My friends who are familiar with me know that some time ago I spent tens of thousands of pieces to form a set of 7950X platform, strong is really strong, but I will only show and cut, the game only plays LOL, at most to see what is worth buying JDTB, or WPS handles some simple documents, so it seems that it cannot give full play to its value... And the standby power consumption of 60W at every turn is so distressing about the electricity bill! I really advise everyone to watch less videos of KOLs, and you must recognize your rigid needs before entering the pit.
So half a month ago I threw the 7950X away, and then I survived the only short period of time without a computer in 10 years, tormented!
It is undeniable that this time to start the zero EQ12 is also brought into the pit by KOLs, this is my first time to use the mini host, but also never touched the N100 processor platform, to be honest at the beginning or afraid of whether it can meet my needs, currently used for a while, originally thought of 30 days no reason to return, now is too much to worry about, to make a simple small sharing with you, see if this mini host is suitable for you.
【Unpacking and product details】
When I first saw this box, I really wondered if this was actually a computer host? It is too small, and it is estimated that it is larger than the conventional mobile phone packaging box.
When I opened the lid, the first thing I picked up was this warm tip, if you want the keyboard and mouse to wake up, remember to plug in the USB port on the back.
Continue to dig down, half of the main unit, half of the accessories.
Pull out all the items as shown below:
Zero engraved EQ12 host, 36W power adapter, 2 HDMI cables (1 long and 1 short), VESA bracket, screwdriver, instruction manual, small card with warm tips and 1 pack of screws.
The packaging box is already very small, this small host is even smaller to the finger, the size is 12.4*11.3*3.9CM, I use my hand to gesture to everyone to feel it yourself.
There are a lot of optional colors for the host, and I spent a lot of thought before I started, such as the opinions of my wife and children, and the table setting of my study environment, etc., choosing navy blue. Its shell including the chassis are plastic, but this plastic is not the kind of elastic we imagine, but a little hard, the top cover through the laser facet to form a small diamond pattern, different light under each diamond will show different brightness, that is, good looking can also prevent fingerprint collection, one of the corners has a zero-cut LOGO, here it is easy to absorb grease.
There are many air suction holes on both sides of the fuselage, the area is very large, and the heat dissipation of the mini host is still very important.
The position of the air outlet is behind the fuselage, there are three very wide openings, and when the AIDA64 stability test was actually tested, the heating area was only here, and the other five surfaces were almost without temperature.
In terms of interface, I was pleasantly surprised, in addition to the number of USB ports, the C port can also output to three monitors at the same time with 2 HDMI, I don't have so many monitors, but my portable display has a place! In addition, its dual network port design is very useful for soft routing.
2 USB ports and 3.5mm headphone ports on the front, 2 HDMI 2.0 ports on the rear, 2 2.5G network ports, one Type C (10Gbps rate, up to 4k60p video output) and 1 USB port. Although the 3 USBs are two blue and one black, in fact, the specifications are all USB3.2 GEN2.
The chassis has two elastic rubber feet, the main unit supports wall mounting, and placing it behind the monitor can make the desktop cleaner.
TO PRESENT A FEW PHOTOS OF THE TABLE SET-UP, THE LENGTH OF THE TABLE IN MY STUDY IS ONLY 100CM, AND THERE IS ALREADY A LAMP NEXT TO IT, EVEN IF THERE IS AN ITX HOST ON THE TABLE, IT WILL BE PARTICULARLY CROWDED. The monitor is a 17-inch portable screen does not support the back mounted mini host, but even if such a small host is placed next to the monitor, it will not look crowded, the 20CM HDMI cable sent in the accessories must be praised, the cable is not messy, with wireless keyboards and mice, the desktop is very neat.
Next, for some simple hands-on testing, let's talk about the N100 processor on this EQ12, Intel Alder Lake N100 is a mobile platform processor just released in February 2023, 4 cores and 4 threads, 6MB intelligent cache, and the maximum turbo frequency can reach 3.4GHz. The SoC also integrates a 12th-generation UHD Graphics core graphics card with 24 execution units. The standard power wall of the N100 processor is 6W, but Zero Ji directly pulls the power wall to 25W by digging deep into the motherboard circuit.
The total score reached 433714 points, of which the processor 183499 points, the graphics card is more than 57,000, this mini host has an optional barebones version without memory hard disk, I myself am lazy, so I went directly to the highest equipped 16GB memory + 512GB SSD version ~.
The CPU-Z running score refers to the core dual-core E8500, single-core and dual-core N100 are better, especially the multi-core running score is simply hanging.
The performance of R20 and R23 is equivalent to i5-4340M (TDP 37W) and i5-4590T (150,000, TDP 35W), which is about 30% higher than the previous generation N5105.
3DMARK really couldn't find which project to run better, and there was no reference value in running others, so I still used the most common Time Spy, which ran out to 375 points, and will see how it performs in the specific game later.
The running score of PC MARK10 office scene is 2924 points, but at present, this software does not recognize the N100 processor, and the score is inflated.
I can't see what brand of solid state is used with CDI, for the time being, I can only see that it is PCIE 3.0, N100 itself only supports PCIE 3.0, higher specifications are useless, I will take a video to disassemble the machine later, have ideas or what expectations can be followed. The measured running score of reading and writing with AS SSD is 811MB/s and 772MB/s, respectively, which is about 10 times higher than that of mechanical hard disks.
The mini host is most afraid of the heat dissipation problem, here I used the AIDA64 single baked FPU for a stress test. The test time is about half an hour, in fact, after 6 minutes of pressure, the CPU has not been on 78°, and the CPU power consumption is about 20-21 watts hovering. The power consumption measured on the power meter does not exceed 28 watts under full load, which is really green and environmentally friendly!!!!
The full load power consumption is 27.99 watts capped, daily use is about 18-20 watts, and the power consumption when shutdown is about 1.5W.
Noise control is amazing! When the load is high, it is only 61dB to use the instrument against the shell, and the fan noise can be almost completely ignored!
It is estimated that the cold data above does not feel anything, so the daily experience first takes two games to start. First of all, I have been playing LOL for 8 years, the popularity of this game is not as high as before, but I have long been accustomed to climbing every day for 8 years to get the first win, 1080P low quality can usually run 80FPS, five-player melee will not be lower than 69FPS, although the picture quality is a little worse, but the smoothness of opening the 144 refresh rate and mouse and handedness are excellent. CS: GO doesn't know why I can't afford to drive a small plane, it is estimated that the frame rate is about 30-40FPS, which belongs to the degree that can be played but not smooth enough, don't consider large 3A, hehe core shows you know, this is not its strength.
Web browsing this project is too small for zero EQ12, this small host supports wifi6, I myself am using an Asus more than 300 yuan wifi6 entry-level router, the partition wall is very stable after use, has not dropped the chain. DDR5-4800 16GB memory with edge to open 20 web pages speed is not bad Oh, the overall system fluency including web page response speed is very good, Internet access can have such a good experience, this result is greatly unexpected to me.
There are three main aspects of daily work, on the one hand, WPS is used to do PPT text and form processing, 5 files framed right-click to open the speed is about ..... I forgot to press the stopwatch and you guys see for yourselves.
On the other hand, I sometimes like to make some small videos to share to the B station, the advanced professional PR is too difficult for me, I will only use clipping..., exporting a 2 minutes and 30 seconds long video is 2 minutes 30 seconds... One-to-one rendering of the absolute wall is sour~, and the overall speed is basically satisfactory.
The last aspect of my daily work is the processing of photos by LR, and here I import 34 RAW files (615MB in total) into LR in about 5 seconds.
Finally, let's take a look at the performance of this N100 in playing 47.8GB Blu-ray original disk, the player uses potplayer, the video file opens quickly, and the picture playback is also very smooth.
N100 is the most entry-level model in the new Alder Lake-N series released by Intel, but due to the special tuning and optimization of Zero Moment, the power consumption wall has been greatly improved, resulting in excellent performance release, while the heat dissipation and noise control performance is also remarkable, the maximum 77° under the stress test, in most daily use cases, the temperature I can observe here hovers around 55° at most, and the case temperature is mainly concentrated in the rear position. There is no temperature to the touch in other places, and the noise is negligible. It is very easy to run the OFFICE three-piece set with it, some partners if they want to use it for online classes, video conferencing, and use as a TV box is not a word, the video platform members of the PC platform and the mobile phone are universal, the TV box also has to add a lot of money to upgrade to the TV platform membership, this point will not be unknown ~~. However, if this mini console is in the hands of professional players, it has more uses, such as soft routing, virtual machines, NAS, and the playability is very high, which I will share with you after research.
Finally, let's talk about the price, the version without memory hard disk is 795 yuan, and my version with 16GB DDR5-4800 and 512GB SSD is 1399 yuan. If you want to do a limit pull in the cost performance, you can choose the barebones version without memory hard disk, and then go and find it back and install it yourself. In fact, according to the current seafood market situation, 16GB DDR5-4800 and 512GB SSD are about 100 pieces cheaper than the official machine, but the official also sent a genuine win11! Therefore, if the hands-on ability is not very strong (especially if you can't partition and install the system), it is still recommended to start with the complete version that has been installed. In general, this price to start to do daily light office and light entertainment is just right, as long as it is not the master of the game, I believe that they can be satisfied, well, today's small sharing is here, like a piece of three in a row, there are problems in the message below to see must return, everyone bye.