"It's not fast, it works but it's slow" - Budget-Builds Official, 2019

@RuviaPawz

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah the Nextbook Ares 8 prossesor is a Intel atom

@RWL2012

4 жыл бұрын

@@RuviaPawz ...?

What do you call an Atom thermal throttling? Nuclear fission.

@cannedbeverage7687

4 жыл бұрын

@Li Feng Gotta be careful when blowing up that TNT in Minecraft.

@theoldone22

4 жыл бұрын

A funny joke but my Atom "server" doesn't thermal throttling, thermal shutdown only

@elijah4168

4 жыл бұрын

@@theoldone22 that's the joke

@av28379

4 жыл бұрын

👏👏

@xponen

4 жыл бұрын

@Li Feng It will thermal throttle in the end, it is insulated by metal chasis, no ventilation, no heatsink. The whole device will warm up in warm climate. There's no heat exhaust.

The last quark of an atom inside an Intel atom.

@LBSiUK

4 жыл бұрын

@CZ PC I'm not joking, Intel actually made a processor called the Intel Quark. It is meant to be a very low power CPU.

@NCHLT

3 жыл бұрын

@@LBSiUK Your on a non lift video?

@LBSiUK

3 жыл бұрын

@@NCHLT yes

@NCHLT

3 жыл бұрын

@@LBSiUK I used to use some 2007 flagship PC , Now I use 2016 flagship PC

The fact that you installed windows sideways amazes me.

Wait a minute you didn't test crysis That's illegal

@exaltedb

4 жыл бұрын

dobarlikfilip it probably wouldn’t run well (if at all) due to the ram

@FilipTech

4 жыл бұрын

@@exaltedb yeah 😅

@ayuchanayuko

4 жыл бұрын

There are Atoms paired with a geforce dedicated gpu

@etlttc353

4 жыл бұрын

@@ayuchanayuko bottlenecks: *_are you challenging me ?!_*

@user-tm3fz7qx3s

4 жыл бұрын

100th like!

If you're looking for a decent device to test the Atom x7 X8750, the 1st gen GPD Win (refresh model) had that and it's actually really decent imo. And as far as Atom testing goes, while it's not a PC, it would be interesting to explore the Atom chips Intel made for smartphones many years ago during their mobile push attempt. I think the ASUS ZenFone 2 with the Atom Z3590 was the last phone to use an Intel Atom SoC.

@aetvrna

3 жыл бұрын

I have the ZenFone 2. It is z3580

@iamkailong

3 жыл бұрын

@@aetvrna It is an underrated phone honestly, with some weird issues tho

@pinkipromise

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamkailong i own it. it is shit. 4h screen on time, runs hot, many apps in play store is incompatible

@iamkailong

3 жыл бұрын

@@pinkipromise I remember 4h screen on being ok back then, at least for my use case. And yes, as I said, it had weird issues.

@aetvrna

3 жыл бұрын

@@pinkipromise This is a 5 year old android phone. It beat out OnePlus back in the day... Please give credit where credit is due.

Praise the lords, after hours of waiting; It's here.

@nexenojustice552

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@frankenstein_colt_98

4 жыл бұрын

It's volv-! Oh wait, nevermind

I would actually like to see how the "best" Atom would hold up, maybe you could go all out and give it an SSD and the maximum amount of RAM it can take.

@raafaa14

4 жыл бұрын

Ram is soldered on these Atom based machines, and ssd... There are not much options where you can upgrade it

@Bagoesbudianto

4 жыл бұрын

4gb From ark.intel.com

@mrdiamond64

4 жыл бұрын

Best gaming PC -the last Atom made -SSD - 64 GB ram - RTX 2060

@razorsz195

4 жыл бұрын

who would waste their time on an atom xdd

@oblivionlord1242

4 жыл бұрын

So you want to see the z8750 with 8gb ram?

Atom will live on as rebranded, low-end Core M.

@ayuchanayuko

4 жыл бұрын

No core m is not Atom. Celeron and Pentium silvers are.

@indiawest2025

4 жыл бұрын

@@ayuchanayuko Only celerons are

@bf2142Fallensoul

4 жыл бұрын

Well technically the last was Knights landing the Xeon Phi GPGP that used a couple cluster of cores based on atom.

@ayuchanayuko

4 жыл бұрын

@@indiawest2025 that was the case early on in the ivy Bridge/haswell days, where Pentium dual-cores are basically stripped down core processors (just like in the core 2 duo Conroe era). Pentiums then became atom-based with the N0000 models; then came Pentium Gold which is basically the old Pentium dual cores (and Pentium B-series) and the Atom-based Pentium N-series became Pentium Silver.

@eduardoavila646

4 жыл бұрын

And core Y, and the newer celerons

I think Chromebooks could've saved the Atom line.

@silvy7394

4 жыл бұрын

Chromebooks where well out before they killed Atoms. Chromebooks just went for Celerons and ARM instead.

@quisqueyanguy120

4 жыл бұрын

ARM is cheaper for Chromebooks

@qlum

4 жыл бұрын

@@silvy7394 Don't forget bulldozer, that too still lives in chromebooks.

@oblivion2755

4 жыл бұрын

Most ARMs are more powerful than these Atoms and Celerons. The premium-tier Snapdragon 855+ could be way more powerful than an i3.

@Gajaczek93

4 жыл бұрын

Are chromebooks even a thing? Like smartphone is basically a chromebook without a keyboard. If I have keyboard/touchpad I see no reason to use android anymore.

The Skyrim and Fable results really surprised me considering how the old Atoms performed. I am curious how Minecraft and Half Life 2 would run on the higher end Atom with dual channel memory so I hope you end up making that video!

@bananya6020

4 жыл бұрын

I can tell you personally on my netbook it can run 1.8.9 with optifine at 60fps with 4 chunk render and everything else minimum settings.

@bananya6020

4 жыл бұрын

1.9 is a little iffy, and 1.10-1.12 are barely playable while 1.13+ are just horrible

And at last, we have last Atom to ever be in the market. It's been a great journey, Intel Atom... A great journey indeed.

You can also find a bunch of these Atom chips in NAS boxes (Qnap and Synology), and they had a very big issue with the clock generator on the chip degrading which causes them to brick. EEVblog did a very good video on it and he also showed how to easily fix those chips once that happens -- it's basically just adding a pull-up resistor from the clock trace to +Vcc.

Gotta love the "The Sims" music!

Having owned a Surface 3, (not pro) I can confirm that storage and memory were the real bottlenecks. Still, being able to decode x265 video (at 1080p, no less) on a device with such a good screen and long battery life, all in a package that weighed around 1 pound, was impressive for what it was.

Using Sims BGM? I love you!!1

Wholly agree! The newer Atoms actually have a fair amount to give, especially so given the crazy low price-range they sat in. It's just a shame so many of the devices equipped with 'em often had infuriating flaws, and are basically disposable machines. Of these kind of things I've used/owned, the Thinkpad 10 was probably my favorite.

What brought my attention to the Cherry Trail chips was the GPD Win, and it's because of that that I knew it was a decent chip. Thanks for the video!

If they had used dual channel ram and NVME storage, then this could have been a much more appealing and usable product for a lot of people.

@madmax2069

4 жыл бұрын

NVME alone would have cost more than the laptop itself.

@erwinm.mutaqqin4559

4 жыл бұрын

At least ssd at sata3

2watts, I think it need some mega water cooled solution - or just loads of tea.

I remember that there were some atoms that seriously kicked ass, I mean for a low powered laptop or tablet they were actually not that bad

@HauntedCorpseGaming

4 жыл бұрын

I remember getting an Intel Atom N2600 HP 110 a long time ago and it was quite a beast, I've got an Z8350 with 4gb ram and it works quite well too especially using the Steam Streaming option from a main PC. :D

@onometre

4 жыл бұрын

My Chinese tablet can run Skyrim. How could I complain about that?

@EscanthonX

4 жыл бұрын

I had a little hybrid machine with an atom z3790 and it was pretty fast. 2gb ram, sure, but it ran at 2.4ghz and could play fallout 3 and similar titles pretty well

@TheXev

4 жыл бұрын

I had the same HP 110 as Aaron. I managed to make that netbook do some crazy stuff, like play StarCraft II (only very ugly). The main reason that older atoms like the N2600 were terrible for watching videos, was a lack of hardware H264 decoding. I had a highly optimized software for H264 decoding, that managed to make my HP 110 play 720p videos while maxing out the CPU. I was able to upgrade the HP 110 to 2GBs of RAM, which was a MASSIVE boon to its performance. My new Chuwei tablet with the Z8350 has hardware H264 decoding, so youtube and others run fine. I just wish it had 4GBs of ram, but the 2GBs of ram is fine for something I only really use as a manga reader and sometimes video watching tablet.

@EscanthonX

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheXev If you have a PS4 or gaming PC, these things are extremely great for PS Remote play and moonlight gamestreaming

Quite surprised at the Atoms power, great video

I've watched your n450 atom video 5 times, thanks for doing another atom based video. Ill miss these, they were really cool, its so sad they're never paired with decent specs... Newer atoms all have a sh*tty 32gigs emmc. If they were upgradeable like my atom D525 was, they'd be way better

@bananya6020

4 жыл бұрын

mine let me use an sd card. Not perfect but it seriously did help.

@SummonerArthur

4 жыл бұрын

@@bananya6020 I use a n455 daily for learning c++ Mine *only* has an SD card. No emmc, no sata or IDE slots. Kinda sucks, but win7 kinda runs fine in it, faster than using an thumb drive.

@user-kd4pg8hu7t

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings from a fellow D525 Atom user (EEEPC 1215n). I've upgraded to an SSD and to Win10 32-bit, but now the Nvidia drivers somewhat screwed up and I've lost HDMI out. There used to be a huge EEEPC community with lots of info, but those forums are now gone as well. Do you have similiar issues?

@SummonerArthur

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-kd4pg8hu7t sadly, I dont have a D525 anymore. Now I use a N455. Nvidia drivers? But if I remember correctly, mine had a Intel GMA3150. Are you sure you arent using wrong drivers?

@user-kd4pg8hu7t

4 жыл бұрын

@@SummonerArthur No I am not wrong, as mine is a cool big 12.1" netbook with a discrete video (Nvidia ION 2 platform), which enabled some light gaming. I even tested StarCraft 2 on it. You could see videos on YT with this model playing Mass Effect 2, Crysis (low details, of course). But Nvidia has obviously dropped support. The GMA3150 wasn't even capable of accelerating video, so you've missed a lot.

Awesome video, my ASUS EeePC has an Intel N270. Still works extremely fast for web browsing and watching videos with Linux! :D

Ah intel atom... Bane of my teenage years way back then 😂

@fhddhdhk9319

4 жыл бұрын

Celerons still are the bane of my life.

@nexenojustice552

4 жыл бұрын

@@fhddhdhk9319 1.1GHz I lived with

@NPCDCBA

4 жыл бұрын

@@fhddhdhk9319 which one? Might be upgradable

@fhddhdhk9319

4 жыл бұрын

@@NPCDCBA its a laptop cpu so no upgradability.

@vanajalekkala5098

4 жыл бұрын

I consider myself lucky because I had a pentium

9:22 THAT'S IT, here is the proff that you can run Skyrim even on a toaster, yet alone on this one!

@harrylane4

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, you're finally awake

I love the sims background over this

if this was a primiere i would be here for 4 min until it ended great vid btw

I'm still running the first desktop atom from Zotac and 4 gigs of ddr2 ram. It's the single core version with hyper threading. What made it last so long was the Nvidia graphics portion. It's really surprising how well the Intel Atoms can run. Thanks for the video.

I am an actual fan of the Atom CPU, I own a couple and it amazed me when they first came out because of just what they were capable of

Gotta love that simcity soundtrack in the background

Really good - always enjoy your videos!

the last few series of atoms were pretty good. I have a thinkpad tablet with atom x7 series and can't complain, works great, I even ran some virtual machines on it and surprisingly they were fully usable. I have a HP baytrail celeron tablet with a legit m.2 slot and slotted ram

Try the x7, the Best Atom ever made

@DarkLinkAD

4 жыл бұрын

How does it compare to an under-clocked/undervolted CPU of the same generation though?

@lolcat

4 жыл бұрын

@@DarkLinkAD I have no idea but I'm pretty sure I saw videos of it running GameCube games fairly decent. like on the level of a very old i3

@EscanthonX

4 жыл бұрын

@@DarkLinkAD Pretty poorly, most likely due to the neutered cache. I tested one of these against a 7th gen i5 at 1.2 GHz and the i5 outperformed it in raw CPU Power by around 60%

@madmax2069

4 жыл бұрын

Heck an Athlon 5350 smokes the x7

@Tonyx.yt.

3 жыл бұрын

Z520 the slowest ever made... back in the 2009 i get a netbook with atom z520 because i was a noob, half performance than p4 630 from 2004, that cpu was annoying slow so even the 5400 rpm hdd was not a bottleneck...

Great video, it will definitely get some rewatches from me (just like the last of old Atoms one)! I guess it's now time to check out some cheap Celeron based laptop... Or see how far can we push Sandy Bridge prebuilt

Love the sims background music

Watching on a TV stick running the X5-Z8350. It's definitely hindered by the eMMC. Not much for games. But steam in home streaming is fine! It's been a great little computer for streaming video and it is significantly power saving compared to my desktop. I love that it runs off of a 5V3A usb power supply. I notice the driver issue too, mine has the issue that it won't detect HDMI audio out. A Windows Update made HDMI disappear as an audio source and it hasn't came back even with driver reinstall 😂

@rkan2

4 жыл бұрын

There are fixea for that :P

"It's not fast, but it's slow" oh well, that's cool

Your music, remains a lovely touch base. :)

Hagrid: You're two wizards, BudgetBuilds! BudgetBuilds: two *watts*

I knew I recognized the music, sims 4!

@cuddlecreeper8

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

You should really try the higher end surface 3! I would imagine the higher x7, 4 gigs and most importantly, the 128 gb ssd would make it much better for general things.

loved this vid! keep up the great work

Love the vid! The Surface 3 has the X7-Z8700 btw

Damn my old phone used to have an Intel Atom

In the start of the video I was like "OOh my laptop!!"

@rajideva6745

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@baboonation5794

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh the lenovo miix 320. It really is a piece of shit

@shahbazahmad-ud6kj

3 жыл бұрын

@@baboonation5794 I have the lenovo ideapad d330 with LTE, it's a lot better than that shitbox, and cost 200$. I use it for school work.

I like your videos that include some old CPUs..... Idk why? Maybe cause I like how you absolutely shred them calling them a patato??😂

Nice video e very nice The Sims 4 OST 👌

Yes! Finally, its here! By the way, I also got one of these Atom Netbooks

The mere mention of a £200 AM4 Ryzen system has set off my ADHD* making me want to go and budget one out to tinker with and set up for my kids... I'll stay and watch! I promise! *I do literally legitimately have ADHD

@robidemon6674

4 жыл бұрын

Yeet

@joannaatkins822

4 жыл бұрын

I made it! Great video, it's well shot, narrated, and edited! I'm really impressed by the performance considering the teeny tiny wattage of this Atom, I feel that my experiences as a layman using Atoms may well have been informed by my ignorance about what may have actually been a bottleneck in those systems.

Finally.... It has come.....a budget builds video

budgetbuilds: *you cant upgrade the storage* me: *connects usb ssd*

There are some chinese laptops that have these Cherrytrail CPUs and have slots for M.2 SSD's

@rkan2

4 жыл бұрын

It is still a great CPU.. Being budget oriented it did unfortunately often be limited by other hardware too. :/

I have same cpu but with 4gb ram and 64GB storage its almost double the speed maybe try to find that or even x7. 2GB ram limits gpu a lot

Very nice overview! I've always liked the Atom chips; considering the power draw the theoretical performance output is very impressive. However, as you said; in the vast majority of cases they're put in some very dreary systems.

Hello There, a great video and with the C and P Series of Intel Atom, it's still being manufactured. Cheers Peter :)

Just wait, someone's gonna figure out how to solder in more RAM and an SSD.

@TheXev

4 жыл бұрын

I'd kill to have an SSD in my Z8350 tablet. I'm glad I only use it for reading manga and sometimes watching videos, otherwise I'd be angry that I spent money on it at all.

@Revon79

4 жыл бұрын

How about readyboost for ram. Will boot from ssd be any faster I wonder

The last of the Atom-BRANDED chips at least. They still live on using the Celeron and Pentium Silver brands.

@bf2142Fallensoul

4 жыл бұрын

No, they are different the most "comparable" are the celeron SoC like braswell and all those.

@clochard4074

4 жыл бұрын

I got myself a Celeron SoC and I'm baffled, it goes so much better with ssd and a gt1030! I could even play Nier Automata with the patch that corrects global illumination.

@bf2142Fallensoul

4 жыл бұрын

@@clochard4074 yeah the biggest bottlenecks of those chips are usually the i/o not the cores itself

I love The Sims 1 music on the background :D

yezzir, we would LOVE to see what the top tier atom chip can do, your effort into getting your hands on one would be incredibly appreciated

ARM was really the nail in the coffin for these Atoms. They may not have x86 support, but any programs/games that could take advantage of that won't really run on it anyways.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

That mostly. Other than those AAA Titles like Skyrim which are oddly playable.

@219SilverChoc

4 жыл бұрын

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial All I need to say is, Low Spec Gamer.

@TeamCGS2005

4 жыл бұрын

Do you think AMD were partly to blame as well Catpirate, or do you think the x86 era is coming to an end?

@TheCatpirate

2 жыл бұрын

@@TeamCGS2005 I just think for low end, x86 can't compete in terms of power consumption and efficiency.

"1080p48"? well thats a first

@Bigboii7

3 жыл бұрын

Never knew that ever exist why not 60

@njsynthesis

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bigboii7 It's double the standard film framerate, being more "cinematic" in the age of HD, high-framerate videos.

I love the background music

I love the the The Sims 4 music!

The rather interesting ones had an Nvidia ION chipset rather than being completely crippled back in the day.

@mxn1948

4 жыл бұрын

I had one. A Lenovo s12. Could actually play back 1080p movies. Which is all I used it for since it was terrible at everything else

1 view 3 likes im early

Great video, I've said for a while that atoms made more sense than an i3 for a budget laptop for a kid. Just a question, did you test whilst plugged into power to account for any power state changes?

I like this video, good topic mate.

Tablets are better than any Intel Atom chip. My 2ghz quad core Xiaomi Redmi 6A: Am I joke to you?

@ggguys6113

4 жыл бұрын

But...can it run crysis?

@nahpets2345

4 жыл бұрын

@@ggguys6113 if course it can't

@nahpets2345

4 жыл бұрын

@@TomSkarabis-oz1ep oh i see

I had several Atoms, including the N270, N450, D425 (with 4GB of dual-chan RAM). The D425 was actually pretty good in a small form-factor desktop used as a NAS.

we love a tech channel that plays sims music instead of annoying ass dubstep

Love the Sims and SimCity music!

That sims 1 music in the background

I used to run CATIA V5(R20) on an Atom (N170?) based netbook (with built in hard disk) and it worked quite well. Individual parts were fine and zooming/rotation had no problems. The problems came when there were large assemblies being moved around. I designed a playground with many, many parts and had to render a fly-through to mpg format instead of manipulating it live because it could barely do only 3-5 frames a second! Mind you, when I designed and animated a small 4-stroke engine on kinematics, it was flawless. It got me through uni though and it never shut down on me.

Just over a year ago I bought an Acer Switch S1003-12JT 10.1” 2-in-1 Touchscreen Laptop with Intel® x5-Z8350, 32GB eMMC, 4GB RAM & Windows 10 while it was on sale for about 250 dollars (CDN) and I've been super happy with using it as a Streaming target for Steam from my main PC and with a bluetooth Xbox One controller. For storage I use a 128gb Sandisk microsd card and it has acceptable performance for the pre-2008 era games I have on it and then run a mix of 4 player indie titles such as: Tricky Towers, Lover's in a Dangerous Space Time and Bro Force. If you can get one cheap enough this model can work much like a Switch around your house streaming from the main PC as mentioned since it has Micro HDMI out on it. One thing I did fine that I had to do with it in Windows 10 was to lookup how to add the "Minimum CPU Speed" option to it (This also disappears after running a windows update again it seems) and set it to 100 percent otherwise the Atom wanted to not run at about half speed for some titles. I'm not sure if its a bug or not but I figured some folks are perhaps seeing a similar issue since not adding that to the registry allows the atom to run below 1ghz for a bunch of software right after you launch it on steam which in the above mentioned Bro Force made it nearly unplayable without the tweak. Anyway, great video. :D

I've loads of those latter-era Atoms in a variety of form factors. I'm quite enamoured of them! Yes, they all have the 2GB/32GB RAM/eMMC limit, but I like 'em. Game-wise, they run Civ IV, Serious Sam, Doom 3, basically pre-2006 games just fine but I like them as portable field-repair devices. They're tiny! I even have a small cylinder PC about 15CM tall, same specs, HDMI output - great fun.

I love the video especially the music. I knew it was taken from The Sims.

When I was a kid, I used to modify the n270 Atom with modded drivers, I got it actually boot crisis by emulating the shader model 3.0 command calls. It was a buggy mess, a rainbow sky but it worked. There may be some videos still online of the GMA 945 emulating shader pixel 3.0. All in all, I won't miss using that bloody thing, but I will miss those days!

Oddly, I had a 14" HP X360 with one of the higher end Atoms with 4GB of RAM and M.2 SSD onboard and it was a very different experience. It worked well enough for development use.

I'd love the Top Tier Atom video!

sexy video as always should totally do the high end device as a compare to see if you theory that hardware around it holds it up ;)

I used to run these little chips as my primary laptops (and I only use laptops for 10+ years). At 4G rams and 64G eMMC, it could run win 10 1607, Office 2013 and firefox (but not chrome) at decent speed without turboboost (for max battery life). One of the best unit I had my hands on is Lenovo Yoga Book. It has a x5 chip and better eMMC storage. FYI: these chips runs into 5W TDP when running at turbo boost, you could use throttle stop and firmware setting to partially override the thermal wall throttle setting (kind of battle override).

One note about Minecraft: If you're installing it on windows 10, I recommend downloading the bedrock or 'Windows 10' edition from the Microsoft store instead of running java. Because it's meant to run on multiple different device categories ranging from phones to consoles, the code is written in C/C++ and is super optimised. So even if you're cpu limited, it should run an absolute treat on these older devices! Just thought that'd be a good heads up! Great videos as always!

A nice cheap option for anyone interested in playing with an Atom X5-Z8350 is the AtomicPi. I use mine as a silent passively cooled desktop, though I have moved to a pi4 for that role more recently. It's still nice to have a windows machine on the desk too, and this video makes want to play with it more.

got a couple of hybrids running on atoms. They're perfect for streaming from xbox or pc. work flawlessly so if you are short of a tv these are great and you can watch youtube or do your interwebs on!

Id love to see more Atom CPU videos =D

At this point you gotta do a video on a x7 chip. Anyways love the channel.

I’m addicted to these videos 🙂

Last netbook based atom, though I have a modern Atom powering a VM server; an Atom C3758 on a Supermicro A2SDi-8C+HLN4F mini-itx board. 8 cores paired with 64gigs of DDR4 RDIMMs and a wonderful low power draw of around 50-60W under full load for the entire system (fans, hard drives, etc). Works great!

@rkan2

4 жыл бұрын

These also make for great servers. They are still a great alternative for things like raspberry pis. Can be had for half the price, but they are at least twice as powerful.

The atom x7-Z8750 released with x5-8350 was a tad bit powerful, almost comparable to older celerons. Love to see it in a video.

I had an Asus Vivotab as a daily driver notepad kind of thing for several years now. A small 8-inch tab on Atom, with full Windows and a pen is a surprisingly producive machine. Also handled NFS Most Wanted well enough to entertain me on a long flight.

My surface 3 with Atom is still running great. Great processor

I am still using a Samsung NC210 (Atom N550) to this day and I am very happy with it. It isn't the fastest, but it does everything I need it to do. I upgraded the RAM to 2GB and put in an SSD. I run a dual boot of Lubuntu 18.04 and Windows XP Professional.

thx u for the vid nd your time invested in making it ive allways liked the atom maybe someone could put it on a small computer like the odoo just a thought

More Sims music, love it!

I had a cherry trail chip when they were still kind of new. I had it in a Windows 10 tablet running the original 2015 version. It held up extremely well for a device with 1 GB of low power DDR3 memory and 32 GB of EMMC storage. At the time I mostly played games along the lines of Garry's mod and it ran very well. When I switched to that machine I was moving from a Windows XP computer with four usable gigabytes of DDR2 memory, a G-Force 7300 LE, RAID IDE caviar blacks from WD, and a cedarmill Pentium 4 (Pentium D series) 930 clocked at 3 GHz THE DAMN THING COSTED AN ARM AND A LEG WHEN IT WAS NEW (though I did add a dual boot HDD over SATA with Ubuntu 12.04 later which allowed me to use my full 8 GB, didn't want to upgrade to XP 64-bit edition because I would lose media center edition features I paid for)

I used to have a dell venue 8 pro with the same specs but it ran windows 8 and I loved it

The first GPD Win portable PC game console thingy used these cherry trail chips, there's a large community that like to mod and alter games to get them running on those so I'd imagine that if you were to apply the same fixes to whichever games then you could get them running on this

Good test! I also have a Z8300 2in1 and the power satisfies me. But yeah, the emmc storage is terrible. It's what holding the processor back. Installing something takes ages