I also use ‘Phoronix Test Suite’ and benchmark with the same set of tests on both Windows and Ubuntu for comparison purposes. I am now reviewing using Windows 10 version 21H1 and Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and test with a selection of commonly used Windows benchmarks and/or equivalents for Linux together with Thomas Kaiser’s ‘sbc-bench’ which is a small set of different CPU performance tests focusing on server performance when run on Ubuntu. When reviewing mini PCs, I typically look at their performance under both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and compare them against some of the more recently released mini PCs. Also included is a multilingual user manual: In the box, you get a power adapter and cord, both a short and a longer HDMI cable, a VESA mounting bracket together with a small packet of miscellaneous screws.
The review model included a 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD drive with Windows 10 Pro installed and a single stick of 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz memory occupying one of the SO-DIMM slots which was configured in the BIOS to run at 2400 MHz:Īdditionally, there is a replaceable M.2 2230 WiFi 5 (or 802.11ac) Intel Wireless-AC 7265 card under the M.2 2280:Īnd the ability to add an additional 2.5” SATA drive to the lid which is connected to the motherboard via a short ZIF cable: The rear panel includes a gigabit Ethernet port, dual USB 3.0 ports, dual HDMI (assumed to be 2.0) ports, and the power jack.
The front panel has an illuminated power button, dual USB 3.0 ports, a Type-C USB 3.0 port with Alternate Mode, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a reset pin-hole ‘CLR CMOS’. As an actively cooled mini PC, it uses AMD’s older 12 nm Zen+ Ryzen 7 3750H Picasso processor which is a quad-core 8-thread 2.3 GHz mobile processor boosting to 4.0 GHz with Radeon RX Vega 10 Graphics. The SER3 physically consists of a 126 x 113 x 40mm (4.96 x 4.45 x 1.57 inches) square metal case. Beelink kindly sent one for review and I’ve looked at performance running both Windows and Ubuntu together with using an eGPU. However, the performance is surprisingly good once a few tweaks are made to the stock configuration. It is another ‘new’ mini PC using an older CPU, in this case, an AMD mobile processor. Beelink has just launched a new mini PC called the SER3.
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