it a mod motherboard that design to had both cpu and gpu in.. it a old design... back in early 90's and mod to work with newer chip... problem is it don't had good cooling and shitty build ... basically just something you found in china... will work but won't last long...
From what I can tell, that motherboard looks like something from a modern slot machine, modern arcade game, or a digital signage display. A lot of those have graphically demanding visuals that are usually on 24/7. They also usually have large, multiple high-res displays (1080p and up) with 3D content, especially slot machines. Definitely something with (an) integrated display(s), hence the LVDS connecters and the integrated HDMI.
Correct. I saw a dancing arcade machine use this kind of motherboard. When you reboot the arcade machine it shows you a big windows logo on the screen 😅
Yup, I work on big underground Metro and mall operations of digital signane panels here in Santiago and I have seen many like this, with the same connectors for input and output different media, panels and ac volt
Linus: Can we review board Manufacturer: no Linus: pls? Manufacturer: no Linus: pls? Manufacturer: ...fine. Linus: yay Linus: *makes a video roasting the shit out of their board*
Got an old asus board that has a 8800GT built into it but has no video output what so ever, was for something called hybrid sli, in theory it was to boost your gfx card as well as to tackle desktop apps. Worked well until Nvidia scrapped it.
Nuno Filipe buying an amd cpu and gpu is cheaper than an intel cpu and gpu... AMD also sells apus and nobody can edit with just a cpu everybody has some sort of gpu for professional work
Not sure if it's possible, but adding high end graphics chip sets directly to the motherboard would be great for mini-itx boards. Seems like it'd save a LOT of space for a build like that.
note that he put that right back in without actually attempting to fix this. the issue was that windows plain doesn't support this hardware. as proved by the rest of the video.
No, it would probably be dumb for arcade to pay more for an actual motherboard and graphics cards. Linus said that this set itself cost more than buying individuals.
8:42 Anthony’s reaction is exactly the same as mine when I get a call from someone to say their internet/printer/monitor/TV isn’t working and how do they fix it.
I generally reply “is it physically in front of me? No? Then leave me alone until it is, or pay someone else to do it for you.” Shut my mom right up...not kidding.
i dont think so, layout is too weird and i think it would be too thick for an all-in-one. Some guy in the comments said it might be a motherboard for arcade machines. idk
@@isosk1229 why do you think its too thick? the cpu will probably have a very low profile cooler, the whole thing would be just about the thickness of a dvd player
Just face it Linus just so happens to not like any Chinese branded stuff. This is why brands from china shouldn't "send" stuff to him and instead request him to buy it
@@jefftragheit Sorry, but the "spyware" problem is also very, very present in western products, with all the bloatware computer/smartphone manufacturers put in their products. Regarding "inferior build qualities", that's not possible to generalize, because there is questionable - or blatantly bad - stuff, and there are products with quality comparable to many famous, non-chinese brands (Xiaomi products for example). I'd say that the only real (or relevant) problems are the lack of warranty/support for things bought directly from china and the fake products. Other than that, risks are the same (even the supposed risk of espionage).
Could be quite a good idea in its way. After all, you can't upgrade a console. You just have to get the next-gen release when they've made it. If it was possible to make it on baseline budget, give it an SSD with an OS, whack it in a custom case & you got yourself a budget, off-the-shelf, plug & play gaming console/pc hybrid!
Maybe it was for image analysis systems to be deployed in the field. You'd only invest in the R&D of a brand new board to fulfill a large government order?
I built my Plex server in 2017 with a Ryzen 5 1600 because I needed horsepower to transcode for multiple users. Had this board been available I'd have considered it. Only problem I see with it is a lack of SATA connections, or PCI connections to connect the 80 TBs of drives I have.
I think that motherboard is for the arcade machines, is the perfect form factor with all the external connectors to run displays SSD and monitors in a giant wood enclosure
Yes came to say the same thing. This is basically what’s in most machines in the arcades now. I have a technoparrot system at home for MarioKart GP, Saga Rally and Star Wars Battle Pod, this motherboard/Gpu thing would be perfect for it.
They build a bunch of weird stuff like this in Asia because Internet gaming cafes are big ever there. A all in one like this might sound a little more interesting to a gaming cafe that has to set up a bunch of gaming stations.
This looks like it could be used in arcades. You've got the LVDS side going to the screen and buttons, and the external USB side for setting it up or debugging.
Arcades in japan and china run hardcore modern games. I remember seeing tons of new fighting games over there, even saw a couple arcades with Mortal Kombat X
I use to work in a arcade earlier this year and I can tell you, I have never seen a game with ether a gpu that powerful or seen them with any type of debugging tool. Granted though we tended to avoid any foreign manufacturer unless they had a help support based in the U.S, and so far only Sega did. Heck, even our giant games with big displays didn't even have a gpu, because most of the games are super simple to run. It was manly the driving games that had gpu's, and even then they were super old ones.
@@JasperJanssen not likely as others have said, most likely it's for either highly realistic arcade machines or more likely it's for a video slot/pachinko machine.
This is a laptop MoBo, the ram slots match the laptop standard, and although it has a cpu slot,u can modify that with the propel tools, so this is custom made
"This CPU has liquid metal spilling out the corner... Lets plug it into this super rare motherboard--if we have issues, we'll troubleshoot everything but the CPU first."
In regards to what application this thing has, I can see this being an extremely useful HTPC with some casual or last-gen gaming options. Something akin to the Alienware Alpha R2 which I ended up getting more mileage than I would've preferred.
@falchulk I don't agree with it being a laptop motherboard, its more aio. But even then, that cooler could always be just a preproduction cooler, just to test the components.
even without the cooler, those internal ports on one side wouldnt make sense for a laptop! Some company probably ordered this to their specifications, and after the deal was done, the factory decided to put up some extras on sale to see if it would continue to sell... wich it probably didnt
i had an nforce chipset 10 years ago .. was a geforce gpu 7100 with 256 mb deducted from system ram ,,, barely ran need for speed most wanted at 800x480 low settings!
@@ZubinB You can do a lot of things on a Raspberry Pi, but we are talking about Enterprise Deployment not some technicians putting something together ad hoc.
@Evil Koala so your option is to go with Frankenboard, with no third-party support or documentation for it, which clearly had stability issues versus a time-proven Raspberry Pi? And you say "Linux distro" as something is wrong with that. Almost every website is ran on Linux, including UA-cam. Even Microsoft's Azure is mostly Linux. You can't question the reliability of Linux. It's not being a 'fanboi.' It was just a dumb statement. Just come out and say "I don't know how to use Linux. Because of that I need a far more expensive x86_64 CISC processor and board to run Windows instead of using the ARM architecture" Your loss really. Much more elegant to set up a Linux distro (especially a minimal one like base Debian which is designed for mission-critical servers) to be focused on your task instead of some overly-bloated OS that adds complexity. Once the Linux distro is configured to your liking, just make an image of it and install it on all your systems effortlessly.
6:08 Its most likely a FPGA or some ASIC handling convertion to the LVDS output format (its also close to that connector). FPGA is more likely given the DRAM chip and 8 pin spi flash.
The lack of PCIe slots points in that direction as well, although socketed CPUs have gotten somewhat rare in laptops. Maybe some sort of big NUC or HTPC designed for gaming abilities? EDIT: FWIW, the User's Manual is available. www.zeal-all.com/web/userfiles/download/ZA_SK1050C_eng.pdf
Chinese fans here！We called this kind of strange mother board“妖板”，we have many“妖板”in china（maybe a place called“华强北”produce it）and the 1050ti on this motherboard is laptop graphis card.In china，sometimes we weld the laptop graphis card on desktop computer mother board as the graphis card，it‘s high cost effective！And i have a“妖板” produce by a brand in China called“Maxson” i can use ddr2 memories and ddr3 memories on this board at same time！
This looks alot like an AIO mobo especially when you see that power connecter as that's a standard medical grade connector we work with in the medical field, there's alot of companies like tangent, cybernet, caresyntax, etc that would build custom boards for there devices exactly like this.
"Well that just sounds like a laptop with extra steps." . . . . . . If y'all don't get the reference it's from Rick and Morty when they go into his car battery.
@@livebig6414 yeah, it is. I love very close to one and they will price match, are very accepting of returns, and have the best prices on CPUs anywhere. Actually worked there for a year, very generous company.
Maybe if the manufactor had made this project more accurate and detailed, it would be a damn great idea. Imagine one Mobo with 1070 or Rx 590, with a correct GPU power conector included, and so, OR then, a separeted gpu chip card that bounds with the mobo by some specific high speed slot/connector with support for spare stronger coolers.
Having Linux work when Windows wouldn't, I've had that experience with a micro ssd card and a few memory sticks (Thumb drive). Suspected they had gone wrong. Windows wouldn't even see them. Linux did. And we were able to salvage quite a bit of the information. They were definitly on thier way out as they could not be reformatted after getting the info off. Doesn't work for all ssd and memory sticks. Some are just too far gone. But it is worth a try if you Windows doesn't see the stick anymore. You may be able to salvage some important info you forgot to back up.
This is actually a not bad advice for me, because 3 days ago a somewhat new pendrive just died when I was copying files on it under windows 10, my laptop didn't recognize either in the disk management. It does the sound when I connect it, but doesn't show up even in the device manager as storage device. I forgot to boot my laptop to linux and check there, but I definitely will. Maybe it helps. Thanks for the tip. Edit: because i get likes for this comment i assume others are having this issue, so i'd like to report that it worked. Thanks for the hint! Pendrive saved. Reformatted under linux, works again under windows.
@@resetcoder the issue I had with linux and Pendrive is linux dose not have low level format utility , dd command doesn't work on low level , I know it's required special tools that's runs only on Windows , but that was week point for hackers and open source OS like Linux , I'm not asking too much or being greedy , but I never saw single project or attempt to from Opensource programmer to decrypt USB flash memory driver and dumb it's framework to analysis it at least , if you had tried these tools (on Windows) you will understand what I mean it's givers you fully control of Pendrive like make hidden partition change the device id Luck it encrypt the files ,
@Game Over I really don't know , I tried it multiple time failed to create bootable USB Pendrive , When I use Window utility (like one developer by HP) it's created the boot immediately , + I don't know why there is no single Linux utility that can extract or modify Pendrive firmware , even low level HDD tools that available on Windows have no equivalent on linux , i don't know how describe this but these tools are very important to maintain the PC's
@Game Over Yes I was talking about "jtag/uart/uboot" that tools were specified to the chip unfortunately I can't find it on my hdd , i only find this "HDD Raw Copy Tool" I used once to remove copy protection on one of Pendrive I have .
@Game Over in fact my brother give it to me (I think it related to chines manufacture) , use it 4 years ago i can't remember it name (I think I download the new version from Russian site lol ) , looks like these tools were writer either n C or Assembly to reprogram the PenDriver Microcontroller (their is guys on YT talk about SD utility too ) sadly my memory is weak i can't remember all these tools name , but i use it on Clear mobile USB Pend driver (it was 64MB) so were can put new WimMax modem driver on it , yeah that's weird since first time i know i can control the pen drive capacity even create hidden partition and change the boot order .
This kind of video, when you bring us on a journey to try to make thing work on a strange piece of hardware, this is really the best there is. Just a bit more of technical explanation and everything should be perfect ! Thx Linus, and thx to the LTT team !
JS 09 he’s referring to Chinese based companies, where chinese startups are forced to try weird, wacky and unnecessary things to stand out from the 81937394729373 kabillion tech companies in China doing the same thing
3:58 I think that is notebook motherboard, because it has connectors on both sides and RAM is lying, not vertically standing as in normal PC motherboards
"This one is the GPUs HDMI and this one is the onboard one" Considering the GPU is literally soldered onto the board, wouldn't it ALSO qualify as onboard graphics?
@@ErimlRGG To be fair, almost all of them use a custom version of the kernel instead of mainlining their support let alone open sourcing their drivers. Whether that's because they're stupid enough to believe their kernel driver is a vital business secret or malicious enough to use it as a way to force you to buy new hardware instead of updating the kernel is up for debate. My actual point being, the mainline Linux kernel probably wouldn't have any drivers provided by the manufacturer and the difference is most likely down to Linux having a more robust system for handling errors.
@@MTB53850 yeah window bad, penguin good. we get it. Linux is perfect...is not, fucking sucks for audio and I had GRUB corrupt sooo many times on many machines. I love how Linux works and working with the terminal but it's far from perfect and from being perfect at handling errors
@@ErimlRGG More like Windows bootloader corrupting Grub XD But you are right, the last time I had a Windows install, I just installed Windows and Linux on 2 separate drives and choose the boot drive from BIOS, much less headaches.
This Motherboard was made for a Kickstarter "secret"project that never started.... It was suppose to be a new "console" (basically a mini PC camouflaged to a console like the Atari VCS). The Factory did the prototypes and blue prints, so they sell them if you want one because they have the blue prints. For more details you need to find people involved with this "secret" Kickstarter project that never started! Good Luck! ;)
Wonder why it never took off. Single board computer have been a thing for a while, with all in one's and rasp pis being the most well known, and another popular thing to do is disguise rasp pis as retro consoles.
@@Anto-xh5vn I think he's the most calm person here. Everyone else sees "bitch" and gets anxious AF, like the world's going to end 'cause someone wasn't flawlessly politically correct.
As a person who owns a 1050ti and is having a 3070 on the way, a 1050ti is decent for a person with an otherwise low end system but anything worth more than 800 dollars it’s bad.
@@user-jg78 Actually the people who ate bats are far from poor, and almost all of the Chinese were confused why those idiot ate bat. Keep healthy, peace
Looks like a laptop motherboard converted into a desktop board, 19V power input, laptop RAM slots, remnants of what appears to be a battery connector, no expansion slots, remnants of what appears to be a mini PCIe slot
I like how he is like "How do I change the cpu-governor" and he literally has the exact right command in his terminal. And it literally tells him that it just needs a package to use that. (Not that the standard cpu-governor shouldn't be completely fine anyways)
Considering Anthony talked about using an app and not a terminal command I would say Linus took the right decision by not putting in the command and calling Anthony instead
@@manaspradhan8041 changing the governor is really easy, sure you can use an applet to do it visually but all you need to do is echo "performance" > /sys/cpu/#number/governor or something like that, i dont remember it from memory but worst case scenario you can easily have a bash script do it for you. Its not a big deal.
@@manaspradhan8041 I have actually been using that exact same command. It is resets with a restart and for me was the only thing that actually worked. The any applets or anything that I used in the past, don't work for me anymore.
Considering RotTR/SotTR were ported by Feral Interactive, he'd just have to install Feral Gamemode, and that would have handled everything for him: github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode It's available as a prebuilt package for Ubuntu and most other distros. But yeah, they could surely tweak that info message to be more clear, I guess.
That graphic card has a motherboard, pretty interesting.
:-DDD
AHAHAHHAHAHA
it a mod motherboard that design to had both cpu and gpu in.. it a old design... back in early 90's and mod to work with newer chip... problem is it don't had good cooling and shitty build ... basically just something you found in china... will work but won't last long...
It's not a graphics card it is a gpu.
Are graphics cards daughter boards?
This is a motherboard for SLOT MACHINES and VENDING MACHINES with large displays, they even use them in Pachinko :)
Yes, lvds ports gave it out for me.. they're usually found in such machines. Usually connecting more than 1 screen.
I was going to guess military applications until I saw yours. It makes complete sense.
It could be used in ai aio pc...
The graphics on those machines can get pretty intense. Not to mention that I've seen some with 10ft screens or taller.
maybe for upcoming ddr/piu arcade machine since last gen that machines use gtx 650 or 750
The first real "GAMING" motherboard
Now we just need a graphics card in a chair
Don’t forget about the rgb on the Graphics card chair
@@sachinkapur4298 and the glass side panel
Water cooling the chair
GPU in a CPU, oh wait
And a display
From what I can tell, that motherboard looks like something from a modern slot machine, modern arcade game, or a digital signage display. A lot of those have graphically demanding visuals that are usually on 24/7. They also usually have large, multiple high-res displays (1080p and up) with 3D content, especially slot machines.
Definitely something with (an) integrated display(s), hence the LVDS connecters and the integrated HDMI.
That's a good point!
Most likely some form of signage display. An arcade board and even slot machine would require a JAMMA interface to plug it into a cabinet.
i have looked for this comment! thanks
Correct. I saw a dancing arcade machine use this kind of motherboard. When you reboot the arcade machine it shows you a big windows logo on the screen 😅
Yup, I work on big underground Metro and mall operations of digital signane panels here in Santiago and I have seen many like this, with the same connectors for input and output different media, panels and ac volt
Linus: Can we review board
Manufacturer: no
Linus: pls?
Manufacturer: no
Linus: pls?
Manufacturer: ...fine.
Linus: yay
Linus: *makes a video roasting the shit out of their board*
They probably knew it was gonna happen thats why, but fr who the Fuck would deny being in a linus tech tips vid
@@ggr7296 Russian government
To be real though imagine linus being excited to see something so unusual
move the first r in progress to the second to last place, replace the now first r with g, and remove the first s
*-like a boss*
Motherboard integrated graphics taken to a whole other level
Got an old asus board that has a 8800GT built into it but has no video output what so ever, was for something called hybrid sli, in theory it was to boost your gfx card as well as to tackle desktop apps. Worked well until Nvidia scrapped it.
Nuno Filipe buying an amd cpu and gpu is cheaper than an intel cpu and gpu... AMD also sells apus and nobody can edit with just a cpu everybody has some sort of gpu for professional work
Nuno Filipe ryzen apus exist you genius.
@Nuno Filipe Aren't the R3 3200G and the R5 3400G have the Vega 8 and the Vega 11 integrated Graphics in them respectively?
eh this could go somewhere
When you buy something that does everything, everything breaks when one thing breaks...
I thought this was just an odd cheap Chinese board, (edit, not cheap at all but $365 )
@@scottrich976 Did you see the price on eBay
@@panickyk2300 nope, how much is it ?
@@scottrich976 5:08 you can see there on eBay it was listed for 365US$
@@scottrich976 Did you check the price before saying it was a cheaper solution?
Not sure if it's possible, but adding high end graphics chip sets directly to the motherboard would be great for mini-itx boards. Seems like it'd save a LOT of space for a build like that.
It would just be hard to cool! 😬
Would be great if you can cool it. You could cook mid range and lower, but makes no sense to put anything other than high end on a board
Well it completely bar any upgrades you’d have to buy a whole new board
Linus: the liquid metal spilled everywere
also linus: i don't know why the system always crashed
Exactly. Blames everything except the CPU
note that he put that right back in without actually attempting to fix this. the issue was that windows plain doesn't support this hardware. as proved by the rest of the video.
youtube full of with this 2 line 2 person gay joke , Dont find it funny ....kinda dum, come with something better dude
Turbo Ok
Boomer
@@gary6576 yes, write that a lot xx
until everyone using corrosive therms learns 1t
Someone decided to turn on dark mode AND RTX in the intro.
And is amazing
And it's glorious
And it's fabulous
And it's beautiful
And it’s awe inspiring
11:16 - Just wanted to congratulate BOT Clarence for defusing the bomb.
Pavlov
This has so many likes so reply boiis
@@Kamii_Kaze Nope, chuck testa
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say ok
How lucky is he? I wanna have Anthony on call for my computer issues.
That is AAA support.
He needed some...Linux Tech Tips
@@UFOhunter4711 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It seems like a perfect board for an arcade machine.
benchmarks against a ryzen G.
I can see this in a Chinese arcade machine
@@VoVilliaCorp I doubt that. Maybe if there were some glass panels, but that doesn't seem likely for an arcade machine.
This is probably made for casino gaming. GPU is mainly for fancy graphics during gameplay.
No, it would probably be dumb for arcade to pay more for an actual motherboard and graphics cards. Linus said that this set itself cost more than buying individuals.
me: WOW A GAMING Motherboard
china:**Laughs in RAM-CHAIRS**
NOT RGB!!
8:42 Anthony’s reaction is exactly the same as mine when I get a call from someone to say their internet/printer/monitor/TV isn’t working and how do they fix it.
Catriona have you tried dropping it?
I generally reply “is it physically in front of me? No? Then leave me alone until it is, or pay someone else to do it for you.” Shut my mom right up...not kidding.
This is actually a all-in-one computer (monitors integrated motherboard )used to embedded to the back of the monitor itself.
That's neat
i dont think so, layout is too weird and i think it would be too thick for an all-in-one. Some guy in the comments said it might be a motherboard for arcade machines. idk
@animator yeah man
@@isosk1229 why do you think its too thick? the cpu will probably have a very low profile cooler, the whole thing would be just about the thickness of a dvd player
i was thinking the same! and some of those pinouts might actually carry video signal!
Linus : We had to convince the manufacturer for months for them to send one in
Also Linus : It's not worth it
Manufacturer : 你认真的吗?
He made many mistakes and assumptions, and finally blamed the product.
Just face it Linus just so happens to not like any Chinese branded stuff. This is why brands from china shouldn't "send" stuff to him and instead request him to buy it
WeiWen WWE You shouldn’t buy stuff from China
@@weiwenwwe2066 what's not to love? Inferior build qualities. Spyware. Fake products. There's so much to enjoy.
@@jefftragheit Sorry, but the "spyware" problem is also very, very present in western products, with all the bloatware computer/smartphone manufacturers put in their products. Regarding "inferior build qualities", that's not possible to generalize, because there is questionable - or blatantly bad - stuff, and there are products with quality comparable to many famous, non-chinese brands (Xiaomi products for example). I'd say that the only real (or relevant) problems are the lack of warranty/support for things bought directly from china and the fake products. Other than that, risks are the same (even the supposed risk of espionage).
Noone:
Top-down camera: let me show you my skills beginning with autofocus.
😂😂 if he used an iPhone camera or a Mac camera the autofocus would be much better
@@loveiphones4550 mac camera...yes yes those must exist mmhhh
@@ark_knight have my MacBook right here, clearly see a camera
@@loveiphones4550 And then what, put the MacBook on a tripod?
@@loveiphones4550 and then FBI clearly see you through that camera
This looks like a board for an all-in-one system. Hence the weird i/o placement and the built in gpu.
Laptops motherboard
@@cheenygami That thing would never go in a laptop. Way too thick and there is no need for I/O ports like that inside a laptop.
@@Svenz0r its "Like a"
@@cheenygami ??
@@Aymun3060 wot
Could be quite a good idea in its way. After all, you can't upgrade a console. You just have to get the next-gen release when they've made it. If it was possible to make it on baseline budget, give it an SSD with an OS, whack it in a custom case & you got yourself a budget, off-the-shelf, plug & play gaming console/pc hybrid!
Congrats, you re-invented the Steam Machine. Ask Valve how that ended.
I'm starting to forget how Linus looked before beard. New era.
Better era
The great renaissance
@@toxin1882 EverBody is Now LooKin SimilaR. Lols
Could be a "console" or a net cafe board meant to go in a little rack, with the disks connected external to the enclosure.
Same here I think its build for net cafe hahaahah
From my research it was for internet gaming cafes in China.
I'd be super disappointed if the gaming cafe only offered 1050Ti's in their PCs
@@Nik-ff3tu yep 1 1050 ti for the entire cafe
Maybe it was for image analysis systems to be deployed in the field. You'd only invest in the R&D of a brand new board to fulfill a large government order?
This is just a laptop, without all the peripherals connected.
Yeah! The only thing I'm seeing that's very desktop-like is the CPU socket.
Area 51m?
with external SATA ports?
If it wasn't for the weird IO I would agree with you.
the heat sink height kind of clashes with this being put into a laptop
This thing would be amazing for a NAS that needs some extra power to transcode for Plex. I would legit buy this if it was a good price!
I built my Plex server in 2017 with a Ryzen 5 1600 because I needed horsepower to transcode for multiple users. Had this board been available I'd have considered it. Only problem I see with it is a lack of SATA connections, or PCI connections to connect the 80 TBs of drives I have.
@@jasnterry1313 lack of SATA connections? Did you watch the same video?
@@JasonZakrajsek yeah it has some, not 80 terabytes worth of em
its not almost $700
transcoding... with a graphics card? software encoding is best in terms of quality
I think that motherboard is for the arcade machines, is the perfect form factor with all the external connectors to run displays SSD and monitors in a giant wood enclosure
like DDR or so ??
ok, but why so many usb3 ports?
@@blackasthesky game controllers, maybe?
Yes came to say the same thing. This is basically what’s in most machines in the arcades now.
I have a technoparrot system at home for MarioKart GP, Saga Rally and Star Wars Battle Pod, this motherboard/Gpu thing would be perfect for it.
They build a bunch of weird stuff like this in Asia because Internet gaming cafes are big ever there. A all in one like this might sound a little more interesting to a gaming cafe that has to set up a bunch of gaming stations.
"what is the front side???"
the manufacturers: yes...
Front side is one with socket dumbass
@@David-eq4xb both sides have sockets. Dumbass
@@akhyarrayhka4048 he was making a jk dumbass
@@shayzanee9371 hes not, idiot
@@akhyarrayhka4048 He did, bro.
Linus: "It's a 1050ti..."
Subtitle: "Well yes, but actually no."
Haha. Yeah it sayed GTX 750Ti
@@HelloKittyFanMan. get itt trugh contexct..... ;)
Watch the video with subtitles. The subs say 750ti when he says 1050ti
@@HelloKittyFanMan. use you imagination.
@@HelloKittyFanMan. because i'm not normal
1:09
Missed opportunity, there should have been a third question; "Who's our sponsor?"
This looks like it could be used in arcades. You've got the LVDS side going to the screen and buttons, and the external USB side for setting it up or debugging.
I dunno what kind of high end arcades you have around there, but a 1050ti seems overkill for most things
@@tiagobelo4965 maybe not if it's tekken 7 or street fighter 5 at highest graphics
@@tiagobelo4965 namco's using it for the system bna1 board
Arcades in japan and china run hardcore modern games. I remember seeing tons of new fighting games over there, even saw a couple arcades with Mortal Kombat X
I use to work in a arcade earlier this year and I can tell you, I have never seen a game with ether a gpu that powerful or seen them with any type of debugging tool. Granted though we tended to avoid any foreign manufacturer unless they had a help support based in the U.S, and so far only Sega did. Heck, even our giant games with big displays didn't even have a gpu, because most of the games are super simple to run. It was manly the driving games that had gpu's, and even then they were super old ones.
mmmmm. that dark theme intro tho. Just makes me smile. Such a good animation. mhm lovin it
Old one still means a lot to me but this ones so astounding.
Yup. I'm surprised that not more people are talking about that sick animation
@@karandev9316 Ikr
@@arnehurnik They sure are
I feel like we're soon gonna have an entire channel dedicated to weird Chinese tech products that shouldn't exist.
That is actually a really good idea for a channel
China shouldn't exist at this point.
You say it like it’s a bad thing.
Strange Parts
Sh!t China makes
'We built this motherboard with a satchel of thermite programmed to melt everything the moment you launch a game.'
Linus, you're forbidden to ever shave that beard off.
Claytrix Somehow Linux looks younger with the beard
@@doctorscalling9479 agreed
@@creepysmilingcarl9742 without a beard he looks like a virgin xD
He looks cooler with it
@@Deathbatman yep
This looks like a board for Arcade machines.
Or gambling kiosks. Video poker machines and their ilk are diving into fancier and fancier graphics to try and draw in marks.
that was my guess
Arcade VR machine?
AIOs, maybe.
@@JasperJanssen not likely as others have said, most likely it's for either highly realistic arcade machines or more likely it's for a video slot/pachinko machine.
Can we just take a moment to realize that not only is it an RTX Intro, BUT IT'S A FREAKING RTX DARK MODE INTRO! you guys have outdone yourselves.
they didn’t create the new intro, it was some other graphic designer
Was like this last video
@@luhmebebe Yeah some dude at their subreddit made it and then they asked to use it. Happened like 1-2 months ago
yes i love it
its so clean and dope
This is a laptop MoBo, the ram slots match the laptop standard, and although it has a cpu slot,u can modify that with the propel tools, so this is custom made
Linus: *shows motherboard*
Camera Focus: "How about no"
It is killing me how out of focus the top down camera is.
It shows that Linus is doing all by himself at home, shots are out of focus in a sharp 4K quality
Literally the same struggle when I ask for nudes
I had to check that UA-cam wasn't serving me SD video
@@AgentOrange96 even SD would be far better.
not gonna lie, linus actually looks like a man with that rockin beard
Now that he's rich he's probably on that HGH and now he's growing stubble.
Yea, went from looking 25 to 45yrs old
Ikr
@@kevincameron192 a few more months and he'll look like Jesus.
I was just about to make a comment about some HGH and then I seen this but really he looks me healthy now look at his biceps pop.
"This CPU has liquid metal spilling out the corner... Lets plug it into this super rare motherboard--if we have issues, we'll troubleshoot everything but the CPU first."
It's not rare. It's unusual
@@TheAdatto I'd say it's rare and unusual..... FFS........
"and make it seem like it's the motherboard's fault"...
In regards to what application this thing has, I can see this being an extremely useful HTPC with some casual or last-gen gaming options. Something akin to the Alienware Alpha R2 which I ended up getting more mileage than I would've preferred.
I never in my life thought I would say "this motherboard has a better graphics card than me"
but here we are
Oh boy, too relatable
Laughs in intel hd
if it makes you feel any better, i have a 980 ti HAHAHA looser
@@peterpimmelmann3330 what do you mean loser
Old integrated graphics CPU here, I agree.
The new intro makes me so happy
Its terrible
Oh thats cool the new intro
@@nigeI you re terrible
It looks nice but the old one was better
Its waay too obnoxious imo
This motherboard is literally a laptop without a frame LMAO
@Square Sushi The same way you put one on a raspberry pi.
@falchulk I don't agree with it being a laptop motherboard, its more aio. But even then, that cooler could always be just a preproduction cooler, just to test the components.
@falchulk some HP / Dell crazy gaming laptops with Core i9-s and RTX graphics in them are like this
even without the cooler, those internal ports on one side wouldnt make sense for a laptop!
Some company probably ordered this to their specifications, and after the deal was done, the factory decided to put up some extras on sale to see if it would continue to sell... wich it probably didnt
“So what will you do after your graphics card loses it’s power?”
“Buy a new motherboard”
Same for laptop or gaming console
Oooh, _Dark Mode_ intro.
I remember when the northbridge on NForce motherboards was actually a GeForce GPU of some description.
usually a crippled one.
i had an nforce chipset 10 years ago .. was a geforce gpu 7100 with 256 mb deducted from system ram ,,, barely ran need for speed most wanted at 800x480 low settings!
_"Have you tried unplugging and reinstalling the Graphics Card to fix the issue?"_ - Tech Support
To the top!!!!
It looks like something you'd find in an AIO that would have outputs and USB on both sides of the 'case'
was thinking the same, the connector also fits as the power supply is often outside the case
The aesthetics of that heat sink is extremely pleasing
Who the frick wrote the captions is a legend
Linus - "GTX 1050 ti"
Subtitles- *"GTX 750 ti"*
Linus- LGA
Subtitles- *LJA*
@Grammar nazi no
KekkoMaster1 yes
@@phantomv69 no
Grammar nazi no
Grammar nazi no they aren’t, there are auto-generated ones that got it right, but the top one isn’t auto-generated.
It's for billboard screens or those touch screens in shopping malls.
That's why there is a lvds connector...
You can run a high-res billboard off a Raspberry Pi & it'd still be at 50% CPU utilization
@@ZubinB You can do a lot of things on a Raspberry Pi, but we are talking about Enterprise Deployment not some technicians putting something together ad hoc.
@@chrismackay9268 Pi's have been used for enterprise deployment before. Store kiosks, schools, offices, etc.
@Evil Koala You don't exactly need a supercomputer for trivial tasks. Even big corporations have trivial requirements.
@Evil Koala so your option is to go with Frankenboard, with no third-party support or documentation for it, which clearly had stability issues versus a time-proven Raspberry Pi?
And you say "Linux distro" as something is wrong with that. Almost every website is ran on Linux, including UA-cam. Even Microsoft's Azure is mostly Linux. You can't question the reliability of Linux.
It's not being a 'fanboi.' It was just a dumb statement. Just come out and say "I don't know how to use Linux. Because of that I need a far more expensive x86_64 CISC processor and board to run Windows instead of using the ARM architecture"
Your loss really. Much more elegant to set up a Linux distro (especially a minimal one like base Debian which is designed for mission-critical servers) to be focused on your task instead of some overly-bloated OS that adds complexity. Once the Linux distro is configured to your liking, just make an image of it and install it on all your systems effortlessly.
seems like it could be an arcade type situation where you want laptop style power on a cabinet
That's exactly what I was thinking. It'd be great for a MAME cabinet.
GPUs on a motherboard isn't common these days but in the old days it was the norm
1:24 DARK MODE RTX INTRO!! We're not worthy :D
Dark mode old intro would be nicer
Lightmode good Darkmode bad... r/lightmoderevolution
6:08 Its most likely a FPGA or some ASIC handling convertion to the LVDS output format (its also close to that connector). FPGA is more likely given the DRAM chip and 8 pin spi flash.
makes sense with this being a low-volume arcade board too
@Emily Thomson underrated comment 😂😂
This looks like a laptop board with the ports on different sides.
Or an all-in-one or something like that.
I thought it looked like one of those "new" consoles that were coming out (last year?) He did a video on one or two.
Maybe a debugging laptop? Or just some sort of semi mobile pc. For sure ment for a purpose
Especially since it runs on DC instead of having a 24pin. That suggests an external power adapter.
and the laptop memory
thats the future right there, Motherboard with CPU and GPU all in one.
It seems like it was designed to go into a cheap "console" more than anything.
More than likely this is meant to go in a fancy video slot machine.
@@discretizer more like a chepo slot machine
Goodones have much better designed boards
I was thinking something along the lines of a console concept.
xbox series x ?
@thedog556 was more a /r/pcmasterrace joke bro
Petition for Linus to keep the beard
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Isn't that just a laptop motherboard with a standalone GPU cooler?
ye laptop motherboards are just basically the same.
The lack of PCIe slots points in that direction as well, although socketed CPUs have gotten somewhat rare in laptops. Maybe some sort of big NUC or HTPC designed for gaming abilities?
EDIT: FWIW, the User's Manual is available.
www.zeal-all.com/web/userfiles/download/ZA_SK1050C_eng.pdf
Agreedo
Once you figure out what your using please come back to this one in all fairness.
*After lockdown ends*
Everyone: Noooo! You can't shave your beard off, everyone loves it!
Linus: haha razor go bzzzz
Yvonne makes that decision.
Thanks for the chuckle on that one.
Well his lose he looks like an incel without that beard
@@VoraciousSergal why
Does he just not own razors at home
Chinese fans here！We called this kind of strange mother board“妖板”，we have many“妖板”in china（maybe a place called“华强北”produce it）and the 1050ti on this motherboard is laptop graphis card.In china，sometimes we weld the laptop graphis card on desktop computer mother board as the graphis card，it‘s high cost effective！And i have a“妖板” produce by a brand in China called“Maxson” i can use ddr2 memories and ddr3 memories on this board at same time！
where to get fm2/fm2+ socket chinese mobo with graphic card
Its sarcasm i believe
@@HelloKittyFanMan. 妖板=Demon board, 华强北=HuaQiangBei
Bruh dont buy this shit..go buy the REAL ones..for longer use lol
@@xxWidex Demon is probably too strong a word, "Elf board" maybe? lol
This looks alot like an AIO mobo especially when you see that power connecter as that's a standard medical grade connector we work with in the medical field, there's alot of companies like tangent, cybernet, caresyntax, etc that would build custom boards for there devices exactly like this.
dank ou fur servixe
My very first linus tech tips video.
Since then i been watching you guys!
"Well that just sounds like a laptop with extra steps."
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If y'all don't get the reference it's from Rick and Morty when they go into his car battery.
Haha nice reference
You ruined the 'joke' by trying to explain where it's from
@@Sum_Guy no that's part of the read more
@@Sum_Guy people ruin the joke when they say "wOw I nEvER hAD 300 liKEs bEFoRe!" and keep going
"This Motherboard Shouldn't Exist" will always be the superior title
Old video but the dark intro is SO MUCH BETTER MY EYES THANK U
"Local Micro Center"
*laugh-cries in 8-hour drive*
is it even worth it? I am from europe and here usually local pc stores sell overpriced crap, online is the way to go.
My Micro Center is an 8-minute drive away. :)
@@livebig6414 yeah, it is. I love very close to one and they will price match, are very accepting of returns, and have the best prices on CPUs anywhere. Actually worked there for a year, very generous company.
I now live between the only ones in georgia. A drive is still worth 40 dollar 2 day shipping though.
*laughs in 12 hour FLIGHT*
Windows: "It's all crap!"
Linus: Look at this stick full of Linux...
i wuld like but it was 69 likes
@@usaidkhan9089 indeed
Indeed
Liked and made 269
seems fitting for someone named linus.
You can tell they've all been stuck at home, they updated the intro.
That was actually fan created
I liked it and had been hoping they would for a while. (:
@@WarriorsPhoto It's fan created
@@samborinsky6251 so the fans were stuck at home, my point was that it's happened because everyone is bored at home
They're stuck at home........ FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!
Maybe if the manufactor had made this project more accurate and detailed, it would be a damn great idea. Imagine one Mobo with 1070 or Rx 590, with a correct GPU power conector included, and so, OR then, a separeted gpu chip card that bounds with the mobo by some specific high speed slot/connector with support for spare stronger coolers.
Separated gpu card chip bound to the motherboard with a high speed slot with support for stronger coolers... you just described mainstream computers.
@@louiesatterwhite3885 lol
@@louiesatterwhite3885 that was the point
This is also a solution I've seen in arcade cabinets.
thephoenix3000 I’ve also seen it in all in one PCs
A similar solution to poker machines.
Interesting, my first thought is that this was for arcade cabinets
Having Linux work when Windows wouldn't, I've had that experience with a micro ssd card and a few memory sticks (Thumb drive). Suspected they had gone wrong. Windows wouldn't even see them. Linux did. And we were able to salvage quite a bit of the information. They were definitly on thier way out as they could not be reformatted after getting the info off.
Doesn't work for all ssd and memory sticks. Some are just too far gone. But it is worth a try if you Windows doesn't see the stick anymore. You may be able to salvage some important info you forgot to back up.
This is actually a not bad advice for me, because 3 days ago a somewhat new pendrive just died when I was copying files on it under windows 10, my laptop didn't recognize either in the disk management. It does the sound when I connect it, but doesn't show up even in the device manager as storage device. I forgot to boot my laptop to linux and check there, but I definitely will. Maybe it helps. Thanks for the tip.
Edit: because i get likes for this comment i assume others are having this issue, so i'd like to report that it worked. Thanks for the hint! Pendrive saved. Reformatted under linux, works again under windows.
@@resetcoder the issue I had with linux and Pendrive is linux dose not have low level format utility , dd command doesn't work on low level , I know it's required special tools that's runs only on Windows , but that was week point for hackers and open source OS like Linux , I'm not asking too much or being greedy , but I never saw single project or attempt to from Opensource programmer to decrypt USB flash memory driver and dumb it's framework to analysis it at least , if you had tried these tools (on Windows) you will understand what I mean it's givers you fully control of Pendrive like make hidden partition change the device id Luck it encrypt the files ,
@Game Over I really don't know , I tried it multiple time failed to create bootable USB Pendrive , When I use Window utility (like one developer by HP) it's created the boot immediately , + I don't know why there is no single Linux utility that can extract or modify Pendrive firmware , even low level HDD tools that available on Windows have no equivalent on linux , i don't know how describe this but these tools are very important to maintain the PC's
@Game Over Yes I was talking about "jtag/uart/uboot" that tools were specified to the chip unfortunately I can't find it on my hdd , i only find this
"HDD Raw Copy Tool" I used once to remove copy protection on one of Pendrive I have .
@Game Over in fact my brother give it to me (I think it related to chines manufacture) , use it 4 years ago i can't remember it name (I think I download the new version from Russian site lol ) , looks like these tools were writer either n C or Assembly to reprogram the PenDriver Microcontroller (their is guys on YT talk about SD utility too ) sadly my memory is weak i can't remember all these tools name , but i use it on Clear mobile USB Pend driver (it was 64MB) so were can put new WimMax modem driver on it , yeah that's weird since first time i know i can control the pen drive capacity even create hidden partition and change the boot order .
Looks like something that would be used for an all-in-one monitor and PC
Asrock Deskmini
Yes, expresso bike uses this motherboard.
@@everope no that's smaller and less powerful
This kind of video, when you bring us on a journey to try to make thing work on a strange piece of hardware, this is really the best there is. Just a bit more of technical explanation and everything should be perfect ! Thx Linus, and thx to the LTT team !
It looks like a motherboard of an all-in-one system that is supposed to be mounted on the back of the monitor...
Thinking about that makes a lot of sense
Also makes me think of an arcade cabinet
Any electronic from china exists..
Linus:
"This should not exist 😑"
@@simulping4371 what the actual fvck
@JS 09 it can be made in different country tho, they made it in china because the labors are cheap
The weird electronic parts in China can literally feed this channel for years.
@JS 09 yeah but there not developed there
JS 09 he’s referring to Chinese based companies, where chinese startups are forced to try weird, wacky and unnecessary things to stand out from the 81937394729373 kabillion tech companies in China doing the same thing
Damn LTT intro is dark theme now, love it.
3:58 I think that is notebook motherboard, because it has connectors on both sides and RAM is lying, not vertically standing as in normal PC motherboards
"This one is the GPUs HDMI and this one is the onboard one"
Considering the GPU is literally soldered onto the board, wouldn't it ALSO qualify as onboard graphics?
On board quality's as as the cpu board.
@@raycert07 That is exactly why my joke works in the first place
Technically a seperate gpu is onboard as soon as you install itcause it's literally on board. Same here but not in a PCIe slot but directly on it
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listen here you little sh
8:44 -- * long-suffering Anthony noises *
Knew that was coming as soon as Linus started playing with his namesake OS.
Makes sense for digital sineage. BTW: Debugging HW on Linux -> run dmesg as root to see what the kernel has to say about your hardware.
Digital signage is my guess as well.
10:26 "... but long story short - it's working perfectly right now ..." #GNULinux - The OS that dares to tread where no other has gone before.
8:02 is how I imagine we sound when we talk about tech to non-tech savvy people. 😂😂😂
Love how Linus just casually swaps to Linux for the game tests when windows failed to boot. :)
To be fair, a lot of embedded systems use linux so it wouldn't be weird is more friendly with it than with windows
@@ErimlRGG To be fair, almost all of them use a custom version of the kernel instead of mainlining their support let alone open sourcing their drivers. Whether that's because they're stupid enough to believe their kernel driver is a vital business secret or malicious enough to use it as a way to force you to buy new hardware instead of updating the kernel is up for debate. My actual point being, the mainline Linux kernel probably wouldn't have any drivers provided by the manufacturer and the difference is most likely down to Linux having a more robust system for handling errors.
@@MTB53850 yeah window bad, penguin good. we get it. Linux is perfect...is not, fucking sucks for audio and I had GRUB corrupt sooo many times on many machines. I love how Linux works and working with the terminal but it's far from perfect and from being perfect at handling errors
@@ErimlRGG - Your comment tells me that you have not used any Linux in well over a decade. I suggest trying again.
@@ErimlRGG
More like Windows bootloader corrupting Grub XD
But you are right, the last time I had a Windows install, I just installed Windows and Linux on 2 separate drives and choose the boot drive from BIOS, much less headaches.
audience: " *squinting* FOCUS!"
Linus's camera lens: " *n o* "
And I've been increasing the the video quality but to no avail XD
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@@faber_3285 yes same to mee
This Motherboard was made for a Kickstarter "secret"project that never started.... It was suppose to be a new "console" (basically a mini PC camouflaged to a console like the Atari VCS). The Factory did the prototypes and blue prints, so they sell them if you want one because they have the blue prints. For more details you need to find people involved with this "secret" Kickstarter project that never started! Good Luck! ;)
Hmmmm. Dope. Might be a dope for a discreet console, maybe portable
Wonder why it never took off. Single board computer have been a thing for a while, with all in one's and rasp pis being the most well known, and another popular thing to do is disguise rasp pis as retro consoles.
Linus: "WHERE IS THE FRONT SIDE"
Motherboard manufacturer: "Yes"
Black theme intro!
My sensible eyes say "I love you so much!"
10:21 "Oh wow that looked pretty good"
Alright so we know when this was recorded
you talking about CSGO deagle update right ?
@@sabyasachidas4680 Yeah
@@sabyasachidas4680 nice 😂
Nice to see anti static precautions are being followed!
I feel like Linus ascended to PC master race wizard with his beard.
PCMR Chad
By that logic Jay is a god
The Installation Wizard.
Ssj2
He does look so much better with the beard, so much hotter 🤤🥰
Linus: Do you need a vpn?
Me: tap tap tap the screen
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
On Pc you press L. It jumpos 10 seconds and fits perfectly for the add.
@@__Mr.White__ I used the arrows twice, now I'll use L. Thanks :D
Imagine playing csgo and linus joins and your like whelp he is just testing something so were F'd
Massimo De Grazia no
@Massimo De Grazia Calm down dude he just saying
@Massimo De Grazia why so aggressive
@@Anto-xh5vn I think he's the most calm person here. Everyone else sees "bitch" and gets anxious AF, like the world's going to end 'cause someone wasn't flawlessly politically correct.
@@auturgicflosculator2183 😐😐😐😐😲
As a person who owns a 1050ti and is having a 3070 on the way, a 1050ti is decent for a person with an otherwise low end system but anything worth more than 800 dollars it’s bad.
How much for ur 1050?
@@justdooda9102 not for sale my guy but I respect the grind, making a server
@@hotbowl7578 oh ok thanks for the reply tho
The Previous title was "This Chinese Motherboard shouldn't even exist"
@@user-jg78 damn, what a fool
@@user-jg78 be considerate
@@user-jg78 I agree
yesi remember that.... why did he change
@@user-jg78 Actually the people who ate bats are far from poor, and almost all of the Chinese were confused why those idiot ate bat.
Keep healthy, peace
This seems like it was intended for some kind of game console.
I love that linus used 1500w PSU just to power SSD
Looks like a laptop motherboard converted into a desktop board, 19V power input, laptop RAM slots, remnants of what appears to be a battery connector, no expansion slots, remnants of what appears to be a mini PCIe slot
I like how he is like "How do I change the cpu-governor" and he literally has the exact right command in his terminal. And it literally tells him that it just needs a package to use that. (Not that the standard cpu-governor shouldn't be completely fine anyways)
Considering Anthony talked about using an app and not a terminal command I would say Linus took the right decision by not putting in the command and calling Anthony instead
@@manaspradhan8041
changing the governor is really easy, sure you can use an applet to do it visually but all you need to do is echo "performance" > /sys/cpu/#number/governor
or something like that, i dont remember it from memory but worst case scenario you can easily have a bash script do it for you. Its not a big deal.
@@manaspradhan8041 I have actually been using that exact same command. It is resets with a restart and for me was the only thing that actually worked. The any applets or anything that I used in the past, don't work for me anymore.
Considering RotTR/SotTR were ported by Feral Interactive, he'd just have to install Feral Gamemode, and that would have handled everything for him: github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode
It's available as a prebuilt package for Ubuntu and most other distros. But yeah, they could surely tweak that info message to be more clear, I guess.