The author's testing process began with a comparison of various games to see how well they could run on their mini PC. They started by running Assassin's Creed Valhalla at 1080p high settings, which resulted in a draw distance of around 20 units, but still ran smoothly at 60 frames per second. However, the author noted that this was due to the game not being able to fully take advantage of the system's capabilities.

Next, the author tested out Overwatch, which is a more demanding game. They were able to maintain a consistent 60 frames per second while running at high settings, but still had some minor hiccups here and there. The author then moved on to Cuphead, an indie title that they expected to run smoothly due to its relatively simple graphics settings. To their surprise, the game ran perfectly at 60 frames per second without any issues.

The author then tested out Left 4 Dead 2, which is a more demanding game compared to Overwatch. They were able to run it at low settings, specifically 900p with very low detail, and still maintained a constant 60 frames per second. The author noted that this was made possible by the system's ability to keep power consumption down, as they only needed around 15 watts to run both the CPU and GPU.

The author then moved on to OG Skyrim, which they tested at high settings with a resolution of 900p and low detail. Unfortunately, they had to drop the quality settings down to 720p at low detail in order to maintain a constant 60 frames per second. However, the author noted that this was not due to the system's capabilities being insufficient, but rather due to the game itself being demanding.

Next, the author tested out emulation on their mini PC. They started with Dreamcast games using the redream emulator and were able to run DOA 2 smoothly at 1280x960 resolution without any issues, while only drawing around 8-9 watts of power. The author then tested out PSP games using PPSSPP and were able to run Chains of Olympus at 4 times the original resolution without any hiccups.

The author also tested out GameCube emulation using Dolphin Emulator and was able to run Soul Calibur 2 smoothly in window mode, with some minor crashing issues when running in full-screen mode. The author noted that this was likely due to a driver issue rather than a problem with the system itself.

Finally, the author tested out the PC's performance at high settings using the Dolphin Emulator for GameCube games. They were able to run Automotive smoothly at 1X resolution with DirectX 11 back in, while drawing around 12 watts of power. However, this was a more challenging game to emulate on lower-end systems.

The author noted that another challenge they faced was total system power consumption, which they monitored using a kilowatt meter. At idle, the system consumed an average of 4 watts, with gaming consuming an average of 16 watts and maximum usage drawing around 21 watts when maxing out both the CPU and GPU. The author concluded that this is a relatively low-power consumption PC, making it suitable for tasks such as web browsing, 4K video playback, and light gaming, but may not be ideal for more demanding applications.

The author also discussed their disappointment with the choice of chip in their mini PC, which was the Jasper-like Celeron N5095. They noted that newer chips, such as the Intel Core i3, would have likely performed significantly better on this system. However, despite this limitation, they were still able to achieve impressive performance for a small form factor PC.

The author concluded by thanking viewers for watching and inviting them to ask any questions or request further testing in the comments below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign hey you what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a really interesting Mini PC from a company known as melee we have had a couple of their PCS on the channel before but this is their all new offering known as the melee overclock 3 scene now when it comes to overclock I don't think we've got you know a higher boost on this CPU but the wattage is much higher and we've got active cooling here so we can run it at those wattages for much longer than the older PCS they released all of those were passively cooled as you can see they have kept a very small form factor here it is a bit longer than the older 3C but again they're making room here for that active cooling got that built-in fan super thin design and we've got quite a bit of i o here given how small this thing really is now inside of the box with the overclock 3C you're gonna get your 12 volt 3 amp power supply it is USBC a vase amount and obviously the PC itself they also included an extra thermal pad to an m.2 nvme SSD because it will support one but we've also got emmc storage here taking a look at the overall layout and i o on this device not much going on around front but we do have that power button moving around to the right hand side we've got a total of three full-size USB 3 ports here two of these are USB 3.2 10 gigs a second and one of them is USB 3.25 gigs a second and of course around back a lot of stuff is happening here also we've got a gigabit Ethernet port USB type-c for power only so this does PD 3.0 two full-size HDMI 2.0 ports we've also got a Micro SD card slot it's SD 3.0 up to 100 megabytes a second a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and a full function USB type-c port back here we can actually power the unit and get video over that so this will work in single cable operation mode taking a look at the internals getting the bottom off here is really easy just four screws and the bottom is constructed of metal and once we get in here you'll notice that we do have a swappable nvme drive and single Channel Ram now I really hate when they do this with these lower end chips because dual channel does help out with that igpu but that's the way this is set up this one came with 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 2933 megahertz and along with that m.2 SSD this also has onboard emmc storage this one came with 256 gigabytes on board and a 256 gigabyte m.2 SSD so in total we've got 512 gigabytes of storage with this Mini PC and when it comes to the overall specs for the CPU they opted to use the Intel Celeron n5095 now this usually runs at 15 watts but since they're calling it overclock they've set it right out of the box at 18 so we can get those longer boost times and higher clocks on the igpu it's got four cores up to 2.9 gigahertz a built-in Intel UHD I GPU with 16 execution units and this will run it up to 750 megahertz we can do up to 32 gigabytes of ddr4 RAM here remember it's only running in single Channel One m.2 SSD Plus 256 gigabytes of emmc storage Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 and is running Windows 11 right out of the box so before we get into testing I did want to give you a look at this single cable operation mode set up basically we've just got one USB type-c plugged into the back of the Mini PC so we're just basically sending power to the Mini PC through the Monitor and in turn it's sending video signal back so it's not going to be a super powerful machine we've only got that Intel Celeron 5095 but they have boosted it up from 15 to 18 Watts which really doesn't sound like much and in real world performance it's really not going to net us that much more than a stock n5095 but the overall design here to keep it nice and cool keep those boost clocks up we should see some decent performance given how small this is and what kind of chip it's running overall web browsing's been pretty Snappy with Wi-Fi 6 built in but remember you can always opt to plug in Ethernet really love to see these mini PCS with ethernet a lot of companies nowadays kind of leave that out and this is a very low power consumption PC this thing isn't going to pull over 25 watts in fact I think we could kind of go up to around 23 in total and that's everything in the PC working at full boat I've just connected to my game capture so we can get a better look at this thing in action and uh the first thing I wanted to test out here was some 4K video playback from YouTube now this little chip here actually does a pretty decent job with 4K Let's uh make sure we're there if you take a look up in the top our monitor is set to 1080p but this is set to 4K 60. we've got four drop frames so far I've actually had really good luck with the 5095 and 4K playback and with the latest Intel UHD Graphics drivers I've actually noticed a little bump in performance here so yeah I mean 4K is totally possible on this little machine looks good here seven drop frames probably get up to eight by the end of this video not too bad 4K video playback works great obviously 720 1080 is also going to do a good job now I do want to test out some PC gaming on this it's not meant to be a gaming PC whatsoever but there are older games and lower end titles that this thing should run pretty decently and the first one we have here is Minecraft you knew I had to test it now when I initially booted this game up the draw distance was set at 40 chunks it was a little too much for the CPU so I took it down to 20. I mean we've still got a pretty long draw distance once I get up you'll see it's not cutting anything off and we are running at 60. every once in a while there's a little bit of a hiccup here and there I really haven't seen it drop under 57. next up we've got cuphead another easier to run title now there's really no graphic settings that we can mess around with so this is just straight up out of the box running at 60 and I figured it would you know with Indie titles we should have a pretty decent time you want to do some shredders Revenge some dead cells little games like that are gonna run at full speed and when it comes to 3D games we can actually get some pretty good older games out of the way at full speed also next up we've got Left 4 Dead 900 deep low settings and these older Source games are going to run really well if you take a look at afterburner we're not pulling over 15 watts with this whole unit here at least the TDP on that CPU and that's the CPU and GPU power combined there so yeah I mean it's actually doing much better than I thought it would I figured we'd be maxed out there at 18 Watts or up to around 23 is what we can pull with this thing in total the final PC game I wanted to test here before we move on to a little bit of emulation is OG Skyrim with this one I tried 900p low settings unfortunately I did have to drop it down to 720 low but we're getting a constant 60 and you can see CPU power has jumped up to around 20 watts there that's CPU and GPU combined so we're not even hitting 23 Watts yet with this unit I also wanted to see how this thing handled emulation and first up we've got Dreamcast I'm using the redream emulator I'm upscale to 1280 by 960. we've got DOA 2 which is a harder one to emulate running great here we didn't dip under 60 at all and we're only pulling around eight to nine Watts also wanted to take a look at some PSP so we're using the Standalone version of PPSSPP DirectX 11 back in also tested Vulcan seems to perform around the same 2x resolution with chains of Olympus which means you know with the easier to run games we can go up to 4X but yeah I mean this is one of those that we could definitely play our favorite PSP games on without an issue and finally we've got some GameCube emulation using the Dolphin Emulator and with Soul Calibur 2 here it's definitely an easier one to run we'll take a look at something a bit harder in a second I did run into some crashing issues when I was in full screen not sure if it's a driver issue or whatnot so I did leave it Window mode through the GameCube testing just to make sure it didn't crash on me anymore full speed here at 1X DirectX 11 back in and we're under 12 Watts but again this is an easier one to emulate so let's take it up to Automotive list this is kind of my go-to test again 1X resolution DirectX 11 back in and you'll see this jump up to around 18 Watts every once in a while but on average we're right there at around 12 Watts not too bad this is a harder one to emulate on these lower end systems and especially around this corner here lots of the lower end chips do dip down even the m5095 at 15 watts dips here but since we've got a little boost on that TDP it can definitely keep those clocks up high enough another thing I like to monitor with these mini PCS is total system power consumption and I did mention that this is a low power consumption PC throughout my testing I have this plugged into a kilowatt meter and at idle we average 4 Watts average gaming across the board 16 watts and the maximum that I could get this to pull from the wall while maxing out the CPU and GPU was only 21 Watts overall not a bad little system for the chip we have here but there are newer chips this is a jasper-like Celeron n5095 I really wish they would have went with the new n100 or something like that or even that new I3 because we could see a lot better performance out of it but if you're looking for a super small form factor PC for web browsing 4K video playback some light gaming and emulation but that's gonna wrap it up for this one if you got any questions or you want to see anything else running on the melee overclock 3C just let me know down below like always thanks for watching\n"