If you want a powerhouse mini-PC for Proxmox, then the Beelink SEi12 Pro with the Intel Core i5-1240P is an outstanding option. It features a 12th Generation Intel Core i5-1240P CPU with 12 cores and 16 threads, DDR5 RAM, 2.5Gbps NIC, 500GB NVMe SSD and more. It would take a lot of VMs and LXCs to push this CPU. In the Geekbench 5.4.1 performance test, SEi12 Pro's CPU single-core score is 1618, CPU multi-core score is 9429, and OpenCL score is 14738, all higher than the NUC 12 Wall Street Canyon with DDR4-3200MHz memory, and slightly higher than the NUC 12 with DDR4-3200MHz memory. 6800H's SER6 Pro. Removing the base of the device reveals a plastic bay that supports adding a 2.5” SATA drive for increased storage. The bay includes a further new feature which is a small fan that not only cools the drive but also cools the motherboard and memory underneath: Systém přináší kreativní prostor pro sledování a práci s aplikacemi. Novinkou je zcela jistě přepracovaná nabídka Start, respektive její umístění. Windows 11 jsou perfektním místem, kde se můžete vyjádřit, myslet a tvořit přirozeným způsobem. Najdete nové způsoby propojení s lidmi, novinkami, hrami a jedinečným obsahem. Podporuje standardy Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax a samozřejmě nabízí taktéž pevné připojení pomocí RJ45 Gigabitového Ethernetu.

One highlight of these numbers is the excellent performance offered by the branded Kingston SNV2S NVMe, which makes some of the SSD performance we’ve seen from some systems look extremely poor. That said, this is a Gen 4 drive, and by those standards, it is on the slow side. Running "Genshin Impact", which has higher requirements on the graphics card, has 1080P+ medium special effects, and the average frame rate is 38 fps. In some complex scenes, the frame rate will drop to about 30 fps, and there will be some slight stuttering. Only by reducing the special effect settings to the minimum can the picture be kept above 50 fps during the game. With this level of CPU together with an Iris XE GPU, the aforementioned memory and storage, this is a powerful system even compared to the better 11th Gen desktop systems. An encouragement for the upgrade is the slow OEM NVMe that Beelink gave this machine, which isn’t big enough for fast enough given the performance possible with this hardware.Designed for laptop use, the Ryzen 7735HS has a power TPD of between 25W and 54W, and was fabricated by TSMC using its 6nm FinFET process.

Představujeme zcela jedinečný systém v naprosto unikátním převleku. Microsoft Windows 11 zaujmou modernějším designem než u kteréhokoliv svého předchůdce. Přináší plno novinek - intuitivnější prostředí, lepší práci s okny, svižnější chod systému i podporu aplikací z operačního systému Android. We ran multiple performance tests by running games on the Beelink SEi12 Pro. The results of the Intel Core i5-1240P processor as we can see are in line with the integrated Vega GPUs that we have in the Ryzen. The integrated Intel Xe GPU with 80 EU can serve us for games in 1080p quality if they are not very demanding as the system falls somewhat short in games with a lot of 3D load. In terms of emulators, we are limited to a few simple Wii, PS2, Dreamcast and similar titles.

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The final feature that we’re going to question is the placement of the single Thunderbolt 4 port, which is on the front of the machine. I did wonder whether this was an issue with ‘Wayland’ so I switched to ‘Xorg’ on login but the issue persisted even though both ‘vainfo’ and ‘vdpauinfo’ showed no errors:

Below the drive bay is the motherboard which includes an M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen 4.0 SSD drive (the review model included a 500 GB Kingston NV2 drive complete with Windows 11 Pro installed) and this in turn covers an M.2 2230 WiFi 6 (or 802.11ax) Intel AX201 card: Beelink have launched their first Intel Alder Lake mini PC calling it the SEi12. Featuring a mobile 12th gen Core-i5-1235U processor it is also their first mini PC to incorporate a PCIe4 NVMe slot. Beelink kindly sent one for review and I’ve looked at the performance running both Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04. Beelink SEI12 hardware overview software is our commonly used graphics card performance testing tool. Its principle is to examine the computer's 3D graphics computing ability by simulating the game scene. The two sub-tests chosen by Jupit3r are Fire Strike, which examines the performance of DirectX 11 games, and Time Spy, which examines the performance of DirectX12 games. Both scores of Beelink SEi12 Pro surpassed the scores of NUC 12 Wall Street Canyon, and the main advantage lies in the graphics card score, which shows that using DDR5 as shared video memory can improve the performance release of nuclear graphics. However, SEi12 Pro still lags far behind the Zero-End SER6 Pro equipped with AMD Radeon 680M.The brand's LOGO and model logo are in the lower right corner of the top, which looks very elegant and low-key. The Beelink SEi12 computer has a very positive performance, allowing us to run tasks with demanding apps in calculations. Inside the box we have a Kingston M.2 2280 NVMe 500GB SSD, it is also possible to mount a SATA 3 2.5″ disk and we have two SODIMM DDR4 slots that allow easy expansion.