The WEIRDEST Video Card We’ve EVER Seen..
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,603 words · ~8 min read
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have you looked at the back of a graphics card lately
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the outputs are all pretty much the same you got your DisplayPort you got your
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HDMI in some cases you'll still find a
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dvi kicking around and then NVIDIA in particular has this little vr link
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connector a usb type-c that they use for
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vr which is kind of cool AMD much of the same no dvi no vr link no big deal well
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that's boring what if there was something totally different
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well there is this is a graphics card from a company i had
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never heard before called edvoli
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and the atvoli ta6
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is a video card unlike any
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got your pci express 16x it's got your
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power connector it's got your boom
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six Ethernet jacks
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at the link below so this thing can support
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six displays running at 4k
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30 hertz at the same time
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how the bloody hell are they doing this Anthony
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you did the prep for this sure did
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it's Anthony folks so this is a weird freaking card like
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this entire portion of the pcb seems to be dedicated to these hd base t
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certified outputs and we'll get into that in a little bit more detail later
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back here we've got a couple of three and a half millimeter jacks
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what are these for those are for infrared pass-through so you can have
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infrared in and infrared out as well as our rs232 serial
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oh interesting so so you can use a remote
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and have it pass through it's actually got ir blasters here
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cool all right now the graphics card itself
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is actually not here
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or at least it's not integrated onto this output board so mxm is a laptop
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graphics card form factor that's typically used in like
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gaming notebooks but then they've gone and they've put
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this Radeon card in it that isn't something i'd ever even heard before
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like i assumed this was going to be an rx something or other but instead it's
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uh what was it again it's actually an uh Radeon integrated embedded e9550 so this
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has so far raised more questions than it has answered my understanding is this is
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running off of it right now is that right oh yeah that's absolutely got two of these do you want to show me how this
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cable run works so it's just this single Ethernet cable that comes from the card
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from there we're going HDMI straight into
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this monitor okay and then should i be able to tell any difference from from
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using this at all not really so then Anthony how much of a delay is there if
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i just pop this Ethernet cable out and then
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like pop it back in to
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about two and a half seconds so it's about the same as what a HDMI would be
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so that six pin adapter that goes in is taking care of power not just for the
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GPU but also for the power that has to be sent
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to these adapters that take that hd base t signal and turn it into something that
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a display can understand now you can do
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10 gigabit Ethernet networking at up to
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a hundred meters if you've got high enough quality cabling
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and hdbaset can actually do the same thing
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so at volley sent us over
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600 meters of what has to be the most badass
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what is this like cat seven like shielded cat seven or something like
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that yeah i'm pretty sure that's cat seven i mean look at these connectors on
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the end these are unreal this is solid core cabling
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nice and i guess it's armored in case some idiot drops the spool on top of it
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it's actually kind of funny when you look at the manual it says read the full
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installation guide before beginning it can be found at bully.com ta-6
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performance why you will make mistakes and you need to
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read the warnings and safety related items that's literally what's written here so
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the first thing i need to do is plug all of these into the back of the GPU
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correct i mean sure if you want to uh uh
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uh okay so then now the plan is for me to drag i don't know 80 pounds of copper
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like as far as you can go and then we can plug in a monitor and see what it
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looks like i won't be able to see it from there though because i need an output here
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don't mind me i'm just you know plugging in my monitor
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gentlemen
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no i'm good where are you going
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outside
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you know when we said this channel's about to get heavy
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this is exactly what we had in mind lots and lots of copper
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no i got this i'm close i can smell it
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you did it oh
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oh man
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we're close
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all right
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hi so there's two power leads outside yeah
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and we should have five here and do we have a remote for this uh
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oh man it's getting dark this is really
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annoying all we had to do was not take that roundabout route through the
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editing den and we'd be inside right now doing this
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hey at least we cleverly planned ahead and we're going to use the uh the quad
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input monitor from lg that thing has come in handy for so many projects like
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this we're like we need to output to a bunch of
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displays but we don't actually want to carry a bunch of monitors around
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let's start with two so this is the one that should be mirroring the output from
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Anthony's computer inside
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okay i'm gonna go check again
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okay Anthony i got an output on all of them
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uh no i only have one plugged in so far but
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it's the cloned one okay cool it's not bad at all do you mind turning
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the volume down a bit i can't hear myself over myself
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like this looks really good
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dang all right let's go get the other display here we go
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and there it is
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that's crazy town hey Anthony is it possible to put videos
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on all of them uh yeah
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okay keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going okay
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now maximize the first one you want to come check it out you read
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my mind that's actually pretty cool yeah this looks really good yeah and
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it's over 100 meters like that's actually 100 meters plus like six or 10
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feet for each of these cables and they've apparently got some improvements
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in the pipeline so right now these are using uh what was it they call it power
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over cable power over cable but PoE is
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more of the like industry standard that would allow
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better interoperability with other equipment and they're gonna have a PoE
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version of it coming down the line
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so in terms of how this works then basically
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unlike most of the consumer grade in-home
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streaming solutions where you can do display over Ethernet that we've
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explored in the past this is using a 10 gig link rather than
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a one gigabit link and the thing is that even with steam and home streaming you
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can absolutely run it over a 10 gigabit switch with a 10
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gigabit network card but because of the way that it is designed it will not make
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use of all that extra bandwidth you have available so this
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is what was it you said Anthony 8. something like that depending on the
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exact resolution 4k 30 or 4k 60 at 420.
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even though you don't have as much bandwidth as HDMI as long as you limit
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some of your settings be it resolution be it refresh rate or be a bit depth
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you can get something that to my eye is
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