In the channel i've reviewed a lot of high-end mini pcs that do have 45 watt processors
and a little performance with eight core 16 threads this here is a jasper lake mini pc so
it's low powered a 15 watt processor the sauron n 50 5095 has a maximum turbo of 2.9 gigahertz intel
uhd graphics and four cores now this configuration from b link which is the u59 mini pc comes with
16 gigabytes of ram and dual channel and a 512 gigabyte sata 3 ssd it does have gigabit lan
it can run two displays at 4k 60 and you are able to install an additional 2.5 inch drive to expand
upon that sata 3 m.2 storage now let's have a look at what we get in the box very small package
so there's a user manual here at the top there we have the mini pc and i'll go over the design
of that shortly and all the ports we get with it accessories so they have included
this it's a bracket okay for visa mounting this on the back of a monitor if you wanted to do so
there are some screws so both for a sata 3 2.5 inch drive and for that bracket
and an hdmi cable a short hdmi cable so there's two of them and our power supply now this one
it's rated to 36 watts only maximum but remember it's only a jasper lake in this it's the 5095
so it doesn't need a lot of power back of the u59 here we've got power in two hdmi 2.0 ports so they
support 4k 60. unfortunately there's no 4k 120 support i did test it and it ended up being all
scrambled it wanted to do it i could select the option with my lg cx tv which does support 4k 120
but no it just would not run it two usb 3 ports gigabit lan and this is the exit vents all the hot
air is going to be pushed out of this vent here at the back fan noise is very good you occasionally
hear it ramp up to a higher rpm and then it cuts away very quickly so no real complaints with that
either side we do have intake vents okay so that's where it's getting the fresh air
then blowing it out the back and up the front here we've got our power button and there is
a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack with mic support there a type c usb 3 and another two type a
usb 3.0 this right here is a little hole with a switch inside for our bios reset if you happen
to mess up any of those settings because this does have a completely unlocked bias so the housing and
the top of it is all made out of plastic and we can see an intel logo right there b links
logo and then the underside we've got four rubber feet and four screws if you want to gain access to
the internals to add a 2.5 inch drive which i will show you just after this there are two screw holes
there or mounting points for that visa bracket the good news we've got upgradeable ram here so two
sticks of ddr4 8 gigabytes here giving us a total of 16. this is our ssd which does have a heat sink
over it so the wireless card is the 3165 that's wireless ac only it should be wi-fi six spec that
they use with this and the drive itself the ssd is just sata 3 and i'm pretty sure that
this spec can also support mvme but we don't get it with this mini pc which is unfortunate
they have also glued the antennas onto the wireless card so it could be a little bit tricky
to swap this out for an intel wi-fi six ax-200 or 201. and if you do remove the motherboard flip
it around you can see the tiny little cooler it's got it's got plenty of copper here and two little
copper transfer heat pipes file settings in typical b-link fashion we have every single option
available to us which is great that also means you can get yourself in a little bit of trouble
now you will see that listed down there is nvme configuration but no it does not support it i
triple checked this i did test out some drives in it and none of them would boot so it's only say to
three from the m.2 slot unfortunately ramdas configuration so that's handy for those that
want to set that up you can adjust things like the power limit thermals pound performance but i'll be
keeping everything of course stock so you know what it's like how it runs just out of the box
when you first power it up you'll be greeted with the following installation languages right
here so these are part of the windows 10 home image you don't need to install them separately
now on first boot you do have approximately 441 gigabytes free on that 512 gigabyte ssd
i don't know the brand of it uh but these are the speeds here sata 3 the reads checkout for sata 3
are the rights they could be a little bit faster but overall it's okay but really they are missing
an opportunity here not using pcie 3.0 which would have been a lot better nvme drives of course
much quicker than this and it does support it the jasper lake so i don't know why they didn't use it
probably something to do with with cost saving is why they have not done that
so you'll find that it's shipping with windows 10 pro and it's all activating everything
windows 11 support yes it's going to support it okay i've checked it out so we've got the
tpm 2.0 that needs secure boot and the spec of it is going to be enough uh only just though
because it's not a super powerful mini pc the processor being of course that uh sour on the
5095 in 5095 and you can see here maximum speed of it is 2.9 gigahertz and it does support
up to ram speeds of 2933 megahertz although i've just checked it out and we are running here
for the ram 2666 even though it says 2667 so it could actually perform a little bit better there
the chip itself is 15 watts and what did i get here with geekbench well i'll show you nothing
amazing single core score just over 650 multi-core score there 2107. it is only a quad core it's not
multi-threaded so it's just a four cores that's it and really not a powerhouse it's all about
low power consumption and that's only been a 15 watt processor you know general day-to-day
performance it's okay sometimes you see the start menu loads in a little bit slower than i would
ideally like so for spreadsheets documents your general kind of windows work it's going to be fine
for that this is really a mini pc for just basic media consumption documents emails stuff like that
you wouldn't be buying a mini pc like this to play the latest aaa titles like call of duty vanguard
and expect to get 60 frames per second at 4k no it's not gonna happen and you would definitely be
disappointed so things like that basic kind of documents and all that is running fast so what
about video files now we do have native vp9 and hevc playback we've had that since well since
the gemini lake and i think maybe it was before that no gemini lake so i'll start out with this
is jellyfish file here 140 megabits per second 4k 10 bit it's super demanding and look at that
it handles it just fine with ease so all the video files that you throw at it it should be
able to play them just fine now a couple other things i wanted to point out that i did in fact
install some faster ram i wanted to see would it support what intel claims and that is 2 93
megahertz and you can see it is running that just fine so b-link have installed slower ram and this
they should have gone with faster ram that would aid the graphics the intel uhd performance a lot
now a little chrome test here with youtube playback so i'm just going to look for a 4k demo
clip this one will do the sony one okay i'll just make sure that that is muted enable the stats
for nerds and we'll make sure that this of course is in 4k and we'll see if it's gonna drop frames
it probably will end up dropping some frames here okay two four occasionally dropping frames
but it doesn't seem to be too bad but that's not full screen let's put it into full screen
and there we go it's steadily dropping frames there although now it has settled down
oh and it's doing it again so that's not ideal performance there
is it watchable well it looks a tiny little bit choppy there
then just how many chrome tabs could we have open and safely swap between them without it getting
too laggy well this is 10 at the moment or so that i've got open well approximately and it's
okay this is fine so you can swap and go through different tabs here in chrome we've got the 16
gigabytes of ram and our cpu load at the moment it did spike to 100 opening everything up at the
same time and at the moment it's not too bad okay so i just get this to stay on top should be there
floating where it is going through these different tabs you can see it's peaking at about 50
now and just scrolling through this some of the pages uh do feel a little bit laggy you can see
we've maxed out the cpu here at 100 depending on some of that content when i switch between
all these different tabs so this is uh not perfect performance here but it's still okay
counter counter-strike now i do have it set to 720p on the last possible settings frame rate not
ideal i've seen it get down to 20 even 18 frames per second which is incredibly laggy and choppy at
720p so you really probably want to have to run something like 800 times 600 resolution which
is terrible oh and i'm getting shot at there so this is not i wouldn't really call this playable
so you want to i can't really lower it down only the resolution is what i can do with this
and yeah he got me there of course he did so not good for gaming really this is just
spreadsheets emails youtube chrome that's basically what i would do on this hardware
there was fan noise and power consumption so it only uses around five to six sometimes seven
watts at idle which is not a lot it's just sipping away power maximum power consumption what i've
seen from the wall is just 24 watts which is well that's not a lot really at all and it only gets
up to 71 degrees celsius that's it that's after benchmarking gaming stressing it out that's all
we're gonna hit there uh the fan noise well it's most of the time quiet but when it is under load
you do hear it ramp up to a high rpm which is slightly annoying that disappears quickly
which is the good thing it doesn't just lock on that high pm and sit there it will ramp down
what about our linux support so i did try to boot a live disk from the usb ports on the rear of
it and the front of it and i could not get it to recognize it so i don't know what's going on there
normally this usb pen drive that i use with linux mint on it would boot on other mini
pcs and laptops and i wouldn't have any issues so that's one thing we're going to have to find out
what's causing that problem if you want to run linux on this so as i showed you the good and
the bad about this i think the performance isn't amazing okay so this is just for light computing
so as i mentioned like spreadsheets documents uh google chrome better youtube and youtube 4k
60 frames per second would end up dropping a few frames now gaming performance not amazing as you
saw from my quick little test of counter-strike that it's not great there the thermals are good
so it won't go over 71 degrees celsius power consumption is low it idles around five and a half
to six sometimes seven watts which is not a lot and then it doesn't seem to go over and use more
than about 24 watts so it is yes a low powered mini pc here that is not going to be using a lot
of power if that's your concern something you want to run all the time constantly with light tasks
good things about it well it does have the unlock bias which i really like so there's
a lot of settings in there we can tweak so we could for example increase power limits there
is a little bit of thermal headroom in there for that you could also dedicate more ram to the uhd
graphics that might help boost a little bit the lower uh frames per second average but i'm not
too sure on that because really the uhd graphics isn't exactly a powerhouse there when it comes to
performance so there's a couple of areas that definitely be linked i feel they they could
have improved upon what they didn't go with the faster ram now as i tested it out i put some of
my own quicker ram in this and i could run 2 93 megahertz of ram instead of the 2666 with the
ram that they give us supplied in this one we only get a wi-fi ac card i do believe that now in 2021
all manufacturers even in such a spec like this they should be using wi-fi six it's
cheap enough the intel ax 200 or 201 card which also comes with bluetooth 5 support and then mvme
it's only a sata 3 slot m.2 and i did test out and try to at least boot some of my nvme
pcie ssds and they did not work okay so it definitely does not support the slot there
that's another missed opportunity because the jasper like does support it there so really it
could have been better than what it is and yeah i do find it a little bit disappointing so if
you want a better mini pc from b link that's a brand you're looking at do check out their
ser3 sur 3 that i've reviewed in the channel that one has a ryzen 7 3750h 8 cores
with vega graphics much better performance than what is on offer here from intel's jasper lake
thank you so much for watching this review do hope to see you back in the next one bye for now