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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
“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.
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.
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.
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
@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
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! 😂❤
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret it happens even with modern computers, because there's so many different ram manufacturers and models some are bound to end up unsupported, it's why you're meant to update your bios before messing with RAM settings when you build a new PC
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 😆
@@QuestionableFurry69 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....
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.
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
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.
@@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
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.
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!
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
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,
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.
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 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.
@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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 😂
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!
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
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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!
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
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! 😊
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?
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
Honestly, loading that little box up with XP, 7, or even Vista, and then using it for some older PC games... that seems like it'd be the dream scenario for this thing. Compact machine for late-90s to mid-00s games.
@@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.
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.
10:20 “Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water at a consistent, low speed.” This is where internet trolling got its name. Trolls bait people online in hopes of getting a reaction.
I find the architecture/design of this thing really charming and neat, for some reason. The separate north/southbus slots surprised me. Also, the addition of free RAM DLC is definitely forward-thinking 😂
guy actually, trully downloaded more RAM
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Lmao this might be my favorite comment ever 😂 this channel is just amazing
There is an exception to every rule.
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.
Thankyou
Thanks man!
You saved the Hypercube.
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.
It's the hidden heroes like you that make preserving and archiving our digital history possible.
bro just yelled the biggest secret of all IT outa the window: downloading more ram is possible.
Never thought I'd see CS2 on a VHS tape
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.
also bet it was thermal throttling To HELL..
it is because of the upscaling option that he set to performance
POV: You're a professional Counter Strike player
@@homelessEh he joined a online match to not load the bots himself
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.
Not only that, one made specifically for steam.
"actual computer" is a bit of a stretch
It be like that, once it took me 3 hours to install windows 10 onto a laptop that came with windows 10
Its a steambox, its tested for linux not windows
@@subjekt5577 yet the windows was the only one that worked lmao
"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.
“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.
The whole schtick was a dankpods ripoff
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.
Dankpods and Bringus Studios probably have met at LTX, I think that’s where Dankpods got the triangle man sticker from
@@MildlyUpsetMaxhonestly Bringus is like if you mixed James and Dankpods into a pot, and sprinkle a bit of memes into it.
@@MildlyUpsetMaxdamn, it sounds like your more than mildly upset, max
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.
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
@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
@glennglog22 That's only the case for the OG 32-bit version, there's a newer 64-bit build which runs WAAAAY better
Yep, i remember XD My friend always crashed me if i made him mad by doing random shit
@@glennglog22the game runs on a single thread so it won't do much to any modern cpus
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! 😂❤
That DP/HDMI port is actually revolutionary. You can actually plug either an hdmi OR a displayport into that one port.
Yeah it is! Those ports are used on some Belkin secure KVM switches.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@utfigyii5987 this.
You are actually the first person on the internet that successfully downloaded RAM! Be proud!!!
Oh my God you're right I did I didn't even connect the dots lol
How bad was the original UEFI on that thing to literally let half the RAM unusable ? 😂
Probably cause the GPU was a shared GPU.@@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret
@@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret it happens even with modern computers, because there's so many different ram manufacturers and models some are bound to end up unsupported, it's why you're meant to update your bios before messing with RAM settings when you build a new PC
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 😆
I'd love to see this machine with OG SteamOS compared to one of the newer SteamOS flavors.
However considering the fact he could not get any flavor of Linux to install I wonder if og steam os will even install?
nah, put MacOS on it LOL
if it will let him
@@QuestionableFurry69 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....
@@bland9876 might now that the BIOS has been updated.
Using a glue gun to hot glue it's own wires is a bold move.
Like doing surgery on your self
do not teach AI robots to use the glue gun
@@HnkkaI mean, a guy in Antarctica did it. lol
*Atom BIOS BK
Like that one scene from Master and Commander.
I love how it looks like someone folded up a motherboard into a cube shape
This thing took “GameCube” to the next level
Gaycube.
This thing probably cant even emulate gc
well it's barely cubical
@@WohaoG So Is The "GayCube"
@@OfficialGreatTelevision The Nintendo ShitCube
I feel ripped off 💀
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
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.
People still play with n64 graphics in tf2 and they usuall have like 10000 hours
@@sulefurDude said "People" like that isn't just b4nny lol
Good times playing it on 480p with a Nforce motherboard (back when Nvidia put integrated graphics in motherboards :-o )
Using FPS Configs really saved me in those days..
This is peak troubleshooting. Most fun I've had watching a video in a while
“64 bit is coming soon”
The prophet
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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
True story, bro
"The more stains the more rich the lore" sounds like a sales quote from a by-the-hour hotel
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.
Man why my gluegun didnt come with tips like this on the manual :D
Pretty sure he wanted a fancy new one
@@Hnkkayou read your hot glue guns manual??
the plastic lever mechanism is probably just worn out after god knows how much friction.
Let the legend rest
1:36 I love the Scion xB reference, totally unexpected
we do a little shitbox posting
@@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
@@real151kmh 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
@@BringusStudios glad to hear that, keep the good content up
The 2nd gen xB's were great little toasters. I miss Scion
"just as mysteriously as it stopped working, it has started working again"
Just an average day working with haunt boxes, TBH.
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.
750ti was so amazing at the time i could play any game on a $120ish gpu with a smooth frame rate
@@guccisquidbillytentacles kind of like the voodoo2, Unreal for me back in the day...
@@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
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!
That's some crazy level of ... bringe watching 🫠
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
i still have that os disk
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,
AM3+ or AM3
My dumbass thought is was a literal steam machine, like water vapor
Same
time to add that to the pile of unfinished projects
Lmao
same💀💀
dude same....
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.
Or you could tape your phone to your arm?
Tyler McViker jumpscare got me absolutely laughing, especially the bassboosted sound
22:52 *TYLER MCVICKER*
Bro starts typing in "X" in the search bar so confidently. I could never 💀
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.
That's because he's on Incognito Mode 😬
@@bacondingo wait, isn't incognito mode for that?
@@ahmetrefikeryilmaz4432incognito doesn't save or display your search history
It was a fresh windows install. He knows he’s good
Thank you for the laughs man watching those glorious graphics struggling was just beautiful
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.
I love the idea that you just happen to be more prone to static
@@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.
Bro thinks he's Chuck McGill's worst enemy
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Jesse wtf r u talking about.
Micheal MJD and Bringus Studios brothers in "Something went wrong" and "This was supposed to be a quick video..."
Micheal MJD, Bringus Studios and MattKC would be a insane "stuff wasn't supposed to take this long" blunt rotation.
Playing a competitive game like CS2 and seeing that Bringus is on your team must be quite the experience.
Yeah knowing he’s probably playing on a toothbrush and shi 🤣
This guy is the Valve gamer version of DankPods. Obscure nuggets and all.
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.
wait no external power? dose this work with 3.5 drives?
@@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.
you realize there are SATA +power to usb adapters right?
@@ChrisWijtmans thats why am wondering if it works for 3.5, because 3.5 requires extra power when using usb.
@@deaft_shot4489 no it doesnt.
there's a QR code at 1:05
There isnt
check harder @@Rblxdevelopers
@@Rblxdevelopers There is just spam the 1:05 and look closely
NO THERE IS!
ITS SO TRANSPARENT THO!
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.
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.
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.
Cool stuff!
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.
I probably know (of) your dad, I work for Dan and Chuck and my wife worked for CISC :'D
@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 😂
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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!
play counterstrike on a digital TFT multimeter pls
i have some wierd one that runs windows 10 arm haha
damn, defusal about to get real...
lol run steamos on it
@@Ironyum99why not the thing could actually take it
@@cardboardcomputing video?
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
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.
The sound effects you add in bro 💀love your content
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.
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"
Then Valve finally figured out, just make it handheld
@@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.
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.
Which apu was that?
hm
14:17 wait wait wait wait Windows *11* ?! Maybe Windows 10 but THIS?!
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.
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!
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
I love the form factor. Pretty crazy performance for a 2013 device
no its still awful for a 2013 device
@@BoboFerre 2013 device this size*
@@thenoddingturtleagreed.
I love how this video has actual LORE, an adventure, especially when you discovered that was a steam cube.
This dude found the real life equivalent to the relic from cyberpunk
As a friend once said: THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THATS EVER LIVED 🤣
This thing deserves another shot using the newest SteamOS from Valve itself instead of a fork.
Valve's steamOS hasn't been updated in forever, their debian-based version is largely discontinued, i'm pretty sure.
@@MyouKyuubi What about the version used on the Steamdeck?
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
This episode was like 90% of all my gadget endeavors. I understand the adapter stuggles😂.
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! 😊
I agree! i have 4 of them!
@@bowsergunner9680 Can you install a modern Linux distro on it without any driver issues?
@19:40 When updating the BIOS is the equivalent of the once known problem but now known as a meme, of downloading more ram.
you are a great commercial guy. you actually make watching and hearing your sponsors' adds fun! you should be in commercials. your voice is great.
mmm yes, the Jimmy Neutron Hypercube with the Subaru OS👌
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?
I got one for like 20€ last year and it's pretty cool !
Steam deck doesn't have paddles it has buttons
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.
Bro is big brain
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.
Yeah since I discovered all of that like halfway through the video it makes it a bit awkward to watch lol
@@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.
the "quick change the settings!" brought me back when I still played on a potatOS. the entire video goes so hard
Love your editing style brother, all the gmod n half-life sounds are perfect. Subbed n liked 👌
Presumably whole RAM pool is basically... GDDR. Like a console.
This is like a proto-PS4 chipset.
I don't understand why he never ran gpu-z, that would explain everything.
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
@@hikkamorii meory and CPu power aren't connected at all. It depends on the bus width and how much paging you want to allow
This man now knows what it's like to play Counter Strike in animated GIF form. The things we do for science.
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.
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
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
I have never been so entertainted watching an OS install. Well done.
That CS2 gameplay reminds me of trying to play that one FPS game where you play as eggs on my school Chromebook
26:51 Heh heh "Anatomically correct Spiderman". Snarf!
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 :)
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.
I got this video recommended, and 5 seconds in and I subbed. you’re super friggin funny
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.
This is the first video I see of this channel and 18 minutes in, so far I feel blessed
"Ok whats going on? i need to talk to your BIOS, let me talk to the linux boot manager!" 10:53
when the only thing between you and extra RAM is a random file from the internet, and it works xD
The fact that I can recognize all the TF2 sound effects in this video makes me sad
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.
I wonder if a 780m can be cajoled into working with Windows XP like a Titan X Maxwell 🤔
Fuckin love the fellow source engine half life brethren putting consistent sounds effects and soundtracks in the vids man. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Honestly, loading that little box up with XP, 7, or even Vista, and then using it for some older PC games... that seems like it'd be the dream scenario for this thing. Compact machine for late-90s to mid-00s games.
i see that sneaky invisible qr code at 1:03, i wonder what you have put on it
www (dot) youtube(dot) com/watch?v=jA2hWPyTk00
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.
@@hikkamorii how did you manage to figure that out? I was just gonna recreate it since my camera couldn’t see the qr
@@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.
@@hikkamoriido you have an answer to this yet?
Best Mike Tyson video ever uploaded
"it'll be fine,it'll be fine" famous last words
The average celeron experience:
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.
You though you had joke PC. Turns out you got gem for historical value.
10:20 “Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water at a consistent, low speed.” This is where internet trolling got its name. Trolls bait people online in hopes of getting a reaction.
23:54 Oops... The bot crisis still continues in TF2.
at this point playing ow2 is a viable option
No @@generic6099
I find the architecture/design of this thing really charming and neat, for some reason. The separate north/southbus slots surprised me. Also, the addition of free RAM DLC is definitely forward-thinking 😂
I appreciate your placement of sound effects theyre not overdone like most u toob channels.
And a bunch of sounds are from TF2
27:37
"this is pretty bad"
me, who plays most games on that resolution: pathetic
"more like waste of sand force" is brilliant lmao