It's BETTER - The Best Mini PC Today

We loved the Beelink GTR7. This is what happens when we get a PRO version. This version has the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS 8 core CPU an upgrade to the non-Pro version. We also compare this to the GTR7 and the Minisforum UM790 Pro.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:29 External Hardware Overview
07:03 Internal Hardware Overview
10:19 AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with Radeon 780M Performance
12:17 Power Consumption and Noise
14:04 Key Lessons Learned

[gabrielpi]

One benefit to the bright colors: For people in the "wonderful" position of remote IT support, being able to tell a non-techie to press the power button on the "BRIGHT ORANGE THING" is a plus. Particularly when it lives around a bunch of black, silver and white devices, probably surrounded with a rats nest of cables.

[arachnotron]

that proprietary power connector ruins everything

[TwstedTV]

For those wondering the price ranges from $1, 050 to $1, 200 depending on where you buy it.

[antonnym]

Nice reporting and review. This is a new channel for me and you are already my favorite for hardware. You have a gift for presenting super-interesting stuff. Keep up the good work!

[drdroop]

They just need to make ITX boards of these systems for us to throw in our own chassis

[DR-]

Your analysis is the best out there...your vids are so full of relevant info and well constructed format makes them easy to follow and interesting. Outstanding !! Thank

[GadgetyMV]

Great that you test and show the noise levels.

[phillyguy]

I'm glad you did kind of a comparison with the minisforum um790. I have been trying to decide which of the 2 I want and I think it's clear now that it's the gtr7 pro.

[jallen]

Really wish Beelink would provide a barebones option allowing people to buy whatever memory or m.2 / SSD speed or capacity.

[BillLambert]

The proprietary power connector is what 100% kills it for me. I like the rest, but that magnetic plug is truly pointless when a plain old DC barrel would have been just fine.

[CIS]

These look really great ! I was shopping for a mini-PC last year which included this brand. I ended up getting a refurbished HP EliteDesk 800 G3. Those types have a modular port option, and with this re-furb that happened to be occupied by a VGA port. So that allowed me to connect 3 cheap monitors without a docking station nor adapters etc. So that worked out great, and so did the price at $600. Maybe my next one will be from the brand in this video.

[TehFreek]

I just *cannot* take seriously any mini-system that has an exposed "Clear CMOS" button. I don't care if there are workarounds for powering on the system, one day someone *is* going to unnecessarily press that button, either accidentally or deliberately.

[jollojakar]

UM790 Pro has liquid metal and good cooling. Easy to close any performance gap with a bit of O/C. I would be more swayed by the power connector. Either way, very similar products, can't go wrong.

[Cryptolorian]

Add some proper 90mm fans or something and I'm in, those tiny fans are just too risky for me to even give these units a go. They should do a taller version where they have a 120mm fan in-taking air from the bottom which should great for cooling and be super silent!

[diotitus]

Thanks for this! I think you literally just sold me on the Windows Mini PC concept. I really love the fact that these Mini PCs can now literally rival full blown traditional tower desktop and that I can turn one into essentially a full on Windows gaming desktop just by connecting it to an eGPU.

[chiragshroff]

Perfect Mini PC for the Proxmox Cluster i was thinking but proprietary power connector ruins everything

[Enigma]

Really good review. I agree about the proprietary magnetic ZIF power port however the save is that you can power it also with the USB port on the back. I remember when these systems came out and the performance was laughable. Now they are putting performance that most desktops don't have with half the power consumption. Thumbs up STH.

[JMartinni]

The SSD cooling solution is fine. The controller is what heats up and needs cooling the most. This way there's also no chance to trap heat and transfer it from the controller to the NAND chips.

[spx]

Regarding the thermal pads for the NVMe SSD's, if I am not mistaken, only the SSD controller benefits from cooling to prevent throttling. NAND chips actually perform better with higher temperatures (to a certain degree needless to say).

[thebrownlizard]

amazing review !!!! btw i randomly found someone using ur video and put music on it and a logo to hide it,