Beelink GTR7 Review -- Their Fastest Mini PC Yet! 

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Wait until he breaks out the kerrygold butter

for me, its when he says "are you sure? yeah man i wanna do it"

@@rogerjones9571Kerrygold is king! 🔥

The Batocera team told me the latest beta release of their upcoming firmware does boot! So it’s really just a matter of time before the stable build gets full support.

My pleasure!

That’s a really good question. I have a Razer Core with a 2070 Super mounted on the underside of my standing desk that I basically am just using as a glorified KVM switch between my aging netbook and a work MacBook Pro (M1 do no eGPU). I’ve been looking for something small since I have limited desk space that could use the eGPU. This might fit the bill!

I'd like to see a egpu running on this mini computer too!!

With an eGPU you almost certainly will bottleneck the weak CPU. Steam Deck beats this hands down!!!

@@TyroneMCR0161 in what universe does steam deck best this device?

@@TyroneMCR0161 You have no clue what you are talking about.

That unit is a beast! On discount atm too. I convinced a friend of mine to get the 90 (weaker CPU) and he is blown away. Installed Batocera on a second HD and loaded a bunch of ROMs all the way to PS3 and he hasn't touched anything else for a while. Including his PS5 that now has to compete for TV rights.

I feel like this is pretty fairly priced for what you’re getting. You are also paying for the small form factor.

does it randomly reboot? ive heard while doing basic usage like browsing websites it will randomly restart. its all over reddit facebook and its official forum.

​@@_GarethRossUKnever had that problem..I bought this when in released..early buyer

Mw3 is horrible have you watched any videos about?

I ended up buying the GPD win 4 to play this. It’s actually the best call of duty that came out in a very long time. Warzone was complete trash, a bunch of little kids playing Fortnite disguised as call of duty. Truly made me sick watching all these kids become call of duty fanboys, and they’ve never played anything older than Call of Duty black ops 3. I played the original, Call of Duty on PC. Then on the original Xbox call of duty 2. I played call of duty 3 on the Xbox 360, then the BEST Call of duty ever created. Call duty 4, modern warfare. Modern warfare two was pretty good, but couldn’t top it. Then there was black ops, the original one, also on my list for a too call of duty game of all time. The JFK scene was my favorite. Black ops 2 was… meh.. it all went downhill from there. I played call of duty, ghosts, and it wasn’t as terrible as people thought. It felt just like modern warfare 3. Everything besides that like advanced warfare was complete garbage. Cold War, complete garbage. Warzone came out and it was finally one that didn’t look like complete trash. But once I played it and I saw the kind of people that were playing it, I realized what the developers did to make this game popular. Warzone came out and it was finally one that didn’t look like complete trash. But once I played it and I saw The gameplay I was highly disappointed. Fortnite disguised as all of duty. Then they started remaking the original modern warfare’s. Face palm. I didn’t even bother to look at model warfare remake one. Complete strategic move by the franchise to milk it even further with players, who hadn’t played the original. They remade the second modern warfare as well? Right? Didn’t bother. Then I saw that they remade the Modern warfare 3 now. Face palm was my initial reaction again. I actually saw ads for it for a whole week and just totally dismissed them without having any interest in watching the game. Then I talked to a friend that used to play online with me back in the first call of duty days. I did a little bit of research and saw the online gameplay. Finally a Call of Duty game that makes me feel nostalgic. It doesn’t look like garbage like the recent previous call of duty games. It feels like they realized they did all of this wrong, and went back to the roots. I’m not too excited for the campaign, they messed that up completely when they started crossing stories across games. Multiple timelines, and it’s just a complete mess. I wish they wouldn’t have done that because I really like the campaign. But to actually realize what’s going on, you have to play every single call of duty campaign in order. That being said, the multiplayer looks old-school and nostalgic. This is why I’m playing.

@@RadOpsTV The cod started being bad at ghost bo3 was good especially the zombie multi less, infinite was trash, cod4 remaster was terrible, ww2 same horrible, and so on, bo4 even the zombie was bad same for Cold War multiplayer/zombie both horrible … but the thing you seem to forget is the **SBMM** you will feel it soon trust me.. then you will stop playing… it started at I think bo4 and it kept getting stronger each cod.. warzone yeah not worth playing it at all.. MW2 (2019) horrible thanks to shaders which make invisible players, sbmm ofc, you don’t appear on radar when you shoot etc.. mw3 is just an update of mw2.. but hey please comeback fans it’s a remaster, that’s their way to attract..they claimed there wouldn’t be a mw3 in 2023..

@@Annoye I’ve heard about the SBMM.. and yeah that was the ONE thing I was regretting. I’ve heard so many bad things about it. And we’ll see what my experience is like once I play it. Remember I’m used to the originals.. the good ones. I would play multiplayer a lot, that’s how I would level up and it was everyone same lobby. So now.. hmm.. we’ll see If I like it. Would there be a chance they update it to take off sbmm?

@@RadOpsTV Ahah never, they even censored the # sbmm on twitter when it was on top tendance twitter.. because some big investors of blizzard / activision have also shares on twitter.. even the biggest pro players complained about it… I can tell you for sure you will not like it. That’s even worse now with cheaters on top of that

Did you find an answer? I am looking for the exact same thing + GameCube games lol

@@averageanimefanboy9473 I went with the minisforum um790 pro. It plays everything perfect. Gamecube at 4k. Ps2 is 1440p to 4k dependant on the game. Switch at 1080p. Psp at 4k.it's really nice.

Wondering if you buy the barebones, do they still include a heatsink?

Yea their pcs overheat waaay too much

Minisforum is the NO.1 of the world, temp. of minisforum can reach

They are full 40gbps ports on the back, so yes they support DP. The front one will not, though.

@@RetroGameCorps thanks so much. I’m eagerly awaiting your UM790 review so I can decide which one to pick up.

I think this is much better in terms of igpu power.

Which one will be best for editing? This one/UM790 or the Intel NUC rtx 2060?

Yes, we're still waiting on the official drivers from AMD, I'm hoping we'll see a nice boost at that point. They're currently a month late :D

It also runs Resident Evil 2 at the same resolution, on medium-high settings without raytracing solidly, if not spectacularly. I'd say it felt circa 35 frames per second...? You can play 'real games' on this thing, quite competently. It's great.

why is that?

@@_GarethRossUK It beats in every way accept one, and that is it has more ethernet ports. This 1 has 2 ethernet ports where the MinisForum UM790 Pro has 1, but beats it in every other spec and is the same price.

@@markdevlin3630plus a better design

I run a charity auction for my unused test devices, it's been a while since I posted but I'm slowly getting them ready for another round!

@@RetroGameCorps that’s awesome . For a navy vet you alright

No issues with the BIOS, I was booting Batocera from a USB flash drive in my demo. So it will work great in that regard.

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Tech already exist. Xbox Series X is an APU with the power of a 6700XT or 3070. AMD just needs to announce an APU with 20CUs and we have a 1080p machine without RAM bandwidth issues. Because yeah, Series X is not a normal APU, it has a massive bandwidth RAM and a godlike dissipator

dman! Fancy running into you out here in the wild.

@@AFFL1CTED1 i am the internet & the internet is me 🙂

Thanks for the info, I'll try that with the next video! Once I saw that the boot logo was coming up I realized it would just be a matter of time :)

I would say dangerously high rather that just "little" high.

i think if you have enough money to buy that mini pc, they're assuming you have enough to buy a 4tb SSD.

@@Boogie_the_cat these type of reply are the dumbest ever

@@Boogie_the_cat limit is 2GB per slot.

I'm just happy that 2.5in drives are getting phased out in favour of nvme because the latter will be needed as a baseline for PC games to keep parity with current gen consoles.

how much power is needed becuase even low end budget intel graphics will do that.

Don’t you Usually need a dedicated gpu? That what I always heard

It does not, those cheapskates!

The HX90G doesn't appear to be available anymore. You would have to step up to the HX99G. I am actually very curious about the performance of the HX80g which has the Rizen 7 5800H processor but still has the same dedicated graphics as the HX90G and HX99G. I am building a dedicated emulation pedestal and think it might be just the right price to performance ratio for that application. Unfortunately I can't find any reviews for that particular model. Everyone seems to focus on the higher end models in that series.

except eGPU will allow for upgrading.

A normal GPU would double the size of the things

@@tulliboyWhat only is a problem if you travel around with it

@@Bambeakz or if the mini in mini PC matters to you

@@tulliboy Would still be mini and easy to hide with a gpu

Definitely, I mentioned that in the video near the end. The major draw for these mini PCs are the smaller form factor (this could be mounted behind a monitor, for example), and the lower power draw (and subsequent savings on electricity). If you have the space and means to build a full-sized PC, that is definitely the more economical route!

@@RetroGameCorps FOr sure. I do feel like even with the advantages a mini pc gives they are asking too much money for them nowadays. I wish there was more attractive options around the 500 dollar price point. It should be very doable with how good the AMD integrated chips are.

it isn't just positive, its price to performance. not everybody can get top of the line things, he also has a spreadsheet for the other mini pcs and he says what he likes and what he doesn't about the units, and if its bad he also says it isn't recommended and to choose another one. the way i look at these reviews is for a second or third pc that is for the living room, or work space so it doesn't need to be a desktop tower for things you dont need that much power for.

Look at the CPU and GPU specs. It's better for video editing than the M2 Mac Mini Pro.

Agreed, but it's nice to see how much progress they've made (especially Xenia) over the past six months!

@@RetroGameCorps I definitely agree with that! They've made a lot of progress, and I'm glad for it. That scene laid dormant for far too long.

Thats what I always say in these Mini PC videos, I just don't see the point in these mini PCs, 1TB storage is ridiculous and not having a dedicated GPU sucks. If you want to get a beefy Retrobat with 4TB of emulators and games this little box simply doesnt have the storage capacity for it, nor the gpu to play those games... we are still a couple of years away of having decent mini-pcs

you mean the screen.

More like a ROG Ally