Egsmtpc A1 Mini PC evaluation: Entertainment Office light experience

If you still think that mini PCs are not reusable, you are wrong. With the change of times, we can no longer look at them from the perspective of the past. With the continuous in-depth research and development of AMD, the process and performance have been improved. Mini PCs using AMD CPU can fully meet office needs. The newly launched AMD ryzen 5 3550H processor can even be built into an entertainment platform to provide a good game experience. For enterprises and users of light entertainment, the benefits of miniaturizing the pc are obvious, and the popularity of mini PCs is increasing day by day. The A1-3550H Mini PC brought by egsmtpc for users is a small portable pc for office and light entertainment. Below we will bring you the evaluation of this pc.

Design style

Egsmtpc Mini PC adopts a simple design style, and the color matching of matte black is convenient for matching with different office and home environments. The overall size of the computer is very small, and the overall size is 127.6 × 127.6 × 48.3mm, which can even be put into the pocket of the coat, and is very portable.

Rich interfaces

The shell of egsmtpc A1 is made of two materials. It is surrounded by an aluminum alloy frame. In the front, there are common startup keys, audio interfaces, and two USB 3.0 interfaces. In the back, there are power interfaces, network cable interfaces, HDMI interfaces, DP interfaces, two USB 2.0 interfaces and USB 3.0 interfaces. On the whole, it is relatively rich.

Support triple display 4K@60HZ.

Material information

The top and bottom of egsmtpc A1 Mini PC are made of ABS plastic. The four sides of the top are chamfered to optimize the feel and visual effect. The bottom is a heat dissipation hole and two hanging holes, which can be fixed on the wall or the rear of the monitor. There are foot pads at the four corners to increase friction and shock absorption.

CPU Information

Let's take a look at the configuration of this mini PC. from the CPU-Z, we can see that the CPU is an AMD ryzen 5 3550h processor. It is manufactured with a 12 nanometer process and has a specification of 4 cores and 8 threads. The thermal design power consumption is only 35W. The perfect power consumption control and good performance undoubtedly fit the Mini PC very well.

The memory configuration adopts a dual 8G configuration. The 16G dual channel memory can provide more space for multitasking. The radeon RX Vega 8 processor graphics card has good performance on the whole. Next is the performance test.

We conducted a more comprehensive test, and the overall score of egsmtpc A1 Mini PC was 3602, which was a good performance. Specific to the test of various indicators, the basic application performance was 6731 points, the productivity performance was 5784 points, and the digital content creation performance was 3258 points. That is to say, this Mini PC is capable of office and image processing, but it is not suitable for large-scale 3D modeling or 3A game.

Internal layout

After the test, we finally took this Mini PC apart to see the internal workmanship and design. The four screws of egsmtpc A1 are hidden under the foot pad. After unscrewing, you can see the inside.

Egsmtpc A1mini PC uses dual 8G memory to form a dual channel, with a main frequency of 2666mhz. The hard disk is also NVME protocol SSD, with a capacity of 512G, which also ensures fast reading and writing and timely response. If you feel that the hard disk capacity is not enough, this Mini PC also has a 2.5-inch hard disk slot preset at the bottom, which can be added with the attached SATA cable.

Below the SSD are Bluetooth and WiFi modules. Players with higher requirements for wireless connection can also replace them by themselves. However, it should be noted that the wifi antenna extends to the top cover by bypassing the motherboard. Care should be taken when replacing it.

The CPU of egsmtpc A1 is on the other side of the motherboard, where there is also a radiator. Similar to the radiator used in notebooks, it adopts the design of lower air inlet and upper air exhaust, with speed regulation function.

Evaluation summary:

Egsmtpc A1 Mini PC is a small PC created for office environment and light entertainment players. The built-in amd Rapunzel 5 3550H processor with radeon RX Vega 8 processor graphics graphics card provides good performance, can easily meet the needs of office file processing and light video editing, and has the advantages of small size and low power consumption. The price of 500 $will not put pressure on the budget, It is suitable for a variety of office environments and light game entertainment user equipment.