PC Smaller than an SSD - Zotac PI225

[AlexTheGreatish]

How far can we push Zotac's insanely small PL255?

 

Buy the Zotac PI225
On Amazon: http://geni.us/Mhj7
On Newegg: http://geni.us/metRXnI

 

 

[r2724r16]

A dual core CPU clocked at 1.1GHz, no thank you

[Daniel644]

#UselessTechOver100

[BachChain]

Wait until he hears about the Raspberry Pi

[Egg-Roll]

I'll finish watching the video in a minute but... Madrinas coffee should have sponsored this video, because they too spam their products (cans) with repeated phrases called "fair trade" 7 times...

[KostWarCZE]

Why don't you install Linux on it and try to make emulator of it or somethng usefull? 

[indrora]

Those dropped frames in YouTube seem to be because Chrome isn't always using the hardware codecs, falling back on software codecs and raw compute power. ETA Prime got ahold of a BeeLink S2 with a Celeron N4100 (newer, quad core version) and noticed that that chip can handle 400Mb/s 10 bit HEVC at 4K. He saw lots of dropped frames when playing under Chrome and smooth video under Edge: 

I'd love to see some similar comparison with this device. 

[HimymCZe]

How much R15 while Turbo enabled?

[Andrewf]

You need to hook up an external GPU case with at least a GTX 1080Ti. It has USB-C. I can't think of a reason not to try.

[Shadestones]

2 hours ago, Andrewf said:

You need to hook up an external GPU case with at least a GTX 1080Ti. It has USB-C. I can't think of a reason not to try.

It probably doesn't have Thunderbolt 3.

Even if it did, I can't see it making use of more than an RX 560 or GTX 1050.

 

If this had cost $200 or more, I would have written it off as a complete waste of money. Even so, I feel like the smarter choice would have been an Intel Atom x7. It would no-doubt run cooler, and the Atom x7-Z8750 outperforms it in some areas.

[Dexkum]

Well I guess it would work well as a POS or another context that require low specs and space. But I would never install Windows 10 on it, maybe W7. Still linux is the better option.

[John Kuriyen]

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Building a laptop with Zotac pi225, FUN !!

Hey,

After thinking a lot , I came to a conclusion that we could build a laptop with this mini PC , just using an external display (eg. Packed Pixels) and a Brydge windows keyboard. Hope you people like the idea.

[AskTJ]

16 hours ago, Rasbir Singh said:

A dual core CPU clocked at 1.1GHz, no thank you

It turbos up to 2.3 so...

[Andrewf]

6 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Quite the waste of the Thunderbolt capability, on a PC that has its small size compromise any practically of attaching it to an expensive GPU with enclosure.

Has something like that ever stopped Linus before? Since when has practical been the motto?

 

Do it, Linus.

[williamcll]

This is way better than the raspberry pi competitors. running raspbian or lubuntu would kick ass.

[exetras]

I wonder how this compares to the Kangaroo +  http://www.kangaroo.cc/kangaroo-mobile-desktop-pro/

 

@AlexTheGreatish ?

[shugen]

the reason why the computer shutdown with the huawei charger is capacity.

 

for safety reason , huawei supercharge charger only output 22.5W(5V4.5A/4.5V5A)when the charger communicate with the device in supercharge protocol and both charge and device should be able to accept this capacity which was depends on the status of charger and device (temperture etc.).

when device didn't support supercharge protocol or can't communicate to charger correctly, the charge only output 5V2A in max.

 

And i want to see with enough power supply and cooling how fast can it be.

[lord_rel]

Is the Intel compute stick not a mini pc? its crappier and older but definitely smaller

[trevor403]

Has anyone recieved one of this with the "CPU Power management" option missing from the BIOS?
Stock unit did not include the option and updating the BIOS with the one on Zotac's website did not make it appear either. I am kind of at a loss!

[System Error Message]

but will it blend?

Does it run crysis?