holy crap this might actually be a two-man lift hey I add holy crap this is
really here it is ho full marks for
presentation ladies and gentlemen what am I looking at three power adapters
there we go just need leverage this is
already a super weird computer this is not how you're supposed to open it we're
opening it backwards but the computer is backwards
look the mounting years for the server
rack apparently this is rackmount are where the front the back i/o comes out
of the front of the computer what am I even looking at so here's the handles
here's your power button your reset button whatever these plates are for
whatever this display does and your i/o plate is all at the front of the
computer so what's at the back of the computer oh we got we've got water
cooling for days here ladies and gentlemen oh this is the Camino RM and
it shouldn't surprise me that much that
the internal layout of this thing is unlike any server I've ever seen before
because these are the same crazy folks
that brought us yes that thing that
super super tiny liquid cooled small
form-factor gaming rig inside this box
is apparently a Threadripper processor
420 ATT eyes and presumably enough power
and cooling to take care of all of that and I don't know if you guys have the
context for this or not but here's a Linus hand for scale this is a really
compact little server wait what where are the graphics cards at why are
there three power supplies what am I even looking at here
crap Andy I need alan keyes and allen
key ladies and gentlemen courtesy of Andy the Andy man can this
machine is nucking futs well let's walk
through what we're looking at here starting at the back we've got a triple
120 millimeter radiator with a quite
dense fin stack so this is optimized for high airflow fans we don't have any fans
directly mounted to it instead we've got
three Noctua industrial PPC fans so
these are 3000 RPM monsters that have
this kind of redirection piece here so
that it directs it up and through the radiator which also has a little bit of
kind of soft tape here that's presumably to help seal up the back of the chassis
as for the components inside rather than
take a traditional server approach and go with a single but redundant high
power power supply like a 1600 watt power supply or something like that
Kamino has opted to go with three sfx
750 watt more like small form factor
desktop power supplies with their own
label so they've presumably got like an OEM manufacturer or ODM manufacturer
building these for them next up we've got our motherboard so this is a Zenith
to extreme alpha or whatever it's called this is the top-of-the-line thread
Ripper board better for CPU I believe it's a 32 core model but that's sort of
irrelevant because the focus when building a machine like this was on GPU
and where are they where are the graphics cards Andy ah they are this
Andy guy he doesn't miss a trick ladies and gentlemen so here on the front of
the board we've got three of caminos
supercool PCI Express risers so these
are PCIe 16x right here and then they've
actually got two each I'm handling eight of the lanes two of
these thin PCI Express extension cables
now normally when you build a small form-factor machine the PCI Express
riser is like it's it's thick it's like a ribbon style cable but these
apparently have good enough signal integrity to handle these links over a
rounded / sleeved connector here
thirty-two hundred megahertz these are 32 gig sticks so that's 256 gigs around
this puppy is maxed out so heavy oh okay
ow right here's our water cooling
reservoir they've got a really nice handy dandy little cutout I haven't
looked at the water cooling much here so our CPU block which also handles cooling
the V RMS here goes down to what seems to be some kind of a manifold there
splitter our radiator goes down under
the motherboard tray and then our reservoir is over here with a nice handy
dandy little cutout CPU block seems to be a custom design that cools both the
CPU and the power delivery on the motherboard let's go find some graphics
cards here solely listing oh it's warming me up ltte store calm sighs why
would the manufacturer of a system like this have the graphics card IO at the
front of the case where people would be pretty unsafe to plug in a graphics card
and especially why would they put the
plugs buying these like little cover
plates that's a weird thing to do right oh my god that is so cool I haven't seen
this in so long so way back like 10
years ago NVIDIA did a dual GPU graphics card
where it actually had two PCBs so one on
the slot side and then one over on where
would normally be your intake fan and then they had a cutout in the PCB for
the fan to draw air in from both sides and then blow it down the back of the
card now when manufacturers went to water cool this thing they had no choice
because the to PCBs had the components mounted facing each other in
they had no choice but to create a block that sat in between them and had the
water channel go in and out and had cold plates like copper plates on both sides
that is what Camino has done here to
create this incredibly slim design that
actually has to RTX 28 ET is in about
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wow that's actually not bad in terms of accessibility there they are I found you
I got you inlet/outlet that goes to this
right here onto the CPU out to this side
of this okay and then it must also go into the GPUs into this side of this
where it goes comes back to oh yeah okay so the CPU is
getting about half of the flow coming out of the pump and the GPUs are sharing
about half of the flow now I don't actually expect that to be a terrible
problem because GPUs while they do actually consume a lot of power and
therefore output a lot of heat they're really really large and it's a little
bit easier to draw the heat off of them one of the reasons they run so hot is
that they have these tiny slim coolers on them with these really inefficient
fan designs because they have to go in PCI Express slots instead of being able
to have a big thing plunked on them like a CPU does one thing I can't really wrap
my head around right now is how they actually put this whole assembly in or
take it out but we can leave that for another day we're gonna do a full Linus
tech tips video on how this machine performs
towards true purpose which ah as I
alluded to before doesn't require the
GPS to even have their plugs accessible because apparently it's intended as like
a network accessible rendering server it's a little curious to me that they
didn't bother to at least allow you to install any expansion slots not a big
deal because this is one of those high-end desktop boards that happens to
have ten gigabit Ethernet which is good enough for putting a rendering load on
to it and then taking the results back so then your bottlenecks are gonna be
elsewhere in the system you know like these guys really impressed me with that
small form-factor machine but I do have my doubts just three one forty millimeter fans
cooling 420 ATT eyes and a Threadripper
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