**Geekbench 5 Benchmark Results**

The Gmk Nook Box and LarkBox Pro were benchmarked using Geekbench 5, with similar CPU results but different RAM configurations. The LarkBox Pro has six gigs of RAM, while the Gmk Nook Box has four gigs. Despite this difference in RAM, the Gmk Nook Box performed better in single-core scores, beating the LarkBox Pro's result. However, the LarkBox Pro edged out the Gmk Nook Box in multi-core scores.

The benchmarking results are as follows:

* Single-core score: Gmk Nook Box - 1335, LarkBox Pro - 1341

* Multi-core score: LarkBox Pro - 2399, Gmk Nook Box - 2374

**Cinebench R23 Benchmark Results**

The Gmk Nook Box was also benchmarked using Cinebench R23, a multi-threaded rendering test. The CPU clocked up to 2.6 GHz while running this test, and the temperature remained relatively low at 79 degrees Celsius.

The results of the Cinebench R23 test are as follows:

* Score: 1370

* Temperature: 79°C

The test was run for 10 minutes, with the CPU clocking up to 2.6 GHz during this time. Despite running a demanding test, the temperature remained under control.

**PC Gaming Performance**

The Gmk Nook Box was also tested for PC gaming performance using popular titles such as Skyrim, Overwatch, and CS:GO.

* Skyrim (720p, low settings): Average frame rate of 34 FPS

* Overwatch (720p, low settings): Average frame rate of 31 FPS

* CS:GO (720p, very low settings): Average frame rate of 28 FPS

The Gmk Nook Box's GPU clocked up to 600 MHz during these tests.

**Average CPU Temperatures and Power Consumption**

The Gmk Nook Box's average CPU temperatures were as follows:

* Idle: 48°C

* 4K video playback: 54°C

* Gaming (average): 70°C

Power consumption was also measured, with the following results:

* Idle: 4.4W

* 4K video playback: 8.3W

* Gaming (average): 18.3W

* Maximum power consumption: 25.6W

**Conclusion**

The Gmk Nook Box performed well for a mini PC, with good CPU performance and relatively low temperatures. While it may not be the best option for PC gaming due to its limited GPU capabilities, it is a good choice for general use such as browsing, office work, and media playback.

The LarkBox Pro's identical hardware configuration makes it a viable alternative, but at a slightly lower price point. However, if you need eight gigs of RAM, the Gmk Nook Box may be worth considering due to its extra memory. The choice ultimately comes down to whether the additional cost is justified by the need for more RAM.

**Comparison with LarkBox Pro**

The Gmk Nook Box and LarkBox Pro have identical hardware configurations, except for the amount of RAM. The LarkBox Pro has six gigs of RAM, while the Gmk Nook Box has four gigs. Despite this difference in RAM, the results of our benchmarking tests were very similar.

In terms of performance, both PCs performed well, but the Gmk Nook Box may have a slight edge in single-core scores. The LarkBox Pro's multi-core scores were higher, however.

Overall, while there are some minor differences between the two PCs, they are essentially identical in terms of hardware and performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys this eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at another super tiny mini pc this is the gmk nook box now to some regular viewers this actually might look familiar because i have done a review on this unit but the one i actually received was a pre-production or a development unit and unfortunately performance wasn't great with that one due to cooling issues with that original unit but i finally got my hands on a full production unit this is the one that you can actually get from their website i believe they're on amazon also i'll leave some links in the description and in this video we're gonna see how this really performs now as you can see the gmk nook box is tiny i mean it's a palm size 4k mini pc that's capable of running windows 10 linux and other operating systems it's got an x86 cpu there's not a lot of io on here but there's not much more room on here to fit anymore and overall i'm a big fan of this form factor but we have seen a slew of these palm size mini 4k pcs now along with the unit itself inside of the box you're also going to receive your power supply and even if we include the power supply in the total size of the nook box this thing is still a super small mini pc now like i said there have been a few of these released we have the larkbox the larkbox pro i think xiaomi's got one coming and i've actually seen a few other chinese manufacturers coming out with a pc that basically looks exactly the same here so on the front of the nook box we don't have much going on except for a status led and our power button moving around to the right hand side we have a micro sd card slot and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack round back usb type c only there for power full size hdmi and two usb 3.0 ports this is an actively cooled pc so we do have a fan built in here and at full blast you can here i mean it's not super annoying but it is audible when this thing is at full bow real quick i wanted to give you a little size comparison between the all new larkbox pro versus the gmk nook box as you can see they're basically the same thing we have different cases here the top is a bit different we have a different vent style on this the gmk nook box pulls in air from the top vents it out the rear the larkbox pro pulls it in from the top and vents it out of the front of the unit but the gmk nook box actually has more ram than the larkbox pro coming in at eight gigs instead of six taking a look at the specs of the nook box for the cpu we have the intel j4125 this is a quad-core cpu up to 2.7 gigahertz on all four cores the gpus the built-in intel uhd 600 graphics up to 750 megahertz eight gigs of lp ddr4 this is non-user upgradable and it's running at 2133 megahertz storage on this thing is handled by a user replaceable 128 gigabyte m.2 ssd you just need to pull the bottom off and it will support up to a 512 m.2 ssd if you wanted to upgrade it down the road we have 802.11 ac wi-fi bluetooth 4.2 and it does come pre-installed with windows 10 home 64-bit for this video i want to test the overall usability of this little box we're going to measure the temperatures we'll measure power draw i'm going to test some gaming some 4k video playback and web browsing like i said comes pre-installed with windows 10 home 64-bit so let's go ahead and get right into it okay so here it is the gmk nook box now i've already run some tests just to make sure that they have this thing working properly because with that initial unit that i received the development unit we weren't getting good performance at all because the cpu wouldn't boost up to its maximum frequency and the gpu would stay around 450 to 300 megahertz which was really killing the performance on this unit now with this one here we still have that j4125 at 2 gigahertz with a boost up to 2.7 8 gigs of lp ddr4 ram running at 2133 megahertz and the uhd 600 graphics first test iran was just a quick graphics test uh with cpu-z we can see the core of the graphics idling around 400 megahertz but if i put a load on it here it will jump up to 650 megahertz to 600 so we are getting that boost on the gpu and this is a really good sign for the gmk nook box so we now know that the built-in intel uhd graphics can work at their maximum frequency with the last one it was really low and it was really killing performance so uh first things first web browsing really smooth here let's just head over to raspberry pi website usually a quick test i run everything loads up nice and i am connected to my ac wi-fi five gigahertz check out this stargate here pretty awesome little project in the latest magpie but yeah i mean web browsing has been a treat on this little unit all of these little j4125 cpus have done a great job with web browsing and when it comes to 4k video playback it is totally possible here so let me go ahead and pause this i'm gonna get everything ready make sure we're sitting at 4k stats for nerds we'll go full screen with it and let me just reset this 1080p and we'll take it back up to 4k just so we can reset that frame counter up here on the initial load in got some drop frames but overall these little chips do handle 4k video playback at least 4k video streaming really well and with those frames there you'll never see them with the naked eye i mean you'd never notice that this was dropping 12 frames out of 1200 so definitely possible to stream 4k on these units next up i wanted to run a couple benchmarks so first up we have geekbench 5. on the top we have the gmk nukebox on the bottom we have the new larkbox pro basically the same unit they have the same cpu similar form factors but the larkbox pro has six gigs of ram it's not gonna affect the score here but it looks like they really did some tuning in the bios for the gmk nook box because we did beat out the lockbox pro in single and multi-core scores next up we have cenobench r23 and i'm not really running this for the score so i'm really running this for the heat when it comes to r23 of cinebench it runs this for 10 minutes it'll run it over and over again and by the end of this i want to see how hot this little unit gets i'm kind of monitoring the cpu temperature in the background and the cpu is clocking up to 2.6 gigahertz while running this so i'm gonna go ahead and let this finish up and then we'll check out the score and the temps all right so my test is finished here uh total score here for cinebench r23 1370 definitely super low on the board here as you can see but my temperature didn't go over 79 degrees celsius and we were at 2.6 gigahertz the whole time the fan was definitely spinning up the whole time i was running this but i actually thought that we'd see much higher temperatures here especially running this for 10 minutes straight moving over to some pc gaming first up we have the original skyrim 720p low settings keep in mind i mean this is a low end chipset here so it's not going to run this at 60fps but i got an average of 34 fps and as you can see that gpu is clocking up to 600 megahertz here next up overwatch 720p low settings 50 resolution scale by the end of this i was getting an average of 31 fps not bad for a super mini pc but i wouldn't pick one of these up specifically to play pc games on and finally for pc gaming we have cs go 720p very low settings by the end of this i was getting 28 fps and i was really hoping we could get over that 30 hump but unfortunately it's just not cutting it couple last things i like to test with these mini pcs is average cpu temps and power consumption as for the cpu temps it idles around 48 degrees celsius 4k video playback it jumps up to 54 gaming on average 70 degrees celsius and throwing an extreme test at it which consists of running 3d mark time spy and cinebench at the same time it did hit 89 degrees celsius but you'll be hard-pressed to hit these kind of temps that's more of an extreme test total power consumption from the wall looks really good at idle 4.4 watts 4k video playback 8.3 gaming on average 18.3 and the maximum i could get this to pull from the wall was 25.6 watts so in the end i think the final form of the gmk nook box performs really well for a mini pc it's definitely on par with the larkbox pro but it does come in a bit more expensive given that we have eight gigs of ram now i wouldn't run out and replace my lark box or larkbox pro with something like this because basically we're getting kind of the same unit here with two more gigs of ram but if you're in the market for a mini pc and you have to have that eight gigs of ram i think this is definitely one to look at we head over to amazon you can see that the larkbox pro is going for 179 so 180 and the nook box is going for 219 but if you have prime there's a 20 off coupon making this 200 so it's only 20 more than the larkbox pro and we're getting those extra two gigs of ram so in the end it's really up to you is that extra ram worth another 20 bucks because they do perform pretty much exactly the same well that's gonna wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching i'm glad to see that gmk did fix all those issues we were having with the development unit or the early units that were shipped out that heat was just way too much and it really came down to the heatsink really not making contact with the cpu so that's definitely fixed with the retail version and performance here for j4125 mini pc is actually really good if you have any questions or if you want to see anything else running on this tiny pc just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on guys this eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at another super tiny mini pc this is the gmk nook box now to some regular viewers this actually might look familiar because i have done a review on this unit but the one i actually received was a pre-production or a development unit and unfortunately performance wasn't great with that one due to cooling issues with that original unit but i finally got my hands on a full production unit this is the one that you can actually get from their website i believe they're on amazon also i'll leave some links in the description and in this video we're gonna see how this really performs now as you can see the gmk nook box is tiny i mean it's a palm size 4k mini pc that's capable of running windows 10 linux and other operating systems it's got an x86 cpu there's not a lot of io on here but there's not much more room on here to fit anymore and overall i'm a big fan of this form factor but we have seen a slew of these palm size mini 4k pcs now along with the unit itself inside of the box you're also going to receive your power supply and even if we include the power supply in the total size of the nook box this thing is still a super small mini pc now like i said there have been a few of these released we have the larkbox the larkbox pro i think xiaomi's got one coming and i've actually seen a few other chinese manufacturers coming out with a pc that basically looks exactly the same here so on the front of the nook box we don't have much going on except for a status led and our power button moving around to the right hand side we have a micro sd card slot and a 3.5 millimeter audio jack round back usb type c only there for power full size hdmi and two usb 3.0 ports this is an actively cooled pc so we do have a fan built in here and at full blast you can here i mean it's not super annoying but it is audible when this thing is at full bow real quick i wanted to give you a little size comparison between the all new larkbox pro versus the gmk nook box as you can see they're basically the same thing we have different cases here the top is a bit different we have a different vent style on this the gmk nook box pulls in air from the top vents it out the rear the larkbox pro pulls it in from the top and vents it out of the front of the unit but the gmk nook box actually has more ram than the larkbox pro coming in at eight gigs instead of six taking a look at the specs of the nook box for the cpu we have the intel j4125 this is a quad-core cpu up to 2.7 gigahertz on all four cores the gpus the built-in intel uhd 600 graphics up to 750 megahertz eight gigs of lp ddr4 this is non-user upgradable and it's running at 2133 megahertz storage on this thing is handled by a user replaceable 128 gigabyte m.2 ssd you just need to pull the bottom off and it will support up to a 512 m.2 ssd if you wanted to upgrade it down the road we have 802.11 ac wi-fi bluetooth 4.2 and it does come pre-installed with windows 10 home 64-bit for this video i want to test the overall usability of this little box we're going to measure the temperatures we'll measure power draw i'm going to test some gaming some 4k video playback and web browsing like i said comes pre-installed with windows 10 home 64-bit so let's go ahead and get right into it okay so here it is the gmk nook box now i've already run some tests just to make sure that they have this thing working properly because with that initial unit that i received the development unit we weren't getting good performance at all because the cpu wouldn't boost up to its maximum frequency and the gpu would stay around 450 to 300 megahertz which was really killing the performance on this unit now with this one here we still have that j4125 at 2 gigahertz with a boost up to 2.7 8 gigs of lp ddr4 ram running at 2133 megahertz and the uhd 600 graphics first test iran was just a quick graphics test uh with cpu-z we can see the core of the graphics idling around 400 megahertz but if i put a load on it here it will jump up to 650 megahertz to 600 so we are getting that boost on the gpu and this is a really good sign for the gmk nook box so we now know that the built-in intel uhd graphics can work at their maximum frequency with the last one it was really low and it was really killing performance so uh first things first web browsing really smooth here let's just head over to raspberry pi website usually a quick test i run everything loads up nice and i am connected to my ac wi-fi five gigahertz check out this stargate here pretty awesome little project in the latest magpie but yeah i mean web browsing has been a treat on this little unit all of these little j4125 cpus have done a great job with web browsing and when it comes to 4k video playback it is totally possible here so let me go ahead and pause this i'm gonna get everything ready make sure we're sitting at 4k stats for nerds we'll go full screen with it and let me just reset this 1080p and we'll take it back up to 4k just so we can reset that frame counter up here on the initial load in got some drop frames but overall these little chips do handle 4k video playback at least 4k video streaming really well and with those frames there you'll never see them with the naked eye i mean you'd never notice that this was dropping 12 frames out of 1200 so definitely possible to stream 4k on these units next up i wanted to run a couple benchmarks so first up we have geekbench 5. on the top we have the gmk nukebox on the bottom we have the new larkbox pro basically the same unit they have the same cpu similar form factors but the larkbox pro has six gigs of ram it's not gonna affect the score here but it looks like they really did some tuning in the bios for the gmk nook box because we did beat out the lockbox pro in single and multi-core scores next up we have cenobench r23 and i'm not really running this for the score so i'm really running this for the heat when it comes to r23 of cinebench it runs this for 10 minutes it'll run it over and over again and by the end of this i want to see how hot this little unit gets i'm kind of monitoring the cpu temperature in the background and the cpu is clocking up to 2.6 gigahertz while running this so i'm gonna go ahead and let this finish up and then we'll check out the score and the temps all right so my test is finished here uh total score here for cinebench r23 1370 definitely super low on the board here as you can see but my temperature didn't go over 79 degrees celsius and we were at 2.6 gigahertz the whole time the fan was definitely spinning up the whole time i was running this but i actually thought that we'd see much higher temperatures here especially running this for 10 minutes straight moving over to some pc gaming first up we have the original skyrim 720p low settings keep in mind i mean this is a low end chipset here so it's not going to run this at 60fps but i got an average of 34 fps and as you can see that gpu is clocking up to 600 megahertz here next up overwatch 720p low settings 50 resolution scale by the end of this i was getting an average of 31 fps not bad for a super mini pc but i wouldn't pick one of these up specifically to play pc games on and finally for pc gaming we have cs go 720p very low settings by the end of this i was getting 28 fps and i was really hoping we could get over that 30 hump but unfortunately it's just not cutting it couple last things i like to test with these mini pcs is average cpu temps and power consumption as for the cpu temps it idles around 48 degrees celsius 4k video playback it jumps up to 54 gaming on average 70 degrees celsius and throwing an extreme test at it which consists of running 3d mark time spy and cinebench at the same time it did hit 89 degrees celsius but you'll be hard-pressed to hit these kind of temps that's more of an extreme test total power consumption from the wall looks really good at idle 4.4 watts 4k video playback 8.3 gaming on average 18.3 and the maximum i could get this to pull from the wall was 25.6 watts so in the end i think the final form of the gmk nook box performs really well for a mini pc it's definitely on par with the larkbox pro but it does come in a bit more expensive given that we have eight gigs of ram now i wouldn't run out and replace my lark box or larkbox pro with something like this because basically we're getting kind of the same unit here with two more gigs of ram but if you're in the market for a mini pc and you have to have that eight gigs of ram i think this is definitely one to look at we head over to amazon you can see that the larkbox pro is going for 179 so 180 and the nook box is going for 219 but if you have prime there's a 20 off coupon making this 200 so it's only 20 more than the larkbox pro and we're getting those extra two gigs of ram so in the end it's really up to you is that extra ram worth another 20 bucks because they do perform pretty much exactly the same well that's gonna wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching i'm glad to see that gmk did fix all those issues we were having with the development unit or the early units that were shipped out that heat was just way too much and it really came down to the heatsink really not making contact with the cpu so that's definitely fixed with the retail version and performance here for j4125 mini pc is actually really good if you have any questions or if you want to see anything else running on this tiny pc just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"