How NOT To Use A Graphics Card...

[@daponagegoogenburg807]

In todays episode, Dawid buys every adapter for m.2 slots that exist

[@zbrkesbris5987]

except m.2 > oculink which was specifically made for this.

[@bierrollerful]

He's single-handedly keeping the industry for obscure adapters alive.

[@Apothekari]

@@bierrollerful A lot of these damn adapters don't work period. Just because some fly by night company made the adapter and you have the slot on the mobo that doesn't mean your bios on your piece of shit all in one PC manufacturer actually allows it to be enabled.

[@AnnaDoes]

Woah, I think being a Dawid Does Tech Stuff Subscriber is definitely worth it if we get a whole 13% LESS dysentery during the apocalypse.

[@PCsandEVs]

😂

[@Varthlokur]

Anyone who has played Oregon Trail knows that the 13% reduction is a serious buff. 😆

[@togiisuperheavytank]

so true

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

13% is a lot less than politicians can offer, I am subbing!

[@zaidharry7571]

w h o a s k e d

[@IcebergTech]

I mean, if Amazon, Steam and mains electricity are all still functioning then it’s really only 66% of an apocalypse

[@SpostK]

Hello

[@IcebergTech]

@@SpostK👋

[@SpostK]

@@IcebergTech content you have🤌 perfect

[@aai404]

have you considered testing pentium gold's and celeron's maybe?

[@TheCheefMowbeel]

Lenovo's bios has a whitelist of devices that can be used in the wifi slot. There are custom bios's that you can grab that remove the whitelist which would have made that first adapter work. I have the same adapter plugged into my t420 laptop

[@azeemtics6613]

Can you explain the difference between cpu and gpu bottleneck please

[@sambhrantshekhar]

@@azeemtics6613 You would find a much better and detailed explanation by googling than on a random video comment section.

[@Iristallite]

it also might have been a cnvi-only slot... i'm guessing that because of the original wifi card being cnvi

[@mari2.]

wow thanks lenovo

[@vBenjy06]

This is exactly that kind of crazy and highly unnecessary stuff I love to watch. Thanks for providing such content!♥

[@BringusStudios]

Incredible. Even in humanity's darkest hours, gaming will persist all thanks to you. You're an inspiration to us all. Now excuse me while I go ask my local ewaste recycler for their finest previously-grandma-owned all in one for myself

[@typicaltar3q]

Make sure it has all the viru- I mean great software to "optimize" your PC. I'm sure it will help boost the gaming performance 🤣

[@infinitelybanta]

I love that Dawid describes his plan to hook up the graphics card as a “really good idea” when talking about an objectively awful premise. It’s like having a revelation on how best to give yourself a lobotomy.

[@budgetbiker7]

This is an unholy spaghetti of the worst possible ways to set up a system, and I'm all for it

[@sopcannon]

Have you ever watched LTT?

[@Konrad-z9w]

When Diablo 2 was new I had set up two additional computers from old parts in cardboard boxes to start 3player games and get more exp. /players8 didn't exist yet.

[@PHDarren]

02:54 it was harder to open this time because you put it back together last time better than when it originally left the Lenovo factory.

[@AnnaDoes]

Lol - I think Lenovo needs some Aloe Vera for that burn

[@alessiobaruzzo1679]

Dawid seals stuff

[@ogrejd]

It's amazing the lengths he's willing to go to in order to humiliate a GPU.

[@Kacheng_3080]

Just when you think Dawid couldn’t outdo himself with more jank setup, he does it again 😅

[@jacobmahran4308]

The fact that these videos are absolute insanity and not just builds I can’t afford has me clicking on EVERY video you make. Keep the videos coming!

[@chupitolepame5357]

I love all the trouble you got into just to accomplish this silly objective, that's what makes this channel great!

[@arthuralford]

Only Dawid would brave the wastelands of Vancouver to recover pre-apocalypse hardware, then later surviving the butt parasites because we were subscribed, giving him 13% more chance of recovery

[@fleurdewin7958]

2:54 Almost dropped granny PC due to contagious drop disease from Linus Drop Tips. Fortunately granny PC enjoyed Dawid's moaning and softened up to ease teardown.

[@punkmunkie167]

The dell 7410 optiplex all in one actually has a pcie x16 slot for a dedicated graphics card it would be fun to see how a gpu works in that

[@quentinduch1625]

The Lenovo Y910 27 AiO from a few years ago also had a PCIe x16 and a desktop GPU. It would be interesting to see how it upgrades nowadays or in a far post-apocalyptic future

[@Rambogner]

We all knew Canada would be responsible for the end of the world

[@SAMIAMFNX]

Stop being mean to me

[@AnnaDoes]

hahaha Canada

[@SAMIAMFNX]

@@AnnaDoes are you his wife?

[@Rambogner]

@@SAMIAMFNX yes, I am

[@ReizuMaikeru16]

I see Dawid doing stupid stuff, I press like.

[@GuitarAudiologist]

I learned that duct tape can be somewhat conductive when I used it to wire a stereo in my first car as a kid. My duct-taped +12V wire rested on the chassis ground and it started smoking after about an hour and eventually blew a fuse. Not saying that was your only issue with the other adapters, by any means. But fun fact for future reference.

[@Trusteft]

That's weird. I was thinking so vividly of you and when you were going to upload next, just few hours ago. You did not disappoint.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

You gotta love how it just gathered more and more jank in the attempt to get the previous jank to work.

[@entryofemotion12]

I love that more of the video was trying to get something to work than talking about the thing once it finally worked. The lovely exciting world of "how jank can this be" while being entertaining throughout. Fantastic video.

[@CanadianPenguin_]

That second adapter uses a power connector meant for floppy disk drives 😂

[@dividion8102]

It's actually not bad. I've used that same one to power a Radeon 6400 without any problems. For anything stronger the majority of power should go through a dedicated 6 or 8 pin pcie cable.

[@--_DJ_--]

Ya, that was going to go 12VHPWR style if the card actually started to break a sweat.

[@amnottabs]

even still the SATA side of the adapter would be the one to catch fire first

[@Ramog1000]

@@dividion8102 yes, it only needs to supply 25w for the pcie power, the rest goes over the dedicated 6/8 pin pcie power cables sata power can provide 65w safely so thats fine, I am pretty sure the floppy drive power connector can also pass 25 Watts at 12 volt because I read that one pin can carry 3 amps (3 x 12 = 36 watts so well in the limit)

[@len9518]

Very practical and useful. We'll all be doing this. I couldn't decide if this was a Halloween or April Fools prank! Thanks...I loved it.

[@HenrySomeone]

I think you broke the Geneva convention for All-in-Ones and gpus here, lol

[@michaelthompson9798]

I wonder what Dawids missus and neighbours think of all that moaning and groaning that goes on at all hours is all about 😅😂🤣😅😂🤣

[@Herbertti3]

Man literally prevented madmax from happening. We thank you!

[@Kitfox942]

I just picked up the exact same GPU and this thing is pretty sick! It can sit at 100% utilization and maintain a temp of around 52°C without even turning the fans on! Way better than my old RX 5700 XT that would sit at 110°C with the fans screaming at 100%.

[@gametime2473]

ROFL. This guy is hilarious. Most entertaining tech channel on youtube. On a side note, it seems that Starfield can run on a potato for a CPU since it pretty much ignores it anyway.

[@sorappoli5137]

With each and every thumbnail you start looking more and more like anothee tech jesus. Hell yeah

[@playerofgames7916]

I guess the tape didn't apply a good contact point between the connectors and the slot ?

[@acolyte63]

Damn dude you are a madman, very much enjoy your content. Cheers. 🤘

[@zarodkiewicz]

You're so funny. I love your colourful commentary, It makes me chuckle every time. Thank you

[@ivy7642]

Amusingly, beautifuly 'Janktastic' if I do say so myself. The upside of this is that you can now connect to every last single kind of M.2 thing that ever will or will not exist. You are now the M.2gician.

[@SAMIAMFNX]

As a Vancouver man I can confirm that this is what it looks like

[@cj_zak1681]

great stuff Dawid, this kind of content is EXACTLY the reason I'm subbed. Brilliant 🙂

[@casta1169]

your persistence is legendary Dawid id given up after the first screw on the monitor :)

[@DraftySatyr]

Dang, wish I'd subscribed to Dawid before my trip to India in the early 80s. Might just have missed out on a bout of amoebic dysentery. But then I and my mates were stupid enough to sample all the street-food. Oh, and I don't know whether amoebic dysentery is the violent kind, but it certainly felt that way. The expression "sh*tting through the eye of a needle from 30 paces" springs to mind.

[@benn87]

Exactly for these wacky experiments I love your channel.

[@mybsite5697]

Video is actually proper because funk knows what working monitor youll find in the rarest of bunkers (the empty ones)

[@jameslake7775]

There's probably another comment discussing it, but m.2 keying is... kind of a mess. Wifi cards are usually A+E keyed, and the wifi slot in the Granny-ma-tron is E keyed. Newer SSDs are usually M-keyed, older ones may be B+M keyed, and the Granny-ma-tron SSD slot appears to be M-keyed. A&E sockets provide PCIe x1, USB, and some other things (a different set of 'other' for each). B-key sockets provide PCIe x2 and SATA. In practice, B-Key devices are usually SATA SSDs. M-key sockets provide PCIe x4 and SATA. In practice, M-key devices are NVMe SSDs. 4-lane NVMe drives are always M, 2-lane ones are sometimes M and sometimes B+M. The keying does prevent you from putting a device with specific requirements into an m.2 slot that doesn't provide them, but I believe keying for A+B+E+M removes too many pins, so you can't have a universal card if you just need PCIe x1 and nothing else. And don't worry, there's six unused keys, so it can still get worse!

[@PaitVideo]

Only way this method is viable in an apocalypse scenario is if you're taking shelter in a m.2 adapter factory.

[@PuffyRule]

Dawid : the house is on fire!soon

[@JuxZeil]

Great fun as always. 👍 When you have the back of your "projects", maybe use a red sharpie to mark the interlocking tabs location on the rim. Just an idea. The Wi-Fi M.2(NGFF) would likely need changing in the BIOS...but I would think it'd only be a single PCI-E lane dedicated to it anyway for an optional SATA SSD.

[@Bill-lt5qf]

I legit thought you had switched the whole pc out when you showed starfield.

[@johnvenus9907]

this is defiantly one of my favorite channels

[@TheSlickmicks]

The exposed hardware really sells the post-apocalyptic setting.

[@Mercuzgeg206]

This guy always has the creaziest ideas

[@liminalmessaging]

I did this with an old laptop one time. Hooked a GTX 670 to a Turion X2 motherboard through an unholy mishmash of cables and adapters, which I fastened to some wood I found in the trash. Somehow it worked first try

[@jeffie8696]

Good stuff Maynard , keep it up

[@JatXoc]

Sata power is plenty for an amd gpu on pcie slot. Amd has for a long time designed their cards for all the big ticket items to draw power from the pcie cables

[@_Turbocat777]

It would be really funny to get one of the all-in-one pc's that allows external display input, then hook up a gpu in the same way then route it back into the monitor through the input port XD -technically still an all-in-one😉

[@itsdeonlol]

Cool Dawid! You always find a way!

[@pace.AT.minecraft]

I've been waiting for him to do a video like this for a while

[@FSK1138]

totally enjoying this .. thank you for your service

[@ClappOnUpp]

That's not a frame time graph, It's the heart rate monitor of the CPU trying to keep up with 7700🤣🤣

[@justingilmore8049]

I did this a while back with hp eliteone g3's and rx580s. These were slapped together during covid. They worked pretty well for my kids to do school at home

[@PhilipCoetsee]

Dankie David, ek het nou so lekker gelag. Hou so aan maat!

[@thisnamebegreat]

You need to do a video where you plug in different graphics cards into a decent system but use the M.2 port and see how much the M.2 slot affects the performance!!

[@Lynxium_]

Ok so I know this video is just a joke, but would it be possible to do something like this with a laptop? I don't have a connector for a SATA drive and my only M.2 slot has Windows in it, but maybe there's a way to get this working through Wi-FI M.2?

[@zarinloosli5338]

This makes me feel way better about my power supply sitting outside of my case

[@RuruFIN]

Just love these "for science" type videos.

[@haydenchapman137]

Lenovo PCs have a blacklist for devices connected to the WiFi slot, kinda found out the hard way...

[@cppctek]

Some of the adapters you had if too long you can snap or cut off the excess. There is a dotted line

[@TobyIKanoby]

So happy with that fact in the end :)

[@barryvercueil2346]

Totally worth subscribing for that 13%. Brilliant video

[@AndyShell]

I have a 6650xt, i7-8700t desktop PC running directly off 27v batteries and solar. The psu is more a buck converter but designed for atx pc. It works amazing and is very reliable. No efficiency losses. Deff better than a generator

[@Dankestpcman]

missed you man. love your videos

[@djmadmax9486]

Cmon, be real here: you just did random tech stuff and only afterwards thought of a plausible title for the video - which, to be honest, fits beautifully :D

[@canuckinsk]

I'm super impressed you can remove that back of these without breaking the screen.

[@l3lue7hunder12]

Crazy build, though I did something among that line with a notebook once and had major grounding issues not allowing for me to use any switch in the room. It might be a better idea to go for an MXM 3+ or RTX 3060 ITX since you actually might manage to get that build into the monitor case. There also is a slight chance that you could combine your two connectors into one PCIe 8x - provided they are splits and still are set to "auto" by the bios.

[@SilverKnight16]

3:00 Looks like Dawid reached Phase 2 of the Granny-matron fight. Wait until Granny hits her enrage timer.

[@Kaz_vw]

I canned myself when you dropped the 'Jissis' 😆

[@ANN1H1LATE89]

Dit was die poef🤣

[@Iristallite]

that wifi slot might have been a cnvi-only slot, i could tell by the pins on the left of the original wifi card if there was a whitelist, it likely would have yelled at you during the POST rather than silently failing

[@Coruptanimation]

Could you have cut out that mesh on the mount, then run the cable through it?

[@kangaroo4024]

Mapping out an earthquake! lol. Dawid you never cease to entertain! :)

[@Touma134]

Man it feels like my attempt to get my am5 build running. Hours and several unexpected necessary new purchases latet I somehow manage to get it all working.

[@Adamsgotgame]

The comedian of pc gaming ❤ Thanks for the video, Mr Dawid.

[@arlenegando9658]

I was surprised that Oculink M.2 didn't work. That's my go to and works everytime.

[@pixelpuppy]

"HOWEVER, I have this GREAT idea..." - Dawid every time

[@jeffreybarker357]

The Frankenstein configurations Dawid has made are worthy of their own movie.

[@lanwish]

This channel never dissapoints me when I want to see some stupidly weird pc stuff

[@parster2010]

I have no intention of ever having a gaming PC but just love this channel.

[@shephusted2714]

a good machine for mining and doing research on strange vd variants at least you got it to work

[@mtgcardzandreview2756]

That's why we're always looking for adapters to adapter to crazy ideas of hardware combos that shouldn't be.

[@tcelltech2518]

I love putting powerful gpu's where there should never go. My favourite videos actually

[@Nalianna]

4090 on a 4.77mhz 8088? lets do it!

[@samiraperi467]

You'll want solar and wind in post-apo. Although diesel generators do run on cooking oil among other things.

[@andrewwinyard1008]

This seems like great fun! Please share the Amazon link for the winning m.2 adapter. Now where is that broken laptop I had lying around...

[@moleedaboi]

In today's episode of impractical pc builds: I'd love to see more of these goofy experiments.

[@OCONTECH]

11:20 If dysentery is your thing, well there will be a new product launch from streaming great Amouranth, a lovely beer to go with a HOT HOT gaming night, made from the juices of Amouranth herself. Yum Yum I say as this beer is of the yeasty variety for those who dig the Yeast so Peace

[@commanderoof4578]

7:46 my dude there are a tone of different versions if the EXP Beast adapter And there are a bunch of different cables you can buy that go from all hinds if things to the HDMI the adapter part itself uses for data Some if the adapters even use 2 HDMI connectors for data to get x4 PCIe lanes

[@commanderoof4578]

I hate the iPhone keyboard it keeps changing the touch points now most the the time i type of it comes up as if FK you apple

[@cburgess5294]

I actually owned the first adapter you tried and used it to connect a gtx 970 to a laptop with an i5 5400 processor in it. It was quite an upgrade and I used it for about a year.

[@ianrobertson3419]

Nice work dawid!

[@farqman]

I'm half way through, and having used one of these years ago, there was some very specific bios setting tinkering I needed it to do for it to work. I used a configuration tool I found online that you had to creat a partition for then boot into that partion instead of windows. I'm keen to see if Dawid can get it to "plug 'n' play". Update: finished the vid now, and I'm pleasantly surprised it was plug 'n' play. The version I had connected via the wifi card port with a bizarre cable that had the wifi connector on on end, and a HDMI port on the other. That's a PCIe2 x 1 connection on the 2nd gen Intel laptop I used. That bottlenecked even the GTX 770 and GTX 660ti I tried out, but it was still better than the graphics in the laptop. If you never moved your laptop and you already had the graphics cards on hand it's not the worst thing you could do to improve gaming performance on a tight budget.

[@tjlingram]

Some times those adapters have to be enabled in the bios. Most the time external gpus are turned off

[@elecktr1]

Ah yes, good old Lenovo AIO's. I used to modify usually over 1 europallete of them daily (adding SSD's, more ram) in my old workplace. Its easy and fast once u get used to it :D The model before this fancy leg was even more tricky to disassemble because of popping up frontcam mechanism.

[@HR-wd6cw]

I don't think duct tape is flammable could be wrong) but I would have probably used electrical tape though (at least on the area that touches the electronics. Or maybe even electrical tape and a zip-tie to be sure. I would say that modern games probably don't need the CPU for much anyway it seems since most everything can be handled on the GPU now (including audio so no need to go back to the main board for audio unless you disable the GPU's audio through HDMI). And I think this is obviously why we may have reached a point where the graphics cards will be more important than the CPU. I mean this has been true for many years (probably the last decade at least) and almost to a point where the CPU does very little even in high-end gaming since I would say that the bulk of processing needed is for graphics things like physics support, textures and rendering, all of which happens on the video card and then goes out the outputs to the display, and that all the CPU is likely doing anymore is coordinating the disk storage and loading of files, and communications through Ethernet and some other rather minor things, but that probably 3/4 or 2/3 of modern game processing is done by the video card itself.

[@Clenched.Cheeks]

Post apocalyptic Vancouver. You better not be dissing my turf; Surrey! ;)

[@a_dude9766]

Love the vid man (Haven't watched it yet but I love it 😁😁)

[@jackknowles4050]

Hey dawid what keyboard and mouse do you use? Love the vids bro keep up the amazing work ❤

[@TheSykoRC]

so its the adapterolypse? I love the video.