The WEIRDEST PC Parts we Found on AliExpress

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to talk about something that's really been getting me pumped up - USB ports! I mean, can you think of anything more exciting than a good old-fashioned USB port? It's like, the ultimate symbol of innovation and progress. And let me tell you, I've got a real treat for you tonight.

I'm going to be working with this beautiful piece of hardware, and it just so happens that it has a USB port on the end of it. Can you believe it? It's like a dream come true! Okay, okay, I know what you're thinking - "Riley, how are you going to make this thing work?" Well, let me tell you, I've got some tricks up my sleeve.

First things first, we need to get that USB port connected to something. And by something, I mean a PC. Because, let's be real, what's the point of having a USB port if it's not plugged into a computer? It's like trying to have a conversation without a mouth. Just doesn't make sense. So, we're going to plug this bad boy into my trusty old PC and see what happens.

Now, I know some of you might be thinking - "Riley, why are you so excited about a USB port?" Well, let me tell you, it's not just any USB port. Oh no, this is a high-end, top-of-the-line, PCI Express 16x USB port we're talking about here. That's right, folks, we're talking about the crème de la crème of USB ports.

And if that wasn't enough, we've also got a PCI Express 4x interface at the bottom of this card, which we've adapted to U.2. Because why not? I mean, who needs standard interfaces when you can have something that's going to make your head spin?

But wait, there's more! We've also got a U.2 to M.2 board installed in that, which has an M.2 2280 interface on the other end. And if you thought that was exciting, just wait until you see what we've got next.

We've taken this M.2 2280 interface and converted it into a Mini SAS HD connector. Because, why not? I mean, who needs U.2 when you can have something that's going to make your head spin even more?

And if all that wasn't enough, we've also plugged this Mini SAS HD into a board that does U.2 to PCI Express 4x. Because at this point, why settle for anything less than the best? I mean, who needs standard interfaces when you can have something that's going to make your heart skip a beat?

But wait, there's more! We've also installed a network card in this thing. And by network card, I mean a PCI Express 4x network adapter. Because why not? I mean, who doesn't love a good network card?

Now, I know some of you might be thinking - "Riley, how is all this going to work?" Well, let me tell you, it's like magic. It just works. And if it doesn't work, well, that's what the warranty is for.

But in all seriousness, folks, this thing is like a puzzle. You've got to put all the pieces together and hope for the best. But trust me, it's worth it. Because when it does finally work, man... it's like nothing you've ever seen before.

And that brings us to our main event - the weird PCI or PCIE device challenge. And let me tell you, this thing takes the cake. It's like a puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside another puzzle. But I'm not going to bore you with all the details, because at this point, I just want to get on with it.

So, without further ado, let's get started. Our challenge is simple - create the weirdest PCI or PCIE device possible. And by that, I mean something that's going to make your head spin. Because why settle for ordinary when you can have extraordinary?

And now, the moment of truth. Are we going to win this challenge? Will our creation be worthy of greatness? Only time will tell.

But until then, let's take a look at what some of the other contestants have come up with. And by "take a look", I mean stare in awe and wonder.

First off, we've got Linus from Linus Tech Tips. He's always been known for his innovative creations, and this one is no exception. It's like a work of art, folks. A symphony of wires and circuits that will make your head spin.

Next up, we've got James from James' Hardware Reviews. And let me tell you, he's brought his A-game. This thing is like a puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside another puzzle. But I'm not going to give away the details, because at this point, I just want to see what happens when it all comes together.

And finally, we've got our own creation - the one and only Riley's Weird PCIE Device Challenge. And let me tell you, it's a doozy. It's like a rollercoaster ride of excitement and terror that will leave you breathless.

So, there you have it, folks. The weirdest PCI or PCIE device challenge this side of the equator. Who will win? Will we all just end up in a heap on the ground, wondering what happened to our sanity?

Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure - this is going to be an adventure.

Now, let's take a look at some of the other contestants' creations and see who comes out on top. And by "take a look", I mean stare in awe and wonder.

We've got Linus with his M.2 2280 U.2 PCI Express 4x network adapter. It's like a puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside another puzzle. But I'm not going to give away the details, because at this point, I just want to see what happens when it all comes together.

Next up, we've got James with his U.2 M.2 2280 PCI Express 4x network adapter. It's like a work of art, folks. A symphony of wires and circuits that will make your head spin.

And finally, we've got our own creation - the one and only Riley's Weird PCIE Device Challenge. It's like a rollercoaster ride of excitement and terror that will leave you breathless.

So, there you have it, folks. The weirdest PCI or PCIE device challenge this side of the equator. Who will win? Will we all just end up in a heap on the ground, wondering what happened to our sanity?

Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure - this is going to be an adventure.

But wait, there's more! We've also got some special guests joining us tonight. And by "special guests", I mean people who are just as confused and bewildered as we are.

We've got Mark from PC Part Picker, who's here to tell us all about the latest and greatest in PC hardware. Because why settle for anything less than the best?

And we've also got Chris from Tom's Hardware, who's here to show us what it takes to build a computer from scratch. It's like a puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside another puzzle.

So, there you have it, folks. The weirdest PCI or PCIE device challenge this side of the equator. Who will win? Will we all just end up in a heap on the ground, wondering what happened to our sanity?

Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure - this is going to be an adventure.

Now, let's get back to the challenge at hand. We've got a long way to go before we reach the end of this puzzle. But I'm confident that with a little bit of creativity and some good old-fashioned hard work, we'll be able to make it happen.

So, without further ado, let's get started. And remember, folks - only the best will do. We're talking about a challenge that requires nothing but the finest PC hardware and a healthy dose of crazy.

And now, the moment of truth. Are we going to win this challenge? Will our creation be worthy of greatness? Only time will tell.

But until then, let's take a look at what some of the other contestants have come up with. And by "take a look", I mean stare in awe and wonder.

First off, we've got Linus with his M.2 2280 U.2 PCI Express 4x network adapter. It's like a puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside another puzzle. But I'm not going to give away the details, because at this point, I just want to see what happens when it all comes together.

Next up, we've got James with his U.2 M.2 2280 PCI Express 4x network adapter. It's like a work of art, folks. A symphony of wires and circuits that will make your head spin.

And finally, we've got our own creation - the one and only Riley's Weird PCIE Device Challenge. It's like a rollercoaster ride of excitement and terror that will leave you breathless.

So, there you have it, folks. The weirdest PCI or PCIE device challenge this side of the equator. Who will win? Will we all just end up in a heap on the ground, wondering what happened to our sanity?

Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure - this is going to be an adventure.

Now, let's get back to the challenge at hand. We've got a long way to go before we reach the end of this puzzle. But I'm confident that with a little bit of creativity and some good old-fashioned hard work, we'll be able to make it happen.

So, without further ado, let's get started. And remember, folks - only the best will do. We're talking about a challenge that requires nothing but the finest PC hardware and a healthy dose of crazy.

And now, the moment of truth. Are we going to win this challenge? Will our creation be worthy of greatness? Only time will tell.

But until then, let's take a look at what some of the other contestants have come up with. And by "take a look", I mean stare in awe and wonder.

First off, we've got Linus with his M.2 2280 U.2 PCI Express 4x network adapter. It's like a puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside another puzzle. But I'm not going to give away the details, because at this point, I just want to see what happens when it all comes together.

Next up, we've got James with his U.2 M.2 2280 PCI Express 4x network adapter. It's like a work of art, folks. A symphony of wires and circuits that will make your head spin.

And finally, we've got our own creation - the one and only Riley's Weird PCIE Device Challenge. It's like a rollercoaster ride of excitement and terror that will leave you breathless.

So, there you have it, folks. The weirdest PCI or PCIE device challenge this side of the equator. Who will win? Will we all just end up in a heap on the ground, wondering what happened to our sanity?

Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure - this is going to be an adventure.

Now, let's get back to the challenge at hand. We've got a long way to go before we reach the end of this puzzle. But I'm confident that with a little bit of creativity and some good old-fashioned hard work, we'll be able to make it happen.

So, without further ado, let's get started. And remember, folks - only the best will do. We're talking about a challenge that requires nothing but the finest PC hardware and a healthy dose of crazy.

And now, the moment of truth. Are we going to win this challenge? Will our creation be worthy of greatness? Only time will tell.

But until then, let's take a look at what some of the other contestants have come up with. And by "take a look", I mean stare in awe and wonder.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay so i'm sitting in my office looking at a motherboard and i'm like all right so you got all these pci express slots right the graphics card goes here but then you got all these other ones what are people actually putting on these things so i started clicking around on aliexpress i'm like wow there's some really weird stuff that you can put in a pci express lot so i issued a challenge actually rather i asked jake to issue a challenge to four other members of our writing staff to scour ebay wish aliexpress and more and find what they believe is the weirdest pci express expansion card we've provided no definition for weirdest it's going to be down to from your peers who managed to find the weirdest thing and i'm participating as well so and dennis is here in spirit and the winner gets a trophy right yes and it's engraved in everything where is it well you can't see it you have to show it to them surprise you know what's not a surprise the fact that i'm going to segue to our sponsor right now with pulsewave you can remotely monitor manage and control all of your windows mac and linux machines from one app create your free account today at the link in the video description two all right riley you're going first all right okay riley's first see how nonchalant i am about this because that's the amount of confidence i have stop it only i can not one not two not three wait are these just not listen it's a cool one wait you had to buy these this is a small very small pcie card ever seen something like that what's that usb ports yeah that goes in there yeah usb into a usb yeah do you know the potential of this you could just keep going forever adding more and more let's find out pci cards look that goes in here can we just wait the bench is on no i turned it off turn the power supply off no that can't go in there that can't go in there yes it can no i don't think this is a pci x16 yes it is is it yes kind of the entire point riley did you even know what you were buying no i didn't okay so our usb graphics card is working so what is this like a plx chip here definitely that's definitely what it is yes please i have no idea like what is the pin mapping here though like this is what you call it because there's only nine there's only nine conductors yeah well that's all you need suppose you don't need that many okay well well it works so like does it have ray tracing yeah so this is an rtx 2070 on what is this an 8700k so we should be expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 plus fps okay well let's see how we do here then shall we yeah so basically what's happening is instead of just converting pci express to a usb cable which is kind of like just using a pci express riser except you're using the usb connector and cable it's taking the same pcie 1x interface using some kind of a plx or hub chip of some sort or switching chip and then it's turning the single 1x interface into four 1x interfaces and so this is probably fine but if we were to hook four graphics cards up at the same time and all four of them were actually doing something we'd be chugging we'd be we'd be not and you don't want to do that right now gaming you don't want to try what daisy chaining no i don't think there's any point daisy chaining them but running all four of them yes could let's do it just try and change the chaining at once okay turn the power supply out if you factor out the shorting out the board oh power move you know what it did that fps though is not this was not ideal oh wait wait wait wait wait we lost we just cut our fps in half just see how many noobs you can pawn that's pretty rough oh man you're time traveling for your consideration you have before you a system that could enable you to place a gpu anywhere in your house while keeping your regular pc right next to you so pretty awesome but at what cost at the cost of a few frames a few what is that what are frames and here we have a pci oscilloscope whoa wait it's pci oh oh um how does that work wait how does that work well i assumed you would get at least a pci express card excuse me i thought there was sort of a minimum bar here for like you actually you told me specifically pcie or pci that's true this was a conversation that we had okay well then why didn't your test bench have a pci slot on its market well i wasn't expecting anybody to do it especially for something that costs six hundred dollars more like seven seven hundred dollars are those pci's no those are pci x see you later what are those is that the right one no that's not what that's not a pci right yeah pci wait what we can't yeah yeah this it doesn't post with it in it so there's nothing that we can reconfigure to so this is something that is actually pretty cool for me so that's a 7950 gx2 yes i thought this was super cool because i'd never seen that this is how they used to actually do dual gpu cards basically it's literally two riley didn't even know i think it's cool yeah so i've never seen this instead of like your titan z zed whatever if you're canadian or not how they had those two gpus on one card they actually just gave you two cards that were like duct taped together and you get one slot and you just stick it in and that's how you did quad sli back in the day gpu same we had two of these yeah so this one apparently worked but when i got it i actually had one of the capacitors knocked off and then this one was like falling off so did you hot glue it on hold on i stole this capacitor from another motherboard because the leads were broken and then to kind of keep it from breaking i put some hot glue on there as a sort of solastic so hopefully it works i put a lot of that genuinely took me like an hour this was back when they used to really falsely advertise these cards so it's got one gig 512 bit on the back but i'm pretty sure what they mean is two times five hundred and twelve well that's megabytes let's check our ebay ad 256 bit oh and i'm looking at the card he said two i'm saying our ebay seller was an honest guy okay he said two buy half a gig he's a good guy oh my god it worked shut up that's sweet i don't know getting pretty close to alex territory here hey the computer turned on that's true that's pretty different yeah you're on the podium you can believe whatever you want there's no way there's a windows 10 i'd be surprised if there's a windows 7 driver for this that's a dead video card he said it was working so these look like um these look like dead pixels kind of but they're not please don't waste time dduing it just you can try and install your driver but like it's not gonna work and your card is broken it lets you select it and then it's like yeah i can't believe how much money you guys spent seventy dollars and not working hardware it was damaged in shipping 30 bucks you don't sound convinced yes we're in the bios oh and this is the deluxe nice it's like a horse race where the horse and race in first okay so you have other problems coming for you though no raids to find um what os were you planning to boot here um i have windows 7 32-bit oh yeah on that drive oh yeah yeah oh yeah is that not gonna happen no no okay uh what what do i boot on this xp oh jesus look at these pants okay to be fair it's like this graphics card transports the character models back to the era it came from are you telling me right now that this is working because i'm physically holding a capacitor in place on the graphics card let's try that and go in a minute like is your finger comfortable are you good it's kind of warm but i'm yeah i'm fine all right how do we save i assume that just saved don't why would you what no way can can you please play oh i think this is starting to burn my finger here tag me in buddy oh you gotta you can't just leg what that's what did it it just stopped it just let go it stopped as soon as i was like oh this thing is holding on the power oh colonel that's that's jake right there that's why look at my fingers oh god there we are okay literally repairing this graphics card with scotch tape in the same artifact wait are you telling me that the tape is doing a better job than riley ever could my finger was burning let go of it you could have like what do you want me to do okay it's working claiming at about 8 fps ah i got i assisted no artifacts no artifacts it's the best gpu no artifacts to speak of this is exactly what we need right now you plug this in it's a fan ostensibly it just blows air right away and the bonus part is in a way it can cool down your glued on capacitors and make your other stuff work was this value on value was this plan no that's just how handy these are you need this in your life right now let me show you how this works you know what's really good about them i'm pretty sure the plastic is uv reactive we really need this is how those infomercials always start look the package says it comes with headphones light it up it's lit what the heck does this even count it doesn't even have anything we might need to modify it the slot like yeah it slots in it's for pci this is super old oh we can use it to cool my stuff i think it came with amazon prime actually this was in stock ready to go i'm confused as to like why why does it look like it's a children's toy from a dollar store because this used to be the style when it came to like hardcore pc modding i'm not even joking unlike some people i only spent 20 dollars but wait there's more look at this little dial you can go from low to high af does fit into pcie sort of so it's gonna blow air at the front what about the sun thank goodness for rog shieldings ah okay it's fine i'll do it okay um here we go ladies and gentlemen i'll put it down on the low setting oh my god and it turned off but the lights are on a little lower a little lower yep is it too much one pound works wait really it might not be enough power no it's plenty of power barely even blowing any air okay so james is done i still need to go but in the meantime we have an update over in alex land we have a hard drive detected we have an optical drive detected and theoretically we have a windows xp boot cd have you ever seen an ethernet card this small yeah the one that i'd had yeah but it's usb oh an ethernet card this is how i intend to plug it in now you'll have to give me a moment gentlemen wait what laptop so first i will be needing ah yes the vaccumed mini pcie to pcie converter wireless this oh oh wait that's not that interesting all right i need an ifixit kit as well i uh i have my sincere doubts as to whether or not this is going to work at this point we have gone from pci express 1x to mini pcie to pcmcia i just need this here here we go uh so this goes in this is pcmcia it was an old laptop expansion standard is it going this way or this way i don't actually know that way yep okay cool i like that spring action to uh usb oh my god wait what hold on ladies and gentlemen usb port on the end of the pc okay to riley he might be able to get this farther away from his pc than even yours dual pci express 16x then we've got a pci express 4x interface at the bottom of this card here that we have adapted using this card to u.2 then we've got a u.2 to m.2 board installed in that which has an m.2 2u.2 the other end like mini sas hd whatever this is called then we've got a mini sass hd to u.2 over here plugged into a board that does u.2 to pci express 4x where finally we have installed a network card now will this work i have no idea it doesn't smell like my graphics card something just burned oh yeah that smells uh yep whoa what happened i like that smell hold on a minute no i still have an entry because i did convert back to pci express at some point i can cut out some parts of my chain here my submission is a pci express to u.2 to m.2 to u.2 to u.2 to pci express 4x to network adapter get out of my way rude the disrespect well the slot that i wanted to plug into is broken because of my previous attempt i wonder if my network card is dead okay because even that didn't work this should be pretty straightforward this is just pcie too now hold on just a gosh darn minute here the whole time is it just a bad network card oh because that's why that's why it was going to set on fire right okay right all right in fear it honestly feels the same okay wait for it i don't that's because the air is going in though this is it ladies and gentlemen my time to shine it's my time in the sun you know like you know what this is like let me speak your language it's like in fortnight when you get shot and you're crawling around but you're not dead yet but there's no way you're gonna win yeah that's these two just log out nope turn your computer off i'm installing drivers as we speak i am moments away from having this fully operational okay okay my entry is this graphics card what i mean uh network card isn't it adorable oh that's cute yeah wow oh wow you didn't kill anything in putting that in yay i've got a link come get close up meanwhile over in alex land how are you doing so it seems like it is working uh here it is i think yeah uh so now we just need a program to use it you didn't even know what program so we we would need to install labview and then it should work just fine how much is a labview license i don't know okay i think it's i think we just have to do the voting now you have to vote for two people and the competition is without any real guidelines the weirdest pci or pcie device the weirdest starting with the most disappointing thing of tonight me and james with just one vote oh and then you get linus with two hey i'm on the podium baby with two yeah and then it's alex was four so we all stuck yeah hey so i'm happy to present you today that's it just shut up i don't know how to open it but this is a quality we have scissors no it's good we're good this was the coolest weirdest trophy i could find such a mad dog what what best weird binder 2019 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this on ltg store somebody can buy it at the link in the video description also down there is our merge store which has cool shirts like this one seeing if anyone else is a team player good job also down there is our community forum joined that toookay so i'm sitting in my office looking at a motherboard and i'm like all right so you got all these pci express slots right the graphics card goes here but then you got all these other ones what are people actually putting on these things so i started clicking around on aliexpress i'm like wow there's some really weird stuff that you can put in a pci express lot so i issued a challenge actually rather i asked jake to issue a challenge to four other members of our writing staff to scour ebay wish aliexpress and more and find what they believe is the weirdest pci express expansion card we've provided no definition for weirdest it's going to be down to from your peers who managed to find the weirdest thing and i'm participating as well so and dennis is here in spirit and the winner gets a trophy right yes and it's engraved in everything where is it well you can't see it you have to show it to them surprise you know what's not a surprise the fact that i'm going to segue to our sponsor right now with pulsewave you can remotely monitor manage and control all of your windows mac and linux machines from one app create your free account today at the link in the video description two all right riley you're going first all right okay riley's first see how nonchalant i am about this because that's the amount of confidence i have stop it only i can not one not two not three wait are these just not listen it's a cool one wait you had to buy these this is a small very small pcie card ever seen something like that what's that usb ports yeah that goes in there yeah usb into a usb yeah do you know the potential of this you could just keep going forever adding more and more let's find out pci cards look that goes in here can we just wait the bench is on no i turned it off turn the power supply off no that can't go in there that can't go in there yes it can no i don't think this is a pci x16 yes it is is it yes kind of the entire point riley did you even know what you were buying no i didn't okay so our usb graphics card is working so what is this like a plx chip here definitely that's definitely what it is yes please i have no idea like what is the pin mapping here though like this is what you call it because there's only nine there's only nine conductors yeah well that's all you need suppose you don't need that many okay well well it works so like does it have ray tracing yeah so this is an rtx 2070 on what is this an 8700k so we should be expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 plus fps okay well let's see how we do here then shall we yeah so basically what's happening is instead of just converting pci express to a usb cable which is kind of like just using a pci express riser except you're using the usb connector and cable it's taking the same pcie 1x interface using some kind of a plx or hub chip of some sort or switching chip and then it's turning the single 1x interface into four 1x interfaces and so this is probably fine but if we were to hook four graphics cards up at the same time and all four of them were actually doing something we'd be chugging we'd be we'd be not and you don't want to do that right now gaming you don't want to try what daisy chaining no i don't think there's any point daisy chaining them but running all four of them yes could let's do it just try and change the chaining at once okay turn the power supply out if you factor out the shorting out the board oh power move you know what it did that fps though is not this was not ideal oh wait wait wait wait wait we lost we just cut our fps in half just see how many noobs you can pawn that's pretty rough oh man you're time traveling for your consideration you have before you a system that could enable you to place a gpu anywhere in your house while keeping your regular pc right next to you so pretty awesome but at what cost at the cost of a few frames a few what is that what are frames and here we have a pci oscilloscope whoa wait it's pci oh oh um how does that work wait how does that work well i assumed you would get at least a pci express card excuse me i thought there was sort of a minimum bar here for like you actually you told me specifically pcie or pci that's true this was a conversation that we had okay well then why didn't your test bench have a pci slot on its market well i wasn't expecting anybody to do it especially for something that costs six hundred dollars more like seven seven hundred dollars are those pci's no those are pci x see you later what are those is that the right one no that's not what that's not a pci right yeah pci wait what we can't yeah yeah this it doesn't post with it in it so there's nothing that we can reconfigure to so this is something that is actually pretty cool for me so that's a 7950 gx2 yes i thought this was super cool because i'd never seen that this is how they used to actually do dual gpu cards basically it's literally two riley didn't even know i think it's cool yeah so i've never seen this instead of like your titan z zed whatever if you're canadian or not how they had those two gpus on one card they actually just gave you two cards that were like duct taped together and you get one slot and you just stick it in and that's how you did quad sli back in the day gpu same we had two of these yeah so this one apparently worked but when i got it i actually had one of the capacitors knocked off and then this one was like falling off so did you hot glue it on hold on i stole this capacitor from another motherboard because the leads were broken and then to kind of keep it from breaking i put some hot glue on there as a sort of solastic so hopefully it works i put a lot of that genuinely took me like an hour this was back when they used to really falsely advertise these cards so it's got one gig 512 bit on the back but i'm pretty sure what they mean is two times five hundred and twelve well that's megabytes let's check our ebay ad 256 bit oh and i'm looking at the card he said two i'm saying our ebay seller was an honest guy okay he said two buy half a gig he's a good guy oh my god it worked shut up that's sweet i don't know getting pretty close to alex territory here hey the computer turned on that's true that's pretty different yeah you're on the podium you can believe whatever you want there's no way there's a windows 10 i'd be surprised if there's a windows 7 driver for this that's a dead video card he said it was working so these look like um these look like dead pixels kind of but they're not please don't waste time dduing it just you can try and install your driver but like it's not gonna work and your card is broken it lets you select it and then it's like yeah i can't believe how much money you guys spent seventy dollars and not working hardware it was damaged in shipping 30 bucks you don't sound convinced yes we're in the bios oh and this is the deluxe nice it's like a horse race where the horse and race in first okay so you have other problems coming for you though no raids to find um what os were you planning to boot here um i have windows 7 32-bit oh yeah on that drive oh yeah yeah oh yeah is that not gonna happen no no okay uh what what do i boot on this xp oh jesus look at these pants okay to be fair it's like this graphics card transports the character models back to the era it came from are you telling me right now that this is working because i'm physically holding a capacitor in place on the graphics card let's try that and go in a minute like is your finger comfortable are you good it's kind of warm but i'm yeah i'm fine all right how do we save i assume that just saved don't why would you what no way can can you please play oh i think this is starting to burn my finger here tag me in buddy oh you gotta you can't just leg what that's what did it it just stopped it just let go it stopped as soon as i was like oh this thing is holding on the power oh colonel that's that's jake right there that's why look at my fingers oh god there we are okay literally repairing this graphics card with scotch tape in the same artifact wait are you telling me that the tape is doing a better job than riley ever could my finger was burning let go of it you could have like what do you want me to do okay it's working claiming at about 8 fps ah i got i assisted no artifacts no artifacts it's the best gpu no artifacts to speak of this is exactly what we need right now you plug this in it's a fan ostensibly it just blows air right away and the bonus part is in a way it can cool down your glued on capacitors and make your other stuff work was this value on value was this plan no that's just how handy these are you need this in your life right now let me show you how this works you know what's really good about them i'm pretty sure the plastic is uv reactive we really need this is how those infomercials always start look the package says it comes with headphones light it up it's lit what the heck does this even count it doesn't even have anything we might need to modify it the slot like yeah it slots in it's for pci this is super old oh we can use it to cool my stuff i think it came with amazon prime actually this was in stock ready to go i'm confused as to like why why does it look like it's a children's toy from a dollar store because this used to be the style when it came to like hardcore pc modding i'm not even joking unlike some people i only spent 20 dollars but wait there's more look at this little dial you can go from low to high af does fit into pcie sort of so it's gonna blow air at the front what about the sun thank goodness for rog shieldings ah okay it's fine i'll do it okay um here we go ladies and gentlemen i'll put it down on the low setting oh my god and it turned off but the lights are on a little lower a little lower yep is it too much one pound works wait really it might not be enough power no it's plenty of power barely even blowing any air okay so james is done i still need to go but in the meantime we have an update over in alex land we have a hard drive detected we have an optical drive detected and theoretically we have a windows xp boot cd have you ever seen an ethernet card this small yeah the one that i'd had yeah but it's usb oh an ethernet card this is how i intend to plug it in now you'll have to give me a moment gentlemen wait what laptop so first i will be needing ah yes the vaccumed mini pcie to pcie converter wireless this oh oh wait that's not that interesting all right i need an ifixit kit as well i uh i have my sincere doubts as to whether or not this is going to work at this point we have gone from pci express 1x to mini pcie to pcmcia i just need this here here we go uh so this goes in this is pcmcia it was an old laptop expansion standard is it going this way or this way i don't actually know that way yep okay cool i like that spring action to uh usb oh my god wait what hold on ladies and gentlemen usb port on the end of the pc okay to riley he might be able to get this farther away from his pc than even yours dual pci express 16x then we've got a pci express 4x interface at the bottom of this card here that we have adapted using this card to u.2 then we've got a u.2 to m.2 board installed in that which has an m.2 2u.2 the other end like mini sas hd whatever this is called then we've got a mini sass hd to u.2 over here plugged into a board that does u.2 to pci express 4x where finally we have installed a network card now will this work i have no idea it doesn't smell like my graphics card something just burned oh yeah that smells uh yep whoa what happened i like that smell hold on a minute no i still have an entry because i did convert back to pci express at some point i can cut out some parts of my chain here my submission is a pci express to u.2 to m.2 to u.2 to u.2 to pci express 4x to network adapter get out of my way rude the disrespect well the slot that i wanted to plug into is broken because of my previous attempt i wonder if my network card is dead okay because even that didn't work this should be pretty straightforward this is just pcie too now hold on just a gosh darn minute here the whole time is it just a bad network card oh because that's why that's why it was going to set on fire right okay right all right in fear it honestly feels the same okay wait for it i don't that's because the air is going in though this is it ladies and gentlemen my time to shine it's my time in the sun you know like you know what this is like let me speak your language it's like in fortnight when you get shot and you're crawling around but you're not dead yet but there's no way you're gonna win yeah that's these two just log out nope turn your computer off i'm installing drivers as we speak i am moments away from having this fully operational okay okay my entry is this graphics card what i mean uh network card isn't it adorable oh that's cute yeah wow oh wow you didn't kill anything in putting that in yay i've got a link come get close up meanwhile over in alex land how are you doing so it seems like it is working uh here it is i think yeah uh so now we just need a program to use it you didn't even know what program so we we would need to install labview and then it should work just fine how much is a labview license i don't know okay i think it's i think we just have to do the voting now you have to vote for two people and the competition is without any real guidelines the weirdest pci or pcie device the weirdest starting with the most disappointing thing of tonight me and james with just one vote oh and then you get linus with two hey i'm on the podium baby with two yeah and then it's alex was four so we all stuck yeah hey so i'm happy to present you 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