I'm a physics major and we have some pretty weird cards to interface with some of our lab equipment. The one that jumps into mind is a card that exists for the sole purpose of interfacing with a spectrometer.
*Alex:* finds a pretty cool oscilloscope PCI card *Linus:* converts about 12 different mostly unknown data standards so he can plug in a small Ethernet card in to the test bench. and then after that it exploded.
Back when i was a broke student and my gaming laptop got stolen i got one from a friend that had no screen and didnt have any working cooling. So i had my laptop in my fridge with a HDMI running from my fridge to my tv. good times
I had that blue pci fan several years ago when I was in high school. It was the difference between laggy minecraft and smooth minecraft for my passively cooled gpu
I can’t believe that those four idiots are co-hosts a frickin’ PC HARDWARE CHANNEL. They seemed to be totally oblivious regards most of the stuff that is older than 3 years back. What a f*cking joke.
@@iyeetsecurity922 it's a little complicated to explain in a comment. It was an oscilloscope for computers. Wikipedia has a page on oscilloscopes if you want more info but basically it's a scientific tool.
@@jobwilliams5705 I went ahead and looked it up. While I have a basic understanding of what it is and does, that's definitely some out of my league mega brain stuff I don't quite get seeing as how I've never heard of it til now. I'll have to dig a bit deeper. Thanks for your input!
8:20 "I have windows 7 32 bit" *"Oh ya?"* "On that drive" *"Oh ya?"* "Yeah" *"Oh ya?"* "Is that.. Not gonna happen?" *"Noo"* "What do I boot on this? "XP" "Oh Jesus" lmfaooo im crying
"Are you telling me that the only reason this is working is because I'm physically holding down a capacitor on this GPU?" My man over here in some real shit.
Actually PCI is faster than PCIe in terms of raw latency. It takes about 2 microseconds to read a single byte over PCIe gen3. PCI does it in 125nS. Obviously PCIe has more bandwidth for larger sized transfers.
60 FPS is absolutely fine especially if you still have a 60 hz monitor. Some people really get elitist about “sTiLl hAvInG a 60 Hz ReFreSh” when in reality there’s still a very, very few people who would care for the upgrade. Many people are perfectly fine with their perfectly capable 60 hz monitors
It's one of my favorite moments from all LTT videos. Linus: Um…what OS were you planning to boot…here? Alex: Um, I have Windows 7 32-bit. Linus: Oh yeah? Alex: On that drive. Linus: Ooh yeah? Alex: Yeah. Linus: Oh ya? Alex: Is that…not gonna happen? Linus: Nooo. Alex: No. Ok, uh…what…what do I boot on this? Linus: XP. Alex: Oh Jesus.
PLEASE make a video on the riser card Riley showcased! It is a 1x to 16x riser card used for eGPU setup. Would really like to know how much performance loss is there when going 1x (instead of 4x in the other eGPU video LTT has made) and how does it fair on laptops when using internal monitor or plugging in an external monitor with the graphics card.
In my experience of trying one out, depending on the card atleast a 50 percent performance decrease, but made worse as the frame rate seems to fluctuate wildly.
It's actually really good. I am not sure what the performance difference is, but i took my decent laptop with a 980ti on one of those 1x expansion slots from banggood. Took out the wifi card in the laptop, put in the cable, dragged the cable out via the dvd drive slot that's never used. So damn smooth. Maxed... well. All the games I liked without issue. Only problem is with loading in new areas, because the texture loading is bottlenecked pretty heavily. That, and the cables I used were unshielded, leading to a crash like.. every four days? Worth it.
"Let me speak your language" and then continuing with Fortnite is a pretty hard insult :( Edit: Wtf... after 2 years I saw this comment got that many likes. But kids still play fortnite. Fml
Yes, Intel motherboard are not the most powerful or feature-packed but where very reliable at the time. We built a lot of computer and very very little ones failed. I check mine an has 3 PCI, 2 PCIe1x and 1 PCIe16x. @@zackaryrethati7627
1:03 Riley (I think that's his name) 's face when Linus makes that smooth transition Edit: I continued the video and can confirm that is indeed his name
I mean tbf I was around when pcmcia slots were a thing but I'd never really used one. I only know what it is because I liked to play with the fake plastic spacer thing that was kept in em in the laptops at school and one day asked what it was.
Are you guys serious right now? I can get weirder PCI-E in 5 minutes. There's one that's a radio receiver, a quantum-based true number generator, the list goes on.
As I listen on my headphones plugged into a jack to RCA converter, on the outputs from a PCI sound card, that is plugged into a PCI slot on a breadboard that converts to USB 3 that is linked via USB3 cable to a USB3/PCI-X riser.... I feel disappointed.
I found one of those at a garage sale a WHILE back. Played with it for 30 minutes or so, then a capacitor popped out. At the time, I didn’t have a working soldering gun thing (still don’t), and I don’t want to burn my finger like Riley.
I have one, it's gotta be some of the weirdest shit ever. It's got USB C/USB A (yes, both in series, I wonder what would happen if you connected both at the same time) and it's a hub to USB A 2.0. With a Realtek GBE port on the end of it.
13:38 Linus explaining PCMCIA as “an old laptop expansion standard” (from ye olden times) made me feel old. In my day, if you wanted to Napster, you needed a 3COM 10Base-T expresscard in your ThinkPad and a dongle to plug in your network cable. That’s how we did it, you whippersnappers.
LOL same! I thought: Ok should I feel old because I know what he's holding? the "fun" of Windows 9x(as in named after just about year of the 90s). Or that I'm thinking: he's going to need an adapter...and why is he making this convoluted daisy chain?
PCMCIA (later called PC Card) is *older* than ExpressCard. The first PC Card, a memory card, came out in 1992-well before Napster-and communicated via 16-bit ISA bus. Later revisions of the standard allowed for peripherals to hook in via 32-bit PCI bus. ExpressCard arrived a decade later, making use of a single PCI Express lane. #getoffmylawn
@@WubKub So? For 15 years he hasn't learned anything. He still put things to right spot. But acts like an engineer of the parts. He doesn't understand them. He is actually a professional end user.
Mithrandir Sure, and I bet you’re so amazing. The only difference is he owns a multimillion dollar company because of it and he’s more famous than you’ll ever be
5:18 - PCI cards work fine in PCI-X slots, provided they are 3.3v compatible, which this card is as it has both 3.3v and 5v notches in the connector. And anyway, the motherboard Riley is holding has a 32bit PCI slot, along with the two PCI-X 64bit ones
As a fan of LTT from China, I gotta say that linus should really visit our Forum called Tie Ba, there are more and more weird/creative stuffs for you to discover~
@@Deadflame96 dq.tieba.com/p/5604026137 This is a dude building a PC from a Microwave tieba.baidu.com/p/3573465138?see_lz=1&pn=4# And this is recently a guy using old harddisk to build a game console And the video that linus once made, using H110 motherboard & i7-8700K & DDR3 memory，is also from this forum
@@tylisirn I have the National Instruments LabVIEW license quotation in front of me ... €4999 + vat (18%)... This quotation is now ten days old. cheers
@@bussin3456 If all is well, technically yes... However it fell off, was replaced by another and hot glued in place. On top of that it was getting hot. Have you seen capacitors fail? They blow, and best case scenario get incredibly hot incredibly fast and can burn you pretty seriously. Capacitors are not a component you want to go wrong near anything you value. A classmate of mine blew a massive capacitor in a quantum lab we were in while I was in university and it was violent and a miracle he didn't get hurt.
Watch these dudes reel in disgust at the slight lag while exclaiming "Man youre time travelling" Me: *EXCUSE ME I DoNt SeE ThE PRoBlEm this how I always play*
yeah, there is a problem, Ive played on shit comps 99% of the time too, but I dont play fucking stupid when someone is showing proper lag in an online game. I's not even just frame drops, and especially bad when those parts should be having a breeze. Stop playing fukin stupid and trying to be soOo relatable, and think maybe for half a second how they were probably partially reacting to the hindrance of the extensions, and in reference to what it should actually be performing at.
Jake is such a sweet summer child lmao I remember a friend of mine having a 7950GX2 back in high school. It was hilarious. He overclocked the shit out of it.
they know how... it's just a matter of why fix it right if it being jank as hell gives it a edge in the competition... hence linus's redundancy network daisychain... that nearly caught fire.
Looking at the PCIE risers Ryle found now it’s instantly recognizable as being used for mining but back then most folks were unaware of what they were used for. Ahhh simpler times
Remember back in the late '90:s when you had to have expansion slots for: -sound card -modem -LAN card -video catd -3d accelerator (was a separate module from the video card)
I had one of those pci fan coolers back in the day. It made a slight difference in a case with bad air flow. I also crammed an 80mm fan behind the motherboard socket in a case that wasn’t made for cable management and saw decent reductions in cpu temps.
I remember when UV reactive stuff was in. My first PC had a transparent acrylic case, UV reactive cables, and UV CCFL tubes. Oh yeah, and it was a 3GHz Pentium 4. It was pretty baller.
Man that 3ghz p4 was the bees knees. I remember having to log into my mates' MSN accounts and receive their offline messages (crying emote spam) so they were able to log in at home on their inferior CPUs. Loading a map on BF2 took around 10 minutes, though; click join, go get a cup of soup and hope that the round didn't end and trigger a mapchange while loading in. Good times. Honestly, it was good times.
No way lmfao, my first ever pc also had a fully transparent case with a bunch of uv stuff, I even had 4 transparent-color fans that lit up... it had a shitty dual core amd though
I discovered your channel last night and I cant stop watching your videos. I don't know much about these, but I am in complete awe and would love to learn.
In all fairness, that usb expansion slot thingy was pretty weird. The rest felt rather mundane. The fan didn't do much but it wasn't really weird. And an oscilloscope is pretty uncommon but definitely not weird. I was expecting the PCI equivalent of the 3D glasses I bought for $5 around 2001. Because let me tell you, those were really, really weird.
Came here from 2024 edition of "Who Can Find the Weirdest PC Parts on AliExpress?". Damn, those guys look young. Chubby Riley, kindergarten Jake, extremely high-pitched Linus, very shy and quiet Alex. Only James did not change. :D
This is the best video I've ever seen on RUclips, ever. 32 years old, computer tech lover. For me the graphics card was a reminder of childhood. Excellent work!
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2nd like :P
Hi
Is this only available to business users?
You really should try the: Elfidelity AXF-104 Power filter PCI / PCI Express
@@hrisheekesh nope, theres a free personal version too
I'm a physics major and we have some pretty weird cards to interface with some of our lab equipment. The one that jumps into mind is a card that exists for the sole purpose of interfacing with a spectrometer.
Ah yes
Perfection
I would love for you to enter next year 😆 blow em out the water lol
Yes that shit is weird af lol
You'd think that kind of thing would be USB TBH, like printers or other big boxes
I have one that exists solely to provide a single serial output to control an old CNC machine.
Riley is so pure. He's just trying to be nice to everyone.
good, now u can marry him
his chaotic energy is what makes the video
Tristian Bangert he is trying🧐🤨🤔
Tristian Bangert he is the kind who greets everyone unironically cheerfully on Mondays
Yup he's a Canadian 😉
*Alex:* finds a pretty cool oscilloscope PCI card
*Linus:* converts about 12 different mostly unknown data standards so he can plug in a small Ethernet card in to the test bench. and then after that it exploded.
Like bro tf is U.2?
@@Mrsloththegreat U.2 is actually used very often, just not in desktops, but mostly in servers.
@@kubba_x86_64 i know what u.2 is i was making a point
@@kubba_x86_64 shit didn't even knew that format existed
I love how Linus's knowledge makes him seem like a dinosaur compared to everyone even though he looks the same age as everyone else in my opinion.
Linus is like 40 years old xD
For real, and surprisingly, even more so with a beard
@@SleepLessThan3 33
@@goodparley19 hold up, wasn't he in highschool like 20 years ago?
then u should see anthony. the father of linus.
Linus sounds like he's doing a yugioh combo with his setup
THE CHAIN
Heart of the computer
Pendragon poooooooloooollppllpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
"Mst negates"
You've activated my trap card!
Remember that USB extension that Linus used on the VR rig at home. He discovered it in this video.
Kudos to Riley.
“Hey why is there a USB cable running from your PC to the freezer?”
“Keeping my GPU cool”
I wonder if that would work.
Back when i was a broke student and my gaming laptop got stolen i got one from a friend that had no screen and didnt have any working cooling. So i had my laptop in my fridge with a HDMI running from my fridge to my tv. good times
@@derpderp4820 That's genius
I'm watching this at 2 am while everyone is sleeping , and this made me laugh so hard ahhahahahahaga I'm literaly crynf
Putting electronics in humid cold places doesn't sound like a good idea
Man, I get why they can't but I really wish this crew would record as a group more often. Their chemistry is Top Gear level. The REAL Top Gear.
Deffo, coz that main guy is hard to watch, he is just weird. So much better as a group, it makes it feel like they are almost normal
their group chemistry is awesome for sure. just utter chaos lol
I had that blue pci fan several years ago when I was in high school. It was the difference between laggy minecraft and smooth minecraft for my passively cooled gpu
Thats hilarious lol
TOTALLY, A GREAT INVENTION, Kept my Pro QUADRO GPU happy!
I also had that fan when I was in high school, but that was years before Minecraft was even in alpha...
@@JadeMarvin It must not be doing to bad then if its made it so long
Nooooooooooooooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...
I would love the see that pci oszilloscope working! please make a follow up on that card!!!
A PCI card will work in a PCI-X slot
I also would like to see it working.
pretty much every o scope uses pci digitizers
that scope card also works on a pci to pcie 1x adapter but u have to provide the extra power
bro just use a DAQ labview and some simple circuits to do what you need
Linus looks like a dad of 4 teaching his kids how a pc works
And he don't understand it him self lol . Funny
hahah
IS THAT A PCI?
I can’t believe that those four idiots are co-hosts a frickin’ PC HARDWARE CHANNEL. They seemed to be totally oblivious regards most of the stuff that is older than 3 years back. What a f*cking joke.
Linus has no clue how anything works. Unless it is sponsored. Then he'll read out what he's paid for.
Can we have a continuation of Alex’s card? That was lowkey kinda interesting.
I've no idea what it was. Can someone explain it?
@@iyeetsecurity922 it's a little complicated to explain in a comment. It was an oscilloscope for computers. Wikipedia has a page on oscilloscopes if you want more info but basically it's a scientific tool.
@@jobwilliams5705 I went ahead and looked it up. While I have a basic understanding of what it is and does, that's definitely some out of my league mega brain stuff I don't quite get seeing as how I've never heard of it til now. I'll have to dig a bit deeper. Thanks for your input!
@@iyeetsecurity922 This is out of nowhere but do you go to Erik's classes?
@@nit-Inundate I drop I'm time to time when I'm not busy bouncing on my boys D to the Pokémon movies.
8:20
"I have windows 7 32 bit"
*"Oh ya?"*
"On that drive"
*"Oh ya?"*
"Yeah"
*"Oh ya?"*
"Is that.. Not gonna happen?"
*"Noo"*
"What do I boot on this?
"XP"
"Oh Jesus"
lmfaooo im crying
haha very funny :D
Me too
8:25
Daily reminder that Linus is Canadian
Suddenly so Canadian
"Are you telling me that the only reason this is working is because I'm physically holding down a capacitor on this GPU?"
My man over here in some real shit.
holdong
@@jspantonio8807 no u.
Kowalski no u
"I think this is starting to burn my finger"
Kowalski analysis!
PCIe is too fast, I prefer PCI 👍
But is speed good?
@@thescreemregular5168 It's PCI, it's horrible
Actually PCI is faster than PCIe in terms of raw latency. It takes about 2 microseconds to read a single byte over PCIe gen3. PCI does it in 125nS. Obviously PCIe has more bandwidth for larger sized transfers.
Pp
@@Shadowmaster625 Just like when DDR2 was released. DDR outperformed DDR2 for some time.
Linus: *playing CSGO at ~110FPS* What are frames????
Me: *trying not to cry while playing at my 60FPS*
You guys are getting fps
Me crying not to cry when it says : Time Remaining : more than 1 year !
Stop crying udiot !
60 FPS is absolutely fine especially if you still have a 60 hz monitor. Some people really get elitist about “sTiLl hAvInG a 60 Hz ReFreSh” when in reality there’s still a very, very few people who would care for the upgrade. Many people are perfectly fine with their perfectly capable 60 hz monitors
Bruh I’m here with a 30hz monitor
@@sleepdeep305 60hz is absolutely fine until you try higher.
The morning, Jeff bezose got an email from his most remote amazon storage just saying: We sold it !!! 😂😂😂
Casus Belli 😂💰
Lol
Ali express isn't affiliated with Amazon in anyway
The video is about AliExpress not Amazon 😂😂
ali express is owned by ma yun lol
8:25
Alex: "So i was going to run windows 7 32 bit"
Linus: "ooh yah?"
"ooh ya"
"ooh ya?"
"noo"
I am using it right now lol
Oh no.
niki123489 peasant.
you can run win 7 64 on a pentium 4 no issues, and 10 with a bit of tweaking
Linus: *trying to draw 10A from a PCIe slot* "I smell something burning"
We need another one of these, but for PCI-e cards that are actually weird..
The only odd one was Alex's oscilloscope card
We need a full video about Alex's PSI Oscilloscop
Agreed, it looked promising.
@@theevilovenmit to actually use it he have to spend another 5 grand on software and drivers like wtf
@@ichdissdich98 Just torrent it.
@@VedantaDhobley problem is they can't make a video about it if they crack it. To big of a chance they get caught
"You know whats not surprising?"
*skips 20 seconds*
*30
@@darkmewtwovoid well, the ad was barely 20, so. I do not understand the relevance of your comment.
@@LampDoesVideogame 30 seconds Canadian.
I regret that I didn't skip 20 minutes.
Oh i skipped 40
Linus saying ‘oh ya?’ is probably one of the most aggressively Canadian things I’ve ever heard in my life 😂
＝U.S people say "exCUse mE."
Fargo be like...
It's one of my favorite moments from all LTT videos.
Linus: Um…what OS were you planning to boot…here?
Alex: Um, I have Windows 7 32-bit.
Linus: Oh yeah?
Alex: On that drive.
Linus: Ooh yeah?
Alex: Yeah.
Linus: Oh ya?
Alex: Is that…not gonna happen?
Linus: Nooo.
Alex: No. Ok, uh…what…what do I boot on this?
Linus: XP.
Alex: Oh Jesus.
12:43 [Everyone gasps at the hardware]
Riley: "Oh... he's got a blue bin!"
I fucking love Riley.
"Are those PCIs??"
"Noo those PCIx."
"See ya later!"
Mr Wonderful yeah i watched it too
And yet they could still have plugged their card into it since the slots accept both.
Did we watch the same video?
Man that's wild!
@@FocusWayne 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱
1k now
PLEASE make a video on the riser card Riley showcased! It is a 1x to 16x riser card used for eGPU setup. Would really like to know how much performance loss is there when going 1x (instead of 4x in the other eGPU video LTT has made) and how does it fair on laptops when using internal monitor or plugging in an external monitor with the graphics card.
ive tried on gtx 1060 in 2016. its obviously had bandwidth problem as i can play on ultra but it can only go to up like 40 fps
Could maybe be useful as a mining riser, since they don't need much bandwidth. 4 cards on a single slot would be killer if mining wasn't dead.
In my experience of trying one out, depending on the card atleast a 50 percent performance decrease, but made worse as the frame rate seems to fluctuate wildly.
try it with vive wireless
It's actually really good. I am not sure what the performance difference is, but i took my decent laptop with a 980ti on one of those 1x expansion slots from banggood. Took out the wifi card in the laptop, put in the cable, dragged the cable out via the dvd drive slot that's never used.
So damn smooth. Maxed... well. All the games I liked without issue. Only problem is with loading in new areas, because the texture loading is bottlenecked pretty heavily. That, and the cables I used were unshielded, leading to a crash like.. every four days? Worth it.
"IM INSTALLING DRIVERS AS WE SPEAK!" that has to be one of the geekiest lines ever spoken lol
"I'm recompiling the kernel in linux as we speak" 😂
1:03 Riley is really impressed by that _smooth_ ad transition 😍
soldering capacitors is apparently too difficult for a tech youtubers
juri jurgec yeah for real I can solder those things in my sleep
I've never soldered a capacitor and I'm pretty sure I could do it.
They are writers and hosts not handy guys
writers.
Like 90% of all the staff that work at LTT are writers....they know little on how to fix shit.
When you pay 70 dollars for a dual graphics card that will let you run CS:GO at 8 fps.
Mini tomate I'd do it
better buy a ryzen 3 2200g with vega 8
That's run csgo at 100fps lol
@@subscriberswithoutanyvid-kc5re you dont get the joke
My 30 dollar graphic card runs it better
@@subscriberswithoutanyvid-kc5re ryzen is tresh at least my :D
1:02 Riley’s genuine impressed face at that ad segway 😹😹😹
Segue*
@@Hopgop1 what
@@SoupSackHandle Its spelled like that
@@asari9731 wack
Riley Went POG
Linus' "oh yeah?" got real Canadian
"Let me speak your language" and then continuing with Fortnite is a pretty hard insult :(
Edit: Wtf... after 2 years I saw this comment got that many likes. But kids still play fortnite. Fml
:)
The analogy was perfect though.
Fortnite sucks tho
It still wasn't my language since I don't play fortnight. XD
Most gross game ever and the people who play it are gross.
Watching all of these people that can't identify a PCI slot makes me feel old....
Oddly enough, me too and I'm 18...
My 10 years Intel mobo / Core2Duo has like 4 (never used) PCI @@majortom5838
@@zobook I have an Intel motherboard and a Core2 duo as well :p
(It has 2 PCI ports iirc)
Yes, Intel motherboard are not the most powerful or feature-packed but where very reliable at the time. We built a lot of computer and very very little ones failed. I check mine an has 3 PCI, 2 PCIe1x and 1 PCIe16x. @@zackaryrethati7627
the mobo im currently using still has a pci slot. X79 chipset. i was also shocked they did not know pci
1:03 Riley (I think that's his name) 's face when Linus makes that smooth transition
Edit: I continued the video and can confirm that is indeed his name
It looks like he was genuinely surprised Linus segued to their sponsor.
I was just about to mention that
Is it sad that ik where ur pfp is from?
The fact he had to explain to them what PCMCIA is makes me feel old.
I mean tbf I was around when pcmcia slots were a thing but I'd never really used one. I only know what it is because I liked to play with the fake plastic spacer thing that was kept in em in the laptops at school and one day asked what it was.
Are you guys serious right now? I can get weirder PCI-E in 5 minutes. There's one that's a radio receiver, a quantum-based true number generator, the list goes on.
As I listen on my headphones plugged into a jack to RCA converter, on the outputs from a PCI sound card, that is plugged into a PCI slot on a breadboard that converts to USB 3 that is linked via USB3 cable to a USB3/PCI-X riser.... I feel disappointed.
me with my combo tv/modem/audio/radio/ethernet/firewire/usb pci card
ali express?
-Recorded in 8K
-Downscaled to 4K
-Watch it in 360p
Linus:WHY NOT?!?!?!?
Or or you can wait for 4k to finish processing
Digital zoomed to 800x600 frame
and at the end upscaled to 1080p
I think RUclips maximum is 8K
We evolve in the wrong way, turn back
Lesson learned - Riley can be replaced with scotch tape, and it's a definite improvement.
You take that back. Riley is a treasure
@@alexc6414 central pahk
lol
"This was in stock, ready to go" since 1999
THIS NEEDS A PART 2
they need to find the USB router
I found one of those at a garage sale a WHILE back. Played with it for 30 minutes or so, then a capacitor popped out. At the time, I didn’t have a working soldering gun thing (still don’t), and I don’t want to burn my finger like Riley.
I have one, it's gotta be some of the weirdest shit ever.
It's got USB C/USB A (yes, both in series, I wonder what would happen if you connected both at the same time) and it's a hub to USB A 2.0.
With a Realtek GBE port on the end of it.
@@Enbious a iron costs like $40 for a decent one
Every once in a while, I watch again this video. Is so chaotic, I love it.
_zooms in_
*YEAH*
James: Everything is yawntown. nothing compares to ME!
Also James: *buys a pcie fan*
It wasn't even PCIe...and doesn't interface with the slot in any way...and only half of it was functional...lol.
@@SolidSonicTH I bet the reason only 1 fan worked was probably because the molex connection was shoddy. Them pins and sleeves are unreliable AF...
I remember owning one of those and it never went in the slot just the back board and the Optical drive large Mollex pass through connector.
20 minutes of Linus being the tech dad we never had.
We all wanted a tech dad like Linus lol 😂
USB-Graphics Card
*what a time to be alive*
They were really meant for GPU mining.
13:38 Linus explaining PCMCIA as “an old laptop expansion standard” (from ye olden times) made me feel old.
In my day, if you wanted to Napster, you needed a 3COM 10Base-T expresscard in your ThinkPad and a dongle to plug in your network cable. That’s how we did it, you whippersnappers.
God I feel old...
LOL same! I thought: Ok should I feel old because I know what he's holding? the "fun" of Windows 9x(as in named after just about year of the 90s). Or that I'm thinking: he's going to need an adapter...and why is he making this convoluted daisy chain?
If it makes you feel any better, the military is still actively using them lol
PCMCIA (later called PC Card) is *older* than ExpressCard. The first PC Card, a memory card, came out in 1992-well before Napster-and communicated via 16-bit ISA bus. Later revisions of the standard allowed for peripherals to hook in via 32-bit PCI bus. ExpressCard arrived a decade later, making use of a single PCI Express lane.
#getoffmylawn
I was hot stuff cause I had the folding Ethernet port once
1:03 Riley: *impressed*
5:17 Riley: *clueless*
He is so precious
14:52 the way all of them lean in at the same time, burnt silicon is a drug
A PCI card would work in a PCI-X slot, it just uses a 32 bit bus instead of the full 64 bit bus, and vise versa
"Let me speak your language - it's like in Fortnite..."
Jeez man, what an insult!
I think these guys dont have any idea what they are doing. They dont understand how things work except inserting things to right slots.
@@mithrandir539 lmao it's not like Linus has been building PC's for more than 15 years lmai
@@WubKub So? For 15 years he hasn't learned anything. He still put things to right spot. But acts like an engineer of the parts. He doesn't understand them. He is actually a professional end user.
@@mithrandir539 who are you to say some shitty things like that?
Mithrandir Sure, and I bet you’re so amazing. The only difference is he owns a multimillion dollar company because of it and he’s more famous than you’ll ever be
8:00 - 8:40
I was legit crying from Linus’s “oh yeah? Oh yeah? Oh yeah?” 😂😂😂😂
Here from the new one and I refuse to believe a whole Linus beard era has passed since this was filmed.
5:18 - PCI cards work fine in PCI-X slots, provided they are 3.3v compatible, which this card is as it has both 3.3v and 5v notches in the connector. And anyway, the motherboard Riley is holding has a 32bit PCI slot, along with the two PCI-X 64bit ones
Meanwhile while Linus is failing, (15:09) There’s windows XP in the background. Perfect timing Alex.
As a fan of LTT from China, I gotta say that linus should really visit our Forum called Tie Ba, there are more and more weird/creative stuffs for you to discover~
Could you link it?
@@Deadflame96 dq.tieba.com/p/5604026137 This is a dude building a PC from a Microwave
tieba.baidu.com/p/3573465138?see_lz=1&pn=4# And this is recently a guy using old harddisk to build a game console
And the video that linus once made, using H110 motherboard & i7-8700K & DDR3 memory，is also from this forum
@@can-sg6fi Doesn't matter, no authority really care about VPN
If you remember the P106 graphic card, That technique is also from guys of Tie Ba
Mystical power from the east XD
We need more of these collaboration videos with the boys
"How much is a LabVIEW licence?"
Way over this video's initial budget
5000euros + 18% tax... guaranteed.
@@metalheadmalta Nah, half that. US$2500
@@tylisirn I have the National Instruments LabVIEW license quotation in front of me ... €4999 + vat (18%)... This quotation is now ten days old. cheers
@@metalheadmalta It must vary between regions then, and Europe gets screwed by the pricing. Again.
@@metalheadmalta That`s way cheaper than i expected.
holding down a live capacitor with any part of your body part is an awful idea.
Fuck it
Isn't it just if you touch the output of the capacitor that it's a bad idea? Correct me if I am wrong though
@@bussin3456 If all is well, technically yes... However it fell off, was replaced by another and hot glued in place. On top of that it was getting hot. Have you seen capacitors fail? They blow, and best case scenario get incredibly hot incredibly fast and can burn you pretty seriously. Capacitors are not a component you want to go wrong near anything you value. A classmate of mine blew a massive capacitor in a quantum lab we were in while I was in university and it was violent and a miracle he didn't get hurt.
I was gonna comment on the capacitor until I saw this.. oh well.
@@KluveRothtar oof I did not know that capacitors had the ability to explode
Watch these dudes reel in disgust at the slight lag while exclaiming "Man youre time travelling"
Me: *EXCUSE ME I DoNt SeE ThE PRoBlEm this how I always play*
WinterTech Gaming you dont know how it feels till you can only play while lagging
@@TheRealGuto_ my games always lagging so seeing them with faster fps even when lagging than be at best performance, is like "Am i a joke to you'
If you can play CS with those skips without breaking your keyboard, well you're something else.
yeah, there is a problem, Ive played on shit comps 99% of the time too, but I dont play fucking stupid when someone is showing proper lag in an online game. I's not even just frame drops, and especially bad when those parts should be having a breeze. Stop playing fukin stupid and trying to be soOo relatable, and think maybe for half a second how they were probably partially reacting to the hindrance of the extensions, and in reference to what it should actually be performing at.
@@ninjanippledog725 why are you so mad
Title: On aliexpress
Video: Trusted Ebay Seller
Me: -_-
And also Amazon, coz one of them came with Amazon prime
He literally said what sites at the start, watch the whole video
And when he is buying from AliExpress, he intentionally buy the crappiest thing just to say "oh, don't buy on AliExpress, they only sell bad things"
@@Hopgop1 And literally clickbaited people by exclusively mentioning AliExpress on the title.
8:25 that moment when linus said "Oh yeah?" I thought "Oh sh!t, here comes the sarcasm and nut tap"
Linus, a tiny man with a giant ego...who would have guessed?
Jake is such a sweet summer child lmao I remember a friend of mine having a 7950GX2 back in high school. It was hilarious. He overclocked the shit out of it.
The face Riley does on 1:05 on the background during linus' segway is the BEST part of this vid
RileyChamp (as in PogChamp)
My God, did Riley look like a mature baby back then!
17:53 LMAO, that face when Linus did not get that fist bump..
Ali Akbar Safdari First bump or you’re FIRED
Weirdest thing I found on AliExpress was a legit Nvidia graphics card 😀
AliExpress has very few scams.
Most GPUs on it are legit... Just weird ass version we never heard of.
Yeah, even if you did get scammmed, you can just ship it back. They have good customer service.
I can't believe a bunch of geeks no one knows how to use a soldering iron.
they have to use a you tube video to learn the art.
Never mind soldering irons, Jake doesn't know how to open the box it comes in....
they know how... it's just a matter of why fix it right if it being jank as hell gives it a edge in the competition... hence linus's redundancy network daisychain... that nearly caught fire.
@@JSHaataja wasn't the motherboard still powered and active, while they were swapping these cards out? i'm thinking that's why it shorted.
most of these guys are writers not actual computer enthusiast, have you seen their home setup video? They write scripts for videos that's all.
5:53 i just love how James nonchalantly just says "Basic"
The sync between the music in the background and the hands of Linus at 0:50 is so satisfying
The 1st device is for cryptomining. It's so you can run a bunch of video cards on one base machine.. obviously saving money.
Think Riley is quickly becoming my favourite (especially in terms of background faces/comments)
If Riley is in a vid with Linus I automatically watch. The way they interact with each other is hilarious
so.... there's nobody on LMG that can use a soldering iron?
That capacitor was like 5min tops
Danilo Riffo pretty sad isn't it.
@@mokubakaiba1751 plus it's content haha
what about a PCI to VHS card? people used them for backups
LGR covered one
Still do
2:35 "This is what you call a usb cord" had me dying
Looking at the PCIE risers Ryle found now it’s instantly recognizable as being used for mining but back then most folks were unaware of what they were used for. Ahhh simpler times
360 Gang Unite.
Basically everyone who see this the first couple of hours
Oh no it's aweful ! I want to view this content now ! I don't wanna wait !
2 min gang
hello
Notification Squad Represent!
Yo
15:19 It's like a Haiku on drugs. This is probably the nerdiest video I've ever watched. This is gonna wreck havoc on my Recommendations....
Remember back in the late '90:s when you had to have expansion slots for:
-sound card
-modem
-LAN card
-video catd
-3d accelerator (was a separate module from the video card)
YES the video catd classic
Remember when physics cards were first introduced?
I had one of those pci fan coolers back in the day. It made a slight difference in a case with bad air flow. I also crammed an 80mm fan behind the motherboard socket in a case that wasn’t made for cable management and saw decent reductions in cpu temps.
Cool to see this group all on screen at the same time! You kill the segways!
I just realized that watching this hot mess at 2x speed makes it a million times more enjoyable.
6:25
Back in New York Louis Rossman: I sense a disturbance in the force.
Linus: "We should be getting 200+ fps"
Me: "I got 60 fps no way"
;-; same
this is like all of your older relatives talk and mess around with stuff that you don't know and i love it.
I remember when UV reactive stuff was in. My first PC had a transparent acrylic case, UV reactive cables, and UV CCFL tubes. Oh yeah, and it was a 3GHz Pentium 4. It was pretty baller.
Man that 3ghz p4 was the bees knees. I remember having to log into my mates' MSN accounts and receive their offline messages (crying emote spam) so they were able to log in at home on their inferior CPUs.
Loading a map on BF2 took around 10 minutes, though; click join, go get a cup of soup and hope that the round didn't end and trigger a mapchange while loading in. Good times. Honestly, it was good times.
Oh god, I remember this god awful UV acrylic power supply I bought. Back with 1 gig of ram was a killer amount of ram!
No way lmfao, my first ever pc also had a fully transparent case with a bunch of uv stuff, I even had 4 transparent-color fans that lit up... it had a shitty dual core amd though
Ellen Madden oddly enough I have a UV reactive fan. I just wanted it for that extra bit of airflow lol
my first pc was a 1997 dell running windows 95. that was in 2013 i had that
I discovered your channel last night and I cant stop watching your videos. I don't know much about these, but I am in complete awe and would love to learn.
Riley got so happy because he found a gpu riser card.
those adapters are used by cryptocurrency miners to add more graphics cards and are not for gaming, surprised they didn't know this
There's no way that they don't know that, look at his past video on the mining with gpu
Exactly. First "Weirdest PC Part" happens to be something not that weird and actually well known. Way to go guys...
I had such high hopes based on the description. Disappointed.
Yeah. Looked like they were much more entertained themselves - as if all of them were on weed.
In all fairness, that usb expansion slot thingy was pretty weird. The rest felt rather mundane. The fan didn't do much but it wasn't really weird. And an oscilloscope is pretty uncommon but definitely not weird.
I was expecting the PCI equivalent of the 3D glasses I bought for $5 around 2001. Because let me tell you, those were really, really weird.
@@jonatanrullman I was expecting... an SSD caddy... and a small flask with a PCIe mounted holder
That oscilloscope thing is actually pretty common in our college physics lab. they call it "data acquisition card"
Came here from 2024 edition of "Who Can Find the Weirdest PC Parts on AliExpress?". Damn, those guys look young. Chubby Riley, kindergarten Jake, extremely high-pitched Linus, very shy and quiet Alex. Only James did not change. :D
I USED TO HAVE THAT VANTEC PCI FAN! LOL.. it kept my older graphics card at a reasonable temp, never discredit that beast fan
0:15
Linus: There is some really wired stuff...
Me to myself: Like your resolution.
9:12 Jake really be expecting people to burn their fingers for him. Poor Riley deserved a "thanks" - not being whinged and moaned at!
This is the best video I've ever seen on RUclips, ever. 32 years old, computer tech lover. For me the graphics card was a reminder of childhood. Excellent work!
11:27 *james is secretly billy mays*
"And to help me recoup the cost of this mess..." *Murder glances at Alex.*
9:20 “You can't just let g-“ *RUclips crashes*
Also Riley’s face during Linus’s section.