$650 dollars, is a bit steep if you're looking purely at emulation. But considering it's a whole PC with a pretty power efficient mobile processor and honestly better performance than I'd expect for the price (minus the not so great looking logo imo) it is a solid package! That PS2/Wii U emulation is looking so nice though!
You could, or used to able to build a pretty decent PC for that. Not anymore. Probably won't be long until these will be in the $200-$300 range like the early ryzen ones are now.
@@madgodzilla12465 I built an R9 390 and i5 4460 machine (8gb ram and 256gb SSD) for about $850 late 2015. Kinda wild that for the same GPU performance I'm gonna have to pay MORE 6 years later
@@danielrentube yes, I'm interested in trying one of those models from Ali and see how they compare to the Beelink here. I can't fault the quality of their products, but I wonder if the fancy cooling and name-brand parts are worth that extra markup.
Wow- your review was SO MUCH MORE HELPFUL than ETA Prime's. Not to knock the OG, but like a lot of his stuff, I was left a little puzzled at the end: Can it emulate or can't it? Sadly, he rarely responds to comments or revisits devices. And I can understand: He's got so many new devices constantly arriving on his doorstep to review. Thanks again!
It's impressive how far Intel graphics have come. I still haven't accepted you can run GameCube on integrated graphics and here you are, playing Wii U games. Wow.
I imagine Batocera as a Godfather character, an old rival of Don Corleone that eventually became an ally of him. “Batocera, Batocera, we must protect La Famiglia, La Cosa Nostra”.
@Retro Game Corps For reviews, you and ETA Prime are my faves for these devices. I especially like your in-depth menu hopping, alternative tweaks to settings, and performance fine-tuning. I got to know the emulators that work best with your reviews.
Man... I'd love to have money for things like this!... You're videos are so addictive but they make me want to get things that I simply can't afford :( Won't stop me from watching though!!!
The price is pretty steep - if you are comfortable with very basic PC building, get yourself a 5600g and a MicroATX motherboard and small case, and you'll get yourself a much better PC - for around $550, a $100 saving (much more upgradable too). The only downside is the size increase - but if you shop around you can get some pretty compact Micro ATX cases 👍
Surprised/pleased to see how well Rogue Squadron II plays on this. Did you happen to try Rogue Squadron III by any chance? That is even harder to emulate.
Honestly this performed far better than I could have imagined. As you and others have mentioned, I’m not sure the price point is quite there but a fantastic review, as always!!
What do you think of the upcoming Beelink GTR5 with the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, as a potential console alternative? Thinking of getting one for playing some PC games like AoE 2: DE, maybe even the newest AoE 4 if it can support it, and the upcoming ARPG Undecember.
I stopped using the original music in order to honor the creator of the song. I first chose it because I like the song (and album) so much, but it got to a point where the tune was being associated with my channel and not the work of the artist. That being said, I'm working with someone now to write new, original music that we can freely associate with the channel :)
My eventual solution has come to this: I bought the best of everything, and didn't hold back on punishing the wallet. Now I just play what I want where I want how I want. Yay money.
I think it's just a different use case. For example, this could comfortably sit in a TV entertainment center. There's definitely a price premium for the form factor, much like how people pay $150 for an RG351MP when a $30 Fire Stick has better performance.
I wonder how this will end up comparing to high end model of the Steam Deck since the prices line up around $650. I really want portable PS2/Gamecube emulation. Streaming from my tower to my S9 + Kashi using Moonlight has been the best way for me to achieve this so far.
On one hand, valve is able to afford a much bigger loss per device than this Chinese company, but on the other they also gotta pay for screens and controls and shit so I don't know. We'll definitely have to see.
Just based on specs and how it handles modern games in the couple videos we've seen of the steam deck running its will be as good or better. The steam deck has a definitely better igpu but emulators lean more on cpu power which on paper is about the same. 4 cores 8 threads and very similar ipc and sustained clock speeds.
I'm currently keeping my eye on Intel Celeron J4125 mini PCs. If we find some model that can sustain a bit of OC without turning into a burning hell or the price goes down a bit it could take the spot as the best power/price ratio emulation machine.
Man, what timing! I recently had been looking around for a small, one-stop emulation computer and this sounds pretty ideal! I'm not as up-to-date with some of the things you can do in current emulation, but I assume you can hook in stuff like GameCube adaptors or sync up multiple 8BitDo retro controllers for local multiplayer gaming?
Hi Matt, I'm not too smart on GameCube adapters but if Dolphin allows for it, it should work. As far as multiple controllers, for sure that's an option on both the Windows and Batocera sides.
@@RetroGameCorps That's great! Would you say this is one of your favorite mini PCs thus far or are their other mini PCs that you prefer for retro gaming? I wasn't sure if there were major differences in quality for ones currently on the market.
@@mattb6522 There are definitely other, cheaper options out there, but this one's build quality and capability did really impress me. I've tested about six mini PCs at this point and this one seems to be a better price/performance ratio at that higher tier. It's at that level where I can comfortably use it as a desktop PC for all non-gaming tasks, but then also does gaming really well too. The tier below this is about $500 and doesn't compare in performance.
@@RetroGameCorps Great! Thank you so much for the helpful information! I am looking forward to seeing your new reviews in 2022 for the next wave of retro gaming devices and systems! 😄
I have a laptop with a very similar CPU, and I get similar performance in Dolphin, except my CPU overheats and the game freezes every minute or so. It's a new laptop so I don't think dust is a cooling issue, and newer games, like Forza Horizon 5 run fine (at low settings ofc). How did you get Dolphin to run without overheating?
Hmmm, that is weird. I didn't do anything special with Dolphin other than install it and set the graphics to 1080p. The only thing I can think of is that this has much better cooling performance, but if you're getting okay PC gameplay then it might be moot. It might just be that Dolphin isn't well optimized for the integrated GPU on your laptop.
How does this compare to the $475 Beelink SER3? The 3750H is a weaker processor, but I don't remember if in your SER3 review you ever experimented with the TDP settings of the SER3. Would increasing the TDP of the SER3 make it more competitive with the Intel as a emulation machine?
ETA made a video on the 3550h (pretty similar to the 3750h) awhile back and it can struggle with RPCS3 and Wii U and can't upscale as well as this tiger lake can with the higher end emulators. If it were me I'd spend the extra for this one or wait for a sale.
I just wish that the front USB-C port on this Intel-based mini PC supports Thunderbolt 4.0 so that I won't sacrifice that M.2 PCIe slot for M.2 PCIe external graphic card adapter.
For gaming emulation I don’t understand the race to go for smaller and smaller “hi spec” mini PC’s. They sacrifice specs for overall small size factor. I’d rather have a “mid tower” higher end PC with better specs and better cooling, more ports, etc that can run PS3 emulation much much better.
Not sure if it's because of the improvements in YUZU, or maybe Linux vs windows, but I have an intel nuc with the 1135g7 running batocera, and it can run links awakening at a perfect 30 fps locked in
Do you think it would be possible to save some money with Batocera by simply creating a new drive partition on the existing drive as opposed to purchasing a new drive? I get that it could make sense if you have a ton of games, but if you don't have that many, I could see a 64-128Gb partition being perfectly fine for that. I think they both require FAT32 as well.
@retro game corps Hey Russ! Great video as always. I’m looking to upgrade from my Super Console X King to something a bit more powerful. I’m assuming this is the most powerful mini pc you have shown off? I don’t have space, so I’d need something like this, hence the King I have. Would this also be good for Dreamcast and Saturn as well? I see it does psp also. Wii would be nice too. Just need something that will play all those at high specs if possible since I only want to use it for retro emulation so the Batocera part is all I’d be using. Thanks in advance!
Can you set up more than one set of prints for the fingerprint reader? I'd like to be able to make it so that my wife and I can both unlock the computer quickly.
Hi Hamid, I don't think performance will be affected by booting off an external option. The read/write speeds of even a flash drive are many times faster than original hardware. It might affect gameplay on things like PS3 but I wouldn't recommend Batocera for that anyway.
The cost for what you are getting seems so steep to me. I know it’s mainly the form factor. Hopefully in about a year, mini PCs for TVs will be about half that price.
hello iv'e posted this before but my father just got his in the mail but there is a problem it dose not go past boot up it says to check kernel and dtb images. I cant find anyone else with this problem can you perhaps help me? and yes its done this strait out the box. ah the device is a powkiddy rgb10 max 2
How much better is this new version? Beelink GTi11 Mini PC Windows 10 Pro, 11th Generation Intel i7-1165G7 4C/8T (Turbo 4.7Ghz) Kingston 32G DDR4 500G NVMe SSD, 4K@60Hz HDMI, DP 57W Mini Computer Gaming Office WiFi6 BT5.0 Support Win11
The company also recently sent me their SEI model, which I think is around $450, which I'll review later. I also reviewed their SER3 model a while back, it's pretty good at a lower price. Definitely shop around for third-party options on AliExpress that will have similar specs but likely inferior build quality. Here's my SER3 video: th-cam.com/video/sVosQJkm_fM/w-d-xo.html
I tested quite a few Wii U games in this video, but sadly I don't have a large PS3 library to test with. Given the performance of what I tested, I think PS3 will be a challenge.
temps higher than 65 C is not good. 75 C can be critical for components close to CPU. SSD inside may live not long even without overclocking above normal TDP. such boxes have no cooling adequate for games. for games you need to use better and mb quiter coolers (for ex. notebook cooling pad as Deepcool N1), to modify the case by holes or to remove a part of the case. also it seems slow for games for such price. it's good only as media player, internet terminal and office worker it's strange that Halo Infinite has rejected to run, as the device has all for this except the speed. while the speed is user's but not game's problem
Thats too expensive for me, i'm looking at between £200-£300 or cheaper that can play up to Gamecube and PS2. Basically what is the cheapest mini pc that can do these? There's so many different specs, different processors, GPU's I don't know what to get. Don't want to spend that to find out it doesn't play these.
I'd look into a Series S for that price. They are readily available and you can emulate through Retro Arch if you buy the dev kit. It's more locked down than a Windows PC and takes more fiddling around with settings but you can't beat the price/performance.
@@DamnRightDamien There is a PS2 core in RetroArch but in my experience with the dev kit its really hit or miss with what roms actually worked. Unless they really worked out all the kinks in the past 6 months its a pretty big pain in the ass. Not many other options at $300 nowadays though. The Steam Deck with a windows install will be pretty sick but who knows when those will actually come to market.
Overpriced, underpowered. Trounced by a laptop - which also has a screen, kb + mouse, so is fully flexible. These expensive "mini PCs" are utterly pointless when there are so many great laptops available.
I think they're different use cases, but I can see your point. I haven't gotten into the laptop space yet, that's definitely something I'm interested in checking out!
Yeah, the price does undermine the theatre PC use case for something like this but It does have better thermal headroom for the CPU. My Intel Iris Xe based laptop came with a 45w charger even though the TDP is set at 28w. If I didn't have a 65w charger, the performance on it would be severely limited. Unfortunately, a lot of the i5 1135G7 were inside ultrabook chassis.
![The Tiny But Mighty SER4 [Ryzen 7 4800U] Review](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AT0aw_-jFMM/mqdefault.jpg)
$650 dollars, is a bit steep if you're looking purely at emulation. But considering it's a whole PC with a pretty power efficient mobile processor and honestly better performance than I'd expect for the price (minus the not so great looking logo imo) it is a solid package! That PS2/Wii U emulation is looking so nice though!
You could, or used to able to build a pretty decent PC for that. Not anymore. Probably won't be long until these will be in the $200-$300 range like the early ryzen ones are now.
Aliexpress has no name brand with similar size and i7 1165G7 version for only around 450-500 bucks, much better deal
@@madgodzilla12465 I built an R9 390 and i5 4460 machine (8gb ram and 256gb SSD) for about $850 late 2015. Kinda wild that for the same GPU performance I'm gonna have to pay MORE 6 years later
@@danielrentube if it's of similar speed/build then hey yeah all down for lower prices on good products!
@@danielrentube yes, I'm interested in trying one of those models from Ali and see how they compare to the Beelink here. I can't fault the quality of their products, but I wonder if the fancy cooling and name-brand parts are worth that extra markup.
Wow- your review was SO MUCH MORE HELPFUL than ETA Prime's. Not to knock the OG, but like a lot of his stuff, I was left a little puzzled at the end: Can it emulate or can't it? Sadly, he rarely responds to comments or revisits devices. And I can understand: He's got so many new devices constantly arriving on his doorstep to review. Thanks again!
ETA seems to have sold out it seems.
ETA is just bored and burned out at this point but his insights are very usefull.
Love thar you left the music during the initial unbox. gives a nice charm like a loadout montage in an action movie
Thanks Danny. Took me some effort to time my scissor slice to the music, too :)
Hey Russ, just wanted to let you know your reviews are top notch, I really respect and appreciate you making consistent content.
Kudos to this channel for the ETA Prime shout-out.
It's impressive how far Intel graphics have come. I still haven't accepted you can run GameCube on integrated graphics and here you are, playing Wii U games. Wow.
Do you accept reality?
@@Woodwerker no.
I imagine Batocera as a Godfather character, an old rival of Don Corleone that eventually became an ally of him. “Batocera, Batocera, we must protect La Famiglia, La Cosa Nostra”.
@Retro Game Corps
For reviews, you and ETA Prime are my faves for these devices. I especially like your in-depth menu hopping, alternative tweaks to settings, and performance fine-tuning. I got to know the emulators that work best with your reviews.
Man... I'd love to have money for things like this!... You're videos are so addictive but they make me want to get things that I simply can't afford :(
Won't stop me from watching though!!!
The price is pretty steep - if you are comfortable with very basic PC building, get yourself a 5600g and a MicroATX motherboard and small case, and you'll get yourself a much better PC - for around $550, a $100 saving (much more upgradable too). The only downside is the size increase - but if you shop around you can get some pretty compact Micro ATX cases 👍
I really like the butter metric,
Thanks for your nerdage, its very much appreciated,
Surprised/pleased to see how well Rogue Squadron II plays on this. Did you happen to try Rogue Squadron III by any chance? That is even harder to emulate.
Honestly this performed far better than I could have imagined. As you and others have mentioned, I’m not sure the price point is quite there but a fantastic review, as always!!
Finally.... a great intro music 😄🎵😄
You're killing me with the Kerry Gold. I went to 5 major stores in Vancouver and no-one stocks it. Mhhhhh Kerry Gold 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
What do you think of the upcoming Beelink GTR5 with the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, as a potential console alternative? Thinking of getting one for playing some PC games like AoE 2: DE, maybe even the newest AoE 4 if it can support it, and the upcoming ARPG Undecember.
*something about comparing it to butter*
Me: surely I misheard.
*brings out a stick of butter for size comparisons*
Or, maybe I didn't mishear...
This little guy would destroy my old ass laptop. lol
I like the old intro music way better then the new one!
I would like to see what they can do with more powerful AMD chipsets/APUs
Russ, can you go back your old music/theme? It was great 😊
Unfortunately I believe he is not the owner of that music and had to change it
The track he used in this video is killer, I'm diggin it a lot.
I agree with John, I don’t dislike the new intro but as a long time subscriber, I missed the original one 😆
I stopped using the original music in order to honor the creator of the song. I first chose it because I like the song (and album) so much, but it got to a point where the tune was being associated with my channel and not the work of the artist. That being said, I'm working with someone now to write new, original music that we can freely associate with the channel :)
@@RetroGameCorps nice!
My eventual solution has come to this: I bought the best of everything, and didn't hold back on punishing the wallet. Now I just play what I want where I want how I want. Yay money.
Russ, I am now addicted to T-120 'cause of you. Thank you. Happy New Year!!!
Happy new year!
Happy new year to everyone :)
Happy New Year, Russ. Keep up the great work!
It’s a novelty. Can’t I get a desktop for same price that’ll run this stuff better? But I guess the whole point is a tiny box. Isn’t it always...
I think it's just a different use case. For example, this could comfortably sit in a TV entertainment center. There's definitely a price premium for the form factor, much like how people pay $150 for an RG351MP when a $30 Fire Stick has better performance.
You need to start a discord for the community!!!
I wonder how this will end up comparing to high end model of the Steam Deck since the prices line up around $650. I really want portable PS2/Gamecube emulation.
Streaming from my tower to my S9 + Kashi using Moonlight has been the best way for me to achieve this so far.
On one hand, valve is able to afford a much bigger loss per device than this Chinese company, but on the other they also gotta pay for screens and controls and shit so I don't know. We'll definitely have to see.
Just based on specs and how it handles modern games in the couple videos we've seen of the steam deck running its will be as good or better. The steam deck has a definitely better igpu but emulators lean more on cpu power which on paper is about the same. 4 cores 8 threads and very similar ipc and sustained clock speeds.
I'm currently keeping my eye on Intel Celeron J4125 mini PCs. If we find some model that can sustain a bit of OC without turning into a burning hell or the price goes down a bit it could take the spot as the best power/price ratio emulation machine.
Ew celeron
The J4125 are some of your best value at the lower price tier, definitely keep an eye out for sales!
I recently got one for 229 with tax on Amazon
Beelink Mini PC GK55 8+256G
Man, what timing! I recently had been looking around for a small, one-stop emulation computer and this sounds pretty ideal!
I'm not as up-to-date with some of the things you can do in current emulation, but I assume you can hook in stuff like GameCube adaptors or sync up multiple 8BitDo retro controllers for local multiplayer gaming?
Hi Matt, I'm not too smart on GameCube adapters but if Dolphin allows for it, it should work. As far as multiple controllers, for sure that's an option on both the Windows and Batocera sides.
@@RetroGameCorps That's great! Would you say this is one of your favorite mini PCs thus far or are their other mini PCs that you prefer for retro gaming? I wasn't sure if there were major differences in quality for ones currently on the market.
@@mattb6522 There are definitely other, cheaper options out there, but this one's build quality and capability did really impress me. I've tested about six mini PCs at this point and this one seems to be a better price/performance ratio at that higher tier. It's at that level where I can comfortably use it as a desktop PC for all non-gaming tasks, but then also does gaming really well too. The tier below this is about $500 and doesn't compare in performance.
@@RetroGameCorps Great! Thank you so much for the helpful information! I am looking forward to seeing your new reviews in 2022 for the next wave of retro gaming devices and systems! 😄
I have a laptop with a very similar CPU, and I get similar performance in Dolphin, except my CPU overheats and the game freezes every minute or so. It's a new laptop so I don't think dust is a cooling issue, and newer games, like Forza Horizon 5 run fine (at low settings ofc). How did you get Dolphin to run without overheating?
Hmmm, that is weird. I didn't do anything special with Dolphin other than install it and set the graphics to 1080p. The only thing I can think of is that this has much better cooling performance, but if you're getting okay PC gameplay then it might be moot. It might just be that Dolphin isn't well optimized for the integrated GPU on your laptop.
Huh ok, well thank you for the quick response. I appreciate it.
You should play more Hit And Run - I've been meaning to go back to that game for a while myself...
How does this compare to the $475 Beelink SER3? The 3750H is a weaker processor, but I don't remember if in your SER3 review you ever experimented with the TDP settings of the SER3. Would increasing the TDP of the SER3 make it more competitive with the Intel as a emulation machine?
ETA made a video on the 3550h (pretty similar to the 3750h) awhile back and it can struggle with RPCS3 and Wii U and can't upscale as well as this tiger lake can with the higher end emulators. If it were me I'd spend the extra for this one or wait for a sale.
Here is my video on the SER3. Its upper limit is 1080p GameCube, while PS2 and Wii U struggle. th-cam.com/video/sVosQJkm_fM/w-d-xo.html
minipc does not have the model which is implemented if there is remote control for power supply ON/OFF though I think that it is convenient.
Came to see Chicken's take on the mini pc.
Sadly, no Chicken.
I just wish that the front USB-C port on this Intel-based mini PC supports Thunderbolt 4.0 so that I won't sacrifice that M.2 PCIe slot for M.2 PCIe external graphic card adapter.
Yes, but can it run Crysis?
For gaming emulation I don’t understand the race to go for smaller and smaller “hi spec” mini PC’s. They sacrifice specs for overall small size factor. I’d rather have a “mid tower” higher end PC with better specs and better cooling, more ports, etc that can run PS3 emulation much much better.
Man that price tag makes it a tough sell for me 😭
Also that reminds me, did you ever draw the winners for your giveaway?
Not sure if it's because of the improvements in YUZU, or maybe Linux vs windows, but I have an intel nuc with the 1135g7 running batocera, and it can run links awakening at a perfect 30 fps locked in
Try Ryujinx switch emu, it works quite nice.
This is too rich for my blood, I'm here only for Chicken!
Do you think it would be possible to save some money with Batocera by simply creating a new drive partition on the existing drive as opposed to purchasing a new drive? I get that it could make sense if you have a ton of games, but if you don't have that many, I could see a 64-128Gb partition being perfectly fine for that. I think they both require FAT32 as well.
Now all we need is for powkiddy or anbernic to take this amd put it in a handheld.
@retro game corps Hey Russ!
Great video as always. I’m looking to upgrade from my Super Console X King to something a bit more powerful. I’m assuming this is the most powerful mini pc you have shown off? I don’t have space, so I’d need something like this, hence the King I have. Would this also be good for Dreamcast and Saturn as well? I see it does psp also. Wii would be nice too. Just need something that will play all those at high specs if possible since I only want to use it for retro emulation so the Batocera part is all I’d be using. Thanks in advance!
Can you set up more than one set of prints for the fingerprint reader? I'd like to be able to make it so that my wife and I can both unlock the computer quickly.
Awesome video
Hey Russ, I was wondering your opinion on emulation on a quest 2. It’s quite powerful for the price.
Does this pc support thunderbolt 3?
Happy new year sir
Great video! Hey do you think the performance of Batocera is affected by running it on a HDD, external SSD or USB drive?
Thanks!
Hi Hamid, I don't think performance will be affected by booting off an external option. The read/write speeds of even a flash drive are many times faster than original hardware. It might affect gameplay on things like PS3 but I wouldn't recommend Batocera for that anyway.
The cost for what you are getting seems so steep to me. I know it’s mainly the form factor. Hopefully in about a year, mini PCs for TVs will be about half that price.
hello iv'e posted this before but
my father just got his in the mail but there is a problem it dose not go past boot up it says to check kernel and dtb images. I cant find anyone else with this problem can you perhaps help me? and yes its done this strait out the box. ah the device is a powkiddy rgb10 max 2
How much better is this new version?
Beelink GTi11 Mini PC Windows 10 Pro, 11th Generation Intel i7-1165G7 4C/8T (Turbo 4.7Ghz) Kingston 32G DDR4 500G NVMe SSD, 4K@60Hz HDMI, DP 57W Mini Computer Gaming Office WiFi6 BT5.0 Support Win11
Would you review the kinhank Mini PC Super Console MP100
8:58 i have to have my own independent GPU, which I obviously don't have
Intel Iris XE: am I joke to you?
Is there a mini pc that you would recommend around the $350-400 range?
An Xbox =P
@@hantke1989 I need something my son can also do homework on or i would get one
Get a used lenovo m900 tiny on eBay. They are under 200, 6th gen Intel with ddr4 and nvme.
You can buy one with similar specs on aliexpress for around 400
The company also recently sent me their SEI model, which I think is around $450, which I'll review later. I also reviewed their SER3 model a while back, it's pretty good at a lower price. Definitely shop around for third-party options on AliExpress that will have similar specs but likely inferior build quality. Here's my SER3 video: th-cam.com/video/sVosQJkm_fM/w-d-xo.html
Just a heads up, Russ. Nobody plays Counterstrike GO on medium settings. Try low settings with shadows on high for testing purposes.
That's good to know, thanks! I'm completely clueless when it comes to CS:GO :)
Are you gonna test more emulators on this device? I would like to see ps3/wii u games
I tested quite a few Wii U games in this video, but sadly I don't have a large PS3 library to test with. Given the performance of what I tested, I think PS3 will be a challenge.
Hi bro may i know BOOTS v36 meaning? It's write in your mini pc list
temps higher than 65 C is not good. 75 C can be critical for components close to CPU. SSD inside may live not long even without overclocking above normal TDP. such boxes have no cooling adequate for games. for games you need to use better and mb quiter coolers (for ex. notebook cooling pad as Deepcool N1), to modify the case by holes or to remove a part of the case. also it seems slow for games for such price. it's good only as media player, internet terminal and office worker
it's strange that Halo Infinite has rejected to run, as the device has all for this except the speed. while the speed is user's but not game's problem
Thats too expensive for me, i'm looking at between £200-£300 or cheaper that can play up to Gamecube and PS2. Basically what is the cheapest mini pc that can do these? There's so many different specs, different processors, GPU's I don't know what to get. Don't want to spend that to find out it doesn't play these.
PS2? Not that that price. You need a significant cpu and an actual gpu to get PS2 working at full speed
Unless you run at a super low resolution
I'd look into a Series S for that price. They are readily available and you can emulate through Retro Arch if you buy the dev kit. It's more locked down than a Windows PC and takes more fiddling around with settings but you can't beat the price/performance.
@@madgodzilla12465 I'd agree if they didn't care about PlayStation 2
@@DamnRightDamien There is a PS2 core in RetroArch but in my experience with the dev kit its really hit or miss with what roms actually worked. Unless they really worked out all the kinks in the past 6 months its a pretty big pain in the ass. Not many other options at $300 nowadays though. The Steam Deck with a windows install will be pretty sick but who knows when those will actually come to market.
@@madgodzilla12465 oh I know, I've tested it. It runs a few games but the system just isn't there for ps2
Any idea how this would do with the Borderlands games?
The cost is insane to me.
I'm pretty sure this little beast is more powerful than my big ass Tower LOL
Could you please review some android tablet for emulation?
Whats the yuzu bottleneck. CPU or GPU?
I will now only measure in Kerry Gold butter 😅😅
Do they have one that’s closer to around $5?
Overpriced, underpowered. Trounced by a laptop - which also has a screen, kb + mouse, so is fully flexible.
These expensive "mini PCs" are utterly pointless when there are so many great laptops available.
I think they're different use cases, but I can see your point. I haven't gotten into the laptop space yet, that's definitely something I'm interested in checking out!
Yeah, the price does undermine the theatre PC use case for something like this but It does have better thermal headroom for the CPU. My Intel Iris Xe based laptop came with a 45w charger even though the TDP is set at 28w. If I didn't have a 65w charger, the performance on it would be severely limited. Unfortunately, a lot of the i5 1135G7 were inside ultrabook chassis.
Where did you get your mouse pad?
Right here, I highly recommend it! www.etsy.com/listing/72307416/grassland-mousepad
What do think of pny ssd to download batocera is it good
They're pretty good SSDs, I'm no expert but they seem to be middle-of-the-road between price and quality.
@@RetroGameCorps thank you it for mini pc I am getting with is Beelink GK55 Mini PC Intel J4125
Think I would just prefer to buy an actual pc for that much.
No no no. I didn't spend even $600 on my MSI gaming laptop.
An FYI on the new up and coming rp3:
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