This is the WEIRDEST PC I've ever seen.

[@heclanet]

There is a trick to lower consumption that usually works. On the power, processor options, lowering the maximum to 99%, that will prevent it from doing the Boost

[@TechExploresNYC]

I encountered a sandy bridge mobile i7 that has issues where it cycles from boost to throttle, setting to 99% disables boost but also improved performance by eliminating the throttling.

[@OnTheRocks71]

You may also be able to do a little reg hack to get the processor boost options to show in that same menu (disabled, aggressive, etc) if they aren't already there. I did that on my ryzen laptop before I discovered GHelper.

[@arivaldarivald3212]

AFAIK this board is based on PS5 or XBOX devkit. They had processors without graphic, they have devkit board, so they made some money on that.

[@DustySeven7]

yep, its the xbox one x board. they had a lot of extras that did pass microsoft standards and made boards like this for emeded use cases.

[@meckerhesseausfrankfurt4019]

@@DustySeven7It's not Xbox, but Sony. This also explains the frequency behaviour, because Sony is all about throughput and low latency.

[@leap123_]

@@DustySeven7 He (Hardware Haven) specifically mentioned that the motherboard uses recycled PS5 APUs so no, it's not an Xbox One X board. Yes, both uses AMD CPUs but why would Xbox uses recycled PS5 APUs?

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@steezykane4738 define "better parts", it's the same APU from AMD, but with more cache on it

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@steezykane4738 I'd say the reverse is obvious. Most games that on PS5 run at 120fps run at 60 or even 30 on xbox. Ray tracing in games that run fine on ps5 tank performance on xbox. Same for display resolution, on xbox raising resolution to 1440p tanks performance, on ps5 it's not a big impact.

[@jonjohnson2844]

The edits about the PCIE lanes were seamless lol

[@Rottstein]

four!

[@whophd]

FOUR

[@baoquoc3710]

My dad is FOURTY FOUR

[@gabrielv.4358]

This is basicallly worse than a POSITIVO COMPUTER LOLOLOLOL

[@i7-3770k]

@@gabrielv.4358 brasileiro momento?

[@allenellisdewitt]

I wonder how much of the problems are actually it's power supply?

[@HardwareHaven]

I saw a lot of similar power draw numbers from other reviews, so I doubt much.

[@Oyashiro_Chama]

@@HardwareHaven I mean if they are all the same manufacturer, its likely all using the same crap PSU. It could be a low efficiency PSU that is lying about ratings.

[@blahx9]

@@Oyashiro_Chama 85 watts has to be going someplace. if it wasn't leaving the PSU i bet you could feel it in heat out the back.

[@KokoroKatsura]

a n i m e n i m e

[@Justgreen89925]

a lot for sure, that red switch on the back gives it away (It indicates the presence of a Passive PFC and not an active one) that means that the psu is absolute garbage

[@jburnash]

Definitely WEIRD ... but also ... definitely interesting!

[@HardwareHaven]

Which is my favorite, haha

[@sebas0469]

​@Zentoro143 Members benefits when you support the channel by being a member.

[@cameronhobson]

When you become a member, you stay curious, and get access to a TARDIS ​@Zentoro143

[@xdyt2007]

​@Zentoro143 he knows things we don't

[@yoavschmidt7082]

Starting watching your videos a few years ago when you only had a couple thousand subscribers, amazing to see how far you've come

[@HardwareHaven]

Thanks for supporting me and helping make it happen 😊

[@0xKruzr]

big fan of wacky abominations tbh.

[@HardwareHaven]

Aren't we all?? (at least people that watch this channel, haha)

[@baoquoc3710]

@@HardwareHaven and saving old parts from e-waste as well, making a plex server is really tempting

[@he8535]

SOC would be the chip SBC would be the board in it's entirety

[@NetBandit70]

I would have liked to see some memory benchmarks. With GDDR6 it might have really fast memory IO making it a candidate for a standalone database server. But probably not.

[@ABaumstumpf]

There is a reason why there exists DDR and GDDR - NEITHER is any good at the job of the other.

[@ReflexVE]

@@ABaumstumpfThis really isn't true. GDDR has no real drawbacks aside from power consumption for general purpose tasks. It's typically faster than DDR in every way. The reason it isn't common outside of embedded boards like this is expense and tighter signaling requirements making it not a good candidate for slotted memory sticks. Even if you look at the memory arrangement on the board it's a radius around the cpu to maintain the same trace length from all chips to the integrated memory controller. It would have been interesting to see it's performance since this is not a configuration commonly available to consumers.

[@ABaumstumpf]

@@ReflexVE "GDDR has no real drawbacks aside from power consumption for general purpose tasks" And latency, and complexity, and bus-width, and cost and..... so on.

[@ReflexVE]

@@ABaumstumpf You stated it was not good for the same tasks DDR is. In fact for any task you are running it is higher performing than regular DDR. 16GB of GDDR will always outperform 16GB of DDR regardless of task. The drawbacks in terms of system building are immaterial for a pre-built system without upgradeable memory like this.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@ReflexVE GDDR's main drawback is latency, it's optimized for big transfers. This is not a huge impact for CPU computing but I've seen 20-30% figures cited. It's surely better to run a CPU on GDDR than a GPU on DDR, that much is beyond question. FYI all ram needs the same trace length unless you are daisy chaining slots or chips on the same channel, which you usually don't want to do unless in high density or crappy embedded

[@dasago11]

Sneaky little "four"s at 11:19, 11:25 and 11:35

[@MR.Peanut2]

@Zentoro143they are prob a channel member last I heard they get the videos days in advance

[@MenaceInc]

It gave me a giggle and felt like he was doing a bit

[@jaimefernandez2624]

couldnt be bothered to say four so many times.

[@peeboo]

It’s kinda bugging me, but the 11:25 timestamp is just a couple milliseconds off so I think that 11:24 would be a better timestamp to pick

[@1sonyzz]

4 by 4

[@jorno1994]

not gonna lie, i kind of want one just as a collectors item. such a unique board that is probably going to poof from the internet sooner rather than later.

[@HenriqueSilveiraSteinmetz]

This is my pc, I use this kit together with a RX 580 2048SP. It's one of the best value for money I've had here in Brazil. When I assembled it I paid less than R$1500.

[@ramarajgandhi3944]

In India done 4700s + GTX 1650 all other done with approx equal of 350 USD only

[@gtPacheko]

Less than R$1500? That's a bargain!

[@fxgamer-11yt]

you can tweak the power state by setting the cpu min power usage in advanced power manager

[@tutacat]

The CPU probably doesn't need C states for a PlayStation, just down-clocking or hibernating / other power saving

[@Vitium92]

If this system posts into TrueNAS without having a graphics adapter installed, the PCIe slot can be used with an HBA giving you 8 (or even more) SATA or SAS ports, up to 2 GB/s of total throughput from the PCIe 2.0 x4 (if there is not a bottleneck elsewhere and if I heard properly 😅)

[@winandd8649]

Yup,and then drawing 100W continuously for 24/7 😆

[@RedPillRachel]

@@winandd8649 2kWh Pb storage, 500W solar panel, you can run this in a tent. Why the fuss over 100W? My Pentium II's idled at ~260W, use it, shut down like turning off the light when you leave a room. Somebody who couldn't afford the latest 4090 and 64Gb and the latest Ryzen will find this cheap, and used, and then use it to make great original works, poking the likes of Starfield in the eye. Either that, or rags to riches is just a dream. Energy, that 100W, powers everything, and has, as you point out, a high idle draw, so just turn it off when it's finished rendering! Btw, my primary machine is the 2016 Razer Blade Pro, with desktop 1080 GPU and a CPU that does CineBench faster than this rig, it's disappointing seeing £2500 Razer models which are barely an upgrade, still. It feels like we are standing still, and living in a rentier society want to sit on their butts and keep raking it in on small lazy advancements, rather than innovating and disrupting each other. I think they agreed to do this, in all industries, tacitly or formally, it even has a name, 'designed obsolescence'.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

Perfectly fine if you live in a region where electricity is cheap, you live in a rented space where the landlord covers the electrical bill, the winters are cold, etc. 😉

[@gabrielv.4358]

This is basicallly worse than a POSITIVO COMPUTER LOLOLOLOL

[@cangel8563]

Interesting, a shame it has so many limitations could have been a cool options.

[@HardwareHaven]

For sure..

[@cangel8563]

Option* my bad

[@mmuller2402]

Typical china bootleg...Software is bad as hell bios broken forever 😮

[@GuruAndrePradesh]

I do have a board like that; I have installed OSX, Linux, and Windows, and now it’s in my living room running SteamOS

[@SuperM00b]

Does it still hold a high idle power draw on linux?

[@GuruAndrePradesh]

@@SuperM00b it does, between 65 and 77 watts when watching KZbin, Netflix, etc

[@Karti200]

As an used of this board some time ago If you really want to game on it, go with GTX 1080 or GTX 1080Ti, since even on PCIE 2.0 x4 (which this mobo sadly provides) loses only around 13% of performance while compared to x16. Used it exactly on Linux and i can say it worked nice. Also „cooling tip” since you cannot replace cooler - replace fan, exactly with the Ryzen „official” fan from their wraith cooler, fits perfect! I used the one with RGB ring :D

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

One of the biggest downsides of the low profile RX 550 cards is their cooling is designed to blow hot air inside the case instead of exhausting it at the back, which is the reason it uses a solid i/o plate instead of the standard vented one.

[@Choralone422]

There could have been some kind of use case for this board IF it would have had at least PCIe 3 I/O of some kind. The extreme lack of I/O beyond the CPU & RAM really kills it for me. PCIe 2.0 was ratified in January 2007 and became widely available later that year. For just about any board to be made in the late 2010s or in the 2020s to only have that be available is absurd!

[@Kalvinjj]

Only 4 PCIe lanes sounds like the kind of cost cutting thing to do for the APU on the PS5, since all it needs to do with PCIe is run the expansion SSD, graphics are built into it after all and the default storage is some complex built-in system. It's a shame this board doesn't include that super SSD hardware, but then again I bet the idea of this was to keep costs down.

[@smugwolff6828]

from my perspective of using an m2 pro mac (idles 0.02-0.6W power draw, highest peak i think ive seen was 43W and that was momentary before dropping back to 12W) this is like looking at new york apartment prices 111W idle is insane not even my old mac pro gaming pc conversion that now only exists for palworld and glaze hits that idle draw despite having 4 gpus and 2 cpus

[@asm_nop]

I wonder how this would perform for very specific memory-bandwidth constrained applications. The APU has enough shared memory bandwidth for both the CPU and GPU, so maybe the CPU could leverage more of that raw memory bandwidth? The PS5 has 448GB/s of raw GDDR6 bandwidth, which is equivalent to 10 channels of DDR5-5600 in raw bandwidth, but at a significant latency penalty.

[@harryhall4001]

You could attempt to change the CPU frequency manually under Linux. There are tools to set a different CPU frequency governor as well - basically changing the algorithm used to determine CPU frequency. I used to mess with these a while ago to improve laptop battery life.

[@icuke1]

Actually amd did something similar with Xbox One's APUs. They rebranded them as AMD A9-9820.

[@toonmares]

broo 100 vids, u did it!

[@HardwareHaven]

Woah yeah you're right! I hadn't even noticed haha Thanks!

[@toonmares]

@@HardwareHaven you're welcome, also for the past I keet watching your vids, they're awesome, please do some more homelab related

[@mc.the_machine]

Depending on price of course, I think it might be a great PC for music applications. It has fast CPU, and low latency audio tends to, at least historically, be a bit glitchy with CPU power state transitions. Conversely, audio applications have still not made a lot of use of GPU processing, so expansion in that direction would not make such a difference. Of course, you'd have to have good quiet cooling with it. Still, if it's very cheap for its performance, I think it might be a great system to use for that.

[@milescarter7803]

I've had the maximum clocks bug on my ASUS boards. The BIOS is defaulting to a max of 4096 Amps/Watts. And windows never downclocks it. If you can set it to a more reasonable 200-500w it would start working properly. It might take a BIOS mod if the menu option is hidden. Putting this in perspective, an H610 or B660 and a 12100F is 31% faster single core, which only winds up 21% behind on multi-threaded. So likely ahead in most real world situations. Especially if you consider the NVMe and x16 slots would be 4.0.

[@dogtooth4143]

saw a lot of this 4700s combo for sale for about 100$ recently

[@DIYDaveOK]

Wonder if anyone out there might have done something as crazy as baked a custom BIOS for it that might allow for optimizing power consumption...

[@treeoflifeenterprises]

i agree with your conclusion. i have a 5600g based system with 32g ram, nvme and spinning storage and it pulls 40W idling as a file server. I think the faulty on-apu based gpu and gpu cores are not fully disabled, and that is the cause of both the high power draw at idle, and the crashing. The fact you were able to boot linux without the external graphics card seems to demonstrate that, and the crashing was probably caused by software accessing those "disabled" faulty cores, which are obviously not really properly disabled.

[@myc0p]

Thank you for re-organizing these cables!

[@cloningpenguins]

The redubs at around 11:30 is great. Nice. I almost missed it.

[@revision386]

So well said. I agree just 1 thing away from having a usable purpose and not just e-waste.

[@rmcdudmk212]

That's a crazy system. I could see some cool use case for this machine.

[@HardwareHaven]

Crazy indeed!

[@rmcdudmk212]

@@HardwareHaven could be a cool machine for media playback. Or maybe running retro OS in virtual machines for shits and giggles. 👍

[@samadel.a765]

The edited FOUR just keeps jumping in my head and now I feel like someone might take it and make a sound effect out of it

[@Arek_R.]

PCIe slot is 4x because it was probably meant only for the NVMe drive on PS5

[@vng]

Use it to run SETI@Home during winter, helps to add a bit of warmth to the home and you can devote all the computing resources to some cause.

[@christopherdecorte1599]

Wonder if someone managed to mod the bios lots of features seem missing. That could change this from junk to useful if the power management could be adjusted or even enable some if the features that is found on average pc's.

[@Betonoszlop]

From the thumbnail i did notk now what to think. Thanks for revealing the secrets of this fine motherboard

[@ypoora1]

A really interesting little system for sure. The PS5 has at least 4 lanes of PCIe Gen 4 as it sports NVMe Gen 4 capability, so i find it interesting that the slot on this board is limited to Gen 2 and/or that there is no NVMe option on the board. It would be interesting to see if the GPU on one of these can possibly be coaxed back to life, i bet it would offer significantly higher performance than anything you can get through 4 lanes of gen2 PCIe, although getting drivers for it might be a show stopper. Also, it might just be... Missing some instruction set extensions. That might cause some of your performance oddness. As far as power goes, the PS5 runs on Linux, probably with a lot of kernel customization. Maybe one day we'll see it in "regular" linux?

[@boam2943]

The 4700s CPU only has a 4 lanes PCIe gen 2. If you search for "amd 4700s 8 core" you will find that information in the amd web site. Beware that there is a more recent ryzen 7 also named 4700s but seems to have 96 core.

[@leap123_]

The PS5 runs a heavily customized version of FreeBSD I think, not Linux

[@TryPr0x]

Yay, new video! also, in 2:08 it shows your back/front yard, is it gonna leak your address in someway?

[@HardwareHaven]

It's just the backyard, so it shouldn't be too big of a deal. Thanks for mentioning it though!

[@mk-wz2sh]

6:28 actually, the rear fan was installed correctly: it blew cool air into the case and into the CPU fan (and warm air was blown out by the PSU fan) :P

[@hydroponicgard]

First: Congrats on 200k subs! Second: Your personality n style of videos always makes me come back to your videos c:

[@DIYDaveOK]

Good stuff as always, sir! Thanks.

[@truneosprinter]

GOAT your videos are so entertaining so thanks for uploading lots🎉🎉

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

I'v come to the conclusion to not trust any PSU that isn't from big brand above 500watts

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

Had a cheap 350watt PSU that when system under load would cause unstable crashes and some things would work bad like game slow dows

[@baoquoc3710]

maybe if you found a scrapped case, put the board in and hey, it's great to repurpose the case! the case the board was in can be made for NAS centre as well as DVD host

[@Ali-Bee]

just looked one up on amazon UK... £685 for the same as you have there... Same case, RX550 etc. that's 685 POUNDS, GBP so probably close to USD$800. YOWZAAAA!!

[@lordofenron]

All your content is gold. Even boring hardware becomes interesting. How do you do it?!

[@OTechnology]

What's the memory bandwidth and latency on aida64? If it has a huge bandwidth it could be useful as an LLM server running on the CPU. The workload is memory bottlenecked always.

[@gamersplaygroundliquidm3th526]

Video editing problems were the 4x Pcie gen2 lanes , the memory bandwidth was really crippled and the reason for the gpu memory errors. It had the memory but not the bandwidth to access all the memory fast enough causing the error flag and crash

[@TrashPC_lol]

Colten Never Dissapoints! My man finds things I have never seen before, cool stuff man!

[@DigitalJedi]

I really like the idea of these boards. Hopefully we see some better-supported options in the future with either a more typical APU. Strix Halo might be an interesting thing to see on a future ITX/MATX motherboard like we've seen with the 7945HX and 13900HX.

[@MarceloTezza]

Hi, since this is the PS5 apu, what about using a liquid metal with a proper cooling and a proper PSU to see how much of an efficiency gain can be had, and retest it? I really like your presentation, i feel this apu deserve more love to understand more about it. And please dont forget to cool well the gddr6 memory also. Bios has no option to disable the igpu? Any possibility that some.softwares missunderstood what gpu was the target? Anyway, thank you!

[@typerightseesight]

Gotta dig the 90s style psu mount. lol. ftw, back then they thought about how electricity works and demanded the cpu be mounted as to be able to wave lengths its air into the psu so the voltage knob controller didnt doink out over itself. lol.

[@seanplace8192]

All I can think of that it may be good at is a HTPC, because those you typically don't leave powered on for more than a couple of hours a day. It's also a small board with good CPU power, and many old emulators are still CPU-based.

[@Ualik123]

could have tried to replace PSU to reduce power draw.

[@H4X0R_666]

that GDDR6 system RAM sure is interesting, I hoped to see some CrystalDiskMark benchmark of a RAM Drive, I also wonder if some of the weird quirks and crashes were maybe because of the GDDR6 RAM

[@JuanGonzalez-hv6vs]

Gold fry looks like he got into a fight recently.

[@anime_reference]

that case has front panel eSATA, lmao. probably sat in a warehouse for 15 years before the amazon seller got their hands on it

[@Kalvinjj]

Wasn't it the 5.25" bay thingy that had eSATA tho? Just a generic Aliexpress card reader + everything accessory.

[@5467nick]

It has a Ryzen Zen2 CPU. It definitely wasn't sitting around for 15 years.

[@baoquoc3710]

@@5467nick uh he mentioned the case definitely not the board, the old fashioned pc case that having features that like 10 people used

[@anime_reference]

@@5467nick the case has an esata port. the cpu has nothing to do with this

[@Junktown-Tech]

I take SNHU’s creative writing BA online program. Great and supportive school. I’m in my senior year and my advisor has had my back through it all. Tuition is very reasonable. Anyone being able to get in is a double edged sword, while accessible it also means that people who don’t give a shit get into performance/participation based advanced courses.

[@peteradshead2383]

85 watt on idle that is a lot , my ryzen 3950x on my x570 motherboard with a RTX 2070 super WAS the same on idle , Now I fitted a b550 motherboard 64gb ram ,ryzan 5700g , 4 * sata drives and 2 * nvme drives , my RTX 2070 , Proxmox , frigate with 6 cameras , 3 being x265 cameras , torrent , jellyfin , home-assistant , samba , windows 10 with the GPU , docker etc , water cooled , all on a idle at 55 watts , 8% cpu.

[@ibizenco]

The PC case looks upgradeable.

[@thomaslayman9487]

congrats on 100 videos !! 🎉🎊🎈

[@VastCNC]

I wonder with the gddr6 memory if it could be a secret beast for running local large language models

[@imeakdo7]

Maybe... Memory bandwidth is not everything

[@NiHaoMike64]

The small amount of RAM is going to limit AI use cases. Even 192GB (the machine I'm currently building) is "small" by AI development standards.

[@VastCNC]

@@NiHaoMike64 for development sure, but for inference I have no issues running llama 7b and Mistral on a 16gb M1 Mac mini

[@NiHaoMike64]

@@VastCNCAnd what if you wanted to go to the larger models? 16GB isn't very futureproof.

[@patrickdeunhouwer5926]

For me such a board would be a big upgrade compared to my old pc :)

[@t.s.8783]

Even when the radiator is turned in the right direction, the fan is to loud. you won't find an stockradiator for this kit. a possible solution for this problem ist a 80/120-adapter to use a 120mm-fan. an other option ist to use the fan of Cooler Master i70. If you can trust HWInfo and CPU-Z, the CPU can downclock. but the system still requires 100 watts.

[@applewizard32]

This is quite cool, I guess this opens the door to soldering a full PS5 chip with graphics onto this motherboard and flashing PS5 firmware and basically having a PS5 in a standard PC case for whatever reason you’d do that for. Maybe being able to dual boot

[@desdee7615]

Also better cooling

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

it doesn't, the xbox one/ps4 equivalent boards have been a thing for a long time too

[@ewasteredux]

I wonder how well this system would run a local LLM using something like LMStudio or Ollama. Since these are CPU bound on no-GPU systems anyway, it might be one use case especially with the very fast RAM.

[@HardwareHaven]

I didn't find out until after editing that, while GDDR6 has good bandwidth, the latency is terrible. So no idea how useful that would be lol

[@tomkraut256]

@@HardwareHaven I immediately thought of the bandwidth of GDDR6, and a quick Google search suggests that it might be close to 100GB/s on this board. AFAIK, latency is not really an issue in running LLMs, so this might be a killer low-cost platform for that.

[@alfblack2]

just realized. the high power draw might be due to the bad/cheap PSU. test with a top quality if power draw improves.

[@HardWhereHero]

This is not that unusual, I used to work with marquee signs and most of them ran on these weird SBC's that look very similar. They usually had some beefy fans thought to keep everything cool. Some of them can actually be upgraded depending on the board and bios version. OFC you need some decent soldering skills to do it but my brother and I got one up to 16GB a few years back and it wasn't even a board that was listed as "upgradable". There is a specific one that I want that has a embedded GTX 1050 ti with the ram and cpu soldered on to it. Thing would make one badass emulation / mame machine that would fit in a stripped out console case.

[@SortofGoodwithTech]

Congrats on 200k🎉

[@pavankeshavl856]

Snatched one of these 4700s kit for less than 200$ from a local vendor sometime in 2022 and I had a old 1060 lying around. Using it as daily pc for email/browsing. Extremely snappy i should say, starts pretty fast, Ms office and stuff is smooth as butter. You'd think the gddr ram latency is horrible but windows couldn't care less.

[@famousfighter2310]

Could modify the bios to help with the latency?

[@pavankeshavl856]

@@famousfighter2310 nope. Bios has no options at all, some folks at tech enclave forums tried to unlock bios, there is nothing to unlock it's a bare bones bios... There was a AMD chipset driver update last year which made the system stable before that it was not very stable and was crashing if I opened 10 chrome tabs, now it works fine even with 50 tabs + video in background. I have another gaming PC so dint game on 4700s.

[@famousfighter2310]

@@pavankeshavl856 wow that sucks. Pretty near hardware though

[@TheQuickSilver101]

It's a neat idea for a system. It really is unfortunate that it's not more useful for... anything

[@Techsnowball]

10:37 " frame times were buttery smooth" said that as he drops from 100fps to 62fps

[@madmatt2024]

It's really strange that the PCIe slot is only gen 2. The PS5 requires a gen4 SSD so what was that interface used for on this board?

[@guiorgy]

Keep in mind that PS5 used a proprietary solution for accessing memory made by Sony. I don't think this thing has it, or if it does, AMD probably isn't allowed to use it.

[@madmatt2024]

@@guiorgy I doubt that. You can stick any gen 4 SSD in a PS5 and it will work as long as the throughput is high enough.

[@_Hasboa_]

Linus did a video on this kit. It was a decent when you could get it. As far as i know these are defective igpu ps5 soc's which is cool

[@ThisUploaded]

A little weird that the OC was blurred the second time you showed the inside, but not the first time.

[@HarleyAMV]

*Mechanics Voice* "I know whass wrong wivit. Ain't gott no RAAM init"

[@UltimatePerfection]

> Desperately tries to lower the power usage > Wonders why apps crash or have low performance.

[@giannistsolebas6962]

Well, that's a super awesome piece of hw. I hope I could get my hands on it! Kudos

[@TheBasedSociety]

Have two of these 4700S boards. The biggest problem with them imo is that AMD only went for a Gen 2 x4 PCIe slot and forwent NVMe support.

[@cavvieira]

Maybe that bios was cobbled together with spit and duct tape.

[@warrior3456_]

my old pc used more watts than my refrigerator

[@ILikeSongs5]

It is possible that the apu, expecting to have onboard gpu capability, is attempting to run code ment to be handled by the gpu. If im right, this accounts for the random hiccups encountered by the system.

[@mr.pachkoria1153]

bro ur channel is growing so fast. wish u best .

[@StrangelyIronic]

I had one of these boards and tested with an RX580 8GB card using Linux. I've also been testing a Lenovo M72p "Tiny PC" with an upgraded processor from the stock i5 to an i7 3770T (mainly for the better iGPU). TBH, I like the M72p more, even if it's older. It's a tiny form factor with official XP support, making it my favorite "modern" XP vintage gaming PC. I also have it set up for Linux with 16GB of ram that can swing way above its tiny ~7x7x1 footprint. It's a shame about this board, if it had proper PCIe support, power management, and a proper m.2 slot (even without NVME), I could have used the one I had easily for most of what I do.

[@axelgenus]

My N5105 homelab draws half of that power with 5 HDDs (when spun up) and 5 SSD attached to it. 😂

[@isaacjjones]

I wonder if these are like some other "PS5" stuff we've seen recently, where they were made for mining. That would explain the power draw because they're set to run at 100%. I'm guessing a custom BIOS could solve the power issues. Good luck finding it though.

[@AngryKirC]

I've recognized the board right from the first seconds. Well... there were others. (For example, x86 boards with GDDR5 RAM) But these were produced and sold on Chinese domestic market and they were not approved in any way by AMD, so they are much rarer.

[@rquance1]

For the CPU issue of power and not sleeping cores I found the Program called Quick CPU which really helped my machine idle down very nicely with an AMD CPU.

[@mikixyz123]

I would plop in a sata port card, put it in a better casing and boom a file server ready to use

[@arnothomsen620]

Put a gtx 1630 into this System

[@laclica]

on linux you could try to enable the AMD pstate driver as a grub boot option if your kernel is recent enough

[@Ben79k]

I remember these coming from b stock XBOX / Playstation SoCs. Some chinese board vendor spun them into these embedded solutions. Very interesting

[@babywaffles]

It would be very interesting if somebody were to write a driver that allows the system to route the on-board gddr6 memory as the dedicated gpu ram.

[@MrMaxeemum]

It connects to the internet and it games so it has at least two useful purposes.

[@BonusCrook]

Manufactured ewaste for nobody, it needed to come with better expandability. But it is a cool novelty xbox CPU.

[@james8449100]

Did you mention the clocks. It's not even on the official product page. Are you getting the full 1.6ghz

[@hgbugalou]

Paying for a binned chip this odd is something I would only do for a huge discount.