This here is mini forum's elite mini th 50. a windows 10 pro mini pc that you can upgrade to
windows 11 that is powered by intel's 11th gen core i5 11 320h it's a quad core chip maximum
turbo is 4.5 gigahertz and has eight threads but most importantly it's got iris xc graphics
enough power to do a bit of gaming titles like gta 5 in my testing do actually run really well
with a good average frames per second and even something very demanding like cyberpunk 2077
getting over 30 frames per second at 720p is quite impressive considering that it's intel
integrated graphics here not dedicated graphics at all so this mini pc you can add additional storage
to it it can take two 2.5 inch sata 3 drives it does have a pcie 3.0 spec drive for the boot drive
which is 512 gigabytes and 16 gigabytes of ram which is sadly not upgradable other specs include
two 2.5 gigabit lan ports wi-fi 6e and it can run three displays two of which up to 8k 60 which
is really impressive considering the size of it with the th 50 we have this which is a user guide
a visa mounting bracket with some screws and also some sata 3 screws for a 2.5 inch drive two of
them in fact you can see here we've got the sata connectors and this is a bracket to hold the two
drives in place and i'll show you the internals of that shortly they do give us an hdmi to hdmi cable
and our power cable right here the charger this one's quite small and it's a 65 watt charger
now this connection very common it's like that infinity style plug so if you need to source a
new one or for a different region very easy to do so note that it is powered by type c here not your
typical dc barrel connector this mini pc has a lot of connections on it and i do like this so we
have two audio jacks so separate microphone then headphones power button with status led behind it
two usb 3.1 right here and this is our type c well thunderbolt 4 so this supports 8k 60 hertz which
is very good to see then on either side while this side here we have an exit vent so all the hardy is
going to be coming out of there and this side the same too and you'll see why because the fan that's
actually on the top here you can just see it below it's white very big fan and it does have pretty
good sound wise not a lot of noise to it and pretty good cooling though to it and i'll get onto
the thermals later on with this video and here you see we've got two gigabit lans here now sorry 2.5
gigabit lan port so very quick those two they're from intel we've got hdmi here which is 4k 60
displayport 8k 60 there and this is our type c to power it kensington lock slot another two usb
3.1 and two usb 2's so it really does have a lot of connections on a lot of ports and i love
the fact it's got the two lan ports with it and you can run three displays now on the underside
here this is where you can slot in that mounting bracket to put it on the back of a tv or a monitor
what i'll do now is remove the four screws on each corner there and we'll take a look at our
internals here we have our boot drive so this is a pcie one so pci 3.0 spec just underneath it if
you remove that you can see then the real tech wireless card the good thing is it is upgradable
so you're able to swap this out change it over for something a little bit quicker if you wanted
to say intel's ax 200 n1 our backup bios battery is there that's saving all of our cmos settings
and everything that's in there and we've got these two connectors there that's for our sata three 2.5
inch drives the drives themselves they go on the back here okay so you screw them with that bracket
into place here so you can put two 2.5 inch ones right there and then connect those connectors
out so we don't have a secondary m.2 slot unfortunately which i kind of would have preferred
if they'd somehow been able to make a bit of room for it along there it would have been really good
now you can also flip the motherboard around which i'm going to do but it's not recommended because
you can easily damage the wireless antennas that are on the other side and our fan which
is large we've got the fins right here either side pushing that hot air out and you can just see the
two transfer pipes just in there which is great so they really do an excellent job minis for it with
the cooling on their mini pcs here in our bios you can see that we don't have a lot of options here
now the ram it's soldered onto the motherboard so we can't do anything with it now it's running
at 3.2 gigahertz but it could have been since it sold it on that really fast 4 266 megahertz
we didn't get it with this one unfortunately so that's the downside of this mini pc no
upgradable ram so there's no advanced settings here unfortunately other brands that i do cover
in the channel they give us all the options you can get yourself into a bit of trouble but you can
adjust power limits and tweak even memory timings or undervolt but you can't here with this one so
we've got boot order and then our boot override and you can change secure boot that's it for
bios settings now looking at windows here we do have approximately 200 gigabytes dedicated to the
iris xe graphics so leaving the gen chip here the core i5 11 32 0h the h series being 45 watt part
it does have four cores eight threads maximum turbos 4.5 gigahertz and you see that windows 10
pro so no problems with the license that activates and as mentioned there at the start that you can
easily upgrade this to windows 11 it's not a problem you just need some patience to run it
do the upgrade and you'll be fine with that it does support it this mini pc now our internal
storage so 512 gigabytes worth of it and it's pcie the 3.0 spec you can see those speeds aren't too
bad but yeah i have seen better of course the samsung drives tend to perform a little bit
better like their 970 evo the evo plus but still the random reads there and the writes especially
do look quite good so it's a relatively quick drive and a lot faster course than sata 3.
you've got the option of adding those two extra 2.5 inch drives if you want plenty
of extra storage it could either be a say to 3 ssd or spindle hard drive for the best kind of storage
capacity for the price you can really expand upon that now in the device manager you'll see that
of course the process is listed eight times with its eight threads and you'll notice too that this
is the real tech chip now it's a lot better than i thought um the other real techs that i've tested
out haven't been so great this is my actually my first time testing out this one the rz 608
it's wi-fi 6e and i do find it be very quick so i'm getting approximately 1.4 gigabit transfers
with my wi-fi 6 azus router which is excellent it's actually a little bit faster than what i'm
seeing with the intel ax 201 and the 200 which is pretty good there and then you'll see there's the
drive if you're interested in the model number of it and the iris xc graphics there with 96
executional cores with that now this chip is based off 10 nanometer process finally they got away
from 14 nanometers with their 14 nanometer plus plus plus plus so it was getting a bit ridiculous
and you can see that it is about approximately a 309 us dollar recommended price part that we've
got here and it's configured well 35 watts is it sorry not 45 that i said before it's 35 and
i can configure it down to 28. so performance wise when i take a look here at our geekbench 5 score
this score right here single core is very similar to the core i5 11 35 g7 which is a 28 watt part
and that's a 4.2 gigahertz maximum turbo chip this one's 4.5 but the multi-core score here is where
it does excel so this is approximately about 400 500 points higher than the core i7 11 sorry the
core i5 1135 g7 which you see a lot of in laptops so this one performing a little bit better being
the h part at 35 watts cinebench r23 so the multi-core score here over 5500 points is very
good for a quad core chip with the eight threads that it has it puts the performance above that of
the core i7 1165 g7 by quite a nice margin you can see there just over 620 points and it's somewhere
around the score of a core i7 11 700 k which is a desktop part with a much higher power limit
than what we have with this particular chipset looking now at our 3d mark scores so fire strike
over 4 200 points there that's good for integrated graphics now i have seen high from the iris
xe with the 96 executional cores but that's with systems that do run that faster 4266 megahertz ram
which really does aid the integrated graphics here but still that's a very good score and night raid
here which is a benchmark from 3dmark again that's recommended for integrated graphics this one
where it does very well getting just over 16 000 points here the cpu score just over
10 000. our video playback performance with the iris xc graphics is excellent so this is
a 4k hevc 60 frames per second file and i am recording screen capturing in 60 frames per second
so you should be able to see that this is running just fine perfectly
looks very good no issues with that so it does handle demanding codex just fine like this one
which is my 10 bit test file loads up really quick and that is not dropping any frames at all okay so
really quick smooth playback and not a problem i've come to expect this with all of the modern
integrated graphics they handle video files just fine video editing now with adobe premiere pro
the timeline relatively quick but i do have it set to just a quarter playback now 4k editing i
think is fine as long as it's basic edits which is what i'm doing right here with my timeline
i don't have any layers or anything like that it's the simple editing
and i'm not even grading the video here at all with this uh clip that i do have now half playback
you see that that is actually still fine i'll just quickly play it for a few seconds
uh great it doesn't seem to be a few stutters there at the half playback resolution but
it seems fine what i do now is my test what i'll export it one more minute here of our 4k
youtube preset and we'll see how long it's going to take now it should be
under one minute with the iris xc graphics and this particular spec of mini pc
start on the timer and export which is about a second later
we'll see how long this is going to take and it's ripping through that very quick
we can see here that most of the load is the iris xc graphics around 90 just over 90 percent
and the cpu is at about 60 not completely fully loaded there now it's about to end
and there we go you could say around 50 seconds that's an excellent score
to encode one minute of 4k footage here to the youtube preset with adobe premiere pro
onto our gaming performance with gta 5 so i have it set to 1080p on the medium preset basically for
graphics it's in the middle everything that's the slider for the view distance
and for our pedestrian density and you can see that here it is it's working good around
70 frames per second i have seen it dipped down to about 50 but i'll just change my camera here
get into the car and you'll see that all right here a little bit star around 60 but still very
very good here performance considering that this is ir60 graphics now if we did have that
faster ram with this it would be even better this performance but looking great i'm going to step it
up now to something a little bit more demanding and that is the witcher 3. i have it set to 720p
and it is on the low settings are we getting look at this 60 frames per second and i'm in the built
up town here where normally it's going to be the worst when you're out in the countryside the frame
rate gets even better than this now you can run it at 1080p but you take a bit of a hit on the
average frames per second you lose about 15 to 20 average frames per second so i prefer this
title still to play it at 720p but it's doing well the iris xe graphics for such a title like this
very demanding game now this is cyberpunk 2077 which i sometimes call cyber glitch
2077 because well you get the idea it's so glitchy whoa that's a good little stunt and
we are getting over 30 frames per second now i think this is actually pretty good considering
how demanding this game and that guy just dropped down more little glitches and
bugs with cyberpunk they still haven't fixed this game oh look at that he just decided to
always with the glitches it's so oh so funny this game ah cyber glitch cyber flop anyway you
can see here that the performance is looking pretty good for integrated graphics now what
happens if i decide to just take a few guys on is it going to completely lag out probably will
oh they're going to completely kill me but it's still playable so very good frame rate here out of
such a demanding title but iris xc graphics yes is really quite impressive
temperatures and fan noise now so it has had a very good average temperature here just around 38
as you can see on the cores and it does not have any thermal throttling whatsoever you
can see this one this is just to do with the power limit which of course it's going to hit
that because it's limited to 35 watts so we'll actually end up pulling i've seen from the wall
around 59 watts which is very similar to another mini pc that i'm reviewing that has
the 1135 g7 so very similar performance there and now at idle you're only looking at about
six watts power consumption which is not too bad to fire five to six so it's not really a high
power use system it's just when you're gaming then it starts to pull around the 60 watts what about
the fan noise so very good for the most part but when you do push it really hard you do hear the
fan it's more of a whooshing noise it's not high pitched here's a sample of it under full load
very quick look at linux here so this is linux mint now i ran into some trouble with
the drivers for the wireless card so that is going to be an issue you need to hunt around
sort out those drivers in order to get the wireless working apart from that everything
else does seem to be working overall i think it's really quite well specced here considering
the fact that you can add two 2.5 inch drives for really improving on that storage capacity
and it does have the pcie 512 gigabyte boot drive within it the only real con for me
and you probably guessed it is the ram so 16 gigabytes of ddr4 ram running at 3.2 gigahertz
is great but it's soldered onto the motherboard there are no sodium slots so we can't just go and
add and put say 32 gigabytes in this or later on maybe if you want to run 64 it's not possible and
looking at their website it seems that all the configurations are just 16 gigabytes of ram so
that's really the only con for me with this mini pc and the minor one just being the fan noise
apart from that fantastic performance out of the quad core if you want to do a little bit
of light gaming on the side you don't have a dedicated gpu and you want to run say older
titles like something like gta 5 or even gta 5 online you can play it with this even at 1080p
just run lower settings and you still get a decent frame rate which is normally around 60 frames per
second on average even demanding titles i was surprised to see cyberpunk still runs on this
okay but it's only 30 frames per second it's not amazing and it's just at hd not full hd but
really good that it can do it so it plays videos with absolute ease we've got the two 2.5 gigabit
lan ports on this which is great fast wireless if you're a linux user you're going to have a
few issues with the drivers with that particular chipset you have to hunt around and solve that
particular problem there and then it can run three displays and you're able to run some of those
with of course thunderbolt 4 up to 8k and with the thunderbolt 4 you can even run external gpus
through this if you wanted to add more graphics power you decided you wanted to game on it later
down the track you get one of those razer external gpus for example plug it into this and use it that
way so all up this is a great mini pc here thanks for watching my review of the elite mini th 50.