I don't know what everyone thinks of products like mini computers? Now to be honest, the entire DIY machine building market is not very good, traditional desktops in the past few years because of the problem of graphics cards, tossed a lot of DIY players, now finally do not mine, but other such as CPU, motherboard, heat dissipation, power supply These are rising in price, but the price of memory, hard disk is crashing, getting cheaper and cheaper, even so, the demand for the computer installation market is still continuing to decline. At the end of last year, Xiaomi released the first mini host, and with Xiaomi's entry into the mini host market, many users who paid attention to Xiaomi discovered products such as mini hosts. And aroused many people's interest in products such as mini hosts, people began to realize that the original palm-sized mini computer, the performance is almost the same as the mainstream desktop, the key is that this mini computer is particularly space-saving, does not occupy an area, so the question is, in the end can this type of mini computer replace the traditional desktop?
In fact, not only Xiaomi entered the mini host market, the market is earlier than Xiaomi, more cost-effective mini host brands are also very many, Xiaomi host because the price is too high, because Xiaomi launched this host, equipped with Intel i5 processor 1240P mini host, the price to 4000 this gear, it can be said that under the same performance, the products of the old mini host manufacturers are much cheaper than Xiaomi, so the first product of Xiaomi to test the water mini host has also caused great controversy. In fact, I found that many users who previously paid attention to Xiaomi mini hosts have chosen such as Intel's NUC, a foreign veteran mini host, or a mini host like Zero Moment and Datang in China. And the new mini host I recently bought is a very cost-effective mini host in the 2000 price segment launched by Datang.
This Maxtang Mini Host, using AMD Ryzen R5-5600U processor, this processor should be very familiar to many notebook users, generally using this processor notebook, the price is usually around 4000, Datang Mini Host The processor used is also a mobile processor, so it can be seen as a notebook without a screen, but because it is thicker than the notebook, so the heat dissipation is better than the notebook. So next, let's take a look at its performance?
First of all, I bought this host at my own expense, and I originally planned to buy the system version, that is, the version without memory and hard disk, but found that the version of 16G memory + 512G hard disk combination is also very cost-effective, and the price is only 1999, less than 2000 yuan, which is very cost-effective, so I bought this configuration. For me, this configuration is the best value for money. Some of the experiences and views in the article are also my use of this host as the main office computer, nearly a month or so, found and summarized some problems, let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages, and some of the issues that everyone is more concerned about, such as whether it can replace the desktop?
First of all, let's talk about the appearance, the appearance design of the Datang mini host is still very recognizable, the entire appearance adopts a square shape, the body size is 128*128*42mm, and the fuselage is very small.
On the front of the console, there are two USB3.0 ports and a USB-C (no video transmission) and 3.5mm audio and microphone ports, and the computer power on button on the far right.
On the back of the fuselage, there are two USB2.0 ports and a Gigabit network port, in addition, you can see that Datang mini host is equipped with two HDMI interfaces, these two interfaces can be connected to two 4K monitors at the same time, supporting dual-screen display.
The top of the fuselage adopts a black mirror design, which looks very good, but the disadvantage is that it is easy to stain fingerprints. The whole body of the fuselage adopts a metal body shell design, which looks very textured.
On both sides of the fuselage are the air inlet of the mini host, the air inlet of the large channel and the heat vent on the back of the fuselage. Such a heat dissipation channel design will be better than notebook heat dissipation, and heat dissipation will be more reasonable.
Speaking of heat dissipation, let's next disassemble the machine to see how its internal design, in fact, heat dissipation is also the first question for many people on whether the mini host can replace the traditional host, after all, the volume is at least 10 times smaller than the traditional desktop, so small, how to ensure good heat dissipation? In fact, Datang mini host is made from several aspects, the first point is the large channel design just mentioned, and secondly, the mini host itself uses the same mobile CPU as the notebook, so the heat is much smaller than the desktop, but compared to the notebook, after all, the body is thicker, so the heat dissipation is better. Coupled with AMD's 5600U own low-power design, as well as the cooling fan inside the fuselage, it can better ensure that the processor can stably play its maximum performance.
Back to the topic, many people may still be entangled in the extended performance of mini computers? From the inside of the body of the Datang mini host, it can be seen that it uses two memory slot slots, two 8G memory combination composed of 16G dual-channel memory, if you want to upgrade, you can completely replace the larger capacity of the memory, the standard is two DDR4-3200 8G memory sticks, the brand is the big factory Inruida, the big factory is very assured. If you want to upgrade, you can see that there is an M.2 NVME protocol hard disk bit, the original factory comes with a 500GB foreground SSD, if you want to upgrade, you can replace the large-capacity SSD.
Like this kind of mini computer because there is no screen, keyboard and mouse, so and the desktop is the same when used, need to be equipped with a special monitor, keyboard and mouse to use, monitor I use a portable screen, mainly for the desktop more concise, of course, can also be equipped with a traditional large-screen monitor. In terms of keyboard, I specially equipped a Duga K610W wireless mechanical keyboard this time, which is also famous in the peripheral circle. I suggest that when choosing peripherals such as monitors and keyboards and mice, do not buy some particularly cheap products in order to save money, in fact, equipping the computer with better peripherals will greatly increase the experience of use.
For example, my Duga K610w white light version wireless keyboard is a three-mode wireless keyboard that supports 2.4G wireless, Bluetooth and Type-C wired three connection methods. Usually, you can connect computers, mobile phones, and tablets at the same time, and switch different devices to use, which is still very convenient.
In terms of shaft body, there are four shaft bodies: tea shaft, silver shaft, red shaft, and silent red shaft, and I personally prefer the silent red shaft, because considering that I usually have to use the keyboard at night, I am afraid of disturbing my family. This silent red shaft of the Duga K610W uses Kaihua's new Turbo series shaft body, the shaft is a high-smooth composite POM material, the shaft body is very smooth, rebound powerful, and particularly quiet, very suitable for late-night codewords. The silent red axis has a trigger stroke of 2.0±0.5mm and a trigger pressure of 45±10gf, which supports hot plugging, and it is easy to use this type of keyboard for the first time, without worrying about operation problems.
If you want to use the keycaps, you have to mention a mouthful, and you must choose a PBT two-color injection keycap to choose a keyboard, which is wear-resistant and oil-resistant, very easy to use. In this way, the mini host plus wireless keyboard and portable screen, I feel that even the crowded small space desktop can be placed, is it more advantageous than the traditional desktop?
The point is that the Datang mini host is equipped with an AMD Ryzen5-5600U processor with a TDP of 35W, which uses TSMC's 7nm FinFET process technology, using zen3 architecture, 6 cores and 16 threads, the main frequency is 2.3GHz, the turbo size is 4.2GHz, and the thermal design power consumption is between 10w-25w. In addition, AMD's core graphics has always been very strong, this SoC integrates an AMD Radeon Vega 7 core graphics card running at 1800MHz, and the core graphics performance is almost the same as the Geforce MX350 discrete graphics card, so the overall performance can basically refer to about 4,000 thin and light books.
Master Lu's running score is close to 800,000 points, CPU running score will be 480,000, graphics card running score will be more than 66,000, memory is nearly 100,000, hard disk 140,000, such running score is completely the level of mainstream flagship computers. This score is fully qualified for daily office software, and can even play a lot of low-quality 3A games.
Thanks to the dual-channel memory, the memory bit width and data throughput speed of the Datang mini host are also excellent, in the CPU-Z, the 5600U single-core is 580.7 points, multi-core 4183.3 points.
Run this promising hard drive with CrystalDiskMark and see how it performs? The running score shows that the hard disk reads 3446.67MB/s and writes 1017.02MB/s, which is a solid state of the M.2 NVME protocol, which is quite good.
For daily use, the hardware configuration of this Datang mini host is actually very strong, and its Radeon Vega7 core graphics card can be adjusted to low image quality to run many large-scale 3D games smoothly, and when we try to play "Genshin" with excellent picture quality, 1080P resolution, with medium effects turned on, the average frame rate is 110 fps.
Of course, for online games such as LOL, there is no pressure, and the average frame rate can reach 180FPS at 1080P quality. Therefore, not only the office, but also daily playing games is completely fine.
Finally, or to summarize the experience of this Datang mini computer since this month, it is clear that this mini computer priced at the 2000 price segment, the configuration is comparable to the performance of the 4000 notebook on the market, but it is better than the notebook in terms of heat dissipation, but the purpose of the mini computer is not to replace the notebook, I personally think that if, our demand for the computer is to work smoothly, occasionally play games, there is no ultimate pursuit of computer performance, Then this Datang mini host is completely fine to replace the desktop, and compared to the desktop, its body is more compact and portable, and it does not occupy an area occupied by the desktop, which is very suitable for home use and creates a simple desktop, which is very suitable. As for the three problems I was worried about before, heat dissipation and expandability are no problem, not only support the expansion and upgrade of hard disk and memory, but also the standard two HDMI interfaces, can support the composition of two 4K monitors, to meet the needs of multiple screens, at present, replacing the desktop is completely no problem, 2000 this price range, very cost-effective, enough to meet the needs of most families using computers.