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the Coolermaster Glaser 240 L CPU cooler delivers the convenience of an all-in-one and the performance of a custom water cooler click now to learn more welcome to a video about one of the most bizarre products that I've encountered in quite some time the gigabyte brick series in general uses the low power consumption and heat output of fourth generation Intel Core series processors to achieve a stunningly tiny form factor without compromising performance to nearly the extent we would have seen in the past they've got everything from extremely slim bricks to the big fat bricks max that could accept for two and a half inch hard drives to bricks Pro which can be outfitted with intel iris pro graphics to deliver a pretty darn satisfying gameplay experience at 720p in modern games making it kind of perfect as a home theater PC that can handle some light gaming or as a steam machine but today we don't have any of those bricks we have the Brix projector which uses a similar sized chassis to the Brix pro but instead of using that extra space for powerful hardware and the beefy heatsink it actually crams a 90 lumen LED backlit WVGA that's 854 by 480 projector with 1.4 watt stereo speakers inside the casing so let's take a quick tour of the device on the front we've got two USB 3 ports and a headphone or optical audio out jack as well as the lens for the projector on the sides not a whole lot other than the speaker grills and an intake ventilation hole for the projector component that lives inside the top of the unit then at the back we find the main affair in terms of i/o with HDMI out mini DisplayPort out Gigabit Ethernet 2 more USB 3 port power in a Kensington lock and finally a discreet input for the projector itself that's mini HDMI giving it the flexibility to allow it to be used with any other device that supports HDMI such as a notebook or like a PC within a boardroom or something like that gigabyte conveniently includes an HD my two mini HDMI cables since most people won't have one of those lying around which i think is a nice little inclusion all right thanks for watching guys I think ah gotcha now we're not done yet let's crack this baby open removing the four screws from the bottom and using the little handle we can pull off the bottom then remove one more screw to completely open up the brick's projector the 1.7 gigahertz dual-core Core i3 for t10 you processor with its HD 4400 graphics is soldered so we won't be changing that but once we're inside we can upgrade the included n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 mini PCIe module and we can add up to 16 gigs of ddr3 l sodium memory and an M SATA SSD it should be noted that this is a bare-bones unit so RAM and storage are not included by default the internal guts also give us a look at how this bad boy is being cooled the projector lamp is cooled by that fresh air intake that I showed you guys on the side with a copper heatsink attached by thermal pads then the air exhausted from that heatsink goes directly into the intake for the CPU cooler which has a larger fan on it that uses a blower design to pump the air through a shrouded aluminum heat thing then right out of the chassis everything else inside is passively cooled alright so back to the outside the integrated projector it's really nothing special it's got no Keystone adjustments or other projector like settings so you just have to fuss with it to get the image right and without a very dark room you aren't going to be getting a usable image much bigger than 35 to the low 40s in terms of diagonal inch sizes but it should be noted that a sirs entry-level pico projector the C 120 is 200 bucks and that gets you 10 extra lumens but is otherwise pretty much the same in terms of raw spec if you really want to get something better in a compact projector you're probably looking at something more like a GP series from BenQ those perform much better but they're around 500 dollars so while the Brix series is supposed to sell based on compactness in general gigabyte has a model that is available for 250 dollars less than this one with exact actly the same specs as this one that's half the size of this one but does not include the projector so the big selling point for this particular Brix is obviously the versatility of it it could live in an office boardroom and save the hassle of having a separate projector or operate as a PC in a dorm with a normal monitor hooked up most of the time via those normal outputs but with the ability to chuck it on the included little bendy tripod which is a $5 value you can get them for five bucks and then point it at the wall with the lights off when you want to watch a movie or something like that so with that in mind I would love to see you guys comment on this video and let me know what you would use a mini PC with a built-in projector for or tell me if you think it's crazy and you wouldn't use the thing at all guys like and share this video if you liked it dislike it if you 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