In this article, We present Ninkear M7 Mini-PC powered by AMD Ryzen 5 7430U processor, which is quiet, small, and easy for home or office work.
Introduction
The world of PCs has changed a lot with the advent of compact mini PCs that are very small in size compared to traditional computers. There are reasons for this. The most important thing is that technology has come to this. Previously, we could not even imagine that a PC could fit in the palm of your hand, but now it is a reality. Such mini PCs are not only silent, but also have sufficient performance. What can we say, there are so-called gaming mini PCs.
Now, Let's see if it can handle games, if it will overheat, and summarize what it could be suitable for, in my opinion.
Main features
Features described in the table are from our recent Russian teams and official partners, but you can find same or even similar description available in English from our official Ninkear blog.
According to the CPU-Z program, the processor is real, there is no fake.
If you open the BIOS, you will see the following picture:
CPUID 00A50F00, Processor Model 50h-5Fh and A500011 microcode clearly point to a Cezanne/Lucienne (Ryzen 5000 series) processor architecture and not a Barcelo-U (Ryzen 7030 series). The 16MB L3 cache is the only setting that is the same as the 7430U, but it can either be "flashed" at the software level or indicates that you got a Ryzen 7 5800U chip (8 cores) with two cores disabled.
Design
From the design, it is an ordinary mini PC, of which there are many on the market now. Yes, it has its own features, for example, the corporate inscription on the upper part of the case. The case itself is all metal and gray, with slots on the sides and back for cooling. On the front side you can see an orange power button, which after turning on is illuminated dimly, but apparently in the dark. Next to the button are two USB 3 ports.
On the back side there are other connectors for connection. Of these, one USB 2 port and one USB 3 port, as well as Type-C. In general, everything is in your picture.
On the bottom there is a metal plate with rubber feet, in which bolts are screwed to remove this cover. There are also holes for fastening.
What's inside
If you unscrew the four bolts and remove the cover, everything looks very good inside, although compact. On the cover, by the way, there are thermal gaskets for SSD SATA drives. You can add another M2 NVME SSD drive, but only with a small size of 2242. This must be taken into account.
We were surprised that the RAM instead of the declared DDR4 3200MHz is set to 2666MHz. This will affect the tests in the future and the performance in general. We recommend replacing the 2666 with two 3200 processors, then the performance will be much better for this processor.
Quizzes
In the SSD test, the native C drive (in the screenshot it is above) showed a result of about 500MB/s. This is a very small result for an SSD M2 NVME drive, but Ninkear M7 mini PC has a SATA NGFF SSD installed and, accordingly, it cannot be more than 600MB/s. In general, both the disk itself and the connection interface itself are mediocre.
Therefore, we connected a WesternDigital SN850X external SSD drive in a TerraMaster D1 case. Here is the review of this case: the TerraMaster D1 Plus is a great case for external SSDs. In this mini PC, it showed about 1000MB/s. This means that the Type-C port in speed is 10Gb/s.
In general, the built-in drive is suitable for the operating system, and for work projects, you can use an external SSD or an internal M2 2242 SSD
In the Geekbench 6 test, the processor showed 1825 in single-core mode and 5665 in multi-core mode, and the graphics card produced 9534 parrots. We can't say that this is a lot or a little, but for this processor, the indicators are normal. We don't see any performance issues with the Ninkear M7 mini-PC.
The stress test for overheating also went well with the Ninkear M7 mini PC. Of course, the cooling made noise, but the processor did not overheat and did not go into throttling.
Ninkear M7 is clearly not a gaming PC, well, or you need to change the RAM. So, for example, in tanks at low levels it showed 70-100 fps, and in medium graphics settings about 30 and it was not comfortable to play.
We shared this with some kids, some of them refused it odn the second day: Roblox barely pulls, in other games there are constant lags and long loading. In general, once again, the Ninkear M7 mini PC is not a gaming machine, but only for home and office, although it will pull tanks at the minimum.
Power consumption
In terms of electricity consumption, the Ninkear M7 is surprising. At idle, it consumes a measly 9W, you can never turn it off at all, and under load it does not even gain up to 27W. An ideal machine for saving electricity.
Conclusion
In summary, we can say that the Ninkear M7 mini-PC is a normal device for the job. Does not overheat, does not make noise for no reason, compact and knocked down case. Take Ninkear M7 mini PC for gaming bug, it doesn't pull them. There is a margin for upgrading the RAM, which will most likely lead to a good performance jump.
We would recommend it for working in offices. Mount on the monitor or put it under it and comfortably perform office tasks. Another option is a mini server for downloading torrents, running docker containers or TorrServer for Lampa. He will pull all this for a couple of times. In this case, I recommend installing ZimaOS on it, it will work perfectly.