Unboxing the Mysterious Hyper Cube
Key Points
- The creator jokes about a low‑quality microphone that makes “S” and “Z” sounds like “th,” likening his voice to Mike Tyson.
- He humorously announces the “death” of his old hot‑glue gun, explaining he’ll replace it with a new drill‑battery‑powered glue gun for future projects.
- The video’s main focus shifts to an obscure device he dubs the “hyper Cube,” a mysterious gadget with numerous ports (DisplayPort, mini‑DisplayPort, USB, lightning, Ethernet, audio, etc.) that he barely understands.
- He speculates about the Cube’s power requirements (12‑24 V, 3.3 A) and its internal components (possible infrared receiver), acknowledging he hasn’t yet opened it to see what’s inside.
Full Transcript
# Unboxing the Mysterious Hyper Cube **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZCjMtthqY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZCjMtthqY) **Duration:** 00:29:49 ## Summary - The creator jokes about a low‑quality microphone that makes “S” and “Z” sounds like “th,” likening his voice to Mike Tyson. - He humorously announces the “death” of his old hot‑glue gun, explaining he’ll replace it with a new drill‑battery‑powered glue gun for future projects. - The video’s main focus shifts to an obscure device he dubs the “hyper Cube,” a mysterious gadget with numerous ports (DisplayPort, mini‑DisplayPort, USB, lightning, Ethernet, audio, etc.) that he barely understands. - He speculates about the Cube’s power requirements (12‑24 V, 3.3 A) and its internal components (possible infrared receiver), acknowledging he hasn’t yet opened it to see what’s inside. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZCjMtthqY&t=0s) **Farewell to My Broken Glue Gun** - The host comically laments a dead glue gun—blamed on a cheap mic’s s/z distortion—while recalling old gaming hardware and teasing a new drill‑battery‑powered replacement. ## Full Transcript
I didn't really realize this until I
started editing but the crummy little
mic that I was using for this video it
makes all of my S's and Z's sound like
th so we're going Mike Tyson mode for
this one
gaming friends I regret to inform you
that there's been a death in the studio
my baby boy is no more he just he just
ah and it's not cuz it's not hot look
he's trying he's got a little life left
in him okay well I mean okay so maybe
he's not dead but his golden days are
behind him for sure so we're going to
put him to rest godspeed thermogrip from
the 9s with an incredibly safe method of
turning it off and on you'll always have
a place in my heart but you know what
they say out with the old in with the
look at this thing dude it uses a drill
battery you ain't never had a glue gun
this satisfying so all hot gluing tasks
are going to be handled by our boy RI
and believe me he's up for the task why
would I do that that was a mistake now
now there's hot glue stuck to the table
Ah that's all right the more stains we
add to the table the more Rich the lore
is but anyway you didn't come here to
see the glue gun you came here for this
you might be surprised to learn that you
guys have seen this before it was in the
Chinese translator
video you know I've gamed on some pretty
stupid devices in my time the Trimble
Yuma the Leapster GS maybe most stupid
of all the i2s the o
oh wait I haven't made a video about
that one yet and today it's time to make
that video but what is it X I3
XB I actually don't know like usual I've
done no research in my head I keep
referring to this thing as the hyper
Cube and the reason I say that do you
guys remember this the Jimmy Neutron
hyper Cube so as far as I'm concerned
this is the hyper Cube but what is it
probably a computer I don't know look at
this looks like a computer to me wait
display port slhd DMI that's a new one
two mini display ports the power jack
USB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 technically these
are eSATA but uh eSATA is not real so
those are USB oh excuse me this one's
not USB this is keyboard plug also my
bad again these are actually lightning
connectors USB 3 4 5 and six that's how
that works ethernet audio in audio out
the one cool audio port with the red
laser all in all not too bad and you
know what for one I think I actually
have the right cable for this hold on 19
Vol 3.43 amps 19 volts 3.3 amps wait you
can actually put 12 to 24 volts through
this thing that's pretty cool that is
some idiot protection right there if
I've ever seen it I'm sure someone in
the audience is happy that I didn't have
to break out the variable power supply
for this one oh oh she's going wow
didn't have to hit the power button or
anything okay well we're not quite ready
for that yet we haven't even taken it
apart which uh which end do you start on
I genuinely don't know okay this
end all right everybody what's inside
the hyper
Cube huh I don't know I think that is an
infrared receiver I don't know either
way I don't have a remote okay now what
you just you pull it out what have you
dump it out oh you can certainly dump it
out look at this they pretty much made
the trash can computer before Apple it's
just a cube of computing what era even
is this thing so we've got an
unpopulated
msat whoo oh okay IO Shield said see you
later bye-bye then we have a populated
msata a 128 GB sata 3 oh this is like
this brand too so it is xi3 xi3 storage
okay okay so they're cool enough to have
their own ssds I see how it is this is
not having a good time we'll just put
this out of its misery I guess see you
later and then this is also kind of
coming off so okay bye-bye wait what
uh-oh AMD oh no hey I like AMD just as
much as the next guy but when you see
stuff from the M era and then you see
AMD it usually means that you're not in
for a good time then this is probably
the CPU good God what is in here that
can be cooled by these two fans it's a
40 mil fan plus another 40 mil fan oh
boy dude is this going to be another
Windows XP video wait okay no no no no
no 2010 to
2013 at best I mean we've got the AMD
chipset on this thing so if this isn't
just like a little dedicated graphics
card which would be sick but I don't
think so because there's no heat sink on
it this is probably a chipset which
means this is probably an mobile AMD CPU
oh should we take the heat sink off no
I'm not going to take the heat sink off
we got to we got to build the suspense
there's no fun in knowing what the CPU
is this early and we haven't even
covered the deated Wham look at all
those this is about as dedotated as it
gets you can't even remove
it and with that I mean what else what
else really is on here reassembly
time well now I guess we're supposed to
just plug it in and I know we have the
right AC adapter for this already but I
got a new toy I want to show you so this
is a type c to Barrel jack cable there's
a chip inside of the type-c end that's
smart enough to demand 19 volts from any
type-c AC adapter and then this end
right here just goes right in there so
look at this I can take this guy and
then plug it into USB C1 cuz that Port
can do 100 WT we don't even need 100 WTS
we only really need 65 but this will
work so USBC D1 plug in the phone
charger oh look at that there it is
that's crazy I am powering an entire
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time well there's the BIOS man that felt
too easy after messing with the what's
it called the Google meet having to do
so much just ripping my hair out with
that thing I forgot how nice it was to
just use a real computer sometimes oh no
4080 megabytes of DDR3 wait 4080 what
not 4096 isn't isn't that 4 gigs 4096
wonder if some of that's going to the
graphics the HTC limit is set to a cool
95 luckily we're not even close to that
limit sand Force 0 gbes cool the power
of sand everybody I don't like sand oh
so we do have a AMD Graphics a Tomos hm
never heard of that before this is kind
of cool can go from display port to HDMI
on this port it really is just both
apparently primary video device pcie
slot what oh North Bridge and
Southbridge what the heck okay sand
force of 0 GB is probably not going to
be doing much for us I imagine uh but
we'll try and install an OS to it anyway
but we still don't know what the CPU is
CPU config Richland pi very cool I
didn't even want to keep you guys in the
dark on this one but well I guess
neither of us know Steam OS going in I
don't really think Camaro OS got a fair
Shake in the last video and by the last
video I mean the iboss video that was
just a disaster iboss gaming is not
where it's at but will the xi3 be where
it's at well we're going to find out
aren't we okay what are the odds that
the sand Force which showed up as 0.0
gab is actually going to work SDA will
now be formatted perfect oh well that
was quick system bootstrap step failed I
don't even know what that means okay I
may have been a little Hasty in putting
this thing back together cuz I think we
need a new
SSD torque screws cute or cringe okay
see you later sand Force more like waste
of sand Force this SSD replacement
brought to you by some
OEM uh Samsung msata don't tell xi3 but
I'm not putting the other screw back in
in fact I have so little confidence in
this thing that I am just not going to
put it back together at all install to
Samsung hey there we oh downloading
steam I couldn't even get an A out
before we got steam holy crap cimer OS
is great oh standard or Advanced I'm a
standard kind of guy installation
successfully completed would you like to
restart the computer now
absolutely hello you going to boot or no
all right that's fine I'm a patient xi3
gamer so while that's booting let's see
what we can find out about it
xi3 oh it's a boat motor xi3 kayak
saltwater bow mount trolling motor we do
a little trolling motor okay how about
xi3 computer clever architecture comes
at too high a price starting at
$849
in 2012 since this thing is probably an
amazing investment adjusting for
inflation this thing's probably worth
like
$1,800 now I F I struck gold not if it
doesn't freaking boot though what the
heck xi3 if you are here with us in the
room today give us a sign preferably
boot okay what's going on I need to talk
to your bios let me talk to the Linux
boot manager
evidently he's not in today okay there
was another boot option UEFI o okay
let's try that nothing okay what are the
odds that I actually need to be using
this primary display port SL HDMI port
cuz maybe it's actually booting but it's
just not treating this as like an
enabled display or something hold on oh
wait what the heck so it's like present
are you are you actually doing stuff or
are you just fooling me I've seen many a
blinking underscore in my days you can't
fool me we're going to go from HDMI to
mini display port to regular display
port this is
fine something tells me this isn't fine
well now I just don't get anything very
cool how does that happen how does
plugging in two adapters in a row make
it so you can't even get video from the
port that you were just getting video
from you got to be kidding me man this
stuff only happens to me I swear okay
let's do this correctly HDMI end into
the capture card display port end into
display port
Port you got to be kidding me what have
I done what have I done to deserve this
and here I was thinking this was going
to be a short video I was like oh you
know it's just a normal computer it's
just going to boot up and you know the
BIOS just works and everything just
works and we're just going to boot it up
and it's going to install fine and Boot
and that'll be that but no time to reset
the bios where's the battery ah there's
the battery come on
out nothing that is super cool not even
going to lie I actually don't really
know what to do like it's actually just
broken did I seriously kill this thing
by daisy chaining mini display port
adapters together there's no way there's
no way I'm going to take a
moment just as mysteriously as it
stopped working working it has started
working again I put the BIOS battery
back in I'm now using the proper HDMI to
display port cable and now it posts
however it still doesn't boot we are
going to put the flash drive back in and
we're going to reinstall Chimera OS
except this time we're going to choose
Advanced that's it firmware overrides
and unstable builds hell we've already
got an unstable build all right use
that it's not working who was it that
said that we should use Chimera OS no I
I don't even like Chimera OS get out of
here n bite That's Where It's At worked
great on the Google meet everything else
that I wanted to try completely just
doesn't run it'll work great here
too what invalid image what do you mean
what do you mean what do you
mean all right who said that we should
be using bite no I hate bite Windows is
my favorite there we go easy easy peasy
look at that we love Windows on this
channel Windows is the best Windows just
works I'm sure we won't run into any
problems with the fact that this thing
only has 4 gigs of RAM or God knows what
CPU no it'll be fine it'll be fine oh
yeah baby that's what a good time looks
like right there oh
boy and here we are ah Windows 11 my
favorite Steam OS so you might notice
that I've already got some stuff going
on here here but I haven't seen the CPU
yet which we're going to take a look at
together right
now what
amdr 464 L
Apu what I've never heard of anything
like that huh okay okay well hey he look
at this radon HD graphics that's pretty
gaming okay how many how many cores do
we got oh wow this is a quad core CPU
this is not as bad as I thought it was I
I straight up thought that this was
going to be like an Intel atom
competitor or something okay okay this
is kind of workable but this oh wait no
hold on 8 gigs wait what Hardware
reserved 4.8 GB huh okay I'm going to
need to do some investigating here so
what's the deal I'm just going to go
through everything here till I can
figure out oh hey look it did say the
CPU in the Bios but yeah I'm just going
to go through everything until I can
figure out why the heck we only have 4
gigs of RAM to work with if Windows is
saying we have eight that doesn't make
any
sense I've got the graphics driver
installing now and while that's going I
wanted to take a look at this I wanted
to see what HW info says for the Ram oh
good memory 4 gigs on memory module zero
and then 4 gigs on memory module 1 I
don't understand look at this memory
size 8 GB what's going on and it's not
the GPU taking all of it look 768 mbes
actually what even is the GPU AMD Radeon
HD
7660g Trinity Devastator holy cow
Devastator Graphics isn't that like the
one really big construction Transformer
like the excavator and the bulldozzer
and they all combine and make the big
guy we've got that guy as a graphics
card dude Trinity Devastator embedded
but seriously what is going on with the
ram so you guys are not going to believe
this this thing was like a prototype
steam box you remember like old school
Steam OS from back in the day when valve
was making steam machines with Alienware
and all that stuff somehow this thing is
related to all of that from back then it
was called the Piston I genuinely had
had no idea I was just like oh hey look
little weird computer thing okay cool
let's make a video about it but like
what and all of this lines up with the
specs that are in this thing too quad
course C oh shut up quad course CPU
entrylevel gaming Graphics Trinity so
what the heck see this one says piston
on it mine just says xi3 is this valve
steam box I don't know wait what was
that guy doing anyway still struggling
with this and the graphics driver did
not install so I'm going to keep working
on that getting this thing all set up
and ready to game took 10 billion years
neither of us have that kind of time so
I'm going to give you a rundown of what
happened the drivers from AMD didn't
work at all neither these ones or the
older Catalyst ones eventually with
enough Googling I found my way onto this
page from archive.org it was a backup of
all of the files that xi3 hosted for
their computers back in the day
importantly this pack contained all the
drivers I installed the graphics drivers
for the x7a model which I believe is
what mine is but interestingly these
didn't work however after installing the
xi3 Piston display driver Windows
actually picked it up but the fight
wasn't over yet after a reboot the
computer would refuse to go back into
Windows it would just crash and reboot
before it would get to the desktop and
I'm not too surprised since this driver
was made for Windows 7 so let's push our
luck a little bit less and take our OS
back down a version to Windows 10 and
there we go now it's working fine but
the RAM it's still only using 4 GB
what's the deal honestly I still have no
idea but in the pack I downloaded from
archive.org there was a bios update file
for the
x7a this version of the BIOS might be
newer than the one I'm using right now
and it could fix this Ram problem either
way it's the only shot I have at using
using more than 4 gigs so I know what I
have to do I booted into a Windows PE
environment to run the BIOS update tool
and then I took a backup of the current
bios just in case after that was done
there was only one thing left to do the
only thing standing between me and 8 GB
of RAM was a file named Titan
105.hd enter and the BIOS began flashing
every percent that went by gave me equal
parts excitement hope and Dread what if
it failed what if this wasn't the right
bios for this device what if it flashes
but it doesn't fix the ram problem what
am I going to do but eventually it
finished and after a
reboot there it is 8 GB of Glorious
DDR3 everything is now ready so that we
can game on the xi3 computer that was
kind of sort of made as a steam machine
from 2013 but then fell through so it
didn't really happen and also it looks
like the Jimmy Neutron hyper Cube I
won't even lie I am beyond amazed right
now flashing a random bios from the
internet against my better judgment
completely fixed the problem during my
troubleshooting I did completely wipe
the SSD and then I reinstalled Windows
10 but the graphics driver works on
Windows 10 just fine so that's good uh
but I do need to go and redownload all
the
games we're going to go from top to
bottom my prediction is this is going to
be too easy this is also going to be too
easy and then these two are going to
give this thing a run for its money
Portal 2 would have come out around the
same time this thing was built and Team
Fortress 2 just runs like the
masochist in me requires me to play
Counter-Strike 2 and since my space
heater broke I'm going to run Doom
maternal without further Ado
halflife yeah no this is nothing for
this thing yeah this is nothing for this
thing yeah this is nothing for this
thing yeah this is nothing for this
thing in conclusion halflife is nothing
for this thing I do have to say though
the CPU temperature is a little bit High
although I think this is like a mobile
Apu so I guess that's probably fine and
above 30% CPU usage playing halflife is
not great all right well easy enough
let's try halflife 2 all right this is
Max settings 1080p halflife 2 it is
barely clinging to 60fps it is ringing
out the GPU right now and the CPU is
only still at like 40 is%
utilization what the
heck so we're definitely going to be
limited by these crappy onboard Graphics
I mean I'd rather have the onboard
Radeon graphics than like an Intel HD
3000 or whatever man thank goodness we
got the ram increased in halflife 2
we're almost using 4 gigs of RAM this
would have been as far as we could get
probably I'm not even confident the game
would launch to be honest oh and with
that Portal 2 max settings 1080p once
again getting a very Xbox 360 esque
30fps honestly the worst part about this
is just the mouse latency this is with
vsync off not great I'm going to see
what we can do in the pursuit of
60fps hey there we go I dumped
antialiasing and I dumped shaders I I
think you can tell but this is pretty
good now we are definitely using more
than 4 gigs of RAM but yeah this is more
than playable this is straight up a good
time I'm actually pretty impressed with
this thing I was looking up what the CPU
is comparable to earlier and it's just
about in line with like a second gen
desktop I3 so this is exceeding my
expectations and I haven't looked at
what the GPU is about equivalent to Ah
that's right the internet keeps crapping
out on this thing something is really
wrong with either the driver or the
ethernet controller itself on here I
just have to disable and then reenable
the ethernet controller and then yeah
all right here's a couple of points of
comparison for you guys there's the igpu
in this thing a a GTX 750 Ti and a GTX
1050 TI and as you can see we're not
exactly playing with power okay you know
earlier when I was playing halflife 2 I
was dunking on the Intel integrated
Graphics of the era let's see okay okay
good we are still better off with the
Radeon and kind of buy a substantial
amount okay okay imagine getting 7 FPS
I'll take my 10 thank you very much
anyway Team Fortress 2 ooh Oho this is
not great 64-bit is coming soon 64-bit
is coming soon 64-bit is coming this is
what we get until then 25 FPS if we're
lucky all right we're going N64 mode I
guess this is technically an
improvement are you kidding me I don't
even know if I should blame the machine
or TF2 for that one oh boy all right one
more
time oh is that so love this game I I
love this game I really really like this
game all right well rather than waste
more time in Team Fortress 2 Counter
Strike 2 please visit AMD support to
download the latest driver sorry Counter
Strike but uh there's no better driver I
can't even where is it
loading oh my goodness
dude oh oh well there he is quickly
change the settings all right I'm not
wasting any time none low low low low
low okay perfect does this even matter
can I even choose this on this card okay
well we'll see if that even does
anything and then see you later
resolution can we go any
lower yeah we can ah there we go I've
learned my lesson with the bots so I'm
going to play a real game look at that
jpeg back there wow you can count the
number of pixels well if there's no
texture filtering at
least oh
okay
uh oh man okay nice what the heck Dude
Where's the overlay okay well we can't
see our frame rate unfortunately hold on
I was also told that the in-game frame
counter in CS2 causes performance issues
but it's it's all we've got so I'll keep
it on for now oh man oh man oh man this
is crazy I've never even seen a game
look like this is this like film grain
in the game or something this is bizarre
okay so now let's turn FPS counter off I
would not say that that is noticeably
better I want to get a kill I am a robot
oh it's like all Bots I mean I'm not the
one calculating the Bots though so it
shouldn't be impacting my performance
uh-oh
wo
I just spawn the game freezes and then
I'm dead what is going on I think that's
a gun
oh okay I want to try going a little
higher just so this game is playable I
know we don't exactly have the spare
performance to back this up but you
never know you never know see now this
looks like a real video game
again oh okay never mind guess we're
going to baggage the frame rate is
better frame times are worse but when
it's not stuttering so bad that my gun
disappears it's like 20 FPS
chicken does that count as my one kill
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okay did I do it no I did not do it I'm
like anatomically correct
Spider-Man it's just it's trying there's
no way it's not going to
crash what I feel like I'm going to get
vac banned I'm just going to set off the
wrong anti-che thing and I'm never going
to be able to play this game again I
think that chicken was our one kill GG
Counter Strike 2 and now finally Doom
Eternal oh so that's how it's going to
be huh I didn't want to play Doom
Eternal anyway oh boy we're going to
dump the resolution scale everything
else is already at low and at 720P
H it's fine well down we go ah yes the
real Doom we've found it this is pretty
bad I could be wrong but this feels
worse than it did on the Google meet I
mean I guess the Google meet is a good
bit newer than this so the sort of kind
of prototype steam box looks like a
Jimmy nutron hyper Cube how do we feel
about it it's fine it's kind of cool the
iio is pretty good if you're an eSATA
enjoyer you're really going to like it
but if you like your ethernet port
working consistently you're not going to
like it it's I don't know the history of
these devices is pretty cool apparently
they weren't good enough for valve and I
I kind of see why they ran up to Portal
2 okay it's not bad it's a hard little
guy to hate I don't know I like it am I
going to turn it on ever again actually
I think I would because think back think
back to the start of the 201 Microsoft
wanted every app to be on the Microsoft
store and valve was Shing their pants
about it valve starts developing Steam
OS 1.0 and they release it to the public
I kind of want to try this thing with OG
Steam OS the real Steam OS from back in
the day cuz this is about as period
correct as we're going to get apart from
buying one of those official Alienware
steam machines so that might be
interesting let me know if you guys want
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