Chuwi CoreBox 5th Gen Review. Intel Core i5 13500H SFF PC

Chuwi CoreBox Core i5 13500H Review. More info and pricing: bit.ly/3Lxvo6M

[@belizarius_997]

Such a cute, little machine. Add some discrete graphics Chuwi and you got yourself a customer. Great review Chris!

[@Techtablets]

Yes I would love to see an RTX 4070 or RTX 3070 inside with this would make a nice little video editing PC, Still I find it odd it's missing USB 4.0.

[@BlessBeing]

best mini pc under 300 euro ?

[@AndreaLogiudice]

Hi, great review!!! One question, if I can, USB ports are just plain 3.0 or 3.2 gen 1 (/2)? Thanks!

[@usmanabdulkadir3334]

Awesome content as always Sir

[@Techtablets]

Glad you liked it

[@israelramirez1617]

Amazing!!!! So great video... exactly what i was looking for... My CoreBox 5th arrived with 5,200mhz RAM only one 16gb module... the SSD is a bit faster than yours so i think it is because the drivers and updates i downloaded... Thanks for this great video... about 3 weeks looking for info about memory upgrade... Clearly it is not the best MiniPC but something nice to have...

[@Techtablets]

Great to hear this helped. So get another 16GB stick if you can and they you'll have dual channel which will boost the performance. So your SSD is faster? I guess that is normal due to drivers which I also updated but then each SSD would be slightly different.

[@israelramirez1617]

@@Techtablets Im planning to upgrade to 64GB in the future... for now think 16GB is good for Win11... as you said the SSD 4x4 would be so good. but seems not an easy task to clone the disk because the limited PCIe ports... well... not a perfect mini PC but as minimum it is a nice MiniPC ...jejejeje

[@Techtablets]

​@@israelramirez1617if it just had one more pcie 4.0 M2 slot it would be great. Then I would add an Oculink eGPU 😂

[@Micromation]

Could perhaps mod it with M2->OcuLink in NVMe slot for external GPU (would obviously need to make a hole for the plug somewhere) for that eGPU experience, which would also work better than Thunderbolt/USB4 solution that imposes 20% penalty right from the get-go along with whole swatch of weird issues... Shame it didn't come with 2x NVMe slots, that would be just perfect.

[@Techtablets]

Yeah I have an Oculink eGPU set up and it's 63gbps certainly kills tb3 USB 4.0 40gbps plus no overhead as you said. This issue is we would have to go to Sata3 for our boot drive but yes gain a powerful GPU which would be great.

[@PROsenGt]

​@@TechtabletsAre you planning to test that out

[@dlatua]

For the same price (excluding shipping and import fees which are another story), I can get in a local store a PC ryzen 5 5500, 512 SSD, 16 gb ram, Geforce 1650 4gb.

[@rosetzu_nagasawa]

exactly!! this is a no brainer. Just get the components and have the store build it. YOu know what you are getting.

[@Techtablets]

Sure there is that. But some people don't want that fuss and just prefer a mini pc as is buy and boot it up. But yes 100% if you want graphics performance go for your own build with a dedicated GPU.

[@SpeedDemonGoFast]

@@Techtabletscan I play video games on it?

[@takagen]

Had anyone encountered standby issue n shutdown issue after update to 23H2 ? After standby, the PC was not able to wake up. And on shutting down, the PC LED still lots, wasn't able to fully shutdown, and have to manually press n hold the Power Button to off it

[@saturn2fire]

Thanks Chris! Amazing review as usual :D I was actually torned between this and the small N100 version to transform my Family TV to a "smart" one.

[@Trusteft]

Isn't the N100 like a small fraction of this in performance? Weird pair. 😜

[@saturn2fire]

@@Trusteft Yup... I was thinking of using it as more into family streaming etc... regular use but I was thinking of doing games as well. I can't decide yet... that's why I was torned... do I just use the N100 and spare another for light to medium gaming? That'll be expensive and not sure if it's cost effective.

[@Trusteft]

@@saturn2fire If you have gaming in mind, If you can afford them, go for a system with a Ryzen and a 780m or at least 680m on it. Different play level than these Intel ones. Seriously. I like Intel, but this is a one horse race as far as I am concerned.

[@mdd1963]

Just got a little Alliwava GX55 (N5105, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, Win11 Pro) a few weeks ago on sale for $159, and I love it!

[@Techtablets]

N100 is only good for very light basic tasks. Okay for media playback.

[@ajama1335]

Looks like a really good HTPC tbh. Certainly looks the part

[@Techtablets]

Would be fine for that type of use.

[@shutcre]

me still rocking the corebox x i7 lol its pretty good

[@tipoomaster]

Can you take a look at the Intel 12th gen Corebook X update? Even though my 8th gen one had the hinge catastrophically fail in 1.5 years with little support options -_-

[@Techtablets]

I did ask Chuwi to send me one but nothing... They are not marketing it or something now they said.

[@tipoomaster]

@@Techtablets At least the previous generations of it do seem failure prone and I assume the company makes razer margins, maybe they were taking a loss on sending out battery replacements and hinge repairs

[@Techtablets]

Could be that yes. Just not making enough money on it.

[@chairman67]

Just wondering, for the Manjaro Linux test, did you disable Secure Boot in the BIOS first?

[@Techtablets]

Yes I did, but no luck not sure why.

[@user-xm8hr1ie9b]

where is BT ?

[@carlogalopo2605]

Hi, kindly consider doing a top 5 or top mini PC for 2023 😊

[@Techtablets]

Maybe :)

[@megabaneen8057]

​​@@TechtabletsI would like to see that as well. Do you prefer amd or Intel mini PC?

[@Techtablets]

AMD due to the new Radeon 680/780M performance being just so much better than Iris XE.

[@alexjohnson4270]

official answer about 4th generation - NO FAN CONTROL!. noize level a lot above expectations. about 5th gen, is there any solid solution to manage fan speed to reduce nose level? maybe you could help

[@BlessBeing]

best mini pc under 300 euro ?

[@fuxart1224]

HI! Could you please review the new Freebook with I3 DDR 5 a.s.o? You reviewed last here model with N5100 and you wished for a PRO model... If it's good I'll buy it when Black friday comes :) Thanxx

[@Techtablets]

I've asked Chuwi before and they didn't want to send one out.

[@SpeedDemonGoFast]

Can I play video games on it

[@kaltblut]

with ddr5 dual-channel is not as important as it was with ddr4 and below. since ddr5 has a 2x32bit bus width compared to 1x64bit for ddr4.

[@Techtablets]

True, but it will still help a little. At least it's easy enough to slap in another 16GB stick.

[@Xfade81]

you said you test out of the box. and now for chuwi you add a stick ?

[@Techtablets]

To save myself from the comments I didn't test it dual channel as that's what happens in all the reviews if there is an empty slot. Also so the gaming performance wasn't painful for me. 680m/780m is the way to go now for igpus.

[@Trusteft]

Good video, the system looks like a swing and a miss. Thanks for sharing.

[@Techtablets]

Thanks for watching! Yes it is. Really needs a dGPU like an RTX 3070 at least with it.

[@74357175]

Why is the BIOS locked down? Is that a cost issue, or support, or what?

[@TerranigmaQuintet]

Kinda strange since the 4th one ( its predecessor) had everything unlocked.

[@leedaq7767]

would've been a real killer when they added proper 120 or 140mm fan

[@Techtablets]

Some of the minis forum ones have the larger fans and the cooling is great and quite. And around this same size.

[@xcidgaf]

😊

[@Techtablets]

Thanks for watching!

[@MrHamncheez]

Sorry, whats the point of intel min-pcs right now? AMD cpus for the appropriate weight class perform about the same, but then the new 680m/780m integrated graphics from AMD smokes intel Xe graphics. So with Intel you lose on graphical power by over half, but what do you gain? They aren't cheaper.

[@Techtablets]

Not much the only case I can think is with Intel's quick sync. Until we get the next gen iGPU from intel it's going to a loss for Intel mini pcs.

[@kalsangtashi3040]

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[@Techtablets]

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