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what up Tech fans glad to see you guys back here once again for another edition of tech of tomorrow now right here behind me I got some where people are going hey is that the Nexus Q hell no it's not and go go what the frak were you thinking instead this is something a lot cooler this is a brand new product from zou tech this is the oh I 520 plus now what's the plus stand for where the plus means that it comes with the memory and the hard drive this one comes with a 500 gigabyte hard drive already installed so with this system all you have to do is install an OS and away you go now is it worth your money well let's jump in and let's see if it is first and foremost the big thing about this is its design I mean this thing is something that people are gonna talk about it just looks like a little sphere I mean think about it it's very space-saving you guys can see it right now on top my hughes & kettner and it totally majid if there was somehow I could combine that with my using Kettner damn straight I'd be doing it it looks really awesome it's very compact it's under $500 and a lot of people are gonna just walk up to your desk if you had this and go hey what is that cuz really honestly does it look like a PC to you it really doesn't look like a PC it kind of looks like it could be even something like you know a thing you set in your living room and blows out cool stuff with potpourri I mean people are gonna ask you what is this so first and foremost this new Z box oh I 520 plus is definitely a conversation piece this thing sized in at 154 millimeters by 154 millimeters by a hundred and sixty-one millimeters and oh pretty much sit on any desk where you've got not very much space another cool feature about the sphere is its ease of access all you have to do is grip atop the sphere make a quick turn pop it off and there you have everything accessible for you to get access to you can upgrade the memory up to 16 gigabytes put an SSD or even put an MSA to drive in all very very easily now as far as Debates expects go this thing contains an i5 3 200 u dual core processor this is a 1.6 gigahertz with a 2 six gigahertz boost this thing also has a 4400 graphics built on to the CPU now this is OK for moderate light gaming but any intense gaming yeah you got to look for something else personally I feel like the CPU and the graphics on this aren't really meant at all for gaming but one thing that is actually really cool is the very full fleshed rear i/o which features the power button a four and one card reader HDMI microphone jack the power input which by the way is DC 19 volts a headphone audio output jack display port for USB 3.0 ports a LAN port and two USB 2.0 ports there's also an additional USB 2.0 port available on the side of the unit now obviously this thing does not have a DVD ROM or anything built inside to install the OS you're gonna have to use an external one or gonna have to use the OS on a USB stick either one will work just fine like I said in the beginning of the video folks this thing's not entirely geared really at all towards gaming but being a gaming channel we went ahead and still ranked games on it to show you guys performance values for what this thing brings the table so let's check that stuff out now and rock out to the benchmark song first up we have Tomb Raider and it's the low settings obviously this thing comes in at 17 frames per second next up we have Bioshock also want some low settings at 15 24 7 frames per second 3d marked fire strike in standard mode 531 is the score on that Metro last light glow you guys all know that's all last light isn't very demanding game but still this little thing puffed out seven point six seven frames per second isn't that cute next up Geekbench 32-bit score single core got 2288 multi core got four thousand four hundred and nine battlefield 4 this is the game that everybody knows and love and you guys know this game is very very frickin demanding on the low settings though Battlefield Forbes scored 11 point 6 5 frames per second next up Crysis 3 actually my all-time favorite games on low settings that got five two point six seven frames per second which ain't very playable now just for everybody's reference out there everything that we ran was ran at 1080p why don't we run anything else well for one thing it's 2014 and 1080p is where gaming is that I mean hell you can get a monitor for around a hundred bucks there's really no reason to test in anything but 1080p now even though this thing isn't really geared towards a gaming machine if you want to play like dota 2 other games of that type you'd have no problem playing them on here is there going to get like you know all through it frame rates no but it'll still be playable and this thing was not advertised as a gaming system so even be able to play those games is still a thumbs up in my book alright folks so that pretty much wraps that up now you can come at this from a couple of different directions for five hundred dollars could you go out and possibly build a better system yeah you probably could but will it look this cool because there are some positive things to this if you're somebody who doesn't game you want some that looks really cool it's completely quiet it doesn't get hot at all I mean zero it's one of the coolest running machines I've ever actually seen this thing does have benefits for the right cause it just depends on how you the user interpret that if you're looking for something that's just really cool that's not gonna break the bank and you're not a gamer and you're looking at something like this this might be something you're looking at now for me and probably 98% of my audience I know this thing is going to be underpowered for most of us but for somebody out there who's not a total gamer is looking for just that niche product that's really cool and a mouthpiece then this might be something you want to look forward to so I am Elric thanks for watching Tecla tomorrow 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