This Tiny Budget PC Is An Incredible Emulation Machine! Small Foot Print EMU Power

In this video we take a look at my Favorite affordable AMD Ryzen Powered Mini PC. This is an HP Elitedesk 705 G4 that I recently picked up from eBay. It’s powered by the Ryzen 5 2400GE and backed by 8 GB of ram and it makes for a great little emulation, lite Gaming, and Media PC! We Test Out emulators like PPSSPP for PSP, GameCube, and Wii using the Dolphin Emulator, PS2 emulation using PCSX2 WiiU with Cemu, and even PS3 using the RPCS3 Emulator all while running Batocera Linux!

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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Overview
02:10 Specs
03:05 Batocera Linux Overview and Performance
04:49 Dreamcast Emulation
05:14 PSP EMulation PPSSPP
05:45 Gamecube EMulation DOlphin
06:25 3DS EMulation Citra
06:59 PS2 Emulation PCSX2
07:39 WiiU Emulation CEMU
08:25 PS3 Emulator RPCS3

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[ETAPRIME]

I’ve also seen the 3400ge version of this up on eBay so keep an eye out, it may offer a bit better performance

[DanielMandina]

Update for people considering this mini PC: after upgrading my Lenovo m715q (same APU as the HP) with the latest Batocera 38 stable build and some more testing, can confirm PS3 games will run on native resolution, and graphical glitches are mostly gone. But only a few easier-to-run games like Tekken 6 or GoW Collection will be doable, most PS3 games will be too much for this PC.

OG Xbox runs fine at native, some games can be upscaled to 2x. GC, Wii, PS2, and Dreamcast will run great upscaled at 1080p, although for others like God of War 2, you will have to go 720p for smoother gameplay. Wii U can be upscaled to 1080p with a few games, but still looks really nice when played on native resolution with the exception being BotW (so far), which is running at 12fps tops even on native and it's just unplayable on this machine.

After 6 months with this PC, I can say it is still an excellent emulation box, was totally worth the price I paid (CAD$250, including memory upgrade) and since ETA's review, it had some nice improvements in performance and compatibility. Would recommend this if you are on a very strict budget and can get it for less than US$200 (you will probably have to upgrade memory and storage). Over that price, I would look into a 5800h mini PC that will give you much better performance (4c/8t vs 8c/16t) and expand your PS3, Wii U, and (very possibly) Xbox 360 catalog.

Hope this update helps you on your decision, cheers :)

[AlteredCarbons]

these are the videos i miss the most. i love reusing old systems like this so much

[rastamouse]

I love seeing more and more performances being squeezed out of older hardware.

[reddyuda]

Would be really cool if we could get an ETA Emulator chart to help rank different CPU's

Would be a great reference to see what kind of performance you can get out of something like a new Intel N6005 vs something like a Ryzen 2400GE at a glance. Could even just be a public Google Sheets document

[jul]

Got a 2200GE recently for 85$. Can’t beat that!

[ScottHenion]

I picked up one of these last summer when you first reviewed them; 16GiB and 256GiB NVME, no wireless. They are getting cheap these days.
It has worked well for me as a low-power PC. I run older Steam games. I did have lock up on boot issues with the amdgpu driver with multiple versions of linux. Turns out the bios had legacy option ROM boot for video. Changed to EFI video ROM and now works fine.
Note: there is an option board: L25757-001 that replaces the VGA port for an extra HDMI. Be careful as it is easy to bend the pins over on the main board.
I also added a 2.5" SATA drive caddy. These are hard to find and make sure it is for the SFF version of the 705.
16 watts idle and 25W playing video will work well when I go solar in an RV.

[moenibus]

A few notes on this PC. I have the 2400G (60 w version). Windows 11 is NOT supported. You can side load it, but it won't have support nor updates from Windows. Amazon is selling the 16Gb version (RAM), and it's coming with the original HP power supply. I got mine for about 160 USD. Came with the 2.5 HD craddle, keyboard and mouse. Runs a little hot for my tastes, but i will be installing a 2T m.2 drive. Overall a great buy.

[kroveg]

These old school/Classic style ETA videos of prebuilts and mini PCs are the best. It's how you made a loyal follower out of me! Core2Duo boyz holla back

[hotrodmercury]

What's crazy is not even a decade ago this was unthinkable for me as a kid. I had to have the consoles to be able to play the games I wanted. I also had to buy the games I wanted.
I'm so glad I can have every game I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, for free.

[RigoCortes]

I picked up this model with 16gb and the optional SATA caddy for $65 on eBay and it was in pristine condition.

[DanielMandina]

For those wanting to buy this for a Batocera machine: I've bought the m715q lenovo with the ryzen 2400ge and 16gb ram, and installed Batocera on a 2tb firecuda drive I had. This will play God of War II and Shadow of the Colossus upscaled to 720p at full speed on PSCX2 and they look great. F-zero GX at 1080p at the fire field track is really close to 60fps, but it does have dips at the start (feels like shader caching, mostly). I want to try out a few other games and give it a shot on Wii U and some easier PS3 titles but overall, if you wanna stick to everything up to PS2 running at 1080p and a few harder ones at 720p or native, this is really worth it if you get it for a fair price (mine was CAD$220).

The development of these emulators and Batocera came a long way and hats off to all the devs that have been working on those, outstanding job. And thank you ETA Prime for making this review, I'm very happy with the performance this thing is putting out.

[JimboMidge]

I made one of these into a Batocera machine and it emulates GameCube at 1080p perfectly, and can even handle God of War 2 on PS2 flawlessly.

[Kevintil]

I ordered one of these on Amazon and got lucky, they sent me one with a normal 2400 with 16GB of ram instead.

[rolfathan]

I have to say: THANK YOU SO MUCH. I watched this when it was new. Flash forward, I'm at this store that sells amazon returns for a huge discount. They often just sell the contents of a box for $15 each. I find a box with TWO of these, they sell it to me for $15. Both have i7s, and 1tb SSDs, 32gb ram. I instantly recognized it from this video, so you really helped me out!

[abdullaal-naimi]

Thanks for the video! I would love to see a video exploring upscaling and shader potential of this PC for the easier to run consoles like Genesis and PS1.

[PetesimonTabibito]

very nice! thanks for the demonstration. i found the same PC for around $80 and up with power adapter, ssd, and ram

[BxB]

@etaprime the fact that your test game for the GC was Auto Modellista!! *tears* I never see anyone test or talk about this game and it's literal why I dont want to buy handheld emulators or have been against the wall on building something until reasonably priced... love that game, I play it on my series S :D

[TheWarmotor]

Man I paid closer to $200 for this, but that was a year ago... GREAT emulation machine and HTPC :)

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