**A Review of the H4 Plus: A Powerhouse Desktop System with Gaming and Emulation Capabilities**

The H4 Plus, a desktop system powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU and AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, is an interesting device that promises to deliver impressive performance in both gaming and emulation. In this review, we'll take a closer look at the H4 Plus's capabilities, including its performance in synthetic benchmarks, PC gaming, and emulation.

**Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks**

Geekbench 6, a popular benchmarking tool for CPUs, showed that the Ryzen 5 5600X CPU scored 1280 points on the single-core test and 2611 points on the multi-core test. Similarly, 3D Mark Wildlife, another synthetic benchmark, scored 4326 points, while Night Raid scored 6511 points. While these scores may not be spectacular compared to high-end gaming PCs, they indicate that the H4 Plus has a solid foundation for general productivity and content creation tasks.

**PC Gaming Performance**

For PC gaming, we ran several titles through the H4 Plus's hardware to see how it would perform. We started with Left 4 Dead 2, an older Valve Source game that can be played at high settings on most modern systems. The H4 Plus delivered smooth performance, averaging around 60 frames per second (FPS) at medium settings. We also tested Battletoads, a new release that initially disappointed us due to its artwork, but still ran smoothly at 900p and low settings.

Hades 2, another popular game, showed some fluctuations in frame rates, but the average was still around 120 FPS at medium settings. In our opinion, this is more than enough for most gamers who want a smooth experience without needing the highest settings possible. For comparison, we also ran OG Sky RAM at low settings on the H4 Plus, which resulted in a slightly lower frame rate but still playable performance.

**Emulation Performance**

For emulation, we tested several popular titles, including Video Games Galore (B.S.S.), Pokémon Red and Blue for the Game Boy Advance using PP Ssvp 3x resolution and DirectX11, and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for the Nintendo GameCube using Windows PSP with PP Ssvp 3x resolution and DirectX11. We were pleasantly surprised by the H4 Plus's emulation performance, which ran smoothly at native resolutions without any significant skips or drops in frame rates.

The Dolphin Emulator, which is notoriously difficult to run on modern systems, worked flawlessly on the H4 Plus, delivering smooth performance at 720p and medium settings. Similarly, PS2 using PC sx2 with DirectX11 showed impressive performance, handling popular titles like God of War II without any hiccups.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the H4 Plus is a powerful desktop system that offers impressive performance in both gaming and emulation. While it may not be able to handle the most demanding games or high-end content creation tasks, it's more than capable of delivering smooth performance for everyday use cases like web browsing, email checking, and document editing.

The $99 version of the H4 Plus is a great option for those who want to get into PC gaming and emulation without breaking the bank. However, we recommend upgrading to the higher-end model if you plan on using it for more demanding tasks or applications that require high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs).

For Linux users, the H4 Plus will perform well with Vulcan and OpenG, which are designed to provide a better performance and compatibility with modern games and applications.

Overall, we're excited about the potential of the H4 Plus as a gaming and emulation platform, and we'll continue to test it extensively to see how it performs in different scenarios.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a new x86 powered single board computer from o Droid known as the H4 in fact they've actually got three different models of the new H4 we're going to be taking a look at the H4 plus model but they've got the H4 which is coming in at $99 the H4 plus which is $1 139 and the H4 Ultra which is coming in at $199 which does pack a more powerful CPU and igpu but what we've got here is their mid-range model at 139 and keep in mind if you're just looking for the performance here and not the extra I/O like the SATA ports here and the extra ethernet port you can save 40 bucks and just pick up the H4 model for 99 you will get the same kind of performance we're going to see in this video and overall this is actually a really nice little x86 board in this video I've got a lot to go over and there's a lot that I want to test but before we get into it I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for a long time they offer steam Keys up playay Ubisoft but the main thing I usually pick up over here are Windows 10 Pro OEM keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off bringing the price down to $17 for that key and keep in mind this will also work with Microsoft Office Products we'll use code ETA as you can see brought it down to that $17 price Mark personally I use PayPal just to have that security so we'll go ahead and check out they're going to email that code to you and now we can use that code to activate Windows 10 Pro I'm going to head over to my update dates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see I've got Windows 10 Pro but it's not activated so I'm going to change product key I'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap Windows 10 keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description obviously since we've got an x86 CPU we can run Windows on this we can run Linux there's a ton of different operating systems that we can install here and heading over to the ooid website they do have several different accessories that you can pick up for the H4 like their SATA and power adapters nice little fan here to keep this thing nice and chilly 15v 4 amp power supply and they do have a few different cases right now I've got one of their cases that's not announced at the time of this video going live but give it a couple days and I will have a video coming up the case that I have here is really awesome definitely retro inspired I'll have a full video with a different operating system running in that one because I think a lot of people are going to be really interested in something like this when it comes to setting up the ooid H4 plus it's really simple but keep in mind this comes as a Bare Bones model so you're going to need storage and RAM we've basically just got the x86 single board computer with CPU and cooler installed you might notice we only have a single dim and it's not o droid's fault it's actually Intel the CPU they opted to use here only supports single Channel Ram but this is going to keep the cost down for people out there I'm going with 16 gigs it does support up to 48 GB of ddr5 at 4800 MHz and of course we need some storage this actually has several different options I'm going to go with a pcie3.0 512 GB m.2 nvme SSD but if you go for the H4 plus model you can run from SATA or even an emmc module and basically the only other thing we're going to get with the SPC itself is an RTC battery taking a look at the h for it's very similar to their older board the H3 but we have a much more powerful CPU here and as you can see we've got quite a bit of IO the H4 plus does support up to four SATA drives but remember the $99 H4 has removed those and one ethernet por now I did mention that we can actually run our operating system from several different storage options we could go SATA with it or we could use an emmc module you can pick one up over on the website and of course for this video we're going to be using an nvme SSD they have included some GPI and a fan header over here and when it comes to our main I/O on the rear of the unit we've got our power input dual 2.5 GB ethernet two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports two display ports and these are 1.2 we've also got a fulls sizee HDMI microphone in microphone out and an optical audio jack for this setup here I am going to be using active cooling so I've installed this fan here it is fully controllable from the BIOS and when it comes to the overall specs of the H4 and the H4 Plus for the CPU we've got the intel n97 four cores four threads and on this unit we've got a base clock of 2 GHz with a turbo up to 3.6 built-in Intel UHD graphics with 24 execution units at 1200 MHz you can add up to 48 GB of ddr5 RAM we've got one nvme SSD slot only gen 3 but it's definitely going to be fast enough for what we've got here and the system will support Windows and Linux I mean since it's an x86 board we've got so many operating systems that we can install on this thing but for this video I've got Windows 11 Pro installed and again I will have more videos coming up I definitely want to do a full emulation setup on this with let's say bota so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that subscribe button so you know when I post the next one jumping right into the BIOS here there is one thing that I suggest doing and basically everything here is unlocked now we can up the TDP and that's something we definitely want to do here with this little chip well we're not going to be able to take chip up to let's say 65 Watts we can still make sure we get the maximum performance out of the box with this the power limit for is right there at 30 with these o Droid boards we want to set this to zero that way we have unlimited power and that doesn't mean you know we're going to be drawing 100 Watts from this thing basically what this means is it's going to keep those clocks up on the CPU and GPU and use as much wattage as possible on that n97 and it's still not that much at all if you wanted to limit this you definitely could but we're going to take it to zero there head over to save and exit and then we can get right into Windows I've been up and running for a little while now at the H4 and haven't run into any issues uh when I installed Windows uh all the drivers installed everything's been working pretty well we've got the Intel n97 16 gigs of ddr5 at 48 and remember this only runs in single Channel with this chipset and of course the UHD GPU I am using ethernet because we don't have built-in Wi-Fi you could always use a dongle if you wanted to but we'll go ahead and check out a little bit of web brow in and just head over to O droid's website so for the base model of the H4 it is actually 99 bucks and with this basically the only difference between the H4 and the H4 plus you don't get any of those SATA ports on it so moving down a bit all the information you need to know and ooid has been really good about you know documentation got a full wiki page everything you need to know about this system web browsing over ethernet is super quick here let's check out some 4K video playback we'll just find a 4K 60 HDR video so we're definitely at 4K stats for nerds is on we'll go ahead and let this run now I've had really good luck on older Intel chipsets when it comes to 4K video playback streaming or native from let's say a connected SATA drive with the H4 plus so I figured the newer n97 would definitely handle it and keep in mind when it comes to the difference between the n97 and the n100 the naming convention is a little odd odd because the n97 is actually a better performer it has a higher turbo frequency up to 3.6 instead of 3.4 on the n100 so if you did want to set this up for 4K video playback whether you want to run it natively from the internal drive external drive or just stream from your favorite sites this little n97 will handle it quite well so yeah using this as an everyday desktop system would work out well for a lot of people I mean if you only do web browsing email checking document editing we've got more than enough power with the new AG 4 plus but I definitely want to get into some gaming and emulation on this thing and of course we're not going to be able to run cyberpunk 2077 but there's still a ton of PC games that we can definitely run on this and I think it's going to handle emulation quite well also but first up let's go ahead and take a look at a couple benchmarks that I ran on this board here we have geekbench 6 coming in with a single core of 1,280 multi 2,611 next up we've got some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark Wildlife coming in with a 4 , 326 and finally we've got night raid with a 6,511 obviously these synthetic benchmarks aren't super high and it's really nothing to write home about but now I want to get into some PC gaming and then we're going to take a look at a bit of emulation you could theoretically boot up a game like cyberpunk on this but it's not going to run very well even at 720p I'd say around 18 FPS 720p low so we're going with some older stuff Left for Dead 2 1080 medium settings looking really good here and I do think we could actually take it up to around High settings so these older valve Source games yeah you're going to be able to play them just fine another one that I personally haven't played in a little while is battle toads the new release uh you know when it came out I was super excited but then when I saw the artwork wasn't that excited about it I had to drop this down to 900p and I'm kind of going to chalk this up to game optimizations here's Hades 2 1080p medium settings got a couple fluctuations in that FPS up top but you know it's nothing that really affects gameplay while I was playing it didn't really notice it and uh you know if you really wanted to you could take this down to 900p but in my opinion it is fully playable on this little system and of course I had to throw in some OG Sky RAM and I knew exactly what we were going to be able to do here with this very similar to the n100 we had to go down to 900p with this game at low settings now it's still playable I mean is it the best looking experience at 900p low no but you know if you love the game you could definitely put some hours into it now we're moving over to some emulation and I think the H4 the lower-end model would be perfect for a little setup using like B Sera again video will be coming soon but I wanted to show some off in Windows PSP using PP ssvp 3x resolution direct X11 back in running perfectly fine here's the Dolphin Emulator with some automoto Lista for GameCube and this worked out much better than I thought it would originally I went in here at Native resolution just kind of expecting a little bit of Skips here and there but I was actually able to take this up to 720p and I do consider this a harder to emulate game and finally PS2 using PC sx2 720p directx11 back in now this performance May transfer over to Linux but again I did use direct X1 with most of this stuff I think over in Linux we will see some good performance with Vulcan and openg in some of these so I'm actually pretty excited about a little board like this with emulation station installed to SCT weapons overall Windows 11 on the H4 Plus has been a really Snappy experience again you want to use this for web browsing email checking document editing you could definitely get by with the $99 version but there's still a lot of testing that I want to do with this thing mainly in Linux with emulation so definitely keep an eye on the channel because I will have more videos coming but if you're interested in learning a little more about the ooid H4 before we get over there I'll leave some links down below but that's going to wrap it up for my first look video if there's anything else you want to see running on this board just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a new x86 powered single board computer from o Droid known as the H4 in fact they've actually got three different models of the new H4 we're going to be taking a look at the H4 plus model but they've got the H4 which is coming in at $99 the H4 plus which is $1 139 and the H4 Ultra which is coming in at $199 which does pack a more powerful CPU and igpu but what we've got here is their mid-range model at 139 and keep in mind if you're just looking for the performance here and not the extra I/O like the SATA ports here and the extra ethernet port you can save 40 bucks and just pick up the H4 model for 99 you will get the same kind of performance we're going to see in this video and overall this is actually a really nice little x86 board in this video I've got a lot to go over and there's a lot that I want to test but before we get into it I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by Ur CD Keys I've been using this site for a long time they offer steam Keys up playay Ubisoft but the main thing I usually pick up over here are Windows 10 Pro OEM keys and right now if you use code ETA you can get 25% off bringing the price down to $17 for that key and keep in mind this will also work with Microsoft Office Products we'll use code ETA as you can see brought it down to that $17 price Mark personally I use PayPal just to have that security so we'll go ahead and check out they're going to email that code to you and now we can use that code to activate Windows 10 Pro I'm going to head over to my update dates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see I've got Windows 10 Pro but it's not activated so I'm going to change product key I'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap Windows 10 keys for your new pc builds I'll leave a link in the description obviously since we've got an x86 CPU we can run Windows on this we can run Linux there's a ton of different operating systems that we can install here and heading over to the ooid website they do have several different accessories that you can pick up for the H4 like their SATA and power adapters nice little fan here to keep this thing nice and chilly 15v 4 amp power supply and they do have a few different cases right now I've got one of their cases that's not announced at the time of this video going live but give it a couple days and I will have a video coming up the case that I have here is really awesome definitely retro inspired I'll have a full video with a different operating system running in that one because I think a lot of people are going to be really interested in something like this when it comes to setting up the ooid H4 plus it's really simple but keep in mind this comes as a Bare Bones model so you're going to need storage and RAM we've basically just got the x86 single board computer with CPU and cooler installed you might notice we only have a single dim and it's not o droid's fault it's actually Intel the CPU they opted to use here only supports single Channel Ram but this is going to keep the cost down for people out there I'm going with 16 gigs it does support up to 48 GB of ddr5 at 4800 MHz and of course we need some storage this actually has several different options I'm going to go with a pcie3.0 512 GB m.2 nvme SSD but if you go for the H4 plus model you can run from SATA or even an emmc module and basically the only other thing we're going to get with the SPC itself is an RTC battery taking a look at the h for it's very similar to their older board the H3 but we have a much more powerful CPU here and as you can see we've got quite a bit of IO the H4 plus does support up to four SATA drives but remember the $99 H4 has removed those and one ethernet por now I did mention that we can actually run our operating system from several different storage options we could go SATA with it or we could use an emmc module you can pick one up over on the website and of course for this video we're going to be using an nvme SSD they have included some GPI and a fan header over here and when it comes to our main I/O on the rear of the unit we've got our power input dual 2.5 GB ethernet two USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports two display ports and these are 1.2 we've also got a fulls sizee HDMI microphone in microphone out and an optical audio jack for this setup here I am going to be using active cooling so I've installed this fan here it is fully controllable from the BIOS and when it comes to the overall specs of the H4 and the H4 Plus for the CPU we've got the intel n97 four cores four threads and on this unit we've got a base clock of 2 GHz with a turbo up to 3.6 built-in Intel UHD graphics with 24 execution units at 1200 MHz you can add up to 48 GB of ddr5 RAM we've got one nvme SSD slot only gen 3 but it's definitely going to be fast enough for what we've got here and the system will support Windows and Linux I mean since it's an x86 board we've got so many operating systems that we can install on this thing but for this video I've got Windows 11 Pro installed and again I will have more videos coming up I definitely want to do a full emulation setup on this with let's say bota so if you're interested in seeing a video like that make sure you hit that subscribe button so you know when I post the next one jumping right into the BIOS here there is one thing that I suggest doing and basically everything here is unlocked now we can up the TDP and that's something we definitely want to do here with this little chip well we're not going to be able to take chip up to let's say 65 Watts we can still make sure we get the maximum performance out of the box with this the power limit for is right there at 30 with these o Droid boards we want to set this to zero that way we have unlimited power and that doesn't mean you know we're going to be drawing 100 Watts from this thing basically what this means is it's going to keep those clocks up on the CPU and GPU and use as much wattage as possible on that n97 and it's still not that much at all if you wanted to limit this you definitely could but we're going to take it to zero there head over to save and exit and then we can get right into Windows I've been up and running for a little while now at the H4 and haven't run into any issues uh when I installed Windows uh all the drivers installed everything's been working pretty well we've got the Intel n97 16 gigs of ddr5 at 48 and remember this only runs in single Channel with this chipset and of course the UHD GPU I am using ethernet because we don't have built-in Wi-Fi you could always use a dongle if you wanted to but we'll go ahead and check out a little bit of web brow in and just head over to O droid's website so for the base model of the H4 it is actually 99 bucks and with this basically the only difference between the H4 and the H4 plus you don't get any of those SATA ports on it so moving down a bit all the information you need to know and ooid has been really good about you know documentation got a full wiki page everything you need to know about this system web browsing over ethernet is super quick here let's check out some 4K video playback we'll just find a 4K 60 HDR video so we're definitely at 4K stats for nerds is on we'll go ahead and let this run now I've had really good luck on older Intel chipsets when it comes to 4K video playback streaming or native from let's say a connected SATA drive with the H4 plus so I figured the newer n97 would definitely handle it and keep in mind when it comes to the difference between the n97 and the n100 the naming convention is a little odd odd because the n97 is actually a better performer it has a higher turbo frequency up to 3.6 instead of 3.4 on the n100 so if you did want to set this up for 4K video playback whether you want to run it natively from the internal drive external drive or just stream from your favorite sites this little n97 will handle it quite well so yeah using this as an everyday desktop system would work out well for a lot of people I mean if you only do web browsing email checking document editing we've got more than enough power with the new AG 4 plus but I definitely want to get into some gaming and emulation on this thing and of course we're not going to be able to run cyberpunk 2077 but there's still a ton of PC games that we can definitely run on this and I think it's going to handle emulation quite well also but first up let's go ahead and take a look at a couple benchmarks that I ran on this board here we have geekbench 6 coming in with a single core of 1,280 multi 2,611 next up we've got some GPU benchmarks with 3D Mark Wildlife coming in with a 4 , 326 and finally we've got night raid with a 6,511 obviously these synthetic benchmarks aren't super high and it's really nothing to write home about but now I want to get into some PC gaming and then we're going to take a look at a bit of emulation you could theoretically boot up a game like cyberpunk on this but it's not going to run very well even at 720p I'd say around 18 FPS 720p low so we're going with some older stuff Left for Dead 2 1080 medium settings looking really good here and I do think we could actually take it up to around High settings so these older valve Source games yeah you're going to be able to play them just fine another one that I personally haven't played in a little while is battle toads the new release uh you know when it came out I was super excited but then when I saw the artwork wasn't that excited about it I had to drop this down to 900p and I'm kind of going to chalk this up to game optimizations here's Hades 2 1080p medium settings got a couple fluctuations in that FPS up top but you know it's nothing that really affects gameplay while I was playing it didn't really notice it and uh you know if you really wanted to you could take this down to 900p but in my opinion it is fully playable on this little system and of course I had to throw in some OG Sky RAM and I knew exactly what we were going to be able to do here with this very similar to the n100 we had to go down to 900p with this game at low settings now it's still playable I mean is it the best looking experience at 900p low no but you know if you love the game you could definitely put some hours into it now we're moving over to some emulation and I think the H4 the lower-end model would be perfect for a little setup using like B Sera again video will be coming soon but I wanted to show some off in Windows PSP using PP ssvp 3x resolution direct X11 back in running perfectly fine here's the Dolphin Emulator with some automoto Lista for GameCube and this worked out much better than I thought it would originally I went in here at Native resolution just kind of expecting a little bit of Skips here and there but I was actually able to take this up to 720p and I do consider this a harder to emulate game and finally PS2 using PC sx2 720p directx11 back in now this performance May transfer over to Linux but again I did use direct X1 with most of this stuff I think over in Linux we will see some good performance with Vulcan and openg in some of these so I'm actually pretty excited about a little board like this with emulation station installed to SCT weapons overall Windows 11 on the H4 Plus has been a really Snappy experience again you want to use this for web browsing email checking document editing you could definitely get by with the $99 version but there's still a lot of testing that I want to do with this thing mainly in Linux with emulation so definitely keep an eye on the channel because I will have more videos coming but if you're interested in learning a little more about the ooid H4 before we get over there I'll leave some links down below but that's going to wrap it up for my first look video if there's anything else you want to see running on this board just let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching\n"