So i'm really excited to bring you this review here of the first ever Ryzen 9 5900
hx mini pc it's from MoreFine it's called the s 500 plus and of course with that monster apu
in there it's a very very powerful mini pc eight cores 16 threads a maximum turbo of 4.6 gigahertz
it does have two nvme slots two sodium slots it can take up to 64 gigabytes of ram
it has two lan ports on it one is 2.5 gigabit and we also have Wireless AX which is the AX200
from intel it will be running windows 10 and just to point out that this unit here was sent out to
me from them that's why i've got it so early in exchange for this video you're watching here now
all opinions expressed in this video all 100 my own nothing is scripted and i'm not being paid for
this so it comes well packaged up with padding all around it and there's two little boxes inside here
so you can see one already is our power supply and these are the included accessories we do get
which is our power cable an hdmi cable and our power supply so this one's 120 watts 19 volt
6.32 amps it has the standard barrel plug connector so very easy to get a replacement
for this one here it's a standard voltage that i often see used in gaming laptops and other laptops
and the connector for the power cable is what i call the mickey mouse cable and you can see
why because it's got that mickey mouse looking head to it so very easy to get a replacement eu
us uk australia or new zealand style plug and onto our build and design of this one so the height
this is just 4.3 centimeters which is very good by as you can see with almost 15 centimeters so
about yeah 15 by 15 and only four high so not at all mini pc at all but it packs a lot of power
so this top here is plastic and why is that well they've got the antennas
for the wi-fi six which is an intel ax200 card that is already installed into this one
so here if we have a look this is on the right side there is an intake vent right here and then
on the left that's our exit vent i can just see the fins inside there so this is where the hot
air is going to be blown out of this particular mini pc now ports there are plenty so this is our
barrel dc connector for powering this of course 4 usb 2 ports we've got hdmi 2.0 displayport 1.4
gigabit lan and then we have lan which is also 2.5 gigabit lan so very fast there and our
3.5 millimeter headphone jack with mic support along the bottom you will find here the intake
you can just see the fan inside so this is what's sucking in fresh air from there and then from the
side vent and then up the front here we do have a type c port which is usb 3.2 this supports power
delivery up to 120 watts two usb 3.2 gen1 ports and we have a status led with our power button and
they've put the ryzen 9 sticker on this as well so you know that this is a very powerful mini pc and
our internals so taking this lid off you can see that we've got a bit of spare space here that is
because there's a 2.5 inch drive but this is a pre-production prototype model really that they
sent out to me to review and i don't have that cable for sata 3 which i believe will be in the
final version but i'll have to check with them on that so nem.2 slot here this is pci 3.0 to sodium
so it can take speeds of up to 3.2 gigahertz with ddr4 the wireless antennas are located on the
lid here they've got a gap for them and this as mentioned before is wi-fi six and they are using
the ax 200 with bluetooth five so this card can be pulled out and replaced if you wanted to do so
if you remove the rubber feet on the bottom you can then gain access to the other side
of the motherboard which then gives us access to the cooler for cleaning it out if you need to get
some dust out of this after a couple of years of using it then it won't be too hard to do just got
to remove the rear bottom panel and here is our second mvme drive slot here so this one is pci
3.0 spec 2. then to cool that mighty ryzen 9 5900 hx there are three thermal copper transfer
heat pipes in here and a lot of copper around the bottom and the base so this i hope is going to be
enough but i'll let you know just how the thermals are and the fan noise in this in-depth review
and looking at our buyers just a quick look here just to point out that it is completely
unlocked to us so all of the advanced settings you can access you can change them there's lots
in here that you can mess around with and only really recommend it for experts because if you
change something you could end up bricking the bios and it won't boot and then you
need to unplug the battery and it's a big hassle to do so so everything's unlocked
that is great to see you can also set a resume power state mode too so when it is powered off
it will power on automatically when it detects it so it could be used on a switch or as a server
onto our performance benchmarks and a few other things so the ram here that i do have installed
did work out fine so it's running at cl22 the timings now i tried to tweak the timings i also
tried to increase power limit and dedicate more graphics memory uh that's to the vega graphics and
it wouldn't let me do it it just kept crashing so i ended up bricking the bios and had to
redo everything so i don't recommend playing around with that just yet at least at least
not on this well basically what it's a prototype version so dual channel ram of course it does run
well and we've got about 600 megabytes dedicated to the vega graphics now i wouldn't worry too
much about that i know if we dedicated say two gigabytes or four performance with the minimum
frames per second average would be up a little bit but it will actually dynamically adjust and
use dynamic ram shared ram that is so under device manager here you will see that our processor is
listed 16 times which is crazy for the size of this mini pc that's because it's eight cores
16 threads maximum turbo is 4.6 gigahertz this is a extremely potent uh apu that we've got on this
one very very good and i get onto the gaming performance and some benchmarks shortly but
so the lan ports on here so one is 2.5 gigabits and that one is real tech and the other just a
single gigabit also real tech and the wi-fi six card i've seen a lot of these cards now
performance very good with my wi-fi six router i can get over gigabit speed so normally i'm
seeing a throughput of about 1.3 to 1.2 gigabits per second which is very very good for wireless
performance now this pc will be supporting windows 11 2 with that now normally go into spreadsheets
and other things general system performance is super quick okay demanding video files this is a
4k61 not a problem for the vega graphics skipping ahead running this this does not drop any frames
youtube at 4k 60 no problems no drop frames 140 megabits per second hevc 10 bit smooth
again not an issue or an absolute monster of a chip here the ryzen 9 5900 hx so some performance
benchmarks here that i've been running this is firestrike testing out the
integrated graphics and okay graphics score yeah it's it's low but for integrated graphics is not
actually too bad physics score excellent this is really good very very good here and this is the
test that you should run on integrated graphics which is night raid from 3dmark very good cpu
score and the graphics score here is the highest i have seen for integrated graphics this is very
very good that one pc mark 10 with this kind of score here does show us that it's very potent and
yes as mentioned before it just handles everything with ease very very good there and this is our
geekbench five score so single core score very good multi-core score here could be a little bit
higher but they are running this particular chip at the default 45 watts for the power limit it
could go up to 54 watts but they haven't changed this probably because of the thermals cinebench so
this one could be higher for this chip i have seen higher okay i've seen with uh zeus with the strix
that i had for a little while uh scores of around 13 000 points 11 000 points here is still very
good considering it is 45 watts now that strix machine i was looking at gaming laptop had liquid
metal it also was running 54 watts for the power limit that's why i was able to get a much better
score here but still this is an absolute monster here for performance excellent really really good
and the thermals that's another positive here so we are peaking at looking at our thermals
almost 87 degrees and this is in ambient temperatures here of currently 25 26
degrees celsius so that is very good because with the laptops that i've seen that are running the
54 watts i was seeing temperatures of up to 90s late 90s like 99 97
and that's not happening here no thermal throttling has been triggered either so if i could
tweak that power limit up to 54 watts you can see here it's just pulling 45 watts at 54 would be
able to get even more performance out of this but even so the way it is right now really good and if
i could tweak these ram timings which even though the bias is completely unlocked it doesn't seem to
be taking or at least i'm not having any luck with it at the moment so the uh tcas here of 22 isn't
exactly amazing but this is a standard typical timing here for an amd powered mini pc or laptop
at the wall it will be under full load pulling 64 watt and under idle conditions doing nothing
that is that it's about 5.8 to 9.8 watts which is quite good especially when it's only using around
six watts that's basically nothing what about video editing is it a competent video editor it is
performance-wise not too bad now i do do some very long reviews if you're familiar with my channel i
can yeah get a little bit long-winded 20 minutes now this is a 10-minute clip here the playback
the preview window at a quarter playback is fine sorry half play back there just fine so there's
no noticeable lag and when i play that it's 30 frames per second it's handling this just fine
i've noticed that with at least my very basic edits that i do do with my videos that really
it is not a problem the performance here from the vega graphics and of course the eight cores
isn't an issue at all but what about the export time i'll do the standard test that
i do and that is the youtube preset okay that's going to be one minute of footage
so this is the default preset they have right here okay h.264 export and i'll see how long this
takes normally one minute of footage with this particular chipset should be just over a minute
and here we go so one minute of footage i'm gonna hit start here on the timer and export there's
about a two second one second delay there for me oh look at this it's absolutely ripping through
this that's very very quick so looking promising so that's gonna be well under a minute here
oh wow wow wow wow this is steaming through it this is incredibly quick here so there we
go you can safely say i would think that that's about 32 seconds for one minute of the 4k preset
that for integrated graphics for a mini pc is a new record here on the channel so this mini pc
for exporting with adobe premiere pro here blazing blazing fast another positive of this mini pc
is the hdmi port can handle 4k 120 hertz i did this little test where i connected it up to
my lg cx which is a 4k 120hz oled tv it handles it just fine but look at the bit depth that is
8 bit so that's all we're going to get out of it but still i had the super smooth and fluid
4k 120 hertz desktop which was great on to our fun part now gaming performance this is the witcher 3
on the lowest preset 1080p just how will it run well let's take a look not bad at all for
integrated graphics now normally with integrated graphics i would actually drop down to 720p but
we're getting 40 45 frames per second right now and if you take a look at the top left hand corner
the gpus of course at 100 well 99 but look at the clock so 2100 megahertz it's holding the maximum
turbo speed the vega graphics that it can the whole entire time so there's no strange
throttling nothing silly's going on here and the performance very very respectable for integrated
vega graphics here so let's have a look now at gta 5 which is another yes old title but a good
title okay so i have the game set here to normal settings and the distance scaling population
and those settings they're set to the middle 1080p and you can see video memory that it's using just
over a gigabyte and it can use a lot more there so it's dynamic shared memory use so i wouldn't
worry too much about that and just take a look at the performance that i'm able to get here
so this is 71 frames per second really good again for integrated graphics with all this traffic
around and on medium settings 1080p looking good i don't know what that truck was just doing then
trying to kill me so what happens if i jump out now we're gonna see some huge frame dips
a lot of screen tearing obviously i would turn on vsync to get rid of that but look at this
80 frames per second still very very very good
so completely playable an older title like this at 1080p on integrated graphics in 2021 is fantastic
and now really demanding game which is cyberpunk 2077
this i did not expect 720p lowest possible setting this is still
looking better than what you'd find on a playstation 4 with 30 frames per second
and a lot of the times it's actually mid 30s right here so what i'll do is just get out of the car
blast my weapon a few times so it did dip down to 28 frames per second just then oh got hit by a car
all right still 29 frames per second the textures didn't even load in just then
see the game still has glitches like that which is incredible i mean i'm
running pci storage here and it's still doing that
you cannot blame the chipset probably because i'm on the low graphics settings but this performance
this is incredible for integrated graphics to have a frame rate like this with vega graphics
oh i'm a bad shot here i got me
and finally a quick look at linux so this is linux mint that i'm running here and
everything's working so bluetooth the wireless card is connected up to my wi-fi six router
no issues the networking all of it there so that is great all right i'm just really blown away in
terms of performance from this now i was expecting it to be good because it's got the ryzen 9 it's
the 5900 hx it's the top dog the top mobile chip but those encoding times there for adobe
premiere pro wow that's the fastest i've seen yet on integrated graphics that even
may be the fastest i've seen yet super quick performance and then the gaming performance
it's actually really good come on think about it this is integrated graphics cyberpunk 2077
running at 35 frames per second on integrated graphics that's really good that is impressive and
even witcher 3 performance gta 5 performance and then the synthetic benchmarks so the benchmarks we
saw there are 3d mark ones really good very very very good solid scores there cinebench
is also really good getting 11 000 points with r23 now if this did have a configurable
power limit on it so i tried to set a higher power limit and dedicate more ram to the vega graphics
i couldn't every time i set it to that it would actually just lock up it wouldn't post so i had
to reset the bios and start all over again but if we can get a bias update to allow us to then set
54 watts then this could even get city bench scores i believe of around 13 000 or over so it's
an absolute monster performance wise so dual lan on this up to 2.5 gigabit speed great wireless six
okay the ax 200 car with bluetooth five very good performance out of that can run three separate
monitors at 4k 60 we have the display port 4.1 uh 1.4 sorry and hdmi 2.0 would have liked to send
hdmi 2.1 and we do have power delivery with the type c port on the front is another positive there
so this thing is just taking so many boxes compact small size we can add additional storage so what
about the pricing then this they say we'll be selling four for 32 gigabytes of ram and then one
terabyte of storage mvme of course it is going to be 999 us dollars for the top dog top-end mobile
amd ryzen 9 chip i actually think that's not a bad price now if you look at laptops with this
particular chipset and then they are going to cost a little bit more but a lot of them will
have a course in fact i think all of them will probably have dedicated graphics either the 6800
m or probably an rtx 3060 or 30 70 30 80 but they'll be a lot more expensive of course those
dedicated graphics options so really impressive but what about the cons so for me it is really
the fan noise that when it's idle and you're doing light work it's not bad at all okay power
consumption at idle is really good sometimes under six watts maximum consumptions up to 65 watts and
when it's pulling that it gets loud okay it does get a little bit bothersome it's loud you hear
it it's odd it's not super annoying noise it is very similar to a gaming laptop when you're under
full load encoding video cinebench benchmarks and gaming it does get a little loud there so that is
the con for me but overall this is an impressive super powerful monster mini pc here for integrated
graphics it is the best yet i have covered in the channel thank you so much for watching this
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