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

Sponsor: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste (on Amazon - ) & Hydronaut for water cooling (Amazon - ) 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! The best way to support our work is through our store: Like our content? Please cons