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So, this entire project actually came about when I was joking around with

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Brandon in between shots because the thing is is that out of the box, a RED

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8K camera, so this is one of their DSMC2

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platform cameras or whatever. It's got their Helium 8K sensor on it. Out of the

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box, they're super compact to the point

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where like it's kind of a miracle that they managed to keep the things cool

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because there's a lot of data moving through them. But the thing is, by the

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time you rig them up with your external display, your big old lens, your couple

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battery packs, your quick release, your um what's this thing called? Your your

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top handle, whatever else. Like they're so bulky that it wouldn't be that much

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of a stretch then to like clip a radiator to it. We're kind of joking

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about this and laughing and then all of a sudden got serious.

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Why don't we water cool a camera?

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Well, I couldn't think of a reason not to. So, here we are.

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Oh god.

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So, here's the thing. I'm not sure if anybody's ever done anything like this

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before. Even just tearing it down. Like when I search for red camera

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disassembly, I get like a a manual from

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Rocket Rentals, something about a Leica M camera. Now, there's a Red Epic X 5K

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camera tear down, but Extreme Tech didn't actually do it. They just grabbed

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some photos of the FCC's tearown where

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they made sure it complied with all the rules and regulations and stuff. It

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would appear that after a cursory Google search anyway, we are in uncharted

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waters here. Waters, get it.

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I have no instructions. All I have is

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this camera body and this iFix it kit

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and this uh my phone because I'm going to be taking a lot of pictures as I go

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here to hopefully make sure that I don't screw this up too badly. So, there's a

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few things that we do know. We can see that our main cooling heat sink is right

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by this vent here. So there's our intake, I believe. No, that looks like

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our exhaust. And then here's our intake. Yeah, that says intake fans right there.

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And so it's blowing through the body this way and out that way. So the the

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cooling seems to take place at the back. So maybe we could start at the back. You

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know what? Let's let's start from the bottom. We're going we're going bottom

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up.

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You know, I feel like I need one of those project mats.

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Here we go. I'll just make myself a handle. Okay.

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No. Well, that's it. I give up. Forget it.

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Sure. This is going to be a system that will work great because holding the

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threads like that, we will definitely be able to see how long the screw is. Oh,

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okay. So, this is their monitor attachment. And then this is uh David,

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what does this one do? I don't know. Okay. I don't know. But what that means

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is that there could be delicate ribbon cables behind any pieces that we remove.

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We're kind of working blind here and we don't want to pull too hard on things.

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Bloody hell. So, this is loose, but this is not completely loose. Yeah, we are

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going to need to loosen that somehow.

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Crap. All right. Well, the next thing we

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can pull off is the mag holder.

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Oh, okay. Oh, wow. This actually looks like it might be simpler than I thought.

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So, this is the uh the mag reader right here. And it just uses a simple pushin

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connector that goes right there. And then that actually gives us access to

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this ribbon. I think it's this ribbon.

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Damn it, it's not that ribbon. Now, some of you watching from home,

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including even ones that work at Red Digital Cinema, are probably wondering,

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why would you water cool a camera? What could you possibly hope to achieve?

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I mean, I'm not expecting any better performance. Cooling it more, um, while

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it could have the potential to increase its longevity, is not going to get us

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more resolution or more FPS or or or

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anything like that. So, I guess if I was going to set out a success or fail bar

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for this project, it would be if we managed to make the

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camera cooler and or quieter,

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then I would consider it to be a massive success because, as some of you will

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know, especially if you've worked with reds in an onloation environment, uh, or

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in a setting that's that's quite hot, uh, in between shots, they'll actually

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ramp up their fans quite a lot in order to keep the internals cool. Like they

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turn it off while you're shooting, which is good because you can't have a bunch

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of fan noise while you're trying to record audio, but um in between they'll

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they'll ramp them up quite high. So, if we could find a way to eliminate that

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behavior, that would be pretty cool, too.

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And aside from what exactly it is that we hope to accomplish, there are

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actually a lot of other things that we don't know yet either, including whether

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or not this is even possible or if we are just

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barking up a completely empty pointless

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tree. I mean, red wouldn't tell us anything. So, the only way for us to

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find out if the camera can even have its

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cooling changed is to open it up and see

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for ourselves. I'm starting to get a little nervous

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though. This is uh not quite as simple as just pop off one side

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and be able to see. Oh, well, there's

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that warranty void if removed. Wait, what the hell? How did this come off?

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Okay. Oh, there's our button. Oh, wow.

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This is not going to be easy. There's a

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cooling block here. That looks like it's dealing with the bottom side of this

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what looks like it should be a PCB, but it seems to be brass. Then there's what

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appears to be a second one right here,

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and it's interfacing with whatever this chip is right here. Then there are heat

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pipes that run down under this PCB on the side here into this heat sink right

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here, which is much larger than I anticipated. Like this is a serious

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machine. That is a significant amount of heat that they're trying to move away from it. So, as far as I can tell, the

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next step is to remove this PCB and give ourselves a better look at the heat

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sink. Huh. So, we've got a XYlink Kim

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Tech 7 ASIC on here. I wonder what you

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do. I'm not even going to try to guess right now.

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Okay. I'm sweating.

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Quite literally sweating right now. Oh,

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so this opens to reveal not a screw but

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some kind of antenna connector. Okay, so

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this antenna connector is actually for

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something to do with up here in the fans. Oh well, wait. H Brandon, does the

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red have any wireless functionality?

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Does it? Okay, there you go. So, this presumably

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is our Wi-Fi chipset. Okay. So, I was kind of worried about

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jumping the gun on removing the sensor

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housing because I don't want to get any dust on it or anything and I'm not

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exactly working in a clean room, but it appears as though I have just freed it.

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Oh, what the hell?

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This is all one big thing. Oh, man.

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the housing for the sensor here at the front. It's come free um when I remove

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the screws from the PCB here, but it's taking the heat sink with it. See that?

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Like the heat sink can't get out.

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Um Oh, and there's a separate heat sink back there. Oh, man. Why are we doing

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this? This is a really stupid project.

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Oh, you bastard. What now? So, there's a

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rubber grommet that the heat pipes pass through. Can you see that?

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There must be a thermal reason for doing it. Maybe it's just to control air flow

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to make sure that they don't lose any leakage.

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Oh, that's in tight. Oh, man. This has a

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wrench freaking head on it. Oh, wait. You've got to be kidding me. It's

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tightening up. Holy crap. It's turning the socket under it. That's bad. As long

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as I can rotate this a little bit, I can access the one on the other side. Oh my

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god. Where did this plug into on the other end? I don't remember removing two ends of this.

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Oh, what? Oh god. What is this? Well, you know about this project

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already. What? What pro? You didn't know that we're getting

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started on it yet, I don't think. Oh, is this the red? It's what remains of a red. So, this guy

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goes on like this. You can tell from the glue on here and on here and how I

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ripped it off. And then this guy has

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it's kind of like a GPU I think where there's like a big chip and then some

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small chips around it that all have thermal goop on them. Okay. So that's that. Can you kind of envision

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it now? Picture them all vertically aligned instead. Yeah. Yeah.

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Okay. So there's another couple components here.

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The idea is basically just have like this and then like a rad kind of

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Oh yeah. The rad comes outside. So, like where the air cooling exhaust is, we

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would just like put a couple freaking holes in it and run tubing out.

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Would we even have space for fittings in the blocks? No.

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So, we just have to like solder tubes right onto the blocks then.

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Possibly. But remember, these heat sinks go away.

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Yeah, true. Right. So if we and and these ribbons

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have a little bit of play, so we can make ourselves a little bit

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more room between these without giving up necessary space here because all

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these heat sinks go away. Yeah, like this one. This one not too

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hard. I'm concerned about this one. Yeah, me too.

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And that also seems to be the one that needs the most cooling. Yes, that's the one with the heat pipes.

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This was a really bad idea.

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Yeah, but also like a good one.

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How are we going to mount on it here? Is it just thermal pasted on?

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Oh my god. No. It's screwed in from the

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top. Look at these gaps in the fins. These are not an accident.

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It's not going to work. Why not? Give me one reason why not.

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Cuz you don't have enough clearance. I might.

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Not quite working. Yeah. I think we need to get a super

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skinny driver. Yeah, it seems like it.

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That's going to be a custom order part. Okay. So, I've got these three screws

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off now. Oh, it's far worse than I thought. There are no fewer than 10

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elements that need to be cooled on this one. Red doesn't subscribe to the less

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is more philosophy. What the hell?

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I have never seen anything like that.

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Is that the chip? As far as I can tell,

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but it has two screw holes through it. How the hell do we make a water block

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for that? Well, why do you think I brought you in

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here? This is quite the project.

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So, I guess what you're saying is don't hold your breath for part two.

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Yeah. No. Coming to you 2020.

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Well, no. We can finish it next year.

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Yeah. It'll be Yeah. Next. Like, we're going to be on it, but like

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holy [ __ ] It's like operation, but

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it's a victim, not a patient.

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This thing is so full of AS6. Like, no

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wonder the thing's so damn expensive. I wonder if some of them are just

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FPGAAS. Well, what is this thing?

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Hold on a second. No, it's not $5,000. Hold on a second. It's 28 nmter, though.

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Like, that's not Yeah, it's pretty like bit tier stuff.

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How much are they? Uh, it's hard to say. This is uh

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extended price. $1,600 for one. And that's that's just this

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shift, not like anything else. We are so [ __ ] I mean, if we just

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have to like cobble the thing together and like kind of, you know, lean on it

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to close it. That's Yeah. Like I think that if it's water cooled and then zip tied together,

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no one's going to complain. I guess this is just where

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we say goodbye and everyone hopes that

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we have another one soon. Yeah. So, thanks for watching, guys. If

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