Chris back with another powerful mini pc this one is an absolute monster got it from banggood it's
called the T-Bao MN59 now it's powered by the Ryzen 9 5900 hx that's a 45 watt part 8 cores
16 threads with vega 8 graphics and in my time testing it out it's impressive it does really well
considering that it doesn't have a dedicated gpu but you can still play games like cyberpunk 2077
with around a average of 40 frames per second at 720p pretty impressive and then of course
the 8 cores this thing is super quick now it does come with 32 gigabytes of ram which is ddr4 spec
we've got two slots of them in there so sodium you can upgrade that ram if you wanted to and
it comes with a one terabyte nvme drive wi-fi six e with bluetooth five and we do have up to three
displays that it can run so in this review i'll be testing it out i'll let you know all the pros and
the cons of the mn59 here and this is the box it comes in and what we get with this mini pc pretty
straightforward so we've got a sata connector two wi-fi antennas power cable power brick which
is 100 what's that one and then our user manual which is just basically a windows 10 user manual
at the back of this mini pc we have two wireless antennas external ones high gain that i've already
screwed in you can see right here we've got two 3.5 millimeter separate audio jacks here which
is good to see gigabit lan two usb 3 ports two usb 2 full spec usb 3.1 but this does not take power
actually so it's not full spec so don't plug in power delivery because it's not going to work and
you could end up damaging it but 4k 60 out of that 4k 60 from the display port and then our hdmi port
here at the bottom is hdmi 2.0 that's our dcn for power so either side there are just these vents
here so it's sucking in a bit of fresh air and then up the front here i've got two usb 2s which
i really wish were usb 3 ports but i guess it's good for a mouse and keyboard power button with
status led you see there's more vents here on that side on the top we've just got where the fan is so
it's another vent here and then on the bottom more vents but there is no mounting points here for a
visa mounting bracket which is unfortunate so you can't mount this on the back of a monitor or a tv
now the internals very easy to access you've just got two screws that you remove
from the back of it and then the whole top of it pops right off so you can see our cooler here
plenty of fins in there and we've got two transfer thermal copper transfer pipes there for it
two sodium slots so you can upgrade the memory with this now it does come with
ddr4 3200 megahertz spec and we get 32 gigabytes so both of these are 16 gigabyte sticks that they
have installed now the timing is typical for amd it's cl22 so it's not amazing timing i mean in my
intel pc i'm currently running in a laptop cl 16 with xmp right but we don't get it here with amd
our nvme drive that's right in there now you can easily upgrade that too and you'll see that we
do have room for a sata 3 2.5 inch drive which is going to go in here we've got two connectors
but they only supply the one cable to us because really we can only fit one of them in here you can
see that these antennas go to where the wireless card is just below the nvme ssd you can upgrade
that one too which is great and here's that wi-fi card so the model is a mediatek one it's the
mt-7921k so it is a wi-fi six card which is great to see but i wish they'd gone with intel's ax 200
or the 200 and one wi-fi six card why because you get better driver support if you're looking to run
linux that is if you do have a keynote you would have noticed that there's this too as well an
empty fan header so you could run another fan if you wanted to to call the insides of this mini pc
because that one of course that it's connected up right now is designated to the cpu fan
first up our bias so we do have some settings that are open to us under advanced you've got a lot
that you can tweak most of those settings will be in this one so amd cbs cpu options you've got the
mbio common options where you can go and adjust power limits and things like that even dedicate
more ram to the vega 8 graphics this has with this chipset of course so i won't go
into all of that because there's a lot of different settings that can get you into a
bit of trouble so really experienced users only for that then you've got your boot set
up there of course you can go and change your boot order and that's basically it for our bios
okay so here in windows now it did originally come with windows 10 home right but i didn't like it
because it was already set up you went straight into the desktop and i don't think for security
reasons that's a good idea so i'm on windows 11 here which does work without a problem on
this mini pc now looking at the device manager you'll see that yes we do have that ryzen 9
5900 hx listed 16 times because it has 8 cores and 16 threads maximum turbo with this one
is 4.65 gigahertz and it's a seven nanometer chip and it has vega eight graphics so with our
internet here we do have of course the gigabit lan port i pointed out and then the mediatek
chipset which is wi-fi 6e now it's very quick i'm getting really good speeds around 1.35 gigabits
per second which is kind of typical for the azus router that i have a wi-fi six router of course
to to match it there so the performance of the system i won't go into general things like
chrome documents or spreadsheets it's very fast everything's quick loads up quick internet's
working quick all good there i'll get onto some benchmarks here so cinebench start out with this
one first so it's done the 10 minute stress test here and it's got some excellent scores here
i mean this thing's a monster over 12 000 points here with cinebench r23 that's a really good score
you can see that's a lot better than the eight core previous gen now uh with the intel's okay
so the 11 800 h i can actually skip higher than that with my own unit if you increase
the wattage but this is running stock okay this is i've not changed anything here so very very
good here even the single core score is excellent now taking a look then at some other benchmarks
geekbench 5 single core score because of that 4.65 gigahertz turbo on this chip very good and
an absolute rock solid here multi-core score over 9 000 points because of the 16 threads there it's
a monster it's very very quick now when it comes to our integrated graphics knight ride
night raid here sorry is the one they do recommend for integrated graphics so it's getting almost 17
000 points and the graphics score here you can see almost 18 000. cpu score is really strong
you take a look at comparing that then to the iris xe with a 96 executional cores similar but it's
falling behind a little bit you can see the iris xc graphics certainly does a bit better they're
getting almost uh 2 000 points or so more okay and that does happen with fire strike extreme here
that is a similar kind of score to the what you'd get on the iris xc graphics but the
iris exe graphics can actually pull around 2 000 points here there's not too much of a difference
in it but i do find the slight edge going to the iris xc graphics from intel which is actually
newer too newer architect architecture there that one then our mvme drive speeds here so this is pci
3.0 spec we don't have pci for spec with amd yet let's see what happens with the 6000 series anyway
these scores okay for an as int one terabyte drive i was expecting a little bit better with
the rights considering it is one terabyte so if you want quicker get something like samsung's 970
or 970 evo put one of those in and then you get around 3500 sequential reads and writes they are
very quick and bitter random 4ks too but it's it's fast okay a lot faster than sata 3 there of
course speaking of fast and great performance is this video playback okay so this is my test clip
10 bit hevc 4k 140 megabits per second absolute no problems absolute ease that
can play it okay the vega 8 graphics there then an hdr file 60 frames per second
it runs at 60 frames per second no lag again just not a problem there so anything you throw at it
video wise this thing is going to handle with ease this one's come up a few times that's 4k
60 streaming performance with youtube so i'm going to set it onto that highest possible setting there
enable our stats and we'll see is it going to drop frames i don't think it's going to drop many okay
2 but i'm not actually looking at this full screen so i'm going to full screen this now and
it's steadily dropping frames as you can see here in chrome now if you do the same test and
edge it's so much better but it's disappointing to see it's really look at that it's just continually
dropping frames although i'm not really seeing it too much it's only a few frames it seems
around seven frames a second which no that's not actually too good is it so there's disappointing
performance here with 4k 60 chrome youtube streaming now we do have that powerful eight core
16 thread ryzen 9 in here right so video editing 4k with adobe premiere pro should be very good
i'm getting about six hours you can see the timeline has just a few little drop frames there
at a quarter playback resolution now on full it definitely feels to me a little bit laggy at times
it doesn't seem that bad but you'll see when i hit play
not quite 30 frames per second there but it's fearing a lot better than the ir60 graphics
and the core i5 that i just recently reviewed the 11320h doing a much better job at that so
what about our export times so going into just the option of the youtube one is what i want
here so it's h.264 and down to youtube youtube 4k there and we'll set this then to a minute just to
confirm there one minute of footage the 4k preset so i'm gonna hit start on the timer and export
and wow wow it's absolutely tearing through this this is blazing quick probably going to be around
35 40 seconds so this is a lot quicker than the iris xc graphics with the 96 executional units
it's probably because of the 8 cores 16 threads it's definitely helping out
with the export performance here so only around seven seconds to go once
this disappears i will hit pause here on my timer and we can get the exact time
okay so that's roughly 33 seconds that's impressive the ir60 graphics
and the last mini pc i reviewed took 51 seconds so that's a lot quicker here
now look at this this is cyberpunk 2077 and it's running at 40 frames per second 720p
this is really impressive so that's even faster than the ir60 graphics which was getting around
30 34 35 and i still have you know a bit of traffic going on here so the performance
you could say is almost better than what you'd get on a playstation 4 definitely not
the playstation 4 pro but a playstation 4. look at this 40 frames per second here that's really
good now if i start to just attack people it will get a little bit laggy with the action going on
you can see but hey still 40 frames per second so this is really impressive for such
a demanding game like cyberpunk 2077
the gta 5 performance here is looking very good for integrated graphics 1080p
normal settings so normal in the middle really view distance and pedestrian density
and inside the car here getting 70 frames per second which is on average now a little
bit higher than what i've seen with the iris xc graphics so that's good to see
when i get out of the car you'll see that that frame rate is going to increase now to around
90 frames per second 92 so that's very good and even with this all this action going on
still very playable
finally the witches so this is running at 1080p on the lowest settings we're getting around 40 frames
per second on average which is good considering it's 1080p now if you lower it down to 720p
the frame rate will then jump up to about 60 to 70 frames per second which is a lot better
than this and it's probably my recommended you really want to actually play this game at 720p on
degraded graphics here but if you can put up with just getting 40 frames per second at 1080p then
it's doable now remember i'm in the dense built up town here so when you get out into the countryside
with the witcher 3 here the frame rate is going to increase a lot and it will
go up about 20 frames per second on average so that's excellent there so overall i'm impressed
with this graphics performance considering that it's just integrated remember no dedicated gpu
now looking at our temperatures so it did get up to 100 degrees celsius that's very hot that's when
stress testing it but normally it's only peaking around when gaming you're probably seeing with
my gaming performance tests that it's around 70 degrees and when you run cinebench that's really
when it gets up to this temperature otherwise with normal kind of use i'm not seeing those
tens but still it shouldn't get this hot now what about the power consumption so around
10 watts at idle and then up to about 92 watts is what i'm seeing under full load now the fan noise
it does get a little loud when you push it really hard so here's a sample of it under full load
and as for linux support because i know a lot of you out there do like to run linux on these kind
of machines and tech they the same issue that i've had with other models with this mediatek
chipset in here that rt wi-fi 6e card unfortunately the build that i'm using
of linux mint maybe there's other distros out there that will support it uh it's it's not
running the wireless card so that's the only issue there you got the gigabit lan which is
real tech not a problem the rest of it everything else seems to be running just fine so that's good
and linux just absolutely flies of course on such a speck of machine even with windows so i
am really impressed with this model here that vega 8 graphics for some reason well this
model seems to be a lot better than some of the other mini pcs i've reviewed so it's surpassing
iris xc graphics at the well the 96 executional unit versions of them it's better than those
and it's probably being helped of course definitely on the cpu side that we've got
eight cores 16 threads immense power out of this thing it's super powerful considering
the size the chipset is fantastic and i know we do have the 6000 series coming so should you buy
this or hold off well it depends on your needs of course if you need something that's powerful now
and you want a reasonably powerful integrated gpu you don't need a dedicated gpu for say editing 4k
videos or aaa games whatever you're just going to do light gaming then this definitely covers
and if you think about waiting for the 6000 series which will of course be better than this
you might even get things like pci 4 spec and bit integrated graphics however it will be at
least i would say almost a year before we're going to see them in models like this here
now the cons of this machine for me uh the definite one is the price tag at the moment at the
time of this video it's around a thousand euro so well over a thousand us dollars and i think that's
a huge ask really considering okay yes it does have 32 gigabytes of ram one terabyte nvme storage
that's good and it's very powerful but you can build your own mini pc your own little small form
factor set up uh probably for less and probably a lot well i don't know about more powerful but
well maybe actually so that's something they need to work on is the pricing there now if i do find
a coupon for it for banggood there to get it for less i'll certainly put that down in the
description of this video and in the comments there i'll probably pin it if i find that the
other is the other two is the fan noise um it's actually very good most of the time you're using
this especially when you're hardly doing anything demanding it's great okay you can't even hear it
it's just a little humming whooshing noise going on in there but when you do push it really hard
so when i was running cinebench r23 for about like 20 minutes and then gaming and then doing
lots of other things it did eventually peak at 100 degrees celsius so it's it's a little too hot now
i'm i've actually seen it in a lot of units with the 8 cores and 16 threads both amd and intel side
getting up to those kind of temperatures with this type of cooler on there now the cooling i think
is pretty good the fan noise is just when you push it really hard it gets a little irritating then it
does become a little bit loud from that sample i gave you the other is well maybe a bit of a minor
for some people or maybe not okay but i really think we should have more usb3 ports on them okay
we've got two usb 3 type a's and then the type c port with usb 3.1 with the data and the video out
that's good and we can run the other displays but i would have liked to have seen i think all
of the usb ports on this should be usb 3 spec who needs four usb 2 ports i mean come on and a
powerful system like this not great there's no sd card reader there's no secondary mvme slot which
would have made this really great because that means you could hook up an external gpu
which you can still do with this model mind you you can hook up an external gpu to it but i would
have preferred to just to have the two nvme slots in this i think instead of the sata you've got the
two sata ports there say three that's okay so all up it is one of the most powerful mini pcs that
i've covered it holds the vega 8 graphics that 2 100 megahertz turbo just rock solid the whole time
and that delivers fantastic performance as you saw cyberpunk 40 over 40 frames per second and around
that average at 720p is impressive and gta 5 runs runs really well better than iris xc graphics
it's good when it's paired up with some decent ram and this kind of spec great so if you need the
power by all means this one has got plenty of it especially for the size so i'll have more mini pc
reviews up and coming so stay tuned for those some of them will be slightly older generation ones but
they do sell for a lot less than this one right here so i hope to see you then bye for now