I Tried Gaming ON A NAS...

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

The input glitch is not because the HID driver is ass, but actually becuase it thinks your mouse is a touchpad. One of the “features” of it is it disables all mouse control while pressing keys so that you don’t accidentally click stuff while typing and your hands are over the hypothetical trackpad. Obviously this feature is dumb and quite archaic but turning it off can be quite the hassle, sometimes requiring you to edit a hidden registry entry. I’ve struggled with this problem for ages when running windows boot camp on my macbook

[@AverageMichaelJordans]

that's something you can disable under "touchpad settings", at least in 10 and 11. With how much jank there already is tho, it wouldn't be surprised if the touchpad settings are hidden by windows

[@revolver265]

@@AverageMichaelJordans sometimes you can only get it down to very low touch rejection and it still locks up. Then you gotta go and do the registry tweak OP mentioned anyways. W10/W11 Settings jank is awful.

[@meowritz]

Next time, gaming on a Samsung smart fridge

[@mr_jerryrune]

i jail broke my fridge and i play fortnite on it, no cap 😅

[@bigtitmaster]

not hard. its a giant ipad bassivly

[@Collin_J]

​@@mr_jerryrune lmao does it have Bluetooth? Can you connect a controller. I'm suddenly very invested in this idea

[@iamzeyrox01]

Naah it should be playing doom on my samsung smart fridge

[@arch1107]

i dont want dawid go crazy with custom roms and custom google apps, just lets stay in pc hardware only

[@10010Linus]

11:11 "you can game on an ass, apparently" 11:22 "i wouldnt recommend going out and buying an ass for gaming" 11:27 "you know, if you already happen to own an ass with an HDMI port you can game on it" 14:34 "i guess you can kind of game on an ass" - subtitles 2023

[@kevinthecleric]

😂

[@itsdeonlol]

This is why I love Dawid!!! He is always trying the impossible!

[@Adrianwe44]

Or the fun and stupid 😂

[@fteoOpty64]

Yeah, with a seemingly idiotic approach that is not at all dumb. The only thing missing is that "sinister laugh" when the build is done and works properly!. Entertaining alright.

[@Shauryaaya]

this fucking Nas is more powerful than my laptop that I use as my main computer, the i3 3217u 😭

[@rem792]

I think this NAS is doing the rounds, I've seen other people making gaming videos on it

[@VisibleReality]

I doubt plugging a GPU into that PCIe slot would have worked anyway, they probably are just using the connector for 4 separate SATA connections instead of an actual PCIe link

[@crenn6977]

Came to say the same thing

[@marcogenovesi8570]

yes it's just used as connector for the sata vertical daughterboard, very common in NAS

[@HusanSingh]

Here we go again on yet another horrifically beautiful setup

[@TheGameBench]

For the record, Cat5e supports 2.5Gb and unless you're trying to do a run over 350 feet, it's more than fine.

[@lonzodaman]

Absolutely, he called it a Cat5 cable, which is a huge difference to Cat5e.

[@daviddebroux4708]

@@lonzodaman I was like "BROSEPH IT'S A CAT 5e CABLE, THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. IT ACTUALLY ENABLES GIGABIT ETHERNET CONNECTIONS BRO" And he called those USB 3.0 ports "USB 2.0" I'm like "THE PORTS ARE FUCKING B L U E -"

[@obnoxiousthegod]

no idea why but i’ve had cat5e cables perform rly bad even rly short cables

[@lonzodaman]

@@obnoxiousthegod Now that's really odd, they should do well. Maybe they are of really low quality and shouldn't be called Cat5e in the first place? I for myself never had any issues with stock Cat5e cables, they do well in a Gigabit network with expected speeds and I have used lengths upto 30 meters.

[@MrHendrikje]

@@daviddebroux4708 Well.. It's nice that they are blue, but that doesn't matter. ASUSTOR is a reputable brand so those are probably actually USB 3.0 but I have seen cables and devices tht have "USB 3.0" but are actuall USB 2.0 or even 1.0. This is a bigger issue for USB-C though where colour coding isn't a thing anymore for some reason. Oh then you have brands like Razer who are allowed to make them Razer Green, a few other brands also does this. USB colours are getting almost as confusing as the Spec it self.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Dawid, Kryzzp from zWORMz was sent one of the Asustor NAS aswell, he gamed on his PC with the games stored on the NAS & it worked well for most games with only a few having stuttering issues, I thought you were going to do a Similar video with the title "I Tried Gaming ON A NAS..." but in True Dawid form you did not disappoint as you took that to the EXTREME! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You are Truely a LEGEND! in the Tech Tuber space.

[@JimboSliceee23]

Haha i just watched Kryzzps video before this too. Thought this was gonna be the same thing, but was not as you said xD:

[@tux9656]

The automatically generated closed captions! "If you already happen to own an ass with an HDMI port you can game on it" 🤣🤣🤣

[@Leonvolt28]

6:12 You could use a graphics card if you can boot from a usb connected windows to go ssd. That would be really interesting. You can create a windows to go ssd using Rufus

[@xosadboy5687]

Yes. Or an external ssd, instead of the usb (I believe it will also work)

[@bulutcagdas1071]

I regularly use Ubuntu on a stick and let me tell you that booting and using an operating system via USB today is slowness comparable to using Windows 98 on a 386 processor.

[@docrx1857]

@@bulutcagdas1071 I dont think he is suggesting using a thumb drive or "stick" he is saying to use an external SSD attached by USB3.

[@krlucid_]

@@bulutcagdas1071 maybe on usb2 but ive used windows 10 64 bit on a external usb 3 ssd and it is very snappy

[@bulutcagdas1071]

@@krlucid_ Oh an SSD would be fine for sure. An improvement over a regular thumb drive :D

[@szymonzak6681]

cant you use one of the usb ports for storage instead of the pcie, that way you could use a gpu?

[@SkepTones]

As a fellow Hoosier, it was pretty arousing to hear you shout out Indianapolis! I can't wait for the new Microcenter to open up 😁

[@robertwattner]

You're an absolute wizard of casually sneaking statements both wildly inappropriate and perfectly harmless into common situations.

[@Jay_the_Caffeinator]

Awesomesauce video, Dawid! Now I can justify getting myself a NAS. To get my HDDs out of my tower so I can water cool??!!

[@darkangelo]

I game off Synology NAS and it performs fantastic! I have a F1 raid of 3 SSD drives on synology and it works as good if not better than my nvme on my pc. Of course i am mapping the steam folder from the nas and playing on my pc

[@Paperghost]

What an utter waste of time! I bloody loved it! The mad things that Dawid tries brighten up my day. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@TaQa04]

I cannot tell you how excited I am for Microcenter to come to Indianapolis. It's been since Fry's Electronics (which officially died 2 years ago, but died in spirit like 8 years ago) since that city has had even a borderline shoppable electronics store.

[@pumachomper6456]

I don't know much about pc's. All of my gaming pc's have been pre-built, but I love watching and listening to this man talk about stuff ,I have no clue about. Thank you, you are awesome.

[@achilleasfloudas1972]

Dawid: I will game on a NAS. Me: What is a NAS again?

[@JeremiahSpoon]

I ran Windows for YEARS off an external USB3 drive on an iMac. If you try that, you’d free up the PCIe slot for a video card! Your problems with clicking might be due to not enough power over the usb ports.

[@fedfed96]

Exactly what I thought

[@donottouch9110]

This man has never heard of windows server in his life if he decided to make this video

[@hayzeproductions7093]

Literally have a NAS to store all gaming data on steam, just on a Linux VM with ISCSI enabled, connect that drive using ISCSI in windows.. It works relatively well, but I would suggest making sure the heart of your network is up to par. Working on a 4Gb/s LACP Trunk with a switch supporting it in order to achieve 4gbs between router and switch, from there it don't matter if both NAS and PC have a 1Gb/s ethernet cable. You just want to be sure connectivity is covered for your entire LAN for other things such as users streaming videos on your home network.

[@Profielzondernaam]

I never knew that a PC could do more then 10FPS! getting myself a NAS.

[@CoolTI-Daniel]

But could it boot windows from USB to give space for a GPU? :P I need to know this as I feel it's a promising gaming setup. (In all seriousness, that's one awesome NAS... 2x 2.5Gbit and a "gaming" capable cpu is impressive for it's intended use)

[@GhostRyderFPV]

It makes me wonder if I should be repurposing my old systems instead of going the Synology route for Plex... Anyone know what this NAS is running for an OS out of the box?

[@jaykoerner]

​​​@@GhostRyderFPV no clue, but you could just install freenas on any system made roughly after 2010 and that would do the job just fine, that what most people do when going about a diy nas, a old workstation is 100$ or less for even a old 6 core system with ht

[@TheDiner50]

@@GhostRyderFPV Repurpos. Anything not brand new or to exotic is excellent for storage duty. If the hardware is known to be stable and reliable it probably is far cheaper and better then some Synology crap. Go watch Gamers Nexus videos about there solutions. Even LTT have made a ok video about reusing a old pc. There is just problems ahead with relying on some company that want you to pay for the hardware and yet threat you as if your paying for a cloud service. Security and reliability is horrid on paid NAS solutions. Cloud storage beats buying some brands bottom of the barrel bin computer. That care more about you paying up! I do not even care to use freenas and rather go with OpenZFS running under FreeBSD or Linux. My old Intel i5 2400 system is not at all under warranty or anything but still believe not locking the drives to a single system and OS is a good idea. I can in a pinch get at my backup drives data with Linux Mint if the "NAS" dies on me. Linux Mint/Ubuntu! Most basic noob OS out there can read and handle the drives out of the box! The only thing being relied on is a good PSU and OpenZFS being there in the OS. And having multiple copies of the data! For $500 you can actually get more drives to hold copies with instead of some unreliable cheap crap box with a "NAS" sticker on it. But no quality or security over a old unused desktop pc. Even if one buys new parts the money is better spent getting something that is meant to last.

[@GhostRyderFPV]

@@jaykoerner So true, and here I am forgetting my first DIY 'file servers' were just my old PC's, de-GPU'd lol. My cases lack storage options though, so I didn't consider that as a solution in many moons. These days I'm currently using Plex server on an old Synology 2-slot that only has gigabit, so can only handle 1 or 2 clients at a time without choking, (and I'd like to toy with the idea of offloading my Steam library to a fast NAS with 2.5gb). But I think it's time to find a wee case for HDDs, and some platters!

[@jaykoerner]

@@GhostRyderFPV I don't have experience with hps one's but minus the weird mobos, dell t series systems of done well for several years, best bang for the buck atm Seems to be stuff like the t3600 or equivalence from other manufacturers(if you're looking for this stuff either look at the replies you got before KZbin deleted the comments or search yourself, it's kind of annoying to fight with this website so much just to comment about things like this)

[@Zerbey]

It's diabolical, I love it! I've done this myself on old network appliances, but I turned them into low use Linux servers.

[@devilmaycry57]

Assuming the one input at a time "bug" is actually something with the board only needing to read on input at a time, so maybe a polling issue? I mean the thing has video and USB for initial setup and troubleshooting I would think, so I'm not totally surprised. Curious if a USB hub into one slot would affect that at all (I doubt it tho).

[@ryanbruce222]

Dawid has grown so much even his channel, but im staying from your 500 subs days till forever 😁😁

[@devedee2393]

Man, I love your content. I just cannot stop watching your videos! U keep coming up with random ridiculous ideas and I just can't but click on them and watch it!

[@jstagzsr]

i have a QNAS nas with apps and an os and an hdmi port. you can use it as a standalone pc with its own os and its own app store or you can leave it uynder the desk and forget it exists till you need something on it that you grab with another pc.. Ive tried both. I like the under the desk option better. i did however look into putting android on it and and use it as a standalone giant library media pc. i decided to mini pc my living room tv and use the nas as a nas.

[@AnnaDoes]

I always learn so much more than I thought I would watching a Dawid video 😂

[@FARBerserker]

i wish there were a price successor for the HP Pro Lian N54L. that cost me 250 bucks with a 250gb HDD, HD DVD Drive and 4 Gigs of RAM. I still use it, allthough heavily upgraded. Dedicated GPU (pci-ex1 but still), 16Gigs of RAM. USB-3 and SATA controller card. swapped the HD DVD for a slim line BluRay drive. Went from the single 250GB 3.5" to 5 x 3.5" 8 TB Drives AND a Sata SSD for the OS.

[@heyitzrare]

with my leg's current usability analogous to that of the GT 210, I've been needing some Dawid vids and this is a banger

[@FatCatFanatic]

Connect a hard drive via USB 3, install Windows on that, then use the PCI-E x4 slot for the RTX 3090?

[@dannypoo3281]

I feel like beating games while not being able to shoot and move at the same time is the perfect new gaming challenge for the internet.

[@JacobJosephVanStraten]

Hey Dawid ! I love your new door stop ! Maybe you can use it with the door bell cam app or something !

[@professorjack2099]

Businesses used to install quick books on these things. There were used as a McDonald’s grade data center

[@Ryu_Himora]

You could still try to connect a GPU by running Windows off of a Windows To Go USB stick. I use Hasleo's Win to USB program for this purpose, but you need a USB stick with good random IO for it to not be a total slog once it's booted (I suggest the Samsung FIT Plus line). However, I suspect the "PCIe" connector there is actually just a breakout slot for the onboard sata controller, as there appears to be little if any logic on the daughterboard itself for turning the PCIe lanes into SATA ports.

[@herrakaarme]

Couldn't use you an external HDD enclosure with a USB3 connection, with a regular SSD inside of it? The USB interface might slow down the performance, but I reckon it would still be better than flash drives.

[@GhostRyderFPV]

That's quite a Cleetus McFarland mullet you got goin there, Dawid. Most impressive!

[@rusticlogcabinlife9443]

David You and Timmy Joe have the best character I'm just saddened about his bypass surgery and he left computing to drive heavy equipment You have such a flair and the colorful way you express yourself Many thanks kind sir BigT...Willow Alaska

[@moddaudio]

For the last 5 years I have been running steam link on a QNAP TVS-682 (I7 7700 and a GTX1550ti in the pci-e slot). I just set up a virtual machine, set the gpu to pass though, all easily done on the NAS gui. It is pretty low end hardware by todays standards, but it runs older games fine, and a long side a security camera server, a tiered raid 5 fileserver and a bunch of other things. I use something else to play a FPS.

[@Moochi4]

You should do a video on upgrading the NAS

[@steventechno]

I like seeing special-purpose computers doing things they were never designed for. in this game, a NAS server running video games. I wonder if the HDMI port also carries out audio, and it's emulation capabilities. It's already proven to be a decent-ish? desktop PC. As you mentioned it's Price, for gaming a Steam Deck is a far better option, but the opposite is true when you're trying to get a Server. A Steam Deck CAN operate as a server, but it's counter-intuitive to use one as such. It's probably why I have other software besides just games on the Steam Deck, like GIMP, Bitwig and other desktop programs. Making it do more than what it was designed for.

[@jabezhane]

Always found NAS boxes need certain matched sets to work, otherwise its a gamble. My QNAP needed an identical SODIMM, which cost me like £20 on Ebay.

[@CooperRome]

As somebody who lives in Indianapolis and the closest Micro Center is about 3 hours away, I could not be happier that I will finally be able to walk into one this summer.

[@annihilhater]

When this video started I thought he was going to use the NAS as his hard drive to play games. When he started gaming on the NAS itself I almost lost it lmao

[@damian9303]

I love your explorations into miniaturized tech, that Intel mini PC even with the bottlenecking 4-core i7 was impressive with the games it could perform with the RTX 2070. It’s cool seeing how this NAS faired in comparison!

[@Lotster55]

I love how Dawid always tampers with hardware to a 1970s p00rn soundtrack.

[@joeytumbleson9723]

Dawid does everything I wish I had the guts too.. and the money. Thanks for keeping it real.

[@zeffaryon]

Next, add use a riser cable to connect that PCIe Slot to a PCIe Expander Board with multiple PCIe connections for some truly madman levels of gaming.

[@Cody_MknZ33]

PCIe splitter to run an ssd and a graphics card at the same time when?

[@raphi_sch]

Physically it's a pcie connector, but electrically it's 4 SATA link + power

[@ramiel7666]

At this point i'm just waiting until Dawid finds a toaster with a display port and tries to run windows on it.....

[@genethebean7597]

As a person who lives in Indiana, a new Microcenter is extremely exciting

[@tspawn35]

I like how at 6:28 it shows the system was built to only support a max of 8gb using 2x 4gb and he gets confused at why it won't work with 16gb.

[@jaykoerner]

Especially since Intel themselves say that CPU only supports 8gb, TBC though he did show them to be lying, he supports 12gb.... Probably only because it's not normal configuration, and 2x8gb is specifically blacklisted since it's not allowed to support 16gb

[@benbarnhart4460]

Here's a future video idea. Build your own NAS with a mini ITX motherboard that has dual channel ram and a CPU with much better integrated graphics. It will on the outside, look like a NAS, but is able to game. So you will then have a portable gaming setup/NAS! 💡

[@GuyManley]

well, that's good customer product reviewing right there. bonus, maybe now you can speed up your workflow by running games off a steam library or local CDN on the NAS.

[@7Elwaybronco]

look at the voltages on those RAM sticks!

[@RandomTechG]

Yep! Micro Center is coming to North Indy summer 2023. Been checking the Micro Center website weekly for a grand opening date. Still says Summer 2023. Our last two electronics store went out of business... I'm feeling good about this one! 😁

[@totallyworksperfectly5424]

Mate, yes!!! Watching from Australia

[@mwethereld]

Gday gday from Brissy way!

[@patrikneumann1406]

I know there are no usbs but could you network boot on it?

[@BeatsbyVegas]

It has two usb on the back

[@AnomalousURL]

Yes. Love the randomness, I never know what your gonna do for a video. You da man Dawid!!

[@bdhale34]

Dawid: "The only way to connect storage to this device" USB Ports: "Am i a joke to you Dawid?"

[@g-gamer362]

i remember having that same "can't move and shot at the same time'' problem with an ancient compaq presario laptop from the year 2011😂

[@jdbates30]

I'm in Indiana and super excited for a micro center coming here!

[@virtualinsanity7791]

I genuinely thought you'll install the game via iscsi but this is more entertaining lmao.

[@DjVortex-w]

Taking "but can it run Crysis?" to the next level.

[@che-weihsieh975]

7:27 I can't believe you didn't grasp the opportunity to say, "We've gotten Insyde!"

[@JakeBloodless]

I love when people come up with great ideas like this

[@betadan]

Watching this with subtitles made the kid in me chuckle every time he says " a nas"

[@jamesstead2256]

Dawid is Like a Mischievous Nosy Child👍

[@petecoventry6858]

Nice! I was just looking at a NAS and this popped up - and like 1 minute after :)

[@ashc3765]

I was gonna pickup a PS5 but you have convinced me a NAS is the way to go 👍🏻

[@stamasd8500]

I can game on my NAS. Because I built my own custom NAS, it's basically a PC with a SAS card and an external SAS drive rack. :) It's built around a Ryzen 4750G APU so it has decent-ish graphics included, no extra video card needed.

[@vincei4252]

Dawid, I have an older QNAP NAS with a Mesozoic era video out. It would have never occurred to me in a million years to install windows on the darn thing I think in the 10? years I've had the thing I've plugged a monitor into the thing a total of one time.

[@HR-wd6cw]

Usually the less packing peanuts, the better, for the sake of messes. But yes I agree, probably not enough to secure the package (but then again if this doesn't include drives in the box, then it's probably a bit more durable against bumps and possible drops I guess; plus you have the packaging in the box itself).

[@eveypea]

I believe that NAS does not have a NVME slot for caching network transfer. Try using one with M.2 caching with an NVME to PCI riser to attach a low to mid tier GPU

[@edc1569]

That's not actually PCIe, its just four channels of SATA using that connector. You might kill something if you stick PCIe card into it! I'm an electronics engineer and we use PCIeX1 sockets for all sorts of applications our products - they are just a handy, cheap, ubiquitous socket.

[@stephanlange6804]

Try to use a wireless mouse and keyboard set that uses the same dongle as receiver like the RAPOO RP X1800S UI-B. I have that set by myself and use it always to setup and test computers, laptops and other stuff. It should prevent the mouse Tastatur blockage. Seems like the usb ports are actually one at the back and can't manage same time input. You can test my theory by plug in the mouse at the front usb port and the keyboard at the back port and test it in HL2 again. Maybe there's also a setting in the bios for that.

[@TomFooleryGaming]

It said right at 1:59 that it comes with 4gb of 2400 DDR4 and supports a max of 8gb. So I am not surprised in the slightest that it didn't run with 2x8gb sticks in it, and am a little surprised it booted with a 4+8...

[@azazash6707]

gotta love the subtitles asking "if you've got an ass with a hdmi port". lol.

[@slowlanegamer]

Dawid I’ve been thinking about setting up a Nas of some sort just more storage for my video and photo back up! I would love to see you test and learn some more about nas hardware and see if your better off building one on your own as a newb or if you should buy one from somewhere!?!?!? Make some video pls 🥺

[@Pr0digyZRX]

I love how this channel literally does the exact opposite of everything every other tech channel does... high fps... nah. Great gaming experience... nah. Good air flow... nah. Put a "gaming" pc in a choke hold until it passes out cause you forgot the safe word and see what the gaming experience is during a nuclear meltdown... yes please lol

[@Weaselszone]

Watching with the subtitles. KZbin thinks when Dawid says a NAS he says an Ass 😂 So I just got "I guess you can kind of game on an ass" And some other fun ones. I'll let you explore them 😂

[@irkalla100]

Love this channel so much!

[@marcelmedema001]

Funny to see this just when I finish building my own NAS

[@PapaVanTwee5]

Oh, Dawid! Next you'll be breaking out the Indiana-no-place jokes. At least we're getting a new Micro Center! It'll replace the Fry's we used to have. Too bad they couldn't just put it in the Fry's building, maybe it's too big? It's near the Castleton Square Mall, so I'll have a reason to visit that side of town again!

[@EJBert]

Not quite sure what chocking is in a PC build but I trust Dawid!

[@pentagrahm3756]

I don't know how you come up with these ideas but its amazing

[@syrconcrete6399]

The second I saw that PCIE x4 connector I thought... 6500xt or 4090 external gpu??? and for more storage you can split the x4 slot with some frankenstein connector splicing

[@cburgess5294]

your videos always crack me up. keep being you, man.

[@TheDragonGuyYT]

Great video, you should game on the Framework 16" laptop when it comes out

[@fattomandeibu]

It's like you're moving house and you're too stingy to rent a van, so you're driving down the street with the couch hanging out the back of your car, and a mate running behind you holding the couch in place to keep it from falling out.

[@jorrdanna6219]

I think Dawid is the ultimate authority on playing gta at 9fps. He should be an e-sport god.

[@iliketurtles6274]

I love how the captions kept showing "an ass" when Dawid said NAS

[@biglevian]

You could use an external drive as your boot drive. I mean usb 3 is pretty similar to sata speedwise. Then you could use a gpu, assuming it's pci-e and not just a special connector that uses the same layout.

[@biglevian]

Also bought a thinclient with identical specs for 36$. Just gaining 4 sata ports and two 2.5 gb Lan ports isn't really worth 10 times the pice I think. Got a lot of usb3 ports, so I probably could use it as a nas with a few external drives.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

"Properly Terrible Gaming" could be the name of a secondary channel, Dawid. Better reserve that.

[@heclec4420]

lmao at 11:27 the caption says "If you already happen to own an ass with an HDMI port you can game on it." Ah, the wonders of biology.

[@jojak12]

Had me in stitches watching you not be able to shoot or attack. Almost can’t believe dota didn’t run. Are you sure you didn’t do something to the install?

[@broderickclayburn]

I like how the captions keep thinking you’re saying ass instead of an nas.

[@chrischin5491]

Question. Have you ever tried gaming on an Micro SD Card? They do make 1tb options i just don't know if it's fast enough but there are some with 650 mbps transfer speeds.

[@PyromancerRift]

When i read the title, i thought you wanted to play on a PC with games stored on a nas, i wasn't ready.