By Simon Brown
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13 Aug, 2020
I received an offer from https://mini-itx.com , and as a developer can never have enough computers I bought this and added 8 GB RAM. I put Windows 10 professional on. The Spec Gigabyte Brix GB-BLCE-4000C fully assembled PC. The Gigabyte Brix GB-BLCE-4000C features a dual core Celeron CPU, ram up to 8GB Ram. It is a total fanless PC. Base specification (this is configurable using options) Intel Celeron N4000 2.6GHz 4GB Ram DDR4 500Gb Hard Disk Gigabit lan (Realtek RTL8111HS) Includes Wireless- Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 & Bluetooth Intel UHD Graphics 600 onboard, dual display capable with HDMI and VGA outputs. Front 1 x Power Button, 1 x USB3.0, 1 x USB3.0 type-C 1 x Headphone Jack, 1 x Microphoce Jack Rear 1 x HDMI(1.4b), 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x RJ45, 1 x VGA Side 1 x Kensington lock slot Dimension 56.22 mm x 103 mm x 116.52 mm (2.21″ x 4.06″ x 4.59″) Vesa mountable bracket included Supports 75 x 75 and 100 x 100 mm 1 year parts and labour warranty System: Don't forget - this is a two core N4000 Celeron chip! Verdict: Hardware build quality is excellent. Looks very good. I received a 240 GB SSD instead of 120 GB as Gigabyte had run out of 120 GB! Plenty of CPU power considering only two cores. Runs a NetSDR at 1 MHz bandwidth acceptably, also fine at 2 MHz bandwidth. Graphics on a HD monitor is usable but not fantastic. Would struggle to run another resource-intensive program such as WSJT. Would be fine as a server for one or two SDRs. Future Use This will be used for running the g4eli.sdr-radio.com DX Cluster sometime in 2020.