Full video is on my channel, click the link under my name on the Short to go straight to it #computer #computers #gaming #xi3 #bringus #bringusstudios #steamos
The first card you removed is a MXM form factor. I still think you should try to hook up a laptop GPU to that just to see for if it would work for the shits and giggles
Unfortunately, when components are close enough, the fan is usually required to run so fast that the motor of the fan can contribute to overheating, defeating the purpose.
@@HardWhereHero I think not, my pentium D ran VLC for a while in my living room as a media player, only retired it since the power supply caught smoke, with windows 7/Linux it will be a dream
@@JohnWardButOn420 These things were like $850+ on release back in 2012, and the only one I see on ebay now is $750. It makes absolutely no sense to buy one as a media box when you can just get a much better NUC or SBC with today technology, better performance and better price, in a similar form-factor. It's basically e-waste that you would have to compromise with 720p video and go through the pains shown in the full video to even get it to work.
Screw efficiency, I cool my PC with brute force. On a serious note tho, I am confused why is that one fan on the top, it's a tube, it seems obvious to try and push air straight through it. Maybe there's some heat component not touching the sink that needs extra airflow?
@@megan00b8What I'm thinking is that the bigger fan could either be pulling or pushing air through, while the smaller one would be doing the opposite, possibly creating an air current to pull cooler air from the bottom so it goes between the heatsink fins and then gets pushed or pulled through the length of the find by the bigger fan. So the small fan is there just to help create an airflow but not to directly cool the device. Something like that. Edit. Seems like it could be pulling air from the side through the IO shield gaps. Maybe.
You don't do that? I do that for every second hand gaming console/pc I buy. Who knows what the previous owner did to it, I'd better have a clean slate on my hands.
@@OCTO358 I am waaaay too curious to see what might be on the PC. If you dont connect it to your network its not much of a risk. I doubt its gonna airgap hop and steal your bank credentials. lol
@@OCTO358 I have to agree with the other two. I know the security risks from secondhand PC's, but it is highly unlikely that whatever is on there can airgap. Just don't connect it to your network and have a "blast from the past" and see what the previous might have forgotten or shared with the world.
@@christophsiebert1213 it's not even about security, you'd be surprised just how many people are technologically inept, yet that doesn't stop them from trying to mess with their computer's settings (the crazier ones try to do things with their registry or even bios), which results in it not working properly and in severe cases even causing some irrepairable damage.
@@OCTO358Wow, really? Can you share some stories or your experience? Because generally what I've seen is people who enjoy technology modify every minute part of their devices, while non-techy people tend to not touch any settings at all, and just don't experiment.
That may look odd for people used to the ATA Form Factor motherboards, but there has been long precedent for that style of digital device construction. Many Industrial 'panel mount' devices are built that way; one 'motherboard just behind the front face, to mount the displays and controls, and multiple 'daughterboards' that perform the actual conversion/process control functions running parallel to the sides and plugging into the motherboard on the front. the back of the device is where the connections typically are, and the frame has tracks that keep the daughterboards stable and aligned. This also allows for easy assembly of various models at the factory: A) The mother board and front face are the same across all models. B) Daughterboard 1 (on the left) has the processor, the power inputs and process control outputs, allowing for multiple working voltage ranges and output styles based on which card is inserted. C) Daughterboard 3 (on the right) has the sensor inputs, allowing for various types of systems to be monitored, again, based on the card. D) Daughterboard 2 (in the center) has the hardware and connectors for the Industrial Network (Modbus, CANNet, RS-232) again, depending on the card used. By mixing and matchi9ng the cards, the manufacturer can produce a wide range of devices from a few separate parts, without having to store unpopular combinations on the self and without long 'lead times,' as the required devices are simply assembled from the parts bins, boxed up, and labeled for the selections chosen.
@justinnamuco9096 Define "better." This form factor is more compact, yes, but the ATA form factor has the advantages of Modularity, Standards, and Heat Dissipation The Modularity allows you to change the configuration easily by adding or removing daughterboards at will. The standardized data busses (which have changed and evolved over time) mean that any manufacturer can make an expansion board that is garunteed to
Work with any current ATA motherboard. The ATA form factor also allows for several options of heat dissipation. There's a reason that the ATA form factor has stuck around since the days of the IBM AT computer.
@@Rockethead293 seriously why this advice? i will say first time start with mouth so u finish your first finish quickly and move on with the high pressure then you can go inside for long time in round 2 (which for her it's long round 1) better than having a really short round 1 and disappointing
But instead modern computers start being built with coolers the size of this entire Cube PC just to cool the processor. I think that's totally ridiculous these days, and I never would have thought that coolers would have to be that size or people would have to use water coolers just to get their computer to work with the newer processors that produce so much heat an air cooler almost isn't feasible.
Until somebody finds out a more efficient cooling than air/water we cannot reduce the size of the overall machine without always fall behind on the typical things. Like handheld PCs are a thing already but i feel like battery/cooling are the things that stop us from truly evolving.
@@TortureBot The reason for that is simple. Modern semiconductors are hitting physics limits to their size. Meaningfully scaling down isn't particularly viable anymore, so the efficient way to pack on more computing power is to simply add more components, running at higher speeds. More components at higher speeds will generate *significantly* more heat in the same size footprint.
@TheAttacker732 I understand what you're talking about. Transistors can't get much smaller and the more you pack close together, the more heat you're going to have. I just can't believe they haven't found a better way to cool PCs than running liquid all around inside them, causing trouble and a mess for a lot of people. It just seems like if they can't get much smaller with the transistors they would start coming up with better ways to cool the systems or innovate in a way that we can have new types of transistors that can be physically smaller. From reading, it looks like they are about as small as they can get but since they changed the original transistor invented decades ago to be made from different material, I would have to think they're going to find something new to make transistors out of that can somehow be even smaller physically or operate even faster. I'm getting older, I know. But it's a strange thing to see processors go from no heatsink, to heatsink/fan, to massive heatsink/fan, & finally to water coolers, lol.
those connectors between boards seem kinda wack, but when you vibrate it for 1000 hours a hard connection would break. those little springs in the connectors will still be going strong
I had those at my job handling the surveillance streams. They all ran really hot and would frequently freeze. They accumulated dust pretty quickly too. Still think they were pretty cool tho.
My dad actually worked on these. They were going to be modular, which is pretty sweet. They would have master, graphical, compute, storage, etc. units that could all be wired together via the ePCI-e ports. That's right, external PCI-e, which is basically modern thunderbolt. He did their BIOS, one of only a few guys. I thought these were so cool, and its a shame they lost funding and had to sell the project (they ran out of funding).
Look closely at the four oddly shaped USB ports without the lightning symbol. Those are either ePCI-e or eSATA, but I don't remember which off the top of my head.
In case you're wondering, no, that's not how the gamecube is designed. The optical drive takes up most of the height with the motherboard sitting underneath.
That's a very space-efficient computer. That could only be the form factor of more motherboards and setups in the future, at least if we expand the circuitry using the material of traditional motherboards or PCB and wherever there is need for more of both space and computing power.
Full video is on my channel, click the link under my name on the Short to go straight to it
I though you can directly link another video in a short? I saw some channel do that to link full video of a Shorts.
@@RockyPrabowoGood call I just figured it out, ty
Its a cube of computing!@BringusStudios
The first card you removed is a MXM form factor. I still think you should try to hook up a laptop GPU to that just to see for if it would work for the shits and giggles
:)
The 2013 mac pro would look really cool if it was transparent!!
Yeah
It already looks prety cool
Shitty apple
maybe even more, cube-shapped perhaps?
Dude doesn’t know about the G4 cube from 2001
So basically this pc has a motherboard, a daughterboard and a fatherboard
The whole family!
You win
Dunno man, the way they are put together it seems to me it's an Alabama board.
Motherboard with two daughter boards
Where’s the sonboard???
That's actually a genius engineering move made to minimize size and maximize cooling effectiveness.
That's what apple said about the trash can. how well did that work? ;P
Apple still better than shitsung
@@elirane85 Just because Apple sucks at engineering doesn't mean that the basic concept isn't valid.
Yeah, the vertical cooling helps with airflow. Microsoft did something similar with the Xbox Series X.
Unfortunately, when components are close enough, the fan is usually required to run so fast that the motor of the fan can contribute to overheating, defeating the purpose.
This would be perfect as a media player in the living room or some sort of server imo
NO it wont, loading up VLC on it will tank the CPU to %100 easy. You cant do shit with these now days.
@@HardWhereHero I think not, my pentium D ran VLC for a while in my living room as a media player, only retired it since the power supply caught smoke, with windows 7/Linux it will be a dream
@@JohnWardButOn420 These things were like $850+ on release back in 2012, and the only one I see on ebay now is $750. It makes absolutely no sense to buy one as a media box when you can just get a much better NUC or SBC with today technology, better performance and better price, in a similar form-factor.
It's basically e-waste that you would have to compromise with 720p video and go through the pains shown in the full video to even get it to work.
@@VanisherXP it is ewaste, but if bringus already had it, why not use it?
@@VanisherXP or a smart tv or a chromecast or a console or whatever 😅
From a cooling perspective this must be so much more efficient than my mid-tower.
Screw efficiency, I cool my PC with brute force.
On a serious note tho, I am confused why is that one fan on the top, it's a tube, it seems obvious to try and push air straight through it. Maybe there's some heat component not touching the sink that needs extra airflow?
i didnt bother buying fans, I just water cool it manually, when its hot to the touch or task manager says cpu is above 76 degrees i drench it in water
@@MiloO00o LOL underrated comment
@@megan00b8What I'm thinking is that the bigger fan could either be pulling or pushing air through, while the smaller one would be doing the opposite, possibly creating an air current to pull cooler air from the bottom so it goes between the heatsink fins and then gets pushed or pulled through the length of the find by the bigger fan.
So the small fan is there just to help create an airflow but not to directly cool the device.
Something like that.
Edit. Seems like it could be pulling air from the side through the IO shield gaps. Maybe.
@@shotgunmasterQL: I would hazard a guess that it's just trying to maximize airflow/turbulence right above the CPU (or other high-heat comoonent).
-wiggles components
"Thats not having a good time"
Bruh you removed its brace
Yeah exactly. Bums me out when “reviewers” criticize without understanding.
this thing is pretty sick for a mini pc
the classic gmod sfx sounds for a steam device is perfection
theyre tf2 and source engine sounds, silly!
@@joe-jp1et oh right
@@joe-jp1etthey’re Half life 2 sfx, silly!
@@lekirbo yes, source engine sounds. play any source game, even apex, and you will hear the same sounds. also at the end u will hear the engie wrench
Brings me back... 😊
In its motherboard cube form, it looks like the borg cube from Star Trek
that was why i clicked the video haha
Thought same thing lol
yeah same
Definitely would make it Look like a Borg Cube
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
Loving the Half-Life/2 sfx
The manufacturer took the iPod mini route
I still don't understand Bringus's first step in every video is disassembly and total system wipe rather than just booting the fucker up.
You don't do that? I do that for every second hand gaming console/pc I buy. Who knows what the previous owner did to it, I'd better have a clean slate on my hands.
@@OCTO358 I am waaaay too curious to see what might be on the PC. If you dont connect it to your network its not much of a risk. I doubt its gonna airgap hop and steal your bank credentials. lol
@@OCTO358 I have to agree with the other two. I know the security risks from secondhand PC's, but it is highly unlikely that whatever is on there can airgap. Just don't connect it to your network and have a "blast from the past" and see what the previous might have forgotten or shared with the world.
@@christophsiebert1213 it's not even about security, you'd be surprised just how many people are technologically inept, yet that doesn't stop them from trying to mess with their computer's settings (the crazier ones try to do things with their registry or even bios), which results in it not working properly and in severe cases even causing some irrepairable damage.
@@OCTO358Wow, really? Can you share some stories or your experience? Because generally what I've seen is people who enjoy technology modify every minute part of their devices, while non-techy people tend to not touch any settings at all, and just don't experiment.
Didn't even shows the CPU boo
Best grammar.
@@DGEDomu say that talking like ur from india
@@toucan6109 Your grammar is so excellent, I can’t read shit.
It's probably glued on
@@DGEDomhey mate, if you are gonna be the grammar police then... show some yourself lol.
Those metal parts were holding the circuit boards steady until someone removed them 😊
lol the rhythm heaven music in thr background
thought i was the only one who noticed lol
I KNEW I RECOGNIZED IT
yea
Something something I don't know 🗣️
@@Wattson-ston👏III SU👏PPOSE👏 YEAH👏
Teacher: The test isn't that hard.
The Test.
It was called the xi3 pc. Its main feature was one computer that can run 4 virtual clients.
"Resistance is futile" Computer
LMAO
The rhythm heaven music is just perfect, I hope other people start using it too 😂❤
Yeah I noticed that too
I was hit with nostalgia when I heard it. I could never forget this tune.
Mac G4 Cube
I like how it looks. Compact and clean.
"What era is this thing?" Borg
Let's not forget the G4 Cube.
This is what GameCube was talking about when it said blocks of storage
BRINGUS THE 4GB BEING USED WAS FOR THE GPUUUUJ 😭😭😭😭
This has provided me with fresh insights for the design I am currently working on. Cool stuff! 😊
Nick Mullen doing computer repair in his spare time
Then crosswords when he gets bored
That may look odd for people used to the ATA Form Factor motherboards, but there has been long precedent for that style of digital device construction. Many Industrial 'panel mount' devices are built that way; one 'motherboard just behind the front face, to mount the displays and controls, and multiple 'daughterboards' that perform the actual conversion/process control functions running parallel to the sides and plugging into the motherboard on the front. the back of the device is where the connections typically are, and the frame has tracks that keep the daughterboards stable and aligned. This also allows for easy assembly of various models at the factory:
A) The mother board and front face are the same across all models.
B) Daughterboard 1 (on the left) has the processor, the power inputs and process control outputs, allowing for multiple working voltage ranges and output styles based on which card is inserted.
C) Daughterboard 3 (on the right) has the sensor inputs, allowing for various types of systems to be monitored, again, based on the card.
D) Daughterboard 2 (in the center) has the hardware and connectors for the Industrial Network (Modbus, CANNet, RS-232) again, depending on the card used.
By mixing and matchi9ng the cards, the manufacturer can produce a wide range of devices from a few separate parts, without having to store unpopular combinations on the self and without long 'lead times,' as the required devices are simply assembled from the parts bins, boxed up, and labeled for the selections chosen.
This form factor is better.
@justinnamuco9096 Define "better."
This form factor is more compact, yes, but the ATA form factor has the advantages of Modularity, Standards, and Heat Dissipation
The Modularity allows you to change the configuration easily by adding or removing daughterboards at will. The standardized data busses (which have changed and evolved over time) mean that any manufacturer can make an expansion board that is garunteed to
Work with any current ATA motherboard.
The ATA form factor also allows for several options of heat dissipation.
There's a reason that the ATA form factor has stuck around since the days of the IBM AT computer.
"Which end do you start on?"
We've all been there, I imagine... 😏
If it's not your first time start with the mouth. If it is, go for the [Removed]
What did you think I was gonna be edging around the subject?
@@Rockethead293 seriously why this advice? i will say first time start with mouth so u finish your first finish quickly and move on with the high pressure
then you can go inside for long time in round 2 (which for her it's long round 1) better than having a really short round 1 and disappointing
@@GreatTaiwan who tf answer seriously to a sex joke in computer videos? touch grass bro
Looks like the design of the g4 cube
Yeah, it's modular like it too!
Dude you've totally got your content down solid. I need to go watch the full video, ya Dingus. Good job!
Minecraft ahh computer
The source sfx are amazing here.
... Resistance is futile.
😅😅😅
That actually looks like a normal size fan would bolt right up to the outside
Jarvis in a can😂😂
I remember seeing this as a teenager and thinking computers would eventually become more powerful and more compact like this
But instead modern computers start being built with coolers the size of this entire Cube PC just to cool the processor.
I think that's totally ridiculous these days, and I never would have thought that coolers would have to be that size or people would have to use water coolers just to get their computer to work with the newer processors that produce so much heat an air cooler almost isn't feasible.
Until somebody finds out a more efficient cooling than air/water we cannot reduce the size of the overall machine without always fall behind on the typical things. Like handheld PCs are a thing already but i feel like battery/cooling are the things that stop us from truly evolving.
@@TortureBot The reason for that is simple. Modern semiconductors are hitting physics limits to their size. Meaningfully scaling down isn't particularly viable anymore, so the efficient way to pack on more computing power is to simply add more components, running at higher speeds. More components at higher speeds will generate *significantly* more heat in the same size footprint.
@TheAttacker732 I understand what you're talking about. Transistors can't get much smaller and the more you pack close together, the more heat you're going to have.
I just can't believe they haven't found a better way to cool PCs than running liquid all around inside them, causing trouble and a mess for a lot of people.
It just seems like if they can't get much smaller with the transistors they would start coming up with better ways to cool the systems or innovate in a way that we can have new types of transistors that can be physically smaller.
From reading, it looks like they are about as small as they can get but since they changed the original transistor invented decades ago to be made from different material, I would have to think they're going to find something new to make transistors out of that can somehow be even smaller physically or operate even faster.
I'm getting older, I know. But it's a strange thing to see processors go from no heatsink, to heatsink/fan, to massive heatsink/fan, & finally to water coolers, lol.
@@TortureBot We still can do similar PCs. And have them be more performant and power efficient.
These were NEVER high-end form factors.
The piston looks like a fuckin cheese grater.
"You can certainly dump it out" 🏆
This the WorkCube?
"Sir, how many ports do we include on the design?"
"Yes."
The modularity of it is pretty cool
I’d swap out the old part for more up-to-date ones and see what happens. I’d imagine the worst that would happen is it overheating.
thats also how they built the body of the ingenuity mars helicopter lol
bro has the mandifold cube IRL 💀💀💀💀
PC cube. 😮 Inset blue light will feels like tesseract cube
This is the future solid state pcs. Made in a cube form.
those connectors between boards seem kinda wack, but when you vibrate it for 1000 hours a hard connection would break.
those little springs in the connectors will still be going strong
welp idk how i found this on my ForYou page like this fast
thank you for uploading this looks dope
i want one
would be great for traveling with my drawing tablet
We have encountered The Borg.
I had those at my job handling the surveillance streams. They all ran really hot and would frequently freeze. They accumulated dust pretty quickly too. Still think they were pretty cool tho.
Cube...??🤔😐😑
My dad actually worked on these. They were going to be modular, which is pretty sweet. They would have master, graphical, compute, storage, etc. units that could all be wired together via the ePCI-e ports. That's right, external PCI-e, which is basically modern thunderbolt. He did their BIOS, one of only a few guys. I thought these were so cool, and its a shame they lost funding and had to sell the project (they ran out of funding).
Look closely at the four oddly shaped USB ports without the lightning symbol. Those are either ePCI-e or eSATA, but I don't remember which off the top of my head.
In case you're wondering, no, that's not how the gamecube is designed. The optical drive takes up most of the height with the motherboard sitting underneath.
uff the "criticize all the things" meta
The Borg would be proud
I remember being absolutely geeked about these things when they were announced on Attack of the Show
i love so much those Source metal banging sounds
Not the half life Sfx 💀
COMPUTER CUBE COMPUTER CUBE
I love the sounds from Chicken Hunt 😂
Have not seen this computer for so many years, ahh nostalgy 😎👍
I so badly wanted one of these when they were new. I love tiny computers.
Liquid cooled by submerging in a mineral spirit bath 😂
I love the look of this.
The sound effects are perfect 😂
Those little fans are awesome. I bet that's significantly better than passive only
My first thought when you took the cover off was, "It's a Borg cube. Run!"
Omg the rhythm paradise music in the background
Looks like a satellite
i get soo nostalgic when i hear videos use HL sound effects.. lol love it!
"We are the Borg..."
That came to me, when I first saw this video.
Looks well put together.
The way the boards have been assembled is very reminiscent of the Power Mac G4 Cube.
"we are the Borg, resistance is futile"
You did say words about that, i understood that much...
This thing is very neat and exactly what I was trying to do at one point with full size pc components.
That's a very space-efficient computer. That could only be the form factor of more motherboards and setups in the future, at least if we expand the circuitry using the material of traditional motherboards or PCB and wherever there is need for more of both space and computing power.
That’s actually neat, looks like a bigger Raspberry
I’m vibing to the music
Build your computer kit
-99€
idk what this is but i think i have one somewhere in my basement
I did not know that’s what the 2013 Apple computer was called, surprisingly my school still uses these!
I absolute love this. Looks janky as fuck, just up my alley.
This gives me 6 sided orangepi vibes, is that called high availability 😂
These things are great for retro arcades.
I thought this was Chris Ramsey doing puzzles at first
Nice rhythm heaven song!
Sounds like Kirby music in the background 😂
recalling the Mac G4 Cube
Dude that pc has like an i3 5000
Great video. That computer looks cool !
Running Fallout 4 on the mf Borg cube.
Honestly, it's a pretty impressive use of space.
The guy pulls it apart, removing the support mechanisms, and then seems surprised that things are loose.
Going hard with the TF2 sentry building sound effects i see made me chuckle
oh damn u bought the new mac pc!
Looks more like a great use of space and cooling