This Tiny X86 Board Is A Mini Emulation Monster!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- This tiny X86 SBC is a Mini Emulation monster and it even has enough power to play PS3 and WiiU games!
In this video, we test out some of our favorite emulators on this ASRock Industail SIngle board computer NUC board powered by an 11th gen Intel Tiger lake i5 1135G7 running at up to 35 watts!
It offers some very impressive performance when it comes to emulating SEag Saturn using The Beattle Core in RetroArch, PSP using PPSSPP, PS2 with PCSX2, Gamecube, and Wii using the dolphin emulator, 3DS using Citra, and even PS3 using RPCS3 and Wii U with CEMU!
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00:00-Intro
00:15-Overview
01:39-Specs
01:59-Bios settings
03:18-Sega Saturn
03:44-PSP
04:37-Gamecube
05:01-Wii
05:33-3DS
06:07-PS2
07:03-PS3
08:23-WiiU
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that ps3 and wii u performance is extremely impressive
GC, Wii and PS3 performance is most interessting at all for me in Emulating
Very
people love to criticize Intel but Intel is still better than AMD in emulation thanks to clock speeds
@@der-Troet to me PS2, PS3 and Wii U are the most interesting to see in this video, since they are the hardest to emulate, even my 2019 phone runs GC and Wii at 720p or 1080p depending on the game, it's quite easy.
@@GameSpiritGS Yeah, I saw people bashing Intel, and saying they are inferior to AMD and Apple's new M1, but this board is doing amazingly well.
The only thing I hate about your videos is that all the awesome things you show always end up getting sold out almost immediately lol.
Or their price goes up
@@Pr0phetless Nice try Mr. Asus CEO ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Except for old prebuilds 👍🏾
@@johnnino7520 exactly. The handheld of the past video is already 110$
yes very true same thing happened with his optiplex build I couldn't touch anything from below 120
That joyful intro tho 😭 made me really happy idk why
Thank you for including Rogue Squadron. 👍
Wow great video! This is a game changer for me. Your videos always help a lot!
When an integrated graphic from a small green board can beat your old system in CPU and GPU
That painful moment when you discover your aging PC is officially old-verging-on-ancient
I am using intel core2duo e4400 here
@@michelvanbriemen3459 luckily it was my old pc though, I've got the 3080 now along with the 3600
Love your videos. You mentioned that this outperforms some of the AMD APU's. Which ones does it outperform? It would be nice to see a head to head comparison. Keep making these fantastic videos.
Many thanks for you to actually doing videos some people requests. You're really cool
I love that it's as small as the controller. Thanks ETA.
Always appreciate your videos and reviews.
And I always wish you would more regularly tell the (approximate) prices of the hardware.
always bringing quality, congratulations
I'm really impressed with the GPU performance compared to some AMD solutions. Very nice, especially considering the form factor.
Woah the Wii U performance is great! I was really impressed! I would love something like this c:
Recently got into watching Pi4 Video's and HOLY SHIT you can emulate WiiU and Ps3 on a damn Nuc Box these days thats just nuts.
Great Video like always ETA Prime :D
I recently subscribed. Your very awesome at explaining this and encouraging. Mad props to you sir.
can tell you really love emulation like the rest of us man, you really showcase some powerful and awesome builds
My favorite thought about this box is, according to it's specs, it has an NVME running at pcie x4 and another running x1. so moving the ssd to the x1 pcie slot, and running an external gpu to the x4 slot, it theoretically could become a very capable little gaming machine and one of the only ways to enjoy desktop gaming from a 10nm 11th gen since for some reason the desktop 11th gen parts were all 14nm
What people seem to have forgotten is that 1200mhz load on a gpu let alone a integrated cpu/gpu is impressive and skate 3 only spiked to 1100 mhz which for emulation is some solid optimization.
i hope your wrist scar is okay, you're awesome, don't forget it.
Finally we've hit where I wanted Apus to be for emulation. Next gen amd and intel quads and hex Apus on ddr5 will be absolute insanity.
Pricing for these is all over the place. Getting one or something similar will set you back $500-700. Impressive performance, but still a bit expensive. If you got one for $350-400, I think that is the sweet spot.
if you're looking for value/performance for money, those aren't your pick
and yes, they're quite overpriced especially because there's not much R&D to ask for this ridiculous price, most of this board is actually aftermarket parts as well.
They are actually quite a good deal if you get the official intel nuc. £329 for that exact same i5
For these it will be good price at 250$
@Bee Eff if you look at Ebay 24 7 for another 3 months and manage to outbid someone. And when bidding things like this could be taken up to £1000. Its difficult to find and win the bid to get a system like that
Awesome video. Any to see some egpu performance?
That is one tiny computer! Excellent performance for the size! ;)
That is true emulation beast! Thanks!
That Wii U play was amazing ... I tried BotW on my rig (7th gen i5, GTX 1660Super) and it just flat would not go over 15fps and usually much much less. Something that small chewing it up at 30fps easily with an integrated GPU -- WOW.
Capcom vs Snk 2 Mark Of The Millennium Will be Awesome on that chipset 🔥
@@idkanymore3382 lmao literally
this board seems impressive and at any part down the line with the duel ethernet you could use it for pfsense.
Great video, I wonder Asrock vs UDOO Bolt V8 for PhoenixOS with a virtual Home assistant server and Android TV on top?
Need this in a handheld.
this is the batocera dream machine!
Impressive performance from these new intel mobile cpus. Hopefully we see some price drops over the coming months as at standard pricing the price / performance ratio for this unit means this isn't the best option for budget gamers. (I'm talking purely from a budget gaming performance ignoring form factor, TDP etc).
Wow! This is incredible! Didn't think could do ps3!
This makes me even more excited for the potential of the Steam Deck.
Nice. Is there a list somewhere of the harder to emulate games for each system?
Excellent video!
But I would like to know how equivalent Intel NUC products compare to this, since they are more widely available brand new as well as second hand.
I remember being happy to play DBZ Budokai 3 on my AMD Phenom II over a decade ago and hitting 17FPS, with the amazing dark textures and glitchy light/effects that PCSX2 had for that game at the time, just because it was on my big expensive full tower PC.
Now we have this tiny little SBC with a dinky little laptop cooler on it ploughing through Demon's Souls and Breath Of The Wild without an eGPU giving it a booster seat.
It's astonishing how far technology has come. I can't wait for someone to put this in a Gameboy :P
This machine seems to be great. I set up an old mini-PC as an emulation station. But all in all I spent more time experimenting with batocera, recalbox and all the emulators than actually playing good old games.
Wow I would love to have this
Tiger Lake has crazy single core performance. Willow Cove and Intel 10nm is pretty damn good, if only they could produce them at volume.
Shame we can have these tiny boards back when I was building my arcade control panel more than a decade ago. Wanted to throw in a system but you're limited to laptops with integrated graphics, and even those were a little bit too big.
damn, what a beast!
Looking forward to some emulatiion tests in 11gen intel desktop CPUs with the new XE graphics, like 11500 or 11600
It would be great if you could link those wallpapers you use on your PCs in the video description!
This is pretty cool thank you
$450 with the box, no ram or hdd included. At the end of the day you’ll still pay $700, which puts it squarely in the range of these mini PCs we’ve seen. It’s not bad but it’s not great either. I think the Xbox Series S at $300 is a far better bargain. This would be a great upgrade over the RPi4, but it’s so much more expensive that I just don’t think it’s worth it. It’s neat in principle, but unless you have very specific needs and desperately desire that form factor, it’s just another piece of hardware that’s either too expensive or not powerful enough.
Consoles are not a better bargain, they aren't open platforms and end up costing more in the long run. But yeah, you can get another PC for less money and/or with better specs.
I still prefer this because on emulators you can save & load state unlike consoles you are obliged to finish or save it on a certain points
@@rangerjoe126 You can use emulators on the Xbox too, but you have to PAY for the developer mode. And by doing that, you just get an extremely limited low performance mode. It has the muscle to move Switch or even PS3 games, but you can't because of Microsoft's shenanigans.
yeah but i agrred whit you and now you can buy steam desk for 300 dollars whre you can play all this game and pc games too
You pay more for the form factor.
Wow beautiful machine
Do you have a recommendation for a small PC (like this even this one maybe) for emulation but also for Visual Pinball? It's not entirely clear to me what the best specs are for a machine to emulate pinball tables, but if I want to mod my A1Up table (if I ever get it; pre-ordered) or AtGames Pinball (if I ever want to get it) with a PC, what would you recommend?
Amazing video, but why didn't you test Yuzu and Xenia as well on the little beast?
I am just now getting into Wii U and Wii emulation via Cemu and Dolphin respectively. Cemu runs great on my i7 1185G7 with Iris Xe but I can't for the life of me get Wii games to run at a stable framerate... Any ideas on how to improve performance are very welcome. Great video!
Finally x86 sbc finally catching up !
Pretty decent numbers!!
What about the AsRock Jupiter x300 paired with Ryzen 7 4650G? Perhaps they can also give similar or better numbers? The integrated graphics boots upto 2100MHz. And the cooling is fairly decent too! Do check it out if possible.
WOW! God Of War at 5X resolution!! =O
ETA do you mind testing batocera 30 on this?
Great video
Hey, awesome video!
Thank you so much, Sir, for your amazing videos.. I really enjoy them..
But how about Yuzu?
Can you please at least add it to the description, whether it would work..?
Thank you in advance
VGE
Very interesting solution!
That's so awesome :) how's switch emu run ;) ?
Would the i3 version be good enough to run coinops in a modded a1up?
6:13 you mean 2k right ? That is awesome !
very interesting, if I hadn't those consoles and games that would be my solution to be able to play those :)
Hello, great video as usual, i want to build an emulation gaming pc running up to PPSSPP, PS2 with PCSX2, Gamecube, and Wii using the dolphin emulator, 3DS using Citra, and even PS3 using RPCS3 and Wii U with CEMU, since it'a problem to find gpu's i want to do it with a Intel chipset with integrated graphics, i have a 8TB in 3,5 HD, about the form factor i want to be the smallest possible but including my big HD, i also want to add 16GB of ram, which motherboard & chipset combination you recommand ? THX in advance
Pretty impressive! Do you think the TigerLake APUs are generally outperforming the Ryzen 4000g series regarding the integrated graphics?
In terms of gaming they're generally better than the Ryzen 4000 APUs. I'm not sure right now about the 5000 ones but even then it might need the high end parts with 8C16T. On the other side driver support is still better at AMD. If the emulators are working it's working on an emulator basis. For PC gaming there can be problems with single games. Hardware wise it's very important to use LPDDR4X memory. I'm quite impressed emulation works well enough with normal DDR4 memory but don't try to go full in into PC gaming, at least new PC games.
The next thing in differences are the efficiency. Ryzen is generally more efficient IMO. For a NUC it doesn't really matter as you won't use it with a battery. With an Windows handheld like the Aya Neo or GPD Win 3 I see advantages for Ryzen when setting lower TDPs. And they can be cheaper still.
4C/8T are still enough for most things in this formfactor if you don't want to game hard or render hard stuff. I would still wish AMD would release an gaming APU with less cores and maximum GPU cores.
@@Deinorius Yeah I don't expect an APU to do well in modern PC titles until at least DDR5 is available to alleviate the severe memory bandwidth restrictions that make integrated graphics horrendous in comparison to a dedicated GPU with GDDR6 or even GDDR5.
I don't plan on picking up a system like this.. if I were I'd just get a cheap used X99 8 core Xeon and a cheap 4GB GPU and try and stick it in a small form factor case. Interested to see what the APU fight is like though. DDR5 should make things interesting late this year and next year.
Great candidate to mount to the back of a TV!
Ok, a mini pc without a case is one of the most rad emulator beasts ever!
Would you recommend this route for someone looking to replace their old computer? I’m at a point where I need to get a new PC and outside of the web and ripping DVDs, emulation would probably be my main use of it.
Can't wait to do this with my Ryzen APU 5750G with Vega 8
Finally close to getting a SBC that can run PS2 emulation
ooooh, someone else patiently waiting for sbc ps2 emulation. =D
hopefully cheaper than the AYA NEO. =P
Shit I'm waiting for ps3 and would be happy with itx or atx apu as long as it's not 800$. Dark souls baby
I think the biggest problem with ps2 emulation right now is that the emulator sucks. We need something like Duckstation but for the ps2
A PC with the highest specs has issues... What makes you think that this sbc could do any better?
@@7R15M3G1 Dark Souls is already on PC and will run a lot better than emulation.
very impressive
From the attic I pulled my old computer with i7 4770k computer with the gtx 780. And it seems to me that the good results are not due to the new motherboards / computers and but optimization of the emulators.
You had me at Sega Saturn
Great review of the hardware in itself but doesn't provide a comparison where it stands with respect to other hardware, these numbers would become more relatable if there is a comparison to other comparable hardware.
Forgive my ignorance but do you connect it to your pc or TV or where?
Need this
The PS5 could definitely handle PS3 games with some patches for each game like Microsoft does.
It is absolutely insane how well this can run emulators and it's also insane how powerful Intel integrated graphics have gotten
i'd love to get one of these boards, but they are so expensive where i look
Incredible emulation system.
How do you put out so much content?! It’s impressive
The talking hand never sleeps.
It’s probably his career, and he has a well thought out template for every video which makes it easier too
Hey do you know if there are any premade retroarch images that already have games on them like how there are premade images for the raspberry pi?
have you seeing the I9 + GTX 1650 PC mini PC on AliExpress (Chatreey, NVISEN)? I want a Intel mini PC for emulation and light gaming, but with crisis of components it's difficult to buy parts
Which gamepad are you using in this video?
I did it all for the NUC.
what would be a close equivalent to this performance-wise but cheaper as a sff or tower form factor?
Hey ETA how do you connect your Xbox controller to the pc? If its wireless, what adapter do you use?
would there be any chance of seeing you turning this into a handheld pc?
Nice!
WANT! That is beautiful
Question. This boards don’t bring any operating system
Hoy did you installed the windows OS on the board? External drive? The license? Maybe it’s a dumb question but This is a really good board doing great performance and I want to try one.
Same processor as the one used on the gpd win 3!!
is there any kind of software out there that allow me to use this device and all emulators more like a living room console with easy navigation?
Intel said their 11th gen CPU intergrated graphics would be powerful, they weren't kidding.
Why isn’t YUZU shown in this video? It was shown running just fine on the “PC Video” that was mentioned in the intro and posted a month prior, but wasn’t elaborated on or tested further here?
Thanks man, why you not test it with Linux gameing in Lutris or steam.
Ther is the even tinyer pico-ITX commell LP-179 with a 1185G7E out there.
How does the new Ryzen APU compare? obviously the price is way higher but is it really good for emulation?
PS3 looks amazing. I need this.
Have you had the chance to emulate armored core/ Gundam games from PS1/2/3?
Insert boby duke “I want that”
Please.. i would like to see a review the emulation Asus pn50 4500u..
This is probably the best board for emulation right now
I would like to know how the NUC11PHKi7C compares? I believe you can't send as much power to the CPU but then you have a discrete GPU.