oh do we ever have a spectacle for you guys today right here in my hands
is a tiny computer
and i do not mean this laptop we have actually jammed the entire tiny computer
inside the laptop in its hard drive bay check this out
check this out this is crazy
that my friends is an entire computer
it's not gonna light your world on fire or play the latest games at the highest
frame rates but it will run Windows
so uh let's try that shall we
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so zotac is no stranger to the mini pc game in fact
they've got it all over their packaging the original mini pc we made the
original we made the original mini okay okay okay
but even they have never done anything this
small so this thing is not much bigger than a
credit card i mean obviously it's thicker but it is not much larger than a
credit card so inside this device you will find an
Intel celeron n3350 processor
four gigs of RAM uh that is ddr3 memory
so low power ddr3 memory you'll find 32
gigs of storage and surprisingly
actually more expandability than
some modern flagship smartphones like the iphone
so you get your power button here as well as an indicator led you've got uh
your dc 5 volt 3 amp input it's kind of
a bummer that that's a usb micro beat it's not the most durable connector
you've got a micro sd slot so that means
that the 32 gigs of emmc storage that are already soldered on can be expanded
Windows will just see that as a normal drive some tablets already do this like
microsoft's own surface lineup for example and then over here you've got
two usbcs that also serve as displayport
outputs and it even includes some dongles so this is one of those situations where because what you're
going to be able to do with it depends on the dongles that you've got for it uh
an unboxing actually kind of makes sense so we've got one of those same power to
i swear i've seen this before this is the same one that comes with
the drop cam uh we've got a power cord
we've got a little mount so you can throw this on the back of a monitor or
something like that i guess you just put like one screw through the base of thing
not the most amazing mount i've ever seen then you've got a few different prong options for the
power thing here oh wow so you actually just
fold that in and then do that oh that is a
weird international adapter let's fire it up shall we
all right so let's plug this in plug that in
plug that baby in
man it is amazing how tiny this thing is
also fun fact the cooling is all taken care of by the
ribbed metal chassis this thing is completely fanless and it's not even
heavy like it's it's about the same weight as the SSD that we used for our
size comparison a few minutes ago
it's madness so with this single dongle that they
include we actually get an HDMI output and we get two usb 3 ports so that'll be
everything that we need to run this thing
that's it that's the whole computer you know that
you've reached full dongle when your dongle
is the size of the computer
this is so crazy like this is a computer wow it's getting warm
already whoa interesting
so i mean first order of business is obviously cinebench right
oh man i don't know if you want to do that no
how long does it take 30 minutes
okay maybe i'll just take alex's word for it what's our score well do you want
to guess sure wow it is a dual core
without hyper threading clocked at a whopping
1.1 gigahertz i'm gonna guess
20. 45. 45. okay
hey not bad oh yeah here it is you've already got the uh the score cash from
last time so that is less than one tenth the speed of a five
generation old mobile processor
realistically something like this is intended more for
digital signage applications or like the
pos terminal in the local clothing store or whatever the case may
be it's designed to be seen not heard and just perform basic functionalities
so could it do something like play an hd youtube video because
for better or for worse Intel has baked gpus onto the vast majority of their
consumer cpus and that's annoying for those of us who
just want more CPU performance and wish they'd use more die area for that but
it's good for people who want to buy very low end stuff and rely on the GPU
to accelerate applicable tasks so let's go ahead and ooh even
scrolling's a little rough got that got that delay
all right so let's look up a really cool channel like Linus tech tips
does this thing support 4k output oh boy so yes we are running at 4k right
now but only at up to 30 hertz so this is HDMI
1.4 not HDMI 2.0 meaning that you're stuck
with a couple of 1920x1080 displays
running at 60 hertz or a single 4k running at 30hz oh wow the ncix
bankruptcy auction is still the channel trailer so this is interesting
it's not a great experience because even like full screening and then going back
to windowed mode on the video is pretty choppy oh and we saw we saw a
hiccup there but
youtube actually defaulted to 4k
playback for us here and other than the fact that the audio
is not coming through which could be any number of things i'm not going to blame it on this
this is actually playing back pretty well
i bet it's running warm though oh it is
oh that's toasty it's working hard
oh so the CPU's not struggling as much
when we're full screened but it has a harder time when we're
running in the browser now
zotac is known for a couple of things one of them is mini pcs
but one of them is overclocking so i wouldn't put it
past them to put some overclocking capabilities
into their BIOS turbo mode hey
oh cool uh okay
should we enable power limit one
no right let's disable the power limit
here we go all right we're firing up task manager let's see if we get uh
so whoa
this thing's running at 2.3 gigahertz
now i'm sure we have no way of guaranteeing
that it's not going to uh you know overheat without some additional cooling
and to be clear it's still not super powerful microsoft account background
task was consuming 40 of the CPU there
but maybe this will give us
a little bit more headroom for our youtube experience here
oh
did it just shut down it just oh yeah it shut down hard
i bet we need a more powerful wall wart oh it's really hot you know if you need
additional cooling though i bet you could just hold the thing like this it's
like water cooling it with your blood you know
cause it'll take the heat away and then your body will dissipate it as sweat
so i found this huawei supercharge adapter down in the warehouse it claims
to be 4.5 volts 5 amps
plus 5 amps whatever that means but it's heavy
well it's definitely not completely broken so that's good okay do you want
to water cool it for me yeah like just hold your hand on it
uh oh yeah i guess we could put a fan on it wait did it just shut down again
oh the led is red well
this is one of the risks
of overclocking you don't usually break your hardware
but you do occasionally corrupt your os i can feel it heating up right now as it
tries to load Windows
the light just went red
damn it all right fine we can disable or enable
the power safety thing
all all right all right all right all right but i'm leaving on turbo mode
num lock's not doing anything so the other thing i don't know is if this
thing being rated for four and a half volts is affecting it in
some way it was worth a shot if i had one of the old one plus dash chargers
not scripted legitimately didn't realize that was there
okay we're booted off the dash charger and we still have
the uh turbo mode enabled
1.88 one oh
oh can we settle for our 100 overclock alex
yeah we can settle for that even if microsoft account background
crap is still 40 CPU utilization
all right all right let's wait for that to settle down and then we'll go ahead and try out
youtube again task manager is pulling 26
of the CPU interesting
so you know what i bet's going on here is there's only so much power for both
the CPU and GPU and if we let the CPU turbo up
there's not enough left to playback 4k video which would
obviously be a priority for a device like this
although yeah it does look like it's fine now doesn't it
so if we want to run a game we're probably better off
turning off that setting aren't we
okay let's unoverclock
and play some worms shall we i still remember playing worms 3d
on like my buddies like pentium 2.
so if this can't handle it i'm going to be pretty disappointed
that's a logo i've not enjoyed on my screen in a while
okay that's uh that is some pretty broken stuff right there
and none of my hotkeys work oh that one works task manager will not come up
though um
all right so maybe this will let us at least get
to the menus okay that's different here we go start a
quick game it's only 720p but hey that's running
pretty well oh it's still not actually perfect 60
FPS how are you supposed to even control this this is stupid
the right spot oh
okay and i think we're done here
anyone who thought that the mouse arrow changing its direction depending on
which direction you were moving was a good idea i'm glad that those people are
all out of game development now because that's awful okay so clearly some of the
stuff we did today was not how the
mini pc zbox pi 225 was intended to be used it's for
industrial applications digital signage
that kind of thing and honestly for that it's just fine if this was a
review i guess that would be the conclusion it's not a gaming box
and if you were expecting it to be then you were unreasonable like me
but it would have been pretty cool if we could have overclocked it
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