Intel Mini PC CPU Comparison N95 N100 Celeron N5105

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Comparing four Intel Mini PC's 11th and 12th gen:
Beelink U59: Celeron N5105, 16GB Dual Channel DDR4, 512GB M.2 SATA SSD
Beelink Mini S / S12: Processor N95, 16GB Single Channel DDR4, 256GB M.2 NVMe
Trigkey G4: Processor N100, 16GB Single Channel DDR4, 512GB M.2 NVMe
Trigkey G5: Processor N100, 16GB Single Channel DDR5, 512GB M.2 NVMe

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:02 Ports and Details
15:43 Power Supply
16:25 Disassembly
19:23 BIOS
21:26 HWInfo Details
29:03 Benchmarks
30:42 Boot Time
31:15 Display Output
33:11 CPU Benchmarks
34:50 USB / SATA Verification
35:38 File Transfer SSD and Network
40:13 CPU Usage, Temps, Clocks, Power
44:45 Surface Tamps
45:21 Game Benchmarks
48:15 Power Draw from Wall
49:16 Fan Noise
52:48 Linux Installation
54:27 Final Thoughts / Overview

[Mr.Cyberdude]

Love the way you review. Now heading over to find your gaming benchmarks as you forgoit to add the link in the description as you said you would. Thanks for your efforts. Keep doing what you're doing.

[noelhampson]

Wow no BS, no sales pitch just, a deep dive into system capabilities, excellent review.👍

[jowierson]

Great comparison review! Thank you for including the Handbrake results. Keep up the excellent work.

[dwinterx]

Really comprehensive and useful, thanks for the great video.

[bokami]

Now *THIS* is how to review a system! If you look up the word "thorough" in the dictionary, you'll find HTWingNut's picture. I think the only thing you didn't cover was how these Mini PC's smell :-) Seriously though, the only thing I can think that was missing was the dimensions of the cases, although that's easily looked up and the BeeLink machine's looked to be about the same, and the same for the Trigkey machine. You should be very proud of this work and I'd like to say Thank you for the time and effort you put into this video. Liked & Subscribed.

[NNJAKIDD]

Thank you for the information in the video. You really went in depth and I really appreciate it. Excellent quality 👌🏾. You got a sub

[robfl]

Excellent review, worth every minute!

[honumoorea]

What a nice work you did there....! Thanks a lot.

[ericcccccable]

Thank you for this comparison, very complete and very useful. We see in particular that the PCIe 3 interface (to connect the SSD) is 1 x 8GT/s, therefore limited to speeds of 985 MB/s, regardless of the speed of the SSD. Some critical components are therefore too old to take full advantage of system performance. Too bad...

[fantomwaw]

Very useful and informative. Thank you indeed for putting so much work into this review! I guess I'll take G4 for office and web use mainly. Seems the best buy for the money.

[garyc]

I have a Trigkey G4. Was on offer at Amazon before Xmas for £149.99. It runs and performs very well. I find that on load I can bearly hear the fan. I have a 1gb ssd installed as well and do very large photo transfers and video editing it runs much quieter than my i7 12700 with 64gb ram. Very handy having 2 hdmi and was cheaper than adding another video card to the i7. ATB. regards from the UK

[juandiegoiriartelima]

Great job on the comparison.
I was surprised by the performance of the G4 compared to the G5 😮

[msedv]

Very good! I have a g5 and the beelink one here, checks it both but not as well as you have done. good job!
One question, what software do you use for creating these comparison charts?

[edakimling]

This was an amazing expertly done video. I live offgrid, so every watt counts. Based on your video I was able to determine that for $60 CAD extra and about 5watts extra on light duty, the G5 beats hands down a Rpi5. that was key for me to understand. I ordered two of the G5; one will be a server with debian + CasaOS and the other will be my pc. thanks a million for this video!

[yearofthegarden]

Thanks for the detailed information. I have a 5195 which is great and i run on a battery bank like a laptop. Makes sense now why it drains the battery if i leave it plugged in, max load is below 30w with monitor though. I think ill upgrade to n95 for better power use and the newer model isnt fanless, which is a nice novelty but gets way to hot

[mikeh]

Nice review. Pity the ddr5 system was throttling. I would have liked to see how much faster this alder lake-N cpu is when not ram bottlenecked (single channel only).

[topgun]

Good video. I am not sure if someone told you but all DDR5 is duel channel in the chip itself. Kind of visualize DDR5 is 2 banks on 1 die. Running them in pairs puts in quad channel which not all CPU's support.

[herosandwich]

Wonderful thank you! Probably going to pull the trigger on a G5 for those 2.5g nics

[ryanali]

Very thorough and helpful video. Thank you!
Quick question though, with the trigkey devices they mention they only suppport up to 2tb m.2 nvme drives. Even though it is not supported, would a 4tb m.2 drive work? I don't see why it wouldn't work but I'd like your opinion on this please

[davidniquot]

Very informative, good quality video that will get you more viewers, subscribed for more.
Many review are too simple to show the different faces of a device, you show many faces of them, i'll go for the Trigkey G4 for my Home assistant device to replace my NUC 7100U => More power and lesss power consumption (i'm off grid and each Watt count).
Advice : try to keep things in the same place (i know you already tried too) for example the CrystalDiskMark display 35:00, TrigKeys are now on the bottom while devices were presnted at the top.