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hey guys Gabriel with chrome unboxed and
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today we're talking upgrades a few weeks
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ago we talked about all the new chrome
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boxes on the market and the asus
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chromebox 3 is by far the easiest to
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upgrade so today we're gonna take a look
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inside and see what it takes to put some
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extra RAM in this bad boy
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have the asus chromebox 3 this is the
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seller on model the poor selection is a
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little different around the outside as
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opposed to the other ones but on the
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inside they're all practically the same
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so you can do this with any any light
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generation just about any chrome box at
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all really before you get started you're
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gonna need some tools the right tool for
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the right job right so you can pick up
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one of these all-in-one PC tool kits on
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Amazon for like I think I got this one
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for like $18.00 we have a few of them in
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our shop and we'll drop a link below but
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you've got all your key all your bits
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and everything you need your plastic pry
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tools all the other things that you need
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and it comes with this this is a
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grounding strap anyone who works on pcs
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will tell you that you need to use one
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of these I can honestly say I've never
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used one but I have booked a device too
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so I do recommend that you use it for
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demonstration purposes during this video
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I'm not going to you simply put the
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grounding strap around your wrist and
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then you will clamp this to the end of
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the power cable where there's exposed
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metal or the chassis of the device but
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anyways moving on so we're gonna flip
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this over and you'll see four feet on
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the bottom the first time you take these
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off it is going to feel like they are
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concreted don't worry it's just some
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really strong double-sided tape once you
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take them off the first time they
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generally come off fairly easily just
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got to get under it pop them right off
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once you have them off you'll see there
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are four screws exposed on the bottom
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and then for this I'm using a 2.5
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Phillips head that come in this kit and
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you're gonna take these screws out
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you can always have one of those nice
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little mats that you can work on it has
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a place for all of your screws and your
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bits and everything so you don't lose
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them I'm just gonna cross my fingers and
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hope we don't lock any of this stuff in
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but again the ASIS is the easiest to
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take apart out of all them I've taken
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the Acer and the HP apart the Acer is a
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absolute pain the Asus has four screws
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flip it over to give it a little jiggle
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and the bottom will come right off it's
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attached by the power port that is a
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four poem you can just pull it off set
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it aside and there you go you have the
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insides you have two RAM slots the SD
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card the wireless card and now we're
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gonna take this out two pins on the side
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slide it right out these come with a
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four gig ddr4 you can put ddr3 in these
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if you want but you can pick these up
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pretty cheap I actually found this exact
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one on Newegg for about 22 dollars we'll
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drop a link below if you want to grab
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one so you can upgrade this to eight
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gigs or and for $22 you can go all the
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way up to 16 some people have done 32 it
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technically supports it but I think 16
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is pretty good amount of RAM for this
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type of device so you're just going to
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take your RAM these are going to be 260
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pin you can see the slot right in the
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middle lines up with this you're gonna
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slide the new slot in press it down
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until it clicks and you're good to go
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now if you did want to upgrade the hard
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drive because this one comes with 32
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gigs it's similar you have one screw
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that holds it down you're gonna take
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don't stab the board it's gonna pop up
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let's slide this out take the secondary
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screw out that's gonna pop right up and
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slides right out and you can replace it
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with another MDOT two we have seen
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people have actually put in VME in this
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you just need to make sure you're
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getting the right size and that it'll go
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in there but other than that that's a
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really really easy upgrade to a device
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for really little amount of money all
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right so yeah you get your new hard
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drive you're gonna slide it right back
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in press it down put your screw back in
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side note this is how I've worked the
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ACE with chrome box that I have on
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pretty sure I ground that's something
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when I was putting the hard drive back
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in but anyways so firmly but not too
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tight seat that screw back in now you're
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gonna put your wireless card back in the
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same way and tight your screw then
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you're going to take your power supply
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and reconnect it and up your ports back
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down put your four screws back in your
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feet might have lost their adhesion you
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might need to put a little double-sided
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tape on there or you can just leave them
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off if you don't care about the rubber
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feet and then once your screws are back
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in you have a freshly upgraded asus
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chromebox three guys this is a really
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easy way to turn the device into
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something a little bit better for a
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little little amount of money we
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actually have this device available on
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our shop for two hundred and fifteen
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dollars a new sticker ram and maybe a
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hard drive you've got two hundred
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seventy two hundred eighty dollars
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invested in a device that's gonna last
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you five six years and it will do just
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about anything that you need so guys we
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