This $100ish Amazon PC Is Apparently 'Perfect for gaming'...

I bought the cheapest computer I could find that mentioned gaming, which went well.

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[Eazon_]

There's another one with a J4125 for about the same price, it has double the cores, double the base clock, and intel graphics 600 instead of 500 !
How about this becomes a series, trying out mini pcs. Maybe you'll find a gem!

[themightypen]

Honestly for a $110 miniPC I am impressed. The fact that it could even load GTAV was surprising to me.

[jackhawkins]

This is most definitely a thin client workstation (hence the name). Used to connect to a server and run virtual machine environments. We use similar Dell branded ones, at 8x the price. So for $100, this thing is actually brilliant.

[anthonygrimaldi]

The fact that it can even load those games is impressive. It probably would make a great emulation PC since raspberry pis can be expensive or hard to come by, and youd get a full windows system to boot.

[jepoyburner]

I have a couple of Celeron machines like these deployed. These are actually perfect for very casual computing and for low power, always on application. I use one for my 3D printer, and another for a home file/media server.

[Zerbey]

I supported a bunch of these for a medical clinic. Perfect for this application, all they did was run an app to connect to their medical billing database and occasional light web browsing.

[sleepym]

I been using my $125 J4125 mini pc with 256 ssd, 8Gb ram for 2 years. Worked great as media player and light web browsing. But recently I been doing more on it and it is struggling. So got Beelink Ryzen 5 5500u, 16Gb ram, 500Gb nvme ssd for $225. Big improvement from J4125. And this thing is so tiny but powerful.

[TheMaztercom]

They say gaming, but they did not specify what year of gaming, it will be fine in 1990 gaming

[mruczyslaw]

It is locked at 6W of power and for the CPU alone it may be fine at lower load tasks but when the GPU usage is high there is even less power left for the CPU and it throttles hard sometimes even under the poor base clock like you can see in this video in Bioshock gameplay, what I would do is install program like ThrottleStop and manually change power limit and boost clock time to higher value, I tried that on Intel Atom tablet and it gave performance boost of few hundred percent in some scenarios.

[hitechredneck]

I'm going to consider this PC as a possible alternative to a Raspberry Pi 4. Try buying a Raspberry Pi 4 - 4 GB for $100...and that's if you can even find one for sale. That you can run Windows on it may mean a better experimentation platform than the Pi, that is, if you don't need the IO header pins offered on the Pi platform. It can be frustrating trying to get software to run on a Pi, but with an Intel architecture, it should be a LOT easier to compile and run Linux apps.

[PaulStevensonPinball]

I actually have one of these powering a custom homebuilt pinball machine (physical, not virtual). I write my own pinball machine control software that runs on Windows, and to challenge myself to make my code extremely efficient I picked up one of these weak PCs. It did expose a few flaws in my code, but after some development time I've got my code running nearly perfect. Not only does this tiny PC handle all the I/O for the lights, switches and solenoids (via a USB breakout board, oh and pinball is extremely latency sensitive), but also handles running the DMD animations. Bonus, I use a 27" monitor as the pinball backglass, and my control software GUI can even play videos during gameplay without affecting gameplay latency. So I agree, gaming is a big YES and 5-stars! That said, I wouldn't mind doubling the cores for some processing headroom and faster NVMe storage for quicker startup. It's surprisingly hard to find tiny, decent little PC's like this with good-enough performance at dirt cheap prices.

[linkpalmer]

I deploy this EXACT computer for work regularly. I've never thought to game on it. Cool to see what it could do. Can you do an Intel NUC from 2013 next?

[flyingfajitas]

That's actually really cool to see for a machine like that. Having it to run older gen emulators is a good use case for it.

[RenshoYT]

Honestly would like to see this with some sort of emulation focused Linux distro like Batocera and see how it handles emulation. For the price, with the thoughtful IO and mounting options this could be a neat little TV mounted emulation box

[comixofmorrow]

Who doesn't want to play a game in slow motion?

[Rickyp]

I totally could see this being used professionally. Actually, that seems like its intended use. With 2 HDMI and a small, mountable form factor, it seems like it would be great for POS systems or kiosks or something like that. You also don't need a fast processor or much storage for those applications.

[blake]

Honestly, for the size and price. This is a pretty badass product.

[soumyadeep]

finally, not a video fo yours that I'm watching which is decades old.
jokes aside, I appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into your videos, truly unimaginable how hardworking you are! keep up the good work, Dawid!

[JRose-zniw]

Looks like a neat emergency-rig, I think I'll put one inside my case.

[mattblatchley]

all things considered, that thing did admirably well...especially basically running off of a glorified SD card...GLAD you're back Dawid!