Beelink it's a brand that i've covered a few times before in the past and they sent this out
to me it is one of their latest mini pcs called the ser-3 this one is powered by a ryzen 7 3750h
it's a quad core chip it has eight threads and the maximum turbo is four gigahertz yes it is
now a few generations old it does come with 16 gigabytes of ram 512 gigabytes of mvme storage
and you can even add a 2.5 inch drive to expand upon that capacity which you wouldn't think so
seeing as how small this particular mini pc is it can literally fit in the palm of my hand
inside the box you will find our 51 watt power supply we have a user manual
a long hdmi cable a short hdmi cable if you're going to be using the visa mount
which is right here that's the bracket that they do include and then some screws for a 2.5 inch
hard drive and that mounting bracket and first up our bios so we do have with b link just like their
other mini pcs i've reviewed in the channel all of the advanced settings are available to us so it's
a completely unlocked bios this is great so let's go into windows now so pc here does ship with
windows 10 pro you will need to run windows 10 updates and if you wanted to know does it support
windows 11 yes okay it meets all the requirements we have the tpm 2.0 that's there the secure boot
and of course this spec of mini pc even though it is a few generations old still fine to run
windows 11 if you wanted to upgrade and do that it's all possible so now i do have 32 gigabytes
installed just to make sure it's in dual channel here to show you the best performance we're able
to achieve out of the vega 10 that really gets that benefit so you see with this particular chip
that it can run up to 35 watts and i have noticed though that b link just have it configured to 15
watts so the performance isn't quite as good as what you would expect now it does have the four
cores eight threads the maximum turbo with this one is 4 gigahertz and the vega 10 graphics with
its 10 calls there for that one so what about our performance well here is just one benchmark which
is geekbench i'll show you a few shortly showing that i mean the performance is reasonable all the
documents and spreadsheets and things like that will open up quickly it's reasonably fast for that
the vega 10 graphics can handle vp9 code it's hevc with ease no problems with those but it's not
exactly a super good score is it it could actually do a lot better this particular chipset here
and the internal storage so we do have 512 gigabytes and these are the speeds
of it which aren't bad they're not the fastest i've seen for a nvme drive but still this ssd
is faster than a sata 3 ssd which would cap out about 550 sequential reads and writes
so a lot better here so that's fine there good speeds not going to be slowing down the system
and then the networking on this one we've got gigabits lan here for the controller which is
very very common and then just wi-fi five spec here so it's the intel wireless ac 7265 i would
have preferred that they use intel's ax 200 which is just a small little extra cost there they could
have done this now it looks like we cannot upgrade this wireless card unless it's on the other side
of the motherboard which i don't think it is i think it's actually part of the motherboard
considering the size of it so that's a little disappointing they really should have gone with
a better wi-fi six card and that would of course have bluetooth five which was this one does not
this only has bluetooth for spec so your general light computing stuff like documents spreadsheets
right here that's all fine on this particular spec of mini pc the ryzen 7 the 3750h handles
this all wow even at only 25 watts so i double checked it it's actually 25 watts as per the
bias that is configured at now video playback i'm just going to play a couple of files here this one
is jellyfish 4k hevc 10 bit it is a demanding file but you can see the playback here is great
it's smooth it does not drop any frames there and that's what we want so video playback really quite
good on this machine it handles it just find that vega 10 graphics this here is a demanding
4k clip 60 frames per second sony swordsmith and again no drop frames there just plays that fine
now how was that vega 8 performance so i have run a few benchmarks here and as we suspect it's going
to be low right because it's only 25 watts not 35 watts so this graphic score here for time spy is
below average okay the same for night raid which is our integrated graphics benchmark from 3d mark
again graphics score here should be higher this is a good thousand or two thousand points lower
there so below average again limited by that 25 watt tdp we have five strike again limited
now the thermals and the fan noise as a result are very good because we're not getting up to the full
capacity so stress testing it gaming benchmarks everything like that for two hours now it will not
go over 70 degrees the chipset which is great sorry 80 degrees almost so 79 is the maximum
and average temperatures seem to be pretty good fan noise for the most part is quiet unless you
stress test it if you're running cinebench r23 or you're gaming you then hear the fan and it sounds
a little bit like an ultrabook because basically it is well it's a laptop processor in a mini pc
latency monitor does show that the audio here should be good for handling real-time audio
without any dropouts without any clipping or any problems there we normally do see this with amd
chipsets that audio is quite good intel on the other hand with the audio latency can be a bit
problematic but not this particular mini pc 4k video editing now it is possible with this
particular spec of mini pc now i've noticed that the performance with the timeline can be a little
bit laggy at times when selecting different clips in the beginning it was now at a quarter playback
resolution here it's fine it's not dropping any frames but if you do run half you can even see
now that the timeline's sometimes just a little bit slow so if we select another place here
takes a little bit there we go a little while to catch up this is the optional app here once it's
going that really isn't too much of a problem but how long will it take to export here a minute of
footage at the youtube 4k preset bearing in mind that it's got that limitation with the power limit
so you can see i do have one minute of footage i'm going to hit start on the timer and export
now this i believe is going to take probably over two minutes because again it's just a
little bit restricted that ryzen 7. so here we go it is about to finish up and it came through
a little bit faster than i was expecting so 1 minute and 37 seconds approximately 135 if you
factor in my little delay there isn't actually too bad at 25 watts grand theft auto 5 now so gaming
performance with the vega 10 graphics is not too bad here i mean we're getting in the mid 40s
grand theft auto 5 i do have set to 1080p the resolution and then the normal settings and
the view distance is in the middle so this performance for vega 10 for the 3000 series
is not bad considering that it is yes again i'm gonna say it's a little bit limited here with just
25 watts but still doing a fairly good job let's have a look at counter-strike now after this
so this is a game against bots here with dust2 1080p lowest possible settings and it sometimes
gets down to 30 frames per second so you can i mean game okay like this um but really not ideal
kind of performance let's see what happens when there's a few enemies on screen oh no they've gone
the other way this is the game against a bot so that's how i'm able to get a few kills with this
one so not too bad for the vega in graphics lastly linux support no problems at all because it does
have a dated wireless card it did not have any wireless issues running linux mint and the audio
controls they are working just fine there so linux support with this mini pc good it gets a thumbs up
okay so it's now been a few days with this i'm gonna go over the good and the bad of this mini pc
after using it for that long so i like the build quality it's excellent very good typical b-link
i like the fact that we can add an additional 2.5 inch drive if you wanted to do that you can
upgrade the ram you can swap out that wi-fi five card with a wi-fi six one honestly they should
have shipped it with the wi-fi six one i believe with bluetooth five i mean it is 2021 and it is
yes a couple of generations old now this chip so the performance for general kind of computing so
spreadsheets internet video files documents that kind of thing even a little bit of light
gaming like video editing it's all fine thanks to the quad core eight threads and the performance
is good but as i mentioned quite a few times it is limited by that 25 watt tdp it should really be
35 watts but this form factor being so small i think at 35 watts with this cooler
probably would run into thermal throttling that is probably why b-link have done that
fan noise is good until you push it hard you do hear it a little bit it sounds just like then a a
loud ultrabook or a laptop and really i think it's an okay mini pc it's just that power limit that is
really limiting the performance so thank you so much for watching my review here of the ser-3