What’s up friends and welcome back to another mini-PC review. This is an all-new powerful AMD
Ryzen 5 mini-PC from the brand Trigkey. This one is called the Trigkey S3 and it’s from
their Speed S line of high-performance models designed to handle difficult
tasks such as video editing and 3D gaming. It’s also great at entertainment features
such as streaming movies and TV shows 4K HDR video playback surround sound audio
output and PlayStation 2 emulation gaming. In this video I’ll also attempt to install
alternative operating systems such as Android x86 and FydeOS.
And in the end I’ll test its performance benchmarks to see
where it places on my ranking chart. So that’s up next stay tuned.
So I’m back and in this package you get the S3 model itself.
You get one of 40 inches HDMI cable. And a shorter 9 inches HDMI cable.
You get a 12V 3A DC power adapter.
A mounting bracket and screws. And a user manual.
So the design of this model consists of a plastic upper housing with the Ryzen 5 and
AMD Radeon graphics stickers to the top. At the front it has two USB 3.0 ports one
USB type C port a headphone jack an LED power button and a clear CMOS button.
To its rear has two HDMI display ports two more USB 3.0 ports one RJ-45 Ethernet gigabit
LAN port its DC power input jack and its exhaust vent for its internal cooling fan.
To its sides it has intake vents. And to its base it has an aluminum panel with
two antiskid rubber pads screw holes for attaching the included bracket and four screws that you can
remove to access to its SATA expandable storage facility its M.2 NVME SSD and its RAM modules.
So the operating system used in this model is the latest Windows 11 and upon first start
you will have to complete the first startup wizard by logging into your Internet network
and if necessary your Microsoft account. Its basic system information shows that
its processor is the AMD Ryzen 5 3550H quad-core CPU with a base clock speed of
2.1 GHz with Radeon Vega mobile graphics GPU. It has 16GB of RAM and this is DDR4 memory.
It’s a 64bit operating system and under product key and activation it
shows that your Windows installation is activated. For a bit more in-depth information here it shows
that its CPU has a boost clock speed of 3.5 GHz. It comes with 2 Crucial brand 8GB DDR4 3200 RAM
modules clocked at 1600 MHz and it can take up to 32GB.
Its GPU is the AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics with a boost speed of up to 1.2 GHz it has
512 shading units with Vulkan API version 1.2 support and open GL version 4.6.
Its audio adapter is the AMD Radeon HDMI K17.1 high-definition audio control.
Its system disk is an M.2 2280 NVME Kingston NV1 500GB SSD with a maximum read speed of up to 2100
MB/s. It can also take up to 2TB maximum. Here it also shows that it detects my 1TB
Western Digital SATA SSD I inserted into its expandable storage facility.
It has dual band 2.4GHz + 5GHz Wi-Fi and its Bluetooth version is 4.0.
And that’s its system and hardware information.
Turning my attention to its display and audio features.
For display you get up to 4K 2160p at 60hz with HDR.
You get screen orientation to portrait mode reverse portrait and reversed landscape.
You get dual monitor display via its dual HDMI ports and you can add a third display wirelessly.
Its front type C port is not a display port. Here is a sample of its 4K HDR video playback.
For audio when connected to a surround sound audio receiver you get 7.1 Dolby Atmos Dolby Digital
plus Dolby TrueHD DTS X and DTS HD-MA formats. And here’s a sample playing surround sound audio.
When connected to your receiver you can also
watch services such as Netflix in 4K ultra HD resolution with Dolby Atmos.
For video editing I loaded a 4K video clip into Camtasia and set the project
to edit in 4K and editing the timeline is smooth with good timeline playback.
For testing its Vega 8 graphics GPU I installed Destiny 2 which
is a 94GB high graphics game on the Steam platform and for it to play
smoothly I had to lower the resolution to 1080p and set it to low graphics.
360 and gain access to office apps such as word excel and PowerPoint.
let’s now take a look at its benchmarks and where it places on my PC rankings chart.
First I have the results of its RAM copy speed and its Kingston M.2 NVME SSD read and write speeds.
Its 16GB of DDR4 RAM has a RAM copy speed of 24543 MB/s.
Its M.2 SSD has a read speed of 2523 MB/s and write speed of 1762 MB/s.
Next its Wi-Fi and Ethernet LAN speeds. Based on my network speed of 154 Mbps the 5GHz band and the
LAN port achieved maximum speed of my network. The 2.4GHz band achieved only 38%.
In benchmarking its single-core and multicore performance. It got a score of 896 single-core and
3122 multicore in the Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark. In measuring the performance of its AMD Radeon
Vega 8 GPU it registered a score of 746 in the 3DMark time spy test.
And for comprehensive testing it scored 427784 in the PC version of the Antutu benchmark.
And in the PC Mark 10 comprehensive benchmark it scored 3478. And with
these benchmarks let’s now see where it places on the chart.
So the scores are in and the new Trigkey S3 is at position number 6 based on its PC Mark 10
benchmark score. And this position indicates that it’s a good high-performance model.
So to view this chart you can do so on my website where you can compare
various benchmarks and features and I also provide product links and a link to its video right here.
For more information see the link in the description below this video.
So that’s it for its Windows operating system. And as promised I attempted to
install Android x86 and FydeOS on a 1 TB SSD inserted into its expandable storage facility.
So Android x86 installs without issues and there is no security boot restrictions in its UEFI bios.
Here am running Android 11 X86 with all features working. However when you apply Android x86 to a
mini-PC there is usually the issue of no audio via HDMI and the same applies to this model.
You can however get audio via its headphone jack. And for those who use and follow the development
of the FydeOS operating system I installed the AMD version and it installs without issues. However I
am not getting audio via its HDMI port which is a first for FydeOS on a device. Also I cannot get it
rooted using the superuser application process. So if you are interested in running Android on
Windows hardware independent from its Windows operating system then I have two step-by-step
video tutorials links to which can find in the description directly below this video.
In summary the Trigkey S3 is a great high-performance AMD Ryzen five mini-PC. I
had no issues with it and it’s a great machine for work and entertainment. It comes with high
quality components such as crucial RAM modules and a Kingston M.2 NVME SSD.
It has SATA expandable storage that you can also use for alternative operating
systems and its internal cooling fan is almost silent while at the
same time keeping the system cool at all times even during gaming.
So friends this brings to one end my review. Thanks go out to Trigkey for
sending this model for review and if you are impressed with its performance and
would like to get your hands on one you can do so with a $100 discount coupon on
their Amazon store page. To take advantage see the link in the description below this video.
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