A suggestion, when showing video editing footage, also show how it handles transitions or at least play through different clips. I have found that is one of the most easy ways to find if a system handles it well. Good video, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for your review, your benchmark score help me to choose the best option for gaming which is the Reatan Alloy 9 Mini PC AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS 32GB RAM 1T SSD
Actually hell no lemme ask you something, how the fuck did yall do this? And why is it so fucking cheap? The average computer with the specs this one got is hella expensive.. so.. do you people just have unlimited money or what?
Could you make a video comparing the fan noise for top 5 mini PCs, i am searching for a pc to replace my mac mini m2, the mac m2 is dead silent even at midnight, almost 0 db noise. Any recommendations, my to concern is noise then come performance etc...
Meh . . . As you noted in the "Cons," this performance doesn't excite me at a $699 price point (Amazon in USA). If I can make an analogy, Geekom mini PCs (such as the A7 and this mini PC) are like the beautiful woman you want to marry . . . until you find out she is an airhead.
Wassup bro i have been watching you for 6months now and i love your videos they teach me a lot, bro do you have extra pc you do not use my dream is to become a tech youtuber like you,(even a pc with 2gb ram is okay cause I have never had a pc in my life?you inspire me a lot ❤
Nice, balanced review (and I've been curious about this unit), but this is one of those units that I'd look at but probably wouldn't purchase: It feels too expensive for the performance that you get, especially given that it doesn't handle the heat all that well. I sort of have that "if I'm going to spend this much, maybe I should go up a little more and get something with at least more flexibility and which allows more control". This also feels like it's hitting the price point where they should have included a secondary fan for the SSD/RAM.
I've only been interested in Ryzen-based miniPCs thus far mainly because their current gen offers hardware accelerated AV1 encoding in their iGPU and I can get between 150-300 FPS encode with ffmpeg. So, the newer Intel CPUs have ARC iGPUs. I'd like to see how well they do on AV1 encoding. Supposedly that's a major feature of their ARC discrete video cards bt what about the iGPUs. How about you runs some tests with that?!?
AV1 hardware encode will show up in 14th Gen Intel Meteor Lake CPUs. Should be superior to AMD's option. But good idea, I will start testing AV1 so I have a baseline to work from.
@@Robtech Without hardware encode... its slow, cpu AV1 encode on my 13900 is about 6 hours for my 4k encodes(on Preset 6), I think its pretty niche to include this, but if you want to play with it, go at it.
They’re essentially the same, the i226 is identical to the i225 B3. They just renamed it so people would stop asking if they had the latest stepping. Unless you’re using it for routing or completely saturating 2.5G, you probably won’t notice any difference.
OK, then tell us the stepping. I don't want one of the old ones. Too many problems. And if they're identical, how would one notice a difference saturating the link?
A suggestion, when showing video editing footage, also show how it handles transitions or at least play through different clips. I have found that is one of the most easy ways to find if a system handles it well.
Good video, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for your review, your benchmark score help me to choose the best option for gaming which is the Reatan Alloy 9 Mini PC AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS 32GB RAM 1T SSD
Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🙂
You didn't link the XE gaming video at the end
Fixed. Thanks.
you lost me at $699..
Thank you very much for explaining how to bypass microsoft login when setting up windows!!
12th gen (even if it's an i9) and DDR4 are a no no for me, at the price point!
Thanks for the review!
Also missing a 2nd 2.5G nic.
@@MarkConstable Personally, I don't mind that, as most people will just use one Ethernet.
Also missing USB C power supply.
@@godnyx117 You're right, for those of us that want a Proxmox node or router there are cheaper options with better specs.
@@vidarv.9010 You mean, connection the power supply to a USB C port in the PC?
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Actually hell no lemme ask you something, how the fuck did yall do this? And why is it so fucking cheap? The average computer with the specs this one got is hella expensive.. so.. do you people just have unlimited money or what?
Can I have a free geekom?
Could you make a video comparing the fan noise for top 5 mini PCs, i am searching for a pc to replace my mac mini m2, the mac m2 is dead silent even at midnight, almost 0 db noise.
Any recommendations, my to concern is noise then come performance etc...
Top mini PC future videos will be separated into categories. One is best noise levels. Hoping to get them out this month.
@@Robtech Great, waiting 👌🏻
Meh . . . As you noted in the "Cons," this performance doesn't excite me at a $699 price point (Amazon in USA). If I can make an analogy, Geekom mini PCs (such as the A7 and this mini PC) are like the beautiful woman you want to marry . . . until you find out she is an airhead.
Wassup bro i have been watching you for 6months now and i love your videos they teach me a lot, bro do you have extra pc you do not use my dream is to become a tech youtuber like you,(even a pc with 2gb ram is okay cause I have never had a pc in my life?you inspire me a lot ❤
Nice, balanced review (and I've been curious about this unit), but this is one of those units that I'd look at but probably wouldn't purchase: It feels too expensive for the performance that you get, especially given that it doesn't handle the heat all that well. I sort of have that "if I'm going to spend this much, maybe I should go up a little more and get something with at least more flexibility and which allows more control". This also feels like it's hitting the price point where they should have included a secondary fan for the SSD/RAM.
Thank you for Linux instead... That's me!
Hey Rob, do you think you can get a BOSGAME H77 for review (with teardown)? Looks to be a promising brand, specially with their new M1.
Hey Kat, I'll send them an email. Thanks
I've only been interested in Ryzen-based miniPCs thus far mainly because their current gen offers hardware accelerated AV1 encoding in their iGPU and I can get between 150-300 FPS encode with ffmpeg. So, the newer Intel CPUs have ARC iGPUs. I'd like to see how well they do on AV1 encoding. Supposedly that's a major feature of their ARC discrete video cards bt what about the iGPUs. How about you runs some tests with that?!?
AV1 hardware encode will show up in 14th Gen Intel Meteor Lake CPUs. Should be superior to AMD's option. But good idea, I will start testing AV1 so I have a baseline to work from.
@@Robtech Without hardware encode... its slow, cpu AV1 encode on my 13900 is about 6 hours for my 4k encodes(on Preset 6), I think its pretty niche to include this, but if you want to play with it, go at it.
Alright, I'll wait for hardware encode.
Great job but you did miss one nasty. Co-pilot AI!
Agreed. Hopefully Windows Defender will pick it up as malware in the future.
You lost me with the 225 nic. Come on go with the 226 already
They’re essentially the same, the i226 is identical to the i225 B3. They just renamed it so people would stop asking if they had the latest stepping. Unless you’re using it for routing or completely saturating 2.5G, you probably won’t notice any difference.
OK, then tell us the stepping. I don't want one of the old ones. Too many problems. And if they're identical, how would one notice a difference saturating the link?