EQR5 Dual LAN Mini PC AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U, 8GB DDR4 500GB PCIe3.0 SSD, AMD Radeon 7CUs 1800MHz, Mini Computer Support WiFi 6/ BT5.2/ Dual HDMI/Built-in Power Supply, Home/Office PC

Compact computer with room to grow. There's a few variants of this model and I got the one with 8GB RAM. I didn't realize the Ryzen graphics would use 4GB, so linux only has 4GB available. It holds max 64GB ram and I was planning to upgrade that anyway, so no big deal. The Type-C USB port is "3.2x1" (10Gbps), so the same speed as the 3 type-A USB3 ports. Internally there's 2 USB2.0 (480Mbps) buses and 2 USB 3.2 (10Gbps) buses. The internal bluetooth is on one of the USB2 buses. But externally there's a USB2 port, 3 USB3.2 ports, and a Type-C (USB 3.2) port. That means there's some sharing between the connectors. The USB3 port on the front and the USB3 port on the back left (furthest from power) are on one of the USB3 buses. The USB3 port on the front, the USB3 port on the back left, and the internal bluetooth are on one of the USB2 buses. The Type-C port and the other USB-3port on the back (nearest the HDMI) are on the other USB3 bus. The Type-C port, the USB-3 port next to the HDMI, and the USB2 port on the back (nearest the ethernet) are on the other USB2 bus. Lots of manufacturers color code the USB3 ports with blue, but Beelink didn't do that. If you look closely you can see the extra set of pins in the USB3 ports, though. I plan to add a larger NVME as well as an external HDD enclosure or two for spinny drives. I might run opnSense in a VM and run my router on this. It comes with Windows 11 Home, but I installed Archlinux instead and everything works out of box. With only 8GB ram (4GB usable if you don't adjust video ram allocation) it's pretty rough, but with upgrades this would be a great little box for Proxmox, OpenMediaVault, or TrueNAS. The fan is absolutely silent, which is great. Officially Plex doesn't support hardware decoding with AMD graphics, but if you look around you can find instructions for running Plex in Docker and making it work with AMD GPUs. I actually didn't realize it had 2 NVME slots when I bought it. One could put up to 8TB internal SSD storage in here; not too shabby. As spec'd (8Gb ram, 1 500GB nvme) it uses 14.4w-17.7w when idle with a webbrowser open (measured at the wall with a "Kill-A-Watt"). I didn't test in Windows; sometimes Windows drivers have better power management. And I didn't test without Xorg running. If you use it as a headless server and don't need GPU acceleration for anything, you could maybe use `radeontool` to power off the dac (disabling the HDMI ports) to use even less power. I wish the Type-C port supported dual channel (for 20Gbps) or Thunderbolt (for 40Gbps) but it was clear from the listed specs that it does not. I wish the Type-C port supported DP altmode so I could get more than 2 monitors on this. And it's a little disappointing that there's no eSATA port, but with 2 10Gbps USB3 buses there's plenty of available bandwidth for external drives, even external SSDs...

I had a laptop connected to my HDTV for streaming HULU, Netflix, Max, Peacock, and YouTube. This laptop has served me well; however, it's a Compaq 8730W from 2008 running Windows 7. I had no issue with it until Chrome support for Windows 7 ended and HULU and Peacock would no longer stream on Chrome for Windows 7 due to outdated technology (Mozilla Firefox still supported all streaming, but I didn’t like having to flip between browsers). So I started shopping around for a new laptop when I learned about the “mini PC”…this was EXACTLY what I needed! I did a ton of research on YouTube channels that test all brands of mini PC's and this one came out on top in many different reviews...and comments all backed-up the sentiment that this is one great mini PC. It arrived in one day; I connected it to my HDTV via HDMI and went through the setup, which took about 5 minutes! I was immediately blown away by this little device! ZERO noise from it and powerful as can be! Finally, I can stream all my services with the latest Chrome browser without issues. And the speed! OMG, the speed of this is unreal. Webpages load IMMEDIATELY via the WiFi6 connection! I can finally watch YouTube in 1080P 60fps HD (couldn’t do it with the old laptop because it would just glitch and freeze). I keep the entertainment center door closed and have zero issues with my wireless keyboard 12’ away. Oh yeah...it boots up LIGHTNING FAST!! Windows 11 loads quickly (so much better than Windows 10 that I have on my home PC). I am 1000% satisfied with this device…the world is right again in my living room. BTW, I know there are other solutions for streaming that plug in (e.g. Firestick, Roku); however, I still wanted a PC for other functions as well and I really didn't want to mess with the other options.

This is a decent device. I am not super pleased that ram that came installed is only a single-channel but I can upgrade it later so its not a huge deal. Manufacturers should realize that putting a single channel ram in when the device supports dual channel is just knee capping the system for no reason. Also the bios had it set to use 4gb of ram out of the 8gb for the iGPU which again knee capped the system. just set it for auto allocation so windows doesn’t run out of memory when your not even doing graphically intensive stuff. Other than that it run quiet and stays pretty cool even under load. I’m not sure why it has 2 LAN ports but I’m sure there is a reason out there somewhere. Overall it's a good buy for the price.

Got this as a new living room/home theatre pc for use with a 4k display. So far it has proven more than powerful enough for 4k60 video streaming and playback from your normal suspects like youtube, Netflix, etc. It also plays high bitrate 4k videos over the network from my NAS without issues. The device itself is nice and compact (about the size of 2 stacked Rokku ultimates) and looks decent with its color matched cords and sleek styling. I only wish they offered some option to mount this to the back of a tv. But I'll probably just 3d print something to make it work.

My son set this up for me... about a month ago. It has been working perfectly. I'm so glad.

This is such an awesome little computer for space. But is amazingly fast. I have purchased 2 now. The 2nd is even better. Thanks Beelink

(Note that this review is for the 5650U/8GB model) I bought this unit and eventually upgraded the RAM and installed Linux. I discovered similar issues or quirks to another reviewer with the same unit. When rebooting at times the unit will only show a black screen and to resolve the issue you must unplug the AC. It will then power up with no issue for a time. I have never had these issues with other mini pc's so caution is advised!

Paid for a decent specification mini PC. What was sent is very low spec and only has Ryzen 5 pro and not the Ryzen 9 as stated. Also this was claimed to have 32GB RAM, but actually had 8GB. The 1TB SSD was actually 500GB and the graphics card was also much lower spec too. All in all a complete SCAM! I am now stuck with this pc, not having the means to return it via the UPS point or have a printer to print the label to return.

Completely wrong (much lower) spec to what's advertised. Scam listing, do not buy this.