WEBVTT 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:09.519 All right. So, assuming all of that worked, I am now 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:13.200 live. Live doing something that I have 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:18.760 wanted to do for a long time. Ever since 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:22.039 CES 2016 when I got my first look at the 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:23.560 marvelous, the magnificent, the 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:30.480 majestic MSI 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:32.480 G65 Vortex gaming computer. 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 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 00:00:38.559 --> 00:00:46.320 find out exactly what makes this thing tick with three camera angles. Yes, my 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:50.320 friends, I have a dedicated close-up cam. I took all the feedback you gave me 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:55.360 from my last live stream where I had like the world's shoddiest webcam as 00:00:52.480 --> 00:01:00.830 like my close-up and I uh made it even better. So without any further ado, 00:00:59.120 --> 00:01:05.779 let's get 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:13.920 started. Tunnel Bear is the easy to use 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 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.479 countries. Learn more and try Tunnel Bear for free at the link in the video 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:26.799 description. Yeah, without any further ado, let's start opening this baby up. 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:31.680 Now, I actually have a full disassembly guide provided by MSI, which is funny 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 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 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:44.079 it to the greatest extent that I possibly can. So, here on the bottom, 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 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, 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.960 no nothing. just the power input down there. I actually really like the way 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 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:06.399 cable management. It's funny for my review of this device. Um, they actually 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:09.920 took it apart in my absence. I have never seen the inside of it yet, even 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:13.680 though our review actually has internal shots. So, uh, so there you go. So, I'm 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.800 looking forward to checking that out. Um, other than that, there's just IO. 00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:20.239 There's six uh security torque screws on 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:25.440 the back. So, you will need something like an iFixit tool kit in order to take 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:31.280 this baby apart. And other than that, there's nothing. See, the top is just 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:36.319 just plain. Bottom's plain. Front just has these plastic panels. So, without 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 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:45.360 two iix it kits. This stream brought to you by iFixit. Actually, no. They 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:51.680 haven't sponsored anything with us in a long time. But it's like 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:53.519 realistically, well, like I lose track 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:57.680 of what camera I'm talking to. Hello. Uh, realistically, I What else am I 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 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:06.879 the kit of theirs that I already had and already used for everything. Actually, 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:13.760 speaking of, uh, speaking of I fix it and them not sponsoring this stream, 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:17.519 where is my Ah, yes. Here's my other 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:19.800 handy dandy thing from from those guys 00:03:17.519 --> 00:03:25.840 which doesn't have the pen. Why can no one keep anything where 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 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 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:38.680 it's supposed to have one of those overhead projector pens for those of you 00:03:36.959 --> 00:03:44.640 who are old enough to remember overhead projectors. And I don't see it. This is 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 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:57.519 Brandon, could you obtain me a dry erase marker? Be a dear. There's one behind 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:00.720 you. Actually, very close to you. Yes, that would be perfect. And if that one 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, 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:13.760 that really, really does not work very well. Um, but we're going to have to 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 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:23.040 help me keep track of my screws so that I don't accidentally lose 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:26.639 them. Even better than a magnetic parts tray. I wish it was more magnetic. 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:32.160 That's sort of the one thing that I could that I could complain about, but 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 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:40.560 that I'm doing here. Sorry. My my monitors for the stream are my laptop, 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:45.280 which is next to me on my right here, right actually under the camera you guys 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:48.360 are looking at, and then also the 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:50.520 computer that 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:55.120 is over over there. So, I'm going to be 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:58.880 kind of looking all over the place during the stream, but I'll do my best 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:04.240 to keep that as nondistracting as I possibly can. I am sort of new to this 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:06.720 whole u you know, multicamming it myself thing. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:14.240 One thing I think I would like to adjust though is that camera's position above 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 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:23.840 there's much that I can do about that right 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:26.240 now. Okay. 1 2 3 4 5 and six. I hate 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:30.479 security torques. It's one of those things where 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 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:38.600 for normal people who don't have a bunch of, you know, tools designed for taking 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:42.320 apart electric gizmos. Um like it's it's it's bad enough to 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 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:54.720 piece is off. So that warranty sticker is already uh tampered as hell. So why 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 00:05:57.919 --> 00:06:05.360 my warranty is void now. Anyway, um that that's from John 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 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:16.400 at the first plastic piece that I've taken off here. So, actually this Oh, is 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:20.120 this one metal? No, it couldn't be, could 00:06:18.280 --> 00:06:26.240 it? Interesting. I can't I actually can't 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:29.199 tell, which is pretty unusual for me. I 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:33.199 think it is. No, can't be. Wait. Oh, okay. So, 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, 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:42.560 those are just kind of like transparent uh transparent strips here. And then um 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:47.440 yeah, or actually I don't even know if there's lighting in that part. Maybe. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:50.680 Okay. Hard to say. Whatever. There. Now, we don't have that anymore. Okay. So, 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 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:59.880 more screws here. So, there's one here and here. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:05.880 Let's tamper that warranty some more. Uh, yep. There we 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:10.240 go. Boom. Come on out, you magnetic 00:07:10.840 --> 00:07:20.680 bastard. There we go. And this guy. So, this will take off 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:22.720 hopefully that uh MSI Dragon 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 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:34.800 screw. Uh uh oh. Oh, there it is. Ha. All is 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:36.960 well. Yes, for now. Plenty of time to 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:40.680 screw that up later. So, I'm going to call this 00:07:38.039 --> 00:07:46.240 next to 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:48.919 dragon. Dragon. Hopefully that someone 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:55.759 knows what that means. Okay, that didn't really seem to do a 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:57.840 whole lot though. I am not able to 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:03.759 really remove anything extra that I couldn't remove before. I've got a 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:06.280 couple screws right down here that I can 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. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:16.879 Oh, all right. Well, that was easy. Oh, 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 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 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:30.319 clean seamless outer shell. But 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:34.320 like these uh Oh wow. I think I just popped that right off. But these uh 00:08:32.560 --> 00:08:39.039 these screwless designs, they have to use all these really flimsy plastic 00:08:36.719 --> 00:08:42.839 clips, you know. I think I managed to not break any though so far. These ones 00:08:41.839 --> 00:08:47.600 all look intact. Uh that might have chipped. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:53.760 Actually hard to tell. These ones all look intact. Not bad. All right. Go T 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 00:08:56.640 --> 00:09:04.120 RGB LED. So I think this actually has to 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:07.120 sit under here. And that might have been 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:09.839 uh that might have been popped off as 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:13.440 sort of a derp when we were taking it apart and reassembling it. I'm actually 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 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:22.480 think it just sits down here. Uh, well, like I think I said 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 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 00:09:29.040 --> 00:09:35.839 exactly correctly. Uh, the other thing in here is power for that LED. So, you 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:41.839 can see there's a little lead right here that plugs into a 00:09:38.560 --> 00:09:45.600 uh there you go into a little spot on 00:09:41.839 --> 00:09:47.680 the highly custom uh PCB that they've 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:52.399 got going on right here. I mean, look at this 00:09:48.760 --> 00:09:53.240 thing. You've got uh what appears to be 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:59.680 an MXM slot. So, that would be for one of 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:04.200 the GTX 980s. Remember, these are 980s, 00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:06.720 not 980M. Then you've got um an M.2 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:10.399 slot. Then you've got whatever the devil this is. Looks like some kind of a 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:15.040 support brace. And then you've got like, you know, an RGB LED thing. H more 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:19.200 warranty stickers. Oh, I am totally totally taking that off. All right. So, 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:21.600 let's see if we can get the other side open 00:10:22.839 --> 00:10:28.560 here. H. The other one popped off kind 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 00:10:30.079 --> 00:10:36.880 is. Thought I I thought I lost the USB port. 00:10:37.640 --> 00:10:40.640 Mercy. 00:10:41.640 --> 00:10:48.040 Um. Oh. Okay. All right. Well, this will 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 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:58.800 similar. So, we've got another 00:10:54.760 --> 00:11:01.680 MXM graphics card or another MXM slot on 00:10:58.800 --> 00:11:05.760 another custom PCB. Uh, this one does not have an M.2 drive slot on it, 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 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:16.560 heat sink or have they actually created two separate heat 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:19.760 sinks? It appears to use Yes, it uses 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:21.839 exactly the same cooler module. So they 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 00:11:23.760 --> 00:11:31.920 suppose. And then the other thing that we get access to for the first time over 00:11:27.680 --> 00:11:34.480 here is the four sodium memory slots 00:11:31.920 --> 00:11:40.959 that are actually on a separate PCB yet again. So it looks like because PCBs are 00:11:37.880 --> 00:11:44.399 flat and not round, uh we're ending up 00:11:40.959 --> 00:11:46.160 with very similar to the um well the 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 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:58.079 surfaces with actually surprisingly little wasted space in this case uh due 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:03.279 to the curvature of the exterior. So check this out. You can actually see if 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 00:12:04.800 --> 00:12:11.279 round either. They actually kind of angled it a little bit in the places 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:15.760 where they could in order to um take advantage of things like the flat tops 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 00:12:20.160 --> 00:12:27.120 at the widest points you're going to find the corners of PCBs in all 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:31.519 likelihood. Let's see if that uh holds true. So over here actually no. Okay. So 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 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 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.920 right here at the front. So the graphics cards then here, just giving you guys a 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 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:54.959 front with uh the CPU junk and RAM junk 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 00:12:56.800 --> 00:13:02.959 don't think I had specifically pointed out before. And here's the first uh the 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:06.560 first hint at the nightmare that is to come. I mean, even compared to a laptop, 00:13:04.560 --> 00:13:10.240 this thing is going to be horrendous to uh take apart and put back together. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:14.399 There's one of those like awful ribbon cables that if you've ever disassembled, 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:19.519 you know, your cell phone or your tablet or or a particularly compact laptop, I'm 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:26.240 sure you've encountered. Um they are they are very fragile and can be can be 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:28.399 a bit of a pain to deal with. So, now 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:34.839 we've got all those stripped off. I need to find more screws to take 00:13:31.959 --> 00:13:43.120 apart. It looks to me as though there's got to be ways to 00:13:38.880 --> 00:13:43.120 strip off more of the outer 00:13:45.560 --> 00:13:52.160 chassis before we start pulling out 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:53.600 PCBs. So, I'm going to try I'm not sure 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 00:13:56.560 --> 00:13:59.279 right here. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.800 There we go. Oh, there's another one of 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:14.519 those uh there's another one of those little ribbon connectors. It's actually 00:14:11.040 --> 00:14:16.880 got a black tape over it in this case. 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 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 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:31.199 project like this. couple down here. Are they the same? 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:36.160 Yes, they are. Very nice. Okay. I always appreciate that. That's something that 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:37.800 just baffles me when I see it where 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:44.079 you'll have a single product and it'll have like for no 00:14:41.199 --> 00:14:48.399 apparent reason, it'll just have, you know, five different screw head types on 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 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:55.600 go, why? Like, isn't this more work for 00:14:54.079 --> 00:15:00.880 you, too? Every screw, every little tiny oop, 00:14:58.160 --> 00:15:06.480 there it goes. Every little tiny widget is a skew for you. You have to inventory 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 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:13.519 yours more difficult? All right. So, right here we've got the power button. 00:15:11.680 --> 00:15:18.959 So, that was plugged in with that little um that little sleeved ribbon cable 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 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 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:34.160 label these puppies. So, uh let's see. 00:15:31.160 --> 00:15:34.160 Front 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:40.399 fascia. Sure. 00:15:37.800 --> 00:15:43.880 Okay. Rock on. So, let's see what we're going to do next then. 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:55.160 I'd love to remove more of this back piece, but I'm not actually 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:58.720 sure how that's going to 00:15:55.160 --> 00:16:02.480 work. Let's see. So, there's some screws 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:04.720 down here. There's one, two right there. 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:09.600 Uh oh. Oh, look at that. This has already got some flex to it. So, maybe 00:16:06.959 --> 00:16:13.800 that is just a matter of popping out those screws down there. Let's find out. 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 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:30.240 plan on reassembling it. Well, um, I 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:33.600 don't know. I mean, Cliff from MSI, he 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:36.800 might get all like mad and threaten to 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:38.079 threaten to brutally harm me if uh if I 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 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 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 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. 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:58.079 Uh, all right. Let's have a look 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:00.079 here. So, this is definitely looser now. 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 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, 00:17:07.600 --> 00:17:15.520 you know? You know, like all the kids but 00:17:13.919 --> 00:17:21.120 the youngest one are moved out of the house. And you know, mama's like, 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:26.720 "Little Johnny, little Johnny, stay home. Just live with us 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:28.360 forever. I'm not ready to let go." 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:32.320 And little Johnny's like, 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 00:17:36.080 --> 00:17:42.000 she really wants me to move out with her." And mama says, "Johnny, you can 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 00:17:45.280 --> 00:17:52.440 she hates my waffles. I'll put up with her for you, Johnny. Just stay, 00:17:50.520 --> 00:18:00.160 Johnny." Um, I think this is still attached. 00:17:56.280 --> 00:18:02.480 So, let's go ahead and see if we can see 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:07.799 if we can remove maybe the top fan will come off 00:18:04.840 --> 00:18:14.039 next. H. So, we've got this little screw here. 00:18:11.360 --> 00:18:21.360 It's actually surprisingly few screw. Whoa, that just that just wanted to jump 00:18:17.600 --> 00:18:24.360 right off. It's like excited here, you 00:18:21.360 --> 00:18:24.360 know. 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:33.120 And it turns out I was totally 00:18:30.120 --> 00:18:35.760 misinformed. Nick tells me iFixit is 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:40.559 indeed the sponsor for today's video. So, let me tell you about them. 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I mean, this kit pays for itself after you pay one person to 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:04.160 repair one thing. So, totally worth it. I love 00:20:00.840 --> 00:20:04.160 it. Two 00:20:06.760 --> 00:20:13.200 screws. Hey. Hey. Just like that, ladies and gentlemen. 00:20:11.919 --> 00:20:16.559 Who am I kidding? There's no ladies watching. Um, all right. So, there's a 00:20:15.280 --> 00:20:19.919 couple things I'm gonna have to do before I can properly remove 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:28.640 this. So, this 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:32.520 um Ah, dang it. I need a flathead. I 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:35.440 need a flathead. There we go. Okay, so 00:20:32.520 --> 00:20:40.760 this and wireless antenna needs to pop off as does this one. So, it looks like 00:20:37.520 --> 00:20:43.080 MSI has 00:20:40.760 --> 00:20:46.720 um put their antenna. Oh, interesting. Oh, there's 00:20:45.840 --> 00:20:50.960 another thing I'm going to have to remove over here. Hold on. Sorry, guys. 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 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:58.360 something important. So, uh there's another little fragile connector over 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:04.320 here that I've got to remove. So, they've put their antennas 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.159 in the in the in the roof here. And then 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 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 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:18.720 is plugged in as well. This uh right right there. Hoping I'm getting you guys 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. 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:26.400 Oh, interesting. Okay. What we also have here Wow, there's like four leads to 00:21:23.840 --> 00:21:32.480 this thing. Jeez. What we also have here is the power for that MSI Dragon logo 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 00:21:34.159 --> 00:21:41.280 flathead? There we go. Come on. Come on, 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:44.120 baby. Come on, baby. There you go, baby. 00:21:41.280 --> 00:21:49.360 Just Just get off there. Okay. Perfect. All right. So, we've got Jeez, 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:54.320 no. There's even more than I thought. Okay. All right. Let's have a closer 00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:58.080 look at this bad boy. So, we've got what 00:21:54.320 --> 00:22:00.799 looks like uh four wires for the PWM fan 00:21:58.080 --> 00:22:05.200 custom connector. We've got one wire for antenna. There's actually a metal metal 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:11.440 housing around this thing. They are they are serious about this fan here. Holy 00:22:08.919 --> 00:22:15.720 crap. Okay, we've got another wireless antenna over on the other side. They've 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:21.679 got those nice and separated. We've got whatever the crap this is. That's 00:22:18.320 --> 00:22:21.679 another four pin. What is that 00:22:22.600 --> 00:22:28.559 for? I will confess to you that I do not 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 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 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 00:22:42.320 --> 00:22:46.799 just running over to that um that duad 00:22:45.360 --> 00:22:50.720 that we connected from the side panel if I recall correctly. All right. So, that 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 00:22:53.919 --> 00:22:59.159 labeling here. So, this was Oh, crap. 00:22:57.120 --> 00:23:05.480 What was this from? Um, okay. Top 00:23:03.320 --> 00:23:13.840 fan. Top fan. 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:13.840 Uh. Um. Uh. Bottom IO. There we 00:23:14.120 --> 00:23:20.960 go. I assure you that when I'm not broadcasting live, I am much more 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:24.720 organized about this type of thing. As you guys can probably imagine, it is a 00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:29.360 lot of things to focus on to be disassembling a computer, broadcasting a 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:34.559 live stream, and trying to keep track of uh you know, all of the strange 00:23:31.919 --> 00:23:39.520 creatures that are inhabiting your building that you that you work in every 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. 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 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:54.760 metal brace that is securing it to a few 00:23:51.600 --> 00:23:57.200 different things. So there's the power 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 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:07.280 the power supply, there's the GPU heat sinks, CPU heat sink, and then this 00:24:03.760 --> 00:24:08.799 looks like the main like motherboard. I 00:24:07.280 --> 00:24:13.360 mean main board is also a word for motherboard. Don't stress. So, but this 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:17.760 Yeah, it's not actually secured to that. So, the power supply is secured to the 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:23.039 main board. And then this rear daughter board is secured to the power supply as 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:27.039 are the others. So, there's these L brackets that kind of go like this and 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 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 00:24:33.520 --> 00:24:40.159 didn't? No. Oh. Uh, can you do that? 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:42.240 Thank you. Oh crap. I left my 00:24:40.159 --> 00:24:47.720 screwdriver at home, my orange ones. So, I'm actually a little bit 00:24:45.600 --> 00:24:52.600 ill equipped. 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:57.039 Okay. Wow, those are really tight. Let's go ahead and pull that 00:24:58.120 --> 00:25:03.120 out. Okay, there we 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:09.679 go. I see someone saying shoes are optional in the Atlantis Media Group 00:25:07.520 --> 00:25:14.799 office. Actually, that's not true. Uh, shoes are required to be taken off 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:18.000 unless you have your indoor shoes here. So, some people leave indoor shoes at 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:22.720 the office and other people just don't wear shoes, which is their their choice. 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:29.279 Personally, I'm not into the whole no shoe thing because there's only one type 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:33.120 of footwear I need. Okay, so this baby 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:35.760 has looks like three ribbon cables, each 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 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 00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:46.559 the 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:55.400 K1C_1026026_H39, whatever the devil that's supposed to mean. So, let's go 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.679 ahead and flip these up. 00:25:55.400 --> 00:26:01.039 Flippity. That one's not a flip up one. Hold on. Where's my flathead? 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 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 00:26:09.760 --> 00:26:17.240 of those push down on it ones. So I'm gonna have to lift 00:26:14.520 --> 00:26:20.200 lift. Oh crap. It is one of those. Well, hopefully it's only a 00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:23.960 little broken. How the crap. Oh, okay. Yeah, 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:28.720 seems fine. Cool. All right. So, let's give 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 00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:41.200 of action going on. Like there's a mini PCIe card over here. 00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:43.120 which would be fairly baffling to me if 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:49.039 I wasn't looking at their again very handily and cleverly labeled ribbon 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:50.799 cables here. So, this one says PCH. So, 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:56.640 that's for the platform controller hub. That means that the the south bridge, 00:26:53.679 --> 00:27:00.720 the traditional south bridge is actually on this 00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:07.039 daughterboard. So, this is really clever for a number of reasons. Uh, number one 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:08.640 is that it means that they don't have to 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:13.919 they don't have to try and use extensions for all of this high-speed IO 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, 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 00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:26.960 audio. So that's basically what we've got back there. So, instead of having 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:32.880 all that stuff, instead of having the Southbridge, which handles all of those 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:35.840 things, let me think, not HDMI, unless 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 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 00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:53.360 that other stuff would be handled by the PCH. So, by just having what would 00:27:49.919 --> 00:27:55.360 effectively be traces inside the PCB of 00:27:53.360 --> 00:28:00.159 a motherboard just be done through a ribbon cable like this, MSI has removed 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 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 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:12.240 here that lives over top of the CPU heat sink that they otherwise would not have 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 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:23.600 really very cool. Um, let's continue our let's 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, 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 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, 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:38.960 instead of running a SATA cable internally, they've actually just got 00:28:35.919 --> 00:28:40.760 this guy. Uh, is that just like hardline 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:45.320 plugged in? Where is the port? What the hell? 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:54.640 What is going on 00:28:55.159 --> 00:29:04.559 here? Oh, is it this? Shut 00:29:01.159 --> 00:29:06.640 up. Oh, very cool. So, what they've 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 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. 00:29:12.919 --> 00:29:18.720 Um, again, more more clever more. Wow, 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 00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:27.440 before. Even in laptops, uh, you'll typically just have like a like a 00:29:25.120 --> 00:29:31.840 standard a standard SATA cable plugged into a plugged into the back of a 00:29:30.159 --> 00:29:37.279 standard SATA drive. And and when we dig deep enough, that is what we're very 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.279 likely to find 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:42.440 here, but with a twist. 00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:52.240 Okay, so the hard drives Hitachi 1 TBTE 00:29:48.159 --> 00:29:53.440 7200 RPM SATA 6 GB and uh am I going to 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? 00:29:55.760 --> 00:30:02.399 What do we got here? Yep. Okay, there they are. More hard drive screws. Don't 00:29:59.760 --> 00:30:06.440 worry though, guys. For you, I will take this as far as I need to. 00:30:07.760 --> 00:30:14.760 Messiah is not going to tell me I can't take apart their computer. Freaking 00:30:12.919 --> 00:30:19.120 guys. Okay. See if we can slide this 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 00:30:25.760 --> 00:30:32.240 actually very clever little system that they've got here. So, they have 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 00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:41.200 go. So, they have converted the standard SATA power and data interface into this 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:46.320 connector. This is that connector that I didn't recognize is actually for the 00:30:43.600 --> 00:30:49.480 hard drive. Very cool. All right, so we've extracted that at this point. 00:30:47.679 --> 00:30:55.279 Let's label my hard drive screws. H 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:57.720 D. Boom. Oh crap. What were these? Ah, 00:30:55.279 --> 00:31:03.760 yes. L bracket. I'm sure someone will be able 00:30:59.760 --> 00:31:06.080 to read that at some point. Okay. 00:31:03.760 --> 00:31:10.480 So, that leaves us pretty much done here. Oh, yeah. No, no, we're not. Okay, 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 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:21.279 it. Uh, the other thing on the PCH is four PCI Express lanes that are handled 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:24.799 by the Southbridge. So, there's the uh the DMI whatever something media 00:31:23.520 --> 00:31:29.360 interface. So, that's that's the traditional that's replacement for the 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:34.320 um for crap, I forget what they used to call the link between the north bridge 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:37.279 and the south bridge. Uh was it FSB? 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 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 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 00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:57.039 have a mini PCIe Wi-Fi card sitting over 00:31:55.679 --> 00:32:01.200 here on this daughterboard. So everything that's on here is stuff that 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 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:09.200 the PCH anywhere else inside the system. 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 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:17.799 labeled uh PCH and the other one is labeled PC. No, they're both labeled 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:20.080 PCH, actually. Very cool. I love 00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:24.519 that. Hopefully, I didn't completely misinterpret what they did here, but I I 00:32:21.840 --> 00:32:28.240 don't I don't think so. All right, now we are really getting 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 00:32:30.399 --> 00:32:36.799 these brackets here. Don't want them. I don't need 00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:41.840 them. I go, 00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:53.519 girlfriend. Wow. Lot of lot more screws than I had sort of anticipated. That's 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 00:32:54.960 --> 00:33:02.240 off at this point. I love this three camera setup actually. This makes it so 00:32:59.360 --> 00:33:08.559 much easier for me to just work as opposed to trying to tinker around with 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 00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:17.039 hand to actually do things while I'm trying to show you guys something 00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:19.440 stupid. Um one thing I don't like about 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 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 00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:33.399 wireless Bluetooth keyboard that I'm using to change scenes, it's broken in 00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:37.840 the weirdest way. Um something about the power delivery is 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. 00:33:40.320 --> 00:33:47.159 It won't operate um it won't operate on 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 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 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 00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:07.039 into the wall. I cannot plug it into a battery bank. Not even a good battery 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 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:14.320 wall in order for it to operate at all. 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:17.760 And that's actually one delayed the stream by another 5 minutes or so 00:34:15.919 --> 00:34:21.440 because I accidentally unplugged it, which unpairs it, and then it kind of 00:34:19.520 --> 00:34:26.000 flakes out. So, I had to I had to completely restart everything. Re-plug 00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:31.359 in the Bluetooth dongle, re undo the Anyway, um yeah, so I have to like I 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 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 00:34:38.720 --> 00:34:47.040 not done that. Okay, so all those brackets are off, but that doesn't seem 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:49.399 to help us much. Maybe I'll leave it to 00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:53.760 you guys. Do you want to see Do you guys want to see Yeah, 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 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 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. 00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:12.160 The right side or the left side? Come 00:35:08.720 --> 00:35:15.760 on, guys. Right side. Left side. Right 00:35:12.160 --> 00:35:17.800 side. Left side. Right side. Left side. 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:23.920 Which one you want? Right or left? Damn, I hate this uh stream delay. 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 00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:31.599 one. You guys are so useless sometimes. 00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:37.359 Um I love you dearly, but man, are you guys useless sometimes. 00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:38.960 Uh such trolls. Such trolls. So, let's 00:35:37.359 --> 00:35:42.760 go ahead. I'm going to start removing GPU screws here. 00:35:43.839 --> 00:35:51.880 Everyone calling for the bottom. Free the bottom. Wow. Was that 00:35:49.720 --> 00:35:56.640 it? Hold on a second. Where? Which screws hold this 00:35:54.400 --> 00:36:00.960 in? It's actually very hard for me to tell. Okay, so this is interesting. 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 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 00:36:08.680 --> 00:36:15.280 actually.Oop boop. Yeah. Oh man, I love 00:36:12.240 --> 00:36:18.400 this setup. Okay. So, there we go. Get 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:21.520 that focus. Come on, baby. Come on, 00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:23.920 baby. Nice. So, there's the screw I just 00:36:21.520 --> 00:36:28.240 removed uh right there with the uh the copper visible around it. Right next to 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:31.920 it is a little tab that actually keeps you from sliding the GPU out, even if 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 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:44.000 only all of the screws, but also all of 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:44.000 the little tabs that go with them. 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 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:56.880 that I have been so 00:36:53.960 --> 00:37:02.160 far. Which doesn't mean stumped to be very clear. That does not mean stumped. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:11.960 You know what? I think what I actually need to do here is remove this 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:14.599 entire black PCB in order to get at the 00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:20.800 module that holds the MXM, the green MXM uh graphics 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:25.200 card. So, let's have a look 00:37:28.520 --> 00:37:32.240 here. Mhm. 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:41.480 That looks pretty loose. Let's go ahead and try popping it 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:44.560 off. Nothing to really brace myself on, 00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:47.200 unfortunately. Okay, not stressful at 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. 00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:58.480 Oops. Didn't see that one. Her derp. 00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:00.520 Okay. Come on, baby. 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:05.839 Don't tease me like that. Oh, I've got a ribbon cable here. 00:38:03.040 --> 00:38:15.200 Oh, shoot. What is that connected to? Oh, we got some ribbon cable action. So, 00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:18.400 oh. Oh, it's an SLI bridge. Interesting. 00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:20.960 Okay. Well, that makes sense. I mean, 00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:26.400 that was bound to be in there. I really thought NVIDIA was going to drop the 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:29.920 whole SLI bridge pretense at some point here. 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:34.079 They still claim that there's some high-speed communication that they do 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:40.560 over it, but that interface is really not very fast by modern standards. Um, I 00:38:38.160 --> 00:38:47.520 mean, we're talking SLI bridge came about back in the PCI Express 00:38:43.640 --> 00:38:49.800 1.0A or whatever days, back in the back 00:38:47.520 --> 00:38:55.280 in the age of the dinosaur when I was a computer 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:58.520 enthusiast. All right? because, you know, the internet would 00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:02.560 have you believe that I am no longer an enthusiast. I've lost my touch, you 00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:05.920 know. Whoops. Oh, I'm sorry about that. If people get motion sick, I'm sure 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 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 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 00:39:16.720 --> 00:39:23.200 on. I need a plastic prying tool. I'm actually going to do this one properly 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:26.160 because um I'm a little bit worried about what I'm prying on 00:39:28.520 --> 00:39:35.160 here. Shoot. There we go. All 00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:40.520 right. Okay. Okay. So, let's pull those 00:39:38.720 --> 00:39:46.040 graphics cards off. Oh, there we go. Oh, thing of 00:39:43.560 --> 00:39:52.040 beauty. Wonderful. So, let's put the base aside for a 00:39:49.839 --> 00:39:59.720 second here. Just going to put this over here. Oh, they fell. Okay. Um Okay, 00:39:56.400 --> 00:40:03.520 let's investigate. 00:39:59.720 --> 00:40:06.520 Ah. Mhm. Damn it. They scratched my 00:40:03.520 --> 00:40:06.520 laptop. 00:40:14.040 --> 00:40:19.880 Well, things I do for you guys. All 00:40:17.640 --> 00:40:25.800 right, so I really don't know if I'm going to go 00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:30.240 to the trouble to remove that SLI bridge. 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:34.800 Um, I mean, unless you guys peer pressured me into it, then we'll then we 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 00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:44.800 two actually. Oh, what the hey. Let's just let's just keep tearing, shall we? 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 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:56.240 the GPU daughter 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, 00:40:57.680 --> 00:41:04.319 Twitch chat. Okay. Where do we start? 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 00:41:06.640 --> 00:41:13.000 have um additional stuff on it. This one 00:41:11.200 --> 00:41:16.560 appears to be just straight MXM 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 00:41:26.319 --> 00:41:32.640 here, man. I mean, compared to what you would 00:41:30.240 --> 00:41:36.160 normally see in a laptop, but then, you know, with how quiet the fan is, I 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 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. 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 00:41:47.680 --> 00:41:53.599 vapor chamber down here. So, that spreads out the heat from the GPU so 00:41:51.839 --> 00:41:57.839 that each heat pipe sort of gets an equal amount of it to disperse. Then two 00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:04.000 of the heat pipes are connected simply to this um this thinner part of the heat 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:09.760 sink assembly right here with a third one dedicated to bringing heat out to 00:42:06.720 --> 00:42:12.240 what is actually probably about I'd say 00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:18.000 40% of the overall mass of the heat sink. Remember removing heat is 00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:19.520 basically surface area and yeah 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:24.079 basically surface area. So that's probably given the identical thickness 00:42:21.839 --> 00:42:29.280 of the material, more mass equals more surface area in this case. 00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:32.319 Um, interesting. And you've got a little pad here for keeping the mounting 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 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:42.240 look at the MXM module, which unfortunately is kind of hard for me to 00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:46.079 lift right now because they're attached by the SLI bridge, but you can see 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:50.720 there's your uh Oh, and I'm going to screw this up. 00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:52.480 GM204 if I recall correctly. I can never 00:42:50.720 --> 00:43:00.160 remember the code names. Whatever. It's a GTX 980 right there. And then around 00:42:55.200 --> 00:43:02.319 it is actually 8 gigs of GDDDR5 memory. 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 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:06.319 look at 00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:19.680 that. Oh, there's another warranty void to remove sticker. Ha. Eat it. 00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:24.920 Hey, Luke. You look stressed. 00:43:22.040 --> 00:43:30.200 Oh, I was hoping that he wasn't stressed and that he just looked 00:43:27.560 --> 00:43:35.599 stressed, but he was. H. So, that's not popping off very 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. 00:43:38.319 --> 00:43:44.160 There it goes. Boom. Okay. So, let's get 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 00:43:45.520 --> 00:43:51.119 thermal pads. Pretty much this entire 00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:54.760 aluminum heat spreader is covered in thermal pad 00:43:53.000 --> 00:44:01.119 material. Um, you can see what it's for. So, what 00:43:58.319 --> 00:44:06.640 would normally be a massive, you know, 10 and 1/2 in graphics card with a 00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:10.000 cooler this thick on it is now this tiny 00:44:06.640 --> 00:44:11.440 thing. So, I'm not sure if the memory 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 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:22.280 DDDR5 memory. There's the GPU I showed you before. And this is the VRM. So 00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:24.839 that's the power delivery. Now, 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:29.920 normally, huh, that's interesting. Yeah. Normally in a desktop computer, it looks 00:44:27.839 --> 00:44:38.040 like I'm going to need a special tool for this socket 00:44:33.160 --> 00:44:38.040 tool. No, I need a bigger one. 00:44:38.160 --> 00:44:45.560 Normally in a desktop computer, a GTX 980 class card would have um an external 00:44:43.839 --> 00:44:51.000 PCI Express power connector, but here everything seems to 00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:55.359 come from the MXM slot. I don't know much about MXM, like 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, 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 00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:12.720 go. There you go. The SLI connector is 00:45:08.200 --> 00:45:14.720 free, which gives us a great look at uh 00:45:12.720 --> 00:45:20.400 I'm going to bore you guys first. So, here here's the MXM 00:45:17.319 --> 00:45:24.000 slot. Here is what appears to be a PCI 00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:26.319 Express 16X slot that is leading over to 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 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:36.720 of well bottom of the chassis. Okay, so this is this is the daughterboard that 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 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:45.359 there's almost nothing going on here. Um, so it has pretty much one job to 00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:51.280 take PCI Express 16X and turn it into pretty much PCI Express 16X. So this 00:45:49.040 --> 00:45:55.680 card, uh, here I'm just going to spread these 00:45:53.359 --> 00:46:01.440 out. So this card has to be much more power efficient than a desktop GTX 980 00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:05.280 would be. All right, let's have a look at the 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 00:46:07.200 --> 00:46:16.599 heat spreader that's still on the back, but this is a very heavy 00:46:11.839 --> 00:46:20.359 um heavy PCB. There's a lot of lot of 00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:23.359 copper. You'll never catch me 00:46:20.359 --> 00:46:23.359 copper. All 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 00:46:28.319 --> 00:46:31.760 paying close enough attention. 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:40.640 Oh well, it is what it is. So, more thermal 00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:44.760 pads. There we are. More heat spreader. 00:46:40.640 --> 00:46:48.359 And it turns out that yes, indeed you 00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:51.560 do. There is more memory on the 00:46:48.359 --> 00:46:53.440 back. Oh, more VRM junk, too. 00:46:51.560 --> 00:46:58.800 Interesting. Brandon, you ever seen a GTX 980 this big? Oh, that is really 00:46:56.240 --> 00:47:04.800 small. Yeah. That's what she said. Impressive. Small, 00:47:00.720 --> 00:47:06.400 but powerful and impressive. 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 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 00:47:11.839 --> 00:47:16.160 basically the same thing or can I just show you the differences on this one? I 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 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 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 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 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:41.040 a PCI Express hub or some kind of thing like 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 00:47:42.680 --> 00:47:50.400 suspect is that since this is a 00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:55.119 Z170based system, each of these GPUs is 00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:56.880 only running at PCIe 8X speed anyway. So 00:47:55.119 --> 00:48:00.760 what I suspect has happened since you guys may or may not have noticed that 00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:06.160 this one actually has two M.2 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:10.960 slots. There you go. So those are for PCI Express SSDs. What I suspect that 00:48:08.160 --> 00:48:15.200 MSI has done is they have played some clever games with this not being a real 00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:19.520 PCIe16x um electrically slot and they've just 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 00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:26.640 inventory anyway and we're going to completely rewire everything and um 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 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:36.079 Express switch or whatever else it is that we have over somewhere else. Um, 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 00:48:38.319 --> 00:48:50.400 these PCI Express SSDs. Incidentally, these are what are they? Model MZ 00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:53.760 VPV1280. Oh, S SM951. So, these are 00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:55.559 Samsung's older NVMe drive, not the 950 00:48:53.760 --> 00:49:00.000 Pro, the new flagship. All right, so let's go ahead 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:04.920 and put that aside for now. Oh, we are running out of 00:49:01.319 --> 00:49:08.400 space. And let's get back to the main 00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:10.960 kahuna. Let's get my fan over here. This 00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:16.559 heat sink over here, this one over here, and this one over here. All 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:18.079 right, so now this doesn't have a lot of 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 00:49:20.720 --> 00:49:27.520 can just like pull the whole thing right off. 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 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 00:49:35.839 --> 00:49:38.319 first, I 00:49:44.520 --> 00:49:50.040 guess. Oh, good. Captive thumb screws. 00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:55.280 Love it. Or not thumb screw, captive screws. Wow. Whoever put this thing 00:49:53.200 --> 00:49:58.559 together really uh gave it a beating around the screw holes 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 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 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:14.280 were kind of trying to mash it in there. That's probably what happened 00:50:12.359 --> 00:50:19.200 actually. Okay, so there you 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 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 00:50:25.680 --> 00:50:33.200 intends to keep the air flow going through the system quite uh quite low. 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 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 00:50:40.240 --> 00:50:46.400 optimized for high RPM, high static pressure fans, it's going to have a much 00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:53.240 more dense fin arrangement than this one. So, um, yeah, MSI is just kind of 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 00:50:58.640 --> 00:51:04.800 sink. So, they're they're really counting on that fan to be very, very 00:51:01.720 --> 00:51:06.880 efficient. Um, also here, so we've got 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 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 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:17.040 bother risking damaging any of the pins or anything. Uh, but you can see here 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 00:51:19.680 --> 00:51:27.040 figure out where power goes in at some point. Here we've got what looks like 00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:30.319 another physical PCI Express 16x slot 00:51:27.040 --> 00:51:32.319 right here. We've got Oh, cool. So, 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 00:51:35.359 --> 00:51:44.559 is taking the Yep. So, you can actually see the traces here. It looks like Oh, 00:51:41.520 --> 00:51:44.559 hold on. Maybe not. 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:51.599 Shoot. Sorry, I'm not sure. I thought this was the DMI interface coming off 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. 00:51:53.200 --> 00:51:59.200 So, what's interesting here though is anything mounted on this board would 00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:04.480 have to be attached directly to the CPU. So, the CPU has the U memory controller. 00:52:02.319 --> 00:52:08.720 So that's why your four sodium memory modules, in this case they're each 8 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 00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:21.440 CPU. And then the other thing is the PCI Express controller. So that's where that 00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:23.200 comes in down there. Then DMI. So yeah, 00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:28.240 there's pretty much actually nothing nothing on there because the PCH is what 00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:34.800 has all your USB, your SATA, your Ethernet, and all that kind of nonsense. 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 00:52:36.319 --> 00:52:43.160 having a blast. Actually, this is what I wanted to do back at CES and they 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:45.559 wouldn't let me. The bastards. Um, oh 00:52:43.160 --> 00:52:49.839 crap. Oh, this was bound to happen eventually. Where are these screws from? 00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:57.839 Oh, they're from the GPU. So, let's label that 00:52:52.839 --> 00:52:59.119 MX M. Boom. All right. So top down view 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 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 00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:15.599 support brace for those other two. Ah I see uh for those other two daughter 00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:21.200 boards that have the GPUs on them. So I think we actually have to take it 00:53:18.280 --> 00:53:25.240 apart in order to pull them off and then they should slide out for us. 00:53:26.640 --> 00:53:29.119 Oh, two 00:53:38.680 --> 00:53:45.079 screws. Where's all the green stuff you promised? Hey, this computer has NVIDIA 00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:49.480 graphics cards in it. I'm staying true to my 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:55.200 word. All right, so there's those guys giving us a 00:53:53.359 --> 00:54:03.200 really good look at the power supply. So, chickeny power technology 00:53:58.160 --> 00:54:07.800 uh DC output 457 watt. Huh. Just like 00:54:03.200 --> 00:54:10.839 that. Eh, 37.5 amps on the 12vt 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:14.640 rail. But how do you plug 00:54:10.839 --> 00:54:14.640 in? Well, let's find 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:23.640 out. This explains why the power connector is on in the middle of the 00:54:19.680 --> 00:54:25.520 bottom like it is though, which is 00:54:23.640 --> 00:54:29.440 interesting because that's where the power supply is. It's right up the 00:54:27.040 --> 00:54:29.440 middle of the 00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:40.800 unit. Poor MSI. I am definitely not putting this 00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:40.800 back together. Far too many 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 00:54:47.200 --> 00:54:49.359 the 00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:58.160 chassis. So, that's going to be connected to the uh the ground prong of 00:54:54.319 --> 00:54:58.160 the power plug that we will eventually 00:55:02.520 --> 00:55:11.599 find. Someone in the chat just spelled a wrong. Can we ban that guy? Just like 00:55:07.200 --> 00:55:14.240 that. A like like capital A. It's 00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:19.000 spelled eh actually. All right. Sorry. I'll cut back to the angle that shows us 00:55:16.240 --> 00:55:23.920 anything cool here. Um, 00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:23.920 okay. 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:28.000 Interesting. 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:38.240 So, yeah, I'm going to need uh I'm going 00:55:35.520 --> 00:55:42.800 to need some clever cleverness here, which is unfortunate because I don't 00:55:39.599 --> 00:55:44.400 have a lot of that. So, I gota I've got 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 00:55:49.040 --> 00:55:55.119 there, I've got kind of like a like a computer power supply type connector. 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 00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:07.520 the Oh, well, that was easy. Okay. So, 00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:10.319 there. So, these are the There's the AC 00:56:07.520 --> 00:56:15.599 power in. So that's just wired up directly to that plug in the middle. And 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 00:56:17.040 --> 00:56:23.400 chassis. Just like that. All 00:56:21.799 --> 00:56:31.040 right. Then this is interesting. the whole 00:56:27.040 --> 00:56:32.200 power supply. And this like I'm sure the 00:56:31.040 --> 00:56:37.480 electrical engineers watching this are going to be, 00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:42.559 you know, snickering at me or whatever, but this blows me 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 00:56:43.680 --> 00:56:50.440 before I talk about it, though, because it looks like it is actually finally 00:56:47.040 --> 00:56:52.720 time to take 00:56:50.440 --> 00:57:00.160 off the main board. So, I'm just going to pull out this PCH connector here. 00:56:56.160 --> 00:57:00.160 And oh no, I got to undo that 00:57:08.359 --> 00:57:14.520 ground. Oh, shoot. And I gota actually I should do a round of labeling, too. What 00:57:12.319 --> 00:57:20.839 the hell is all this stuff? Um, PSU PSU as far as I can 00:57:19.359 --> 00:57:24.839 remember. Uh, ground 00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:30.640 Okay. So, back to that angle. Oh. Oh, 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:35.040 ball sack. Okay. Well, now there's another thing I have to undo. I got to 00:57:33.119 --> 00:57:37.799 do these two screws right here, I think. Although, I may only have to loosen 00:57:36.160 --> 00:57:42.240 them. I might even have to take those out. It looks like they just prevent it 00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:44.640 from sliding forward. Nope. No. I'll just pull them 00:57:45.160 --> 00:57:54.839 out. Okay. Oh, no. Those weren't from the 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:56.839 power supply. These were from the 00:57:54.839 --> 00:58:03.480 PSU. Whoops. 00:57:59.640 --> 00:58:05.480 Bracket. Boom. And then these are from 00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:08.480 the motherboard 00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:17.520 support base. 00:58:12.680 --> 00:58:17.520 Okay. Okay. For real this time. Here we 00:58:17.640 --> 00:58:24.559 go. So, there it is. That is the closest 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:29.520 thing that this device has to a mainboard. So, it's got a skeleton 00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:35.760 uh back plate thing here that's actually attached to the main board with the uh 00:58:32.799 --> 00:58:40.319 the socket hold down screws. So, that's these screws right here that actually 00:58:37.839 --> 00:58:44.160 keep the the socket cover on. I have never seen that before. So, that's 00:58:42.720 --> 00:58:50.079 different. A lot of stuff about this thing that's different. Um, these are 00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:51.599 the hinges that those two uh they make a 00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:56.280 triangle here. So, they they come out like this that the two support braces 00:58:53.359 --> 00:59:00.240 for the GPUs attach to. And then uh there's that PCH connector that I was 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 00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:12.960 there's that. See, it looks just like a standard graphics card connector PCI 00:59:10.240 --> 00:59:16.000 Express 16x. But of course, you know, a connector is just a physical connector. 00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:18.960 A wire is just a wire. So, they can rewire it for whatever they want if 00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:25.040 they're going to if they're going to go full custom on something like this. 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 00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:34.799 talking about the power supply. And this this runs sort of, you know, everyone's 00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:37.520 trying to sell us on, you know, um like 00:59:34.799 --> 00:59:40.720 PCI Express 8pin connectors have always been something that have kind of baffled 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 00:59:43.040 --> 00:59:50.799 the numbers are, but it's like 275 watts now versus 150 watts TDP or 00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:55.200 whatever the numbers are. It's like significantly more. Like a PCIe 8 pin is 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 00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:05.400 grounds. You didn't actually add another 01:00:02.319 --> 01:00:08.960 12vt wire. And I mean, my understanding 01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:11.680 of the capacity of a connection to carry 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 01:00:13.200 --> 01:00:18.640 many of them there are. Um, and so in the desktop, we're trying to be 01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:22.319 convinced all over the place that we need these like massive power supplies 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 01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:34.760 going like, are you kidding me? This is the only connection between 01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:39.960 the 457 watt power 01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:45.079 supply. That's it. This is the only connection and the entire rest of the 01:00:42.319 --> 01:00:50.720 system. this connector. This I'm going to zoom in so 01:00:48.240 --> 01:00:56.400 you guys can grasp the full the full amaze ballsness of what I'm showing you 01:00:52.799 --> 01:00:56.400 right now. 01:00:56.599 --> 01:01:03.359 This if I could focus on it that would be great. Thanks camera. I hate 01:01:04.200 --> 01:01:12.880 you. Um well maybe if I zoom out a little bit 01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:15.280 more. Sometimes it has trouble focusing. 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 01:01:20.319 --> 01:01:27.920 entire system. Everything. 12volt rail, 5vt rail, 3.3 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:33.839 volt rail, all the grounds, all the GPUs, the CPU, 01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:36.960 everything. Does the whole thing. How is that? How is that even 01:01:37.720 --> 01:01:46.280 possible? So, there you go. 01:01:42.640 --> 01:01:49.200 which leaves us finally with the base. 01:01:46.280 --> 01:01:55.400 Um, and this pretty much just acts as like a as like a traffic traffic control 01:01:52.359 --> 01:01:58.480 station. Uh, so you can see we've got 01:01:55.400 --> 01:02:00.960 the the power just comes through there. 01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:06.799 Okay. Power goes in here. So this is what routes power to this PCIe 16x 01:02:04.319 --> 01:02:11.920 physical interface, this 16x physical interface, and this 16x physical 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 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 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 01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:29.000 long time since I started doing this. 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