Gigabyte BRIX Mini PC Intel Celeron J1900 Barebone Unboxing (UK)

Here we have a look at the Gigabyte BRIX Mini PC Intel Celeron J1900 Barebone computer which I have to say is a really good little PC surprisingly. I happened to have a spare 4GB of RAM and a hard drive with Windows 10 on and just thought let's see how it is and I was pleasantly surprised with how well it loads up and runs Windows 10 with multiple windows open. I have had it sort of grind to a halt but that was running lots of Flash bases pages so that could be why. You wouldn't really want to chuck out a full PC in order to replace it with one of these but other more powerful models are available so maybe look at those. For a PC connected to a TV as a media centre this version seems to be very good for that job.

[@NBeev1]

I just bought this with 4GB Ram and a 500GB HDD. How has it been holding up?

[@ChrissReviewsUnboxings]

It is a good little computer considering it's size but I have found mine seems to freeze although I kind of feel this is Windows fault rather than the computer. Other than that it's quick and smooth.

[@BarriosGroupie]

Did you have to buy Windows 10 for it?

[@ChrissReviewsUnboxings]

It’s pretty much bare bones so had to add ram and a hard drive which thankfully I had both and the hard drive I had already had windows 10 on so yeah you would either need to buy or already had it.

[@BarriosGroupie]

I'm surprised you could transfer Windows 10 from one system to another via the hard-drive like that. I'm under the impression that you'd have to do a clean install of Windows on your new system with its particular processor and supporting hardware etc.

[@ChrissReviewsUnboxings]

Hi, I just put the hard drive I had with Windows 10 on in to this and it started up fine.

[@BarriosGroupie]

Interesting... This link claims that Windows 10 won't activate when you make significant hardware changes such as changing the mother board, as you've done:
www.windowscentral.com/how-re-activate-windows-10-after-hardware-change
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/moving-hard-drive-with-windows-10-installed-to-a/245ae02a-2054-4f97-ad54-21dedd32a2b6

[@ChrissReviewsUnboxings]

I've never had a problem.

[@insop6432]

I have this, and it sucks.

[@ChrissReviewsUnboxings]

Mine works great

[@insop6432]

Chris's Reviews & Unboxing's Might be my ram and all those stuff

[@ChrissReviewsUnboxings]

Mine is working so good I used it to replace a tower PC I had been using and it's not let me down really. I do have a problem though and that is nothing to do with the Brix but my hard drive is a bit noisy so probably going to die soon.

[@insop6432]

Chris's Reviews & Unboxing's It usually lag when I type an essay.

[@ChrissReviewsUnboxings]

I don't really use it for that kind of thing but just general browsing and watching videos.