Gamer Plays Battlefield 6 on a 2.1-inch CPU Cooler Screen, Dubbed 'World's Smallest Gaming Monitor'

Gamer Plays Battlefield 6 on a 2.1-inch CPU Cooler Scree

In a creative display of hardware ingenuity, a user has successfully run the game Battlefield 6 on the integrated screen of an AIO liquid cooler. As reported by tech outlet TweakTown on October 20th, a netizen known as PaP3s managed this unusual feat using MSI's new MPG CORELIQUID P13 360, humorously dubbing the tiny 2.1-inch display the "smallest gaming monitor in history."

The hardware at the center of this experiment is MSI's recently launched MPG CORELIQUID P13 360, an all-in-one liquid CPU cooler. Its most prominent feature is a 2.1-inch circular IPS display integrated directly onto the pump block, designed to give users a new way to customize their PC builds.

Gamer Plays Battlefield 6 on a 2.1-inch CPU Cooler Scree

This small screen boasts a resolution of 480x480. Typically, its intended purpose is to display custom images, videos, or real-time system monitoring data, such as CPU and GPU temperatures, providing both aesthetic flair and practical information at a glance.

What sets this product apart, and made this gaming experiment possible, is its unique ability to be configured as a functional Windows 11 extended secondary display. Users can enable this feature through MSI's Dragon Center software. It was this innovative function that inspired PaP3s to attempt something truly unconventional: playing a major first-person shooter directly on the cooler's screen.

While the concept is novel, the actual gameplay experience was described as predictably terrible. The minuscule screen size made it extremely difficult to see the game environment, identify distant enemies, or perform any kind of precise aiming. Furthermore, since the screen connects via USB and functions as a secondary display, it is not designed for low-latency gaming, resulting in significant input lag.

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