Thanks for the comments on ease of serviceability for corporate environments. Makes sense. I'm always thinking from a waste or repurposing standpoint -- too many proprietary solutions and you can hinder long-term repairability in favor of short-term. You lose the ability to source any part years later for sourcing quick swap parts now. But short-term repairs would be easier here, as long as it's not the motherboard. Check out our tear-down of an Xbox DevKit previously! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdSfZ9dovtexfWg.html

Wow, this is the most publicity Stadia will ever get again.

So one thing to keep in mind with these workstations they are made to be quick to work on in the field. Users in corporate environments seem to destroy USB ports and to be able to slide a module out and pop a new one in a couple of minutes is awesome without worrying with cable routing. Same with the power supply when time is money a 1 minute swap out and not worrying about cables is worth it for a corporation. Also, these will have service contracts and then ditched to the used market once it is up.

I work for a game publisher, and we've published a few titles on Stadia. I'm not sure how folks got these, but our company didn't. Albeit, we are a small indie company, but all of our development was done through Stadia's developer portal, which was essentially a staging and testing VM and then the game ran over the browser on our Stadia dev server that was all hosted by Google. We had no Stadia equipement on site as far as I know. My guess is that you could buy these as a developer but they're crazy expensive.

Steve, I have to disagree for once with your criticisms on Lenovo's design. This is a corporate deployment type machine, where it has to be field serviceable by technicians or internal IT departments without having to take the machine to a service bay. Everything that can fail or be damaged needs to be modular, so when a trouble ticket is issued, the tech can come equipped with the parts necessary to swap out. In field service, every minute counts -- either in user downtime and/or technician time. That means diagnostic time has to be minimized. If a front I/O USB port is not working, it's more efficient to swap the module out instead of tinkering with the wiring and probably damaging the extremely fragile USB 3.0 header. The PSU is similar to a server design, where if it fails, you pull the module out and slide in a new one and not have to deal with unplugging and replugging a bunch of connectors and then worrying about cable management. Every time you introduce a screw, you increase the odds that there will be an accidental short from one left in. Lenovo is descended from IBM's PC division, and this design rationale is decades old-- IBM PS/2 computers were some of the first "toolless" modular machines designed specifically for field service in the same manner. Decades of corporate deployment experience to validate and refine the design.

I'd have to argue about your "not being standard makes these not easy to service" argument. These machines are built to be maintained by an IT department. You would have a supply of spare power supplies and pretty much every other individual part supplied under a contract. If a workstation had a failed PSU you could simply intake the system, slide out the defective unit and slide the new unit in. No tools, done in 30 seconds. Uptime is everything in a professional environment. Future reparability is completely irrelevant, when the service life of these machines is over (or the contract/lease expires) all of the machines and spares would be liquidated. Same argument with the front panel. The ports that users interface with are going to get destroyed, that's pretty much a guarantee. With the daughter-board assembly the front ports are again simply slide out the defective parts and slide in a replacement.

The situation in a big company is usually as follows: Someone who costs a couple hundred or thousand per hour to employ has a part die, for example a power supply. You press the button on it to make sure it is indeed the psu that has died. You replace it within a minute with one of the spares you have laying around. Or their USB port dies, maybe they accidentally ram something violently and with gusto into it every day. Whatever the reason, it's dead, and they are now fussing about it because it annoys them in their workflow. So you swap out the front card and it's fixed within a minute. Your time is valuable and so is theirs. You don't want people to be annoyed with their tools, you want them to be able to use all of their mental capacity on their actual work or research. Depending on your policy and warrany levels, either the IT department will quickly fix such problems, or someone from lenovo will come by and swap it out. They might also just bring you a replacement and then take the broken part, either with you/them swapping drives or just replacing it all. In the server and workstation market, it is unthinkable to just replace with any part that's not approved by the vendor. Say you are building a big tower, and a computer has a problem. Even if the random psu or gpu or whatever other part you put into that computer wasn't actually the problem, once investors who pumped millions into a project come knocking, you really don't want to be the guy who modified something. You want to be able to point at lenovo. That's also a reason to run workstation cards with certified drivers. If something goes wrong, covering your bases to not give attack surface is incredibly important or you might take a fall. So for the people who'd actually buy and use these, it's not a problem to be locked into proprietary parts, or to have slightly odd configurations. That said, I would of course appreciate if even such companies would go more standardized routes.

It’s so weird to see Steve’s take on Workstations. As someone who works in real IT and services these every day, everything he hates about it is what makes my job incredibly easy. The power supply can be swapped in roughly 20 seconds.

Who is going to tell Steve the daughter board he struggled with for an hour had a lever right above it that he missed and the daughter board is then pushed right out?

As some have said, there are good reasons why Lenovo went that way. This is designed to be serviced in the field, rather than to a home person's tinker-toy. For example, Power Supplies into boards - Come to the land of Servers, where that's common (especially with the big OEM's), so we don't spent hours unwiring cables - we're able to plug and unplug with minimal to zero downtime. The same thing with the daughterboard - Whilst you might have time to route and fix a cable, a plug and play module is a quick change, with minimal downtime. These are designed to managed in fleets, so parts are a plentiful and you would be looking a maximum NBD turnaround, reducing an IT Departments time to fix. I've seen plenty of server, workstation and Lenovo internals - it's always welcome to see the part list/board design on the cover, as it reduces time to identify and time to fix. Sadly, the business world of PC's is VERY different to the Enthusiasts/Home builder world, where modularity is preferred - in the business world, where time is money, turning around a broken PC is either via Warranty or held parts is *MUCH* more preferable than spending hours routing cables.

The irony of the PSU is that for the market the machines are pointed at - they want stuff like that where their techs can replace a PSU in 15 seconds and have the machine back up and running.

to open the side case without destroying the plastic handle you lift the handle further like a car door handle, that will retract the latches in the 'over built' cage for the handle.

I cannot believe Steve had never seen a Lenovo Think Center like this. Didn't need to tear the front off to remove the front IO. All the things he complained about make it very serviceable. They are so easy to repair and are a Industry Workhorse. The variations you could choose were outstanding.

Cableless, card edge connect power supplies are pretty common in workstations and (especially) servers. It makes swapping the power supply take seconds instead of minutes and the downtime matters for that target customer.

14:00 Those slot connectors are very common on server psus and unfortunately every oem seems to actively fight standardizing them. I think if Intel standardized that and front panel IO into a single cable it would make everyone's lives easier.

As someone who's worked with these as their job, they're really easy to work with and work on. If you are unsure how to work on these, Lenovo has tons of guides available on these as well as their other business machines. As many fellow IT persons have explained - the modularity for these machines is top priority, and being able to swap out the PSU or front I/O on the fly is a great asset. Additionally, the use of circuit boards as opposed to cables saves a lot of time as we do not need to manage it all to get a machine back up and running after a component failed. On top of that, it saves a *lot* on rubber and copper for cables that are unnecessary or just go completely unused. In that sense I'd say this is a pretty environmentally conscious design. I dunno, the way this was handled here as "just OEM sludge" without recognising its environment is kinda leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not gonna lie, it was kind of baffling to see you try to take it apart without any prior knowledge (especially without the manual which, as you explained, this is a run-of-the-mill Lenovo business workstation with nothing really special about it minus the developer software) - the documentation is easily available and found using the service tag that's still on the machine. Even if this was somehow an OEM specific Stadia unit, you already have found the corresponding unit (the P520) this was based on - why didn't you take it apart with that manual in hand...?

For once, a proprietary system that I like. Cool ideas intended to make it tool-less, but actually just make it look cleaner.

That power connection isn't standard but it isn't exactly non-standard either. You can easily get breakout boards and even find replacements

This is definitely a P520. All of the toolless aspects of this design (including the PSU) do actually serve a purpose. Limiting downtime on workstations is often critical. Workstations are often used in high end embedded applications, like the PC used to run an MRI scanner or the PC used to playback movies at a theater. When something breaks in an application like that, you want it fixed quickly. You don't want to ship the machine back for a failed power supply, and in many cases you don't even want to wait for a service tech to be dispatched. A dead simple swappable PSU like this can be serviced by basically any IT worker quickly and without much training. The fact that you can't put an off the shelf ATX PSU in something like this doesn't matter, because you typically have a long warranty anyway. Think of how much it costs an airport for every hour that their baggage scanners are broken.

21:34, you nailed it when you said it would cut down the time by 1-3 minutes. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if the front IO daughter board was hot swappable. You didn't have to take off the entire front to get it out. Notice that there was nothing holding it to the front panel after you had taken it off.

Great video! Few remarks, if you don't mind: 1. Lenovo publishes tons of videos how to open and maintain these machines, here on youtube. You could have saved yourself tons of time in order to disassemble this workstation. 2. The front panel is on a proprietary card and that's for a purpose. Sometimes they sell this devices for 2 USB-A and 2 USB-C, sometime 4 USB-C, sometime 4 USB-A Gen 3.1. This "card" solves this issue without building lots of connectors and cables (think about the BOM). 3. PSU - This was designed as part of their entire-line design to support dual PSU's and hot swap support. At the end it wasn't necessary but it was already built, so they use it as it is ;)

20:30 Those aren't flow guides - they're GPU support slots. Check at 7:48 and you can see the handle-like assembly on the back of the GPU slots into it. Been standard in workstations for a long time, I had a 2009 Mac Pro with the same setup. (EDIT: You get a perfect view of it in action when he pulls the card out around 10:28)

Love seeing you look at obscure, unreleased (either to the general public, or not released to anyone) hardware. Loved the series x dev kit with the 40GB of vram, the evga “next gen graphics” card (essentially a 4090,) and even things that exist but prices dictate a regular consumer is never going to own one as a home lab or as a fun hobby to tinker with like some of those extremely expensive data center graphics cards and servers as a whole. Keep it up and have safe trips to Asia.

Google sent like 10 of these to us, even though we only had one dev doing Stadia work. We were going to deploy them as build servers when we heard Stadia was shut down, but then Google asked for them back.

Pull up on the handle, not out! Aside from that, the circle bit it usually a lock and the front panel IO can be removed in about 10 seconds by lifting the tab next to it and sliding the whole thing forward, you don't have to remove the entire front of the case.

So according to the service tag on that machine, looks like it received a bit of an upgrade. It had originally shipped with a Radeon Pro WX8200, not the V320; and CPU-wise a W-2135 instead of the W-2175. Also of note is that it had come with Debian Linux, and was originally shipped to Singapore.

The socket-able PSU makes all the sense considering the volume they produce just think about all they save on copper that otherwise would be used for the cables.

I won't get into whether the tool-less mechanics are a good idea or not, but judging by how the front panel I/O came out separately and how the rest of the metal casing on the inside doesn't overlap the motherboard it looks like it could have been removed without removing the front panel. I could be wrong and have seen older OEM computers make it far more difficult while also requiring the removal of the front panel, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

That printing on the inside of the left side panel is something standard on HP workstations, my z620 had it and my z840 has it too. In fact, I'd bet the same company made the side panel on HP and Lenovo workstations - the latch mechanism looks incredibly similar on the inside, and the printed bit uses the same font and diagram style. Pretty interesting. Also, routing PCIe (or other) power through the board is a very common server thing, most servers have the hotswap PSU slot straight into the motherboard, so no CPU/board power delivery cables are needed and the PSU itself can be smaller. Any additional power you need plugs straight into the board. As someone who works with servers, I'm actually quite glad to see the "PCI slot" style PSU in a workstation, I understand it's not the best for consumers but it's better for companies, arguably. If you buy 100 of these workstations and 10 spare PSUs, the IT department can quickly and easily replace a PSU, no cables needed, fewer points of failure. I love HP's workstations as well, on the higher end they have little sliding mechanisms and locks similar to the Lenovo, but they're metal and very well built. Additionally a bit odd they used a Radeon Pro, not a Quadro - I guess whatever Stadia developers needed from a GPU it wasn't CUDA accelerated (or dependent on good GPU cooling...)

KZfaq thinks this video is about the game "Teardown". Even Google doesn't know what Stadia is! 🤣

That button he's trying to press on the side panel is a blank for a chassis lock, that'll be wired into the board. Most big brand Workstation OEMs have them as options.

It said Debian on the paper. A linux distro. As far as I know, Stadia was running Linux. I would guess the person you bought this PC of put Windows on it.

i'm impressed with the cable management of this build

The power supply is also 80 platinum so while it is proprietary I imagine it is build fairly well and should last decently long.

I love how modular and serviceable workstations are That slot in PSU without having to touch any cables seems amazing

As someone who has hurt my hands one too many times trying to pull the Motherboard 24pin connector, that slot in design actually looks kinda cool.

Im pretty sure that Delta PSU uses a standard server 12v power connector. It may seem unnecessary but it can handle a lot of current and not get hot. As you guys know all too well, 12v can make something really hot when a conductor isn't rated for it. these are likely overrated for the task

It's always funny to see Steve's take on workstations. It's clear that he has never had to maintain a fleet of workstations.

Did that front usb/power not slide out without removing the front panel? I think it’s designed to easily replace the fpanel “expansion 5.25”

Wicked interesting to see the PSU to pull air through the drive cage to provide some level of cooling to the HDDs. I love some of the OEM enginuity, even if sometimes it's more novelty.

The “Open Source Information” document suggests that this computer originally came with Debian GNU/Linux. Which would make a lot of sense, since Stadia games run on GNU/Linux. The previous owner probably replaced it with Windows when it was decommissioned.

@14:14 The problem they are solving is not additional cables but modularity for orders. If you reevaluate the case you will see that practically every upgrade option is just a toolless slide in part (hard drives, video card, power supply, etc). The case and motherboard are all assembled and tested ahead of time and once an order comes in, the parts are just clicked into slot and locked in. A "custom" build is completed in under 10 minuets and ready to ship. Edit: This is also the case at 20 minutes in for the front panel. Not about eliminating cables but how a minimum wage assembly worker can jam the correct front panel on the prebuild to complete the order.

That little handle thing, i think it might be so that you can put a key inside. It's not pull, it's pull up, which retracts grips at the top. I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

The Power Supply looks like a Server power rail style PSU.

I’ve been rolling on a P520 for three years and can’t come up with a reason to upgrade - they are built like tanks and the firmware is rock solid. Underrated utility machines… in daily driving, it’s crashed once (ever).

That sort of "cartridge" power supply is common in the server world, particularly for machines with multiple power supplies. It makes it a lot easier to swap out a power supply in the event of failure. You just don't have any choice of power supply, but you don't want to put random power supplies into a datacenter full of identical machines anyway.

I've only recently discovered this channel, how did i miss it all these years? I can't get enough watching all your videos.

7:18 Thinkcentre computers have had those inside of the access panels since the IBM days.

Way stronger of a workstation than I expected, pretty cool!

The build layout is GREAT you tool.

I get that it would constrain non standard case layouts (without some kind of riser like GPUs use for vertical mounting/SFF cases), but the way that PSU attaches is super cool. I kind of wish it was the standard to reduce cables!

13:00 While I cannot stand proprietary components/connections, this reminded me of the Gigabyte Stealth motherboard, with many of the connectors on the back of the board, instead of the front = a much more logical cabling solution. I think it is time for the standards to be rethought, it would be great to get rid of cabling in the front of the case one way, or another.

This case looks so retro futuristic. Especially with the colors. I really like it.

Great vid, the part where we got the bird was just my favorite part

It looked like there was a thumb spring catch latch on the IO board that probably would have slid it out which would have made taking the front panel off fairly unnecessary. A swing up latch on the front bay cage too. Interesting to see. More topical, the stadia refunds are kind of a mess.

On one hand I understand why Lenovo uses custom stuff like the PSU on workstation and server builds and I’m honestly okay with that just from experience of having to service hundreds of chassis like this, takes a few minutes to swap out a PSU like this vs 5-6x as much, makes a bigger difference on servers with redundant power supplies where this type of connector is pretty standard. The one thing Lenovo does better than any of the other large OEMs (especially dell which is probably why Alienware is bad at it) is tool less servicing and I do appreciate it in that context. And despite the cheap feel, the engineering of it is something I appreciate occasionally when the design is simple(when thought of in context of the massive amount of cost cutting they do to squeeze every penny of margin) That said, consumer hardware should use off the shelf spec parts imo with the exception of the little 1L thin clients where to do stuff like through a low power quadro card or option for a quad NIC pcie slot, it’s hard to imagine a non custom board allowing for that. Interesting kit, surprised google didn’t go with something more custom but maybe they knew they would kill stadia if it didn’t succeed right away. I think we will see more focus from google with tighter economic conditions, search (ads mainly) might be a money printer but even the Monolith of Mountainview has limits.

All of this input from the corporate IT perspective is fascinating. I think it would cool to get more perspectives on design decisions from the people working on these products.

that side panel remove button reminds me of a slow-rise Casette eject! really cool.

Hey Steve, more vids on Xeon builds please! I'd love to know how those combo Xeon kits from Ali Express perform in gaming.

ive had a secondhand lenovo p500 (haswell/broadwell era, pcie 3.0+ddr4) for a few years now and have also noted the oem "quirks" of the system. the cable-less and slot-in power supply design is excellent for best-practices servicing, using authorized parts from authorized channels and in an authorized shop or a corporate IT lab, and this being a corporate targeted product sort of forgets about interchangeability/compatibility and industry standards, unfortunately. the front bezel is indeed a beast to remove without damaging, but the 5.25" bay front panel i/o module could have been removed from the drive bay it occupied without removing the entire bezel - again, this was designed to be serviced quickly and in volume, and that design actually is executed fairly well and consistently - note the expansion card securement mechanism. the side panel release mechanism has clearly been downgraded over time, the p5/7/900 have a very sturdy release mechanism driven by the pop-up handle, and it seems the build quality of the case itself has gone down as well, as my machine is rock-solid and exhibits none of the wobble you demonstrated. outside of that, its actually fairly surprising how little has changed in this design from haswell era until now (the cooler, the mainboard form factor, and case internals layout are virtually identical), and its nice to see this lineage of workstation highlighted, quirks and all. i do wish they hadnt cut the corners over time that i can clearly see by comparing your system to mine, but it seems that the broad strokes have been retained. now, if only theyd make a threadripper pro box like this...

I like the idea of you guys displaying it like the Predator displaying a trophy from a kill.

I heard that there was a bidding war for this dev kit. Other KZfaqrs (not going to mention names) were hording all the dev kits. So glad there is competition in YT.

That kinda reminds me of how hot swap server PSUs connect, any chance that connection comes from their server division?

My dude the little FPIO module just slides out on its own, you could have just pushed it through, no big deal.

Hi Steve thank you for the coasters.

Im an IT professional for the live broadcasting industry, and Let me tell you urgency, is a must in live production and downtime is a thorn in the side of many a producer/artist. These things are designed for quick repair in the field, and I appreciate the heck out of it for that. Yes, it is E-waste when its old and outdated, but typically machine refreshes happen every 4 years in corporate enviornments, so there is no reason at all to keep these things beyond their warranty period. Funny though, it's a double edged sword, because sometimes those machines may be proprietary appliances that need to stick around, and you can't do too much when they break and are forced to buy the premium parts to fix it. Or you be like me and find pinouts and splice in cabling, or buy an adapter to use standard hardware, lol

Looks like the handle could be specced with a lock, sensible for office environments.

I’m getting parts for a gaming pc for Christmas, it’ll be my first build and while I’m terrified that I’ll mess it up, I’m also extremely excited to actually do it as it has been something that I’ve been wanting to do for close to a decade now

10:43 you are so damn right, all the consumer cards are like flashy and all that stuff, this looks so clean and awesome. The Radeon VII looked really good too.

Worked as a repair technician for HP back in the day... Workstations are built to be easy and fast to be repaired nothing else, In my time I could have a machine like that in pieces in 15 minutes and be out of the building in my car in another 15 already prepping to my next service appointment. Most companies don't even keep machines like that after its warranty is out, so components being not standard is a non issue. The gains in uptime is good for the customer and the ability to service machines faster in the field was good for the manufacturer, a win-win scenario. so that's why their are built this way.

“This is what Alienware wishes it could be.” LOL I love how Steve can be so calm yet sooo savage.

I am sorry, Steve, but I do not agree with you about this being stupid about the power supply or the front IO board being PCB board connectors instead of cables. This comes down to field service and being able to swap a part like that without having to deal with cables. This makes it easier for the field service person. Less training etc. And the front panel IO, I am pretty sure you need to take one screw on the side out, then slide the black plastic handle next to it to unlock that board (probably further down the video you figure that finally out).

I was just looking for something to watch as food cooks. Thanks GN!

@GamersNexus shows and proves! Love science, honesty and technology.

Replacing the motherboard is tough, but everything else was pretty good. Not to mention the specs of the computer quite future proofed. I was impressed with Google's engineers and Lenovo, too baf about Stadia though.

Socketable power supplies sound neat, as long as you accommodate different mobo and PSU form factors, then make sure every PSU works with every mobo, then do a similar thing for getting power to GPUs

that was a really good deal - the v320 typically goes for 1k used alone.

A little surprised that Steve struggled with so many things considering this is a "PC Tech" channel. The handle for example acts like a car door, once you pop it out, you pull up on it, which releases the catch and panel should pop right off. It's a mechanical latch with design to incorporate a lock if needed for enterprise use. As for front I/O daughterboard, there is a screw and latch (with black cover) right on top of the expansion bay, releasing that will release the tray that the daughterboard is mounted on and it would slide right out. Front I/Os are usually one of the very first thing that will fail in an enterprise workstation so a quick way to replace it is necessary. Literally would have taken 2 seconds if he released the latch. This negates pretty much half the video because Steve is complaining about an issue that he fabricated. It's an enterprise level workstation where nearly everything is going to be modular. If you're struggling to remove a component on these, you're probably doing it wrong. Workstations like these (not Stadia but say the P520) at an enterprise level will be installed by the 100s, maybe 1000s and sometimes in one location. From view of IT/servicing, minimizing repair downtime will be a priority and these stations are designed with that in mind. It's either 15 seconds to swap a PSU or minimum 30 minutes unplugging wires, removing/installing PSU and re-routing all the wires.

It's weird that the computer has Windows 10 on it, since Stadia runs a Debian Linux distribution. The documentation you showed seems to indicate that it came with Debian. Maybe someone wiped the machine and put Windows 10 on it so that it wouldn't be on there when the computer was sold?

you should contact lenovo, theyre right in rtp and would probably love to show off what goes into system design

note on that expansion slot front mount 'extender' (brace/bracket) on that Radeon, keep it, same goes for any Tesla/Quadro extenders ye has. it's probably like rack mount ears on audio stuff, if you loose them you will never find proper replacements that work or don't look like angle-grinder leftovers. I have a few audio recording things I can not put in the racks with the rest of my stuff because the seller lost the ears and they don't make them any more (Kurzweil k2000R to name one), lol. Great vid Steve and crew.

That front I/O doesn't need the whole front end removing lime Steve did. It slides out as a little module, you can see when he noticed that and it came free. In real terms you could replace it without even taking the side panel off. I am going to presume he hasn't much experience of how workstations are built as all the ones i ervice have blade type server PSU's that fit like this.

The power supply connector is likely shared with various Lenovo servers, though the form factor likely unique to the tower. This is likely for various IPMI remote management features they offer on their workstation line up. As for socketable power supplies, I've seen them from Apple, HP and Dell depending on their generation in the workstation market. The reason for the daughtercard for the front IO is so they can provide multiple port configurations. The sneaky thing is that there are some PCIe lanes in that connector which can then be used to provide some unique configuration upon request. The W-2175 isn't a server CPU but an actual workstation CPU. It uses the same LGA 2066 socket as Sky Lake-X found in HEDT. The board likely will take one those Sky Lake-X chips. (Server variant is LGA 3647 with hex channel DDR4.) The video card is also a unique board with several connectors not found on the desktop boards for stereoscopic displays and Gen-Lock. The power connectors are also moved around and this one only uses mini-DP connectors.

Dang. A little over $1000 for that kind of hardware is a damn good deal. The white case & Stadia branding make it even cooler as a piece of history.

Steve in the intro: *gets an aneurysm from the SSD caddy Me: wait until you see the power supply

Those kinds of socketed toolless PSUs are very common on rack servers, and tower servers, but likely why it's used in this is, re-using server parts for workstation parts makes their supplychain cheaper, I think, idk, seems odd. However this was meant for a professional company enviroment, the IT tech will just go direct to Lenovo/stadia and order the same PSU from them through the company account, you're not gonna go to ebay or that unless it's a very old machine you've been given permission to keep running by any means necessary.

Fun as always, merci.

Cmon man, the plastic handle was obviously meant to be pulled up to loosen the side panel, kinda seemed like you opened it wrong on purpose just to shit on it when you were the one who didn't understand its basic workings. I like your videos and they're interesting and informative for most part but i seem to be picking up these kinds of "click-bait reaction" vibes a lot.

This is going to be so super interesting that I cannot wait! Shame about Stadia though.

Despite being blower, those OG Vega Frontier edition cards are still my favorite GPU design. So clean and professional looking.

Really like those videos and would love to see some workstation grade oem machines more often. Have to admit that oems not using standards sucks for a lot of reasons, but it’s very interesting to see things being done differently. Seems to me like it’s often for convenience for the techs servicing these, not just for reusing old machinery or cutting cost. Anyway, thanks for these rare gems!

Guys, I love you, but you’re making lots of completely idiotic assumptions about what makes sense and doesn’t in an enterprise environment. You’ve clearly given it about 2 seconds worth of thought. The hubris to assume that people that think 24/7 and do this kind of things at scale that you barely have a grasp on is absurd. We’re not talking about a company with 3 employees building a few PCs a month for enthusiasts.

i really enjoyed the teardown gameplay

The case actually looks really cool

Even today that would make a decent workstation. Unique PC Steve.

Looks better built that most OEM machines lol. Thanks Steve (and everyone else behind the scenes)

Man I really like Lenevos engineering. Also, I think steve is seeing the enginerring only from a PC enthusiast's POV. I'm sure he'd have appreciated this piece of work if he looked it through the eyes of an IT professional.

Really cool PC, graphic card is cool too. Quad channel memory, HBM memory, cool stuff.

The fan cover on the internal cpu cooler is a good design, keeps the mice and rats from getting injured while hiding in the pc from when it was sitting in a warehouse for way to long.

I like how KZfaq thinks you're talking about "Teardown" the PC game and not doing a Tea-down of a dev kit.