▲ I still remember that when I got married a few years ago, I wanted to buy a PC host that can not only be used for office in the study, but also be placed in the living room to play movies with LG's 3D LCD TV. Finally, I took a fancy to Dell's Inspiron zino HD400 mini computer. At that time, it was a desktop mini computer with relatively balanced performance and small size. Today, with the development of technology and the improvement of materials, the concept of mini computer has been extended and developed more rapidly. Not long ago, the author got a polar night T5s pro mini computer. Will this small computer without fan crash due to insufficient heat dissipation due to running large games? Now I will open this puzzle for you.

▲ The paper hard case packing box of the polar night T5s pro mini computer is not very thick, but it is really long, and it is difficult to grasp it with one hand. The whole body is designed in black, and only the brand logo with color change is designed on the front, which is relatively simple. It is hard to guess what the product is from the appearance, but it has some mystery. When I opened the box, I found Chen Zihan, a great beauty, as the image ambassador of her brand. You know, for the otaku man, both high-quality computer equipment and beauty are powerful weapons. It seems that Jiye wants to organically combine the two?

▲ After removing the Jiyou card and a layer of sponge, the computer host and its accessories are all displayed. The inner package is designed to be sponge grooved, and the grooved size is just enough to fix the accessories without moving, effectively protecting the computer from vibration damage during transportation.

▲ The polar night T5s pro mini computer has many accessories: a T5s pro mini computer, a multi-functional intelligent remote controller, a HDMI cable, a transparent host frame, a drive disc, a gain antenna, a manual, and a set of power adapters.

▲ The Polar Night T5s pro mini computer is different from other brands of mini mainframe computers, and is equipped with a KM900 MAX multi-function intelligent remote control. Seen from the appearance, the overall use of piano paint treatment, reflective texture shows high-end: on the front, except for the number keys, other similar to the TV remote control; On the back, numbers and sub keys are set, like a reduced keyboard, to facilitate text input in special occasions. This remote control can not only be used on computers, but also can rely on wireless links to realize remote control, air mouse, wireless keyboard, somatosensory games, voice intercom, infrared learning and other functions as long as intelligent devices with USB interfaces are available.

▲ The transparent host frame of the mini computer is designed as beautiful as the ancient Chinese arch bridge. It is best to place the fixed computer vertically. Silicone is set at the front, rear, left, right and bottom to prevent slipping. On the desktop, the computer uses its own weight and the silica gel of the host frame to work together, making it difficult to move or touch the computer host easily. In addition to its beautiful shape, it is also very practical to fix and protect the host.

▲ The size of the polar night T5s pro mini computer is 190mm * 150mm * 25mm, which is even smaller than a piece of A4 paper, and is about the same as the size and thickness of an ordinary book. The weight of the host (excluding the power adapter) is only 950g. Generally speaking, 2 jin of meat is less than the weight of a piece of skin. The power on key is set in the front of the host. The material here is plastic. The key stroke is short, and it can be opened at one click. The whole body shell of the host is made of anodized aluminum by all metal sandblasting process. When you hold it in your hand, it is full of metallic matte texture. For a computer without fan cooling, in addition to pursuing the perfect texture of metal, it is more important to consider that heat can be dissipated through metal. So it is inevitable to choose pure aluminum metal as the shell of the host at the cost of increasing its weight. A whole fin type groove is designed on one side of the host to help the chip dissipate heat quickly. But the author is also worried about whether he can carry the huge heat when running large games?

▲ Two USB3.0 connectors, 3.5mm audio jack and microphone jack are set on the top of the mini computer. In the actual use of the author, this setting is more reasonable, and there is no need to go around the back to find the jack. USB plugging and unplugging has a strong bite force. Fortunately, the weight of the host is here, so one hand can operate when plugging and unplugging, and the host will not move. The audio jack and microphone jack are set on the top to facilitate the connection of the headset. It is very useful when playing games.

▲ The socket design on the back of the host is very rich. From left to right, it is WiFi gain antenna interface, standard HDMI interface, four USB 2.0 interfaces, two gigabit wired network card interfaces, Mini HDMI interface and DC power input interface. Including the two USB 3.0 interfaces on the top, the whole body provides a total of six USB interfaces. The author's mechanical keyboard and game mouse have occupied two interfaces, and the receiver of the multi-function remote control at midnight has also occupied one interface, leaving three spare interfaces. Therefore, in daily use, there is no need to worry about the problem of too many USB terminal access devices and insufficient insertion. The combination scheme of HDMI+Mini HDMI can also meet the display requirements of dual screen output.

▲ The WIFI gain antenna has a long 3dBi antenna focusing on signal in addition to a thick short pure copper column antenna. The longer antenna is a better choice for families with large space, rooms or duplex buildings to enhance the received signal; The shorter antenna is more beautiful in the back and the signal is stable enough for small houses like the living room or bedroom of the author, which are only separated from the router.

▲ There is a COM interface at the bottom that I haven't seen for a long time. What I am most impressed by the usefulness of this interface is to brush my classic Siemens 6618 mobile phone. I think it would be more practical to set up a VGA video output interface.

▲ There is a saying that PC products are most afraid of dismantling because the workmanship is good and the chips used are clear at a glance. In the spirit of serving the people, I offer my screwdriver to take a look at the midnight T5s pro mini computer for you to explore inside.

▲ The mainframe is fixed with screws, so it is not difficult to disassemble it. Just note that the screws of the housing and the screws fixed on the motherboard are different in size and color, and cannot be mixed. Remove the three side shell, and the motherboard appears in front of you. The chips on the blue motherboard are arranged in a neat way, which looks like a big factory. On the front of the motherboard, the author saw the memory module, the network card and the button battery in yellow packaging.

▲ The choice of memory module is the domestic Jintaike 8G DDR3L 1600MHz main frequency notebook memory, which is arranged in double layers with 8 1G memory particles, and this brand has a good reputation in terms of stability.

▲ It supports 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz wireless dual band. The Intel 3160 AC dual band wireless network card supporting 802.11ac standard is widely used in the products of major PC manufacturers because of its Bluetooth 4.0 function. The Polar Night T5s pro has designed two wifi gain antennas according to its feature of supporting wireless dual band. One is on the back of the computer, and the other is connected to the front power on key panel of the mini computer.

▲ After all, the capacity of the 240G SSD that comes with the mini computer is limited, so an msata interface is reserved under the wireless network card to support expansion space. However, from the current market situation, the SSD price of msata interface has also remained high, and the price performance ratio is not at the same level as HDD. Then the question arises: how should the capacity of the Polar Night T5s pro be used to achieve the best cost performance? The author gives two solutions: 1. Buy a 1T capacity mobile hard disk as a large file storage space, such as photos, high-definition 3D movies, and various small movies. 2. Purchase an SSD with msata interface and a 1T space HDD hard disk with SATA interface, and use the SSD with SATA interface replaced elsewhere. Of course, at present, the author adopts the first solution, but the second solution is the ultimate solution. After all, it is more convenient and safer to be in the machine.

▲ On the back of the motherboard is the SSD with SATA interface and the core CPU of the computer. This 240GB SSD is produced by the internationally famous Kingston brand, and its quality and read/write speed must be guaranteed. The 240GB capacity is sufficient for installing systems and daily software; But it is really not enough for drawing, running large games and storing large files.

▲ After removing the mainboard, it is found that a purple solid silicone grease is pasted on the CPU, which is used to make the heat sink of the CPU contact the metal shell indirectly, and is conducive to heat conduction and dissipation. However, there is no solid silicone grease on the SSD. It seems that compared with the mechanic's HDD, the SSD has a good heat control and does not need the heat conduction of solid silicone grease.

▲ The polar night T5s pro mini computer is equipped with Intel's fifth generation i5-5200U low-voltage processor, dual core four thread, the default frequency is 2.2GHz, and the Rui frequency can reach 2.7GHz; At the same time, the processor also integrates Intel's own HD 5500 integrated graphics card, with 1G video memory. It is fixed next to the SSD solid-state audio by a black metal heat dissipation module with a spring press screw. From the above data, it can be seen that the Polar Night T5s pro mini computer is the mainstream configuration in the current mid tier notebook market: i5-5200U low-voltage CPU, the graphics card is the integrated display with 1GB video memory, 8G DDR3 memory module, and 240G Kingston SSD. Of course, this mini computer is just a host computer without a display screen. Now let's take you into the system to run points.

▲ The midnight T5s pro mini computer has been installed with Microsoft's WIN8.1 system since it left the factory. Of course, in order to respect intellectual property rights, it is an inactive version. In order to experience the genuine, we also need our partners to do their own work. No, the author has received the upgrade notice of the genuine win10 today! Now let's present a hardware detection expert, Master Lu, to help us see how this host works!

▲ The author has tirelessly listed the details of each main hardware of the midnight T5s pro mini brain. Combined with the hardware information seen in the disassembly, we can determine the hardware configuration of this mini computer host. In the notebook platform, it is a midrange configuration. In the desktop platform, except for the slightly weak low-voltage CPU and core display, the use of 8G large capacity memory and solid state disk drive is also a main stream configuration.

▲ According to the performance evaluation of Master Lu, the overall score of the polar night T5s pro mini brain is 95451. Because the low-voltage CPU is used, the processor performance is slightly weaker than that of the high-voltage CPU used in desktop computers, beating 86% of users; The use of integrated graphics card defeated 56% of users, which obviously delayed the evaluation score of the whole machine; The performance of the disk has become the highlight of the score. The score of 11520 has defeated 98% of the users nationwide. It seems that the reading speed of the SSD solid state disk is far faster than that of the HDD mechanical disk. In terms of the overall performance ranking of the whole machine, it ranked the top 11 million among 58.16 million scorers, beating 82% of its rivals. For daily office and household use, the hardware configuration is completely sufficient, but for game enthusiasts, the configuration of the core display is worrying.

▲ Through the detection of CPU-Z software, we can see the detailed data of the manufacturing process, core voltage, speed, power consumption, frequency doubling and three-level cache of Intel's fifth generation i5-5200U dual core four thread processor. As we said earlier, this processor is widely used in notebook computers of 3000 to 4000 price at present. It is a mainstream notebook low-voltage processor, so the CPU performance is relatively guaranteed.

▲ Through the pressure test of the professional Cinebench R11.5 and R15 software, for this mini computer host, the performance of the four core low-voltage CPU and the built-in core display is the performance of the laptop hardware mid-range configuration.

▲ The adoption of 240G Kingston SSD is the highlight of this mini computer. Using two hard disk evaluation software, we can see that the maximum write speed reaches 223.7MB/s, and the read speed reaches 452.4MB/s. Maybe you are not very sensitive to these numbers. Let's take a look at the speed we can often encounter.

▲ First, let's experience the download speed. Half a year ago, my family installed Telecom 100M optical fiber broadband, and used 250G Acer Sapphire II, which was purchased in 2009. The highest download speed has never exceeded 5M. I think it is a problem of broadband or resources. Unexpectedly, this is a hard disk bottleneck problem. With the adoption of SSD, the author's fiber broadband gives full play to its bandwidth advantage. 2G files can be downloaded in 5 minutes.

▲ Copying files is the daily work of many people. The USB 3.0 interface of the mini computer can perfectly support USB 3.0 USB flash disk or mobile hard disk. Look, the copy speed of 174M/s is impossible to achieve with mechanical hard disk in the past, which greatly saves the waiting time. Although SSD SSD can not completely defeat HDD mechanical hard disk in terms of price and capacity at present, the author believes that it is only a matter of time before it is replaced. When buying a computer host, remember to equip it with an SSD solid state drive.

▲ The performance of the graphics card of the polar night T5s pro mini computer is a concern of the author, because in addition to surfing the Internet and processing pictures, the biggest entertainment is playing online games. The 1G HD 5500 integrated graphics card is inferior to the mainstream independent graphics card in terms of performance. Through the evaluation of Tank World and CF, two popular online shooting games, the author found that in the Tank World game, the graphics quality can only be low to play the game smoothly, and the FPS is about 30; In CF games, the image quality is set to the highest, the game runs smoothly, and the FPS is stable at about 45. From the above evaluation, it can be seen that the performance of this Intel HD 5500 integrated graphics card is better than some low-end independent graphics cards, and there is a gap between this Intel HD 5500 integrated graphics card and the mid end independent graphics card.

▲ After playing the game for half an hour, the mini computer did not get stuck or the system crashed due to the rising temperature of the CPU and motherboard. The surface temperature of the test host is only the highest in the area with thermal conductive silicone grease, which is 43.2 ℃ (the room temperature is 20 ℃). The author is quite satisfied with the temperature performance, and will not feel hot when touching the chassis.

▲ Once again, the 240GB storage space of the T5s pro mini computer is really not enough for the author to use. The author has given two plans to increase the storage space before. I believe you have your own answer to how to choose the combination.

▲ The preferred application of mini computer host is certainly the study. As the upgrade host of the author's laptop, there is no pressure to chat online, process pictures, process documents in work, and have a CF game. Small space occupation, random placement, no fan noise pollution.

▲ In the living room scene, the mini host gives full play to the advantages of the computer. He can do everything that the TV box can and cannot do. HD 3D movies and 4K movies can be presented on the big TV at home. It can also pick up the multi-functional intelligent remote control to get rid of the shackles of the mouse and keyboard. Online shopping, typing replies, and playing a somatosensory game are all different experiences.

▲ In the mobile office scene, the mini host can be carried around, connected to the projector, played PPT to explain to customers, and played the latest and coolest Hollywood blockbusters. It can play stably and is fully competent. The small host embodies the function of mini portability.

▲ From the former "big box" to the present "one book", the author has experienced the progress of science and technology. The polar night T5s pro mini computer host, with mainstream hardware configuration, has the data processing capability of a desktop computer. The Intel HD5500 core display can meet the needs of Internet access, office work, shopping and light games. The balanced processing capacity has changed the prejudice against mini host in the past; Extremely simple figure, convenient to carry mobile office. Maybe this is the direction of PC development in the future.