**A Fantastic Little Mini PC: The Bolt V8 Review**

As I sit here with my Bolt V8 mini PC, I have to say that I'm thoroughly impressed with its performance and features. This tiny powerhouse packs a punch when it comes to CPU performance, and I was excited to put it through its paces.

One of the first things I noticed about the Bolt V8 is its cooling system. The system is very good, even if it's not perfect. It does run quite cool, and that's definitely a bonus for anyone who wants a quiet and efficient mini PC. However, there is one major con: fan noise. The fan is constant and can be slightly loud, which can be a bit annoying at times. I've noticed that it will sometimes turn off when the temperatures permit, but this doesn't happen often enough to make a significant difference. When I ran the Cinebench test, I was able to hear the fan noise clearly, and it's definitely not the most pleasant sound.

Despite the fan noise issue, the Bolt V8 still delivers fantastic performance. In my tests, the CPU performed well, even if it didn't quite meet my expectations. However, I did notice that it had a bias update, which brought its power consumption back under control. The Vega 8 GPU also performs exceptionally well, with great gaming performance and fast 4K export times in Adobe Premiere Pro.

The gaming performance is one of the Bolt V8's strongest suits, with smooth frame rates even at high resolutions. However, I did notice that it struggled a bit in some games, which may be due to its relatively low clock speeds. Still, overall, the Bolt V8 is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a fast and powerful mini PC.

**Power Consumption and Performance**

One of the things that stood out about the Bolt V8 was its power consumption. I ran several tests to see how much power it used, and the results were consistently around 25 watts. This may not seem like a lot, but considering its compact size and impressive performance, it's actually quite good.

The Vega 8 GPU also performs well in terms of power consumption, with a relatively low TDP (thermal design power) compared to other GPUs on the market. However, I did notice that it can get hot when running demanding workloads for extended periods of time.

**AMD Software and Drivers**

One thing that didn't quite impress me was the AMD software, which sometimes crashes on you with its flash menu. This is a bit frustrating, especially since the Bolt V8 has some great features built into it, like its excellent cooling system. However, I did manage to get the software to work smoothly most of the time, and I appreciated the ease of use that it provided.

**The Verdict**

Overall, I was thoroughly impressed with the Bolt V8 mini PC. Its performance is exceptional, even if it doesn't quite meet my expectations in every area. The cooling system is very good, although there are some minor issues with fan noise. The power consumption is relatively low, which is a bonus for anyone looking to save energy.

If I have any criticisms, they're mostly related to the software and hardware tuning that's still available in this particular model. With future updates, it would be great to see some tweaks to the fan profile to reduce noise levels even further.

**Pros and Cons**

* Excellent performance from the Vega 8 GPU

* Fantastic cooling system

* Good power consumption

* Compact size makes it perfect for small spaces

* Fan noise can be a bit annoying at times

* Some issues with AMD software stability

**The Price**

At $399, the Bolt V8 is an excellent value. While some people may find that they could build something similar themselves for less money, I think this particular mini PC is definitely worth considering.

Overall, I'd highly recommend the Bolt V8 to anyone looking for a fast and powerful mini PC. Its performance is exceptional, and its features are well-suited to a wide range of applications.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Bolt V8 is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a compact and powerful mini PC. Its performance is impressive, even if it doesn't quite meet my expectations in every area. The cooling system is very good, although there are some minor issues with fan noise. With future updates, I'm hoping that these issues will be addressed.

Overall, I've thoroughly enjoyed testing the Bolt V8, and I think it's a fantastic little mini PC. If you're looking for something similar, I'd definitely recommend checking it out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso a lot of you have been asking for amd tech to be featured in the channel and it's really not up to me it's kind of only what i can get my hands on but the guys over at udu sent this out to me it is the uru bolt gear now this features an amd embedded system on a chip solution and this one here is the v1605b maximum turbo is 3.6 gigahertz it's a quad core with eight threads in total it can take up to 32 gigabytes of ram using sodium slots there it has two of them of course and it also can run up to four monitors at 4k 60hz which is pretty impressive when you see the size of this thing so in this review i'll go through quickly the unboxing what we get in the package setting it up a little bit and of course some performance tests and benchmarks use and even exporting some 4k video one minute of footage which it does it in a surprisingly fast and quick time which i didn't really expect to see from this and overall at the end my opinions of using this after a few days what i like and what i don't particularly like about it so it comes in this rather large box for such a small pc but that's because we've got all of these parts right here at stake so we've got the urubult v8 the middle case wi-fi module our power supply the eu and us cable so what we are going to need of course is ram and ssd and we're also going to need an operating system as well with this so here are the contents there's the case under here you will find our pcb the little motherboard the fan all in one unit there and it's just got so much in this and i'll get onto that uh very shortly too here are power cables so we've got us1 and there is the euro power cable and right here is our power supply now this power supply i can see is rated to a maximum of 65 watts this one and they also include these three udoo stickers which is nice of them to put that into the box there so there is a guide here to get set up and started so this is talking about how to install the wireless wifi module installing our ram and how to assemble the case it is pretty straightforward i think most people should not have any troubles with this and then on the other side too it's just telling us what we get of course inside this box here if you were to buy this particular bolt gear kit so top down view of this motherboard and you can see just how much have they managed to get crammed into this thing it's just absolutely amazing how they've done this so what i've got is two upright ram slots here sodiums now you can install up to 32 gigabytes i have 16 installed already two usb 3 ports right here we've got a front facing there's a 3.5 millimeter with microphone support so that's for your headsets and there's also a 3.5 audio out right here two hdmi twos that's 4k 60 they support and then two usb 3.1 ports these also support 4k 60 on that so yes four displays four displays out on this 4k 60 all of them that is really something from just one tiny little board gigabit lan is there as well and we also do have a 3.5 millimeter audio out which is there as well too now both of those type c ports they do also support power delivery in and out so that is great to see there's also on this side plenty more connectors so we do have some groove connectors we've got the druneo compatible pin out as well here for those of you into for example building robots or drones or just other things like that you have plenty of options a set of three or sata3 and the sata setter power out there on that one too as well so there's just as i mentioned there's so many options here now this also does have on board a compatible micro controller for that adrenia which is the at mega 32 u4 that's on board this particular pcb then on the other side we've got a lot of storage options so right here we have an mvme so this is pci times four this is key m and that m.2 slot is 2280 in size of course so that's for our fast ssd so i will be installing one of these right here which is a sabrin that's two terabytes really quick drive and this is where our wireless ac card goes so that is included in the box this is it right here i will also install that it's the intel wireless ac 31 38 so not the 3135 that i commonly see but just a slightly different model there to that one and then two antennas for our wireless now a little tip here with the wireless antennas when you install them in the case you put them on the side but you want to put it on the side you know that is actually facing towards your wireless router just to add a little bit in that speed there of course and of course you've got the lan port there too if you don't want to go wireless so you don't have to install them so i have my nvme drive installed here that's 22 by 80 but sorry i made a mistake before that this is not a 2280 size one but this is in fact 22 by 60 millimeters and i've got a sandisk that i'm going to install on there but first i need to connect up the wireless antennas for the wireless card which i have already installed so this is very very easy to do you just slot them in place screw them down and the build quality of this board i just wanted to comment on is excellent it is really good so this i believe is the way it will go in and you just need to then slot the inner part in here and then you need to just pull it up once it goes inside the case here you've got to pull it up and then screw it into place i'll show you the end result once i get this done just make sure those cables aren't in the way there and you pull it up and you can see the fan is actually just right under here so this is what the end result will look like without having of course the wireless antennas just floating around i need to find an ideal position and where to put them exactly which i'll get on to later so here we can see it's quite good it's got this gap underneath here that's actually where you put the 2.5 inch drive so they've included all the screws and bits and pieces you need for that so right here is where you would do that so two point inch drive goes here and the cable comes just underneath there keeping it neat and tidy and clean and you put some rubber feet on too as well we'll go here and here and you can also mount this these points here are for visa mounting too as well and here's what the back of it looks like too again just ignore my uh wireless antennas they're floating around so very good build quality in this case overall is really solid and i like the design it is definitely different from the typical kind of ones we get this kind of size at least from intel for example so first up our bios and yes of course it is completely unlocked here now there are some interesting settings to go into so one of them is under am d a cbs and this is our power limit you want to go into mbio common options if this hasn't been set already mine out of the box was actually set to 25 watts this is our tdp it could be on 15 but set it to 25 of course which i will be running the entirety of this review here to make sure that we do have maximum performance so if i get out of this i'll just quickly show you that we've got a lot of other different options in here everything you pretty much think of is all here so it's completely unlocked and there's lots of settings in there you could mess up but if you do run into problems just unplug that battery on the other side of the motherboard to completely reset the bias of course let's jump into our windows now which i have already installed set up and got all the drivers installed as well so it didn't have too much of an issue to get set up you just have to download the drivers from amd for this particular chipset here so this system on a chip is the embedded v1605b and it does have the vega 8 graphics so if i move over to the graphics there you can see we've got one gigabyte that is allocated to that so that's shared ram but of course we lose that so out of this 16 gigabytes i'm only going to have around 15 or so you know that you can use there so the maximum turbo this one is up to 3.6 gigahertz it's uh four cores eight threads and overall the performance i've been doing a bit of a test slightly ever so slightly disappointed i was expecting maybe a little bit too much out of this chip but uh i'll show you some of the results here so first up a cinebench r15 here so just over 500 cb that is actually pretty good okay this is not bad at all that's not a bad result cinebench r20 and that should be popping in but it hasn't there we go that one is just over 1 000 points there and okay i was expecting maybe about 1100 a little bit more than this but hey it's it's still pretty good for what it is and i did also run a benchmarks uh including geekbench 5 here that you can see so almost 800 there and this is where i just thought a little bit disappointing now i'm sure the intel guys well the amd guys sorry in the comments are going to say yeah but this benchmark favors intel blah blah blah but hey i'm just showing it this is just a reference okay i don't care about amd intel sort of stuff and here we go here is geekbench 4-2 and this result um this is where again i thought it'd be a little bit better but hey it's not too bad for what it is okay this is just a small little chip that can do a lot a lot on this motherboard as well now just for reference here okay this is just reference this is the score i got with the intel part that i just reviewed last mini pc it's only because it was the last one i reviewed and it gets a much higher score and it's the same kind of setup with the four course eight threads but it has a much higher turbo this one can turbo up to single core 4.6 so a full gigahertz more on that and that is probably why you know it gets those better results there and yes yeah maybe until geekbench does favor intel who knows okay but i'm not really too worried about that i'm just reporting the facts here guys on what i get with schools with this one so i am benchmarking the drive that i installed which is that sabrin rocket two terabyte excellent results so there's no problems here with that port running at the full speeds that it should definitely that nvme drive that slot there and of course you've got the option of adding a set of three 2.5 inch and you can also add in a set of three m.2 ssd 20 to 60 millimeters is the size that you can do so typical spreadsheets and things like that really good performance so this is quite a big one okay 859 pages because it actually is quite taxing that's why i test it out i normally test this on more lower end tech but even so i just thought i would show this and spreadsheets as well quite large one here 700 pages again for these kind of tasks with windows at least it handles it really well no problems at all with this it's really good so jump into some video files as well too because i want to see how it performs with playback of something really demanding so first up this one is a 4k 60 frames per second and look at this it is really good pretty much flawless that is i'll skip ahead again really good performance so that vague 8 graphics is handling that really well okay we step it up even more now with higher bitrate hevc 10 bit 140 megabits per second look at that super smooth absolutely no problems there whatsoever so it handles video files really really great no problems with that there at all now if i was to jump into chrome chrome performances stating the obvious here it is really good okay no problems lots of tabs open and the performance as expected there's no need for me to cover that one there but what i will look at briefly is we're just gonna jump into adobe premiere pro and i just want to show you what it is like at editing 4k video and i'll export times with this one as well so here we are so i'm just going to scrub ahead a little bit here and we'll take a look you can see that the cpu loads get up to about 90 in fact it'll probably max out with this one now i have got the preview window here just said and uh quarter playback resolution so i'll set it to full it's probably gonna be a little bit too demanding but see um little bit slow there to catch up but actually that's pretty good that's not bad at all i'm gonna hit play here and a little bit slow but there we go that kicks off and no problem really with this so you'll be able to edit and do these kind of tasks here with nothing too strenuous in terms of videos with like heaps of tracks you don't want to have a lot of tracks you don't have a lot of transitions and things and then you will definitely start to notice a little bit of slow down i feel with this so if you stick that on half or a quarter with our playback resolution that is definitely going to aid in uh this video editing performance i find too so i'm going to do with the typical test that i like to run and that is to export now i'm going to export just one minute of files footage sorry and the youtuber preset okay which is just under here so that is youtube 4k ultra hd and i'll find and get one minute of footage right here and we'll see how long it takes i will also have this time too as well so i'm gonna tap on the export here and then i'm gonna hit the okay on the clock in fact i'll hit the clock first and it's just giving it out by one or two seconds all right so start and then export okay see how long this takes it's actually looking very good the last intel i checked out did take one minute and 18 seconds to do one minute of footage 4k and this this is looking impressive well it's going to be close it was off to a really good start but i still think it's going to be able to beat the intel here in terms of definitely look at this okay when that disappears okay so you can take that as an actually probably 59 seconds because it was about a second before i hit the export that is an excellent result so that is a good you could say almost what 20 or 18 faster than that last quad core intel mini pc so really impressive i'm really happy to see this actually that it's really quite good at exporting that time is definitely not what i expected considering the other benchmarks it just goes to show you you can't always just rely on those synthetic benchmarks but real world tests like this one now i have run a 3d mark benchmark here this is fire strike and it's sneering towards 1900s that's the score we get with this one and i'm going to test out some gaming performance so i do have in the background already running loaded up and that is wolfenstein 2 which runs with vulcan graphics which should actually be okay here with this particular mini pc we should get some decent performance at least at 720p oh and i've lost my fps meter here that's not good or my temperatures too okay so this one does still look to have playable frame rates we're going to have to sort of estimate here definitely dipping below 30. look at that a little bit of lag here oh it's getting a little bit choppy so it is semi-playable but yeah especially with a lot of enemies on now that's that's gotta be running like at 20 frames per second or something that is is really quite hard to play like this this slow all right let's move over to another title and that's another aaa one grand theft auto 5 and see how that performs on this midi pc now gta is running really good here look at this frame rate this is over 50 frames per second sometimes over 60 and that's what we want this is good very good this is much better than the intel uhd 620 graphics that i was looking at and the whiskey like you mini pc which was the mini piece i reviewed just before this one so this says a big step up that one was i would say good 20 25 frames per second on average lower than this one here so even just at okay not quite 60 frames per second but it is still just so playable good to see now it will sometimes dip down into the high 30s but most of the time it's not really going to happen now when you play at a night here in the game it's a little bit more demanding so expect to lose maybe about 10 frames per second on average but it is still playable frames per second which is the main thing here so really good to see this now i'm going to test out an even lighter title and that is counter strike so even though this is just the warm up i'm just going to run around to show the frame rate here that this is looking like it's going to be most of the time over 60 and that's what we want so this at 1080p is stable and of course if you want a higher frame rate then just lower that resolution down to 720p but i'd still keep it i'll keep it at 1080p here because i think this is this is pretty good this is not bad right over 70 here so i'm already probably going to be dead and no i didn't die just yet so on to all thermals that i have been monitoring now for almost two hours and i've been pushing it really hard the whole time and these thermals are impressive very very good so the hottest temperatures in this are in fact the ssd which is kind of normal 69 degrees they do get very hot these ssds but let's have a look at the actual cpu so it's getting up to 66 max 54 there that is really really good that is so good considering the kind of performance it has especially the vega 8 a gpu that it's got and if we take a look then at the gpu 2 as well what did that get up to well 50. that's it 52. very very good and if you have a look then also at what kind of maximum wattage we were pulling up to about 26 27 so yes it was running at that 25 watts for the t dp that i set there so it is performing as expected there but these thermals are just so good very good little cooler on there and just the chipset itself of course does run quite cool okay what about fan noise now on the youtube bolts i noticed that it is constant and it is a little bit loud and it will sometimes turn off when the temperatures permit when it gets actually low enough but that doesn't often happen not at least with my 25 26 degrees ambient temperatures right now running uh the cinebench test here i'm just pushing it a little bit to give you a sample of that fan noise which you can hear right now and it is slightly annoying this is probably one of the bigger cons i'd say of this particular mini pc just like others actually so overall this has been for me a fantastic little mini pc yes the cpu performance for me was a little disappointing i was expecting a bit more than that and i questioned whether actually it was at one point running at the 25 watts but it was in the buyers and i said it it was originally there as well so i went back and double checked this there was a bias update that came through as well too and it remained at the 25 watts which is good and later on when looking at the power consumption you could see that yes it was using 25 watts the vega 8 does perform really well and you saw that with the gaming performance too there but not only just gaming performance which is very good for a little tiny mini pc of this size but also that 4k export time in adobe premiere pro there one minute of footage with the youtube 4k preset on most other tech that i review yes intel tech will take about one minute 20 seconds 30 seconds depending on what chip it is for a quad core this did it in under one minute that is absolutely fantastic really good to see that and the performance there we're getting and then even back onto the gaming performance too quite quite quite well actually look at gta 5 the frame rate was just so much better than the integrated intel graphics here so the vega 8 is good there now when you set it all up you're going to need to of course jump on and download the drivers from amd's website there i did have a problem with the amd software sometimes occasionally crashing on me that you know that flash menu that comes up with your different options in fact it kept doing it and i don't know why that is it's a little bit buggy there software which is no fault of udu but the bolt v8 and the bolt gear here that's in this very good it really only for me has just two things well you could say a borderline three but the big thing for me is the fan noise now those thermals in this fantastic they are so good considering the power that's in this so i believe they've got a lot more room there to tweak the fan profile just lower it down a little bit and just give us a little bit more head room without that fan coming on and then going off and it will stay off for hardly any time at all you have to do something super light like it's almost when it's idle then the fan goes off so i can i think they can push that a little bit more and it's just a little irritating the noise it does make so maybe with future updates they can adjust the rpms give us maybe slightly higher temperatures but lower fan noise would be absolutely perfect there and i know it's got a lot of ports on this i mean running four 4k monitors at 60 hertz is great and the usb 3.1 type c ports on here power delivery both in and out is great but i would have liked to have seen just one more full-size usb port we've got two usb ports full size ones type a's but i think three taipei's would have been really good for this particular model here and the other borderline one is the setup i know they've got guides on youtube which are really really good but i didn't really know where to place those wireless antennas um i think they just leave it up to the end user where you want to put it there and when i checked their guides i couldn't find any info on on that unless i was looking at the wrong place but overall this is a really good little mini pc and i've enjoyed my time testing this out it is really quite good definitely comes recommended from me now the retail price is 399 us dollars which a lot of people might go hey well hang on an extra hundred us dollars you can build yourself there's always those guys in the comments and you've got that option but will it be the size can you put it on the back of a tv or a monitor with the visa mount with visa mountain set up probably not definitely not i would say so thank you so much for watching this review and i do hope to see you back in the next one bye for nowso a lot of you have been asking for amd tech to be featured in the channel and it's really not up to me it's kind of only what i can get my hands on but the guys over at udu sent this out to me it is the uru bolt gear now this features an amd embedded system on a chip solution and this one here is the v1605b maximum turbo is 3.6 gigahertz it's a quad core with eight threads in total it can take up to 32 gigabytes of ram using sodium slots there it has two of them of course and it also can run up to four monitors at 4k 60hz which is pretty impressive when you see the size of this thing so in this review i'll go through quickly the unboxing what we get in the package setting it up a little bit and of course some performance tests and benchmarks use and even exporting some 4k video one minute of footage which it does it in a surprisingly fast and quick time which i didn't really expect to see from this and overall at the end my opinions of using this after a few days what i like and what i don't particularly like about it so it comes in this rather large box for such a small pc but that's because we've got all of these parts right here at stake so we've got the urubult v8 the middle case wi-fi module our power supply the eu and us cable so what we are going to need of course is ram and ssd and we're also going to need an operating system as well with this so here are the contents there's the case under here you will find our pcb the little motherboard the fan all in one unit there and it's just got so much in this and i'll get onto that uh very shortly too here are power cables so we've got us1 and there is the euro power cable and right here is our power supply now this power supply i can see is rated to a maximum of 65 watts this one and they also include these three udoo stickers which is nice of them to put that into the box there so there is a guide here to get set up and started so this is talking about how to install the wireless wifi module installing our ram and how to assemble the case it is pretty straightforward i think most people should not have any troubles with this and then on the other side too it's just telling us what we get of course inside this box here if you were to buy this particular bolt gear kit so top down view of this motherboard and you can see just how much have they managed to get crammed into this thing it's just absolutely amazing how they've done this so what i've got is two upright ram slots here sodiums now you can install up to 32 gigabytes i have 16 installed already two usb 3 ports right here we've got a front facing there's a 3.5 millimeter with microphone support so that's for your headsets and there's also a 3.5 audio out right here two hdmi twos that's 4k 60 they support and then two usb 3.1 ports these also support 4k 60 on that so yes four displays four displays out on this 4k 60 all of them that is really something from just one tiny little board gigabit lan is there as well and we also do have a 3.5 millimeter audio out which is there as well too now both of those type c ports they do also support power delivery in and out so that is great to see there's also on this side plenty more connectors so we do have some groove connectors we've got the druneo compatible pin out as well here for those of you into for example building robots or drones or just other things like that you have plenty of options a set of three or sata3 and the sata setter power out there on that one too as well so there's just as i mentioned there's so many options here now this also does have on board a compatible micro controller for that adrenia which is the at mega 32 u4 that's on board this particular pcb then on the other side we've got a lot of storage options so right here we have an mvme so this is pci times four this is key m and that m.2 slot is 2280 in size of course so that's for our fast ssd so i will be installing one of these right here which is a sabrin that's two terabytes really quick drive and this is where our wireless ac card goes so that is included in the box this is it right here i will also install that it's the intel wireless ac 31 38 so not the 3135 that i commonly see but just a slightly different model there to that one and then two antennas for our wireless now a little tip here with the wireless antennas when you install them in the case you put them on the side but you want to put it on the side you know that is actually facing towards your wireless router just to add a little bit in that speed there of course and of course you've got the lan port there too if you don't want to go wireless so you don't have to install them so i have my nvme drive installed here that's 22 by 80 but sorry i made a mistake before that this is not a 2280 size one but this is in fact 22 by 60 millimeters and i've got a sandisk that i'm going to install on there but first i need to connect up the wireless antennas for the wireless card which i have already installed so this is very very easy to do you just slot them in place screw them down and the build quality of this board i just wanted to comment on is excellent it is really good so this i believe is the way it will go in and you just need to then slot the inner part in here and then you need to just pull it up once it goes inside the case here you've got to pull it up and then screw it into place i'll show you the end result once i get this done just make sure those cables aren't in the way there and you pull it up and you can see the fan is actually just right under here so this is what the end result will look like without having of course the wireless antennas just floating around i need to find an ideal position and where to put them exactly which i'll get on to later so here we can see it's quite good it's got this gap underneath here that's actually where you put the 2.5 inch drive so they've included all the screws and bits and pieces you need for that so right here is where you would do that so two point inch drive goes here and the cable comes just underneath there keeping it neat and tidy and clean and you put some rubber feet on too as well we'll go here and here and you can also mount this these points here are for visa mounting too as well and here's what the back of it looks like too again just ignore my uh wireless antennas they're floating around so very good build quality in this case overall is really solid and i like the design it is definitely different from the typical kind of ones we get this kind of size at least from intel for example so first up our bios and yes of course it is completely unlocked here now there are some interesting settings to go into so one of them is under am d a cbs and this is our power limit you want to go into mbio common options if this hasn't been set already mine out of the box was actually set to 25 watts this is our tdp it could be on 15 but set it to 25 of course which i will be running the entirety of this review here to make sure that we do have maximum performance so if i get out of this i'll just quickly show you that we've got a lot of other different options in here everything you pretty much think of is all here so it's completely unlocked and there's lots of settings in there you could mess up but if you do run into problems just unplug that battery on the other side of the motherboard to completely reset the bias of course let's jump into our windows now which i have already installed set up and got all the drivers installed as well so it didn't have too much of an issue to get set up you just have to download the drivers from amd for this particular chipset here so this system on a chip is the embedded v1605b and it does have the vega 8 graphics so if i move over to the graphics there you can see we've got one gigabyte that is allocated to that so that's shared ram but of course we lose that so out of this 16 gigabytes i'm only going to have around 15 or so you know that you can use there so the maximum turbo this one is up to 3.6 gigahertz it's uh four cores eight threads and overall the performance i've been doing a bit of a test slightly ever so slightly disappointed i was expecting maybe a little bit too much out of this chip but uh i'll show you some of the results here so first up a cinebench r15 here so just over 500 cb that is actually pretty good okay this is not bad at all that's not a bad result cinebench r20 and that should be popping in but it hasn't there we go that one is just over 1 000 points there and okay i was expecting maybe about 1100 a little bit more than this but hey it's it's still pretty good for what it is and i did also run a benchmarks uh including geekbench 5 here that you can see so almost 800 there and this is where i just thought a little bit disappointing now i'm sure the intel guys well the amd guys sorry in the comments are going to say yeah but this benchmark favors intel blah blah blah but hey i'm just showing it this is just a reference okay i don't care about amd intel sort of stuff and here we go here is geekbench 4-2 and this result um this is where again i thought it'd be a little bit better but hey it's not too bad for what it is okay this is just a small little chip that can do a lot a lot on this motherboard as well now just for reference here okay this is just reference this is the score i got with the intel part that i just reviewed last mini pc it's only because it was the last one i reviewed and it gets a much higher score and it's the same kind of setup with the four course eight threads but it has a much higher turbo this one can turbo up to single core 4.6 so a full gigahertz more on that and that is probably why you know it gets those better results there and yes yeah maybe until geekbench does favor intel who knows okay but i'm not really too worried about that i'm just reporting the facts here guys on what i get with schools with this one so i am benchmarking the drive that i installed which is that sabrin rocket two terabyte excellent results so there's no problems here with that port running at the full speeds that it should definitely that nvme drive that slot there and of course you've got the option of adding a set of three 2.5 inch and you can also add in a set of three m.2 ssd 20 to 60 millimeters is the size that you can do so typical spreadsheets and things like that really good performance so this is quite a big one okay 859 pages because it actually is quite taxing that's why i test it out i normally test this on more lower end tech but even so i just thought i would show this and spreadsheets as well quite large one here 700 pages again for these kind of tasks with windows at least it handles it really well no problems at all with this it's really good so jump into some video files as well too because i want to see how it performs with playback of something really demanding so first up this one is a 4k 60 frames per second and look at this it is really good pretty much flawless that is i'll skip ahead again really good performance so that vague 8 graphics is handling that really well okay we step it up even more now with higher bitrate hevc 10 bit 140 megabits per second look at that super smooth absolutely no problems there whatsoever so it handles video files really really great no problems with that there at all now if i was to jump into chrome chrome performances stating the obvious here it is really good okay no problems lots of tabs open and the performance as expected there's no need for me to cover that one there but what i will look at briefly is we're just gonna jump into adobe premiere pro and i just want to show you what it is like at editing 4k video and i'll export times with this one as well so here we are so i'm just going to scrub ahead a little bit here and we'll take a look you can see that the cpu loads get up to about 90 in fact it'll probably max out with this one now i have got the preview window here just said and uh quarter playback resolution so i'll set it to full it's probably gonna be a little bit too demanding but see um little bit slow there to catch up but actually that's pretty good that's not bad at all i'm gonna hit play here and a little bit slow but there we go that kicks off and no problem really with this so you'll be able to edit and do these kind of tasks here with nothing too strenuous in terms of videos with like heaps of tracks you don't want to have a lot of tracks you don't have a lot of transitions and things and then you will definitely start to notice a little bit of slow down i feel with this so if you stick that on half or a quarter with our playback resolution that is definitely going to aid in uh this video editing performance i find too so i'm going to do with the typical test that i like to run and that is to export now i'm going to export just one minute of files footage sorry and the youtuber preset okay which is just under here so that is youtube 4k ultra hd and i'll find and get one minute of footage right here and we'll see how long it takes i will also have this time too as well so i'm gonna tap on the export here and then i'm gonna hit the okay on the clock in fact i'll hit the clock first and it's just giving it out by one or two seconds all right so start and then export okay see how long this takes it's actually looking very good the last intel i checked out did take one minute and 18 seconds to do one minute of footage 4k and this this is looking impressive well it's going to be close it was off to a really good start but i still think it's going to be able to beat the intel here in terms of definitely look at this okay when that disappears okay so you can take that as an actually probably 59 seconds because it was about a second before i hit the export that is an excellent result so that is a good you could say almost what 20 or 18 faster than that last quad core intel mini pc so really impressive i'm really happy to see this actually that it's really quite good at exporting that time is definitely not what i expected considering the other benchmarks it just goes to show you you can't always just rely on those synthetic benchmarks but real world tests like this one now i have run a 3d mark benchmark here this is fire strike and it's sneering towards 1900s that's the score we get with this one and i'm going to test out some gaming performance so i do have in the background already running loaded up and that is wolfenstein 2 which runs with vulcan graphics which should actually be okay here with this particular mini pc we should get some decent performance at least at 720p oh and i've lost my fps meter here that's not good or my temperatures too okay so this one does still look to have playable frame rates we're going to have to sort of estimate here definitely dipping below 30. look at that a little bit of lag here oh it's getting a little bit choppy so it is semi-playable but yeah especially with a lot of enemies on now that's that's gotta be running like at 20 frames per second or something that is is really quite hard to play like this this slow all right let's move over to another title and that's another aaa one grand theft auto 5 and see how that performs on this midi pc now gta is running really good here look at this frame rate this is over 50 frames per second sometimes over 60 and that's what we want this is good very good this is much better than the intel uhd 620 graphics that i was looking at and the whiskey like you mini pc which was the mini piece i reviewed just before this one so this says a big step up that one was i would say good 20 25 frames per second on average lower than this one here so even just at okay not quite 60 frames per second but it is still just so playable good to see now it will sometimes dip down into the high 30s but most of the time it's not really going to happen now when you play at a night here in the game it's a little bit more demanding so expect to lose maybe about 10 frames per second on average but it is still playable frames per second which is the main thing here so really good to see this now i'm going to test out an even lighter title and that is counter strike so even though this is just the warm up i'm just going to run around to show the frame rate here that this is looking like it's going to be most of the time over 60 and that's what we want so this at 1080p is stable and of course if you want a higher frame rate then just lower that resolution down to 720p but i'd still keep it i'll keep it at 1080p here because i think this is this is pretty good this is not bad right over 70 here so i'm already probably going to be dead and no i didn't die just yet so on to all thermals that i have been monitoring now for almost two hours and i've been pushing it really hard the whole time and these thermals are impressive very very good so the hottest temperatures in this are in fact the ssd which is kind of normal 69 degrees they do get very hot these ssds but let's have a look at the actual cpu so it's getting up to 66 max 54 there that is really really good that is so good considering the kind of performance it has especially the vega 8 a gpu that it's got and if we take a look then at the gpu 2 as well what did that get up to well 50. that's it 52. very very good and if you have a look then also at what kind of maximum wattage we were pulling up to about 26 27 so yes it was running at that 25 watts for the t dp that i set there so it is performing as expected there but these thermals are just so good very good little cooler on there and just the chipset itself of course does run quite cool okay what about fan noise now on the youtube bolts i noticed that it is constant and it is a little bit loud and it will sometimes turn off when the temperatures permit when it gets actually low enough but that doesn't often happen not at least with my 25 26 degrees ambient temperatures right now running uh the cinebench test here i'm just pushing it a little bit to give you a sample of that fan noise which you can hear right now and it is slightly annoying this is probably one of the bigger cons i'd say of this particular mini pc just like others actually so overall this has been for me a fantastic little mini pc yes the cpu performance for me was a little disappointing i was expecting a bit more than that and i questioned whether actually it was at one point running at the 25 watts but it was in the buyers and i said it it was originally there as well so i went back and double checked this there was a bias update that came through as well too and it remained at the 25 watts which is good and later on when looking at the power consumption you could see that yes it was using 25 watts the vega 8 does perform really well and you saw that with the gaming performance too there but not only just gaming performance which is very good for a little tiny mini pc of this size but also that 4k export time in adobe premiere pro there one minute of footage with the youtube 4k preset on most other tech that i review yes intel tech will take about one minute 20 seconds 30 seconds depending on what chip it is for a quad core this did it in under one minute that is absolutely fantastic really good to see that and the performance there we're getting and then even back onto the gaming performance too quite quite quite well actually look at gta 5 the frame rate was just so much better than the integrated intel graphics here so the vega 8 is good there now when you set it all up you're going to need to of course jump on and download the drivers from amd's website there i did have a problem with the amd software sometimes occasionally crashing on me that you know that flash menu that comes up with your different options in fact it kept doing it and i don't know why that is it's a little bit buggy there software which is no fault of udu but the bolt v8 and the bolt gear here that's in this very good it really only for me has just two things well you could say a borderline three but the big thing for me is the fan noise now those thermals in this fantastic they are so good considering the power that's in this so i believe they've got a lot more room there to tweak the fan profile just lower it down a little bit and just give us a little bit more head room without that fan coming on and then going off and it will stay off for hardly any time at all you have to do something super light like it's almost when it's idle then the fan goes off so i can i think they can push that a little bit more and it's just a little irritating the noise it does make so maybe with future updates they can adjust the rpms give us maybe slightly higher temperatures but lower fan noise would be absolutely perfect there and i know it's got a lot of ports on this i mean running four 4k monitors at 60 hertz is great and the usb 3.1 type c ports on here power delivery both in and out is great but i would have liked to have seen just one more full-size usb port we've got two usb ports full size ones type a's but i think three taipei's would have been really good for this particular model here and the other borderline one is the setup i know they've got guides on youtube which are really really good but i didn't really know where to place those wireless antennas um i think they just leave it up to the end user where you want to put it there and when i checked their guides i couldn't find any info on on that unless i was looking at the wrong place but overall this is a really good little mini pc and i've enjoyed my time testing this out it is really quite good definitely comes recommended from me now the retail price is 399 us dollars which a lot of people might go hey well hang on an extra hundred us dollars you can build yourself there's always those guys in the comments and you've got that option but will it be the size can you put it on the back of a tv or a monitor with the visa mount with visa mountain set up probably not definitely not i would say so thank you so much for watching this review and i do hope to see you back in the next one bye for now\n"