The Best WORST Mini PC Ever Made!?!? ... DON"T Buy This!

In this video I unbox, demo, and review the HIGOLEPC Mini PC which has the coolest design for a Mini PC BUT totally FAILS at EVERYTHING!
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[@ArmandoBergancini]

I purchased the same minipc, I can tell you that I solved the problems you encountered by changing the settings on retroarch, using the native frequency of the monitor and using directx 12. Other emulators, such as mame and dreamcast work well at the moment I haven't tried anything else. HI.

[@ianfrancis3605]

Yeah, using some brains would address his concerns on performance. He could have tried Linux as well.

[@3t3rn41_]

I was about to say. This sounds like a settings issue. Not hardware... these aren't meant to run full ps5 games. If you're smart, a tiny emulator and a few roms will run FLAWLESSLY. But plug and play clowns know nothing more than someone selling out.... It sounds like a RTFM type deal.

[@Xbox-ni1ri]

Your videos are helping me a lot. Is there any way to play 2 player lightgun games like model 2 the house of the dead on the batocera?

[@MobileDecay]

I keep talking myself out of buying this. I keep imagining putting Batocera on it and velcroing it to my bathroom wall with one of those tiny 8bitdo controllers sitting on top of it but it doesn't take me that long to drop a deuce. Lol.

[@RetroGamingGuy]

lmao wait until you get a little older. You can skip the Metamucil and just get a mini pc to occupy the extra time.

[@MobileDecay]

@@RetroGamingGuy I'll probably beat the Legend of Zelda on the can by the time I'm done. 😂

[@kevinhanley6462]

There's more than one thing that's affecting it's performance. The SSD is heating up and being on the motherboard will increase the temperature, with inadequate cooling. The CPU isn't running very fast and that's why you're waiting around for KZbin to initialise. Maybe by going into the UEFI and increasing the graphics memory will help it a bit. If you can increase the fan speed and don't have it on dynamic could help.

[@RetroGamingGuy]

Good info. I ended up sending it back today. I didn't want to mess with it too much and risk not being able to return it

[@kevinhanley6462]

@@RetroGamingGuy You did the right thing.

[@Xedhadeaus]

I was cruising eBay for mini PCs and this came up a few times. As you say, looks great, but it's too expensive for what it does. It's basically a chromebook with enough ports to make them blush, but at the end of the day, a celeron isn't going to get too many demanding tasks done. I own a few celeron computers, one I put back to windows 8.1, and the other is a chromebook. I use both for media consumption and not too much else.

[@ccricers]

I'm surprised by the bad performance on those 8-bit and 16-bit emulators. I have a mini PC for emulation that uses a older Celeron and it never was this bad, plays up to Dreamcast (Redream) well. Did you use the same PC to record the live stream footage?

[@davecoppenrath]

Hey just watched a bunch of your videos. I have the original kinhank. X3 console. All I like to do is play snes jrpg games but the graphics Arnt as clean as the real snes. Do you know a better emulator that has cleaner snes graphics?

[@latinoc4513]

I was gonna buy this. Thanks for the video amigo

[@RetroGamingGuy]

Glad I saved you the headache!

[@knutzoinsane8564]

Did you play with the developer options?

[@kntwing23]

do u have another device look like this but cheaper price? dont have sd card slot?

[@PatousMcGillicuddy]

I love devices like this; I've had a thing for the Ockel Sirius A for years. The problem with PCs like this is the Intel processor: they simply run too hot. This device with an ARM processor would be more successful.

[@MegaManX7]

Thats really a shame because it looks freaking cool! So rare to see you not approve a product thats crazy! A toaster can run sonic the hedgehog and this thing cant wow

[@RetroGamingGuy]

Yeah, generally I stick with the top of the line brands so the reviews are generally good but I ventured off the grid with this one.

[@shaimx8857]

i guess the emmc storage holding the full potential of that device.

[@feekes]

Where I see it's usefulness is with Kali Linux and protocol testing for network admins and engineers.

[@AlsacienHyperactif]

You should buy the new Higole F9B7. The n100 is twice as powerful as the n5095 on most benchmarks.

[@dindunuphenwong]

Every day that a dollar or more is saved by the godlike acts of Retro Gaming Guy is a good day. Just one of his old videos is saving me hundreds to possibly, probably/inevitably, thousands of dollars! No amount of video game lag torture will stop me from watching a Retro Gaming Guy video. 😇

[@ilkeryoldas]

Looking forward to this one.. design looks great but heard that it overheats and underpowered. I wonder if the new version they recently came up with solves those issues.

[@RetroGamingGuy]

Definitely a cool design but fails miserably everywhere

[@ilkeryoldas]

​@@RetroGamingGuysuch a shame.. looks like they have n5095 on the Higole 2 pro

[@kikkizhou]

​@@ilkeryoldasnow we have n100

[@ilkeryoldas]

@@kikkizhou yes thank you found it on AliExpress

[@paulseitz3671]

does fl studio work on this thing ?

[@user-vd4el1zr9t]

I had my eye on this but im good. Would have been nice for a quick recue pc but yeah im gonna stay away... lolz

[@nectronx]

🙏🤔 OMG, I almost bought this on Amazon, fortunately I chose the orange Pi zero 3 4gb ram version and a 7inches touchscreen ips monitor (way way better for retro gaming or other projects) ... Now I know this is a total failure. thanks

[@NM-qd3tm]

For anyone watching this is the future and is planning to buy this specifically for a emulation box, I can assure you this is more than adequate for such a task. The issues here in this video have nothing to do with the PC and everything to do with settings in the emulation software. This is a quad core from 2021. You're telling me it can't run SNES games in an emulator? Come on. This device should be more than adequate for emulation, basic web browsing, etc. I've seen a guy playing Resident Evil 5 on it at almost playable frame rates. There's 0 chance this can't emulate 40 year old consoles if you fix your settings lol.

[@RustyX2010]

This would have been cool back in 2010.

[@RCfromtheNYC]

I'm very surprised by the results of your testing. That CPU is more than capable of handing syatems up to PS1. I think the CPU is throttling due to the poor/non-existent cooling system, which intern affects the RAM performance. I felt like sending you a mini-drill to make vent holes for the heat.

[@RetroGamingGuy]

Yeah I would have dove in further to this actually but I didn't want to ruin my chances of a return.

[@tomevil6]

I wish I had seen this before I bought it! After hours of doing a factory reset, I sent mine back for a refund!

[@Tristinfate]

Don’t buy it…..But it’s only $239 today on Amazon for the version with 16gb 256gb. So I couldn’t help myself 😅. Just realized I received the GOLE 2 pro, I guess they updated it.

[@brassmunkey8020]

I think a N100 version would be OK. I have the J4125 version, its not great.

[@RetroGamingGuy]

I've used N100 elsewhere and it was ok.

[@kikkizhou]

f9b pro is n100

[@bobtheagent99]

Yes I agree that's a waste for $300+ you can build something way better in a small/micro form factor.

[@MyChannel-vm6dw]

You lost me at Celeron CPU

[@RetroGamingGuy]

I've had a rule for myself to stay away from celeron but I made an exception this one time due to the screen. I should have stuck to the plan haha.

[@MyChannel-vm6dw]

@@RetroGamingGuy Mate, I like your channel but putting a cool screen on a Celeron CPU based system is like putting 20k rims on a POS Kia.

[@ricardocavalcanti3916]

I can play cs2, and my mini pc is the version before this, You didn't use your full potential

[@kntwing23]

with that $ u can buy a phone ?

[@theunholyguitaristofficial]

Dawg, please turn that intro down

[@yaboynook5865]

Or maybe turn your phone down 😂

[@theunholyguitaristofficial]

@@yaboynook5865 My volume on my computer was at a reasonable level. It's just loud and obnoxious

[@Curryking32000]

I'd sent it back and get your money back as its not fit for purpose.

[@ianfrancis3605]

For what he wants to do, use a blooming phone!

[@shaimx8857]

i guess the emmc storage holding the full potential of that device.