The All New N100 Edge Is A Fast Lower Cost X86 SBC That Runs Windows & Linux! Hands On

In this video we take a look at the upcoming N100 Edge SBC, Powered by a 3.4Ghz CPU and backed by up to 16Gb Of DDr5 this could turn out to be an awesome option for Emulation like PS2, Gamecube, PSP and even WiiU! A small Company known as CompuBench sent over one of the first prototypes for testing and so far it actually a very good single board computer but it still s=need a bit of work for sure.

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00:00 Introduction
00:16 Unboxing and Overview
01:05 N100 Vs Raspberry Pi 4 Size
01:41 IO Overview
02:09 N100 Edge SBC Specs
02:57 Overall WIndows 11 Performance
04:03 4K Youtube Video Playback
05:28 Benchmarks
06:32 Minecraft PC Test
06:58 OG Skyrim Test
07:25 Dirt 3 Test
07:51 Left 4 Dead 2 Test
08:16 Gamecube and wii Dolphin Emulator Testing
09:08 PS2 Emulation PCSX2

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09:58 Wii U CEMU Emulator

[ermissao]

For me video is broken here, suddenly ended at 10:32. But about the N100: perfect size, perfect power. I want one!

[josephgospa]

Beelink currently sells its N100 mini PC for $179 and that includes 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD and a Win11 Pro license. IMHO, they would need to sell it under $140 to remain competitive. You can also expand RAM to 32GB on Beelink Mini PC. I'm into ARM SBC's and x86 SBC's. As a pro-case user, a commercial case for this x86 SBC will need to be included in the accessories list. Hardkernel H3+ x86 SBC with Jasper Lake N6005 which sells for $165 seems like an alternative too.

[qazwsxxswzaq]

3:22 N100 only supports 1 memory channel by design. So that is normal.

[monkey_breath]

Wow, that’s a promising little sbc, i hope the pricepoint doesn’t get too crazy, and i’d be very interested in seeing it run steam os

[ValTek_Armory]

I've been wanting to build a terminal from Fallout to bring to events for people to play New Vegas on. This might be the perfect candidate for a core!

[DigitalJedi]

On the topic of single-channel RAM, these tiny SoCs are single-channel only. The memory controller only supports 1 channel and 16GB is the max Intel lists, but there's nothing stopping 32GB to run.

[willb]

I just picked up a refurb i5 6500 mini PC. Good speed. It's impressive that the performance of an n100 is nearly the same. For 1/10th the CPU power draw!

[tellsackett]

This is awesome; I’ve been looking for a Raspberry-Pi form-factor, x86 sbc!! The Rock Pi X was a cool concept, but it could hardly run YouTube, not to mention older/indie x86 PC games and higher-end emulators. The fact that the IO’s form-factor on this thing is similar to a Pi is exciting for compatibility with embedded projects as well (plus, I personally prefer full-sized hdmi, anyway, due to mini being less abundant).
A Linux video would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

[TheBadFred]

That ended quick, it kinda jumped up a notch and then it was over

[srvuk]

The N100 is the first decent lower end processor that Intel has released in a long time. It is a shame that the board cannot support M.2, which would have made it more attractive. But we do need a proposed price in order ot assess just how much value there is. Whatever happened to that $99 board that was reviewed a few months back?

[DullBoyJack]

Just to put this CPU in perspective, it's about equivalent to a Sandy Bridge 2600k. Very very impressive for a 6W TDP.

[JerziTBoss]

If this board is priced under 150$ this could be amazing for DIY handheld. Just add some battery and gamepad and screens and you have yourself amazing handheld computer

[bendono]

Rather than a workstation, I'd like to see how this does as a VM server. Particularly a multi-node Proxmox or VMWare virtualization server.

[Vulto]

A full Linux video would be good to know if it can handle wayland or xorg well enough.

[kuyache]

i checked the info on the higher model i3 n300, it is 8 cores no ht and still single channel (intel specific design, no dual channel option) but 32EU gpu. these are great and all but i think the ryzen embeded apu's still has many advantages. this N100 is great for converting dumb or old smart tv's into great all in ones. Intel finally got rid of atom based chips good riddance.

[Transferx]

It's sad that Intel only allows single channel on alder lake-N.

[benverdel]

I run a Dell OptiPlex 9020 with an i5-4570 from 2013 as my daily driver. This looks remarkable comparable a part for this runs 4k video. Perfectly suitable for home/administration use. Just stick it in a pi case and tape it and the ssd to the back of the monitor.

[danmons]

Thank you as always for great coverage of these tiny low-power machines. If you do a Linux video, could you please share the output of the "vainfo" command? (Supplied with Ubuntu's "vainfo" package, or Arch's "libva-utils" package). This tells us the video hardware acceleration capabilities via the VA-API video decode/encode libraries for codecs like H.264, H.265, AV1, etc, which is really useful to people setting up video servers like Jellyfin. These Intel N100 devices in particular look like excellent options for that software.

[SirSizzleBeans]

To all wanting one of these, the Razda X4 has just been released. I'm not sure which board he was using, this one though is dirt cheap.
The base model 4gb ddr5 ram is something like 40 pounds. Which is AMAZING.

[thecastiel]

That was like The Sopranos kind of ending