This Is The Best Selling 'Gaming PC' On Aliexpress...

They will call anything a gaming PC these days.

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[neetpurple]

The reason why the hitbox controller isn't registering left and right at the same time is called SOCD cleaning, which makes it tournament legal. Holding 2 of the opposite movement directions needs to be neutral for a controller to be used in fighting game competitions

[GRSALAD]

Calling this a "gaming PC" is definitely crazy behavior, but the N100 is absolutely incredible for many other uses. You briefly mentioned how weak the power brick is, and that's not because the power brick is under-serving this thing. the N100 is EXTREMELY efficient, clocking in at just 6W tdp. It has become a champion for light home server work, NAS stuff, a light and low power way to drive multiple displays, and various mobile application. I have a mini pc with an N100 that I have stuck to the tripod leg of my telescope mount as the control computer for my telescope. Even if I'm taking it out into the middle of nowhere away from civilization (aka away from light pollution) and running it on a battery, the low power draw lets it and the telescope mount easily run for hours and hours

[sir.fender]

"Anything is a gaming PC as long as you lower your standards enough"

-Dawid 2024

[pdt]

I wonder if you can jam the innards of a mouse inside the computer to make some sort of unholy computer mouse hybrid

[mapwheel]

The N100 benchmarks similarly to a Haswell i5 from a decade ago. But on a mere 6w of power. We've come a long way.

[jonathanto]

This thing is more upgradable than Apple's $3000 Mac Studio 💀

[BitZapple]

I own this guy, it's on my 4k 60hz TV for streaming anything that I want to it.

[Lemintoon]

The controller is mostly designed for fighting games. It's a deep rabbit hole to dive into but can answer some of the problems in video.
The "Up" button is usually at the bottom like position of space bar.
Shoulder triggers being that way is because of arcade cabinet layout and later home console arcade controllers.
R1 and R2 being that way again because of fighting games, specifically 6 button ones that use R1 and R2 as default binds for attacks.
"Left" and "Right" but also "Up" and "Down" inputs not being registered at same time is because of "Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions" or SOCD for short and introduced as way to not break games and balance out competition against pad and arcade stick users.

[gundalfthelost]

Many of the local businesses use these for powering multiple info screens for customers. Things like food menu's, schedules and general info stuff.
Would probably make for a pretty ok media pc if that cpu can handle live streams and high-res content.

[fish_bacon]

half expected the OUYA logo to show up.

[roninvampire]

That leverless arcade controller is made more for fighting games. The weird layout for the face and shoulder buttons make sense for FG players because they are usually mapped to the default controls of the most popular modern FGs like SF and Tekken. Definitely a niche controller that is not entirely suitable for most games, but it's what some competitive pro FG players use. It also has some other features that FG tournaments take into consideration like SOCD cleaning, which makes it impossible to register opposing cardinal directions that are pressed together at the same time.

Though, yeah, if you practice enough with it, I reckon you can use it for any game.

[tek_lynx]

What you bought for that control pad is called a hitbox it's a fighting game centric alternative to a joystick. The reason Left and right didn't work at the same time is called SOCD (Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions) and its built into that hitbox's PCB to make it tournament legal as your not supposed to be able to do right and left, up and down at the same time as a joystick can't physically do that, but of course leverless can and that makes the playfield level again.

[RickUsesComputers]

I use a computer with an N100 in it as my daily driver. I really like it, because it is completley silent and extremely energy efficient. I don't do gaming on it and i use Linux on it. I built it myself a couple of weeks ago and it was absolutely worth it!

[itsdeonlol]

Destiny 2 being able to run is crazy...

[MrMultiB]

I learned that Dawid never used an arcade stick or a hitbox before.

but if you want a budget Hitbox style controller, a Haute 42 is amazing for its price point

[Zerbey]

What you have there is a business PC designed mostly for running remote applications (think Terminal Services). I used to maintain a bunch of similar ones, they did nothing but RDP in a different system from them. I'm still impressed the Celeron iGPU could game at all, just shows how far the lower end has come.

[shaunrattee]

That would make a pretty decent home firewall.

[Rspsand]

Refurb steam deck is only 250$ in Canada. Comes with a controller, a screen, and two track pads included. Can't beat the value with a cheap dock.

[avoidthevod]

Dawid, the controller you bought is a Hitbox style controller. Its not a terrible layout, and not because its "based on a thing". The thing you didnt get is that the lowest button is actually the UP button. Like a spacebar on a keyboard. So the keyboard layout makes sense.

[mindinversions]

In fairness, I've looked into those controllers a little.... my understanding is that they're NOT super intuitive for the layman.