The Beelink EQ12 Ft. Intel's New 0.8GHz N100 CPU

[@icxcarnie]

I’m impressed that it even produces frames per second, as opposed to seconds per frame. FSR, Fidelity, and DLSS are a Godsend. This is a really neat machine, thanks for sharing.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks for watching, it’s definitely helped by upscaling for sure

[@Typhy7]

Well not DLSS because Nvidia decided to be assholes and made it a proprietary feature only available to their RTX cards, whereas FSR is available for every GPU out there. But yeah, upscaling technology in general is a huge game changer.

[@StrixWar]

@@Typhy7 but dlss being exclusive to Rtx cards makes dlss look better and get similar FPS as fsr

[@Typhy7]

@@StrixWar The difference is miniscule and you wouldn't even notice when playing a game unless you specifically look for it and the FPS increase is exactly the same. There's really no reason it should be a proprietary software. Nvidia just likes to bullshit about how DLSS requires specific hardware.

[@D3nsity_]

In person DLSS performance looks like FSR quality

[@Tommy-T448]

This chip consumes 6W, its performance / power is straight up incredible. It might not be viable as a desktop, but as a low power x86 server, it'll do just fine.

[@tqian86]

Exactly. This is really intended to be a "thin client" or a low power server.

[@diegoleiva7242]

I'm thinking whether AMD has any APUs in that uber-low power draw segment today. Anything with Vega graphics even with single channel could be better. I'm loving this tiny CPU anyway.

[@Ignacio.Romero]

Pretty sure the steam deck at 6w would perform better

[@zeronin4696]

You can set the steam deck at 3W powerdraw tho

[@MoultrieGeek]

You're right, it would make a fine low-power Plex server as long as you don't need multiple transcoding streams.

[@Joske_]

The fact it runs modern games at actually somewhat playable framerates (for some definition of "playable") at only 6 W TDP is insane.

[@dickkickemthereckoning7425]

shows you how hopelessly lost the market is now. its like the pentium 4 days all over again. pumping more and more power and more GHZ only gets you so far

[@rafi6618]

7 year old i5 U series with 15 watt tdp + gt 900m series can't even do those things , the technology has improved a lot

[@purplegill10]

I remember way back in the day about this one guy who ran a blog trying to create the most efficient PC possible at the time. It's funny that the 3550 and 3770 were mentioned since he used a 3570k processor and went all the way down to 4w of total system power. It was by no means a good pc, but the fact that it even got some rendering done was incredible. That's also not mentioning how he had to rip off multiple components of the motherboard taking up "unnecessary power"

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

This didn't sound familiar until the removing components part. I forgot the processor and whatnot but remembered the desoldering stuff. This was a strange era of PC modding due to how hot and loud they got. At the time Silent PC Review guys were cutting holes in their cases with tin snips for air flow and suspending platter hard drives with rubber bands to damper their vibration. Even fans had mods because fan control wasn't there yet.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 airflow is still an issue with many modern cases. Glass is pretty tight.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

​@@HappyBeezerStudios Sure. But back then there were few options. The breakout Antec P180 case that introduced concepts that are now common was a product of collaboration with Silent PC Review.

[@FFXfever]

​@@dycedargselderbrother5353it also doesn't help that ivybridge motherboards range from 20w to 50w depending on what component was on.

[@tackier52]

I think it would be cool if you tested some 2D and Isometric games using this, like Hades, Battle Brothers, Vamp. Survivors. This machine would shine playing simple games at full HD rather than demanding games at very low res.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

You forgot terraria, you numpty.

[@Incognito-gh5qi]

Bump

[@Kraven83]

Good thinking

[@TheLastLineLive]

Yeah, I don’t think anyway is expecting much from this playing Cyberpunk but 2d indie games should be fine, right? And testing emulation would be interesting as well depending on the console.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

@@TheLastLineLive Yes they should work, but we want to make sure.

[@spronklez]

Whole whopping 0.8GHZ.. still better then my first experience with a pc somehow 🤣

[@FintanMoloney]

I remember when I got my first Pentium 133 Mhz PC and thinking it was amazing. Not long after 166 MMX came out and I so wanted that. By the time P2 233 came along I was like I need a way to get one of these. Its a nice one here that this little system starts out at 800 Mhz - very old school !

[@RudolfSikorsky]

Well, my first PC was based on 25mHz 386 and few years later my Pentium III reached 800 mHz. So yeah... i really can't see what's the point of this utterly confusing processor. I have i5 4460 lying in drawer which is probably better than this.

[@GraveUypo]

well my first experience with pc was on a xtpc that has what, like 2mhz or something? so yeah. this is better.

[@rainbowbunchie8237]

@@RudolfSikorsky in terms of latency probably, but likely not lightyears ahead in actual throughput. he's running this jank on the integrated graphics and holding even this little fella back. It's trippy how much IPC has advanced. That being said, my 2500K is my go-to for a gpu test bench.

[@Mirra2003-f9s]

Let's be honest,this CPU will probably only sit at 800mhz if it just idles with nothing in the background. It's most likely turbo boosting to do anything

[@keech100]

Every other tech KZbinr - "7800X3D is great for power efficiency" RandomGaminginHD - "Hold my beer"

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha “I heard you like power efficiency” 😂

[@dusk5927]

There's also a new chip named Intel Core i3-N300 which is a 8c/8t cpu, clock up to 3.80ghz but it is the first 8 core i3 cpu ever I think. The igpu instead of 24EU 750mhz like in N100, the i3 N300 has an igpu with 32EU 1250mhz, should deliver significantly more performance. What's weird to me is that both cpus support only single channel ram.

[@steph_on_yt]

Single-channel is cheaper, that's why lol. DDR5 is far more forgiving than DDR4 as well. Dual-channel used to be mandatory for decent performance.

[@judasthepious1499]

is it an SOC also?

[@dusk5927]

@@steph_on_yt That's cool. I thought ddr5 single-channel vs dual-channel would make as much of a difference as ddr4 single-channel vs dual-channel.

[@ZipplyZane]

@@dusk5927 It would double the speed of the memory, but I suspect that there are diminishing returns the faster your memory goes.

[@abhimaanmayadam5713]

That 32 eu igpu looks like the 11800h igpu

[@liarus]

This little machine is obviously meant to be some kind of homeserver with it's low power cpu and dual Ethernet ports, really impressive to see what it can pull off outside of that scenario

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Dual ethernet port is nice, but there isn't much to add additional drives on that small machine.

[@ConfusedStu]

Thanks for including the Cinebench result. Seeing this match a desktop Ivy Bridge i5 really surprised me and brought home how usable this modern day Atom actually is.

[@nathanddrews]

$240 w/8GB, $260 w/16GB. 24 EUs Intel UHD graphics. Dual 2.5GbE ports. This would make for an incredible DIY pfSense router or even a tiny Plex transcoding server. I'd love to see how well it emulates games and if it can handle full speed Mupen64+ Parallel emulation, specifically.

[@Quast]

You'd still be better off buying a 6 year old tiny Lenovo business machine with a 15 watt processor, except maybe for the games... but still, don't expect too much from the 24EU iGPUs...

[@nathanddrews]

@@Quast That's gonna depend on need. As a pfSense router, the dual 2.5GbE ports and low power consumption are killer. As a Plex transcoding server, the UHD IGP is actually amazing thanks to Quick Sync advancements. Likewise, as a HTPC, this thing has AV1 hardware decode which is insane. The N100 single core performance is within 5% of an i3-7100T and Ryzen 2200G while operating around 6W. As with most IGP/APU setups, performance is going to vary depending on single vs. dual and DDR4 vs DDR5, but it's clearly the weakest link in this machine for any new games.

[@Quast]

@@nathanddrews Yeah, I should have been more specific, I was thinking more in the direction of the i5 Intel CPUs.... 12/13th gen we entered territory where I would start to find a i3 acceptable. But if you need 2x 2,5GbE then probably there is barely another choice.

[@nathanddrews]

@@Quast I'm starting to see those SFF office PCs selling under $150 with 8th and 9th gen i5 CPUs. Combined with an RTX A2000, you're not going to get a better mini gaming rig, that's for sure!

[@Quast]

@@nathanddrews I mean, p/p relatively new used workstation graphics cards aren't yet there where I would like to see them. But for sure, that will only take another 2-4 years till that changes!

[@RunfisherRS]

It used to be so that you only had to watch out not to get a Atom, Celeron or pentium if you wanted a reasonably fast computer, but now we have the ‘Intel Processor’

[@fungo6631]

And now even those aren't terrible. 2009 netbooks chugged even on games from 2005, while this thing runs somewhat recent AAA titles with decent performance. You're basically getting PS3 levels of performance in netbook form. And remember that COD games on the 7th gen consoles ran at slightly more than 800x600 (880x720 to be precise).

[@andystech101]

It seems to perform exactly like an Athlon 3000G in both cpu and gpu performance! Quite impressive considering ❤

[@xPandamon]

Not sure if it's that impressive considering the Athlon 3000G is already a few years old. It obviously has much lower TDP than the Athlon, but it also shows in the percent lows which are just awful here

[@jorge69696]

I'm sure the gpu of the athlon is faster.

[@kazuhiramiller2121]

3000g can do a little better than that

[@builder396]

@@xPandamon I wouldnt give too much of a crap about the TDP. If I took the Athlon and tweaked the firmware to 0.8 Ghz base clock the TDP would probably also be in that realm. The base clock determines the TDP, when boosting this chip will most certainly take more than 6W, but the assumption behind "low power" CPUs like this is that they will only boost for momentary spikes in workload and then go back to essentially idling, because in many cases cooling and power delivery is simply unable to keep up with the CPUs power demand and heat output for more than a few seconds. But a low TDP makes the spec sheet look juicy for laptop manufacturers, even if its highly theoretical.

[@sneg__]

@@builder396 obviously moving to a newer manufacturing process increases efficiency by a lot, so what you said is straight-up wrong. TDP *can* be misleading, but not in the way you described.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

Nice, I always liked Mini PCs.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Me too!

[@ELECTROHAXZ]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the dual NICs. My first thought was it would make a great router, firewall, or VPN appliance with OpenWRT or pfsense.

[@hateWinVista]

Yeah, that's pretty much the intended uses for these low powered processors. Slap Proxmox or ESXI onto it and that's a great home server.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

I looked at the spec sheet preparing for the worst, but, nope, they didn't cheap out on the NICs. They're 2.5 Gbps. I'm in the market for something like this and it's really ticking the right boxes. Even has WiFi for a potential all-in-one solution. Price isn't bad at all for what it is, especially if you've shopped the devices that usually come up in these conversations like those from Netgate and Ubiquiti. Looks ideal for the Proxmox + OPNSense + PiHole kind of thing.

[@SweBeach2023]

Yeah, it was my initial thought as well. The USP is clearly the dual NICS along with the very low power draw. I have a tiny PC similar to this one and it draws around 3 watt at idle/doing network stuff.

[@alencani9973]

It would be interesting to check how it would perform as a router running openwrt with sqm.

[@ELECTROHAXZ]

@@alencani9973 I agree, and openwrt with openvpn and maybe wireguard performance, as well as just making sure it can actually route a gigabit.

[@Choralone422]

For a basic email or light web surfing box it does pretty well. May have a .8 Ghz base speed but turbos up to over 4 times that! I'm not surprised that Intel is dropping the Pentium and Celeron branding. The Pentium brand has basically stood only for entry level ever since the Core 2 days in the mid to late 2000s. Celeron has basically stood for just barely usable since the Pentium 4 days. Sure, both names were once used in legendary products, but not for many years.

[@Quast]

Don't think they can hold the boost clock for too long. Depending on the cooling used in some models you can hope for a couple seconds of max. GHz. Usually you topping out due to the thermal restraints.

[@johnellis3383]

Wow, I never thought I'd see a cpu that clocks in below 1 ghz again. That turbo boost is insane though, more than 4x over base clock!

[@philtkaswahl2124]

I'm loving how many of these small boxes are going all in with the shiny red button.

[@shayanthis]

Love your reviews of these tiny systems. They always perform way better than I expect

[@Armi1P]

Thank you for including a comparison for old architectures. Manufacturers always boast about IPC and efficiency gains compared to previous generation, but seeing that this cute thing almost beats an old i7 is just mental.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thank you, and Yeah it’s crazy how things are progressing.

[@vadergb]

What a surprising set of results. This looks as powerful as my micro server but uses loads less power. Great vid

[@Remi_Jansen]

using this pc as a minecraft server right now, even with 8 people on it, it works beautifully! hovering around 75-85% cpu useage and using only 12 watts, amazing little thing to run 24/7!

[@janemba42]

Stuff like this is why MXM GPU's never should have gone away.

[@Typhy7]

You should try connecting an external GPU to it. Would be quite interesting to see just how much that CPU can handle.

[@Exponaut_R-01]

What a terrifying first impression of a base clock speed… and it does significantly better than the laptop Celeron processor I used to own could every hope to.

[@logicbewithyou111]

that 360 at 2:50 was so cool for no reason.

[@josephoatman5600]

Thanks I always enjoy your notifications! 🎉

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thank you :)

[@oscarmike47]

never thought id see similar power to a i7 3770 in such a small package. really impressive how far technology has come.

[@floppa9415]

This makes for an amazing home server. With x86 you just get so many more options than with the usual ARM sbcs.

[@dmetalpsy98-48]

This might make up for a great DIY router or NAS drive with that low power consumption and dual LAN ports. Great device, great video🙂

[@titans2720]

actually seems like a good deal, my dad still uses some old handmeown 2010 office pc he got for free from his job and it takes like 5 min to even just turn on but seeing this thing can play games like that even if they look like shit is pretty impressive and its only like $250

[@MetaDude]

Get your dad an ssd please

[@sgtpatton]

wow thats crazy! the power packed in these little packages nowadays are insane

[@RunfisherRS]

500K Subs and truly deserved it.

[@MTN1601]

This is the gaming phone future because the higher end core i3 n300 has 8 cores and has similar performance to snapdragon 8 gen 2 while consuming 4 watts less, they could used that 4 watts to inprove further ipgu performance, they could put iris xe from the 9w cpu (eg: i7 1250U) in and it’s the perfect cpu for mobile

[@WayStedYou]

Intel: hey lets throw away decades of branding Also, intel: wow, what a great idea!

[@steph_on_yt]

Modern and Celeron and Pentium branding was associated with utter trash that would chug the moment it encountered anything more demanding than Google Chrome. Ditching the negative branding was a decent move IMO

[@mr.dingleberry4882]

@@steph_on_yt I personally always associated Celeron with embedded CPUs used for servers like pfsense and pihole due to their extremely low power consumption. Pentium was always an office-grade CPU in my head. However I think that we can all agree that "Intel Processor" is utter garbage of a brand name. Yeah no shit its an Intel processor, so are the units from the Core and Xeon lineups.

[@steph_on_yt]

@@mr.dingleberry4882 the new naming is bland, boring, and vague. Welcome to the future. Rumor has it that the next iPhones will just be called... the iPhone. Go figure.

[@infinity2z3r07]

Pentium (from Greek pente meaning 5) just fancy name Intel gave 5th gen x86 cpus after the relatively boring 8086, 286, 386, 486 naming convention. Pentium had extreme mindshare in the 90s. So extreme it lasted 30 years haha

[@MarkTheMorose]

@@infinity2z3r07 Intel discovered that they could not copyright '586', so created a name that they could. Thus Pentium was born.

[@zollyy]

Honestly would be great to see how this runs PS2 emulation? would be great to see if you could include that in your next one.

[@HyperShinchan]

Eta Prime made an emulation test with a mini PC (MoreFine M9) that uses the same N100 and it seemed to emulate the PS2 decently enough, it was running at 60fps with 2x scale. That mini PC uses DDR4 though, this one could be able to get some slightly better performance in emulators that are GPU-bound, like in CEMU, so it would be interesting to see some tests.

[@FintanMoloney]

Nice little machine. I am a little sad however that Intel is dropping the Pentium / Celeron brand naming. I guess I'm just old and remember them since the start of my computing days lol

[@steph_on_yt]

Kids who grew up with cheap Celeron Chromebooks probably only associate bad things with that branding. I get why they dropped it honestly

[@mr.dingleberry4882]

@@steph_on_yt I get what you are saying but "Intel Processor" is certainly not a better brand name. Its generic, obvious and potentially confusing, as all fuckin processors from Intel are "Intel processors"

[@steph_on_yt]

@@mr.dingleberry4882 I never said it was better, I just explained the rationale behind why they dropped it lol

[@FintanMoloney]

@@steph_on_yt I agree. The Celeron didn't exactly have a good reputation from the start and even in modern times it just came across as cheap.

[@mr.dingleberry4882]

@@steph_on_yt I think that rationale would make no sense though. People are at least familiar with Pentium and Celeron and they segmented the products properly. Btw I had not realized until now that I replied to the same person in two different comments lol

[@Anas7ergun]

As a guy that still uses an atom 330 as my media center and server, seeing those machines make me more open for an upgrade.

[@steph_on_yt]

E-cores are the spiritual successors of Atom cores, which would make for a fitting upgrade

[@gateopssss]

I remember the good ol' 2015 days i used to own an HD 6450 pushing 40-ish FPS on 720p in GTA 5. Nowadays you grab this tiny little PC box that holds an iGPU doing the same. I don't even wanna talk about ryzens iGPUs. It's amazing to see all this progress quite fast!

[@Carnyzzle]

The name change for the branding is definitely so people don't think that they're buying a cheapo cpu lmao

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Could be haha

[@merlin704]

With these type of systems, I would like to see you do some early 2000s games like HL2 or Doom 3 for example.

[@ukeyaoitrash2618]

If it runs gta V that well it'll run those for sure!

[@SOF006]

I don't know how but its somehow blurry and pixelated at the same time, normally the blur makes it hard to see the pixels but I can see both. Now thats an achievement....

[@NexTDesigns]

Those games running decently on a device like this is very impressive

[@406Steven]

I've been really curious about this CPU, I was thinking about buying one of these just to play around with. This is much better performance than I expected. It would be nice to see it USB-C powered rather than taking a wall wart but that's a minor complaint.

[@Phambleton]

Just so you know it's very very low end. It can barely run W11, it's not very stable with this OS. I'm probably converting mine into a router due to the 2x2.5G NICs.

[@406Steven]

@@Phambleton Good to know. I generally build a custom ISO so I can strip most of the bloat from Windows installs and that helps a lot with CPU and RAM requirements but with Microsoft positioning themselves to go to a subscription for Windows I'm giving Linux another look. I don't care for Linux but I think the writing is on the wall.

[@Phambleton]

@@406Steven As we speak I'm trying out Ubuntu, then running a W10 VM on there

[@Phambleton]

@@406Steven So the EQ12 has a few Wi-Fi driver related issues on Ubuntu. The Intel AX101 driver doesn't exist yet for this platform, and I've tried using a USB Realtek Wifi dongle but no luck. There might be a future update on Beelink's page but it's not something to rely on. However, the dual 2.5G ethernet ports work great! It seems a device like this is optimised to be used as a router/VPN/firewall - perhaps using Proxmox then making a pfsense VM

[@SkyBROrion]

I'm at 1:01 and dying laughing at the fact that the specs I just read and you're words "And of course, gaming. Even though it's not meant for that." made me instantly reply "Dude, I bet that thing'll even run World of Warships and Eve Online..." lmao

[@thedudely1]

It's definitely helpful that it's DDR5 memory, but it's only 4800mhz and single chanel, so it's still slow for vram. The lack of hyperthreading and the similarity to ivy bridge performance per core also makes me think these are pretty similar to the E cores in the bigger chips. It's been interesting recently seeing x86 chips attempt to reach ARM efficiency. This seems like it's practically an Atom CPU.

[@Gamingomad]

Good as Always Good Content! With beautiful thmbnail pics I ever Seen!❤️❤️

[@givmetehsucc]

I'm very interested in this CPU, would you be willing to use an External GPU to really see what the cpu can do?

[@garrin1220]

It'd be cool to see how this cpu performs with emulation.

[@KyleRuggles]

My thoughts exactly! :)

[@MarkTheMorose]

@@KyleRuggles Yes, we need RetroGaminginHD...

[@felipe.b.felicio]

I have the predecessor processor, Celeron N5105. It runs up to PSP/3DS emulation. Won´t run PS2/Gamecube and any newer console. But retroarch and old 8-16-32 bits systems runs prefectly fine.

[@neurobioboy]

Thank you for reviewing dirt-cheap products like that. For around 250€ in my country, this little thing is absolutely not ridiculous! Sure on the second-hand market, you may have something more powerful with a dedicated GPU... But the size and power consumption of this puppy is awesome! My GF who is not a gamer and just needs access to email and Word for remote working might even enjoy a little bit of light game to indy stuff (like life is Strange, and a few super cool narrative games that do not need power horse to run). Cool little PC!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

For desktop use and light gaming this is still pretty oversized. I'm doing most of my daily tasks on an old Core 2 Quad machine, that is noticeably slower. And the only reason I need a quad in it is because streams can be surprisingly demanding.

[@bumbaclot813]

Neat little machine. I'd buy it for a dollar.

[@gabrielv.4358]

For 5 dollars its worth it.

[@supremacy98]

This system has a cpu that clocks at a speed equivalent to speeds of higher end cpus from years ago, running at a wattage a tenth or a fifteenth of the power of most cpus, with RAM faster than most PCs and a size that I can fit in my pocket but barely. What an insane system, but can get easily redundant

[@DaBombtasi]

This machine would be the perfect homelab base. NVMe for IO intense stuffs, 2.5" for mass storage with a laptop HDD, 4 cores, fast rams, more than enough, but expensive.

[@uglybob7505]

Ports-a-plenty on this little box of fun. Love seeing these extreme small factor computers, thanks for sharing 🙂

[@ayush0477]

This is so incredible for normal daily work.

[@ZzxOPTICxzZ]

Crazy system. Can think of many games (although older) that would be perfect for this little machine.

[@raketiiicek1948]

cg for 500K

[@aaz1992]

When your RAM clocks twice as high as your CPU 😂

[@SpaceGamblerJR]

that Mini PC might be great for emulation.💯

[@busterscrugs]

I was still using a 3570k up until recently, crazy to see that cheap tiny pc's like this have finally surpassed that level of performance!

[@socialrejects1959]

See you in the next video make a fan for a while and make some really good content. I appreciate the focus on the budget market.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks for watching :)

[@tjmbv8680]

That would make a nice router with the small size and dual nics.

[@thanasisanagnopoulos9265]

Some visual sacrifice is the understatement of the year xD

[@blakegriplingph]

tbf most modern processors especially lower-end ones downclock to that frequency when it's not under load anyway, hence why Intel simply markets the N100 as running at up to 3.4GHz without listing the base clock.

[@chillgamerCL]

Finally a honest review in youtube! I think i will buy it for a friend gift! I hope it can run overwatch 2

[@vertujoe2886]

It's whoopingly 200 MHz faster than my 2000s Coppermine Celeron. Technologies really progressed these years 👍

[@karman2020]

Thanks for the review, I wonder would it be able to play 4k youtube videos?

[@SeñorDossierOficial]

Is the 3DS emulation good on the n100? No sound crackles and such?

[@chuckwow3302]

Hey could we get a GPU-Z screenshot of this baby PC? I want to see the shaders count, etc. Thanks in advance!

[@carlnauwelaerts4802]

Thanks for the N100 review. I have a few of these mini PCs with 6 Watt 4-core Celeron and Pentium N3000 Apollo Lake and N4000 Gemini Lake series, and they are geat. They consume almost nothing: At full load, my 4-core N3450 Celeron mini PC consumes 12 Watt maximum at the power outlet. 🙂 I mainly let them do scientific work for the World Community Grid project, to find cures for diseases. And they do finish work units rather quickly. I am also going to miss the Pentium and Celeron brands... but if I'm right the lowest end of the Core-I series are also called Pentium and Celeron.

[@hafsafaizi]

Is n100 good for light uni work??

[@POKEMANZZ3]

slight correction, intels statement on the celeron and pentium CPUs was specifically in regards to Laptops, the desktop cpu lines are unaffected. for now...

[@SirGingerOfKnight]

Unless there are missing CPU features (which I doubt), with twin ethernet this'd be a great PFSense router on a budget!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Efficiency is surely good, but it needs that turbo boost to even reach the minimum specs for any Windows of the last 15 years. Performance is pretty good for something that small. Considering that is basically a quad of the Alder Lake efficiency cores, that is quite impressive. And those Skyrim results show that it can run games up to maybe 2010 good enough. Would clearly benefit from a stronger iGPU. The CPU part is strong enough, and depending on how the power management between the parts is balance, that little thing could be even better.

[@DaiAtlus79]

i could see these being used for things like cheap bolt-in office PCs, HTPC applications (with things like Steam Link or Limelight added for in-home streaming from your main rig in another room from the den). good cheap family school/work pc for sure.

[@KYSMO]

I know that it's a 10 year difference, but the fact that this performs like an i5 3rd gen approximately is absolutely crazy.

[@default1647]

I will like to see this CPU with egpu :)

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah for sure will be testing that soon

[@chuckwow3302]

@@RandomGaminginHD Hey could we get a GPU-Z screenshot in the meantime? I want to see the Execution Units count, etc.

[@felipe.b.felicio]

They say it has 25% better benchmarks than it´s predecessor, the Celeron N5105. I own a N5105 and I can handle daily tasks easily. I use MSoffice, GIMP, Davinci Resolve, and internet. The computer runs smoothly and runs 4k videos. I use it with 2 FullHD Ultrawide monitors. As for games, I run more than 400 indie games on Steam perfectly, not to mention emulation till 3DS/PSP. It can´t handle PS2/GameCube but it is an awesome retroemulation station with retroarch. Games that I handle with no problem: Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, CupHead, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and new vegas, into the breach, final fantasy 1 till 10 (X-X2), Starcraft remastered, Command and Conquer remastered, Age of empires 2 HD, Age of Mythology,, Dead cells, and every visual novel and adventure point and click possible.

[@ruffdrafter]

Did you purchase this or was it sent to you/sponsored?

[@mate4fun612]

how du u get up to 1500MB Vram for the Intel UHD Graphics ?... pls tell me

[@steve9094]

It's really neat that this chip can handle these games at all with such little power draw. Jeez though, the graphics looked like a mess with those low settings.

[@fungo6631]

The CSGO part aged like fine milk with the CS2 upgrade. You're now stuck with CS Source.

[@wass77]

can you add another ram stick to squeeze more performance out of it? neat little machine tho thank you for sharing as always

[@neoqueto]

4 cores is now ultra-low-end. Wow. Time flies.

[@steph_on_yt]

E-cores, baby! I'd much rather have 4 E-cores than 1 P-core lol

[@CriticalCentrist]

Systems such as these were not meant to be running any type of triple a title and instead are meant to be in office cubicles, bank desks, management offices in retail/restaurants All while being a part of a larger domain group performing tasks such as logging into that domain, emails, conferencing. Not every system sold is a gaming PC

[@r34ztune11]

Cinebench R20 scores may suggest near i7 3770 performance but the gaming benchmarks with GTA V pegging the CPU at 100% all the time kinda make me think this CPU has some limitations that aren't exposed by Cinebench. I used to play GTA V in 2015 on a Phenom II X4 at 1080p 30-40fps low and that thing wasn't always hitting 100% usage.

[@steph_on_yt]

These are essentially modern Atom cores. No HT, reduced cache and ISA. They work great for parallelized workloads, but you'll probably want full-size P-cores for gaming and single-threaded applications

[@PCartCast]

The cores only boost at 3.4 in a single threaded situation, the all core boost is lower than 3.4Ghz.

[@PCartCast]

@@steph_on_yt These are Alder Lake E-cores, so 12th gen.

[@pcislocked]

this cpu would make for a great power efficient pfsense box

[@stekent3177]

i know its not what this channel is centred around but i always wonder how well little machines like this will do for emulation

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

I have the Alder lake based Pentium G7400 in my living room computer that is for the family. It might be the last Pentium ever since they since have stopped using the name. I proudly put the Pentium sticker that came with the CPU on the case. I think it is amazing how it can use only 20W at max and the entire computer only is cooled by a 80mm case fan and the free CPU cooler and yet it never gets even close to hot. It is about as powerful as an i5 from a decade ago.

[@PileOfEmptyTapes]

In fact, it looks like the Pentium G7400 ought to edge out both an i5-7600 and i3-9100, so we're only talking *6 years* ago. Extrapolating from my experience with the i3-12100 (which by itself handily beats an i7-7700K), package power should come close to 30 W in the worst-case scenario of Prime95 small FFTs - which is still not much in the grand scheme of things, of course. You should be seeing sub-1 W idle package power, otherwise check whether C-States and ASPM are all enabled.

[@kekistanifreedomfighter4197]

Crazy how it matches the performance of my old i7 3770 with 1/10th of the power draw.

[@charlesburris6314]

800mhz was once a monster to those of us who knew Tandy and Linda. These days, though, it's definitely not a gaming rig.

[@ElVid]

please test this cpu a bit more, with a varity of older games pre 2015 i think this is a very interresting cpu, The N200 and N300's are looking very Interresting too with the slightly better gpu, for esports and older games they might suit perfectly

[@steventechno]

This would make an emulation box honestly.

[@lee99bay]

We need more low end mini pc ❤️🙋👍

[@topkek5378]

do you know whats actual power consumption from socket during CSGO?

[@kevinhansford3929]

Wonder how well it would perform running headless as a low power plex server with a 4tb hdd attached via USB?

[@greatwavefan397]

This would be great as a homebrew router...

[@SpeedyGoneFroglegs]

If it was like $100 I would agree. This thing costs more than my entire network.

[@Freddie1980]

Any chance you could try and get your hands on the Beelink SER5 that has a AMD 5500U processor and compare it to this N100 based machine (there around the same price)?

[@damightyshabba439]

Without doubt that was a good review, but I just skipped over to a certain retailer named after a river and could not find it. You didn't give basic stats; ram, HD config etc? Also... a CPU that boosts from 0.8 to 4.+... has that been tested? Sounds shadey! No matter that, a very impressive little box.... if I can find one....

[@bobbymoss6160]

I wanted a new web browser/video viewer to replace my current Lenovo laptop that's crapping out. This will fit perfectly with the low power/performance ratio.

[@wilberthernandez7887]

It's impressive how far the pentium-celeron low power Intel CPUS have gone