hey everyone it's my first Proper Video after being Sick and boy howdy is it a doozy
- she/her
@imhkr on twitter
late 30s trans girl
Video Games, Retro tech,
anime and tokusatsu nerd
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
it's been four days since your last post and it had me concerned. will watch this after my sybff's art stream ends
i was legit working incredibly hard on this the whole time lmao
well i knocked off at 5 and played dark souls the rest of the night but you know what i mean
I need to know what the fuck a 360 is doing inside of that Edge thing. What possible explanation could there be?
I said this in the youtube comments but MAN, I love how unrefined the engineering of this thing is. It performs exactly as well as it needs to and not any better, there's plenty of room to be more efficient but that would introduce more complexity and make the systems harder to build. Like more bends in the CPU heatpipes so they're closer to the actual chip instead of 2 inches up a block of copper.
They could do that, but it dissipates heat fast enough as is with the one simple bend.
Could we spread the GPU heat out more? Yeah that's totally possible but it's easier to manufacture with one bracket and again, it works well enough like this. As long as it's staying out of thermal throttling/scorch the surroundings range it's all good and Niveus wouldn't see any benefit from making it run another 5 degrees cooler or having a more satisfying IR picture.
right? like... there's a second heatsink RIGHT THERE. someone just commented "so there's two heatsinks just doing nothing? they're just there for visual symmetry?" and yeah, I GUESS THAT'S TRUE
They could totally have a second connection to the unused heatsinks, maybe they even tried that while prototyping! But just using the one connection to the two rear heatsinks performed Good Enough.
I love economies of scale where it doesn't make sense to optimize the shit out of things until they're teetering on the edge of failure to save 3 cents per thousand. Cutting the pieces and bending the pipes for that second GPU connection costs man hours that don't need to be spent bc the massive radiator can handle the load even if it's not efficiently distributed.
There were some great moments in this but also one that's probably mostly just in my head, that the people who bought this sort of thing hired an installer and I just thought "we've got to move these color TVs" / "yeah the slur’s coming up pretty soon here. okay talk to you later"
we got to move these / fanless computers / we got to move these / HTPCs