Got PC? - PC Smaller than a Milk Jug (Brix VR)
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,302 words · ~6 min read
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if you've been watching lately you'll already know that we've been having a
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lot of fun smushing exceptional gaming machines into incredibly small form
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factors and if you've been subscribed to our channel for a longer period then
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you'll know that we've also been covering tiny non-gaming Ultra compact
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PCS for years well then it was only a
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matter of time before a product would come along that blurred the lines
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between these two categ atories you can call it Ultra form factor you can call
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it small compact Gigabyte calls it
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bricks VR gbbn i7 HG
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6-160 but I call it the kleenex box of
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annihilation or the but will it bring you Tears of
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Joy or tears of suck well it'd be a
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crying shame if we didn't find
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out Rose Will's 25u adjustable open
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frame rack is a wide range easy to
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install server Rack or cabinet for small businesses home offices and Studios
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check it out now at the link below so to
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put this product in perspective if the
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were the the size of the outer box it came in it would still be small enough
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to make it into our recent small form factor case Roundup which you can check
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out here but it gets far better than
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that Gigabyte has done some incredible engineering work here and managed to fit
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a formidable gaming rig into a volume of
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only 2.6 L that is a mere third of the
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size of the smallest case in that round
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up I mean seriously if this machine were
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filled with chocolate milk I could literally drink it in one sitting which
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I will begin to do
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now now the chassis of our top tier config is 110 mm Square by 220 mm tall
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with a dark anodized aluminum finish that subjectively looks a lot more
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premium than its lower tiered kitchen a
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styled Brethren but still fall short of looking as good as it could you know it
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pains me to say this but in this case while I have to give them credit for not
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going full gamer I think it might have looked a little better especially in a
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home theater without the
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orange flipping it around we find a healthy helping of IO 3 USB 3 5 gig
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ports and 2 usb3 10 gig ports one type A
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and one type c and it's got more stuff that we like gigabit Ethernet with audio
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out and in and some we don't external
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antennas come on guys those are so 1997 now here's one of the big product
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differentiators it's got two HDMI 2.0
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ports and two DisplayPort mini ports
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that is where the VR sticker on the box
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comes from this thing has a VR grade
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dedicated graphics
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card Gigabyte made opening the kabo
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really easy this is a key consideration for something that'll be sold as a
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barebones machine for you to choose your own OS storage and memory just remember
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though guys that it won't be entirely plug-and playay so Factor these items
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and any other accessories into your
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budget just four screws hold the outer chassis on on then a few more
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conveniently marked little guys hold together what we're calling the music
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box for nerds oh oh I just broke a small thing
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but it's okay it's actually a pretty beefy cooler for like a 1062 fully
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custom gpus there's the Dual mini display ports there's the Dual
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hdmis gpus down there uh looks like his
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RAM on the back no but we've got power
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delivery on the back here and then we've got uh I actually can't oh okay so
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they've got memory under a heat pipe over here yeah there it is so the memory
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is here and here look at that everything about this thing is custom down to the
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printing on the vrm modules expandability is like really compact in
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here so you've got one m.2 then you've got another that runs either PCI Express
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or SATA m.2 you got your two sodiums and
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then and so you can actually oh this is cool so you can actually install a 2 and
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1/2 in drive
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here okay then so it's a pint siiz PC
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with a GTX 1060 in it but can it actually deliver butter smooth frame
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rates in games without melting well from our favorite games to
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synthetics like unen super positions performance test and even its VR
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benchmarks this branding is officially
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living up to its promise and the caboa
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was quiet across all of our tests even
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when slogging through the VR test on the
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very demanding future setting with the GPU hanging around the mid
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80s CPU thermals though are a bit of a
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different story Ida 64's FPU stress test
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turned the Kap into a a bit of a flaming
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hamster wheel we had to double check our sound meter yep that's right 70 plus d
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and even then the CPU was in the high 90s throttling down by as much as
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25% we were thinking maybe it was due to
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our slightly unfair synthetic workload
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so we fired up Adobe Premiere and encoded a video in 4k with well pretty
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much the same results
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this was a bad idea but how big of a deal all this is really depends on your
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expectations this isn't a full fat
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workstation but Gigabyte never said it was and aside from their claim that it
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has similar upgradeability to a full-size PC Thunderbolt 3 would
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probably help a lot for me to say that that's fair the kapura pretty much lives
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up to all of the points listed on the product page
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it's a great fit for VR in your living room or home
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theater and thanks to its size you can
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easily take it with you on the go I'm
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giving this thing uh two jugs
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up we need slightly smaller computers
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intake which is all sugar how many cups
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is this eight yeah 10 10 cups okay