How Does MSI Keep Coming Up With These?

say what you will about NSI but they do crack out  obscene pre-builts that are frankly impressive   rate and MSI doesn't let boring things like  practicality thermal limits or copyright law   get in the way of their eccentric experimentation  and today's system is no different so let's check   it out today's video is sponsored by the Deep cool  AK lineup of coolers a collection including the   ak-620 ak-500 and AK-47 different shapes and  sizes that fit in many budgets and use cases   I've been using the ak-620 in my main system  now for ages and not only does it look great   it also works very well and if you don't  like the standard silver you can also get   them in Zero Dark if any of these deep cool  coolers have peaked your interest check them   out using the link in the description below  thanks deepcool for sponsoring today's video [Music] thank you now I was made aware of this MSI system on eBay by  a patreon who also happens to have a tech YouTube   channel which I'll have Linked In the description  below and not only that but they also contributed   a considerable amount of the asking price of  this system so thank you very much Carrie I   really appreciate that and with that let's check  out the system [Music] oh yes eBay Packaging oh this is actually it you know I'd say it's  about as haphazardly packaged as you'd expect   but it seems fine but other than the system  we have a power cable and that's about it cool [Music] oh it's so gross oh there seems to be  bear stuck in what I can only imagine to be bot   juices on it okay well I've given it a minute and  made peace with the fact that we did buy it off   eBay so pubes are kind of a given but putting  that aside look at it it's like a like an MSI   version of a trash can Mac which apparently comes  with an i7 in it it even seems to have the same   thermal design of having like a top fan that pulls  air with the help of convection through the case   which is pretty exciting except the top vents on  this one are all angular and gamery also dirty and   then back here underneath the dragon which the Mac  Pro disappointingly doesn't have we've got pretty   good rear i o we've got a bunch of USB ports and  even dual gigabit Ethernet and down here next to   the Pew we've got two USB C and two display ports  and finally on the system's undercarriage we've   got a bunch of ventilation and this little knob is  where you plug the power cable in now I'm hoping   that bit isn't the entire power supply but we'll  figure that out once we open up the system but   on that note I just want to power up the system  and make sure it works before I potentially break   it during the teardown because I can't imagine  this is going to be easy to take apart anyway   let's quickly do that ew oh it's so sticky  do you know what do you know what I need here   not valida because apparently I lost my  velida gloves which is a travesty [Music] I will buy more at some point but I have to  settle for these work gloves I don't know if   these are biohazard rated like the velida gloves  but at least it's a baron so I guess now we just   it's not a good start is the power on oh that is that is really not a  good sign it is very much plugged   in my initial diagnosis was not  promising I don't think it works   but after spending a bit more time  struggling with it I had an idea the first thing I want to try is to just  plug a monitor into it and see how it   responds I don't think it's going to make a  big difference but let's see you never know   no way it actually turned on now look at  that it works very good now let's tear it   apart but before the teardown I wanted to  give it a quick wipe down with cleaning   liquor to cleanse it from its previous Life as  a gaming system in a brothel so now comes the   fun part opening it up and figuring out how  MSI screwed up the thermal solution thank you [Music] then we should just be able  to oh yeah that pops right out and that is actually metal that's  pretty cool oh and then I think you   whoa you just pull the sides off oh do that and  then you try and ignore all of the interesting   stuff that we're seeing while unplugging that  little clip for the RGB oh that's not nice   oh that is fascinating so the first thing we see  here is the graphics card and I think this is a   GTX 1060 which will give you a rough idea of when  this system came out and what's interesting about   the cooling Solution on it is that it's passive  you can see that there's no fans or anything going   on we've just got quite a not dense fin stack  which here it is compared to a more normal GPU   cooler fin stack and then I'm guessing error  just gets pulled through it by the fan in the   top of the system so I'm very interested to see  the temperatures on this and next to that is a   slot for another graphics card which is pretty  cool which funnily enough seems to also use an   mxm slot like that Alienware laptop I upgraded  so you could get this MSI trash can Mac with two   graphics cards in it which is pretty terrifying  and next to that mxm connector we've got an m.2   slot with nothing plugged in but you do have  the option and then behind that GTX 1060 we have   of our Ram slots so it uses laptop RAM and  there is actually an additional set of slots   behind that so you can drop four sticks of ram  in here and then behind this rear i o is the   main motherboard this is our CPU Cooler which  again is kind of passive because it doesn't   have a fan attached straight to it it's just got  like a whole system-wide fan at the top as far as   I understand under this cooler we have an i7 7700  so we've got all these little motherboards around   the power supply in the center of the system this  is quite a neat design MSI stole from Apple and   I think this is the point of the video where  I jump to the Future because I'm going to go   test this now before I tear it down further but  you'll just see the rest of the teardown process so I guess our first order of business in  the future is to remove the graphics gun it doesn't feel like that did a whole lot so let's  just undo screws until something happens [Music] front bit of the bit of thick so I'm  guessing I'm gonna have to remove this first but after undoing the screws removing  that front bit proved challenging oh there we go wow that process was  more dramatic than expected but I   got the front bit off and now we have  cleaner access to the graphics cards but with the front bit out the way I wasn't  out the woods yet I still couldn't get the   graphics board out so I decided next I needed to  tackle ripping off the top of the case [Music]   oh oh yes that's quite a lot of  Separation that's happening and I   think the last couple of screws that  we need to undo are the ones up here I mean can I take this off first oh there we  go so this beauty is all of the active Cooling   and you can see it's it's just a huge blower  fan and it had oh and it has a whole bunch of   little cables that come off it which means this  dragon logo actually lights up that's something   you won't see on a Mac and in this is a much  better top-down look at the layout of the case   so we've got the two kind of GPU bits over here  that is the CPU bit of the motherboard and then   that middle part is the power supply it's just  in a slot that's quite tight yeah there you go   do you have long hair I hope that's mine looking  at this the system's kind of like a laptop hybrid   because we've got this mxm laptop GPU that they're  adapting to the Dustbin system using a PCI Express   daughter board another weird thing about this  GPU setup is that all of the screws that hold   the mxm board in place are underneath the cooler  so we're gonna have to remove that first [Music]   yeah I can pull that off now and that's  what our GPU heatsink looks like I love   that look of like aged heatsink copper  it's always cool and then this is our   1060 with very dry thermal paste on it we  definitely need to replace that [Music]   where you have to also undo this standoff   damn these are really stuck down there but  either way there is our fully naked GPU that that feels perfectly  reasonable whoa look at that oh that is a really stupid process holy louder so  what happened there is you have these standoffs   that when the motherboard's mounted it actually  is flush all the way here and you have to pull it   off like bend it out and then oh what a terrible  process and then under there we have our CPU board   which also connects via pcie to the kind of main  Hub in the bottom of the system but let's get   this cooler off and have a closer look [Music]  whoa that is remarkably dry thermal paste I'm   surprised nothing exploded so I'm definitely going  to replace that but as you can see under that we   have our 7700 and then there is our power delivery  and then the final thing before I put this back   together and do some gaming on it and see what  thermal paste changes did this is the power supply   450 watt power supplies I'm really hoping they  had higher end ones for slides systems even if   they are using laptop gpus and after that wishful  thinking I laboriously reassembled the system   to test the effect of the fresh new thermal  paste which went well oh I didn't reassemble   it correctly but that's later's problem first  we need to have a look at the initial testing [Music] it's pretty clear that the seller  installed a fresh copy of Windows on here   because we don't have a ridiculous MSI background  and there's no bloatware on it I'm 100 sure it   didn't come from the factory like that so that's  good [Music] now putting aside the the wine temperatures at least on the GPU initially  are really good it's under 50 degrees Celsius   it's not being utilized very much but still you  know that's really impressive performance wise it   is running well this is a 1080p High settings and  as you can tell from the frame time graph which   was suggested by a viewer uh it's running stably  the game the game feels nice and smooth but let's   move over to a game that doesn't regularly  have systems running it basically at idle wow Battlefield 5 a 1080p medium settings is  running very well and surprisingly for an MSI   pre-built despite a bunch of Battlefield having  happened already we don't have temperatures that   are mimicking the center of the sun although the  CPU is getting up there and it's pretty noisy now all the hardware is showing its age a little  bit considering that this is 1080p low settings it   is still playable cyberpunk does have a tendency  to feel a bit sluggish below 60 frames per second   but again very player and because AMD is not  Nvidia we also have the option to turn on some   Fidelity FX and just like that with a little  bit of fidelity FX going it's running better   although you can really tell the Fidelity  effects ooh big accident uh but yeah there's   quite a lot of smearing and stuff happening  in in especially in the very contrasty areas okay so a 1080p low settings Last of Us is  running uh now the same with cyberpunk at 40   frames per second this game feels quite heavy  heavier than like GTA 5 does at 40 frames per   second so it's it's not a great experience  but it's it's running so the system still   works well and despite the higher noise the  temperatures are better than I was expecting   but how much did the thermal paste application  help and could I get the system running again   oh I didn't reassemble it correctly this  ribbon cable came loose real easy so I think   that's the culprit let me plug it back in  and see okay it's not turning on so maybe   it refuses to run with the outside panels off  a few moments later okay attempt nine thousand well the top bit lights up now that's good  that's less good though so it clearly wasn't   one of the 800 ribbon cables being loose which  meant I just had one idea left so I've swapped   over from the HDMI to Mini DisplayPort which  is a long shot but let's see if that helps oh   think louder I I just broke the HDMI  somehow but at least the DisplayPort   works so the repaste is a bit of a mixed bag  we've got slightly lower temperatures on the   CPU but the GPU is slightly higher and it still  is noisy so all that effort wasn't really worth   it which brings me to the end of a particularly  frustrating teardown thank you very much Carrie   for helping out with the system and thank  you everybody for watching bye-bye [Music]

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Length: 15min 34sec (934 seconds)

Published: Sat May 27 2023