this is an extremely unusual motherboard
and it's gonna get a pretty quick and
done ceremonious unboxing because I want
to get straight down to it today this
came to us straight from a factory in
China that it actually took us months to
get in contact with and convince them to
send us one of these as soon as I saw
this I absolutely had to have one on the
one side you've got a completely normal
motherboard with an LGA 1151 socket and
a couple of memory slots and some i/o
and all that kind of thing
and on the other side is a graphics card
in fact the manufacturer claims that
that is a gtx 1050 TI so we're not
talking about your grandma's onboard
graphics here we're talking a fully
gaming capable graphics card soldered
right onto a motherboard so the first
question for us to answer is why is this
on here most industrial applications
either don't need much GPU at all and
can make do with onboard or they need a
lot in which case they wouldn't want it
soldered directly to the motherboard
then the second question we want to
answer is this thing any good so let's
take it for a test drive shall we
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one of these videos getting derailed I
was just about to point out that instead
of a 20 or a 24-pin connector from a you
know more standard internal power supply
this motherboard actually gets all of
its power from this DC plug on the edge
of the board right here when I realized
uh-oh
that the plug they sent me from the
office isn't gonna fit in there now I
was able to determine from the
manufacturers website that it requires
19 volt power so it's at least correct
in that sense and it's got enough
amperage to run all the hardware that I
intend to install on here so that's all
good but unfortunately what I didn't
know was which pins were supposed to be
which and the only references that I
could find to this connector didn't seem
to indicate that there was an industry
standard fortunately we can determine
which ones are supposed to be the
grounds fairly easily just by grabbing a
ground like the housing on a USB port
and checking for which pins have very
little resistance those are gonna be our
grounds so as I suspected it's the ones
closer here and which pins are our power
so that's gonna be these two right here
with the much higher resistance but then
I didn't end up having to pursue that
route of like ripping the connector off
of the power adapter and then jamming
wires into those holes because they
actually found one that would work that
we borrowed from a different system that
seems to have both the same pin out and
the same locking connector so progress
is unusual about this motherboard so the
form factor is something that I have
actually never seen before this is the
size approximately of a micro ATX
motherboard but it doesn't have the same
mounting holes it doesn't have any PCI
Express expansion slots the i/o is all
over the place so we've got a bunch of
it on the back here we've got HDMI
Gigabit Ethernet USB three say that
audio like why does SATA need to be on
what is apparently the rear panel of
whatever device this is intended to be
installed in and then making matters
even crazier
is over on the other side of the board
we've got mostly internal connectors
usb3 LVDS so these are video outputs
another hdmi port okay
and then more SATA so wait that's an
external HDMI port and internal SATA and
then that's internal SATA and an
external HDMI port what is the front
side of whatever case this goes in I
don't know I don't understand and then
the last thing that weirds me out is
this mix of what feels like very low-end
design choices like the fact that
there's no cooling on the VRMs for the
GPU or for the CPU for that matter with
things that are generally considered to
be high-end on gaming boards like for
example this little button right here is
a nice convenient little simos clear
switch I don't really know why I'm
freaking out though because none of this
should surprise me I mean obviously I
you know you never encounter something
like this at the local micro center but
that doesn't mean that boards with
unusual layouts or features are
something that I've never encountered
before like if you've ever hung around
on a trade floor like Computex for
example they it's just full of
motherboard manufacturers you've never
heard of with walls covered in designs
that you could never imagine any purpose
for and what likely happened the reason
that this exists seal all made the za -
SK 10 50 - embedded motherboard is
probably because some customer at some
point requested this design and they
figured well we made it already anyway
if anyone else wants it we might as well
list it on Alibaba and then if they buy
it and you know we can sell these things
you probably noticed by now that this
takes laptop size memory modules as
opposed to desktop ones that's pretty
common in these types of embedded
motherboards here's some Ripjaws 3200 CL
16 I really doubt that these are gonna
work but let's let's go for let's go for
the moonshot here the CPU I installed is
a core i7 7700 K and in theory it should
be compatible i three i5 and i7 six then
second gen it's what it lists on the
website
one thing I'm a little worried about is
this seems to be one that we liquid
metal dat some point and it seems to be
seeping out from under the IHS that can
cause problems like what is this is that
just like a random DRAM chip and like I
don't even know what this chip does I'm
gonna use the 1500 watt power supply
again a little bit overkill I think
we're close now if I had to guess I'd
say this HDMI is the GPUs HDMI and this
one comes off the onboard video or
something like that finding a power
brick that plugs into it was only like a
third of the battle though so yes right
connector but I also needed it to be
nineteen volt which this is and have
enough power for as you guys might have
noticed I'm not in significant amount of
hardware so 7700 K is like 95 watts or
whatever and then 1050 Ti is whatever
that is probably some are in the same
neighborhood somewhere in like 7585
range so this is 19 volt thirteen point
one amp so it's about 250 watts here k
mode exception not handled I hate it
when my K mode exception doesn't get
handled well isn't that interesting here
I thought I was just doing a quick
off-camera SSD swap so I could put a
fresh windows install on this thing and
then I was still getting errors so I
tried a couple different memory modules
and I was still getting errors just
trying to install windows and lo and
behold remember that liquid metal that I
pointed out and said oh gee I hope this
isn't a problem it might be a problem
that's the underside of the IHS and you
can see where it's kind of dripped down
here and here all over the CPU package
there's liquid metal hopefully cleaning
it up will resolve the issue but
honestly I have my doubts right now last
idea I've got a crazy hunch that Linux
might behave a little bit better with
this either weird or defective Hardware
so I've loaded up a live bootable
version of Ubuntu on that USB Drive and
I'm gonna go ahead and fire this puppy
up whoa whoa NVIDIA GPU 107 geforce gtx
750ti okay hold on a second it's working
by the way I never followed up on what
happened
trying the other HDMI port that's a
debugging port that is not an HDMI port
so that didn't work now it's working no
way you got it
oh no steam won't install in a USB you
have got to be kidding me
can I do uh hot-swap arena here Hey all
right we up basically I tried to launch
shadow of the Tomb Raider and the weird
pre launcher thing says your current
active CPU governor's not optimized you
can still play the game but may
experience performance issues how do I
change it wait your computer's graphics
card or driver is not supported by the
game what well why not I installed the
Nvidia driver I think oh this is very
good news my graphics driver definitely
installed because I'm now running at 4k
60 Hertz which makes more sense for a
1050 HDMI 2.0 is working no it still
doesn't like my active CPU governor
whatever I'm gonna continue anyway hey
no warning about the graphics driver
good tip all right I'm gonna try and
give this a shot I'm definitely not
gonna try and run at 4k Abby's not
responding okay
let's try something else you know what I
think it is I think it's a dead graphics
card a lot of those errors that I got
when I was trying to install Windows
seemed to be related to Hardware
directly I have now done CPU intensive
things and not had any crashes in Linux
look at that line through the screen
there I think we do have a defective
graphics card in this thing it's gone
now but that is a strong argument
against a fully integrated solution like
this in it not only does it cost more
but if something goes wrong you're left
with no options to swap things in and
out for diagnosis and once you've
confirmed that there is in fact a
problem there is nothing you can do
aside from just get a new one a hundred
and fifty frames per second that
actually does sound probably about right
that keep you working now oh yeah
definitely working all right give me
that D cool
okay oh wow that looks pretty good oh
that is pretty nice well I don't know
how much of that the editors gonna use
but long story short it's working
perfectly right now with performance
that about meets my expectations for
this class of hardware I'm getting a
hundred and thirty to one hundred and
fifty frames per second in csgo at 1080
with things I wouldn't say cranked but
definitely high and it's running
smoothly and fine at so I don't know
what that was with all the windows
errors and I don't know what that was
with the instability I initially
experienced with Linux but what I can
tell you is that this is 100% not worth
it for people like you and me because
whether we do have a dead graphics card
or whether we don't it's clear that this
solution makes troubleshooting more
difficult and even if you do determine
what the problem is replacing something
impossible and it actually cost
significantly more now as for why this
exists in the first place I do have some
ideas one might be a DVR like a video
surveillance system or something like
that that relies on a light amount of
GPU compute in order to perform better
or perform facial recognition or
something like that another idea I had
was maybe it's a control board for some
kind of piece of industrial equipment or
medical equipment but with all the
issues I had I sure hope it doesn't end
up in any medical equipment that
requires x86 compatibility and maybe
uses the GPU for real-time rendering of
something it's working on like I don't
know maybe it's a CNC machine and it
shows a visualization of what it's doing
or one other weird idea I had was maybe
it's for like a budget game console or
something whatever it's for I'm sure
that the manufacturer had to work
closely with the integrator to ensure
that they had a better experience than I
did because this certainly was anything
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the one we did must've been over a year
ago but we checked out like five weird
graphics cards just super unusual
graphics cards maybe not as weird as
this motherboard but definitely weird
we're gonna have that link down below as
well so weird I just don't know what all
that instability was in Windows and then
even in Linux when I was running off the
USB I got a weird crash though a couple
times and now it's just running
flawlessly so bizarre shut her down and
never look at this thing ever again
because I hate it