About this deal
Yeah Phoenix, for the HTPC folks, just 4K/60 might not be enough and should be mindful of the HDR angle. Beelink SER4 is equipped with AMD Ryzen 7-4800U processor, which is an APU based on Zen2 architecture and 7nm process technology, with 8 CPU cores, 16 threads, and an integrated 8-core Radeon Graphics GPU. I can confirm excellent transfer speed with the ASUS GT-AX11000, have seen >30MB/s in an adjacent room to the router), and Bluetooth 5.
Even during the baking process, the noise of the fan is well controlled, and the sound of the fan running is hardly heard. Sequential read rates top out at only around 1400 MB/s compared to >3000 MB/s or >7000 MB/s on higher-end PCIe3 or PCIe4 drives, respectively. The overall Beelink package achieves an 85%ile score compared to other similar machines suggesting that the "synergy" of the CPU, motherboard, BIOS settings, Windows 11 and the components chosen are working well together. When running the AIDA64 stress test, the maximum power consumption value recorded by the tester was also only 38. The part of the acrylic panel has a lot of "advertising", in addition to AMD and Beelink logos, there are stickers of faith for Ryzen 7 and Radeon graphics cards.
We start the Beelink SER4 4800U mini PC using the front power button and the small blue front LED lights up.
The multiple ports make it possible to connect many devices simultaneously; however, there are no thunderbolts. When I'm not managing day-to-day activities and US review articles on Notebookcheck, you can catch me following the eSports scene and the latest gaming news. Obviously as we overclock here, it does get warmer and also the metal HDMI connector I was using at the back got uncomfortably hot to the touch (~40°C). This little wonder provides an AMD Ryzen 7 4800U processor with a Vega 8 GPU that defends itself quite well. I didn't even need to enter a Windows product key (as I might have had to do the other way); it was all automatic.C and the fan whilst audible was not excessively loud reaching 48 dBA on my sound meter next to the device during the test and around 38 dBA when idle. In an earlier version of the Cinebench R20 test, the Beelink SER4's CPU multi-core score was also higher than the NUC. Therefore, whether it is starting the system, large-scale applications, games, or installing software, the speed is very fast, and it will not become a short board for the performance of the entire computer.