Quick Look Review: Beelink SER8 AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS Mini PC

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Do you like meandering product explorations that could have been an hour-long livestream, but ended up being cut down to a 20-minute video, instead? Well, you've come to the right place!
Beelink's SER8 is a compact mini PC with a Ryzen 7 8845HS processor (with Radeon 780M graphics), and it comes with 32GB of DDR5 SoDIMM memory and 1TB of NVMe storage installed. Current price is $649 USD on their website, linked here (not affiliated): www.bee-link.com/products/bee...
Disclaimer: Beelink sent this mini PC to us for our review, but we were not compensated in any way and this is NOT a sponsored video.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:12 Overview and specs
01:42 Unboxing
02:20 Exterior
04:16 Opening it up
04:52 Inside the SER8
07:06 First boot and some noise testing
08:47 HWINFO
09:35 Looking at the BIOS setup
11:12 Watch the system boot (in real time!)
11:36 Getting ready for some inadequate testing
12:26 Back after 20 minutes of a looped benchmark to look at thermals
13:52 More benchmarking exploits
17:11 Final thoughts

[@pelleg59]

Nice review 👍

[@pcper]

Thanks! There will be more like it

[@IntrovertAlert]

Great review Sebastian! Just wondering why that Samsung monitor is being used though? Don't you have a 34" ultra-wide that usually sits where the Samsung monitor is? Thought that would be better to show off productivity features.

[@pcper]

The thought was to test 4K video playback (or something), and the Samsung was handy. Clearly that never made it into the video.

[@markish9356]

Thanks for show the wifi model #

[@johnfodo4129]

The mini PC aka nook PCs are getting really good now! Ryan what is the music called your playing? My wife likes to listen to same type of music!

[@markmorgan3951]

TrackTribe - "By the Fireplace" [Copyright Free]

[@unclelala4216]

Ryan??? 😨

[@pcper]

@@unclelala4216 No, not Ryan. Just his slightly younger protege Sebastian.

[@Chryslermechanic]

But can it play crysis?!?

[@pcper]

My failure to try playing Crysis is just one of many failures in this video.

[@acubley]

@@pcper I've heard about the s**t hitting the fan but not pee... 🫢

[@annebokma4637]

Hiding the screws but adding a pull tab 😂😂😂

[@TrusteftTech]

I had external floppy disk drives in the 80s (SF314) which I am pretty sure were larger than this mini PC. The temps look good. The one thing I noticed is with video editing performance while higher numbers than the Intel one you showed, the difference was quite small. Also the Intel iGPU has support for more codecs which should make the editing on the timeline experience a more smooth one. At least in theory as I never owned either of these computers. The only two things I will say I definitely do not like about this pc is first the color. I want bright colorful colors. Orange, yellow, red, even blue, just give me something which isn't black, silver (including "rose gold") or even white. Second, the difficulty in reach the CPU cooling solution for maintenance. I don't know why almost every single mini PC manufacturer does this. If you use these often then sooner or later you re going to have to clean them, if not repaste them. Why so difficult? Meh Thanks for the video.

[@pcper]

Good point on the codec support - I should really test things like that.

[@APEXGuerilla]

UK price on Amazon is 💀😫

[@DMonZ1988]

Wow that is awful. Please dust regularly. You only have to pick out the tiny rubber plugs and undo some screws. So many others have magnetic covers.

[@michaeldonaghy4703]

The wifi is absolutely shocking, really bad, five metres from the router, its downloading in kilobits. If I use a mobile hotspot off my tablet right beside its fine. Dunno if it's just mine or because it's a metal box.😮 Otherwise it's amazing, emulator monster

[@pcper]

Interesting. I had zero issues but I was in the same room as the router.

[@mowcowbell]

I wonder if the wifi antenna cables were securely connected? I ended up changing out the WiFi card and put in a Wi-Fi 6E AX210NGW (less than $20 on Amazon) in my SER8 and it performs much better now.

[@michaeldonaghy4703]

@@mowcowbell Sounds good! Might have to give that a go, thanks for letting me know! 👍

[@Bajicoy]

I didn't have any wifi and bluetooth problems and I could still maintain a decent connection past 75ft

[@michaeldonaghy4703]

@@mowcowbell have just bought that card, did you have to install new drivers?

[@drewy2222]

I have been looking for a mini PC. I want to use it to put Linux on it and just browse the internet with being tracked by windows advertising

[@mowcowbell]

The SER8 is way overkill for a Linux build. You should look at mini PC's in the $250-350 price range.