1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:09,519 All right. So, assuming all of that worked, I am now 2 00:00:05,799 --> 00:00:13,200 live. Live doing something that I have 3 00:00:09,519 --> 00:00:18,760 wanted to do for a long time. Ever since 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:22,039 CES 2016 when I got my first look at the 5 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,560 marvelous, the magnificent, the 6 00:00:22,039 --> 00:00:30,480 majestic MSI 7 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:32,480 G65 Vortex gaming computer. 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:36,480 I'm going to be taking it apart. I'm going to be taking every single screw 9 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:40,559 out of it and I am going to be reducing it to its mirror components so we can 10 00:00:38,559 --> 00:00:46,320 find out exactly what makes this thing tick with three camera angles. Yes, my 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:50,320 friends, I have a dedicated close-up cam. I took all the feedback you gave me 12 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:55,360 from my last live stream where I had like the world's shoddiest webcam as 13 00:00:52,480 --> 00:01:00,830 like my close-up and I uh made it even better. So without any further ado, 14 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:05,779 let's get 15 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,920 started. Tunnel Bear is the easy to use 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,840 VPN service that lets you use the web as if you're in one of 20 different 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:22,479 countries. Learn more and try Tunnel Bear for free at the link in the video 18 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:26,799 description. Yeah, without any further ado, let's start opening this baby up. 19 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:31,680 Now, I actually have a full disassembly guide provided by MSI, which is funny 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:35,119 cuz last time they I they let me see this thing. They wouldn't let me take 21 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:38,960 the panels off of it even. But, I'm going to try to get away with not using 22 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:44,079 it to the greatest extent that I possibly can. So, here on the bottom, 23 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:48,880 actually, I'll get you guys a look at the close-up cam here. So, here on the 24 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:53,680 bottom, I've got not a whole lot of much of anything to speak of. Uh, no screws, 25 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,960 no nothing. just the power input down there. I actually really like the way 26 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:01,280 they did the power input and I'm hoping to find out exactly how they handled the 27 00:01:59,439 --> 00:02:06,399 cable management. It's funny for my review of this device. Um, they actually 28 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:09,920 took it apart in my absence. I have never seen the inside of it yet, even 29 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,680 though our review actually has internal shots. So, uh, so there you go. So, I'm 30 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,800 looking forward to checking that out. Um, other than that, there's just IO. 31 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,239 There's six uh security torque screws on 32 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:25,440 the back. So, you will need something like an iFixit tool kit in order to take 33 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:31,280 this baby apart. And other than that, there's nothing. See, the top is just 34 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:36,319 just plain. Bottom's plain. Front just has these plastic panels. So, without 35 00:02:33,519 --> 00:02:42,400 any further ado, let's uh let's get this baby started. So, I've got not one but 36 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:45,360 two iix it kits. This stream brought to you by iFixit. Actually, no. They 37 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:51,680 haven't sponsored anything with us in a long time. But it's like 38 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,519 realistically, well, like I lose track 39 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:57,680 of what camera I'm talking to. Hello. Uh, realistically, I What else am I 40 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:03,120 going to use? I mean, they they sent us their kits, um, which I used to augment 41 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,879 the kit of theirs that I already had and already used for everything. Actually, 42 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:13,760 speaking of, uh, speaking of I fix it and them not sponsoring this stream, 43 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:17,519 where is my Ah, yes. Here's my other 44 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:19,800 handy dandy thing from from those guys 45 00:03:17,519 --> 00:03:25,840 which doesn't have the pen. Why can no one keep anything where 46 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:30,480 it's supposed to be? This is my uh this is my handy little little mat that I 47 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:34,959 have where I can label where all the screws came from that I took out. But uh 48 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,680 it's supposed to have one of those overhead projector pens for those of you 49 00:03:36,959 --> 00:03:44,640 who are old enough to remember overhead projectors. And I don't see it. This is 50 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:51,120 a permanent marker. I do not want to use that. Uh perhaps a dry erase marker. Um 51 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:57,519 Brandon, could you obtain me a dry erase marker? Be a dear. There's one behind 52 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,720 you. Actually, very close to you. Yes, that would be perfect. And if that one 53 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:09,439 doesn't work very well, I may need a different one. Thank you, sir. All right. So, wow, 54 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:13,760 that really, really does not work very well. Um, but we're going to have to 55 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,840 we're going to have to go with it. So, this is a little magnetic mat that will 56 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:23,040 help me keep track of my screws so that I don't accidentally lose 57 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:26,639 them. Even better than a magnetic parts tray. I wish it was more magnetic. 58 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:32,160 That's sort of the one thing that I could that I could complain about, but 59 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:36,000 uh that's okay. So, I'll try and give you guys a good good view of what it is 60 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:40,560 that I'm doing here. Sorry. My my monitors for the stream are my laptop, 61 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:45,280 which is next to me on my right here, right actually under the camera you guys 62 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:48,360 are looking at, and then also the 63 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:50,520 computer that 64 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:55,120 is over over there. So, I'm going to be 65 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,880 kind of looking all over the place during the stream, but I'll do my best 66 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:04,240 to keep that as nondistracting as I possibly can. I am sort of new to this 67 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,720 whole u you know, multicamming it myself thing. 68 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:14,240 One thing I think I would like to adjust though is that camera's position above 69 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:17,600 me. I think it's a little bit too wide of a shot, but I really don't know if 70 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:23,840 there's much that I can do about that right 71 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:26,240 now. Okay. 1 2 3 4 5 and six. I hate 72 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:30,479 security torques. It's one of those things where 73 00:05:28,039 --> 00:05:34,560 like it's bad enough you put a torque screw on it. Like I can't it's it's hard 74 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:38,600 for normal people who don't have a bunch of, you know, tools designed for taking 75 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:42,320 apart electric gizmos. Um like it's it's it's bad enough to 76 00:05:41,199 --> 00:05:48,639 have Torx on it in the first place. Security Torx is just adding insult to injury. Okay, so there you go. Um first 77 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:54,720 piece is off. So that warranty sticker is already uh tampered as hell. So why 78 00:05:52,479 --> 00:05:59,479 don't we tamper it some more? H take that MSI blah blah blah blah blah. Think 79 00:05:57,919 --> 00:06:05,360 my warranty is void now. Anyway, um that that's from John 80 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:09,600 actually taking it apart for B-roll in the video. But this gives us a good look 81 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:16,400 at the first plastic piece that I've taken off here. So, actually this Oh, is 82 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:20,120 this one metal? No, it couldn't be, could 83 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:26,240 it? Interesting. I can't I actually can't 84 00:06:23,199 --> 00:06:29,199 tell, which is pretty unusual for me. I 85 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:33,199 think it is. No, can't be. Wait. Oh, okay. So, 86 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,600 there's a couple of uh there's a couple strips here for the RGB lighting. So, 87 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:42,560 those are just kind of like transparent uh transparent strips here. And then um 88 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:47,440 yeah, or actually I don't even know if there's lighting in that part. Maybe. 89 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:50,680 Okay. Hard to say. Whatever. There. Now, we don't have that anymore. Okay. So, 90 00:06:49,039 --> 00:06:55,600 let's see what else we got going on here. That gave us access to a couple of 91 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:59,880 more screws here. So, there's one here and here. 92 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:05,880 Let's tamper that warranty some more. Uh, yep. There we 93 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:10,240 go. Boom. Come on out, you magnetic 94 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:20,680 bastard. There we go. And this guy. So, this will take off 95 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:22,720 hopefully that uh MSI Dragon 96 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:26,960 logo. And I'm going to have to make sure that I do a Oh crap, I just dropped a 97 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:34,800 screw. Uh uh oh. Oh, there it is. Ha. All is 98 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:36,960 well. Yes, for now. Plenty of time to 99 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:40,680 screw that up later. So, I'm going to call this 100 00:07:38,039 --> 00:07:46,240 next to 101 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:48,919 dragon. Dragon. Hopefully that someone 102 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:55,759 knows what that means. Okay, that didn't really seem to do a 103 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:57,840 whole lot though. I am not able to 104 00:07:55,759 --> 00:08:03,759 really remove anything extra that I couldn't remove before. I've got a 105 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:06,280 couple screws right down here that I can 106 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:10,800 access now. But uh maybe we can just pry off maybe we can just pry off the cup. 107 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,879 Oh, all right. Well, that was easy. Oh, 108 00:08:15,039 --> 00:08:22,720 easy up until now. This is the thing I just I just hate about it's like I don't 109 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:27,720 have an answer for them cuz as far as I can tell it's the only way to do like a 110 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:30,319 clean seamless outer shell. But 111 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:34,320 like these uh Oh wow. I think I just popped that right off. But these uh 112 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:39,039 these screwless designs, they have to use all these really flimsy plastic 113 00:08:36,719 --> 00:08:42,839 clips, you know. I think I managed to not break any though so far. These ones 114 00:08:41,839 --> 00:08:47,600 all look intact. Uh that might have chipped. 115 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:53,760 Actually hard to tell. These ones all look intact. Not bad. All right. Go T 116 00:08:51,160 --> 00:09:00,040 minus. Uh here we've got a little cable managed. Um looks like it looks like an 117 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:04,120 RGB LED. So I think this actually has to 118 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:07,120 sit under here. And that might have been 119 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:09,839 uh that might have been popped off as 120 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:13,440 sort of a derp when we were taking it apart and reassembling it. I'm actually 121 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:17,080 not entirely sure about that. Oh, maybe you know what? No, I think I'm wrong. I 122 00:09:15,279 --> 00:09:22,480 think it just sits down here. Uh, well, like I think I said 123 00:09:20,959 --> 00:09:26,959 earlier in the stream, I don't actually plan to put this back together. I'm just 124 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:30,880 going to send it to MSI in pieces so they can make sure that it's done 125 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:35,839 exactly correctly. Uh, the other thing in here is power for that LED. So, you 126 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:41,839 can see there's a little lead right here that plugs into a 127 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:45,600 uh there you go into a little spot on 128 00:09:41,839 --> 00:09:47,680 the highly custom uh PCB that they've 129 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:52,399 got going on right here. I mean, look at this 130 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:53,240 thing. You've got uh what appears to be 131 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:59,680 an MXM slot. So, that would be for one of 132 00:09:56,399 --> 00:10:04,200 the GTX 980s. Remember, these are 980s, 133 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:06,720 not 980M. Then you've got um an M.2 134 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:10,399 slot. Then you've got whatever the devil this is. Looks like some kind of a 135 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:15,040 support brace. And then you've got like, you know, an RGB LED thing. H more 136 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:19,200 warranty stickers. Oh, I am totally totally taking that off. All right. So, 137 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,600 let's see if we can get the other side open 138 00:10:22,839 --> 00:10:28,560 here. H. The other one popped off kind 139 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:31,760 of from the back. So, where did the I where did the IO even go? Oh, there it 140 00:10:30,079 --> 00:10:36,880 is. Thought I I thought I lost the USB port. 141 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,640 Mercy. 142 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:48,040 Um. Oh. Okay. All right. Well, this will 143 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:54,760 give us a look at the other side here then. So, uh, a lot of a lot of very 144 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:58,800 similar. So, we've got another 145 00:10:54,760 --> 00:11:01,680 MXM graphics card or another MXM slot on 146 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:05,760 another custom PCB. Uh, this one does not have an M.2 drive slot on it, 147 00:11:04,399 --> 00:11:10,640 though. So, you can see this one is just pure graphics card. Is it using the same 148 00:11:08,399 --> 00:11:16,560 heat sink or have they actually created two separate heat 149 00:11:12,519 --> 00:11:19,760 sinks? It appears to use Yes, it uses 150 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:21,839 exactly the same cooler module. So they 151 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:25,760 did manage to reuse that aspect of the design. So that's that's a good thing I 152 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:31,920 suppose. And then the other thing that we get access to for the first time over 153 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:34,480 here is the four sodium memory slots 154 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:40,959 that are actually on a separate PCB yet again. So it looks like because PCBs are 155 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:44,399 flat and not round, uh we're ending up 156 00:11:40,959 --> 00:11:46,160 with very similar to the um well the 157 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:53,360 only other trash can shaped computer. you're ending up with kind of an arrangement on the inside of these flat 158 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:58,079 surfaces with actually surprisingly little wasted space in this case uh due 159 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:03,279 to the curvature of the exterior. So check this out. You can actually see if 160 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:06,639 I show it to you from this angle and and they actually didn't go quite straight 161 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:11,279 round either. They actually kind of angled it a little bit in the places 162 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:15,760 where they could in order to um take advantage of things like the flat tops 163 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:22,160 of heat sinks like uh like this one for example. See that? So right here at the 164 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:27,120 at the widest points you're going to find the corners of PCBs in all 165 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:31,519 likelihood. Let's see if that uh holds true. So over here actually no. Okay. So 166 00:12:29,839 --> 00:12:35,680 you've got the RAM sticking up in that case. And then I think we've got one 167 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:41,120 more of those where yes, you are finding the uh ends of both of the GPU PCBs 168 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:43,920 right here at the front. So the graphics cards then here, just giving you guys a 169 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:52,480 better look at it now that we've stripped off all the outer shell. The graphics cards are in the 170 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:54,959 front with uh the CPU junk and RAM junk 171 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:58,240 and IO junk in the trunk, so to speak. So there's your CPU heat sink, which I 172 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:02,959 don't think I had specifically pointed out before. And here's the first uh the 173 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:06,560 first hint at the nightmare that is to come. I mean, even compared to a laptop, 174 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:10,240 this thing is going to be horrendous to uh take apart and put back together. 175 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:14,399 There's one of those like awful ribbon cables that if you've ever disassembled, 176 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:19,519 you know, your cell phone or your tablet or or a particularly compact laptop, I'm 177 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:26,240 sure you've encountered. Um they are they are very fragile and can be can be 178 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:28,399 a bit of a pain to deal with. So, now 179 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:34,839 we've got all those stripped off. I need to find more screws to take 180 00:13:31,959 --> 00:13:43,120 apart. It looks to me as though there's got to be ways to 181 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:43,120 strip off more of the outer 182 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:52,160 chassis before we start pulling out 183 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:53,600 PCBs. So, I'm going to try I'm not sure 184 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:59,279 if this is going to work, but I'm going to try to take off this front piece 185 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:59,279 right here. 186 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,800 There we go. Oh, there's another one of 187 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:14,519 those uh there's another one of those little ribbon connectors. It's actually 188 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:16,880 got a black tape over it in this case. 189 00:14:14,519 --> 00:14:19,120 Whoops. Okay. So, let's put those babies right there. I'm going to find out if 190 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:25,600 these ones on the bottom are the same and then I can label them all the same. I may even run out of label slots on a 191 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:31,199 project like this. couple down here. Are they the same? 192 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:36,160 Yes, they are. Very nice. Okay. I always appreciate that. That's something that 193 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:37,800 just baffles me when I see it where 194 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:44,079 you'll have a single product and it'll have like for no 195 00:14:41,199 --> 00:14:48,399 apparent reason, it'll just have, you know, five different screw head types on 196 00:14:46,959 --> 00:14:54,079 it, for example. So, you need all these different screwdrivers to take it apart. And I just kind of 197 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,600 go, why? Like, isn't this more work for 198 00:14:54,079 --> 00:15:00,880 you, too? Every screw, every little tiny oop, 199 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:06,480 there it goes. Every little tiny widget is a skew for you. You have to inventory 200 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:10,160 it all separately. So, why are you going out of your way to make my life and 201 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,519 yours more difficult? All right. So, right here we've got the power button. 202 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:18,959 So, that was plugged in with that little um that little sleeved ribbon cable 203 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:25,040 there. Um yeah, it lights up. It does power. It's uh it slices. It dices. Uh 204 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:27,480 some plastic piece. Okay. So, we can put that aside for now. I'm also going to 205 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:34,160 label these puppies. So, uh let's see. 206 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,160 Front 207 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:40,399 fascia. Sure. 208 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:43,880 Okay. Rock on. So, let's see what we're going to do next then. 209 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:55,160 I'd love to remove more of this back piece, but I'm not actually 210 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:58,720 sure how that's going to 211 00:15:55,160 --> 00:16:02,480 work. Let's see. So, there's some screws 212 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:04,720 down here. There's one, two right there. 213 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:09,600 Uh oh. Oh, look at that. This has already got some flex to it. So, maybe 214 00:16:06,959 --> 00:16:13,800 that is just a matter of popping out those screws down there. Let's find out. 215 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:26,639 Uh, people are asking why I'm taking note of where the screws go if I don't 216 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:30,240 plan on reassembling it. Well, um, I 217 00:16:26,639 --> 00:16:33,600 don't know. I mean, Cliff from MSI, he 218 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:36,800 might get all like mad and threaten to 219 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,079 threaten to brutally harm me if uh if I 220 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:42,480 don't put it back together. So, I'm going to see if I can get away with not putting it back together because I 221 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,440 mostly just don't feel like it because once I'm done with this stream, I'm done 222 00:16:43,839 --> 00:16:49,360 with it. I'm sending it back to them. Um, but if they make me put it back 223 00:16:47,279 --> 00:16:55,000 together, then I will. I try to be a nice guy, you know, except when I'm not. 224 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:58,079 Uh, all right. Let's have a look 225 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:00,079 here. So, this is definitely looser now. 226 00:16:58,079 --> 00:17:04,799 See, you can see we've got uh we've got a lot of play in the bottom now, and 227 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:09,760 we've still got that play in the top, but it's also not quite ready to let go, 228 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:15,520 you know? You know, like all the kids but 229 00:17:13,919 --> 00:17:21,120 the youngest one are moved out of the house. And you know, mama's like, 230 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:26,720 "Little Johnny, little Johnny, stay home. Just live with us 231 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:28,360 forever. I'm not ready to let go." 232 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:32,320 And little Johnny's like, 233 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:37,520 "Mom, I don't know why we have the same voice, but I got a girlfriend now, and 234 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:42,000 she really wants me to move out with her." And mama says, "Johnny, you can 235 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:47,919 bring your girlfriend here. I don't mind if she's a if she's an ugly skank and 236 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:52,440 she hates my waffles. I'll put up with her for you, Johnny. Just stay, 237 00:17:50,520 --> 00:18:00,160 Johnny." Um, I think this is still attached. 238 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:02,480 So, let's go ahead and see if we can see 239 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:07,799 if we can remove maybe the top fan will come off 240 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:14,039 next. H. So, we've got this little screw here. 241 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:21,360 It's actually surprisingly few screw. Whoa, that just that just wanted to jump 242 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:24,360 right off. It's like excited here, you 243 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:24,360 know. 244 00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:33,120 And it turns out I was totally 245 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:35,760 misinformed. Nick tells me iFixit is 246 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:40,559 indeed the sponsor for today's video. So, let me tell you about them. From 247 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:44,240 their 19,000 free step-by-step repair guides to their huge inventory of 248 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:48,960 replacement parts and tools with lifetime warranty, iFixit has got your 249 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:54,080 repair needs covered. And today we're talking about their latest and greatest, 250 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:58,880 the allnew ProTek Tool Kit. 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So, there's a 269 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:19,919 couple things I'm gonna have to do before I can properly remove 270 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:28,640 this. So, this 271 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:32,520 um Ah, dang it. I need a flathead. I 272 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:35,440 need a flathead. There we go. Okay, so 273 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:40,760 this and wireless antenna needs to pop off as does this one. So, it looks like 274 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:43,080 MSI has 275 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:46,720 um put their antenna. Oh, interesting. Oh, there's 276 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:50,960 another thing I'm going to have to remove over here. Hold on. Sorry, guys. 277 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:54,640 It's kind of hard to It's kind of hard to grab onto now without mashing 278 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:58,360 something important. So, uh there's another little fragile connector over 279 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:04,320 here that I've got to remove. So, they've put their antennas 280 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:06,159 in the in the in the roof here. And then 281 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:10,960 we actually also get to have a look at where the fan for the top. So this is 282 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:14,640 the one fan that cools the whole thing. So we can have a look at where that fan 283 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:18,720 is plugged in as well. This uh right right there. Hoping I'm getting you guys 284 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:22,240 a good look at it. But uh sometimes I just have to kind of hope for the Oh. 285 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:26,400 Oh, interesting. Okay. What we also have here Wow, there's like four leads to 286 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:32,480 this thing. Jeez. What we also have here is the power for that MSI Dragon logo 287 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:37,200 that they're so uh so fond of putting on things. So, hold on. Where's my 288 00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:41,280 flathead? There we go. Come on. Come on, 289 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:44,120 baby. Come on, baby. There you go, baby. 290 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:49,360 Just Just get off there. Okay. Perfect. All right. So, we've got Jeez, 291 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,320 no. There's even more than I thought. Okay. All right. Let's have a closer 292 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:58,080 look at this bad boy. So, we've got what 293 00:21:54,320 --> 00:22:00,799 looks like uh four wires for the PWM fan 294 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:05,200 custom connector. We've got one wire for antenna. There's actually a metal metal 295 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:11,440 housing around this thing. They are they are serious about this fan here. Holy 296 00:22:08,919 --> 00:22:15,720 crap. Okay, we've got another wireless antenna over on the other side. They've 297 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:21,679 got those nice and separated. We've got whatever the crap this is. That's 298 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,679 another four pin. What is that 299 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:28,559 for? I will confess to you that I do not 300 00:22:25,799 --> 00:22:35,520 know because I don't see anything else up here. There's just the fan and the 301 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:40,400 other side of the fan. So, we've got power for the LED. We've got Oh, hold on 302 00:22:38,159 --> 00:22:45,360 a second. No, I see what it's for. So, this is just a cable management. This is 303 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,799 just running over to that um that duad 304 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:50,720 that we connected from the side panel if I recall correctly. All right. So, that 305 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:57,120 that takes care of of everything that that is. All right. So, let's go ahead and catch up on my uh catch up on my 306 00:22:53,919 --> 00:22:59,159 labeling here. So, this was Oh, crap. 307 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:05,480 What was this from? Um, okay. Top 308 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:13,840 fan. Top fan. 309 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:13,840 Uh. Um. Uh. Bottom IO. There we 310 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:20,960 go. I assure you that when I'm not broadcasting live, I am much more 311 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:24,720 organized about this type of thing. As you guys can probably imagine, it is a 312 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:29,360 lot of things to focus on to be disassembling a computer, broadcasting a 313 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:34,559 live stream, and trying to keep track of uh you know, all of the strange 314 00:23:31,919 --> 00:23:39,520 creatures that are inhabiting your building that you that you work in every 315 00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:45,760 day. All right, so the next thing we see here is that yes, I was indeed correct. 316 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:51,600 Uh this back piece right here is being held on by this uh looks Yeah, it's a 317 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:54,760 metal brace that is securing it to a few 318 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:57,200 different things. So there's the power 319 00:23:54,760 --> 00:24:01,120 supply. Uh here let me get that centered in the frame for you guys. So there's 320 00:23:59,039 --> 00:24:07,280 the power supply, there's the GPU heat sinks, CPU heat sink, and then this 321 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:08,799 looks like the main like motherboard. I 322 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:13,360 mean main board is also a word for motherboard. Don't stress. So, but this 323 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:17,760 Yeah, it's not actually secured to that. So, the power supply is secured to the 324 00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:23,039 main board. And then this rear daughter board is secured to the power supply as 325 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:27,039 are the others. So, there's these L brackets that kind of go like this and 326 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:31,840 like that. So, the first thing I'll need to do is remove this one. Hi, can I help 327 00:24:30,159 --> 00:24:36,720 you? Are you streaming this? Yeah. Well, you didn't tweet out that you're live. I 328 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:40,159 didn't? No. Oh. Uh, can you do that? 329 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:42,240 Thank you. Oh crap. I left my 330 00:24:40,159 --> 00:24:47,720 screwdriver at home, my orange ones. So, I'm actually a little bit 331 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:52,600 ill equipped. 332 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:57,039 Okay. Wow, those are really tight. Let's go ahead and pull that 333 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:03,120 out. Okay, there we 334 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:09,679 go. I see someone saying shoes are optional in the Atlantis Media Group 335 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:14,799 office. Actually, that's not true. Uh, shoes are required to be taken off 336 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:18,000 unless you have your indoor shoes here. So, some people leave indoor shoes at 337 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:22,720 the office and other people just don't wear shoes, which is their their choice. 338 00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:29,279 Personally, I'm not into the whole no shoe thing because there's only one type 339 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:33,120 of footwear I need. Okay, so this baby 340 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:35,760 has looks like three ribbon cables, each 341 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:38,960 of which are are cleverly labeled, which is helpful, I guess. Let me see if I can 342 00:25:37,679 --> 00:25:46,559 get you guys a better look at that. There you go. So, you got your L, you got your R, you got your 343 00:25:43,559 --> 00:25:46,559 the 344 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:55,400 K1C_1026026_H39, whatever the devil that's supposed to mean. So, let's go 345 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,679 ahead and flip these up. 346 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:01,039 Flippity. That one's not a flip up one. Hold on. Where's my flathead? 347 00:25:59,679 --> 00:26:07,600 Technically, I should be using a plastic flathead for this. It's okay. Don't worry. I'm a professional. Okay. And 348 00:26:05,919 --> 00:26:11,440 then this one right here is not actually the same type. This is one of those one 349 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:17,240 of those push down on it ones. So I'm gonna have to lift 350 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:20,200 lift. Oh crap. It is one of those. Well, hopefully it's only a 351 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:23,960 little broken. How the crap. Oh, okay. Yeah, 352 00:26:23,039 --> 00:26:28,720 seems fine. Cool. All right. So, let's give 353 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:33,120 you guys a good look at this. So, back here you've got actually a lot of a lot 354 00:26:31,279 --> 00:26:41,200 of action going on. Like there's a mini PCIe card over here. 355 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:43,120 which would be fairly baffling to me if 356 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:49,039 I wasn't looking at their again very handily and cleverly labeled ribbon 357 00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:50,799 cables here. So, this one says PCH. So, 358 00:26:49,039 --> 00:26:56,640 that's for the platform controller hub. That means that the the south bridge, 359 00:26:53,679 --> 00:27:00,720 the traditional south bridge is actually on this 360 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:07,039 daughterboard. So, this is really clever for a number of reasons. Uh, number one 361 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,640 is that it means that they don't have to 362 00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:13,919 they don't have to try and use extensions for all of this high-speed IO 363 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:19,440 back here. Like we've got four USB 3 ports, 2 GB Ethernet, two HDMIs, um, oh, 364 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:22,640 it looks like all the display stuff is down there. Okay, so that's B and and 365 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:26,960 audio. So that's basically what we've got back there. So, instead of having 366 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:32,880 all that stuff, instead of having the Southbridge, which handles all of those 367 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:35,840 things, let me think, not HDMI, unless 368 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:41,200 it's using Intel's onboard video in some way. Don't quote me on that. Do not 369 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:46,440 quote me on that. I'm actually not sure why those HDMI ports are there, but all 370 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:53,360 that other stuff would be handled by the PCH. So, by just having what would 371 00:27:49,919 --> 00:27:55,360 effectively be traces inside the PCB of 372 00:27:53,360 --> 00:28:00,159 a motherboard just be done through a ribbon cable like this, MSI has removed 373 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:05,600 all of that stuff and they were able to make use of a tiny little bit of space 374 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:09,279 inside the chassis. So, you can see here it's just this this bit of space right 375 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,240 here that lives over top of the CPU heat sink that they otherwise would not have 376 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:18,200 been able to or they would have had to run extensions which could have interfered with that high-speed IO. So 377 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:23,600 really very cool. Um, let's continue our let's 378 00:28:21,039 --> 00:28:26,240 continue our look at this baby. So what else do we got going on here? Oh yeah, 379 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:30,799 there's a 2 and a half inch hard drive in here. That's another thing that would 380 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:34,000 also be on the PCH. So that's where your SATA ports come off of. So again, 381 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:38,960 instead of running a SATA cable internally, they've actually just got 382 00:28:35,919 --> 00:28:40,760 this guy. Uh, is that just like hardline 383 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:45,320 plugged in? Where is the port? What the hell? 384 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,640 What is going on 385 00:28:55,159 --> 00:29:04,559 here? Oh, is it this? Shut 386 00:29:01,159 --> 00:29:06,640 up. Oh, very cool. So, what they've 387 00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:09,200 actually done here, and I guess we might as well Yeah, I did. I did say I was 388 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:16,799 going to take this thing apart, so let's take it apart. I'll I'll show you guys exactly what they did here. 389 00:29:12,919 --> 00:29:18,720 Um, again, more more clever more. Wow, 390 00:29:16,799 --> 00:29:23,360 that's that's this one's this one's really cool. Haven't actually seen this 391 00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:27,440 before. Even in laptops, uh, you'll typically just have like a like a 392 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:31,840 standard a standard SATA cable plugged into a plugged into the back of a 393 00:29:30,159 --> 00:29:37,279 standard SATA drive. And and when we dig deep enough, that is what we're very 394 00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:37,279 likely to find 395 00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:42,440 here, but with a twist. 396 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:52,240 Okay, so the hard drives Hitachi 1 TBTE 397 00:29:48,159 --> 00:29:53,440 7200 RPM SATA 6 GB and uh am I going to 398 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:57,279 need to remove a whole another set of screws in order to get it this bad boy? 399 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:02,399 What do we got here? Yep. Okay, there they are. More hard drive screws. Don't 400 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:06,440 worry though, guys. For you, I will take this as far as I need to. 401 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:14,760 Messiah is not going to tell me I can't take apart their computer. Freaking 402 00:30:12,919 --> 00:30:19,120 guys. Okay. See if we can slide this 403 00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:27,679 off. Yeah, there we go. So, this slides out now, which gives us a look at this 404 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:32,240 actually very clever little system that they've got here. So, they have 405 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:36,559 converted all of the uh Hold on. I'm just going to check my focus. There we 406 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:41,200 go. So, they have converted the standard SATA power and data interface into this 407 00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:46,320 connector. This is that connector that I didn't recognize is actually for the 408 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:49,480 hard drive. Very cool. All right, so we've extracted that at this point. 409 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:55,279 Let's label my hard drive screws. H 410 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:57,720 D. Boom. Oh crap. What were these? Ah, 411 00:30:55,279 --> 00:31:03,760 yes. L bracket. I'm sure someone will be able 412 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:06,080 to read that at some point. Okay. 413 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:10,480 So, that leaves us pretty much done here. Oh, yeah. No, no, we're not. Okay, 414 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:15,679 this is cool, too. So, the other thing on the PCH, this is so clever. I like 415 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:21,279 it. Uh, the other thing on the PCH is four PCI Express lanes that are handled 416 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:24,799 by the Southbridge. So, there's the uh the DMI whatever something media 417 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:29,360 interface. So, that's that's the traditional that's replacement for the 418 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:34,320 um for crap, I forget what they used to call the link between the north bridge 419 00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:37,279 and the south bridge. Uh was it FSB? 420 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:42,960 Can't remember. Anyway, um so most of the PCIe lanes in a modern Intel CPU run 421 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:49,360 off of the CPU itself, but it's also got the DMI interface to the chipset that 422 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:55,679 has four PCIe lanes effectively running off of it. So that's how we were able to 423 00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:57,039 have a mini PCIe Wi-Fi card sitting over 424 00:31:55,679 --> 00:32:01,200 here on this daughterboard. So everything that's on here is stuff that 425 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:07,360 runs off the PCH. And I'm not expecting then to find anything that runs off of 426 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:09,200 the PCH anywhere else inside the system. 427 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:12,960 Uh oh, I never did figure out what that So, one of them, yeah, one of them is 428 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:17,799 labeled uh PCH and the other one is labeled PC. No, they're both labeled 429 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:20,080 PCH, actually. Very cool. I love 430 00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:24,519 that. Hopefully, I didn't completely misinterpret what they did here, but I I 431 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:28,240 don't I don't think so. All right, now we are really getting 432 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:32,200 somewhere. So, the first thing I'm going to do is remove the rest of these uh 433 00:32:30,399 --> 00:32:36,799 these brackets here. Don't want them. I don't need 434 00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:41,840 them. I go, 435 00:32:46,039 --> 00:32:53,519 girlfriend. Wow. Lot of lot more screws than I had sort of anticipated. That's 436 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:56,480 okay. I will change the angle to mix things up for you guys. I'm just showing 437 00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:02,240 off at this point. I love this three camera setup actually. This makes it so 438 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:08,559 much easier for me to just work as opposed to trying to tinker around with 439 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:12,000 stupid stuff like uh oh well let me grab my webcam and oh now I only have one 440 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:17,039 hand to actually do things while I'm trying to show you guys something 441 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:19,440 stupid. Um one thing I don't like about 442 00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:24,399 this setup that you guys actually I don't think can see in any of the angles 443 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:29,279 um actually maybe you can see it in this one. Let me see. Yeah, this uh this 444 00:33:27,279 --> 00:33:33,399 wireless Bluetooth keyboard that I'm using to change scenes, it's broken in 445 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:37,840 the weirdest way. Um something about the power delivery is 446 00:33:36,559 --> 00:33:44,640 broken on it. So, we even tried replacing the battery. That didn't fix it at all. So, it won't hold a charge. 447 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:47,159 It won't operate um it won't operate on 448 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:51,519 on battery at all. Even with a brand new one, even with one charged in our other 449 00:33:50,159 --> 00:33:56,960 identical unit, like if the battery is charged up, that doesn't help. And get this, and people are going to call BS on 450 00:33:55,519 --> 00:34:02,399 this, and I don't blame you because I would too. It only works if it's plugged 451 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:07,039 into the wall. I cannot plug it into a battery bank. Not even a good battery 452 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:12,800 bank. Not even a 2 amp battery bank. Doesn't matter. I must plug it into the 453 00:34:09,599 --> 00:34:14,320 wall in order for it to operate at all. 454 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,760 And that's actually one delayed the stream by another 5 minutes or so 455 00:34:15,919 --> 00:34:21,440 because I accidentally unplugged it, which unpairs it, and then it kind of 456 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:26,000 flakes out. So, I had to I had to completely restart everything. Re-plug 457 00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:31,359 in the Bluetooth dongle, re undo the Anyway, um yeah, so I have to like I 458 00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:35,040 that's why the the connector is taped in there. Um it would be really nice if I 459 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:41,040 was able to have a wireless one like I use for the main set, but that one's paired to our our camera, so I I have 460 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:47,040 not done that. Okay, so all those brackets are off, but that doesn't seem 461 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,399 to help us much. Maybe I'll leave it to 462 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:53,760 you guys. Do you want to see Do you guys want to see Yeah, 463 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:58,480 everyone's calling BS on me. I don't even care. Um, do you guys want to see 464 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:01,920 the CPU off first or the GPU off? No. You know what? I don't think I'm going 465 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:08,720 to get the CPU off first. So, forget it. It's a lie. Fine. Let's stick with this. 466 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:12,160 The right side or the left side? Come 467 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:15,760 on, guys. Right side. Left side. Right 468 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:17,800 side. Left side. Right side. Left side. 469 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:23,920 Which one you want? Right or left? Damn, I hate this uh stream delay. 470 00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:29,440 Everyone's asking for the CPU. Damn, I hate Twitch chat. I'm just going to pick 471 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:31,599 one. You guys are so useless sometimes. 472 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:37,359 Um I love you dearly, but man, are you guys useless sometimes. 473 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:38,960 Uh such trolls. Such trolls. So, let's 474 00:35:37,359 --> 00:35:42,760 go ahead. I'm going to start removing GPU screws here. 475 00:35:43,839 --> 00:35:51,880 Everyone calling for the bottom. Free the bottom. Wow. Was that 476 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:56,640 it? Hold on a second. Where? Which screws hold this 477 00:35:54,400 --> 00:36:00,960 in? It's actually very hard for me to tell. Okay, so this is interesting. 478 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:04,560 Ouch. I'm going to cut myself on one of these heat sinks for sure. So, aside 479 00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:12,240 from the screw holding it in, I don't know how well you guys can see this. And you know what? I could zoom this 480 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:15,280 actually.Oop boop. Yeah. Oh man, I love 481 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:18,400 this setup. Okay. So, there we go. Get 482 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:21,520 that focus. Come on, baby. Come on, 483 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,920 baby. Nice. So, there's the screw I just 484 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:28,240 removed uh right there with the uh the copper visible around it. Right next to 485 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:31,920 it is a little tab that actually keeps you from sliding the GPU out, even if 486 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:38,800 you do have the screw removed. So, I'm going to be have to be really careful with this to make sure that I get not 487 00:36:35,119 --> 00:36:44,000 only all of the screws, but also all of 488 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:44,000 the little tabs that go with them. 489 00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:53,960 H sorry guys, I'm going to have to stall for time because I'm the most stumped 490 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:56,880 that I have been so 491 00:36:53,960 --> 00:37:02,160 far. Which doesn't mean stumped to be very clear. That does not mean stumped. 492 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:11,960 You know what? I think what I actually need to do here is remove this 493 00:37:06,119 --> 00:37:14,599 entire black PCB in order to get at the 494 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:20,800 module that holds the MXM, the green MXM uh graphics 495 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,200 card. So, let's have a look 496 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,240 here. Mhm. 497 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:41,480 That looks pretty loose. Let's go ahead and try popping it 498 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:44,560 off. Nothing to really brace myself on, 499 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:47,200 unfortunately. Okay, not stressful at 500 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:52,680 all. I mean, it's only a what, $4,000 computer? No big deal. One more screw. 501 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:58,480 Oops. Didn't see that one. Her derp. 502 00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:00,520 Okay. Come on, baby. 503 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:05,839 Don't tease me like that. Oh, I've got a ribbon cable here. 504 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:15,200 Oh, shoot. What is that connected to? Oh, we got some ribbon cable action. So, 505 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:18,400 oh. Oh, it's an SLI bridge. Interesting. 506 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:20,960 Okay. Well, that makes sense. I mean, 507 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:26,400 that was bound to be in there. I really thought NVIDIA was going to drop the 508 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,920 whole SLI bridge pretense at some point here. 509 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:34,079 They still claim that there's some high-speed communication that they do 510 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:40,560 over it, but that interface is really not very fast by modern standards. Um, I 511 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:47,520 mean, we're talking SLI bridge came about back in the PCI Express 512 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:49,800 1.0A or whatever days, back in the back 513 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:55,280 in the age of the dinosaur when I was a computer 514 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:58,520 enthusiast. All right? because, you know, the internet would 515 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:02,560 have you believe that I am no longer an enthusiast. I've lost my touch, you 516 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:05,920 know. Whoops. Oh, I'm sorry about that. If people get motion sick, I'm sure 517 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:09,359 they're motion sick now. Okay, so let's try and pop this other PCB off. See if 518 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,320 we can remove both graphics cards at the same time, which is funny because that's what some of the trolls in Twitch chat 519 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:18,800 were telling me to do. I hate it when they're right. That's the worst. Hold 520 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:23,200 on. I need a plastic prying tool. I'm actually going to do this one properly 521 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:26,160 because um I'm a little bit worried about what I'm prying on 522 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:35,160 here. Shoot. There we go. All 523 00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:40,520 right. Okay. Okay. So, let's pull those 524 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:46,040 graphics cards off. Oh, there we go. Oh, thing of 525 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:52,040 beauty. Wonderful. So, let's put the base aside for a 526 00:39:49,839 --> 00:39:59,720 second here. Just going to put this over here. Oh, they fell. Okay. Um Okay, 527 00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:03,520 let's investigate. 528 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:06,520 Ah. Mhm. Damn it. They scratched my 529 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,520 laptop. 530 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:19,880 Well, things I do for you guys. All 531 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:25,800 right, so I really don't know if I'm going to go 532 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:30,240 to the trouble to remove that SLI bridge. 533 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:34,800 Um, I mean, unless you guys peer pressured me into it, then we'll then we 534 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:40,160 would we would see. But let's have a look at first the more boring of the 535 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:44,800 two actually. Oh, what the hey. Let's just let's just keep tearing, shall we? 536 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:49,320 Okay, so first I need to label these screws I took out. So, um, these are for 537 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:56,240 the GPU daughter 538 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:58,760 boards. All right. All right. All right. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Shut up, 539 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:04,319 Twitch chat. Okay. Where do we start? 540 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:08,960 Let's start with the simpler one. So, I'll start with the one that does not 541 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:13,000 have um additional stuff on it. This one 542 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:16,560 appears to be just straight MXM 543 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:29,040 module. So, let's pull the heat sink off the GPU. That's a big beefy heat sink on 544 00:41:26,319 --> 00:41:32,640 here, man. I mean, compared to what you would 545 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:36,160 normally see in a laptop, but then, you know, with how quiet the fan is, I 546 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:40,640 suspect it's not getting like a whole ton of air flow. So, let's have a look 547 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:45,200 at uh let's have a look at that heat sink, then, shall we? Check this out. 548 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:50,000 So, we've got a total of three heat pipes. It's using what appears to be a 549 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:53,599 vapor chamber down here. So, that spreads out the heat from the GPU so 550 00:41:51,839 --> 00:41:57,839 that each heat pipe sort of gets an equal amount of it to disperse. Then two 551 00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:04,000 of the heat pipes are connected simply to this um this thinner part of the heat 552 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:09,760 sink assembly right here with a third one dedicated to bringing heat out to 553 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:12,240 what is actually probably about I'd say 554 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:18,000 40% of the overall mass of the heat sink. Remember removing heat is 555 00:42:14,079 --> 00:42:19,520 basically surface area and yeah 556 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:24,079 basically surface area. So that's probably given the identical thickness 557 00:42:21,839 --> 00:42:29,280 of the material, more mass equals more surface area in this case. 558 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:32,319 Um, interesting. And you've got a little pad here for keeping the mounting 559 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:39,520 pressure even, I guess, because you got a lot of I don't know, weight here. Anyway, okay. So, that gives us a better 560 00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:42,240 look at the MXM module, which unfortunately is kind of hard for me to 561 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:46,079 lift right now because they're attached by the SLI bridge, but you can see 562 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:50,720 there's your uh Oh, and I'm going to screw this up. 563 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:52,480 GM204 if I recall correctly. I can never 564 00:42:50,720 --> 00:43:00,160 remember the code names. Whatever. It's a GTX 980 right there. And then around 565 00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:02,319 it is actually 8 gigs of GDDDR5 memory. 566 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:06,319 So, I'm going to see if pulling off this heat spreader gives us a bit of a better 567 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,319 look at 568 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:19,680 that. Oh, there's another warranty void to remove sticker. Ha. Eat it. 569 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:24,920 Hey, Luke. You look stressed. 570 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:30,200 Oh, I was hoping that he wasn't stressed and that he just looked 571 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:35,599 stressed, but he was. H. So, that's not popping off very 572 00:43:33,599 --> 00:43:41,680 easily. I hope I'm not going to need like a heat gun or anything. Oh, no. 573 00:43:38,319 --> 00:43:44,160 There it goes. Boom. Okay. So, let's get 574 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:48,560 you guys a good look at that. So, you go. There's all your There's all your 575 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:51,119 thermal pads. Pretty much this entire 576 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:54,760 aluminum heat spreader is covered in thermal pad 577 00:43:53,000 --> 00:44:01,119 material. Um, you can see what it's for. So, what 578 00:43:58,319 --> 00:44:06,640 would normally be a massive, you know, 10 and 1/2 in graphics card with a 579 00:44:03,119 --> 00:44:10,000 cooler this thick on it is now this tiny 580 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:11,440 thing. So, I'm not sure if the memory 581 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:16,079 modules are double-sided. We're going to pull this off and we're going to find out later. But there's some of your 582 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:22,280 DDDR5 memory. There's the GPU I showed you before. And this is the VRM. So 583 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:24,839 that's the power delivery. Now, 584 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:29,920 normally, huh, that's interesting. Yeah. Normally in a desktop computer, it looks 585 00:44:27,839 --> 00:44:38,040 like I'm going to need a special tool for this socket 586 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:38,040 tool. No, I need a bigger one. 587 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:45,560 Normally in a desktop computer, a GTX 980 class card would have um an external 588 00:44:43,839 --> 00:44:51,000 PCI Express power connector, but here everything seems to 589 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:55,359 come from the MXM slot. I don't know much about MXM, like 590 00:44:53,839 --> 00:45:00,480 I don't know if it has additional power pins or anything like that. Um but here, 591 00:44:59,119 --> 00:45:08,200 so I'll try and give you guys as good a look at this as possible. There you 592 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:12,720 go. There you go. The SLI connector is 593 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:14,720 free, which gives us a great look at uh 594 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:20,400 I'm going to bore you guys first. So, here here's the MXM 595 00:45:17,319 --> 00:45:24,000 slot. Here is what appears to be a PCI 596 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:26,319 Express 16X slot that is leading over to 597 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:32,319 the uh the bottom PCB, which we'll get to later in the main uh in the main sort 598 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:36,720 of well bottom of the chassis. Okay, so this is this is the daughterboard that 599 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:41,040 has one job and that is you can actually see there's no traces here really like 600 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:45,359 there's almost nothing going on here. Um, so it has pretty much one job to 601 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:51,280 take PCI Express 16X and turn it into pretty much PCI Express 16X. So this 602 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:55,680 card, uh, here I'm just going to spread these 603 00:45:53,359 --> 00:46:01,440 out. So this card has to be much more power efficient than a desktop GTX 980 604 00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:05,280 would be. All right, let's have a look at the 605 00:46:02,599 --> 00:46:09,040 back. Yes, this Wow, this is a really I mean I know some of the weight is this 606 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:16,599 heat spreader that's still on the back, but this is a very heavy 607 00:46:11,839 --> 00:46:20,359 um heavy PCB. There's a lot of lot of 608 00:46:16,599 --> 00:46:23,359 copper. You'll never catch me 609 00:46:20,359 --> 00:46:23,359 copper. All 610 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:31,760 right, there is no way I'm going to be able to put this back together. I'm not 611 00:46:28,319 --> 00:46:31,760 paying close enough attention. 612 00:46:32,079 --> 00:46:40,640 Oh well, it is what it is. So, more thermal 613 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:44,760 pads. There we are. More heat spreader. 614 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:48,359 And it turns out that yes, indeed you 615 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:51,560 do. There is more memory on the 616 00:46:48,359 --> 00:46:53,440 back. Oh, more VRM junk, too. 617 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:58,800 Interesting. Brandon, you ever seen a GTX 980 this big? Oh, that is really 618 00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:04,800 small. Yeah. That's what she said. Impressive. Small, 619 00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:06,400 but powerful and impressive. 620 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:10,160 All right. So, let's put that baby over there. And do you guys really want to 621 00:47:08,319 --> 00:47:13,760 see me take apart the other one? I mean, do I really have to do two of the 622 00:47:11,839 --> 00:47:16,160 basically the same thing or can I just show you the differences on this one? I 623 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:20,079 think I should just show you the differences and then we'll uh Oh, sorry. I'm talking to the wrong camera. I think 624 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:27,440 I'm just going to show you the differences on this one and then move on because there's not a whole lot more a 625 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:31,359 whole lot more to it as far as I can tell. I'm just going to kind of sneak a 626 00:47:29,839 --> 00:47:35,640 peek under there and see if maybe there's like some kind of a some kind of 627 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:41,040 a PCI Express hub or some kind of thing like 628 00:47:39,119 --> 00:47:47,079 that that's going on, but it really doesn't look like it. Like what I do 629 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:50,400 suspect is that since this is a 630 00:47:47,079 --> 00:47:55,119 Z170based system, each of these GPUs is 631 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:56,880 only running at PCIe 8X speed anyway. So 632 00:47:55,119 --> 00:48:00,760 what I suspect has happened since you guys may or may not have noticed that 633 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:06,160 this one actually has two M.2 634 00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:10,960 slots. There you go. So those are for PCI Express SSDs. What I suspect that 635 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:15,200 MSI has done is they have played some clever games with this not being a real 636 00:48:13,119 --> 00:48:19,520 PCIe16x um electrically slot and they've just 637 00:48:18,079 --> 00:48:22,640 kind of gone, okay, well, we're going to reuse a slot that we have lots of in 638 00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:26,640 inventory anyway and we're going to completely rewire everything and um 639 00:48:25,359 --> 00:48:30,960 we're going to have our we're going to have our PCI Express hub or our PCI 640 00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:36,079 Express switch or whatever else it is that we have over somewhere else. Um, 641 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:41,200 and that is how they're able to get the bandwidth that they need to run two of 642 00:48:38,319 --> 00:48:50,400 these PCI Express SSDs. Incidentally, these are what are they? Model MZ 643 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:53,760 VPV1280. Oh, S SM951. So, these are 644 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:55,559 Samsung's older NVMe drive, not the 950 645 00:48:53,760 --> 00:49:00,000 Pro, the new flagship. All right, so let's go ahead 646 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:04,920 and put that aside for now. Oh, we are running out of 647 00:49:01,319 --> 00:49:08,400 space. And let's get back to the main 648 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:10,960 kahuna. Let's get my fan over here. This 649 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:16,559 heat sink over here, this one over here, and this one over here. All 650 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:18,079 right, so now this doesn't have a lot of 651 00:49:16,559 --> 00:49:23,440 This doesn't have a lot of structural rigidity to it, does it? I wonder if I 652 00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:27,520 can just like pull the whole thing right off. 653 00:49:25,599 --> 00:49:31,599 I mean, if I could, that would probably be a terrible idea, but um hey, hey, it 654 00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:38,319 wouldn't be the first time I did something that was a terrible idea. All right, so let's remove the CPU heat sink 655 00:49:35,839 --> 00:49:38,319 first, I 656 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:50,040 guess. Oh, good. Captive thumb screws. 657 00:49:47,599 --> 00:49:55,280 Love it. Or not thumb screw, captive screws. Wow. Whoever put this thing 658 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:58,559 together really uh gave it a beating around the screw holes 659 00:49:58,599 --> 00:50:04,400 here. Doesn't really seem necessary. There's a lot of There's a There's a big 660 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:09,880 opening there. Unless they had like a powered screwdriver or something that had a really short bit on it and they 661 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:14,280 were kind of trying to mash it in there. That's probably what happened 662 00:50:12,359 --> 00:50:19,200 actually. Okay, so there you 663 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:22,720 go. We are There's not a whole lot of surface area to this. You can see 664 00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:28,480 actually, and this is true of the GPU heat sinks as well, you can see that MSI 665 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:33,200 intends to keep the air flow going through the system quite uh quite low. 666 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:38,160 So, they're counting on keeping the RPM of the fan low, but the overall air flow 667 00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:42,400 high enough to to cool these things very quietly. If you have a heat sink that's 668 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:46,400 optimized for high RPM, high static pressure fans, it's going to have a much 669 00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:53,240 more dense fin arrangement than this one. So, um, yeah, MSI is just kind of 670 00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:59,920 going for gold here with what for a a 6700K is actually a very, um, small heat 671 00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:04,800 sink. So, they're they're really counting on that fan to be very, very 672 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:06,880 efficient. Um, also here, so we've got 673 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:09,520 the 6700 K that I just mentioned. I'm not going to take that out. You guys 674 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:12,720 have seen me take out a CPU a million times. I'm not going to not going to 675 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:17,040 bother risking damaging any of the pins or anything. Uh, but you can see here 676 00:51:14,559 --> 00:51:21,760 we've got the VRM for the motherboard. We've got, um, I'm going to have to 677 00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:27,040 figure out where power goes in at some point. Here we've got what looks like 678 00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:30,319 another physical PCI Express 16x slot 679 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:32,319 right here. We've got Oh, cool. So, 680 00:51:30,319 --> 00:51:38,240 we've got the other end of that PCH ribbon cable right here. So, that's what 681 00:51:35,359 --> 00:51:44,559 is taking the Yep. So, you can actually see the traces here. It looks like Oh, 682 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,559 hold on. Maybe not. 683 00:51:45,599 --> 00:51:51,599 Shoot. Sorry, I'm not sure. I thought this was the DMI interface coming off 684 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:54,960 the CPU and coming down to here, but I could be wrong. Don't quote me on that. 685 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:59,200 So, what's interesting here though is anything mounted on this board would 686 00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:04,480 have to be attached directly to the CPU. So, the CPU has the U memory controller. 687 00:52:02,319 --> 00:52:08,720 So that's why your four sodium memory modules, in this case they're each 8 688 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:14,400 gigs, giving us a total of 32 gigs, are going to be uh connected directly to the 689 00:52:11,599 --> 00:52:21,440 CPU. And then the other thing is the PCI Express controller. So that's where that 690 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:23,200 comes in down there. Then DMI. So yeah, 691 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:28,240 there's pretty much actually nothing nothing on there because the PCH is what 692 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:34,800 has all your USB, your SATA, your Ethernet, and all that kind of nonsense. 693 00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:38,480 Cool. I hope this is as interesting for you guys as it is for me because I'm 694 00:52:36,319 --> 00:52:43,160 having a blast. Actually, this is what I wanted to do back at CES and they 695 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:45,559 wouldn't let me. The bastards. Um, oh 696 00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:49,839 crap. Oh, this was bound to happen eventually. Where are these screws from? 697 00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:57,839 Oh, they're from the GPU. So, let's label that 698 00:52:52,839 --> 00:52:59,119 MX M. Boom. All right. So top down view 699 00:52:57,839 --> 00:53:04,720 is actually probably good for you guys right now because it gives us some idea of what's going on with this. So this 700 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:10,720 looks like a support brace for the power supply and no it's it's no no that's the 701 00:53:08,079 --> 00:53:15,599 support brace for those other two. Ah I see uh for those other two daughter 702 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:21,200 boards that have the GPUs on them. So I think we actually have to take it 703 00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:25,240 apart in order to pull them off and then they should slide out for us. 704 00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,119 Oh, two 705 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:45,079 screws. Where's all the green stuff you promised? Hey, this computer has NVIDIA 706 00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:49,480 graphics cards in it. I'm staying true to my 707 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:55,200 word. All right, so there's those guys giving us a 708 00:53:53,359 --> 00:54:03,200 really good look at the power supply. So, chickeny power technology 709 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:07,800 uh DC output 457 watt. Huh. Just like 710 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:10,839 that. Eh, 37.5 amps on the 12vt 711 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:14,640 rail. But how do you plug 712 00:54:10,839 --> 00:54:14,640 in? Well, let's find 713 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:23,640 out. This explains why the power connector is on in the middle of the 714 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:25,520 bottom like it is though, which is 715 00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:29,440 interesting because that's where the power supply is. It's right up the 716 00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,440 middle of the 717 00:54:32,119 --> 00:54:40,800 unit. Poor MSI. I am definitely not putting this 718 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,800 back together. Far too many 719 00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:49,359 screws. Oh, okay. Okay, we just got to look at the uh there's the ground for 720 00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,359 the 721 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:58,160 chassis. So, that's going to be connected to the uh the ground prong of 722 00:54:54,319 --> 00:54:58,160 the power plug that we will eventually 723 00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:11,599 find. Someone in the chat just spelled a wrong. Can we ban that guy? Just like 724 00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:14,240 that. A like like capital A. It's 725 00:55:11,599 --> 00:55:19,000 spelled eh actually. All right. Sorry. I'll cut back to the angle that shows us 726 00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:23,920 anything cool here. Um, 727 00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,920 okay. 728 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,000 Interesting. 729 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:38,240 So, yeah, I'm going to need uh I'm going 730 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:42,800 to need some clever cleverness here, which is unfortunate because I don't 731 00:55:39,599 --> 00:55:44,400 have a lot of that. So, I gota I've got 732 00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:51,440 to hit this clip. Hopefully, I can give you guys a better look at this. Let's have a Let's see if we can. Okay. So, in 733 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:55,119 there, I've got kind of like a like a computer power supply type connector. 734 00:55:54,000 --> 00:56:00,319 Hopefully, you guys can see that. So, I've got to press this clip while pulling on it to get 735 00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:07,520 the Oh, well, that was easy. Okay. So, 736 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:10,319 there. So, these are the There's the AC 737 00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:15,599 power in. So that's just wired up directly to that plug in the middle. And 738 00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:19,880 then there's the third prong. So that's uh that's the ground wire going to the 739 00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:23,400 chassis. Just like that. All 740 00:56:21,799 --> 00:56:31,040 right. Then this is interesting. the whole 741 00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:32,200 power supply. And this like I'm sure the 742 00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:37,480 electrical engineers watching this are going to be, 743 00:56:35,119 --> 00:56:42,559 you know, snickering at me or whatever, but this blows me 744 00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:45,040 away. Uh, hold on. You know, no, I'm going to I'm going to do one more thing 745 00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:50,440 before I talk about it, though, because it looks like it is actually finally 746 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:52,720 time to take 747 00:56:50,440 --> 00:57:00,160 off the main board. So, I'm just going to pull out this PCH connector here. 748 00:56:56,160 --> 00:57:00,160 And oh no, I got to undo that 749 00:57:08,359 --> 00:57:14,520 ground. Oh, shoot. And I gota actually I should do a round of labeling, too. What 750 00:57:12,319 --> 00:57:20,839 the hell is all this stuff? Um, PSU PSU as far as I can 751 00:57:19,359 --> 00:57:24,839 remember. Uh, ground 752 00:57:25,559 --> 00:57:30,640 Okay. So, back to that angle. Oh. Oh, 753 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:35,040 ball sack. Okay. Well, now there's another thing I have to undo. I got to 754 00:57:33,119 --> 00:57:37,799 do these two screws right here, I think. Although, I may only have to loosen 755 00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:42,240 them. I might even have to take those out. It looks like they just prevent it 756 00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:44,640 from sliding forward. Nope. No. I'll just pull them 757 00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:54,839 out. Okay. Oh, no. Those weren't from the 758 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:56,839 power supply. These were from the 759 00:57:54,839 --> 00:58:03,480 PSU. Whoops. 760 00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:05,480 Bracket. Boom. And then these are from 761 00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:08,480 the motherboard 762 00:58:09,079 --> 00:58:17,520 support base. 763 00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:17,520 Okay. Okay. For real this time. Here we 764 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:24,559 go. So, there it is. That is the closest 765 00:58:22,079 --> 00:58:29,520 thing that this device has to a mainboard. So, it's got a skeleton 766 00:58:27,599 --> 00:58:35,760 uh back plate thing here that's actually attached to the main board with the uh 767 00:58:32,799 --> 00:58:40,319 the socket hold down screws. So, that's these screws right here that actually 768 00:58:37,839 --> 00:58:44,160 keep the the socket cover on. I have never seen that before. So, that's 769 00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:50,079 different. A lot of stuff about this thing that's different. Um, these are 770 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:51,599 the hinges that those two uh they make a 771 00:58:50,079 --> 00:58:56,280 triangle here. So, they they come out like this that the two support braces 772 00:58:53,359 --> 00:59:00,240 for the GPUs attach to. And then uh there's that PCH connector that I was 773 00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:07,920 trying to show you guys before, but it's kind of hard with it attached to the base. And uh yeah, very cool. And 774 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:12,960 there's that. See, it looks just like a standard graphics card connector PCI 775 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:16,000 Express 16x. But of course, you know, a connector is just a physical connector. 776 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,960 A wire is just a wire. So, they can rewire it for whatever they want if 777 00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:25,040 they're going to if they're going to go full custom on something like this. 778 00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:29,760 Okay, which leads us to the thing that blew my mind a second ago when I was 779 00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:34,799 talking about the power supply. And this this runs sort of, you know, everyone's 780 00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:37,520 trying to sell us on, you know, um like 781 00:59:34,799 --> 00:59:40,720 PCI Express 8pin connectors have always been something that have kind of baffled 782 00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:45,559 me because I'm looking at it going, "Okay, so it's rated for I forget what 783 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:50,799 the numbers are, but it's like 275 watts now versus 150 watts TDP or 784 00:59:49,599 --> 00:59:55,200 whatever the numbers are. It's like significantly more. Like a PCIe 8 pin is 785 00:59:53,680 --> 01:00:02,319 rated to deliver significantly more power than a six pin." I'm looking at it going, all you've done is add two 786 00:59:58,599 --> 01:00:05,400 grounds. You didn't actually add another 787 01:00:02,319 --> 01:00:08,960 12vt wire. And I mean, my understanding 788 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:11,680 of the capacity of a connection to carry 789 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:15,280 DC current is that it pretty much comes down to the gauge of the wire and how 790 01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:18,640 many of them there are. Um, and so in the desktop, we're trying to be 791 01:00:17,119 --> 01:00:22,319 convinced all over the place that we need these like massive power supplies 792 01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:28,280 and like the all these like massive wires and all these connections. And then I'm sitting here looking at this 793 01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:34,760 going like, are you kidding me? This is the only connection between 794 01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:39,960 the 457 watt power 795 01:00:37,079 --> 01:00:45,079 supply. That's it. This is the only connection and the entire rest of the 796 01:00:42,319 --> 01:00:50,720 system. this connector. This I'm going to zoom in so 797 01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:56,400 you guys can grasp the full the full amaze ballsness of what I'm showing you 798 01:00:52,799 --> 01:00:56,400 right now. 799 01:00:56,599 --> 01:01:03,359 This if I could focus on it that would be great. Thanks camera. I hate 800 01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:12,880 you. Um well maybe if I zoom out a little bit 801 01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:15,280 more. Sometimes it has trouble focusing. 802 01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:22,599 Can you focus? I'm trying to make a point here. There we go. This powers the 803 01:01:20,319 --> 01:01:27,920 entire system. Everything. 12volt rail, 5vt rail, 3.3 804 01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:33,839 volt rail, all the grounds, all the GPUs, the CPU, 805 01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:36,960 everything. Does the whole thing. How is that? How is that even 806 01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:46,280 possible? So, there you go. 807 01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:49,200 which leaves us finally with the base. 808 01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:55,400 Um, and this pretty much just acts as like a as like a traffic traffic control 809 01:01:52,359 --> 01:01:58,480 station. Uh, so you can see we've got 810 01:01:55,400 --> 01:02:00,960 the the power just comes through there. 811 01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:06,799 Okay. Power goes in here. So this is what routes power to this PCIe 16x 812 01:02:04,319 --> 01:02:11,920 physical interface, this 16x physical interface, and this 16x physical 813 01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:16,640 interface. This goes off to the CPU and then this goes off to the two GPUs. One 814 01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:19,680 of them goes to that M.2 slot. Um, and then you've got all these little ribbon 815 01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:24,000 connectors that go to a bunch of places that I forget now because it's been a 816 01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:29,000 long time since I started doing this. Uh, which I guess kind of concludes our 817 01:02:25,839 --> 01:02:33,359 stream. So, thank you for tuning in to 818 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:35,839 this complete tearown of the MSI Vortex 819 01:02:33,359 --> 01:02:38,079 G65. I hope you guys enjoyed it. But if you didn't, of course, you can dislike 820 01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:42,799 the video. That is to say if you're watching it on YouTube later. But if you did, you can like the video, you can get 821 01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:45,520 subscribed, you can buy a cool shirt like this one to show your support for 822 01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:50,160 Linus Tech Tips, you can shop at Amazon using our affiliate code. Instructions will be up there. Or you can just join 823 01:02:48,799 --> 01:02:55,599 our community forum and like check it out, ask some questions, answer some questions, maybe even become a contrib. 824 01:02:53,920 --> 01:03:00,160 It helps us fund the forum and keep the whole show on the road. Not to say that 825 01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:05,200 we go on the road very often, although I did recently. I went to New York, so that was on the road and I did do show 826 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:09,280 things there. And now I've kind of lost track of what I was talking about. I have a standard outro and I Right. Yes, 827 01:03:08,079 --> 01:03:13,280 we have other videos you can watch. Maybe check out our last live machine 828 01:03:11,599 --> 01:03:17,039 disassembly where I did the seven gamers one CPU machine which we will hopefully 829 01:03:15,119 --> 01:03:22,319 have linked up there on the YouTubes. Thanks for watching guys and I will see 830 01:03:18,799 --> 01:03:25,319 you again next time. See if this hotkey 831 01:03:22,319 --> 01:03:25,319 works.