How does /g/ feel about the mini-pc scene? Are they worth it?
I've been wanting to connect a TV to some sort of mini system with a full OS and I'm wondering what I should go with. Intel NUC is interesting but pricey
>>54734616
Overpriced piece of shits, you can do the same with any old laptop with HDMI output, or even with Raspberry Pi.
>>54734633
>Raspberry Pi
Is something I've looked but not quite powerful enough I don't think. I don't demand a great deal of power out of it but I'd like to emulate wii games.
You're paying a price premium for the smaller size. Just get a regular sized computer and stick it behind your TV
Or old laptop
>>54734654
>I don't demand a great deal of power out of it
>emulate wii games
These two don't belong in the same sentence. Dolphin can bring even a modern PC to its knees.
>>54734654
Just buy a wii and a raspberry pi.
>>54734675
The small size is what makes me interested in them though. It's something that will always be on and tucked away where it can't be seen.
>>54734691
Some games potentially but I don't find it demanding on my rig. My 960 runs some dolphin games in the high hundreds of fps.
>>54734745
And to reiterate, I am willing to make a choice.
Go with something that is on the light side (browsing and video)
Or something with more power that runs games.
>asking [strikethrough]v[/strikethrough] g for hardware advice
Kids here are just insecure they spent $5000 on their gayming & facebook machines while us expert users can work with machines as small and handy as Intel NUCs
>>54734756
A Mini ITX case?
Small and you can fit a GPU inside.
>>54734745
A 960 is a great deal of power you stupid fuck.
>miniPC
just get a relatively small mini itx case.
the wii can emulate really well
is there a sbc than can run league of legends?
when will it appear?
They'll be good once amd release a good Zen apu with ps4 like gpu performances, stacked hdm and, obviously, hsa compatible. Can't wait for that shit. That'll be good, really good. Mmmmm...
>>54734616
Makes a lot of sense for certain computers, the boards are just that small (pic related, you can see the already small case is larger than the intel atom-based machine).
And they're fast enough for what the vast majority of people does. IMO the $100-200 ones make a lot of sense.
But the $800 hip small gaming devices? Nope, those are retarded.
>>54736351
this.
2x mm and bigger just isnt suited to small hot cases
>>54736351
Sounds retarded.
Why do all you faggots want your gaming machine to be small, slow (PS4 is NOT fast) and expensive comparative to just a normal gaming machine?
> Inb4 professional who works with Adobe crap software
I have an older Gigabyte Brix that I use as an internet streaming box. Mostly use it for watching Youtube, Vimeo and porn on the living room TV.
>>54734708
Exactly this, or just jailbreak the wii and emulate games on it
>>54736697
It's hard to go back to the shit that Wii outputs once you've played with Dolphin.
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Saw one of these at work. Looks sexy as fuck. Obviously meant for business use, and kinda overpriced, but it made me really want a tiny PC that I could repurpose into a multi-emulator console running Linux or something. Like a souped-up Wii.
>>54736496
Putting aside the fact that the ps4 is a sensible designed machine with good performances for the price, I don't want a gayming mini machine, I just want a compact desktop with foolproof durability for normal desktop activity for the biggest amount of years to come (no workstation intensive stuff and no uper duper gayming). So an apu with ps4 level graphics, while being achievable, because it already exists, it's sensible, cause it would come with what's basically a pumped 7850 which offers pretty much anything a regular user could wish and more
>>54734745
>960
Emulation is reliant on the CPU not the GPU you dumb nignog
>>54736855
>sensible designed
Having a retard reinvent your PCI is not sensible design.
>>54736855
You don't remotely need a PS4 GPU for desktop shit. The usual Atom / i3 or whatever in-chip GPU is more than enough for what most people do other than playing games.
> foolproof durability
Since you're not talking about actual server-grade deployments with redundancy, this is literally every damn computer. It's all about the same electronics. The next one won't be more robust than the current ones.
> for the biggest amount of years to come
I think you want to buy it right after that technology which will be used by you for years to come is out. It's probably some hardware like what Windows 11-20 or h.266 or whatever needs.
Oh wait, you can't make such decisions, and you can't get future hardware. You can just buy an economic or an overpriced (for the purpose intended) setup. The overpriced one might last a year or two longer, but it's not cost-effective.
>>54734871
No it isn't. The 960 is the baseline 1080 gaming card. It's not that powerful, especially with next gen cards being released over the next month. Don't be a dickhead.
>>54737079
No, it's completely dependent on the emulator. Emulators have had GPU acceleration for years. Dolphin has GPU acceleration.
The ThinkCentre m93 is pretty cute.
>>54737265
That's just for rendering. If you want to go above native res or add AA.
All emulation is still CPU.
Wasn't there an anon that was going to take a dozen of these NUCs from his workplace and make a clustered server farm out of them? What ever happened to him?
