By now, everyone knows that you can impulse buy some pretty weird stuff off of Aliexpress and we
are certainly not immune to that. Which is why your task, my fellow writers,
is to choose one of the two cards that I am going to give you and you are going to sell the group
on why that card is the best one. I'm pretty sure they actually haven't seen any of these before,
which is why I'm going to give them 10 minutes to do their research. And they got to do their best because they can win this awesome mystery prize.
Oh man, I'm left with these two? What even is this?
Hey, did any of you guys get a segway to do our sponsor?
You got 10 minutes, starting now. Windows XP, what year did we buy this?
What the? I've got two cards. I'm going with this guy.
Okay, what do I even have here? This says it has a low profile bracket. That is not
a low profile bracket, so I already got scammed. Yippee.
If I'm trying to pitch this to people and they go, yeah, that's the thing that exists.
What? I don't know if the fact that these are really not that weird is going to hurt or help me.
Mine are so different yet exactly the same. How do I friggin pick?
Time's up. I clearly got the coolest card, so all the first.
Have you ever wanted to own a PC remote switch card, timer switch card for turn on off computer
PC starting up card software, support 2.4G PCIe, 1X interface PC, timer switch card,
PCES, WBTT01? Affirmative. I've always wanted exactly that.
Right? And it could be yours for only $22.78. And in layman's terms, this is basically a remote
for your computer. Oh, so you're going to heat it up before you get inside it? That's right. I don't know. It is so that if you want to, you just plug this card in.
Robota power button. You pop it into a 1X slot because it only needs 1X.
Now that it's powered, you can see the red light is turned on. That means that the card is functional.
My favorite ability is strong wall penetration. Hell yeah, it is. So that means it can penetrate
walls. So I actually have a wireless PC remote starter at home and I thought it was going to
be the most garbage product I've ever bought. It is incredible. I have my PC like wall mounted,
so I don't want to like touch it. So I just have a little like missile command thing.
Where is your start button? Yeah, where's the part that turns this on? Allegedly, it's in the app on the iPhone that Jordan told me is over there.
How is it connecting? Once I picked the card Bluetooth.
Where? This guy is using that but no antenna. I don't know.
Yeah, you can remote start it from a foot and a half away. That's going to be so good.
Penetrates walls. Yeah, maybe deeply penetrates walls. So that means it's good.
That's just the 5G. No, no, no, that just means it's good. So we'll get the app
and then we'll try to turn on our computer. Don't worry about those instructions. I don't need them.
I got Adam. Yeah, it says ask Adam. There you go. That's all you need to do.
He's always 100% correct and sexy, competent lover.
Confident? Only competent, interesting.
I think that's probably a translation error.
Confident probably means something really positive in Chinese. Methods one, easy mode. Preparation, device is connected with electricity. Long press reset button
for five seconds until indicator light. The indicator lights working.
There's a button. There's this reset button right here. Yeah, and that makes the light flash, which means it's in like pairing mode essentially.
All right, let me download the app. So does Wi-Fi or Bluetooth?
The fact that you don't have your own like hard dedicated switch to this, to me,
is the biggest downer on this thing. Your phone is going to suck and it's going to work 10% of the
time. But when it does work, think of how sick it's going to be when you're like walking up to your
house and you're like, yeah, turn computer on from your phone. I will never do that.
I'll do it all the time. That's amazing. The app really reminds me of my air conditioner app.
It also reminds me of that lawnmower app that we did. The Luba. The Luba lawnmower has a very
similar app layout. I think there must just be like a basic template because this is
so much nicer than anything else here. It sounded like instantly. So I've got a computer smart switch.
Turn it on, baby. Unlock full device functionality. We recommend completing your account information.
Skip, skip. Oh my god, it wants our Wi-Fi password. Well, it is what it is. The hackening number two.
Listen, listen, there's a reason why we have an IT department. I would not in a million years let
this thing onto my network. Really? Not a chance in hell. That's crazy. This account, why would I
give them access to anything? I mean, what benefit do I get? Because you turn the computer on.
I can do that with a dedicated device, man. I literally had that at home. It's a freaking
missile launch box. Don't you would love the convenience of having to unlock your phone,
go to the app, press the button and then wait for it to connect, wait to find the device,
press the button, then go back. Guys, let him turn it on. You guys are being so mean.
I'm going to hit the power button. Oh, I see it turned on. I see post lights. And all that was
was the click of a button. And you know what? I bet you it's always going to work really well
because metal and electronics, the turn on off computer is made of metal and electronics,
which is strong. So strong. And for long term use. Incredible. My device not only worked,
but it's, it's pretty sick. Can you do a force shutdown for me? Force shutdown.
So is that's going to act like it's holding down the power button? We should just see it like,
yeah. Bada bing. Can yours do that? Bada boom. Okay. I want to test one more thing.
Go to the other side of the warehouse. Okay. It's Wi-Fi. Can you yell when you're pressing it?
Oh, I turned on. I didn't have to yell because it worked. It's on.
What an incredible device and only for 20 something 78, 2278. You know what? I'm going to shut,
I'm going to shut it off again just because I can't force shutdown. It's a nice color. There it goes.
All right. I think we need to move on to the next one.
I'm glad your device of dubious utility worked, but mine is going to freaking blow your socks off.
It is PC multi IO controller card and it supports Windows 98 2000 XP anymore. DOS.
But none of those systems would have PCIe slots. So this is a SIG three port PCIe express USB 3.0
adapt card plus gigabit Ethernet LAN standard and low profile Windows.
And he also scammed you. That's not low profile. It's not. It's lower than this profile.
This profile is very low. Is there any computers with PCIe slots that don't have Ethernet jacks?
Oh, they might not have gigabit.
Right. This could this allows you to get a bit through your PC. You might only have like a, I mean, back in the day with 98.
Exactly. Now here's the cool thing about this. You see these three USB ports. Yes. USB.
What a dream and USB drives kind of shit. Right. You know, well, here's the thing. This lets you use
USB drives in a way that has your computer identify them as normal drives in your system.
Like it's an actual SATA drive or an NVMe, not a expandable option.
So you're saying I should install Windows that USB drive. Yeah. You could install core utilities to this and it would be perceived like, is it a good idea?
No. I listen, man. I'm not going to judge you. Can I run my USB sticks in RAID 5?
Oh yeah. We should have left the card in so we can turn on the computer.
Incredibly useful. This card is.
Why'd you turn it off? Jordan turned it off. Okay. Not me.
Just cause I can for shutdown. I know. I was getting mad at him.
This is the whole thing. Why would you turn anything off? Computer is shut down.
You know what? Pretty impressive. The system works. I might be coming around. Did it work?
Yeah. No, it works great. You can see all of your USB drives. We're getting Ethernet through it.
You know, it's all of your USB drives. I see two there and I see three here.
Yeah. That's cause this one's broken or is your card broke?
Plug this into the computer. That was one of the working ones.
That one's not showing up. That one's not showing up. So if you're really hurting for one gig LAN and three extra USB three,
I just want to pay $50. I'd like to point that out.
This was $50. My card was half that price.
We need to move on onto the next one. It's not boring. There's a new problem with motherboards nowadays.
They get rid of the audio ports, right? Some other boards don't even have them.
Okay. This is a bad example. This is a bad example.
The computer that we are imagining in our head doesn't have the things that our PC
IE cards have. Yeah. The computer I imagine in my head didn't have any USB ports, David.
It's not. No, it's about reality. It's about reality. Mine didn't have an on-off switch.
Anyways, sorry. Anyways, this is a genius invention.
I hadn't seen one of these. You can add 5.1 back to your computer.
Wait, so this is just like the world's lappiest sound card. Yeah. What do you mean?
Actually, yeah. Why would you do that? Because this is a totally common thing. Usually you would get a sound card for a sound card for really high fidelity audio
because on-board audio is surrounded by all these components. What you did is got an unshielded garbage cart with the closestly put.
How are you going to put all your cards in there? They're so close. No, guys, guys, this is a brand new invention.
5.1 audio, okay? I did get scammed because the listing says low-profile bracket.
I also got scammed like you, Adam. This is not low-profile.
That device would be so cool if there wasn't already a single cable solution
that could carry both display and high-quality audio. That's a good point.
What is it? HDMI. Damn it. However, you might not have speakers that use HDMI
and you don't want to have to get an additional interface, right? You've just got an additional interface.
No, but I'm saying this is probably a lot cheaper than, say, like an HDMI. And a lot worse.
This thing sucks. I would rather... There's probably external boxes that are so much better quality. How much was it?
How much was it? How much was it? 19 US dollars.
I mean, that's pretty cheap. That's the appropriate price. A sound card is going to be like 150 bucks.
I think you'd want to at least get a good sound card. I don't disagree with you, Adam.
I'm just saying, 20 dollars. I could see in the scenario where you inherited your dad's old, like,
Logitech surround PC speakers and you wanted to make it work.
Fine. But there's also downsides to having to get, like, an HDMI,
because you have to deal with latency, you have to deal with buying a high-quality HDMI
pass-through, right? Like, it does add up if you want to be able to use your 175-hertz monitor and HDMI audio.
100%. I think if you want the best solution, it'll cost you more money than this is.
So this is practical in its own way. It's just not going to provide you the experience that I really want.
I agree. And you know what's crazy? This was the better of my two cards.
The other one was even more useless than this.
But does yours support 10-band equalizer with 12 preset modes and 27 global environment effects?
Wait, the computer could have that. So this has software. No, it stopped.
Please disable the, in other words, own sound card. But could I get, like, more if I kept them both?
With that plugged in, you could get, like, up, you could get up to Atmos by using an HDMI cable.
Editor, make this play-in-surround sound. Next!
I think you've all done a wonderful job. I think you should give each other a nice round of applause.
Bro, you're just bringing an old, I'm so pathetic.
At the center of our world is connectivity. And there is no better way to get connected than wireless connectivity.
Sometimes you might build a PC that doesn't have wireless,
because you're trying to save a buck, but later you're going to regret that. You're going to want not just Wi-Fi, but Bluetooth.
Sure. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are core experiences to how we experience technology.
A version. So you're saying that we have a Wi-Fi card. And that's why I brought this. I brought a Wi-Fi card.
Yeah, but what Wi-Fi? Here's the thing.
They actually undersell themselves on the listing. What's beautiful about this Wi-Fi card is that it's kind of a little bit modular.
It's a PCI adapter for your little Wi-Fi card.
Oh, you can actually swap the Wi-Fi card out. Oh, that is really neat. It comes with extra antennas, because I've actually lost these on like motherboards that have had.
So these alone are pretty useful.
And replacements for those are like 10, 15 bucks. So pretty useful.
And these seem like they're pretty decent quality. You can swap this out, although you wouldn't,
because this one's like a real NN tech.
There's no shot. And a tell.
Okay, yeah, that makes for a way more sense.
This is a real NN tell, NN tell. I've totally heard of them before.
They're in like Dell laptops. Okay, sure. It's Wi-Fi 6E.
What? No, there's no way. 5.2, I looked up on what this is.
This is a pretty damn up-to-date chip. That's legit. This is actually very useful.
It comes in at the useful price of $67.
But for Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6E, that's not terrible.
A good Wi-Fi antenna is not a cheap component. 100%. And like I said, this is useful
because you could upgrade another computer with this Wi-Fi or upgrade this card with better Wi-Fi in the future
as that happens. Have you plugged this in to verify that it is Wi-Fi 6E?
It has tape on it. Why would we plug it in? Yeah, we got a speed test.
Yeah, we need to check. I even turned the computer off for you.
I'll turn it on for you too. Well, yeah, wait until you plug it in. Well, he's already speaking of wireless connectivity.
Because I won't lie, although I looked up this chip and it has those features.
There's a real possibility it's not actually this chip. Wow, 100% it's going to be a scam.
If there's any technical issues, I blame the APs, not my card. My card is perfect.
It's never done anything wrong in its life. It's never done anything in its life.
This is the first time it's been powered on, theoretically. No, it passed QC.
No, that's yours. You're right. That's my card.
Wins again. Look at those bars all the way, baby.
We were trying to use the motherboard Wi-Fi. We're going to like one bar, two bar. It's because the motherboard wasn't plugged in.
There was one bar, two bars, and then now all the way, baby girl.
Speed test, speed test, speed test, speed test.
Yeah.
Oh, that's like 400 unless they're lying, which is still possible.
The device manager says 60. Does it really? Yeah. Well, that's good enough for me.
It's probably real. Oh, you're only getting 140 down or like upload, dude.
I think that's probably an internet speed thing. Yeah, it could be. Wow, I thought we had like 10 gigabytes.
Maybe, but I mean, would the downs... This sounds like excuses to me. Oh, what a f**king d**k.
What's the downside? One of the downsides of this specific one is that because your card doesn't have a heat sink on it,
it could start overheating if you're using it a lot. Technically, yes.
Yeah, something to note. It would just have to throttle. It wouldn't like, you wouldn't kill it.
And it's a lot of use before Wi-Fi chips start to overheat. That, that.
Ow! Shout out to my friend. That. Well, should we vote?
You get two votes. Can't vote for yourself. Imagine you're going to like a tech themed Christmas party.
Which one are you bringing? I'm bringing a bottle of wine. First up, the Wi-Fi on-off switch.
I'll give it a vote. Hell yeah. That's pretty good.
If I'm going to a tech Christmas party, that's the one that I think a lot of people would be like, that's pretty cool.
That it might actually use. Yeah. It makes your USB into an SSD.
I'm... It's slightly more useful. What? Yeah. Than the sound.
No way. Wow. To be fair, I don't think it should be me,
but not that. Not that. We get two votes.
Two votes. We get two votes. All right. We get two votes. Yeah.
My 5.1 sound card.
What do you mean? Guys, please.
Here you are. Please. One vote.
And then the pretty high end Wi-Fi 6E card. That gets my side of mind.
So it's a tie between you two? It's a tie. It's better than the other one.
All right. I'll break the tie. Who's going to win this? What?
No! Yes! Good game.
It is... There's no question. For the criteria, I'll allow it.
Mine passed QC. Before we reveal the prize redemption round,
what was the card you didn't pick? Let me show you.
Mine was an M.2 to NVMe USB expansion card.
Yeah, it's bad options. I've got a PCIe to PS2 expansion card.
That's way cool. That's it. For if your mouse or keyboard is older than your computer.
You would have won with that one too. This is great. Yeah, all right. He got really good polls.
He got good polls. So you can kill your own peripherals. Got the mythic rare.
I had a 2.5 gig Ethernet card. I chose the Wi-Fi because I think it's more universal.
People can use that. Whereas the upgrade from gigabit to this is pretty cool.
That's fair. You chose the right card, yeah. Yeah.
I have a PCIe to SATA 6 port expansion that has three modes.
No boot, boot, and mysterious middle option.
I'll take the middle option. A lie just still loses.
Blue for you. Yes. What did you get? What did you get? What did you get? Oh!
Whoa! Yes! This is so jealous.
I'm actually so jealous. I'm so jealous too. Whatever.
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