Super Cheap! Beelink Mini S12 Mini PC Review & Benchmarks (4K)

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00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Unboxing
02:02 - Teardown
02:58 - 4K Video
03:06 - Benchmarks
03:48 - Game testing
06:04 - Sound & Power
06:20 - Who is this for?

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@melikama 2 ай бұрын

A short, informative video; no hype. Thanks. I just bought one, (with the wrong adapter plug) and look forward to trying it out. The packaging was neat, and adequately protective.

@bulltech20 7 ай бұрын

1k subs, you made it bro! congrats 🙂 and nice video, as always 🙂

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

It's your turn next, my friend!!

@EVOTech1 7 ай бұрын

congrats on 1k subs! 🥳🎉

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend!!!

@Nightwalker- 2 ай бұрын

Works great as a Linux Desktop or Kodi/Plesk media server. Mounts directly on your HDMI TV.

@svala1613 7 ай бұрын

So cute!

@delsarcade 7 ай бұрын

I'm wondering if this would be a good emulation box? I'm planning to run a bar top with vertical MAME games only.

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

I think this might be okay, but for peace of mind i'd suggest getting a PC with better graphics capabilities. The only emulation I tested was PCSX2 which granted, is more demanding, but it sucked! Beelink SER 5 might be a better choice for your needs. Thanks for commenting

@TheBasquiatjm 5 ай бұрын

can you watch 4k streams with this mini?

@opcn18 7 ай бұрын

I bought one that hasn't arrived yet. I did so because I'm a mac user and there are a bunch of little games on steam that don't seem too terribly graphics intensive that I'd like to play but don't want to fuss with bootcamp. I'm really hoping it has enough CPU to run 'They are billions' and 'Forts.'

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

Best of luck!

@alleynebenjamin1895 3 ай бұрын

Hi, would this be able to handle Sims 4 with a lot of cc and mods? Want to get one but don’t wanna have any issues with it running the game

@SmallBoxCentral 3 ай бұрын

No I think Sims 4 would be too much for this unfortunately

@jhcs43 7 ай бұрын

I'm looking for something to use as a file server, has got to be a Windows machine. would the 16GB/500GB version do the job?

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

I don't see why not! Although remember your speed will be limited to the LAN port speed, so max file transfer speed you'll get is ~120MB/s in ideal conditions.

@jhcs43 7 ай бұрын

@@SmallBoxCentral thanks for the reply, so one with dual LAN ports and preferably 2.5gbs would be better?

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

@@jhcs43 Sadly it's not that easy! To get 2.5gb speeds you would need a 2.5gb switch/router and a 2.5gb network card on each PC you want to use it with. Otherwise it will default to 1gb. I don't think you can combine two ports to double the speed on windows file servers. Ultimately your speed will always be limited by your slowest network component, so you would need to upgrade everything to 2.5 or higher to get faster speeds which is very time consuming and expensive With that said 1gb speed is more than enough for most things, it's only the really big files (10+ GB) where you start to feel it being slow. Hope that helps

@jhcs43 7 ай бұрын

@@SmallBoxCentral all it will serve as is for sage accounting software, hence why it has to be windows, the biggest file size won't be that big I don't think

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

@@jhcs43 then you should be fine my friend - good luck

@Top_Lad 7 ай бұрын

Does watching 4k 60fps video count as doing something graphically intensive? That's all I need it for and these celeron or n100/200 devices seem perfect for that.

@SmallBoxCentral 7 ай бұрын

I'm surprised how well it handled the 4k video if I'm honest, because I would consider it graphically intensive too. Maybe KZfaq's compression means the bit rate is so low that it can handle it fine, but would struggle with 4k blu-rays. If you had doubts maybe step up to the SER 5 or something but I think you'd be fine if it's just KZfaq

@Top_Lad 7 ай бұрын

@@SmallBoxCentral Thank you for your response, will take this into account! The "new" Minisforum Venus UM480 XT seems nice as well, cheers.

@ThePirateParrot 7 ай бұрын

I would expect it to do video trans coding very well. According to Ark this has intel quick sync support thats intels hardware encoder/decoder which is one of the best in the business. On that basis it will be great as a small media box and performance should be comparable to other intel 12th gen parts.

@ragnarocking Ай бұрын

does anyone know if this would work OK with stock market trading/charting software - such as TDAmeritrade/Schwab _Think or Swim_ or similar? I know it's not a CPU/GPU intensive video game, but software like this (in my standard usage) does repaint hundreds of quotes and update 4-6 charts several times per second. My ~2013 desktop with an Intel 4770k handles it with ease, but I'm required to upgrade to Windows 11 and I don't want to spend more than I have to. Thanks

@SmallBoxCentral Ай бұрын

4770k performs better than this so I'd probably go a little higher end like a Beelink SER5 - the Ryzen 5 5560U in the SER5 should be about twice as fast as a 4770K (and it's still quite cheap relatively speaking)

@ragnarocking Ай бұрын

@@SmallBoxCentral thanks! I'm new to the brand and wasn't aware there were so many models to choose from! I'll probably go with a SER5 or better. Thanks