Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Beelink SER5 Pro 5800H: Affordable 8-core 45W MiniPC”.
Pre-Links back and they got an even tinier machine, we’ve taken a look at Intel and we’ve taken a look at relatively high end Radeon with the 680m, but now it’s time to take a look at a 5800h based system. Why? Because well it costs less. B-Link is kind of a standout in the small form factor maker machines, especially when compared with the Intel Nook, because usually the b-link system will have a better or smarter configuration in terms of USB ports and how they’ve done the cooling or how they’ve structured the case And I really liked the 680m based b-link machine as well, so I thought I would take a look at the Lesser expensive, 5800h, 16 gigabytes and 500. Gigs of storage is what our base configuration here has. It is only a single one, gigabit Nic. But again you know if this is for your grandma’s machine or a guest room, computer or even just running a TV, that’s going to graph the status of things. You know you can plug greylog and grafana into open sense and get a really cool, Nifty dashboard. That’S open source on GitHub and you don’t need much of a computer to do that. You can just plug it in you could build a war room.
It’S a lot of fun. I do really like how these are basically becoming super insanely high-end devices, for whatever you want to do from souped up Chromecast to Grandma’s computer. Now, sometimes you can buy these kinds of machines as a Bare Bones kit. That just means you add your own memory and storage. This thing will Support 32 gigabytes of memory, no problem, but even if you get the Bare Bones kit, it’s going to come with the VISA. Slash wall mount metal bracket, it’s going to come with a lovely power brick. Now this is a much smaller power, brick, probably owing to the more modest power requirements. We’Ve got our Visa Mount HDMI cable, as well as our regular length, HDMI, cable, a little power cord and some Visa Mount screws that we’re trying to escape.
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You want to run 4K 60 no problem. We’Ve got a USB 3 5 gigabit port and a USB 2 Port, as well as our one gig Lan, a DC input jack. Like other models.
This exhausts air out the back and has air venting on the top and sides. There are four normal Phillips screws on the bottom that allow you to remove the bottom to replace the storage and memory at the front for Io. We have two USB 5 gigabit ports, type c port and our combination, headphone microphone, port, a power button and a tiny, recessed, clear, CMOS button now in case you’re not familiar.
The 5800h is kind of a mobile product. Normally you find these in laptops, so it kind of makes sense that our power, brick, is 65 Watts, even given that we can do some power delivery and some charging their USB setup that we have here now, even though our USBC Port does support DisplayPort alt mode. As we tested we’re not going to get pcie tunneling or anything, really a lot more advanced than that, I’m using it to connect to the keyboard, which has a built-in Hub, which works pretty well when we’re running geekbench as well as a to 64. It gives us a little bit more insight, not just into the specs on paper, but also how the system will perform for long-term benchmarks, that you send a bench, and I let it run for a little while letting send a bench run for about 20 or 30 Minutes you will hear the cooling fan in this and it does have a little bit of a of a high pitch to it. It’S not just the whirring rushing sound, but the good news is most of the time under normal usage scenarios. I can’t even tell that the fan is on even over a completely silent room sitting this far away from it.
I can’t hear anything, usually when I put it behind the monitor, is when it’s like. Okay, I can hear it here a little bit and then I put it behind the Monitor and it’s like okay. I can’t hear it anymore, but with this thing mounted on the wall or behind a monitor even running that Full Tilt Center bench, it’s not really super loud.
If you have literally anything else. My case running the air conditioner today because it’s in the 80s, so warm weirdly, it’s weirdly warm all of a sudden uh. I can’t hear this. I can’t hear the fan even in its loud mode, over the air conditioner, so our memory configuration is dual Channel. Ddr4.
3200, the command rate is nothing really special to ride home about 22. 22 22.. It’S not fast, ddr4 3200. Our latency is about 88 nanoseconds, so not bad overall b-link does give us some options to tune this in the Bios. But again, if you’re buying this, you probably want it to be more Appliance. Like you don’t care, you just want to plug it in and go, and it definitely does that and with the says, end Apu family. You may remember it’s Vega, built-in Graphics, so it’s good enough for basic stuff, it’s productivity, stuff. You can drive three monitors with it: two HDMI and one DisplayPort alt mode through your USBC Port, but it’s Vega.
It’S an older platform. If you’re looking for something that could play games like DOTA a little bit of Stellaris, even at 1080p, reasonable ish frame rates, you’re going to probably want to look at that, sir Pro, with a 680m, that’s a much better igpu, but make no mistake for productivity tasks. Vega is fine if you just need to run two or three displays with this Vega will do everything you need if you just need some digital signage with the aforementioned grafana perfect. Technically, this Apu is a 45 watt Apu, which means that it can use. You know a little bit more than 45 Watts or 65 watt power.
Brick selection makes sense, however, with the BIOS configuration on this. It was really tough to get the system to consume more than about 40 Watts, 45 Watts at the wall, and the cooling here is not such that you’ll want to be doing overclocking or anything else. I mean the maximum you can get from the power.
Brick is 65 watts, and really you don’t want it to be running more than 85 90 of that any given time, because that’ll shorten the life of the power components. That’S usually the case. That’S a rule of thumb. I don’t know that to be true here.
Sometimes the power bricks are overspeced so that they can deliver burst power beyond their rated wattage. That might be the case here, just letting you know our geekbench 6 scores 1129 for single core 6315 for multi-core. Now keep in mind, that’s geekbench 6 doesn’t necessarily directly compare to older versions of geekbench. That is a pretty respectable score. I mean, but this is an older Apu, keep in mind again perfectly viable for office productivity checking, email, doing document creation, 16 gigabytes of memory is plenty you might want to upgrade to 32 gigabytes. That’S the easiest upgrade to make the system feel a lot snappier.
If you want to do that, but again low cost machine, very competent, very capable, if you’re rocking something like an 8th, gen Intel, maybe even a 9th gen Intel and like a small form factor business class machine got sad news. This thing is probably 35: 40 percent faster it’ll feel 100 plus percent faster. If you don’t have high speed storage, if you’re still on spinning rust, because they got the cheapest I3, they possibly could six years ago. This is going to run circles around it and it’s so inexpensive that it’s like hey. You could just get this and migrate all your data and be in a completely different world in in the first week. The time saved, waiting on an old, slow computer would pay for this thing.
Well, that’s been a quick look at the b-link surf series: ryzen 7.: it’s the Five series, but it’s a rising seven. Fifty eight hundred H from b-link again thanks, be link for sending this over. So I could take a look at it. It’S a Verizon 5800h.
It performs like a ryzen 5800h at the 45 watt TDP power limit, but in a small form factor configuration. It might have been nice to have a couple of more USB ports, but hey it ain’t bad. It’S pretty darn good. In fact, I feel, like most people are probably going to be using both the front and rear USB ports or you’re, going to be using a wireless keyboard and mouse, even if you’re, using a wireless keyboard mouse receiver in the rear, USB 2 Port.
It’S like! Ah, there’s never enough USB ports, maybe your monitor has some USB ports or built in the USB hub or something like that. Maybe you’ve got a document scanner and some other things like that. I mean you do have a total of four type: A ports, One USB two, three, three, five gigabit, but hey it’s not bad around here. I’Ve got a special task for it there’s a GitHub project.
That is a sort of a dashboard. I guess you’d call it for open sense check it out. Look at these cool graphs, it’s showing stuff! That’S going on with your firewall. How awesome would it be to have in your server closet or your war room or just in the hallway, when people are walking by go to the bathroom, a dashboard showing a picture of the globe and where everybody’s connecting to your firewall and everything like that, this Appliance could do it just run the software connect it to a couple of 4K monitors and you’re done it’s that inexpensive and that flexible fun times. I’M one of this level, one I’m signing out.
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