Welcome to another video now traditionally thin clients.

A lightweight computer is optimized for establishing a remote connection with a server based computing environment that, thanks Wikipedia they run from resource is stored on the central server instead of a localized hard drive.

So you've got a big business with multiple employees who all need computer access you could give them or desktop PCs, which, of course, comes with the responsibility of maintaining each one.

Or you could give them all thin clients, which it cheaper, have no moving parts and make no noise perfect for those office environment.

Instead of the operating system being on the thin kind itself.

It's essentially streamed from the main server PC to this mini machine. 00:00:55.940 --> 00:01:2.130 But what if you wanted to install an operating system directly on one of these and use it like you would say that PC or laptop? 00:01:2.130 --> 00:01:4.140 You've bean watching this video one. 00:01:4.390 --> 00:01:8.340 Well, let's talk about that So picking one of these that won't cost you too much. 00:01:8.340 --> 00:01:9.300 It'll these days. 00:01:9.580 --> 00:01:12.130 In fact, I paid around £20 for these H.

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5 20 because they never needed the power to independently support programs.

You might find that the specs of these things sings a little lap Blaster more often than not.

Offering tiny storage capacities to this one, for example, uses an eight gigabyte SSD, four Gigs of RAM and not much else.

The main point of interest, though, is the A M D G X to 12 j C.

Process, Sir, along with the integrated radio are two e graphics.

Never heard of them.

Well, let me assure you that it's probably for the best.

Obviously, an eight gig SSD is next to useless in 2019 but it does encourage the installation of, say, Lennox, which in all honesty would be best for using on one of these. 00:01:53.880 --> 00:02:4.170 But I'll be exploring that in a different video, because I have other plans for this machine later down the line today is all about windows and how well this can or can't handle it. 00:02:4.210 --> 00:02:8.390 First things first, and I needed to replace the storage with something a little bigger. 00:02:8.460 --> 00:02:16.450 Therefore, I opted for a 240 gig into SSD, which was not only bigger in size but bigger in size.

I should have thought this through a little more, but with some persistence.

I managed to get this little driving here almost perfectly.

Okay, so it's not ideal.

But if it works, it works.

Let the suffering I mean fun.

Begin.

So let me tell you right off the bat, that Windows 10 in performance mode with all the animations disabled still run absolutely diabolically stupidly, I bought two of these.

So to show off the processing power, I'm going to start the cinnamon trial.

15 multi corps test on one.

While we take a look at some gaming benchmarks on another.

Keep your eye on the time here.

A quick look at G P U Z here reveals the full extent of the impending disaster.

Sorry about the 2009 record.

Your cot commentary off your TV style video.

The Thin client doesn't have an HD my port for my capture device. 00:03:0.110 --> 00:03:10.160 So with both cause of this jewel courtship already maxing out 100% usage through doing nothing other than existing, it was time to get into some games.

So what Childhood was complete without The Simpsons hit and run like the child's version of Grand Theft Auto absolutely loved this game.

Now please forgive me today There are no official statistics on screen in terms of the average frame rate.

1% like things like that, because this started is May just messing around.

And when I tried to run frappes at the same time, the whole system just decided it wasn't having any of it on Dhe crashed this opening game, so I thought I just talked to you about the performance as it unfolded a little bit of live commentary.

Now, with Simpson's hit and run here at 7 20 pay, you can expect about 50 to 60 frames per second. 00:03:59.830 --> 00:04:3.790 Most of the time, there aren't really any advanced graphics options to choose from. 00:04:4.030 --> 00:04:6.680 Just set your resolution in the settings and you're good to go. 00:04:6.940 --> 00:04:12.530 It's hardly the most graphically impressive game out there, either, so it doesn't really matter how it looks.

But to be honest, it is still very fun, even in 2019 and it runs surprisingly well on the thin client, too.

Okay, quick, look back at Caen a bench.

We started the multi core test at 15 47.

It's now 15 50 with three minutes in, and I'd say the test looks about halfway done so on to the next game.

Now I'll be honest.

I thought this was going to be limited to games like Grand Theft Auto one and two, the original top down versions of the game.

But it can in fact handle Grand Theft Auto three and therefore Vice City and San Andreas just fine as well.

With around 50 frames per second at 900 p, you can see that both the process sir and the GPU cause here aren't really struggling all that match. 00:04:58.620 --> 00:05:2.510 In fact, they're pretty well paired in this game. 00:05:2.720 --> 00:05:6.660 But as I say, expect to see around 50 to 60 frames per second. 00:05:6.940 --> 00:05:8.870 The settings were left as default. 00:05:8.880 --> 00:05:17.260 This is how the game saw fit to run itself on this hardware, and you have a pretty decent time with most of the three D Universe GT A games.

As I say, Vice City in San Andreas should also run.

Okay, San Andreas might be a little more of a struggle, but you should still see atleast 30 frames per second if you turn the settings down too low.

Okay, It's been five minutes since we started the sin of H R.

15 test.

I thought we were halfway done before, but it seems that we have jammed a little bit.

I'm not even gonna bother running the single court test after this because I'm sure this will be disastrous enough.

I can't wait to see what score we get with the I am the CPU here that I've forgotten the name off since the beginning.

This recording now, the original half life has no problem running here. 00:05:56.550 --> 00:06:5.450 In fact, the CPU is struggling more than the GPU in this case, often touching 98 99% usage. 00:06:5.660 --> 00:06:11.200 But I wouldn't say it's holding the graphics back because, as you can see now, it has dropped a little bit.

There will be some situations where the CPU does struggle, but the graphics chip in this thing is just plodding along absolutely fine.

Now, in terms of performance, you're gonna see between 50 on 100 frames per second most of the time here, which means that you should still be able to play half life.

Two is well on this PC.

Checking back in with cinnamon trial 15.

It's been nearly 10 minutes on the test has still not completed.

It is getting there.

They look at it go.

It's really giving it a good try a case.

So let's play some old school battlefield to We're playing a bit of single player online here.

As you can see, we're running at 7 20 p, the games running anywhere between 30 frames per second and 60 frames per second.

When their combat heats up, expect a few drops. 00:06:58.930 --> 00:07:7.360 Hardly a graphically impressive game is battlefield, too, but it still is a very fun one, and I still enjoy playing it on a near weekly basis. 00:07:7.370 --> 00:07:14.120 If I'm honest, I installed it on this PC, not expecting much, but there will be a few moments of slow down here and there.

I'll admit overall, though Well, you can expect to have a pretty decent time.

Let me just wipe out this guy if I can.

The gun's overheating.

I'm gonna have to go on foot here.

There we go.

Lovely.

You saw it drop down to the high twenties there something that will occur on occasion.

But it really isn't too bad.

And again, I was surprised by this result.

We're 12 minutes into the cinema Antrel 15 test and things are still going swimmingly.

We're almost there now, surely, any day.

So this is far cry, too, and it ran best at 1024 by 76 a.

Interestingly, when I dropped the resolution down to 800 by 600. 00:07:55.250 --> 00:08:1.040 As you'll see in a minute, it ran worse than it did at 1024 by 768 which was quite odd. 00:08:1.340 --> 00:08:8.450 On with the effort mention resolution, you'll gain close to 30 frames per second on average, which is very surprising. 00:08:8.700 --> 00:08:19.480 Okay, so nearly 20 minutes later, and the cinnamon char 15 test is complete and we have a score off 37 water beast, right?

So let's talk about the HP thin kind.

Is it worth buying one of these to repurpose it, so to speak, for use as a standard desk couple.

Gaming PC?

Well, often, things of cell.

It's actually prices because companies upgrade, and they just either sell off the old ones to individuals or other businesses who then sell them on in bulk on places like Eva.

And you can pick one up as I save around 30 or £40 here in the UK In fact, if you're paying more than that, I'd say you're paying too much for a thin client If you stick windows on it, I'd advise saying older operating system like window seven, despite how out of date it might be, it will run a lot better than Windows 10. 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:4.000 Alternatively, something like clinics would be best or you bun to anything like that. 00:09:4.000 --> 00:09:15.560 That's gonna be fairly lightweight to make the most out of the hardware that's in this thing, especially if yours comes with a small, hard drive like this one, though you can always upgrade that with an M two s S d.

But bear in mind the cost of that, too.

Is it worth then?

Just buying a cheaper used an older desktop PC, said Dell OptiPlex for similar money with a traditional hard drive and something that's gonna perform perhaps a little bit better in Windows.

I can't say how well, something like that would game.

Um, considering you probably be relying on until GM a graphics in that case.

But here, the radio on our two, he does quite well better than I thought initially in a lot of games as well, which was certainly nice to see with everything said on the HP tested today.

This isn't the last time you'll see it, but for now.

Thank you for watching.

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