This is Geekom's mini it11 it is a Windows 11 Pro Mini PC that while being really nice and
small and compact does pack quite a bit in terms of features and power because it is powered by the
11th June core i7 the 1195 G7 it has a maximum Turbo 5 gigahertz four cores eight threads and
this configuration that they sent out to me to review does come with 16 gigabytes of RAM and
dual Channel a 512 gigabyte SSD from Intel which is pcie 3.0 spec it has gigabit Lan for your
networking and Wi-Fi 6 the ax 201 card from Intel and it can run up to four displays at 4K which
is really impressive so it has a mini display out port HDMI and then two USB 4 ports which are type
c ports so they do support video out there the full spec one there which is good to see so that's
how we can run the four displays and despite being so small there is even room for a 2.5 inch drive
if you wanted to increase upon the current storage available so what do we get in the Box depending
on the version you'll have an EU or a US plug you get an HDMI cable I do have some screws for
the Visa mounting bracket our power supply so this power supply is quite small good size to it and it
is rated with a maximum output of 90 Watts we get a little pouch as well if you wanted to put the
Mini PC in that if you're going to be transporting it around that's pretty handy to have and there
is a quick little instruction manual there and finally the bracket for mounting it on the back
of a monitor as you can see the size of this Mini PC very nice and small and compact it's about that
of what the Intel Nooks are and it's got a lot of ports you do get with it so up here at the front
you can see there are four microphones we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that supports
microphones too with it power button with status LED USB 3.2 type A Gen 2 and then usb4 ports it's
actually got two of them so this can run display out too so we get 4k 60 with that you see at the
back there we have another right here so that is our second display 4K 60 USB 4 HDMI 2.0 display
port as well so we can run a huge amount of displays on this four displays in total which
is really good gigabit Lan and two USB 3.2s they are Gen 2 ones and then power in so this up the
top is the exit vent that's where the hot air from the little fan in there is going to be pushing the
air out from it and we've got a Kensington lock slot nice big vent on that side and here on the
other a full-size SD card reader now the top of it just wanted to point out it is made out of
plastic here but that's for the wireless antenna reception on the underside this is a metal plate
right here and there's this little grommet as you can see over each of these four holes that
is where you can install the 2.5 inch drive if you wanted to do so so let's have a look at the
internals but before you just show those internals you can see those there are the mounting points
for our Visa mounting bracket if you were going to put it on the back of a monitor now you just
need to Simply loosen off all of the four screws on the outside here and you just unscrew them as
far as they will go and using them you just pull on one of them or one corner you can prop it up
and proceed then to remove the whole back panel now be careful because there is a ribbon cable
as you can see here that is in place of where we can install that 2.5 inch Drive which just goes
on the back so straight away I can see a nice heatsink here for the SSD which is located here
now this is a pcie for uh pcie 3.0 specs sorry for that one not pcie4 I believe and we do have
a thermal pad here that presses up against it to keep it nice and cool now they are using a Intel
it's the 660p series so that is yes PCI Express but not for that spec and crucial Ram so we've
got two sticks of eight gigabytes here and that is running of course at 3 200 megahertz so it is in
dual channel that is great to see now there should be a wireless card under this SSD I'll take a look
and see if we're able to upgrade the wireless because I can see or maybe it is right here so
maybe it's not upgradable and yes as suspected we do have there the wireless chipset sold it
onto the motherboard it's just got the shielding around it and the two antennas clipped in now the
upgrades then that we can do are the ram the main SSD so PCI 3.0 spec it should actually
support PCI 4 being 11th gen here we'll have to check that out and then add a 2.5 inch Drive
now the BIOS does have a lot of settings in here you can see a lot of different things we can tweak
now there are some options up there that I have never actually seen before because normally that
isn't shown but you get CPU configuration options we do have power performance all those kind
of ones that you'd expect chipset system agent settings here too that you can go through Graphics
configuration if you wanted to allocate a little bit more to the ira60 graphics you're able to
do so from within here so it is pretty much fully unlocked to us all of the normal kind of settings
you would like to see on a Mini PC like this it's great that it's not locked down here with
Ecom there is also this very handy setting that I know a lot of people would want if you do want to
run this as a server media server or something restore AC power loss so you can put that onto
power on so as soon as you plug it in you could run this on the switch as well but if you lose
power then you gain the power back again it'll automatically turn itself on and start to boot up
this Mini PC is running Windows 11 and I just show you what version of it because
it's Windows 11 Pro here so the slightly better version if you're after that well good news is
it comes with it you don't have to upgrade it so we do have an 11th gen chip it is the core
i7 1195 G7 with Iris XE Graphics maximum turbo is 5 gigahertz and it does have four
cores eight threads in total as you see here in the device manager listed eight times so
we've got Wi-Fi six that's the ax201 card that I showed you that we cannot upgrade unfortunately
and then the SSD that is the Intel one that I did show you when we looked at the internals
Speedway is not very quick at all for pcie 3 spec it should be a little bit better here so
it's a bit of a shame they didn't go with a faster nvme drive would it be nice but of course you can
upgrade this if you wanted to do so you could put in your own one now I do have a couple of
synthetic benchmarks I will be showing you so this here is geekbench 5 single core score here is okay
I've seen slightly higher maybe and multi-core and the reason why it could actually be a little bit
higher here is I'll show you this early on it has run into thermal throttling unfortunately
it's a very small little mini PC so it's not a big surprise that it has hit 100 degrees Celsius
you can see here with HW info that of course did trigger thermal throttling that's only about well
look at that in fact it's on the T J Max there to Junction Max so any hotter than that it could end
up resetting but it didn't it will throttle itself so it hasn't happened it won't reset on me the
whole time I've been using it which is one thing at least so we miss out a bit on that performance
cinebench R23 so we're getting uh almost well just over 1400 points there for the single core
score and just over 5000 for the multi-core score so decent power still when you think
about just how tiny this is the fact that it can run four displays and the ram that is definitely
in dual Channel I'll just quickly show you that of course you can upgrade this if you
wanted to add a little bit more so you can see that under memory here it's running at the 3.2
gigahertz as it should that's the correct speed and in dual Channel check that also with HW info
as for our video playback let's just do a little test here so my jellyfish test file that I always
test out that starts really smooth I'm just going to make it full screen here and you
can see still continues to be smooth doesn't seem to drop any frames there which is not
bad considering this is a 140 megabits per second Sony swordsmith this one is 4K HDR 6D
and that is looking pretty good like it doesn't seem to be dropping any frames there either
not that isn't which is really good to see and then what about YouTube
streaming will it drop frames here so I've just got a clip here that I'm going to open
this is 4K 60 I believe it is yes I just put it on the 4K setting
full screen this and we'll check is it going to drop now I'll try not to move my mouse around
because that apparently provokes drop frames and look at that it's okay now and then it is dropping
only just one or two frames that's good playback performance there so you don't even notice this
you'll never tell at all that it's just dropped one frame out of 60 every three seconds impossible
to tell that so that's good great performance here for video playback and streaming 4K 60.
then what about something really demanding I could show you spreadsheets documents but it
handles it just fine however 4K video editing here with Adobe Premiere Pro this is the latest version
and update the timeline is pretty good but I've only got the call to playback screen resolution
here I wouldn't really go over that because it could get a little bit laggy now the speed of
it seems to be fine playback doesn't seem to be dropping any frames when I'm using this resolution
if you set it to half or full especially with these files they're 4K 100 megabit per second
is what I recorded and it's probably going to be a little bit too demanding without having
a dedicated GPU so Iris XC Graphics is handling this nicely but what about now the export times
it is about to finish up now so as soon as the progress bar disappears 100 is gone there we
go so you could say approximately about 37 seconds factoring in my little delay there
so that's excellent to do light 4K edits it is possible with the spec of Mini PC 1080p
fine no real problems with that you can edit 1080p just fine a lot better A lot smoother than 4K
and a quick look at graphics performance now normally the ir6c graphics does really good you
can get decent playable frame rates 1080p is what I'm testing out right now now I do have it set to
normal settings I could lower the settings down even further but I don't think there's really
too much need for that and this is anyway my base settings that I always test on these mini
PCS so the performance is looking good around 40 frames per second but I have seen better I
have seen higher here now I think there's a bit of throttling going on like it was actually before in
the 90s that's probably what's caused it so it has throttled it's dropped down those Graphics clocks
there for the iris XE but it still is playable that's the main thing that's of course what you
want with a Mini PC like this that the game is at least playable not bad considering the form
factor just how tiny and small this PC is to play yes an old game but still a very good one
The Witcher 3 this is on the medium preset 1080p again and it's looking good but it's
just scraping over 30 frames per second and this is more graphically intense of course being here
in the city there's a lot more to render so when you're out the window Wilderness there the frame
rate does go right up to 50 and it's a little bit better here but I wanted to test of course this
demanding area so this is It's okay but I have seen again better out of the iris XE graphics
what about the fan noise so I'm stressing it right now running cinebench and I'll give you a sample
of what it is like when you push it really hard you hear the fan definitely audible now if you've
got it behind a monitor you won't hear it as much what I do like about the fan though is as soon as
you stop doing anything demanding it drops right down that fan RPM and under idle you can hear
it at all it's quite quiet it's just when you push it hard under load so here's that sample
then really quick here Linux support so I did test out here Linux Manjaro and
everything seems to be working there the sound Bluetooth wireless card all
working using their open source drivers too mind you to get it all up and running
and recapping here there's a lot of offer with as many PC so General kind of office performance
even light 4K video editing as I showed you is all possible with this and everything does feel
quick and snappy has an excellent build quality the fan noise can get up there a little bit but
it's not super offensive really loud it's not actually too bad for a Mini PC and I like the
fact that you can connect up to four displays which is really good and we have two type c USB
4 ports on this but then we still also have three USB 3.2 ports so plenty of connectivity options
however it's only gigabit Lan I really wish that that was actually 2.5 gig Lan would have
been good a gigabit land there would have been you know just a little bit more future proof
for upgrading your speeds considering the Wi-Fi card is soldered onto the motherboard so those
are the cons there for me and it can if you push it really hard like cinebench benchmarks and just
gaming nice non-stop on it get up to 100 degrees C that I've seen so it will trigger some thermal
throttling if you really push it hard which is not a big surprise to me it happens a lot with
many PCs considering look how small it is yet it has a 28 watt part in here that core i7 the 1195
G7 so the iris XE Graphics performed reasonably in here but I think it was the thermal Headroom
running into a little bit of throttling that did limit that performance there but it is good to
see that there are two Ram slots you can upgrade the RAM if you wanted to do so you can add a 2.5
inch hard drive and of course the four displays with it so it's offering quite a lot here all
running Windows 11 Pro so thank you so much for watching my review here of the geek com Mini it11