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I remember the first time Intel showed me something kind of like this it wasn't

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the same as what the Nook nine extreme

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kit ended up being but it was sort of

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like a modular computing concept that I

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think probably led us eventually to here so this is my first hands-on with this

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thing they actually showed off some designs using the compute unit back at

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CES of this year but I didn't go and I

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am very excited to take a look at it assuming I can figure out how to get the

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bloody box open ah there's a seal these

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guys can be very very good at packaging

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when they want to be metal clips and

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after peeling off all those layers we are left with a full-fledged gaming

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machine that is not much bigger than a

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graphics card enclosure in fact most of the external Thunderbolt GPU enclosures

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that I've used are actually smaller than this truly impressive isn't it what else

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is in here power cable and Intel flashlights oh

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okay there's a backlight mode if you

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need to find where your cat peed or whatever now this is just the unboxing

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you're gonna find the full review over on the Linus tech tips channel so I have

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done zero research leading into it which means I'm just gonna read off the box

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for you it's got a core I $9.99 a thk processor it's got two memory slots so

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you can put ddr4 memory up to 64 gigs in

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here it actually supports up to 3 m dot

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two drives so you could run a bunch of like raid zeroed high-speed SSDs in this

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thing if you really wanted to it's got Intel Wireless 2 Gigabit LAN ports

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that's interesting it's got dual Thunderbolt ports the power supply input

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is right down here at the bottom so it's got what looks like one of those more

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server type slim long power supplies and

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then over at the front a SD card reader and a couple more USB Taipei's so that

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a total of six take that MacBook Pro

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enough chitchat let's crack this thing open I monitor my own audio at home

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unbox and stuff oh okay so there's my

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cooling module for the top so that looks like two slightly low profile not super

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slim but slightly low profile eighty millimeter fans this one's got a little

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protective grille over top of it I wonder why that oh yes

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okay that's because right underneath that there's a power supply connection

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into the graphics card so just in case it works oh I don't know come up or

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whatever else it might get jammed in the fans that'll keep that out of out of the

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way and then this is cool there's these nice little contacts over here that

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handle power for the fans just like a little splitter PCB right here so that

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way the fans get plugged in simply by sliding this cooling module forward very

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cool they got him oh wow this is actually a

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surprisingly painless disassembly process so you just pop this up that

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gives us access to the graphics card so I'm not sure what's in here it's an RT X

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of some sort based on the size of the card I'm gonna guess like a 2060 or

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something like that but we're gonna get that popped out anyway now let's pop up this side AE also

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simple and that right there is the

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compute module so part of the stick behind these compute module based

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products like this gaming Newark is that

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with almost no tools or expertise whatsoever you could actually upgrade

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the graphics card or the entire like

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piece enos of it really cuz there's a 500 watt power supply down there and

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then that's it the rest of it is just a

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case so everything else about it that makes it a computer is actually just

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pre-installed on this little board here

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so let's see how simple it is to get up

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so I'm gonna release this this PCI Express Bowie connection right here and

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then theoretically it's just like

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hello-o so I will need one more tool I

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will need a little pokey pry eating well

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there we go that's out that's out okay so we can go

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ahead and remove the PCI Express power connector and then in theory this is

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just gonna slide out for me all right as you can see my USB three front panel

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connector got a little bit in the way there but not too too bad

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womp hey there we go

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okay that was that was pretty simple wow this is a twenty seventy it weighs next

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to nothing no offense to a soos but that was one cheapo feeling twenty seventy

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right there they cut themselves there there's my graphics card and this is the

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compute module will do dad I'm sure there's an easier way to do this but I'm

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just gonna force it a bit there we go alright so there's what is probably our

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front panel connectors things like front audio front USB all that good stuff what

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actually even is that so we've got this large heat sink down at the bottom that

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seems to be over an MDOT two slot now

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the thing about MDOT - is that yes it's for SSDs but also it just happens to be

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just a PCI Express by 4 interface so

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there's no real reason why you couldn't put anything you want in it so let's see

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what's in there Oh SEC this is a 380 gig octane 905 P that

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would explain why it needs this beefy AF

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freaking heatsink on it because that is not your mom's SSD so then what do we

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got we've got a PCIe 16x interface presumably some kind of PCI Express

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splitting logic built into this board or

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something because we've got a 16 X slot for the GPU that's got to be only like 8

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X we've got a 4 X slot and then we've got another 4x lot for that m dot - so I

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would guess that that is electrically 8 X 80 plus Platinum power supply from FSP

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alright so let's set aside that for now and focus our attention on

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this guy should I take the cooler off it yeah I guess I might as well take the

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cooler off it right yeah let's do it okay who am I talking to nobody you're

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just gonna come apart for me there but wow this config that they send to the

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reviewers is loaded for a freaking bear here so you've got a single blower

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cooler on this thing that's because the CPU that it's using you've actually

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based on one of their mobile chips now there's mobile chips these days can suck

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back power pretty good you've seen them well over they're rated 45 watt TDP s

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but they are still more efficient pound-for-pound than the desktop chips

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so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise but I mean here it is there's

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just this one blower fan and then this

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small what looks like a vapor chamber with an aluminum heatsink on it to

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handle cooling for the CPU and then you're gonna have some incidental

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airflow from this blower fan that's gonna provide some cooling to here's a

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populated m2 slop so it's a one terabyte Kingston Casey mm and then there's

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another m2 slot right here and then we've got a couple of sodium slots that

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have 16 gigs of RAM each in the in the

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reviewers can say anyway which we are gonna take advantage of there will be a

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full review on the Linus tech tips channel in the next little bit but this

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is just kind of the unboxing and first impressions but one thing I did want to

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cover before I leave you guys is just how incredibly small this thing is so

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this is an ARS external GPU gaming box

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that they released I don't know must have been a year ago or something along

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those lines it's got a gtx 1080 in it so pretty darn impressive little machine

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and it connects to a laptop via Thunderbolt 3 now back when this was

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first released this was real impressive cramming a power supply a Thunderbolt

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interface with the associated chipsets

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that are required for that and a graphics card into a box this size but

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let's take a look at the outer enclosure actually here we look at the inner

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enclosures for the Nook and this now

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this is smaller but it also contains only a graphics card check this out

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they're actually not that dissimilar

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in terms of their width we can cool now thermals and acoustics that's a question

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for the full review bottom line the idea here is that you've got a complete

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computer that not only can have the graphics card quickly and easily

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upgraded but can even have the entire computer Ness quickly and easily

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upgraded on a PCI Express 16x interface so that as new GPUs come out you could

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replace that and as new CPUs come out or new platforms come out with new features

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that you care about you could go ahead and replace that it's not like some

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fixed i/o because the front is sort of you know prefab like there's nothing you

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can really do to replace that but the rear is all totally modular so whatever

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they could put on a dual slot PCI backplate they could theoretically put

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in the nook hopefully you guys enjoyed this unboxing your first look make sure

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