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

[@neetpurple2753]

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

[@holdenhodgdon3756]

It was physical painful to watch him try to WSAD it instead of spending 5 minutes watching a KZbin video.

[@TheLeroy1981]

Blaming the controller because he clearly didn't do any research into what he was buying is great. Leverless controllers are way more ergonomically compatible with our hands than a stick

[@fakename287]

Reading the comments from all these seething redditors coping over their shitty controller is so fucking funny 😂😂

[@rossclutterbuck1060]

@@fakename287 it's almost as if they think Dawid is a legitimate hardware reviewer or something, not a glorified, yet charismatic, shitposter of the internet's finest e-waste and junk.

[@griftgfx]

@@fakename287 Right? All the OGs know that Dawid only does casual tech videos for a casual tech audience

[@sir.fender6034]

"Anything is a gaming PC as long as you lower your standards enough" -Dawid 2024

[@raven4k998]

meh and the price tag on the computer in general

[@CarinoGamingStudio]

he thought it was mid range pc with super mid range gpu

[@raven4k998]

@@CarinoGamingStudio but can it play Crysis?

[@CarinoGamingStudio]

@@raven4k998 well............. a few minutes later................... kinda.

[@jonathanto99]

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

[@RusticRonnie]

The Mac Studio is completely upgradable. You just have to start from scratch.

[@ranjitmandal1612]

😶💀😶

[@riffdex]

@@RusticRonnieyou can easily upgrade the Mac Studio by putting it in the trash bin and buying a real PC

[@grzybki]

It is far easier to access it's components as well :D

[@fistofthesnortstar]

But it’s also like 100x more powerful so you’re not as prone to upgrading

[@GR8SALAD]

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

[@ChrisDelChris]

It’s an incredible Home Assistant device.

[@impuls60]

Its 15W stock, not 6w. Set it to 30w and increase the ram speed to 4800 its becomes wicked fast for surfing.

[@DennisSchmitz]

@@ChrisDelChris was about to say that, am intrigued.

[@Ying-yang6969]

It's great for retro emulation and low power games

[@rafiy7150]

@@impuls60 doesnt that breat the purpose of all e cores cpu??

[@fish_bacon]

half expected the OUYA logo to show up.

[@Blowfeld20k]

OUYA would have had better performance bruv :D

[@laurenmp7486]

Oh there's a blast from the past

[@edcdad1124]

I loved my ouya lmao

[@racing_mntage1584]

Ouuuuhya

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

It does have a bit of an OUYA vibe to it. 😂

[@pdt1060]

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

[@volvo09]

Using the computer as a a mouse, that would be pretty damn funny!

[@michael.sierra]

This is the best comment I have ever read on KZbin.

[@ser777XD]

Diabolical

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Good thing I just got a 3D printer. 😃

[@Chaos_God_of_Fate]

That's not just Holy, that's the Holy grail! Some Day- we can only dream for now!

[@mapwheel00]

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.

[@DigitalJedi]

For some context, the N100 performs like a Haswell i5, while using less power than the chipset on the motherboard you had back then, or even the RAM you paired with it. The iGPU alone of a Core Ultra CPU consumes more than this little guy a full tilt.

[@FFXfever]

Well, it performs worse than an i5 purely because it doesn't have access to dual channel ram.

[@budgetking2591]

it uses 15w, 6w is its lowest tdp configuration, but thats not whats its set at in these mini pc's, its set at 15w

[@budgetking2591]

@@FFXfever no, it performs the same, even despite the single channel ram, if it had dual channel ram it would be even faster then the haswell i5

[@sbeve7445]

Not just Haswell, but it can actually perform close to a i5 7400, which is not THAT long time ago

[@BitZapple]

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

[@Lurch-Bot]

As puny as the N100 is, I'd have to say you're wasting its potential.

[@maxnum1sgameclub263]

I would use it as portable emulation. Just have some razer hardware (multiple wireless devices on one dongel) so you can save usb ports. And a bleutooth controller IF this little pc supports bleutooth ^^.

[@Crum24]

What do you you use to control it? I’ve been looking at some keyboards with built in trackpads for my living room mini pc

[@volkiruski1221]

Yes, a good choise...

[@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.

[@gundalfthelost1624]

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.

[@Timmycoo]

Yeah whenever I see these little cheapo PCs, especially with lots of peripheral access, you just know they are meant for businesses with basically showing slideshows and short videos for things like ads, helpful screens etc. But you gotta love that clickbait title by the seller lmao.

[@nadtz]

N100 makes a pretty good media PC with it's igpu, pretty popular in the homelab scene for exactly that use case.

[@Lurch-Bot]

@@nadtz So do any one of a number of ARM SBCs. For that matter, there are Ryzen APU SBCs and minis these days which will completely destroy all of the above in any type of gaming scenario.

[@nadtz]

@@Lurch-Bot Ok and? The question was about an N100 unit as a media PC not all possible options for a media PC.

[@queenbeeautumn]

​@@Lurch-Botyeah, but if it's main use case is static (or near static) signage, then the goal is to perform that task with as little power consumption as possible, this thing is like 6w, which is in ARM territory without the added headache of having to use ARM versions of any software you need

[@roninvampire05]

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.

[@MarginalSC]

I wouldn’t try a FPS with one. Old arcade games and other games that don’t require analog controls, sure.

[@CheapCheerful]

"modern FGs like SF and Tekken".... Suddenly I don't feel so old, thank you!

[@roninvampire05]

@@CheapCheerful As long as they keep adding numbers after the title every half a decade or so, they're still modern in my book. :P

[@jammo7370]

Yeah i know a bunch of high level players use hitboxes like these, didnt daigo switch to one a while back?

[@ZandoNoid]

@@jammo7370 Yes, daigo and tokido are still using hitboxes. Daigo even has his "special custom layout" because he thinks it is superior.

[@tek_lynx4225]

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.

[@itsdeonlol]

Destiny 2 being able to run is crazy...

[@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!

[@Bareego]

Mine flies with XFCE4 Mint, which one did you put on it ?

[@RickUsesComputers]

@@Bareego Arch Linux XFCE.

[@queeniegreengrass3513]

What about windows with photoshop cs6 or paint tool sai, or either emulated on Linux? Could it run that?

[@RickUsesComputers]

@@queeniegreengrass3513 It can run perfectly in Windows 10, but i think Windows 11 will struggle on the N100. You can also use Photoshop alternatives on Linux, like GIMP or Krita.

[@shaunrattee224]

That would make a pretty decent home firewall.

[@ivanmalinovski7807]

N100 is super popular home people who are into home servers. They sip power, they're exceedingly good at trancoding videos (for Plex/Jellyfin), generally low noise and they're reasonable powerful for running selfhosted service. They're not for gaming, though.

[@Pittato]

⁠@@ivanmalinovski7807I use my N100 mini system for Plex and it has been great for the past year.

[@michael.sierra]

Except it likely uses crappy Realtek NICs. I tried a similar generic N100 mini PC (about $200 on Amazon) for an opnsense router a few weeks ago and ended up sending it back. I could only manage about 600Mbps through it on my gigabit internet.

[@SpoonHurler]

I have on similar also with an N100 and dual RJ45 that I use as my pfsense box between my cable modem and the rest of my network. I couldn't imagine playing any game on it though. Edit: Mine has 2.5g realtek NICs so it might be a better model or something

[@laitinlok1]

and router

[@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.

[@jamiemoodley]

I'm contemplating getting a similar one to use as a media pc.

[@raven4k998]

well for that purpose it should handle job easily specialy if its sporting linux

[@ozreshef5182]

I Have the T9 Plus variant for my parents for media PC. The N100 gets 1140 points at cinebench R20, at only 69c ( nice ), and super quiet.

[@raven4k998]

@@ozreshef5182 but can it run crysis?🤔

[@soundofsingleslbz]

i have been using mine now for about 5months and it is running great as a htpc. ( N100 16g ddr5 512gb ) I have given it a little more juice in the bios from max 15w up to max 25w and that made a quite big performance boost without getting too hot or loud. And you also need to adjust the ramspeed up to 4800mhz from 3200mhz when it arrives. No malware or other shit was found on my ex.

[@johnroberts2905]

Should be fine. Run Kodi on one, also a couple of dedicated game servers.

[@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

[@avoidthevo1d]

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.

[@jake_hyo]

If you didn’t say it, I would’ve

[@lucutes2936]

Who

[@StarCo11]

The left 4 buttons, are they a WASD kind of?

[@Saneful_insanity]

I believe these are popular for fighting games now?

[@iamperplexed4695]

If it takes that kind of learning curve, then it's still a bad product for laymen.

[@mekacrab]

I'm pretty sure the bumpers and triggers buttons on the leverless controller are placed correctly. Normally the third button from the left is supposed to be Heavy Punch (in Street Fighter) and Heavy Kick is below it, so on a controller it would indeed be RB and RT I think.

[@thewarriorofice]

The shoulder button localization is the best for fighting games. Normally, heavy punch and kick are mapped to the R1 and R2 buttons, so it makes sense putting those next to the 4 face buttons.

[@mindinversions4487]

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

[@volvo09]

I would get SO confused by it.

[@griftgfx]

They're not intuitive, but they're very good. It only takes a couple hours to train the muscle memory and then bam, it's now intuitive. People seem to forget that game inputs weren't always universal. WASD and the Xbox pad aren't intuitive to people who have never used them before either.

[@tekidtheblack5946]

No, those are more for people who are serious tournament players in fighting games. The average person is better off buying or building a standard fightstick, which just uses standard arcade controls

[@MRNo.8]

This "pad" is just arcade stick🕹 with stick swap into a wasd isn't it? Or arcade stick is out of fashion🎮

[@griftgfx]

@@MRNo.8 Pretty much. There's some additional care taken to make sure you can't simultaneously press cardinal directions (for tournament legality), and the bottom movement button is actually "up", emulating how a lot of keyboard players play fighting games.

[@pranayaadhikar1]

05:40 Dawid, just press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open task manager instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del and then clicking task manager

[@dmo848]

Never knew this

[@kamX-rz4uy]

@@dmo848 Me too. I usually right click on the taskbar to select and open it.

[@KizXii]

what i do is pin it on my taskbar lmao and just have it open 24/7

[@some-replies]

​@@KizXiibut it uses like 0.7% CPU!

[@KizXii]

@@some-replies a price to pay for convenience

[@Rspsand07]

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.

[@pegcity4eva]

It says 350 on the steam website.

[@avoidthevo1d]

Dawid just casually insulted the entire FGC and the community of Hitbox users Sidenote: obviously there isnt any "offense" taken its just a joke

[@bligh1156]

I've been gaming since just after the dinosaurs died off and I don't know what any of those things are.

[@JT-ry5ei]

@@bligh1156 Exactly, people in a comparatively small community acting like this is some world wide known thing is insane.

[@MaoMavo]

I always thought he could test these shitty pcs for fgs since even new one dont need much power.

[@StarCo11]

I like it though 🥰

[@Gio98art]

Oh no. All 12 people

[@dionelr]

You need that quote on a Tshirt, "Anything's a gaming PC if you lower your standards enough".

[@maxnum1sgameclub263]

The fossil called pentium 2 on my attic will agree with you xD.

[@AMDGBananaBen]

Oh Dawid found a Haute.. that's a great find! It's kind of taking the Fighting Game Crowd by storm, as it's a good alternative to the more expensive stick or hitbox options (also pretty nice for arcade play as well). The main blessing is the cost being extremely reasonable and also very portable =)

[@chanm01]

It's a leverless fighting game controller, Dawid. Now you have to do an in depth expose piece on the west coast competitive fighting game scene.

[@nextnomura]

It's a leverless fighting game controller and the layout designed specifically for fighting games like Street Fighter and/or Tekken, it's really popular among FGC right now, definitely not for all other genre of games.

[@CFWhitman]

Leverless controllers are hard to get used to because they don't operate as one might expect. To use one properly, you have to use your first three fingers and your thumb for the directions, your thumb being 'up' in the intended layout. If you can get used to it, it works. If you just can't, then you are better off using something else. As a disclaimer: I haven't used the new leverless controllers, but I have used other controllers that you similarly have to get used to a complete paradigm shift to use, so I understand the principle.

[@straybricks]

The last time I was this early, Dawid was still recording the name Linooooooooooode

[@dotxyn]

_Looking at a Power Point presentation_ Dawid: This is borderline a usable gaming experience

[@KSPRAYDAD]

What i'd reallyy like to know is if a: the bios is compromised and b: can you do a rull re-install of windows without having to get drivers from some sketch as hell website?

[@robertd7275]

I have a similar mini PC to this one and the windows install was sketchy as hell so before I did much, I reinstalled a clean windows install. Microsoft had all the drivers needed without going through the manufacturer. My bios seemed fine and I found some alternatives to flash onto it but never bothered.

[@19CD91]

You could always use command prompt to dump the drivers from the ssd to a flash drive.

[@francois738]

I've got one of these myself. Same casing, same N100 CPU but with 16GB RAM and it came with a 512GB. I reinstalled Windows on it as soon as I got it, but Windows 11 had no problems with any of the hardware so no specific custom drivers needed. It's actually a pretty decent performer for light tasks. Just obviously not for gaming - I use it as a PC to remote desktop to so I can kick off downloads and a few other things, it's low power and ideal for that kind of stuff. As for the BIOS, not sure how to check on that. But I have checked my firewall logs and there are no weird outbound connections appearing in my logs at least :)

[@Bareego]

Windows 10 and 11 will install all needed drivers, same goes for Linux with not too old kernel. Everything works, ethernet, wifi, bluetooth. I recommend though either running a cut down version if Windows 10 or Linux, Windows 11 really slows this down.

[@brianrussell7369]

"It's so cute and little!" Is that what she said, Dawid? 😆

[@BowsettesFury]

FATALITY

[@Chasm9]

I've never actually seen 100% CPU utilization in-game (no shaders building). The power of Celeron. I still have nightmares from 2003-ish and Celeron 2. They were famous for combusting and being crap even then. Edit : oh I didn't know you have such CPUs guys 😳

[@TrusteftTech]

My i7-4710HQ gets 100% CPU utilization, though partly because of thermal throttling. At least I think it is reaching 100% as I am too depressed to check it lol.

[@НААТ]

My 7600x gets close with my modded cyberpunk. 90% at the worst😅.

[@MrCed122]

That thing is actually very similar to an 8th Gen U class i7, it's using the exact same cores as the modern i5 and i7, it's just using exclusively E-cores and no P-cores. Microsoft themselves are using a slightly better version of this CPU (the N200) in their Surface Go 4 and it's so much better than the 10th i3 they were using in the Go 3, at least double the performance.

[@SilentDawn4004]

My i5-8600k does that quite a lot

[@Chasm9]

@@НААТ I have 7700X and a 4090 and it's true the utilization is really high in Dogtown 😳 but not that high.. what mods do you use? 🤔

[@joakoc.6235]

maybe not for gaming, but for a tv PC this thing is perfect.

[@MrCed122]

I have one of these. For casual computer stuff, it works really well and the Ethernet ports are 2.5Gb if I'm not mistaken. It can apparently run Wii U pretty well on Batocera, but I've had no luck on Windows to do the same. For less than $200 CAD, it's actually pretty good for pure emulation and I've used it multiple times to do things that take days since it's so energy efficient (like download a 1TB torrent or converting hundreds of songs and videos into a new format).

[@MrSkeptikos]

I have the older model, based on an N5095, which is lamer :-). I use it as an NFS server and plan to use it as a NAT box. It is hooked up to my main TV and I play media from it. I can watch 4K KZbin videos on Windows perfectly, although it skips too many frames on Linux. For these uses it is an ideal machine. Dawid did not show the bios options in the video. For my version at least, it is surprisingly feature-rich. If you buy one check the thermal paste. In my case, it was pretty dry.

[@Ultimatebubs]

That thing would be awesome for digital signage. So, maybe it's a "Gaming PC" if you're an ad executive or a fast food shop owner playing the "Maximum Profit" game?

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

Too bad this thing has more than 4 GB of RAM, and probably no XP drivers either...

[@eTiMaGo]

I bet minesweeper runs smoooooooth on this

[@fificuisine2005]

OMG! 😂 I'm dying! 6:39 is pushing it for a good time. 🤣 You got me good with that one! 😂 😂 😂

[@108kitsune]

I would be very excited to see some traffic analysis!

[@matthewharr6372]

same

[@The_Extron]

Hey, this is the exact machine that replaced my Raspberry Pi as a home server. Intels N100 really is great for these applications, e.g. as a NAS, Homeassistant server etc. 👌🏼 Obviously running a headless Linux though, so the 3 HDMI ports are a bit wasted in my application.

[@sumabich721]

The arcade controller is actually called a hitbox clone and it's really good for fighting games. In fact it's probably the best method for playing fighting games if you're competitive. And the L/R thing is the same on even the most expensive arcade sticks. Overall yeah, I'll have to "ackshually" you here, cuz this controller is quite nice and I'd love to have it myself.

[@actuallyusingmyrealnameher5061]

I have an N95 version from Amazon, 16GB, 512GB SSD, does everything it needs to do as a replacement for a fourth gen I7 with a similar level of performance and is good enough for PS2 emulation so happy days.

[@JohnRock14]

5:22 not the first time I've heard that 😅

[@raven4k998]

I love how windows chokes the life out of it not good for it having any power left to do anything else🤣

[@brandon_gb]

I recently built my first pc and then my sons. Your content was a major factor in my learning experience. I appreciate your entertaining and very informative videos. Thanks

[@Illumina_Blade]

Those weird Hitbox style gamepad is for a very niche group of fighting game players, it only makes sense in the context of you wanting the tiniest competitive advantage after spending 500 hours learning to use the thing.

[@DissipatedTire]

500 hours !!! Looks like a diff type of keyboard to me, so i thought maybe it would be ez to get used to after a week or two.

[@eldibs]

That thing would be great as a control box for multiple screens and/or USB devices in a commercial setting. Low power, plenty of HDMI and USB, easy to tuck out of the way, and redundant Ethernet ports! It could also be an excellent media console PC if it can do 4K video playback comfortably.

[@Bareego]

does 4k video fine and youtube at least 1440p fine, I found youtube 4k it depends a bit on the video.

[@Uyuzefe]

My fridge is a gaming pc too, it has a screen on it

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

I mean, if it has screen and some kind of cpu it can run doom, soooo...

[@SpoonHurler]

I can play tic-tac-toe on a forehead... so is my soon-to-be ex friend also a gaming pc?

[@WirrWicht]

At least it has some real cooling power..

[@jonathannovak132]

if it can run Skyrim then thats all you need lol

[@zeberto1986]

Can it run Crysis?

[@arthurs7882]

On a very serious note, one of the things these miniature PCs demonstrate is the thermal and spatial benefits of having an external power supply. I can't for the life of me imagine why my Mac mini has an internal power module as opposed to literally them just shipping a 65 watt MacBook charger. I'm not doing anything that would hit a thermal envelope, but imagine if the unit itself could be 10% smaller and this would also probably realize cost savings as they're making millions of those power bricks anyway

[@projectbbeats3327]

Nice for the alien 👽 pc to make an appearance in the background 😅

[@BowsettesFury]

It was there last time too

[@ozreshef5182]

I got this PC but the T9 Plus variant, for HTPC for my parents, It's doing greate job with that. The N100 gets 1140 points at cinebench R20, at only 69c ( nice ), and super quiet.

[@WhiteG60]

I have 4 of these exact same PCs. I bult a 4 node, N100/16GB RAM/512GB nvme/dual 2.5G LAN OpenStack cluster for about $700. It's really unbeatable for a use case like that. It also played Hades just fine @ 1080P in Windows, so you CAN play modern games on it.

[@JT-ry5ei]

Good to hear, I was considering getting something like this for traveling so I can play lightweight games like hades and terraria so this might just be what I'm looking for.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@JT-ry5ei Get yourself a N100 laptop, these are just as cheap and have a screen (and battery). Just dont get expensive ones, no point getting an expensive low-power computer.

[@Zysperro]

@@JT-ry5ei You might want a N97 mini pc for games, it's about 20% more powerful for the same price (just be sure it has DDR5, not DDR4), or better yet a 4500U/5500U (it should have two slots for ram) - it's a bit hotter and chunkier mini pcs, but the gaming experience would be a lot better.

[@WhiteG60]

@@Zysperro Yeah, the iGPU is almost double the clock speed. Same amount of EUs (24), but 1200mhz vs 750mhz. That said, in the mini PC bios, they generally come set to 3200mhz RAM speed. I know mine came with 4800mhz ddr5, so you can change the clock speed to 4800mhz (or try for higher?) and it helps a lot, too. The bios is pretty unrestricted and you can set custom TDPs in there, so you could, in theory, match the N97 in terms of wattage, but not sure if the iGPU would clock up to match.

[@Zysperro]

@@WhiteG60 3200 MHz ram is DDR4, 4800 is DDR5 and anything above that is LPDDR5. You can't change the type of memory you have, the boards support only one. And you SHOULD NOT change bios settings on these things, the only thing safe (usually) to change is the pre-set TDP values. Gaming performance on DDR4 is pretty bad, since it's only single channel, DDR5 is structurally kinda dual channel even with one stick, so you get 50+% performance on DDR5 vs DDR4.

[@Iam_Dunn]

I think by ‘gaming’ the manufacturer intended for this to be used as an ice hockey puck. “Keep ur stick on the ice, Eh!” :)

[@jeffreypaul9428]

PubG kind of looks (and plays) like Tomb Raider from 1996.

[@darkholyPL]

That controller is called a 'hitbox' and it's not based on any old hardware. It's a new type of arcade controller, that quite a few people like. People play in fighting game tournaments with those. It's a very steep learning curve, but it has it's advantages over a standard joystick (as well as it's disadvanages obviously).

[@TekMerc]

I've actually never tried a hitbox. I imagine I would find it as intuitive to use as Dawid honestly.

[@Shelby_Arr]

So, the reversed shoulder buttons on the controller has to do with the standard Xinput layout for fighting games. In a six-button game like Street Fighter, RB/R1 is typically heavy punch and RT/R2 is typically heavy kick by default. Because the top row tries to be light-medium-heavy punch and the bottom light-medium-heavy kick, they organized the buttons around matching that default control scheme. This way, if you've been playing on a standard controller and want to switch to a stick (whether a standard fightstick or a leverless, like what you got), you don't have to reprogram the controls for it to work with the game out of the box. With regard to the controller having buttons instead of a stick, and the utility of that, there are motions that are fundamentally faster or more precise when you don't have to travel through neutral the way a fightstick does. I'll point out that Tekken, though a 3D game, makes a major distinction between down+back, down, and down+forward. Pressing any of these plus one of the attack buttons can bring out three completely different attacks.

[@CoolTI-Daniel]

Those little things are great PFSense routers... or even little retro emulation devices. It also works as an old people home PC.

[@nadtz]

Not with realtek nics, much better to get the ones advertised for pfsense routers, don't think I've ever seen one that didn't come with intel nics (for pfsense).

[@CoolTI-Daniel]

@@nadtz Yea, I know that the Intel Network cards are far far far superior. I have seen some of those cheap devices with PFsense run great, but also many others crash and need multiple daily reboots when paired with Gigabit internet... Usually they work fine if the ISP is up to 400Mbit. So I agree, but for 120$... it should work fine for some specific not too demanding environments.

[@nadtz]

@@CoolTI-Daniel If you are already spending that much it just seems to me to make more sense to spend a bit more in case in the future you go up past300/400mbit. Realtek cards do work a lot better in pfsense/opnsense than they used to but considering how bad they were that's not really saying much.

[@Bareego]

in summer I head to the local library aircon as they have free wifi there as well. I used to take a laptop but I find the screen and keyboard annoying. So this perfectly fit the bill, mounted behind a 24" monitor and wireless keyboard/mouse. People have no idea how zippy this machine is for web browsing, you can have like 20 tabs open and it's still just chugging along.

[@MATTP545]

Honestly it seemed to hold up alot better than I expected.

[@eldithd7635]

I never post comments at all on YT but just wanted to post this to hope get some eyes on/some more info about the Haute. I feel like you didn't give the haute a fair crack it uses the gp2040-ce firmware one of the most customizable and open source bits for custom code to make the Raspberry Pi Pico work as a controller pcb. It has a web interface mode which gives you access to rebinding keybinds/pin remapping through your pc's web browser as well as led colour themes and reaction led colours, hotkeys setup shortcuts and so much more. (Meaning loads of people use the gp2040-ce firmware to make there own controllers and even a large range of accessible controllers for physically disabled gamers as they are so open source/customizable) I feel like its was so hand waved away by lol can't read the manual (which is a fair comment it is dense but with good reason) "I can figure it out" and then go to bring up issues about stuff that you didn't know were that way for a reason/ were in the manual. The left and right issue "not registering" isn't a issue its a SOCD cleaning setting (Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions) you can switch what mode the scod mode is on and on the LCD you can see it is currently set to SOCD-N which is Neutral cleaning meaning not opposing cardinals will register when hit at the same time. Some of the modes are Up Priority SOCD Cleaning Neutral SOCD Cleaning Last Win SOCD Cleaning First Wins SOCD Cleaning SOCD Cleaning Off (these are modes that are useful for different games or for certain fighting games as tournaments have Rule sets as to what SOCD modes can be used) The All button layout is more for fighting games as apposed to other games due to no anolog inputs (thoe can still be used in simpler games) Its layout is like that of the WASD keyboard layout or the ASD+ spacebar keyboard layout you where trying to stretch to two buttons that are set for the same input (W or space in keyboard layouts are set to Up/jump in fighting games input), (which is shown on the screen when you are showing it off at 13:10) When talking about the shoulder buttons your meant to lay your fingers across all 4 buttons on the top row and rest your hand meaning you only have to move your hand up and down the controller to access the top or bottom row. (not everyone does this but its can be lest strenuous for some peoples hands) You are right in that way are the shoulder buttons that way IE flipped left and right (old arcade stick) however its also been kept that way due fighting game short cuts being mostly on the R1 R2 bumper/triggers on a controller so makes more sense for them to be closer to the middle of the haute as they will get more use so more centralized on the controller. I just kind of wish you did a bit more of a deep dive on it or looking more into what it was you were getting instead of hand waving it all away and being shocked it didn't have a arcade lever.

[@RCmetal11]

FGC people are wild man, dude felt the need to defend an Ali express controller so badly he wrote a book about it.

[@GrainGrown]

*you're

[@andrewroes7942]

@@RCmetal11 Hating on people for the sole reason of having passion is something I'll never understand

[@KoleckOLP]

N100 is not a Celeron it's an "Intel Processor", also it's not terrible it can do some fairly impressive 720p gaming while pulling almost now power.

[@remainsmemories626]

5:40 you can press CTRL+Shift+ESC to open task manager

[@areurdytoparty]

thanks now I have a virus

[@HungarianDerrickRose]

@@areurdytoparty then try Alt-F4

[@_Ekaros]

I love how you are actually testing most popular games... Even if most of them are jokes...

[@lucianoaguero6795]

Dawid using a fightstick he's not familiar with instead of a controller is crazy.

[@johngleeson7919]

1:57 Mocking the current doesn't mean anything if we don't know the voltage. You could have 2.5A @ 110V, and that's 275W, or 2.5A @ 220V for 550W. Both of which would be quite a bit of power.

[@denisprilepskiy745]

You instantly need to inject 4090 into it!!!

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

How?

[@cl00x3r]

@@Michael-Archonaeus it has pci express storage so its possible

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

@@cl00x3r Well, that would certainly not fit in the case, so you would have to make a new chassis for it then. Would be cool, but the non-upgradeable RAM and terrible CPU would be a serious bottleneck.

[@denisprilepskiy745]

@@Michael-Archonaeus I'm sure Dawid would handle both problems with ease :)

[@hopmajibhohepeajibho7595]

eGPU?

[@badnewsBH]

Surprisingly good results for that little box. I wouldn't want to steer my character without a d-pad either, Dawid, but the buttons on that Haute controller sound good.

[@First-Name_Last-Name]

If it can play games like Minesweeper and Solitaire, it can be called a gaming PC.

[@JerziTBoss]

One thing I would be concerned is possible malware packaged into the PC. Outside of that it would serve as good Chromecast replacement with option for game streaming.

[@thebizzle413]

Dawid buys a lever less and doesn’t know what it is.

[@cesarand02]

Fightpads like that, for the most part, are meant for Tekken. I modified an old keyboard I have to have that layout. Takes a bit of practice but eventually you do get used to it and it works really really well

[@YOUTREXPRO]

His video is hilariously entertaining and useful 😂❤

[@iamperplexed4695]

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[@god7771]

Lol, this controller was made exclusively for fighting games and it makes sense in them. There are also several input modes for it so you can change the way priority works. It is a pretty cool controller if you will try to learn how it works and how to configure it.

[@gojosatorushorts]

Now install a GPU in there

[@arcadeguyceej6805]

Watching Dawid dunk on hitboxes made my entire week.

[@oceanforth21]

more like fail to understand how to generally apply the use of one. and also complaining the he has to reach while using the extra up button instead of the thumb one that was meant for that, so that you don't have to take your fingers off any of the movement buttons? yeah that really made my week

[@dr.balance3377]

that controller is a Hitbox, used by many competitive players and even considered cheating at some point lol

[@シミズルリ]

what's so cheaty about a board with buttons?..

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

​@@シミズルリ Absolutely fantastic ergonomics, is what. Doing motion inputs with ridiculous precision and speed.

[@dr.balance3377]

@user-xe6sm4jv8f easier and precise movement inputs. you can also do up+down or left+right, which is normally imposible

[@andrewroes7942]

@@シミズルリ The funniest thing is that every hitbox user will agree with you LOL wild that some people wanted to ban it

[@jammo7370]

God this takes me back, did my middle school gaming on an awful 4th gen i3 that could barely run dota, and the pubg experience was about what was shown in the video lol

[@OldManBadly]

I would actually be interested to see how that does driving 4 1080p Monitors. I have a weird feeling it is popular because it is used to drive restaurant menu boards.

[@volvo09]

Probably perfectly fine with windows graphics and not too many animations. I ran 3 1600x1200 monitors on a 2nd gen i5 integrated graphics with no issues whatsoever, the modern integrated graphics is probably perfectly capable of exactly that use case as long as it's not overloaded with simultaneous complex animations on each display.

[@OldManBadly]

@@volvo09 yeah, where i live electronic menu boards are now the standard for any new place, and I suspect there are a lot of PCs like this working hard behind the scenes to make it happen.

[@Flymonster0953]

My school chromebooks have the N100! it's a godsend compared to the previous chromebooks we had

[@cynthiacrescent]

All I'm getting from this is PubG is a game made by people who paint their walls with lead for fun.

[@raven4k998]

well if your running windows on it yes🤣🤣🤮🤮

[@GrainGrown]

@@raven4k998 *you're I see you struggle with English.

[@some-replies]

"dawd used the controller wrong!" Dawid: "ooo tiny baby lcd!"

[@fullcircle6107]

i like potatos

[@thomasengerie1912]

Nice to mention a n100 is quite powerful for a home NAS to run linux which only uses 6-12w :)

[@_SoraFPS_]

48 second no views DAVID fell off

[@MrPDTaylor]

Who tf is DAVID?

[@supershadic530]

Good thing this is DAWID, not DAVID. DAWID would never fall off.

[@theadmjg]

​@@MrPDTaylor He fought Goliath, I think.

[@volvo09]

BOOOOOO Lame

[@Hikari_to_Yuri]

David Guetta. He makes music, or so I've been told.​@@MrPDTaylor

[@zenny1884]

That tiny thing actually more powerful than my laptop 😂

[@satomitrinity9096]

the hitbox controller is used by certain people in the fighting game scene. though the joystick versions still heavily dominate the market. those kind of controllers though are more for niche players who know their way around that kind of thing

[@plaguedcat4868]

Dawid buying that leverless fightstick thinking it was an arcade controller is like an some random dude buying a graphics tablet thinking it was a fucked up iPad 😂😂

[@BBolloBB]

13:30 eeee actually Dawid it's designed for fighting game standard hitbox layout

[@DonaldWyman]

a little dedicated emulation box seems like the perfect use case for this little PC.

[@reduxThe1]

"Unassuming little package" is my name in the bedroom.

[@grimzkunk]

7:11 Each time I hear reviewer says these 10 to 25fps are unplayable, I always remind myself how some of us in the '90 early '00 were playing Unreal, Quake 2, Halflife, WC3, at these low FPS because we did not have enough RAM or CPU horsepower, or slower HDD (old 5400RPM fragmented drives) always trying to close win apps before launching games, using TweakUI or modifying games .ini to win 1 or 2 fps that was making hell of a difference! Even when upgrading GPU back then, you were not adding that much FPS. We were battling for the 30fps, as opposed to now, battling for 60fps, and 120/144 to match our monitor refresh rate 😄😄

[@cmdr_stretchedguy]

Hard wipe the drive, check and clean up the bios, then load OPNSense and use it for a small home firewall.

[@Odder-Being]

While you where bashing this little box, it actually is build very well including the cooling system.

[@Zenda_Nior]

"Everything is a gaming PC today if you lower your standards enough" - Dawid, that has to be quote of the year.

[@David-yx3bd]

Just a reminder Dawid: You, and I, are not average gamers. The average gamer has no afterburner, no FPS tracker, and will never go into settings. Ever. So while I love the top 5 games on steam approach because it's better than the approach of hand picking demanding titles and calling that fair, realistically you also want to never touch the settings. I build PCs on the side and get to see the buyers play test them a ton. You know what they do when they start up a game? Nothing. Download it. Install it. Straight into it. They let the game pick the settings for them. Sometimes that's a bad idea, but more often than not it actually works. And they never realize the game could look better, or worse for that matter, because that's all they know of it is what it looked like when they turned it on. And that's why the steam charts are the way they are for hardware. The average gamer will not upgrade until the game they want to play physically fails to launch or their $200 prebuilt (or $150 mini-pc) dies. And as you've proven time and again, if you just want to play a game? You really don't have to spend very much. So I can 100% seeing this little thing being a massive hit, it'd be even bigger if it was sold at say Walmart in the electronics section. Cause it lets people game, and while you or I would go yeah that's 20 FPS, what is that? If you've never known anything better than 20 FPS? You aren't going to notice.

[@Underskore]

The hitbox is a pretty standard layout, it's used for pretty much just fighting games, even the original hitbox goes rt, lt

[@luheartswarm4573]

The pad came with a singular extra switch? How generous!

[@gtijason7853]

It looks like to the right of the fan connection there are pins for 6 wire LEDs and on the other side an unpopulated 4 pin for an LCD screen. Could make for a fun custom mini PC project

[@andrewroes7942]

Yeah no those controllers are VERY much meant for fighting games in specific. This actually seems like a REALLY good one, it's just the button layout is meant to fit fighting games, where X, Y, RB, LB, are light punch, medium punch, heavy punch, and a macro to hit all 3 punches (same with the lower buttons for kicks instead of punches). Since it's emulating a joystick with the directional buttons where it is physically impossible to hit opposite directions at the same time, that's why they cancel out here. Also, having that up button above the down button in a WASD layout is actually a way to make it more user intuitive, as this controller type typically has up on thumb in a way that is both much more comfortable and also insanely less intuitive and takes a ton of getting used to. It seems this controller has both. These type of controller are much more niche than joystick based arcade controllers, so it makes sense to want a joystick for this more, but it fits that niche very well and gives a great best-of-both-worlds between controller and keyboard for people who like the precision of the latter, as well as great for accessibility for people who develop RSI playing Smash Bros Melee with a gamecube controller lol