I Bought An "8K Mini Gaming PC" From Amazon... - YouTube

now according to a random seller on amazon in  this box we have an ak mini gaming pc which  

if it's anything like the 4k gaming pc i bought  off of amazon a while ago it's probably not going  

to be able to game an 8k but maybe you know we'll  find out later in the video but before we do that  

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oh well that's a great start it says gaming pc  

right on the box so that's like 50  of the advertising already correct  

now in all fairness to it horrendous marketing  aside it does seem like a pretty cool little pc  

oh it's got a nice little handle oh it's pretty  cute now here next to gpu and cpu multiple fans  

for cooling there's a picture that hints at the  definitely an 8k gaming graphics card in here  

now in the box we get a very serious looking  displayport cable we also get what looks like i'm  

assuming an 8k gaming stand and then we have this  hunt key 150 watt power brick and here's our pc oh

wow there is a lot of ventilation on this  thing which is good for cooling all of that 8k  

power and then on the front we  have the brand name high style  

histo hysterectomy swiftly moving on on  this side we have a power button which  

sounds okay but i'm pretty sure that's upside down  and then we have two usb 2 ports and 2 usb 3 ports  

now around the back we have some disappointingly  basic rear i o for such a powerful gaming system  

also these two hdmi ports don't actually do  anything because the cpu that's supposedly  

in here doesn't have an igpu in it and then these  are the ports for the 8k gaming graphics card in  

the system which funnily enough as far as i know  the actual 8k video output capability of these  

ports is a bit of a mixed bag but we'll talk more  about that once we open up this system and have a  

closer look at the graphics card inside now i need  to figure out how to open it up i actually think  

it's going to be pretty straightforward it  looks like it's just two screws on each side  

what time it is it's time for david  to struggle opening a thing oh  

okay that's not good i don't know do i just  undo screws until something happens is that  

a good approach oh now it's feeling real loose  real loosey-goosey like someone's just gonna pop  

out now in standard fashion i spent the next 20  odd minutes struggling to open the little bastard  

up when i finally decided yeah i should probably  test it before i break it trying to savage it open  

okay well we're now in the future i  have witnessed the glory that is 8k  

gaming on a pc the size of a adolescent chinchilla  and now if i break it it's not that big a deal now  

i really want to open the system for a couple  of reasons the first one is i am a child and  

i have to look inside literally everything and  then the second reason is i want to do a mild  

upgrade on this pc so that it can do some real  8k now apparently i prematurely chickened out  

because it was actually really easy to open  up i just missed a couple of screws over the  

back of the graphics card and then it just  kind of popped open so oh oh yeah okay just

kind of slide the top off uh and then it opens  it up and there we have the inside of our 8k  

gaming pc now the first thing that stands out to  me about this is despite the fact that this is  

specked with 32 gigs of ram for some reason  uh they still just went with a single stick  

so this is a single 32 gig stick of laptop ram in  here uh and then next to that complete abomination  

we have a pretty decent looking cooler for a low  profile system like this now that low profile  

cooler is cooling an intel i5 9400f which is a  several generation old intel cpu at this point  

and it makes me think this little pc has been  sitting in a warehouse for a while and then next  

to that we have a gtx 1650 a natural choice for an  8k gaming pc now actually in all fairness to the  

little gtx 1650 it does have a displayport 1.4  port on it which can actually output an 8k 60hz  

signal although that does not mean it can drive  8k 60hz and the two hdmi ports on there are hdmi  

2.0 which top out at 8k 30hz and unfortunately  30 hertz on the best of days leads to a pretty  

terrible gaming experience and then finally it's  got a 250 gig king fast sata ssd in it but anyway  

with that let's go back to the past fire up the  system and see if it's got any bloatware on it

does it have vdd no it doesn't this  is just a clean windows install  

good job histo wreck to me now  we're going to start off with  

some reasonable 1080p gaming and then we'll  move over to what it was marketed to do 8k  

now at 1080p high settings gta 5 is running  pretty well we're getting about 100 ish frames  

per second and of course it's a pc report on  the internet so there's some cpu or memory  

bandwidth bottlenecking going on here that's  very standard though at this point it would be  

weirder if that wasn't the case all in all for a  system this size it's actually running very well  

wow the system is definitely audible even  with this poultry 1080p battlefield 5  

medium setting load that we have here i mean  the system's barely being stressed at all  

although funnily enough gaming in  8k will actually alleviate this  

cpu slash memory bandwidth bottleneck we've got  going on here which just shows this system was  

clearly designed with a singular purpose  in mind anyway with that let's just put an  

end to the terrible sarcasm and finally  throw this little system to the wolves

now this is an lg 65 nano 95 a native 8k display  for some real 8k gaming and immediately there's a  

bit of a problem the only video out on this  system that can output a 60hz 8k signal is  

the displayport 1.4 port on the gtx 1650 and  considering that this is a tv we only have hdmi  

inputs which means that with this little system  we're going to be limited to 8k 30 hertz which  

now that's not ideal but you know i guess it is  still technically 8k so let's let's give it a try  

now considering that this is a bonafide 8k gaming  pc i am going to leave all of the settings on  

high because you know it's it's an 8k gaming pc it  should be able to handle it come on that's not fun  

oh never mind all i had to do was turn textures  down from high to normal and now gta seems to  

think it's fine that is some primo 8k gaming right  there uh i pressed w quite a while ago and he's  

only just started moving i feel like maybe leaving  everything on high was a bit ambitious so let's  

quickly change that i mean you know what they say  the human eye can't see above one frame per second  

so honestly we're getting double the performance  with realistically need at 8k on a serious note  

though uh one massive benefit of gaming in 8k is  that we don't have a cpu bottleneck anymore so  

we don't we don't need to worry about changing the  memory configuration or anything like that anymore  

now that i'm in a car it's running a bit better  but wow it's so bad look at look at that tearing  

oh and the input lag i don't know man i  feel like even if you were from one of  

those amazonian tribes that's never encountered  western civilization before and this was your  

first exposure to gaming you probably wouldn't  consider this as a playable gaming experience like  

damn this is so bad at which point i thought it  would be a good idea to try some battlefield 5  

which went well it can't even register my inputs  enough for me to get out of the options oh  

oh there we go no it has registered it it's just  which was followed by another 20 minutes of me  

wrestling menu screens until i finally had  enough okay that's it i'm done my admittedly  

short attention span has run its course this is  clearly going nowhere just alt f4 i then tried  

cyberpunk which surprisingly went better hey we've  actually loaded in now granted we are just getting  

one frame per second but that is a lot better than  battlefield v now before we go through the various  

upgrades we're gonna do to this system let's just  quickly try a game that this system may actually  

be able to run an 8k well i guess this is the game  they used to determine that this is actually an  

8k capable gaming pc because here we are gaming in  8k good old half-life 2 runs on literally anything  

it still feels pretty terrible because we have  that 30 hertz limitation of the hdmi 2.0 but  

we can blame the tv for that because if the tv  had a displayport 1.4 connection on it uh we  

would have been able to game at 60 hertz in 8k  so yeah it's the tv's fault it's as easy as that

now before we get to our super  elegant upgrade that will give us  

proper 8k gaming performance from this little  system i just want to get as much performance  

out of this form factor as possible and to  do that we need to drop an a2000 in here

wow that upgrade actually went very smoothly we  even happened to have two of the mini display  

ports line up with the previous i o which is good  and hopefully this little dvi porthole has enough  

girth to manage 70 watts worth of exhaust from  this blower style card oh and unfortunately due  

to the little mini displayport connectors and me  not having the correct adapter i'm not going to be  

able to use this setup with the tv now despite the  dual channel ram upgrade the processor in here is  

still holding back that new graphics card although  it's doing much better than i was expecting and  

we're still getting a lot more performance  than we did with the previous graphics card  

temperature wise it's a different story though  that new graphics card doesn't like having to  

spew all its heat out a little dvi hole now just  a quick final note i did also try and use dsr to  

see how this new graphics card will render 8k  uh but for some reason these pro graphics cards  

have different dsr rendering factors than their  gaming counterparts so i couldn't fake 8k on it  

and in all fairness it's not like the a2000 can  8k so we're gonna have to step it up a notch

wow you can hardly tell i've done anything to  it why do so many of my videos end up like this

now would you look at that all it took was a  slight modification to this little system and  

now we're running gta 5 in 8k high settings with  over 80 frames per second now i was about to say  

that the 3090ti was effortlessly running gta 5 and  8k and then i saw the power draw figure which is  

that is such a ridiculous number battlefield  5 went from being just a menu hell to running  

at over 60 frames per second in 8k high  settings and in quite the humiliating  

turn of events it actually seems like the  cpu is the bottleneck in the situation  

now despite the nearly 40-fold performance  increase we've gotten with this upgrade even  

the mighty rtx 3090ti struggles with cyberpunk at  8k low settings this game really is a beast having  

said that it is definitely playable and then just  to quickly summarize my thoughts non-sarcastically  

for you thickos out there putting the straight  up ridiculous marketing aside this little pc is  

quite cool i like how modular it is and you  get a lot of performance for a pc this size  

however if you take into account that i paid  six hundred canadian dollars for this thing  

that is way too much money for the system and  i can't help but think the reason they thought  

they could get away with that is because  they put 8k in the name which brings me  

to the end of the video thank you very much  for watching and until the next video bye-bye  

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