Gadgetory

when I went to the junk store and saw a sony vaio 1080p displays the 24 inch model four hundred and forty dollars I thought I'd struck gold but then I pulled off the back plate and saw really proprietary booth going on there and I knew I was in for project fail today I'm going to document what just happened in this build welcome back to tech estd this is brian coming to you guys today with a video on what happened in the last week with this big project fail and now I found this monitor this all-in-one it's actually in the background running right now found it at the junk-- store for a bargain price was like damn 140 bucks I could rip out a lot of the internals and put in my own in Turtles and make one awesome custom project however upon getting at home pulling off the back plate I just started to see one cable after another that was all proprietary and I was shocked I mean even the left and the right speaker cable Jack's were different from one another and the biggest thing that got me all the two biggest things that got to me was the fact that they had the monitor cable there which I could not use on a standard form factor Broadwell motherboard or the power supply as well and I was just scratching my head going this would be an absolute nightmare if I was to do all this and the biggest thing that stopped me from doing it in the end was the fact that that power supply didn't have those different connections on there if it's one thing you don't go get on it's the power supplies like seriously don't go get on them unless you know what you're doing and if you guys know me you'll know that I'm all for get on the moment I'm actually doing a project where I'm cutting off parts of the motherboard socket to fit in a different LGA 771 chip however it wasn't all bad news i did manage to get another hard drive and some more memory and patch this little bad boy up and put it back on the market so it's just a big lesson that I learned from this and if you guys are doing custom projects as well the biggest message to come out of this is don't go with old-school OEMs they all use proprietary stuff I know so nivo is not just guilty of this I know Dell do at HP do it a list of other people do it and in the end it's just one big headache if you are wishing to do custom projects for yourself another example of this is I just got the server board in it was a dell jewel socket server bored so i'm actually got a little project coming up in the future however again it uses a power supply with 280 x 24 pin connectors they're so big headache and that's coming for you guys i'll be documenting a video on that but one thing you will have to be careful of if you wish to do project is just to go with standard form factor stuff i think in the future i will be getting ages the lightweight 1080p monitor of 24 inch and then just manually sticking the parts on the back and making a custom bracket for the back of the monitor and have it that way where I can have an all-in-one lightweight carry solution because I did want to put a Haswell motherboard and a Broadway liars pro GPU in there and have just one awesome mobile gaming solution that was pretty light weight to carry however it still would have done a very good job and the whole reason for these companies doing this is essentially so that if something breaks down they can charge you for their piece only like oh we make the power supply that has these connections so you have to buy the power supply from us which has the markup on it it costs you guys more money and it caused me like someone like me a frustration if I'm trying to do a project like I'm doing so in the end I guess the company wins out but not really because they had to spend the extra money to do the designs in the first place and they also have the limited accessibility in that they can't use other OEMs for their designs and whatnot although if it's one thing to come out of this video today that is that if you're doing custom projects just deal with the standard form factory stuff I think if I do this project in the future I will just grab a lightweight 24-inch slim 1080p monitor and get a custom bracket for it put all the hardware on the back and I'll be good to go with a mobile gaming solution hey guys if you have any questions or comments be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can if you haven't raised subscribe to tech yes city and i'll see you in the next one peace out for now bye