SFF for light gaming

[b0redom]

Hi All,
I've just bought the Lego humble bundle for my littlest to play. I was planning on installing them on an old Haswell NUC I have which could live under the telly, but it's nowhere near powerful enough. Can anyone recommend something which is SFF and powerful to run these and similar titles, maybe some light emulation of SNES/NES/Gamecube. Doesn't have to be new if there's a newer NUC/Brix which can do them at 1080p.

Cheers....

b0redom

[DanceswithUnix]

My son has a 4700U laptop for his university studies, which can just about handle emulated Mario Kart Wii so I guess would be fine for Gamecube stuff.

An Asus PN51 might be worth a look if that is within budget. We have one of the older PN50 models at work, and it's a decent bit of kit.

Edit: At a lower budget but a bigger case, you could slap a 5600G onto an itx or uATX motherboard and have some option of upgrade in the future

[b0redom]

Oof! The PN51 is pretty expensive for an impulse buy! Might see if a 5600G uATX/ITX system comes up on eBay.

[cptwhite_uk]

b0redom, I'm sending you a PM

[DanceswithUnix]

Yeah, you do pay for miniaturisation.

A bit cheaper and bigger is the Asrock X300: https://www.mini-itx.com/~DESKMINI-X300

which is probably cheaper than you could build an ITX system, but it's an odd STX format I think.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhW8OE_tiUc

Seems to be solid and has some expansion potential too. CCL Computers sell it:
https://www.cclonline.com/90bxg4c01-...rebone-386549/

Even has 4 RAM slots!

[DanceswithUnix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhW8OE_tiUc

Seems to be solid and has some expansion potential too. CCL Computers sell it:
https://www.cclonline.com/90bxg4c01-...rebone-386549/

Even has 4 RAM slots!

Nice box, I didn't know Asrock had added those to their range.

That was with a £160 RX6400 video card though, and the AM4 version is some £45 cheaper and gives the option of 5600G for lower cost. I presume Intel integrated graphics still isn't up to much, specially for ATi centric Nintendo emulation?

[b0redom]

Is something like this going to have enough grunt?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175340989628

[Jonj1611]

So they have the Ryzen 3 3200G here and seems to do ok



But think its at the bottom end of whats required

[b0redom]

Ok, I priced up:

ASRock DeskMini X300 Series Barebone
Kingston FURY Impact 16GB (2x 8GB) 3200MHz DDR4
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Zen 3 CPU
Western Digital Blue SN570 1TB M.2-2280 SSD

For £479 inc VAT

Seems like a decent deal. That should be performant enough right?

Am I right in thinking that the GPU for the 5600G and 5700G is the same? The only difference is the number of cores?

[Jonj1611]

Seems like it will do the job. I have a dedicated GPU now but check out my thread here for some real life FPS for the 5700G.

When I was weighing up the 5600G or 5700G there wasn't a lot in it but went with the 5700G in the end

https://forums.hexus.net/cpus/425664-apus-gaming.html

[b0redom]

Yeah, I'm struggling to find the actual difference in GPU between the 5600G and 5700G, and the price difference is ~£80, £159 vs £243.

[Jonj1611]

The 5700G has Vega 8 while the 5600G has Vega 7.

Not sure if that helps you or not

[DanceswithUnix]

Yeah, I'm struggling to find the actual difference in GPU between the 5600G and 5700G, and the price difference is ~£80, £159 vs £243.

Tricky isn't it

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-spec...n-vega-7.c3833
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-spec...n-vega-8.c3768

Not helped by there being an older Vega 8 on the 2200G that's quite a bit slower. But that's showing about a 15% difference, which with 14% more shaders and a slight clock bump would seem pretty good scaling.