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hey Ron this is steve from gamers nexus Donna and I have a very tiny computer this is a computer this is my phone the computer is actually slightly smaller than my phone other than width obviously so this we have previewed already it is zotac snoopy CO and it's a basically a TV mounted computer so it is a fully functional device it has windows 8.1 pre-installed on it the CPU just running you through the specs really quickly is a an intel bay trail atom cpu and it operates at one point three three gigahertz it has a point 37 volt vcore that is really low if you're not think of think of the Ivy Bridge series CPUs those were about 1.3 volts if you're overclocking a bit this is point three seven and the TDP is appropriately low is to watts for for the cpu I believe and the entire device not so sure check the link in the description below for the full review or I will detail that but it is to watts for the CPU that is insanely low so intel stuff it's already we already know it's good from a TDP standpoint what about this computer as a product now this is so txt $200 solution and what they say you should use it for if you're a buyer is things like home office work weird documents cool stuff like that game streaming entertainment media streaming like videos and music basically anything where you mount this to your visa compatible display which is most tvs and monitors these days it has a special plastic mount you connect it to the back of the display and then it it basically talks via hdmi to that TV or monitor and you just use it normally like you would with any other computer it's sort of an htpc just less powerful and only has 17 gigabytes of user accessible storage so what that means is if you want to do anything with media you're going to need to stream it from somewhere else you're not going to fit a lot on this 17 gigabytes is not a lot of not a lot of room and if you want to play games you got to stream it from somewhere else using steams in-home streaming which is a priate lead times because that is somewhat functional now or Nvidia's game stream which has a bit more limited gameplay game list in terms of compatibility but it's a possibility so you can't do some game streaming but not the best experience in the world especially given that most of our ISPs give us such amazing down and operates even internally so of course I am very grateful that my isp is even allowing me to upload this video to the internet right now i am glad i'm giving them money for that privilege but the sarcasm aside that clearly was not sarcasm this is a two-hundred-dollar box why why would you get it right because you can spend 400 ish on something that is comparatively going to blow this out of the water and yeah it'll be bigger no you probably can't fit it in your pocket but I I'm not the right user I guess because I don't see myself wanting to put this in my pocket and travel with it and besides you then need to put the power supply which is an AC drop in your pocket and an hdmi cable and a keyboard and mouse so you kind of loses some of the portability once you consider those things at that point why not just build a more complete box or go with even zotac Sounion 760 which I gave a pretty good review to it's a good unit it's about five hundred dollars to get it all set up and going maybe a little more but but you get a computer that can play games on its own and host media locally and stuff like that now this I don't want to knock it too hard in terms of performance the pico actually the pi3 20 it is fully called the pico does okay the idle cpu temperature is something like 42 celsius before calculating for ambient that would be a little that would be right around 21 celsius after i subtract ambient it's that impressive math I hope it's impressive and then if you look at the low temperatures it's about 52 at worst with prime95 on large FFTs that is one hundred percent cpu load on this tiny atom and calculating for ambient that's going to be somewhere just above be like 27 or 28 Celsius so really not that warm it's it's pretty impressive for the tiny boxes and but that's all in Intel's engineering side more so than anyone else so in terms of usability it's they works fine I did I made a realistic use case scenario where I effectively did a game streaming streaming grid from another computer I played music I played a movie and I played I played a youtube video I did all those things simultaneously CP was sitting at about sixty to seventy percent load depending on how badly the game and movie were beating up the processor at any given time and that the processor does turbo because pretty frequently so it does handle load quite well and I didn't really notice any stuttering with video playback I didn't notice any stuttering too much with typing it stutters a little bit lags less than a fraction of a second behind you when typing if you're doing a ton of things at once but not too bad and if you're a reasonable user you probably won't hit that threshold anyway in terms of the memory you've only got one point seven gigabytes of user-accessible Rams work with that is not a whole lot if you are a tab heavy user if you love tabs you're going to have to cut back I'm sorry it is a weight loss program for your web browser because at that that capacity you're just not going to have the room for it but again reasonable amount of tabs a quick sort of set top box like web browsing and you'll be fine so all in all as a computer this performs well I was very impressed with the Bay Trail performance along with the RAM on with the the flash memory the storage the permanent non-volatile storage was actually pretty slow I was not too happy with that but the CPU the RAM they did fine so as a computer I can respect that I think this performs very well as a product for two hundred dollars I start having trouble recommending it because you can spend a bit more and get a very powerful self-contained game htpc maybe you don't want that well in that case this is probably fine but here's where I start questioning it more for under a hundred dollars you can get a chromebox or a chrome stick and you can stream all of your media all of your games all of your music from another from a host system or a server or the internet if you use that thing it's new and you can stream all that and it's just acting as a pass through to the other to the server what is effectively the host or the server even if it is your own computer in your room next door this is basically doing that if you're trying to game on it so there's no point buying it to game on because you can buy something less than one hundred dollars and just use it as a pass through media if you're just watching movies listening to music same thing you can buy less than one hundred dollar chrome stick chromebox doesn't have to be chrome it can just be something android is the most affordable though and use it as a path as a pastor the only reason you want or need this is when you want windows 8.1 on it or windows in general this has windows 8.1 pre-loaded and when you want it to act as a fully functional somewhat stable computer that you can do multiple things simultaneously with chrome stick you're basically just browsing or maybe type in a word document that's about it that is the end of your user experience this can do a lot more than that it can browse play music play videos and type all at once without really suffering at all so that is the line you draw on the stand it is up to you viewers to decide if this is something you would actually want or need I'm not the right audience I would probably buy either a chrome stick and use it as a pass through to my gaming PC or even zotac zone Ian 760 which again I gave a good review to and just use it as an htpc it's still pretty small will not fit in your pocket but it's still small so that is the pico please check the links in the description below for the full review if you need more 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