I got this.(laughs happily)- I don't know.There's no instructionand there's nothing...It's a bit of a prototype.So there's no arrows or anything.Did you open the back?- I did, it kinda fell off.(laughs happily)- Okay.- So I think I'm in good shape,but it is also quite possiblethat I will end up calling you.- Sure, yeah.It's small form factor.That's kind of the main hard part thoughis finding those tabs.So as long as you were able to get it offthen you should be okay for the most part.- I always get it off.Okay, bye.- Okay.- You know what though,now that we've got it open,there's some really cool stuff in here

that we should take a closer look at.First of all, this has got to bethe flattest display portcable that I have ever seen.And if I had to guess,I would say that this isnot meant to be like desktopfull size display port cable.This looks more like it'ssome kind of ribbon cableused for display portsignaling in like laptopsor integrated devices,but that they have just...You could see probably soldered,a full size display part connection to,and then heat shrink wrapped themselves.And this is another cool thing.Apparently this legdesign is patented by themand I can see why they would've done that.It's actually super cool.When you press the button, okay,you can see the teeth loosen up.So that's what allows thefeet here to move freely.Okay.And as soon as you let gothe teeth lock the feet into place.And they're not infinitely adjustable,but from the outside the adjustmentsare so fine thathonestly, I couldn't tell.I had to open it up and lookat the spacing of the teethto find out what exactly theadjustment granularity was.All right, we're going full board.1000 watt power supply.For our motherboard, we'vegone with a B660-I Gaming Wi-Fifrom Asus ROG Strix lineup.Why this?Because it has everything we need.DRAM DOTA 2s, one onthe front with cooling,one on the back with not as much cooling.Ample VRMs for the Core i7that we're gonna be installing.I guess they expected me to take the more reasonablepath for the build.Team couldn't decide whatthey wanted me to build today.Something that makes senseor something that isabsolutely balls to the wall.So we've got Corsair Vengeance DDR54400 megatransfer per second,which doesn't sound that impressiveuntil you learn that it is a CL-36 kit.Which yes, for those of you whohave not been paying close attention,for DDR5 is pretty darn tight.For cooling, we've gonewith the LGA 1700 versionof the Noctua NH-L9i.That's the thing aboutbuilds like this is that,while they can be big,you don't have a lot ofdepth to them, right,because you're tryingto make them packable.You know what, I bet that'swhy we went with the Core i5'cause those higher end Alder Lake chipsreally do spit out a lot of heat.Lemme tap this.I assure you that was notthe fault of the tool,that was the operator.You can still safelysignup for a notificationfor when the LTT Storescrewdriver is going to arrive.There are different colors by the way.So you can see thismotherboard slides exactlyin between these rails here,there's no room to move.A word of advice for eBlaztr,you guys do not actually want to targettolerances that tight for mass production.That will be a problem for you.Man, this is gonna look awesome.The length for my ethernet run is perfect,lands right in the two and a half gig porton my mother here.See that.But what I would'vethought they would've doneis some kind of lower profile boot hereespecially if they're DIYingtheir own cables and stuff.Curiously, we actuallyare not gonna be relyingon any of the rear IO of the motherboard.We're actually just going to useall of the front IO headers.Man this is actually gonnabe a super easy build.What were those guys worried about?They think COVID addled my brain,can't build computers anymore.I remember when I was the tech tip man.While we're connecting the modular cablesto the power supply,I am extremely pleasedto bring you guys finally the answer

to what this random connector hanging offthe 24 pin cable is.Silverstone emailed me when Iexpressed confusion about itin December of 2020 and said,\\

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Oh, no.Whoa, I am cursed today.What is up fellow gamers.So far everything Iknow about the eBlaztr,I learned from thissingle picture on Reddit.And the fact that it comeswith a gigantic hiking-style backpack.But I'm excited becauseif this is the futureof portable gaming,then it looks pretty good to me, sort of.Okay, this one's gonna be complicated.And it's gonna be broughtto you by our sponsor.ViewSonic.Their elite XG321UG mini-LED monitoroffer is a 4K native resolution IPS panelwith 144 hertz refresh rate.It comes with G-sync ultimate R4and a quantum dot color layer.So it's great for bothgamers and creators.Learn more at the link below.(bright music)Whether it's the illnessfog or something else,truthfully, I'm a bit confused right nowbecause they sent me two graphics cards,two power supplies andreally no instructions.So why don't we begin byopening up the eBlaztr.Wait!Dear Linus, congratulations.You've been chosen to do the eBlaztr test.Put together an eBlaztr without a manual.This is totally notbecause I haven't createdan English manual yet.Oh crap!It's a backpack mountablefull freaking computer.What could go wrong?First thing I did was lay thething down on the monitor.Okay, hold on.I apparently get one small tutorial,how to put the legs on.Okay.(laughs happily)This is an early prototype.This is their low volume production.They have apparently actually shippedsome units to individuals.So it's 3D printed, butthey are apparently workingon ejection moving partsfor here, here here, here,here, here, and here.And I mean, as it is, it worksBy now, it should be more clearwhat we're looking at herebut we still don't knowwhy we are looking at here.According to the creator, Jonan Bahnsen,he had grown tired of thecompromises of gaming laptops,high prices, poor thermals, and of course,lower performance comparedto gaming desktops.So why not have somethingthat achieves all of that?I mean, if the batterylife is gonna be negligibleand you're gonna need a giant bagto cart the thing around anyway,you might as well save a buckand get the customizabilitythat a desktop affords.Of course, the journeyfrom that concept to herehas been complicated.And my journey fromthis to a built computeris apparently going tobe very complicated.I should give Plouffe a call.Maybe he can clarify whyI have two power suppliesand two graphics cards to start with.Okay.Truthfully, I have donealmost nothing so farbut the reason I calledis that I wanted to geta better understandingof the parts you sent me.I don't see a CPU, but Ihave two graphics cardsand two power supplies.Is this is some kind ofspecial magic computer?- No, no, no.No, no, no.There should be a CPU withthe memory and the SSD.- Oh, you're right, I see it.- Yeah, it's in there.Did you get it open?- Well, you haven't addressedmy two power suppliesand two graphics cards yet.- Oh, sorry.Yeah.So basically I was thinking of doinglike an average gamerbuild 751 and a 3070,but it can technically fita three slot card up to 13 inches.So there's a 3080 Tiand a 1000 watt power supply in there,if you wanted to go that route.- Wait, so you asked me,have I gotten it open yet,because you are expecting thatto be a challenge, I suppose?- Maybe.- You know what, I thinkyou underestimate me.I don't want your lifeline.Goodbye.- Okay.See ya.- We got this.Whoa, I started taking offscrews at the top and...Okay.This is neat.We've got some IO pass throughhere, network, front audio.So that's your headphone microphone jack.The two USB twos, two USB...Where do you plug in display?(chuckles shortly)Here's the back.So it seems to be stamped aluminum,which is good because it's lightweightbut don't expect it to be thestrongest thing in the world,you know what I mean.I actually don't see any case fans.So I guess it better performlike an open air test bench,'cause it sure won't performlike a case with cooling fans.These are locks.Okay, well that one came off.Okay.These appear to be quad SSD mounts.No shortage of storagecapacity in this thing.This bracket here seems tobe designed to accommodatepretty much any AC to DC powerbrick that you could requirefor what seems to be a24 inch gaming monitor,Shark gaming.Not a common brand here in North America,so I don't know anythingabout this particular model.But I'd say that as longas you don't have asuper high profile brick.Yeah, it should probably fit in here.As for how you would handleplugging into a monitorthat does not require an AC to DC adapter.Yes, there does seemto be a way to do that.You can either come downhere or it looks like this...Okay.This piece can be permanently popped out.It's actually still held in placewith these little spot welds here.So I don't wanna mess with that right now.Hey, yeah, I've gotanother question for you.- Okay.- What is it that made you thinkI wasn't gonna be able to handle this?I got this.(laughs happily)- I don't know.There's no instructionand there's nothing...It's a bit of a prototype.So there's no arrows or anything.Did you open the back?- I did, it kinda fell off.(laughs happily)- Okay.- So I think I'm in good shape,but it is also quite possiblethat I will end up calling you.- Sure, yeah.It's small form factor.That's kind of the main hard part thoughis finding those tabs.So as long as you were able to get it offthen you should be okay for the most part.- I always get it off.Okay, bye.- Okay.- You know what though,now that we've got it open,there's some really cool stuff in herethat we should take a closer look at.First of all, this has got to bethe flattest display portcable that I have ever seen.And if I had to guess,I would say that this isnot meant to be like desktopfull size display port cable.This looks more like it'ssome kind of ribbon cableused for display portsignaling in like laptopsor integrated devices,but that they have just...You could see probably soldered,a full size display part connection to,and then heat shrink wrapped themselves.And this is another cool thing.Apparently this legdesign is patented by themand I can see why they would've done that.It's actually super cool.When you press the button, okay,you can see the teeth loosen up.So that's what allows thefeet here to move freely.Okay.And as soon as you let gothe teeth lock the feet into place.And they're not infinitely adjustable,but from the outside the adjustmentsare so fine thathonestly, I couldn't tell.I had to open it up and lookat the spacing of the teethto find out what exactly theadjustment granularity was.All right, we're going full board.1000 watt power supply.For our motherboard, we'vegone with a B660-I Gaming Wi-Fifrom Asus ROG Strix lineup.Why this?Because it has everything we need.DRAM DOTA 2s, one onthe front with cooling,one on the back with not as much cooling.Ample VRMs for the Core i7that we're gonna be installing.Did I say Core i7?I meant Core i5-12600K.I guess they expected meto take the more reasonablepath for the build.Team couldn't decide whatthey wanted me to build today.Something that makes senseor something that isabsolutely balls to the wall.So we've got Corsair Vengeance DDR54400 megatransfer per second,which doesn't sound that impressiveuntil you learn that it is a CL-36 kit.Which yes, for those of you whohave not been paying close attention,for DDR5 is pretty darn tight.For cooling, we've gonewith the LGA 1700 versionof the Noctua NH-L9i.That's the thing aboutbuilds like this is that,while they can be big,you don't have a lot ofdepth to them, right,because you're tryingto make them packable.You know what, I bet that'swhy we went with the Core i5'cause those higher end Alder Lake chipsreally do spit out a lot of heat.Lemme tap this.I assure you that was notthe fault of the tool,that was the operator.You can still safely signup for a notificationfor when the LTT Storescrewdriver is going to arrive.There are different colors by the way.So you can see thismotherboard slides exactlyin between these rails here,there's no room to move.A word of advice for eBlaztr,you guys do not actually want to targettolerances that tight for mass production.That will be a problem for you.Man, this is gonna look awesome.The length for my ethernet run is perfect,lands right in the two and a half gig porton my mother here.See that.But what I would'vethought they would've doneis some kind of lower profile boot hereespecially if they're DIYingtheir own cables and stuff.Curiously, we actuallyare not gonna be relyingon any of the rear IO of the motherboard.We're actually just going to useall of the front IO headers.Man this is actually gonnabe a super easy build.What were those guys worried about?They think COVID addled my brain,can't build computers anymore.I remember when I was the tech tip man.While we're connecting the modular cablesto the power supply,I am extremely pleasedto bring you guys finally the answerto what this random connector hanging offthe 24 pin cable is.Silverstone emailed me when Iexpressed confusion about itin December of 2020 and said,\"Hey it's to allow the powersupply to detect voltage drop\"and ripple changes fasterto improve voltage regulation\"and ripple and noise performance.\"You know, I'm actuallyliking this thing so far.Instead of screwing into the topof the PCI rear bracket herelike we would normally do.The way they have it set up,you actually screw in from the bottomand it clamps it from the other side.I actually also do not thinkthat this is the best card designfor this particular chassis.You can see that that fan back thereis gonna be completely suffocating.Well, not quite completely,but nearly completely.I don't know if thiscard's a very good idea.This could be another spot where eBlaztrcould benefit from havingsome additional meshbecause almost any GPUis gonna be designedto drop fresh air from thefront of the card like this.So you're gonna have that mesh cover hereand anything that you caneven passively get rid ofout the back of a card oraround the bottom of a card,that's gonna be a good thing.Yeah, it might heat up the backof your monitor a little bitbut that's a sacrificeI'm willing to make.I'd rather a cool GPand a hot monitor thanthe other way around.Yeah, this is a moretraditional style card.What's funny about this one thoughis it's actually a taller than usual.I don't know if eitherof the GPS they sent meare compatible, Brandon.Now you're cooking with GPU.Do we have any clearance issues?No, okay.It can accommodate high profile cards.It feels like a high quality riser,doesn't say anywhere that it's gen four,but hopefully it is.I moved their weird 3Dprinted PCI slot coverfrom the outer slot to the inner one.And the reason I did thatwas because I was hopingto actually still getaway with the 3080 Ti.And I'm hoping to do thatby having enough spacebehind the card, see that,that it can kind of get rid ofsome of that hot air somehow,hopefully, maybe but withoutdrawing all of it into the CPU.There's a little sandwich there.See that.Oh, well now you can see it.Oh crap!Man, how am I making this worse?The thing is, I'm not sayingthis is any less securethan a regular case.In fact, I would say it'sthe opposite of that.The fact that you've gotall of the load being bornvertically like this meansis probably pretty good.The issue is that because the focusof this product is portabilityand like this could be thrownaround in a backpack or something,I would like to see somethingbracing the back of the cart.That's awesome.I mean, considering...How long did this even take?This took like an hour to filmand sitting here talking to you guysinstead of being focused on buildingand I have no instructions.Now that I've had it fall apart on me,I think I have a much better understandingof how this is supposed to work.This clip kinda like holdsit and then the top pieceand the other one kindacover it or something.Wait, you told me to post itbefore closing it and I didn't do it.- No, you didn't.- This thing looks so awesome, Brandon.Did you even get like glimmer shot of it?That looks amazing.Now it's all closed up, it looks sick.You should just get someBrandon-ness going on.(bright music)You ready?Classic.You close the panels before you...What is that?Yeah, what are you doing?Why are you mad?Okay, is it this four pin?Never plugging in that stupidfour pin connector again?Well, did I plug it intothe wrong spot or something?No.See that's why I gotconfused, Silverstone.It's definitely heavier now.You know to the credit, this hinge design,I mean it's pretty goodconsidering how heavy it isbut in an earthquakeyou definitely notice.There's not much in the wayof postcodes on this board'cause it's ITX, but itlooks like it's a VGA codeand it didn't take me long to figure outthat I did make a small boo boo.I never actually plugged in the PCA Riser.It'll come, I'm closing it up.The system has posted in safe mode.It might be because you are an idiot.All right.I don't really like this straight up thingthat we got going onhere, but I can fix that.Okay, it's definitely...They make these adjustmentslook very easy in the video.Maybe it's just a matter of likenot being jacked enough,but that is not that easy.I do wish this was alittle more attractive,if I have to see it above my...It kind of makes it feel like the monitorhas gigantic like madefor children Style Beso,like I expect to see a hugeVtech logo here you know.Technically nothing would prevent youfrom putting a bigger monitor on it.Yeah, it's just VISAR.But good luck fitting it intothe backpack when you're done.Oh, we're coming back to thebackpack, don't you worry.Shark gaming, my first impressionof you is not favorable.It looks like a TN panel.Thankfully it's 240Hertz, but I was right.This is in fact a TN panel.So I'm tryna run a torture test here.Oh wow.CPU package 100%.I can definitely feel anaura of warmth around it.That poor CPU cooler isnot getting fresh airbut honestly I feellike that might be a bitof a configuration error on our partbecause we could have easily puta higher profile cooler on here,and then I don't think itwould be an issue at all.It would do two things.It would A, be a bigger heat sinkand B, allow the fan onthe top to draw fresh airin from outside the caserather than taking that recirculated airfrom our RTX 3080 founders,that's blowing a lot of hotair around inside the case.Did I remember to put thermal compound on?Brandon, did you ever actuallysee me put it on the CPU?- No.- Oh my God, do I haveto pull the whole thing?Oh no.It's definitely not myfinest tech tips moment.You know what, I got thermalcompound all over myselfand I was getting it all over thingsand I was like kind of annoyed.So I think I got a littledistracted at the time.Let's find out.Oh, I did put thermal compound on.- Well, there ya go.That's good.- Well, why is that at a100 freaking degrees then?I even got a pretty good spread.Like that's fine.Now my install is corrupt.- What's going on?- I don't know.Does this case work...Yes, it holds hardware.Should we have put aslightly bigger cooler on it?Yes.Would I recommend using a founder's card?Probably not.I would probably lean towardsa different style of card,but none of that means that this conceptdoesn't work and thatyour windows will break.What I wanna know nextis how's the transportationlike in the backpack.Let's not attempt its repairsbut otherwise I thinkwe're just gonna move on.Hardware info is gone.Brandon, I had hardware infoon the desktop, it's gone.Prime95 was the last thing I installed.I installed Pro Market Hardware infobefore I installed Prime95.Prime95 is gone.The actual executable is gone.Is this part of therepair process, Microsoft,you just remove all the last...?I mean it's kind of smart actually.Yeah, I'm at 55 degrees at idle right now.The GPU's not even doing anything.We can't even blame theGPU spitting hot airall over the place.And we're pretty muchreaching equilibrium here.So our RTX 3080 Ti is performingexactly as we'd expect.And in spite of all of thatheat being thrown aroundour CPU temps actually haven't changed.We're still sitting ataround anywhere from 50 to...Actually yeah, they're allsitting around 50 degreeson all the P course.Wow, I haven't looked at this gameon a TN monitor in a while.It's not better.(bright music)Let's just put it in the backpack.None of it has anythingto do with the case.I will give you my personalLinus tech tips guarantee.Now another thing thateBlaztr wanted to make clearis that this is not thefinal form for their backpackand I should certainly hope not.It's really not anything specialand the zippers broken.Also speaking of zippers,there's an exposed zipperboth here and here,meaning that there will always be a zipperup against your panelwhich is not somethingthat I would recommend.Is this really portable?Is this a competitor for a gaming laptopfor someone who landsa lot or whatever else.Right now, my gut feeling is,well, I don't know you guys.But let's put it on the back,let's cinch up the waist strapsand we'll see if my feelings change.Like I said, this zipper is broken,so I can't actually do it up.This feels a little sketchy.For a very specific customer, yeah,I could see a totalable,'cause it's not just the case, right?Like that's the thing you gotta remember.I could see a totalableall in one gaming machineactually making a ton of sense.Compared to other gaming AIOsbecause you can build it yourself,it's price competitive andinfinitely customizable.But I don't think thisone is designed for me.I just am not the target market.What I am is a person who willtell you about our sponsor.Micro Center.Micro Center is one of the best placesto shop for desktops,laptops, computer components,monitors, TVs, network equipmentbasically all your technology needs.Get the best prices andselection on computer hardwareand everything else technologyat one of Micro Center's25 locations across the US.New Micro Center customerscan get $50 off select CPUslike AMD's Ryzen 5800Xor Intel's i9-12900K in storeonly no purchase 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