So I've got this fun luggable that I picked up this weekend.
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And that top card. It's not a video card, it's a Winnov Videum RGB XPress!
That's a capture card too.
It doesn't capture DVI, though: it is supposed to have an octopus cable for each of those "DVI" ports.
BTW you might look at this image and go "foone you're showing us the back of the card, flip it over so we can see the chips"
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NOPE! both sides are basically blank.
They build this fucker like a sandwich, with the good bits on the inside.
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I opened it anyway. The chips are mainly FPGAs and RAM, with a few other scattered about. I might come back and figure out what each of these are later.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
hard drive is a 500gb Seagate Momentus.
and I think it may be dead.
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Pulled the PSU. It's a Sparkle Power 480w PSU
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The DVD drive is a Sony DVD/CD rewriter, apparently. An AD-7740H
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And we're mostly in!
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and really, what the fuck is this? Did you run out of the correctly sized fans that day?
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I'm starting to worry that they custom-made this heatsink.
This thing is very heavy. I don't have a scale nearby or I'd weigh it, but it's the kind of heavy YOU DON'T PUT IN PORTABLE COMPUTERS
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The bracket for the power supply (yes, really) hides another board:
This DVI to LVDS board.
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They found low-profile RAM, because otherwise it'd run into the PSU
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Their LVDS cables were too long (A problem NO ONE HAS EVER HAD BEFORE) so they just bundled them over here
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yomimono, still on earthreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone i’m sorry, is that heatsink just a bunch of headless screws forced into a hunk of copper? autocorrect thought I meant “heartsick”, which is appropriate
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
okay, the (broken) display is an LG LP171WU5.
That's a 17.1"(43cm) laptop display, 1920x1200, LED backlight.
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@foone I'm reasonably sure that's an old Swiftech MCX478-V cooler, lol
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The bottom of the device says it came with Windows 7 Pro Embedded, and it was manufactured in March of 2012
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@Lapsus I think you're right!
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@yomimono yes!
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And let's get back to what this thing is:
It's a FleXtreme NextDimension, that's what!
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That's these people:
https://solutions.nextcomputing.com/Apparently they started as Sun workstation supplier for government and military customers, and later started doing high-performance luggables for a variety of markets, including video production. Thus, this thing.
I can't find this model on their site, but they did a lot of custom things (and this thing is 12 years old: they might have just deleted it from their site )
