Gigabyte Brix Compared - BXA8-5545, BXi7-4770R & BXi5G-760
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Kevin compares three Gigabyte Brix mini PC's (Brix, Brix Pro & Brix Gaming) while also showing you how to install the ram and storage devices!
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I like this video, it helped me to get a grasp of what these brix units are about. I would have bought the highest end green one if I could mount my external graphics card. Not including a pcie 16x slot, or two slots, was a massive mistake. I have a pile of perfectly good riser cables for fiddling with graphics cards, and not being able to use them would drive me crazy. All of these brix units are a bit lacking on features, but all I care about is the painfully obvious feature of external graphics. Props to Gigabyte for taking on this design, but they need to keep on it and never settle for low-end devices. The thing is, a high end device is only expensive when it's new. Let the rich people buy the new units, and the year-old units can be sold at a fourth of the price to everyone else. So the rich people get a continual 20 to 30 percent performance edge, but that's why their rich, to be the experiment pigs. ^_^
The low end device is offensive GARBAGE nomatter how you look at it. Even as an entry PC it's not worth it, it's trash, it's rubbish, it should be banned from existence.
Royce Barber I bought the Brix Projector one a few months ago when it was reduced to £250 as I had wanted it ever since it was released at £550. The projector is bare bones wxga resolution but I love it just for how unique it is. The PC can be hooked up to a monitor via HDMI or you can use it with the projector and lastly you can plug another device like a laptop into the back of it via HDMI and use it like a mini projector on it's own with the PC not powered up. The PC has an i3 Haswell with integrated graphics, it can run older games like Bioshock 2 maxed out , 35fps @ 720p so it's not the most capable but I only wanted it because of how unique it is.
I like you would also like to be able to hook up an external GPU via PCIE ribbon cables as that would really add to the longevity of these devices. I have no idea Gigabyte doesn't sell a little expansion dock for external GPU's?.
I am also looking at buying the green model shown here with the gtx760 with 6gb of GDDR5 although I would prefer a Maxwell version with say a gtx960 as that would be far more power efficient
No Name The Brix projector i3 has been available for £160 recently now gone up to £180 from Ebuyer,can't really see the usabilty of the projector but still a good price for i3 model.
maurice green Yes it's a cool little thing. Sure the projector isn't a high enough resolution that you would choose to do your gaming on it , however it does make the PC a versatile little device that's really unique and cool. I mean you don't get an idea for how tiny it is until you actually see them. I am happy I bought mine
+Royce Barber The Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition with the Core i7-3632qm cpu (4 cores, 8 threads) was $1,000 in 2013 when it first came out. I paid $500 for it in 2015, added 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, 256 Samsung SSD as OS primary, and removed the BluRay player and replaced it with a 2.5" HDD caddy, which I place a 2TB Samsung Spinpoint HDD drive in. The laptop came with with a 6 cell battery, I wasn't satisfied so I ordered an aftermarket 9 cell battery.
I've completely taken it apart and put it back together, so this laptop is solid inside and out. It weighs like a freight truck when completely assembled, not light and cheap like typical Dell builds. The only thing I can't change is the graphics card, which is a Radeon HD 7730M. The CPU can be replaced by a higher-end one. Currently the cpu runs 2.20Ghz base clock and turbo's to 3.2Ghz.
I'm planning on buying the extreme version of this CPU when the price comes down to affordable. The upgrade CPU is a Intel Core i7-3940XM, same socket as the 3632QM (rPGA988B), but has a base clock of 3.0Ghz and turbo's to 3.9Ghz. The passmark for my current cpu is only 6,929, but the passmark for the extreme version is 9,470. The Gigabyte brix PRO Core i7-4770R is only slightly faster at a passmark of 9,819.
Most common Inspiron 15R SE's don't come with an mSATA slot unless you specified when you buy from Dell, so I looked it up and found a daughter board for $35 that took mSATA drives and I threw in a 1TB Samsung mSATA SSD. Also, Inspiron 15R SE's with quad-core i7's have been discontinued and are very hard to find. Most 15R SE's now have i3s and i5s.
So ya, you're right, give it time and the price will come down. Not just rich people, but people who want to appear rich, buys the latest and greatest crap and are what's wrong with America. Fake it till you make it, right? Stop lying to yourself, you'll never make it, America is $18 Trillion in debt and counting. The iPhone, Samsung S6/Edge, and anything else the seems trendy and new, idiots will pull out their credit cards just to buy it thus adding to the national deficit. Word from the wise, just have some patience and the price will eventually come down.
I laughed out loud when I heard the gaming box in turbo mode. I didn't think any computer could be louder under load than my 2011 MacBook Pro...I was wrong. Although I have read about people attaching a USB fan to the Brix in an effort to move more air across the GPU and reduce load on the existing fans. I would love to see a video of this in action.
Nice Vid they are cool little devices but I think ill stick to my PC quiet and more upgradable but great idea all the same some people like these sort of things :)
The Core i7-4770R would be perfect as a Plex Media Server. Remove the WiFi module from the mini PCIe slot, you won't need it. You'll be using the gigabit Ethernet 24/7. Connect a 10GbE module to the mini-PCIe slot where the WiFi was once located. The mini-PCIe slot is x1, but in 3.0 speeds. That's about 1,000 MB/s of bandwidth or 8 Gb/s. Put in an 802.11ad module and attach it to a mini 16-antenna array. 802.11ad is capable of 7 Gb/s, which can perfectly utilize the mini PCIe 3.0 x1 bandwidth. Throw in 16GB RAM, a Samsung 1TB mSATA in for boot OS, and a 2TB 2.5" Samsung SSD for storage. If you need more storage, connect 2x4TB USB 3.0 drives to it or if you want to keep everything SSD, 2x2TB Samsung SSDs in USB 3.0 enclosures with UASP support.
How do you get the OS on a thumb drive?
I know it wouldn't work but I would really like to try this on dayz standalone just to see how hard it tries
question,what fans are built in to the brix gaming and can i exchange them for silent ones ?.
+andrew3631 If you're a handy man and good with a dremel and want to get creative, remove the stock finned copper heat sink, fabricate or buy a solid copper water block that fits as a replacement, dremel 2 holes for water tubes, buy a complete external water cooling system like the Koolance Exos-2 V2 and viola, you're done. No more heat or sound problems.
Cant watch with sound yet but I have the A8-5545 and love it. Very quiet cant hear it. Saying that when you first turn it on the fan sounds like a jet engine but quickly slows down. I use it for media streaming and fan has never got audible in use
How does games work on it?
Have you tried GTA V?
Does Assassins Crees IV work?
Does it lag?
Can you play any game in 800x600 resolution, but at maximum settings, with a decent framerate?
Pls answer, i would like to get one too bc it looks nice, and i need a (not extremelly powerful, but decent) gaming PC.
brix pro or brix gaming for playing csgo with best fps???
Having owned a Brix gamimg, I can tell you that it's not so loud as it is high pitched with turbo mode. The whine makes it obnoxious for some.
Dayum , sounds as bad on load as my 1U rack server :/ , might get one as a toy though to go in my caravan for holidays away
honestly, I don't really care if my PC sounds like a jet engine.