We have another mini pc from b-link it is called the ser pro or the ser pro now this is powered by
the ryzen 5 apu it is the 5600h they have it set with a power limit of 35 watts and it does have
vega graphics with seven cores 1800 megahertz is the maximum turbo which this little pc
will hold quite happily without throttling at all so it can run two displays at 4k 60 gigabit
lan and it has wi-fi 6e support with it there is even space inside for a 2.5 inch drive and
it's nice and small and compact and that's one of the key reasons why you would consider a pc
like this so this is what we get in the box there is a user manual our power supply which is a 57
watt one it's not that large in size we've got a normal sized large hdmi to hdmi cable and then we
have a smaller one if you are going to be visa mounting it it will come in handy there is the
mounting bracket and then we do get a bunch of screws one's for a 2.5 inch drive and then the
others are for their mounting bracket this ser pro or serve pro looks just like the other mini pc so
very small compact size this part here is plastic for wireless antenna reception we've got a metal
mesh right here intake for the fan so all the cooler air is pulled in through the top it's
blowing out the back of it so thickness wise it's 42 millimeters so that's not bad at all
it's a very short little mini pc and can see just well fits almost in the palm of your hand so we
have two hdmi two ports here this is our power in the hot air is blowing out the back and i'll
cover the thermals in this review usb 3 usb 2 gigabit lan we've got another three usb ports
right here clear the bios so this type c port doesn't support video out 3.5 millimeter with mic
support power button with a status led and then we do have the two little holes there that's for
mounting of course the bracket for visa mounting this on the back of a monitor if you wanted to
do so but i'll just remove these four screws and we'll take a look at the internals and possible
upgrades so we have two sticks of eight gigabytes i've got this 16 gigabyte model here crucial ram
3200 megahertz we have a kingston mvme drive so i'll benchmark this later on i'll let you know the
speeds there's a thermal pad on top of it which does apply a bit of contact or has contact sorry
to this part here so that's going to keep it a little bit cooler stop it from throttling and this
is where you can install a 2.5 inch drive with those screws that they did supply now if you lift
up this ssd here so unscrew it underneath you will find a mediatek wi-fi 6e card which is very fast
looking at the bios here of the serpro you can see that it is all completely unlocked
to us so this is great now there are some advanced configuration things that you can
tweak in here but be careful what you do change because you could run into trouble
so we do have ram disk configuration that's an important one and the other is this in the amd
cbs menu you can go along in here and change some options so under nbio common options you can go
along here to the graphics configuration now with this graphics configuration you can then adjust
how much is dedicated to the vega 7 graphics so this will be under this menu here now you could
change it to game optimized which i believe is two gigabytes if you've got 16 gigabytes of ram
installed it'll be four if you've got 32 and i think that is the limit maybe eight gigabytes
if you've got 64 but i'm going to keep it on auto how it is out of the box you do also have
the other one which is smu comment options that you can change the system configuration now it
is in balance by default and there's also auto but i'm going to keep it on this one which is the 35
watts there is another way to change it i believe under one of these other settings here that you
might be able to increase that power limit but i'm going to go with the stock 35 this blink
server pro does come with 16 gigabytes of ram as i showed you before and i pointed out in the bias
that you can actually allocate more if you wanted to two gigabytes dedicated to the vega graphics
but here it's scalable so it will scale up but it does have currently 600 megabytes only dedicated
to it so we have windows 11 pro with it that's probably why they call it the pro model right
because it has windows 10 pro and that ssd that i showed you that kingston it's pci 3 spec it's
not the fastest out of the pci 3 drives 3.0 drives that i do test you can see that well it could be
a lot faster these both of these sequential reads and rights could be around the 3 000
megabytes mark but hey that's still a lot faster than sata 3 and you can expand upon the storage
add yourself a 2.5 inch ssd or spindle hard drive to really boost the storage so performance wise
we have that of course the ryzen 5 the 5600h maximum turbo is 4.2 gigahertz and you see the
single core score here and the multi-core especially the multi-core's not bad at
all it is a six core cpu apu this one so you got 12 three it's two in total the performance this
is after 10 minutes of stressing out both of them right there is good and what about the thermals
too when you do push it really hard just to cover those now that yes it did get up to 85 degrees
celsius it does end up pulling uh yeah very close to 35 watts which it is limited at so if it was
configured at 45 or even 54 performance would be a lot better but the thermals would probably be
an issue there now when you go and just take a look at this it doesn't actually list that it was
thermal throttling at all so that is a positive a couple of other synthetic benchmarks well just
one here actually is this geekbench five you can see that it is single core a little bit weaker
there than the intel counterparts but for a six chord chip multi-core score is great again the 35
watt power limit is limiting it a little bit there on what we could actually get out of this
particular apu here so if you take a look at the device manager which uh you know i'll just open
that up right now you'll see that we've got that mediatek chipset for the wireless so this one is
wi-fi 6e now i can get just over gigabit speeds with with my wi-fi 6 router which is pretty much
on par with what i get out of the intel ax 201 chipsets that i also do c with wi-fi ax
and the model number of that kingston drive if you wanted to check that out well there it is
right there and nothing else really of interest you'll see of course that the horizon 5 the 5600h
listed 12 times because of the 12 threads so looking at video playback this is the
sony swordsmith file here which is 4k 60 frames per second and it plays flawlessly there are no
drop frames whatsoever so that file just fine but what about 4k h evc this is 10 bit and this one is
sometimes stutters but look at this i'm really surprised here no starters it is super fluid so
really good for video playback those media files this particular mini pc it really does surprise me
then video playback which is 4k 60 streaming via chrome this is another big surprise so in
the beginning it dropped two frames that was it and then the rest of the footage completely
fine absolutely perfect streaming as long as your internet connection can support 4k 60.
and very briefly here look at gaming performance so gta
5 is running really well look at this this has surprised me i didn't expect it to be around 70
frames per second because of its 35 watt power limit but it is exceeding my expectations here
now in the car you do get a bit of a dip in the frame rate of course because it needs to render
all of those polygons and things for the car so i have it set to the medium settings in 1080p
that's pedestrian density and the view distance and everything all on the medium here and the
performance is good so it's showing me that it's performing pretty much as any other vega
with the seven cores here vega graphics would around 70 frames per second and it is holding
this is the important thing that turbo there of the 1800 megahertz it's holding the correct clock
speed and there really are no throttling issues at all i am surprised here because it is getting
up to 81 degrees but it's not throttling down it is keeping that gpu performance which is great
as for linux support while i did boot up my linux mint usb pen drive and i ran into a problem with
the drivers for the mediatek wi-fi 6e chipset so you need to hunt around for that i should
probably swap over many people told me to test out linux manjaro tends to have more up-to-date
drivers so i probably will do that and that's the only thing when it comes to linux otherwise it's
going to run on the spec and run really well at that so this here is a mini pc that's very hard
to fault that it's got great performance it has of course 16 gigabytes of ram up to 32 you can easily
upgrade that very fast wi-fi gigabit lan you can run two displays not three sadly so it doesn't
have a full spec type c port with video out so you could say that that's one of the cons there of it
and really the only thing for me is that it's just limited to 35 watts unfortunately so we're not
getting the full potential of this apu this ryzen 5 could actually run 45 watts as the default and
perform a little bit better but i was surprised to see that the vega 7 graphics so that's with
the seven cores running at 1800 megahertz did not throttle at all it would maintain the performance
and run at approximately 82 degrees celsius it barely makes any noise the fan it's quite
quiet but you do hear it when you're gaming and it sounds a little bit like an ultrabook when you're
pushing it very hard so very acceptable fan noise i think and if you've got it mounted behind a
monitor well you're barely even going to ever hear this thing so it really does have a lot of off for
such a small compact size you can fit in an extra 2.5 inch spindle hard drive if imagine you wanted
to have two terabytes of media files and that's another area that really did surprise me so media
playback was excellent it did not have any hiccups any stutters playing back demanding 10-bit 4k he
vc files vp9 is going to play great on it and 4k 16 no problems and it even streamed
in chrome 4k 60 without really dropping any frames where i see with a lot of the iris xc
graphics continuous dropping about two or three frames every second instead of just being very
very steady not that you really notice it however it's superior media playback performance all up
good little mini pc here from b link another one so thanks a lot for watching my review of the
sur pro from b link or the ser pro i do hope to see you in the next one do subscribe for
more mini pc reviews because i've got two more that i'm currently working on