finally got my hands on the um 790 Pro from Minis Forum they sent this out to me of course and no
this is not a sponsored paid review at all I've got the 32 gigabytes of RAM spare care with 512
gigabyte SSD you probably already know the specs if you're watching this video but it's a very
potent little mini C because it has that ryzen 9 to 7940 HS it does have a lot of potential because
it's got the Radeon 780m graphics which is up until now well it's the best when it comes to
integrated graphics and I'll be going over this in detail to let you know why it is the best of
the ryzen 9 7940 HS mini PCS so what is included with this Mini PC well there's a little card here
that's warning us not to disassemble the CPU Cooler because they've applied a liquid metal
to this and you don't really want to be touching that at all and this is a user guide so that just
goes through a few different things in different languages safety information setting it up how to
get into the internals you see here we have just a couple of new little feet there if you did need
some so they've got two Replacements that's great some screws here this is for the Visa mounting
bracket it does not support 2.5 inch drives this is our HDMI cable we've got a power cable and our
power supply now this power supply here if I take a look at the rating of it it's rated to 120 watts
this particular model and good to see it's using a standard Barrel connector so it's basically like
a laptop power supply or a gaming laptop power supply and finally we have a Visa mounting bracket
this model does not lag on ports which I really like to see so we have four type a USB 3.2s Gen
2 we've got 2.5 gigabit Lan and two HDMI 2.1s good to see a lot of Brands just put HDMI 2.0 and just
rely on then the type C ports with video out to cater to 4K 144 Hertz or 8K now that's our power
in obviously there so at the front of it we've got two usb4s so they're the full spec they're
40 gigabits per second support power delivery and that's video out up to 4K 144 Hertz and you
get 8K 32 with those they're really good you can run four monitors with this particular Mini PC
3.5 millimeter headphone jack reset their power button with status LED and the vents either side
nice and large and what I like about this unit here is this there's a little cooling fan inside
to keep the ram cool the ssds cool and some of those components now some of the units I've been
reviewing with the same exact spec so the same Ram screen leads the same Apu the ryzen 9 7940hs
did not have this and they ran into problems with just randomly rebooting Ram overheating and other
issues so to gain access to the internals you just need to remove these rubber feet on the bottom
they're stuck on pretty hard but with a little bit of pressure you can get those off so four screws
here and you'll see we do have the mounting holes there for the Visa mounting bracket with those
four screws removed there's a little Gap here that you can just put your finger now in and pull up
now be careful because there is a wireless antenna that is here and we have another cable so a little
tricky right now I will need to um plug those and then I can show you how we can upgrade this
unit just this fan needed to be unplugged and it's this plug right here you can see there is a ram so
I have 32 gigabytes each one of those sticks there is 16 obviously and the speeds are 5 600 megahertz
this is our Kingston SSD so both of the slots here you can just see the other one there m.2 22 by 80.
they're both pcie 4.0 and yes you can run RAID 0 or Raid one if you wanted to now they've got the
heatsink right here for those ssds is really large that's the fan that's going to be keeping it cool
and we even have some little heat fins here and a bit of a cooler for the ram which is great to see
because as mentioned some of the other units the ram was getting really hot that I saw with some
of the other mini PCS running the same chipset and spec because there's a lot of power and such
a small package here now because it's got liquid metal applied and because I always want to have
the factory Pace job or application I'm not going to go any further with the tear down unfortunately
I know some people will be disappointed but they want to retain that so we have my thermal results
being exactly how it is how you get it out of the factory so just under this you'll find the Wi-Fi
card which is Wi-Fi 6E so very easy to add another SSD to upgrade the RAM up to 64 gigabytes maximum
and you can add or set up RAID 0 if you want now this is new here the buyer setup they're now using
a visual bias and not the old traditional bios menu setup which is a bit different here from
them so you have the boot options you got the UEFI shell and BBs menu or just to straight
away go and boot now you would click on this boot here once you save your changes so in setup this
is where we have some interesting settings under Advanced is most of the stuff you'd probably be
interested in so we do have Hardware rage you can set up so you can set up RAID 0 raid one
and power configuration Now by default it's the balanced mode so this is what I will leave it on
you can set it to Performance mode which will use the fan a little bit more and it will probably be
a little bit louder of course but maybe a bit more in terms of performance I haven't touched
that I have not experienced experimented with that either AMD CBS so there's some settings on
here that I do like and this is under mbio common options go into Graphics configuration by default
it's two gigabytes dedicated to the 780m but you can tweak this and adjust it right up to
six gigabytes again I'm leaving it on the default you can also set this game optimized which will
boost the performance a little bit I believe it maybe it might actually tweak the power limit as
well but I'm just going to keep it all default here for this review security boot there options
okay that's all pretty straightforward so it's really those settings are the useful ones so
once you save that you get out of it you want to save here too as well but I'm not going to
do that at the moment I exit without saving and then you just click on boot to go into windows
here we are in Windows so we have a Windows 11 Pro as our version not home and there is two gigabytes
dedicated to the radon 780m Graphics which for integrated Graphics is right now the best really
that you can get when it comes to apus mini PCS it's better than the iris XE Graphics now looking
here in the device manager just very quickly show you a couple of things here so you see that the
Apu it's listed 16 times that's because it has 18 cores 16 threads the maximum turbo is 5.2
gigahertz and the disk drive it's a Kingston so they're using Kingston RAM and Kingston here for
the SSD now it is a pcie 4.0 SSD but when you take a look at these speeds they're not really
that impressive it's only the read speeds that are slightly higher than pcie 3.0 now of course if you
want faster than this get yourself something like a 980 Pro you can also run RAID 0 if you wanted to
do so that would double your storage also increase your sequential sequential speeds significantly
but you have that risk of if one of those drives have as a bit of a problem or something you lose
all of your data but normally it's pretty good nowadays with that so looking here just under a
few other things I wanted to show you that General performance is very good I have no issues with
this unit the multitasking is very quick and so far the fan noise has been absolutely brilliant
compared to other units especially with the same chipset so single core score here four geekbench 6
is impressive and so is the multi-core score there so with those 16 threads that's really good and
they've picked up the single core scores with the 7000 series compared to the five and six thousand
series which was a little bit behind especially behind Intel so that's impressive performance
here and you just notice that everything you do it's very quick cinebench R23 so getting a score
of almost 16 000 for the multi-core score again considering the size of this Mini PC that's a
lot of power for such a small unit single core score there is also impressive nearing up the
1800 points there then a couple of synthetic benchmarks here this is time spy that they are
actually comparing on the official website saying it performs about that of a GTX 1650 it is in fact
under so 3200 points puts it around about 400 to 500 points less than the GTX 1650 but still for
integrated Graphics that is a very good scores impressive so as the CPU score just over 11
000 points and the night raid score here almost thirty thousand the graphic score nearing 35
000 so this is the test that they do recommend for integrated graphics and it is pretty much
the same as all other 790 40hs mini PCS that I have covered getting similar kind of results
demanding video file playback is handled by the integrated Graphics really well so
this is hevc 140 megabits per second 4K see that it opens up it doesn't drop any frames
it shouldn't it seems to be perfect to me so it's at 60 frames per second looking really
great no issues and a 4K 60 frames per second file this is also very very good no problems
to start is like in slow motion skipping ahead I don't see any problems at all any lag
you can see okay it did drop a couple of frames but most of the time it's running at 60 frames
per second so it's really good those two or three frames that it drops was just me resizing
the video which is normal and you wouldn't even notice that anyway it might work like 4K video
file editing here with Adobe Premiere Pro this is the latest version 2023 now you notice the
timeline with just a quarter playback resolution this is fine there is no noticeable lag or issues
it feels not quite that of a dedicated GPU now if I had a dedicated GPU running this it would
be just a little bit smoother but it's getting close it's almost at that kind of level and it
certainly does feel a bit faster here than some other mini PCS I've been reviewing just moving
about within the timeline here now the export times because there's no Intel quick sync which
Adobe Premiere Pro does favor I expect this to be not quite as fast as the RS XE Graphics but
we'll see what happens because they have made a lot of improvements lately Adobe when it comes
to AMD chipsets so one minute of footage and I will set this all up with the YouTube preset
so there we go about to finish up and you can safely say that that was probably about 26
seconds so that is very good indeed for encoding one minute of footage at the YouTube preset here
with Adobe Premiere Pro they're probably most interested in this we're just gaming performance
I start out with the most demanding game here this is cyberpunk 2077 720p on the lowest preset
and look at this frame rate it gets up to 70 frames per second in some places but most of
the time it is over 60 frames per second this is so good it's enjoyable it's playable yes I would
love to have a higher frame rate but I think for a game like this being so demanding this is very
impressive just to see this kind of performance out of integrated Graphics only fan noise I can
barely hear the Mini PC it is so good and the temperatures as I showed you before it's pretty
good gaming it's in the lower 80s and it stays there it doesn't start to creep up or anything
like that so I am really impressed with how well it runs such a demanding game like cyberpunk 2077.
Grand Theft Auto 5 so this is running really well around 100 frames per second depends on what area
I am in the map and you'll notice that there's a tiny little bit of throttling happening now the
clock should be the maximum is the 2.8 gigahertz and it does drop down a tiny little bit now The
Thermals are excellent they're in the 70s to the early low 80s and for medium settings that I'm
running and 1080p this performance is fantastic getting over 100 frames per second now if I was
to be testing this out with the same settings with Iris XE Graphics 96x executional units
then you would be looking at about 70 frames per second 60 in this area of the map so that is the
kind of boost we're getting not quite double but it is an impressive boost in performance and for
integrated Graphics this really is the best you can get at the moment finally for gaming
tests The Witcher now three this is the patch 4.0 which is the big patch now this area of the map is
really demanding especially at night now with all the lighting and the textures the shadows
and everything has got to work out so the frame rate is at 720p here lowest possible settings
um playable because it's around 60 frames per second ideally I would like more but I can tell
you this is so much better than the i360 graphics that I've recently been testing out and this area
of the map around this time it's only getting about 30 frames per second which feels choppy
it's not really great at all so this is a lot better see here I think it's safe to say this
has probably double the performance of the iris XE graphics with 96 executional units that's how
good this Radeon 780m is now if you've seen my other videos on the ryzen 9 the 79 48 GS mini
PCS they all had issues right they would reboot they'll be overheating they get up to 90 degrees
Ram would hit 95 degrees and as you can see here Ram temperatures are good 63.8 degrees Celsius
the CPU side of things yeah 79.4 degrees this is excellent very very good in terms of temperatures
I don't see any issues with this unit and I've had no random reboots I've had no sudden power
cutting off and causing issues which I did with uh the first 7940 HS Mini PC I looked
at now the fan noise is excellent you barely hear it it's very quiet under idle and even under load
doesn't make a lot of noise and here's a sample of it under full load testing out cinebench R23
and finally just very briefly Linux support I know a lot of you do ask about this good news
here because everything seems to be working I tested out Linux Manjaro open source drivers
it found the Wi-Fi the Bluetooth volume audio all seems to be working including the USB 4
ports video out that I was using here to capture the screen so that is great news when it comes
to Linux support for the um 790 Pro and what else can I add to this review well I did test
out power delivery with those two USB 4 type c ports at the front and yes it worked it didn't
cut out I managed to run cinebench no problems at all that is good so the Mini PC checks out
in basically all areas the fan on the bottom is one of the best things yet because that solves
the issue of the ram getting too hot the SSD is getting too hot other components getting too hot
thermals as you saw very very good so it's not thermal throttling it's not running into any
issues unlike the other models I reviewed from gmk Tech and b-link they would randomly reboot they
had just problems with The Thermals eventually they started just getting way too hot the snow
I've been pushing it really hard now for a couple of days gaming testing it out the benchmarks 4K
video editing and it is a solid offering from them so that's really good there is only one
thing I can complain about with this unit and that is I ran into some issues running 4K at 120 hertz
through their two HDMI 2.1 ports now originally I thought it was my cable I thought it was my fault
I tested some other cables and sure enough it eventually happened and that is the screen will
cut in and out for a second it goes black then the image comes back at 120 hertz it is very annoying
using the type C ports are used before ports with 4K 120 hertz it didn't happen then but those HDMI
ports should not do that I don't know why this is happening perhaps it's a bios issue Hardware maybe
or could beat drivers or something else funny like that the other thing is well there's no room for a
2.5 inch drive in this unit here unfortunately that's probably because they put the fan and
the cooler in there they're cooler to cool the heatsink therefore those ssds and I I think that's
a welcome trade-off at least we do have another m.2 full spec PCI 4.0 uh bay there well drive
that you can install another SSD to expand your storage so this I think this is the best yet and
certainly so much better than the GM K tech one that I reviewed that had issues with The Thermals
getting too hot b-links random reboots other issues so that's why this one gets a big thumbs
up from me here from minilink and know this video is not paid it's not sponsored they've just sent
me out this unit and it's passed all my checks running it now for a couple of days with zero
issues fan noises too absolutely fantastic and it was a bit of a surprise too Linux was all working
so thanks a lot for watching this review and I'll hopefully see you in the next Mini PC review