I remember seeing the press releases for this thing and thinking whoa that seems
so cool but also who in their right mind would ever buy it I guess now we've got
the answer because an LTT viewer from Milwaukee put the Galaxy GTX 460 whdi in
the mail for us and after 10 years I
finally get to be hands on with to my knowledge the only Wireless GPU that has
ever existed what makes it a wireless GPU I'm so glad you asked on the back of
the GPU aside from your DVI and DisplayPort you will find five antennas
which supposedly allow this graphics card to send an uncompressed low latency
1080p image to supported devices what
supported devices I don't know how does it work I guess we're gonna find out and
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classic LTT style starting with an overview of the Box what's included oh
good driver installation disk whoa it
includes the whdi receiver so theoretically we could actually use this
on any Modern Display antennas power cable and this is it right this is the
whole sales pitch free your HD content
from your PC and display it on your HD TV up to 100 feet away through walls
with uncompressed less than one millisecond quality
hahaha on some alcohol handy what what did they
change their mind about here using HDMI something and whdi you can now stream
your movies music and pictures to the big screen in glorious 1080p HD with
support for HD audio have you ever wanted to play the latest DirectX games
okay so it has one sales pitch reiterated three times
use this thing with a TV that is far away completely wirelessly what and what
HDMI 11 4A oh HDMI 1.4 a so it was
probably 1.4 b or something and they
interesting there were a number of things that raised questions about this
product at the time of its release first of all Galaxy which has since been
renamed Galax is a sub brand of palette
who also owns a number of other brands gain word Daytona vivku you want an
expert Vision none of which have ever really had a strong North American
presence other than maybe game word but
gameward was a long time in the rear view mirror by the time Galaxy was
trying to make inroads second of all was the price it was released in January of
2011 and was sold for a price of 499
dollars which for a 60 class NVIDIA card
might not raise a lot of eyebrows today but to put it in context at the time was
a whopping 315 dollars more than the version that
didn't have wireless display so it was kind of in a no man's land where it was
priced like a premium top-tier gaming GPU but then positioned as a replacement
for a media center GPU which would have
cost you half as much as even a 460 which was considered overkill for that
at the time this is an accessory package the likes
of which I have rarely if ever seen for a GPU what are we looking at here
first you've got one of the fancy danciest HDMI cables that I think I've
ever seen included with anything we've got a USB a to USB mini B wow these are
impact hell am I looking at
a female usb-8 a mini b and a male USB a
to mini B izarre
DVI to VGA adapter that's pretty standard fare I can't believe the
condition this thing is in it's open box but as far as I can tell this stuff has
never been touched here's a power adapter for the receiver dock oh yeah I
know ghost spell power very reputable oh
yeah yeah very famous Famous Brand
uh user manual what do they have to say for themselves oh my God yeah that's uh
definitely dating itself a little bit fun fact by the way even though this GPU
family the 400 series is no longer getting active driver support we were
able to find a driver that supports Windows 10 and is only from about four
years ago so we should be able to play most modern games on it assuming there's
enough performance whoa
this thing has like weights in it to keep it from moving
I guess it's a weighted base station for ah here we go you know what I'm gonna
leave the peels on I'm Gonna Leave the peels on out of respect for the uh
viewer who lent us this I don't maybe they like their peels they're an Andy
type character so this is the whdi
receiver Hub which is not to be confused with why die which eventually became a
Modern Standard that we can still make use of today and is built into many TVs
it was built into some media devices
including TVs but as far as we can tell it never really evolved and amounted to
anything the website is still up but as of filming this video it has a picture
of a PlayStation 3 on the home page meaning that it doesn't look like
there's much in the way of active development we also have seen this type
of Technology continue to get support so for example we did a video recently on a
wireless HDMI solution that can simply be added to any product rather than
being baked in which is in retrospect the direction in the industry was
obviously going to go rather than forcing consumers to buy a completely
new wireless video card every time they wanted to upgrade at a significant
premium there's our receiver dongle which needs to plug into the wall
and I don't know what this USB port is
for but presumably something are you getting all this Brandon maybe just get
a shot of it like that user's manual
mini HDMI okay NVIDIA control panel SLI
oh my God yeah SLI was supported on 60
class cards it wouldn't surprise me to see an SLI connector on this thing
I can't even imagine I wonder if the mismatch BIOS would be a
problem if you tried to SLI it with a non-wireless one
holy crap this thing is glorious
wait is this rusting or is this no no it
can't be rust no no no no it's residue it's residue if you want to talk to
Galaxy which doesn't exist anymore then you can call that number hold on this
has got it yeah this has got to be anodized aluminum there's no way
yeah yeah it comes off it comes off Jake it's not a rusty boy
pretty cheap for a 500 GPU oh my
goodness okay what are we looking at here pretty basic board layout oh in
terms of specs so what was a 460 one gig
of vram a mere 336 shaders it used the
same Fermi architecture as the much maligned GTX 480 although the 460 was
actually a pretty sensible card it didn't have the same power consumption
problems it's got support for DisplayPort I believe this is 1.1 I want
to say HDMI 1.4 a although you'll notice
that the HDMI port is conspicuously absent and of course DVI that's because
the only HDMI-ish port on this thing is these
five antennas why does it need five
antennas you might ask ah because 60 gigahertz wireless didn't
exist yet these days 1080p 60 wirelessly no problem I mean
we've got Wireless VR headsets that are doing far higher than that with
incredibly low latency and indistinguishable visual quality
but these are all five gigahertz so in
order to reach the three gigabit per second of advertised throughput it
needed five five gigahertz streams at 40
megahertz each at least that's our understanding of it as you guys can
probably imagine there's not a whole lot of people at Galaxy that we can talk to
about this technology
man I freaking love it an advantage of five gigahertz is that unlike the 60
gigahertz that we use for wireless HDMI today theoretically at least if they're
advertising is anything to go by we should be able to punch through walls
with it and that's thanks at least partially to the quality of service
features that are included with the product that allow it to analyze the
streams of data figure out which elements are most important and ensure
that those ones get through how it's doing this with one millisecond latency
I have absolutely no idea and honestly I kind of just plain don't believe it
but that's what this is for we're gonna
install it we actually don't know if it works yet oh my gosh this is
flipping wild now theoretically we
shouldn't really need to configure anything about the wireless stream it
should just work and it features encryption so again theoretically no one
should be able to Snoop on your video stream because I don't know what kind of
videos you're watching in your in your full HD TV but maybe you don't want
people knowing about it that's all I'm saying it's also hdcp 2.0 complaints
shut up it's hdcp compliant too I mean
that's pretty cool because you got to remember too that this is a product of
its time right at the time Optical HDMI
cables were not really a thing so
transmitting HDMI over long distances particularly to a projector or something
like that was very difficult it's the sort of thing I never would have spent
money on like even if I had it at the time I don't think because you know
you're buying into a dead upgrade path but it's definitely cool imagine having
this hanging off the back of your computer probably wouldn't use that HDMI
cable yeah I'm using the HDMI cable no I want it this is a wireless HDMI
cable okay it's quality it's gonna work
you just wait man this is one of those like I feel like uh I feel like a young
Tech Enthusiast again you know it takes me back to 10 years ago when this stuff
came out and I was like well that's so cool but I'll never get a chance to look
at it or touch it so I'm I'm making up for those lost opportunities now this is
this powered on or what it looks like an IR receiver does this thing have a
remote again this wasn't the only product to use this technology it is
possible that it had some kind of intercompatibility with other devices
for example at Best Buy at the time you could get a whdi hub for about 300 bucks
so actually not that much less than the
cost of you know buying this fully integrated device that comes with
everything you need is there a power light on there there no there isn't a
power light there's a network light and a video light is this
yeah let's just let's just turn it on and see what happens huh
okay what are the odds this just works painlessly and that's why this
technology was so successful in the long run whoa shut up
shut up no way
shut up I have two lights on the back of the GPU I have two lights on this thing
oh my god did this just oh my God work
no way
that is freaking crazy
never been turned on before
immediately works
no no that's probably just the drivers grabbing it we set up this Windows
install with a 480 because it was something that we already had on hand
and it would use the same family of drivers so it's probably just sort of
picking that up oh no okay device manager come on buddy you know what come
feel this Jake Jake come here oh my God look at it it's jittering okay but hold
on hold on the latency whoa would you know it's wireless oh my
God no no don't do that don't do that just move the mouse smooth Mouse
it's not bad would you know it's wireless no I just think it's like I
would just think the cable is shoddy which may be true I mean it was folded
for 10 years in half oh we're totally gonna have to game on
this right oh yeah oh yeah we got a game on this we might have to play some older
games you know yeah but we might need to see a source
never mind CS go Jake wait what this girl could run 2010 didn't it come out
like 2012. hey okay wait the frequency
hurts whoa there's like an overlay and stuff oh interesting
believe this [ __ ] worked out of the box that is wild
okay you're seeing the real deal here guys this is the only way literally the
only way that we could capture what's going on here that BenQ monitor is a
super unique item it has almost every input Under the Sun and most importantly
it has an output it has HDMI pass-through kind of like some capture
cards now normally we could use HDMI pass through on a capture card to
capture what we're doing while also outputting it but because we want to
show you guys any degradation of quality
or jitteriness that's coming from the
wireless connection we actually need to capture what comes through the monitor
rather than output what comes through a capture card so our capture PC here is
coming whoo out of the monitor
yeah that's it it's coming out of the monitor nothing else has gone right
today but everything here is just immediately working I'm so happy is it
60 or 30. I mean I'll record it 60. yeah
it's 1080 60.
uh it's not interlacing I think it's
just like blocking and compression artifacts on your side yeah
yeah interesting I wonder if they're faking the 1080pness of it because
looking at this guys um whatever they're saying about there
not being any compression is clearly a
lie watch how far this is across the screen versus how far this is across the
screen see the window deforming as I move it
back and forth I have seen an effect like this on cheap
tablet screens I've seen an effect like
this on LCDs in very cold weather so
where the where the switching speed of the pixels is affected by the actual
almost freezingness like the the gel like state of the liquid crystals
um I've never seen it on a wired connection but then again I still
haven't because this is clearly Wireless we haven't seen it yet but apparently a
feature of this quality of service feature that it has is that some aspects
of the image can be lost altogether or not update altogether if they are deemed
to be less important apparently nothing we were doing was considered important
in that case hey there it is it is 1080i you're right there must be
de-entralizing on the receiving box yeah so they're actually completely faking
the 1080p aspect of it now hold on just
a gosh darn minute here in glorious 1080p I guess they don't
technically say that the source is 1080p
so as long as your device supports upscaling 1080i to 1080p then you will
be experiencing it in maybe not glorious 1080p but 1080p nonetheless and not
fooling around on the desktop though let's play a video game
how pissed off would you have been if you were advertised glorious 1080P and
you got this jittery mess for five hundred dollars but as angry as I am the
flip side is that there was absolutely nothing else even close to this
and once I'm in content um
not gonna lie guys it's not nearly as noticeable okay this
is totally playable especially in a game that has like you know Ambiance you know
like got film grain or or fog effects or
anything like that okay hold on I want to look at it head
on here there's a little bit of Jitter
you can see it see how he's kind of
bouncing up and down a little bit everyone just calls me coach but when
you're playing like really playing in the zone it's not the kind of thing that
you'd be likely to notice with that said one of the use cases that they advertise
for it is multimedia like watching HD
movies in a movie this would drive me absolutely bonkers
not cool not cool Galaxy
yeah let's try okay yeah let's try something a little more demanding I
think we figured out the weird USB cables it seems like you can also
wirelessly transmit USB all you've got to do is inject usb2 there we go into
the back of the GPU then you get a female USB hanging off
the back of this guy huh and theoretically I think it'll just
work huh probably not okay I have no idea where
we would find drivers for something like that at this point honestly it's bad
enough close up like this that I really don't think we even need to see it not
gonna lie in a game like this where every little bit counts this is not this
is not cutting it not cutting it even a little the really
good latency experience we were having before I think was due to the uh
relatively low complexity of the image oh it looks awful now yeah I don't even
think we need to I don't think there's anything else
sure give it a shot I wonder if I look up you should watch a
video it's gonna look bad
but this feels bad man oh we're in a
real match so you'll have to wait maybe you're just bad man no it feels
bad I hope oh God see what I mean lean back you're blocking my signal
oh my God God whoa does it affect it that much no no
no I might have just been a random Spike you're not sniping everybody else is
oh God no no not even a little
Xbox controller oh no I can't believe console people deal with
it I know I mean they don't deal with this anymore
not by a long shot let's try some video
oh my God look at the move oh God
yeah the fact that they advertised this as
uncompressed if anyone had ever actually bought it
there would have been lawsuits this looks fine
yeah you can't tell on camera that much actually it seems oh we got screen caps
hopefully it wasn't so bad the second time the first time I looked at it and all the crabs were moving so I just like
walking oh yeah that's awful oh look at
the legs that's that quality of service right
there oh yeah he needs legs anyway right
over
oh there's just stuff just missing sometimes though
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