This Chinese motherboard shouldn't exist...

[Emily Young]

Getting stuck using integrated graphics on your CPU sucks, but graphics on motherboards sucked a lot worse. Yet they're still making them in China... With a GTX 1050 Ti? What? WHY?

 

 

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[CopiWasTaken]

30 minutes ago, GabenJr said:

<snip> Lets not quote the entire op, k?

It's so confusing... sata ports everywhere

Edited May 6, 2020 by SansVarnic
Snipped quote

[WhyDoINeedAUsername]

Why were they using Ubuntu 18.04? 20.04 has been out for quite a while, not to mention 19.10.

[GDRRiley]

I recognize that action camera. Yi action cam 4k+. I wish they still made them great little cams.

[Nystemy]

Honestly, weird hardware like this is fun to watch.

 

But I have to agree that the motherboard GPU combo is a bit of a hassle in case something breaks.

At least the memory weren't integrated as well...

[SansVarnic]

Pro's vs Con's.

I would agree with your assessment on this. AIO's have their place but wide adoption is not a good business model.

[aisle9]

As crap-tastic as this was, I still believe that this is the next evolution of computers. Apple's already doing this to a large extent by soldering all the things in its Macbooks. I wouldn't be too surprised if your everyday desktop PC in 2030 consists of a motherboard with a soldered CPU, a built-in GPU, soldered RAM and soldered M.2 storage, with expansion slots for wifi, more specialized components, and that sort of thing. There will still be room for modularity and a custom build scene, but my feeling watching Apple in particular is that within the next decade, we can say goodbye to upgrading prebuilts.

[williamcll]

Maybe your RAM is going too fast for this board, that could be the issue.

[papajo]

On 5/6/2020 at 2:59 PM, GabenJr said:

*snip*

On the very first look (like for the first 2 seconds or so) this might look interesting but its actually boring imo...

 

Its just a laptop design that has an lga socket instead of something pre soldered on it... 

Edited May 8, 2020 by wkdpaul
cleanup for readability

[Curious Pineapple]

1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

As crap-tastic as this was, I still believe that this is the next evolution of computers. Apple's already doing this to a large extent by soldering all the things in its Macbooks. I wouldn't be too surprised if your everyday desktop PC in 2030 consists of a motherboard with a soldered CPU, a built-in GPU, soldered RAM and soldered M.2 storage, with expansion slots for wifi, more specialized components, and that sort of thing. There will still be room for modularity and a custom build scene, but my feeling watching Apple in particular is that within the next decade, we can say goodbye to upgrading prebuilts.

Nope, and the reason is cost. The non-Apple OEM's want to offer a large range of lower cost machines to a wider range of customers. Modular components allows them to grab a chassis off the shelf, put in whatever CPU, memory, graphics card and drives the customer specified, run factory tests and stuff it in a box to be shipped. They don't want to offer a limited range, or just offer 3 different machines with 2 options to choose from for each.

 

Cater to the regular consumer and you won't sell to business, cater to business and you won't sell to the regular consumer.

[Virtue_]

I could see this being used for some kind of weird proprietary arcade cabinet design, maybe for an arcade port of a PC game that just won't run on an ARM system. Having the GPU integrated into the board decreases the odds of some minimum wage tech at a Round One breaking / stealing it (if they even have their own in-house maintenance staff), plus it makes it significantly easier to manhandle without worrying about snapping a PCIe port off in shipping or something. Given the inclusion of SATA ports on both I/O clusters, I don't think this thing is meant to have a back panel at all. The HDMI cable connecting it to the display would, in that case, be contained entirely within the unit. Again, arcade cabinet. 

 

Still unlikely, though, given the number of way-the-fuck better integrated solutions that already exist for that.

[Phanan]

Pretty sure that mobo is designed for multi screen or large display VLT/Slot Machines/ Pachinko games which require more processing and gpu power than most people realise, while the 1050 does seem like overkill it could be a case where getting the chipsets for older is no longer possible due to the manufacturer discontinuing them while at the same time being able to future proof the hardware for some time since that board came out in I think 2017(?).

 

It isn't much wonder that you would have had some issue getting hold of one from the manufacturer if it really isn't meant for the consumer market, they probably expected a bulk order. Between the form+size (including the preinstalled heatsink & fan), the port placements, a debugging port, and lvds connections (which presumably would be outputting a video signal). Off the top of my head I can't think of any consumer electronic that you may find in a house that would utulise that board.

 

Seems weird that there isn't mention in the vid if you guys asked the manufacturer what the typical use case is for a board like that.

[Chiyawa]

I remember seeing this exact same motherboard in one of the arcade machine in China. I think one Japanese racing arcade game (I think it was Initial D) uses a similar 'very large Single Board Computer' that has nVidia GPU in it (probably GT650).

 

 

[jstav]

Ummm, I could be wrong but pink bubble wrap is anti-static and hence somewhat conductive. I can understand why a board sitting on it would have all kinds of problems.

[ahuckphin]

Some people suggesting that this could be for an AIO and I'm going to suggest that "debug port" is actually a HDMI in connector.

 

I have seen all in one computers with HDMI in ports. 

[DevBennyturtle]

I posted this in youtube (but I doubt anyone would see it) -> "for anyone who sees this (and linus) my best guess for the mystery chip/ic that Linus pointed out is its an FPGA (High end FPGA's use Dram as a cache) and there are a lot of off brand fpga chips popping up (you can tell from seeedstudio (yes there are 3 e's) ) probably because this is mostly a prototype that they included an fpga, incase lets say they wanted to change the graphics card and didn't want to mess anything else up, or something to that effect. I am somewhat a electrical engineer so I am guessing that's what that is, as the only things that need ddr cache like that are microprocessors or FPGA's and I doubt they have a microprocessor on there (I also saw a nand flash chip assuming it stores the configuration for the FPGA)"

[Age of 9394]

The company(ZEAL ALL} who make this motherboard launch a new motherboard with H310, and GTX 1650 because Linus review their motherboard.