The Unboxing and Disassembly of the Lark Box: A Detailed Look at Its Components

In order to get to this board, we're just going to remove the mid shell and the whole shell on the Lark box is plastic. I would have loved to see an aluminum shell to kind of keep it a little cooler, but I know that plastic is a lot cheaper to produce and here it is basically the bread and butter of this whole unit. We have the storage chip, our Wi-Fi chip, and we'll take a closer look at all of these.

We start by removing the ribbon cables to connect the i/o board, HDMI, USB Type-C, and other components. I want to get this Wi-Fi antenna disconnected so I don't break anything. The Wi-Fi antenna kind of routes up to the top of the case. We also have our fan connector because yes, this is not passively cooled; we have a little fan in this unit. Our CPU at the J 4115 and two RAM chips at 3 gigs each are really odd to see, but it's a total of six gigs of RAM, which is running in dual-channel mode.

One last thing I need to get out of here and that is the heatsink and fan combination. Initially, I wanted to install some thermal paste on this; I'm still gonna look into it, but I'm pretty sure there's gonna be a gap between the heatsink and the CPU because we have a pretty thick thermal pad here. If we tried to add thermal paste, it just wouldn't make contact. I'm gonna remove the heatsink and fan combo here with these four smaller Phillips head screws. It is a copper heatsink with a fan attached to the top.

The top of the case you can see the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth antenna, but that's tiny; heat sinks go this looks pretty nice, it's all copper we do have some copper fins and a blower fan to let the air escape the unit. It's a pretty hefty piece of copper for the CPU, which is definitely a bulk of the weight of the whole unit.

Let's take a closer look at all of these components so from the left to the right we have the heatsink, the main board, and the i/o board. We've taken a look at the heatsink but I wanted to give you a closer look at these copper fins here. This is a blower-style fan built-in and it'll exhaust air out of the rear of the Lark box.

Next up we have the main board; this is the main bread and butter of the Lark box. We have our built-in EMMC storage, 128 gigabytes, we also have our Intel Wi-Fi chip, 802 dot 11 AC plus Bluetooth 5.0 built-in on the other side of the board. We have our RAM 2 3-gig chips running into a channel mode bringing it up to a total of 6 gigs; it's LPDDR4 at 21.33 megahertz plus on the same side here we have the Intel Celeron J 4115 CPU and finally, the i/o board with our M2 slot dual USB 3.0 ports over on the other side.

We have our CMOS battery, 3.5 millimeter audio jack, this does audio in and out plus a microSD card slot; I'm actually pretty impressed by what they were able to do here. I love the stackable board idea we have that IO board and the main board and they put them like this so they could slide them into a smaller package.

All left to do here is reassemble the unit off camera, and I'm going to go ahead and install that MDO cable to drive; definitely keep an eye on the channel because I do have a few more videos coming up on the Lark box. I'm gonna be doing a full emulation test, I want to test out Manjaro Linux and possibly Android if anybody's interested; so let me know in the comments below.

The box itself is on Kickstarter for about one hundred and fifty-five dollars up to one hundred and seventy dollars depending on what tier you choose, and I personally think that it is worth a hundred and fifty dollars if you're looking for a secondary or a supplemental PC that can run Windows 10 pretty well.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guy is to CTA prying back here again today we're gonna be doing a teardown on the upcoming Chui lark box now they claim that this is the world's smallest 4k mini PC and to tell you the truth they might be right about this claim because this thing is absolutely tiny I have done a review on it I'll leave a link for that in the description I do have a couple more videos coming up but in this video we're gonna be doing a teardown we're gonna see how this thing is assembled and I'm also going to be adding a 512 gigabyte m2 SSD now this does come pre-loaded with Windows 10 128 gigabytes of storage 6 gigs of RAM and the Intel Celeron J 4115 CPU but they have left us an open slot on this unit so we can install a 22 42 m2 SSD up to one terabyte and I personally don't have a 1 terabyte drive but I have a 512 gigabyte Drive and this is gonna allow me to install different operating systems that I wanted to test on a lark box in the future so let's go ahead and get right down to it on the bottom of the lark box we have four smaller Phillips head screws and these are actually surrounded by rubber feet they protrude a little bit so the rubber feet will hit your desk and it won't slide around we're gonna go ahead and get these out and once we have those out we can pull the bottom right off and if we take a look inside of the Lark box itself we have that m2 slot and this is gonna allow me to add that 512 gigabyte SSD and it's a 22 42 SSDs so it's one of the smaller ones and they do get quite expensive but I'll save that for the reassembly because we need to get a little deeper in here there's another for smaller Phillips head screws that we need to remove I actually expect to be a bit harder but it just kind of falls right out and what if my studs actually came out with the screw might not happen to you but just keep an eye on that in case you think you're missing one now here I'm gonna call this the expansion board because there's actually two PCBs inside of the Lark box and in order to remove this expansion board we need to remove four studs and it's only going to be three here because one already came out so I have the studs removed but we also have two little ribbon cable or quick-connect ribbon cables here I'm just gonna pop those up and from here the expansion board should pretty much just slide out now I'm calling this an expansion board but I think the correct term for this would be an i/o board because all of our i/o is located on this PCB we have our USB our CMOS battery our 3.5 millimeter audio jack SD card and around back we have our MDOT 2 and it just connects inside of this with two of those Quick Connect ribbon cables but this is actually really cool the way they have this assembled it's kind of a stacked board configuration and it definitely works out for a small form-factor like this so the next thing we need to do is remove four more studs to get the main board out of here and this board contains our internal storage CPU RAM Wi-Fi chip HDMI and USB type-c for power with those removed it's time to get to the mainboard so in order to get to this board here we're just going to remove the mid shell and the whole shell on the Lark box is plastic I would have loved to see an aluminum shell to kind of keep it a little cooler but I know this plastic is a lot cheaper to produce and here it is basically the bread and butter of this whole unit we have the storage chip our Wi-Fi chip and we'll take a closer look at all of these the ribbon cables to connect the i/o board hdmi USB type-c and I believe this should pull right off but I want to get this Wi-Fi antenna disconnected so I don't break anything the Wi-Fi antenna kind of routes up to the top of the case and we also have our fan connector because yes this is not passively cooled we have a little fan in this unit we also have our CPU at the J 4115 and two RAM chips at three gigs each which is really odd to see you really don't see this much but it's a total of six gigs of RAM and it is running in dual channel mode and there's one last thing I need to get out of here and that is the heatsink and fan combination now initially I wanted to install some thermal paste on this I'm still gonna look into it but I'm pretty sure there's gonna be a gap between the heatsink and the CPU because we have a pretty thick thermal pad here so if we tried to add thermal paste it just wouldn't make contact I'm gonna remove the heatsink and fan combo here with these four smaller Phillips head screws it is a copper heatsink with a fan attached to the top and in the top of the case you can see the Wi-Fi / Bluetooth antenna but that's tiny heat sinks go this looks pretty nice it's all copper we do have some copper fins and a blower fan to let the air escape the unit it's a pretty hefty piece of copper for the CPU this is definitely a bulk of the weight of the whole unit so like I mentioned I did want to add some high quality thermal paste but I do not think it's going to be possible the thermal pad they're using is pretty thick and I know there's gonna be a gap between the heatsink and the main board here and if I just lay the heatsink on top of the board we can actually see right through here so the copper will not actually make contact with the CPU so thermal paste will be useless here we're gonna have to stick with that thermal pad but let's go ahead and take a closer look at all of these components so from the left to the right we have the heatsink the main board and the i/o board so we've taken a look at the heatsink but I wanted to give you a closer look at these copper fins here this is a blower style fan built in and it'll exhaust air out of the rear of the lark box next up we have the main board this is the main bread and butter of the Lark box we have our built-in emmc storage 128 gigabytes we also have our intel Wi-Fi chip 802 dot 11 AC plus bluetooth 5.0 built-in on the other side of the board we have our RAM 2 3 gig chips running into a channel mode bringing it up to a total of 6 gigs it's lpddr4 at 21 33 megahertz plus on the same side here we have the Intel Celeron J 41:15 CPU and finally the i/o board with our m2 slot dual USB 3.0 ports over on the other side we have our CMOS battery 3.5 millimeter audio jack this does audio in and out plus a microSD card slot in the end I'm actually pretty impressed by what they were able to do here I love the stackable board idea we have that IO board and the main board and they put them like this so they could slide them into a smaller package so all this left to do here is reassemble the unit off camera and I'm going to go ahead and install that MDOT to drive so definitely keep an eye on the channel because I do have a few more videos coming up on the Lark box I'm gonna be doing a full emulation test I want to test out Manjaro Linux and possibly Android if anybody's interested so let me know in the comments below the box itself is on Kickstarter for about one hundred and fifty five dollars up to one hundred and seventy dollars depending on what tier you choose and I personally think that it is worth a hundred and fifty dollars if you're looking for a secondary or a supplemental PC that can run Windows 10 pretty well but that's it for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on guy is to CTA prying back here again today we're gonna be doing a teardown on the upcoming Chui lark box now they claim that this is the world's smallest 4k mini PC and to tell you the truth they might be right about this claim because this thing is absolutely tiny I have done a review on it I'll leave a link for that in the description I do have a couple more videos coming up but in this video we're gonna be doing a teardown we're gonna see how this thing is assembled and I'm also going to be adding a 512 gigabyte m2 SSD now this does come pre-loaded with Windows 10 128 gigabytes of storage 6 gigs of RAM and the Intel Celeron J 4115 CPU but they have left us an open slot on this unit so we can install a 22 42 m2 SSD up to one terabyte and I personally don't have a 1 terabyte drive but I have a 512 gigabyte Drive and this is gonna allow me to install different operating systems that I wanted to test on a lark box in the future so let's go ahead and get right down to it on the bottom of the lark box we have four smaller Phillips head screws and these are actually surrounded by rubber feet they protrude a little bit so the rubber feet will hit your desk and it won't slide around we're gonna go ahead and get these out and once we have those out we can pull the bottom right off and if we take a look inside of the Lark box itself we have that m2 slot and this is gonna allow me to add that 512 gigabyte SSD and it's a 22 42 SSDs so it's one of the smaller ones and they do get quite expensive but I'll save that for the reassembly because we need to get a little deeper in here there's another for smaller Phillips head screws that we need to remove I actually expect to be a bit harder but it just kind of falls right out and what if my studs actually came out with the screw might not happen to you but just keep an eye on that in case you think you're missing one now here I'm gonna call this the expansion board because there's actually two PCBs inside of the Lark box and in order to remove this expansion board we need to remove four studs and it's only going to be three here because one already came out so I have the studs removed but we also have two little ribbon cable or quick-connect ribbon cables here I'm just gonna pop those up and from here the expansion board should pretty much just slide out now I'm calling this an expansion board but I think the correct term for this would be an i/o board because all of our i/o is located on this PCB we have our USB our CMOS battery our 3.5 millimeter audio jack SD card and around back we have our MDOT 2 and it just connects inside of this with two of those Quick Connect ribbon cables but this is actually really cool the way they have this assembled it's kind of a stacked board configuration and it definitely works out for a small form-factor like this so the next thing we need to do is remove four more studs to get the main board out of here and this board contains our internal storage CPU RAM Wi-Fi chip HDMI and USB type-c for power with those removed it's time to get to the mainboard so in order to get to this board here we're just going to remove the mid shell and the whole shell on the Lark box is plastic I would have loved to see an aluminum shell to kind of keep it a little cooler but I know this plastic is a lot cheaper to produce and here it is basically the bread and butter of this whole unit we have the storage chip our Wi-Fi chip and we'll take a closer look at all of these the ribbon cables to connect the i/o board hdmi USB type-c and I believe this should pull right off but I want to get this Wi-Fi antenna disconnected so I don't break anything the Wi-Fi antenna kind of routes up to the top of the case and we also have our fan connector because yes this is not passively cooled we have a little fan in this unit we also have our CPU at the J 4115 and two RAM chips at three gigs each which is really odd to see you really don't see this much but it's a total of six gigs of RAM and it is running in dual channel mode and there's one last thing I need to get out of here and that is the heatsink and fan combination now initially I wanted to install some thermal paste on this I'm still gonna look into it but I'm pretty sure there's gonna be a gap between the heatsink and the CPU because we have a pretty thick thermal pad here so if we tried to add thermal paste it just wouldn't make contact I'm gonna remove the heatsink and fan combo here with these four smaller Phillips head screws it is a copper heatsink with a fan attached to the top and in the top of the case you can see the Wi-Fi / Bluetooth antenna but that's tiny heat sinks go this looks pretty nice it's all copper we do have some copper fins and a blower fan to let the air escape the unit it's a pretty hefty piece of copper for the CPU this is definitely a bulk of the weight of the whole unit so like I mentioned I did want to add some high quality thermal paste but I do not think it's going to be possible the thermal pad they're using is pretty thick and I know there's gonna be a gap between the heatsink and the main board here and if I just lay the heatsink on top of the board we can actually see right through here so the copper will not actually make contact with the CPU so thermal paste will be useless here we're gonna have to stick with that thermal pad but let's go ahead and take a closer look at all of these components so from the left to the right we have the heatsink the main board and the i/o board so we've taken a look at the heatsink but I wanted to give you a closer look at these copper fins here this is a blower style fan built in and it'll exhaust air out of the rear of the lark box next up we have the main board this is the main bread and butter of the Lark box we have our built-in emmc storage 128 gigabytes we also have our intel Wi-Fi chip 802 dot 11 AC plus bluetooth 5.0 built-in on the other side of the board we have our RAM 2 3 gig chips running into a channel mode bringing it up to a total of 6 gigs it's lpddr4 at 21 33 megahertz plus on the same side here we have the Intel Celeron J 41:15 CPU and finally the i/o board with our m2 slot dual USB 3.0 ports over on the other side we have our CMOS battery 3.5 millimeter audio jack this does audio in and out plus a microSD card slot in the end I'm actually pretty impressed by what they were able to do here I love the stackable board idea we have that IO board and the main board and they put them like this so they could slide them into a smaller package so all this left to do here is reassemble the unit off camera and I'm going to go ahead and install that MDOT to drive so definitely keep an eye on the channel because I do have a few more videos coming up on the Lark box I'm gonna be doing a full emulation test I want to test out Manjaro Linux and possibly Android if anybody's interested so let me know in the comments below the box itself is on Kickstarter for about one hundred and fifty five dollars up to one hundred and seventy dollars depending on what tier you choose and I personally think that it is worth a hundred and fifty dollars if you're looking for a secondary or a supplemental PC that can run Windows 10 pretty well but that's it for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"