we're at the Minnie's Forum booth at computex 2023 and I don't know how they
keep doing it but I saw the last one I was like this is a Mac Mini killer it's
cheaper than the Mac Mini it's faster than the Mac Mini and you know what they
have another one that is basically the same price as a Mac Mini with no storage
and whatnot but it is even more faster
it's got rdna3 graphics and Zen 4 cores that turbo to over five gigahertz in a
box it's an eighth of a shoe box that's how small this thing is and we're gonna
tear it apart we're gonna see how fast it goes assuming we can get a monitor
from ASUS shout out ASUS the last one we checked out was called the um 773 well
this is the um 790 Pro on the front
we've got a power button two USB 440 gigabit ports is that microphone
microphone headphone combo Jack there's a little reset button and then I assume
that's a power indicator on the side mesh because this is a 54 watt Max TDP
CPU which is actually the same amount of power as the littler one that we looked
at but it's Zen four it's already in A3 it's going to be quite a bit faster on
the back the thing that I love about these mini forums things there's just so
much I o i it's kind of ridiculous I talked about in the AVerMedia thing that
you could use this as a streaming PC you seriously seriously could 2.5 gigabit
Lan always nice to see this time we have two USB HDMI 2.1 ports which was a bit
of a gripe on the last one hopefully we can actually do high refresh rate output but the monitor that ASUS has found now
is pro art so I don't know if it's high refresh rate it's probably not a high refresh rate right
probably 60 hertz okay well
that's fine having any monitor is better than nothing for power it's a 19 volt
power brick we had a bit of a last minute tragedy they don't have the power
break for this thing so I sent Sasha on a wild goose chase to find a 19 volt
power brick which conveniently is a kind of a standard for monitors and laptops
and they did find one but it's only 90 watts and they were saying that the
usual power brick for this is 120. I'm hoping because it's 55-ish Watts that
will be okay but we're just gonna have to wait and see because there is still
storage and stuff to consider on the side over here we've got a bunch of 10
gig type A ports which is again awesome lots of i o
that's pretty much it on the outside Sleek packaging the outside of this one
is a nice kind of it looks like a sandblasted kind of aluminum finish it
feels a lot more premium than the other one and to be fair there is a bit of a
price premium but you're getting a lot more performance and there is a lot more
interesting stuff going on inside so why don't we crack it open it comes off it's
sticky oh my God I said this in the last video I really think that these
shouldn't be sticky they should have some other way to mount because then you
can't reuse it it's fine you can buy this thing as a Bare Bones kit with no
RAM and no CPU this one has 32 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs of storage but on their
website you can configure it as high as one terabyte with 64 gigs of RAM or as
low as 16 gigs of RAM with 512 gigs of storage oh look at that
uh okay there's a little cable oh there's two cables oh there's many
cables I guess this thing has two fans actually this is the fan on the back and
there's a completely different fan for the cooler this uh fan and heatsink is
to cool the m.2 ssds there's a fan in here and a heat sink and then um thermal
pads okay I got the fan cable but there is also Wi-Fi antennas but they're
underneath the ssds 512 gig Gen 4 Kingston Drive and what you might notice
there's two gen 4 slots instead of just one that means in theory you could run
Raid 0 which would be kind of insane on a device like this I probably wouldn't
recommend that or Raid one so you could have a little bit of I guess sort of
redundancy um in your boot Drive which is always nice although raid one is usually not
too heavy because there's not really any parity data to calculate so it's
probably okay over here we've got a slot for the Wi-Fi card oh my God this does
support USBC power does this support USB power
no we spend so much time trying to find
a power brick Oh my God okay I don't even have time to be like distraught
that's great though I mean you can run it on type c I have 140 watt power brick
in my bag we should use that then we can use the high refresh rate monitor 140
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check them out of the link below alright for RAM we have our two 16 gig sticks
because this is N4 this is should be ddr5 let's put it back in there's two
sticks they're both removable so you totally can service this thing you
totally can upgrade this thing speaking of the CPU it's a ryzen 97940 HS which
is kind of like a mobile laptop SKU 8 core 16 thread base clock of 4 gigahertz
and turbos to a Max of 5.2 which is kind of ridiculous it is configurable TDP so
35 watts to 54 Watts they put this little plastic piece on there to protect
the antenna connectors so stupid people don't rip them off when they're taking
it apart this is very smart let's start going further they're all looking
nervous now still seems very in there oh
yeah there we go it's just the ports kind of hold it
fitted in there oh my God it's so close yeah I give up I
chipped the edge of the PCB there's nothing there but I give up we have nine
minutes to put it back together boot it into Windows try to uh I don't know
probably not play a game the internet's too slow to play a game here but we can
at least run cinebench or something let's see if it still turns on on the
website it says PDN let's try it
it's lit up hopefully this cable doesn't light on fire it's 140 watt brick so it
should be okay for some perspective of the performance of this processor and
everything compared to the um 773 that we looked at before it's 15 faster
single threaded and around 20 faster overall look it's booted into Windows
look just like that the USB power works and if you want to
compare it to like a desktop CPU it's about a couple percent slower than a 13
600k single threaded which is kind of mind-blowing I mean look at this 13600k
is 125 watt TDP CPU that really runs it
more like 200 Watts so this is kind of nuts okay can we get high refresh rate
if we can't it's definitely not the monitor's fault I assure you unless Sasha brought me a bunk monitor oh my
God 1080p 240 no way look at that this
thing is Tiny oh my God why'd you bring
me a 1080p monitor what the hell I'm just kidding it's actually good
because this system is you would want a game at 1080p if you're
in a game at all okay let's get uh cinebench these downloads are not
stressing the Wi-Fi 60 killer chip in here at all we're probably getting like
one megabyte down for sure oh no 2.5 that's not bad and we're downloading
steam at like one megabyte a second oh God
oh God that's not a good sound that says we're closing the convention
Halls type of sound we're downloading stuff right now too
this is not a perfect science by any stretch of the imagination
five gigabytes a second sick so it looks
like read speeds uh sequentially about five gigabytes a second read 3.5
gigabytes a second right uh you could probably go faster if you put a faster
SSD this is just like a Kingston uh OEM kind of SSD let's see how fast our
memory is running at 5600 look at that and there's our CPU look at all those
cores you can see base speed four gigahertz
and we're running at 4.25 right now which is pretty cool all right cinebench
let's go multi-core let's watch the Power 55 look at that 54
Watts it's the full TDP it doesn't even care we're barely
cracking like 70 something degrees Yeah full power CPU 54 Watts that's a lot a
lot of power in a little package like this this is a really hard area to
evaluate noise because this they're playing music like get the hell out of
the convention center but I'm trying to hear it
you can hear it you can definitely hear it it's kicking off a lot of heat it's
definitely ripping if you look at the core temperatures the hottest core got
up to 76 degrees Celsius and it still really wasn't that loud
look at that score it is as fast as a first generation
threadripper 16 core faster than a 7700k
by almost three times that literally these cores there's half of them
remember as this red Ripper they are twice as fast given that there's half of
them this is ridiculous yeah look at that okay it's
4 000 single threaded which is about the same as a 13600 it's also about the same
as a 13700 uh the CPU score almost 31
000 multi-threaded is very very fast I think that's a pretty close to a 12 700k
it's mind-boggling because this is so small
we can run 3D Mark I guess
it's a GTX 780 scores about an 8 000 in
this test this scores about a 7700 so it's kind of
in the the range of a GTX 780 which is
an old cart but this is also basically
integrated Graphics in a tiny PC so if your 780 could run it this probably can
I like the last one because it was so cheap this is still pretty inexpensive
when you consider the performance and it's got a nice aluminum chassis it's
sick I love mini PCS I seriously think that with a USB capture card this could
be a sick streaming PC I'm sure you could game on it too rdna3 Graphics I
really did want to try that but regardless check them out in the link in
the description uh you can buy it Bare Bones you can buy it with RAM you can
buy it with ssds whatever you want you can get two ssds if you want if you like
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