and Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) again with default settings achieved 95 FPS in the final benchmark scene: Multimedia controller [0480]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor [1022:15e2] Speed: 1222 MHz min/max: 1400/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1203 2: 1217 3: 1222 4: 1223 5: 1818 6: 1289 7: 1222 I then set the CPU Scaling Governor to ‘performance’ and ran my Linux benchmarks for which the majority of the results are text-based but the graphical ones included: Noting that the PassMark rating only improved slightly as whilst the 3D Graphics Mark increased from 2343.6 to 7959.9 the Disk Mark decreased from 14832.1 to 4038.2 due to the loss in performance going from NVMe to SATA.

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CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1022:7901] (rev 61)Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2 Device 24: Function 6 [1022:15ee] I was then able to boot from the SATA drive whilst still having activated Windows and all the previously installed drivers and software and get respectable drive speeds: The SER3 physically consists of a 126 x 113 x 40mm (4.96 x 4.45 x 1.57 inches) square metal case. As an actively cooled mini PC, it uses AMD’s older 12 nm Zen+ Ryzen 7 3750H Picasso processor which is a quad-core 8-thread 2.3 GHz mobile processor boosting to 4.0 GHz with Radeon RX Vega 10 Graphics.

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Although AMD states‘System Memory Specification Up to 2400MHz’ I tried reconfiguring the BIOS to run the memory at 2666 MHz and the results were surprisingly successful: OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 10 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.40.0 5.11.0-37-generic LLVM 12.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2 Device 24: Function 1 [1022:15e9] For the built-in benchmark for Shadow Of The Tomb Raider (SOTTR) using the preset of low graphics settings, 83 FPS was achieved: Looking at the detailed monitoring during Fire Strike showed an alarming maximum temperature of 97.66°C:Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2 Device 24: Function 4 [1022:15ec] PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2 PCIe GPP Bridge [6:0] [1022:15d3] Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2 Device 24: Function 5 [1022:15ed] PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2 Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to Bus B [1022:15dc]

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I also found that the BIOS Power On Reset (POR) setting was 25W rather than the 35W used in the Beelink GT-R. By changing this BIOS setting to 35W: Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15) Additionally, there is a replaceable M.2 2230 WiFi 5 (or 802.11ac) Intel Wireless-AC 7265 card under the M.2 2280:Annoyingly before I could rerun the core Windows benchmarks an update sneaked in and took the Windows build to 19043.1288: Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2 Device 24: Function 7 [1022:15ef] Whilst the SER3 cannot include a Thunderbolt port, as mentioned the underside of the case’s lid includes a mounting point for a 2.5 SATA drive so using ‘dism’ I cloned the M.2 2280 NVMe drive to a spare M.2 2280 SATA drive which I then installed in an ‘M.2 NGFF SSD to 2.5in SATA adapter’ and replaced the NVMe drive with a ‘PCIe x16 to M.2 NVMe adapter’: Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio Controller [1002:15de] Machine: Type: Mini-pc Mobo: AZW model: SER serial: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX UEFI: American Megatrends v: APB20104 date: 09/11/2021