Beelink GTi14 Mini PC Intel Ultra 9 185H(16C/22T), 32G DDR5-5600MHz 1TB PCIe4.0 SSD, Mini Computer Support Dual 2.5G LAN, Fingerprint Sensor, Build-in Power Supply, Al Voice Interaction Gaming PC

I got this mini pc, after purchasing 4 other Beelink mini pcs a couple years ago. The previous where AMD cpus and very fast. I maxed them out to 64GB ram, which was a lot at the time. Now I am playing with AI LLMs which require a lot of processing - typically on an external GPU.I got this with the dock as a combo purchase. I also order 96GB of ram and a 30390TI (24GB vram and 10K+ processing units). The small form factor is vert nice. I can do crazy things with this setup without a large case PC.The built in AI capability actually does very well, though is a fraction of course compared to a GPU. I can still load 8GB + LLMs into memory and results come in a few minutes. Besides basic chatting, which is almost instant, at 2.88 tokens a second, I have it processing and extract information out of t-sql scripts and html files. This does take a long time with the built in AI compute chip. Though I can have it doing this task while I do others.This does take complete disassembly to upgrade the ram and ssd - but I only need to do it once so that is fine.Does this preform its AMD equivalent? I doubt it. But I got this model specifically for the dock able external GPU. A standalone, AMD will probably ALWAYS be better. Still, this has a lot of cpu power to do everything. Id recommend this if you want a Intel or a docking ability.

Used for some 8-9 months now and tried everything from high gaming with an external GPU to traveling and just doing desk work. It's a great space saver but if you're gaming there will be thermal throttling and skipping in games regardless of your GPU. The internal fans for the cpu just simply can't keep up. Thats my main complaint. Also there's no way to check thermals in the settings. So it's going to be your best guess how hot it is actually getting.

Awful processor performance. My core 7 ultra laptop does better than this.

DO NOT BUY.I bought this machine directly from Beelink (via Paypal) at the end of last year when it released, I never do this with new products but their quality was good in the past and I trusted their reputation.This machine NEVER worked from day 1.It blue-screened the first time I booted it.The most stable I ever got it was being able to use it for 1-2 hours between freezes/crashes/reboots.After months of tweaking drivers, kernel versions, kernel parameters, bios settings, bios versions and scouring the web for solutions to non-existent problems I found enough information from other people in the same boat to warn others:This machine has serious problems with the USB/Thunderbolt controller that will cause crashes regardless of whether you are using USB or Thunderbolt in any capacity, thus it should be considered unstable and unfit for serious use until Beelink releases another revision.To compound matters the "tutorials" on their website and the software updates are comically bad. When you do enough searching you will find a website that collates all the fixes that the user community has come up with, here are some examples so you can judge for yourself what level of quality was present before they released this product to market:1] turn off all power states in CPU below "full power" (aka "C0 state"), this negates all the improvements the Core 9/Meteor Lake platform brings to the table2] downgrade the PCI4 bus to PCI3 speed in bios to increase stability (dock is already x8 instead of x16)3] download a bios from 3rd party sharing site (mega blah in new zealand, wtf?) and flash bios (instructions from beelink are windows only and look worse than any AI generated slop you've ever seen), check with beelink first though or you might brick your machine if you use wrong bios file (files are named "bios update" and "new bios update" lol)4] download a thunderbolt driver update (again from questionable place) and using windows-only instructions flash it and cross your fingers and prayI played this game for weeks until the machine refused to boot at all after flashing their bios and thunderbolt update. Even the CMOS reset didnt work.At this point a customer will reach out to beelink and ask for help, well now you have 2 problems. They know the product is crap but wont send you a return label, you have to pay for return shipping and apply for reimbursement (I'm still waiting). You ship to California but they wont send you a new machine until that warehouse ships back to Hong Kong. Like Jesus Christ does it really need to be in HK to verify the problem? The problem is so bad its listed as the last bullet point above in the description here on Amazon. THEY KNOW.Why not expedite a replacement as soon as the return arrives in San Bernadino? Especially when the customer has gone thru the pain of paying for shipping.This company is pissing off the part of its user base that speaks the loudest: faithful enthusiasts who buy their products sight unseen. Sidebar: don't believe any of the reviews on YT that praise this thing. Search around for reports of problems.I am now waiting for someone in HK to say "1+1=2" and approve sending me a new machine which may have all the exact same problems if not new ones. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE.Note to American companies, copy their dock and I will buy from you instead. There is a strong market for this form-factor for home labs and AI/LLM/ML enthusiasts.