Gaming on a Failed Steam Machine (Sorta)

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  • @Lilyofthevalley252
    @Lilyofthevalley252 7 місяців тому +12546

    guy actually, trully downloaded more RAM

    • @forwhomthebelltrolz
      @forwhomthebelltrolz 7 місяців тому +191

      lmaooooo

    • @apotex1223
      @apotex1223 7 місяців тому +96

      ngl fr

    • @duplicake4054
      @duplicake4054 7 місяців тому +28

      Yeah

    • @tomekxde
      @tomekxde 7 місяців тому +91

      Lmao this might be my favorite comment ever 😂 this channel is just amazing

    • @Lurch-Bot
      @Lurch-Bot 7 місяців тому +73

      There is an exception to every rule.

  • @SudosFTW
    @SudosFTW 7 місяців тому +3639

    Hey! I'm the one that put that archive up! I'm glad I had the foresight to do that. Most of these devices got sold to hospitals and healthcare centers in Colorado and other major cities. The sandforce SSDs die when you submit them to the usual DOD wipe resellers are forced to do to be legit. Back when I made that archive, Steam was just getting ready a month prior to kill XP support, and I was sitting there, with an Xi3 X5A, complete with 2GB of RAM, an Athlon64 X2 3400e, and mobility HD3650 graphics... and a 16GB Sandisk SSD because I was broke. it was AMAZING that they even had XP drivers to begin with, but even to this day I always wanted one of the higher end boxes to play with. I even thought about using the box as a makeshift home server with the eSATA port hooked to an external enclosure that never materialized.
    A little bit of background, the CEO was retired military turned business tycoon and I have no doubt in my mind that the end game was to make ruggedized small modular PCs for the military as well as "upgradeable" PCs for the consumer market-- why else would the sides be removable after all? especially the port end... wouldn't have been hard to make one whole board with all the inputs and outputs a military application needed to survive, after all. He had ambitions set too high for maximum bank. And that's not to even note that if memory serves, one of the other ventures run by him was a military contracting company of some flavor.
    In the end I'm glad the files I painstakingly downloaded and archived helped someone with a model much newer than mine.

    • @dm12e
      @dm12e 7 місяців тому +148

      Thankyou

    • @handsoffmymacaroni102
      @handsoffmymacaroni102 7 місяців тому +99

      Thanks man!

    • @Toadfish10
      @Toadfish10 7 місяців тому +207

      You saved the Hypercube.

    • @ChlorideCull
      @ChlorideCull 7 місяців тому +86

      The case is made from extruded aluminium, and the machine has a design that's pretty common for that. Extruded aluminium cases are used because they are basically the cheapest metal case you can make.

    • @theKashConnoisseur
      @theKashConnoisseur 7 місяців тому +120

      It's the hidden heroes like you that make preserving and archiving our digital history possible.

  • @JoshLeGrow
    @JoshLeGrow 7 місяців тому +4937

    Never thought I'd see CS2 on a VHS tape

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh 7 місяців тому +100

      i believe the cs2 frame rate being so bad is because the bots are utilizing gpu resources... resources the gpu needs all of just to do the graphics. let alone the thinking for the bots.

    • @homelessEh
      @homelessEh 7 місяців тому +41

      also bet it was thermal throttling To HELL..

    • @ALQST
      @ALQST 7 місяців тому +28

      it is because of the upscaling option that he set to performance

    • @BigTylt
      @BigTylt 7 місяців тому +15

      POV: You're a professional Counter Strike player

    • @prodazzda
      @prodazzda 7 місяців тому +23

      @@homelessEh he joined a online match to not load the bots himself

  • @The-Jax-inator
    @The-Jax-inator 5 місяців тому +613

    “64 bit is coming soon”
    The prophet

  • @TheNodyme
    @TheNodyme 3 місяці тому +46

    bro just yelled the biggest secret of all IT outa the window: downloading more ram is possible.

  • @RADish-official
    @RADish-official 7 місяців тому +1492

    I love how bringus’s biggest challenge by far isn’t getting a game to run on a literal pregnancy test, but installing any os onto an actual honest to god computer.

    • @scoutdy6547
      @scoutdy6547 6 місяців тому +72

      Not only that, one made specifically for steam.

    • @TomBom292
      @TomBom292 5 місяців тому +24

      "actual computer" is a bit of a stretch

    • @Ryanborambo
      @Ryanborambo 5 місяців тому +30

      It be like that, once it took me 3 hours to install windows 10 onto a laptop that came with windows 10

    • @subjekt5577
      @subjekt5577 4 місяці тому +6

      Its a steambox, its tested for linux not windows

    • @notlark650
      @notlark650 2 місяці тому +13

      ​@@subjekt5577 yet the windows was the only one that worked lmao

  • @ZacharyRodriguezVlogs
    @ZacharyRodriguezVlogs 7 місяців тому +645

    “The more stains we add to the table, the more rich the lore is.”
    That quote reminded me of DankPod and how many scuff marks he’s put onto his iPad cases.

    • @andrewdriver3318
      @andrewdriver3318 7 місяців тому +20

      The whole schtick was a dankpods ripoff

    • @MildlyUpsetMax
      @MildlyUpsetMax 6 місяців тому +31

      Yeah, he's pulling A LOT of inspiration from DankPods' style, but I guess he gives it his own touch. Throwing in way more memes and such. I guess it works, UA-cam is just copying other people's shit most of the time anyway.

    • @c4sualcycl0ps48
      @c4sualcycl0ps48 6 місяців тому +21

      Dankpods and Bringus Studios probably have met at LTX, I think that’s where Dankpods got the triangle man sticker from

    • @gustiwidyanta5492
      @gustiwidyanta5492 5 місяців тому +13

      ​​@@MildlyUpsetMaxhonestly Bringus is like if you mixed James and Dankpods into a pot, and sprinkle a bit of memes into it.

    • @Sungblox
      @Sungblox 3 місяці тому +3

      @@MildlyUpsetMaxdamn, it sounds like your more than mildly upset, max

  • @hydroponicgard
    @hydroponicgard 7 місяців тому +855

    Here's a good way to... Either stress test, or explode your devices:
    1) GMOD
    2) get a dupe with at least 50 ragdolls with thrusters
    3) press any key to continue.
    or just, spam explosives. Physics in gmod generally thrashes those old cpus.

    • @glennglog22
      @glennglog22 7 місяців тому +49

      Pardon the "um ackshually" but I don't think it'd be a great performance metric because the code of the source engine is simply so unoptimized that even on my PC with a Ryzen 5 and RTX 2070, gmod will scream in pain without causing so much as a stirr on the part of the CPU. Unless you run it on an Intel Atom or some Dell laptop from 2013 or older, it'll perform the same either way
      Could still cause a memory leak tho

    • @sarcasticmcspastic
      @sarcasticmcspastic 7 місяців тому +31

      @glennglog22 most old or small computers can pass the half life 2 test pretty easily these days despite it hammering the average dual core no graphics business brick
      Gmod is a great stress test specifically for machines from industrial applications because %90 of the time they have some dual core i7-5600u type APU
      On newer machines like yours, Blender and Geekbench are indeed better benchmarks

    • @shoug8387
      @shoug8387 7 місяців тому +9

      ​@glennglog22 That's only the case for the OG 32-bit version, there's a newer 64-bit build which runs WAAAAY better

    • @Hnkka
      @Hnkka 7 місяців тому +1

      Yep, i remember XD My friend always crashed me if i made him mad by doing random shit

    • @kyiscray
      @kyiscray 7 місяців тому +3

      ​@@glennglog22the game runs on a single thread so it won't do much to any modern cpus

  • @RealLifeZatoichi
    @RealLifeZatoichi 5 місяців тому +78

    "This is more than playable this is straight up a good time." I LOVE HOW YOU SAID THAT! And anyone who's ever even tried their hand at PC gaming knows what you mean.

  • @TheCcway
    @TheCcway 5 місяців тому +101

    I knew those steam machines we're gonna flop when it got announced lol. But its super nice to see someone rediscover it and explore it without the fake enthusiasm for it.

    • @camilorodriguez5602
      @camilorodriguez5602 2 місяці тому +12

      yeah, its kinda cool that devices go through many stages, from the "this is bad,its gonna flop" to the "this weird little piece of now ancient tech was actually more cool and capable than someone would give credit for"

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju Місяць тому +3

      Then Valve finally figured out, just make it handheld

    • @TheCcway
      @TheCcway Місяць тому

      @@KaitouKaiju Exactly! I'd go as far as to say the Sega Nomad was the OG Steam Deck lol. Take Thing people like and make it portable.

  • @PeachIceCreamy
    @PeachIceCreamy 6 місяців тому +516

    That DP/HDMI port is actually revolutionary. You can actually plug either an hdmi OR a displayport into that one port.

    • @alexdhall
      @alexdhall 4 місяці тому +25

      Yeah it is! Those ports are used on some Belkin secure KVM switches.

    • @PeachIceCreamy
      @PeachIceCreamy 3 місяці тому +57

      @@estebanod tell me you don't know computers without telling me you don't know computers. This is an extremely unique thing that most people who build computers wouldn't naturally assume is possible.

    • @PeachIceCreamy
      @PeachIceCreamy 2 місяці тому +40

      @@estebanod get ratioed. Most people who actually work with computers would assume you'd need an adapter or a dongle or some shit. The connectors aren't even the same shape.

    • @utfigyii5987
      @utfigyii5987 2 місяці тому +20

      @@estebanod Displayport and hdmi use different protocols. Any computer user would think that the port just supports either protocol over displayport rather than actually having a non standard displayport port that allows for plugging in a hdmi cable.

    • @CycloidalHeadache
      @CycloidalHeadache 2 місяці тому +9

      ⁠@@PeachIceCreamywhile you’re totally right, get ratiod is the absolute concentrated essence of cringe

  • @smollmoth6376
    @smollmoth6376 7 місяців тому +748

    Using a glue gun to hot glue it's own wires is a bold move.

    • @Hnkka
      @Hnkka 7 місяців тому +48

      Like doing surgery on your self

    • @pingasbungus4517
      @pingasbungus4517 7 місяців тому +4

      do not teach AI robots to use the glue gun

    • @doubtful_seer
      @doubtful_seer 5 місяців тому +7

      @@HnkkaI mean, a guy in Antarctica did it. lol

    • @adamlarussa5243
      @adamlarussa5243 5 місяців тому

      *Atom BIOS BK

    • @CowLiver
      @CowLiver 3 місяці тому

      Like that one scene from Master and Commander.

  • @Jwalk9000
    @Jwalk9000 7 місяців тому +1293

    I'd love to see this machine with OG SteamOS compared to one of the newer SteamOS flavors.

    • @bland9876
      @bland9876 7 місяців тому +38

      However considering the fact he could not get any flavor of Linux to install I wonder if og steam os will even install?

    • @QuestionableEngineering6969
      @QuestionableEngineering6969 7 місяців тому +14

      nah, put MacOS on it LOL

    • @QuestionableEngineering6969
      @QuestionableEngineering6969 7 місяців тому +3

      if it will let him

    • @Jwalk9000
      @Jwalk9000 7 місяців тому

      @@QuestionableEngineering6969 I would totally try it!! The first AMD hackintosh I did was a really bulldozer build. This has got to be just about as powerful as a 2011 Mac Mini....

    • @Jwalk9000
      @Jwalk9000 7 місяців тому +34

      @@bland9876 might now that the BIOS has been updated.

  • @jjQlLlLq
    @jjQlLlLq 4 місяці тому +34

    Yo I randomly got recommended the short for this video, and I just wanna say, I appreciate the subtle SFXs that aren't in-your-face but still noticeable & funny 😆

  • @bs_blackscout
    @bs_blackscout 3 місяці тому +21

    Man you make me laugh at the silliest of things. The lazer beam coming out the audio port and the sound bites ALWAYS get me. Keep the silliness please, don't ever change that! 😂❤

  • @MainInternetUser
    @MainInternetUser 7 місяців тому +530

    My dumbass thought is was a literal steam machine, like water vapor

  • @coreymartin9630
    @coreymartin9630 7 місяців тому +457

    Seeing TF2 chug like that really brought me back to when I used to play on my super cheap 2010 laptop that my parents bought me

    • @BringusStudios
      @BringusStudios  7 місяців тому +129

      I got good memories playing it on a single core Compaq laptop that ran at under 1GHz. I literally installed a model and texture pack that made it look like a PS1 game. Fantastic times.

    • @sulfur2964
      @sulfur2964 7 місяців тому +39

      People still play with n64 graphics in tf2 and they usuall have like 10000 hours

    • @Landjrin
      @Landjrin 7 місяців тому +15

      ​@@sulfur2964Dude said "People" like that isn't just b4nny lol

    • @ccricers
      @ccricers 7 місяців тому +8

      Good times playing it on 480p with a Nforce motherboard (back when Nvidia put integrated graphics in motherboards :-o )

    • @MUSiCK9
      @MUSiCK9 7 місяців тому +2

      Using FPS Configs really saved me in those days..

  • @blaydex158
    @blaydex158 7 місяців тому +173

    When I was doing IT ~10 years ago in a school, these were our "computer lab" machines. Just Vesa mount em to the back of the monitor, and they were pretty slick installs. Also, fun fact! The chassis isn't grounded -at all-. I'm a static-y person, and I killed probably a dozen of these things by pressing the power button and zapping them with static.

    • @chrisp3082
      @chrisp3082 4 місяці тому +17

      I love the idea that you just happen to be more prone to static

    • @ComotoseOnAnime
      @ComotoseOnAnime 3 місяці тому +18

      @@chrisp3082 My uncle was like that, he couldn't stop killing phones in his pocket to the point he had to wear them on his belt in a clamshell case lined with a thin strip of rubber.

    • @neuronoc.7343
      @neuronoc.7343 2 місяці тому +4

      Bro thinks he's Chuck McGill's worst enemy

    • @MDuarte-vp7bm
      @MDuarte-vp7bm Місяць тому +2

      ​@chrisp3082 I think it has to do with the dryness of your skin, and possibly choice of clothes and detergent. My cat used to hate me because I always shocked his ears every time I touched them. Doesn't really happen anymore after changing shampoo.

    • @JFTSwiertz
      @JFTSwiertz 16 днів тому +1

      Im not superstitious, but ive met people who can hold a wind up pocket watch, and it just starts ticking in their hand, shits witchcraft.

  • @paigebugcat
    @paigebugcat 4 місяці тому +12

    I love how it looks like someone folded up a motherboard into a cube shape

  • @MrArthoz
    @MrArthoz 4 місяці тому +6

    Put on it a mini keyboard, palm size display and strap it to your arm...and you got a state of the art pip boy.

  • @CaptainRex332
    @CaptainRex332 7 місяців тому +591

    This thing took “GameCube” to the next level

  • @servissop151
    @servissop151 7 місяців тому +209

    1:36 I love the Scion xB reference, totally unexpected

    • @BringusStudios
      @BringusStudios  7 місяців тому +50

      we do a little shitbox posting

    • @servissop151
      @servissop151 7 місяців тому +16

      @@BringusStudios I would watch you trash talk cars or f-cking uh, spin over a car engine with a dualshock vibration motor by bypassing the ECU with 12 jumper wires or some sh-t, sounds like something you would do

    • @BringusStudios
      @BringusStudios  7 місяців тому +32

      @@servissop151 If I ever find myself in a position where I have a garage to keep my very own bringus hooptie, you bet your ass it'll happen

    • @servissop151
      @servissop151 7 місяців тому +2

      @@BringusStudios glad to hear that, keep the good content up

    • @DavidFrostbite
      @DavidFrostbite 7 місяців тому +2

      The 2nd gen xB's were great little toasters. I miss Scion

  • @bitum21
    @bitum21 7 місяців тому +300

    You are actually the first person on the internet that successfully downloaded RAM! Be proud!!!

    • @BringusStudios
      @BringusStudios  7 місяців тому +108

      Oh my God you're right I did I didn't even connect the dots lol

    • @Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret
      @Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret 5 місяців тому +18

      How bad was the original UEFI on that thing to literally let half the RAM unusable ? 😂

    • @gatto_furry
      @gatto_furry 5 місяців тому

      Probably cause the GPU was a shared GPU.​@@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret

  • @AnomalousVixel
    @AnomalousVixel 4 місяці тому +6

    "just as mysteriously as it stopped working, it has started working again"
    Just an average day working with haunt boxes, TBH.

  • @sleepyguardian86
    @sleepyguardian86 3 місяці тому +3

    This is peak troubleshooting. Most fun I've had watching a video in a while

  • @EmpoweredRabbit
    @EmpoweredRabbit 7 місяців тому +151

    Holy shit as soon as you said “the piston” you unlocked memories in my brain. When I was younger, my best friend’s dad worked for some large company that made computers. Not sure what it was, but I remember my friend telling me about the Steam Piston, something his dad knew about. I’m pretty sure he actually had one at one point, but it’s been years

  • @marluna_x
    @marluna_x 7 місяців тому +213

    Hot glue tips:
    1. It is actually pretty easy to repair a hot glue gun. It's literally just a hot thingy and a feeding mechanism. It literally just shoves the hot glue stick in one end of the hot thing and hot glue comes out the other side. Oh, and there's a little thing that stops the stick from escaping.
    2. If you get hot glue on your hands, simply rub the glue as much as possible, thus making giving it much more surface area to cool off. This is so effective that if you do it fast enough, you can actually use it intentionally to shape the hot glue without hurting yourself. Speed is the key.
    3. Hot glue gets more powerful the hotter it was. You can go from basically useless to harder than wood or crappy plastic. In most cases, you don't need full heat.
    4. Stop the strings by wrapping them around the front part of the hot glue gun.

    • @Hnkka
      @Hnkka 7 місяців тому +16

      Man why my gluegun didnt come with tips like this on the manual :D

    • @BeefIngot
      @BeefIngot 7 місяців тому +9

      Pretty sure he wanted a fancy new one

    • @illegalcumtrader56
      @illegalcumtrader56 7 місяців тому +3

      ​@@Hnkkayou read your hot glue guns manual??

    • @Marc83Aus
      @Marc83Aus 7 місяців тому +11

      the plastic lever mechanism is probably just worn out after god knows how much friction.

    • @lignitesdie4989
      @lignitesdie4989 7 місяців тому +3

      Let the legend rest

  • @jamesalewis
    @jamesalewis 7 місяців тому +103

    Whoa! The Xi3 out in the wild! My dad actually worked on these twelve years ago, I think. I thought the concept was really cool. It was supposed to be a modular system that could be upgraded with additional storage and compute units later on by just plugging the units together.
    The model you have doesn't have the ePCIe port (literally "external PCI Express", like a thunderbolt port before thunderbolt was more than just Apple), and that port was supposed to be the new extensibility, rather than needing to open up the unit to add components.

    • @jamesalewis
      @jamesalewis 7 місяців тому +22

      I anyone was wondering what he did at CISC (original company who created this), he did the BIOS using cutting edge UEFI framework, so that BIOS update link in the description probably has his fingerprints on it.

    • @minecraftdude1338
      @minecraftdude1338 4 місяці тому +4

      Cool stuff!

    • @greggv8
      @greggv8 2 місяці тому +2

      What are the edge connectors on the ends of the boards? Reminds me of how almost every 1980's microcomputer had some slot or port "for future use" - for a future that never came for them.

    • @JohnRunyon
      @JohnRunyon 8 днів тому +1

      I probably know (of) your dad, I work for Dan and Chuck and my wife worked for CISC :'D

    • @jamesalewis
      @jamesalewis 8 днів тому

      @JohnRunyon Whoa! Yeah, you may. He's Charles Lewis and also goes by "Chuck". I wonder if he and Abdosh had to fight over who was called by his last name 😂

  • @kevonmanuel
    @kevonmanuel 5 місяців тому +6

    I have never been so entertainted watching an OS install. Well done.

  • @AAlgeria
    @AAlgeria 3 місяці тому +21

    7:20 end of sponsor

  • @FuttBucker42069
    @FuttBucker42069 6 місяців тому +1169

    Bro starts typing in "X" in the search bar so confidently. I could never 💀

    • @llliiimmmeee
      @llliiimmmeee 6 місяців тому

      I would. I use Firefox private tabs with uBlock Origin and ProtonVPN for my business. Both are free. It does not cost money to jack off without worries, only a small amount of one-time effort. Make sure to turn them both off afterwards and tell your FBI agent goodnight.

    • @bacondingo
      @bacondingo 6 місяців тому +112

      That's because he's on Incognito Mode 😬

    • @ahmetrefikeryilmaz4432
      @ahmetrefikeryilmaz4432 6 місяців тому +47

      @@bacondingo wait, isn't incognito mode for that?

    • @rafaelhines1178
      @rafaelhines1178 5 місяців тому

      ​@@ahmetrefikeryilmaz4432incognito doesn't save or display your search history

    • @johnh9661
      @johnh9661 5 місяців тому +82

      It was a fresh windows install. He knows he’s good

  • @Catlight
    @Catlight 7 місяців тому +69

    My grandfather worked for valve back when they used to give these out to people before entering the lithium mines! He would tell me tales of how they throw them at the ground and if it sparked there was lithium in the rocks. They always had to hand them back at the end of the day since valve would sometimes harvest the ram chips from them to build new smart phones

    • @CowLiver
      @CowLiver 3 місяці тому +3

      Jesse wtf r u talking about.

  • @CommieGIR
    @CommieGIR 7 місяців тому +83

    So I had one of these, an earlier model - it had a fully socketed AM3 socket in it. You could, theoretically, upgrade it to some crazy CPUs for its time,

  • @randomperson9282
    @randomperson9282 4 місяці тому +3

    Thank you for the laughs man watching those glorious graphics struggling was just beautiful

  • @excitedbox5705
    @excitedbox5705 4 місяці тому +9

    Your display problems were caused by you switching the port without restarting the device/display. HDMI and Display Port need to send a connection signal and if the device doesnt do the handshake you get no display output.

    • @Zerobakii
      @Zerobakii 4 місяці тому

      Bro is big brain

  • @domesticcanadian
    @domesticcanadian 7 місяців тому +98

    Micheal MJD and Bringus Studios brothers in "Something went wrong" and "This was supposed to be a quick video..."

    • @tristanraine
      @tristanraine 7 місяців тому +15

      Micheal MJD, Bringus Studios and MattKC would be a insane "stuff wasn't supposed to take this long" blunt rotation.

  • @makramc
    @makramc 7 місяців тому +71

    The USB-C thing is pretty neat, i use it myself to charge my laptop in the car. You should also note that you need a USB-C power delivery compatible charger/power supply.

  • @raqnick8133
    @raqnick8133 7 місяців тому +115

    Tyler McViker jumpscare got me absolutely laughing, especially the bassboosted sound

  • @flickrscreen
    @flickrscreen 4 місяці тому +2

    I’m not a gamer, but love this video. I feel your trepidation, heartbreak and triumph. Old guy who once upgraded a Mac Cube’s CPU to extend its life in a production environment.

  • @DrUnfunny
    @DrUnfunny 3 місяці тому +2

    Playing a competitive game like CS2 and seeing that Bringus is on your team must be quite the experience.

  • @NeonBeeCat
    @NeonBeeCat 7 місяців тому +38

    This guy is the Valve gamer version of DankPods. Obscure nuggets and all.

  • @Beokabatuka
    @Beokabatuka 7 місяців тому +87

    Seeing a "Trinity" APU brought me back to my early PC gaming days. Rocked an A10-5700 which had 2 cores, 4 threads, 10GB of RAM (no idea why they added that extra 2GB stick) and the best integrated graphics I had ever seen. I could play Minecraft without being stuck to Low view distance! Then I popped in a 750Ti a few years later and I was really living the dream. Good times.

    • @guccisquidbillytentacles
      @guccisquidbillytentacles 4 місяці тому +1

      750ti was so amazing at the time i could play any game on a $120ish gpu with a smooth frame rate

    • @scottpetersen2028
      @scottpetersen2028 4 місяці тому +1

      @@guccisquidbillytentacles kind of like the voodoo2, Unreal for me back in the day...

    • @guccisquidbillytentacles
      @guccisquidbillytentacles 4 місяці тому +1

      @@scottpetersen2028 i’m glad older gens had similar experiences i wish there was a low power budget card for the kids getting into pc gaming now tho

  • @kylehazachode
    @kylehazachode 7 місяців тому +75

    eSATAp is quite handy. Monoprice's eSATAp cable is like $7. Plugs directly into a SATA drive. Get full SATA-III speeds. No need to fuss with external drives or power bricks.

    • @deaft_shot4489
      @deaft_shot4489 6 місяців тому +5

      wait no external power? dose this work with 3.5 drives?

    • @kylehazachode
      @kylehazachode 6 місяців тому

      @@deaft_shot4489 So on desktops and laptops with eSATAp Expresscard, almost 100% yes. When it comes to laptops with built in eSATAp, 12v compatibility is hit or miss. If your 3.5in drive can run off 5v, you're good. If it requires 12v, you might have a compatibility issues. My favorite use for eSATAp is sticking an eSATAp pcie card in my NAS and having quick access to sata drives without power bricks.

    • @ChrisWijtmans
      @ChrisWijtmans 5 місяців тому +1

      you realize there are SATA +power to usb adapters right?

    • @deaft_shot4489
      @deaft_shot4489 5 місяців тому +2

      @@ChrisWijtmans thats why am wondering if it works for 3.5, because 3.5 requires extra power when using usb.

    • @ChrisWijtmans
      @ChrisWijtmans 5 місяців тому

      @@deaft_shot4489 no it doesnt.

  • @fordgalaxiexl
    @fordgalaxiexl Місяць тому +2

    This dude found the real life equivalent to the relic from cyberpunk

  • @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep
    @BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Місяць тому +5

    22:51 what an absolute humblebrag lmao

  • @imbe.
    @imbe. 6 місяців тому +25

    This video right here. This amount of dedication is what IT is all about. Managing devices you have never seen before and making them work.

  • @cardboardcomputing
    @cardboardcomputing 7 місяців тому +229

    play counterstrike on a digital TFT multimeter pls

    • @cardboardcomputing
      @cardboardcomputing 7 місяців тому +10

      i have some wierd one that runs windows 10 arm haha

    • @johannesviljoen9656
      @johannesviljoen9656 7 місяців тому +7

      damn, defusal about to get real...

    • @Ironyum99
      @Ironyum99 7 місяців тому +2

      lol run steamos on it

    • @cardboardcomputing
      @cardboardcomputing 7 місяців тому

      @@Ironyum99why not the thing could actually take it

    • @Cmdrbzrd
      @Cmdrbzrd 7 місяців тому

      @@cardboardcomputing video?

  • @twistedtxb
    @twistedtxb 7 місяців тому +90

    I love the form factor. Pretty crazy performance for a 2013 device

    • @BoboFerre
      @BoboFerre 7 місяців тому +11

      no its still awful for a 2013 device

    • @thenoddingturtle
      @thenoddingturtle 7 місяців тому +17

      @@BoboFerre 2013 device this size*

    • @thegeforce6625
      @thegeforce6625 7 місяців тому +3

      @@thenoddingturtleagreed.

  • @LeshaTheBeginner
    @LeshaTheBeginner 4 місяці тому +9

    14:17 wait wait wait wait Windows *11* ?! Maybe Windows 10 but THIS?!

  • @drkreuzer670
    @drkreuzer670 4 місяці тому +1

    Those source game sfx are quite q nice touch for a video about old PCs

  • @elizabethagudelo7179
    @elizabethagudelo7179 7 місяців тому +30

    ok so fun fact
    the fsr1 CS2 uses in performance mode as you set up renders at half the resolution on each axis, so at 640x480 you're actually playing at 360x240
    that's why the film grain looks like that

  • @ozzyrockin
    @ozzyrockin 7 місяців тому +32

    I have one of these and I absoutely love it. Its my baby. I bought it off of ebay listing it as a raspberry pi subsitute (I think 3b+ was newest at the time). I never had any ram issues with it and now I will have to check out the bios update. I will say if you populate both msatas and boot a linux live cd (I use lmde) you will notice one is msata and one is marked as "removable". Only the one marked as "removable" will boot (don't ask me), It will also not boot from the INTERNAL SD card slot you missed. The thing turns into a fireball if you put pressure on the gpu, even noctua fan replacements cannot tame this beast. Any cpu load is fine though its just the gpu. Oh and my ethernet port is straight up broken so I just use usb 3 ethernet adapters. I also have the original power supply, cool I guess it has a light and branding

    • @blendpinexus1416
      @blendpinexus1416 6 місяців тому

      yeah, the more i look at the basement bargin sff and usff computers the more i am realizing that if desktop needs are needed a pi is not the way to go. i still run mine hard though

  • @Fenrir414
    @Fenrir414 7 місяців тому +31

    @19:40 When updating the BIOS is the equivalent of the once known problem but now known as a meme, of downloading more ram.

  • @matthewwyers4342
    @matthewwyers4342 3 місяці тому +1

    This episode was like 90% of all my gadget endeavors. I understand the adapter stuggles😂.

  • @NHH009
    @NHH009 6 місяців тому +1

    You got me to burst out laughing when the computer lagged at the Windows image. I am so glad I didn't end up buying one of those.

  • @Synaelle
    @Synaelle 7 місяців тому +14

    I love how this video has actual LORE, an adventure, especially when you discovered that was a steam cube.

  • @NathanButh
    @NathanButh 7 місяців тому +17

    Man, I remember they had a ton of these at CES 2014. If memory serves correct, one of the intents beyond steam os was for these to be modular server pcs or something like that. They had like a whole wall of them.

  • @lordxmugen
    @lordxmugen 7 місяців тому +30

    Im sure someone else has already said it, but that thing you showed off was called i believe, the "Piston". The reason it had all of those UI ports was the thing was meant to be a modular PC. Which would come with a bunch of extra stuff like an external GPU and hardrive and the like. It was shown off briefly when Steam Machines were gonna be a thing but then disappeared into the ether like most of Steam Machines.
    EDIT: LOL its in the vid. but whatevs. I explained the rest.

    • @BringusStudios
      @BringusStudios  7 місяців тому +13

      Yeah since I discovered all of that like halfway through the video it makes it a bit awkward to watch lol

    • @lordxmugen
      @lordxmugen 7 місяців тому +6

      @@BringusStudios Yeah. When I first saw the picture i was like "Oh shit! its THAT THING. I remember that." Cant believe its been 10+ years. I now feel way too old.

  • @iliakatster
    @iliakatster 4 місяці тому +1

    Oh man, i remember these things being talked about all over the gaming news sources

  • @gamefreaknetunofficial
    @gamefreaknetunofficial 6 місяців тому +2

    5:49 - Legit though my mans was boutta run a PC off a mini portable power bank gaddam 😅😶

  • @Gunbudder
    @Gunbudder 7 місяців тому +26

    those APUs were legit! i built a very similar build using an APU back in the day (2010's) and i set my budget as the cost of the xbone. i ended up building a PC that was better than the xbone for the same price, all built around the consumer version of the APU that went into the bone.

  • @davidtanner3848
    @davidtanner3848 7 місяців тому +41

    Og Steam OS! We want it!
    Honestly I've never been interested in this type of UA-cam video, but gosh dangit are you entertaining.
    RIP Thermogrip. All hail Ryobi glue gun! That thing is a beast!

  • @redgouf
    @redgouf 7 місяців тому +32

    I love all of your videos from multiple perspectives: The tech, the DIY, and definitely the comedy. Your comments are absolutely hilarious! I always find myself laughing through the entire video.

  • @SpaceDave3000
    @SpaceDave3000 5 місяців тому +1

    The OS choice would have been SteamOS, but I love that Windows just fucking worked.

  • @adovka-tc
    @adovka-tc 7 місяців тому +29

    When i found this channel, i just started just non stopingly watch all of Bringus videos, and today after 2.5 days i watched every Bringus video on this channel. Cant wait to see more Bringus videos!

    • @LyricRelics
      @LyricRelics 5 місяців тому +1

      That's some crazy level of ... bringe watching 🫠

  • @laurensnieuwland4657
    @laurensnieuwland4657 7 місяців тому +31

    This thing deserves another shot using the newest SteamOS from Valve itself instead of a fork.

    • @MyouKyuubi
      @MyouKyuubi 5 місяців тому +1

      Valve's steamOS hasn't been updated in forever, their debian-based version is largely discontinued, i'm pretty sure.

    • @laurensnieuwland4657
      @laurensnieuwland4657 5 місяців тому +2

      @@MyouKyuubi What about the version used on the Steamdeck?

    • @MyouKyuubi
      @MyouKyuubi 5 місяців тому

      @@laurensnieuwland4657 I've heard the one they use for the steam deck is actually just a lookalike version made by ChimeraOS, that uses 99% of the code from the official steam version.
      So ChimeraOS is allegedly in charge of the current, most up-to-date version of "SteamOS" or more commonly known as "Holo".
      Then again, there's a fair bit of conflicting and/or unclear information about all this, so i could be wrong.

    • @chillwithjohnson4032
      @chillwithjohnson4032 4 місяці тому

      ​@@laurensnieuwland4657SteamOS 3.0, the version used by the Steam Deck, has yet to be made publicly available by Valve. Until then, we're stuck with the old Debian-based SteamOS builds or SteamOS alternatives like Nobara Steam-deck edition, Bazzite, or ChimeraOS

    • @zer0pointnothing
      @zer0pointnothing 4 місяці тому

      @@laurensnieuwland4657 Unless they've updated it (dont think so), the Arch based SteamOS used on the Steam Deck doesn't work on anything else but the Steam Deck right now. It is tuned like crazy for the Steam Deck, so using it on anything else just breaks. I tried it on a virtual machine once and trying to get into "Gaming Mode" just results in either a black screen or crash.

  • @sylveoneevee
    @sylveoneevee 7 місяців тому +13

    As a friend once said: THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THATS EVER LIVED 🤣

  • @Bean_Slayer64
    @Bean_Slayer64 Місяць тому +1

    2:33 that music alone is enough to invoke the rage of God that the game brought me...

  • @rawexploiterp6951
    @rawexploiterp6951 4 місяці тому +1

    gah damn I thought my phone had an alarm on when that one portal 2 ost.. still big props for that

  • @PenguinEconomics-st2ws
    @PenguinEconomics-st2ws 7 місяців тому +31

    I love your editing style Mr Bringus. Usually I don't find this hyperactive editing style appealing but you manage to pull it off in a real fun way.

  • @DeadBaron
    @DeadBaron 7 місяців тому +23

    Man remember the Steam Controller? I still have one and use it sometimes, it's great. The batteries last forever, the trackpads were very accurate, overall I love it. I really wish they would try again since now they can implement buttons on the back of the controller again. Supposedly they stopped making them because of a lawsuit, but now the steam deck has the same type of buttons?

    • @neolordie
      @neolordie 7 місяців тому +2

      I got one for like 20€ last year and it's pretty cool !

    • @lolcat
      @lolcat 7 місяців тому

      Steam deck doesn't have paddles it has buttons

  • @kentslocum
    @kentslocum 7 місяців тому +26

    I'd honestly just like to keep that cube on display in my house, not connected to anything; it just looks cool. Imagine what it would look like to have a whole pyramid of those things stacked on top of one another! 😊

    • @bowsergunner9680
      @bowsergunner9680 6 місяців тому +3

      I agree! i have 4 of them!

    • @krisiluttinen
      @krisiluttinen 4 місяці тому

      @@bowsergunner9680 Can you install a modern Linux distro on it without any driver issues?

  • @thyonlychief
    @thyonlychief 5 місяців тому +3

    This was such a great video that you got me to subscribe 8 minutes in... your humor is also top notch as well my fellow

  • @Razerin
    @Razerin 5 місяців тому +3

    This is my first time seeing this video and channel. But I got hooked on the tf2/source sound effects.

  • @Protoplosion
    @Protoplosion 7 місяців тому +7

    the "quick change the settings!" brought me back when I still played on a potatOS. the entire video goes so hard

  • @KOSAMAGAMES
    @KOSAMAGAMES 7 місяців тому +9

    I remember seeing the Piston shown off, I was so excited for Steam machines but the reviews were so horrific I stayed clear, now I own a Steam Deck and man crazy looking back at Valve trying to break free of Windows chains with actual final success ( I love the Steam Deck). I remember during the Steam Machine craze there were 3, The Alienware one, zotac (which i wanted initially), and a spaceship looking one by Cyberpower one.

  • @RoundyBoi5162
    @RoundyBoi5162 7 місяців тому +44

    mmm yes, the Jimmy Neutron Hypercube with the Subaru OS👌

  • @S3IIL3CT
    @S3IIL3CT 5 місяців тому +1

    "more like waste of sand force" is brilliant lmao

  • @acheleg
    @acheleg Місяць тому +1

    i had a small computer repair business back then & took a partnership to help build prototype steam boxes. i wasnt happy enough with the os to put a lot of work into the project- it was just standard debian that booted to the steam shell. tthis may have been a prototype of something which was considered by steam as an official steambox

    • @acheleg
      @acheleg Місяць тому

      i still have that os disk

  • @splycer172
    @splycer172 7 місяців тому +4

    This man now knows what it's like to play Counter Strike in animated GIF form. The things we do for science.

  • @JemaKnight
    @JemaKnight 7 місяців тому +31

    Presumably whole RAM pool is basically... GDDR. Like a console.
    This is like a proto-PS4 chipset.

    • @SteamPlayLEET
      @SteamPlayLEET 7 місяців тому +4

      I don't understand why he never ran gpu-z, that would explain everything.

    • @hikkamorii
      @hikkamorii 7 місяців тому +2

      Maybe I'm misunderstanding how memory sharing works, but is there actually a point in that considering it uses DDR3 RAM? I also don't see a reason why it would need more than 2GB of memory for such a weakling GPU, speaking of which, according to 16:01, it seems to use up to 768MB of memory @SteamPlayLEET

    • @EllAntares
      @EllAntares 6 місяців тому

      @@hikkamorii meory and CPu power aren't connected at all. It depends on the bus width and how much paging you want to allow

  • @WaveIan
    @WaveIan 7 місяців тому +9

    Well done! That BIOS move was clutch, and something I was crossing my fingers waiting to come up with the nature of this beast. Really love these videos, and I'd also like to see your idea at the end of this video come to fruition!

  • @insurgencybuffoonery8065
    @insurgencybuffoonery8065 2 місяці тому

    This video unlocked a memory for me. I remember being so excited for this as a kid when they first announced the Piston because of its form factor. Holy moly.

  • @notjustanybody
    @notjustanybody Місяць тому

    i swear this feels like watching dankpods in an alternate universe

  • @jarnobot
    @jarnobot 7 місяців тому +24

    I think this still might could be a very nice emulation system. I would love to see a video with Batocera running on it. Low end emulation should be easy for this thing, but see how for you can push it in terms of emulated systems :)

    • @old_liquid
      @old_liquid 7 місяців тому

      I am afraid 7660G gpu will say hello
      Both in therms of driver (amdgpu will not work as it is descendant of hd5000 line of gpus, and firegl driver is long dead) and performance. But light cpu-based emulation up to PS1 is possible.

  • @KiraSlith
    @KiraSlith 7 місяців тому +5

    Oh man, Xi3. These computers were hyped up so hard back in 2010 alongside Alienware's Steam Machine, and then one day the company evaporated after people started having trouble with the chipset. It's a neat design, and modern AMD APUs are far better suited to this kind of thing. The new 780m iGPU on the 7000 series is shockingly on par with a GTX Titan X Maxwell, for a tiny fraction of the power draw, so it's be a pretty solid indie/light gaming box.

    • @ffwast
      @ffwast 7 місяців тому

      I wonder if a 780m can be cajoled into working with Windows XP like a Titan X Maxwell 🤔

  • @2_KidsInAtrenchCoat
    @2_KidsInAtrenchCoat 7 місяців тому +13

    19:30 No way he actually downloaded ram

  • @leboxdude1252
    @leboxdude1252 Місяць тому +2

    Now thats a gaming cube

  • @SteelRatVT
    @SteelRatVT 5 місяців тому +3

    14:45 props for the AMD R-464L APU with Radeon HD Graphics

  • @TheJukebox.
    @TheJukebox. 7 місяців тому +5

    The fact that I can recognize all the TF2 sound effects in this video makes me sad

  • @colormitz3
    @colormitz3 7 місяців тому +28

    i see that sneaky invisible qr code at 1:03, i wonder what you have put on it

    • @k_86
      @k_86 7 місяців тому

      www (dot) youtube(dot) com/watch?v=jA2hWPyTk00

    • @hikkamorii
      @hikkamorii 7 місяців тому +4

      it's a link to jA2hWPyTk00 (idk if youtube links are allowed, but you can figure it out), don't know what it means and too lazy to figure out.

    • @colormitz3
      @colormitz3 7 місяців тому +1

      @@hikkamorii how did you manage to figure that out? I was just gonna recreate it since my camera couldn’t see the qr

    • @hikkamorii
      @hikkamorii 7 місяців тому +6

      @@colormitz3I took screenshots of the frames with a table and qr code, and then substracted one from another in gimp. You may want to also increase contrast, but for me it worked as is.

    • @coolgameriguess
      @coolgameriguess Місяць тому

      @@hikkamoriido you have an answer to this yet?

  • @JSReaL
    @JSReaL 7 місяців тому +5

    when the only thing between you and extra RAM is a random file from the internet, and it works xD

  • @junelawson5719
    @junelawson5719 6 місяців тому +1

    Torx screws are great. Good torque without cam-out, pretty resistant to stripping. Love it.

  • @bavarianblessed
    @bavarianblessed 6 місяців тому +1

    Dude your commentary is like listening to my head while I do stuff. Subbed

  • @marjon1703
    @marjon1703 7 місяців тому +10

    26:51 Heh heh "Anatomically correct Spiderman". Snarf!

  • @onelazynoob15
    @onelazynoob15 7 місяців тому +7

    It'd be interesting giving linux another try on this thing, the BIOS flash might have been necessary to allow linux secure boot or some shit like that.

  • @POPCORN454545
    @POPCORN454545 7 місяців тому +7

    Fuckin love the fellow source engine half life brethren putting consistent sounds effects and soundtracks in the vids man. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @nery2981
    @nery2981 6 місяців тому +1

    just wanted to say you're a goat for providing the link to those drivers in the description.

  • @ulixir
    @ulixir 3 місяці тому

    first time i've seen shorts show me actually good content

  • @Mask_Guy
    @Mask_Guy 6 місяців тому +22

    27:37
    "this is pretty bad"
    me, who plays most games on that resolution: pathetic