**A Silent and Low-Power Mini PC: The Quieter 2**

In this article, we'll take a closer look at the Quieter 2, a tiny mini PC that's perfect for quiet and energy-efficient computing. We'll explore its performance, features, and capabilities, including cloud gaming, emulation, and more.

**Performance and Benchmarking**

The Quieter 2 is equipped with a Celeron CPU and 8GB of RAM, making it an ideal machine for general use, web browsing, email checking, and light emulation. We ran some benchmarks to see how well the Quieter 2 performs in various applications. In Geekbench 5, we saw single-core scores of 436 and multi-core scores of 1441. For GPU benchmarks, the Quieter 2 scored 1083 in 3DMark Wildlife and 1792 in Night Raid.

**GPU Benchmarks**

We also ran some GPU benchmarks to see how well the Quieter 2's integrated graphics perform. In Minecraft (Windows Store Version), we averaged around 60 frames per second at 1080p, which is a decent performance considering the game's complexity. We also ran Half-Life 2 with 720p Low settings and achieved an average of 81 frames per second.

**Emulation**

The Quieter 2 can also run some popular emulators, including Dreamcast using Redream Emulator and upscaling to 1280x960. We also tested PSP using the Standalone version of PPSSPP and achieved 3x resolution performance with Tekken 6. Additionally, we ran Dolphin Emulator for GameCube games and were able to run a Wii game at full speed.

**Cloud Gaming**

One of the Quieter 2's most exciting features is its ability to handle cloud gaming services like xCloud (formerly Xbox Cloud Gaming) or GeForce Now. We connected the Quieter 2 to a Bluetooth controller and experienced smooth gameplay with GTA V using xCloud. The Quieter 2 can also run more demanding games like Stadium through GeForce Now.

**Power Consumption**

In our tests, the Quieter 2 consumed very little power. At idle, it pulled only 2.2 watts from the wall, while gaming it consumed 9.4 watts. In our extreme test, which pushed the system to its limits, the Quieter 2 pulled a maximum of 15.6 watts.

**Temperature and Conclusion**

The Quieter 2's CPU temperature never exceeded 81 degrees Celsius during our testing, even under intense loads. This is impressive considering the machine's low power consumption. Overall, we're very impressed with the Quieter 2's performance, features, and power efficiency. If you're looking for a quiet and energy-efficient mini PC for general use, web browsing, email checking, and light emulation, the Quieter 2 is definitely worth considering.

**Links and References**

For more information on the Quieter 2 or to purchase one, please visit the links in our description below. We'd also love to hear from you! If you have any questions or suggestions for future videos, feel free to leave them in the comments section below.

"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 super tiny fanless pc from me lead known as the quieter 2. this is a totally silent windows 10 mini pc it does come pre-loaded with windows 10 pro but you could install linux on it if you want to it comes packed with 8 gigabytes of ram 128 gigabytes of storage and a quad-core intel celeron cpu let's go ahead and get this out of the box now i've already seen pictures of this thing and i really do like the design of it i mean it is super tiny as you can see it's known as the quieter two from melee inside of the box we're gonna get the pc itself and as you can see this thing is absolutely tiny when it comes to these mini celeron powered pcs they're usually very limited on i o but this one here has dual hdmi gigabit ethernet and four usb 3.0 ports along with the pc itself we're also going to receive a 12 volt 2 amp power supply and this uses usb type c it also comes with an extra thermal pad in case you ever want to add an m.2 ssd to this unit because we do have a free slot taking a look at the front of the unit there's not much going on here but we do have our power and reset button this is led backlit over here on the right hand side we have three full-size usb 3.0 ports and moving around back here you can see that we have an extra usb 3.0 port 3.5 millimeter audio jack dual full size hdmi a usb type c port which is only for power in and we also have gigabit ethernet on this unit first thing i wanted to do is just pull the bottom off of this mini pc and the bottom is made of metal and yeah as you can see we do have a free m.2 slot here it doesn't support nvme you will have to just stick with an m.2 ssd but you can go up to 512 gigabytes in this unit other than that everything else is soldered to the board so there's really no user upgrade ability except for this extra storage as for the specs on the quieter two for the cpu we have the intel j4125 this is a quad core celeron cpu base clock 2 gigahertz with a boost up to 2.6 built-in intel uhd 600 graphics running it up to 750 megahertz 8 gigabytes of lp ddr4 ram running at 2133 megahertz we also have 128 gigabytes of storage built in and as you saw we can add an m.2 ssd up to 512 gigabytes this does have ac wi-fi and bluetooth 4.2 built-in and it comes right out of the box running windows 10 pro all right so here we are it is running windows 10 pro i've installed a bunch of stuff that we're going to test out here but one thing that i'm actually kind of surprised about is the cpu temperature now this does boost up to 2.6 from within the bios you can actually change the wattage up to 25 watts but the cpu is really going to kind of max out around 12 to 13 watts that's what we're sitting at right now so we can get the maximum performance out of the cpu and the gpu as you can see we have the j4125 eight gigs of ddr4 running at 2133 and the built-in uhd 600 graphics uh as for web browsing pretty snappy here we got ac wi-fi built-in if it was up to me i'd always be plugged into ethernet but it does a pretty decent job we'll just head over here so yeah i mean not bad at all you want to browse your favorite websites everything's going to load up really smoothly and for an everyday little desktop this would work out just fine if you want to do some youtube video playback document editing email checking i mean it's a low-powered pc but it can get you by this is all you need another thing i always like to test out with these mini pcs is webgl performance because i mean if you're getting something like this you're mainly probably just going to be browsing online with it here we are at 500 fish fps is up here go up to a thousand does start to struggle a bit let's see what that cpu is doing not hitting up that cpu as hard as i thought it would we're mainly maxing out this gpu with that webgl so uh going up to 5000 it does drop down but we're sitting pretty steady at 60 with 500 fish on screen not bad at all for a low wattage chip like this i mean like i said this is running at a maximum of around 13 watts now one thing that a lot of these manufacturers claim with the 4125 is these little things can handle 4k video and in the past i've actually had pretty good luck with streaming and native playback so we're going to go ahead and move over to my 4k monitor now and just see how it handles 4k video all right so here we are we got a bin q 4k monitor windows is set at 4k with no scaling here's a youtube video should be running at 4k 60. i do have stats for nerds up in the top left-hand corner we'll get a bit closer in a second i just kind of wanted to see how it looked to see if we got any freezing or anything like that but so far so good we do have some drop frames on the initial load in and it's definitely looking like more than uh you know a higher end system would drop on the initial load in usually it's anywhere from 10 to 35 frames with this one here we did drop 104 frames on the initial load in but as you can see i mean it's going steady we're not getting any more drops after that and by the way i am connected to my 5 gigahertz network we're not using ethernet here i mean other than that initial drop it's not doing a bad job at all at true 4k as you can see the viewpoint and the video is set at 4k next thing i had to test was the 4k version of big buck bunny i test this on all little arm devices that i get and most of the time i'd say 98 percent of the time it can't run it well but with these x86 celeron chips i've always had great luck with it i'm using the built-in windows player here and it's running it very smoothly so yeah the me-league quieter 2 can handle 4k streaming and 4k native playback next thing i wanted to do is run a couple benchmarks here we have geekbench 5 single core at 436 multi at 1441. next up some gpu benchmarks first up we have 3dmark wildlife this is a cross-platform benchmark for vulcan score 1083 and finally night raid with 1792 so it's definitely not a gaming machine but that doesn't mean we can't test some stuff out on this first up we have minecraft this is the windows store version 12 chunks fancy graphics off which actually didn't seem to help much you could probably turn that back on and get just as good performance but we're not quite locked at 60 at 12 chunks you will have to drop this down to 8 chunks to get locked at 60 but overall i mean it's doing a decent job and this is a very well optimized game next on the list we have half-life 2 720p low we averaged 81 fps out of this one i knew it was gonna run well at 720p and we're sitting at low right now but you could turn some of this stuff up to medium and still get a decent frame rate and finally for pc gaming we have the original skyrim uh unfortunately it's not doing a great job we got a maximum of 33 fps out of it and an average of 28. so yeah this is not playable on this machine moving over to some emulation this 4125 actually does a pretty decent job and if you wanted to do n64 it will but first up we have dreamcast using the redream emulator and upscale to 1280 by 960. moving over to psp using the standalone version of ppsspp we're at 3x resolution this is tekken 6 using the vulcan back in i also tested directx 11 and it seemed to work just as well not all games are going to be playable at 3x when it comes to things like chains of olympus you will have to drop it down to one but it will run at 60. and finally here the dolphin emulator whenever i test the j4125 i usually go with some lower end gamecube games and they seem to run well at the native resolution using the vulcan back in so for this one i figured i'd test a wii game and it is running at full speed now this game natively ran at 30fps and that's what we have here so it does a decent job at emulation but when it comes to native pc gaming i mean there's really not much that's going to run on here at least newer games older stuff's going to work as you saw like half-life 2 but now that we have a lot of different cloud gaming services this thing should work out pretty well one of my favorites right now is xcloud or xbox game pass game streaming whatever they're calling it now it is available for windows and i have an xbox controller connected over bluetooth let's get into a little bit of gameplay and see how this thing performs and here we have it i am connected over ethernet just to give me a better stable connection here and this little machine will handle cloud gaming be it stadium xcloud as you see here with gta 5 or even geforce now when it comes to total system power consumption from the wall using a kilowatt meter at idle this only pulls 2.2 watts gaming 9.4 and the maximum that i could get this to pull from the wall was 15.6 watts in my extreme test so not only is this a totally silent pc it's a ultra low power pc also so overall i think they've done a great job with this little mini pc it is silent and the highest cpu temperature that i recorded out of this thing through all of my tests was 81 degrees celsius and this thing idles around 36 degrees when it comes to performance basically this is all we're gonna get out of the j4125 if we added another eight gigs of ram here it's not gonna help out we have plenty of ram with eight gigs going with this lower end celeron cpu so if you're looking for a totally silent low power consumption pc for web browsing email checking some light emulation and even some cloud gaming the quieter two actually might be a good option for you so that's gonna wrap it up for this video i really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about this or maybe picking one up i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on the quieter 2 just let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a super tiny fanless pc from me lead known as the quieter 2. this is a totally silent windows 10 mini pc it does come pre-loaded with windows 10 pro but you could install linux on it if you want to it comes packed with 8 gigabytes of ram 128 gigabytes of storage and a quad-core intel celeron cpu let's go ahead and get this out of the box now i've already seen pictures of this thing and i really do like the design of it i mean it is super tiny as you can see it's known as the quieter two from melee inside of the box we're gonna get the pc itself and as you can see this thing is absolutely tiny when it comes to these mini celeron powered pcs they're usually very limited on i o but this one here has dual hdmi gigabit ethernet and four usb 3.0 ports along with the pc itself we're also going to receive a 12 volt 2 amp power supply and this uses usb type c it also comes with an extra thermal pad in case you ever want to add an m.2 ssd to this unit because we do have a free slot taking a look at the front of the unit there's not much going on here but we do have our power and reset button this is led backlit over here on the right hand side we have three full-size usb 3.0 ports and moving around back here you can see that we have an extra usb 3.0 port 3.5 millimeter audio jack dual full size hdmi a usb type c port which is only for power in and we also have gigabit ethernet on this unit first thing i wanted to do is just pull the bottom off of this mini pc and the bottom is made of metal and yeah as you can see we do have a free m.2 slot here it doesn't support nvme you will have to just stick with an m.2 ssd but you can go up to 512 gigabytes in this unit other than that everything else is soldered to the board so there's really no user upgrade ability except for this extra storage as for the specs on the quieter two for the cpu we have the intel j4125 this is a quad core celeron cpu base clock 2 gigahertz with a boost up to 2.6 built-in intel uhd 600 graphics running it up to 750 megahertz 8 gigabytes of lp ddr4 ram running at 2133 megahertz we also have 128 gigabytes of storage built in and as you saw we can add an m.2 ssd up to 512 gigabytes this does have ac wi-fi and bluetooth 4.2 built-in and it comes right out of the box running windows 10 pro all right so here we are it is running windows 10 pro i've installed a bunch of stuff that we're going to test out here but one thing that i'm actually kind of surprised about is the cpu temperature now this does boost up to 2.6 from within the bios you can actually change the wattage up to 25 watts but the cpu is really going to kind of max out around 12 to 13 watts that's what we're sitting at right now so we can get the maximum performance out of the cpu and the gpu as you can see we have the j4125 eight gigs of ddr4 running at 2133 and the built-in uhd 600 graphics uh as for web browsing pretty snappy here we got ac wi-fi built-in if it was up to me i'd always be plugged into ethernet but it does a pretty decent job we'll just head over here so yeah i mean not bad at all you want to browse your favorite websites everything's going to load up really smoothly and for an everyday little desktop this would work out just fine if you want to do some youtube video playback document editing email checking i mean it's a low-powered pc but it can get you by this is all you need another thing i always like to test out with these mini pcs is webgl performance because i mean if you're getting something like this you're mainly probably just going to be browsing online with it here we are at 500 fish fps is up here go up to a thousand does start to struggle a bit let's see what that cpu is doing not hitting up that cpu as hard as i thought it would we're mainly maxing out this gpu with that webgl so uh going up to 5000 it does drop down but we're sitting pretty steady at 60 with 500 fish on screen not bad at all for a low wattage chip like this i mean like i said this is running at a maximum of around 13 watts now one thing that a lot of these manufacturers claim with the 4125 is these little things can handle 4k video and in the past i've actually had pretty good luck with streaming and native playback so we're going to go ahead and move over to my 4k monitor now and just see how it handles 4k video all right so here we are we got a bin q 4k monitor windows is set at 4k with no scaling here's a youtube video should be running at 4k 60. i do have stats for nerds up in the top left-hand corner we'll get a bit closer in a second i just kind of wanted to see how it looked to see if we got any freezing or anything like that but so far so good we do have some drop frames on the initial load in and it's definitely looking like more than uh you know a higher end system would drop on the initial load in usually it's anywhere from 10 to 35 frames with this one here we did drop 104 frames on the initial load in but as you can see i mean it's going steady we're not getting any more drops after that and by the way i am connected to my 5 gigahertz network we're not using ethernet here i mean other than that initial drop it's not doing a bad job at all at true 4k as you can see the viewpoint and the video is set at 4k next thing i had to test was the 4k version of big buck bunny i test this on all little arm devices that i get and most of the time i'd say 98 percent of the time it can't run it well but with these x86 celeron chips i've always had great luck with it i'm using the built-in windows player here and it's running it very smoothly so yeah the me-league quieter 2 can handle 4k streaming and 4k native playback next thing i wanted to do is run a couple benchmarks here we have geekbench 5 single core at 436 multi at 1441. next up some gpu benchmarks first up we have 3dmark wildlife this is a cross-platform benchmark for vulcan score 1083 and finally night raid with 1792 so it's definitely not a gaming machine but that doesn't mean we can't test some stuff out on this first up we have minecraft this is the windows store version 12 chunks fancy graphics off which actually didn't seem to help much you could probably turn that back on and get just as good performance but we're not quite locked at 60 at 12 chunks you will have to drop this down to 8 chunks to get locked at 60 but overall i mean it's doing a decent job and this is a very well optimized game next on the list we have half-life 2 720p low we averaged 81 fps out of this one i knew it was gonna run well at 720p and we're sitting at low right now but you could turn some of this stuff up to medium and still get a decent frame rate and finally for pc gaming we have the original skyrim uh unfortunately it's not doing a great job we got a maximum of 33 fps out of it and an average of 28. so yeah this is not playable on this machine moving over to some emulation this 4125 actually does a pretty decent job and if you wanted to do n64 it will but first up we have dreamcast using the redream emulator and upscale to 1280 by 960. moving over to psp using the standalone version of ppsspp we're at 3x resolution this is tekken 6 using the vulcan back in i also tested directx 11 and it seemed to work just as well not all games are going to be playable at 3x when it comes to things like chains of olympus you will have to drop it down to one but it will run at 60. and finally here the dolphin emulator whenever i test the j4125 i usually go with some lower end gamecube games and they seem to run well at the native resolution using the vulcan back in so for this one i figured i'd test a wii game and it is running at full speed now this game natively ran at 30fps and that's what we have here so it does a decent job at emulation but when it comes to native pc gaming i mean there's really not much that's going to run on here at least newer games older stuff's going to work as you saw like half-life 2 but now that we have a lot of different cloud gaming services this thing should work out pretty well one of my favorites right now is xcloud or xbox game pass game streaming whatever they're calling it now it is available for windows and i have an xbox controller connected over bluetooth let's get into a little bit of gameplay and see how this thing performs and here we have it i am connected over ethernet just to give me a better stable connection here and this little machine will handle cloud gaming be it stadium xcloud as you see here with gta 5 or even geforce now when it comes to total system power consumption from the wall using a kilowatt meter at idle this only pulls 2.2 watts gaming 9.4 and the maximum that i could get this to pull from the wall was 15.6 watts in my extreme test so not only is this a totally silent pc it's a ultra low power pc also so overall i think they've done a great job with this little mini pc it is silent and the highest cpu temperature that i recorded out of this thing through all of my tests was 81 degrees celsius and this thing idles around 36 degrees when it comes to performance basically this is all we're gonna get out of the j4125 if we added another eight gigs of ram here it's not gonna help out we have plenty of ram with eight gigs going with this lower end celeron cpu so if you're looking for a totally silent low power consumption pc for web browsing email checking some light emulation and even some cloud gaming the quieter two actually might be a good option for you so that's gonna wrap it up for this video i really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about this or maybe picking one up i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on the quieter 2 just let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching you\n"