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oh do we ever have a spectacle for you guys today right here in my hands

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is a tiny computer

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and i do not mean this laptop we have actually jammed the entire tiny computer

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inside the laptop in its hard drive bay check this out

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check this out this is crazy

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that my friends is an entire computer

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it's not gonna light your world on fire or play the latest games at the highest

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frame rates but it will run Windows

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so uh let's try that shall we

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so zotac is no stranger to the mini pc game in fact

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they've got it all over their packaging the original mini pc we made the

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original we made the original mini okay okay okay

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but even they have never done anything this

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small so this thing is not much bigger than a

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credit card i mean obviously it's thicker but it is not much larger than a

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credit card so inside this device you will find an

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Intel celeron n3350 processor

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four gigs of RAM uh that is ddr3 memory

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so low power ddr3 memory you'll find 32

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gigs of storage and surprisingly

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actually more expandability than

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some modern flagship smartphones like the iphone

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so you get your power button here as well as an indicator led you've got uh

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your dc 5 volt 3 amp input it's kind of

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a bummer that that's a usb micro beat it's not the most durable connector

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you've got a micro sd slot so that means

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that the 32 gigs of emmc storage that are already soldered on can be expanded

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Windows will just see that as a normal drive some tablets already do this like

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microsoft's own surface lineup for example and then over here you've got

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two usbcs that also serve as displayport

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outputs and it even includes some dongles so this is one of those situations where because what you're

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going to be able to do with it depends on the dongles that you've got for it uh

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an unboxing actually kind of makes sense so we've got one of those same power to

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i swear i've seen this before this is the same one that comes with

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the drop cam uh we've got a power cord

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we've got a little mount so you can throw this on the back of a monitor or

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something like that i guess you just put like one screw through the base of thing

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not the most amazing mount i've ever seen then you've got a few different prong options for the

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power thing here oh wow so you actually just

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fold that in and then do that oh that is a

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weird international adapter let's fire it up shall we

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all right so let's plug this in plug that in

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plug that baby in

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man it is amazing how tiny this thing is

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also fun fact the cooling is all taken care of by the

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ribbed metal chassis this thing is completely fanless and it's not even

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heavy like it's it's about the same weight as the SSD that we used for our

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size comparison a few minutes ago

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it's madness so with this single dongle that they

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include we actually get an HDMI output and we get two usb 3 ports so that'll be

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everything that we need to run this thing

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that's it that's the whole computer you know that

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you've reached full dongle when your dongle

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is the size of the computer

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this is so crazy like this is a computer wow it's getting warm

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already whoa interesting

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so i mean first order of business is obviously cinebench right

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oh man i don't know if you want to do that no

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how long does it take 30 minutes

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okay maybe i'll just take alex's word for it what's our score well do you want

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to guess sure wow it is a dual core

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without hyper threading clocked at a whopping

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1.1 gigahertz i'm gonna guess

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20. 45. 45. okay

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hey not bad oh yeah here it is you've already got the uh the score cash from

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last time so that is less than one tenth the speed of a five

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generation old mobile processor

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realistically something like this is intended more for

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digital signage applications or like the

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pos terminal in the local clothing store or whatever the case may

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be it's designed to be seen not heard and just perform basic functionalities

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so could it do something like play an hd youtube video because

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for better or for worse Intel has baked gpus onto the vast majority of their

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consumer cpus and that's annoying for those of us who

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just want more CPU performance and wish they'd use more die area for that but

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it's good for people who want to buy very low end stuff and rely on the GPU

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to accelerate applicable tasks so let's go ahead and ooh even

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scrolling's a little rough got that got that delay

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all right so let's look up a really cool channel like Linus tech tips

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does this thing support 4k output oh boy so yes we are running at 4k right

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now but only at up to 30 hertz so this is HDMI

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1.4 not HDMI 2.0 meaning that you're stuck

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with a couple of 1920x1080 displays

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running at 60 hertz or a single 4k running at 30hz oh wow the ncix

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bankruptcy auction is still the channel trailer so this is interesting

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it's not a great experience because even like full screening and then going back

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to windowed mode on the video is pretty choppy oh and we saw we saw a

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hiccup there but

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youtube actually defaulted to 4k

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playback for us here and other than the fact that the audio

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is not coming through which could be any number of things i'm not going to blame it on this

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this is actually playing back pretty well

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i bet it's running warm though oh it is

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oh that's toasty it's working hard

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oh so the CPU's not struggling as much

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when we're full screened but it has a harder time when we're

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running in the browser now

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zotac is known for a couple of things one of them is mini pcs

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but one of them is overclocking so i wouldn't put it

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past them to put some overclocking capabilities

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into their BIOS turbo mode hey

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oh cool uh okay

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should we enable power limit one

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no right let's disable the power limit

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here we go all right we're firing up task manager let's see if we get uh

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so whoa

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this thing's running at 2.3 gigahertz

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now i'm sure we have no way of guaranteeing

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that it's not going to uh you know overheat without some additional cooling

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and to be clear it's still not super powerful microsoft account background

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task was consuming 40 of the CPU there

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but maybe this will give us

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a little bit more headroom for our youtube experience here

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oh

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did it just shut down it just oh yeah it shut down hard

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i bet we need a more powerful wall wart oh it's really hot you know if you need

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additional cooling though i bet you could just hold the thing like this it's

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like water cooling it with your blood you know

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cause it'll take the heat away and then your body will dissipate it as sweat

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so i found this huawei supercharge adapter down in the warehouse it claims

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to be 4.5 volts 5 amps

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plus 5 amps whatever that means but it's heavy

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well it's definitely not completely broken so that's good okay do you want

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to water cool it for me yeah like just hold your hand on it

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uh oh yeah i guess we could put a fan on it wait did it just shut down again

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oh the led is red well

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this is one of the risks

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of overclocking you don't usually break your hardware

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but you do occasionally corrupt your os i can feel it heating up right now as it

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tries to load Windows

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the light just went red

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damn it all right fine we can disable or enable

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the power safety thing

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all all right all right all right all right but i'm leaving on turbo mode

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num lock's not doing anything so the other thing i don't know is if this

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thing being rated for four and a half volts is affecting it in

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some way it was worth a shot if i had one of the old one plus dash chargers

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not scripted legitimately didn't realize that was there

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okay we're booted off the dash charger and we still have

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the uh turbo mode enabled

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1.88 one oh

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oh can we settle for our 100 overclock alex

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yeah we can settle for that even if microsoft account background

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crap is still 40 CPU utilization

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all right all right let's wait for that to settle down and then we'll go ahead and try out

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youtube again task manager is pulling 26

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of the CPU interesting

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so you know what i bet's going on here is there's only so much power for both

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the CPU and GPU and if we let the CPU turbo up

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there's not enough left to playback 4k video which would

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obviously be a priority for a device like this

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although yeah it does look like it's fine now doesn't it

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so if we want to run a game we're probably better off

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turning off that setting aren't we

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okay let's unoverclock

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and play some worms shall we i still remember playing worms 3d

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on like my buddies like pentium 2.

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so if this can't handle it i'm going to be pretty disappointed

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that's a logo i've not enjoyed on my screen in a while

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okay that's uh that is some pretty broken stuff right there

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and none of my hotkeys work oh that one works task manager will not come up

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though um

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all right so maybe this will let us at least get

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to the menus okay that's different here we go start a

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quick game it's only 720p but hey that's running

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pretty well oh it's still not actually perfect 60

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FPS how are you supposed to even control this this is stupid

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the right spot oh

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okay and i think we're done here

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anyone who thought that the mouse arrow changing its direction depending on

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which direction you were moving was a good idea i'm glad that those people are

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all out of game development now because that's awful okay so clearly some of the

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stuff we did today was not how the

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mini pc zbox pi 225 was intended to be used it's for

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industrial applications digital signage

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that kind of thing and honestly for that it's just fine if this was a

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review i guess that would be the conclusion it's not a gaming box

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and if you were expecting it to be then you were unreasonable like me

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