now you know it's going to be a good time when the trash bag packaging comes out
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now the thing that makes this urine motherboard from AliExpress more exciting than a normal
motherboard is that it has a laptop CPU soldered straight to the board making it
a lot less flexible and on the back it shows some pictures of the heat spreader that covers
the laptop die out of modesty presumably now I can't quite remember which of these CPU options
I ended up buying so I guess we'll find that out together later on let's open it up [Music]
oh it comes with a very straight cut note with some useful advice on it and then we
also get a SATA cable with a little bit of thermal paste it's a nice addition
now the first thing that I noticed is that it didn't come with the CMOS battery that's
a bit weird I guess I'll just have to steal one from another motherboard now aside from
the abducted CMOS battery the most exciting part of this motherboard is the Slither of copper in
the middle it's cool that they pre-install the heat spreader for you although around the back
they did use some hipster triangle head screws for some reason either way it's cool that you
don't have to worry about damaging the die and I'm sure that it also helps with like cooler
mounting clearance and stuff next up according to the sticker we've got an early 11th core i7
in here which I'm assuming is the 11800h a laptop chip that's relatively recent and very powerful
so we should be able to get some gaming out of this chip that won't make our eyes bleed even
with its eye GPU but we'll find out soon enough in terms of rear i o we've got a bunch of video
out which should help for igpu gaming other than that though it's not looking fancy back here but
it should get the job done in terms of the power delivery it looks like the kind of thing used by
the ancient Sumerians to power their cattle but it's a pretty low power draw laptop chip so it
should be fine next to that I'm really excited by the fact that despite it being a laptop chip
we have full size desktop Ram slots so we don't have to use any loser laptop Ram generally in
terms of features the motherboard is perfectly fine we've got two m.2 slots a Wi-Fi card slot
and we even get some front USB 3. very nice anyway with that let's build our system and
see how she runs some games [Music] a LGA 1200 mounting fits on it that's good to know oh let
me quickly go steal a CMOS battery somewhere and then we'll finish the cooler mounting [Music]
hey hurrying it works now in terms of CPU apparently it's a genuine Intel cpu000 at
2.2 gigahertz which is very convincing I guess it's because it's an engineering
sample that it doesn't have its normal name up uh in terms of memory oh okay well it's
just running at its base frequency but we'll check out the files in a second and see if
we can do anything about that it just says Intel UHD Graphics that's that's very useful
was an intimidatingly retro throwback with Pages upon pages of settings all written in what I
can only imagine to be a language long lost to the annals of history and after a confusing 20
minutes of drowning in sub menus I concluded there was nothing I could do about the memory speeds
foreign we're starting off with GTA 5 using 1080p normal settings because we've got an igp wow this
actually isn't running too poorly now it may just be sitting in the 30s but we're running
at the native resolution of this display and it's not triggering my botulism what's also
very promising about this is we're only getting about 11-ish percent CPU utilization so later
on when we throw in a proper graphics card we may get some serious gaming performance also
look at that power drone [Music] now with cs go running in competitive settings we
have some jarring stutters but in the moments of clarity between the stutters despite the
non-show-stopping frame rate the game feels pretty good often with frame rates this low
you can get a lot of input lag in CS go and while there's a little bit of it here it's not that bad
ah there we go like I'm still able to put these bots in their place [Music]
okay now hear me out Battlefield 5 may be running like an asthmatic in a pollen Factory here but
we're using a genuine Intel igpu and there's some Battlefield 5 happening so I just can't help but
be impressed here dropping the resolution to 720p yields a significant performance Improvement and
it doesn't look that bad Battlefield 5 wears 720p better than I was expecting
the most exciting thing for me though is that CPU utilization there's a lot of room to grow
now I'm going to be a complete badass and start off Half-Life 2 with all high
settings I know I know it's Madness but let's see what happens nice my
bravery paid off look at that hundreds of frames anyway let's drop it on reasonably
powerful graphics card in here to really make the CPU wheeze [Music]
that is running a little bit better and I've even cranked the advanced settings to keep us
from the starter zone so this is Peak GTA 5 without mods and stuff and whatever but
yeah it's running a bit better and the system looks great the motherboard kind of reminds
me of one of those little fish that clean the mouths of whale sharks it's pretty wholesome
with Battlefield 5 a 1080p ultra settings it's running interestingly we're getting quite wild
fluctuations in frame rate and we've clearly got a CPU bottleneck going on here with quite
low GPU utilization what's pretty crazy about all this for me is that this is ultra settings
and we're getting 150 frames per second but the graphics cards only being used like 50
percent it's like oh look at this CPU bottleneck we're only getting 170 frames per second what an
outrage to be fair when things get busier the frame it does drop tip only about a hundred
with cyberpunk at 1080p ultra settings we're seeing a similar Trend to Battlefield 5 where
the CPU is worth about half the power of the RTX 4070 TI that we're using it is holding the GPU
back but it's a very powerful GPU and it's doing an admirable job in my opinion I think there's
just one thing left to do I want to remove that cold plate so we can get some bareback action
between the CPU Cooler and the Silicon die to see what that does for our temperatures [Music]
very careful about evenly relieving pressure
here because I don't want to accidentally murder a CPU die
oh I think it just fell there is our contact plate and as you can see they just use a thermal
paste application that makes contact with the laptop die down there now seeing the height of
this plate I'm actually not sure we're going to be able to normally Mount that cooler I
don't think it's going to touch the die but we'll give it a try in a second and in that Obelisk is
our 11th gen laptop CPU which is so tiny let's give it a clean and have a closer look [Music]
and that shiny bit of silicon with the gold letters next to it is our genuine Intel CPU
foreign wow that's not even almost touching I guess we're gonna have to get a bit more
ratchet with it a few moments later so I guess now we're gonna have to Mega raw
Target because we don't even have mounting hardware for the CPU Cooler what I'm gonna
do is just kind of gently place the cooler down that feels reasonable let's turn it
on and see what happens wow okay so all you need to do to knock a couple of degrees off
of your genuine Intel CPU is remove the contact plate and then precariously lean
your cooler on it it sounds like useful information to end the video on [Music]
thank you