The All-New R2 NUC Is An All Metal i3 N300 Mini PC! Hands-On
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
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In this video we take a look at and test out the New ikoolcore R2 Nut mini PC.
With an All Metal design and powered by the Intel i3 N300 backed by 16GB of ram this super tiny mini PC packs a punch.
We do an unboxing, go over the specs, run some benchmarks, test some PC games and Emulation on the i3 N300 mini PC
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00:00 Introduction
00:38 Video Sponsor Ad Spot
01:52 Whats Included with the R2
02:10 2 Versions of The R2
02:44 Easy Storage Upgrade
03:19 IO Overview
03:50 iKoolcore R2 Specs
04:48 Bios settings
05:42 Overall Windows Performance
07:25 4K UA-cam video playback
08:19 Benchmarks N300 Vs N200 Vs N100 Vs N97
09:35 PC gaming test
10:29 PSP Emulation N300
10:47 Gamecube Emulation N300
11:15 PS2 Emulation N300
11:39 Power consumption - Ігри
Having followed the channel for a few years now it's kind of wild that we're seeing these tiny PCs that are able to handle PSP, Gamecube, and PS2 at higher resolutions. I remember just a few years ago some of these mini PC at time weren't even able to play Sega Saturn games perfectly. It'll be interesting in the next few years to see this form factor start to handle Xbox 360 and PS3 games.
Ryzen 7840U can play Switch, PS3, and Xbox 360 games pretty well. Its price point is $500 and upward though. Better buy a modded Switch, a PS3 Super Slim with hen, and chipped Xbox 360.
@@main_tak_becus6689 Oh, sure. I know that there are chips that can do it. And when the next generation of APUs come out I'm planning on building an emulation box with one. I just think that it's impressive how far these low cost tiny PCs have come in a few years.
@@benallen7403 it's really amazing in the last few years x86 handhelds and mini PC with great performance pop up. I'm inclined to handhelds though, but the battery life is still not there. For now I'm happy with my Switch OLED and PS Vita. Let's hope with the third player entering PC space, Qualcomm, the mini PC will get more competitive.
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A USB 4 port on one of these would have made for a really adequate gaming system
usb not that good especially multi monitor... its laggy, need oculink
Agreed. The lack of USB4 on these little PCs is really hurting the appeal for me. The cpu does have enough PCIe lanes so i don't know what the deal is.
@@LuminousSpace That is because USB 4 does not support dual monitor output.
Furthermore, if you're using a card that can saturate the 32Gbps+ 4 Lane PCI-E interface, not only are you expecting more out of a mobile i3 than your situation demands, but you are using too powerful of a GPU for the system to utilise anyway.
Yhea
@@LuminousSpace oculink should become a standard must-have on many mini pcs and notebooks...even if a notebook runs a 2 core 4 thread cpu, an oculink for some gpu that's better than a intel uhd would do a great difference...
really wish they would build more mini PCs with the N305 with it's higher all core boost
I really want an ITX board like those N100 models with the N305. Only 9 PCIe lanes still, but even if the main slot has to be stuck at x4, it would open up a lot of options as a pretty strong little low-power system.
@@DigitalJedi yep...for example rx6400 uses x4...and it is a tiny beast...
With oculink / thunderbolt or something...
$469 for either the R2 Pro or the R2 NUC with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD.
It isn't cheap.
The quality of this channel has dropped quite a bit.
@@juanrodriguez730
It's the same formula.
Be interested to see the 4 port Ethernet version as a router
just connect it to a switch for like 20 bucks
would make a cool hypervisor with proxmox
Patrick from ServeTheHome reviewed the 4x 2.5 GbE port version of this (the R2 Pro).
same here...
Lovely little computer. Would be nice for the TV in the living room.
Liking the build quality.
Excellent review.this seems like a real little gem.
Fits right in the palm of ETAs enormous hand
you're videos are super cool, thank you for sharing..KEEP ROCK
Loving the tiny pcs. I wonder if Miniforum is going to jump in at some point. lols
great stuff :)
ETA Prime, thank you for such reviews. Thanks to you, today I bought a mini PC with an N100 processor for my friend. He was very satisfied.
By the way, I tried playing a video on UA-cam called Tokyo 8k, I activated 8k resolution, and you know, the video played quite well! Of course, there were drops (100 drops per 1000 frames), but I consider it a great result for such a small cheap computer.
i would love to see this with egpu even n95 looks good
Amazing. I think I need one of these as my living room TV PC!
I don't suppose you've ever heard of the Zotac Magnus series of mini PC's? They're sort of like the Dell/Lenovo/HP mini office PC's, except they're packing like, RTX 4070's, etc.
I have the older model with a 1070 in it, and it's fantastic!
I'd love to see you cover some of the new ones though!
I'm super curious about using one of these as a music server streamer. Any suggestions? I know very little about this stuff
Thank you for reviewing the N300 like this. Of course, the performance is lower than the Ryzen mini pc, but I think it's a huge technology considering that it's 7.5x7.5x5cm in size. The Ryzen mini pc is still about 1.8 to 2 times larger than this pc in width and length.
The price seems a bit steep ($400 on their website for N300+16+128).
Yep, you can get a Ryzen 7 based system for less than
Now we need one of those things with single cable operation, like one Type C Cable with 90W PD from a monitor with everything in it. Screen, keyboard and mouse and ethernet plugged into its usb hub and everything else is Type C to such a box
Hey nice video! as a proyect can you try to make a cluster with this two miniPcs?
Totally off topic I know but will you be reviewing the new onn 4k box from Walmart?
Definitely interested in the Linux build.
Can we all be alittle more honest here , I love the content from ETA, however there's so many videos of mini pc reviews from you that I don't really get the sense of what to buy. I'd have to go through each and every review which isn't ideal.. have you done a top ten 10 before? could you do one in the future?
Def interested in some virt on the other (opn-sense VM plus containers/apps)... if ur already goin' that way.
Quite interested in seeing power draw if used as VM/container server WITH a Neon desktop in the mix -- and, how that desktop behaves for streaming video.
Please ad in future some AI tests for such small devices...! I mean LLM's get more and more important at this time, and such little devices has for sure the potential to run LLM's locally without internet connection on it!!! Faraday and GPT4free are perfect for such tests and benchmarks... =)!!!
I wouldn't be as optimistic as you seem to be, seeing as they force us to use the more expensive NVME drives, and the 2242 version, yet more expensive, with no 2.5 SATA option.
I heard R2 NUT, and I was like "Noice".
Looking forward to see linux on it. Mint works so well on these Nxxx machines.
Full Metal Jacket
would this be decent for recording music/guitars?
4:55 dang 5/13 in the bios, turnaround on these videos is pretty quick
Any physical heat with turbo on while streaming 4k vids and web browsing ?
It's great video 😮
I would love to see Manjaro and specially Linux MInt Devian Edition on this machine.
Would be cool to see this thing running OPNsense or similar.
Great Job 👍🏽
Whats a good buy for a 100 USD regarding miniPCs / SBCs?
That’s wild🔥🔥🔥
Did I miss him mentioning anything about fan noise?
i wonder if this thing will run even better on the atlas os deblater
Waiting for zen 5 mini pcs
Do you think GTAV 5 will run ok on this? 60FPS wise
Great ! But I need just a little bit more power like a 1135G7 is awesome !
This is beating the 1135G7 in Geekbench multi-core. 1135G7 does 1600 single -core and 4545 multi-core. N300 does 1260 single-core and 4971 multi-core. N305 does 1340 single-core and 5355 multi-core.
GPU Vulkan scores about 6750 for both N300 and N305 while the 1135G7 does about 14400 in the same test. GPU is definately lacking in comparison but on the CPU front it's quite close.
@@DigitalJedi are you sure? And in graphic? Because 1135g7 has 80 in igpu and fortnite runs good at 2k resolution screen.
so does anyone know if the N series supports dual channel ram yet or no? cause that's really the only reason not to get one, but as someone who owns an N100 running linux its a perfect little machine for web and really lite duty, this n300 seems pretty well rounded for what it is and would be a great little carry around pc imo.
The entire Alder Lake-N series is single-channel. There is only one controller on the die to save space and they don't really have enough CPU power to saturate it anyways, but I understand the dissapintment. Intel's ark page lists 16GB max, but I've seen these run 48GB SODIMMs just fine.
Amazon says Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.
You should START always testing Linux Mint MATE with Compiz as standard on all your videos concerning PC's
What about the heating issue with these mini pc?
Can a thunderbolt monitor be used with this?
Hello everyone! Can anyone recommend a mini pc and some videos related to setup for a hifi music streamer and storage retrieval rig? I am a novice and currently use a wiim pro+
I think these low end graphics can handle skyrim at 1080p at 60 way better then low, mixed settings is the way to go, cause not all the settings tanks the gpu, so in the end u can get lets say quite nice looking and performing game, just by changing some intensive settings
but if u dont know what u doing, its better to use the presets, anyway a few off and on the settings or lowering and increasing also can help to play around if u dont know what some of the settings do. In other words i bet many of those PC games could run way better just by changing only few demanding settings and games can run better.
At least i think so. I havent tested pcs like that maybe presets is the way to go with these. I doubt it but i can be wrong.
I wonder if there's a decent way to upgrade these small units with a regular GPU (not eGPU)
Not really, these small machines don’t have any full sized PCIe, eGPU is your only option. If you want something better GPU wise you could look at the machines with AMD APUs with Radeon graphics.
@@paradoxmo I still wonder why theres no "empty" eGPU where you can slot a regular GPU in and use it as an external. This idea seems like a money printing machine to me
@@joypad8979 sure, they have that, look up One Dock oculink dock for one solution, there are a few on the market though since they are very niche they are a bit hard to get. Or google “oculink eGPU dock”
Memo S2 telescopic controller review please
Interesting the n300 vs n305 (same CPU, just different TDP).
Ain't cheap. Decked out like the test they seem just shy of $500.
How do you go about installing Windows on something like that. Does it come on a USB thumb drive.
The USBs are the first thing you see when the opens it up lol
I've never heard of Ooobesoft
Really liking this chip from Intel! Honestly, it's the only interesting CPUs they make now a day, their desktops are just a bore.
As much as I hate dealing with the company, Asus has an interesting little tablet with these chips. Pretty solid battery life on mine at least. I mostly use it as a Parsec streaming device back to my desktop, but it's competent enough on its own too.
At the price for this thing, we are now in AMD 7000 territory and we'd get much better performance with slightly more wattage.
The N300 version is currently sold out (May 2024).
I understand that the Intel chips are behind AMD if we look at Handhelds and desktop PC but why do they don't use the N300 in Handhelds or something similar. Looks better then the other big CPU's from Intel in Handhelds. But that could just be me.
great different geekbench versions as a "benchmark test" thats how you can fake the results whats the point on that ? 6.0.3 on the n300 and 6.3.0 on the n200?
And another product that we never will see in shelfs to buy
Shows how much you pay attention. It's for sale and you can buy now on their website.
4 ports version with proxmox :)
the pro version is too powerfull for just 4 2.5gb router ! install a hyperviser and passthrough that would be more interesting
Me if I had money:
I miss your intro.
20W is possible to cool fanless.
............. product keys for windows .......... needs to be updated for windows 11
since windows 10 comes to an end October next year
The website looks like scam IMO
More than twice the price of an equivalent N100 but not more than double the performance. So for the price, not for me. The power draw figures are impressive though.
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for this price it's better to buy something with ryzen
Yeah if this was like $150 lower, it's be much more interesting. My N305 tablet outpaces this little guy, and included the keyboard, display, battery, and stylus for about the same price.
Totally agree. For less than 300€ you get a r5 5500u or 5600u that is a better mini pc on the CPU+GPU side. They are great for emu and light gaming. The only difference would be the power consumption, this run at the 30w range, this N300 is more at the 20w range.
Hey guys, I am looking for a mini PC which has a USB-C power delivery. I would prefer a AMD chip
Please don't use that food video again - had to go to the fridge again 😂
Where cyberpunk?)
I thought NUC brand is patented by Intel (transfered to Asus since end of 2023)
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Another showcase of really cool tech that's too expensive for the average person
This thing is only like $300
The one with the i3 & 16 gb is $379.
please start including league of legends and cs go on these ssf pcs
Linux router please.
Left 4 dead 2 stuttering after any half quick movement so i wouldnt exactly call it flawless hence the quick cut to gow 😂😂😂
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Man already sold out@
Winbloat
L$D 😝
And why do all these things you review have Intel rather than AMD.
Intel makes like a million cpu skews so theres a cpu for basically any type of system out there so it's easier to get an intel cpu for a mini pc as far as I'm aware this information is like 5 years old
He reviewed so many amd mini pcs. Look his older videos.
Back track 3 years from his videos, you'll find a lot of AMD mini PCs there.
Have you not seen any of his other videos?
This is one of like 3 videos I’ve seen with intel. Feel free to scroll through his backlog, mini PCs running AMD are super common because of the solid performance with integrated graphics.
Intel does better low power chips.
this kinda not fire
Third
First
CSGO, League of legends?
You didn't try Hogwarts Legacy on this machine, shame I would've liked to see how it handle the game
400 dollars garbage product
No one cares