So today i've got another mini pc here from minis forum now this one does not have
liquid metal in it they have learned a bit from that blunder this here is the x500 model
and it does have a very potent apu in it from amd which is the ryzen 7 5700g this configuration that
they sent out to me by the way this is not a paid video all the opinions expressed are my own and
they are not approving this video before i publish it this one has 16 gigabytes of ram ddr4 spec
3.2 gigahertz dual channel and 512 gigabyte mvme drive and it does run windows 10 pro
inside the box you will find a visa mounting bracket an hdmi cable power cable
the power supply this one is rather large it's 220 watts and there is a dust filter which is
optional you don't have to put this on and there is this user guide which does show you how to
install our expandable storage now the back of the x500 is where you'll find all of our useful ports
here we've got power in hdmi 2.0 although this one does actually run my lg cx at 4k 120 hertz
no problem display port 2 2 gigabit lan ports and then 4 usb 3.0 gen2s we do have a kensington
lock slot there so that's great if you wanted to use this as a point of sale machine
here on the left of it micro sd card reader line in mike in headphone out and even at the front
they do include a combo 3.5 so that's mic in and then headphone out reset and our power on button
you can see this event here vents all around it to suck in fresh air and the top of it here nice big
vent you can see our fan and i will take a look at the internals but i just want to show you too
the underside of it so this is where we gain access you need to remove these four screws
we do have the two mounting points there for a visa bracket so if you're going to be mounting
this onto the back of a monitor you can do that oh and don't forget there is this that i showed
you in the box if you wanted to use it you can that's that magnetic dust filter there
and then gaining access to the internals there just those four screws very easy to do you'll
see we've got a bit of expandability here which is great so 2.5 inch bay right here for sata 3
another sata 3 bay right here so you could add a 2260 drive right there and here is our 2280
mvme that one and our wireless card we can change that so there are a few screws to remove here to
remove that holder for the 2.5 inch drive and that is underneath where you'll be able to access the
ram and here we have our fan and a very large heat sink with all those fins on it now it does have
thermal paste applied to this one it does not have liquid metal after the pr disaster they had of
course with the hx90 now my hx90 had thermal paste this has thermal paste and that's why my hx90 did
not have any issues so this one we won't have any problems with it causing any shorts because it's a
standard thermal paste which is non-conductive and now our bias so we have basically every
single setting under advanced here unlocked to us and that is great even rambus configuration
now there's some interesting ones that i will show you amd cbs now one of these i'm going to
tweet now we do have this you can change all sorts of options in here but the one that interests me
is under nbio common options okay we want to find gpu configuration or graphics configuration as
they call it right here so this has already been set to specified now that is their pre-configured
one you can go to game optimize now i believe game optimized will be dedicating four gigabytes but we
can actually go and override this so if i go to specified you see we've got that option here so
that is very easy for us to go and dedicate then more ram to that vega graphics that this has on
board which is quite potent with this particular chip so i'm going to dedicate here because i've
got 16 gigabytes i will just dedicate four now if i had 32 i would definitely be going with
four which i believe it will do automatically so that is the only tweak i am going to be changing
there there's a lot of other things that we can tweak and change here some of them will also be
the fan curves and things if you wanted to mess about with that but let's get into windows now
and on first boot you will be greeted with the following setup languages so these are the
language packs that are already installed now this is an impressive apu that we've got on this one
the turbo maxes out at 4.6 but what's interesting of course is the graphics this has it's vega
8 well the 8 cores and it can clock up to two gigahertz here ram timings are nothing amazing
they're quite poor cl22 uh my intel's i can get with cl 16 so a big difference and i hope with the
next gens of amd's they're able to fix this give us better ram but running in dual channel they're
not a problem windows 10 pro that's all approved and everything is fine and checks out there and we
are running 65 watts so they have not decided to limit that because it's in such a small little pc
no so that is another positive there so taking a look here at the device manager the intel ax 200
so maximum throughput on that one is about 1.3 gigabits so very quick very quick card paired
up to a wi-fi 6 router of course it does have bluetooth 5 with this one and i did test out
my little m.2 sata 3 drive and that's running just fine so that's the 22 42 size by the way
if you want to add additional storage there and you have the 2.5 inch bay so you can see
the processor listed 16 times because it has the 8 cores 16 threads how is the performance of it
so general performance very very quick any video file that i've thrown at it so hevc vp9 all great
spreadsheets documents all that kind of work super powerful as you can see look at this score here
geekbench 5 very very good for such a small mini pc almost 8 000 points there is great
and a single core score that is also very very good there and the drive speeds so that kingston
drive that we've got in there mvme pci 3 spec remember they do not have pci 4 yet amd but
the next generation i do hope they will be giving us pco4 i'm sure they will so speeds there are not
amazing for an mvme drive i've seen much quicker than this so it's just staying right in the middle
kingston here it's definitely not a fast samsung unfortunately the last little benchmark i wanted
to show you right here is this so cinebench very very good over 13 000 points and remember this
is an unlocked chip i'm not overclocking it or anything i'm keeping everything stuck now i know
a lot of people gonna ask me this and that is can we overclock with this motherboard well it
doesn't actually let us okay so ryzen master does not work now through the bios you might be able to
tweak it a little bit more i have not toyed with that yet okay so this is all just stock so here's
our times by score this just recently finished up and you can see the score is a little bit below
average of what we should be able to get with this particular model here the 5700 g so i think a lot
of people that overclock it normally you can see the best rate there that would be one of those
overclocked ones that's probably even been cooled with liquid cooling and everything like that so
this one of course is just simply air the other graphics benchmark that i've run here too is our
fire strike score so for integrated graphics this is an excellent result adobe premiere pro so i'm
editing 4k clips here they are 100 megabit files so quite demanding with a quarter playback speed
it's fine there is no drop frames there i have noticed that if i run it at full that's a little
too demanding there now remember i do have dedicated four gigabytes to the vega graphics
so that is certainly helping out so the timeline is fast with simple basic kind of edits i don't
really see any problem with editing on a spec of mini pc like this export times let's take a
look at those now and see how long it will take to export one minute of footage right where my mouse
cursor is that's one minute of footage so start and then export it should absolutely tear through
this with this spec of mini pc and you can see it is look at that this should be under a minute
and there it goes finishing up now it's going to be about 43 seconds if we take into account my
delay there to hit export that is really good very fast gaming performance so i am starting out here
with cyberpunk 2077 lowest settings okay for our visual quality the quick preset both of them on to
a low and it is 720p okay so 38 37 frames per second mid 30s getting to the lower 30s here
this considering the fact that it's only vega 8 graphics here this is not a dedicated gpu
this apu is running this game fine now take a look at the clock here
for gpu on the upper left hand corner 2 000 megahertz that's great it was just a bit of a
graphics glitch just then fan noise i can't believe how good the fan noise is on this mini pc
it's like the other one that i've reviewed from them that has a very similar cooler in it that
it's just a slight washing noise and the rpm on the fan does not seem to change
at all so very very good so this is similar to console performance i'm getting run over
here i would say when i'm talking about consoles i'm talking about ps4 of course
it's probably even slightly better but let's have a look when i get into a bit of a firefight here
okay there's no one around but maybe the police will come okay there's someone
so the frame rate okay i'm not going to last long here i've got everyone shooting at me
still in the mid 30s so that's good for an apu for vega 8 graphics this is excellent
oh i know i'm dead no surprise
gta 5 this is on the normal settings 1080p so not even low settings but the normal visuals
and population density view distance all set into the middle here
so you can see down to about 40s right here but still this is great for integrated graphics i
mean if this was the intel's even the iris xc the latest ones i've been reviewing they would
still be quite a bit slower than this probably on average about 10 even 15 frames per second
less even though yes intel did improve a lot now with their 11th gen integrated graphics
it's not going to compete with this vega 8 here that performance is really good
and even with a bit of action randomly just shooting at stuff no lag very very playable
and there we go with counter strike so this is 1080p lower settings
and we're getting well 160 frames per second average right now
very very good this is really playable so if you've got 144 hertz monitor or 120
only the bots so that is why i am able to actually kill these
and not die here where are the human players well that must have been a human it was
so very very good performance here from that vega 8 graphics with the four gigabytes dedicated to it
and how does it check out with our thermals so there is no thermal throttling the temperatures
are very good on this take a look at this after one hour almost stress testing it
gaming benchmarks cinebench fire strike all of that it has not gone over 85 degrees
celsius my ambient temperatures are approximately 24 25 and it will pull around 80 watts almost the
package there okay so that's a lot more than the hx version of these the mobile chips now
the fan noise very very good it's just a constant whooshing sound it's actually a pleasant fan noise
and i don't think it's really going to bother that many people but you do hear it if it's next to you
however it isn't loud so it gets a big thumbs up for thermals and fan noise finally just
briefly here linux support so i could not get the intel wifi ax 200 card to actually work
the lan ports are working okay so that's fine the gigabit land there from real tech it's just the
driver for some reason which is strange because it does work on other tech i review normally this
distro of linux mint and the build that i'm using shouldn't be a problem so you're just gonna have
to hunt around to find and get that wi-fi driver other than that linux should be fine on this
pricing so it looks like on their website it's up for pre-order now so it's not even released yet
but of course they sent this out to me to review but it will be selling for the 16 gigabytes with
the 512 gigabyte mvme drive for 850 us dollars so yes it is expensive but it is a very compact
small size you could build yourself something similar i know the comments going to be full
of that that people will say hey i can buy the 5700g plus a motherboard blah blah blah yeah you
can do it for cheaper of course you can but for some people out there they probably just want a
small compact size here that they can mount behind a monitor so you probably won't be able to do that
with your build that you're thinking about that is cheaper but it all depends on your needs of course
on what you really want out of a mini pc so this for the size of it has excellent fan noise very
good thermals for the size again from what i've seen on the mini pcs i review and you do get the
two expandable storage options so you can add a m.2 sata 3 drive which is 2242 the size of it
or a 2.5 inch sata 3 ssd or spindle drive you can expand upon that but for me i really wish just
like the hx90 i really wish it had another high speed pcie 3.0 spec drive i think that would have
been a lot better to have one of those in there so build quality it's plastic around the outside
we've got the metal on the top here that the grille that lets all the air in and it disperses
you can feel the hot air coming out the sides of it too there as well the wireless performance
is good thanks to that plastic body and it is relatively easy to upgrade this the four screws
on the bottom to open it up you need another four screws to take out the bracket that will hold in
the 2.5 inch drives you can access the ram you can replace the wireless card so it's got a lot going
for it but we can't really get the full potential can we out of that ryzen 7 5700g this is probably
my big con of this one that ryzenmaster not supported with this i haven't enabled it in
the bios now i don't know if i can tweak a few settings in the bios to be able to overclock the
gpu a little bit but really i don't think we have the thermal headroom for that and the motherboard
probably is not designed for overclocking the power supply well it's 120 watts which might
be actually alright for that but yeah we can't squeeze the maximum out of this still very very
powerful and all up a decent machine now if you're wondering about the hx 90 that i did review so my
review unit did not have the liquid metal in it okay it had thermal paste but they've sent me out
this now to do a teardown on i will take a look at their liquid metal application in another separate
video which will be in a few days i'll check out the hx90 this is the replacement unit and see if
the liquid metal is going to be all over the place or not so that'll be in a upcoming video
thank you so much for watching my review here of the h 500 sorry the x 500 from mini's forum