Beelink BT7 mini PC powered by Intel Atom x7-Z8700 processor offers an interesting alternative to the fanless Voyo V3 mini PC, as it is actively cooled by a small fan, supports (Gigabit) Ethernet, and comes with three full USB 3.0 ports. There are three versions with either 64, 128 (64+64) or 320 (64+256) GB stortage, and I got Beelink BT7 128GB to play with. Since I’ve already checkout the hardware, I’ll focus on the performance and stability of the device on Windows 10 in the second part of the review.
Setup and System Information
I placed the mini PC on my desk, made use of the three USB 3.0 ports with a USB keyboard, a USB mouse, and a Seagate USB 3.0 hard drive, and connected Ethernet, HDMI and the power cable.
However, if you happen to own a TV or monitor that supports VESA mounts, you can use the include VESA bracket and screws, as well as the short HDMI cable to hook Beelink BT7 right behind the display.
This is definitely a plus if you are short on space, or just want a cleaner desk. Press the red button on the side to start the computer. The boot will typically take 20 seconds, but the very first time you’ll go through Windows 10 setup starting by language selection between German, English, Spanish, Russian, and simplified Chinese. I assume other languages might also be available, but I’m unclear if it can be selected here.
The rest of the usual Windows setup includes EULA agreement, Custom or Express settings selection (I went with Express), and account creation. Contrary to the pre-installed version of Windows 10 on Voyo V3 which lacks account support, Windows 10 on Beelink BT7 appears to be “clean”.
As indicated in my unboxing and teardown post, I was confused at first because while I had been sent a 128GB version, all I got was a 64GB SSD in the device. But as you can see from the screenshot above, leaving apart the NTFS and exFAT partition from my USB hard drive, there are two storage devices with the C: “Windows” drive (eMMC flash) with 58.9 GB in total, and E: “New Volume” drive (SSD) with 57.5 GB.
We can check some of the info in Control Panel->System and Security->System to find out an activated version (i.e. properly licensed) of 64-bit Windows 10 Home is installed, and the processor is indeed an Intel Atom x7-Z8700 CPU coupled with 4GB RAM.
The Device Manager confirms the two hardware storage devices with “PowerSSD” and “Toshiba 064G70”, Bleutooth and WiFI connectivity, Gigabit Ethernet, etc…
HWiNFO64 information is mostly the same as for Voyo V3 for CPU, GPU, and Operating System, but the reported memory is a little higher (4010MB vs 3882 MB), and the BIOS and storage info are obviously different.
Since many people did not trust the Windows 10 version installed on Voyo V3, they reinstalled Windows 10 themselves, but met a roadblock while finding the drivers. The company did release the complete firmware image (5GB+), so people extracted the drivers and provided a much smaller download link. Even though the issue was resolved after a while, many users went through the unnecessary steps of finding the drivers. With Beelink BT7, fewer people are likely to re-install Windows 10 since the security features are still enabled, and if you still do, the company provide CD in the package with all Windows 10 drivers for Beelink BT7.
List of drivers available in the CD.
| Vendor | Driver or Utility name | Driver Version | Released date | WHQL’d |
| Intel | Intel(R) HD Graphics | 20.19.15.4308 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Intel | I2C Controller | 604.10146.2654.7394 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Intel | GPIO Controller | 604.10146.2652.3930 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Realtek | Realtek I2S Audio Codec | 6.4.10147.4327 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Intel | Intel SST Audio Device | 604.10135.2664.5232 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Microsoft | HID-compliant System control | 10.0.10586.0 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Realtek | Realtek PCle GBE Family Controller | 9.1.402.2015 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Broadcom | Broadcom 802.11abgn Wireless SDIO Adapter | 5.93.102.19 | 04/11/15 | Y |
| Microsoft | Intel SD Host Controller | 10.0.10586.0 | 04/11/15 | Y |
So when it comes to Windows 10 integration, and driver availability, Beelink BT7 clearly comes ahead of Voyo V3.
Beelink BT7 Benchmarks
Let’s run first run PCMARK 8 HOME accelerated and conventional benchmarks.
Both scores are slightly higher than on Voyo V3. The PCMARK 8 Home Accelerated score is 1,509 points (vs 1,428), and PCMARK 8 Home Conventional is 1,211 points (vs. 1,066). Please note that the graphics driver on Voyo V3 would often crash, so I had to repeat the test a few times. Beelink BT7 had no such issues.
Something changed in 3DMark benchmark, and you now need to run each tests individually. I could run Sky Diver 1.0, Ice Storm 1.2 and Cloud Gate 1.1 successfully, while in Voyo V3 Skydiver would not run at all.
However the two benchmark that went through on both mini PCs have vastly different scores in favor of Voyo V3. Cloud Gate 1.1: 1,664 vs 2,065 points; Ice Storm 1.2: 9,599 vs 20,853 points. A side by side comparison of the two Ice Storm 1.2 scores only show a different UI version, and strangely the width and height for Voyo V3 is not reported. The maximum CPU frequency was also only 1,760 MHz on BT7 against 2,319 MHz on Voyo V3, so maybe some throttling was happening.
So I ran the Ice Storm 1.2 and Cloud Gate 1.1 benchmarks again another day, and the results became much better with respectively 23,999 and 2,185 points.
Passmark 8 benchmark results ended being nearly the score as Voyo V3 with 845.9 points (vs 839.9 pts).
CrystalDiskMark was used to test performance of the internal flash (C:), the SSD (E:), and the NTFS partition on my USB drive (D:).
Sequential read is excellent, sequential write not that much, with random write and read speeds roughly equivalent to the storage devices in Voyo V3 and MINIX NGC-1. Random I/Os are quite important when you’re going to run the operating systems, and there are many small read and write operation.
The SSD does not perform quite as well, but should still be OK for data and programs. I’d still recommend installing programs on, and set the caches’ paths to, the eMMC flash (C:) for better performance.
USS 3.0 performance was basically the same as on Voyo V3. The first run however had a very low 20 MB/s sequential write speed, which improved to 80MB/s+ in my second attempt. The random I/Os (4K Q32T1 and 4K) are quite slow, but it’s normal for a mechanical drive.
Finally, I installed iperf-2.x to test Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi performance.
Gigabit Ethernet dual duplex transfer with “iperf.exe -t 60 -c -d“:
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Client connecting to 192.168.0.111, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 170 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 6] local 192.168.0.104 port 53173 connected with 192.168.0.111 port 5001 [ 6] 0.0-60.0 sec 6.24 GBytes 893 Mbits/sec [ 5] 0.0-60.0 sec 6.03 GBytes 863 Mbits/sec |
That’s actually the best device I’ve tested when it comes to Ethernet performance.
The Wireless module is supposed to support 2.4 and 5.0 GHz WiFi, but only 2.4 GHz access points were detected in Windows. I repeated the same test with WiFi @ 802.11n:
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Client connecting to 192.168.0.108, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 6] local 192.168.0.104 port 57933 connected with 192.168.0.108 port 5001 [ 6] 0.0-60.0 sec 116 MBytes 16.2 Mbits/sec [ 4] 0.0-60.1 sec 126 MBytes 17.6 Mbits/sec |
Results were a bit disappointing but similar to the WiFi performance I got with Voyo V3. Since WiFi is not really designed for full duplex, I repeat the test in one direction only.
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iperf.exe -t 60 -c [ 5] local 192.168.0.104 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.108 port 50810 [ 5] 0.0-60.1 sec 258 MBytes 36.0 Mbits/sec |
Again the results is about the same as I had with Voyo V3’s WiFi.
I’ve created a comparison chart between Beelink BT7 against Voyo V3, MINIX NGC-1, Tronsmart Ara X5, Intel NUC, Intel Core-M compute stick, abd Kangaroo mobile desktop in order to have a better feel of the relative performance of those systems. 3DMark Ice Storm results are divided by 20 to get a more readable chart.
While the more expensive Core m3 stick is clearly ahead, Beelink BT7 is pretty good, and overall slightly better than Voyo V3 expect for sequential write speed.
Beelink BT7 User Experience and Usability Testing
Beelink BT7 passed the benchmark test almost flawlessly, with the main worry being the low 3D graphics performance during my first run of 3Dmark possibly due to some throttling, but the most important of course is how the system perform in real-life tasks. I perform the following using 1080p59 resolution, except for Kodi were I set the resolution to 3840×2160 @ 30 Hz:
- Multi-tasking – Using Microsoft Edge, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and Gimp at the same time
- Web Browsing with Microsoft Edge
- Loading multiple tab with CNX Software
- Playing a 1080p YouTube Videos
- Playing a flash game (Candy Crush Saga)
- Gaming with Asphalt 8
- Kodi 16.1 @ 4K resolution with 4K videos using H.265 or H.264 codecs, and HDMI audio pass-through
Note that I’m using Microsoft Edge browser, instead of Chrome or Firefox, because the last two simply do not work very well in YouTube. It could be because Edge uses MP4, and the other two VP9, and Cherry Trail processors are not quite powerful enough to handle this without dropped frames.
Overall, Beelink BT7 did very well in all those tasks, although I would have wished higher frame rates in Asphalt 8, but the GPU is just not powerful enough to achieve optimal performance. Kodi could play 4K video using XVDA2 hardware decoding for H.265 and H.264 videos, but 4K 10-bit H.264 and H.265 videos could not be played smoothly, as Kodi fell back to software decoding. HDMI audio pass-through works but is limited to Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1, and TrueHD and DTS HD is not supported (Kodi can transcode TrueHD to DD 5.1).
I also ran HWiNFO64 in the background during my tests, including benchmark to check whether the system would throttle.
One core did throttle on average, but nothing too bad, and Voyo V3 had two cores throttling on average for the same set of tests.
However, I normally also test playing a 1080p YouTube video for over one hour in Microsoft Edge in full screen mode, and when I came back to check out the status, the video was buffering, which could happen due to poor connectivity to the YouTube servers unrelated to the device itself, but I soon found out that something else was wrong.
The CPU was shown to be stuck at 0.13 to 0.26 GHz (in Task Manager) and 480 MHz (6x) in HWiNFO64, without any of the core overheating at the time, and the frequency would not go up whatever I did with the computer. It’s very similar to what happened with my first MINIX NGC-1, except the temperature was perfectly under control. So I turned the mini PC off, waited a few minutes, before starting it again, and playing the video for one more hour.
The video only had 5 dropped frames out of over 100,000, which happened when I switched between full screen and windowed mode. So no problem at all here, and I have not explanation for what happened, unless there some bug with Windows 10, UEFI, or the drivers.
If you think that I should have used Chrome browser instead, I have a screenshot for you 🙂
Power consumption in idle mode is normally around 5 to 7 watts, playing a 4K is around 10 to 12 watts, and in power off mode my meter reported 0.0 watt. The power consumption in sleep mode is a little odd, as after one minute the consumption varied between 5 and 10 watts, and after 30 minutes it was still 7 to 7.4 watts, ore greater than in idle mode. The fan turns all the time, but it’s really not that noisy. I can’t hear it when my main PC (which I reckon is quite noisy) or aircon is running. In a quiet room (PC and aircon off), I’m able to hear the fan at around 2 meters away, but the noise is very low.
Conclusion
Beelink BT7 is a good mini PC. The hardware build is of good quality, Windows 10 is activated and without some strange hacks like in Voyo V3, but if you want to reinstall Windows 10 anyway, the drivers are provided. Performance is very slightly better than Voyo V3, except for networking thanks to the Gigabit Ethernet interface. I still found some downsides, such as 5 GHZ WiFi access points are not detected, and in some rare & random cases the performance did suffer a lot (3Dmark benchmark and one hour 1080p YouTube video). I have not good explanation for the latter issue, as the CPU did not overheat when it happened, and a reboot would apparently fix the issues. I have not tried Linux on the platform, yet but thanks to recent work, you should be able to run a fully working Ubuntu firmware (HDMI audio, and maybe WiFi and Bluetooth) using Ubuntu 16.04 ISO by linuxium.
Price is also an important factor in a purchase decision, and considering both Voyo V3 and Beelink BT7 (128GB) are about the same price (when using coupons), it’s likely a no-brainer to go with Beelink BT7, unless you don’t want a fan at all. The cheapest way to current buy Beelink BT7 is via GearBest for respectively $168.99 (64 GB – coupon: GBBT76), $195.99 (128 GB – coupon: GBBT72), and $249.99 (320 GB – coupon: GBBT73), but it can also be found on Banggood, Amazon UK, and Beelink themselves sell it directly on Amazon US.
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very interesting the bundled CD…
What about the Com1 shown on Device Manager…are there the pins (pads) on the board ?
Dears,
I ordered today one to be shipped to Italy.
I will try it with skystar HD 2 usb, satellite card for pc.
I will let you know my esperience.
ciao
@Jibril
There are several unsoldered pads on the board, but I’m not sure what they are for.
Beelink BT7 board pictures can be found @ http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/05/30/beelink-bt7-mini-pc-unboxing-and-teardown/
That mouse tho…
Think you are slightly misunderstanding Kodi and HD Audio when you say : “HDMI audio pass-through works but is limited to Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1, and TrueHD and DTS HD is not supported (Kodi can transcode those to DD 5.1 or DTS 5.1).”
There are four options for Kodi handling HD Audio :
1. HD Audio bitstreamed over HDMI (This clearly isn’t happening here)
2. The DD and DTS core streams which accompany True HD and DTS HD audio bitstreamed instead (NOT transcoded – these are separate streams)
3. PCM 5.1/7.1 lossless decode – where Kodi decodes the True HD or DTS-HD MA (HRA isn’t lossess but is also decoded) and outputs this as PCM 5.1/7.1 (This is usually the highest quality solution for Intel devices that support PCM 5.1/7.1 output but not HD Audio bit streaming – like Bay Trail-T and Cherry Trail SoCs)
4. Transcode to DD (not DTS). This is where non-DD audio is decoded to PCM in Kodi AND then re-encoded to Dolby 5.1 for output as a DD bitstream. This is useful for non-bitstreamable formats like FLAC, AAC etc. where you can’t output multichannel PCM (i.e. option 3 isn’t possible) – such as basic platforms with SPDIF output (or SPDIF over HDMI only). I don’t think Kodi has DTS transcoding as an option.
For most Intel tablet-SoC based systems where option 1 isn’t supported, option 3 usually is – and offers a higher quality output than options 2 or 4.
@Steve
HDMI audio pass-through is not reserved to HD audio. Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 work fine out of the box.
HD audio (TrueHD and DTS HD) does not work at all, and in this case:
1. DTS 7.1 is normally “passed through” as DTS 5.1
2. TrueHD 7.1/5.1 is transcoded (provided the transcoding option is set) to Dolby D 5.1 and passed through as Dolby D 5.1. If the option is not set the audio stream will usually show as PCM 2.0 (and output silence or audio noise) on my A/V receiver. Or maybe I’d have to test that again if Windows is different from Android.
You’re right that there’s no DTS transcoding. I’ve removed that part.
@cnxsoft
Yep – was specifically talking about approaches for playback of HD Audio specifically. Totally accept that DD/DTS passthrough is also possible on HDMI – but this isn’t HD Audio, it is legacy, low quality lossy SPDIF quality. (Effectively it’s SPDIF over HDMI)
Not sure what you mean by 1.? There isn’t a DTS 7.1 format is there? There is DTS 5.1 and the slightly rarer DTS ES 6.1 which are both SPDIF-compatible formats. The only 7.1 DTS-family audio I’m aware of are the HD Audio variants of DTS-HD Master Audio (lossless) and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio (high quality lossy).
DTS-HD MA and HRA (as used for Blu-ray and widely found) are based on a 5.1 DTS core accompanied by a ‘helper’ signal that allows the 5.1 or 7.1 lossless (or high quality lossy) to be reconstructed by a decoder. When you play back a DTS-HD 5.1 or 7.1 signal on a device that can’t handle DTS-HD bit streaming or 5.1/7.1 output you have the option of either bit streaming the DTS core, or decoding and folding-down to PCM 2.0
Dolby True HD is a self-contained format – but in most deployments (Blu-ray for instance) there is a ‘hidden’ Dolby stream accompanying it which is bitstreamed on devices that can’t output True HD bitstreamed or decoded to PCM 5.1/7.1. (It is possible to strip this on an mkv remux I believe?) Alternatively you can decode and fold down to PCM 2.0
The transcode to DD option is only active when you enable it in Kodi – yet with this NOT enabled you still usually get DD 5.1 output when playing True HD tracks (as the additional DD track is played)
This is detailed here : “In the Blu-ray Disc specification, Dolby TrueHD is an optional codec. Dolby TrueHD audiotracks may carry up to 8 discrete audio channels (7.1 surround) of 24-bit audio at 96 kHz or up to 6 channels (5.1 surround) at 192 kHz.[1] The maximum encoded bitrate is 18 Mbit/s. Since Dolby TrueHD is an optional codec, a companion Dolby Digital bitstream (2.0 192Kbps or 5.1 448Kbps/640Kbps) must accompany the Dolby TrueHD bitstream on Blu-ray discs. Blu-ray Disc players consider this combination of two audio bitstreams as a single logical audio track, and a Blu-ray Disc player will automatically select the Dolby Digital or Dolby TrueHD bitstream depending on its decoding and/or audio bitstream output capabilities.”
The above should read : “When you play back a DTS-HD 5.1 or 7.1 signal on a device that can’t handle DTS-HD bit streaming or 5.1/7.1 PCM output you have the option of either bit streaming the DTS core, or decoding and folding-down to PCM 2.0”
@Steve
When I said DTS 7.1 I meant the HD master and HD HR formats.
I’ve tested again:
1. TrueHD 7.1 audio with Dolby Digital transcoding disabled in Kodi -> “PCM 2.0 ch” shown on A/V receiver (and audio is audible too, so Kodi just falls back to PCM audio output)
2. TrueHD 7.1 audio with Dolby Digital transcoding enabled in Kodi -> “Dolby D 5.1 ch” shown on A/V receiver.
So it appears Kodi can also transcode TrueHD to Dolby Digital, when HD audio pass-through is not supported by the player. I guess some files would play DD 5.1 even without the transcoding option but it’s not a given as my test has shown.
If I repeat the test with DTS HD Master:
1. With Dolby Digital transcoding disabled in Kodi -> “DTS 5.1 ch” shown on A/V receiver.
2. With Dolby Digital transcoding enabled in Kodi -> “DTS 5.1 ch” shown on A/V receiver.
@cnxsoft
Yep – though in most Kodi circles DTS = SPDIF quality, DTS-HD = HD Audio.
And yes – Dolby True HD on Blu-ray has a ‘hidden’ DD stream. If you rip a Blu-ray as an ISO or a full folder it will survive. If you rip it to an MKV you can strip the DD and leave just the True HD. If you have just the True HD stream you will either get PCM 2.0 or a re-transcode to DD 5.1 (if you enable transcoding) UNLESS you have PCM 5.1/7.1 support (which most Bay Trail/Cherry Trail/Braswell platforms support) which should give you lossless decode to PCM.
This is different to Blu-ray DTS-HD which requires the DTS 5.1 core along with the supplementary ‘delta’ signal that allows the lossless (or higher quality lossy) DTS-HD MA or HRA to be reconstructed. In this case there is always a DTS core which can be bitstreamed on platforms that only support SPDIF quality bit streaming, though again PCM 5.1/7.1 decode is also an option on some platforms.
Hello, thank you for the review! will this PC support HDMI 2.0a? I have a 4K HDR tv and i’m looking for a mini PC that could support 4k 60fps. Thanks.
@Roger
HDMI 1.4. For HDMI 2.0 / 4K 60 fps support on Intel platforms you need to spend several hundred dollars.
Hello,
does it support wake on lan ? I guess not but previous BT3 can handle a custom bios to support WoL.
Another question, can you try to disconnect fan and give us fan noise ? does Atom still working fine this way ?
Dears,
on Friday, I got the box.
In terms of cpu power, more or less the experionce is the same of a voyo a1 tablet – win 10 32 bit – used as a box, but with more useful usb ports.
In terms of GPU, now it is very good with ffsplit and a usb stick to register from analog sources.
It is also quicker with xmedia recode.
The only setback is the fan… it is really not loud but it is always there….. :(…..
One day, I will try to use a skystar hd 2.
Regards
Ordered on May 24th, 16 from Gearbest. Received in US after 23 days!
Unit DOA. Initially, after start up, BT7 stuck at Beelink boot logo with message “A2” at bottom right. After few power cycle, no more logo just blue led light on.
Be careful when buying Beelink. There is no customer service/Product Support. No forum for BT7. Became Beelink forum member, but it want allow me to post.Sent multiple e-mails to Beelink, no reply.
Gearbest is trying to help but because its via e-mail, takes 2 days to get useful info. Today they are saying they will contact Beelink to find what could be wrong.
Caveat emptor!
Did you test 1080 h265 10 bit, at least in KODI doesn’t play well, neither on local player.
Thought it would perform well with h265 10 bit.
Hi,
I was wondering if this device might be sufficient to handle games that are not so recent – I refer for example Mass Effect or Dead Space trilogy games and/or similar.
@Maurizio
Gaming performance should be similar to the one of Microsoft Surface 3 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1IcA4kHcYU
@cnxsoft
well it appears that is working quite well! I think that for editing pictures using lightroom and/or photoshop, streaming movies and occasionally playing games such as Massive Chalice or the games I said before is a good pick, right?
@Maurizio
Beelink BT7 may throttle (slow down) under heavy load. Vorke V1 is also another option that should be more stable and with similar performance, although the enclosure does not look as nice. See http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/07/02/review-of-vorke-v1-mini-pc-powered-by-intel-celeron-j3160-processor/
I see.. So you would recommend the Vorke instead of Beelink? I know that this product instead http://www.webhallen.com/dk-da/computere_og_tilbehor/242142-acer_aspire_axc-217_a8-6410-radeon_r5_6410-4gb-1tb_hdd is quite different by means of size and expandability, but the price is close (I can find both at approx 300 EUR) .
What do you think, I am more interested of spending a reasonable price to have a decent all in one?
@Maurizio
The one you linked to should be much more powerful. I’d expect the fan to be a bit noisier, and obviously the case is much bigger. Beelink BT7 or Vorke V1 should be half the price of that model, and power consumption much lower too, since the processor in that tower has a 65W TDP.
Ok! I saw the prices from where I live and the prices are not so different, that is the reason I was thinking to buy this one.
Thanks for the follow up!
Hi there,
can someone please upload a dump of the driver CD please somewhere?
Thank you guys!
I’ve been interested on this device for a while but i worry about the overheating does this overheat badly??? i read somewhere that the fan is like useless cos there is no space for air intake, is this true??
@Arang
It depends what you will do. If you just browse the web, check email, watch videos, it should be fine. But if you are pushing it using all 4 cores at full speed, the system will throttle after a few minutes.
Vorke V1 is more stable in that respect -> http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/07/02/review-of-vorke-v1-mini-pc-powered-by-intel-celeron-j3160-processor/
Original Beelink BT7’s case have several issues with cooling, the very tiny fan (30x30mm) is not able to cool down the temperature of the entire system even in daily use arriving up to 85° very easily (Tjunction of Intel Atom Z8700 is 85 celsius) causing throttling and instalibility of the computer.
I’ve built a case in PLA with my 3D printer, added a 80x80mm fan and a support for a 2.5″ drive, like an SSD.
Now the cpu does not exceed 72 ° on the hottest core with a Prime95 “Blend test”.
Gallery link:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMDp-ryJENk0CLa3dYhYyDOL0RIWdzFpCa1UTJp6u2aknxYyigZcakyHLToEHuayg?key=UC1VS1FIMnFoNkFuQi0zcjNSd2dEM096NFo0UVJB
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrn9_QxE94
Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1723997
STL of the project: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kksp42ekoouwe82/Case%20Beelink%20BT7.7z?dl=0
I’ve been using BoLv Z8700 Mini PC Beelink for two weeks and it is overheating in 20 minutes if I watch netflix over Chrome / Firefox or any other movie with VLC / Windows media player.
It is useless because frequency drops from 2600 to 480 MHZ and than the movies start to freeze and decoding artifacts appear.
The air flow? That is not in Beelink’s dictionary 😉
And the fan is noisy!
I don’t recommend it!
@Andrea Ardemani
Well that is a great idea except because of a home-fix it probably isn’t sutch-a tiny PC any more is it?
Yep @Filip but is the only way to use this terminal…
Hi,
Thanks a lot for the interesting article.
I’m mostly concern with the audio part. I’m not an expert in this field and even though I read all relevant posts a several times i’m still confused.
will I be able to play 7.1 audio from the beelink on my AVR-1912 receiver?
Here is a link to receiver:
https://usa.denon.com/us/product/hometheater/receivers/avr1912
If anyone can check this out for me, I will be grateful.
Thanks a lot,
Daniel.
My device doesnt work. i was to be gear best to ‘flash the item’. how do i do that?
i got a link to download Beelink BT7 win10 Drivers.
Thanks a lot
Ido
@Ido Preuss
If they gave you the recovery image, and not only the drivers, you just need to copy the files to the USB stick, and the instructions should be the same as http://forum.mele.cn/showthread.php?tid=17
Otherwise you’d need to download Windows 10 Home on Microsoft website, and then install the drivers.
Hi,
Thank you very much for the review.
I got one, but I have a lot of problems with it ! I’m very disapointed.
The fan is very noisy and the system isn’t stable at all. I reinstalled the system from a fresh ISO with the driver supplied by beelink. Unfortunately it is worst now. I tried with Win 8.1 the system is stable but I got other driver issues.
There is no support from Beelink, I would prefer to buy another device !
I you have some tricks I would appreciate :!
Cheers