oh no whoa
i am cursed today what is up fellow gamers
so far everything i know about the e blaster i learned from this single
picture on reddit and the fact that it comes with a gigantic hiking style
backpack but i'm excited because if this is the
future of portable gaming
bam then it looks pretty good to me
sort of okay this one's going to be complicated
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whether it's the illness fog or something else truthfully i'm a bit
confused right now because they sent me two graphics cards two power supplies
and really no instructions so why don't we begin by
opening up the e blazer
wait dear Linus congratulations
you've been chosen to do the e bladster test
put together an e-blaster without a manual
this is totally not because i haven't created an english manual yet
oh crap it's a backpack mountable
full freaking computer
what could go wrong
first thing i did was lay the thing down on the monitor
okay hold on i apparently get one small
tutorial how to put the legs on okay
this is an early prototype this is their their low volume production they have
apparently actually shipped some units to individuals so it's it's 3d printed
but they are apparently working on injection molded parts for here here
here here here here and here and i mean
as it is it works
by now it should be more clear what we're looking at here but we still don't
know why we are looking at here
according to the creator jonan bonsen he
had grown tired of the compromises of gaming laptops high prices poor thermals
and of course lower performance compared to gaming
desktops so why not have something that achieves all of that i mean if the
battery life is going to be negligible and you're going to need a giant bag to
cart the thing around anyway you might as well save a buck and get the
customizability that a desktop affords of course
the journey from that concept to here has been complicated and my journey from
this to a built computer is apparently going to be
very complicated i should probably give pluf a call maybe he can clarify why i
have two power supplies and two graphics cards to start with
okay truthfully i have done almost nothing so
far but the reason i called is that i wanted to get a better understanding of
the parts you sent me i don't see a CPU
but i have two graphics cards and two power supplies is this some kind of
special magic computer no no no
no no no there should be a CPU with the memory and the SSD
oh oh you're right i see it i see it yeah it's in there did you get it open
well you haven't uh you haven't addressed my two power supplies into
graphics cards oh sorry yeah so basically i was thinking of doing like
an average gamer build 750 watt and a 30-70 but it can technically fit a three
slot card up to 13 inches so there's a 30 80
ti and a thousand watt power supply in there if you wanted to go that route
wait yeah so you asked me have i gotten it open yet because you are expecting
that to be a challenge i suppose
uh maybe you know what i think you underestimate me i don't want your life
lying goodbye see ya
we got this whoa i started
taking off screws at the top and
okay uh this is neat we've got some io pass
through here network front audio so that's your headphone
microphone jack for two usb 2's two usb
3s where'd you plug in display
here's the back so it seems to be uh stamped aluminum
which is which is good because it's lightweight but don't expect it to be
the strongest thing in the world you know what i mean i actually don't see
any case fans so i guess it better perform
like an open air test bench because it sure won't perform like a case with
cooling fans oh oh oh oh
these are locks
oh okay well that one came up
oh okay these appear to be quad SSD mounts no shortage of storage
capacity in this thing this bracket here
seems to be designed to accommodate pretty much any ac to dc power brick
that you could require for what seems to be a 24 inch gaming
monitor shark gaming not a common brand here in north america so i don't know
anything about this particular model but i'd say that as long as you don't have a
super high profile brick yeah it should probably fit in here as for how you
would handle plugging into a monitor that does not require an ac to dc
adapter yes there does seem to be a way to do that you can either come down here
or it looks like this oh okay this piece can be
permanently popped out it's actually still held in place with these little
spot welds here so i don't want to mess with that right now
hey yeah i've got another question for you
okay what is it that made you think i wasn't gonna be able to handle this i
got this
i don't know it's uh there's no instructions and there's nothing it's a
bit of a prototype so there's no um arrows or anything did you open the back
i did i did it kind of fell
off okay so i i think i'm in good shape
but it is also quite possible that i will end up calling you
sure yeah it's yeah it's small form factor uh that was that's kind of the
main hard part though is finding those tabs so as long as you're able to get it
off then you should be okay for the most part i
always get it off okay right you know what though now that
we've got it open there's some really cool stuff in here that we should take a
closer look at first of all this has got to be the flattest displayport cable
that i have ever seen and if i had to guess i would say that this is
not meant to be a like desktop full-size
displayport cable this looks more like it's some kind of
ribbon cable used for displayport signaling in like
laptops or integrated devices but that they have just you could see
probably soldered a full-size displayport connection to
and then heat shrink wrapped themselves and this is another cool thing
apparently this this leg design is patented by them and i can see why they
would have done that it's actually super cool when you press the button
okay you can see the teeth loosen up so that's what allows the feet here to move
freely okay and as soon as you let go the teeth lock
the feet into place and they're not infinitely adjustable but from the
outside the adjustments are so fine that honestly i couldn't tell i had to open
it up and look at the spacing of the teeth to find out what exactly the
adjustment granularity was all right we're going full bore
1000 watt power supply for our motherboard we've gone with a
b660i gaming wi-fi from ASUS's rog strix
lineup why this because it has everything we need dual m.2s one
on the front with cooling one on the back with not as much cooling ample vrms for the
core i7 that we're going to be installing i say core i7 i meant core i5
12600k i guess they expected me to take the
more reasonable path for the build team couldn't decide what they wanted me to
build today something that makes sense or something that is absolutely balls to
the wall so we've got Corsair vengeance ddr5 400 mega transfer per second which
doesn't sound that impressive until you learn that it is a
cl36 kit which yes for those of you who have not been
paying close attention for ddr5 is is pretty darn tight for cooling we've gone
with the lga 1700 version of the Noctua l9i that's the thing about builds like
this is that while they can be big
you don't have a lot of depth to them right because you're trying to make them
packable you know what i bet that's why we went with the core i5 because those
higher end alder lake chips really do spit out a lot of heat
i assure you that was not the fault of the tool that was the operator you can still
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screwdriver is going to arrive there are different colors by the way so
you can see this motherboard slides exactly
in between these rails here there's no room to move
a word of advice for e-blaster you guys do not actually want to target
tolerances that tight for mass production
that will be a problem for you man this is gonna look
awesome the length for my Ethernet run is
perfect lands right in the two and a half gig port on my motherboard here you
can see that but what i would have thought they would have done is some
kind of lower profile boot here especially if they're you know diying their own cables
and stuff curiously we actually are not going to be relying on any of the rear i
o of the motherboard we're actually just going to use all of the front i o
headers man this is actually going to be a super easy build what were those guys
worried about they think covid addled my brain
can't build computers anymore i remember when i was the tech tip man while we're
connecting the modular cables to the power supply i am extremely pleased to
bring you guys finally the answer to
what this random extra connector hanging off the 24 pin
cable is silverstone emailed me when i expressed confusion about it
in december of 2020 and said
hey it's to allow the power supply to detect
voltage drop and ripple changes faster to improve voltage regulation and ripple
and noise performance you know i'm actually liking this thing
so far instead of screwing into the top of the
pci rear bracket here like we would normally do
the way they have it set up you actually screw in from the bottom
and it clamps it from the other side i actually also do not think that this
is the best card design for this particular chassis you can see that
that fan back there is going to be completely suffocating
well not quite completely but nearly completely i don't know if this card's a
very good idea this could be another spot where e blaster could benefit from
having some additional mesh because almost any GPU is going to be designed
to draw fresh air from the front of the card like this so you're going to have
that mesh cover here and anything that
you can even passively get rid of out
the back of a card or around the bottom of the card that's going to be a good
thing yeah it might heat up the back of your monitor a little bit but that's a
sacrifice i'm willing to make i'd rather a cool GPU and a hot monitor than the
other way around yeah this is a more traditional style card
what's funny about this one though is it's actually a taller than usual i
don't know if either of the gpus they sent me are compatible brandon
now you're cooking with GPU do we have any clearance issues no okay
it can accommodate high profile cards
it feels like a high quality riser it doesn't say anywhere on it that it's gen
4 but hopefully it is i moved their weird 3d printed pci slot
cover from the outer slot to the inner
one and the reason i did that was because i was hoping to actually still
get away with the 3080 ti and i'm hoping to do that by having
enough space behind the card see that that it can kind of
get rid of some of that hot air somehow hopefully maybe but without drawing all
of it into the CPU there's a little sandwich there
see that oop well now you can see it
oh oh crap man how am i making this worse
the thing is i'm not saying this is any less secure than a regular case in fact
i would say it's the opposite of that the fact that you've got all of the load
being born vertically like this
means probably pretty good the issue is that because the focus of this product
is portability and like this could be
thrown around in a backpack or something i would like to see something bracing
the back of the cart that's awesome
i mean considering how long this even take that this took like an hour to film
i'm sitting here talking to you guys instead of being focused on building and
i have no instructions now that i've had it fall apart on me i
think i have a much better understanding of how this is supposed to work this clip kind of like
holds it and then the top piece and the other one kind of
cover it or something wait you told me to post it before
closing it and i didn't do it this thing looks so awesome brandon did you even
get like a like a glamour shot of it
that looks amazing now it's all closed up it looks sick
you should just get get some like get some get some brandon's going on
you ready uh-oh
classic you close the panels before you
what is that yeah what are you doing why are you mad okay is it this four pin
never plugging in that stupid four pin connector again well did i plug it into
the wrong spot or something no
see that that's why i got confused silver stone
it's definitely heavier now you know to the credit
this hinge design i mean it's pretty good considering how heavy it is but
it's you know in an earthquake you definitely notice there's not much in
the way of postcodes on this board because it's itx but it looks like it's
a vga code and it didn't take me long to figure out
that i did make a small boo-boo
i never actually plugged in the PCIe riser
that'll come i'm closing it up the system has posted in safe mode it might
be because you are an idiot all right i don't
really like this straight up thing that we got going on here but i can fix that
okay it's definitely
they make these adjustments look very easy in the video maybe it's just a
matter of like not being jacked enough but that is not that easy
i do wish this was a little more attractive if i have to see it above my
it kind of makes it feel like the monitor has gigantic like made for
children style bezels like uh
like i expect to see a huge vtec logo here you know
you know technically nothing would prevent you from putting a bigger monitor on it
yeah it's just vasa but
good luck fitting it into the backpack when you're done
oh we're going we're coming back to the backpack don't you worry
shark gaming um my first impression of you is not favorable this looks like a
tn panel thankfully it's 240 hertz but i was right this is in fact a tn panel
so trying to run a torture test here
oh wow CPU package 100
um i can definitely feel
an aura of warmth around it that poor CPU cooler is not getting fresh air but
honestly i feel like that might be a bit of a configuration error on our part
because we could have easily put a higher profile cooler on here and then i
don't think it would be an issue at all it would do two things it would a be a
bigger heat sink and b allow the fan on the top to draw fresh
air in from outside the case rather than taking that recirculated air from our
rtx 3080 founders that's blowing a lot of hot air around inside the case did i
remember to put thermal compound on brandon did you ever actually see me put
it on the CPU oh my god do i have to pull the whole
thing
oh no it's definitely not my finest tech tips
moment you know what i got thermal compound all over myself and i was getting it all
over things and i was like kind of annoyed
so i think i got a little distracted at the time let's find out
oh i did put thermal compound on oh there you go that's good
well why is that at 100 freaking degrees then i even got a pretty good spread like
that's fine and now my install is corrupt
i don't know does this case work yeah yes it holds
hardware should we have put a slightly bigger cooler on it
yes would i recommend using a founders card
probably not i would i would probably lean towards a different style of card
but but none of that means that this concept doesn't work and that your
Windows will break what i want to know next is how's the transportation like in the
backpack let's let it attempt its repairs but otherwise i think we're just gonna
move on hardware info is gone brandon
i had hardware from desktop it's got prime95 was the last thing i installed i
installed for market hardware info before i installed prime95
prime95 is gone the actual executable is gone
is this part of the repair process microsoft you just remove all the last i
mean it's kind of smart actually yeah i'm at 55 degrees at idle right now the
GPU's not even doing anything we can't even blame the GPU spitting hot air all
over the place we're pretty much reaching equilibrium here so our rtx 3080 ti
is performing exactly as we'd expect and in spite of all that heat being
thrown around our CPU temps actually haven't changed
we're still sitting at around anywhere from 50 to actually yeah they're all
sitting around 50 degrees on all the p-cores wow i
haven't looked at this game on a tn monitor in a while
it's not better
let's just put it in the backpack none of it has anything to do with the case i
will give you my personal Linus tech tips guarantee
now another thing that e blaster
wanted to make clear is that
this is not the final form for their backpack and i should certainly hope not
it's really not anything special and the zipper's broken also speaking of zippers
there's an exposed zipper both here and here meaning that there will always
be a zipper up against your panel which is not something that i would recommend
is this really portable is this a competitor for a gaming laptop
for someone who you know lands a lot or whatever else right now
my gut feeling is i don't know guys but
let's put it on the back let's cinch up the waist straps
and we'll see if my feelings change like i said this zipper is broken so i
can't actually do it up this is
this feels a little sketchy for a very specific customer yeah i
could see a total because it's not just the case right
like that's the thing you got to remember i could see a total all-in-one gaming
machine actually making a ton of sense compared
to other gaming aios because you can build it yourself it's price competitive
and infinitely customizable but
i don't think this one is designed
for me i just am not the target market
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i can't the point is i get where they're going
with this but for the number of times that i actually have to
carry a full gaming rig i'd rather have an sff
and a portable monitor or something like that then
fully commit to this form factor and if i traveled a ton
well then i would probably spend the extra
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