This New Mini PC Is Tiny, AFFORDABLE & FAST, Gaming & EMU Hands On Testing

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This is one of the smallest window 11 mini pcs on the market and with an upgraded ram and CPU its perfect for Business, School, Office and even lite gaming and Emulation like PSP, Dreamcast, Gamecube and even PS2!
Powered by the Intel N97 and backed by 12GB LPDDR5 ram this super tiny mini pc might be perfect for you.
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@peterpayne2219 Ай бұрын

My mother was working in Wang mainframe computers in the 1970s through the mid 90s. I wish she were alive so I could show her how far things have come. What a time to be alive!

@philippossnortis2035 Ай бұрын

GOD bless her

@rpratts9636 Ай бұрын

I used to work for Wang. cough cough

@cainankitts7216 Ай бұрын

Sorry for your loss.

@ranjitmandal1612 Ай бұрын

🙏

@Electrichead64 Ай бұрын

My mother started off as a typist, then started learning Wang word processors in the late 70's / early 80s and eventually the entire MS Office suite and worked her way up to an administrative assistant. I've been working in the IT Industry since 1989.

@nate6000 22 күн бұрын

I installed Windows 10 both to optimize the performance and to ensure there's no hidden back doors. Works a treat. Was 100% fully backwards compatible with no faults or issues. Also added a back-lit bluetooth keyboard. Really neat little system. This is what I call progress.

@aslowburnpdx1986 Ай бұрын

I got this with the coupon discount. Upgraded the wifi to an Intel wifi 6e. I haven't done any over clock of change to tdp. I'm really impressed with the gaming performance. I really just wanted this for parties and playing couch coop games. I ordered a 2tb drive to load up with emulation.

@MarillMau5 Ай бұрын

I have the same idea thanks, is wifi 6 a must?

@SNAPS90291 18 күн бұрын

Do you have a link for this to purchase thanks if available

@pewpew9040 14 күн бұрын

No value, I bought a used ASUS Ally Z1 extreme with a dock 400$ to play the emulation fast and cheap

@RossPotts Ай бұрын

The Nuc-like PCs are like a gateway drug! I bought one earlier this year, maxed out the memory and SSD, then figured out the graphic problem with upgrading the Linux OS. Best little hidden PC I ever had. I plan on building a little network of these kinds of PCs all over the house. Just because…

@chromerims Ай бұрын

Love the mini PC content, Prime 👍 Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

@Neopulse00 Ай бұрын

With my offbrand Intel N5105* miniPC that I got last year, still running well for what I need it for and emulation. I love being able to travel with it and runs faster and better than my older Pi4 that I still own. What sells me on this is that it's so small that to travel with it is easy and causes less (or no) attention in customs.

@AndrewTSq Ай бұрын

also it plays back video like a charm, which is not something you can say about the pi4 all times.

@Bareego Ай бұрын

If you don't want to lug a keyboard mouse around you can also just buy a wifi combo in your destination country, many hotels have TVs with HDMI port. So all you lug around is the computer with power wart and hdmi cable.

@joelv4495 Ай бұрын

Something like this looks like a much better option to run Kodi or Plex than a Pi 5. And it's not that far off money-wise once you add the accessories needed for the Pi. Just wish it supported HDMI 2.1...

@mystscot9814 Ай бұрын

I've never used Kodi for years, once I got Stremio and the stremfun addon I've never looked back. Kodi was great at the time, I just feel it is too slow these days and cumbersome to use. Try Stremio and the addon :)

@5argetech56 Ай бұрын

I own the GMKtec NucBox G1. Low end but it works just fine for what I need it to do. I upgraded the memory to 16Gigs and Added a 1TB NVMe SSD. Dual booting Windows 11pro and Xubuntu 22.02-LTS. Linux is my everyday OS. I have Windows for Adobe products. Overall I love the size and performance of this tiny little box.

@TheCrystalJules Ай бұрын

I got this exact mini PC last week and set the TDP to 15W in the bios, so far pretty impressed with the performance in "classic" games I'm trying; maxed out settings in Oblivion and it's almost always at 60fps. New Vegas I've only just booted up but it's running well too. Running Morrowind/OpenMW actually doesn't do as well as Oblivion but I've got it near max locked to 30fps which is fine for me. I'll test out FFXIV and Apex Legends next (whenever I upgrade the SSD) but it ran the FFXIV Dawntrail benchmark at "slightly low" which is better than I'd anticipated. Overall very happy with the performance after years of all my computing tasks shared between an iPad pro, a Raspberry Pi 400, or if I had to use an x86 computer dusting off a decade-plus old dual-core laptop.

@meerfixe Ай бұрын

Its nice to see youre going back to budget oriented videos! :)

@plaistowjames6792 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@Kirby5588 Ай бұрын

Finally a cheap mini pc on par with my 2400g. Been wanting a smaller desktop with similar performance or better.

@mrglassman9584 26 күн бұрын

Bought it, love it, watching this on it.. strapping it on the back of a 12 volt RV tv / monitor and powered off a Jackery 300 whr power box with a BT keyboard w mouse pad. with a verizon jet pack internet makes this setup a great grab n go computer solution

@tfmg8223 Ай бұрын

What's good ETA! Its your fav teardown better here with another begging session! Just a peak at the cooling fan would make me go wild PLEASE ETA🙏🥺

@LelandHasGames Ай бұрын

This thing is ABSOLUTELY crazy for what it is and at the price it's going for. Super cool.

@pauljohnson2513 14 күн бұрын

Thank you for your video, The market is so confusing to me, but I trust your judgment so I have just ordered one to play retrogames through retrobat. Thank you

@mhh3 Ай бұрын

we need mini pc's like this with amd apus

@ZIADXMUSIC Ай бұрын

Unfortunately the things we actually want in budget are actually very rare and cannot be found easily....harsh truth..

@StriderVM Ай бұрын

That small? Sadly no. But you can lower the TDP on Mini PC's that use AMD processors.

@razorgarf Ай бұрын

ZEN 5 APUs please

@patlotpotlot6154 Ай бұрын

Imagine if amd release athlon that competes with these pentium or celeron

@WorldLoveGaming Ай бұрын

MinisForum EM680/EM780 are basically that

@pjhamilton4 Ай бұрын

I didn't even know GMKTec released this!! I have a NucBox 5 that I use for a x86 development server that's super portable. Unfortunately that only has a N5105 processor and 8GB of memory. Going to have to replace it with this one! Having a cpu with AVX/AVX2 allows more things I need to run, NICE! The extra memory and newer CPU will definitely help me! Thanks for posting this!!!

@SayussVlogChannel Ай бұрын

I use this one w/ 12GB ddr5 N100 as my 4K PLEX server and man I have 4 streams going and this little beast handles it. I am not using windows and went with a Linux Fedora 40 w/ GUI.

@blackchristiangeek 26 күн бұрын

It's always nice to see fellow Linux folk chime in because I'm looking to use it for a how Linux server. Thanks for sharing, and God bless 🐧

@Musings-From-Mike Ай бұрын

My second desktop computer is an old HP with a Core-I7 running Linux Mint and feeding a 32" gaming monitor. I could really free up floor space and do everything I want to do with this amazing mini. The days of the giant floor standing computers is receding into the past at accelerating speeds.

@user-zv3lj1ef7l 24 күн бұрын

I have three of these networked inside a very small dollhouse for my daughter to simulate a tiny home computing environment with her dolls. She loves playing Disney Dreamlight Valley from inside her dollhouse. The monitors they're connected to are as thin as a grain of rice and hang on the walls above the mini pc.

@UNKNOWN-un6nz 21 күн бұрын

watch 4 con-10th

@opama_3 19 күн бұрын

@AfterBurnettAsks 🤣🤣🤣

@junkman226 Ай бұрын

Intel saw arm64 form factor and said hold my beer

@StarrDust0 Ай бұрын

Ya this is amazing and I totally agree, they should always include an extra USB-C port or two for data, should be standard now...this would be perfect as a 2nd pc for a family member (like my mom) who doesn't game much and the price is excellent. Back in the day 4 cores were slow asf, but with the improvements in TDP, they're good workhorses now...if they can run 4K vids...what more can you ask for that meets 90% of your needs?

@srvuk Ай бұрын

Very nice and the upgradeable M.2 storage gives it an edge not usually found in something this small. I see it swaying some prospective N100 purchasers.

@vinnyclegg Ай бұрын

I had 2 of these delivered today, one will be my jellyfin server.

@GustavoMsTrashCan Ай бұрын

ey, thats breddy gucci! Considering decent support right off the gate plus its power draw, it can be (easily) considered as a rpi 5 killer!

@actuallyusingmyrealnameher5061 Ай бұрын

Good to see N97s coming through now

@DamaramuHQ Ай бұрын

Oooh, this looks perfect. I wanna get one of these, throw Retroarch on it and a ton of games and hook it up to my living room TV!

@blackchristiangeek 26 күн бұрын

Thanks for the review, I had not Heard of this company before your videos. Again, thanks, and God bless

@marrccin83 Ай бұрын

Please do more comparisons :) like three products of the same factor / price / technology or whatever just like u did here with these Nseries CPUs. Cheers!

@tadmikowsky7520 Ай бұрын

Reminds me of the Chuwi Shartbox. Not falling for that again

@humanrich 8 күн бұрын

It is so insane to me that you can play games like Skyrim on this thing. The advancements since my gaming peak are just crazy. I used to have a PC as big as my house with a fan louder than a motorcycle chugging through to get games running at like 20 fps.

@schubajo Ай бұрын

When benchmarking, it is a good idea to use the same version and same OS.

@jonjonr6 Ай бұрын

That N97 has a Passmark score of 5919. That's pretty awesome for such a cheap and tiny box. Now, if only it would run virtualization

@TryingNewTech Ай бұрын

The geekbench for the N97 was done in Linux as opposed to Windows?

@IanLantz Ай бұрын

The benchmark discrepancy is almost definitely because of using different versions of the benchmark software across entirely different families of operating systems

@m.sabir21 Ай бұрын

Excellent video, does this mini pc can be used for video editing?

@Emulation_Inflation Ай бұрын

That's sweet. I love the tiny pc's. You got me to buy the S500+ R7-7840HS 16GLPDDR5 6400MHz 4 tb Mini PC, and I love it! I still can't get it overclocked, though I'm definitely doing something wrong. Because I do it it doesn't want to boot. Then I have to remove the clock battery to reset. 😔

@toseltreps1101 Ай бұрын

skill+education issue

@forty2retro Ай бұрын

Cool Thank you

@klimenkor Ай бұрын

This is crazy! I already want it. I had Raspberry Pi to run object recognition python script to process my security cameras stream that gave me 0.5 frames per second. I wonder what this little guy can provide.

@shephusted2714 Ай бұрын

the excitement for zen5 and zen5 mobile is growing - should be some good things later this year

@misterabroad123 Ай бұрын

indeed that will be by next mini pc

@kimkeam2094 Ай бұрын

Thanks for letting us know about this product. Could you help us newbies with external products that you recommend for storage etc as an additional video so we can get the most out of it.

@ModelRailwaysUnlimited Ай бұрын

This is incredible 👏 how do you connect it to your display?

@KillaBBoxing_Brandon Ай бұрын

This awesome. As long as it’s playable I’m straight🔥🔥🔥

@trevor_mounts_music 2 күн бұрын

I wanted a small PC i could use for emulation and for running Renoise+Milkytracker for making music - this looks like a crazy deal for the money. Takes up zero space and I can take it with me when I travel. If you aren't doing anything super demanding this looks like a solid choice and it's cheap enough to pick up and not feel too guilty about.

@victordehaciendas Ай бұрын

Wooaah soo smol!! Like it

@ranjitmandal1612 Ай бұрын

It's amazing 🙌

@eraeusboorwel Ай бұрын

This looks like the perfect thing to replace my old HP single core Desktop when it dies which I imagine it will probably do before too long because of how old it is

@KnurdMonkey Ай бұрын

This is a raspberry killer for 150$.

@quademasters249 Ай бұрын

This. The only remaining reason to use a PI is GPIO.

@ceeam Ай бұрын

@@quademasters249 There are Pi-style GPIO boards you can plug into a USB port there.

@MetallicBlade Ай бұрын

Exactly this. New Pi 5's after kitting them out can cost around as much. Besides GPIO stuff, they're slower in every factor compared to these mini PCs otherwise.

@AndrewTSq Ай бұрын

@@quademasters249 you can buy a gpio that is raspberry pi compatible for your pc for $30 like the RTK.GPIO that connects to a USB on your PC.

@kryptonite7936 Ай бұрын

Yes! I'm happy to see this as I build full size arcade machines at different levels of power! These little guys make full size arcades on the affordable end with a ton of enjoyment!

@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w 19 күн бұрын

There are SO many of these ... it would be really nice if we could get a teir list placement *for this and the handhelds* "i think this goes into the S teir" ect cause the numbers are great but >.< it gets a bit overwhelming after a while and if i ever get into the market for one of these which i plan to when i start up a few projects *of which i will definitely use your videos for that choice*, a tier list would be so incredibly useful. i understand that's a lot of work though.

@nfugitt89 Ай бұрын

The neon green power button is an eyesore

@MasaCheez Ай бұрын

Finally something in my price point 😂.

@TheWestlaker Ай бұрын

Reminds me the pc104 architecture. at 3.5 by 3.75 inches, it was the tiny pc back in the days. That’s 4 times as big as this. Wow!

@hls6925 Ай бұрын

No, it's not - this PCl size is 4.5" x 4.2" x 1.6" (approx.)

@kettusnuhveli341 Ай бұрын

That footprint really reminds me of the Morefine M6S! Edit: It literally uses the same case...

@ahmedosama7463 12 күн бұрын

I hope you can include assesment of some opencv models or ultralytics tolo models using this small gpu, that would be really great

@Gabilleta Ай бұрын

This would be great to run dedicated servers and whatnot. Low power consumption, really small form factor, and under $200 it's a steal.

@WhiteG60 Ай бұрын

3 of them in some sort of cluster (kubernetes or whatever) would be great.

@haidars Ай бұрын

I have the previous model with Intel N5105 CPU and 8gb RAM 1tb ssd, at that I paid it for $350, 1 year later, with the release of N6105 and N97 CPU, the price drop to $140, mine has been up n running for 18month 24/7 running Ubuntu server with around 40-50 container, including adguard, nextcloud, sonar,radarr, and other *arr stack with jellyfin, traefik, keycloak, and a lot more without any issue

@chrismcpherson7582 Ай бұрын

@@haidarsany driver issues when setting it up?

@SchoolforHackers Ай бұрын

@@haidarsYeah, that’s a stack that would melt any Pi.

@haidars Ай бұрын

@@chrismcpherson7582 nope.... If running windows, gmktec has all the driver and a script to install all at once, running Ubuntu 22.04 no driver issue, the only issue I had was Intel quick sync on the N5105 CPU does not work on Ubuntu 22.04, because of the kernal that ship with Ubuntu 22.04, you either have to install Ubuntu 20.04 or upgrade to kernel 6.x

@JohnWayne0815 Ай бұрын

regarding emulation performance, you said that it does not have enough gpu-power to run F-Zero GX on Gamecube... did you try on windows or with batocera? On batocera i can play F-Zero GX at 2x resolution constant 60fps (even on the fire/vulcano track) no problem on my N100 mini-PC

@Silencer_Matrix Ай бұрын

Can u add local game streaming (moonlight) to see if the small pc's can handle it ? Ps: Love the channel

@No_True_Scotsman Ай бұрын

I'd love to see this torn down to just the minimum for it to work (board and a few ports), so it can be fairly compared to the rpi.

@pheapkim978 Ай бұрын

This is such a sff for those who just wanna watch KZfaq and Netflix and web browsing and email it’s perfect

@UNKNOWN-un6nz 21 күн бұрын

sell fone

@pheapkim978 21 күн бұрын

@@UNKNOWN-un6nz bigger screen monitor i dont wanna use my cellphone

@unboxstation854 Ай бұрын

I'd love to see you trying out games like halo infinite on these mini pc

@4DoodleDad Ай бұрын

ETA - will this run Steam FX3 pinball games? Would love to use this to make a vpin with FX3 on cabinet mode.

@xcqML Ай бұрын

whats the point on using different benchmark versions? (geekbench) ofc the results doesnt makes sense 6.1.0 vs 6.3.0 vs 6.2.2 the n200 is the faster one not by much but still (n97 gpu is faster because higher clock)

@Polesca Ай бұрын

Bet you love it

@ready2fly44 18 күн бұрын

I would really appreciate if you started including music production software capabilities in you reviews . Pleease

@virmandigiman288 8 сағат бұрын

This with the new arm chip would be killer

@jeffreywong5112 Ай бұрын

19 watts! Wow!

@gormauslander Ай бұрын

No one ever tests Twilight Princess, which I've found often lags on systems shown to run other games well, especially during the fog scene in the woods.

@WendellJetel Ай бұрын

This will be my new Mac mini. Btw can this intel Gpus handle hdmi-cec commands when using as kodi player plugged to TV?

@nickgathagan8871 Ай бұрын

How do you think this will handle cloud based programs like photoshop, illustrator and sketchup?

@MrSteveonbroadway Ай бұрын

Seems perfect for ALU

@greendro6410 Ай бұрын

This is dope 😊

@TerenceKearns 16 күн бұрын

Do you reckon this thing would be up to the task of switching FHD video streams (NDI/SRT) for livestreaming using vMix or OBS?

@Rogerkonijntje Ай бұрын

Wow classic and LoL would run great on this i think ! :)

@MisterKaroi 15 күн бұрын

I wish ETA Prime would test a Dog's Life on PS2, it's pretty hard to run due to artifacts. Maybe a test one day?

@richardwhittaker1296 Ай бұрын

Off topic but what keyboard is that he’s got? Looks nice.

@ekardnai Ай бұрын

@6:13 why is the n97 on linux while the others are on windows? Could that account for the difference in scores because of system overhead differences between the OS?

@BroadbandLink Ай бұрын

How well would this act as a game server? Looking to host a few game servers with minimal power/desk space. Thx

@MrNside Ай бұрын

Not sure where you got the measurements from, but that thing is much bigger than 1.4" x 1.4". Looks to be around 3" square, maybe 2.5". Measuring tapes aren't expensive, but maybe you can get some company to send you one to review.

@GraysonZimmer Ай бұрын

I want something to run some little servers and this would be perfect. I might even run a little nas off it. So cheap!

@moahammad1mohammad Ай бұрын

What a beauty

@ploxzplayz Ай бұрын

ETA the goat here since 200k

@SilverFoxww Ай бұрын

I can buy only 12GB RAM+256GB M.2 SSD on Amazon UK and its price is £371.17. And I think you put a wrong link in the description, it sends me to Beelink Business Mini Pc N5095 (4C/4T up to 2.9GHz).

@GeneralTsosChix Ай бұрын

Pretty cool. But does it use a modified windows 11 pro? I bought one of their other offerings and they use windows 11 pro that omits the windows TPM because it lacks the hardware. So an authentic full fat windows 11 can never be installed on it.

@numberoneappgames Ай бұрын

I was surprised it could even play Gamecube! wow.

@joegee2815 Ай бұрын

this would make a nice low power server for OpenSense firewall or a PiHole, or both.

@ArmandSalmon 6 күн бұрын

Am I reading the benchmark correctly? The N97 Geekbench for Linux and the N200 & N100 were for Windows? Does that have any impact on results?

@Jeffisatrancelover Ай бұрын

Geekbench scores were not all performed on the same version or OS. The N97 stats show that they are for Linux and not Windows. It would be better to have more correct scoring on the same versions and same OS.

@TheSolo38 11 күн бұрын

i bought this after seeing this video very happy with it shame i cant run my steam games on it like ready or not and wanted to buy body cam guess ill have to buy a gaming pc now 😢

@GurukageTV Ай бұрын

Would this be good as a streaming pc? I’m only going to use it for OBS and my camera for the stream

@DudeGamer8 Ай бұрын

I am a subscriber and I like your contents, but my feedback for this channel are: 1. This channel seems more like an advertisement platform instead of an honest review channel now 2. ALL products you featured are GOOD, GREAT, SHOULD BUY, THE BEST etc 3. Little to no honest negative points about products you featured 4. Viewers have no idea what is good or bad from your channel if ALL products are good 5. Viewers should know if your video are paid contents Anyway these are my feedback, hope you take this in positive note.

@LarpingAsALarper Ай бұрын

Yep, honestly when i first found this channel last year i was pumped. It's slowly became a bit of a let down after you see how great every single product apparently is. At a certain point we are going to have to rebrand this channel "Disingenuous Prime" if it continues.

@hectorpikipiki Ай бұрын

🤑

@marhyv94 Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@glassby5882 Ай бұрын

He highlighted what was good about the product and was honest about what it wouldn't do. If you're looking for a reviewer that just does hit pieces on a product there's plenty of them out there. For me personally as someone that's in the market for one of these mini pc's for an android tv box replacement. This was perfect and highlighted everything I needed to know about the product. Good lord, start your own channel and do "honest reviews" if you think this is so dishonest.

@hectorpikipiki Ай бұрын

@@glassby5882 don't be a fanboy

@elsuperpollo2273 Ай бұрын

I'd use this, to use as a replacement for my roku box, but I'd put linux on after removing the lamedows 11.

@grlff Ай бұрын

I got same formfactor but on n100, it would be great to see m.2 external gpu performance, because igpu barely enough for ps2 native resolution Great nvidia geforce now device though

@justsomedude7042 Ай бұрын

Ya think this little beast could blow up trying to run WoW classic? Though I would really rather play EMU titles. As man, as I POSSIBLY can...

@paraagshah4153 24 күн бұрын

Could this be used for processing RAW images using Photoshop and Lightroom? Will the power/cores/threads be sufficient for this purpose? Please suggest. Thank you.

@user-bm9sq5nd6c Ай бұрын

Please make a comparison of this N97 PC with a similar priced used Lenovo, HP or Dell Minimicro (1 Liter) PC (Intel i5-6500T and/or i3-8100T)(Price/Performance/Powerconsumtion). Greetings from Germany.