIA? 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.300 Okay, to- 00:14:00.300 --> 00:14:02.040 Riley, he might be able to get this farther away 00:14:02.040 --> 00:14:03.800 from his PC than even yours. 00:14:03.800 --> 00:14:08.050 Dual PCI Express 16X. 00:14:08.050 --> 00:14:11.750 Then we've got a PCI Express 4X interface 00:14:11.750 --> 00:14:13.930 at the bottom of this card here 00:14:13.930 --> 00:14:18.830 that we have adapted, using this card, to U.2. 00:14:18.830 --> 00:14:23.830 Then we've got a U.2 to M.2 board installed in that, 00:14:24.070 --> 00:14:28.870 which has an M.2 to U.2, the other end, 00:14:28.870 --> 00:14:31.530 like mini SAS HD, whatever this is called. 00:14:31.530 --> 00:14:35.970 Then we've got a mini SAS HD to U.2 over here, 00:14:35.970 --> 00:14:39.990 plugged into a board that does U.2 to PCI Express 4X, 00:14:39.990 --> 00:14:43.370 where finally we have installed a network card. 00:14:43.370 --> 00:14:45.570 Now, will this work? 00:14:45.570 --> 00:14:47.150 I have no idea. 00:14:47.150 --> 00:14:49.570 It doesn't smell like my ex graphics card. 00:14:49.570 --> 00:14:52.400 Something just burned. 00:14:52.400 --> 00:14:53.900 Oh. 00:14:53.900 --> 00:14:54.720 That smells. 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:56.990 Yep. 00:14:56.990 --> 00:14:59.050 Oh, what happened? 00:14:59.050 --> 00:15:00.630 I like that smell. 00:15:03.220 --> 00:15:05.400 Hold on a minute. 00:15:05.400 --> 00:15:08.100 No, I still have an entry. 00:15:09.160 --> 00:15:14.160 Because I did convert back to PCI Express at some point, 00:15:14.160 --> 00:15:18.120 I can cut out some parts of my chain here. 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:23.120 My submission is a PCI Express to U.2, to M.2, to U.2, 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:30.960 to U.2, to PCI Express 4X, to network adapter. 00:15:34.770 --> 00:15:35.810 Get out of my way. 00:15:35.810 --> 00:15:37.530 Whoa! 00:15:37.530 --> 00:15:38.810 The disrespect. 00:15:38.810 --> 00:15:41.150 Well, the slot that I wanted to plug into is broken 00:15:41.150 --> 00:15:42.650 because of my previous attempt. 00:15:42.650 --> 00:15:48.230 I wonder if my network card is dead. 00:15:48.230 --> 00:15:49.570 Okay, because even that didn't work. 00:15:49.570 --> 00:15:51.190 This should be pretty straightforward. 00:15:51.190 --> 00:15:53.190 This is just PCIe to... 00:15:53.190 --> 00:15:54.030 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:15:54.030 --> 00:15:58.170 Now, hold on just a gosh darn minute here. 00:15:58.170 --> 00:15:59.070 The whole time. 00:15:59.070 --> 00:16:00.790 Is it just a bad network card? 00:16:00.790 --> 00:16:04.230 Oh, because that's why it was going to set on fire, right? 00:16:04.230 --> 00:16:05.070 Okay, right? 00:16:05.070 --> 00:16:05.910 All right. 00:16:05.910 --> 00:16:07.850 It honestly feels the same on both sides. 00:16:07.850 --> 00:16:09.990 Okay, wait for it. 00:16:09.990 --> 00:16:10.830 I don't know. 00:16:10.830 --> 00:16:11.910 That's because the air is going in, though. 00:16:11.910 --> 00:16:13.910 This is it, ladies and gentlemen. 00:16:13.910 --> 00:16:14.190 My time. 00:16:14.190 --> 00:16:15.270 My time to shine. 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.140 It's my time in the sun. 00:16:19.140 --> 00:16:20.700 You know what this is like? 00:16:21.620 --> 00:16:22.600 Let me speak your language. 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:24.400 It's like in Fortnite, 00:16:24.400 --> 00:16:26.860 when you get shot and you're crawling around, 00:16:26.860 --> 00:16:27.980 but you're not dead yet, 00:16:27.980 --> 00:16:29.580 but there's no way you're going to win. 00:16:29.580 --> 00:16:32.200 Yeah. 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:33.830 That's these two. 00:16:33.830 --> 00:16:34.890 Just log out. 00:16:34.890 --> 00:16:35.730 Nope. 00:16:35.730 --> 00:16:36.690 Turn your computer off. 00:16:36.690 --> 00:16:39.070 I'm installing drivers as we speak. 00:16:39.070 --> 00:16:42.110 I am moments away from having this fully operational. 00:16:42.110 --> 00:16:43.710 Okay, okay. 00:16:43.710 --> 00:16:48.710 My entry is... 00:16:48.710 --> 00:16:50.870 This graphics card. 00:16:50.870 --> 00:16:51.710 What? 00:16:51.710 --> 00:16:53.910 I mean, network card. 00:16:53.910 --> 00:16:55.090 Isn't it adorable? 00:16:55.090 --> 00:16:56.210 Oh, that's cute. 00:16:56.210 --> 00:16:57.050 Yeah, wow. 00:16:57.050 --> 00:16:58.030 Yeah, wow. 00:16:58.030 --> 00:17:00.450 You didn't kill anything in putting that in. 00:17:00.450 --> 00:17:04.080 Yay, I've got a link. 00:17:04.080 --> 00:17:04.920 Can we get close up? 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.480 Meanwhile, over in Alex land, how are we doing? 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.260 So it seems like it is working. 00:17:10.260 --> 00:17:11.960 Here it is, I think. 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:12.800 Yeah. 00:17:14.620 --> 00:17:16.800 So now we just need a program to use it. 00:17:19.410 --> 00:17:21.210 You didn't even know what program? 00:17:21.210 --> 00:17:23.870 So we would need to install LabVIEW 00:17:23.870 --> 00:17:25.810 and then it should work just fine. 00:17:25.810 --> 00:17:27.990 How much is a LabVIEW license? 00:17:27.990 --> 00:17:28.830 I don't know. 00:17:28.830 --> 00:17:29.670 Okay. 00:17:29.670 --> 00:17:31.950 I think we just have to do the voting now. 00:17:31.950 --> 00:17:34.550 You have to vote for two people. 00:17:34.550 --> 00:17:37.870 And the competition is without any real guidelines, 00:17:37.870 --> 00:17:41.270 the weirdest PCI or PCIe device. 00:17:41.270 --> 00:17:42.450 The weirdest. 00:17:42.450 --> 00:17:45.690 Starting with the most disappointing thing of tonight, 00:17:45.690 --> 00:17:48.270 me and James with just one vote. 00:17:48.270 --> 00:17:49.270 Oh. 00:17:49.270 --> 00:17:50.450 And then you get Linus with two. 00:17:50.450 --> 00:17:51.290 With two. 00:17:51.290 --> 00:17:52.830 Hey, I'm on the podium, baby. 00:17:52.830 --> 00:17:53.670 With two. 00:17:53.670 --> 00:17:55.260 Yeah. 00:17:55.260 --> 00:17:56.400 And then it's Alex with four. 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:57.240 So we all suck. 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:58.060 Woo! 00:17:58.060 --> 00:17:58.880 Yeah. 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:00.740 So I'm happy to present you today. 00:18:00.740 --> 00:18:01.660 That's it? 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