 Zhao Xin Kai Xin. That thing. That thing. Meet the Zhao Xin Kai Xin CPU. Look, I'm trying my best, okay? This is a real fascinating one, ladies and gentlemen. This is not made by AMD or Intel, obviously, cause they wouldn't have called it that, but supposedly it is x86 compatible. It is an x86 core based on some Western designed products, I believe. So would it be fair to call it a ripoff x86 CPU? No, I don't think so. So what is it then? Guess we'll have to find out. After this message from our sponsor. Ting is a customer focused mobile provider and wants to help you save money by getting you to pay for only the mobile data you use. Get $50 in Ting credit at the link in the video description when you sign up. Where do you want to start on this? Should we boot it up first? Should we take the cooler off and have a look at it first? I think we should have a look at it first and see what we're dealing with. All right, you got regular DDR4 memory. Is this single channel, dual channel? I believe that's, I think it's dual channel. It may not be. What's remarkable about it is how unremarkable it is. 24 pin power, four pin CPU connector, got your regular PWM fan connectors, PCI express, M.2. Like it's got all the modern features I would expect just in like a slightly larger than ITX. I forget what this is called. It's not DTX cause it's three slots, but it's just a bit of a weird, you know, Frankenstein form factor. That's the most bizarre thing about it. It's just like a normal looking motherboard. Even the IO I would describe as like perfectly reasonable. Yeah, like it's kind of a lower end IO kind of thing. You've got the serial port, the VGA port. That's actually useful in industrial environments. It's even got a parallel port. If you want to plug in like a ribbon cable, go hook up that dot matrix. Dot matrix or like a SCADA, HMI's and stuff. There's nothing about it on the surface to indicate that this is anything other than a normal computer until, whoa, that's the, Zhao Shen Kai Shen. There are a few things that we can tell immediately about the HX002EA, was it? Yes. One is that it has onboard graphics because clearly this VGA and HDMI port need to be powered by something. Two, all of its IO appears to be built directly into the CPU itself because, since this is a very, very simple PCB, we can go straight from the CPU to the PCI express slots. Dead straight line, same for the RAM. There appears to be no additional controller or like Northbridge or Southbridge or anything like that on the motherboard. What can you tell us about the specs of this chip? Like is it single core, dual core? What frequency does it run at? What do we know about it? This is an eight core. Really? At 2.7 gigahertz. It is the Kai Shen KX U6780A. And it's based on VIA's Aisea core. Really? So it has something to do with VIA then. They've managed to add a bunch of different features, including China's homegrown hashing algorithm, SM3 and SM4, as well as increasing the IPC by 25% and then another, I think, 2X or something like that. It's pretty crazy. They've added a S3 processing core for the GPU, which I don't know if you remember S3, but they used to be kind of a big deal before they kind of faded away. Nothing that impressive today probably, but I guess we'll see. Yeah. They could, I mean, they have an actual x86 license then. Yeah. Through VIA? Yeah. So this could actually just like be plug and play. This is crazy town. Of course it has perfectly normal HD audio. Everything about it is just so normal. That's what's tripping me out here. Not only that, but did you notice the mounting for the CPU cooler? Oh yeah, I noticed that they're using an Intel, Yeah. Intel spec backplate, but just there's no holes for it to screw on the socket mount because there's no socket. Yeah, there's adhesive on that backplate. I actually installed it earlier on. But theoretically you could install any LGA 11 5X cooler on this thing then, couldn't you? Theoretically, but not practically. Because of the height of the CPU die. No. Oh. There's a bank of capacitors here. Oh. That interferes directly. It just barely clears them. Okay, there we go. Biosoft. Holy. Sh**. So I'm just windowing right now. I'm running 60 Hertz 4K with my Zhaoxin C960 series GPU at 400 megahertz, 10 bit DAC. It's worth mentioning that in order to get the graphics to work, I actually had to go and dig up a driver from HP's website. HP actually has a micro PC that runs on the Zhaoxin architecture. What? They do not. They do. Really? Like for sale in China or? I think it's for sale in China. What's task manager gonna look like? Completely normal. Eight cores, no SMT. So eight threads. Memory is just showing up real normal, like 2133 megahertz. We weren't able to get into the BIOS. So I don't even know if we can adjust that. We can get into the BIOS. This is actually the UEFI installation of Windows. So we should be able to reboot into startup settings and get there. Powered by that code name, Wudouku, 28 nanometer. That's not correct actually. Really? This should be the Lujia. Yeah, what he said. It should also be 16 nanometer. 16 nanometer? The CPU ID is not reporting correctly in hardware info. It also says single channel memory. So maybe that's not right either. It's not just any 16 nanometer either. It's TSMC's FinFET. So this is like damn near cutting edge. More or less. I mean- Yeah, like not quite, but it's not far off either. This thing, does it, like, is it good? I don't know. Okay. Should probably throw it up against some Cinebench, maybe. All right, all right, all right. We're gonna head over to Cinebench in a second. They claim that it competes with the Core i5 7400. Shut up. Oh, CPU-Z seems to have a better idea of what's going on here. 16 nanometer, socket 1548, turboing up to 2.7 here. I saw that. Whoa! That graphics core though. So look, I can actually move the mouse around here, but it's like, just don't drag in the window. This thing just trips me out so hard. So it does have some sort of, something that reports as a chipset, the KX6000. That's actually the CPU. So I believe it's all an SoC. CPU-Z knows it's dual channel memory. So let's fire up GPU-Z. Okay. So you just thought it was funny for me to open up GPU-Z and have it be completely blank? It's not funny. It's what it thinks the card is. There's nothing in here. It has no idea. It can't even, it doesn't even know that there's a GPU in there. Even when it had the Microsoft basic display adapter driver, it didn't know. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Cinebench R20. Eight cores. Eight cores, eight threads. It's working. It's doing something. It's not even terribly slow, as far as I can tell. Don't quote me on that though. Still wrapping my brain around this one, ladies and gentlemen. No, it does seem slow. This seems slow. This has gotta be slow. I'm pretty sure this is slow. Don't spoil it. Don't spoil it. Well, I was just going to say that one thing that Centaur Technologies cores really kind of emphasized, was the kind of performance that their clientele needed. And just making it- So cryptographic. Yeah, like adequate performance for certain workloads. So their cores have generally been very simple and very small and consequently also sip very little power. Oh, lttstore.com by the way. All colors in stock. It's done. 925 points. For context, I have a Ivy Bridge Core i5 though. That's a quad core at about a thousand. To be fair, it's probably fine for what they want to use it for. Let's game on it. Okay. Oh, you're not even going to try the onboard? Oh, come on. I couldn't drag a window around. I'm not, no, I'm not even going to, do you want me to try it? It's a nothing burger. It doesn't work. Let's see if it just picks up this GPU right away and outputs to it. And it immediately worked. Time to benchmark this puppy. Oh yeah, look at that. It passes the window dragging around the screen test with flying colors. Let's fire up some CSGO here, ladies and gentlemen. The board that we got from Taobao will pay about 617 US dollars. It's not cheap. I thought that's the point of like Chinese knockoff stuff. Oh, Linus. That's not the point. The Chinese government has set a target to reduce its consumption or use, I guess, of hardware and software made by external vendors by 2022. And this is a drop in replacement. But it's so expensive. Well, you got to look at it from the perspective of where they were. Just like four years ago, these cores were way slower and they were basically just modified ASEA cores. So like in kind of the trajectory they're on, it could be a lot better very soon. But can they game as long as they're not a kid and it's not bedtime? 30 FPS in that CSGO right there. More like CS slow. Oh, wow. Yeah, this does not run well. As soon as the scene, you know what? Hold on a second. I want to get a smoke. Is it 4K? I do believe it is running at 4K, but with an RTX 2080, oh, it's 1080. Oh, I forgot I set a full screen 1080 startup option. Oh, that's terrible. Okay, how bad is the smoke gonna kill me here? Oh, not too bad, not too bad. It's still getting 30, 40 FPS. Oh, I'm getting shot though. How are they even seeing me? Ah, oh wow. Those frame drops though. No, so close. Okay, so I'm getting like 200 FPS right now. I guess it's the game logic. Does it seem to be getting better? Like 40 here. No, it's not getting better. Walk faster, dance. So there you have it. It sucks and it's overpriced, but it doesn't suck that much. And if it follows the same trend as other technology, the price shouldn't stay that high for long. Now all that remains is for us to check out some of the other options that China has to reduce its dependency on Western technology. Make sure you are subscribed because one of them is like not x86 at all. One of them tries to emulate it, I think. We got a whole bunch of crazy stuff off Taobao. So it's gonna be freaking awesome over the next little bit. Almost as awesome as my segues to our sponsors. Like Ting does mobile phone service differently. There's no contracts, no overage fees and no other carrier tricks. You just pay a fair price for the talk, text and data that you actually use. It's especially great if you use your data really sporadically, like if you're working from home sometimes and you don't need it or you're in the office other times. You can set alerts for each device in your account to keep your usage in check. They've got nationwide LTE coverage using T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon and almost any phone will work with Ting from that ancient Motorola Razr sitting in your basement to the latest iPhone 11 series. 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