I Plugged A Graphics Card Into My NAS...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ธ.ค. 2023
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I plugged a GPU into my NAS and it finally worked!
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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!
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?
@@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.
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
@@travellingslim Thanks! I'll make sure I will keep fighting to make it as consumer friendly as possible.
@@ASUSTOR_YT you already have a great name thanks to Dawid, the Azzzzstor.
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!!!!
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.
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.
@@geekehUK Yeah. A 4x riser works just fine.
guessing it is a gen 4x4 pcie slot, it would maximize the lanes on a rx 6400
@@ethanmike9 The M.2s are x1 each. The slot is a total of x4. PCIe 3.0.
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.
We'll get him back up and running soon :)
@@ASUSTOR_YT make sure to give him "the look" before fixing it. 😂
@@philwolf6721 I couldn't be mad at Dawid. Just look at him! He's too likeable.
this is why we're here :D
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.
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
He devoured Top Gear as a kid so I guess it rubbed off on him 😂 It’s so entertaining
@elcactuar3354 no one cares its a youtube comment*
@elcactuar3354It's a TH-cam 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.
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.
Gaming on a NAS? How hard can it be?
Dawid you always find the answers to questions we never asked
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.
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
Oh that's very interesting. I just assumed that considering the M.2s are on a different 4x pcie slot it would be fine, 😅
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.
Videos like this are why I love ur channel! More videos like this please. Also love low buck xeon builds.
I wonder how you came up with these ideas. Had a real fun. Well done.
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!
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
How's that dual Epyc system coming along? That thing seemed pretty gnarly, hopefully you've got more videos coming up with it.
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
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.
Always happy after watching a Dawid video lol so cheerful even when stuff blow up :D
Oh damn, you got the Yeston Sakura! I'd love to see a review or hear your opinions of it.
Please keep doing your videos they’re brilliant
I've always wanted to plug a GPU into my old NAS.... it can be done! Great content, keep up the awesome vids!
We'll make it happen!
@@ASUSTOR_YTI have a question could someone install Windows Server 2012 R2 on a nas
@@UzumeCEDC I guess you could, but I've never tried.
THIS IS VINTAGE DAWID!!
excellent idea.
now to turn an old laptop with multiple expansion prots into a nas.
Oh hell yeah throwing reBAR into a NAS BIOS. Asustor knows their audience
hehehe
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.
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)
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.
I am always amazed by some of the Frankenstein builds that Dawid creates. Another "It's Alive!" moment.
That NAS is really cool. I really like the design of it.
Thank you!
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.
Thank you for your words of support! Feel free to ask questions if needed!
@@ASUSTOR_YT any idea what killed it in the end? Hopelessly overheating the PCI controllers as another comment speculated?
@@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.
@@Lolwutfordawin We got word that the NAS is not dead, but the windows install kicked the bucket.
@@ASUSTOR_YT that sounds like windows, good to hear!
Can't get enough of this crackity crazy test-bed fun....keep it rolling!
Never seen you upload so quickly after making your previous video. 13 min video, your spoiling us😂
I have 2 x 4 Bay (16TB each) Asustor NAS's - they have been incredibly reliable and were a doddle to set up.
Thank you for your support!
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
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
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.
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😅.
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.
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 TH-camr, do you feel more inclined or pressured to feel one way or the other? Great video as always!
“This is 1080p gaming on an ass”
-dawid’s closed captions maker 2023
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.
No. Our SATA and M.2 slots are completely independent. You can fill all of them without issue.
When Dawid says Resize bar, I got a little excited about the penetration of this Nas.
I would have lifted a small cooler off an old gpu or old motherboard northbridge chip for this, a little active cooling on the CPU would help the performance and maybe save it from self immolation.
(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 TH-cam 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.)
Another great episode of Dawid Does Horrific and Unspeakable Things to Tech Stuff. 👍
Truly doing God's work with three videos Dawid. Thank you
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
upload more often plz love the vids
this pci slots were x4 or whatever, they would never naturally reach those fps. so the game was being totaly managed by the gpu, and it told the cpu to take a hike
The work you do for a video.. glad someone is doing it. HAHA
That actually looks like a good NAS.
How come you didn't use a 4x to 16x PCIe adapter? Since you already had the slot, I feel as if that could've been easier. I mean you can't test it that way now because welll... the system's dead.
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 .
i think 1 video is not enough Dawid please do 2 videos a week, ive run out of videos to rewatch!
so early.... so lonely.....
same
nah uh!
We can be lonely together my brother 🫡
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
@Intelipocalypse we’re just trying to watch a video, like we don’t need a life lesson
Must be a rogue AI from behind the Blackwall in Cyberpunk that fried the bios on the NAS.
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.
I have to admit the Nas box Asustor AS6704T seems like a real usable design with interesting ideas.
Thank you for your words of support! Feel free to ask questions if needed!
I love the terms Mother and Daughter Board :D
Memory express employees in Burnaby must just grin when they see you coming Dawid.
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.
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!!
Dawid Demolition Man! Whatever tech Dawid touches, gets demolished 🤣
That NAS is sweet, for like a plex server at home! I need to look into it.. But I am not plugging a external card and killing it like Dawid did
Thank you for your support!
pretty sure i saw a spare pcie slot, i dont think you need the m.2 riser, just a regular riser
I'm loving it.
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.
You should connect a bunch of DVD-RW or BD drives in RAID and try to play a game off of them
RIP NAS, couldn't survive the Dawidiing
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.
You found the NAS, but need to play games, you hate to use it for File Sharing ?
Not that smart, why you need him ?
@@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.
0:14 The prophesy says Gelfling will destroy us!!!
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
We call that chaotic evil.
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.
dude remind of the geeks alike steve wizniace and the 80's days with the style and passion to computers
Also.. @dawid, i think the gpu choked on the single lane pcie interface. If you would have ditched the m.2s and plugged direct into the 4 lane pcie for the daughter board, i think you would have got the good stuff. Idk tho.
So fresh… so new and shiny
I am curious if you still have the MASSIVE dual CPU server board and are we going to see any more content with that?
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
great video!
I remember when Dawid was such a cute and tiny channel, now look at him all grown up. I'm so proud of him.
I game on my QNAP server. Its has PCIe slot and it supports both VM and PCIe passthrough. I plugged in my old GTX1650 and stuck a dongle into the HDMI port so it thinks a monitor is plugged in. I can game on any television hooked up to the network via steam link. The os automatically puts the most used files on the SSD raid and the less used ones on the hard drive raid. I did upgrade the cpu to an I7770 from an I3.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
change title to "How to fry a NAS Celeron" lol gg great vid as always HAHA
Would be interesting to see how much better it runs with Ghost Specter Windows 10 or some other Tiny OS version of Win10.
Dawid ... You never fail to entertain me. Thank You so much.
Fair play. Dawid, fair play.
...that sounds personal.
At this rate he will drop a gpu to a nokia 3310
That ended up being NASty
Now, that's some real transcoding for your Jellyfin NAS 😈
i would personally use a pcie 8x to 16x rizer card for more bandwidht. but the cpu probably melted itself or the some power did a poopy and burned and bridged some traces but idk it might be something else
Dawid, I am inspired by your appetite for destruction
This NAS *ALMOST* seemed less frustrating to upgrade into a competent gaming PC than my HP Prebuilt for a moment.
lmao
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.
That Celeron with the passive cooling got fried, is my guess.
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.
My appreciation for their sense of humor aside, that thing is nicely specced for a home media server and at a good price.
Thank you!
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?
You say it ended in destruction. I prefer to think of your approach as more of 'invasive enhancement'. Keep 'em coming.
4:56 I want a 3.5 mm drive... please, can you tell me when they were invented, they sound amazing :)
“Nestled in blue tentacles” lmaooo Jeeeezis Christ. This guy, man.