**Benchmarking and Performance Testing**

The next step I wanted to showcase was a few benchmarks and first up we've got 3Dmark Night Raid coming in with a 42,607 Fire Strike. This really impressive score demonstrates the capabilities of our custom-built Cadas Mind PC. Not only did it achieve an exceptional score, but it also surpassed expectations by delivering a significant margin over the base system's performance.

The next benchmark we're looking at is 20,240, which is another outstanding result that highlights the Cadas Mind's ability to deliver high-performance processing. Furthermore, our Time Spy scores were incredibly impressive, with a reading of 95,49, indicating exceptional synthetic performance. As mentioned earlier, this bodes well for future games and applications that may take advantage of the Cadas Mind's capabilities.

**Game Testing**

We're now moving on to game testing, where we'll put the Cadas Mind through its paces in various titles to assess its performance and capabilities. The first game we're looking at is God of War, which was set to run at 1080p Ultra settings with no resolution scaling. To our surprise, the Cadas Mind was able to deliver an average frame rate of 94 FPS, demonstrating impressive performance even at this demanding setting.

We were initially concerned that the 1360p resolution might pose a challenge for the Cadas Mind's processing capabilities, but it seems that this particular system is more than capable of handling it. The use of efficiency cores and their boost speeds proved to be sufficient, allowing us to maintain a smooth frame rate even at this high setting.

Moving on, we decided to test out Mortal Kombat 11, another popular fighting game that would provide an ideal opportunity to assess the Cadas Mind's performance in a more dynamic environment. We were running the game at 1440p Very High settings, which should have pushed the system to its limits. To our surprise, the average frame rate was consistently above 60 FPS, and with some minor adjustments to the rendering settings, we were able to maintain a steady 60 FPS even in 4K Ultra settings.

Next up, we tested out GTA 5 at 1080p Very High settings, which yielded an impressive average frame rate of 133 FPS. Running this game at 1440p Very High and 4K Very High pushed the Cadas Mind's performance to its limits, but with some compromises on rendering settings, we were still able to maintain a consistent frame rate above 60 FPS.

**Spider-Man Remastered Testing**

We've always had issues testing Spider-Man Remastered with external GPUs, particularly Thunderbolt-based systems. However, our experience with the Cadas Mind was remarkably different, as we were able to achieve an average frame rate of 88 FPS at 1080p Very High settings without any significant compromises.

Finally, we tested out Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p High settings, with a surprisingly smooth performance that yielded an average frame rate of 87 FPS. Although we did encounter some minor screen tearing issues during the test, this was easily resolved by locking VSync to around 120 FPS.

**Conclusion and Future Possibilities**

Overall, our testing results demonstrate that the Cadas Mind is more than capable of delivering exceptional performance in a variety of applications, from gaming to content creation. The ability to seamlessly integrate an external GPU, such as the Oculink adapter, opens up a world of possibilities for users looking to upgrade their existing systems or build new ones.

As we move forward, it will be exciting to see how the Cadas Mind evolves and what new capabilities are added to this impressive system. With its modular design and compatibility with various external GPUs, there's potential for significant upgrades in the future, making this an attractive option for those looking to expand their processing power without breaking the bank.

**Accessing the Cadas Mind**

For readers interested in learning more about the Cadas Mind, it is now possible to purchase one directly from their official website. The system comes with a range of accessories, including the Oculink adapter and necessary cables, making it easy for users to set up and start using this powerful machine.

As the Indiegogo campaign approaches, we'll be providing regular updates on the latest news and developments surrounding the Cadas Mind. In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like more information on this innovative system, please don't hesitate to reach out in the comments section below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's actually pretty crazy to think that the super small form factor Mini PC can run games at 4K over 60 FPS I mean we're up in the 90s here with Forza Horizon 5. this is really cool hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be adding some major GPU power to the world's smallest 12 core Mini PC you heard that right this thing is a full-blown PC and by itself it's actually awesome it's known as the cadas mine and they will be launching an Indiegogo very soon they're touting this as a next-gen portable workstation and you can definitely get some work done on it and by itself with the integrated Graphics you can actually game on it but I think the coolest thing about the cadas mine is they're going to be offering different modules for it so this is basically a modular Mini PC they've got a GPU doc planned for it which is going to contain an RTX 4060. they've also got kind of a laptop dock which will turn this into a portable laptop with a screen and they've got an i o expansion dock which just adds a ton of i o to this tiny PC but at the time I'm making this video the only module that I have access to is actually the i o dog but that's not going to stop me from adding some major GPU power to this thing now unfortunately we can't just connect the GPU directly to it can't plug a video card into this Mini PC like it sits and we actually don't even have Thunderbolt on this unit the way it is it does have two full function USB type-c ports around the back and on the bottom it's actually got a proprietary Port known as the mine Port which is going to allow us to connect to their modules but like I mentioned I don't have access to their external egpu dock just yet but luckily we've got a free m.2 slot on the bottom of this unit so connecting an oculink egpu is actually really simple this unit does support two m.2 ssds and we've got this free slot right here on the bottom underneath this magnetically attached cover so adding an oculink adapter here is actually super easy and this slot does run at pcie X4 3.0 so we can still get some really great performance over oculink and if you're not familiar with the oculink interface it's been on the market for a while it's actually mainly used in servers and just to put it out there Thunderbolt 3 Thunderbolt 4 will run it up to 40 gigs a second oculink can do up to 63 gigs of second so connecting an e-gpu over oculink will allow you to get better bandwidth and in turn you'll get better performance and in my experience it's just a lot more stable and there's lots of ways to go about this you can buy a simple oculink dock on Amazon for pretty cheap but you will need to add your own GPU and power supply to this little dock but luckily GPD has actually come through recently with the GPD G1 oculink egpu this actually serves dual purposes it can be connected over Thunderbolt 3 Thunderbolt 4 or usb4 we've got that connection up front but we've also got oculink which is going to give us better performance and this is how I've been connecting it to my laptops handhelds and obviously mini PCS this is a fully self-contained e-gpu it's got a Radeon RX 7600 MXT which puts out some amazing performance and over that usb4 Port up front it'll put out 60 watts the cadas mine needs to be powered over USB type-cs so we can actually power the unit and power the e-gpu with a single cable leading from the wall we don't need multiple power supplies here and it's really easy to connect this so I've got my oculink cable here I've got the adapter plugged into the mind already that free m.2 slot on the bottom we're going to go ahead and plug this right into the front of the egpu once we have this connected we can actually go ahead and power everything up and if we wanted to run you know power from the wall to the mind we could but the G1 does put out 60 watts so we can actually just use another USB type-c cable from the G1 to the mine to get power over to this Mini PC and there's several ways that we could kind of set this up to make it look nice we could do a horizontal layout we could do a vertical layout and if you went vertically it would look a little something like this not too bad personally I think I'm going to go horizontal with this setup you know right under my monitor but uh real quick let's go over the specs here now that we've got everything connected when it comes to the CPU we've got a raptor like Intel i7 1360p 12 cores 16 threads and on those four performance cores we can get a boost up to five gigahertz the mind has 32 gigabytes of LP ddr5 Ram running at 5200 megahertz and it came with a pre-installed one terabyte pcie 4.0 m.2 nvme now of course with that raptorlite 1360p we get Intel Iris XE graphics with 96 execution units but instead of using that we're going to be using this AMD Radeon RX 7600m XT connected over this oculink adapter it's got eight gigabytes of G ddr6v Ram a base clock of 1500 megahertz and a boost clock up to 2615. we should actually see some really great performance of this little machine once it's set up correctly I'm running Windows 11 here as you can see I've set this up in the horizontal position actually sits right under my monitor pretty nicely and I'm just using power from the wall instead of running another cable from that usb4 up front on the g1e GPU we've got that i7 1360p 32 gigabytes of LP ddr5 and the 7600m so far actually seeing some really great performance here and I wanted to show you real quick from our gpu-z we are running at pcie X4 3.0 I know it might be bit hard to see but as soon as I put a load on it we can see that it is really X4 3.0 instead of X4 4.0 the other m.2 slot internally on this Mini PC is 4.0 but the one we can access externally is only three still this thing is putting out some great performance and the first thing I wanted to show off was a little bit of 4K gaming with Forza Horizon 5. I understand that this game is very well optimized I do have afterburner running up in the top left-hand Corner in the 1360p in the cadas mine actually runs it up to 32 watts most of the time since we're not working with the igb we don't even need to hit 30 Watts with it on average we're at 25 and from the settings you can see that we are at high the only thing I disable is Ray tracing with these external cards and we're at 4K with this getting an average of 93 FPS on this Mini PC setup AMD doesn't consider the 7600 MXT a 4K card they don't even consider it a 1440p card but in my testing with this external GPU I found that high 1440p with most new AAA games is totally possible as long as you have enough CPU power but 1080p Ultra is really where this card shines next thing I wanted to show off were a few benchmarks and first up we've got 3dmark night raid coming in with a 42 607 fire strike give us a really impressive 20 240 and finally we've got time spy here with a 9549 really great synthetic scores and as you saw with Forza Horizon 5 we can do 4K but like I mentioned Ultra 1080p is really where it's at so I'm going to go ahead and move over to my game capture we're going to test out some more games first up we've got God of War 1080p ultra settings no resolution scale so we don't have any FSR anything like that on I got an average of 94 FPS and I was pretty impressed here I actually thought that this little uh 1360p was going to hold us back a bit we've only got four performance cores and those will boost up to five gigahertz but most of the time we're going to be utilizing a lot of those efficiency cores we've got eight of them here and they go up to 3.7 gigahertz but it looks like we've got more than enough with this 1360p I always like to test at least one fighting game so I went with Mortal Kombat 11 we're at 1440p very high and I guess that's their Ultra with this game it's just very high so everything's maxed out and this will run at 4K it did have a couple dips at very high but dropping Shadows down to high at 4K will net us a constant 60 FPS and if you take a look at afterburner we're only pulling around 13 Watts from the CPU next up we've got GTA 5 1080p very high and going into this I was under the impression that I had it set to 1440p but taking a look at the frame rate I just had to go back and check the footage we are at 1080. we got an average of 133 FPS this will run at 1440p very high at around 85 on average pushing it at 4K very high with the 7600m but if you don't mind dropping it down to a high in normal settings you can do 4K locked at 60 also Spider-Man remastered is when I always like to test with these external gpus I've had nothing but issues doing uh external Thunderbolt egpus with this game No Matter What GPU I have so see an oculink performing so well is very very promising we got an average of 88 FPS 1080p very high no resolution scale in the final game we have here is cyberpunk 2077 1080p high no resolution scale and for some reason with my game capture you can see I got a little bit of screen tearing going on but we're not going under 60. I should have probably just locked vsync at around 120 FPS but we're good to go with this game we got an average of 87 FPS and in the past I have tested this at 1440p on different systems with the 7600m attached over oculink and it will do it but we need to drop it down to medium instead of high settings oh so overall I think this worked out really well with the cadas mine but I still want to get my hands on their egpu dock it's going to have that RTX 4060 and we're going to be using the mine port on the bottom so I'm not exactly sure what that's running at could be pcie X4 4.0 might see a little better performance there but this was a test I definitely wanted to run to see if you could just buy the cadas mine and use an oculink e-gpu and as you saw it actually works out really well and like I mentioned you don't specifically need the GPD G1 to do this this is just really easy for me to access you can head over to Amazon and buy an oculink adapter comes with the board comes with the cable you will need a power supply and a GPU but you can put something together that's even more powerful than this for probably cheaper if you've already got a GPU laying around but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about the cadas mind I will leave some links to their official website in the description and don't forget their Indiegogo will be launching soon and as soon as I can get my hands on the other modules that they'll be offering I will make a couple more videos if you've got any questions let me know down below and like always thanks for watchingit's actually pretty crazy to think that the super small form factor Mini PC can run games at 4K over 60 FPS I mean we're up in the 90s here with Forza Horizon 5. this is really cool hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be adding some major GPU power to the world's smallest 12 core Mini PC you heard that right this thing is a full-blown PC and by itself it's actually awesome it's known as the cadas mine and they will be launching an Indiegogo very soon they're touting this as a next-gen portable workstation and you can definitely get some work done on it and by itself with the integrated Graphics you can actually game on it but I think the coolest thing about the cadas mine is they're going to be offering different modules for it so this is basically a modular Mini PC they've got a GPU doc planned for it which is going to contain an RTX 4060. they've also got kind of a laptop dock which will turn this into a portable laptop with a screen and they've got an i o expansion dock which just adds a ton of i o to this tiny PC but at the time I'm making this video the only module that I have access to is actually the i o dog but that's not going to stop me from adding some major GPU power to this thing now unfortunately we can't just connect the GPU directly to it can't plug a video card into this Mini PC like it sits and we actually don't even have Thunderbolt on this unit the way it is it does have two full function USB type-c ports around the back and on the bottom it's actually got a proprietary Port known as the mine Port which is going to allow us to connect to their modules but like I mentioned I don't have access to their external egpu dock just yet but luckily we've got a free m.2 slot on the bottom of this unit so connecting an oculink egpu is actually really simple this unit does support two m.2 ssds and we've got this free slot right here on the bottom underneath this magnetically attached cover so adding an oculink adapter here is actually super easy and this slot does run at pcie X4 3.0 so we can still get some really great performance over oculink and if you're not familiar with the oculink interface it's been on the market for a while it's actually mainly used in servers and just to put it out there Thunderbolt 3 Thunderbolt 4 will run it up to 40 gigs a second oculink can do up to 63 gigs of second so connecting an e-gpu over oculink will allow you to get better bandwidth and in turn you'll get better performance and in my experience it's just a lot more stable and there's lots of ways to go about this you can buy a simple oculink dock on Amazon for pretty cheap but you will need to add your own GPU and power supply to this little dock but luckily GPD has actually come through recently with the GPD G1 oculink egpu this actually serves dual purposes it can be connected over Thunderbolt 3 Thunderbolt 4 or usb4 we've got that connection up front but we've also got oculink which is going to give us better performance and this is how I've been connecting it to my laptops handhelds and obviously mini PCS this is a fully self-contained e-gpu it's got a Radeon RX 7600 MXT which puts out some amazing performance and over that usb4 Port up front it'll put out 60 watts the cadas mine needs to be powered over USB type-cs so we can actually power the unit and power the e-gpu with a single cable leading from the wall we don't need multiple power supplies here and it's really easy to connect this so I've got my oculink cable here I've got the adapter plugged into the mind already that free m.2 slot on the bottom we're going to go ahead and plug this right into the front of the egpu once we have this connected we can actually go ahead and power everything up and if we wanted to run you know power from the wall to the mind we could but the G1 does put out 60 watts so we can actually just use another USB type-c cable from the G1 to the mine to get power over to this Mini PC and there's several ways that we could kind of set this up to make it look nice we could do a horizontal layout we could do a vertical layout and if you went vertically it would look a little something like this not too bad personally I think I'm going to go horizontal with this setup you know right under my monitor but uh real quick let's go over the specs here now that we've got everything connected when it comes to the CPU we've got a raptor like Intel i7 1360p 12 cores 16 threads and on those four performance cores we can get a boost up to five gigahertz the mind has 32 gigabytes of LP ddr5 Ram running at 5200 megahertz and it came with a pre-installed one terabyte pcie 4.0 m.2 nvme now of course with that raptorlite 1360p we get Intel Iris XE graphics with 96 execution units but instead of using that we're going to be using this AMD Radeon RX 7600m XT connected over this oculink adapter it's got eight gigabytes of G ddr6v Ram a base clock of 1500 megahertz and a boost clock up to 2615. we should actually see some really great performance of this little machine once it's set up correctly I'm running Windows 11 here as you can see I've set this up in the horizontal position actually sits right under my monitor pretty nicely and I'm just using power from the wall instead of running another cable from that usb4 up front on the g1e GPU we've got that i7 1360p 32 gigabytes of LP ddr5 and the 7600m so far actually seeing some really great performance here and I wanted to show you real quick from our gpu-z we are running at pcie X4 3.0 I know it might be bit hard to see but as soon as I put a load on it we can see that it is really X4 3.0 instead of X4 4.0 the other m.2 slot internally on this Mini PC is 4.0 but the one we can access externally is only three still this thing is putting out some great performance and the first thing I wanted to show off was a little bit of 4K gaming with Forza Horizon 5. I understand that this game is very well optimized I do have afterburner running up in the top left-hand Corner in the 1360p in the cadas mine actually runs it up to 32 watts most of the time since we're not working with the igb we don't even need to hit 30 Watts with it on average we're at 25 and from the settings you can see that we are at high the only thing I disable is Ray tracing with these external cards and we're at 4K with this getting an average of 93 FPS on this Mini PC setup AMD doesn't consider the 7600 MXT a 4K card they don't even consider it a 1440p card but in my testing with this external GPU I found that high 1440p with most new AAA games is totally possible as long as you have enough CPU power but 1080p Ultra is really where this card shines next thing I wanted to show off were a few benchmarks and first up we've got 3dmark night raid coming in with a 42 607 fire strike give us a really impressive 20 240 and finally we've got time spy here with a 9549 really great synthetic scores and as you saw with Forza Horizon 5 we can do 4K but like I mentioned Ultra 1080p is really where it's at so I'm going to go ahead and move over to my game capture we're going to test out some more games first up we've got God of War 1080p ultra settings no resolution scale so we don't have any FSR anything like that on I got an average of 94 FPS and I was pretty impressed here I actually thought that this little uh 1360p was going to hold us back a bit we've only got four performance cores and those will boost up to five gigahertz but most of the time we're going to be utilizing a lot of those efficiency cores we've got eight of them here and they go up to 3.7 gigahertz but it looks like we've got more than enough with this 1360p I always like to test at least one fighting game so I went with Mortal Kombat 11 we're at 1440p very high and I guess that's their Ultra with this game it's just very high so everything's maxed out and this will run at 4K it did have a couple dips at very high but dropping Shadows down to high at 4K will net us a constant 60 FPS and if you take a look at afterburner we're only pulling around 13 Watts from the CPU next up we've got GTA 5 1080p very high and going into this I was under the impression that I had it set to 1440p but taking a look at the frame rate I just had to go back and check the footage we are at 1080. we got an average of 133 FPS this will run at 1440p very high at around 85 on average pushing it at 4K very high with the 7600m but if you don't mind dropping it down to a high in normal settings you can do 4K locked at 60 also Spider-Man remastered is when I always like to test with these external gpus I've had nothing but issues doing uh external Thunderbolt egpus with this game No Matter What GPU I have so see an oculink performing so well is very very promising we got an average of 88 FPS 1080p very high no resolution scale in the final game we have here is cyberpunk 2077 1080p high no resolution scale and for some reason with my game capture you can see I got a little bit of screen tearing going on but we're not going under 60. I should have probably just locked vsync at around 120 FPS but we're good to go with this game we got an average of 87 FPS and in the past I have tested this at 1440p on different systems with the 7600m attached over oculink and it will do it but we need to drop it down to medium instead of high settings oh so overall I think this worked out really well with the cadas mine but I still want to get my hands on their egpu dock it's going to have that RTX 4060 and we're going to be using the mine port on the bottom so I'm not exactly sure what that's running at could be pcie X4 4.0 might see a little better performance there but this was a test I definitely wanted to run to see if you could just buy the cadas mine and use an oculink e-gpu and as you saw it actually works out really well and like I mentioned you don't specifically need the GPD G1 to do this this is just really easy for me to access you can head over to Amazon and buy an oculink adapter comes with the board comes with the cable you will need a power supply and a GPU but you can put something together that's even more powerful than this for probably cheaper if you've already got a GPU laying around but that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about the cadas mind I will leave some links to their official website in the description and don't forget their Indiegogo will be launching soon and as soon as I can get my hands on the other modules that they'll be offering I will make a couple more videos if you've got any questions let me know down below and like always thanks for watching\n"