I Tried Gaming ON A NAS...

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[@meowritz]

Next time, gaming on a Samsung smart fridge

[@Jerry_Rune]

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

[@bigtitmaster]

not hard. its a giant ipad bassivly

[@Collin_J]

​@@Jerry_Rune 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

[@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.

[@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.

[@LevenZ69]

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

[@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:

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 😁

[@tux9656]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@virtualinsanity7791]

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

[@CheapBastard1988]

David seems like the kind of guy who would buy the LTT screwdriver and would try using it as a stylus to game with.

[@HeyImRancover]

My take on this David seems like the kind of guy who would use an LTT screwdriver to play games

[@Lotster55]

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

[@ItsHonski]

Good old intel celery

[@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.

[@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.

[@robertwattner]

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

[@betadan]

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

[@almost_404]

I have one of these and they are amazing! 😁

[@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

[@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

[@JakeBloodless]

I love when people come up with great ideas like this

[@joeytumbleson9723]

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

[@ryanbruce222]

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

[@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.

[@petecoventry6858]

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

[@cheesburger2875]

This nas is faster than my laptop😂

[@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.

[@MaheerKibria]

I don't know why but for some reason I thought you were going to play the game on a regular computer but just using the NAS for where the games were stored. Somehow this ended up being so much weirder than I actually imagined.

[@setcheck67]

That is actually really viable. Wouldn't be a funny video.

[@pentagrahm3756]

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

[@JacobJosephVanStraten]

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

[@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??!!

[@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.

[@szymonzak6681]

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

[@donottouch9110]

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

[@GhostRyderFPV]

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

[@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!

[@janithperera8913]

Never clicked this fast lmao

[@lifenext4433]

Just because of 'A NAS' on tittle

[@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

[@cburgess5294]

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

[@ashc3765]

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

[@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

[@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😂

[@M1rizzy]

Try Tiny11 or Tiny10 on it!

[@ivovass195]

Exactly

[@Paperghost]

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

[@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.

[@TheAzureLance]

I think you could totally install tiny windows in a pen drive and then use the pci-e to add a gpu, i would love to see how that works out :D

[@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! 💡

[@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).

[@Profielzondernaam]

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

[@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).

[@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.

[@achilleasfloudas1972]

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

[@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.

[@richardgilson3512]

I love how it has two 2.5 Gig ports and yet comes with a CAT 5 cable 🤣

[@jay-9197]

It's a CAT 5e cable, not CAT 5 - huge difference. Not sure why he said CAT 5..

[@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.

[@broderickclayburn]

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

[@marcelmedema001]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@SWISS-1337]

I have an idea for your channel "I made a gaming chair, from used cheese graters". That'll perfectly match your PC gaming Masochism fetish.

[@jayb2705]

Dawid is the Predator of the gaming community, "If it breaths, we can game on it"

[@Adamsgotgame]

You keep making me spit out fluids that I'm trying to drink. Good job.

[@nikolozkhachapuridze1764]

This is a perfect video for me 😂❤

[@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

[@liamparker9890]

oh yeah gaming on a nas, nothing could possibly go wrong

[@irkalla100]

Love this channel so much!

[@iliketurtles6274]

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

[@pascaldifolco4611]

Dawid just needs to game on a watch now 😂

[@che-weihsieh975]

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

[@jdbates30]

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

[@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!

[@pschroeter1]

It reminds me of the parable of the Russian dancing bear. It's now how well the bear dances that makes it remarkable, it's the fact that it dances at all.

[@GeorgeWells00]

Dawid needs a new channel called "Dawid games on things better than a potato" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love these videos though, it actually surprises me with some of the things you are able to do with such a wide variety of vegetative PC-type devices.

[@CaveyMoth]

Wow. Forget N-key rollover. We have one input rollover on this baby.

[@AlistairBrugsch]

Dawid, running the important tests

[@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! 😁

[@professorjack2099]

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

[@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.

[@perrymcclusky4695]

Simply madness! LOL. Love it!

[@genethebean7597]

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

[@maolcogi]

Those night terrors are legit horrifying. Watching this on my 4090, it's begging me to stop, there's down right fear in its voice.

[@FatCatFanatic]

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

[@EJBert]

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

[@conm9891]

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

[@iplaygames-]

crazy idea

[@Coolit2683]

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)

[@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.

[@jorrdanna6219]

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

[@xylotism]

Man, gaming aside that NAS doesn't look terrible. Decent aesthetics, 2x ethernet and HDMI, good looking bays and even upgradeable memory. I haven't been in the NAS market for a while but that doesn't seem too bad.

[@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.

[@azazash6707]

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

[@ramiel7666]

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