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00:00 - DITCHING the Desktop
01:30 - UNBOXING todays sponsor
02:23 - Beelink GTR6
05:46 - Issues
06:32 - BENCHMARKS
08:19 - Can it game!?!
09:44 - Final Thoughts

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@thatLion01 Год назад

I think gamers are the only ones keeping the PC building alive

@BerserkPublishing Год назад

I just purchased the ser5 version of Beelink. I got it for writing, some light video editing, and overall internet perusing. I was surprised by the fact it could handle my games, although not as good as the GTR6 version I've seen reviewed. It has also been great at grinding out Orthos for my XPlane behemoth box that sits below my desk. I was shocked at this mini device's performance. I have been into computers since the early 1980s. So, to see such a small form factor actually perform well is exciting. As to your question at the end. I think we'll all be going mini and/or thin notebooks in five years or less. AMD and Intel are at the point they can integrate GPU tech that games well and computes great. NVidia coming out and announcing they are essentially focused on the high end market is a good indicator they see it is coming soon. I'm sure they saw it when they tried to purchase ARM. Now, they need to focus on compute power for big data corporate centers and engineering programs. There will always be the small enthusiast segment that will build the PC that can run War scenarios and costs more than their house. I'm a retired software and computer engineer, so I get it. However, I think we're quickly approaching the less is more paradigm and it will be glorious.

@lynn_targz Год назад

YoU'rE uSiNg WiNdOwS?!?!?! jokes aside, that Mini PC is amazing 😍

@MarquisDeSang Год назад

Windblows -> Unsubscribe

@fabricio4794 Год назад

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@bhooshanvijay326 Год назад

Used to see your videos long back. Nice to see that you are covering more and more tech stuff and your video quality is getting better everytime. Keep it up dude!

@TechHut Год назад

I appreciate it 😊 always trying to branch out and learn as much as I can.

@HikingFeral Год назад

I have always defended the traditional Desktop from people who say it's dying - it won't be dead for a very very long time but man, am I impressed with these small form factor machines and the GPD pocket laptop style ones. I am blown away by their specs and their ability to not melt and I can deffo see myself tinkering inside these small boxes just the same as I do now with my big desktop machine. I guess just because they are getting smaller doesn't mean it takes away the DIY ability, just changes it. Noctua best get making some even smaller brown fans so I can get paranoid about the placement of them in my 6 inch gaming powerhouse!

@cybersechs1368 Год назад

Just wait till they get their act together and realise that PCaaS would be a sure money grab for them. Think virtual machines over the internet, all processing power done in CPU/GPU farms. like GeForce NOW, but for the WHOLE PC system

@redraiderreloading7612 Год назад

@@cybersechs1368 I'm looking for something I can use to day trade. I will be running 2 24 inch screens.. what do you suggest.

@cybersechs1368 Год назад

@@redraiderreloading7612 The biggest monitor you can get. Or are you talking about software? I've created a Linux USB OS soley for dealing with crypto(less viruses, more secure in linux)

@redraiderreloading7612 Год назад

@@cybersechs1368 talking about a tower computer or one of these small machines...

@BenKlassen1 Год назад

Sticking with ATX motherboard form factor. More flexibility, easier to repurpose and easier to work on to replace individual components. With room for multiple expansion cards, more can be done with it. I don't mind the towers. Mini-pc's are very limited in what they can do but I see the need for them.

@kiyanharchegani2588 Год назад

my main rig is a massive custom looped tank. however im starting to use my micro more and more. its a lenovo mini think station and is quite the beast, socketed i7 9700, quadro p2000, 64gb ddr4... its quite a beast for being 1/5th the size of an xbox 1

@jankees4037 Год назад

I like ATX and uATX because indeed the easy to fiddle with factor. And you can overclock CPU's on them best (I love the extreme all core overclocks while the PC is still not loud with 14cm fans). All these mini PC's have no room for cooling down much so processors on heavy tasks quickly go back in speed when too hot.

@neuroplasticity Год назад

@@kiyanharchegani2588 lol they're not cheap though.

@kiyanharchegani2588 Год назад

@@neuroplasticity i mean if oyu buy them brand spanking new sure. you have to be crafty bud. i picked up my unit for 400$ usd

@eplugplay8409 Год назад

That’s cool. I built a new pc 3 months ago with the nr200p case, i5 12600k and plan to put a 3080 in it soon as my main desktop. Love this computer case so much!

@digiscream Год назад

For what it's worth, I recently replaced my Ryzen 3600 desktop with a Morefine S600 from AliExpress - it's brilliant. Power ceiling of ~90W, so no more space heater in my little office, and the i7-1270p is more than capable of everything I need to do with it. Even better, the experience in Linux (I'm a developer) is _much_ smoother - all of the desktop environments render with far fewer stutters than the previous machine, even though it had a GTX 970 in it. The only downside is the fan; it whines a lot more when the machine's under load, which is something I plan to fix by printing a 120mm fan shroud to replace the bottom panel, possibly even removing the CPU fan and ducting it over the heatsink. Under normal circumstances, though, it's absolutely silent.

@DannyWelch Год назад

I'm definitely in the APU camp. I recently replaced my gaming rig and work PC with a GPD WinMax 2, which uses an AMD 6800u. With the RDNA2 graphics, it has enough oomph to play the games I enjoy, is really quiet, and has great battery life for travel. Excited to see the future of APUs!

@DienerNoUta Год назад

X2 many of us dosent need that performance. In my case I just need a PC/laptop for coding, browser the web and light video and image editing, and for gaming, don't misunderstand me, I play a lot, but the games I play are very light like Visual Novels and JRPG

@Ghryst Год назад

you dont "replace a gaming rig" with an apu gimmick, you "retire from being a gamer". you're probably one of those kids on the forums asking why they dont get the advertised performance from cyberpunk2077 when theyre using a device designed for skyping thier mothers on a sunday evening. #VolvosDontReplaceFerarris

@Withnail1969 Год назад

Welcome to the world of mini computers. I own the Intel NUC 11 Enthusiast myself and love it.

@jamstoast Год назад

this is definitely going on my 'to buy in a few years when some enthusiast sells it on ebay for 60% the brand new cost' list to turn into a steamos box

@Hughesburner Год назад

Same...I love letting others take the sticker tax. Always better to ride slightly behind the curve?

@AttunedFlux Год назад

(speaking from ignorance and blind assumption here) A few years? Every year or two these things change so much, that the prices will probably drop quicker than you think on used ones.

@mikairu2944 Год назад

Always reassuring to know I'm not the only El Cheapo that lives and dies by used parts. We'll thrive on the ineevitable mad max economy brother!

@PatrickDunn13078 Год назад

A big Thumbs up! I bought a beelink celeron based mini pc to run linux on for games, python and server use in the home and it's wonderful. So good I had work by the U59 model with more ram and storage to replace the 10 1/2 year old AMD Six Core FX machine as the office PC. While it's running Windows 11 it's absolutely faster than the 2017 iMac! These little boxes are an incredible value and if I ran into this last year when I was looking for a home desktop I wouldn't have bought the m1 Mac Mini.

@JonathanBaileyn2u Год назад

Ty for the wallet review.. I was needing one.

@yumri4 Год назад

For my usecase probably no. For my mom, dad, sisters, brother, etc. usecases i can see it happening. It looks very much like an All-in-One concept but with the computer part detachable from the monitor part so you can upgrade the computer without as much fear of breaking the monitor when it is mounted to the back of said monitor. My main question will be how does it effect the monitor when mounted to the back of it when it is running at 100% for lets say a rendering task?

@Fergtech Год назад

I have one of these for work! love it, only thing I wish they did is include the drivers on a flash drive or something

@rpg1663 Год назад

Thanks for this review. How is it in terms of noise without gaming? I mean, doing simple tasks such as browsing and similar.

@fredbecker607 Год назад

I just set a mini like this up. Originally, it was going to be for my traveling office work. After using it, I am questioning keeping the old tower except for gaming.

@zaq_hack4987 Год назад

Dude! SAME! I have been using a GTR5 w 5900HX 16-thread mini-box as a "temporary" PC after needing to move for an unexpected medical emergency several months ago (my daughter has a failing liver and needs a transplant). I didn't want to carry the water-cooled PC on the airplane for that first trip, so I packed a laptop and a Beelink that I was using as a Linux box. I swapped the NVMEs, loaded up Windows, and it has been my daily-driver ever since. Once I signed a lease and landed in the new town semi-permanently, I was able to have my desktop shipped over to me. However, I find that I really only used it for heavy gaming or heavy video editing. And ... that's maybe 10% of what I use my PC for in any given week. So, I have ended up streaming via Steamlink most of my games, and I only play it natively when I edit video or play a detailed FPS-perspective game (I had a recent fling with Tiny Tina's that was best directly on-the-box). This has meant that I could also "declutter" both my "work box" (the Beelink, now) and my "game box" to the better performance of each. I've been super-impressed. It isn't a world-beating PC by any stretch, but for what I paid for it? Total bargain.

@USAF305 Год назад

I did too!! I got a BMAX great little computer. It does everything my big table top did. Very happy with it.

@n0kodoko143 Год назад

Cool to see the form factor shrinking

@JTM75 Год назад

That should be the norm these days. Even if you want to do gaming there should be a plug and play solution to connect mini pc with external GPU.

@conceptt Год назад

I've already replaced my old docked laptop setup with a mini PC. Mini PC is great for my setup because its so compact and offers better performance than a thin and light laptop while keeping things cool. I wonder if its possible to have a mini PC with a full desktop GPU chip like some laptops.

@knight3001 Год назад

Don't know too much about them but I think if it supports thunderbolt you can use an external GPU enclosure.

Год назад

mITX builds can be very small while still using proper dedicated GPUs.

@machiavelli4428 Год назад

The new minisforum pc has usb 4 for external gpu capability

@chiefwren Год назад

Great review. Did the NVMe SSD you added work? The website states that the extra slot is for a "M.2 2280 SATA3 SSD". Since you were able to insert the NVMe I assume it's not keyed strictly for M.2 SATA. I would like to use the faster NVMe if possible.

@thoryan946 Год назад

Mini desktops will rule the corporate IT world, but at home we're all gonna be using laptops with single USB docks. We're already seeing that world somewhat, but we're still limited by bandwidth limitations of USB-C and thunderbolt, but the next generation should help that shift. I pretty much already use this setup, but I have to use multiple cables because I don't have enough bandwidth on my dock to power G-Sync with the resolution and refresh rate that I'm running, but honestly if you're running a light load then there's docks that do power delivery, 4k/60hz, 2.5g networking, multiple USBs over a single USB-C connection to the host machine. Desktops will only be for the hardcore users like they are right now.

@neuroplasticity Год назад

They already do rule the corporate world. That's the biggest point with these in the first place. For professional office/business use for long hours.

@neilquinn Год назад

Almost identical experience I had with my GTR6. Super snappy & fast, but some quirks for sure around the default Windows setup and drivers. I love miniPCs but just wish they could be a bit quieter. Tough to do given their size though.

@panthros7395 Год назад

It would be an interesting to see a comparison of the Beelink with the Valve Steam Deck since both are using an AMD APU.

@Crackalacking_Z Год назад

I can't see them replacing my main gaming PC any time soon, but they are great little thin clients or workstations with the value add of a little gaming on the side.

@a9udn9u Год назад

I just bought a 6800H based Beelink SER6 Pro yesterday, can't wait to get my hands on it!

@wybuchowyukomendant Год назад

Yeah, I use it with my tv for games (older ones installed and newer ones on geforce now and other clouds), movies, internet... actually I use it for everything, hardly even turn on my 'regular' pc nowadays.

@ianchapman9795 Год назад

might want to try upping the tdp as the gpu wasnt maxing out at its 2400mhz max, it only seemed to be sharing the 35w between the cpu and gpu which was making the gpu clock suffer, should help get a little more performance

@CrucialFlowResearch Год назад

I've got the GPD Win Max 2, which has the AMD 6800U and is basically the same as this PC, but also has a 10" screen, keyboard, and gamepad, also planning to use it as primary, although I also still use my 14" laptop sometimes

@charleswalters5869 Год назад

Great video! Glad to see the HDMI's are 4K, at 60 Hz. Whish I would have know that before so I could have ordered some 4K @ 60 Hz monitors. I should recieve my GTR6 today 16 Mar 2023. Thanks for your review!!🤩

@coderbdev Год назад

I have 2 Bee-link mini PCs, but not the GTRs. I love them both. I use them daily for work (programming). I haven't tried gaming on them, but I am sure it would handle a couple of my games.

@JohnS-er7jh Год назад

My last 2 computers have been Dell Optiplex Slim Form Factor PC (with Windows Pro). I usually upgrade the Memory to at least 2X what it comes with. It takes up very little space and I have never had any issues installing external hardware devices, also I run a lot of heavy resource business applications. However, the Dell Wide Screen Monitor was expensive in my Opinion, so I went with an HP Model (similar Spec), but it was 40% cheaper.

@satysin630 Год назад

I got a Beelink SER5 a week ago as it was only €439 delivered. Was a bit of a gamble as I never feel super confident ordering some random computer in from China but it arrived and I am really happy with it. Came with Windows 11 Pro but I am running Fedora on it for now as I don't need Windows for anything right now. My main machine is still a MacBook Pro but these new mini pc really interest me for a not-crap-but-not-huge-gamer-desktop system. This one was sort of a trial and if it works out I plan to get a more powerful machine next year, probably a Minisforum Ryzen 6900HX as I've read a lot of good things about how quiet the current 5900HX model is.

@taragwendolyn Год назад

laptop with a dock replaced a desktop for me years ago. For gaming, there's eGPUs, or a steam box on the network

@mgaming7 Год назад

I wouldn't buy it to "game" on it but I love these little AIO systems. would be a great pc for the basics. web, email, office type stuff.

@flashrush3366 Год назад

Was just curious about the secondary SSD you installed. What was it?

@BoDiddly Год назад

I replaced my desktops years ago! Now I have several used HP EliteDesk Mini's and Dell Optiplex mini's. You can find plenty of i5's with 16GB of ram out there for about $150. Now I can have a PC for everything I want to do, like one for OBS, one for Gaming, one for my daily driver, one for my security cameras. I do keep one Tower (soon to be two) for my OpenMediaVault ZFS NAS server to hold all of the SATA drives. If I could find 4TB+ 2.5" sata drives for under $100 each, I might be able to downsize these as well!

@Zakanuva Год назад

Oh, absolutely! I'm already using a MinisForum UM700 (the Manjaro edition one) as my daily driver, and I want to get one of those fancy NUCs as a gaming rig, either the MinisForum one or one of Intel's Extreme models.

@alsimmons1755 Год назад

i bought the beelink ser5 for my plex server but i feel in love with it, when i found it plays all my games just fine in a fraction of the foot print of my atx pc. now im looking for a more powerfully mini pc to replace my destktop with

@slimtimm1 Год назад

Dude smoked an ounce before making this SUPER HEAVY EYELIDS

@DBTechYT Год назад

Hey! Love the content, but I might have missed this: How loud is it when under load?

@wtmf80 Год назад

I just bought a GTR6 a week ago to replace my desktop also. Still waiting on it to be delivered.

@DenzilFerreira Год назад

Another thing to compare is power consumption on these things 😊 I have an Asus PN51 mini PC, it’s great for what I do, except gaming. Gaming with a Vega is not fun 😅 RDNA for sure makes a huge difference.

@jediknightdiscomike22 Год назад

I am an amd gpu guy myself. I however never bought into the vega line of gpus. It did not seem worth it or impressive when compared to the hd7970 gpu which you could find at a decent price on the used market during the time of vega.

@craiglange4852 Год назад

In the very early '00's due to a change in my personal life I switched from a tower I built to a laptop and never went back. In early 2010's I replaced very aged hardware on 2 auto dealership showrooms with Intel NUC kits. Yesterday I shipped out 3 mini pc's to family for XMas 🎁 that are media servers. For my current home I'm selecting hardware that will share a 42" structured communication cabinet with the network gear and perform home and media tasks. For the future I foresee postage stamp size hardware replacing the NUC form factor. Completely agree with your assessment.

@I000I Год назад

Bought used mini PC Lenovo ThinkCenter (as a Raspberry Pi server replacement). Absolutely love it, and now I'm considering a buying more powerfull mini PC for my desktop needs. And I'm think such mini PC is ideal for using like testing platform for Linux distros, or for a tinkering with Arduino like hardware.

@UKVampy Год назад

Horses for courses, get what you want but it's down to the individual. Full desktops are easier to fix and fault find I find but some people just don't have the space for them hence the smaller versions. Theres always room for more options.

@Mantikal Год назад

With the large case form factor - some DIY Heads - could build a super server for themselves.

@chublez Год назад

I think they're already there if you're not doing hardcore computing. My main desktop is a little 1l lenovo box I only fire up the full size for serious gaming or heavy workloads that can leverage the 3090 in it. I don't see full size ever going away. SFF will keep getting faster but so will full size it's how it's always been and will always be. No replacement for displacement is just as true in PCs as Cars anything you can cram into a 1l case you can cram more of into a 5l case etc.

@TheBowen747 Год назад

lol... what took ya so long.. my last tower case was in 2006 .. its been a laptop ever since... .. anyways im glad your happy.. merry Christmas man...

@JasonTaylor-po5xc Год назад

I ordered a couple NUCs (12 Pros). I have a Minisform HX90. I don’t use them for gaming - only light computing/virtualization/etc. I’ll run some benchmarks just for the LOLs, but that isn’t practical for my needs. They are great for a secondary system, low power server, or fun projects, but I’m not giving up my primary Desktop for anything. I use my primary for video editing, programming, and gaming.

@ZAPATTUBE Год назад

Desktop you can replace/upgrade parts, this toy you just throw-out when PSU goes bad.

@jonh1958 Год назад

Very interesting, I was considering some desktop upgrades but I may take a look at some of these mini-pcs instead.

@ZAPATTUBE Год назад

NO. Stay with the parts you know. Desktop you can replace/upgrade parts, this toy you just throw-out when PSU goes bad.

@musamba101 Год назад

Since the pandemic started I started moving in the mini PC direction. The latest I got recently was a NUCX17 from Hong Kong. This NUC replaced my 5 year old Predator Helios 300.

@jediknightdiscomike22 Год назад

If either performance, cooling power or both are of the utmost priorities, desktops will always rule over the mini-PCs and laptop markets. Yes, every segment will get faster, but there will be limitations on how much a laptop and mini-pc will cool down for reliability whenever top performance is desired.

@bitwize Год назад

No. It's the same principle of how soldered-in RAM is faster than DIMM RAM. Ultimately, performance will have to be traded off against upgradeability, and as powerful mini PCs get cheaper, upgradeability will lose as you can just swap out your mini PC for new, for less than it would cost to uograde your tower's parts, and get a machine that's faster than your tower in the process.

@jediknightdiscomike22 Год назад

@@bitwize I disagree with the statement about upgradability and performance. Desktop cpu and gpu will always outperform a laptop, even if the desktop top cpu/gpu is two to three generations behind the latest laptop / mini pc cpu/gpu. There will always be a market for upgrading parts when it comes to performance for the desktop market. There will always be a market for portability - laptops and mini pcs. All three designs do have a purpose. Laptops and mini pcs are not designed to be as fast as the desktop top tier or second top tier cpu gpu combo. The cooling performance and dissipation of hot air is just not there for the mini versions when it goes against a desktop. The laptop and mini pcs generally use the mobile cpu and a mobile version of a gpu (for those laptops and mini pc's having a dedicated gpu). You can go and try this experiment yourself. I have a laptop with dedicated gpu and top of the line cpu, and a desktop that has a top cpu in the same gen as the laptop, but the gpu is 3 to 4 generation behind the laptop gpu. There is no comparison. Desktop with a top cpu in the same generation family as the mobile laptop cpu and generations behind stand alone gpu in the dekstop beats the laptop. You can see this when opening up a new window. Everything is just instantaneous with the desktop. Laptop has performance but it does not keep pace with a desktop cpu gpu combo.

@jediknightdiscomike22 Год назад

@@bitwize but two things I do agree with you you on. Laptops and mini pcs will get faster, which I had mentioned in my statement. But they will only take you so far when performance and cooling power is concerned. And soldered-on Ram is faster than dimm. But this is regulated to laptops and mini pcs when compared to dimm Ram. Desktop dimm is another story though. I would not compare laptop ram whether soldered on or dimm Ram versus desktop Ram. I would give the advantage to desktop ram. Remember if things get too hot in a laptop or mini pc, the solution is to throttle back performance. Same with desktop, but it is to a different degree.

@jediknightdiscomike22 Год назад

@@bitwize forgot to mention one thing..... If portability is not a factor, upgrading a few pc parts (mb, cpu, gpu?, Ram) will always be cheaper than buying a new totl laptop.

@ImDembe Год назад

You can squeeze out more preformance with boosting up the TDP, your gaming section shows a mhz around 2000mhz when it should be 2400mhz but it can't deliver more when it set to 35 or 45w, at 65w it will be maxed out without the cpu taking a preformance hit since the igpu and cpu share power.

@darthkielbasa Год назад

9:31 what’s the name of the benchmark util you are using, kind sir?

@tcasex Год назад

These have a long way to go to replace the home "gaming pc" for my needs anyway. This would be an amazing little home server device though.

@codewithguillaume Год назад

That’s really cool dude ;)

@zedorda1337 Год назад

I been using a Beelink U59 pro for over a year now. Mostly to save power since my main rig draws 250w at idle and up to 750w while gaming. So not to replace my desktop pc but to cover just about everything that does not need a dedicated GPU. When not gaming I put the main rig to sleep and wake up the Beelink. Or if I want to just search something like a map for a game or a walk through. Oh I forgot to say I also run 3x 32" 1440p monitors with multiple inputs on each. So I can have a map up on one and the walk through on another without taking focus or resources from the main rig.

@MyersJ2Original Год назад

These things are very nice and powerful. I wish they had an option for the weaker varient of the 6XXX HX processors. 6/12 version would be enough for most of us and far more affordable.

@jasm817 Год назад

That's an excellent value. Good find 😏👍. I don't think these will completely replace full size desktops but I could be wrong. My thoughts are because heat will eventually kill these small boxes.

@jediknightdiscomike22 Год назад

Totally agree - heat is a MAJOR FACTOR when comparing laptop/mini pc compared to the desktop. See my comments in this thread somewhere.

@jasm817 Год назад

@@jediknightdiscomike22 The industry is trying to make things break so then you have to do call trade it in and buy another piece of crap... Example. Apple selling these m1 computers. Telling yah. You can take an old intel 2011 iMac and change out the video card from a only gaming PC laptop. Then flash it and use opencore legacy patcher and then have a fully working up to date Mac with Monterey os. So the solution is for these companies is to force a product cycle with actually making the stuff break. Pathetic. The older computers are literally better because you can upgrade and or be able to fix them. You can't fix these Little boxes. But if all you need is a few years then ok. But I ain't buying a non upgradable over heated box for like 1500 bucks. This one seemed reasonably priced for what you get. Under 700 would be doable for having the right specs and say last for 3 maybe 5 years. On the other hand. The only school box last forever.. literally. You can change the power supply and change parts. Is what it is. Depends on what your needs are and what you are willing to pay imo.

@fran13r Год назад

Broke ass me with an old Acer from 2008 after my main pc died, and some people with a great desktops in their closets gathering dust hahahah. I'm also thinking of saving to get a cheap mini PC. They're freaking awesome!

@bobdinitto Год назад

I just received my Beelink GTR6 yesterday! I'm planning to replace my tower desktop with this unit. So far I've just watched some videos but I'm impressed with the performance and small form factor. I'll be replacing Windows with Linux after I test the box on Windows for a few days. I haven't upgraded or modified any of my towers for several years now. So moving to the mini-pc form factor won't be an issue. I'm not a power user.

@TheWildGhillieMan Год назад

How long did it take to be delivered after you ordered? I'm just trying to get a baseline as to what to possibly expect.

@Singlephase Год назад

So how does the GPU in these compare to an older desktop GPU like a GTX960? if its on par (ish) with a R580 surley its more powerful @ 1080p?

@LearningToThrive Год назад

I ditched my pc aswell, gave it to one of my sons. I use a samsung galaxy s10e and a cheap steamdeck dock hooked to a walmart onn 32inch tv. It's my daily driver pc/phone/gaming rig.

@Kingramze Год назад

I'm all for the new form factor with one caveat - external PCIe for a video card in its own enclosure. The USB 4 thunderbolt external GPU enclosures aren't going to cut it with modern gaming GPUs. Just give me 8 PCIe lanes - not even asking for a full 16... just 8, and I'm sold. I can run a simple PCIe ribbon cable extender and build my own enclosure for my card if I have to. lol.

@mmmbbq Год назад

Any feedback on how it handles 4 monitors? I just built a PC with 2HDMI and 2 Display ports built on the mobo and Win11 is a complete failure. Every time a monitor gets shut down, Windows 11 moves any open window to another monitor. It's nearly unusable.

@jonneymendoza Год назад

Will these make for a good always on ubuntu server?

@herlegz6969 Год назад

Got my beelink and am absolutely ecstatic about it. Need way more competition for these tiny PCs! Mini pc GPU swapping is all it needs

@jayjayhooksch1 Год назад

These mini PCs are almost there. A little bit more power or a little less price and they will be replacing towers and laptops for many people, myself included. For now budget gaming laptops seem to make the most sense to me. They cost basically the same but perform better and come with a display, a battery, and input devices.

@itsdaddymagic Год назад

nah the price is about the same but u lose about 10-30% performance that being said being able to game on a train or plane or just grab my laptop and go is way more important to me than the perfomance loss

@jayjayhooksch1 Год назад

@@itsdaddymagic That's certainly not the case in my country, Canada, or in the US from what I can tell. Budget gaming laptops perform moderately better than these mini PCs with integrated GPUs, for roughly the same price. For example, my laptop is a 5600h with a 3050 and it performs better than this mini PC for gaming. My laptop was also within 50$ of the price range of this mini PC.

@machiavelli4428 Год назад

Give it about 4 or 5 years. Mini pcs will get at least 10 times better. But I do agree with you

@eliinthewolverinestate6729 Год назад

Mini pc are great. The only thing is they do get hot. Not every one but most. Does it do power over lan?

@bett0diaz Год назад

Hi! Great video! Actually, mini pc's already replaced a lot of desktop pc's for many people, in the form of laptops. They are basically mini pc's with screens and input devices... Or backwards, minis are laptops without that. But i think there will be even more adoption, specially because of better power consumption

@TheTastefulThickness Год назад

The beauty is if you have a screen already just go from an old piece of crap to a brand new 11th gen intel from a company like miniforum for just 400 dollars.

@TheTastefulThickness Год назад

Theres no decent 400 dollar laptop

@ligametis Год назад

@@TheTastefulThickness You would most likely need to upgrade monitor too as time goes by. And most likely these are just barebone price without storage.

@TheTastefulThickness Год назад

@Labas Labas ya its barebones. Im gonna transfer my samsung 970 right into the mini pc. Have a 1440 display...just buy a sodimm kit and im good

@RS-oq4wu Год назад

@@TheTastefulThickness Honestly even smartphones are getting strong enough to use with keyboard and monitor. I think the smartphone with docking will be future

@GoustiFruit Год назад

I replaced my desktop big tour 2.5 years ago, by an ASRock DeskMini A300 (with Ryzen/Vega), and can't be more satisfied.

@hfislwpa Год назад

Interesting idea, been considering something similar actually. Would you be able to run fedora on it? I'd like to run vs code server in something like this low power machine so I can remote into it

@bluesillybeard Год назад

It should work, I don't see any reason for it not to work

@DSON89 Год назад

Wow, I'm seriously impressed by these small computers.

@lynn_targz Год назад

same here

@guilherme5094 Год назад

Same.

@brymstoner Год назад

i think it really depends on what kind of user you are. an every day user who goes in for the office applications, web browsing and casual gaming; yeah this format of pc's 100% has you covered. your warzone 2 footage unfortunately had tearing from the recording of your monitor which kind of gives the impression the gr6 isn't quite up to the task of running warzone... rest assured, it is. i have the minisforum hx90, which has the ryzen 9 5900hx (a less performant apu), and it can comfortably handle warzone 2. and the mw2 campaign for that matter. i was considering the gr6 when i was shopping, btw. i went with the minisforum hx90 because it has 2 display port connections and 2 hdmi. though if you really want additional displays, it's much better to go in for some portable usb displays. and while the price isn't always low, the power consumption is - and that's an increasingly important priority. and final tangent, if you really want low power computing, go for one of the current generation of arm sbc's like khadas or rockpi. i recommend the khadas edge 2 pro. when pressed (i tested mine by simultaneously running multiple live cctv streams, multiple server software instances, and playing eve online in the web browser), it only draws ~9w. cool video, man. thanks!

@JoJoJenkns Год назад

I think you need to hook up in EGP Uto this to really test out a link on the graphics. It’s something like that that’s what’s going to make it a true test to see if it’s going to be a desktop a lot of gamers/content creators

@vmoutsop Год назад

I hope that these mini pc's DO NOT replace desktops in the future. It will only stifle innovation and the industry in general.

@TheDesertsweeper Год назад

Is that 2.5GB LAN an Intel or a Realtek version?

@karolus0xA Год назад

I don't think that those will replace full sized desktops, where expandability is their main feature(as size of the case will grow either way if you need to add more drives or an expansion card), However I can see those absolutely crushing mini-itx builds(thought they may still have their last laugh with socketed APU's and desktop ram slots) and basic gaming PC's in the near future.

@binjozoken6055 Год назад

It's compact and pretty powerful. But nothing beats building your own. Mini ITX comes to mind. Great video, though.

@gerrycrisostomo6571 Год назад

The performance of that mini PC shows that it can now replace most big desktops.

@jeremijakrstic1968 Год назад

How does it compare to Minisforum UM690?

@SkepticalCaveman Год назад

If a Mini PC and a external GPU could could attach to each other through PCIE slot like a cartridge into a game console, instead of using a thunderbolt connection then everyone would buy a Mini PC. Imagine a small portable PC that you can carry everywhere, and that quickly can attach a powerful graphics card when it needs to perform like a desktop PC.

@pc-doctor1416 Год назад

As much as I like Mini pc's my only reservation is the serviceability. With my desktop PC I can easily replace component parts like the PSU or Graphics card should either go faulty. All-in-on units usually mean that you have to return the entire unit for replacement/repair.

@jamesmcjamesington631 Год назад

The anip tool missing? Windows N. Doesn't sound like a region thing to me at al..

@iljacoveliers5834 Год назад

Thanks for the review. Does this AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX with Radeon 680M graphics, support Microsoft Playready, so it can playback Netflix 4K content ? Did you test that ?

@TrenchfootSalvador Год назад

How is it with 4K video editing? 10 bit 422 HQ footage?

@richmahogany1710 Год назад

now thats how you do a linode ad, quick and simple.

@jonblu Год назад

Great video. I always thought that is silly to have giant cases when a computer can fit in a very small one. I wish to see thousands of more computers like this one.

@Ghryst Год назад

get a raspberry pi and quit gaming, boomer. "i use my android phone for gaming" said the not-a-gamer

@xellaz Год назад

I have a mini-PC (minisforum HX90) with a 5900HX APU and it's no slouch. It can do video encoding using Handbrake no problem at all. Playing 4K videos with no buffering/stuttering. I bought the barebones version and installed my own RAM, SATA SSD, and NVME SSD that I consider better than what minisforum offers at that time... It runs like a dream with MX Linux!👍

@machiavelli4428 Год назад

This is the exact comment I was looking for since not alot of people cover this topic. Thank You

@ArturoEggler Год назад

Using a minisforum HM90 with 2*1TB SSD (m2 + SSD) and 32GB Ram since 12 months, am never going back to desktop PC´s. Paid for all no more than 700€ -barebone in web and memory in amazon. Best buy ever.

@phoenixbyrd79 Год назад

Ditched mine for the Samsung Fold 3. With an oculus quest 2 and GeForce Now account I'm good for everything.

@UXUBaron Год назад

You can squeeze a good bit more performance out of this machine by overclocking the gpu and ram

@krobson17 Год назад

This looks promising. I could imagine with an external gpu it could be a decent gamer

@thatzaliasguy Год назад

Snipping Tool has been replaced by Snip & Sketch in 2018, and is natively built into the OS of both Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Activated via Windows Key + Shift + S).

@ZAPATTUBE Год назад

THANKS!!!

@cantdance3077 Год назад

I switched from desktops years ago in favor of gaming laptops. But because of the cost, a miniPC build seems to be the perfect alternative. The Beelink GTR6 is really impressive.

@Ghryst Год назад

laptops, no matter what sticker they put on the cover, are not capable of the same things. you didnt "switch", you "downgraded", boomer. a Volvo might get you from A-B, but it does not replace a Ferrari.

@cantdance3077 Год назад

@@Ghryst Turns out I wasn't much of a gamer, casual at best. However I did have a real need for portability. Laptop was perfect. My sons love their desktops.

@cantdance3077 Год назад

@@Ghryst I'm really happy for you that your rig is super bitchin, boomer.