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Beelink SER8 Review: Peak Mini PC



The new Beelink SER8 won’t win any awards in terms of cutting-edge performance or special features, but it’s a rock-solid mini PC …

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  1. see only 1 downside. I have a Beelink Ser5 and still working great but I want to upgrade it… thought about the beelink ser8… but… the downside is that I can't put a HDD, which I have in my Ser5. In the cover you were able to put in an extra 1TB or 2TB HDD harddrive, just for additional storage. I see that's not possible anymore. Only 2 SDDs

  2. God of War (2018) is poorly optimized for 60 fps. With my SER6, I can maintain 30 fps well with good settings. But I would have to make the game look like trash to target 60 fps. I am surprised they didn't patch in FSR frame generation.

    Spiderman on my SER6 looks and runs amazing in comparison.

  3. Man Iโ€™m so used to play in 4K with my consoles that paying so much money to barely play in 1080p pc games is beyond me, Iโ€™ll do this for sure for retro games. Any advice on a mini pc that can handle all emulation at 4K?
    How about the Acemagic R7 8845HS? It was unfortunately not in your sheet.

  4. Bee link provides a pretty nice offering in a mini pc format. they'd be SOOOO much better if the price of DDR5 ram came down as it would be nice to have them ship with full 64gb of ram hopefully that happens this year, or next as whle 32gb is a lot windows and browswers are massive ram hogs if you use lots of tabs. I am hoping that access will stay stable to products coming from China. I am eagerly waiting to see if they have any offerings on black friday. The Ser7 Pro I got was enough to have a positive view of this brand as it is approaching a year now since I became interested in the minipcs. Only thing I wish I had the answer for was an easy way to get a firewire port or hub attached to it, or more PCIE slots ie easy cable way to hook up a few PCIE things. I think the second hardrive space can be used and maybe the usb4 slot but thereis only one of both so the io is rough if wanting to do stuff for music with it but with some hubs this thing is able to connect a lot to it. The other frustration is windows 11 efficiency mode which seems to engage due to microsoft trying to "save power" this is already like 40-60watt system so its sort of frustrating to have process suspended due to microsoft windows attempt to reducing energy consumption, its just a little silly on a low power system like the ser 7. The Ser 8 looks even better. I'm a little confused iwth the USB 2.0 ports though I thought all the ports were USB 3.1 or usb 4???? IMO this is one thing that makes it hard is if the usb ports are all non marked or differnetiated when you have a specific USB generation requirement it can be hard to find the port you are looking for unless you have a port diagram like at 4:20

  5. Why is your performance so low with the 8845HS? Other reviewers are playing games like Cyberpunk at Medium settings 1080p. Are you doing an ETA Prime and running power on Balanced to make it look bad? Also calling GTA 5, GTA 3 is worthy of a smack

  6. Estoy entre estos dos minipc -Beelink SER8 AMD Ryzenโ„ข 7 8845HS MINI PC 8 Cores/16 Threads Frequency up to 5.1GHz
    -Beelink SER7 7840HS AMD Ryzenโ„ข 7 7840HS 65W TDP 8 Cores/16 Threads, 5.1GHz
    Cual me recomiendas actualmente por rendimiento y precio.

  7. Ordered one of these tonight and it will be arriving tomorrow. I'm using it to replace a Minisforum NUCi7 that I have running Batocera in an Arcade1Up cabinet. The NUCi7 generates more heat than I'd like inside the cabinet, which doesn't help given the system throttles super easily. The SER8 should be able to provide the same or better performance at a lower power draw and generate less heat.

  8. I'm wondering if this would run things like Teknoparrot… I'm currently trying to build an arcade racing rig, for classic games like Hydro Thunder, H2Overdrive, Mario Kart DX and so on… would it run those games at full beans?

  9. Really appreciate if someone could answer this for me – is it advisable to run the SER8 hard overnight downloading multiple torrents or is that likely to drastically reduce its lifespan? Should I get a dirt cheap laptop for that purpose? It's a new baby and I want to take care of it ๐Ÿ˜‚

  10. Thanks again Russ! Very much not like for like and ignoring windows gaming how does emulation performance compare between this and an Odin 2? For an under tv device either could do the job with the benefit the Odin can be taken on the road.

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