CPU look i'm trying my best okay
this is a real fascinating one ladies and gentlemen this is not made by AMD or
Intel obviously because they wouldn't have called it that
but supposedly it is x86 compatible it
is an x86 core based on some western designed products i believe so would it
be fair to call it a ripoff x86 CPU no i
don't think so so what is it then i guess we'll have to find out after this
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where do you want to start on this should we boot it up first should we take the cooler off and have a look at
it first i think we should have a look at it first and see what we're dealing with all right you got regular ddr4
memory is this single channel dual channel i believe that's uh
i think it's dual channel it may not be what's
remarkable about it is how unremarkable it is 24 pin power 4 pin CPU connector
got your regular pwm fan connectors pci
express uh m.2 like it's
it's it's got all the modern features i i would expect just in like uh
a slightly larger than itx i forget what this is called it's not dtx because it's
three slots but it's just a bit of a weird uh you know frankenstein form
factor that's the most bizarre thing about it it's just like a normal looking
motherboard even the io i would describe as like
perfectly reasonable yeah like it's kind of a lower end i o kind of thing you've
got the serial port the vga port it's actually useful in industrial
environments it's even got a parallel port if you want to plug in like a
ribbon cable go get hook up that dot matrix dot matrix or like scada hmis and stuff
there's nothing about it on the surface
to indicate that this is anything other than a normal computer until
that's the jiao shin kaichin there are a few things that we can tell
immediately about the hx002
ea was it yes one is that it has onboard graphics
because clearly this vga and HDMI port
need to be powered by something two all of its i o appears to be built
directly into the CPU itself because it says this is a very very simple pcb we
can go straight from the CPU to the pci express lots dead straight line same for
the RAM uh there appears to be no additional controller or like north
bridge or south bridge or anything like that on the motherboard what can you
tell us about the specs of this chip like is it single core dual core what
frequency does it run at what do we know about it this is an eight core
really at 2.7 gigahertz it is the kaisen
uh kx u6780a and it's based on um via's isaiah
core really so this has something to do with
via then they've managed to add a bunch of different features including china's
homegrown hashing algorithm sm3 and hm4
as well as increasing the ipc by
25 and then another i think 2x or something like that it's pretty crazy
they've added a s3 processing core for the GPU which i don't know if you
remember s3 but they used to be kind of a big deal before they kind of faded
away nothing that impressive today probably but i guess we'll see yeah this could i mean
they have an actual x86 license then
yeah truvia yeah so this could actually just like
be plug and play this is this is crazy town of course it has
perfectly normal hd audio everything about it is just so normal
that's what's tripping me out here not only that but did you notice the uh
mounting for the CPU cooler oh yeah i noticed that they're using an Intel um
yeah Intel spec back plate but just there's no holes for it to screw on the
socket mount because there's no socket yeah there's adhesive on that back plate
i actually uh installed it earlier on but theoretically you could install any
lga 11 5x cooler on this thing then couldn't you theoretically but not
practically because of the height of the CPU die
no oh there's a bank of capacitors here oh that interferes directly it just
barely clears them uh okay there we go
biosoft holy sh
so i'm just windowsing right now i'm running 60 hertz 4k with my jiaozhin
c960 series GPU at 400 megahertz 10-bit
dac it's worth mentioning that in order to get the graphics to work i actually
had to go and uh dig up a driver from hp's website hp actually has a micro pc
that uh runs on the joushin architecture what they do not they do really
like for sale in china or i think it's for sale in china what's task manager
going to look like completely normal eight cores no smt so eight threads
memory is just showing up real normal like 21 33 megahertz we weren't able to
get into the bio so i don't even know if we can adjust that we can get into the
BIOS this is actually the UEFI installation of Windows so we should be
able to reboot into uh startup settings and get there powered by
that code name wu daoku
28 nanometer that's not correct actually really this should be the uh lugia
uh yeah what he said it should also be 16 nanometer 16
nanometer the CPU id is not reporting correctly in hardware involved it also
says single channel memory so maybe that's not right either it's not just
any 16 nanometer either it's tsmc's finfet
so this is like damn near
cutting edge yeah like not quite but it's not far off
either this thing does it does like is it good
i don't know okay should probably
throw it up against some cinebench maybe all right all right all right
we're going to head over to the clean second that it competes with the core i5
uh 7400 shut up oh CPU-z seems to have a
better idea of what's going on here 16 nanometer
socket 1548 turboing up to 2.7 here i saw that
whoa that graphics core though so look i can
actually move the mouse around here but it's like still dragging the window
this thing just trips me out so hard so it does have some sort of something that
reports as a chipset the kx6000 that's
actually the CPU so i believe it's all an soc CPU-z knows its dual channel
memory so let's fire up gpuz
okay so you just thought it was funny for me to open up gpuz and have it be
completely blank it's not funny it's what it thinks the card is
there's nothing in here
it has no idea it can't even it doesn't even know that there's a GPU in there
even when it had the microsoft basic display adapter driver it didn't know
here we go ladies and gentlemen cinebench r20 eight cores eight cores
eight threads
it's working it's doing something it's not even terribly slow as far as i
can tell don't quote me on that though still wrapping my brain around this one
ladies and gentlemen no it does seem slow this seems slow
this has got to be slow i'm pretty sure this is slow don't spoil
it don't spoil it well i was just going to say that
one thing that centaur technologies cores really kind of emphasized was the
kind of uh performance that their
clientele needed and just making it a graphic yeah like adequate performance
for certain workloads so their cores have generally been very simple and very
small and consequently also very little
power oh uh lttstore.com by the way all colors in stock it's done
925 points for context i have a
ivybridge core i5 though that's a quad core at about a thousand
to be fair it's probably fine for what they want to use it for let's game on it
okay oh you're not even going to try the onboard oh come on i couldn't drag a
window around i'm not no i'm not even
gonna do you want me to try it it's a nothing burger it doesn't work
let's see if it just picks up this GPU right away and uh outputs to it and it
immediately worked time to benchmark this puppy
oh yeah look at that it passes the window dragging around the screen test
with flying colors let's fire up some cs go here ladies and
gentlemen the board that we got from taobao we paid about 617 us dollars it's
not cheap i thought that's the point of like
chinese knockoff stuff oh Linus that's not the point the chinese
government has set a target to reduce its uh consumption or use i
guess of hardware and software made by external
vendors by 2022 and this is a drop-in
replacement but it's so expensive well you got to look at it from the
perspective of where they were just like four years ago these cores were way
slower and they were basically just modified
isaiah cores so like in kind of the trajectory they're on
it could be a lot better very soon but can they game as long as they're not a
kid and it's not bedtime 30 FPS in that in that cs go right there
more like cs slow oh wow yeah this does
not run well as soon as the scene you know what hold
on a second i want to get a smoke is this 4k
uh i do believe it is running at 4k but with an rtx 28 ah
it's 1080.
oh i forgot i set a full screen 1080
startup option
that's terrible okay how bad is the smoke gonna kill me
here oh not too bad not too bad still getting 30 40 FPS oh i'm getting shot
though how are they even seeing me ah
oh wow those those frame drops though
oh no no so close
okay so i'm getting like 200 FPS right now i guess it's the game logic does it
seem to be getting better like 40 here
no it's not getting it's not getting better walk faster
dance
so there you have it it sucks and it's overpriced but it doesn't suck that much
and if it follows the same trend as other technology the price shouldn't
stay that high for long now all that remains is for us
to check out some of the other options that china has to reduce its dependency
on western technology make sure you are subscribed because one of them is like
not x86 at all one of them tries to emulate it i think we've got we got a
whole bunch of crazy stuff off taobao so it's gonna be
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