Strange AliExpress Motherboards with Built-in CPUs: Erying Skyline & Polestar

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Sponsor: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste (on Amazon - https://geni.us/JMVNtOE ) & Hydronaut for water cooling (Amazon - https://geni.us/Fsray ) The Erying Skyline and Polar Star (sometimes "polestar") motherboards offer a unique combination of a laptop CPU with pseudo-DIY motherboards, potentially offering a good value short of going full DIY. You could build cheaper than 13400 and board combo with this - but it comes with some oddities (and some bizarrely honest marketing). The mini-ITX board in particular is a fairly high-power laptop 12th Gen 12700H CPU with a custom-made "IHS," with the CPU directly soldered to the board. We also bought one with an 11980HK - -but we got malware flags on the driver downloads. Watch our review of another strange product - the flat tower Jiushark CPU cooler! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0RHDTF0Vc The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Curious Mini-ITX Motherboard 01:29 - Directly Soldering the CPUs 03:36 - Cultural Background on 'Weird' Products 05:45 - Features & Tearing it Down 10:19 - The Backplate & 'IHS' 12:04 - Impressive Honesty 13:43 - BIOS... Creativity 15:50 - Benchmark Disclaimers 17:29 - Gaming & Production Benchmarks 20:54 - Malware Concerns - Maybe 22:56 - Interesting & Unique ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Host, Tear-Down: Steve Burke Testing, Writing: Jeremy Clayton Video: Vitalii Makhnovets Video: Mike Gaglione