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Video: Niveus Media Center
🕑 Added 2024-01-30 18:44:45 +0000 UTCI was going to come up with a better name for this and a thumbnail and stuff and maybe even release it publicly today but then my power went out. Here's a video everyone lmk what you think
https://youtu.be/Y2OPrGBxkD0
Comments
Curtis Golen
What a ride that ending was
Mukunda Modell
They very much wanted the Niveus PC to be the centerpiece of some very expensive home theater setups. The audiophile aesthetic was emulated in order to appeal to that same more-money-than-sense market thay buys $100,000 speakers and $50,000 power amps. (and $2000 cables that are objectively the same or worse than a $25 cable )
_Pai
If someone was going to use a Media Center Extender to connect their TVs and just leave the Denali in a closet somewhere, it kind of begs the question of why not just use the Media Center Extender with any old PC. Perhaps Niveus realized this and part of the motivation to create the Edge was to get the user into their own private ecosystem and thereby justify the purchase of the Denali.
Cathode Ray Dude
Sort of! The rear one is attached to the hard drive cage so theoretically it's doing some work - it's hard to say because it's *also* mashed up against the front panel which is going to be dividing the heat so much that we can't see it on the IR camera. If I were to stick a piece of insulating material in between the two I suspect we'd see that sink warm up quite a bit. But the two in between - yeah, those do nothing directly. Some heat is going to couple from the adjoining sinks but that's it.
Karl Voelker
So, the GPU side of the case has three of those heat sink blocks that do… nothing in particular? They’re just for visual symmetry?
Cathode Ray Dude
Ah, good point. I think I got into a bad habit with this because at first I was putting only small comments down there, or in really big text so it didn't interfere so much. I'll have to figure out a different style. Thank you for letting me know.
Elsie Hupp
One technical note: at various points where you have baked-in comments in the video, the text is placed in roughly the same place as where the closed-captioning appears, so the baked-in comments are illegible unless closed-captioning is disabled. So as a more general technical suggestion: it would be better if you don't put anything visually important in the same part of the frame where closed-captions appear. On YouTube this tends to be the middle 50% and bottom 25% of the frame, give or take.
