- Holy crap.
This might actually be a two-man lift.
Hey, Ed.
Holy crap, this is really heavy. (laughs)
Here it is.
Whoa, full marks for presentation, ladies and gentlemen.
What am I looking at?
Three power adapters.
Oops, okay.
(plastic rustling)
Okay, there we go, there we go, just need leverage.
(plastic rustling)
This is already a super-weird computer.
This is not how you're supposed to open it.
(plastic rustling)
We're opening it backwards, but the computer is backwards.
Look, the mounting ears for the server rack,
apparently this is a rack mount, are where the front,
the back I/O comes out of the front of the computer.
What am I even looking at?
So here's the handles.
Here's your power button, your reset button,
whatever these plates are for, whatever this display does,
and your I/O plate, it's all at the front of the computer.
So what's at the back of the computer?
Whoa, we got water-cooling for days here,
ladies and gentlemen.
(box thumps)
Okay, this is the Camino RM.
And it shouldn't surprise me that much
that the internal layout of this thing
is unlike any server I've ever seen before,
because these are the same crazy folks that brought us,
yes, that thing,
that super, super tiny liquid-cooled,
Small Form Factor gaming rig.
Inside this box is apparently a Threadripper processor,
four 2080Ti's, and presumably enough power and cooling
to take care of all of that.
And I don't know if you guys
have the context for this or not,
but here's a Linus hand for scale.
This is a really compact little server.
Wait, what?
Where are the graphics cards at?
Why are there three power supplies?
What am I even looking at here?
Oh, what the crap?
Andy, I need Allen keys.
- [Andy] Here you go.
- An Allen key, ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of Andy,
the Andyman can.
This machine is nucking futs.
Let's walk through what we're lookin' at here.
Starting at the back,
we've got a triple 120 millimeter radiator
with a quite dense FIN stack.
So, this is optimized for high airflow fans.
We don't have any fans directly mounted to it.
Instead, we've got three Noctua industrial PPC fans.
So these are 3,000 RPM monsters
that have this kind of redirection piece here
so that it directs it up and through the radiator,
which also has a little bit of kind of soft tape here.
That's presumably to help seal up the back of the chassis.
As for the components inside,
rather than take a traditional server approach
and go with a single but redundant high-power power supply,
like a 1,600 watt power supply or something like that,
Camino has opted (laughs) to go with three SFX 750 watt,
more like Small Form Factor desktop power supplies
with their own label.
So, they've presumably got like an OEM manufacturer
or ODM manufacturer building these for them.
Next up, we've got our motherboard.
So this is a Zenith II Extreme Alpha
or whatever it's called.
This is a top-of-the-line Threadripper board,
Threadripper CPU, I believe it's a 32 core model,
but that's sort of irrelevant,
because the focus, when building a machine like this,
was on GPU.
And where are they?
Where are the graphics cards, Andy?
- [Andy] Behind the board.
- Yeah, they are.
This Andy guy, he doesn't miss a trick,
ladies and gentlemen.
So here on the front of the board,
we've got three of Camino's super-cool PCI Express risers.
So these are PCIE 16x right here.
And then they've actually got two,
each of them handling eight of the lanes,
two of these thin PCI Express extension cables.
Now, normally, when you build a Small Form Factor machine,
the PCI Express riser is like, it's thick.
It's like a ribbon-style cable.
But these apparently have good enough signal integrity
to handle these links
over a rounded/sleeved connector here.
3,200 megahertz, these are 32 gig sticks,
so that's 256 gigs of RAM, this puppy is maxed out.
Here, ahh, it's so heavy, oh, okay, ahh.
Ow.
Right here is our water-cooling reservoir.
They've got a really nice, handy-dandy little cutout.
I haven't looked at the water-cooling much here.
So, our CPU block, which also handles cooling the VRMs here,
goes down to what seems to be
some kind of a manifold or splitter.
Our radiator goes down under the motherboard tray,
and then our reservoir's over here
with a nice handy-dandy little cutout.
CPU block seems to be a custom design
that cools both the CPU
and the power delivery on the motherboard.
Let's go find some graphics cards here, shall we?
Movin' this thing around's warming me up, lttstore.com.
So I guess why would the manufacturer of a system like this
have the graphics card I/O at the front of the case
where people would be pretty unlikely
to plug in a graphics card,
and especially why would they put the plugs
behind these like little cover plates?
That's a weird thing to do, right?
Oh, my God, that is so cool.
I haven't seen this in so long.
So way back, like 10 years ago,
Nvidia did a dual GPU graphics card
where it actually had two PCBs.
So, one on the slot side and then one over on
where would normally be your intake fan.
And then they had a cutout in the PCB
for the fan to draw air in from both sides,
and then blow it down the back of the card.
Now, when manufacturers went to water-cool this thing,
they had no choice, because the two PCBs
had the components mounted facing each other in.
They had no choice but to create a block
that sat in between them,
and had the water channel will go in and out.
And it had cold plates, like copper plates, on both sides.
That is what Camino has done here
to create this incredibly slim design
that actually has two RTX 2080Ti's
in about the space you would normally have a single one.
Before I open this up, I wanna tell you about our sponsor,
Private Internet Access.
Private Internet Access allows you to access services
and websites as though you're in a different country.
It encrypts all your Internet traffic
and uses a safe, protected IP.
You can connect up to five devices at once with clients
for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
And, if you check out our offer down below,
it's $39.95 for a full year and you'll get two months free.
So, go check it out.
Now, we'll take this off.
Oh, wow, that's actually not bad in terms of accessibility.
(imitates bird warbling)
There they are.
I found you, I got you.
Inlet, outlet, that goes to this right here
onto the CPU, out to this side of this, okay?
And then it must also go into the GPUs
into this side of this, where it goes, comes back to,
ah, yeah, okay.
So, the CPU is getting about half of the flow
coming out of the pump,
and the GPUs are sharing about half of the flow.
Now I don't actually expect that to be a terrible problem,
because GPUs, while they do actually consume a lot of power
and therefore output a lot of heat,
they're really, really large.
And it's a little bit easier to draw the heat off of 'em.
One of the reasons they run so hot
is that they have these tiny slim coolers on them
with these really inefficient fan designs
because they have to go in PCI Express slots
instead of being able to have a big thing
plunked on them like a CPU does.
One thing I can't really wrap my head around right now
is how they actually put this whole assembly in
or take it out.
But we can leave that for another day.
We're gonna do a full Linus Tech Tips video
on how this machine performs for its true purpose,
which, (grunts) as I alluded to before,
doesn't require the GPUs to even have their plugs accessible
because apparently it's intended
as like a network-accessible rendering server.
It's a little curious to me that they didn't bother to
at least allow you to install any expansion slots.
Not a big deal, because this is one of those
high-end desktop boards
that happens to have 10 gigabit ethernet,
which is good enough for putting a rendering load onto it
and then taking the results back.
So, your bottlenecks are gonna be elsewhere in the system.
You know, like these guys really impressed me
with that Small Form Factor machine,
but I do have my doubts.
Just three 140 millimeter fans
cooling four 2080Ti's and a Threadripper.
Get subscribed to Short Circuit
for more fun unboxings like this.
Actually I can't promise we'll have too many like this one.
This is really unique.
But definitely, definitely more videos.