My new MiniPC has left China and should be here in 10 days, took a week to even leave the place, but when you see 50 lane motorways in gridlock over there, you sort of understand. I'll stick a link to the machine I'm getting in case anyone is interested. It got a great review on the Team Pandory website and Tim from there is a mate and was looking out for a good emulation machine for me. Many thanks to Cindy for my special treat.. Also, at the end of the month my Super fast t'internet arrives, 362meg, all for 10 quid less than I pay for my 80meg line. On the downside, my new driving license seems to have vanished in the post, as has the original proofs..Well so far they have not turned up. On the really bad news, the kid upstairs is now performing every day and screaming and smashing the floor harder than ever as he starts growing. What's worse in that the parents seem unable to cope with him and he really is just hyper and very angry. Have advised them he's ADHD and that a 1 pill per day of Methyldatapine or one of the 4 amphetamines they seem to use these days would be a good thing. I really hope they bother to get him to the doc. For once, I actually feel some sorrow for them, but a thing they have brought on themselves despite numerous warning from me.
Just had royal mail tell me my pc will be here on Monday...Yaaaay....I'm doing the lottery!!! It actually MIGHT be me
PC landed today, just finishing the setup, not sure I like windows 11..Yet...So the little PC flies, you can't believe how tiny it is..
Have you got a link to Amazon or AliExpress? This mini PC looks interesting. I sold and used many Intel NUC or Zotac Mini PC - the only problem I got was the heat, especially when Windows is installed instead of Linux. Can you list the main hardware components? CPU, RAM, SSD/M.2 of your configuration?
A stick with Batocera is indeed a compulsory choice if you intend to use this PC as a multi-platform game station. I recently opted for one of the so-called "Super Console X" with all the emulators and the games installed on a microSD card on top of emuElec. The machine itself is actually an Android-based little box, which can be also used as a TV box. You can easily find them on AliExpress or Amazon sold as little boxes or USB sticks and they are equipped with two BT controllers, USB hub and of course PSU. In spite of any copyright laws they include 40000+, 60000+, 90000+ or 110000+ games. Example https://it.aliexpress.com/item/1005...!sea!CH!184115413!&curPageLogUid=4Yd3nJkcS2OE
Nice one Alex, my little PC comes direct from GMKtec in China, have a look under the AMD mini PC's, and yes, heat can be an issue but only really if you push the onboard wattage up to 45W instead of the default 35W, so far it's ran with minor heat and seems a happy little chappy. Actually, here's the direct link to my one, I went for the 32MB 1TB edition, comes with Windows 11 activated and so far works really well. Played PSP Outrun on 4x res and steady 60fps.. https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd...&variant=ccc62adf-e403-4759-ac8b-a6e8898b70d4
LOL! About the same size as my ZX81, mate Tad more you can do with yours though (oh, don't matron!) As you say, Paul, and the title of the thread... some well-overdue much better news for you for once and let's hope they sort that kid out upstairs with some proper medication.
From the picture, I can guess that the little GMKtec is very similar to an Intel NUC or a Zotac box, perhaps even a smaller height. If the cooling system is as efficient as it appears, and the presence of an M.2 "disk" is a guarantee of low heat emission compared to conventional disks or a 2.5-inch SSD. Let us know how it goes with normal or under heavy usage.
Smaller than a ZX81 Andy, smaller than a 3.5 inch HDD....My only little moan is that the fan is quite noisy under load..As for heat, when running as standard there's no heat to be found. Mine's been on all night transferring files and it's not even warm, will have a feel (oo-er) when it's doing sommit meaty... As for kiddy above, they all need meds, 2 are deffo ADHD and the big girl is a bit of a shit starter, goads the smaller kids to do bad. Thankfully the kids are back to school today so it's pretty quiet at the mo.
I'm so happy for you that you got your needed new toy Paul! Seems like a great deal to me, considering my new "mini-PC." the Atari VCS base unit is still selling for $200 and it's AMD Ryzen is 3-4 years old now. Though I'd be interested in seeing some more detailed specs of your Ryzen 7 mini-PC in comparison to mine, knowing mine is several generations behind, but I believe was a custom Ryzen system AMD made for Atari's VCS and is unique from the Ryzen 1-7 series. Here are the specs of the Atari VCS below. Operating System Atari Custom Linux OS (Debian Based) APU AMD Raven Ridge 2 GPU AMD Ryzen™ Embedded R1000 SoC with “Zen” CPU and "Vega" GPU architecture Storage 32GB eMMC fixed internal, internal M.2 SSD slot; unlimited, external USB HD/stick, cloud (subscription required) RAM 8GB DDR4 RAM (upgradable-32GB) Compatible Systems Linux; Windows; Chrome OS
Hiya Matt, Enjoying my toy, I posted a link to it with it's spec a few posts back. As I'm not using it for current new games I don't see much dofference apart from solid frame rates. Apparenyly it will play newer PC games with a adjustment to the graphic settings, this is due to it's lacking GPU, really needed a better one but I'm ok about it. There's an upscaling mode that helps the frame rate if need it in the AMD driver. That VCS certainly had a nice core, hopefully it will or already has a userbase of homemade software.
There are a little over 100 games for the VCS in it's store, however about half are just new or even re-releases of 2600, 7800 and MSDOS games. But It's powerful enough can be used as a proper emulator, powerful enough to run the latest Jaguar emulator BigPemu (which they actually use for Jaguar re-releases in the unique VCS version of the 50th anniversary collection) and is powerful enough to run the vast majority of Steam games, though the latest games equal to current gen consoles tend to have to also adjust graphic settings to work, but work well then. But a Ryzen 7 must be at least a couple generations beyond even Atari VCS's custom Ryzen and may be as or more powerful than the VCS anyway. I do believe your PC is more powerful and the reason I feel that even at $369 (close to the original VCS price 2 years ago it may be a better deal). Ignoring the Atari VCS OS, they are just both mini-PC's. Too bad Cindy didn't know of the VCS and get you that and save a couple hundred quid, but it is what it is and I think it is more powerful than the VCS, even without a GPU, or at least equal, judging by needing the same graphic setting tweaks for modern games.
The manual you get is next to useless Matt, I'll see if it has a specs page and take a photo. The idea behind the machine was to get a more powerful machine than I already have than can run 99.9% of emulators. I also had a limited budget since it was a gift from Cindy for the backdate of her pension. It's more than enough for my needs, and a very rare treat.
I found the specs in the link like you said: AMD Ryzen™ 7 6800H Mobile Processors with AMD Radeon™ Graphics, 8C/16T, 6nm, FP7 Package, 3.2GHz base clock, MAX 4.7Ghz, 4 MB L2 Cache/16 MB L3 Cache,TDP 45W (AMD "Zen 3" Core Architecture) / AMD Radeon™ 680M, Graphics Core Count12,Graphics Frequency 2200 MHz (the overall performance is comparable to NVIDIA GeForce GTX1050TI)/ 16/32GB shipped, SO-DIMM*2, DDR5 4800, max 64GB/ 512GB/1TB shipped, M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 M.2 2280, max 2TB (supports PCIe 4.0)/BT 5.2/WiFi 6 RZ608/Window 11 Pro (installed), supports Linux/ My VCS runs at 2.7Ghz, max 3.5Ghz, your's has Zen 3 and mine Zen 1. Yours can upgrade to 64GB, mine only 32GB. They might average out in capable processing power between speed and GPU differences though.
