This New Mini PC Is Tiny, AFFORDABLE & FAST, Gaming & EMU Hands On Testing
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- This is one of the smallest window 11 mini pcs on the market and with an upgraded ram and CPU its perfect for Business, School, Office and even lite gaming and Emulation like PSP, Dreamcast, Gamecube and even PS2!
Powered by the Intel N97 and backed by 12GB LPDDR5 ram this super tiny mini pc might be perfect for you.
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My mother was working in Wang mainframe computers in the 1970s through the mid 90s. I wish she were alive so I could show her how far things have come. What a time to be alive!
GOD bless her
I used to work for Wang. cough cough
Sorry for your loss.
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My mother started off as a typist, then started learning Wang word processors in the late 70's / early 80s and eventually the entire MS Office suite and worked her way up to an administrative assistant. I've been working in the IT Industry since 1989.
It is so insane to me that you can play games like Skyrim on this thing. The advancements since my gaming peak are just crazy. I used to have a PC as big as my house with a fan louder than a motorcycle chugging through to get games running at like 20 fps.
I installed Windows 10 both to optimize the performance and to ensure there's no hidden back doors. Works a treat. Was 100% fully backwards compatible with no faults or issues. Also added a back-lit bluetooth keyboard. Really neat little system. This is what I call progress.
intel and amd chips have built in backdoors at the hardware level, though good idea on going with 10 or prior with some tools to remove the annoyances/telemetry
Lol no back doors in windows.
@@DarthTinderalla-qm9zw you know what Recall is?
Something like this looks like a much better option to run Kodi or Plex than a Pi 5. And it's not that far off money-wise once you add the accessories needed for the Pi. Just wish it supported HDMI 2.1...
I've never used Kodi for years, once I got Stremio and the stremfun addon I've never looked back. Kodi was great at the time, I just feel it is too slow these days and cumbersome to use. Try Stremio and the addon :)
I'm typing this on this computer. I got it on Amazon after watching this video... I'm still trying to figure out what the catch is. I don't have a high-end tower PC, but I thought it was decent. The fan cranks so loud when I'm playing on Steam even with low graphics settings. Same game, same settings on this mini PC and I can hear the fan, but it's so much quieter. Framerate seems fine, multi-tasking seems fine... Still don't know what the catch is.
I got this with the coupon discount. Upgraded the wifi to an Intel wifi 6e. I haven't done any over clock of change to tdp. I'm really impressed with the gaming performance. I really just wanted this for parties and playing couch coop games. I ordered a 2tb drive to load up with emulation.
I have the same idea thanks, is wifi 6 a must?
Do you have a link for this to purchase thanks if available
No value, I bought a used ASUS Ally Z1 extreme with a dock 400$ to play the emulation fast and cheap
@@pewpew9040 Have fun with the customer service when your Ally gets problems like stick drift xD
@mikeblum5215 Zero problems w my Ally all year. The Z1 Ext blows these little intel chips out of the water. But a good deal if u wanna stick to GameCube and older consoles 👍
With my offbrand Intel N5105* miniPC that I got last year, still running well for what I need it for and emulation. I love being able to travel with it and runs faster and better than my older Pi4 that I still own. What sells me on this is that it's so small that to travel with it is easy and causes less (or no) attention in customs.
also it plays back video like a charm, which is not something you can say about the pi4 all times.
If you don't want to lug a keyboard mouse around you can also just buy a wifi combo in your destination country, many hotels have TVs with HDMI port. So all you lug around is the computer with power wart and hdmi cable.
Have you tried to run it off battery power?
@@DomainObject you could run it off a decent power bank
@@Bareego Bar, sorry, I'm new at this mini pc world. When travelling, how do you type and display?
Its nice to see youre going back to budget oriented videos! :)
The Nuc-like PCs are like a gateway drug! I bought one earlier this year, maxed out the memory and SSD, then figured out the graphic problem with upgrading the Linux OS. Best little hidden PC I ever had. I plan on building a little network of these kinds of PCs all over the house. Just because…
@@RossPotts what kind of issues with Linux? My first thought was how easily Linux would go on
@@panzerswineflu it goes on easily, actually. Worst problem I have seen is possible graphics issues, but you would just need to research what any errors or symptoms would be for whichever graphic driver is used. YMMV.
@@RossPotts thanks for letting me know
This is a great alternative for the Pi5 as a low power server running Linux.
Love the mini PC content, Prime 👍
Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.
This thing is ABSOLUTELY crazy for what it is and at the price it's going for. Super cool.
Ya this is amazing and I totally agree, they should always include an extra USB-C port or two for data, should be standard now...this would be perfect as a 2nd pc for a family member (like my mom) who doesn't game much and the price is excellent. Back in the day 4 cores were slow asf, but with the improvements in TDP, they're good workhorses now...if they can run 4K vids...what more can you ask for that meets 90% of your needs?
Bought it, love it, watching this on it.. strapping it on the back of a 12 volt RV tv / monitor and powered off a Jackery 300 whr power box with a BT keyboard w mouse pad. with a verizon jet pack internet makes this setup a great grab n go computer solution
@@mrglassman9584 that helped me I was wondering what he plugged into from which side of the cube. I do music with 12 gb on a HP laptop betting it’s similar
Sounds like a nice portable setup. 😎
@@mrglassman9584 can it run Football manager?
@@MrDenger2000 have no idea what football mgr is nor do i care
Danke!
You are so awesome! best product and DIY videos on RUclips!
we need mini pc's like this with amd apus
Unfortunately the things we actually want in budget are actually very rare and cannot be found easily....harsh truth..
That small? Sadly no. But you can lower the TDP on Mini PC's that use AMD processors.
ZEN 5 APUs please
Imagine if amd release athlon that competes with these pentium or celeron
MinisForum EM680/EM780 are basically that
Intel saw arm64 form factor and said hold my beer
I use this one w/ 12GB ddr5 N100 as my 4K PLEX server and man I have 4 streams going and this little beast handles it. I am not using windows and went with a Linux Fedora 40 w/ GUI.
It's always nice to see fellow Linux folk chime in because I'm looking to use it for a how Linux server. Thanks for sharing, and God bless 🐧
I am a subscriber and I like your contents, but my feedback for this channel are:
1. This channel seems more like an advertisement platform instead of an honest review channel now
2. ALL products you featured are GOOD, GREAT, SHOULD BUY, THE BEST etc
3. Little to no honest negative points about products you featured
4. Viewers have no idea what is good or bad from your channel if ALL products are good
5. Viewers should know if your video are paid contents
Anyway these are my feedback, hope you take this in positive note.
Yep, honestly when i first found this channel last year i was pumped. It's slowly became a bit of a let down after you see how great every single product apparently is. At a certain point we are going to have to rebrand this channel "Disingenuous Prime" if it continues.
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Couldn't agree more!
He highlighted what was good about the product and was honest about what it wouldn't do. If you're looking for a reviewer that just does hit pieces on a product there's plenty of them out there. For me personally as someone that's in the market for one of these mini pc's for an android tv box replacement. This was perfect and highlighted everything I needed to know about the product. Good lord, start your own channel and do "honest reviews" if you think this is so dishonest.
@@glassby5882 don't be a fanboy
This is such a sff for those who just wanna watch RUclips and Netflix and web browsing and email it’s perfect
sell fone
@@UNKNOWN-un6nz bigger screen monitor i dont wanna use my cellphone
@@UNKNOWN-un6nz way way more software options with this running windows or any linux distro.
I own the GMKtec NucBox G1. Low end but it works just fine for what I need it to do. I upgraded the memory to 16Gigs and Added a 1TB NVMe SSD. Dual booting Windows 11pro and Xubuntu 22.02-LTS. Linux is my everyday OS. I have Windows for Adobe products. Overall I love the size and performance of this tiny little box.
I ordered one of these to set up a new recording location using OBS for projects in my shop.
It's primarily going to be used for recording with no editing.
How's it been? Looking to do exactly this (OBS + a Cam Link USB HDMI capture device)
@@cletuswa sadly it's still in the wrapper. My plans haven't changed but my work schedule has.
I wanted a small PC i could use for emulation and for running Renoise+Milkytracker for making music - this looks like a crazy deal for the money. Takes up zero space and I can take it with me when I travel. If you aren't doing anything super demanding this looks like a solid choice and it's cheap enough to pick up and not feel too guilty about.
I have three of these networked inside a very small dollhouse for my daughter to simulate a tiny home computing environment with her dolls. She loves playing Disney Dreamlight Valley from inside her dollhouse. The monitors they're connected to are as thin as a grain of rice and hang on the walls above the mini pc.
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@AfterBurnettAsks 🤣🤣🤣
what monitors do you use?
A networked dollhouse?? 😂
I hope she gets regular real world enrichment and socialization.
This would be great to run dedicated servers and whatnot. Low power consumption, really small form factor, and under $200 it's a steal.
3 of them in some sort of cluster (kubernetes or whatever) would be great.
I have the previous model with Intel N5105 CPU and 8gb RAM 1tb ssd, at that I paid it for $350, 1 year later, with the release of N6105 and N97 CPU, the price drop to $140, mine has been up n running for 18month 24/7 running Ubuntu server with around 40-50 container, including adguard, nextcloud, sonar,radarr, and other *arr stack with jellyfin, traefik, keycloak, and a lot more without any issue
@@haidarsany driver issues when setting it up?
@@haidarsYeah, that’s a stack that would melt any Pi.
@@GoblinArmyInYourWalls nope.... If running windows, gmktec has all the driver and a script to install all at once, running Ubuntu 22.04 no driver issue, the only issue I had was Intel quick sync on the N5105 CPU does not work on Ubuntu 22.04, because of the kernal that ship with Ubuntu 22.04, you either have to install Ubuntu 20.04 or upgrade to kernel 6.x
There are SO many of these ... it would be really nice if we could get a teir list placement *for this and the handhelds*
"i think this goes into the S teir" ect
cause the numbers are great but >.< it gets a bit overwhelming after a while and if i ever get into the market for one of these which i plan to when i start up a few projects *of which i will definitely use your videos for that choice*,
a tier list would be so incredibly useful. i understand that's a lot of work though.
I got this exact mini PC last week and set the TDP to 15W in the bios, so far pretty impressed with the performance in "classic" games I'm trying; maxed out settings in Oblivion and it's almost always at 60fps. New Vegas I've only just booted up but it's running well too. Running Morrowind/OpenMW actually doesn't do as well as Oblivion but I've got it near max locked to 30fps which is fine for me. I'll test out FFXIV and Apex Legends next (whenever I upgrade the SSD) but it ran the FFXIV Dawntrail benchmark at "slightly low" which is better than I'd anticipated. Overall very happy with the performance after years of all my computing tasks shared between an iPad pro, a Raspberry Pi 400, or if I had to use an x86 computer dusting off a decade-plus old dual-core laptop.
Thanks for putting it side by side with a RPi5. You say it's a lot larger but it's actually pretty comparable... The height it certainly the one dimension where it's much bigger but then again you're comparing a full system to just the Pi5 mainboard. You're going to have some kind of a case you put that into and maybe a NVMe HAT which would bring the height closer or potentially even make it the same if it is a bigger case. It also looks like when it comes to the width and depth the Pi5 already is the same or bigger.
Im confused .......you said you have reviewed nothing as small as this, yet you reviewed this unit already....2 yrs ago.
Great review! Can you give us a guesstimate on the durability of this machine before it overheats and burns itself out? It's so tiny, so I can't see how it will have enough ventilation to have a long lifespan. Thanks!
I bought this for me and my daughter to learn to play around with computers with. I never learned more than just using what came on them. My plan was to download a simple Linux based OS and take off the windows. Then we were going to download emulators for Zelda games. My question is how were you playing that Dirt 3 racing game and Skyrim? We may try that too. Thanks for any help/tips!
Can you run music production program. Like cubase or pro tools on this mini PC ?
Very nice and the upgradeable M.2 storage gives it an edge not usually found in something this small. I see it swaying some prospective N100 purchasers.
Finally a cheap mini pc on par with my 2400g. Been wanting a smaller desktop with similar performance or better.
Hate to point this out but that 2400g is significantly more powerful than this mini N97. I have an EliteDesk 705 G4 with a 2400g and the Vega 11 iGPU rocks Nintendo Switch with Ryujinx whereas the UHD graphics on the N97 won’t come close. I can even run SM Odyssey at full speed on the 2400G. Pairing the Vega 11 iGPU with faster 3200Mhz RAM gives a nice performance boost too!
The geekbench for the N97 was done in Linux as opposed to Windows?
Thank you for including power consumption! I want something to handle video streaming in my RV and take power over PoE. I think a PoE to type-C converter will do the job here! Do you know if it works with the Power Delivery standard or expects a constant voltage and amperage out of the power supply?
Another informative video cheers. What about video transcoding . Could this be run 24/7 as a Plex server ? with windows as the OS ?
Not sure where you got the measurements from, but that thing is much bigger than 1.4" x 1.4". Looks to be around 3" square, maybe 2.5".
Measuring tapes aren't expensive, but maybe you can get some company to send you one to review.
whats the point on using different benchmark versions? (geekbench) ofc the results doesnt makes sense 6.1.0 vs 6.3.0 vs 6.2.2 the n200 is the faster one not by much but still (n97 gpu is faster because higher clock)
When benchmarking, it is a good idea to use the same version and same OS.
I would really appreciate if you started including music production software capabilities in you reviews . Pleease
Excellent video, does this mini pc can be used for video editing?
Hey ETA Prime, I was wondering if this PC would be able to play Minecraft with decent FPS? I'm looking for a mini PC for my mother-in-law (she is a huge Minecraft fan), as her old PC is barely giving her 20-30fps and it's heartbreaking to see her not be able to fully enjoy the game. I'm thinking about spending max 250-300$, should I look for something else - perhaps Nucbox M6?
love to see the different power draw levels.
also was that power draw on windows or Linux.
Good to see N97s coming through now
I just got this (because of your video) - and ordering WAS confusing. so many configurations, and none came with wif6 - so had to go with wifi5. Going to use it as a plex server and emulator some android only wifi cameras. Got a $19 wireless keyboard w mouse at wally world - works fine (full size) because my living room is large and read so many reviews of wifi/bt keyboards not covering the distance. WHY didn't they offer this with wifi6? *Q: which is better: wifi 6 or faster cpu? I ordered this pc because of the cheap cost and for what I'd be using it for (plex). Just gutted that last years model N100 has wifi6 AND 3 hdmi outputs and this has wifi 5 and 2 hdmi outputs. Thanks for your review - subscribed! *I have this pc sitting on my mantel connected to my sony - its virtually invisible unless you know what to look for - this pc is TINY!
I had 2 of these delivered today, one will be my jellyfin server.
how did it perform? max concurrent users?
those n97 mini pc need an update because the gpu would only boost to 1000ghz instead of 1200ghz the update available on their website
Thank you for your video, The market is so confusing to me, but I trust your judgment so I have just ordered one to play retrogames through retrobat. Thank you
That's temping, a nice little pc with some gaming on the side. How well would it work with Batocera?
I didn't even know GMKTec released this!! I have a NucBox 5 that I use for a x86 development server that's super portable. Unfortunately that only has a N5105 processor and 8GB of memory. Going to have to replace it with this one! Having a cpu with AVX/AVX2 allows more things I need to run, NICE! The extra memory and newer CPU will definitely help me! Thanks for posting this!!!
Thanks for the review, I had not Heard of this company before your videos. Again, thanks, and God bless
This thing is more powerful than the first laptop I ever bought, a Thinkpad T420 with a i5-2520M.
What's good ETA! Its your fav teardown better here with another begging session! Just a peak at the cooling fan would make me go wild PLEASE ETA🙏🥺
Please do more comparisons :) like three products of the same factor / price / technology or whatever just like u did here with these Nseries CPUs. Cheers!
Would be very interested to see the wi-fi card removed and replaced with a modified sized oculink cardand a small hole cut into the case or something else similar like a drilled out hole and a passthrough cable with the oculink port on the end. Sure that wifi slot might be only 1 or 2 PCI express lanes but it would be enough for a ultra low power GTX 1060 or 1660 or even a RTX 3050 or something from AMD like the RX 580 or something similar as FSR 3 and frame gen xan be useful to all these card's.. it would allow a eGPU. Sure the N97 won't max out these card's but will definitely be way better than the iGPU that is built into the N97 and N100 or N200 CPU's.
Do you reckon this thing would be up to the task of switching FHD video streams (NDI/SRT) for livestreaming using vMix or OBS?
Would this be good as a streaming pc? I’m only going to use it for OBS and my camera for the stream
I hope you can include assesment of some opencv models or ultralytics tolo models using this small gpu, that would be really great
I have limited pc experience, I have a question, can I connect an external dvd R/RW to this mini pc or any mini pc? Thanks
Yes.
ey, thats breddy gucci! Considering decent support right off the gate plus its power draw, it can be (easily) considered as a rpi 5 killer!
That N97 has a Passmark score of 5919.
That's pretty awesome for such a cheap and tiny box.
Now, if only it would run virtualization
Could I use one of these to play retro PC games? Like half-life, swat 3, max payne, etc. The 98-XP era?
yes definitely
I love GMKTec. I have their K1 Nucbox, which is a bit more powerful than this but honestly it can play pretty much everything, even current stuff with a little tweaking. Mine has an AMD 6800H and 32GB ram so it's kind of a little beast but it just lets me know that GMKTec makes good units.
This one is tiny but it seems awesome!
this would make a nice low power server for OpenSense firewall or a PiHole, or both.
Am I reading the benchmark correctly? The N97 Geekbench for Linux and the N200 & N100 were for Windows?
Does that have any impact on results?
anyone know of you can you plug a mic into the audio socket? this may be my next purchase if you can
Cool little PC. Though I only use it to run Lightburn for my laser engraver/cutter lol
This is incredible 👏 how do you connect it to your display?
ETA - will this run Steam FX3 pinball games? Would love to use this to make a vpin with FX3 on cabinet mode.
I’m not interested in gaming on this, but how would this work for streaming on a service like Streamyard? Can I add a webcam and attach a roadster pro? My Lenovo laptop is going on 6 years and is just not cutting the mustard.
I want to put this onto my bagpack with BUILT MONITOR LCD HAHA what an interesting achievements!!
I mostly wanna get a PC for school, programming, downloading files,and maybe a bit of photoshop. Not much gaming. Is this perfect for me?
Is this able to connect to a tv? Or do you need your desktop PC running? There have been so many different set ups.
the excitement for zen5 and zen5 mobile is growing - should be some good things later this year
indeed that will be by next mini pc
How well would this act as a game server? Looking to host a few game servers with minimal power/desk space. Thx
I find it weird that your benchmark data at 6 minute mark uses linux for the device your'e showing; and the comparison products are using windows. Could you help me understand that?
How do you think this will handle cloud based programs like photoshop, illustrator and sketchup?
I loved everything about this review of yours only thing that worries me is that it is running on windows 11 not too good reviews about windows 11 on the Internet. Also, what processor does it have? I hear Intel five maybe I’m wrong.
You can install and run Windows 10 on it with no problems. Or linux.
My second desktop computer is an old HP with a Core-I7 running Linux Mint and feeding a 32" gaming monitor. I could really free up floor space and do everything I want to do with this amazing mini. The days of the giant floor standing computers is receding into the past at accelerating speeds.
If they added single cable mode connectivity this works be perfect.
Thanks for letting us know about this product. Could you help us newbies with external products that you recommend for storage etc as an additional video so we can get the most out of it.
That will make for a GREAT cloud office pc!
I’m new to the whole pc gaming. I found about steam deck but I have a Mac so I can’t play anything. I want an affordable mini pic to play on steam deck I don’t know about about these so do I just buy one plug it to a monitor and that’s it or are there additional details ?
Oooh, this looks perfect. I wanna get one of these, throw Retroarch on it and a ton of games and hook it up to my living room TV!
Question so the g2 is stronger?they were playing PS2 and GameCube easily on the g2 even some Xbox
How will this thing handle Civilization 7 large scenery on 1080p?
Mini computers are getting pretty impressive
Why's your Geekbench versions are different on different machines?
Is this great for a Plex media server? The specs and performance seem to indicate that it is.
Reminds me of the Chuwi Shartbox. Not falling for that again
Would this improve significantly gaming-wise using an eGPU?
, thank you for such a honest tear down and Report.❤❤
Are the "key links" listed because you have to buy a Windows key in addition to buying the unit?
Can u add local game streaming (moonlight) to see if the small pc's can handle it ?
Ps: Love the channel
Hey can you review emulation on the new onn 4k pro?
Any word on how it would handle imaging online, and/or photoshop and say something like rebelle 7 paint program? Most of my editing software and painting programs and racing Hames all require windows 10 or better now, but I want to keep my old windows 7 / Linux dual boot machine as main computer, but use a new small form factor pc with wi down 11 for the software I mentioned?
I'd love to see this torn down to just the minimum for it to work (board and a few ports), so it can be fairly compared to the rpi.
What's the Rally game you were playing on the PSP?
will this work well/smooth on large data set spreadsheets exel with multiple applications and tabs browser on? working as an financial analyst now 😅
Yup