Beelink S12 Review - This Mini PC is AMAZING Value at only $155!

"There is a warning, but I'm not going to read it." Well, the man knows his audience .

It's nice to see emulation test on different game consoles. Most people when they test any kind of PC for gaming capabilities, they always run PC games and never test emulation.

Thks for testing emulation.

Just grabbed this pc on amazon for £169. £120 off normal price.

Going to use this as a batocera gun build using sinden light gun.

Oh yea.

Thanks mate.

Just what I need for living room.

Bboy.

Question has anyone tested shadow of the colossus!?

From your accent guessing your from UK. How get stuff from AliExpress? Always says can't ship to UK. PS the voice over humour is so irritating. Won't watch again

Does this have thunderbolt tor external graphics?

Using it to stream hd-4k movies to my 86” tv. Doing well so far

Looking for a dedicated mini pc to stream to twitch my PS4 content via capture card would this work?

Looks pretty cool. All the games and systems you showcased, are they already installed on the PC when you buy it or do you have to put them on yourself? Thanks

Oh man, I really kinda want one, but I don't really /need/ one, and I don't want to spend $150-$200 for something I'd play with for a while, grow bored, and then let collect dust on my counter or something. Or if some of the reports are accurate see it die within a few months. I just don't have a purpose for it that would see it being used regularly enough to justify., even if it is cheap.

can this play wwe2k23 on low settings 60 fps

100% got my subscription with naughty Jean-Luc!

Bought the N100, does you know if batocera supports the teknoparrot emulator for arcade games?

I bought the s12 "pro" for $165. The price is weirdly low for coming with N100 CPU, 16gb DDR4, and 500gb SSD. I did not expect much but i'm shocked by how capable this little thing is. I've been using it as my main computer that last two weeks just seeing how much I can do on it.

Strongly recommend the N100 model. Only issue I've encountered is an unwillingness to boot from USB, which seems to be an issue others had as well. I haven't looked into it yet but thought I'd throw it out there.

My experience: I did not try emulating but the graphics in Win 11 left much to be desired. I sent it back and bought a rysen 5 with much better graphics. The Intel version has poor graphics. The AMD has vastly better graphics.

how did you connect your wireless mouse and keyboard during 1st boot?

can do geforce now?

would you recommend replacing the SSD or just buying a 1tb external to make it bootable from batocera?

are those free games that i can download somewhere?

This was a nice little unit..for the 2 months it functioned. It's now hung on the bios screen entry when booting. f7 or delete, too bad neither of those do anything. Pull power hold cmos reset in? check..zip...Unplug ssd reseat..check..nothin. Remove ram, reinstall ram, 1 stick at a time? Check..nothing. What we have here...Is a brick...Just an FYI , you can buy a reconditioned HP 800 g4 mini with a hexacore i5 for about the same...One of them works after 2 months...

today i test with my Nipogi N5105 12Go for GTAV, just for compare because i am surprised by GTAV turn 720P. Thank you for your test.

N100 vs N95 = N100 win for 6watts power processor and cache etc is similare. limited mini for 16Go max single chanel

for cons why didnt you mention only one ram slot thats obviously single channel.......how did you miss that as a con?......do you even know anything about computers?

Hi there I bought the mini s but when I run batecera I'm getting a black screen any ideas on how to fix this

It might enough for my download machine.

I just got a beelink s 12, and I absolutely love it! It meets all my emulation needs and them some. I'm quite surprised at how well it handled the PS 2 and xbox Emulation, which was a real bonus.

is this worth upgrading from a j4125 with 12gb ram with 256gb ssd? I can buy it for around 180euros on sale, thanks!

Is the 3ds emulation good on the n100? No sound crackles and such?

please test, the 2,5 zoll maximum 2tb or 4tb, and test the m2 maximum 2tb or 4tb, please maked break the mythos.

god of war 2 still play with ps2 native right?

This pc has Intel N100 chip 🤔

Thank you yet again for this video, I'm going to be ordering one tomorrow evening and plan on running batocera now that I've become a bit more comfortable with it. I'm pretty excited to say the least. Thank you for always be so incredibly accurate and authentic in your reviews

Beelink is a value for money brand. I bought Beelink Mini S with Intel 5095 Jasper with 16gb RAM and 256 GB SSD for $160 last year to replace my 12 years old laptop with 3rd gen I3 8GB ram which I paid $500. The laptop still worked fine but about 3 times slower than Mini S due to less RAM and only DDR2 RAM while Beelink has DDR 4. 3rd gen i3 is also slower in computing and rendering graphic. It's a fact that PC, smartphone is getting cheaper while performance is getting better. However, you buy when you need at the time.

I picked up the n100 for $160 on lightning deal. It’s been great so far

I planning on buying this mini pc but im lazy af in configuring the emulators and roms. Does anyone know where I can download a compatible batocera image that already contains everything and I just need to burn it on an sd card?

Is the windows operating system licensed

Yes, running your PL1 at 30 watts adds extra byte on CPU limited apps. Another sited shows the before and after game benches with temps. This $150 sleeper nipping at the N100, not seen if those can be bumped up.

I use mine as a simple music/movie server with attached drives in the cave. The Intel HD audio codec’s still have best legacy HDMI audio support over my Ryzen gaming hardware. DJI Air 2S high bitrate video, NO issues at 30 fps in 5.4K, 60 fps in 4K and 120 fps in HD. Its maximum video bitrate is 150 Mbps in H.264 and H.265 codecs.

This little box is quite and cool running at 30 watts, you can bang 90C with no complaints from mine so back off to 25 watts if your nervous. I love the extra zip in normal non game stuff!

I never bought anything from Ali express don't they have a lot of fake stuff on there and you order one thing and get something else?

Hey, can you test revios 10 (windows with better fps) with wii, gamecube and ps2 emulation (vulkan for both) ? 😚 (Mario kart wii and gran turismo 4 native and 720p) 🥺🐕

Do u think changing the power limit in bios from 20000 watts to 30000 would improve gameplay for the later systems

So dumb question, does this come preloaded with all of the emulators and roms?

Will there be any difference from the n100?

Yeah looks good. Model 3 and GameCube ran very nicely. Starfox Assault is one of my favourites.

This is a bit more like it from Intel. Finally they incorporate AV1 hardware decoding way later than they should have and for the first time in a long time, the price is good and easily makes it competitive with ARM based SBC's. $160 allows it to be a relatively easy purchase. The lower pricing is likely due to Intel facing a very bleak future, bought about by their own greed. Single channel RAM is a veritable crime though and Beelink should know better.

Cool, Tim! Gonna Check it out!

This thing is legit,especially for the price and form factor. This would be a great choice for a mame cabinet

Nice review Tim enjoyed the show 😉👍

I'm not used to seeing gamecube run so smoothly when emulating lately..

Intel iGPU suxx, take a ryzen with you want perf and even run switch games