5 weird motherboards that shouldn't exist
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Motherboards are the heart of any PC build, but while we take certain features and form factors for granted, specialty use and just plain bizarre system design means we get a few oddballs…
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0:00 Intro
1:09 Ports? Well... - Portwell PEB-9783G2AR
4:15 Gonna give me a SURNIA - Enctec Rev Q270
6:02 Zeal? Give it your all - ZA-SK1050
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13:19 Conclusion - Věda a technologie
I've seen that last mobo in action. It goes in a waterproof industrial computer with integrated touchscreen. We used them at work for displaying drilling information on oil drill rig floors. The CPU and GPU are heat sunk to the chassis. The SATA ports are broken out to a pair of 2.5 inch bays. Everything is sealed with double Orings with an IP67 rating to withstand a drirect blast from an industrial pressure washer. They worked well for our purpose with a single connector for power and networking to run back to the site office trailer.
Holy shit that’s awesome
That's awesome! I had guessed maybe some sort of medical device due to recognizing "EPIC" as the name of a medical devices company, but came to the comments looking for more. That's really cool!
Very interesting, pretty neat stuff
Oh I thought it is a motherboard for thin client devices as I have a thin client device repuposed as an OpenWRT based router which use this kind of motherboard (but without any kind of graphic hardware), and it's passive ventilation relies on customized fins.
Fantastic!!!
That first motherboard was definitely made for Taran. Finally he can have 20 macro keyboards
I have 12 ports not enough xd
usb hub
Finally, a board that makes external USB hubs unnecessary.
And why would taran need that many???
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 because he is the macro king and he wants to become the macro emperor. So he needs more macros to expand his kingdom into an empire
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I thought it was pretty shit honestly
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That first motherboard would be extremely helpful with remote astronomy observatories. I’m a deep sky imager and basically every single imager out there is using multiple large array USB hubs. Astronomy cameras are pushing big data files, especially if you’re doing lunar / solar / planetary imaging. When you add in all the other tools needed, it’s quite common to need at least 10 USB ports - even more if you’re running dual camera setups, which is really common for remote observatories.
Cool. Thanks for the educational info.
At that point a hard drive system would make better sense
I am working in a printing business running more than 7 printers... I wish i can find that mb
@@sensei3265 Aren't professional printers using UTP cable connection instead of USB?
Yooooooo another deep sky astrophotographer! Not the type I was expecting to see here lol
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as a flight simmer, I can confirm that there is no such thing as "too many USB ports"
Or enough, for that matter.
Im using like 10 right now requiring 2 usb hubs. One is usb-c thankfully for the more power /data intensive parts. And i still have so many things i can add.
Nor too much performance.
DCS makes GPU go brrrrrr
Yeah. I also have vr. Which needs USB 3.0 for the trackers and vr.
As an avid VM user with no KVM equipment, I also agree. lol
FYI: crazy usb requirements: exotic flight simulator setups with a lot of external hardware. My desktop setup for an A10 flight simulator for DCS uses (throttle, joystick, rudder pedals, 4 external usb joystick cards, 4 arduinos, 2 mfd devices, a UFC device, a trackir device, a jetseat, a mini usb keyboard, powering a monitor over usb) that's 19 right there! plus normal keyboard, mouse, headset, etc. and my sim setup is missing a TON of stuff and always looking to add more. i have 3 powered external hubs in my various parts of the sim! but yes, it is VERY niche :)
Whoa! That's cool. I'm still perfecting the code on my one Arduino with a rotary encoder used for pitch trim for MSFS2020.
What kind of hubs do you use?
how do you make a arduino keyboard with a rotary encoder?
Flight sim was my first idea too
flight simulators usually need a PC with a lot of grunt on the component side, by using that mobo with all those usb ports you are restricting yourself to... what will fit on that mobo. Plus all the usb devices will be vampiring power from your pc.
The setup you are using, which probably has a far higher quality mobo than the one with all those internal usb ports, and using powered usb hubs instead, is a far better solution.
I would presume that mobo is for something with very little bandwidth and computational requirements - cctv for instance.
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I don't think Linus could have delivered that segue with anything close to the same certainty if it was Debrand. They don't really exist, just a figment of Linus' nightmares
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Existing, which our sponsor also does well
@@Fattingly that's also my question... Lol
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That first motherboard has single pin 'Aero Connectors' - popular in the aviation and analogue broadcast industries though I've never seen them with one pin! That 20 USB board would be superb for running Open Media Vault with lots of USB drives - if you really hate yourself as much as RAID and decent throughput LOL
CZcams has ruined me because I wondered what Shadow Legends had to do with anything for the briefest of moments.
Edit: There are two types of people in the world...
Absolutely yes do more weird motherboards they're so interesting and are a great lens into the world of non-consumer computing applications
It is definitely worth revising the extreme temperature environments. In fact, a whole series with various industrial conditions affecting regular PCs is very interesting.
+1
+1
"PC In A Freezer" has always been my "Theoretical Best Performance" idea, but I haven't figured out all of the solutions yet, and I'd love to see how you guys get around certain problems (condensation, seals, etc). Please please please make one
Phase change cooling works. Insulate, seal up and you're good to go, with a ridiculously expensive and power hungry setup, but subzero is quite possible.
Sticking your PC in a freezer, depending on the freezer's quality and construction, might not result in any condensation whatsoever. It will probably kill the freezer, though.
I've run a PC outside(under shelter) in subzero temps, zero issues because no parts are ever below ambient...never ran it at below -30 C, mind you.
I had a thought like that about 30 years ago. Not long after a company called Kryotech unveiled tech similar to my idea. The product they ultimately started selling was a computer case that had a compressor in the bottom of the case. Something about vapor phase cooling or some such thing. Eventually there were ads surfacing for a highly overclocked AMD systems using one of these cases. Short lived product, but variants of the tech wended its way into climate controlled server racks.
Or use some ducting from the front of a window mount ac, set to 60 with the fan on high lol
Not a freezer but should keep it pretty chilly lol
Freezers are made to slowly cool things and then keep them cool at low energy costs. If you put something that actively keeps putting out heat, it won't be able to keep up and because it's so well insulated it'll turn into a hot box. The closest to your idea what they've already done and what's actually feasible is probably this
czcams.com/video/r7pqc26TWAg/video.html
Edit: oh, I didn't think of industrial freezers and now I see that part in the video. It'd be bomb if they revisited that yea
Actually, freezers don’t remove that much heat. A lot of it is just effective isolation.
Recently took apart an old DVR (Digital Video Recorder) - and was interested to find that it was a fairly standard looking Pentium-II motherboard, but had a riser with 24 analog BNC inputs above the standard rear panel I/O connectors.
That Portwell board would be amazing for building a Hauptwerk virtual organ setup. Those always need endless IO, the bigger the pipe organ you want to control, the more control surfaces you need to connect.
Low bandwidth, as it’s MIDI only, but you need LOTS of MIDI over LOTS of USB.
My small 3 manual setup requires 2 display ports and 8 USB ports. One for PC keyboard, one for the sound interface, one for the pedalboard, 3 for manuals (MIDI keyboards) and two for stop jambs (Novation Launchpad Minis in my case)
If you wanted to build a 5 manual organ controller with status displays and motorised control surfaces, needing somewhere between 10 to 15 USB ports is not out of the question.
Assuming that board can handle at least 128GB of RAM, or maybe up to 256GB, you could use it to build the most epic Hauptwerk setup ever.
PC in an industrial freezer sounds cool. I'm working on an automation project for the food industry and have been looking into all the issues that might cause (condensation etc.). Would love to see your insights.
I have also been working on an automation project for the food industry. I have been playing Automachef.
Hey man, do you mind if I ask what kind of automation? I’m really interested in this field in regards to the food industry
I would think your best option would be a AOC computer where all the exposed contacts and connections are encased in like a non conductive resin that would keep the moisture from making direct contact with the computer parts. Besides that you would have to start making a special housing and ensuring that it's well sealed against temperature and humidity changes.
i live in the northern US and cant wait for winter so i can stick my PC outside and break some of my old 3Dmark records lol.
Why do you want to employ even less people in the food industry by employing more computers?
Title: "5 weird motherboards that shouldn't exist"
Linus: "We're going to tell you why these motherboards should even exist in the first place."
zomg teh rei :þ
I mean, yeah...
Oh....."Proprietary Motherboards for NOT the PC-Gaming World".........YAWWWWWWN!!
BTW......SugarBear over there needs a serious Bronzablonda GEICO Bro-Stache or sumpin'. 😆😂🤣
I know right?
So... they do exactly what the title implies they're gonna do...? Stop the presses!
Outside of industrial manufacturing the most common uses I could see where you would need that many USB ports is modern arcade games like some of the fancy racing simulators you find at Dave & Buster’s, after all those things run windows and have a bunch of features that probably all plug-in with USB, any self contained kiosk that has a bunch of peripherals that plug-in via USB like for example an ATM, a self-service ordering kiosk at a fast food place where you have things like a touchscreen, a card reader, receipt printer cash dispenser etc. and then home flight simulator or American truck simulator set ups where you have a bunch of plug-in peripherals or macro set ups, think racing wheel with pedals, shifter, VR headset, custom button panels etc.
For research, we wanted to have an Android device farm with lots of devices to do testing on. Therefore, we needed lots of USB.
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Not only would I like to see more of these oddball mother boards, but I think it would be cool to see one actually built and used for whatever niche function it was made for.
gamers who use multiple mice:
For my third hand
mouses for computer mouses to distinguish it.
I just wish there was a motherboard that randomly alternates the orientation and spec of USB-A ports. That’s my kink.
ah yes imagine inverting the powerlines or switching data and power, have fun frying almost anything you plug in
I think that would increase your chance of plugging in the usb-cable at the first try.
@@ThinkingPear410 'Almost'
@@Jehty21 sorry, the laws of the universe dictates that every single time you try plugging one USB, it will always go wrong the first time :-(
A great man once told me "No motherboard is weird"
Very wise words
Thanks for quoting my words, it’s been a while 🥸
My motherboard has RGB Reambow LED, does that mean I'm gay?
@@o0o_ghost no, it means you're a gaymer
“Yes honey, your motherboard isn’t weird, it’s just…small.”
I have some weird boards too. One is sized about 12*12cm and has a CF (CompactFlash) slot, one slot for DDR2 SODIMM and space for a PCI wifi card. It also has an LVDS and inverter connector, COM-port, GPIO, 4 miniature USB2 headers and a weird 6pin power connector which I luckily had an adaptor to ATX for. Back IO is PS2, VGA, 2 USB2.0, Lan and audio ports.
The other board has a case and looks more normal but is really long and has a lot of rj45 serial ports on it. And front IO is blocked by the case in front of it. Internal it also uses a CF card for storage but supports two sata drives. I guess it was used in a industrial space.
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I would bloody well hope so since I'm looking at it
That motherboard with the CPU on the back is perfect for the passive cooling case Linus used a while back. Now. He can see and plug everything.
Wasn't it the one they used?
@@blunderingfool not sure what the exact board was but it was a standard layout board with a PCIE extension to rout the gpu to the back of the board
@@blunderingfool that's what I thought too
@@blunderingfool Not for that case. They did use the board though for a cooling experiment however.
They used a similar board a while back to watercool an air cooler: czcams.com/video/u6zsHqdNRQ8/video.html
I saw that USB board and as a musician, VR Enthusiast, and Gamer™, I was like "oooo... where can I get one?"
Facts
But, actually where can i get one?
I feel like everybody saying this does not realize that USB hubs exist.
@@TravisFabel or maybe you aren't familiar with the concept of high bandwidth USB devices and the necessity of independent controllers. 🙂
Especially considering how stingy motherboard seem to be now and days.
"Hey, I need like 8 usb ports plus maybe a couple extra for less than $200"
Motherboard manufactures "best I can do is 5"
The oddest mobo I personally owned (by accident) was a MicroBTX Pentium 4 motherboard...yes BTX.. I didn't notice the different letter when I bought it until I tried to put the thing into my computer. Thought I had bought a motherboard from the mirror universe for second before I took another look at the box. :P
Everything on the mobo is backwards. Assuming a tower case PC layout the expansion cards would end up on top instead of below the CPU area and obviously this means you couldn't put it in a normal ATX case. :P
Kinda a shame I decided not to try and build it out. The one benefit to the BTX layout is the VGA/DVI/HDMI connectors on graphics cards added to this setup wouldn't be upside down in a tower case layout. :P
The pricing for getting a BTX cooler and case made me choose not to finish that mistake. Had I at least been able to use the cooler I already got I would have considered trying to get a case to put it in. :P
Loved to death my old 3rd gen intel pc, it had a really weird dell oem motherboard and ran great for 8 years. Would love to see you guys trying to test these motherboards, even if it's just for the experience of figuring it out.
I've gotta say, that motherboard with the rear-mounted CPU looks so clean. The flat black board without any of the visible traces or tiny components on the front is really visually appealing. I'd totally be interested in one if it was possible to have the cpu be on the normal side, but leave all those small components on the back.
I think it possibly to mount in no fan case with large passive heatsink plate as backside of the case
Usually if you mount all of small components on rear you have fire hazard, because you will need to have longer stands to avoid touching the case and motherboard. Also this will misalign rear io hole. I fried some thing just by dropping cpu cooler retention bracket on top of it and it shorted with component nearby with fire but for a few seconds only.
I was thinking the same thing. It looks like a minimalist motherboard of sorts
The “ITX” board (the last one) is for a media player! Thus the two sata power jacks. Depending on the model either the HDMI or the VGA port would be concealed by the enclosure.
Thank you! I was thinking it looked kinda like a Pico ITX but the dimensions are too big :)
@Micheal Connor typically I have seen them use standard passive heatsinks as well as enclosure sunk. Depends on the model.
@@sendittozach as they are mounted on the back probably cooled via the case. AI have something similar but smaller for a router.
No, it actually is an early version of PC Engines APU, this are meant to be used as a custom setup for running pfSense Gateway.
@@sholzapfeld have two looking at me I pulled from media players. Don’t be an insufferable. “They also are used as a custom setup for running pfsense.”
Really wish you guys did another episode of this!
beautiful, creative and well thought out transitions my dude
They're kinda like Dell motherboards, except they actually have a purpose.
Dell motherboards have a purpose. To make other motherboards look good in comparison.
I work at dell and thats not funny
@@haylanhead5820 dell-ete that comment
@@haylanhead5820 if you work at dell i really want to know why they always use their own standards(or earlier the BTX standard that never went anywhere)
It makes it pretty though keeping things running for a long time(which is probably why dell does it)
Ouch, unfair comment!
0:34
That was so awkward that I thought it was gonna be a sponsor segway
Same. would have been so much better
Interesting idea about reusing old processors. As a schematic verification engineer I have seen and learned a lot about weird mobo designs, in my short working experience 80% of the boards I have seen are not for desktop or "consumer" use, most of them are for industrial work, self driving vehicles, etc.
speaking of re-hashing things, we've already seen the motherboard with the CPU socket on the back! still quite unique though, including how it can have chips from 6th gen all the way to 9th!
Linus: "This one is so tiny"
Really hard to tell when Linus is holding it.
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There are smaller ones, than that itx me, like 3.5" SBCs, usually those are neatly packed in an all aluminum casing with somtimes vesa compliant mounting. Those can be mounted inside of slot machines, gaming tables, atms and many more enclosed low power environments. They mainly come with intel n200/400/500 and rarely with z500 atoms, one bank of sodimm ddr2 or ddr3, cf socket and sata, coupled with intel gma 900 gpus. Win XP embedded is OS of choice for those 4 to 8 watt machines. Almost all of those 3.5" and smaller feature lvds headers for direct communication with displays, settings of display timing and channel width can be directly adjusted in bios, furthermore those host a slew of old style rs 232, 422, 485 and other more rare connections and protocol. If your in field and need a low power super versatile stand alone solution to get you some ground piercing radar and other equipment going, these are the devices you would want. If you look for something for win xp gaming... look somewhere else, these SBCs never have a decent gpu on them or at least an express card slot or mini pcie socket. Expect performance same as netbooks from around 2008 to 2010. Companies I know for those SBCs are iei and ibase, there are some others though.
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Please do more vids like this... I love learning about these
1:31 I can and I want! If you produce music on PC and you use external gear such as external synthesizers, effects, midi keyboards, etc., then you will quickly run out of USB ports. I believe my current motherboard has 10 USB ports, and that is not enough for my current setup, so I'm looking for a PCI USB expansion card. And it's not even because my setup is particularly big. I have 3 synthesizers, a drum machine, a sampler, an effects unit, an audio interface, a midi controller. digital recorder with stereo mic, mouse, keybouard and I need more USB ports, many more usb ports.
yep same here. currently I need multiple USB splitters. though some audio interfaces have extra line and midi inputs
As a guy that makes music and has allot of midi inputs the first board would be fantastic
Also for some USB camera security system (obviously outclassed by POE systems now)
Yeah +1 to that! All the interfaces, keyboards, drum machines, synths at once... they take a lot of inputs up!
Music instruments is Haram btw
it'd also be good for multiplayer games
@@Wahid_on_youtobe your a haram kid btw
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I remember when I first switched to hedt I was trying to get a 5820k but ended up getting a 6800k and seeing some weird motherboards trying to find something reasonably priced to pair with it. It was super cool to be switching from the 6700k to the 6800k except for realizing it hurt gaming performance. I remember I ended up getting my first ASRock board 'x99 taichi' paired with X4 Corsair LPX 3200mhz and a Sapphire Fury-X. This became x2 Rx 480s, swapped out taichi for an X99 Designare, then swapped for two Nanos. Then I sold the 6800k, X99 Designare and the ram for a major profit and switched to just released 1700x and better ram, got rid of a nano and shrunk the system twice before getting rid of the 2nd Nano. By that time I had a b350 itx and got the 2400g, populated the itx case's GPU slot with a 240mm aio and used that for a few years. Now my son is getting the 2400g but I currently have a 3900x on the board paired with an Rx 5700xt. I also have an nr200 5800x rtx 3080, an 011 mini 5900x dual 6800xt and a 5600x 6800 test bed but I'm about to move everything around again. I just need a new case and a first gen Ryzen to update an old motherboard...
I could see the last board (11:15) being in a thin client device that would be used in something like a HP t310 for the food industry like fast food displays that show orders to the staff bagging food and making food
I would love to see more "standard" motherboards with laptop CPUs on them. I prefer fanless equipment for my home servers.
There's also HM87 chipset ones that takes 4th Gen laptop CPUs.
Mind you that it's likely not worth it to buy laptop CPUs for that. It's only a good deal if you are scavenging the CPU from a broken laptop.
The first motherboard looks like it might be a specialty board for something like a security camera server. I wonder what power those type A ports deliver.
Did you watch? He went into what it was probably used for. I think the camera scenario was one of them.
Unlikely, the range of USB is simply to short (5 meters for USB 2, 3m for USB 3). Most security cameras use ordinary network cables and PoE for power.
Boards like this are used for industrial purposes and the "cameras" Linus mentioned are cameras that check parts, colors or labels in a production process.
I used a board like this once: I was working at a company that machined plastic parts and a customer - for some reason - wanted a 100% measurement and logging of each of the 5,000 parts they ordered. It took the machine about 4 minutes to produce the part, but the worker would have needed more than 10 minutes to meassure all the required values and write down the results. So we had to make an automated measuring and logging station - on a budget! We used a bunch of USB powered probes and pneumatics to move them, so the worker could place the part in the station, press a button and everything was done automatically within a few seconds. All probes were connected to a laptop with a logging software via a hub, but even though we used an "industrial grade" USB hub it was a bugfest! In theory, you can connect up to 127 devices to one port, in practice we constantly had probes that failed to activate or delivered wacky values, it was a nightmare... When the customer came back and ordered 8,000 more parts with the same requirements, we bought a board like the one in the video and it worked like a charm.
Isn't most security camera use ethernet for transmission? Some even use PoE for power.
It's the same for computer vision system.
The last two small ones seem to be meant for smaller desktops with the bigger one of the two used in ultra slim desktop computers and possibly some Mini or Tiny desktop models depending on the manufacture with the smallest one with passive cooling being most likely used in thin client style of computer desktops where it may not being needing the heavy cooling and able to get by with the passive cooling due to the low powered that it is meant for. The power jack on the smallest one would most likely use the same end as a laptop power adapter from that time period.
The first motherboard is very similar to the ones on our machines at work. We use them for our machining cells. Computer can communicate and monitor several proximity sensors for our robots and conveyors that feed our CNC Lathes.
Awesome video!!!Thanks for making it. As a full time machinist in the tool and die industry I love seeing things of a more industrial nature and odd ball use cases. There is a huge work outside of the Personal Computer.
He should do this with every pc component and then mash the fan favorites together and make an ultimate exotic pc lol
1:35 I would NEED that for my flight setup, I have about 4 panels, a collective+collective hinge, stick+base, rudder+brakes, and so on
2:00 I would use that for Audio Production... mic EVERYTHING!
I would really like them to build a custom SFF gaming machine with that custom "TV Motherboard" with the 1050ti. That would be cool.
If you still want to do it, now the same company made a version with a GTX 1650
So you can have a more powerful GPU
The USB one is for stock trading and multi-displays driven via USB 3.
ive used a small program in tandem with usb webcams to trigger wav files if a customer is looking at a particular item etc those usb ports were very useful back in the day! the more webcams you can install and run the more automated things you can do in all reality space of things
The first board could also be used in audio workstations where lots of USB MIDI devices are connected to a VST host.
Why wouldn't you just use a standard MIDI interface? You can daisy chain them forever.
Just. Buy. A. Hub.
Because there are a lot of USB MIDI devices without actual MIDI In/Out/Thru ports.
A USB hub usually causes more problems than you were bargaining for, especially if the link to the hub drops.
I've worked for livestreaming events, we used many USB devices and when a hub had to be brought in... problems were to be expected.
Sure, you can use keyboard and mouse on a hub no problem. Even simple USB MIDI keyboards are fine, just don't connect a camera with other audio interfaces over a hub.
@@widg3tswidgets416 Yeah, but like, it would be nice if you didn't need a hub. 🤷♂️
@@widg3tswidgets416 usb hubs and audio gear do NOT play well with each other
That number of USB ports could be useful for flight sim set ups, which have an absurd amount of usb connected equipment from the sticks, throttle and peddles along with any extra buttons and switch panels you may want to add
Linus, when you showed that first motherboard I IMMEDIATELY got excited because that is actually perfect for a project I'm working on, in industrial automation of course haha
I can totally understand the purpose and applications of each of those boards.
- Controlling several USB devices like in HD surveillance/streaming without IP cameras that are awful, or an array of printers.
- good design actually. I like the idea. Can be useful for a fully silent passive cooling system.
- presentation, touchscreens and more corporate uses. I can dream of this on some kind of large wacom display. not just a terminal the power of a Wyse to show powerpoints and PDFs.
- think of the terminals everywhere that requires low power to show contents or need to stay up and online 24/7 without the need to power a huge desktop CPU.
- that's an ITX board. I upgraded a NES once with an aOpen motherboard and an intel Core2Quad, and a gig of ram or something. Sata drive and DVD drives fitting perfectly inside with keeping the original aesthetics. I'm considering this one for a Sega Master System upgrade. console is dead but too beautiful to be trashed. With serial ports, perfect for retro controllers, and a hard disk full of ROMs.
hell the fact it's a low power, it will also be my home-theater PC and music device, tuned to 1.fm or some vaporwave site.
It would be cool if you could make a built for every board you show.
Honestly, for this type of video I like them even more when someone else found all the stuff and we get to see the first time Linus has ever seen any of it
Really enjoying this series of unusual/weird niche parts.
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Love that when he said at the end there was another motherboard that they wanted to show and "It only has 2 RAM slots" I immedietely looked down at my pc in shame xD
My initial thought on the Portwell was that I can see wanting to use this board on industrial control PCs... There are a number of situations where I had to use USB dongles when I would have preferred not to do that. I'm glad I watched this video. I do have a few situations where I'd probably use this board.
Hahaha funny how I could relate to this video! I had to work with a lot of specific hardware similar to these boards over the years as an Embedded Systems Engineer. Nice video LTT. I love this kind of fun nerd facts content.
As a content creator and streamer I feel like I need all those USB Ports
Wwwwwwwwhat are ya plugging in besides webcam, keyboard and mouse??? And headphone/set and microphone (or alternatively those 2 connected to an amplifier)???
I mean usb hubs are pretty cheap
@@DeadpoolPlayz but in terms of quality, I dunno...
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Multiple capture cards and streamdecks more than likely.
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Well you named 5 right there which is already a lot of USB Real Estate. I like having a wired and wireless keyboard at the ready, my android connected for charging and file transfer, a stream deck, capture card, when the 3DS was supported I also had my 3DS Capture Card, and I find myself randomly plugging in other things from time to time
Motherboard: has 20 usb ports
Buildzoid: Take my money
My PC is used for gaming and productivity. I might not be able to fill 20 USB ports, but I could get pretty close. It's got nothing to do with the speed of connections, but the amount of hardware (particularly in music creation, DJ'ing and illustration).
Lets' see...
Audio interface, midi keyboard, midi drumkit, one of those snooker ball sized Kensington trackballs, mouse, keyboard, several dongle's for software, Wacom tablet, 2 VKB Flightsticks, Xbox Elite game pad, external HDD's, USB sticks for quick air gap transfers, printer, VR Headset, camera, DJ stuff, mixer etc... then there's all the microcontroller stuff I play around with. So yeah, easily done ;)
"How many USB ports are we gonna have boss?"
"Yes"
".....Sure thing boss!"
@Russell White Can relate
I am also on vr and need 4 ports bc of fbt. Then mouse keybord webcam iluminated mousepad monitor steering wheel and flightstick that makes 11. I also have quite a lot of external drives and like to stuff with arduinos. It dosn't work without usb hubs i can see myself tanking 20 usb ports as a selling point.
boss??
you play games, end boss?
@Russell White 2014 VR you need?
That motherboard is actually great for mining
"If it was a system of the body it would be kind of like your circulatory system and your nervous system"
So I would have to feed it blood thinners and migraine meds?
Yes.
Dude... YOU LOVE COMPUTERS !
You are passionate about it. I work as an IT and play around computers since a lot of time and *i have never been so enthusiastic about computers as you*
You have my many many thumbs UPs
Weird motherboards are interesting. Extreme motherboards would be interesting, too. I'd take a video about that (I'll search to see if one exists, too).
Man, I love weird motherboards and bizarre tech in general.
cases that fit with these boards are usually also interesting
The one with lots of USB is probably set up so the end device doesn't have to buffer before sending data. It may bring together a number of sensors etc as mentioned. It's definitely a factory floor type of unit.
The Zeal with LVDS and Inverter is not meant to be in a box - it's meant to be IN a display. The inverter drives a florescent lamp (backlight). The LVDS will connect directly to the flat panel usually via a custom or quasi-custom cable. You don't want either of these running long. The LPC may be so the unit can be factory tested. The unit would probably sit in an attractant, tourist self-help guide or other touch-screen full-fledged computer and serve as the MB. IDK if it's papered for it, but it could even be for a gambling machine with the diag port so a gaming commission can verify it has not been tampered with. Last bit = total guess.
I have a lot of USB stuff - racing wheel, joystick, flight rudder peddle, 3 external USB hard drives, Keyboard and mouse, Logitech G13 keypad, Shuttle Xpress controller, Audiobox external audio interface, and midi keyboard. All plugin to my computer - and as such I always wish I had more USB ports directly on the motherboard.
Yes, I currently use hubs - but half of the time they seem to zap speed, or keep disconnecting my attached USB stuff, etc.
I think "that shouldn't exist" is a bit of an overstep into the clickbait territory. Kinda contradicts the content, where you go and describe the exact reasons for these boards to exist and be used in various specific ways. That being said, you guys are the masters of algorithm, so if that's what needed - so be it.
The content of the video is the exact opposite it isn't just misleading clickbait it is actually 100% dishonest.
@@zignitz I wouldn't say that it's 100% dishonest, we are still being shown 5 weird motherboards, it's just I totally expected "look how hilariously bad and nonsensical these products are" kind of content and instead got "look at those niche products you probably wouldn't want in your average PC build".
@@user-br9th4ei6v "5 weird motherboards that shouldn't exist" was the title "Why these 5 design specific motherboards exist" was the content. I suppose weird could be used between them but I consider that pretty inaccurate too.
I love learning about odd pc parts and why they exist, you should do something like this again
Definitely more vids like this on odd ball hardware!
Everytime a clever segway makes me smile Linus gets a like....its pretty much everytime keep it up guys!
3:36 this should be the future considering larger and larger graphics cards sags or gets removed from shippping. additionally, cards mounted to steel or aluminum could allow easier mounting of CPU coolers to graphics cards
Wasn't there once a server motherboard with 6 CPU sockets? This was back when CPUs normally only had like 2 cores.
6 SOCKETS???
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 Yup. Server boards with 4 sockets were common, but there was at least 1 with 6 sockets.
@@SmartassX1 4?!?!?! I THOUGHT IT WAS 2 AT MOST
@@shanedoesyoutube8001 You have to realize this was before Multi-core CPUs were designed. Servers (and even mainframes) at the time still needed to have several CPU operations going simultaneously. Most commercial designs had 4 CPU sockets and custom designs for mainframes pretty much was only limited to size.
zeal all, would make a good media center pc, plus the LVDS output is really cool as you can drive a panel directly, the other industrial board would be good for CNC stuff.
AH the things you can get with embedded and all the fun you can do.
I Know Some Flight Simmers need a Motherboard with more than 10+ USB ports for all the instruments and things to connect.
1 stick, 1 throttles, 1 pedals, 1 for track IR, 1 for autopilot panel, 1 for Radio panel, 1 for Fuel control panel, 1 for compass, 1 for attitude indicator, 1 for altimeter, 1 for artificial horizon and so on
OMG, I'm in love with the one which comes with 20 USBs. It's so hard to find a motherboard with at least 10 USBs nowadays and you have to pay for it a lot more for all the other features you might not even need at all. I personally need 10 USB ports at very least: mouse, keyboard, webcam, usb mic, music player doc station, xbox remote controller usb dongle, music midi keyboard, monitor, ups, printer - and that's not all. And most motherboards nowadays comes with like 6 USB ports at very best.
Buy a hub
@8:00 LOL I love that his only reaction to being called out for dropping things is to wonder if the script was written for someone else. :D
Probably best sponsor segue so far
I would love to see some special case for the Q270 Surnia.
You could build a system where the CPU cooler is just a huge heatsink milled out of aluminium, stretching over the whole back of the Board.
It could one side of the Case at the same time, making it a super slim (in case you wont put in a pcie card) PC, with passive cooling.
i enjoyed jakes bit! he's actually a very competent explainer xD was just nice to see him in a more active role rather than a "OH LINUS WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS" role
If only we haven't already seen all but two of them on there own videos.
6:03
This one seems like a cool thing to use in a luggable type PC, like a modern Amstrad PPC512.
Regarding that first one, when I was a kid, that's what I assumed all PC I/Os were headed to. Instead of varying ports for different purposes, we'd have just a solid block of USB ports at the back, since USB can replace nearly everything. Little did I know we'd just end up having 3-4 ports, and a fancy hub at most. Laptops especially wouldn't have like a dozen USB ports at the back, because you'd never actually need to plug in that many things anyway.
That might be the best sponsor segue in years! Can’t remember the last time one made me crack up lol
Id love a in depth video or like a livestream that shows step by step how to put a pc together, i know there are plenty of those kind of vids like that out there but the way linus describes things is more understandable, im hoping to be getting a pc soon and im not to sure at all how to put one together and i wanna try putting one together before I consider buying a prebuilt one
czcams.com/video/2XGgmkiw2tU/video.html
This guy put together a vey well done guide on how to build a PC. He explains tons of things, even down to the noises that you might hear when assembling the parts and to not be scared of them. I've never built a PC before, but watching his vid gave me confidence that I could do it if I had the tools!