what i've got with me here is a tiny little mini pc that can run two 4k displays at 60 hertz
it's a quad core that's powering this it is the new jasper lake so 11th gen intel the celeron n510
now this configuration that i've got has eight gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage
it is from a company called more fine it is their m6 and the early bird price on this configuration
is just 256 us dollars you can get a model with 512 gigabytes of storage and then if you need
more than eight gigabytes of ram there's even a 16 gigabyte model with up to one terabyte of storage
and what do we get inside the box so obviously we have the m6 just black mini pc there is a visa
mounting bracket that they give us quite a small one so it's only screwed onto two positions on
the back of it the screws that we need for it and hdmi to hdmi cable and then the power supply this
one here is rated to 24 watts max so it's 2 volts 2 amps and it does use this a type c connection
now i love the size of this mini pc look at how small it is this is a pixel 6 pro which is in
fact a little bit longer than this mini pc so very decent size intel branding here on the top this is
an intake vent here for the small little fan that is inside this you hear the fan all the time it's
constantly on a set rpm if you've got it next to you you're going to hear it all the time but if
it's behind a monitor using the visa mount then you're probably not going to hear it too much
the hot air is then ejected out this side here you can see we've got the vents there and so you
always feel a bit of warm air coming out of that and on this side it's just intake vent right there
as well a little bit of cooling and then on the back we have all of our ports so three usb 3.1
hdmi 2.0 a so 4k 60 the type c port is also 4k 60 out and supports data gigabit intel lan port
3.5 millimeter with microphone support and then this is the type c port to power it with that
power supply that i showed you just before now the back of it is interesting because there's
one screw to remove this whole cover so we have the two mounting points for the visa bracket
two solid rubber feet and this just pops off once you undo that screw which i have already done
to then expose our easy upgrade ability here so it's our boot drive m.2 22
42 millimeter in size and then we have the 22 by 80 millimeter uh m.2 slot which is pcie 3.0 spec
so you can get for example a large capacity drive like this that i have here from sabrint
which is two terabytes install that and really expand upon your storage there it was however
missing my unit here the screw that we need so unfortunately didn't come with that but
they're easy to source those first thing you notice if you open it up is that yes the fan
is rather large considering that this is only a 10 watt part here that it's using most of
the time the jasper lake tech will be passively cooled meaning no fan okay but this is actively
called the trade-off is the fan noise but we just have excellent thermals and really good sustained
performance from this bias battery is right here wireless card the ax201 is right there and our ram
too sold it on to the motherboard so there are no upgrades if you need 16 gigabytes then
they have that option it's a model that you can order i have just the eight gigabyte model here
and our bios here so there's not a lot under the advanced tab there looks like there are some
interesting settings but when you go into them you really don't have any of the options i like um
for setting for example power limits you think power management is that to do with
the cpus power limits or level one and two no you cannot adjust them so really not a lot to be able
to tweak in here with our bios chipset doesn't have anything interesting really in there either
and just our boot so you're able to then just change the boot order if you do install a second
drive in it so windows 11 pro is what it is running it is activated with a digital
license and that will pull through with the hardware id even when you do a factory reset
you'll still be fine with that once you connect up to the servers it will know the hardware has been
used before with that key and it will activate itself there so eight gigabytes of ram that's sold
it onto the motherboard not upgradable as i showed you when we looked at the internals 7.75 is usable
that is because there's a tiny portion dedicated to the intel uhd graphics that's pretty standard
there looking in the device manager here so for connectivity really really good here to see
wi-fi six ax-201 a lot of the other devices i've been looking at the tech with jasper lakes
have only had wi-fi five which is the typical intel 3165 but no this is a really good chip
so 1.3 gigabit transfers are possible with this with my router wi-fi six of course
and i'm testing out and then we have the ethernet controller here from intel not the typical realtek
that we normally get so that again is good to see another positive so it's a quad core that's
it no multi threading on it okay so it's just four cores and the top speed is 2.9 gigahertz
it's a 10 watt part so faster than the 6 watt 5 100 celeron that i've been reviewing a lot of
other tech and you see that pull through when you take a look at just some basic benchmarks here so
the single core score here very good for this type of chip it's still very low end it's a low end low
chipset in this so make no mistake this is not a system that you're going to be able to edit 4k
video on fluidly you can't play triple-a titles you get kind of the idea now ram here if i just
go into it to show you that normally on first boot you get around about five gigabytes free or so but
the speed here so it's not running at the full supported 2.933 megahertz but 2.4 gigahertz here
so a little slower there but it's only single channel i've already confirmed this too with hw
info single channel configuration for ram why is that important well if it was dual channel here
it would be a lot faster it gives us more memory bandwidth and would improve this right here so
there's still a good score multi-core score here for the 10 watt part but if it was dual channel
ram this would be over 2 000 points we'll probably gain an additional 200 or so there which is not a
lot but still great to have even with a low end system like this now the ssd that's installed
that i showed you on the back there this is the sata 3 one 256 gigabytes at not amazing speeds
here even for sata 3 because of its size it's a little bit restricted in the performance there
but of course there's that free slot in there m.2 2280 in size that is mvme so pcie 3.0 spec then
onto our general performance so it's not a mini pc you're going to be editing 8k 30 frames per second
footage on not at all so general kind of computing it's fast for that fast enough i mean the start
menu here in windows 11 loads them pretty quick it doesn't pop in with any real noticeable lag
or anything like that and that's even me running now 4k 60 which i'm currently screen capturing at
so documents spreadsheets things like that it's going to be really good at so that just general
kind of lighter kind of computing emails things like that is really what the spec is perfect at
and that's what i've been talking about with the other jesper lakes that i've been reviewing
but because this is the 10 watt part it does seem to be a little bit more snappy a little bit better
so here i'm just going to do a very quick search here i'm going to search cats and a guest tab here
and then just bring up a whole bunch of various different tabs just to demonstrate what you can
really do with this so i'm going to hold down control here just open up a video get one and
then hopefully it's going to be 4k and just keep searching these now so it pops in quick enough you
can normally comfortably run around about 10 to 15 tabs and swap between them without too many issues
there but when you're loading up and putting a bit of stress on the cpu like right now i've got
a video there loading in the background everything else is still coming a little bit slow here but
it doesn't seem that bad now i don't have the fastest internet connection i'm just on 4g here
basically but still scrolling speed seems pretty good and some of those pages are still loading
okay very image heavy some of these and you know this performance is i think it's adequate i think
it's fine for this kind of computing so up to about 15 tabs is fine now if i take a look at
my memory use it'll be starting to fill up a little bit here and they'll probably be up to
i would say at least eighty percent just with those tabs will open because google
chrome of course loves to just eat ram doesn't it so it's starting to lag a little bit now so
loading all that in this there we go 100 cpu all right and yes 86 memory so that's
still open i think that's still going on in the background no it isn't okay so that
oh we don't have 4k on that unfortunately what i'll do is just check out now a 4k demo here
run that clip this is the one i normally select and we'll enable the stats for nerds there
and full screen this and i want to set it of course
to 4 k all right so it will probably start to drop some frames
only one so far
and that is playing it just fine so 4k youtube through chrome wood kind of stutter with the
six watt chips i'm sure it would drop a lot more frames but that's doing all right remember i still
got all the stuff open in the background all those other tabs i've still got uh libreoffice there
so it's just a multi-tasking demo to what you can expect now get out of this i'm just going to close
a couple of things down quickly just to show you what the playback is like now of some demanding
video files so this is the sony swordsmith one which is the demo file i always play 4k 60.
okay this is loading in a little bit slower and well that start actually is in slow motion there
we go that that's actually looking really good okay so that there is running fine
and what about a demanding 4k 140 megabits per second hevc 10 bit
really good so normally any video file you throw at this it's got the native decoding hevc and vp9
it's going to handle it just fine so that's not dropping any frames that looks very smooth
to me so that just gives you an idea of the general kind of performance and what
the spec of mini pc is ideal for now my quick little gaming test so it can run cs go at 4k
but the frame rate in the menu is only like 15 frames per second on average so what i'll do
now is i'll drop that resolution right down to 720p and then see if we can get something that's
semi-playable but this is not a system really for gaming still you can play a few older titles
now this is looking a lot better here around 50 to 40 frames per second even higher at 720p
lost possible settings frame rate this is now playable now you will see some frame dips down
to about 20 frames per second you can see in this area there's a lot going on bit of action
oh i was just hoping i could maybe get a kill there but it did lag out quite a bit then so these
older titles when you do run 720p or even lower resolutions you can get these kind of playable
frame rates and games like skyrim and more older titles they're going to run okay on the 24
executional units that this intel uhd graphics has the 11th gen so thermals are not too bad
so it gets up to 92 degrees this isn't really that bad at all because considering it's a 10 watt part
and the fan's going constantly it was giving us that peak performance so what has happened that
it doesn't thermal throttle like we were seeing on a lot of these passively called jasper lakes
that they'd later be triggering this thermal throttling so that does not happen so you get
more sustained performance because i've been most of the time pushing this in 30 minutes right now
very hard constant benchmarks installing things uh just running it at the max and it's holding up
well so fan noise yes there is that constant fan noise and here's a sample of what it sounds like
okay so what's the final verdict then on the more fine m6 after using it for a few days
so for general computing i do think this is good for someone that just needs chrome tabs
video playback hevc files perhaps or vp9 runs it really well youtube playback 4k is going to be
fine that's another positive there you can run about 10 15 tabs in chrome without too much lag
it runs reasonably well documents spreadsheets those kind of things now for someone that wanted
to do anything that's heavy i wouldn't recommend such a spec like the jasper lake these are just
low end low powered quad core chips from intel but this being the n5105 model it's a 10 watt
part it certainly does perform a lot better than the 6 watt in 5 100 that i've already
viewed a few units of that are in laptops and also in other mini pcs but mostly tablets and
laptops that particular model there and you do run into thermal throttling sometimes with them
and the performance isn't quite as good because of that six watt cap this at 10 watts with the
little fan in there means it certainly performs a lot better and you generally get better long-term
sustained performance now it will reach about 50 sorry 95 96 or so degrees celsius which is
getting a little on the warm side but it didn't trigger any thermal throttling which i've seen
with other models that have the similar chip just mentioned that jaspalate in 5100 so that's a good
thing about this particular model here however of course it comes all at the cost of fan noise
you do hear the little fan working way inside with that constant same rpm it's a fixed rpm
that it runs at which in a way i guess is less annoying than having a fan that cycles up and down
with the rpm that sometimes it's really loud other times it's quieter and it can be a little bit more
annoying so you will hear it when it's running that is a thing that's going to be on constantly
the other good things about it well it's got the intel wireless ax 201 chipset so bluetooth 5.2
and very good transfer speeds with wireless six performance is great on such a small unit a lot
of the other tech that i'm reviewing with the jesper lakes only has one is ac so good to see the
wireless ax on this model the additional storage can be easily added just one screw the hatch comes
off the back and you can pop that in but we do not have the ram sadly in dual channel configuration
i've seen this on a few other jasper lakes and you miss out on a little bit of performance which is
sad to see now because i've got the eight gigabyte version i don't know whether the 16 gigabyte model
will be in dual channel i assume it would be the configuration of how they're gonna put the chips
on there but this eight gigabyte model the base model that i have here well it's only in single
channel and then the ram speed is 2.4 gigahertz but with the jasper lakes they do actually support
2933 megahertz which they could have configured it to run which will give us a little bit of a
boost there a tiny little boost and performance so we're missing out on that so it's just really
the two cons otherwise four as mentioned the basic computing needs this is quite a good
little unit here if you're after a low powered mini pc for those basic tasks so thank you
so much for watching my review here of more finds m6 hope you did like it and i do hope
to see you back in the channel with more up and coming mini pc reviews that are planned from me