WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.859 for the longest time Intel range Supreme all the way from the highest power 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:10.320 workstation and gaming rigs to the tiny 00:00:07.859 --> 00:00:15.660 power sipping chips that you'd find in an ultra portable laptop fortunately for 00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:20.340 consumers AMD got their crap together a couple of years ago bringing the world 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:25.260 ryzen a return to at least competitiveness on the consumer desktop 00:00:22.859 --> 00:00:32.700 and even the high-end workstation but one area where Intel was on top that is 00:00:29.460 --> 00:00:35.460 until very very recently was super small 00:00:32.700 --> 00:00:40.860 PCS with their Nook or next unit of computing lineup which possibly changes 00:00:37.860 --> 00:00:43.379 I can't get my hand on this today this 00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:52.559 is what appears to be one of the very first AMD ryzen based Nooks it's tiny 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:54.660 it's light and I have very high 00:00:52.559 --> 00:00:58.379 expectations just like you have very high 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:03.120 expectations of my Segways to our sponsors like Messi messy Footwear makes 00:01:01.260 --> 00:01:08.040 comfortable shoes that are light and waterproof their new weekend shoe can be 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:12.540 worn any day anywhere anytime even on the weekend reserve yours today for five 00:01:10.020 --> 00:01:14.900 dollars at vesseyfortware.com Linus Tech tips 00:01:21.619 --> 00:01:27.119 Minnie's forum's goal for the dma F5 on 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:33.900 Indiegogo was like what a weird number like 13 500 or something like that they 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:35.340 ended up raising over 400 Grand so why 00:01:33.900 --> 00:01:39.900 don't we do a quick unboxing and have a look at what we get inside so we've got a Visa compatible Mount so you can pop 00:01:38.460 --> 00:01:46.619 one of these on the back of your monitor if you want like a an AIO look to your 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:48.780 setup we've got wow really apparently it 00:01:46.619 --> 00:01:53.640 includes what appears to be a little Bluetooth keyboard so the receiver just 00:01:52.020 --> 00:01:57.899 tucks into the back you plug that puppy in if you wanted to use this as like a 00:01:55.560 --> 00:02:01.799 media PC for example this would be great I have something very similar at home it 00:02:00.479 --> 00:02:09.000 appears that there's left and right click on here is this an air mouse too I'm not sure but it only comes it only 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:12.480 came for like the early backers oh only the early backers get this yeah I'm 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:16.020 actually I'm jazzed to try this because mine is super bulky this one from sedeko 00:02:14.819 --> 00:02:20.760 and I haven't been able to find an alternative to it yet you also get a 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:25.319 power brick HDMI cable that is a really short HDMI cable that is a that is a 00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:28.260 Pinner HDMI cable I mean I guess it's good enough to go from a vase amount to 00:02:26.819 --> 00:02:32.340 the bottom of the monitor but that's about it ladies and gentlemen you get an 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:35.220 equally DisplayPort cable I'm bringing back painter you know that right it's 00:02:33.540 --> 00:02:39.480 just because you're a Pinner hey there's no there's no shame in being pinned 00:02:36.540 --> 00:02:42.180 you've also got a USB type a to micro b charging cable for that included 00:02:41.099 --> 00:02:46.260 keyboard I kind of inadvertently showed you guys 00:02:44.099 --> 00:02:50.519 how easy it is to get access to the internals but let's let's take a tour of 00:02:48.300 --> 00:02:55.500 the outside first on the front we've got our power button we've got a headphone 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:57.000 jack two type a USB threes now this one 00:02:55.500 --> 00:03:00.959 according to the Indiegogo page anyway is 10 gig and this one's 5 gig but this 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:04.980 one provides power even when it's sleeping but it used to be color-coded yellow like those normally are now it's 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:09.660 not so I don't really know what the deal is with that we've got a type c running 00:03:06.900 --> 00:03:14.040 at 10 gig and then nothing on this side nothing on this side I keep accidentally 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:17.519 popping that top off and then over on the back we've got a couple more 10 00:03:15.300 --> 00:03:24.420 gigabit per second USB 3s DisplayPort HDMI dual gigabit Lan and Power in okay 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:28.260 so that gives us a total of one two actually apparently this front USB 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:33.239 type-c can be used as a display output so that's three outputs and because it's 00:03:31.140 --> 00:03:37.379 got dual Lan ports one of the use cases that they advertise for it is actually 00:03:35.340 --> 00:03:41.700 as like a PF sense box although personally I think I'd feel kind of 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:46.319 limited by something like this anyway let let's formally open it up now you've 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:50.580 got two clicky dude ads right here and you just pop it off like that that 00:03:48.299 --> 00:03:55.680 reveals looks like we've got a SATA drive connector right here it's not 00:03:52.140 --> 00:03:58.560 immediately apparent to me exactly where 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:03.180 that's gonna turn out to ah to the bottom of the lid uh two sewed in memory 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:08.340 slots for dual Channel ddr4 as well as an m.2 slot over here now what I can't 00:04:05.819 --> 00:04:14.099 immediately see is the cooling solution and socket for the CPU or rather I 00:04:11.700 --> 00:04:19.260 should just say that BGA solder point to the CPU reveal your secret 00:04:16.859 --> 00:04:22.560 well no I didn't quite have it removed there 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:28.139 secrets Clinton's probably not faster reveal 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:29.820 them why is this not coming off oh I see 00:04:28.139 --> 00:04:34.400 so there's probably some clips or something for this back part here oh 00:04:36.479 --> 00:04:42.840 hey wow that was awesome knock that screw right into the parts tray that's 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:48.660 some Advanced dropping technique right there oh my goodness 00:04:45.180 --> 00:04:49.680 um why is this screwed in from the other 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:53.699 side why maybe I over complicated things for 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:59.580 myself you know what I bet I didn't see these screws because there was memory in 00:04:56.580 --> 00:05:01.919 the way there they are way to go Linus 00:04:59.580 --> 00:05:08.340 see the whole thing would have just popped off like that I blame I blame 00:05:04.919 --> 00:05:10.380 Jake this seems to be a vrm heatsink of 00:05:08.340 --> 00:05:15.479 some sort so let's go ahead and pop that puppy off there we go oh interesting 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:20.040 well I mangled the Jesus out of that thermal pad so that's cool but yes that 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:24.900 is in fact what that was for so that's good and you know what let's just pop 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:28.220 the m.2 out like who needs this thing to ever boot up again anyway right 00:05:28.580 --> 00:05:34.680 okay yeah we haven't really done the video yet so that's uh that's 00:05:32.699 --> 00:05:40.259 challenging wow why does it have these little uh rubbers on the m.2 stick here 00:05:37.380 --> 00:05:44.120 I don't like rubbers on my stick don't appreciate it exactly well they have an 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:49.080 operation for that let's give you the run down here it's 00:05:46.259 --> 00:05:53.340 available in two configurations with 256 gigs of storage average and eight gigs 00:05:50.820 --> 00:05:56.639 of RAM for 429 that's early bird pricing though so we have no idea how that's 00:05:54.479 --> 00:06:01.860 going to shake out to regular pricing or double that for I think it's yeah 529. 00:05:59.220 --> 00:06:07.560 now we do have some concerns uh this is a SATA drive so it's m.2 but you can 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:12.060 tell by the key that that's a SATA m.2 not an NVMe Drive they have gotten that 00:06:10.139 --> 00:06:16.440 feedback though and apparently the newer ones are going to be NVMe as for RAM 00:06:14.340 --> 00:06:20.940 unfortunately the 8 gig configuration ships with a single stick so you're not 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:24.800 running in dual Channel which means you kind of have to go with the higher end 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:30.300 one if you want the full performance speaking of full performance as we all 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:36.840 know ryzen benefits from higher memory speed in a big way unfortunately not 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:38.340 only is this 2400 megahertz RAM but we 00:06:36.840 --> 00:06:44.400 actually tried installing some higher speed stuff that we had lying around at the office and the BIOS seemed to still 00:06:41.940 --> 00:06:48.539 be locked to 2400 megahertz so we'll see how that works out for us when we do our 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:54.000 performance testing later uh so we got ax Wi-Fi so so that's Wi-Fi 00:06:51.539 --> 00:06:58.380 six in there that's pretty sweet hey they took the gamer's Nexus approach to 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:03.900 thermal compound you can't have too much so don't even try I have no idea which 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:10.819 screws go where anymore this is this is quite disassembled now we get our first 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:14.039 look at the ryzen 5 35 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:16.979 50h Apu that's installed in the system 00:07:14.039 --> 00:07:24.180 now don't let AMD's confusing naming scheme mislead you here even though this 00:07:19.740 --> 00:07:26.639 is a 3000 Series ryzen it is not Zen two 00:07:24.180 --> 00:07:31.919 it is unfortunately Zen plus uh don't feel bad though if you uh didn't know 00:07:29.340 --> 00:07:36.120 that right off the Hop I2 was Bamboozled the fact that I thought this was Zen 2 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:40.259 was one of the main reasons that I was so excited to check this thing out so 00:07:38.099 --> 00:07:45.840 it's not seven nanometer it's 12 nanometer everything is PCI Express gen 00:07:42.780 --> 00:07:49.259 3 and all of that good stuff with that 00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:51.900 said this is still an utterly unique 00:07:49.259 --> 00:07:57.180 product and one that but I really wanted to look at just because it's finally an 00:07:54.539 --> 00:08:01.759 AMD alternative to Intel's Nook lineup now we can go ahead and put this puppy 00:08:00.300 --> 00:08:06.180 back together with it mostly reassembled All That 00:08:04.440 --> 00:08:10.319 Remains is to pop in some dual Channel memory so that we're giving it its best 00:08:07.860 --> 00:08:14.460 chance possible as well as throw in some more storage so that we've got room for 00:08:11.940 --> 00:08:18.599 all of our you know games about warfare that's very modern and all that all that 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:22.199 kind of good stuff so I'll pop that in there now one of the things you might 00:08:20.280 --> 00:08:27.780 have noticed about that cooling solution as we were looking at it was that it's 00:08:24.419 --> 00:08:31.620 pretty darn robust by default AMD specs 00:08:27.780 --> 00:08:34.020 this particular CPU for 15 watts TDP but 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:37.800 it can be configured to up to 35 and that is apparently the route that 00:08:35.700 --> 00:08:43.680 Minnie's Forum has gone now we're still not expecting it to compete with a Zen 2 00:08:40.380 --> 00:08:46.260 based CPU and ASUS actually has some 00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:50.399 sort of Nook competitors based on Zen 2 that are probably going to beat the 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:55.440 stuffing out of this thing but I want to give it a shot anyway just because hey 00:08:52.860 --> 00:08:58.980 first out of the gate all right got our screen capture working which involved 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:03.660 poking around in Radeon software a little bit but yes Radeon software 00:09:01.560 --> 00:09:09.180 that's right my friends it's a Nook alike hey can we call them that nooka 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:11.100 likes that's not bad that's not bad it's 00:09:09.180 --> 00:09:16.500 a nooka-like running radio on Graphics Now Intel actually did a Nook with AMD 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:21.779 Graphics in it a while back but this is different and unfortunately not as 00:09:18.540 --> 00:09:23.100 powerful these are Vega 8 graphics and 00:09:21.779 --> 00:09:26.880 they are clocked at around 1200 megahertz and our expectations are 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:32.220 basically that we should get a pretty solid experience in Esports titles but 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:37.140 beyond that and probably not that amazing while performance as we expected 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:42.600 it's not you know jaw dropping or anything to their credit it's not loud 00:09:39.180 --> 00:09:45.600 like that's very reasonable for a Mini 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:47.940 PC and check this out the whole strategy 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:52.080 of more than doubling the uh the suggested TDP from AMD seems to be 00:09:49.800 --> 00:09:57.120 working out pretty good 3.36 gigahertz at 100 load across all course 1667 00:09:55.380 --> 00:10:04.680 points puts us right in range of a mobile Skylake core i7 so that's pretty 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:09.060 respect but well behind even a quad core 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:10.800 like desktop CPU from that generation a 00:10:09.060 --> 00:10:15.240 little unfortunate but maybe we'll make up some ground in let's say rocket 00:10:13.500 --> 00:10:19.800 League I mean obviously this is not a gaming oriented product but you know 00:10:17.640 --> 00:10:24.060 Scott Radeon graphics compared to Intel on board so 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:28.440 1080 texture detail high performance World detail high quality most stuff 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:32.880 turned on but not everything okay sure yeah let's see let's give it a shot 00:10:30.959 --> 00:10:40.760 right okay so we're getting anywhere from around 30 to 40 FPS not bad so like 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.760 game console territory yeah 00:10:44.040 --> 00:10:49.620 honestly it's not amazing but like if 00:10:47.160 --> 00:10:52.920 you showed me this like you know 10 years ago I'd have been like 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:57.180 of course just because it's quiet doesn't necessarily mean that the 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:01.740 thermal performance is good so I want to take a look at what our CPU temps are 00:10:59.339 --> 00:11:06.720 like when we're hitting it hard okay that's respectable 80 degrees I mean 00:11:04.740 --> 00:11:10.500 obviously it's not like my favorite thing in the world to have a CPU running 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:14.880 at 80 degrees but it's not like you're water cooling the thing in here and 00:11:11.820 --> 00:11:17.040 given how quiet it is not bad not bad 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:20.700 minis for them is that you're supposed to pronounce it Minnie's I don't know I 00:11:18.899 --> 00:11:25.920 don't really know they can play Valerian I'll be pretty happy with that okay 00:11:23.579 --> 00:11:32.820 looks like it's playing Valor to me at 4K wait what shut up client FPS here 00:11:30.300 --> 00:11:38.940 here we go graph show both show both all right both why not both okay what are we 00:11:34.980 --> 00:11:43.200 looking at what client FPS 50 to 60 FPS 00:11:38.940 --> 00:11:45.180 Valor 4K hold on get over here Brandon 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:49.260 we're gonna have to do a quick check we're gonna have to do a quick check 00:11:47.160 --> 00:11:54.720 here for alternate computers plugged into the thing 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:56.700 nope that's it that's pretty good for 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:00.660 on-board graphics I mean the settings are probably pretty oh is there a render 00:11:58.500 --> 00:12:03.899 resolution maybe let me check let me check that even if the settings are low 00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:07.620 people play Esports games at low settings to get better performance okay 00:12:05.940 --> 00:12:12.380 yeah it's pretty low it's but that's what most people use anyways let me just 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:15.420 see if maybe it's like rendering at 50 00:12:12.380 --> 00:12:17.640 res or what no it doesn't seem to be wow 00:12:15.420 --> 00:12:23.220 okay that's pretty cool what was this thing 500 bucks sure now for fun let's 00:12:20.760 --> 00:12:27.839 try some media encoding now one of the ways we could do this is fire up 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:29.940 handbrake or ffmpeg but the reality of 00:12:27.839 --> 00:12:33.660 it is most people aren't doing that so let's take something else most people 00:12:31.560 --> 00:12:38.700 aren't doing running a Plex server at home and let's put it through the paces 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:43.260 there so the idea behindplex is you rip your favorite Blu-rays or DVDs or 00:12:40.980 --> 00:12:48.540 whatever the case may be you throw them onto a Nas or a little box like this and 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:52.440 then from anywhere whether it's on a computer on your TV or on a phone you 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:57.779 can access it kind of like your own little personal Netflix so Jake actually 00:12:55.680 --> 00:13:01.680 has his account signed in here he's firing up his phone and let's see how 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:09.180 hard this puppy's getting hit so Plex transcoder is asking for about 22 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:12.360 percent uh on video and about 20 on 00:13:09.180 --> 00:13:13.860 audio it's running nice and nice and 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:17.459 quiet it should be plain and what is this is this 4K it's original quality 4K 00:13:15.779 --> 00:13:21.660 so the only thing that's transcoding is audio that's fantastic it's actually 00:13:19.560 --> 00:13:27.000 kind of crazy how heavy audio is hey like I didn't realize until I started 00:13:23.820 --> 00:13:28.860 running Plex how you know video is like 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:33.360 no big deal in some cases in this case it's because the 4K video stream is 00:13:31.500 --> 00:13:38.639 actually just directly streaming because uh Jake's phone has built-in decoding 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:42.480 for that but it's the audio that you actually have trouble with in some cases 00:13:40.139 --> 00:13:46.320 so this is this is freaking awesome oh no 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:50.459 oh it looks terrible something is not happy that's horrendous come on give it 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:54.660 a sec oh there we go it's back to 100 there's no way no you're done you're out 00:13:52.320 --> 00:14:01.260 all right it can't handle the 4K oh well oh it's oh it's it's dying time for a 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:03.779 1080p transcode test 4K was ridiculous 00:14:01.260 --> 00:14:07.740 it's playing it hasn't buffered it might be building up a buffer 00:14:05.820 --> 00:14:11.220 and then maybe it'll relax a bit I don't know yeah there it is it's chilling out 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:16.139 a little bit now well that's fantastic so it's enough to 00:14:13.560 --> 00:14:20.940 do probably One 1080p transcript and then maybe one 720 or something like 00:14:18.180 --> 00:14:26.040 that but I wouldn't count on it still for an all-rounder little machine I'm 00:14:23.220 --> 00:14:31.260 I'm impressed as heck by this thing of course I'd be more impressed if it was 00:14:28.260 --> 00:14:32.760 Zen 2 but fortunately we're going to be 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:38.459 checking out something like that very soon make sure you guys are subscribed because ASUS has some absolutely killer 00:14:36.180 --> 00:14:43.380 nooka likes coming that are going to be Zen 2 based today's video was brought to 00:14:40.740 --> 00:14:47.699 you by drop.com the massdrop X Sennheiser open back hd58x Jubilee 00:14:46.199 --> 00:14:52.920 headphones are the featured products today and why not they're tuned by the 00:14:50.880 --> 00:14:57.180 one and only Axel Grell of Sennheiser and tweaked by massdrop based on 00:14:55.500 --> 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