**4K Gaming on Linux with Intel Core i912 900K Processor**

We're excited to share our latest experiment with 4K gaming on Linux using the Intel Core i912 900K processor. This high-end CPU has been tested extensively for its performance, and we were eager to see how it would hold up in a variety of games and emulators.

**Testing Doom Eternal at 4K Nightmare Settings**

We started by testing Doom Eternal at 4K nightmare settings, with the game's graphics card set to maximum performance. As expected, this setup resulted in an average frame rate of over 100 FPS, making it one of the smoothest experiences we've had so far with Linux gaming.

I didn't go for ultra nightmare but it would definitely handle it you know over 60. but right now with it set up like this we can get well over 100 fps on average with this and uh definitely plays really really well so far i've just been filming this 4k benq monitor but recently i picked up a new game capture card which actually allows me to capture in 4k so we're going to go ahead and plug everything in there that way we can get a better look at these games

**Testing God of War at 4K Ultra with DLSS**

Next, we tested God of War at 4K ultra with DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) set to quality mode. As expected, this resulted in an average frame rate of over 100 FPS, demonstrating the power of Linux gaming with the Intel Core i912 900K processor.

We were able to get over 100 fps with dlss set to performance but with it set up like this we're getting an average of around 74 fps with no dlss on i actually did see it dipped down to around 58 every once in a while and that's why it's enabled here

**Testing Elden Ring at 4K Maximum Settings**

We also tested Elden Ring at 4K maximum settings, which was surprising given the game's notoriously demanding requirements. However, we were able to run the game at a constant 60 FPS with no issues whatsoever.

we're totally maxed out here i haven't seen it dipped under 60 whatsoever and performance is amazing with this setup

**Testing Project Cars 2 at 4K Ultra**

Next up was Project Cars 2 at 4K ultra, which was one of our favorite racing games. To our surprise, we were able to run the game at a blistering 101 FPS, demonstrating the power of Linux gaming on the Intel Core i912 900K processor.

i know it's a little older title but this is one of my favorite racing games still to this day and it looks really really good at 4k ultra i didn't think we'd have any issues here and we're getting an average of 101 fps out of it

**Testing Injustice 2**

We also tested Injustice 2, another game that's notoriously difficult to run on Linux. However, the Intel Core i912 900K processor proved up to the task, delivering smooth performance at 4K ultra with no issues whatsoever.

injustice 2 is another one i always like to test with linux and we're totally maxed out at 4k every once in a while you'll see that frame counter you know fluctuate between 59 and 60. i personally wouldn't worry about this it's something you would never notice the only reason i know it's doing it is because i have the frame counter on screen right now

**Testing Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K Ultra**

Finally, we tested Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K ultra without DLSS. Unfortunately, we were disappointed to find that the game struggled to deliver smooth performance, resulting in an average frame rate of just 36 FPS.

i'm not really thrilled with the performance here we're getting an average of 36 so your best bet right now is to turn dlss to performance little disappointing and i've tested this a lot on linux but it was always with an amd gpu and in my experience this game does perform much better with amd gpus and linux

**Testing High-End Emulation**

We also put the Intel Core i912 900K processor through its paces with high-end emulation. We tested several PS3 games using RPCS3, including God of War III: Betrayal and Skate 3. The results were impressive, with all games running smoothly at 60 FPS without any issues.

**Testing Original Xbox Games**

Finally, we tested some original Xbox games using xemu, including Sega GT 2002. While this emulator is notoriously difficult to run on Linux, the Intel Core i912 900K processor proved up to the task, delivering smooth performance even with a high CPU load.

and finally here we've got some original xbox using xemu we're at 2x res and this is one of those games i always like to test with different cpus at the time but it was only possible now since we have the new cpu

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be doing some gaming on linux with the all new intel nut dragon canyon now this thing is a monster i mean this will basically run anything in windows at 4k ultra i haven't run into any game that went under 60 fps at 4k ultra with it and it really comes down to that cpu and gpu they're using in this unit we've got an alder lake i9 12900 it's a non-k variant and the gpu here is an rtx 3080. we've also got 32 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and for a small form factor pc this thing performs absolutely amazingly in windows now i've really wanted to install linux on this so that's exactly what i've done here we're going to be running manjaro linux which is based on arch and we're going to test out some of our favorite pc games using steam play otherwise known as proton and i'm going to throw a couple emulators in here by the end like ps3 and original xbox but before we jump into the testing i do want to mention that this video is sponsored by simply nut they were kind enough to send the dragon canyon otherwise known as the nook 12 extreme over for review fully loaded and i think the coolest part about this whole thing is they're actually giving one away that's basically an exact replica so yeah simply nook is partnering up with intel to give away a fully loaded intel nut 12 extreme this is known as the dragon canyon and they're also going to be throwing in a cherry mouse and keyboard but if you're not familiar with simply nook they specialize in all things mini pc from business applications to gaming pcs obviously we've got an awesome little gaming pc here they were founded in 2015 and their headquarters are right here in the united states in round rock texas and yeah they're going to be giving away an exact replica of the one we're going to be testing out in this video and right off the bat just judging by the specs this thing is going to be able to run anything you throw at it all the information you need to enter is linked in the description they are the only ones that are going to contact you nobody will contact you in the comments of this video if you're a winner this is all going through a third-party giveaway site known as gleam and there's several ways to enter and along with the fully loaded intel nup12 extreme they're going to be bundling it with a cherry mx 3.0 s gaming keyboard and a cherry mc 3.1 gaming mouse so if you're interested in entering the giveaway all links are in the description and again i can't stress it enough if you are a winner you will not be contacted in the comments of this video there's a lot of scams going on right now everything's going through gleam so setting this little pc up with manjaro went really smooth there was only one thing i really needed to enable and that was the 38 and we can do that from the system settings i just needed to download the latest driver get it all updated and it's definitely working out well there are some beta drivers that allow you to use rtx with this but i'm sticking with the latest stable nvidia linux driver here and it's working out great i've got dlss working in steam player proton and overall we're getting some really great gaming and emulation performance in linux on this machine and i kind of expected it too given that we have that powerful alder lake i9 and an rtx 3080 so like i mentioned dlss is working on the system with the latest nvidia driver but from the launch options we do have to add this i'll leave it in the description in case you want to test it out and i didn't want to enable it system wide i'm just using it with games that i know support dlss from the settings another application i utilize a lot while gaming on linux is go overlay this is just a graphical interface for mango hud and it allows us to display all of our performance metrics on screen kind of like after burner for windows but we do get a ton of information here and through all of my testing you will see this on screen right now i've got the resolution of the system set to 1080 but i'm going to go ahead and take it to 4k because that's exactly what we're going to be testing with here with that rtx 3080 i think it's totally possible to basically run anything at 4k even though we're using proton here i only had it at 1080 because it's just a bit easier to see and i didn't want to do any scaling so with all that out of the way let's go ahead and jump right into some gameplay we're going to start off light here with the witcher 3 and here it is going into it i didn't expect to get bad performance i thought we'd be able to run this perfectly fine we're actually getting an average of 83 fps we're at 4k ultra i've even got hair works on as you can see i've got mango hud running on the left hand side gives us our gpu and cpu information and at the very bottom you can see the screen's resolution so we really are at 4k here this game's gonna run just fine next up doom eternal 4k nightmare settings i didn't go to ultra nightmare but it would definitely handle it you know over 60. but right now with it set up like this we can get well over 100 fps on average with this and uh definitely plays really really well so far i've just been filming this 4k benq monitor but recently i picked up a new game capture card which actually allows me to capture in 4k so we're going to go ahead and plug everything in there that way we can get a better look at these games next up we've got god of war 4k ultra with dlss set to quality so uh we can get over 100 fps with dlss set to performance but with it set up like this we're getting an average of around 74 fps with no dlss on i actually did see it dipped down to around 58 every once in a while and that's why it's enabled here here's another one i wanted to test eldon ring 4k maximum settings and to tell you the truth going into this i thought we were going to run into a few issues given that we're running this with proton but it's running at a constant 60. we're totally maxed out here i haven't seen it dipped under 60 whatsoever and performance is amazing with this setup here's project cars 2 4k ultra i know it's a little older title but this is one of my favorite racing games still to this day and it looks really really good at 4k ultra i didn't think we'd have any issues here and we're getting an average of 101 fps out of it injustice 2 is another one i always like to test with linux and we're totally maxed out at 4k every once in a while you'll see that frame counter you know fluctuate between 59 and 60. i personally wouldn't worry about this it's something you would never notice the only reason i know it's doing it is because i have the frame counter on screen right now and finally for the pc gaming side of things we have cyberpunk 2077 4k ultra no dlss and i'm not really thrilled with the performance here we're getting an average of 36 so your best bet right now is to turn dlss to performance little disappointing and i've tested this a lot on linux but it was always with an amd gpu and in my experience this game does perform much better with amd gpus and linux now it's time to test out some high-end emulation in linux and i've said it before but my favorite cpu for emulation is an alder lake cpu be it an i5 or an i9 the best cpu i've tested for emulation so far is the i-912 900k and that's in my main rig done a couple videos on it and it will run anything at 4k so going into it in linux with this hardware i figured we'd get great performance and of course here's ps3 using rpcs3 skate 3 harder one to emulate full speed at 60. and finally here we've got some original xbox using xemu we're at 2x res and this is one of those games i always like to test with different cpus at sega gt 2002 and with this specific emulator the only way i've been able to get it to run at full speed is on an alder lake cpu with an nvidia gpu this just takes a lot out of your cpu but this thing can definitely handle it so in the end the intel knock 12 extreme does perform really well with linux as you saw in this video whether you want a game with it or emulation i will tell you that in windows i was getting better performance with all of the games that i tested but that's kind of expected right now because we're using proton and steam play but it is coming really close i mean linux gaming is getting really really good and to tell you the truth i don't need 100 fps in god of war i could turn v-sync on and everything that i tested so far would run at 60fps ultra settings no problem at all and with it set up like that i could have a really great 4k experience in linux on the intel nut12 extreme but that's going to wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching if there's anything else you want to see running on this nut be it a different operating system more emulators games let me know in the comments below it'd also be really cool if you could hit that subscribe button and maybe turn notifications on if you're interested in videos like this but that's gonna wrap it up for this one like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be doing some gaming on linux with the all new intel nut dragon canyon now this thing is a monster i mean this will basically run anything in windows at 4k ultra i haven't run into any game that went under 60 fps at 4k ultra with it and it really comes down to that cpu and gpu they're using in this unit we've got an alder lake i9 12900 it's a non-k variant and the gpu here is an rtx 3080. we've also got 32 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and for a small form factor pc this thing performs absolutely amazingly in windows now i've really wanted to install linux on this so that's exactly what i've done here we're going to be running manjaro linux which is based on arch and we're going to test out some of our favorite pc games using steam play otherwise known as proton and i'm going to throw a couple emulators in here by the end like ps3 and original xbox but before we jump into the testing i do want to mention that this video is sponsored by simply nut they were kind enough to send the dragon canyon otherwise known as the nook 12 extreme over for review fully loaded and i think the coolest part about this whole thing is they're actually giving one away that's basically an exact replica so yeah simply nook is partnering up with intel to give away a fully loaded intel nut 12 extreme this is known as the dragon canyon and they're also going to be throwing in a cherry mouse and keyboard but if you're not familiar with simply nook they specialize in all things mini pc from business applications to gaming pcs obviously we've got an awesome little gaming pc here they were founded in 2015 and their headquarters are right here in the united states in round rock texas and yeah they're going to be giving away an exact replica of the one we're going to be testing out in this video and right off the bat just judging by the specs this thing is going to be able to run anything you throw at it all the information you need to enter is linked in the description they are the only ones that are going to contact you nobody will contact you in the comments of this video if you're a winner this is all going through a third-party giveaway site known as gleam and there's several ways to enter and along with the fully loaded intel nup12 extreme they're going to be bundling it with a cherry mx 3.0 s gaming keyboard and a cherry mc 3.1 gaming mouse so if you're interested in entering the giveaway all links are in the description and again i can't stress it enough if you are a winner you will not be contacted in the comments of this video there's a lot of scams going on right now everything's going through gleam so setting this little pc up with manjaro went really smooth there was only one thing i really needed to enable and that was the 38 and we can do that from the system settings i just needed to download the latest driver get it all updated and it's definitely working out well there are some beta drivers that allow you to use rtx with this but i'm sticking with the latest stable nvidia linux driver here and it's working out great i've got dlss working in steam player proton and overall we're getting some really great gaming and emulation performance in linux on this machine and i kind of expected it too given that we have that powerful alder lake i9 and an rtx 3080 so like i mentioned dlss is working on the system with the latest nvidia driver but from the launch options we do have to add this i'll leave it in the description in case you want to test it out and i didn't want to enable it system wide i'm just using it with games that i know support dlss from the settings another application i utilize a lot while gaming on linux is go overlay this is just a graphical interface for mango hud and it allows us to display all of our performance metrics on screen kind of like after burner for windows but we do get a ton of information here and through all of my testing you will see this on screen right now i've got the resolution of the system set to 1080 but i'm going to go ahead and take it to 4k because that's exactly what we're going to be testing with here with that rtx 3080 i think it's totally possible to basically run anything at 4k even though we're using proton here i only had it at 1080 because it's just a bit easier to see and i didn't want to do any scaling so with all that out of the way let's go ahead and jump right into some gameplay we're going to start off light here with the witcher 3 and here it is going into it i didn't expect to get bad performance i thought we'd be able to run this perfectly fine we're actually getting an average of 83 fps we're at 4k ultra i've even got hair works on as you can see i've got mango hud running on the left hand side gives us our gpu and cpu information and at the very bottom you can see the screen's resolution so we really are at 4k here this game's gonna run just fine next up doom eternal 4k nightmare settings i didn't go to ultra nightmare but it would definitely handle it you know over 60. but right now with it set up like this we can get well over 100 fps on average with this and uh definitely plays really really well so far i've just been filming this 4k benq monitor but recently i picked up a new game capture card which actually allows me to capture in 4k so we're going to go ahead and plug everything in there that way we can get a better look at these games next up we've got god of war 4k ultra with dlss set to quality so uh we can get over 100 fps with dlss set to performance but with it set up like this we're getting an average of around 74 fps with no dlss on i actually did see it dipped down to around 58 every once in a while and that's why it's enabled here here's another one i wanted to test eldon ring 4k maximum settings and to tell you the truth going into this i thought we were going to run into a few issues given that we're running this with proton but it's running at a constant 60. we're totally maxed out here i haven't seen it dipped under 60 whatsoever and performance is amazing with this setup here's project cars 2 4k ultra i know it's a little older title but this is one of my favorite racing games still to this day and it looks really really good at 4k ultra i didn't think we'd have any issues here and we're getting an average of 101 fps out of it injustice 2 is another one i always like to test with linux and we're totally maxed out at 4k every once in a while you'll see that frame counter you know fluctuate between 59 and 60. i personally wouldn't worry about this it's something you would never notice the only reason i know it's doing it is because i have the frame counter on screen right now and finally for the pc gaming side of things we have cyberpunk 2077 4k ultra no dlss and i'm not really thrilled with the performance here we're getting an average of 36 so your best bet right now is to turn dlss to performance little disappointing and i've tested this a lot on linux but it was always with an amd gpu and in my experience this game does perform much better with amd gpus and linux now it's time to test out some high-end emulation in linux and i've said it before but my favorite cpu for emulation is an alder lake cpu be it an i5 or an i9 the best cpu i've tested for emulation so far is the i-912 900k and that's in my main rig done a couple videos on it and it will run anything at 4k so going into it in linux with this hardware i figured we'd get great performance and of course here's ps3 using rpcs3 skate 3 harder one to emulate full speed at 60. and finally here we've got some original xbox using xemu we're at 2x res and this is one of those games i always like to test with different cpus at sega gt 2002 and with this specific emulator the only way i've been able to get it to run at full speed is on an alder lake cpu with an nvidia gpu this just takes a lot out of your cpu but this thing can definitely handle it so in the end the intel knock 12 extreme does perform really well with linux as you saw in this video whether you want a game with it or emulation i will tell you that in windows i was getting better performance with all of the games that i tested but that's kind of expected right now because we're using proton and steam play but it is coming really close i mean linux gaming is getting really really good and to tell you the truth i don't need 100 fps in god of war i could turn v-sync on and everything that i tested so far would run at 60fps ultra settings no problem at all and with it set up like that i could have a really great 4k experience in linux on the intel nut12 extreme but that's going to wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching if there's anything else you want to see running on this nut be it a different operating system more emulators games let me know in the comments below it'd also be really cool if you could hit that subscribe button and maybe turn notifications on if you're interested in videos like this but that's gonna wrap it up for this one like always thanks for watching\n"