I Plugged A Graphics Card Into My NAS...

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Hey everyone! Marco here! Thanks so much for....I guess inserting a GPU into our Azzzzstor (1:13) NAS! We here love to hear all of the ways you use an ASUSTOR NAS even if it's unorthodox. We love to listen to comments, questions, praise and criticism. Reply to me and I will happily answer you! Thank you everyone for watching!

[@E54OW]

What a good sense of humor, is there a plan to make a hybrid NAS/Gaming PC, one that will work in low power when used as a nas, but can load into windows and take advantage of a pcie x16 slot?

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@E54OW I can't say much for sure but I am going to definitely try to push the bosses for more DIY and enthusiast options. While nothing is guaranteed, I fight hard in the meeting rooms for the customer.

[@travellingslim]

Just wanted to say that I really liked seeing how modular the whole NAS was on the inside and how easy it was to pop in some M2's and swap the RAM if desired. Kudos

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@travellingslim Thanks! I'll make sure I will keep fighting to make it as consumer friendly as possible.

[@runinwitsizors7588]

@@ASUSTOR_YT you already have a great name thanks to Dawid, the Azzzzstor.

[@dylancalvinisreal]

Dawid's videos reminds me of Top Gear. What started as general reviews and advice has slowly transformed into crazier and crazier "What if" scenarios. Dawid, please and I mean PLEASE keep the high quality content coming in

[@AnnaDoes]

He devoured Top Gear as a kid so I guess it rubbed off on him 😂 It’s so entertaining

[@Tmob]

​@elcactuar3354 no one cares its a youtube comment*

[@chicken_person]

​@elcactuar3354It's a KZbin comment, not somebody's Master's thesis. It was perfectly understandable in both situations despite the minor spelling/grammar mistakes. Calling it out doesn't make you look smart, it makes you look pedantic and petty.

[@GameslordXY]

Meaning he's a comedian. Hopefully he doesn't become like Linus Tech Tips that in his reviews focused more on comedy and less on checking facts.

[@Apokathelosis]

Gaming on a NAS? How hard can it be?

[@philwolf6721]

Dawid gets all nice and new shiny NAS. Immediately concocts an absurd use case and brutally murders it. You, sir are awful, and hilarious. Well played.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

We'll get him back up and running soon :)

[@philwolf6721]

@@ASUSTOR_YT make sure to give him "the look" before fixing it. 😂

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@philwolf6721 I couldn't be mad at Dawid. Just look at him! He's too likeable.

[@eTiMaGo]

this is why we're here :D

[@GamingNinja4633]

try replacing the CPU I bet its fried, see if you can get the I9 or I7 for that socket working and add a viable cooling solution.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

9:52 Hey Dawid! Don't choke the GPU with only one lane of PCI Express with that riser! The actual PCI Express socket supports four lanes for MAXIMUM POWER!!!!

[@AlexTheStampede]

I’m guessing this is what caused the loading in GTA, everything works fine until the GPU needs new data and there’s that bottleneck.

[@geekehUK]

Yeah I get "for the meme", but I'd like to see the difference if he just left out the daughterboard, and used a 4x riser.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@geekehUK Yeah. A 4x riser works just fine.

[@ethanmike9]

guessing it is a gen 4x4 pcie slot, it would maximize the lanes on a rx 6400

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@ethanmike9 The M.2s are x1 each. The slot is a total of x4. PCIe 3.0.

[@kranehasnosauce]

Dawid you always find the answers to questions we never asked

[@rtlarkin]

This is why i love Dawid's content. Raising dinosaurs from the dead and forcing them into labor, picking the smallest kid on the playground and giving him a 400lb deadlift and this episode where he takes a quiet cubicle dweller from the corporate world and attempts to make them lead in a 50,000 attendee rock concert with pyrotechnics. Just good fun.

[@j00d4n]

The issues with frametime and rendering is because you have completely saturated the PCIE lanes with the GPU and the SATA Drive, which probably ended up overheating the componants used for PCI communication. A lot of low end motherboard won't let you use specific SATA ports if you are using an M.2. That was a little apparent when you had to switch from bay one to two, back to bay one lol

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh that's very interesting. I just assumed that considering the M.2s are on a different 4x pcie slot it would be fine, 😅

[@villarule06]

TIL. I found ages ago that my pc doesn’t recognise my SSD on certain Sata ports. This explains it, though without all the hardware death.

[@snoflahke6575]

1080p tend sto be cpu bund and 1440p tends to be gpu bound. next time try running it at 1440p?

[@noobhacker101]

Must be a rogue AI from behind the Blackwall in Cyberpunk that fried the bios on the NAS.

[@mrmountain9540]

This is like slapping a Howitzer onto the side of a cargo transport plane just because it fits. It's so insane it just might be brilliant.

[@Collin_J]

Oh hell yeah throwing reBAR into a NAS BIOS. Asustor knows their audience

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

hehehe

[@thepro3729]

Definitely need a follow up video to this one. Hope you solve the issue. This Asustor NAS model seems to have all of necessary pieces for such a project to work. If the mainboard supports a better cpu, then upgrade and you’ll have achieved your goal. With it being modular and bios friendly, this device looks to be very hack capable. Not something you see often these days. I see a chimera crypto mining project in the works for this ..capable of gpu,storage,&cpu mining

[@kbhasi]

(12:30) I think it was because the CPU ended up desoldering itself. It'll probably work again if you could somehow solder the CPU back on. When I saw this video in my KZbin subscription feed, I thought it was being done with a custom-built NAS running on a low-end server mainboard*, in turn like what I'm currently doing with one from 2014 where I plugged in an (era-appopriate) NVIDIA Quadro K620 to use with GPU passthrough in QEMU/KVM so that I wouldn't have to put in an extra physical PC for a project idea I had. No, this actually was done with a pre-built NAS. *Mid-range to high-end for a desktop PC, but low-end for a server. (Edit: Your video also reminded me of one where someone installed pfSense on a Sophos XG firewall appliance. Similar to what you did, they also inserted a separate SSD.)

[@aaronscrewface]

How's that dual Epyc system coming along? That thing seemed pretty gnarly, hopefully you've got more videos coming up with it.

[@johnhooton8299]

That ended up being NASty

[@Maxazzo97]

I wonder how you came up with these ideas. Had a real fun. Well done.

[@TheDarkestPhoenix]

That cooling solution didn't really look beefy enough to sustain a 100% CPU load for extended periods of time, if I had to guess as to why it suddenly stopped working.

[@eldibs]

Holy crap! I prefer to build my own NAS when I need a new one, but credit where credit is due, Asustor seems to have made a product designed to last (even though it was ironically killed by the end of the video). The fact that the only major part soldered down is the CPU is impressive.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Thank you for your words of support! Feel free to ask questions if needed!

[@Lolwutfordawin]

@@ASUSTOR_YT any idea what killed it in the end? Hopelessly overheating the PCI controllers as another comment speculated?

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@Lolwutfordawin Not sure. We don't even know if it's dead, but I will follow up and see what the deal is. Maybe even a followup video.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@Lolwutfordawin We got word that the NAS is not dead, but the windows install kicked the bucket.

[@Lolwutfordawin]

@@ASUSTOR_YT that sounds like windows, good to hear!

[@andrewweltlich9065]

That NAS is really cool. I really like the design of it.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Thank you!

[@iamwonderFil]

THIS IS VINTAGE DAWID!! excellent idea. now to turn an old laptop with multiple expansion prots into a nas.

[@TriPBOOMER]

Im thinking it may work better with a pcie x4 to x16 connector and remove the m.2 daughter board as it might increase the performance especially if the board sends 1 lane to each m.2 slot

[@mockier]

Looks like you exceeded the heat capacity of the little passive heat sink and killed it. I have a NAS board with similar CPU, this one and the one that has the same CPU as yours both have little blower coolers. I think Dawid should a add a fan for the next attempt.

[@walterlegere1403]

Dawid, you are, without question. absolutely insane! What on earth possessed you to do something like this? The end results not withstanding, what did we learn from this Frankenstein experiment? A NAS has its purpose and it's not gaming? Perhaps? As always, I have way too much fun watching you muck about into the nether-regions of nuclear waste gaming systems. What does that say about me? Not sure but it's still fun to watch you do your thing! You are, without a doubt, one of the best PC content creators out there and I really enjoy your stuff (even when you're going off the rails and screaming at the monitor)! It makes you human like the rest of us! I'll bet you would be a hoot to have a pint with! Cheers! Keep up the good work and I'll just keep getting sucked defenselessly into the vortex that is "Dawid Does Tech Stuff" because I just can't control myself! (or maybe because I just don't know any better)

[@Nightwalker-]

I am always amazed by some of the Frankenstein builds that Dawid creates. Another "It's Alive!" moment.

[@richardw5761]

Videos like this are why I love ur channel! More videos like this please. Also love low buck xeon builds.

[@Yogi_Bear69]

That actually looks like a good NAS.

[@WuKongD]

I remember when Dawid was such a cute and tiny channel, now look at him all grown up. I'm so proud of him.

[@Vike10018]

RIP NAS, couldn't survive the Dawidiing

[@Clenched.Cheeks]

Memory express employees in Burnaby must just grin when they see you coming Dawid.

[@MaxIronsThird]

Awful frame pacing is usually the cpu's fault, capping the framerate usually helps. Also why not use the x4 PCIe lanes instead of taking only the x1 from the SSD slot?

[@baltogames1501]

0:14 The prophesy says Gelfling will destroy us!!!

[@akemihomura1559]

Oh damn, you got the Yeston Sakura! I'd love to see a review or hear your opinions of it.

[@roboninja1]

That Celeron with the passive cooling got fried, is my guess.

[@userbosco]

Can't get enough of this crackity crazy test-bed fun....keep it rolling!

[@DigitalDemonicDavros]

When Dawid says Resize bar, I got a little excited about the penetration of this Nas.

[@kevinheimann7664]

the m2 slot is probably only pciex1 since they got 4 slots of one pcie x4 so thats probably the problem with the missing textures

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

“This is 1080p gaming on an ass” -dawid’s closed captions maker 2023

[@vadergb]

Great vid Dawid. When people ask why does Dawid try to game on a NAS, my answer is CAUSE HE CAN! Great to see a couple struggling with data being sent to it but keeping the frames high😅.

[@anumeon]

The episode where a grilled celeron becomes a killed celeron

[@natejgee]

If I had to gues, removing the casing meant that the fan wasn't pulling enough air over the heatsink, so the cpu partitally desoldered itself.

[@TheBlackBeetle]

Thought of this too, but you can see throughout the BF clip that temperatures were hovering about ~77C but not really more. From 80 to desolderimg goes a long way, so I'm not so sure

[@CantankerousDave]

My appreciation for their sense of humor aside, that thing is nicely specced for a home media server and at a good price.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Thank you!

[@CLEARRTC]

Always happy after watching a Dawid video lol so cheerful even when stuff blow up :D

[@mtgcardzandreview2756]

I have to admit the Nas box Asustor AS6704T seems like a real usable design with interesting ideas.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Thank you for your words of support! Feel free to ask questions if needed!

[@devrandvar]

Another great episode of Dawid Does Horrific and Unspeakable Things to Tech Stuff. 👍

[@darkmadrap]

3:18 at that point id just get an old i7 4770 or something with a paring mini-itx board and play / store stuff . in the end , whats makes a nas a nas , is its os that make backing up stuff an automatic process . if you just need to store shizz , just use an old pc / get old pc parts , install windows on it , use something like filezilla , and voila you now have a perfectly viable storage setup .

[@shakeyourbunny]

Oh and installing Windows onto a specific controller path (disk slot) binds it on that specific eternally; so if you put it into another one you have at least have to edit the UEFI settings.

[@tylerelson3715]

Hey Dawid - off the back of a passing comment you made in the sponsored section, I was just wondering what your opinions are on AI? Do you like it? Are you not fussed? As a tech KZbinr, do you feel more inclined or pressured to feel one way or the other? Great video as always!

[@noble_lime]

Next video: getting GPU working on rasberry pi

[@dgevert]

I’ve been gaming on my NAS for months now. I have a video card passed to a Windows virtual machine and it works great.

[@lucasrem]

You found the NAS, but need to play games, you hate to use it for File Sharing ? Not that smart, why you need him ?

[@dgevert]

@@lucasrem I have no idea what you're trying to say. I see my gaming VM as just another service that I host on my server.

[@Born_Stellar]

I've recently started looking at network switches that are actually mini barebones PCs. I have no idea why a network switch needs a modern intel CPU but they are cool little pc's.

[@SammerJammer]

You should take this idea to the next level. Use a modern gaming desktop with a hypervisor like unraid and pass your GPU to a gaming VM while running file storage at the same time.

[@Surms41]

When you put the ssd in the second slot, it was probably using PCIe lanes that were meant for SSD to now use the GPU. Or something like that.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

No. Our SATA and M.2 slots are completely independent. You can fill all of them without issue.

[@AlainLesage]

I'm curious to see what if you plugged the graphics card into the PCI-e directly instead of the NVMe slot. Also, Is the CPU socketed ? could be fun so see an upgrade with some low TDP T series i5 or i7.

[@totallyworksperfectly5424]

Never seen you upload so quickly after making your previous video. 13 min video, your spoiling us😂

[@jeffreybarker357]

“Nestled in blue tentacles” lmaooo Jeeeezis Christ. This guy, man.

[@Hawk_112]

nice name Asus Tor

[@jeffschultz1338]

The celeron was probably overheating. Add some kind of Dawid style solution for cooling. Also, the 7800xt was probably only running at x4 or x8 instead of the x16 in that m.2 slot

[@commanderdestructa4654]

I have 2 x 4 Bay (16TB each) Asustor NAS's - they have been incredibly reliable and were a doddle to set up.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Thank you for your support!

[@Techspin]

I've always wanted to plug a GPU into my old NAS.... it can be done! Great content, keep up the awesome vids!

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

We'll make it happen!

[@UzumeCEDC]

@@ASUSTOR_YTI have a question could someone install Windows Server 2012 R2 on a nas

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

@@UzumeCEDC I guess you could, but I've never tried.

[@Sus_Bak]

Take the last word from the title and change its first letter with A. Game changing moment 🔥

[@pptemplar5840]

This NAS *ALMOST* seemed less frustrating to upgrade into a competent gaming PC than my HP Prebuilt for a moment.

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

lmao

[@Ranimetion]

Dawid Demolition Man! Whatever tech Dawid touches, gets demolished 🤣

[@conm9891]

Bruh thank you. I wanted to try Brilliant to up my python skills. I really appreciate the sponsor and your content. You the man Dawid!!

[@bonnome2]

To get it running properly you may need to check the manual. The Celeron processor doesn't have great io features. So it probably can't access all the io features at the same time.

[@lastechocorp1841]

Please keep doing your videos they’re brilliant

[@tomwaller6893]

Wonderful. Take that mass storage device. And I can still use 3 16TB drives for storage as on large drive or 3 single. That is what I am talking about.

[@Thaddeus.]

Next Episode: Dawid buys a Nintendo DS to serve as his new file server

[@MarginalSC]

DS with a 4090

[@ConfusedStu]

Loving the fact that rather than use one of the PCI-E x4 ports on the mainboard, you decide to go PCI-E to M.2 to PCI-E - bravo, sir! :D

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

We call that chaotic evil.

[@JokaGaming2K10]

Hello, Dawid does tech destruction stuff, i really like your videos and my first video that i watched was the Surface video. I really like seeing disasters happening with celerons that bottleck its own iGPUs, keep the nice work!

[@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse]

You may have had a comparability issue between the processor and the amount of ram installed plus you probably toasted the cpu under that loading with that small heatsink applied.

[@KontrolStyle]

The work you do for a video.. glad someone is doing it. HAHA

[@DoctorMGL]

dude remind of the geeks alike steve wizniace and the 80's days with the style and passion to computers

[@SmithBeatZ1]

"A screen we can control with buttons." Nice

[@richardgarrett2792]

I recall seeing that level of rendering when using a very low end and core limited CPU, which funnily enough, you are indeed using. The GPU is completely choked by the CPU, very little fix it. OTOH, the modularity of the device is quite intriguing. I can see it beicoming a hacker choice for interesting prjoects, a subset of the vast R Pi ecosystem.

[@TheLeftistOwl]

I think a lot of the reason the game was not loading correctly is that the assets were not being properly fed to GPU because the CPU could not keep up with the GPU.

[@MrPruske]

pretty sure i saw a spare pcie slot, i dont think you need the m.2 riser, just a regular riser

[@TheDeathM]

I have a Synology next me and I have never once thought.... you know I should game on it. Still good video :) Keep up the good work Dawid

[@Zenefor]

Hey Dawid, I offer you an idea of a challenge. There's a gt 730 with a pcie x1 lane, I dare you to try to max out a pcie x16 lane.

[@CoalitionGaming]

Man i've always wanted an Asustor NAS. They've always seemed like a good buy for the money compared to brands like Synology and QNAP.

[@andrewgeorgelang]

The best part of this video, was the ads

[@theyruinedyoutubeagain]

That NAS looked pretty solidly-built actually, impressive for such a no-name manufacturer

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Thanks! But we don't consider ourselves no-name. We were split from ASUS and employ the engineering we learned from ASUS and are proud of our 0.6% failure rate within the warranty period.

[@LambdaMiscellaneous]

company reply of shame

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

​@@LambdaMiscellaneous Interesting reply

[@CantankerousDave]

I’d hardly call ASUS “no-name”.

[@Bermuda._.]

@@LambdaMiscellaneous rude

[@AnnaDoes]

I love the terms Mother and Daughter Board :D

[@danmcmahon1656]

You say it ended in destruction. I prefer to think of your approach as more of 'invasive enhancement'. Keep 'em coming.

[@vladimirputin4370]

So fresh… so new and shiny

[@apildk]

Truly doing God's work with three videos Dawid. Thank you

[@PretentiousGamer]

so early.... so lonely.....

[@dazbrugernavn]

same

[@Mobbin-nnn]

nah uh!

[@biosens7]

We can be lonely together my brother 🫡

[@AtomSquirrel]

The cure for loneliness is putting down the phone and going out into the world to meet people. Out of 7 billion people, one of them is likely to be your friend

[@Flizy-s4k]

@Intelipocalypse we’re just trying to watch a video, like we don’t need a life lesson

[@PracticalDadd]

I wonder if something on the board got too hot and fried or melted? Would be nice in future videos to have you take a FLIR camera to find hot spots after running intensive loads like gaming on a poor defenseless NAS

[@ethanpschwartz]

In fairness to your analogy, I took my grandmother on an arctic vacation and she was fine. You've clearly never seen an 80-year-old smoke a cigarette while watching a glacier and it shows.

[@Gokul_Yt]

4:10 it absolutely is subtitle 🤣

[@charlesdesmond1]

Dawid, I am inspired by your appetite for destruction

[@E54OW]

i think 1 video is not enough Dawid please do 2 videos a week, ive run out of videos to rewatch!

[@Garrettdx1988]

When a Dawid video doesn't conclude with a catastrophic failure, I leave feeling a little bit disappointed. So this video was a 10/10

[@Cyanid3Child]

...that sounds personal.

[@MagnumForce51]

I suspect that passively cooled CPU over heated and self terminated. Did you check if it's upgradable? Probably not but worth a looksie none the less.

[@magarity1]

All you people who can hear well, try watching this one with the subtitles. It constantly substitutes "ass" for "nas". I just got to read this gem: "just cuz your PC has the specs of an ass doesn't mean you can't have some good gaming action"

[@Ironic-Social-Phobia]

From Asustor help page: "If the system LED(green) is blinking for more then 10 minutes after power on the NAS without any hard drive installed, please contact technical support for further help:" Helpful :D

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Well... we would have to investigate why the NAS hangs on boot.

[@whyeven3722]

You should connect a bunch of DVD-RW or BD drives in RAID and try to play a game off of them

[@greenprotag]

I am curious if you still have the MASSIVE dual CPU server board and are we going to see any more content with that?

[@JJDaMan808]

Failed successfully, but at least you were able to game until what happened in the end.

[@lemagreengreen]

That poor celeron went into breakdown