This here is a new jasper lake mini pc that is powered by the pentium silver n6000 now the
n6000 of the jasper lakes is one of the more high-end models i typically review the n5105
that one has a maximum turbo of 2.8 gigahertz whereas this more high-end model is 3.3 gigahertz
the intel uhd graphics has 32 executional units and the configuration of this lever z3
mini pc is eight gigabytes of dual channel ram it does have a 128 gigabytes of storage which is
emmc 5.1 spec it can run two displays at 4k 60 and there is an option to add a pci 3.0 ssd to this
if you wanted to increase upon the storage or simply have faster storage than emc 5.1 spec
in the box of the mini pc you'll find a quick start guide we have our power supply now this is
rated to 65 watts there is a visa mount bracket some screws for that and a power supply cable
this mini pc has a great compact size so it's only four centimeters tall 13 by 13 are the dimensions
we've got hdmi 2.0 displayport 1.4 gigabit lan 2 usb 2 ports up the front there are then three usb
type a's this is usb 3.0 spec and then a type c usb 3 audio jack microphones and our power button
with status led on the left side there's just a vent right here and on the right another vent but
we do have a kensington lock slot on the underside we have four rubber feet with the screws there so
if you remove those you can then pop off this and take a look at the internals which i'll get onto
shortly and then we have these two mounting points there for that visa bracket the top of this mini
pc is made out of plastic we have their branding right here and it is a smooth glossy finish so
it's prone to picking up smudges and fingerprints it's not really an issue so the build quality is
mostly plastic the frame around the outside it's just the underside where we have the metal gaining
access to the internals was not difficult at all so it's just those four screws on the bottom and
then that plate lifts right off we've got access to our wireless card so this is just a wi-fi five
card and it has bluetooth four you can upgrade this to a wi-fi six one with bluetooth five quite
easily and we do have an nvme drive here which is great that m.2 slot is 22 by 80 in size and then
two sodium slots here so you can upgrade that ram now this configuration that i have from them
has two four gigabyte sticks in there so eight gigabytes in total with this ddr4 ram so you
could easily increase that to 16 gigabytes if you bought yourself and installed of course two eight
gigabytes sticks there you'll notice right here that there's this chip so that's our b1
chip that's in fact emmc storage and that's where windows is located that is the boot drive but you
could easily swap that over and upgrade and put an mvme drive in this if you wanted more speed the
bias of this mini pc is uh reasonably locked down to us because we don't have a lot of configuration
options for example there is nothing in here for the power limit okay you can adjust for example a
few things to do with the graphics dedicate more memory to that integrated uhd graphics there's
a tweak setting here but really there's not a lot that we can change or that i would bother changing
under advanced settings here just a few other options but really nothing we can do okay with
this that would be of any interest power limits would have been good to increase it from six watts
to ten and on first boot into windows we do have the following pre-installed language packs we've
got english spanish french korean and chinese this tiny little mini pc is running that passively
called pentium silver in 6000 so the maximum turbo of this jasper lake is 3.3 gigahertz so it's a lot
faster than the other models that i'm reviewing but it still is just a six watt part there with
its power limit one and power element two can the short boost go up to 20 watts so that turbo does
help it being 500 megahertz more so a little bit more performance than those other models i
review but we're still kind of being capped really with that six watts there with the performance it
can't hold those turbos for very long because it's going to use too much wattage there so it ends up
powering down a little bit now just to point out the memory yes it is definitely in dual channel
and we're running a slower speed here because 2 66 megahertz is not actually the fastest the jesper
lake can run which is 2933 so we're missing out on a little bit there of ram bam with the performance
could be a bit better but if you upgraded the ram certainly go for the faster ram if you wanted to
and i would put 16 gigabytes in this which would aid the performance the key bottleneck really with
this system so far is this the internal storage is an emmc 5.1 flash nad flash there and you can
see that that's lower than sata three speeds out of a s83 ssd which these typically would
come configured with but the good thing about it is as i pointed out when we took a look at the
internals that it does have a pci 3.0 slot so you can get really fast speeds out of that maximum pci
3.0 speeds much quicker than this and that's what i would probably do for my boot operating system
i would run it not off the embedded storage here but pci3 to get over these speeds here and get
past that bottleneck now our wi-fi chip in this is very common here so it's intel's wi-fi ac 3165
bluetooth 4. i would upgrade this personally if i was going to be keeping this unit i would
put in a bluetooth um five card combo card with wi-fi six something like the intel ax200 would
be perfect in this you get much quicker speeds as it is my throughput through this is about
320 megabits per second which is not amazing but we do have real tech gigabit land there
this pc does come with windows 10 pro installed and you can upgrade to windows 11. it has the
tpm module 2.0 that's fine so you're able to upgrade it if you wanted to
and synthetic benchmarks i won't focus a lot on these so just this geekbench 5 score here
the single core scores over 400 points multi-core scores over a thousand and yes that is faster than
the jasper lake in 5105 which i have reviewed a few mini pcs and some other tech with that one so
that turbo performance being 500 megahertz faster than that particular model single core especially
there it does show the com it can pull slightly higher scores here now if we had the slightly
faster ram it could do even better there with the score now i do have the latest drivers here
and you can see that i have installed windows 11. i've tested it out that yes it can be upgraded and
it will run windows 11 not a problem and the display can be run at 4k 60 which is
what i'm currently doing now you'll see here the display resolution that's 4k and the refresh rate
that is there we go 60 hertz so that is possible but how does it handle 4k demanding files so the
jellyfish file here is my test file that i always test out this is 4k and it is a 10 bit file and a
few starters in the beginning which i commonly see with this bitrate but once it's going you can see
now that that is fluid so it's not dropping any frames anymore but minimizing it there that can
be a little bit laggy i've seen this throughout the ui throughout windows here that it sometimes
has just a few little stutters so what about 4k 60 now this is where things get quite demanding
it's initially slow to load and i can see that that is not 60 frames per second that is
looking a little bit laggy there so the intel uhd graphics is struggling to the point where it just
froze completely and it's still dropping frames although it's looking a little better i'll just
seek ahead that was slow and no that's still dropping frames so 4k 30 it can handle but
not 4k 60. it's just too demanding for the spec of mini pc documents and spreadsheets
however so this is a spreadsheet that's got 700 records here it's fast you can do your edits
and it doesn't really log out at all there it's not bogging itself down so for
just general kind of office work for browsing the internet documents spreadsheets
stuff like that is really all this spec is good at it wouldn't do anything too demanding on this
then chrome tabs you can have about 10 open i'll do a very quick test this
is my little search for cats that i do on this lower spec tech and i've got the performance
monitor up here with windows just so we can keep an eye on that ram use and how demanding this is
really actually going to be on it it will max out you'll see that the cpu was going to max
out at 100 under this kind of workload even just something as simple as chrome here so we'll open
up a few tabs and some of those tabs will have embedded videos in them and that's what i want
i want to see how it is going to perform so still hasn't actually peaked there that's interesting
at 100 the cpu the ram is still looking okay so i think i've got enough tabs open
at the moment here that i'll swap between them and we'll see how this is going to load in so
it's a little slow this performance is not a core i5 a core i7 i even say a 10th gen 11th gen or 8th
gen would be a lot quicker than this but it's not too bad you see as i swap over these pages that's
still loading in so part of the slowness could actually be my internet connection which is uh
not exactly the best and i'm starting to see now that when i scroll through these pages
there is a little bit of choppiness you can see when the images come in and it feels
a little slow there but it's it's doing okay not too bad all right that's still loading so
this is where it's getting a bit slow is loading in these embedded videos here so that's youtube
just a trailer there for cats and that's another video so that's where it's bogging down a little
so you can have ideally around eight ten tabs open and you still got plenty of ram to play with
and this performance all right just a little choppy so have a look now at some youtube 4k
now through chrome here streaming youtube at 4k 30 you can see that it is steady it is fine now it
did originally drop 22 frames just loading it up opening up the window there were a few stutters a
few little lags once it gets going like the video clips the footage here is steady but occasionally
it is dropping a frame here and there so to me this is still watchable now if you try 4k 60
it isn't all right it turns into a bit of a choppy mess and i personally would not be playing back 4k
60 with this mini pc it's just simply not powerful enough to be able to handle that very quick look
now gaming performance i do have it set on the lowest possible settings with counter strike
and it's 720p but this performance is very choppy and only around 20 frames per second so you need
to lower it down probably to something like 800 times 600 i'm just going to jump in you're crazy
see if i could get a kill it's so laggy that i don't even know how you'd be able to aim
properly with this try that again i know you shouldn't jump around look at them all
that still don't even hit me all right so i'm dead there but that just gives you an idea that
it's not good at all there only well down to about 11 12 frames per second
and i do believe i know why it's running into those laggy throttling kind of issues where its
performance is definitely not ideal it's because of this it is reaching temperatures up to 100
degrees celsius and this yes is after pushing it hard for a little while and it's peaking around
10 watts there that it's pulling so imagine if this did have a power limit one of 10 watts not
the six it would get a lot hotter this now the odd thing is it doesn't say it has triggered thermal
throttling but it must only be a few degrees away from there but i believe that these temperatures
are still causing the clocks to drop down so that's why i'm seeing stutter and lag throughout
this mini pc my time using it that unless you're doing something very light it will run into
performance issues there which is not good so it really does need to have a little active cooler
in there a little fan inside this and not just all be passively cooled so disappointing the thermals
here with this mini pc now if you're looking at running linux on this i can happily report that
it's working fine thanks to well using an older wi-fi chipset there's no issues with drivers
and everything will run fine as long as you go for a more modern disk drive course with your linux
build i did find that the performance was better than windows but it will still run into what is
the big bottleneck with this particular model is the thermals that it's simply getting too hot it
reaches 100 degrees celsius it will in fact go up to 100 and 102 it triggers thermal throttling
it's getting hot it's affecting the performance so there is some lag that's coming into it when you
start to push this model if you want to have 10 chrome tabs open you got still available ram the
cpu load seems to be fine but it's being throttled it's affecting the performance as i saw in gaming
that really should have performed a lot better counter-strike with the 32 executional units that
this model has it simply wasn't performing as it should for the spec considering the higher clocks
the higher turbos that it does have compared to say other jasper lake models that i have covered
now it is good that we can run two 4k monitors i like that i like the fact that you're able to
upgrade the wireless card which is wi-fi five spec it really should have shipped with the intel ax
200 or 201 wi-fi six spec with bluetooth five because it's a bit dated now getting this
and it also ships out with windows 10 pro which i feel should be windows 11 pro or windows 11 home
would have been perfect considering it's well now the days of windows 11 so it should really
have it so overall this model is good for just light computing but if you push it hard and you
want to really maximize and just do a lot of multitasking with it it then starts to choke
sadly so thank you so much for watching my review here of the lever the 3 mini pc