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hey there well been a little while I came all the way to France to check out

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ovh Cloud not actually for Floatplane Reasons I'm here because Shadow is

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sponsoring this video so that we can check out their power upgrade servers

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they're super powerful they're super cool they have eight gpus all this fun

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stuff we're gonna build one we're gonna see how they build 80 000 computers a

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year and then we're gonna go to their Data Center and see how it's all implemented powered cooled everything

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it's going to be awesome there's a lot to see come along with me

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you may have heard of Shadow before but just in case you haven't they're a super

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easy to access high performance personal computer in the cloud what does that

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mean for you it means that you can extend the lifespan of your various

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devices if you have some junky old laptop or desktop or whatever you can

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move the heavy compute that you might need to do in your day-to-day to the

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cloud and Shadow can handle it Shadow can also be used in a business

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environment such as deploying multiple Shadow PCS for those working remote or

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configuring Shadow PCS with up to an RTX 6000 GPU for high workloads it's not

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just performance tasks either in regards to like standard old school research

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stuff you can play games too you can do the fun things on your dad's old Smart

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TV or your phone or your VR device or your Raspberry Pi or whatever the heck

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you want you can run 1080p games at 240

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FPS and 4K games at 60fps let's go see

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how it's done every server for ovh's European market and Asian Pacific Market

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is made here Shadow or not and every

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single component for ovh worldwide is made here as well including ovh's

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version of an all-in-one water cooler which can apparently cool an entire row

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of racks of servers I don't know the exact capacity but it's safe to say it's

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solar this facility processes through several hundred million dollars worth of

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small components every year including this huge pile of trays and trays and

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trays of RAM they also have gpus CPUs

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and lots of copper piping because ovh uses water cooling in all of their

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facilities from here it goes into the rest of the facility where they build

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everything test everything do r d etc etc once it's done it comes back here

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actually just across the way where we

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can see all these cool signs where they line everything up it goes onto trucks

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and in this case gets sent to the main data center that we use at flowplane now

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we get to the fun stuff this is the area where they're actually building the

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power upgrade servers and the first part of that is to strip all of the standard

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stock cooling components off of these Quadro gpus from NVIDIA in the future

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they're going to support Radeon as well right now we're just dealing with NVIDIA as we move down the line we can see that

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they start putting them into sandwiches where they're putting these custom made

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heat sinks and heat pipes and everything onto the gpus and then sandwiching them

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together with a dual Riser it's actually like super cool I uh I don't know if

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they would have let me do this if I was Linus because he'd drop it but you know I won't do that they're able to keep

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these at a reasonable temperature I washed it under load 100 load both of

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these sitting at around 45 Celsius which was pretty intense speaking of 100 load

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this station is where they test them so once they've made two of these GPU

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sandwiches I'm going to call them they rack them up here they have a power

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supply and everything they need to test there's a motherboard sitting on the

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lower part of this server they test here this is where they control I'm not going

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to press any buttons because this is where they control being able to turn on

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the water and make sure everything is cooling properly up here they they load

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over the network a Linux system they put a load on it they test it make sure

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everything's good if it's good we move on further down the line so ovh and

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Shadow are always chasing efficiencies it makes sense at the scale because if

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you could save a small amount of material on something it's going to

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become a lot over all of the systems that you're building and they design

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their own water blocks for all of their systems the ones we saw earlier the big

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chunky ones was an earlier version they have a very new one that looks a little

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bit like this you'd be surprised that this setup can cool a Quadro but it

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totally can they've done a bunch of research I'm going to try to install this right now and not completely fail

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we'll see how that goes you have to kind of slide it in like that you've engaged

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the cooling at this point and then these little arms here

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have to touch some chipsets on the board

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there we go it's a little slippery but once they mount it it's now ready to be

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kind of sandwiched together the first thing that you need to do is screw these

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standoffs onto the very long bolts and then once that's done which they have

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kind of cool screwdrivers for they don't have one right here so I can't show you

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lttstore.com you can get a cool screwdriver too but once that's done

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once the standoffs are planted just put another GPU on top and do the same thing

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once you get the heatsink in place you're ready to prep it for adding

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another GPU first off you need to add this support so it gets tucked under one

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of the heat pipes here and then I'm not going to do it because it's going to take a bunch of time actually no I'm

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doing it fast let's go nice okay then

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you feed the bolts through put these risers on each one of the posts and then

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you can add another GPU on top of that so they're not touching there's no metal

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on metal and then ovh's own marked PCB

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custom Riser gets plugged into both gpus

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at the same time and your GPU sandwich is ready to go

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these are the tested good gpus which they are then going to put onto actual

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servers that are theoretically going to go into actual production after the gpus

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are mounted we then have to mount the motherboard the RAM the CPU all that

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stuff you're used to seeing and all of the plugins for the Riser cables because

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I mean well there's eight of them one for every GPU after that we're pretty

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much good to go for this stage there's a little bit more testing that has to be done a few other behind the scenes

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things but it gets held here because as

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far as building the computer is concerned other than a little bit more chassis it's essentially done my

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favorite last bit that I have to point out is these pipes up here water

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distribution things they call them clarinets I just had to include that

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what's inside has been proved good for at least a day it is then sent to an ovh

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data center like this one upon arrival they do re-testing again all of the same

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previous phases that they did in the previous location all of it is done

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again just to make sure that nothing went wrong in transport then once

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they're done and everything is ready it's installed here and is able to be

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used by users like you for whatever high performance applications they might need

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other than obviously the one we're selling right now I don't want to be

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ready in a few minutes all of the servers at every single ovh data center

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is water cooled and that takes some serious infrastructure to be able to

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accomplish along with a bunch of r d some of that infrastructure has actually

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been right in front of us this whole time it's this gigantic metal plate

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below that huge metal plate is a massive

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Reservoir this Reservoir was actually built by a separate company of a

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bottling company that owned this building before ovh but they've reused

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that infrastructure to use it as a backup Reservoir just in case they need

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it below each one of these these hatches is just a massive amount of water and

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that water is constantly being pH tested and there's even these really Advanced

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looking pool skimmers moving around on top of it that are just making sure that

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none of the loops are going to Gunk up because that would be a really really

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big problem speaking of big problems moving all this water around is quite a

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difficult task and you'll find these pumps all throughout the facility you'll

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always find them in pairs the reason for that is because they'll run one at a

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time they switch every work day that's to make sure that each one has a very

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similar amount of worked hours and by using them all the time they're actually

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quite sure that they work which is good all of these Advanced systems

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synchronize together including a few things that I can't really show you or

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talk about on camera result in quite a dramatic difference this pipe for

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instance is the water coming into the building when I touch it it's actually

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quite cold this pipe is the water going out of the

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building and when I touch it oh hey it's around room temperature the difference

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they say on average is about 15 to 20 degrees and you can see quite quickly

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why this would actually be worth doing instead of running air conditioning for

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this entire gigantic building to make

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sure that all of this keeps running smoothly they have the monitoring room I

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I like to see it as a control center I think they could probably launch a

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satellite from here but we'll see time will tell over on the right side they

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have their fuel monitoring to make sure that their generators which are their

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like third backup for power that they very rarely ever would need to use

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actually still have fuel make sure they're going to run in the case that

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they do actually need it moving forward we have their incidence dashboard or

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notifications everything's green because everything's going well right now these

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red on the far right hand side are actually just information that they're

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receiving from different parts of the data center not not anything that really needs to be addressed right now moving

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up here they have their server monitoring the whoa haha one is

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potentially down or might potentially have an issue that's actually kind of

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cool that we saw that happen live uh so that will now be seen by the team and be

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able to be addressed uh and the green zeros on the other two mean that there's

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no problems in those zones other parts of the screen like in the middle here

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that's checking if different benchmarks have failed so maybe a system needs to

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be worked on down here it's things that need to be repaired or upgraded Etc

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they're always tracking everything so that things can be handled very quickly

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I actually saw people run around in the room behind the camera to address that

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as it happened which is super cool you want that type of stuff in a data center

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because things are going to go wrong so being able to address them quickly is is

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is key speaking of address them quickly they also monitor the weather just in

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case something happens if there's a storm if there's a heat wave in the case

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of a storm they might want to go around and just make sure that everything's okay as the storm's going on after the

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storm passes make sure everything is all hunky-dory they haven't necessarily had

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a problem but it's good to know coming outside it's

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more of the same but even bigger they have some massive reservoirs back there

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that I can't show you they also have some really cool heat exchangers just

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off camera in this direction that I can't show you but what I will say is

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standing amongst those outside in the cold is actually warmer than standing in

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the data center inside so clearly they're working pretty well in the

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background if you haven't noticed there's some big power lines power lines that would power you know like a city

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but the 220 000 volts that they're delivering to the ovh building is just

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for ovh that's their main intake just in case there's something wrong with that

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across the building on the other side underground they have more additional

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power lines bringing in 20 000 volts and if all of that isn't working they have

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some huge generators each one gives one megawatt of power when it's running and

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can run for up to 14 hours but again they they very rarely ever have to use

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those that's it for the tour of ovh and

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seeing how they build the servers and all that kind of stuff now I'm back in

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Canada at the studio and I have to show Linus how this kind of all comes

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together so I have a Raspberry Pi system with Shadow installed an iOS device with

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Shadow installed and a non-gaming laptop an LG gram with Shadow installed on the

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shadow Windows system we installed some various games and we're gonna have him

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check them out I get that you want to show that it's a thin client we're using

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the raspberry pi did you have to use the raspie mouse yes Shadow does not claim

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to improve your peripherals at all so this is this is what it came with

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also we had some issues getting the Raspberry Pi to work with a better

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monitor than this no I'm fine but not scepter is King tier yeah it's right in

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the name all right let's go

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sick really no one no one drove you what are

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you guys idiots so playing Halo which is notoriously a little bit rough to run

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and playing it on a Raspberry Pi it was pretty cool and the fact that he's more

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focused on the game than anything else means yeah I think it's working pretty yeah I got a kill already

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never mind focused on the game I think you mean winning the game oh Shadow's

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always running on another already running on another device there we found out what happens if you try to connect a

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second device that was pretty simple it prompts you and you press a button and

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okay here we go hold on a second is this

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gonna work no way

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where's my uh

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okay I mean to be clear this is uh not an ideal controller setup

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but you totally could that's sweet

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oh yeah uh these on-screen joystick as someone who doesn't mobile game oh right

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come on come on come on oh I almost like popped him

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come on I got him

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ah first fight too he never died

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pretty good point to end it on could you see

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yeah thanks for watching I don't know what

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else to watch after this they'll put something on screen watch the old Shadow

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one or something I don't know yeah it sounds good let us know what you think in the comments down below and

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yeah see ya