Need an Extremely Small and Portable Gaming System
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I've seen them in person and they are tinier than they look in online pictures. Not sure about anything else in terms of build quality or power, but they look to be the smallest gaming machines out there, and they claim to be modular so you can swap in a new graphics card when you need to upgrade.
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Tiny does matter a lot in this case.
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It looks like they are using the A10 APU (just cleverly marketed differently). I think it is the 7600G graphics core.
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@coliver said:
It looks like they are using the A10 APU (just cleverly marketed differently). I think it is the 7600G graphics core.
Oh that's a fail. That makes them seem pretty dishonest.
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That takes away the modular factor too.
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Hence why it says Radeon 7000-Series GPU and 8GB DDR3 Gaming RAM Notice it says 8GB Gaming ram, not 8GB video ram. 8GB is how much ram the computer has in it. It's shared memory, granted theses days the amount is adjustable but it's still not the same as a real video card.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Hence why it says Radeon 7000-Series GPU and 8GB DDR3 Gaming RAM Notice it says 8GB Gaming ram, not 8GB video ram. 8GB is how much ram the computer has in it. It's shared memory, granted theses days the amount is adjustable but it's still not the same as a real video card.
Yep... clever marketing. Although for GoG stuff and some Steam stuff it would probably be Ok.
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@coliver said:
Yep... clever marketing. Although for GoG stuff and some Steam stuff it would probably be Ok.
GOG offers brand new stuff just like Steam.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Yep... clever marketing. Although for GoG stuff and some Steam stuff it would probably be Ok.
GOG offers brand new stuff just like Steam.
Yes, I mis-spoke.
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What about something like this:
http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5096#ov
Review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8527/gigabyte-brix-gaming-bxi5g760-review -
That's the one, I think, that was linked on NewEgg higher in the thread. Right now I think that that is the leading contender.
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@scottalanmiller said:
That's the one, I think, that was linked on NewEgg higher in the thread. Right now I think that that is the leading contender.
Similar but not the same one. This one has green on it and the word Gaming
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Green does make a difference. It matches my car.
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Here's the specs (for those on mobile devices)
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Intel
4th generation Core
processors - i5-4200H -
Supports discrete graphic card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 GPU with mini HDMI x2, mini DP Output, featuring triple displays)
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Supports 2.5” Hard Drives (1 x 6Gbps SATA 3)
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Ultra compact PC design - 0.88L (59.6 x 128 x 115.4 mm)
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1 x mSATA SSD Slot
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2 x SO-DIMM DDR3L Slots (1333 / 1600 MHz)
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IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi / Bluetooth 4.0 Mini-PCIe card
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4 x USB 3.0
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Gigabit LAN
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Headphone jack with MIC
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VESA mounting bracket (75 x 75mm + 100 x 100mm)
There are also more: http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/list.aspx?s=47&ck=104&p=367&v=2
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I'm still skeptical of the actual in game performance...
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@nadnerB said:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 GPU
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 GPU with 6GB of RAM? Shouldn't be too terribly shabby.
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@nadnerB said:
I'm still skeptical of the actual in game performance...
The review from Anandtech looks very thorough. The numbers for performance looked promising.
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Yes, it looks quite good. I'm excited.
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Interesting, it looks like that model is a slightly older version of the one I linked for a couple hundred dollars less. The only downgrade seems to be its processor, which is an i5 vs an i7. I've heard i7 processors are overkill for most current games and it looks like they have the same GPU which will be doing most of the heavy lifting anyways... I might be getting one of those for myself before too long
One caveat: Some of the Newegg comments say the card isn't a GTX 760 as advertised, but a GTX 870 that require proprietary drivers. That seems weird to me but who knows.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
Well, with an APU, you're not going to be playing anything newer than 2008 on an Oculus Rift or a 1080p display...
The APU was based on your recommendations of it being so powerful for gaming in the other thread.
What? Nooooooooo. It's fantastic for normal workloads, and the Price to Perfromance is fantastic, even for games, but that doesn't make it good.
The Gigabyte Brix PC's are pretty good, but beware, the one with the GTX 760 in it, it is a full desktop GPU, not a mobile version. The heat output is massive, and after it's been on for a bit, the cooling can't keep up, and the card will throttle down to about 60% of it's actual performance. And, it is an actual 760. 870 isn't an actual card, the only version of anything 800 series are the mobile chips.
