The Beelink SER7 is the Most Powerful Mini PC I've Tested - Full Review - Ryzen 7840HS

VIDEO INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Price
01:01 - Processor, RAM, Storage and Upgrades
02:40 - Ports
04:06 - Power
04:41 - Thunderbolt & Ethernet Tests
06:38 - Web Browsing & YouTube
07:39 - Browserbench Speedometer Test
07:49 - Video Editing
08:23 - Gaming: Red Dead Redemption 2, Doom Eternal & Fortnite
09:31 - 3DMark TimeSpy Benchmark
10:11 - 3DMark Stress Test and Fan Noise
10:55 - Linux
11:35 - Conclusion

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[brokenrobot]

I was looking for a new laptop for my mobile workstation, but now I'm considering a mini PC. Thanks Lon!

[FlintG]

Really am glad these mini pcs are getting some love and attention they really are great pcs too I thought of getting one or a m2 mac mini since I really don't want to try and get new parts to build a new pc soon these mini pcs make much more sense to me to just get one instead.

[akin]

Great for programmers, video editors using Davinci code, and people who want to game near AAA games on it. With 32GB of DDR5 RAM and 1TB of SSD, you can do a lot with it.

[daveschmarder-]

I'll be buying a Beelink computer in the next months. It won't have that kind of horsepower, but I don't do tasks that require much power. Nice video, Lon. I like how you present the videos pretty much the same, for easier comparison.

[MediaWest]

we have a SER5. it works flawlessly with our nas/ security setup, with 8 cameras and obs. not a small feat, with two large hd monitors. and totally freaking silent! ser7 is next.
oh, and it replaced the server size pc we built with water cooling and 4 cores, 16g ram, and that ser5 blows it out of the water. 300 bucks!

[michaelcorcoran]

I like the one with the kind of aqua colorway. I don't know why many PCs always have to look so lifeless. And I'm glad there's a muted gray version available but I wish more companies would offer more variety in terms of the aesthetics

[daveshmups]

That’s a really impressive mini PC! The only reservation that I would have about buying one of these is that Beelink doesn’t have any offices here in the United States. So if something breaks, you’re probably on your own.

[KtotheL]

The only thing I could possibly want more is the oculink part (basically TB5 early). Out of all the ones out there ( and I have studied quite a few of them from every company ) this is my favorite one. I really like the pro model of the same but supposedly there's an issue and it's a bit larger. I could see this PC still serving files for me in 10 years easy... It has everything (except oculink/TB5) it's well built and well designed and if it weren't for Christmas sales coming soon I would already bought it. Currently $729 but I could a scooped it up at 609. I'll keep waiting a little bit more cuz I really want memory that can do 7500 mts, TB5, and a better graphics card then what's currently offered I'm not satisfied with any of it but that kind of money. Thanks for the video Lon this is the third time I've watched it 😊

[mowcowbell]

I bought one from Amazon a few days ago, the magnetic power plug would cut power to the unit with the slightest touch. Had to return it. Beelink ditched this connector and went back to a barrel connector for the SER8.

[Bacavoit]

I've been wanting to buy these Mini PCs for quite a while now but sadly whenever I'm about to buy one I read that that specific model has some kind of issue so I wait for it to get fixed and then a new model launches and it's just a loop of I want to buy - I need to wait.

This one is the new model I want to buy and sadly there are some issues I read yesterday that are keeping me on hold. (can't even remember what)

Great review!

[linuxkidd]

re: WiFi in Linux - probably needed the Intel Firmware package installed. It's common these are left off the base install for Debian based distros. You can confirm by running `dmesg | grep -i firmware` and see what's missing.

[nadtz]

I got a SER5 to be my windows box since I'm planning to move my main desktop to Linux and I'll still need a windows box (and don't want to do dual boot or a VM). My only complaint was the SSD it came with was slow even for a gen 3 drive but I had a p41 plus that I bought when Amazon had them on sale from Microcenter and swapped that in. Kind of wish a barebones option was available but overall for the price and what I intend to use it for I'm pretty happy with it. The SER7 which I also took a look at is priced high enough that I'd rather buy a regular PC but I also get there are a lot of people out there who want something small that doesn't gobble up a ton of power that 'just works'. I'm just happy that SFF PC's have finally moved out of the enterprise, just surprised it took so long.

[jacymark]

Long time viewer of your show as your research is spot on as always. I got one of these last week. Onboard video is great but i hooked my egpu with a 2080 ti. Currently playing Hogwarts Legacy maxed out at and it runs perfectly.

[herlegz]

Wait till you try the Beelink GTR7 Pro 7940HS. Absolutely love my lava orange incredible machine!

[KatRollo]

4:34 - Just a side note, the USB4 PD cannot power the device based on actual testing by multiple SER7 owners (myself included). You're stuck with the wacky (proprietary) power connector.

[richardremmele]

I have tried several over the last couple of months. 11 gen Neosmay Celeron 5105 and Pentium 6005 and the 12 gen Pentium 200. I do streaming with recording on both Playon and 4k on Download Helper and do email and other tabs with Firefox and Chrome. The 5105 was the best value and did all the tasks, but individually with the recording at 70% to 80% of the CPU with spikes higher. The others did not do much better and required a dedicated CPU for the Streaming and Recording. So I finally replaced my 1st gen i-7 with an 11th gem i-7 so called 4 x 4 mini the GMKtec NUCBOX M2 which did everything all at once with multiple tab on the browser at a cost of $374 with tax and free shipping. But I will say that a lot of people without cPU intensive application will be extremely happy only paying $200 for the Neosmay Celeron 5105.

[theblackninja]

You mentioned on the video you will show how to connect the ser7 to an external GPU

[StingerDave]

I wish reviewers would also include an added nvme 4 drive installed on the expansion storage part of the unit. At least you did an external on the Thunderbolt 4 port but I'd like to see if it would be able to use a 4tb nvme drive. The website says 2tb, but I've seen one review where they took a WD black 4tb nvme and put it in an SER 5 as a boot drive and it actually worked fine, so I'm betting that that 2tb that's listed on Beelinks website is incorrect or not updated. Again with todays hardware you would think it should handle 4tb's no problem and since 8tb nvme's are now out you have to wonder if they would also work. I do realize that the 8tb''s are expensive, but I'm sure there would be some that would use them in a setup like this.

[brads]

Hardware support for Linux on these new systems is why I went back to windows :(

[keyboard_g]

I would expect Fedora to better detect the hardware over Ubuntu. They tend to ship a newer Linux kernel.