Chris here with a Windows 11 Pro Mini PC this is the minis Forum
um 590. the 690 that is coming it's currently stuck in customs and that's got of course the
ryzen 9 the 6900 HX that everyone is probably after more than this particular model here which
this one is the lower spec version because it's now last gen it does have the ryzen 9 5 900 h x so
4.6 gigahertz maximum turbo 8 cores 16 threads it has liquid metal in here and a new cooling system
new body and a more compact design compared to say their HX 90 and the hx90g that I have also
reviewed so my configuration comes with 16 gigabytes of RAM of course it is ddr4 spec
we get ddr5 and the newer model which I will be covering soon and a 512 gigabyte pcie E3 SSD in
this mod model here it does have Wi-Fi 6E which is the latest spec 2.5 gigabit Lan and I'll be
covering it in detail let you know the performance and what you can expect out of this little mini
PC including power consumption thermals and anything else that does pop up in this review
included in the Box you will find a user guide so that is the installation of the 2.5 inch Drive how
to access the internals the ports Etc there is this a warning so they are using liquid metal
I am not going to be removing it so I'll keep the factory set up so exactly how it came out
of the box is what I will be reviewing when it comes to The Thermals we have a Visa mounting
bracket our power supply cable so this cable the plug is very easy to Source a replacement it's
common this is what desktop PC power supplies use the power supply nice reasonably small size to it
it is a 120 watts we do have a sata 3 cable for the 2.5 inch drive a stand for the Mini
PC you don't have to use this but we have that option and HDMI cable and finally two rubber feet
and as many PC has a very compact design considering it's packing a lot of power
so this model has the ryzen 9 to 5900 HX eight cores 16 threads but there is a model that I will
be reviewing very shortly because it's currently stacked in customs and that is the ryzen 9 6900hx
model so we have a reset here for the CMOS power on button with status LED 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack this is type CSUS is USB 3.2 gen 2. we have another one that supports the display out and you
can run three displays with this so intake vent right here on this side we have an exit vent there
is another exit vent there at the back and then another two display outs here so 4K 60 on all
three this is HDMI 2.0 two of them 2.5 gigabit Lan power n and another two USB 3.2 gen 2s here
and then two USB 2. so this is will be good for a mouse and keyboard Kensington lock slot right
there the top of it we have the minis Forum logo right here on a little bit of silver so this is
plastic for the wireless antenna reception the whole build of it is plastic but it does feel
good on this side is another intake vent there and then along the bottom you'll find two rubber feet
the big ones we've got Replacements and then we have two little small ones and then the mounting
points there for the Visa Mount if you wanted to put it onto the back of a monitor now in
order to gain access to the internals you need to remove the little rubber feet here so there's that
one you need to remove the other and if you just lift this up or take it from the corner probably
it's a bit easier you can simply remove those rubber feet and then you'll find the other screw
hole there so there's four in total I remove those screws and I'll show you the internals
all right so with those removed there is a little Gap here you can see on the bottom and using a pry
tool I've already just popped that up and then you should just be able to pry it up like so
and completely remove it and then you can see our internal so they've gone with brand components
here non-brand a data the ram so there's a 3.2 gigahertz ddr4 now the newer model of course
has the better spec because the new model's got ddr5 at 4.8 gigahertz you also have USB 4 spec
it can run external displays and it also does have a pcie four-spec SSD now this model does
not this is pcie e 3.0 so slower speeds there and I believe it's a Kingston Drive they are using but
I will check that out now and the wireless card is underneath it now our m.2 SSD here so pcie
3.0 spec is a Intel one I can see right there the Intel brand and the performance of it I will let
you know later on in this review so it does have a heatsink thermal pad on there which is good to
help cut down on the throttling because these do get hot and if you're wondering where the 2.5 inch
Drive goes well this is where you will screw that into place you can see that we've got the mounting
points right there you can see okay so that's going to screw on and sit here you just slot it
into one side and then two screws right there and the cable for it that plugs in that sata 3 cable
uh where are we right here on the motherboard too so you plug that in and then you can install that
so you can expand upon the storage which is good you can add even a spindle hard drive with a very
large capacity and our wireless card here is from mediatek it's Wi-Fi 6E spec so this is our bios
and unfortunately it is very locked down there's not a lot of available options to us really so
we have hardware monitor you can adjust the fan profiles there tweak that if you wanted to do
so but I would probably just leave that power configuration there's not anything here you'd
really want to change maybe the resume On LAN or wake by RTC uh we've got then this AMD CBS now
under this you normally find power limit options but unfortunately locked down to us so really we
have this thermal control that you wouldn't touch anyway you leave that on auto and audio
configuration and then our fch common options SATA configuration options and then AC power loss
option so this is good at least we've got this option if you're going to run it as a server or
on a switch or something you want to set that to always on there but I'd leave it as is so really
there's no need for you to go in here unless you're going to change the boot order options
now the com 590 like the 690 does ship with Windows 11 and it is the pro version so I have
16 gigabytes of RAM and you'll see that a little bit of that is actually used up okay because we've
got some dedicated to the Vega 8 Graphics which runs at 2.1 gigahertz more on that later on when
I check out the gaming performance so the SSD in this model is as I showed you before when we
looked at the internals it is an Intel it is pcie 3.0 and the speeds aren't wonderful okay you can
see they're pretty average there now the retail versions the next version that sent out this is
basically an early version that I've got will have apparently according to minis Forum faster ssds
so the speed okay isn't amazing for the right but yes it is faster than sata 3 and you could
upgrade and put a Samsung 970 Evo into this if you wanted a course a little bit faster now I do
have a couple of benchmarks that I'll just quickly show you here so you can see geekbench 5 very good
score it's got the eight cores 16 threads now the newer model with the ryzen 6000 series The 6900 HX
will be a little faster but it's not apparently a huge difference we're looking around like 10 or so
faster than this but you get the usb4 you get the pcie 4.0 spec which is good now closer look here
at some of the details of this particular Apu you see that it does clock up to 4.6 gigahertz it's
based off the seven nanometer process right there and as mentioned the 16 thread so it's
still a monster now this one's configured to the default power limit which is the 45 watts and how
I know this well because I've been monitoring it here with HW info you see right here that it has
not got over 45 Watts here the power that it is pulling now the maximum I'm seeing at the wall
with a wall meter I've got is 78 Watts Under full load and at idle it is about well right now it's
7.9 just looking at it and bumping or hovering around kind of 9 8 10 and it's just under light
load so under idle pretty good power consumption and even full load not too bad there you'll see
the temperatures thermals are good now being a smaller unit I was expecting The Thermals probably
not to be so great I was expecting maybe thermal throttling maybe 98 degrees or something like
that but no look at this maximum is just over 80 degrees now we've got of course the liquid
middle in here I think that's helping and they're cooling with the heat pipes the way it is sucking
and cool air from two sides and then blasting it out the back and then the side I think is working
really well so good calling fan noise acceptable you don't really hear it it's only when under
load you hear it and then the fan noise quickly dies away most of the time when it's not in use
it is very quiet you can hardly even hear the fan now if I gave you a sample you'd hear my tower PC
more than the actual Mini PC so it's a big thumbs up from me on The Thermals and the fan noise here
which are excellent and finally just show you one more Benchmark that is cinebench R23 you
can see we do get a very good score here for this type of chipset being basically a mobile chipset
and a Mini PC 45 Watts this is excellent now it could do better if it was configured to 54 Watts
the power limit and unfortunately I cannot change that in BIOS how was the video playback so I am
here in YouTube and I am streaming 4K 60 this is the vp9 codec that it is using here within
Chrome and you can see it dropped 23 frames now that was just at the beginning when I resized the
video from a small box into full screen that is normal that it will do that so it drops no
frames here Flawless playback of streaming of 4K 60 which is excellent then hevc so this is a
160 megabits per second again Flawless so the Vega 8 Graphics clocked at 2.1 gigahertz has
no issues this does not stress out the Apu at all so the ryzen 9 5 900 h x this Mini PC the
um 590 is a perfect media playback device it has sufficient power in fact Overkill power really for
these kind of video playback needs a vp9 hevc 4K High bit rates not a problem at all now could you
edit video 4K video my timeline consists of some Sony files here that are 100 megabits per second
4K hevc and the timeline the playback is smooth there doesn't seem to be a problem but I do have
a quarter resolution set here for the playback resolution which I would do because we don't
have a dedicated GPU with this spec of Mini PC of course it's the Vega Graphics here but it feels
well for basic 4K edits you can do this all right now my timeline here is about 10 minutes long it
doesn't seem to be choppy laggy unbearable to edit but bear in mind I'm not color grading here or
doing any fancy transitions or anything let's have a look at the export times now with Adobe Premiere
Pro this by the way is the 2023 version so it's the latest one with the latest enhancements and it
does support Hardware acceleration for decoding and encoding video the preset I'm using is the
YouTube 4K now this is only 40 megabits per second it will be encoding at but it'd be interesting to
see how long it is going to take so one minute of footage only hit start right here and then export
it should not take long at all should be tearing through this so you can see that it's barely using
the GPU integrated GPU AMD Vega Graphics only at 11 it's the CPU doing most of it but this is
really screaming ahead and let's skip now to the end result so there we go it is about to finish up
and it just did so safe to say about 37 seconds for one minute of footage and factoring in my
little delay there to hit the export button so that is excellent performance so these basic 4K
edits in Adobe Premiere Pro yes you can do with this spec of Mini PC even with the 16 gigabytes
of RAM then on to our gaming so it should be able to do around 70 frames per second average the Vega
8 Graphics here if it holds the 21 to 100 being a Hertz clock uh which it is you can see it's
doing well so it's about 60 frames per second 65 there on average so not quite 70 there's probably
around the best I've seen it but this is about Iris XC level of Graphics here for integrated
Graphics that is and it's looking very good so this is in the car rendering of course uh
quite a few more polygons and everything here the shadows and the textures so just get out again and
you'll see that yeah we're up to 80 here so good performance 1080p is what I'm running GTA 5 at
right here and you know this is perfectly playable it is yes an old title a great title at that and
I'm pretty sure everyone out there knows about this game and has played it but yeah looking very
good you can see with the motorbike the frame rate is actually a little better here so that's great
then stepping it up with a title that is really demanding this is cyberpunk 2077 now I've got it
set to the lowest preset and even at lowest the game still looks really good but the resolution
I had to drop down to 720p at 1080p you only get around 25 24 frames per second it's just
too choppy so this looks excellent it's got a lot to render here look at all of the shaders
the reflections on the ground and everything that is going on here that is impressive for integrated
Graphics to be able to get a frame rate here with so many NPCs around cars and everything on screen
of a very playable over 30 frames per second I mean this is better than consoles this is better
than the PlayStation 4 PlayStation 4 Pro rendering a lot more and still maintaining a decent enough
frame rate for integrated graphics [Music] then a Linux support well good news working just
fine I have booted a USB pin drive here a live boot image of Linux Manjaro now I use the open
source drivers because I do find that they tend to pretty much find the driver for everything
and including this wireless card for mediatek I thought it might have issues but no it is working
so everything seems to work fine if you intend to run Linux on this Mini PC you should be okay
I roll the um 590 is an excellent Mini PC so great fan noise good thermals it offers display
out up to three displays at 4K and I really cannot fault it it's got a lot on offer the 2.5 gigabit
Lan Wi-Fi 6E and performance wise for its size is really quite good and I'm surprised that the Vega
Graphics held up really well it held that turbo at the 2.1 gigahertz their whole entire time you get
a decent playable frame rate out of a demanding game like even cyberpunk 2077 that I showed you
but of course running only at 720p now I will have soon the um 690 model which is the step above this
one because it's got the latest Apu there from AMD so it has the ryzen 9 the 6900 HX so it's faster
up to 4.9 gigahertz still has the same 8 core 16 threads but the big change is it does have have a
new integrated GPU so it is the 680 M clocked faster but the newer model does also support
ddr5 Ram pcie 4 and USB 4 spec 2 which can run external display so it's probably the model to
go for subscribe and do check out the review of that which hopefully will be coming maybe the end
of this week or next week there so do check for that in my channel and thanks a lot for watching
my review of the um 590 another amazing really good Mini PC a solid offering from minis forum