This Gigabyte Brix features an AMD A8 5557M and Radeon R9 M275X graphics. Back in 2014 it was sold as a “barebones” system allowing the end user to upgrade the memory and storage as they pleased. This ones been kitted out with 16GB of DDR3 and a 240GB SSD, but is it usable these days?
0:00 Specs, Setup and Problems
1:49 The AMD R9 M275X and Gaming
4:14 Final Thoughts
Games Tested:
Skyrim Special Editon
Grand Theft Auto V
CS:GO
Fortnite
Thanks for watching 🙂
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Do not forget that this is from 2014
Asusbyte ROG Brix
These weird dual graphics things from AMD need a legacy driver for them, I had a laptop with similar specs in 2014 and the drivers need to be for the lesser APU graphics first rather then for the dedicated chip
had one of those myself… boy was that stuff loud and hot… then bought a bigger desktop that was over 60% cooler and way more faster 😂
I'm pretty sure I saw these with a GTX 760 + Intel CPU once…
Seems like a far more reasonable choice but I bet it ran hot…
I bet if you overclock the Hell out of that thing it would run Snake at 30FPS.
it's weird that the R9 get that much use in CSGO, i have a Firepro M5100 in my laptop (same gpu) and with matching clocks i achieve 140fps avg (never saw under 90) on dust2 (paired with an i7 4940mx), and in that case the gpu is the bottleneck. (the i7 tops out around 200fps avg (with a 4.1ghz all cores OC))
That's a nice lil machine
its like a ps4 lol
R9 was pretty good thou.
I'm really curious what the MSRP for this was. If it was a pretty penny more than sixth gen consoles it wouldn't be worth it back then either.
Always liked these little compact PCs. I think the issue with the random overheating is because of the way the cooling system uses the case to direct airflow. With the top panel off, the air is just escaping out of the top of the machine rather than going through the heatsink. Worth a try?
The Nintendo switch makes this thing look like a joke.
No fucking way i WANt that one. Shut up and takę my Money. Me new htcp ore what u call them. Thx @ lot & twoje zdrowie.
2:13 "sometimes the temperatures sore for no apparent reason" & "Why are you making so much noise!?" 😅😂
Most likely, because there's a Radeon R9 running inside something that's not even half the size of a shoe box 😝
You always post interesting videos, cheers 👍
i was about to get excited about this "new" mini PC.. lol
I thought it was a really weird PSU looking at the thumbnail.
I use one of these as a media PC/emulation. Never letting it go.
Confirms my thought that Bulldozer was more of a server architecture that does way better and is way more efficient at lower clocks and with less FPU heavy workloads.
Minecraft? no? okay…
Wait is your channel even monetized?
Try to put a tawer. Cooler on that
Could be good as a minecraft machine right?
Every Gaming Laptop ever:
They where never made for gaming, so it's normal that they do not perform. I have three Intel Nuc and they work good on Linux Mint 20.1 office work off course. One with a N3700 and two with i3-4010 all with 8GB DDR3 and SSD.
it's better than my expensive low end laptop
I remember the Gigabyte Brix series. I was going to get one of them (looking at this model in the video), mostly for a HTPC, but I went with the one with the built-in projector and speaker to boot (GB-BXPi3-4010).
I have it running Ubuntu (20.01 I think) with 16gb of ram. Reason for Ubuntu and not Windows. Is cause i didn't want to spend money on another OS when there are free option that will do what I need to do (which is to become a small HTPC).
It still runs too (both the computer and the projector, the bulb is still original and haven't burned out yet). Doesn't have Keystone (or any settings on the projector other than a separate power button and a manual focus).
Theres another video on YouTube from ages ago and the guys profile Pic is Random gaming the log is nearly identical to the one used in this channel. The question is who copied who lol.
I have the Xi3 PC but it doesn't like Windows 10 2021 update so it has Fedora 34
I would have to recommend that you switch to Windows 8.1.
Yes. It's start menu sucks. Yes. You can also install a new one.
But, it's still supported.
Tried to play crysis, had a crisis
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This little things is just worth for zoom then lol
the era that AMD still making a lot of garbage
Holy crap. 69 degrees?
This just shows how far AMD has come with Ryzen. God Bulldozer was trash.