Hey Linus, I think the color banding issue might be that the DACs on the card aren't able to produce the appropriate voltage levels for the analog color signals on VGA spec.
That makes sense because some casino machines have screens so that would be a small cheap gpu to run casino machine graphics that can run on half a potato
@@thestonedbee662 Only some ? Here in sweden there is no slot machine or virtual poker machine that doesn't have an LCD screen. These machines are in every pizzeria/restaurant and other places.
I'm doing a cad class and bring my shitty laptop from Christmas 2015 because it runs better. Mabey one day my school will get better then Intel inside or Pentium cant remember. And move to hdmi.
"gaming machine" might be a reference to casino-style games, the kind you find in seedy bars. Those things run industrial-style potato PCs at potato resolution where a "GPU" like this could suffice.
The m.2 interface has been around for a while, and Konami has been known to use low-end Dell office PCs in their newer arcade games, so that's most likely what's in their gambling ones, too.
this thing is actually kinda interesting, its used to add a VGA output to a system with a more recent GPU that doesn't have one. really, really specific
So you're telling me I can stick this in the unused M.2 port in my mini-ITX build, mount a mini vga display in the front of the case, and write my own custom 2d interface for system monitoring (load, temps, watts, clock freq, etc.)? That would actually be a fun project, even though its totally impractical.
He's not wrong. I remembering downloading pictures at 2400 to 56000 bps, and watching my files chug. Also remembered the "rainbow banding" you get from viewing low res gifs on EGA and VGA monitors. Dems were the times, kids. Dems were the times.
“Just like I’d die if I didn’t tell you about our sponsor..” this is his first cry for help, the companies sponsoring him have him hostage and are using his fame to get more customers, wear a blue shirt in the next video if you need help Linus
It's a great VGA card. I bet it'll run WING COMMANDER II just fine in 256-colors in full 640x480 resolution. Sure as hell beats any EGA or Hercules card. I wonder if they have DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.0 drivers for it.
I was actually surprised when I saw the price because my 1030 while obviously not anything high-end is still way better than this thing and actually is in the same price range at $85. This GPU is overpriced for what it does... or what does it do? Linus didn't show us, this whole video was pointless.
This could be brilliant to run result monitors on our range, where it just has to refresh every couple minutes at a time, and a easier way that learning a raspbp, allthough the price is very important, around 70$ wouldn't make it very viable
Was thinking this might actually be good for playing classic games on a small x86 SBC like a LattePanda or Rock Pi X. But those Intel Atom SoCs already have built in Intel UHD GPUs that are probably far more capable than M.2 GPUs like this
I would surprised Linus didn’t understand that these 2D graphics cards are for 2D gaming, like an arcade or video poker... but his research is shit-tier on a good day.
@@groundzero_-lm4md most likely. Even a Raspberry Pi Zero level of performance should be enough for those (and GPU wise would probably exceed this thing)
@@Stinkys8050 Yeah, his store is pretty much the same as every other Tuber's. Really neat looking stuff, but for them to make a profit it's at a price that's a bit absurd, and seems (at least to me) more like a support-a-creator with free item, rather than just purchasing an item simply because the price is so obviously different than ANY other version of the same kind. Kinda like when Linus asked about his reusable ZIPTIES LMAOOO!!
Agree it’s a bit of a meme, but I’ve gotten the water bottle, a shirt and hat and the shirt is good quality and the water bottle works surprisingly well. The hat I haven’t worn yet as it’s on a mount in my wall, but the water bottle and shirt were worth it as far as quality goes.
The question is... if your server's integrated gpu died and you were trying to troubleshoot the issue... would you even be able to access the ipmi with this device? Or, what about a case where the server was purchased second hand and can't be accessed without a video output because it has not been configured yet? While this would save an otherwise dead server in theory, I wonder if it would actually work for that case. I imagine this is why windows sees the device with so many varied configuration options that are not accurately represented in menus. @@rysterstech
@@rysterstechand alot of workstation board dont and this is perfect for homelab conversion. Im defo getting this one to replace a 1030 i bought just to sit there for boot.
Honestly, I think this thing would be pretty useful for headless servers if you just need a barebones display output for a command line in case SSH breaks. I have a homelab setup myself and my server machine has 1050 Ti in it for Jellyfin transcoding, but if I didn’t need hardware accelerated transcoding, I could easily see using something like this for a basic CLI output just-in-case.
@@demiangalic916 Black Horse slot machine game is running on Linux distro. With prehistoric Pentium M , 2GB of DDR1 RAM and 8GB CF card as mani storage...
This may actually have a good purpose. This can probably help with making a computer post when it doesn’t have an integrated GPU installed in the CPU. Most CPU’s without graphics need some sort of graphics driver for it to run, and this is no exception. This could help somebody with no GPU but intent to get one soon and when they upgrade, or get scammed on Ebay or something, they still have a graphics drivers unit in their PC.
There's another, more "techie" use for this. Use Case: you need to run multiple VMs, with more than just 1 or 2 CPUs per VM, and you're dedicating GPUs to each VM, but you still need a local console to interact with the system to control and administer it. Higher core-count/performance CPUs don't always have integrated GPUs (or aren't always wired in the motherboard). Instead of taking up a full PCIe slot, that could be used for a full GPU for a VM, you can use this to serve as your local interface, leaving all other GPUs free to allocate/dedicate to VMs. The same use case would apply for mining/AI/high compute nodes also.
Or simply for servers with CPUs not including an internal graphics adapter. You usually still need to access the console at least for initial setup so a cheap, efficient and small GPU like this is perfect. That chip is basically what you'd find built in on many modern servers anyways
1.5 WATTS!!! Run your HIVE/linux OS through one of those and allow ALL your mining GPUs to focus on mining ONLY. Mining rigs have the monitor off all the time anyways.
I remember when my old GPU had 8MB of VRAM. That was enough for games back in the 90's. Half Life 1, Neverwinter Nights, Dungeon Siege. Those were the days.
I was having a 8MB “shared” SiS IGP from 1999 till late 2005. Imagine even old AF GTA 2 being able to run smoothly (25fps?) only at 800x600 but not at native 1024x768 resolution …Struggle was real😵💫😢😓
11:09 "does not take up one of your pci-x slots" except it does so indirectly, because m.2 lanes use up pci-x lanes, even if nothing is plugged in there
slots and lanes are different things. what he said is correct. also, don't use pci-x for pci-express. it's pci-e, since pci-x is a different PCI standard.
@@aliabdallah102 yes, I know. I was just saying how amazing advances in technology are, especially when they make fast and small parts more efficiently…
@@SpliffyMcYiffertons I'm sure it was obvious to Linus as well, but it's hardly as funny to be correct in a channel that loves to talk about enthusiast gaming! ;-) I need MOAR framerates for my spinning cherries!
That actually seems very useful for simple embedded systems. A PI would be easier to use of course, but if you wanted to run a monitor or small display from a teensy, that would technically be possible.
@@maighstir3003 Those effects are all just prerendered animations though. Another computer has already done all the "heavy" lifting to make 3d animations/effects. All this needs to do is play back the video at 480p - Nothing 3d or graphically intensive.
I kid you not, I played games like this when I was a child, I completed the whole Stronghold campaing with 2-10 fps, with a warning at every start that Stronghold needs at least 16mb of RAM
@@milkman5180 Exactly, but the point I was going to make was that back then the input code was handled independently from the rendering. That even was the case on PCs running MS DOS, but having DirectX as an API in between the software and hardware killed that "feature". Having lower fps wouldn't be as horrible if that still was the case today... instead, you feel your fps directly with your controls which is why especially competetive shooter players strive for maximum fps. I remember a time when those sticked to PS/2 mice because those were polled at 200Hz which USB ports couldn't do back then.
Linus: *complains about older monitors with slower panels* literally more than half of his audience: *deals with 60Hz, 5ms displays basically everyday*
My laptop recently turned 6 years old and my monitor (1920x1200 resolution with a 24-inch screen, 5ms) 12 years. Still works like a charm. And because it still works like a charm I am reluctant to swap it out.
@@FixTheDisc don't get me wrong. I am in a similar position (4 years old laptop, 8 years old monitor). But boy, I would be lying if I said that a smoother vision is a dream that I can't wait to realize
@@vimad97 Oh I am willing to upgrade. Just feel really wasteful if stuff doesn't break before I upgrade. But as an oxymoron, I always get pissed when an electronic device breaks too early. (Like I need 4 years out of a phone at least).
@@FixTheDisc I agree with you, I replace things in general when they're too wasted to work properly. some times though, when there's a specific need for a new feature, I give up. for example low refresh rates disturb my eyes.
@@vimad97 fair enough! But at least when I need to swap things I give tech companies a fair chance to impress me. Really interested in the "flip" smartphones but more towards the Samsung galaxy z flip phone. Cause dangit if i don't get nostalgic for the time when technology improvements meant smaller and lighter things.
AsRock Head of the factory: Guys, we have some leftover VGA connections, blank m.2 PCBs, and some leftover chips from the previous washing machine manufacturer... whats could we do? Someone from the warehouse: Hold my Huangjiu...
It's a bit old but if you want to cover obscure and odd hardware... The Subway USB Controller for the Amiga1200. It's a USB 1.1 and 2.0 controller for the Commodore Amiga 1200. It plugs into the system's clock port. That is it plugs into a port meant to be used for a battery backed real time clock.
Someone in year 2040: "This massive thing is a RTX3090. It was supposed for gaming twenty years ago, but it can barely run a current Windows and an open Word document!"
3:30 "The more you hit it, the more likely it is to start working" - Parents, talking about their kids getting jobs in the cotton mills. Circa 1850 AD.
Yeah I feel like this was probably for running virtual machines where you may want the ability to hook up a monitor but don’t actually need a huge graphics card. I don’t think Linus even mentioned that. Or I may be completely wrong. I now nothing about computers.
@@alephcake Thats why this is so cool, this is software rendering on the cpu itself, no gpu involved! It's just like back in the days of the 486 where the cpu itself was doing all the rendering.
good enough to run STALKER
BORISSSSSSSS
yo boris go F A S T
Brois
Beep
@@FuzekiXD 😐
You jest, but this might just be the best external graphics card currently available for the Raspberry Pi...
boutta say
Oh fancy seeing this comment here. I hope you get one to test with a Rasberry Pi soon!
Next thing we know Linus will be gaming on a Pi
External graphics card? Yes, but I'd guess that the VideoCore is probably actually better.
Beat me to it
“I remember downloading certain types of pictures” YES LINUS WE ALL REMEMBER THAT
I remember clearing the entire history afterwards.
Ok boomer
"The type" 😉
Clearing the history and rewinding the VHS tape back to 0:00 are fond memories. Waiting for pics to load line by line seems quaint 😂
@@levijefferies6971 Do you even know what a boomer is?
"Yeah, my pc runs at 60 seconds per frame."
"You meant frames per second, right?"
"I meant what I said."
I love that him holding his finger on the chip is liquid cooling it.
that thing gets so hot your body temperature is COOLING?
@@sodiboo Ive actually had the situation happen on my phones before when charging
@@sodiboo ... anything that does any computing gets hot enough that your body temperature cools it you FUCK WIT
@@williamcampbell9859 What about quantum computers frozen to absolute zero?
@@sodiboo that has cooling though, lol.
I've seen Linus more than my family this year
Same. Sad...
Bruh
Nah, I've seen your family plenty :)
@@LinusTechTips Wait a second...
@@LinusTechTips you got kids bruh
You need to give this to Low Spec Gamer. This is pure gold.
I want to see him play hla on it lol
YES. LINUS. PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
Which low spec gamer has m. 2
@@t1moo_670 it's a RUclips channel
This might be too low spec even for him.
Hey Linus, I think the color banding issue might be that the DACs on the card aren't able to produce the appropriate voltage levels for the analog color signals on VGA spec.
time to put this on a Pi 5
@@texastanklol pi pico. It needs it
When they say "gaming machines" i think they refer more to actual gaming machines like slots, poker etc...
That makes sense because some casino machines have screens so that would be a small cheap gpu to run casino machine graphics that can run on half a potato
Would make sense.
@@thestonedbee662 Only some ?
Here in sweden there is no slot machine or virtual poker machine that doesn't have an LCD screen.
These machines are in every pizzeria/restaurant and other places.
Maybe asrock could hardcode a chess game on the card... or make it fun the more cou you have the smarter the chess
@@SemtexWarrior Wait, what?! Sweden exists?
Schools: *_"I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!!!"_*
School... what is that?
@Jelly Bean Especially when "teachers" refuse to do their JOBS...
*cries in no m.2 port in their outdated platform*
Pretty sure the schools have no m.2 in their PCs
I'm doing a cad class and bring my shitty laptop from Christmas 2015 because it runs better.
Mabey one day my school will get better then Intel inside or Pentium cant remember. And move to hdmi.
"gaming machine" might be a reference to casino-style games, the kind you find in seedy bars. Those things run industrial-style potato PCs at potato resolution where a "GPU" like this could suffice.
This is exactly what I thought as well. It also explains the internal header and the drivers being referenced as “samp”le.
Yeah But you will still Need an nvme Slot for it and i dont think those potato Style PCs have that.
@@getriebesand2195 they deffo do, they run modern low power cpus, with custom made boards that could totally have m.2
The m.2 interface has been around for a while, and Konami has been known to use low-end Dell office PCs in their newer arcade games, so that's most likely what's in their gambling ones, too.
Being that it's ASRack it's more for the server end where you just need enough GPU to see the desktop and interact with the system.
this thing is actually kinda interesting, its used to add a VGA output to a system with a more recent GPU that doesn't have one. really, really specific
Displayport to VGA is a much better idea, it costs like 10 dollars for an adapter and its not card specific.
@@rysterstech this is indeed the best solution. but if i had one of these laying around for some unknown reason id use it XD
Linus : "It defaulted to 64hz. What kind of number is that?"
Me : Why of course, it's a stack of hz.
Minecraft.
2^6. A nice round number.
Yep yep makes perfect sense to me
ahh I see you're a man of culture as well
*hits monitor 101 times*
I think the fact Half-life 2 ran at 20FPS is just testament to how well optimized that engine is.
the fact linus switched hats is really irritating
I played TF2 for so long on integrated graphics. Imagine my surprise when it literally can't run any other fps
my phone can run half life 2 at 60 fps most of the time, so yeah, i agree
"Damn that's sum good graphics. W-What engine is that?"
"Dawg. That is Source from like 2007"
@@anomalycenter1197 WHAAAT HOW?
So you're telling me I can stick this in the unused M.2 port in my mini-ITX build, mount a mini vga display in the front of the case, and write my own custom 2d interface for system monitoring (load, temps, watts, clock freq, etc.)? That would actually be a fun project, even though its totally impractical.
Fun impractical project? Sounds like a great idea!
We need to know if this was done
i need update
Did you do it
Yep, you just need a stronger cpu, clearly the cpu was the bottleneck here.
I'd love to see more capable M.2 gpus for micro computers like the Raspberry Pi.
Yea exactly my thoughts
Or Adding to laptops with capable CPUs but bad igpus
Linus is genuinely more amazed by this than most of his high end graphics cards reviews
Well, he sees thousands of those.
This is different. This is unusual.
No wonder he's more interested.
high end graphics card reviews are all the same.
AsRock: Creates this product
Schools and Libraries: I’ll take your whole stock
No, they need to use 15 year old pentium igpus. Even slower.
school computers don't have m.2 slots
To be honest, its not that dumb of an idea.
Since when do schools have high-tech stuff like m.2?
Welp, my uni's library bought some packing packages - 9700F with freaking 2070 Super. Idk why they went so overkill
Finally, Something I can afford
yessir
🙏🙏🙏
Should be in stock though
And is in stock
But still not going to be able to find in stock.
2 years later, RUclips pushes this vid to my feed and I never knew it existed
thanks, it is only after reading your comment that I realized it was 2 years old
@@MichalBrat Now It’s 3!
"Just like I'd die if I didn't tell you about our sponsor"
Linus, If you are in danger, blink twice.
The cameraman has a gun. The uprising has begun.
And I will die if I will not tell u to give me A PC that will run warthunder 🥴🤪
Eeeeee
*cough* "free to play games"
Linus: "Just like i die if didn't tell you about our sponsor"
Me: "Are they threatning you Linus?"
Linus, please blink twice if you're in trouble.
*CES 2020 Dell flashback*
He won’t be able to feed his family if he doesn’t
Of course they're threatening him, it's Gaijin.
Not that unlikely,considering the rumors about gaijin funding terrorists
“I would describe it as seconds per frame, rather than frames per second.” 😂
Literally me
"That is multiple frames, every second."
SPF was a common speed measuring method in the 90's, whilst playing 3D games without accelerators.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I started laughing so hard man when Linus said that.
I hope the thing is actually doing anything and not just redirecting to the CPU...
"Gaming Machines" probably means for slot machines or gambling machines
or NES emus + DOS games.
Maybe for a homemade arcade machines, like the one's with Raspberry Pi's?
@@gotai8 Well, then I think Raspberry is more simple way to go. You can emulate almost everything on it using RetroPie (retroarch).
It's meant for board games.
I can’t even imagine. More like pos dos systems lol
"a whopping 16MB of DDR... 1" Love it.
Finally, something that’s in stock.
1010 is better value
Yes
except its not in stock either lol
@@Benny-xy4oz kek
*linus with a gun to his head*
“Just like I’d die if I didn’t tell you about today’s sponsor”
War thunder: VeRy NiCe
"I still remember back in the day downloading certain types of pictures"
"You kids today have it pretty good"
*Hol' up*
😂😂😂
When the imposter is sus! 😳😳😳
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He's not wrong. I remembering downloading pictures at 2400 to 56000 bps, and watching my files chug. Also remembered the "rainbow banding" you get from viewing low res gifs on EGA and VGA monitors. Dems were the times, kids. Dems were the times.
"that is MULTIPLE frames every second!"
Yep, you learned Apple Marketing
XD
“Just like I’d die if I didn’t tell you about our sponsor..” this is his first cry for help, the companies sponsoring him have him hostage and are using his fame to get more customers, wear a blue shirt in the next video if you need help Linus
would be awesome if he would lmao
Lmao 😂
they're stealing his identity
@@herreiklar he did in the video he posted after this lol, what should we do??
It's a great VGA card. I bet it'll run WING COMMANDER II just fine in 256-colors in full 640x480 resolution. Sure as hell beats any EGA or Hercules card. I wonder if they have DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.0 drivers for it.
@@dwightlooi we getting 20 seconds per frame in duke nukem 3d 💀💀💀
Nah, it'd be lightning-fast for Duke Nukem 3d. Remember 512kb ISA VGA cards?
This is one in million products presented by Linus Tech Tips that I can afford
I was actually surprised when I saw the price because my 1030 while obviously not anything high-end is still way better than this thing and actually is in the same price range at $85. This GPU is overpriced for what it does... or what does it do? Linus didn't show us, this whole video was pointless.
and the only one you dont need
@@marcuscowles3384 You're definitely right
@@amihartz you obviously didn't watch the whole video. It's for servers.
@@amihartz lmao thats not the point, the gpu is made for VMS or cheap screen terminals for monitoring
This could be brilliant to run result monitors on our range, where it just has to refresh every couple minutes at a time, and a easier way that learning a raspbp, allthough the price is very important, around 70$ wouldn't make it very viable
Norden your videos are great
Duck Game
That thing is literally a potato chip
whats wring with the pi
Wait... Are you saying that $70 isn't viable because it's _too expensive?_
"We were running all of our games off of the CPU"
... soooo, we're tossing this into a Threadripper system at some point?
We need this.
Having built a threadripper..... I'd be interested.... also if filling the m.2 with these and having multiple gpus would boost it further 🤷♂️
please. I want to see modern games running on that thing lmao
Duck Game
Yes he has to try that.
I can't wait to see improved versions of it later. This is a great concept but sadly its pontifical is limited.
@@cyberturkey77 sadly failed using them
Frames Per Second: No no no, not like that
*Seconds Per Frame: ahh yes, nostalgia*
This card would be useful on the beach with its SPF
@among 12 seconds ago 😳
@among botter. noob bot
My friend: "How many frames per second is your new rig"
Me: "Don't you mean seconds per frame?"
Dude, your product is underrated 👍
*Confusion intensifies*
Are you mocking my Apple II gs?
You should do a “weirdest PC” with all of the weird janky parts you’ve found
THE BOTTLENECK
Linus still dropping the word WEIRD. Not so sublime bashing on China and the Chinese people.
Then try and run crisis? lol
sounds like a fire hazard. great idea for a video
They could use this to show how insane the Threadripper 3990x is. They played Crysis using software rendering, I bet it would be awesome.
Was thinking this might actually be good for playing classic games on a small x86 SBC like a LattePanda or Rock Pi X. But those Intel Atom SoCs already have built in Intel UHD GPUs that are probably far more capable than M.2 GPUs like this
And in terms of performance per dollar, this very much isn't worth it.
And today we get a benchmark of Microsoft's software rendering engine.
But hey, it's damn impressive.
Guess I need to update my GPU for all the cities skyline playing I do 🤣
Biffa! I used to watch your minecraft videos as a kid :D
I've just started playing this week and your videos have saved me form a mental breakdown. Cheers Biffa
Biffa LTT Crossover!
Biffa! Welcoming sight to see you here 🥳
Edit: Keep doing what you’re doing! Long time subscriber here
That would take "oh jumpy game" to a whole new level.
Its for "gaming machines." You might also know them as slot machines, lmao
Gambling on a slot machine powered by VGA is the very definition of rock bottom.
I would surprised Linus didn’t understand that these 2D graphics cards are for 2D gaming, like an arcade or video poker... but his research is shit-tier on a good day.
@@FuncleChuck a bit disappointed he didn't try CS 1.6
I thought those digital slot machines have switched over to ARM. I mean, it will save power for the casino.
@@groundzero_-lm4md most likely. Even a Raspberry Pi Zero level of performance should be enough for those (and GPU wise would probably exceed this thing)
"Just like I'd die if I didn't tell you about our sponsor"
Why was that so funny?
At this point him saying LTTstore.com is more of a meme than him advertising it
My order has been in transit for over a month and hasn’t left California. Lttstore.com
@@Stinkys8050 I like Linus, but you're throwing your money away.
@@Stinkys8050 Yeah, his store is pretty much the same as every other Tuber's. Really neat looking stuff, but for them to make a profit it's at a price that's a bit absurd, and seems (at least to me) more like a support-a-creator with free item, rather than just purchasing an item simply because the price is so obviously different than ANY other version of the same kind. Kinda like when Linus asked about his reusable ZIPTIES LMAOOO!!
Agree it’s a bit of a meme, but I’ve gotten the water bottle, a shirt and hat and the shirt is good quality and the water bottle works surprisingly well. The hat I haven’t worn yet as it’s on a mount in my wall, but the water bottle and shirt were worth it as far as quality goes.
Always has been
This one is exclusively for servers, and its a lifesaver as almost none of those server processors have onboard graphics.
amd should ship these with the threadrippers
@@bobuccman1424 right
except most server motherboards have something like this on the board already, as that is needed for the ipmi to work.
The question is... if your server's integrated gpu died and you were trying to troubleshoot the issue... would you even be able to access the ipmi with this device? Or, what about a case where the server was purchased second hand and can't be accessed without a video output because it has not been configured yet? While this would save an otherwise dead server in theory, I wonder if it would actually work for that case. I imagine this is why windows sees the device with so many varied configuration options that are not accurately represented in menus. @@rysterstech
@@rysterstechand alot of workstation board dont and this is perfect for homelab conversion. Im defo getting this one to replace a 1030 i bought just to sit there for boot.
I feel better about my Integrated Graphics.
Same
Same
@You same
Me: cries in opteron
@@zerrocool809 sad life intensifies
Honestly, I think this thing would be pretty useful for headless servers if you just need a barebones display output for a command line in case SSH breaks.
I have a homelab setup myself and my server machine has 1050 Ti in it for Jellyfin transcoding, but if I didn’t need hardware accelerated transcoding, I could easily see using something like this for a basic CLI output just-in-case.
I can’t believe he didn’t try to overclock it.
Ikr slap a PI heatsink on it and overclock it
I know! What does the processor even run at.
@@christophermullins7163 300mhz _(0.3Ghz)_
I want to see him water cool and overclock it.
Just use your finger as a heatsink and overclock the bad boy!
"Gaming machine" - the interface for a Poker Game or digital slot machine.
I was always wondering which software slot machines mostly use and if they are actually some sort of primitive computer
@@demiangalic916 Black Horse slot machine game is running on Linux distro.
With prehistoric Pentium M , 2GB of DDR1 RAM and 8GB CF card as mani storage...
Duck Game
@@demiangalic916 They're usually just another embedded x86 PC
when linus has needs a small gpu to go with his small hands
Yeah... His hands....
That's what she said
Could have fooled me, thought it was a normal size GPU
Atleast there's a less chance of him now dropping it
@@brokengames9020 suuurrrrreeeeeee
This may actually have a good purpose. This can probably help with making a computer post when it doesn’t have an integrated GPU installed in the CPU. Most CPU’s without graphics need some sort of graphics driver for it to run, and this is no exception. This could help somebody with no GPU but intent to get one soon and when they upgrade, or get scammed on Ebay or something, they still have a graphics drivers unit in their PC.
0:35 "just like I'd die if I didn't tell you about our sponsor"
Oh no, Linus, are they threatening you? Blink twice if yes
Did he blink
@@oceanix91 yes, but it was cut out by the sponsor
@fake harkaj hahahahah
"Gaming Machines" likely refers to Pokie/Slot machines.
Linus: "Certain type" of pictures.
Everyone: I'm listening.
My thought exactly
I bet a lot of money that we all read "Asrock Rack M2_VGA" as "Astrock Rock M.2_VGA"
“The more you hit it, the more likely it is to start working.”
*Punches HDD vigorously*
My Meat: *INFINIT HORNIESS*
@@animationmann If it works, it works!
@@greenbeangravy *Overclock the Meat*
She went into a coma, do I keep hitting it?
@@innocentbystander3317 perhaps
Soon we're gonna see Linus holding a coconut with the title "this is a graphics card"
Don't forget that the tree it came from sprouted from the guts of an eel!
where'd he get the coconut?
@@Crimsaur what?
@@alprechim2196 WHERE IS THE COCONUT!!! 😱😱😱😱😡😡😡
@@alprechim2196 The coconut is tropical, how could he get one in Canada?
There's another, more "techie" use for this. Use Case: you need to run multiple VMs, with more than just 1 or 2 CPUs per VM, and you're dedicating GPUs to each VM, but you still need a local console to interact with the system to control and administer it.
Higher core-count/performance CPUs don't always have integrated GPUs (or aren't always wired in the motherboard). Instead of taking up a full PCIe slot, that could be used for a full GPU for a VM, you can use this to serve as your local interface, leaving all other GPUs free to allocate/dedicate to VMs.
The same use case would apply for mining/AI/high compute nodes also.
Or simply for servers with CPUs not including an internal graphics adapter. You usually still need to access the console at least for initial setup so a cheap, efficient and small GPU like this is perfect. That chip is basically what you'd find built in on many modern servers anyways
Yep, my thoughts as well, for VMWare or HyperV servers offloading the GPU grunt to something like a bunch of these.
Linus said that at the end of the video.
1.5 WATTS!!!
Run your HIVE/linux OS through one of those and allow ALL your mining GPUs to focus on mining ONLY. Mining rigs have the monitor off all the time anyways.
3:30 ah, yes. the good ol' "percussive maintenance" as my grandfather says.
I remember when my old GPU had 8MB of VRAM. That was enough for games back in the 90's.
Half Life 1, Neverwinter Nights, Dungeon Siege. Those were the days.
Even this is actually much better, because the difference of any gen of DDR speeds are anyway smaller than any of GDDR, so your would be really faster
Nowadays 8MB of on-chip texture cache is low end for a modern GPU.
@@FunBunChuck that is understandable, but DDR memory is so actually so damn slow for GPU((
I was having a 8MB “shared” SiS IGP from 1999 till late 2005.
Imagine even old AF GTA 2 being able to run smoothly (25fps?) only at 800x600 but not at native 1024x768 resolution …Struggle was real😵💫😢😓
Bruh, I still rock Half Life 1 all the time.
"Maybe Black Mesa?"
That was a joke. Haha. Fat chance.
Took me a bit to remember where i heard that
portal reference, i like it
Black mesa? more like... crap mesa. *laughs in cave johnson*
Anyway, this cake is great
It's so delicious and moist
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
"The more you hit it, the more likely it is to start working" - Linus 1874
o. h.
Cursed
r/cursedcomments
*this is where the fun begins*
Works on the ladies too
11:09 "does not take up one of your pci-x slots" except it does so indirectly, because m.2 lanes use up pci-x lanes, even if nothing is plugged in there
slots and lanes are different things. what he said is correct.
also, don't use pci-x for pci-express. it's pci-e, since pci-x is a different PCI standard.
Imagine in the future when the power of an rtx 3090 can fit on a card that size.
That'll happen next year.
@@surferdude4487 and there'll be no stock.
Eventually even that’d be weak and ancient and there’d be even smaller yet faster micro gpu’s etc…
@@HettycTracyn eventually we'll all be dead and no one will ever remember that we've existed
@@aliabdallah102 yes, I know.
I was just saying how amazing advances in technology are, especially when they make fast and small parts more efficiently…
CPU: You know I'm something of a GPU myself 😏
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAH
"Gaming machine" on Silicon Motion's site may refer to digital slot machines, and similar gambling devices.
That seemed pretty obvious to me! Some of the older machines even still use VGA
@@SpliffyMcYiffertons I'm sure it was obvious to Linus as well, but it's hardly as funny to be correct in a channel that loves to talk about enthusiast gaming! ;-) I need MOAR framerates for my spinning cherries!
I love how Linus gets so excited over 1fps
Linus: "This is for servers"
Retro Gamers: "You underestimate my power"
Xeon CPUs go BRRRRR
Imagine this puppy on DOS or Windows 3.11
Give it to ETA Prime and the man will run a handful of emulators
“I remember downloading certain types of pictures”
Hmmmm ok Linus
@@dazzledtech don't do this its annoying people will never sub to you like this and even though they sub they won't watch your videos.
@@dazzledtech yeah don't do this
"look at this terrible color banding!"
me: *opens same video, sees same color banding*
guess my setup is absolute trash lol
same
Can hook you up with a 7500 le with some nice rtx stickers
color is so annoying to spell colour is da best
@@killerqueen4681 color is better
color, colour, same damn thing
That actually seems very useful for simple embedded systems. A PI would be easier to use of course, but if you wanted to run a monitor or small display from a teensy, that would technically be possible.
I love how War Thunder has a native linux version, that's very wholesome for an online game.
I wish more games had this
Its russian
Wait I thought CSGO was available for Linux
@@CoolGuy-sv6kn And?
@@beetlenut6980 it is
LinusPog 2021 8:06
The true heir to the crown
ohhh i was gona say the same.. you went first. :P
Better than all "pog champs" so far
Duck Game
did not expect you here
"Gaming Machine" means "Gambling machine" - eg slot machine.
It might actually. Could make sense. In that scenario you just want the machine to be as cheap as possible and just meet the min specs
With all the graphical effects I see on slot machines around here, I almost doubt that thing's enough.
@@maighstir3003 Those effects are all just prerendered animations though. Another computer has already done all the "heavy" lifting to make 3d animations/effects.
All this needs to do is play back the video at 480p - Nothing 3d or graphically intensive.
Ok that makes even more sense than me thinking gaming machine meant gaming servers.
Ya this thing is definitely made for embedded machines
6:45 “my god, Gordon? Is that really you?”
I kid you not, I played games like this when I was a child, I completed the whole Stronghold campaing with 2-10 fps, with a warning at every start that Stronghold needs at least 16mb of RAM
Any 3D game on the AMIGA 500 ran at like 3-8 fps. But the input didn't lag like today when games run at that rate...
Rainbow Dash games back then were built for that. not now adays
@@milkman5180 Exactly, but the point I was going to make was that back then the input code was handled independently from the rendering. That even was the case on PCs running MS DOS, but having DirectX as an API in between the software and hardware killed that "feature". Having lower fps wouldn't be as horrible if that still was the case today... instead, you feel your fps directly with your controls which is why especially competetive shooter players strive for maximum fps. I remember a time when those sticked to PS/2 mice because those were polled at 200Hz which USB ports couldn't do back then.
Rainbow Dash 60fps is fine
Rainbow Dash btw idk what ur sayin
64hertz? That is a stack of hertz.
Lmao u can craft so much with thst
@@aryanshahu6167 You can even get chainmail armour!
Linus: *complains about older monitors with slower panels*
literally more than half of his audience: *deals with 60Hz, 5ms displays basically everyday*
My laptop recently turned 6 years old and my monitor (1920x1200 resolution with a 24-inch screen, 5ms) 12 years. Still works like a charm. And because it still works like a charm I am reluctant to swap it out.
@@FixTheDisc don't get me wrong. I am in a similar position (4 years old laptop, 8 years old monitor). But boy, I would be lying if I said that a smoother vision is a dream that I can't wait to realize
@@vimad97 Oh I am willing to upgrade. Just feel really wasteful if stuff doesn't break before I upgrade. But as an oxymoron, I always get pissed when an electronic device breaks too early. (Like I need 4 years out of a phone at least).
@@FixTheDisc I agree with you, I replace things in general when they're too wasted to work properly. some times though, when there's a specific need for a new feature, I give up. for example low refresh rates disturb my eyes.
@@vimad97 fair enough! But at least when I need to swap things I give tech companies a fair chance to impress me. Really interested in the "flip" smartphones but more towards the Samsung galaxy z flip phone. Cause dangit if i don't get nostalgic for the time when technology improvements meant smaller and lighter things.
Amazingly enough I just built a home server from scratch and I wish I had one of these, it would have massively opened up my CPU selection.
"You can see the window closing animation" Me: thinking that was normal
Due to the fact that Windows is closed source we can't know wether the GPU was used for rendering it
I see it even on a Ryzen 7 3700X and nvidia 2060 Super so yeah
@@tokiomutex4148 ...uh, no it definitely is when you have aero or whatever the fuck it's called now turned on.
@@tokiomutex4148 we know it uses gpu because you can disable it to gain performance
@@alex-u3k4w Interesting, how can it be done?
when the manufacturer said gaming machine, maybe it's an arcade gaming machine
Subtitles be making Doom babies... "DOOM maternal" 10:14
Seems the subtitle overlords watched Yahtzee's review of Doom Eternal.
you know Linus this isn't a terrible way to test cpu's to see whats faster, this 100% removes the gpu from the equation
The confusing thing about this product is that everybody seems to be confused by this product.
-Linus Sebastian 2021
AsRock Head of the factory: Guys, we have some leftover VGA connections, blank m.2 PCBs, and some leftover chips from the previous washing machine manufacturer... whats could we do?
Someone from the warehouse: Hold my Huangjiu...
nice one!
When your "seconds per frame" scores is a number that would be playable if it were frames per second, you know you have problems...
That's my childhood! :p
Just kidding, I couldn't afford games new enough for my PC to lag that much! :D
Welcome to old school MMORPG sieges with 2-3 seconds per 1 frame
Yup, that feels as bad as it sounds
It's a bit old but if you want to cover obscure and odd hardware... The Subway USB Controller for the Amiga1200. It's a USB 1.1 and 2.0 controller for the Commodore Amiga 1200. It plugs into the system's clock port. That is it plugs into a port meant to be used for a battery backed real time clock.
I love Linus talking about his struggle with “pictures “😂
hehe
@@barulicksama3838 ???
@@barulicksama3838 Don't get racist over a joke
@@barulicksama3838 Eh?
Noods
This card performance is measured in Seconds Per Frame
Frames per minute*
@@eth1111 per HOUR
i am a simple man, i get 30 fps 480p on a game older than 2012 , i cry with happiness and call it a day
ok, get a job
@@martin1649 yeah because it's so easy to get a job. not like unemployment rate is rising because of covid or lack of jobs
Mwee toooo
When top tier graphics cards are actually that size in the future.
Future: this is a graphics card !?... holds up massive RTX 3090.
Someone in year 2040: "This massive thing is a RTX3090. It was supposed for gaming twenty years ago, but it can barely run a current Windows and an open Word document!"
i could see that happening
3:30 "The more you hit it, the more likely it is to start working"
- Parents, talking about their kids getting jobs in the cotton mills. Circa 1850 AD.
Lmao
Try Valorant. That was literally promised to run on a toaster
It was already a bit struggling with half life 2 lol
It doesn't run on my potato 🤣
Ur rank?
It doesn't run on my potato
@@chumpapii As pointed out rightaway...it pretty much wasn't even trying, anything DX was pretty much running on the Ryzen CPU.
Would actually like this to make a tower way smaller and thinner that way it can be easily portable too...KEEP FUNDING THIS!
"The more you hit it, the more likely it is to start working" How does Linus still have employees :)
A sign that Linus has found the right employee is that they respond to the beatings by beating themselves.
Put it in a machine with a monster CPU and see how far software rendering can go. Something server class. That would be cool.
cool idea
Yeah I feel like this was probably for running virtual machines where you may want the ability to hook up a monitor but don’t actually need a huge graphics card. I don’t think Linus even mentioned that. Or I may be completely wrong. I now nothing about computers.
Server CPUs rarely have rendering capabilities though. They just aren't made for stuff like this.
@@alephcake Thats why this is so cool, this is software rendering on the cpu itself, no gpu involved! It's just like back in the days of the 486 where the cpu itself was doing all the rendering.
8:19 CDPR when they made that “runs surprisingly wel” comment
LMAO
I interpret the comment from CDPR the way that they where happy that it runs at all on that 8 year old hardware :D
I agree that it would work for server rack video. But I'm also thinking that it could be used in RaspberryPi/Arduino setups.
Day nine of asking Linus to make a “Learn Linux with Anthony” series.
Hell yeah.
hmm
Return of the king
Day 2 of agreeing
@@ayushmaandas4264 ya