Love it, cheers for the tear down. Looks like it's been put together very professionally. Also always makes any hardware more attractive when you can so easily take it apart for maintenance and replace/upgrade some of the components.
I just picked one up. It came with Windows 11. It is totally useable as a primary PC as long as you don't do anything too heavy....and you could even do that if you don't mind it being slow to render.
I have the same or similar. It was a cheap kit with two strips of different tips. I got it at Walmart years ago. It says "USA PAT 8210074" deeply embossed on the front of the screwdriver handle as you look down the body from the tip end.
Man, I wish you could make a top list of budget devices for game emulation and media consumption. I'm in serious need of one of those devices and your channel seems to cover a lot of them.
Still impressed of how they could fit so much power into a tiny box. Wonder what this compact PCB could do in a laptop form factor. Thanks for sharing! :*
@@bird5724 hmm there is a cheapo laptop out there forgot where from but belive it is OEM aka anyone can "buy the case" and produce a motherboard that fits (those motherboards are tiny too) so if you do a little legwork and present it to them, then they might look into it if enough are interested ;-) show the interest and you can "always" get someone to make it
I really needed this, thanks. I've been running Retropie on Ubuntu for a few week and love it. After a year and a half of hosting MC, Plex, and Chia the 256GB SSD failed. Now my fan jams up over 75c so it's time to pop the hood. I need a new nuc lol.
I'm a bit behind as I'm just discovering the awesomeness of such a device. Although two years later, nice video of a teardown of this unit and as for me, it's still relevant! Can't remember if I'm a sub to your channel but have watched a few of your uploads in recent weeks. I'll be certain to make sure I'm a sub right now😎
Great video as ALWAYS!! From what I see, they listened to your feedback and fixed the thermal issues you told them about from the pre-release unit. I bought the 512GB model so I have no reason to take mine apart other than curiosity. Your video took away my curiosity but I will always have a "how-to" video if I need to take it apart. As of today Amazon was sold out of the 512GB model but still had the 128GB models. I expect they will restock soon.
I wonder how much it could game (probably not much) but some benchmarks would be cool maybe see if it could play some light games like terraria or maybe among us stuff like that
Either a mini vapor chamber with a caseless blower fan. Or a much taller fin stack with maybe a nice fat heat pipe going to more in that open space up top. Which also needs more ventillation.
I love these videos because they make it possible for me to not have to buy all this stuff cause i can see it anyway, that is one of the coolest things i've ever seen, dang.
Absolutely love it. I was a little concerned that the fan ran at all times and did not find a setting on the BIOS to control the fan speeds. I found an option to enable the processor thermal sensor but I'm not sure if that throttles down the fan. I remember that used to have an Intel Atom netbook that had an always on fan too but it had no issues. I was also wondering if the Wi-Fi reception could be improved with external antennae but I should be fine with my setup. I mainly use it for media and game streaming in the living room from across my PC in the basement. It performs great! It's by far better than using the amazon fire cube because I can stream games with 5.1 surround audio. That was impossible with the fire stick and I wasn't ready to experiment with the fire cube at the same price as the nucbox.
They could get rid of the HDMI and both USB type A ports and put 6 USB type c ports to make the computer even smaller. they could shave off like 1/4 inch or more.
Nvidia has a mobile gpu that could work, the mx330 I believe. It's basically a gt1030 with some modern vram. It's in a lot of light duty notebooks I've seen and it should be cool enough running for a ultra compact system.
That is a neat little PC box. It all most looks like can put 2 m.2 SSD's in it or that bottom is just a extension of it? Grate video of this thank you.
I see an empty pad for an emmc module on the cpu board, i wonder if it is possible to solder a emmc chip on the board for more storage expansion. Thanks for the teardown.
At 1:05 the plastic under that ssd looks melted/deformed. It is because of heat? Can you check ssd temps while using the box? I have larkbox and the ssd temps are so bad, but i pulled it and using emmc, sadly gmk nucbox has no emmc and only god knows how much will work an chinese ssd under those heat conditions. Also the spring load cooler is an interesting way, i'm thinking if i can diy something similar on the larkbox to replace the pad with paste.
I thought the SSD looked a bit trapped in the underside of the case with no scope for cooling. That heat has to go somewhere and it rises up through the lower circuit board and probably heats the surface that PC sits on as well.
if you had to choose the best mini pc at this price point or a tat bit higher what would it be or what would e your top 3 i would love to see a reaction because i need one btw great vids eta prime keep it up👍
Thanks for the tear down! What would be the best way to add an Ethernet port? Maybe via a USB3 hub (obviously USB-A connected). Which hub or adapter would you recommend? 🇦🇺
Sucks that I didn't know about this little guy until a few days -after- ordering the Larkbox Pro (which arrived just now). $20 more for 2GB of RAM is what I like. Sure, I can return the Larkbox on Amazon, but I've already returned $400+ worth of stuff this month. I'm paranoid about my account getting flagged, or something.
These tiny PCs really are a wonder of engineering but does anyone really need a PC that small. At twice the size it would still be smaller than anyone could ever need it to be. I would prefer to spend my money on performance rather than ultra miniaturisation but thanks for showing it to us
I see they have the Nuc Box S released, but I can't find any info as what is different except Bluetooth is now 5.1 instead of 4.2. Any other differences?
So, I'm wondering! Would this be OK to boot into a live version of Linux, qubes or TailsOS? No biggy if it can't as can still lock down the OS but now these are win 10 PC's and not android boxes they should be perfectly able to boot into a Linux live distro on a USB stick. You're the best person I m can think of to ask! Appreciate your time my man 👌
Hi there! First of all, love your channel! To me, the fan is really loud, I was wondering if it can be change by another better, silent one. What do you think? Any idea of the actual size? All the best!
It's a shame that they didn't add an emmc (even though there are the pins for one) and that the M2 is not NVME. It would have been awesome with mpcie or m2 nvme with pcie 4x, for external gpus...
@@tooshort4892 for the price of these, you can now get a bargain for an used steam deck 64gb. It's not worth the hassle, imo. But, at least in theory, you should be able to remove wifi/ble/lan to expose pcie lanes. It's still a mess though.
Interesting what they can do with this tiny micro PC form factor. But for me a Mini PC with a Mini ITX is still the way. With on of those Asrock Boards with a similar J41xx APU or better a Athlon 200 GE (OC), Ryzen 2200 G or 3000/3200G. I think the cooling (also with that standard AMD Cooler) should be a bit quieter and I like the use of some old 64 GB/ 128 GB SSDs (I still do have laying around) and the later option on m.2 SSDs if its necessary.
I love my gmk nuc my only regret is the 128gb ssd it runs games good and i have had no issues with thermals so far it does flight sim 2020 skyrim c&c red alert and tiberian sims 3&4 forza 3456 ect all run excellent once i added the intel graphics controller. But they have to be run external usb ssd and this adds lag big time i really wish i got a bigger ssd like 512gb minimum 1tb would be even better i was shocked by the performance from this little box.
Like always, great video, maybe another one with some overclocking will be awesome. I bought the larkbox pro, but with retroarch i have some issue, all the emulators goes very slow and with audio glitches, any solution?
At some point I start to wonder if a cube is the right shape for something so small. If it's light, then it won't hold still when cables tug on it from all directions.
Are those mini 4k pc better than a NVIDIA Shield pro for HDR content? I'm curently using a ryzen 3 2200g and Plex media player for my 4k HDR content but on my big big files I have some stutter :(
Could you try running Minecraft Java 1.16.4 or whichever is the latest version when you read this comment? I would love to see how something like this would perform because I am planning on getting something like this, not for games but it would be interesting to see anyway
Why can't they make a Chromebox this small? Is it possible to take the m.2 out of a broken Chromebook (keeping Chrome OS on it), and swap it into the GMK?
YO ETA PRIME, Have you tried reaching out to these mini pc guys and talk about making the perfect mini pc ? make a kick starter backed by the mini pc company ?
M.2? Does that mean the next video will be someone rigging a 6800 XT so it'll look like the video card is running itself? The GMK disguised as an extra fan :)
Sorry about the first upload, not sure how I posted the wrong video.
Yeah, I was confused for a second there.
I would like to buy 1 of these? Any links.
Errare humanum est. 😂
@@pauloborges468 To forgive divine :-)
@@barathwajtechgadget7746 amazon?
Love it, cheers for the tear down. Looks like it's been put together very professionally. Also always makes any hardware more attractive when you can so easily take it apart for maintenance and replace/upgrade some of the components.
I just picked one up. It came with Windows 11. It is totally useable as a primary PC as long as you don't do anything too heavy....and you could even do that if you don't mind it being slow to render.
Getting excited. Have one arriving tomorrow. Love seeing your in-depth videos ahead of time!
It's cool to see how the pack so much into a small box. However and really digging that screw drive he is using.
I have the same or similar. It was a cheap kit with two strips of different tips. I got it at Walmart years ago.
It says "USA PAT 8210074" deeply embossed on the front of the screwdriver handle as you look down the body from the tip end.
Man, I wish you could make a top list of budget devices for game emulation and media consumption. I'm in serious need of one of those devices and your channel seems to cover a lot of them.
Been a long time fan keep it up man
Still impressed of how they could fit so much power into a tiny box. Wonder what this compact PCB could do in a laptop form factor. Thanks for sharing! :*
well it could do the exact same thing it is already doing
I know, it's just that it would be nice to have a portable version of it. Happy new year btw!
@@bird5724 hmm there is a cheapo laptop out there forgot where from but belive it is OEM aka anyone can "buy the case" and produce a motherboard that fits (those motherboards are tiny too) so if you do a little legwork and present it to them, then they might look into it if enough are interested ;-) show the interest and you can "always" get someone to make it
I just bought one of these and I love it. Too keep it cool (I live in Malaysia) I have mounted it on top of a mobile phone cooler. It works perfectly
I really needed this, thanks. I've been running Retropie on Ubuntu for a few week and love it. After a year and a half of hosting MC, Plex, and Chia the 256GB SSD failed. Now my fan jams up over 75c so it's time to pop the hood. I need a new nuc lol.
Dedicated teardown video awesome eta prime
Thanks, for the teardown. Happy New Year and stay well!
With the heatsink being copper you could install some liquid metal TIM in there. Nice. 👍
I'm a bit behind as I'm just discovering the awesomeness of such a device. Although two years later, nice video of a teardown of this unit and as for me, it's still relevant! Can't remember if I'm a sub to your channel but have watched a few of your uploads in recent weeks. I'll be certain to make sure I'm a sub right now😎
It looks like they put some thought into this revised version. Very nice.
Great video as ALWAYS!! From what I see, they listened to your feedback and fixed the thermal issues you told them about from the pre-release unit. I bought the 512GB model so I have no reason to take mine apart other than curiosity. Your video took away my curiosity but I will always have a "how-to" video if I need to take it apart. As of today Amazon was sold out of the 512GB model but still had the 128GB models. I expect they will restock soon.
I wonder how much it could game (probably not much) but some benchmarks would be cool maybe see if it could play some light games like terraria or maybe among us stuff like that
I saw a Spanish youtuber, Sfdx Show
, building the board of this PC inside a Gameboy
@ETA PRIME Greetings from Holly Springs, NC! Love your content!
i had the udo86 i loved it but this thing has almost the same specs! love it
Now I know how my Gramps felt when I showed him the first MP3 player I ever owned. It looked like an chunky usb drive with a little screen on.
How about a quick final episode.
With all best "system x $ = value"
Love your video's, keep it up buddy😄👍🥳
Either a mini vapor chamber with a caseless blower fan. Or a much taller fin stack with maybe a nice fat heat pipe going to more in that open space up top. Which also needs more ventillation.
I love these videos because they make it possible for me to not have to buy all this stuff cause i can see it anyway, that is one of the coolest things i've ever seen, dang.
Absolutely love it.
I was a little concerned that the fan ran at all times and did not find a setting on the BIOS to control the fan speeds. I found an option to enable the processor thermal sensor but I'm not sure if that throttles down the fan. I remember that used to have an Intel Atom netbook that had an always on fan too but it had no issues.
I was also wondering if the Wi-Fi reception could be improved with external antennae but I should be fine with my setup.
I mainly use it for media and game streaming in the living room from across my PC in the basement. It performs great!
It's by far better than using the amazon fire cube because I can stream games with 5.1 surround audio. That was impossible with the fire stick and I wasn't ready to experiment with the fire cube at the same price as the nucbox.
Keep it coming.
I have a BMAX that works pretty good. It emulates Dreamcast wonderfully. Nintendo 64 is amazing on it too. Great for PSP. And anything under that.
They could get rid of the HDMI and both USB type A ports and put 6 USB type c ports to make the computer even smaller. they could shave off like 1/4 inch or more.
I wana see discrete graphics an more powerfull cpus in these little box pcs
@@bugrasevinc9696 you do know amd makes apus right?
@@MrDeadmanwalken1 yeah i want a ryzen apu on these form factor
@@mtaufiqn5040 even a ryzen 3 or 5 would be nice i wouldnt complain about the extra space needed for a vapor chamber cooler or the noise of the fan
Nvidia has a mobile gpu that could work, the mx330 I believe. It's basically a gt1030 with some modern vram. It's in a lot of light duty notebooks I've seen and it should be cool enough running for a ultra compact system.
doubt that happens but one of those juicy AMD APU's would be nice especially when they come with NAVI cores instead of VEGA cores
Is the fan replaceable? Mine is like a jet engine and whirls up on the slightest of loads.
That is a neat little PC box. It all most looks like can put 2 m.2 SSD's in it or that bottom is just a extension of it? Grate video of this thank you.
I see an empty pad for an emmc module on the cpu board, i wonder if it is possible to solder a emmc chip on the board for more storage expansion. Thanks for the teardown.
Can you rank your 2020 best mini pc from worst to best? Thanks and Happy New year.
At 1:05 the plastic under that ssd looks melted/deformed. It is because of heat? Can you check ssd temps while using the box? I have larkbox and the ssd temps are so bad, but i pulled it and using emmc, sadly gmk nucbox has no emmc and only god knows how much will work an chinese ssd under those heat conditions. Also the spring load cooler is an interesting way, i'm thinking if i can diy something similar on the larkbox to replace the pad with paste.
I thought the SSD looked a bit trapped in the underside of the case with no scope for cooling. That heat has to go somewhere and it rises up through the lower circuit board and probably heats the surface that PC sits on as well.
Could one not use a little thermal tape to alleviate that?
Do a fan replacement video ETA!!! That would rock....
Did anyone notice the inside of plastic bottom looked warped a little. May be like the M.2 drive was a little hot?
I did !! Hot as XXX. Definitely in the 50° to 60°Celsius range.
Great video.
looking forward to seeing whats inside , watched your first video on this.
Very interesting vidéo. Thank you
Salut francais
@@afrenchcocorico164 Salut 😀
Thanks for your video 👍
This would make a nice little Linux server for home.
Nice I got this it can run Minecraft java edition full settings normal if you want better performance then lower the settings.
if you had to choose the best mini pc at this price point or a tat bit higher
what would it be or what would e your top 3
i would love to see a reaction because i need one
btw great vids eta prime keep it up👍
Thanks for the tear down!
What would be the best way to add an Ethernet port? Maybe via a USB3 hub (obviously USB-A connected). Which hub or adapter would you recommend? 🇦🇺
Thanks
i love this channel
Nice little PC
Sucks that I didn't know about this little guy until a few days -after- ordering the Larkbox Pro (which arrived just now). $20 more for 2GB of RAM is what I like. Sure, I can return the Larkbox on Amazon, but I've already returned $400+ worth of stuff this month. I'm paranoid about my account getting flagged, or something.
I really like your videos very much,
Can you an affordable display for Raspberry Pi ?
Whats your budget?
I got 1 screen just for 65$ USD. I would provide the link if you want it.
I’d love to know the story behind the little line tattoo
I thought that might be a tattoo
Much better than a Asus tinker edge, higher end arm SBCs need to be at least as good as this.
These tiny PCs really are a wonder of engineering but does anyone really need a PC that small. At twice the size it would still be smaller than anyone could ever need it to be. I would prefer to spend my money on performance rather than ultra miniaturisation but thanks for showing it to us
Do you think one could boot from the SD card or USB stick, and use the M2 slot for a PCIe Device? like a GSM card or similar?
Finally
I'm wondering whether this little puppy could be used to edit/render videos? Thank you, @ETA PRIME!
I see they have the Nuc Box S released, but I can't find any info as what is different except Bluetooth is now 5.1 instead of 4.2. Any other differences?
My GMK NucBox usually makes noise.
But I'm not sure the reason.
And it is hard for me to disassemble and clean like you
So, I'm wondering! Would this be OK to boot into a live version of Linux, qubes or TailsOS?
No biggy if it can't as can still lock down the OS but now these are win 10 PC's and not android boxes they should be perfectly able to boot into a Linux live distro on a USB stick.
You're the best person I m can think of to ask!
Appreciate your time my man 👌
Hi there! First of all, love your channel! To me, the fan is really loud, I was wondering if it can be change by another better, silent one. What do you think? Any idea of the actual size? All the best!
Very nice 🙂
Awesome video ETA Prime,
does this Pc come with mounting hardware? And could OBS run on this?
It's so tiny! Almost cute. C:
Is the ssd nvme or sata. I know m.2 2242 have both options. Can it handle both sata and nvme?
It's a shame that they didn't add an emmc (even though there are the pins for one) and that the M2 is not NVME. It would have been awesome with mpcie or m2 nvme with pcie 4x, for external gpus...
Thinking the same. Would be an interesting project, a micro pc attached to a evga.
I was thinking of modifying mine to house this very idea......
@@tooshort4892 for the price of these, you can now get a bargain for an used steam deck 64gb. It's not worth the hassle, imo. But, at least in theory, you should be able to remove wifi/ble/lan to expose pcie lanes. It's still a mess though.
All these tiny pc looks so identical. do they use the same board, just different case?
They look the same because China where IP means nothing and they sell out the front, back and side doors of the factories.
This Nuc Box only lives one day...;P
Interesting what they can do with this tiny micro PC form factor.
But for me a Mini PC with a Mini ITX is still the way. With on of those Asrock Boards with a similar J41xx APU or better a Athlon 200 GE (OC), Ryzen 2200 G or 3000/3200G. I think the cooling (also with that standard AMD Cooler) should be a bit quieter and I like the use of some old 64 GB/ 128 GB SSDs (I still do have laying around) and the later option on m.2 SSDs if its necessary.
First time view...is this good for gaming?
I love my gmk nuc my only regret is the 128gb ssd it runs games good and i have had no issues with thermals so far it does flight sim 2020 skyrim c&c red alert and tiberian sims 3&4 forza 3456 ect all run excellent once i added the intel graphics controller. But they have to be run external usb ssd and this adds lag big time i really wish i got a bigger ssd like 512gb minimum 1tb would be even better i was shocked by the performance from this little box.
The future is getting smaller and smaller
it should have rechargeable Battery.
Is there anyway to use it by powerbank?
hi can you ad external graphics card to this unit and do some test please im rely curius about , thanks bro
I'd love to see it handle Kerbal
I want this with ryzen 4900h, still a beautiful machine though. Loved the teardown
Looks like it would be relatively easy to make this into a handheld system
How come there isn't diy handheld console built it out of this tiny pc?!
Generally handhelds arent built using expensive x86 mini pcs. It just makes more sense to use an arm based sbc
Like always, great video, maybe another one with some overclocking will be awesome.
I bought the larkbox pro, but with retroarch i have some issue, all the emulators goes very slow and with audio glitches, any solution?
At some point I start to wonder if a cube is the right shape for something so small. If it's light, then it won't hold still when cables tug on it from all directions.
In a word...Velcro.
How small/inexpensive can we make a true desktop replacement?
Are those mini 4k pc better than a NVIDIA Shield pro for HDR content? I'm curently using a ryzen 3 2200g and Plex media player for my 4k HDR content but on my big big files I have some stutter :(
What is the longevity on these things?
Are the cooling fan can change with lp tower cooling raspberry pi?
What difference between chuwi larkbox ?
Replacing (less) thermal paste got best temperatures?
Could you try running Minecraft Java 1.16.4 or whichever is the latest version when you read this comment? I would love to see how something like this would perform because I am planning on getting something like this, not for games but it would be interesting to see anyway
Why is it listed under gaming for the game teardown?
its a game to some people that like to take things apart and try not to destroy them
The name of the video
Looks like the larkbox
Imagine playing GTA V on very high/ultra textures on one of these.
Tear down an intel pc stick pls I would love to see that!
Why can't they make a Chromebox this small? Is it possible to take the m.2 out of a broken Chromebook (keeping Chrome OS on it), and swap it into the GMK?
Hello, I have the same unit. Is the RAM upgradable
Does it have IR for a remote case it would make a great tv pc
На мобильном райзене есть чуть больше в размерах PC с неплохой графикой и лучшими характеристиками.
YO ETA PRIME, Have you tried reaching out to these mini pc guys and talk about making the perfect mini pc ? make a kick starter backed by the mini pc company ?
Just got one on Amazon lighting deal and coupon, $148.49 before tax :)
Can we change the m2 ssd for m2 nvme (pcie 3) with the same size and the same type of connection (b&m)
which connection the fan uses (which is the exact reference), thanks if you can help me.
Is the wifi card upgradable?
M.2? Does that mean the next video will be someone rigging a 6800 XT so it'll look like the video card is running itself? The GMK disguised as an extra fan :)