1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:08,080 oh do we ever have a spectacle for you guys today right here in my hands 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:12,719 is a tiny computer 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:19,359 and i do not mean this laptop we have actually jammed the entire tiny computer 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:26,000 inside the laptop in its hard drive bay check this out 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,000 check this out this is crazy 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:33,280 that my friends is an entire computer 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:37,040 it's not gonna light your world on fire or play the latest games at the highest 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:42,000 frame rates but it will run Windows 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:50,579 so uh let's try that shall we 10 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:59,520 ltx for hosting the ltx 2018 live event 11 00:00:56,879 --> 00:01:04,720 on july 14th it's an interactive meetup tech out and pc gaming 12 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:09,760 extravaganza get your ticket today at the link below 13 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:14,000 so zotac is no stranger to the mini pc game in fact 14 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:18,400 they've got it all over their packaging the original mini pc we made the 15 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,920 original we made the original mini okay okay okay 16 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:26,640 but even they have never done anything this 17 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:30,479 small so this thing is not much bigger than a 18 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:35,680 credit card i mean obviously it's thicker but it is not much larger than a 19 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:40,360 credit card so inside this device you will find an 20 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:46,960 Intel celeron n3350 processor 21 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:50,000 four gigs of RAM uh that is ddr3 memory 22 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:52,320 so low power ddr3 memory you'll find 32 23 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:57,520 gigs of storage and surprisingly 24 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:59,439 actually more expandability than 25 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:03,200 some modern flagship smartphones like the iphone 26 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:09,840 so you get your power button here as well as an indicator led you've got uh 27 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:12,640 your dc 5 volt 3 amp input it's kind of 28 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:17,760 a bummer that that's a usb micro beat it's not the most durable connector 29 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:20,640 you've got a micro sd slot so that means 30 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:24,560 that the 32 gigs of emmc storage that are already soldered on can be expanded 31 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:28,160 Windows will just see that as a normal drive some tablets already do this like 32 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:35,280 microsoft's own surface lineup for example and then over here you've got 33 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:37,040 two usbcs that also serve as displayport 34 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:42,080 outputs and it even includes some dongles so this is one of those situations where because what you're 35 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:46,800 going to be able to do with it depends on the dongles that you've got for it uh 36 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:50,480 an unboxing actually kind of makes sense so we've got one of those same power to 37 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:56,160 i swear i've seen this before this is the same one that comes with 38 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:58,080 the drop cam uh we've got a power cord 39 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:02,159 we've got a little mount so you can throw this on the back of a monitor or 40 00:03:00,239 --> 00:03:06,400 something like that i guess you just put like one screw through the base of thing 41 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:12,720 not the most amazing mount i've ever seen then you've got a few different prong options for the 42 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:16,159 power thing here oh wow so you actually just 43 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,680 fold that in and then do that oh that is a 44 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:23,440 weird international adapter let's fire it up shall we 45 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,159 all right so let's plug this in plug that in 46 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:32,400 plug that baby in 47 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:34,720 man it is amazing how tiny this thing is 48 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:41,040 also fun fact the cooling is all taken care of by the 49 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:46,080 ribbed metal chassis this thing is completely fanless and it's not even 50 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:52,319 heavy like it's it's about the same weight as the SSD that we used for our 51 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:54,239 size comparison a few minutes ago 52 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:58,640 it's madness so with this single dongle that they 53 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:04,080 include we actually get an HDMI output and we get two usb 3 ports so that'll be 54 00:04:02,239 --> 00:04:07,040 everything that we need to run this thing 55 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:11,920 that's it that's the whole computer you know that 56 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:16,880 you've reached full dongle when your dongle 57 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:19,680 is the size of the computer 58 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:23,520 this is so crazy like this is a computer wow it's getting warm 59 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:28,479 already whoa interesting 60 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:32,479 so i mean first order of business is obviously cinebench right 61 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:36,240 oh man i don't know if you want to do that no 62 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,880 how long does it take 30 minutes 63 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:47,759 okay maybe i'll just take alex's word for it what's our score well do you want 64 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:53,360 to guess sure wow it is a dual core 65 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:56,800 without hyper threading clocked at a whopping 66 00:04:54,520 --> 00:05:01,680 1.1 gigahertz i'm gonna guess 67 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:04,080 20. 45. 45. okay 68 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,800 hey not bad oh yeah here it is you've already got the uh the score cash from 69 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:16,080 last time so that is less than one tenth the speed of a five 70 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,919 generation old mobile processor 71 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:23,280 realistically something like this is intended more for 72 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,680 digital signage applications or like the 73 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:29,360 pos terminal in the local clothing store or whatever the case may 74 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:34,560 be it's designed to be seen not heard and just perform basic functionalities 75 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:39,840 so could it do something like play an hd youtube video because 76 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:44,080 for better or for worse Intel has baked gpus onto the vast majority of their 77 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:48,320 consumer cpus and that's annoying for those of us who 78 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:52,080 just want more CPU performance and wish they'd use more die area for that but 79 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:57,680 it's good for people who want to buy very low end stuff and rely on the GPU 80 00:05:55,039 --> 00:06:02,240 to accelerate applicable tasks so let's go ahead and ooh even 81 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:07,039 scrolling's a little rough got that got that delay 82 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:11,280 all right so let's look up a really cool channel like Linus tech tips 83 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:15,039 does this thing support 4k output oh boy so yes we are running at 4k right 84 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:19,840 now but only at up to 30 hertz so this is HDMI 85 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:26,160 1.4 not HDMI 2.0 meaning that you're stuck 86 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:28,880 with a couple of 1920x1080 displays 87 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:32,319 running at 60 hertz or a single 4k running at 30hz oh wow the ncix 88 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:37,919 bankruptcy auction is still the channel trailer so this is interesting 89 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:42,400 it's not a great experience because even like full screening and then going back 90 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:46,800 to windowed mode on the video is pretty choppy oh and we saw we saw a 91 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:52,240 hiccup there but 92 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:54,160 youtube actually defaulted to 4k 93 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:57,759 playback for us here and other than the fact that the audio 94 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:02,960 is not coming through which could be any number of things i'm not going to blame it on this 95 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:06,240 this is actually playing back pretty well 96 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:11,840 i bet it's running warm though oh it is 97 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:15,120 oh that's toasty it's working hard 98 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,960 oh so the CPU's not struggling as much 99 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:21,840 when we're full screened but it has a harder time when we're 100 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:25,360 running in the browser now 101 00:07:23,599 --> 00:07:31,199 zotac is known for a couple of things one of them is mini pcs 102 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:35,919 but one of them is overclocking so i wouldn't put it 103 00:07:33,759 --> 00:07:40,880 past them to put some overclocking capabilities 104 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:44,880 into their BIOS turbo mode hey 105 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:50,880 oh cool uh okay 106 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:53,440 should we enable power limit one 107 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:59,280 no right let's disable the power limit 108 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:02,800 here we go all right we're firing up task manager let's see if we get uh 109 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:05,120 so whoa 110 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,520 this thing's running at 2.3 gigahertz 111 00:08:08,479 --> 00:08:15,120 now i'm sure we have no way of guaranteeing 112 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:18,960 that it's not going to uh you know overheat without some additional cooling 113 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:25,919 and to be clear it's still not super powerful microsoft account background 114 00:08:21,919 --> 00:08:27,840 task was consuming 40 of the CPU there 115 00:08:25,919 --> 00:08:31,759 but maybe this will give us 116 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,959 a little bit more headroom for our youtube experience here 117 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:37,200 oh 118 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:48,720 did it just shut down it just oh yeah it shut down hard 119 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:52,160 i bet we need a more powerful wall wart oh it's really hot you know if you need 120 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:56,399 additional cooling though i bet you could just hold the thing like this it's 121 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:58,640 like water cooling it with your blood you know 122 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:05,680 cause it'll take the heat away and then your body will dissipate it as sweat 123 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:10,800 so i found this huawei supercharge adapter down in the warehouse it claims 124 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:15,040 to be 4.5 volts 5 amps 125 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:19,760 plus 5 amps whatever that means but it's heavy 126 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:24,800 well it's definitely not completely broken so that's good okay do you want 127 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:29,440 to water cool it for me yeah like just hold your hand on it 128 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:34,720 uh oh yeah i guess we could put a fan on it wait did it just shut down again 129 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:38,800 oh the led is red well 130 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:41,600 this is one of the risks 131 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:45,839 of overclocking you don't usually break your hardware 132 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:51,800 but you do occasionally corrupt your os i can feel it heating up right now as it 133 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,800 tries to load Windows 134 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,040 the light just went red 135 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:02,480 damn it all right fine we can disable or enable 136 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:04,880 the power safety thing 137 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:08,880 all all right all right all right all right but i'm leaving on turbo mode 138 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:16,480 num lock's not doing anything so the other thing i don't know is if this 139 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:20,800 thing being rated for four and a half volts is affecting it in 140 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:25,560 some way it was worth a shot if i had one of the old one plus dash chargers 141 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:41,040 not scripted legitimately didn't realize that was there 142 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:49,680 okay we're booted off the dash charger and we still have 143 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:54,160 the uh turbo mode enabled 144 00:10:52,079 --> 00:10:57,279 1.88 one oh 145 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:02,720 oh can we settle for our 100 overclock alex 146 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:06,560 yeah we can settle for that even if microsoft account background 147 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:11,040 crap is still 40 CPU utilization 148 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,839 all right all right let's wait for that to settle down and then we'll go ahead and try out 149 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:22,079 youtube again task manager is pulling 26 150 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:24,800 of the CPU interesting 151 00:11:22,079 --> 00:11:29,200 so you know what i bet's going on here is there's only so much power for both 152 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:33,760 the CPU and GPU and if we let the CPU turbo up 153 00:11:31,839 --> 00:11:37,920 there's not enough left to playback 4k video which would 154 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:40,880 obviously be a priority for a device like this 155 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,800 although yeah it does look like it's fine now doesn't it 156 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:50,160 so if we want to run a game we're probably better off 157 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,160 turning off that setting aren't we 158 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:56,079 okay let's unoverclock 159 00:11:53,680 --> 00:12:00,240 and play some worms shall we i still remember playing worms 3d 160 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:04,399 on like my buddies like pentium 2. 161 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:08,800 so if this can't handle it i'm going to be pretty disappointed 162 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:13,200 that's a logo i've not enjoyed on my screen in a while 163 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:17,839 okay that's uh that is some 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