**First Impressions with the Hackboard**

The Hackboard, powered by an n4020 CPU, has exceeded my expectations in terms of performance. The board's ability to run indie games at high frame rates and resolutions is impressive, especially when considering its age. I started by testing out some popular titles like Bully and Half-Life 2, which ran smoothly at 60 FPS and 900p, respectively. The PC version of Bully ran at 30 FPS, but we were able to boost it to full speed with the Hackboard's processing power.

**Emulation on the Hackboard**

Next, I decided to test out some emulation on the board. Starting with Dreamcast, I used the Redream emulator and upscaled the output to 1280x960. To my surprise, the board was able to run games at full speed, which is a significant achievement considering the limitations of modern emulators. The GPU and CPU utilization remained low, indicating that the Hackboard's hardware is well-suited for emulation.

Moving on to PSP, I used the Standalone version of PPSSPP 2x resolution Vulcan. Ridge Racer ran smoothly at 60 FPS, but God of War: Chains of Olympus was a different story. At 2x resolution, we encountered some dips into the mid-50s, which forced me to reduce the rendering quality to 1X. However, with the right settings and emulators, PSP emulation can be done well on the Hackboard.

**GameCube Emulation with Dolphin**

Finally, I tested out GameCube emulation using the Dolphin Emulator. Soul Calibur 2 ran at 60 FPS at the game's native resolution, which is a testament to the board's ability to handle demanding games. The DirectX 11 backend performed better than Vulcan or OpenGL, indicating that it may be the best choice for future gaming endeavors.

**Conclusion and Recommendations**

Overall, I'm impressed with the Hackboard's performance and its potential as a viable option for retro gaming and emulation. However, I do have some caveats. The n4020 CPU is an older model, which means it may not offer the same level of performance as newer CPUs like the N6000 series. Additionally, running Windows on the Hackboard requires at least 8 GB of RAM, but even that may not be enough to handle modern operating systems.

If you're considering purchasing a Hackboard, I would recommend opting for the 8 GB model with 4 GB of RAM. This will provide a more comfortable experience for running Windows or Linux on the board. However, if you're interested in installing Linux and getting started with emulation, I'd be happy to provide more information and resources to help you get started.

**Final Thoughts**

In conclusion, the Hackboard is an interesting option for retro gaming and emulation enthusiasts. While it may not offer the same level of performance as newer devices or CPUs, its ability to run indie games at high frame rates and resolutions is impressive. With the right emulators and settings, the board can handle demanding titles like God of War: Chains of Olympus and Soul Calibur 2. If you're interested in exploring Linux or emulation on your Hackboard, I'll be happy to provide more information and resources in the comments section below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a brand new x86 single board computer coming to the market known as the hackboard 2. now about two years ago we took a look at the hackboard on the channel and this was actually planned to come out about a year after the original but as we know at that time there's a lot of stuff going on in the world with manufacturing and you know getting your hands on electronics so this was kind of halted until now this is available over on the website right now I'll leave some links in the description and they also offered some accessories for the hackboard too like this heatsink case this will keep it protected and nice and cool and since this board uses an x86 CPU we've got a lot of different operating system choices over on the website you can actually opt to get Linux pre-installed on the 64 gigabyte SSD or you can go with Windows 11 Pro it's up to you in this video we're going to be testing out windows 11 Pro and I definitely want to check out some 4K video playback some light gaming and emulation on this board but if there's interest than seeing Linux running on this just let me know in the comments below so Inside the Box it looks like we get a 12 volt 36 watt power supply also have a smaller heatsink here which will help out with dissipating heat from that CPU but going with something a bit beefier will help out in the long run we've also got a regional wall adapters and the hackboard 2 itself on paper looks like a really interesting little board we've got a lot of i o here for what we have three USB 3.0 ports USB type-c full size HDMI we've also got gpio and the base model comes with a 64 gigabyte SSD but it can be upgraded to a four terabyte SSD on this unit we've got two m.2 slots on this board taking a look around the board and I'm going to call this the front we've got three full-size USB 3.0 ports physical power button over here on this side moving around to the back we've got a full size HDMI port our power input and USB type c unfortunately this USB type-c port cannot be used to power the board even though this does run on 12 volts over the included power supply this also includes 40 gpio pens laid out just like the Raspberry Pi we've got a fan connector a battery connector and a USB 2.0 connector so we can have external USB 2 on this unit this board can also support a 4G or a 5G cellular module it is sold separately but our nano SIM card slot is right here we've also got an EDP display port it'll do 2160 by 1440 and our touch interface down here on the bottom and since I have it here I figured we'd go ahead and install that hackboard 2 case I think it looks really nice pulling it out it's made of full aluminum it's a two-piece design so we've got the top plate here which is going to make contact with the CPU keeping it nice and cool and the bottom section does have kind of a little bit of a dish design so we can add two m.2s to this board with heatsinks pre-installed without any kind of issues goes together very easily with just four screws we have access to all of our external i o and this Gap here will allow us to connect that EDP touch display we've got plenty of room in this little case and I think it looks really good very minimalistic but it'll keep this thing protected and cool and by the way one thing I should have mentioned is I have installed an RTC battery to keep those bio settings and when it comes to the specs for the CPU we've got the Intel Celeron n4020 this is a dual core x86 CPU with two threads up to 2.8 gigahertz built-in Intel HD graphics at 600 megahertz you can pick this up with either four or eight gigabytes of RAM and it utilizes LP ddr4 running at 2400 megahertz we've got two m.2 SATA ports on this unit dual band AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.1 and this is capable of running Linux or Windows and if you head over to their website now you've got the choice of Debian or Windows 11 Pro pre-installed when you pick one of these up okay so like I mentioned this one came pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro you can also opt for Linux you know straight out of the box or you can install an operating system that you like obviously we've got an x86 CPU here not the most powerful one on the market given that we only have two cores and two threads but it does go up to 2.8 gigahertz so far not too shabby I mean everything loads up really quickly just head over to the hackboard website as you can see got some more information about the board itself and if you're interested in learning a little more I will leave a link in the description here but I definitely wanted to test out some 4K video playback so we're gonna head over to YouTube real quick we'll make sure we're at 4K this is 4K 60 HDR and you know we've tested this chip in the past even though we've got two cores here it actually does a great job at 4K video playback go right through here and I was actually expecting to see a few more drop frames but throughout this whole video we only had eight at 4K 60. so little media device pretty great obviously since we're running 4K this well it's going to handle 720 and 1080 without an issue not bad for 4K video playback on this little board and you know we've seen this chip a lot in lower end laptops but we're never able to really run it at the higher wattages right now we're at a 15 watt TDP it's not going to reach 15 watts but we can max out the GPU and CPU at the same time at 15 watts it's actually about 13 watts in total the heatsink case I have installed does dissipate heat very nicely and you know if you're maxed out for about 20 minutes you can hit thermal throttle at 13 Watts even with the case on but 99 of the time even while gaming you're not going to be maxing it out at 13 watt so you should be good to go with the heatsink case but the next thing I wanted to take a look at was some light gaming obviously we're not going to be able to play cyberpunk 2077 on something like this but some indie games and older stuff may work really well so let's go ahead and jump into cuphead I've set the main resolution of the board to 900p with this game and uh we're at 60fps but as you can see that m4020 is maxed out here but we're running this game at 60 FPS uh that UHD 600 about 50 utilization with this but this is definitely an easier one to run and so is the next one we've got dead cells again still set at 900p of the base resolution with this board here 60 FPS not bad we can actually go up to around 83 if we turn vsync off but I kind of wanted to keep everything as low as possible here just to see what we could do with these indie games they're running really good going back a bit to uh bully this is one I haven't played in a long time and I'll tell you the PC version will go up to 1080p that's what we're at right now it's locked at 30. I'm not exactly sure if I can go in you know to the configuration file and set this to 60 or not but it originally ran at 30 FPS and we can run this at full speed and finally Half-Life 2 900p medium settings 60fps this will do around 94 if we turn vsync off on it but again I wanted to keep those temps down and we only hit a maximum of around 76 degrees Celsius with this heatsink case Indie Games older PC games will run pretty decently on this of course we do have that CPU maxed out but the next thing I wanted to test out was some emulation so we're going to start off here with Dreamcast I'm using the redream emulator and we're upscale to 1280x960. I had a good feeling we were going to run this at full speed and you can see since we're not running a PC game our GPU and CPU utilization is way down here because a lot of these emulators only like one core they only need one core and we can go up to 2.8 with Dreamcast we should be able to do the whole Library here at 1280 by 960. I mean as long as the game's compatible with the emulator be it re-dream or even Fly cast you're going to be good to go with Dreamcast emulation on the hackboard too taking it up a little bit to PSP using the Standalone version of PPSSPP 2x resolution Vulcan back again we've got Ridge Racer here running at full speed not a super hard game to run but I did want to run these 60 FPS games and of course when it comes to PSP emulation there's one we definitely have to get out of the way and that's God of War chains of Olympus unfortunately at 2x we do have some dips into the mid 50s so I had to take this down to one ax but we're still using the Vulcan back again and by the way I did test out DirectX 11 versus Vulcan they're right there on par with each other opengl wasn't great but we've got those other options to run these games pretty well and the final thing I wanted to test here at least for this video was some GameCube emulation using the Dolphin Emulator we've got Soul Calibur 2 running at 60fps but we are at the gamecube's native resolutions I'm also using the DirectX 11 backend and it seems to function a lot better on this chip versus Vulcan or of course opengl but a lot of these games will run at full speed as long as you're at 1X the harder to emulate stop like f-zero GX is kind of out of the question on the harder to emulate tracks Automotive Lista was in the lower to mid 50s even at 1X so I mean there are a lot of games that'll run at full speed but don't expect to be able to do the full Library here given the CPU we have so first impressions it performs way better than I thought it was gonna with that n4020 we've got an older CPU here two cores two threads and would have been really nice to see a new n6000 series CPU in here just to get a little more performance out of it and I'll tell you if you're thinking about getting one of these and you want to run Windows on it go with the eight gigabyte model four gigs just isn't going to cut it with Windows 11 anymore you could always install a cut down version of Windows 11 but I haven't ate just off the gate is really going to help out after seeing what we've done with Windows here I definitely want to install Linux on this and get some testing out of the way so if that's something you're interested in seeing let me know in the comments below and if you want to learn a little more I'll leave a link in the description to the hackboard website but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watchingforeign what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a brand new x86 single board computer coming to the market known as the hackboard 2. now about two years ago we took a look at the hackboard on the channel and this was actually planned to come out about a year after the original but as we know at that time there's a lot of stuff going on in the world with manufacturing and you know getting your hands on electronics so this was kind of halted until now this is available over on the website right now I'll leave some links in the description and they also offered some accessories for the hackboard too like this heatsink case this will keep it protected and nice and cool and since this board uses an x86 CPU we've got a lot of different operating system choices over on the website you can actually opt to get Linux pre-installed on the 64 gigabyte SSD or you can go with Windows 11 Pro it's up to you in this video we're going to be testing out windows 11 Pro and I definitely want to check out some 4K video playback some light gaming and emulation on this board but if there's interest than seeing Linux running on this just let me know in the comments below so Inside the Box it looks like we get a 12 volt 36 watt power supply also have a smaller heatsink here which will help out with dissipating heat from that CPU but going with something a bit beefier will help out in the long run we've also got a regional wall adapters and the hackboard 2 itself on paper looks like a really interesting little board we've got a lot of i o here for what we have three USB 3.0 ports USB type-c full size HDMI we've also got gpio and the base model comes with a 64 gigabyte SSD but it can be upgraded to a four terabyte SSD on this unit we've got two m.2 slots on this board taking a look around the board and I'm going to call this the front we've got three full-size USB 3.0 ports physical power button over here on this side moving around to the back we've got a full size HDMI port our power input and USB type c unfortunately this USB type-c port cannot be used to power the board even though this does run on 12 volts over the included power supply this also includes 40 gpio pens laid out just like the Raspberry Pi we've got a fan connector a battery connector and a USB 2.0 connector so we can have external USB 2 on this unit this board can also support a 4G or a 5G cellular module it is sold separately but our nano SIM card slot is right here we've also got an EDP display port it'll do 2160 by 1440 and our touch interface down here on the bottom and since I have it here I figured we'd go ahead and install that hackboard 2 case I think it looks really nice pulling it out it's made of full aluminum it's a two-piece design so we've got the top plate here which is going to make contact with the CPU keeping it nice and cool and the bottom section does have kind of a little bit of a dish design so we can add two m.2s to this board with heatsinks pre-installed without any kind of issues goes together very easily with just four screws we have access to all of our external i o and this Gap here will allow us to connect that EDP touch display we've got plenty of room in this little case and I think it looks really good very minimalistic but it'll keep this thing protected and cool and by the way one thing I should have mentioned is I have installed an RTC battery to keep those bio settings and when it comes to the specs for the CPU we've got the Intel Celeron n4020 this is a dual core x86 CPU with two threads up to 2.8 gigahertz built-in Intel HD graphics at 600 megahertz you can pick this up with either four or eight gigabytes of RAM and it utilizes LP ddr4 running at 2400 megahertz we've got two m.2 SATA ports on this unit dual band AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.1 and this is capable of running Linux or Windows and if you head over to their website now you've got the choice of Debian or Windows 11 Pro pre-installed when you pick one of these up okay so like I mentioned this one came pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro you can also opt for Linux you know straight out of the box or you can install an operating system that you like obviously we've got an x86 CPU here not the most powerful one on the market given that we only have two cores and two threads but it does go up to 2.8 gigahertz so far not too shabby I mean everything loads up really quickly just head over to the hackboard website as you can see got some more information about the board itself and if you're interested in learning a little more I will leave a link in the description here but I definitely wanted to test out some 4K video playback so we're gonna head over to YouTube real quick we'll make sure we're at 4K this is 4K 60 HDR and you know we've tested this chip in the past even though we've got two cores here it actually does a great job at 4K video playback go right through here and I was actually expecting to see a few more drop frames but throughout this whole video we only had eight at 4K 60. so little media device pretty great obviously since we're running 4K this well it's going to handle 720 and 1080 without an issue not bad for 4K video playback on this little board and you know we've seen this chip a lot in lower end laptops but we're never able to really run it at the higher wattages right now we're at a 15 watt TDP it's not going to reach 15 watts but we can max out the GPU and CPU at the same time at 15 watts it's actually about 13 watts in total the heatsink case I have installed does dissipate heat very nicely and you know if you're maxed out for about 20 minutes you can hit thermal throttle at 13 Watts even with the case on but 99 of the time even while gaming you're not going to be maxing it out at 13 watt so you should be good to go with the heatsink case but the next thing I wanted to take a look at was some light gaming obviously we're not going to be able to play cyberpunk 2077 on something like this but some indie games and older stuff may work really well so let's go ahead and jump into cuphead I've set the main resolution of the board to 900p with this game and uh we're at 60fps but as you can see that m4020 is maxed out here but we're running this game at 60 FPS uh that UHD 600 about 50 utilization with this but this is definitely an easier one to run and so is the next one we've got dead cells again still set at 900p of the base resolution with this board here 60 FPS not bad we can actually go up to around 83 if we turn vsync off but I kind of wanted to keep everything as low as possible here just to see what we could do with these indie games they're running really good going back a bit to uh bully this is one I haven't played in a long time and I'll tell you the PC version will go up to 1080p that's what we're at right now it's locked at 30. I'm not exactly sure if I can go in you know to the configuration file and set this to 60 or not but it originally ran at 30 FPS and we can run this at full speed and finally Half-Life 2 900p medium settings 60fps this will do around 94 if we turn vsync off on it but again I wanted to keep those temps down and we only hit a maximum of around 76 degrees Celsius with this heatsink case Indie Games older PC games will run pretty decently on this of course we do have that CPU maxed out but the next thing I wanted to test out was some emulation so we're going to start off here with Dreamcast I'm using the redream emulator and we're upscale to 1280x960. I had a good feeling we were going to run this at full speed and you can see since we're not running a PC game our GPU and CPU utilization is way down here because a lot of these emulators only like one core they only need one core and we can go up to 2.8 with Dreamcast we should be able to do the whole Library here at 1280 by 960. I mean as long as the game's compatible with the emulator be it re-dream or even Fly cast you're going to be good to go with Dreamcast emulation on the hackboard too taking it up a little bit to PSP using the Standalone version of PPSSPP 2x resolution Vulcan back again we've got Ridge Racer here running at full speed not a super hard game to run but I did want to run these 60 FPS games and of course when it comes to PSP emulation there's one we definitely have to get out of the way and that's God of War chains of Olympus unfortunately at 2x we do have some dips into the mid 50s so I had to take this down to one ax but we're still using the Vulcan back again and by the way I did test out DirectX 11 versus Vulcan they're right there on par with each other opengl wasn't great but we've got those other options to run these games pretty well and the final thing I wanted to test here at least for this video was some GameCube emulation using the Dolphin Emulator we've got Soul Calibur 2 running at 60fps but we are at the gamecube's native resolutions I'm also using the DirectX 11 backend and it seems to function a lot better on this chip versus Vulcan or of course opengl but a lot of these games will run at full speed as long as you're at 1X the harder to emulate stop like f-zero GX is kind of out of the question on the harder to emulate tracks Automotive Lista was in the lower to mid 50s even at 1X so I mean there are a lot of games that'll run at full speed but don't expect to be able to do the full Library here given the CPU we have so first impressions it performs way better than I thought it was gonna with that n4020 we've got an older CPU here two cores two threads and would have been really nice to see a new n6000 series CPU in here just to get a little more performance out of it and I'll tell you if you're thinking about getting one of these and you want to run Windows on it go with the eight gigabyte model four gigs just isn't going to cut it with Windows 11 anymore you could always install a cut down version of Windows 11 but I haven't ate just off the gate is really going to help out after seeing what we've done with Windows here I definitely want to install Linux on this and get some testing out of the way so if that's something you're interested in seeing let me know in the comments below and if you want to learn a little more I'll leave a link in the description to the hackboard website but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watchingforeign what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a brand new x86 single board computer coming to the market known as the hackboard 2. now about two years ago we took a look at the hackboard on the channel and this was actually planned to come out about a year after the original but as we know at that time there's a lot of stuff going on in the world with manufacturing and you know getting your hands on electronics so this was kind of halted until now this is available over on the website right now I'll leave some links in the description and they also offered some accessories for the hackboard too like this heatsink case this will keep it protected and nice and cool and since this board uses an x86 CPU we've got a lot of different operating system choices over on the website you can actually opt to get Linux pre-installed on the 64 gigabyte SSD or you can go with Windows 11 Pro it's up to you in this video we're going to be testing out windows 11 Pro and I definitely want to check out some 4K video playback some light gaming and emulation on this board but if there's interest than seeing Linux running on this just let me know in the comments below so Inside the Box it looks like we get a 12 volt 36 watt power supply also have a smaller heatsink here which will help out with dissipating heat from that CPU but going with something a bit beefier will help out in the long run we've also got a regional wall adapters and the hackboard 2 itself on paper looks like a really interesting little board we've got a lot of i o here for what we have three USB 3.0 ports USB type-c full size HDMI we've also got gpio and the base model comes with a 64 gigabyte SSD but it can be upgraded to a four terabyte SSD on this unit we've got two m.2 slots on this board taking a look around the board and I'm going to call this the front we've got three full-size USB 3.0 ports physical power button over here on this side moving around to the back we've got a full size HDMI port our power input and USB type c unfortunately this USB type-c port cannot be used to power the board even though this does run on 12 volts over the included power supply this also includes 40 gpio pens laid out just like the Raspberry Pi we've got a fan connector a battery connector and a USB 2.0 connector so we can have external USB 2 on this unit this board can also support a 4G or a 5G cellular module it is sold separately but our nano SIM card slot is right here we've also got an EDP display port it'll do 2160 by 1440 and our touch interface down here on the bottom and since I have it here I figured we'd go ahead and install that hackboard 2 case I think it looks really nice pulling it out it's made of full aluminum it's a two-piece design so we've got the top plate here which is going to make contact with the CPU keeping it nice and cool and the bottom section does have kind of a little bit of a dish design so we can add two m.2s to this board with heatsinks pre-installed without any kind of issues goes together very easily with just four screws we have access to all of our external i o and this Gap here will allow us to connect that EDP touch display we've got plenty of room in this little case and I think it looks really good very minimalistic but it'll keep this thing protected and cool and by the way one thing I should have mentioned is I have installed an RTC battery to keep those bio settings and when it comes to the specs for the CPU we've got the Intel Celeron n4020 this is a dual core x86 CPU with two threads up to 2.8 gigahertz built-in Intel HD graphics at 600 megahertz you can pick this up with either four or eight gigabytes of RAM and it utilizes LP ddr4 running at 2400 megahertz we've got two m.2 SATA ports on this unit dual band AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.1 and this is capable of running Linux or Windows and if you head over to their website now you've got the choice of Debian or Windows 11 Pro pre-installed when you pick one of these up okay so like I mentioned this one came pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro you can also opt for Linux you know straight out of the box or you can install an operating system that you like obviously we've got an x86 CPU here not the most powerful one on the market given that we only have two cores and two threads but it does go up to 2.8 gigahertz so far not too shabby I mean everything loads up really quickly just head over to the hackboard website as you can see got some more information about the board itself and if you're interested in learning a little more I will leave a link in the description here but I definitely wanted to test out some 4K video playback so we're gonna head over to YouTube real quick we'll make sure we're at 4K this is 4K 60 HDR and you know we've tested this chip in the past even though we've got two cores here it actually does a great job at 4K video playback go right through here and I was actually expecting to see a few more drop frames but throughout this whole video we only had eight at 4K 60. so little media device pretty great obviously since we're running 4K this well it's going to handle 720 and 1080 without an issue not bad for 4K video playback on this little board and you know we've seen this chip a lot in lower end laptops but we're never able to really run it at the higher wattages right now we're at a 15 watt TDP it's not going to reach 15 watts but we can max out the GPU and CPU at the same time at 15 watts it's actually about 13 watts in total the heatsink case I have installed does dissipate heat very nicely and you know if you're maxed out for about 20 minutes you can hit thermal throttle at 13 Watts even with the case on but 99 of the time even while gaming you're not going to be maxing it out at 13 watt so you should be good to go with the heatsink case but the next thing I wanted to take a look at was some light gaming obviously we're not going to be able to play cyberpunk 2077 on something like this but some indie games and older stuff may work really well so let's go ahead and jump into cuphead I've set the main resolution of the board to 900p with this game and uh we're at 60fps but as you can see that m4020 is maxed out here but we're running this game at 60 FPS uh that UHD 600 about 50 utilization with this but this is definitely an easier one to run and so is the next one we've got dead cells again still set at 900p of the base resolution with this board here 60 FPS not bad we can actually go up to around 83 if we turn vsync off but I kind of wanted to keep everything as low as possible here just to see what we could do with these indie games they're running really good going back a bit to uh bully this is one I haven't played in a long time and I'll tell you the PC version will go up to 1080p that's what we're at right now it's locked at 30. I'm not exactly sure if I can go in you know to the configuration file and set this to 60 or not but it originally ran at 30 FPS and we can run this at full speed and finally Half-Life 2 900p medium settings 60fps this will do around 94 if we turn vsync off on it but again I wanted to keep those temps down and we only hit a maximum of around 76 degrees Celsius with this heatsink case Indie Games older PC games will run pretty decently on this of course we do have that CPU maxed out but the next thing I wanted to test out was some emulation so we're going to start off here with Dreamcast I'm using the redream emulator and we're upscale to 1280x960. I had a good feeling we were going to run this at full speed and you can see since we're not running a PC game our GPU and CPU utilization is way down here because a lot of these emulators only like one core they only need one core and we can go up to 2.8 with Dreamcast we should be able to do the whole Library here at 1280 by 960. I mean as long as the game's compatible with the emulator be it re-dream or even Fly cast you're going to be good to go with Dreamcast emulation on the hackboard too taking it up a little bit to PSP using the Standalone version of PPSSPP 2x resolution Vulcan back again we've got Ridge Racer here running at full speed not a super hard game to run but I did want to run these 60 FPS games and of course when it comes to PSP emulation there's one we definitely have to get out of the way and that's God of War chains of Olympus unfortunately at 2x we do have some dips into the mid 50s so I had to take this down to one ax but we're still using the Vulcan back again and by the way I did test out DirectX 11 versus Vulcan they're right there on par with each other opengl wasn't great but we've got those other options to run these games pretty well and the final thing I wanted to test here at least for this video was some GameCube emulation using the Dolphin Emulator we've got Soul Calibur 2 running at 60fps but we are at the gamecube's native resolutions I'm also using the DirectX 11 backend and it seems to function a lot better on this chip versus Vulcan or of course opengl but a lot of these games will run at full speed as long as you're at 1X the harder to emulate stop like f-zero GX is kind of out of the question on the harder to emulate tracks Automotive Lista was in the lower to mid 50s even at 1X so I mean there are a lot of games that'll run at full speed but don't expect to be able to do the full Library here given the CPU we have so first impressions it performs way better than I thought it was gonna with that n4020 we've got an older CPU here two cores two threads and would have been really nice to see a new n6000 series CPU in here just to get a little more performance out of it and I'll tell you if you're thinking about getting one of these and you want to run Windows on it go with the eight gigabyte model four gigs just isn't going to cut it with Windows 11 anymore you could always install a cut down version of Windows 11 but I haven't ate just off the gate is really going to help out after seeing what we've done with Windows here I definitely want to install Linux on this and get some testing out of the way so if that's something you're interested in seeing let me know in the comments below and if you want to learn a little more I'll leave a link in the description to the hackboard website but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watching\n"