Gaming with a FAT GPU on the Google Meet Video Conference Computer

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I hope my horrible audio won't be a

distraction to

you didn't think you'd be seeing this

guy again did you yeah here we are you

me and the Google meet if you're looking

at this thing and thinking who the heck

is Google meet you didn't watch the

video where we gamed on this bad boy and

spoiler alert it wasn't the best oh this

looks bad please for the love of God get

this man some more pixels

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that's what a game that's running really

good looks like but it has potential in

the time between that video and now I've

done some thinking if this thing only

had a half decent GPU it would be half

decent and I'm not going to keep you

guys in suspense today we're putting a

GPU in this thing graphics cards but how

and I don't know about you but in the

first video I didn't spot a PCI Express

slot anywhere but if there's anything

that I've learned from this guy properly

terrible

it's that if you can install this then

you can install this so let's get this

bad boy open and then I'll show you guys

the game plan as you guys can see I have

pre- skinned our Lenovo today when I

took the rubberized back off of it the

first time it left a bunch of sticky

residue and as you can see that is now

gone

anyway and just simply plugging our

graphics card into the SSD slot is not

exactly all that I want to do with this

thing I want to go a little bit further

than that the goal today is to minimize

the Jank we're going bougie this time

this cable right here is UL link it's

basically just pcii Express as a cable

the goal today is to take this female

end of the oculink cable and then mount

it somewhere to the outside of the

chassis of this thing where exactly uh

I'm not 100% sure yet and by having this

accessible from the outside of the

computer you can easily plug and unplug

a graphics card from this thing without

having to have it all open like this so

if we're going to use this cable and

we're going to plug this end into a

graphics card where are we plugging this

end ain't got no port and that is where

stinky little adapter number one comes

in you take this guy put it where this

guy currently is and just like that you

have an oculink port cuz like I said

earlier these things are just PCI

Express and conveniently nvme slots are

also just PCI Express all of these

little pins in here would connect to

your motherboard and on an nvme slot

only like a fourth of these are actually

going to get hooked up but it's the best

we got so here's our SSD this is where

the operating system is currently

installed and how big was this again 256

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for now in goes the ocul link adapter

look at that step one complete easy

we're basically already gaming actually

that's a lie cuz all the games are on

here so where's this guy going to go

well we're just going to keep playing

m.2 musical chairs here and we're going

to evict the Wi-Fi card but I don't

really want to give up Wi-Fi so we need

a new home for this guy look at him he's

just so cute why would you get rid of

him I can't even believe that you were

thinking that Wi-Fi card will remember

that do not worry my children I am a

benevolent Creator I have a plan for All

My Children except for this one there's

no plan for him I hate him stupid Google

Coral AI chip a chip full of lies if you

watch the first Google meet video you

would know that Google promised us 400

FPS but this isn't even 40 FPS so rest

in peiss Google Coral AI chip and long

live the Wi-Fi card also while we're

here I also discovered that there was a

second dim slot in the other video and I

didn't know that ahead of time and I

just bought a single stick of ram I have

another one of these coming and we'll

stick it in the back and we'll have 32

gigs of ddr4 I'm going to have to find a

way to get the WiFi card antennas to go

from here to like over here but I'm

confident future me can figure that out

but until then let's see what we can do

about the SSD so the Wi-Fi card slot is

not the same kind of slot that the SSD

needs to go into they're both m.2 but

this is m key and this is not but that's

okay AliExpress adapter number two saves

the

day just a little bit of Human Centipede

action no big deal uh this is a big deal

though the fan the fan be in the way UHA

and normally this is where I would say

that this looks like a problem for the

Dremel eh we still got most of the

disc but even if I did cut off a little

bit of the PCB here there's still

nowhere to mount this thing normally

there's a little screw post that you

would screw into but under there there's

nothing so actually I do have this this

is the old SSD out of my steam deck from

when I upgraded it to 1 tbte poo poo

point so now the stream location is

correct where this is poo poo point this

part of the steam deck and we're

currently here and there's like

perforations in the PCB so we can take

this Ultra tiny little SSD and look at

that it even lines up with the thing

they pre-installed oh this feels very

wrong purposely breaking a PCB I know

it's safe because all of the traces are

just in the front there but this is oh

man my mechanical sympathy alarm bells

are going off right now

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okay it's not going I don't like that

it's just bending the piss out of

it uh I don't like it I don't like

it oh that didn't sound good oh all

right I'm going to put this by the mic

for

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ASMR okay well that was terrible but

look at that nice little compact package

so that will go into our old Wi-Fi slot

and there's no screw post wasn't there a

screw post this just goes right into the

heat sink oh

it's right there and there we go I think

at this point I've technically installed

Steam OS on this Steam OS is installed

on this and let this be a lesson to all

you guys out there it's not about the

length it's about how you use it also

while we're in here I'm going to do

penants for my sin of absolutely

demolishing the BIOS battery slot see

you later oh shoot I have like a laptop

style bios battery that's like all

packaged here but the jst connector that

I'm going to water in there has not

arrived yet so that's for later so now

the last step I suppose is rerouting

these Wi-Fi cables oh yikes I don't

actually know if that's going to be

possible I don't know if our black cable

is going to be able to run all the way

over here so I took this off it's like

the metal frame that holds the

motherboard in yeah I didn't even know

that this came out but it does and

whether or not we can get this cable to

reach I don't know but it needs to go

through

there

that was a lot of work for a feature I'm

probably never going to use now that

we've got all the various cards moved

around let's do a sanity check and make

sure this thing still

boots yep we're good to game I was going

to be pretty bummed if I totally killed

this thing already it was not out of the

realm of possibility so logically the

next step is to hook our GPU up and see

what happens and the way we're going to

do that is with yet another AliExpress

Express adapter this one takes your

normal graphics card slot and turns it

into oculink we do need a power supply

to go with it but that's not a big deal

bada bing bada boom and just to keep it

simple for this first test we're just

going to use this radon something

graphics card plugged in ocul link

plugged in and then into here okay look

at that kind of awful kind of not too

bad but does it

work my goodness we are running out of

table space okay the graphics card wants

to take a nap so that guy's going to lay

down I guess power on oh okay now this

and and it is doing nothing maybe

there's something we have to do in the

Bios and it's not like this thing

exactly has the most normal bios so uh

we'll

see oh yikes all we can do is mess with

secure boot oh boy

okay hold on I'm going to install

Windows to the SSD real quick and then

we'll go from

there I changed out the graphics card

for this other crummier one cuz the

other one wasn't doing anything but

jok's on me cuz this one's not doing

anything either as you can see in

Windows all we have is our Intel UHD

Graphics which is what this is right

here there is a DVI cable plugged in but

it's not plugged into anything because

it doesn't matter because watch this a

whole lot of nothing I get no video from

the graphics card it doesn't show up in

device manager and trust me all of this

random crap down here none of these are

the graphics card I can guarantee you

that last time I was messing with this

thing these were all here and it's just

all the random weird Hardware that's on

this thing it's just yeah it's just kind

of like that but interestingly watch

this I'll turn the computer off and then

this guy he turns off so they are

communicating somehow I just don't

really know where the breakdown is so to

troubleshoot this I ordered another one

of these oculink adapters if this

particular oculink adapter just doesn't

work we will be able to find out after

they show up from

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Amazon all right what the heck this

thing is working now plugged into a real

actual computer see look at that there

it is and as you can see here we are

posted look at that Advanced Micro

Devices Inc AMD so it's certainly seeing

it why

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[Laughter]

new adapter from

Amazon it's going to make the whole

thing work I don't know where this

part's going to go in the video it's

been like 10 billion years since I

started this but it's working this is a

Radeon rx480 I was testing it with other

cards at some point but this one is

actually working the best it's hooked up

using this nvme adapter this little

stubby guy works great something

something it's not about the size you

know but don't take my word for it look

at this this is GTA 5 running on the

rx480 and I can tell you it's running on

the rx480 because this is 1080p at a mix

of high and very high settings and you

know what's even crazier those of you

that really understand what I'm about to

tell you are going to hate

this it's running at pcie by two this is

a

pcie3 by 2 Link I have no idea why but

this nvme slot is not wired up for buy

four or it's just not working correctly

in the firmware or something I don't

know the Wizards over on the CRA book

server are kind of figuring this out for

me right

now but this is the performance uplift

we're getting with a buy 2 connection

your graphics card has 16 little

highways that it can communicate with

the computer with but right now we are

pushing all of that traffic through just

two of them and it's still working this

well absolutely banana

the proof of concept is a resounding

success now let's minimize the

Jank you've seen the business side but

have you seen the gaming side you don't

want to see my gaming side these are not

3D printer errors these are gaming lines

we now have a beautiful cutout for the

oculink port not only that but we once

again have those grippers look at that

she ain't going nowhere one of the

prototypes for this whole back piece was

like a completely ventilated version but

then looking at inside of here I

realized that this whole part right here

is the air intake and there's actually

some components in here that need

Cooling and they need the air to go from

here to air so instead the whole thing

is just solid and this isn't all I was

working on oh I've been busy I soldered

in a connector for a new Coss battery I

got our second stick of 16 GB ddr4 and I

slapped that bad boy right on the back

and the only thing left to do now is

finish off the GPU dock I've got the

general skeleton figured out already and

I do want to make a nice ventilated

enclosure but I didn't have the GPU on

hand yet so I couldn't really measure it

however okay the question on everybody's

mind is this Overkill surprisingly the

answer might be no and I'll let the

people that understand PCI Express a

little better than me clarify in the

comments cuz I have no idea if this line

of thinking is correct but remember

earlier when I was playing GTA 5 on this

thing on the

rx480 oh no the a came off no

anyway when I was playing GTA 5 we

discovered that this was only a 2X link

that's actually non-standard for nvme

slots in general they're supposed to be

a bu4 link but this one just sucks

sacrifices had to be made to hook up 5

GB ethernet ports I suppose so my

thinking was if we're going to be so

limited by only a buy 2 pcie connection

we're going to want the fastest possible

card to just kind of brute force it what

I imagine to be the reason that this

thought process breaks down is because

you actually reach like a point of

diminishing returns with how much data

you can even shove through that

connection uh and if that's the case

this is completely

Overkill there's definitely a bottleneck

with that by two connection and you guys

know me I'm not going to try and find

the optimal graphics card for this

situation I'm just going to install big

GPU big GPU go fast oh hey it came with

a mouse mat that's pretty cool actually

it's a repair M for when your GPU

overheats and dies it's actually not

really really that much bigger than the

1080 it's a wee bit thicker but I say

pretty much the same footprint M radon

scum who wants

it and just like that Bob's at your

dad's family reunion man do I even want

to make an enclosure this is a really

nice looking card you know what AMD

you've convinced me no enclosure we're

just going to Raw Dog it let's do this

okay this thing is epic I just triggered

op on this power supply with just the

card connected the whole thing just shut

down on me when I loaded up 3D Mark so

uh sorry 450 BT you're not going to cut

it but you my beloved tx850 you will

lead the people to

gaming about halfway through recording

all the gameplay uh I realized that

there was an atrocious buzzing in most

of the recording When the GPU is under

heavy load the power supply just starts

buzzing on controllably and uh a lot of

that got into the Audio I have since

switched back to a mic that is not

affected by the buzzing but until we get

to the GTA gameplay you will just have

to suffer I am sorry in advance

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anyway oh oh and it rebooted very cool

buttery smooth it won't let me change

off 1080p well that's fine for once in

my life I don't need to that's right

ladies and gentlemen we're going all the

way up no super resolution it's all

raster here

no no why why crash no my match was

ready this is not good this is not good

at

all oh that would do it I think my very

cool bottom that I made for myself is uh

not adequate for airflow the gaming side

more like the roasting side good thing I

still have the Prototype ventilated

cover there we go all right let's try

this one more time

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oh wow it instantly reset when I started

Prime 95 oh yikes maybe I'm drawing too

much power from the AC adapter I don't

know this is wild all right

180 W power adapter it's foolproof our

problems are all solved the video is

saved I believe I believe come on Prime

95 go oh we're hitting it it we're

hitting it the temperature seems to be

under control this poor thing has been

through so much I don't know how we were

browning out a 90 W AC adapter on this

CPU it's only drawn 20 watts is

everything else on this board really

that power hungry I don't know all I

know is that gaming is back on the menu

boys oh yeah we're in game and oh boy

are we gaming I'm actually so happy that

it just turned out to be a power issue

this was going to be so much harder to

diagnose if it was unstable because of

something I did but just like our GPU

here shoving more power at the problem

completely solved it that is how we do

it around here ladies and gentlemen

absolute win so here's Counter Strike

when we were just using the integrated

graphics and uh here's how it's running

now I'd say it's a little better but

folks we got more games to try out Team

Fortress 2 oh thank you thank you for

upscaling this obscure resolution to

another more obscure resol

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solution all right maximum settings

let's play a game YouTube when I get

into a match how many Bots are going to

be there and will I get instantly kicked

let's

see wait no Bots if you said no Bots

somehow I think you were correct hey

that's pretty good what the not what

absolutely not

okay oh look at that okay never mind if

you said no Bots you were very wrong

look at that though we are in the

hundreds of FPS in TF2 I mean you leave

spawn and we're instantly down about 130

FPS but you know if that ain't a

bot oh no oh I'll take it I'm stopping

on a high note I will admit the CPU is

kind of still in danger of melting Ah

that's okay we got games to

play like to see that normal normal

normal normal everything normal but

folks there's nothing normal about this

performance 80 FPS we love to see it

look at that even up to 90 when you're

drowning in the lake so this was how the

game was running with the integrated

Graphics before compared to now once

again I'd say we've got a bit of a

performance uplift the game's actually

playable in 1080P unlike last time

clearly the GPU is overkill for GTA 5

and realistically this is not that much

better than the rx480 from earlier and

considering the price gap between an

rx480 and a 6950 XT we are certainly

beginning to cement my purchase in clown

territory well hold on oh my that's how

you know it's running good when the menu

freezes up for five whole seconds very

high very high very high Ultra I don't

think our pcie by 2 Link is going to

like this very much but we'll see

cranking it to ultra Graphics yeah looks

like the GPU has something to do now

interesting so the performance in terms

of FPS is like exactly the same but the

graphics are just way higher now uh

somebody who knows what they're talking

about leave a comment as to why that's

the case the short answer is because I'm

using an awful pcie by 2 connection but

the long answer is probably more

interesting and unfortunately I don't

really know what it is but with that

being said I think I'm going to crank

the graphics up on everything else too

seems like there's no difference in

performance Doom 2016 everything Ultra

and the reason we're in Doom 2016 and

not Doom Eternal is because in the

original video I played Doom 2016 there

was no chance that the igpu was going to

be playing Doom Eternal we had to go all

the way down to 480p to get half decent

performance but today ladies and

gentlemen 1080p

150 FPS it's just

beautiful

oh my God briefly 500 FPS in the menu

out of every game so far this definitely

feels the most like stable cuz in some

of the other games for just a second it

would go down to like 1 FPS and then

right back up but Doom's pretty

consistent I got a feeling I'm not going

to feel that way about our next game

though Far Cry 5 let me remind you How

Far Cry 5 ran on the igpu ran is a very

very strong word for this it was just

100% un playable and this time it is

quite playable I actually can't even be

mad this is pretty good especially

because this game kind of just runs bad

in general oh wait nope there it comes

there it comes there's the bad now I

want to try something what actually

happens if we increase the resolution

scale I'm pretty sure that means that

we're rendering in 4k now oh that's not

better at all nothing's happening and

we're at 40 FPS well actually I don't

know I'd say it's about the same okay

new test 1X resolution scale but I'm

going to set the game resolution to 720p

that should make AMD rsr kick in yep

look at that okay so the GPU is

upscaling from 720p to 1080P and it's

going to do it in a way that makes it

look decent in theory I don't know I

think that's how it works back in my day

we just went into the game pressed the

resolution that you wanted and you press

okay and that's what the resolution you

were going to be playing at was kids

these days with their new fangled Ai

upscaling and frame generation it's just

a bunch of hoop of me oh that looks kind

of trippy seems like it made I don't

know a little difference not really much

of anything

100 oh well that's cuz I'm leaving the

battlefield ah there we go you look at

the action and it takes a dump okay

maybe a little better I don't know I'd

probably just leave it off but in

conclusion is this better than the igpu

absolutely did we achieve Chromebox fun

today by minimizing the Jank we did not

this has been nothing but Jank the

entire time I went through two different

oculink adapters the CPU fan was off

doing all just letting the CPU get

to like 100° C my cool cover isn't good

enough the nvme slot was missing two

lanes unfortunately while Chrome OS

blood courses through the Google meets

veins I don't think it can ever not be

Jank is it now better than it was yes I

think so does that mean it's good no I

still hate it and this is probably the

last video with it I don't think I can

take it anymore and today there are some

shoutouts in order the people of CRA

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one I think it's safe to say that this

guy deserves one of these beautiful

there we go oh and look at what weird

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it

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yes