I've got this exactly model and configuration. I'm very satisfied with it. Doubled the cores count of my 5 years old laptop pc, doesn't make any noise at all and has this beautifull metal enclousure that does not look bad on top of my desk.
Nick, I'd LOVE to see more videos on mini PCs... anything that home lab folks like myself can use. I don't care about game performance, I care about things like running my home media servers... Plex and related services. Thank you so much!
Drop a low profile air cooler on top of the heatpipes and this bad boy will have thermals down in the 40-50s under full load. You will need a 5 volt fan tho.
@Torvaltz I did that as well for a few days and while it technically had more thermal mass and better performance that also included several more moving parts. Now, had this been a processor that was 20 watts hotter I would have seriously considered it, but it is currently in a brief case as a portable desktop machine.
Right now I use a 4 year old ideapad I bought from clearance when I don't want to deal with my desktop. When I am just doing some minor browsing/streaming, or for playing background music while gaming but don't want the music coming through my headphones. I could see having one of these instead mounted to the back of the spare monitor. Even get one of those wireless keyboards that either has a mouse pad or trackball mounted to it for convenience.
To have it run reliably under Linux, I found out that it needs these boot-time options: rcu_nocbs=0-15 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0x00000000 nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0
Already purchased a Minisforum HX90 (AMD R9 5900HX - 8C/16T) Barebones system; I'll be supplying a pair of 32 GB RAM sticks, so 64 GB of RAM will be used. If I'm lucky, I'll go 2× over the limit to 128 GB.
I have a lowly Mini S, and there's a slight design flaw! ... The 2.5" drive ribbon cable gets trapped between the SSD and the metal drive caddy! (which is used as an SSD heatsink) This could damage the cable over time. It's fiddly to put the base back on WITHOUT trapping the cable. If you try to tuck it out of the way, it tends to spring out again! This explains why the cable has a sharp fold in it. No wonder Beelink supply a spare cable, but NOT with my Mini S! If the cable breaks, you will have no internal drive!
I see you slipped in an HDD hard drive when you opened the back. Is the is a separate purchase or does it come with its own HDD that will allow it to be setup and user ready right out of the box?
Emulation is pretty good up until PS3. There are some games that can run well like Rayman Legends and MVC3, but games like Uncharted or The Last of Us are pretty hard to run. I have like 5 emulators, including Cemu and I love it
Hey if you can't get a Steam Deck in your country (which is many of us) you can probably pick up something like this: Not going to perform as good but then again this isn't on battery so the 4800u without as many power limit restrains can probably make up some of the performance a steam deck would. So also as a suggestion/request: you should try out Steam OS specially for devices like these since I think that the Steam OS could end up becoming a very good Linux gaming distro overall beyond the deck because it has the flexibility of Arch rolling release but a lot of the testing and control will be better/easier with Valve pushing most of the updates they've tested instead of a typical Arch install where a user basically risks some regression issues when updating to the latest and greatest packages.
I have already seen a few videos of mini pcs with rdna 2 apus in them, not the last gen Vega gpus that are in these apus. It would be cool to see them since rdna 2 seems to be a big jump up from Vega graphics.
Hey man just want to ask the graphics is it good in gaming for high end games? Because the Processor is great Ram and SSD. I'm Planning to buy one here in Phils 🇵🇭 😁👍nice video btw Thanks!
I just got the 4700 16/500 version for $360. I was planning to get an M2 pro Mac mini when they come out but this is cheap enough to stop me screwing around with my old i7 desktop and be a great CAD and retro game station.
@@CiaraITB I got mine on Amazon last Friday for $360, honest. It must have been a program to get things moving -you are right, it is back up to $450. The new generation of chips are coming out, so inventory is being managed. Watch and see if they drop again. FWIW it's a great tiny PC. I decided not to wait because the next gen needs faster memory to perform, and that memory will be in short supply and extremely expensive. According to AMD this 4700U will work with higher speed LPDDR4 -but 3200 is the fastest available in SODIMMs.
@@GamesMugen I actually bought 2 more total of 3 . Works great for streaming movies, quality build and parts, not to sure if you try to play games the processor I have in mine are only 2.5 GHZ. The ssd and memory are good for streaming, no heat issues.
Ordered this about a week ago. Good performance, use it as a media center and remote play for consoles, works well. However the internal Bluetooth is absolute garbage. I am unable to determine if it is just a driver issue or not and since beelinks website is terrible, it does not appear they have updated drivers. Ended up using a Bluetooth dongle as only solution to being able to connect a Keychron K2 and Razer Naga Pro.
Colin's computer dead perhaps new Beelink ser4 4800u or Beelink ser5 5600H ? Colin's used for editing 2.4k(Osmo action) no games Jarrod's comments which ??
No way is that film pad a heat sink for the drive. The drive is in the enclosure and will dissipate heat through the surrounding air gap and be taken up by the fan.
The real point is that it comes with a nvme pre-installed. Usually relatively small due to cost. 128gb ~ 1Tb. So expansion options are truly welcomed. Several of these mini pc with the same size. Allow 1x nvme 2280, 1x ssd 2280 and 1x 2.5 sata. That's a lot of expansion possibilities for such a tiny machine! ;-)
Just bought a refurbished Lenovo laptop with Ryzen 5700U for less than US$300, faster than 4800U, it has a screen and keyboard attached. I will use it mainly as a desktop.
1. Because, if you don't actually NEED another screen and keyboard, there's no point in wasting money on them which can be put to better use with a higher spec mini PC. It's a no brainer in that situation. 2. Who would choose to a laptop as a home theatre when these tiny boxes wil do the same job, more neatly and cheaper?
The 4800u is better than the latest Intel i7. Beelink makes a 5800 series that blows away everything Intel and Apple makes but it will cost a lot more. Most people will not need anything more than this. It is a serious waste of money to buy a more powerful computer than you need.
Over this past month I got 2 new mini pc's. To replace two old dinosaurs, now more than 10 years old! One with an i3 still perform amazingly well! A GTR 5 with AMD 5900hx 32gb/512gb with an awesome performance! And a comparatively, way more modest (and cheap) N5105 Celeron 16gb/512gb. Surprise, surprise! The inexpensive Celeron certainly can't compete in terms of raw performance. BUT! Here comes the but! ;-) For everyday, real world activities it's more than ENOUGH! For less than half the price! 235 vs 685. So absolutely worth considering according to the final usage and needs. Worth mention, no gamer activities at all. I don't "game".
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For someone who built PCs for many years this would had been a dream concept. Just to remember those big heavy towers we all had to this.
Like how the L3 Cache is 8Mb, I had an IBM PS/2 Model 70 in 1990. My RAM was 2Mb less! (And that PC cost as much as a damn nice used car!).😳
I've got this exactly model and configuration. I'm very satisfied with it. Doubled the cores count of my 5 years old laptop pc, doesn't make any noise at all and has this beautifull metal enclousure that does not look bad on top of my desk.
Could such a thing runn fallout4 well
Nick, I'd LOVE to see more videos on mini PCs... anything that home lab folks like myself can use. I don't care about game performance, I care about things like running my home media servers... Plex and related services. Thank you so much!
It's coming. I'm working on something fun with it ;)
There’s a lot of benefits to these small form factor pc’s. If your always moving around and don’t want a laptop then these aren’t a bad option.
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@@evxn_z7 YAWN
4800U? This is now a laptop channel confirmed.
Confirmed!!
Drop a low profile air cooler on top of the heatpipes and this bad boy will have thermals down in the 40-50s under full load.
You will need a 5 volt fan tho.
@Torvaltz I did that as well for a few days and while it technically had more thermal mass and better performance that also included several more moving parts.
Now, had this been a processor that was 20 watts hotter I would have seriously considered it, but it is currently in a brief case as a portable desktop machine.
Never run out of good content that's all that matters
Love the idea of these pcs; interested when the 6000 series chips starts getting shoved in there for GPU bump they come with.
yes a 6000 series cpu with 680M graphics looks like it would be great for 1080p gaming.
Man, i love this review. I was looking for some information about those beelinks, and found your chanel. Great video
Right now I use a 4 year old ideapad I bought from clearance when I don't want to deal with my desktop. When I am just doing some minor browsing/streaming, or for playing background music while gaming but don't want the music coming through my headphones. I could see having one of these instead mounted to the back of the spare monitor. Even get one of those wireless keyboards that either has a mouse pad or trackball mounted to it for convenience.
Nice! These tiny PC's are great. Gaming performance looks real decent too. Great video fams
To have it run reliably under Linux, I found out that it needs these boot-time options: rcu_nocbs=0-15 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0x00000000 nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0
I remember paying more money for a 64K RAM computer back in 1984. I like it that PCs today are approaching the size of a phone.
Already purchased a Minisforum HX90 (AMD R9 5900HX - 8C/16T) Barebones system; I'll be supplying a pair of 32 GB RAM sticks, so 64 GB of RAM will be used. If I'm lucky, I'll go 2× over the limit to 128 GB.
Fan noise?
What happened to the discussion about the fan noise? - deleted??
I want one for youtube music, movies Blueray and using word just at home computer. what do you recommend? Thank you.
Very good video, congrats! I don't found the fan noise test, please give me more specs about this.
this sound good enough for a low powered mini server
I have a lowly Mini S, and there's a slight design flaw! ... The 2.5" drive ribbon cable gets trapped between the SSD and the metal drive caddy! (which is used as an SSD heatsink) This could damage the cable over time. It's fiddly to put the base back on WITHOUT trapping the cable. If you try to tuck it out of the way, it tends to spring out again! This explains why the cable has a sharp fold in it. No wonder Beelink supply a spare cable, but NOT with my Mini S! If the cable breaks, you will have no internal drive!
Awesome video fams. I love seeing these tiny computers
I see you slipped in an HDD hard drive when you opened the back. Is the is a separate purchase or does it come with its own HDD that will allow it to be setup and user ready right out of the box?
I would love setting up emulation on this
Can it handle PS3?
Emulation is pretty good up until PS3. There are some games that can run well like Rayman Legends and MVC3, but games like Uncharted or The Last of Us are pretty hard to run. I have like 5 emulators, including Cemu and I love it
so are these basically laptop internals in a small box?
Hey your link for the PC in your descrip is not working, just FYI! :)
I kinda hoped you'll watercool it and slap a few RGB fans and strips on it too :(
Not in this video. Maybe in another one lol
I'm curious how this would compare as a productivity PC to an M1 Mac mini. Very similar in price!
hilarious，dude😂
Question for anyone who knows, would you be able to upgrade any of the specs if you wanted to?
If the SER4 in a Beast the New SER5 must be even better.
Hey if you can't get a Steam Deck in your country (which is many of us) you can probably pick up something like this: Not going to perform as good but then again this isn't on battery so the 4800u without as many power limit restrains can probably make up some of the performance a steam deck would.
So also as a suggestion/request: you should try out Steam OS specially for devices like these since I think that the Steam OS could end up becoming a very good Linux gaming distro overall beyond the deck because it has the flexibility of Arch rolling release but a lot of the testing and control will be better/easier with Valve pushing most of the updates they've tested instead of a typical Arch install where a user basically risks some regression issues when updating to the latest and greatest packages.
I have already seen a few videos of mini pcs with rdna 2 apus in them, not the last gen Vega gpus that are in these apus. It would be cool to see them since rdna 2 seems to be a big jump up from Vega graphics.
I missed the part about the sound the blower makes.
Can these mini pc use for graphic design and video editing ??
Hey man just want to ask the graphics is it good in gaming for high end games? Because the Processor is great Ram and SSD. I'm Planning to buy one here in Phils 🇵🇭 😁👍nice video btw Thanks!
Is there a warranty? What happens if the cooling fan fails? I hear you can't get a replacement fan for these.
I just got the 4700 16/500 version for $360. I was planning to get an M2 pro Mac mini when they come out but this is cheap enough to stop me screwing around with my old i7 desktop and be a great CAD and retro game station.
Where'd you get one for that cheap? Cheapest price I found for that one is about $450
@@CiaraITB I got mine on Amazon last Friday for $360, honest. It must have been a program to get things moving -you are right, it is back up to $450.
The new generation of chips are coming out, so inventory is being managed. Watch and see if they drop again.
FWIW it's a great tiny PC. I decided not to wait because the next gen needs faster memory to perform, and that memory will be in short supply and extremely expensive. According to AMD this 4700U will work with higher speed LPDDR4 -but 3200 is the fastest available in SODIMMs.
That reminds me, I need to call my Uncle Bob.
I have a older one from this company simply for streaming for my tv its great and flawless.
How is it man does it last long how many years is your's? Because I'm planning to buy one.
@@GamesMugen I actually bought 2 more total of 3 . Works great for streaming movies, quality build and parts, not to sure if you try to play games the processor I have in mine are only 2.5 GHZ. The ssd and memory are good for streaming, no heat issues.
Ordered this about a week ago. Good performance, use it as a media center and remote play for consoles, works well. However the internal Bluetooth is absolute garbage. I am unable to determine if it is just a driver issue or not and since beelinks website is terrible, it does not appear they have updated drivers. Ended up using a Bluetooth dongle as only solution to being able to connect a Keychron K2 and Razer Naga Pro.
This pc is in an all metal case, but that is my only gripe with it as well as its antenna are pretty much wrapped up in a faraday cage.
I want to see one with a 5600g style chip.
Colin's computer dead perhaps new Beelink ser4 4800u or Beelink ser5 5600H ?
Colin's used for editing 2.4k(Osmo action) no games Jarrod's comments which ??
first review for mini ryzen pc's that it has the igpu ram allocation set to 8GB. nice
If you can unlock the wattage little higher would boost more frame.?
Is there any actual performance disparity between Dimm and SoDimm ram? As in, with the same cpu and chipset, like the elite b550
Hi, my beelink ser4 running on windows 11 pro has slow connection on wifi. Can you help me fix this?
Needs a tiny video GPU!
Is this OK for video editing?
Hey ! Nice video 😉
Hi!
Will an emulator for Switch (Yuzu) turn ok on this?
Thank you.
Is it possible to use it with external GPU?
Knew Nick would play a skate board game!
Will it work add external Pci express video card ?
What about obs and zoom ???
Does this already come installed with all the emulators/games like some other systems?
No
ONE CAN OUTFIT TO A FULL VIDEO CARD UYILIZING THE SSD SLOT
Don't you have an Absolute ANGEL pcs? You know angels are more powerful than beast. lol
In my opinion Asrock Deskmini x300 is the best case on these mini pc category.
Enough small and versatile for APU & memory & storage combos.
Can it play Scorn?
Is SER5 faster?
So it's this or a new GPU
This is only like $600 now, not bad
Just bought one for $310.
How is the cooling? Is it enough for home TV that will be running at least 12 hours a day?
No way is that film pad a heat sink for the drive. The drive is in the enclosure and will dissipate heat through the surrounding air gap and be taken up by the fan.
He's saying the enclosure is the heat sink for the m.2 drive.
Can i also use 2.5 ssd.. or Just 2.5 hdd.. the label in the port said hdd.
you can use any 2.5 inch drive, ssd or hdd
hi I can put an SSD instead of a HDD thanks.
One more question, what minimum of video card run wiht oculus rift s
Check the Oculus site
Do you need the 2.5in drive?
The real point is that it comes with a nvme pre-installed. Usually relatively small due to cost. 128gb ~ 1Tb. So expansion options are truly welcomed.
Several of these mini pc with the same size. Allow 1x nvme 2280, 1x ssd 2280 and 1x 2.5 sata. That's a lot of expansion possibilities for such a tiny machine! ;-)
Can you get it with a version of Linux?
Just install a Linux distro on it yourself ;)
vou comprar , mesmo sendo meio caro para o Brasil...
Hello, can you tell, will it run wiht oculus rift s ?
Probably not powerful enough for VR
Can you hackintosh?
Yeah they'd be perfect for a Linux cluster
Just bought a refurbished Lenovo laptop with Ryzen 5700U for less than US$300, faster than 4800U, it has a screen and keyboard attached. I will use it mainly as a desktop.
They said its free gear can you dress an advert up like a review, you said, Of course i can do that!
Another dickhead making up their own narrative.
I mean id do it in a hearbeat also
Would make for a great Plex Media Server!
Hello Tuco Salamanca
Thats pretty racist
Na still using a laptop hdd should be solid state looks like they are using left over hard drives making a SLOW pc no thank you!!!
Did we watch the same video lol
Do you think this mini PC would be good enough to play Fortnite?
600$ lol
why do they make these things? laptop
1. Because, if you don't actually NEED another screen and keyboard, there's no point in wasting money on them which can be put to better use with a higher spec mini PC. It's a no brainer in that situation.
2. Who would choose to a laptop as a home theatre when these tiny boxes wil do the same job, more neatly and cheaper?
You cannot buy a laptop for this price with everything this computer offers. The laptop version would cost at least double the price.
No display port 👎
4800u is old. 6000 series is the one you want.
The 4800u is better than the latest Intel i7. Beelink makes a 5800 series that blows away everything Intel and Apple makes but it will cost a lot more.
Most people will not need anything more than this. It is a serious waste of money to buy a more powerful computer than you need.
Over this past month I got 2 new mini pc's. To replace two old dinosaurs, now more than 10 years old! One with an i3 still perform amazingly well!
A GTR 5 with AMD 5900hx 32gb/512gb with an awesome performance!
And a comparatively, way more modest (and cheap) N5105 Celeron 16gb/512gb.
Surprise, surprise! The inexpensive Celeron certainly can't compete in terms of raw performance. BUT! Here comes the but! ;-) For everyday, real world activities it's more than ENOUGH! For less than half the price! 235 vs 685.
So absolutely worth considering according to the final usage and needs. Worth mention, no gamer activities at all. I don't "game".
@@crpth1 Great analysis. Thank You for your comment 😊.
I only clicked because of another vids, get more creative and fix 7r thumbnails.
Get more creative and make your own videos.
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