- Hey guys, this is Austin, and today we're taking a look
at an incredible new gaming set up.
The $35 Raspberry Pi 4.
But of course, before we get into it,
huge shout out to LG for sponsoring this video.
This is the brand new LG Ultragear 27GLE50,
which has the distinct honor of being
the world's first nano IPS game monitor
with a one millisecond response time.
This is really the best of both worlds,
as you're getting the high-end picture quality,
which is shared with their Nanocell TVs,
but you're also getting the super fast response time
with a 144 hertz refresh rate, HDR10,
and it supports not only freesync
but also NVIDIA's G-Sync.
And of course, to take advantage of the display,
we are using a very high-end $3500 computer
from the Pro vs. Broke series,
but that's not all you need for this guy.
With a 1440p resolution and dedicated game modes
for games such as first person shooters, as well as RTS.
If you are in need of a monitor upgrade,
definitely be sure to go check out the Ultragear
at the link in the description.
Now while I might have a very high-end set-up here,
of course, today we're looking
at something a little more on the budget end.
So if you guys are not familiar with the Raspberry Pi,
it is an incredibly versatile little computer.
So not only are they dirt cheap,
they're also one of the easiest ways
to get into learning how to not only work on computers,
but especially when you get into the Linux side,
it can be frustrating,
but you also do a lot of cool stuff with it.
So one of the cool parts about the Raspberry Pi 4,
is that well, it supports multiple displays.
Now this year's Raspberry Pi 4
is actually a pretty significant upgrade.
So for the same price as last year's model,
you're getting a more powerful CPU, options for more RAM,
as well as a ton of small but very nice improvements.
So at that $35 price, we're finally getting USB 3.0,
which is awesome.
We're also getting gigabit ethernet
compared to 100 megabit internet from last year.
We still have AC wifi, you have Bluetooth 5.0,
I mean this thing is properly specced.
On top of all that we also now have a USB-C port.
One of the really big upgrades here is on the CPU,
the GPU, and the RAM.
So, on the processor side, we're going from
an older A53, which are very small, weak cores,
up to a ARM Cortex-A72.
Now with a quad-core configuration,
they claim that it's up to three times more powerful,
which might be a slight exaggeration.
But again, for a $35 computer, we're looking at
a sort of level performance,
which is not that far
off of a lot of pretty decent smartphones.
On top of that, the graphics have also seen a major upgrade.
So not only does it now support 4K,
but it actually supports a pair of 4K monitors
at a full 60 hertz, and on top of that
you can do things such as decode H265 at 4K60.
I mean, it's actually properly powerful.
The cool thing is, even on such a low budget,
you're still getting the full picture quality
of these LG Ultragear displays.
Now is it powerful enough to say,
run super powerful native games?
No, because they don't exist for the Raspberry Pi.
What it does allow you to do is make this thing
not only just a little streaming box,
but you can actually do some proper work on it.
So with browsers such as Firefox and Chromium,
this actually is a completely usable little desktop.
Now one of the nice things about the Pi 4
is that in addition to the standard one gigabyte model,
for $45 you can get two gigs of RAM,
and for $55 you can get a full four gigs of RAM.
Especially once you bump that up,
it actually becomes pretty usable.
In fact this entire video, all the notes were written up
inside Google Docs using the Raspberry Pi.
Now it's not exactly fast,
especially when it comes to things like YouTube playback,
where it sometimes struggles to play a little bit of HD.
However, generally speaking, this is
a very usable little box,
especially considering just how tiny it is.
And of course, it is a Raspberry Pi,
so you have all the same headers from last time,
so you customize it with cameras
and all kinds of cool stuff.
You can get it so small.
It is really easy to build it into all kinds of enclosures,
including things like emulation.
I've seen actually a lot of go into like little like,
NES style boxes, or even like, a GameBoy.
There's a ton of functionality for, again,
a computer which costs $35.
In fact, actually, some of the stuff
that you kinda have to deal with here
is very much meant for the older Pi.
So things such as Windows,
there actually is a Windows 10 version for Raspberry Pi,
except it's for the 3 not the 4 yet,
so unless you wanna be Matt and hack it together,
you're stuck with Raspbian.
However, what is working is RetroPie.
What is not working is, it's on the wrong monitor. I'm gonna
(beep)
So the cool things about this is that,
with RetroPie, we have a huge variety of games
which are playable.
Now, previously we did a video on this,
the Raspberry Pi Zero W, which at like $10
is one of the cheapest computers you can buy.
However, the issue here is that it is, well, not fast.
And a lot of games you actually can't run on this.
However with the added benefit of this newer processor,
we should be able to play a fair few games.
So let's try Automobili Lamborghini
for the Nintendo 64, a classic
that I'm sure you're gonna love.
I'm gonna say that the performance is actually pretty solid,
but I think that part of this is just the fact
that this game is really twitchy.
It's actually kind of fun though.
This track's actually pretty cool.
Oh, I'm gonna take the shortcut.
Shortcut, shortcut, shortcut, shortcut.
- (Matt) I love that about all of the arcade games
- (Austin) Yeah!
- (Matt) They all have a shortcut
teaching you it's okay to cheat.
- All right.
(Mario Kart theme)
Excellent.
Yeah audio's definitely not perfect here,
but that's fine, cause I'm in fourth,
fifth, whatever that says.
Man, do I just suck this much at N64 games?
This is embarrassing. I'm in seventh right now.
Oh, this is back when Mario Kart was actually hard.
Whoo! Ah, no! No! No! Get back here Donkey Kong.
Oh my god, what is wrong? How do I use this stupid?
Excellent. So we can also emulate DS games.
I'm gonna turn down the volume.
Oh, Matt, am I starting from scratch?
- (Matt) Yup
- Matt, no.
- (Matt) You need to figure out how to use the touch.
- No, I know how to use a stylus.
(pokecenter theme)
(clears throat)
- (Ken) You all right there?
- Sometimes.
When I get into videos, I have what is called,
a little bit too much fun.
Um, should we move on to something else? Wait.
(laughter)
That's fine. I walked around it's in
(laughter)
Shut up Ken.
- (Ken) All you did was dance, you didn't test anything.
- I walked around, it's Pokemon, what do you expect?
It, it works fine.
Spyro the Happy Dragon. Oh, I just blew fire. Oh.
Although I will say frame rate, not super smooth.
But it is also a PS1 game, some of these games
did run at like, 15 frames per second.
So something else which is very useful
to use a Raspberry Pi for, is for Steam Link.
So, essentially if you have any other computer available,
so right now we have a Windows PC down here.
We should connect it to this monitor
and the Raspberry Pi here.
In theory, we can open up Steam Link and it will just work,
and we can play all the games we want
on our $35 Raspberry Pi.
Look at this excellent connection speed. 65, 70, whoo!
All right, we can get 80 megabits per second,
which, to be fair, right now the Raspberry Pi
is over ethernet and the Gaming PC is over wifi,
so, sure, I'll take that.
All right, we have our Xbox controller, fair connection.
Let's start playing.
Okay, so right now this monitor is running directly
from our gaming PC, right?
So this is as if we were not using Raspberry Pi or anything.
We can natively go through here and it's all fine.
On this display, this is the output
from our Raspberry Pi.
So essentially this should show you what the latency is.
So, I mean dude, that's like, that's pretty good.
Like, literally, that's almost seamless.
Let's, uh, let's try to play a game.
- (Ken) CS:GO is probably not the most ideal game for this.
- (Austin) No, no, this is actually a good example though.
This is like the worst case scenario.
Like, if I can play CS:GO successfully on a Raspberry Pi.
- (Ken) Well.
- Dude, this is actually playable.
Now, mind you, I don't know if we're getting
a full 60p feed to the Raspberry Pi.
It's fine, I didn't get a kill. It's fine.
(thud)
- (Ken) Don't throw the mouse, what the hell?
- I was lining up the headshot man, I can't get knifed.
- (Ken) That's my mouse. What the hell?
- Kay. What can we deduce from this?
- (Ken) You destroyed my mouse.
- Steam Link works fine.
- (Ken) You destroyed my mouse.
- My skill level could use some work.