this is the minis Forum Venus series mpb7 it's powered by an Intel Core i7 13th gen 13700h
now that does have 14 cores 20 threads a lot of performance for such a tiny little mini PC and
even though it's small it's got a lot packed into it so Wi-Fi 6E we've got two 2.5 gigabit
Lan ports two USB 4.0 can run four displays even and to top it all off there is even room somehow
for a 2.5 inch Drive within this Windows 11 Pro Mini PC so this is what you'll find in the Box a
sata 3 cables you plug that in if you want to install a 2.5 inch Drive HDMI cable our power
cable screws for the 2.5 inch Drive Visa mounting bracket and screws and then 120 watt power supply
now the design we've got a metal frame that goes around the outside here we've got a reset button
here for the CMOS power on 3.5 millimeter with mic support and these are two USB 3.1s gen one
here type c gen 1 and we do have microphones too microphone there and if I flip it around you'll
see the rest of the port so two USB four ports there at the back so that is video out data and
power delivery to I believe it does state that that can support it but we do have our power
in with the barrel cable I showed you before so HDMI 2.1 to 2.5 gigabit Lan ports here so
you could use this as a router if you wanted to do so and the other HDMI 2.12 as well so you can
run four displays with this particular model here these are USB 3 Type A's 3.1 sorry Gen
2 so gen1's on the front but two gen twos here and eight Kensington lock slot so this is one
of two of the vents here for the ventilation mission for the coding of it so that's going
to be hot air it's going to be pushed out from there and on the other side right here as you
can see now gaining access to the internals to upgrade it very easy so you just need to press
down here on the lid and that does pop up and you can remove it so they have gone with brand
components you can see our two ddr5 sodoms right there so crucial Ram two eight gigabyte sticks
here so at least it's running a dual Channel and 16 gigabytes of RAM mediatek here for our Wi-Fi
6eed I've been using that before and take a look at the cooler that's on top of our PCA
4.0 SSD it's a tiny little fan right on there and there is a thermal pad underneath this you can see
a bit of a cooler there to keep everything cool so you can gain access to all of the stuff you need
right there and if you want to know where you put that 2.5 inch drive if you were going to add one
well that goes on the top of that lid that I just pulled off so here's the space here and you screw
it into place and then you plug that into the motherboard so very easy to install the extra
components or upgrade the RAM or SSD and the wireless card this I really do like then the
underside you can just see there the large cooler so it's sucking the cold air from underneath and
then it's blowing it out those two sides and we've got the two visa mounting points and four rubber
feet here we are in our bios and it is pretty much locked down to us because the only real advanced
settings that of any use uh this one's here so restore AC power loss so if you wanted to run
this as a server this is perfect for you or you're going to use it on a switch or something and then
under power and performance no undervolting settings unfortunately which really does help
out a chipset like this one the 13700h but we do have power limits which I will be keeping stock of
course I'm reviewing it exactly it is out of the box and then you've got your boot order that's it
so quite locked down for minis Forum I would like to see it completely unlocked they used to do that
so we have Windows 11 Pro and I'll just show you right here that the free available Ram is
slightly under six gigabytes that's normal they dedicate a little bit to the iris XE Graphics so
this model here I've been having a few issues with stability wise because this is about the fourth
time I've tried to record this running benchmarks and things I've had it reset on me will not reset
just power off completely and not power back on I don't know what is causing this I am going to
reach out to Minnie's Forum of course and explain to them the issue but it seems like when I have
the Thunderbolt should I say USB 4 ports using those with an external drive this can happen when
you push it under heavy load so it seems to be like a power supply or power issue there with it
now you see in the device manager that we do have our 13th gen here listed 20 times so it's a very
powerful chips here this is the 13700h and it's got 14 cores and 20 threads yes that's a lot so
that's why you see it listed here so many times so we've got a RZ 608 that's from mediatek and that
is our Wi-Fi 6E the Wi-Fi performance even though the signal strength has always been good for me I
have found it to be um definitely lackluster not too impressed with it haven't been getting amazing
download speeds steam downloads seem to be slow but that could be something to do with them but
just in general it doesn't feel quite as good as the Intel counterparts here we have a Kingston
Drive so I have of course benchmarked that with Crystal disk Mark and you'll see the performance
here it's all right but for pcie 4.0 kind of expected a little more now it is surpassing the
previous generation so that's the best part there but only really the read speeds are surpassing
that so the performance a little more on that I have run my typical kind of benchmarks here
so this is Knight raid which is a 3D Mark score here just checking out the iris XE Graphics so
it does have 96 executional units so the graphics score for integrated Graphics is quite good there
and geekbench 5 for some reason I could not run geekbench 6 it would just crash or it would just
power itself off with those issues it's happened about three times now in total so that's a good
score that's very powerful it shows you how potent this is and the cinebench yes that I have also run
so you can see here that the multi-core score and the single very very good now I do have a
laptop that's got a slightly better version than this chipset it's the 13900h it gets 19
000 points this is 16 so very good because all of those cores and that is excellent
that puts it somewhere near some of those old AMD thread rippers I can't remember the exact model
the 1950 or X or something very similar to that so great performance here for such a small little
mini PC my only concern is of course those issues that I am having with those just randomly powering
off so the memory here it could be quicker so this does support 5600 megahertz but we're only running
4800 that crucial Ram rs60 Graphics does have a course native decoding rvp9 hevc so this is a 60
frames per second 4K clip and it's running well not a problem there I'm just going to mute that
you can see no real lags at all no issues with it it is running at 60 frames per second step
it up now to the jellyfish file this is one 40 megabits per second atvc 10 bit
same story here although it might have just dropped the frame here or there at the beginning
but this again is very good this performance I'm seeing out of this many PC now streaming 4K this
is in YouTube with chrome and it's not using the vp9 codec it's avo1 that it's stating that's using
here but still excellent performance look at this zero dropped frames out of almost 2 000.
there normally is one or two here or there but no this playback is absolutely perfect decoding this
here we are in Adobe Premiere Pro with my test 4K edit so this is running fine we do have the iris
XE Graphics I've got 16 gigabytes of RAM which is relatively fast and when I hit playback here
it seems good the performance it doesn't seem to drop any frames now do bear in mind like I
say in my other Mini PC reviews that this is only a very minor edit it's about 10 minutes
long there's no fancy Transitions and there is hardly any b-roll anything like that so it's a
best case scenario but what I will do is test out those export times now and we'll see how long it's
going to take one minute of footage using the YouTube preset and there we go it is about to
finish up so as soon as that disappears so that was approximately 28 29 seconds a little slower
than I thought it would be GTA 5 now so I have it set to the normal settings view distance is in the
middle and pedestrian density looking good very good this is around an over 80 frames per second
when I'm in the car and I'll just get out now just jump out and have a look at the frame rate again
really solid performance here over 70 frames per second so great for gaming just lighter
titles that is so older titles like this one Counter-Strike will run just fine
so when you look at The Thermals there is a bit of thermal Headroom they're not actually
bad at all 85 degrees is the top and thermal throttling yes apparently it has triggered
it okay but it's quite a low throttling point that they do have set here minis Forum now as
this squad is causing it to just completely power off I don't know whether it is but you
can see that the CPU has pulled up to pulled up to 95 watts and I've seen from the wall socket
around about 120 as well so I don't know whether it's a power supply issue perhaps it's just not
getting enough wattage the power supply is 120 maybe it's pulling 130 with external drives
that I had connected when I pushed it hard and that's what caused it to power off completely
not good that that is happening now fan noise you do hear it when you're not doing anything
demanding like right now it's reasonably quiet but what I'll do now is push it hard
and you will hear the fan it's not super loud super annoying but you will certainly hear it
Linux Manjaro as you can see I tried to run it here but this is as far as it would go would
just sit on this screen pretty much forever so it jams out blocks up fails to load so please
read the performance it decodes video absolutely flawlessly the video encoding performance too
was quite good was no slouch a little slower than expected but you do have to remember that it does
not have dedicated graphics speaking of which the iris XC graphics with the 96 executional
units did do really well either by the fact that we've got the 4.8 gigahertz Ram speeds with this
even though they aren't the fastest that this 13th gen does support So games like GTA 5 as
I showed you really quite playable as long as you keep the settings around about 1080p The Thermals
were fine the fair noise yet makes a little bit Linux couldn't get it to run and that was Linux
banjaro that I briefly just showed you and there's a lot really going for this Mini PC however I have
had the reliability issues here we're just this thing completely powering off if I used the USB
4.0 ports for long periods of time eventually when I pushed it hard it would just cut out completely
and it would power off wouldn't even reboot so it was not thermal related it's definitely to me
power related so I think it's just simply pulling too much power more than maybe the power supply
can handle so it cuts out Pals right off so that's a bit of a problem there if you intend to use
all of the ports load them up with external hard drives as I did well you could run into that issue
now I've asked minis Forum about this problem hopefully there's going to be a solution I'll let
you know in the comments of this video I will pin that what they do come back to me with so thanks
a lot for watching my review here of the mpb7 13th gen Windows 11 Pro Mini PC from minis forum