The Performance of the Elitebook Mini 700 PC Gaming and Emulation Test

The Elitebook Mini 700 is an ultra-compact PC that can run various operating systems, including Linux. In this test, we will explore its performance with PC gaming using Steam and Proton, as well as emulation on various platforms.

PC Gaming Performance

We started by testing the PC's performance in a PC gaming scenario using Steam and Proton. We set up the new God of War port to run at 720p low settings and were initially disappointed to find that it was unplayable at 25 watts. However, when we increased the TDP on the CPU to 35 watts, the game's performance improved significantly, allowing us to play at a steady 30 frames per second.

We repeated this test with Elden Ring, which unfortunately had issues with anti-cheat software and failed to display any overlays. Even with the TDP increased to 35 watts, we were still unable to reach 30 frames per second in this game.

Emulation Performance

Next, we tested the PC's emulation capabilities using PCSX2 for PS2 games. We set up the emulator to run at 25 watts and loaded up Bloody Roar 4 to test its performance. To our surprise, the PC was able to handle the game smoothly at 1080p with a stable 60 frames per second.

We also tested Dolphin Emulator for GameCube games, which performed well as well, running smoothly at 1080p with a steady 60 frames per second.

However, when we attempted to test PS3 games using RPCS3, the results were less promising. Even with the TDP increased to 35 watts, we were unable to reach 30 frames per second in this game. We also tested Skate 3, which required more CPU power than what was available on the Elitebook Mini 700.

Linux Performance

One of the standout features of the Elitebook Mini 700 is its ability to run Linux out of the box. In our test, we installed Manjaro Linux and were able to take advantage of its powerful hardware to run demanding applications smoothly.

Overall, the Elitebook Mini 700's performance is a mixed bag, depending on the application or game being run. While it struggles with PC gaming at low TDP settings, it excels in emulation and can handle more demanding tasks like Linux desktop workloads.

Conclusion

The Elitebook Mini 700 is an impressive little PC that packs a punch despite its small size. Its ability to run Linux out of the box and its performance in various applications make it a great option for those looking for a compact PC solution. While it may not be ideal for demanding gaming tasks, it's well-suited for emulation and can handle more casual usage scenarios.

If you're interested in learning more about the Elitebook Mini 700 or want to see it in action, I've included some links to resources in the description below. Be sure to subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications to stay up-to-date with future content.

The Elitebook Mini 700 is a great addition to any computer collection, offering impressive performance at an affordable price point. Its compact size and lightweight design make it perfect for taking on the go or storing in a small space.

In conclusion, this PC may not be ideal for every user, but its unique strengths make it well-suited for specific use cases. If you're looking for a reliable and powerful little PC to handle your everyday tasks, the Elitebook Mini 700 is definitely worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty cool little mini pc now this is a bit different from the windows pcs that we usually take a look at but this is still powered by ryzen apu only difference really here is this is running linux right out of the box this is known as the minus forum um 700 manjaro edition so we do get manjaro linux installed right on the internal m.2 ssd and inside of the box you're obviously going to get the mini pc itself a 65 watt wall charger hdmi cable displayport cable we get some hardware to mount a 2.5 inch drive inside of here plus our sata adapter and a vase amount taking a look at the i o up front here we get usb type c usb 3.0 which is the yellow one we also got a usb 3.1 gen 2 port and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on each side we don't have much going on over here on the right hand side but on the left this is basically all of our ventilation for the built-in cooler and moving around back we've got two more usb 3.1 gen 2 ports full size hdmi full size display port 2.5 gigabit ethernet and our power in when it comes to upgradability on these mini pcs mainly the only thing we can usually change or add is some extra storage and with this here we can add a 2.5 inch drive to the top lid piece here we can also access the ram which is sodem ram running at 2400 megahertz this one came pre-installed with 16 gigabytes of ram and a 512 gigabyte m.2 ssd but they'll also be selling this as a bare bones kit and with that you will have to add your own ram and storage but it will come pre-installed with ac wi-fi and bluetooth 4.2 taking a look at the specs the um-700 is powered by the amd ryzen 7 3750h we've got four cores eight threads base clock of 2.3 gigahertz and a boost up to 4.0 out of the box this is running at 25 watts and for everyday desktop use that's totally fine but changing this from 25 watts to 35 watts is very easy to do inside of the bios the built-in cooler will handle that 35 watt threshold and it does up the performance by quite a bit for the gpu we've got that radiant vega 10 up to 1400 megahertz it will accept up to 64 gigabytes of ram dual slot so dim up to 2400 megahertz a single m.2 ssd up to two terabytes you can also add that 2.5 inch sata drive beta mechanical or ssd it also comes with ac wi-fi and bluetooth 4.2 and this is running manjaro linux out of the box we're working with the linux version of the um-700 in this video setup was super easy when it comes to manjaro it's a very user-friendly linux distro if you've ever used windows or basically any other desktop operating system you can navigate this without any issues whatsoever i've been messing around with it for the last couple days and if you wanted to use this as your everyday desktop for web browsing email checking you can do some photo editing using something like and you know if you wanted to throw some light video editing i'd say 1080p no more than three streams at this thing the ryzen 3750h does have more than enough power for your everyday desktop needs now one thing that i wanted to check out was a little bit of 4k video playback we're going to test out some steam games using proton and some emulation like i mentioned manjaro is a very user friendly linux distro and you know you don't even have to hit up terminal otherwise known as console with manjaro to get applications installed or do any kind of updates from the update center there's thousands of applications that you can install we'll just go with blender real quick first time you do an application install it'll prompt you for your password it's also going to grab all the dependencies you need you'll just have to click through okay and then it's going to get it installed for us there's a lot of stuff here we can go through the games you can download emulators you can download steam they've done a really great job of making this easy for a first time linux user and it's just as powerful as basically any other linux distro there's a couple different flavors right now we have the plasma desktop which is something i personally like it's fully customizable it does come with firefox as your default browser but like i showed you from the app center you can download chrome if you need to it's really easy to do we're gonna head over to youtube i'm gonna find a 4k 60 video and i'm pretty sure we won't have any issues with 4k video playback even with this apu only sitting at 25 watts and once we're finished with that i'm going to move over to the bios and i'm going to show you how to up the performance on this all right so here we are we've got a 4k 60fps video i do have the viewpoint set to 1080p that's what my resolution is set out with this monitor right now but we are set to 4k if you take a look at stats for nerds and yeah i mean the 3750h even at about 10 watts can handle 4k really well but like i said this is set at 25 watts out of the box the cpu cooler here through all of my testing with the windows version of the um 700 and the linux version can definitely handle 35 watts and it's really easy to get up there this will unlock a lot of gpu performance given that we can actually run that gp with its maximum clock so if you're interested in doing this once you boot the system up press delete on your keyboard this is going to bring us right into the bios and once we're in the bios we're going to go to advanced at the very bottom here you'll see amd cbs nbio common options and from here our system configuration out of the box it's set at number three here 25 watts but we have a 35 watt 45 watt 55 watt setting now i've tested with 45 watt and 55 and it does thermal throttle quite quickly with this little tiny cooler on it but 35 watts seems to be the sweet spot for this little system you can always come back to the bios and swap it back but i'm going to set this to 35 watts and we'll take a look at some gaming performance at 25 and 35 just to give you an idea of the performance difference so we're going to press escape make sure we save changes and once that's done you'll be running at 35 watts all right so jumping right into some pc gaming using steam and proton we have the new god of war port 720p low settings and we're at 25 watts right now unfortunately this is pretty much unplayable i was hoping i could get at least a steady 30 but it does drop below 20. but as soon as we up the tdp on the cpu to 35 watts it does unlock a lot of performance here we are same exact game same setting so we're 720p low settings but we're at that 35 watt tdp on the apu and now we have enough power going to the cpu to deliver the higher clocks on the cpu and gpu side of things when this is set at 25 watts and you stress out the gpu and cpu it tries to split up the difference between them and both of them will be way under clock so turning this up a bit definitely helps out especially when it comes to gaming and yeah i mean you could play god of war at 30 fps on this machine 720p low settings the next one i tested was eldon ring unfortunately with the anti-cheat they use i can't get any kind of overlays to come up it's very unfortunate because we can't tell what fps this is running at but at 25 watts it does look like we're in the 20s right now and after taking it up to 35 it does seem a lot smoother but i really wish that we could get an overlay going on i'd say we're still under that 30 threshold with this system here even at 35 watts with this game this is just a hard one to run on an igpu but now it's time to move over to some emulation here we have ps2 using pcsx2 this is set at 25 watts you really shouldn't have any issues with ps2 emulation i'm using the vulcan back in we're at 1080p with bloody roar4 and as you can see it's running great ps2 on this little chip here does work out really well even in linux next up we've got some gamecube using the dolphin emulator 1080p vulcan back in fps is up in the top right hand corner we're getting a real nice smooth 60 with one of the games i always like to test which is automotive going into this i really didn't think we'd have any issues with gamecube or even ps2 when it comes to the lower end stuff like psp dreamcast and even lower than that this little system will run it just fine in linux and surprisingly enough ps3 is also playable with some games now it's not going to run every single game here we have tekken 6 which is an easier one to emulate but in my opinion this is running just fine we're at 720p using that vulcan back in it is really hitting up that cpu we've only got four cores and eight threads and with this emulator there are harder to emulate games that love extra cores like skate 3. unfortunately even at 35 watts you're gonna be hard pressed to even run this at 30 fps on this system i was really hoping locking it at 30 would give us a really nice steady frame rate but unfortunately even at 35 watts we just don't have enough power to push the ps3 emulator this is rpcs three using the vulcan back in i tested opengl just to see what would happen and it was way worse so vulcan is the way to go on these radeon apus overall it's a very snappy little linux pc and i'm really glad to see that they're offering some of these with linux pre-installed now basically with all of these x86 mini pcs we can install linux ourself to an external drive or the internal drive but some people might be looking for a little mini pc with it installed right out of the box and i say manjaro is a great way to start this is a great operating system if you're getting into it or if you've been into linux for a long time very powerful but they've made it very user friendly so it's easy to get into but that's going to wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about the elite mini um 700 i will leave a few links in the description and you know if you want to see anything else running on this let me know in the comments below if you like these mini pc videos make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you know when i post my next video but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty cool little mini pc now this is a bit different from the windows pcs that we usually take a look at but this is still powered by ryzen apu only difference really here is this is running linux right out of the box this is known as the minus forum um 700 manjaro edition so we do get manjaro linux installed right on the internal m.2 ssd and inside of the box you're obviously going to get the mini pc itself a 65 watt wall charger hdmi cable displayport cable we get some hardware to mount a 2.5 inch drive inside of here plus our sata adapter and a vase amount taking a look at the i o up front here we get usb type c usb 3.0 which is the yellow one we also got a usb 3.1 gen 2 port and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on each side we don't have much going on over here on the right hand side but on the left this is basically all of our ventilation for the built-in cooler and moving around back we've got two more usb 3.1 gen 2 ports full size hdmi full size display port 2.5 gigabit ethernet and our power in when it comes to upgradability on these mini pcs mainly the only thing we can usually change or add is some extra storage and with this here we can add a 2.5 inch drive to the top lid piece here we can also access the ram which is sodem ram running at 2400 megahertz this one came pre-installed with 16 gigabytes of ram and a 512 gigabyte m.2 ssd but they'll also be selling this as a bare bones kit and with that you will have to add your own ram and storage but it will come pre-installed with ac wi-fi and bluetooth 4.2 taking a look at the specs the um-700 is powered by the amd ryzen 7 3750h we've got four cores eight threads base clock of 2.3 gigahertz and a boost up to 4.0 out of the box this is running at 25 watts and for everyday desktop use that's totally fine but changing this from 25 watts to 35 watts is very easy to do inside of the bios the built-in cooler will handle that 35 watt threshold and it does up the performance by quite a bit for the gpu we've got that radiant vega 10 up to 1400 megahertz it will accept up to 64 gigabytes of ram dual slot so dim up to 2400 megahertz a single m.2 ssd up to two terabytes you can also add that 2.5 inch sata drive beta mechanical or ssd it also comes with ac wi-fi and bluetooth 4.2 and this is running manjaro linux out of the box we're working with the linux version of the um-700 in this video setup was super easy when it comes to manjaro it's a very user-friendly linux distro if you've ever used windows or basically any other desktop operating system you can navigate this without any issues whatsoever i've been messing around with it for the last couple days and if you wanted to use this as your everyday desktop for web browsing email checking you can do some photo editing using something like and you know if you wanted to throw some light video editing i'd say 1080p no more than three streams at this thing the ryzen 3750h does have more than enough power for your everyday desktop needs now one thing that i wanted to check out was a little bit of 4k video playback we're going to test out some steam games using proton and some emulation like i mentioned manjaro is a very user friendly linux distro and you know you don't even have to hit up terminal otherwise known as console with manjaro to get applications installed or do any kind of updates from the update center there's thousands of applications that you can install we'll just go with blender real quick first time you do an application install it'll prompt you for your password it's also going to grab all the dependencies you need you'll just have to click through okay and then it's going to get it installed for us there's a lot of stuff here we can go through the games you can download emulators you can download steam they've done a really great job of making this easy for a first time linux user and it's just as powerful as basically any other linux distro there's a couple different flavors right now we have the plasma desktop which is something i personally like it's fully customizable it does come with firefox as your default browser but like i showed you from the app center you can download chrome if you need to it's really easy to do we're gonna head over to youtube i'm gonna find a 4k 60 video and i'm pretty sure we won't have any issues with 4k video playback even with this apu only sitting at 25 watts and once we're finished with that i'm going to move over to the bios and i'm going to show you how to up the performance on this all right so here we are we've got a 4k 60fps video i do have the viewpoint set to 1080p that's what my resolution is set out with this monitor right now but we are set to 4k if you take a look at stats for nerds and yeah i mean the 3750h even at about 10 watts can handle 4k really well but like i said this is set at 25 watts out of the box the cpu cooler here through all of my testing with the windows version of the um 700 and the linux version can definitely handle 35 watts and it's really easy to get up there this will unlock a lot of gpu performance given that we can actually run that gp with its maximum clock so if you're interested in doing this once you boot the system up press delete on your keyboard this is going to bring us right into the bios and once we're in the bios we're going to go to advanced at the very bottom here you'll see amd cbs nbio common options and from here our system configuration out of the box it's set at number three here 25 watts but we have a 35 watt 45 watt 55 watt setting now i've tested with 45 watt and 55 and it does thermal throttle quite quickly with this little tiny cooler on it but 35 watts seems to be the sweet spot for this little system you can always come back to the bios and swap it back but i'm going to set this to 35 watts and we'll take a look at some gaming performance at 25 and 35 just to give you an idea of the performance difference so we're going to press escape make sure we save changes and once that's done you'll be running at 35 watts all right so jumping right into some pc gaming using steam and proton we have the new god of war port 720p low settings and we're at 25 watts right now unfortunately this is pretty much unplayable i was hoping i could get at least a steady 30 but it does drop below 20. but as soon as we up the tdp on the cpu to 35 watts it does unlock a lot of performance here we are same exact game same setting so we're 720p low settings but we're at that 35 watt tdp on the apu and now we have enough power going to the cpu to deliver the higher clocks on the cpu and gpu side of things when this is set at 25 watts and you stress out the gpu and cpu it tries to split up the difference between them and both of them will be way under clock so turning this up a bit definitely helps out especially when it comes to gaming and yeah i mean you could play god of war at 30 fps on this machine 720p low settings the next one i tested was eldon ring unfortunately with the anti-cheat they use i can't get any kind of overlays to come up it's very unfortunate because we can't tell what fps this is running at but at 25 watts it does look like we're in the 20s right now and after taking it up to 35 it does seem a lot smoother but i really wish that we could get an overlay going on i'd say we're still under that 30 threshold with this system here even at 35 watts with this game this is just a hard one to run on an igpu but now it's time to move over to some emulation here we have ps2 using pcsx2 this is set at 25 watts you really shouldn't have any issues with ps2 emulation i'm using the vulcan back in we're at 1080p with bloody roar4 and as you can see it's running great ps2 on this little chip here does work out really well even in linux next up we've got some gamecube using the dolphin emulator 1080p vulcan back in fps is up in the top right hand corner we're getting a real nice smooth 60 with one of the games i always like to test which is automotive going into this i really didn't think we'd have any issues with gamecube or even ps2 when it comes to the lower end stuff like psp dreamcast and even lower than that this little system will run it just fine in linux and surprisingly enough ps3 is also playable with some games now it's not going to run every single game here we have tekken 6 which is an easier one to emulate but in my opinion this is running just fine we're at 720p using that vulcan back in it is really hitting up that cpu we've only got four cores and eight threads and with this emulator there are harder to emulate games that love extra cores like skate 3. unfortunately even at 35 watts you're gonna be hard pressed to even run this at 30 fps on this system i was really hoping locking it at 30 would give us a really nice steady frame rate but unfortunately even at 35 watts we just don't have enough power to push the ps3 emulator this is rpcs three using the vulcan back in i tested opengl just to see what would happen and it was way worse so vulcan is the way to go on these radeon apus overall it's a very snappy little linux pc and i'm really glad to see that they're offering some of these with linux pre-installed now basically with all of these x86 mini pcs we can install linux ourself to an external drive or the internal drive but some people might be looking for a little mini pc with it installed right out of the box and i say manjaro is a great way to start this is a great operating system if you're getting into it or if you've been into linux for a long time very powerful but they've made it very user friendly so it's easy to get into but that's going to wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about the elite mini um 700 i will leave a few links in the description and you know if you want to see anything else running on this let me know in the comments below if you like these mini pc videos make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on notifications so you know when i post my next video but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching\n"