Beelink SER5 Mini PC W11 Pro, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U(6C/12T up to 4.0GHz), 16GB DDR4 500 NVME SSD Graphics 7 core 1800 MHz WiFi 6/BT5.2/HDMI+Type-C Triple Display Mini Gaming PC Computer

I like tiny computers. I spent most of my long IT career moving big ones around, which is why I have to Mac minis and this Beelink box on my desk, all connected to a KVM so they share my screen, trackpad, and keyboard. I'm amazed at how much of a machine I could build with this little powerhouse. I'm not a gamer, I use my machines for work, running VMs, and general computing. I added 64G of RAM and two 2T SSDs to max this little puppy out. It works like a charm. Because I'm visually-impaired, I used it to try out a few different Linux distributions for accessibility. It ran all of them just fine, and I finally settled on the latest Fedora. It's still not accessible as my Macs, but I digress. Honestly, the quality of this unit has me thinking of using them as lab machines at work; most of our PC systems that support the equipment are getting long-in-the-tooth, and these would be a nice upgrade at a very low price point. Plus, they'd take up less room and eat less power. So, I have no issues recommending this machine. It does what it should, quietly and competently without taking up much space.

I bought the mini PC for the memory and Windows 11. Am very happy with the results! It was very easy to set up, attached nicely to the back of the monitor I purchased, and is a great value for the money.

Let me just frame this review with the fact that have basically lived through the evolution of personal computing. My 5th or 6th grade class was on old tube monitors with two colors where we learned how to type basic code to make a ball bounce or something like that. My best friend in HS had a classic Commadore and one of the first home personal computers in the giant towers. I lived through dial up and the inception of HTML. My first personal computer was a giant tower from gateway, lol. I used 3.5" disks, real floppies, and lived through the days of the first USB sticks that held 256MB. That being said, I am not a computer professional or someone who buys computers for fun. I have one for the normal daily things plus hobbies I have (vinyl cutting and computerized embroidery). Recently, I decided to join the Minecraft universe and play with my two children for fun. I upgraded to this Beelink SERPro AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS from a laptop with a dual core Intel processor with 8GB RAM after doing much research on an affordable option to support basic gaming and image processing. My laptop would lag during Minecraft and during large image file processing. I am beyond pleased with this tiny PC! Not to mention the size of it is amazing! Everything has been super fast set up, plug and play ready, and easy. The beetle green finish is icing on the cake. The performance and price point make this a no brainer. From reading other reviews, I know a lot of other users do stuff to make it even more capable of gaming, but that is beyond my skillset. I did not mount mine behind the monitor because I read that there can be Bluetooth interference, so for now it is sitting on my desk.

So far, this pc has held up with frame rate and minimal delay across all my competitive games (league, overwatch, etc), and apps. I’ve also been able to do computations involving machine vision pretty quick on it as well. Apart from the slight iGPU bottlenecking, not a bad pc for the price.

What will you do with all that desk space. It really is something to see this tiny box performing better than my Intel 7. I used to build my own computers and they would last 8 to 10 years. But so far this computer is hammering my other system. Expansion is the only drawback so far. All my additional hard drives and dvd writers now have to go on the USB. Other than that this is a gem

The computer works wonderfully, however I purchased this in October and here it is December 3 and now I've had constant issues with the wifi card inside the unit. I will probably just buy an external antenna but was hoping to keep this thing compact as possible. Update 12-8-23 I purchased an external wifi antenna, worked good for a week or so. Then kept losing internet again even though house internet speed checked very fast on old computer. Decided to do a reset on computer, that windows offers after the reset will not go past loading screen and doesn't seem to recognize keyboard or mouse anymore. Really not happy that after 2 months there's this many problems. When my last " E" machine from Walmart purchased in 2006 still works fine, just slow..

I bought this mini when my 20+ year old tower style computer died. I was amazed at how much faster the mini is. There is more crammed into the mini than in my old tower, too. It was very easy to set up. Just plug everything in and do a simple Windows set up. I also like the fact that it's easy to ad more memory. It is a little short on USB plugs, but a simple USB hub took care of that. So far I'm loving my mini. It sits quietly (silent) and unobtrusively on my desk.

Had a lot of issues with it from the start. Froze up with no screen, fan shut down and got fairly hot and had to pull the plug. When it cooled down, after the cool down had to do a complete re install and got it working. Has had bluescreen errors after that. Hope that its done with its problems for now. Probably wont buy another one of these.

Me ha llegado en muy poco tiempo. Me sorprende la calidad del producto y el embalaje, haciendo una revisión del hardware e instalando un SSD m.2 extra, he podido apreciar la calidad de los materiales con los que esta construida la carcasa, cargador y cables que trae. Sin duda, una excelente opción de minicomputador que ha llegado a sustituir mi vieja laptop. Estoy pensando en comprar otro equipo de estos muy pronto.

this comp has been great i can easily play all of my games on it

Es un equipo con muy buena configuración por el precio, tiene muy buena calidad de materiales, componentes y de construcción. El único pero que se le podría poner es el SSD, no es muy bueno por lo que recomendaría adquirir el equipo con la menor cantidad de almacenamiento disponible y luego cambiarlo por cuenta propia.

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Once I fixed the corrupted files (AMD video driver, Intel BT driver, multiple Windows 11 files, it would not update to the latest version), I pleasantly discovered that it could provide power, video and audio via its USB-C port to my new portable 15.6" monitor. The terabyte SSD and 32 GB of RAM easily runs (coupled with a 4 GB RAM drive my CPU-intensive SDR radio software and hardware, which my Intel I5 (8 GB RAM) and Intel I7 (16 GB RAM) struggle with. Having a separate 4GB for the AMD Radeon graphics GPU card makes a huge difference, too, taking the load off of the CPU! With 32 GB, you can set up a 4 GB RAM drive (I use the free and easy to use with Windows 11 ASUS "ROG" RAM Disk software, which helps when streaming rapidly changing/constant data read/write by keeping data in RAM for as long as possible (faster than SSD) and also taking the wear and tear load off the SSD. If not for the corrupted software issues, I would give it 5 stars. The SSD surface checked out okay, so perhaps an issue with Beelink installing the software using corrupted sources, or excessive X-ray exposure by Canada Customs scanning packages? The AMD driver software was able to update itself from AMD by clicking on its icon. I had to download the Windows 11 ISO to repair it, as well as the Intel BT driver to fix the BT corrupted files. But after a few days of farting around, all is well, and I'm very impressed.