Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Minisforum UM780 XTX: OCuLink is GRRREAT!”.
In this box 7840 HS, this is the high performance CPU. This is the mini Forum machine. There are many many min Forum machines, but this one is special special in a lot of ways. Many many minis to the tune of wayy weedy Wei. I came – I saw. I conquered in Latin, which is what Min form has done now. This is available in 16, 32, 64 GB of memory configurations with up to 2 terab of storage, my configuration here, 32 GB of memory and 1 terab of storage. Now the 7840 HS also includes the 780m igpu it’s decent, not as good as a discreet GPU, but pretty darn good boy. They don’t call it an elite mini for nothing. It’S pretty Brickly, like I like to see that dual 2 and2 gig land HDMI display port and ulink.
Oh they’ve gotten my letters also inside the box is a warning that hey the first time you turn this on. It’S going to take a long time to boot. That’S expected: don’t remove the CPU Cooler because liquid metal, some nice sticker things now remember the CPU in this.
It’S basically designed for laptops, but this is going to let it run at Full Tilt Madness. 120 watts. They did get my letters.
This is the m.2 oculink adapter, so this goes in your m.2 slot and then you have a uh, an oculink port at the back four lanes. This is faster than Thunderbolt more than twice as fast as Thunderbolt. In a lot of scenarios.
I know what you’re thinking Thunderbolt, that’s actually four pcie lanes right. Well, the dma controller on Thunderbolt 4 is crap, so you’re limited to about 2.8 GB per second for mass storage devices, 8 gbes per second on oculink. You also got an HDMI cable, bundled right in there, a Visa bracket and a funky little stand thing. I like the funky little stand thing taking it apart.
You got to be really careful because you’ve got a fan, cable and an RGB, cable and some other stuff. Here find it’s easiest to just take the fan cable apart, and this gets you into where you need to be now. It’S got a really nice heat sink for your m.2.
This is, is the best mini Forum design yet, and you might be thinking wow if we’re coming in from the top and there’s magnets and there’s a lighting effect on the magnet. What, if you had hats for these, you could use your m.2 with your m.2 cheat code and then 3D print accessories to make it go really tall. I mean heck, you could get like three mechanical hard drives on top of here and just set one two. Three and then have a really amazing Nas platform, with the SATA controller being an adapter on an m.2. Of course, you don’t want to interfere with the fan, so whatever you 3D print, you would need a fan, but this opens up a whole world of possibilities for future expansion. Now, after running this, for a few minutes on my test bench, I can tell you you’re going to want to reboot into the BIOS and set performance mode. Well: okay, maybe not performance mode and the mode that it comes in by default.
It seems to revolve around thermals and noise. I can definitely hear it while I’m running my benchmarks now when it’s in performance mode, but performance mode is faster, so I like it. I want to run in performance mode if you don’t want the machine to be audible at all, basically, all of the time, not all of the time, but 90 % of the time in 90 % of scenarios leave it on the out of thebox default. This is also DDR 55600, there’s no kind of overclock or anything like that.
It has an interesting bios. I had to change the language on mine to English no big deal. It does have a lot of the options that we’re expecting like AMD CBS.
You can set options in there. You can also set different thermal parameters, but mostly all the fun interesting options are all locked away. You can disable PCI devices pci1, which is your m.2 one pci2, which is your m.2 slot number two, which in our case is an oculink Port.
You could use a second nvme or whatever you want, and then the Wi-Fi uh adapter, that’s underneath the primary m.2. So you could reconfigure it, you could do the m.2 cheat code thing. You could add some kind of a hat, but you could also just use the oculink port to have some sort of an external enclosure or an external GPU, which I will be testing. Yes, an external GPU. What are we going to run on this? A 7600 M, but you’re gon na have to stay tuned for that because uh, it’s late, it’s not here yet, but hopefully it’ll be here soon, the specific Nicks that are bundled with this system. It’S a killer Nick from Intel for the wireless and for our 2.5 gbit ncks, of which we have two. There are the real Tech variety of 2.5 gbit, but dual 2.5 gbit on a platform like this love it we got a lot of connectivity, HDMI USBC. Yes, that is USB 4. You can do Thunderbolt tunneling, it’s basically plug andplay oculink, which is Gen 4 Thunderbolt, basically our dual 2.5 gig Nick and, of course, our 19 volt 120 W power, brick input at the front. We have two type, A and another, USB 4 Port – it’s nice to see dual USB 4 on this. We also get the four pole, trrs headphone microphone, combo connector and a physical reset button in case something goes catastrophically wrong and you have to reset the bios configuration. Otherwise, the system breathes from the sides, there’s no ventilation or anything like that on the bottom, which does make it ideal for mounting behind a monitor as well also hope.
Somebody comes up with a wireless charging accessory for the top; it might have to Source power from somewhere else, but gosh darn it. It wouldn’t be cool. If you could, you know, put a g charger or something like that on top of this, and then it just charges and does everything from there in this current configuration. You wouldn’t want to do that because of interference with the Wi-Fi antenas, but I Can Dream can’t. I now the bundled SSD, it’s Kingston, it’s a Kingston, OEM 1 terab and our Crystal dismark performance number is not actually that bad about 4.7 GB per second read and about 3.8 GB per second right. This is the C drive the operating system drive.
So this is within spitting distance of Kingston’s rated 5 gab per second for this model, and I think we would see 5 GB per second from this model under ideal Optimum conditions. So we got a pretty fun setup here with a level one KVM. This is an actual mini Forum, PC, not the model that I’m reviewing, but this is another one. It’S connected only with a USB C cable, but it does, you know, display USB power.
This is one of the combo kvms and it looks like look at that. I plugged in USB and there’s my USB drive but wait. I can change the input and now this other machine is active, this machine and I’m able to move the mouse and change the cursor and do everything else. It’S the magic of KVM but Min form has their own keyboard, which we’re going to see if it’s level one Tex KVM compatible.
This is the mkb i83 k h, k, red switches, okay, I can deal with that. So this is a mechanical keyboard that supports a wired connection, Wireless via Bluetooth or Wireless via its own 2.4 GHz dongle oo. Would you look at that? We have KVM keyboard shortcut, keyboard, shortcut control at the end of the day, we’re working with eight cores and 16 threads, which is a lot for a Mini PC and, of course, the igpu, which is also no slouch. Our geek bench scores reflect that over 2500 single thread.
Really you could probably get 26 2700 if you juice it just a little bit, but at the defaults that we have here performance mode. I should say we’re running at a pretty reasonable speed and a pretty reasonable noise level and this kind of score. Foring single and multi-core score: this is a very, very competent machine with upgradeable RAM and storage.
This is a great second PC PC for your parents, siblings, you know just need a machine. You can get on the internet, answer email and do multitasking this. This is a pretty good machine, basically everything except gaming and you can actually do light gaming, but I would still prefer a dgpu machine. Mini Forum has other machines like the hx99, which include a built-in separate GPU. That’S a really good choice.
Our a to 64 scores here are pretty good. I would like to see a little bit better memory, latency, which is really just a matter of tuning and setting up the right memory profiles out of the box. But that’s going to be a little bit more work for minis Forum over the life of the minis Forum machines. It would be nice to see regular bios and Driver updates out of the box.
There doesn’t seem to be any way to control the RGB in the minis Forum machine, for example, and that’s owing to needing a driver or a Windows interface. All in all, this is a very, very fast platform. Thanks to the am MD 7,000 series – mobile CPU, it’s quiet! It’S upgradable! It’S got dual 2.5 gig NX so for home lab uses.
If you want to do the Dual Thunderbolt cluster, three of these very, very nice, 2.5 gig, real Tech Nix, as opposed to Intel terms of running on VMware esxi, I haven’t tried it. You might have to use a community patch or something like that to get it running, but hey that’s going to be a video for another day, I’m W this is level one I’m signing out. You can find me in the level one forums .