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JRVR MC29 Testing [Pre-release / Old]
BryanC:
I received the itty bitty ZX01 N5105 (10W) mini PC (JRMark 2705) w/ Intel UHD graphics:
I should've added something for scale but it's less than 3" on every side, about the size of a baseball. For some reason I thought this thing would be fanless but it's not, although the fan is very quiet (quieter than any laptop or mini PC I've owned, even quieter than the NanoPi R2S mini router). It needs 2.5A 12V USB-C for power (so ~30W headroom) and includes a 3A 12V USB-C AC adapter and HDMI cable. Surprisingly it has W11 Pro pre-installed as well.
It plays everything in my library using bilinear scaling, no frame drops even w/ HDR passthrough! So it appears that the problems with JRVR and HDR passthrough are relegated to integrated AMD devices. This thing doesn't have quite the GPU horsepower as the Vega 8 (so I can't run Lanczos on non-HDR content) but all I care about is no frame drops, so I'm happy. Time to sell my AMD stuff and enjoy some movies, finally!
With direct rendering enabled I do see a fairly prominent blue line along the bottom of the display so I have turned it off for now.
Hendrik:
The remaining blue line will be fixed in an upcoming update, but it requires an update to external components, so it might be a few days.
Glad to hear i'ts performing well. In the long term we plan on changes/improvements to the frame presentation to allow pre-rendering, which might help to manage the performance expectations of such AMD devices as well, but its hard to predict how it'll impact any system, and of course I also don't have access to every combination to run tests - and AMD hardware in particular is pretty rare in my collection, unfortunately. (Mostly because their video history isn't stellar)
JimH:
Nice! Thanks for the report and the pictures!
JimH:
Is this where you got it?
https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005001921619318.html
How was it configured?
I may move this to the hardware board.
BryanC:
--- Quote from: JimH on January 31, 2022, 05:22:43 pm ---Is this where you got it?
https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005001921619318.html
How was it configured?
I may move this to the hardware board.
--- End quote ---
Yep, that's the store. I went with 8GB/128GB as my HTPC is basically a "thin" MC client. If I were recording TV on the client I would go with a bigger disk (only ~90GB free after updating Windows, installing Intel driver packages, and running Disk Cleanup) but for my purposes it's more than enough as I record on the server.
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