**A Blazingly Fast PC: A Review of the Gecom i9**

The Gecom i9 is a powerhouse of a computer that packs a punch when it comes to performance and features. With its 14 cores and 20 threads, this processor is a beast when it comes to handling demanding tasks such as video editing, 3D modeling, and gaming. In our testing, we found that the Gecom i9 performed flawlessly in these areas, with smooth playback of effects and quick rendering times.

One of the standout features of the Gecom i9 is its integrated graphics, which were able to handle even the most demanding GPU-intensive tasks without breaking a sweat. When exporting a 50 megapixel raw photo and doing some color grading, we found that the computer was able to complete these tasks with ease, thanks to the powerful Intel Iris XE Graphics. Even in more resource-intensive applications like Premiere Pro, we saw significant improvements in performance when using the GPU.

But what really sets the Gecom i9 apart is its ability to handle gaming at high frame rates. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the computer was able to maintain an average of 127 frames per second in Valerant, a game that typically requires powerful hardware to run smoothly. Even at lower settings, we saw no significant drop-off in performance, making this a great option for gamers who want a powerful machine without breaking the bank.

Of course, with great power comes great cost, and the Gecom i9 is certainly not cheap. But when you consider the level of performance it offers, it's hard to argue that it's overkill. With options available in both the i5 and i7 models, consumers can choose the level of performance they need without breaking the bank.

In our testing, we found that even with the most demanding tasks, the Gecom i9 was able to handle them with ease. When calculating trillions of operations using a custom Excel sheet, the computer completed the task in just 19 seconds, a clear win over the Apple M2 Chip with eight cores, which took 29 seconds to complete.

In terms of power efficiency, the Gecom i9 is also worth noting. With Intel's tuning utility, we were able to improve performance by unlocking some of the processor's hidden potential. However, we strongly advise against making these changes yourself, as it could potentially damage the chip and void your warranty.

Overall, the Gecom i9 is a blazingly fast computer that offers incredible performance and features at an affordable price. With its powerful Intel Iris XE Graphics and 14 cores and 20 threads, this machine is perfect for anyone who needs raw processing power. Whether you're a gamer, content creator, or just someone who wants a quick and efficient machine, the Gecom i9 is definitely worth considering.

**Test Results:**

* Cinebench: 12,000 points (I13) vs 29 seconds (Apple M2 Chip with eight cores)

* Excel Sheet: 19 seconds (Gecom i9) vs 29 seconds (Apple M2 Chip with eight cores)

* Valerant: Average of 127 frames per second at 1080p on low settings

* GTA 5: Average of 60 FPS at 1080p on normal settings

* Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Average of 30 frames per second without Intel's xss, average of 38 frames per second with xss enabled

**Additional Information:**

For more information about the Gecom i9 and its features, please visit our website. We also have a link to a discount code for those who want to purchase this machine.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the world's first Mini PC to be powered by Intel's 13th generation I9 meaning in a computer that can literally fit in the palm of your hand you have a chip with more power than some full-sized desktops out there now when geekcon first reached out to sponsor this video I didn't realize that mini PCS had even gotten this good the mini PCS that we have here in the studio have all been pretty basic machines but on the it3 we have that 14 core 20 thread I9 that can boost up to 5.4 GHz the iris XE Graphics have 96 execution units there is 32 GB of RAM along with a whopping 2 TB of storage with super fast Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 which at less than $800 is pretty good I mean compared to something like Apple's Mac Mini you're getting four times the amount of RAM and four times the storage while also being significantly smaller but what I like about the it3 is despite its size it still has a ton of I/O certainly more than what you get with the Mac Mini on the back there are two super fast USB 4 ports which with 40 gbits of bandwidth not only can you connect things like 8K monitors at 30 HZ but you can also connect to egpus which I'm pretty excited about testing later on in this video on top of that you also get two HDMI 2.0 ports meaning technically if you wanted to you could run a quad display from this tiny machine for networking in addition to Wi-Fi 6C you also get a 2.5 GB ethernet port and then a couple of type A ports one of which is USB 3.2 on the left side we actually have a full-sized SD slot which is something that you don't often see in this form factor even some laptops that are much bigger don't have one so that's something I really like to see and then on the right side it's another vent with a Kensington lock up front there are two more USB 3.2 ports along with a headphone Jack and a power button but before we boot it up let's take a look at the inside because gecom has made it really easy to open this thing up and upgrade the components there are just four screws in total and then this bottom lid lifts right off you do have a little ribbon cable to be careful with but that's pretty much it so here's the 2 TB SSD from Lexar there's another slot for more m.2 storage for another terabytes and then hidden away in the lid is actually a slot for a 2.5 in SATA drive so you can technically have up to three different drives in this thing which is pretty wild for Ram we have 32 GB of ddr4 I was kind of hoping that it would be ddr5 for those faster speeds but you know ddr4 is fine and then if we dig in further it's the processor and the fan but it does get kind of tricky to access all that so for now I'm just going to put it all back together which is nice and easy okay so booting this thing up is surprisingly fast I clocked it in that just 8 seconds which is insane it's easily the fastest booting computer in our entire studio now in terms of General performance running Windows 11 Pro everything is super Snappy I mean this doesn't really come as a surprise with the I9 and like 32 GB of RAM and I was able to have a bunch of common apps like Chrome and Excel open and even a game and then multitask between them without any issues but I wanted to see how this I9 could perform under more heavy loads so the first thing I tested was opening up some of our own 10 bit 88k videos we're talking about some massive files here and the it3 didn't have any issues playing them back jumping into Premiere even though we don't have a dedicated GPU I could still scrub through and edit this 4K Project without any issues it's not the most intensive project but it does have multiple layers and scrubbing through it playing back and applying effects was all smooth the only area where I noticed that performance took a hit was when it was a GPU intensive task like exporting at which point the integrated graphics on this thing became the bottleneck but for light and occasional editing this is totally fine now in Photoshop which is more CPU based performance is great importing a 50 megapixel raw photo doing a bit of color grading and doing tasks like object selection all worked flawlessly so with the full-size SD slot this is a nice little setup for editing photos but this next test is where we really get to see the power of the I9 we have a custom Excel sheet that calculates trillions of operations as soon as you open it where with the I9 and its 14 cores and 20 threads the I13 was able to complete the task in just 19 seconds whereas on Apple's M2 Chip with eight cores it took 29 seconds to complete so a clear win for the I9 in cinebench though the results wasn't as impressive we got a score of just under 12,000 which for the 13th generation 9 does seem a little bit lower than you'd expect it to be but I think that's because gecom really tuned this thing for power efficiency and to help keep that I9 running cool I did try tuning the CPU with Intel's tuning utility to remove some of the TTP limits on here where after running The Benchmark again we get a massive improvement with it scoring over 2500 points higher although I really wouldn't recommend doing this since you don't want to like damage the chip and cook it and also it'll most likely void your warranty so I just set everything back to the defaults okay so even though this wasn't necessarily designed for gaming I still wanted to see how it would do and at least in valerant it kind of surprised me with it getting an average of 127 frames per second and this was at 1080p it was on the low settings of course but still with only integrated Graphics getting over 120 FPS is impressive in a more taxing game like GTA 5 we were still getting a totally playable 60 FPS this was at 1080p on normal settings so like obviously the visuals aren't going to blow you away but I don't know I think it's pretty cool that you can still run a AAA title on this thing but obviously not all games run as smoothly shadow of the Tomb Raider was only getting around 30 frames per second but that was with Intel's xss off but if you turn on xss where it uses AI to upscale the graphics the average FPS actually jumped up to 38 frames per second which isn't bad but of course if you really want to take gaming and any GPU related tasks to the next level that's the point at which you take advantage of that USB 4 port on the back and connect it to an egpu where after plugging in our 30 adti bam all of the sudden this thing became a gaming PC at our monitor's max resolution of 1440p we were seeing an average of 45 FPS in valerant with everything turned all the way up in GTA 5 with everything maxed out we were still getting 136 frames per seconds and even in Tomb Raider with everything turned up we were getting around 98 frames a second and then in an app like Premiere Pro those GPU intensive tasks I was talking about earlier were around five times faster so having that option for an egbu even if it's somewhere later down the line is really really nice but for most workflows I don't really think you'd even need it the I9 and the iris XE Graphics are more than capable as we've already seen and for everyday stuff it's just a blazingly fast experience in fact I would say that having an I9 on here might actually be Overkill and gecom does have options with the I5 and the i7 for the it3 so you could save some money there if you want however keep in mind that those models do come with Less storage either way though even if you go with the most powerful I9 you're still getting a better deal than something like Intel's Nook which currently goes for nearly $1,000 while only having the i7 and with Intel also announcing that they're exiting the Nook business entirely this gecom PC could just be your next nuck I'll be dropping all the links and info you need Down Below in the description including any discounts so be sure to check that out but anyways that is it for me in this video big thanks to gecom for sending this unit out to us and sponsoring this episode thank you guys for watching and as always I'll see you in the very next episodethis is the world's first Mini PC to be powered by Intel's 13th generation I9 meaning in a computer that can literally fit in the palm of your hand you have a chip with more power than some full-sized desktops out there now when geekcon first reached out to sponsor this video I didn't realize that mini PCS had even gotten this good the mini PCS that we have here in the studio have all been pretty basic machines but on the it3 we have that 14 core 20 thread I9 that can boost up to 5.4 GHz the iris XE Graphics have 96 execution units there is 32 GB of RAM along with a whopping 2 TB of storage with super fast Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 which at less than $800 is pretty good I mean compared to something like Apple's Mac Mini you're getting four times the amount of RAM and four times the storage while also being significantly smaller but what I like about the it3 is despite its size it still has a ton of I/O certainly more than what you get with the Mac Mini on the back there are two super fast USB 4 ports which with 40 gbits of bandwidth not only can you connect things like 8K monitors at 30 HZ but you can also connect to egpus which I'm pretty excited about testing later on in this video on top of that you also get two HDMI 2.0 ports meaning technically if you wanted to you could run a quad display from this tiny machine for networking in addition to Wi-Fi 6C you also get a 2.5 GB ethernet port and then a couple of type A ports one of which is USB 3.2 on the left side we actually have a full-sized SD slot which is something that you don't often see in this form factor even some laptops that are much bigger don't have one so that's something I really like to see and then on the right side it's another vent with a Kensington lock up front there are two more USB 3.2 ports along with a headphone Jack and a power button but before we boot it up let's take a look at the inside because gecom has made it really easy to open this thing up and upgrade the components there are just four screws in total and then this bottom lid lifts right off you do have a little ribbon cable to be careful with but that's pretty much it so here's the 2 TB SSD from Lexar there's another slot for more m.2 storage for another terabytes and then hidden away in the lid is actually a slot for a 2.5 in SATA drive so you can technically have up to three different drives in this thing which is pretty wild for Ram we have 32 GB of ddr4 I was kind of hoping that it would be ddr5 for those faster speeds but you know ddr4 is fine and then if we dig in further it's the processor and the fan but it does get kind of tricky to access all that so for now I'm just going to put it all back together which is nice and easy okay so booting this thing up is surprisingly fast I clocked it in that just 8 seconds which is insane it's easily the fastest booting computer in our entire studio now in terms of General performance running Windows 11 Pro everything is super Snappy I mean this doesn't really come as a surprise with the I9 and like 32 GB of RAM and I was able to have a bunch of common apps like Chrome and Excel open and even a game and then multitask between them without any issues but I wanted to see how this I9 could perform under more heavy loads so the first thing I tested was opening up some of our own 10 bit 88k videos we're talking about some massive files here and the it3 didn't have any issues playing them back jumping into Premiere even though we don't have a dedicated GPU I could still scrub through and edit this 4K Project without any issues it's not the most intensive project but it does have multiple layers and scrubbing through it playing back and applying effects was all smooth the only area where I noticed that performance took a hit was when it was a GPU intensive task like exporting at which point the integrated graphics on this thing became the bottleneck but for light and occasional editing this is totally fine now in Photoshop which is more CPU based performance is great importing a 50 megapixel raw photo doing a bit of color grading and doing tasks like object selection all worked flawlessly so with the full-size SD slot this is a nice little setup for editing photos but this next test is where we really get to see the power of the I9 we have a custom Excel sheet that calculates trillions of operations as soon as you open it where with the I9 and its 14 cores and 20 threads the I13 was able to complete the task in just 19 seconds whereas on Apple's M2 Chip with eight cores it took 29 seconds to complete so a clear win for the I9 in cinebench though the results wasn't as impressive we got a score of just under 12,000 which for the 13th generation 9 does seem a little bit lower than you'd expect it to be but I think that's because gecom really tuned this thing for power efficiency and to help keep that I9 running cool I did try tuning the CPU with Intel's tuning utility to remove some of the TTP limits on here where after running The Benchmark again we get a massive improvement with it scoring over 2500 points higher although I really wouldn't recommend doing this since you don't want to like damage the chip and cook it and also it'll most likely void your warranty so I just set everything back to the defaults okay so even though this wasn't necessarily designed for gaming I still wanted to see how it would do and at least in valerant it kind of surprised me with it getting an average of 127 frames per second and this was at 1080p it was on the low settings of course but still with only integrated Graphics getting over 120 FPS is impressive in a more taxing game like GTA 5 we were still getting a totally playable 60 FPS this was at 1080p on normal settings so like obviously the visuals aren't going to blow you away but I don't know I think it's pretty cool that you can still run a AAA title on this thing but obviously not all games run as smoothly shadow of the Tomb Raider was only getting around 30 frames per second but that was with Intel's xss off but if you turn on xss where it uses AI to upscale the graphics the average FPS actually jumped up to 38 frames per second which isn't bad but of course if you really want to take gaming and any GPU related tasks to the next level that's the point at which you take advantage of that USB 4 port on the back and connect it to an egpu where after plugging in our 30 adti bam all of the sudden this thing became a gaming PC at our monitor's max resolution of 1440p we were seeing an average of 45 FPS in valerant with everything turned all the way up in GTA 5 with everything maxed out we were still getting 136 frames per seconds and even in Tomb Raider with everything turned up we were getting around 98 frames a second and then in an app like Premiere Pro those GPU intensive tasks I was talking about earlier were around five times faster so having that option for an egbu even if it's somewhere later down the line is really really nice but for most workflows I don't really think you'd even need it the I9 and the iris XE Graphics are more than capable as we've already seen and for everyday stuff it's just a blazingly fast experience in fact I would say that having an I9 on here might actually be Overkill and gecom does have options with the I5 and the i7 for the it3 so you could save some money there if you want however keep in mind that those models do come with Less storage either way though even if you go with the most powerful I9 you're still getting a better deal than something like Intel's Nook which currently goes for nearly $1,000 while only having the i7 and with Intel also announcing that they're exiting the Nook business entirely this gecom PC could just be your next nuck I'll be dropping all the links and info you need Down Below in the description including any discounts so be sure to check that out but anyways that is it for me in this video big thanks to gecom for sending this unit out to us and sponsoring this episode thank you guys for watching and as always I'll see you in the very next episode\n"