Geekom AS 5 Mini-PC in review – small latecomer with a very interesting design

1 - Einführung und technische Daten 2 - Optik und Haptik 3 - Innenaufbau 4 - Benchmarks: CPU, SSD und Cache 5 - Benchmarks: GPU und Spiele 6 - Stresstests und Lautstärke 7 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

Internal structure

If you loosen the four screws on the bottom, you can directly admire the interior.

And this is where the promised PCB sandwich starts, because there are already two in the removable bottom alone, one for the Displayport connection as well as a second for the SATA connection from the 2.5″ bay and another M.2 slot.

A look at the motherboard confirms that the hardware here is from Asus. To be more precise, we have a PN52-BBR959XD in front of us, but not as a barebone as offered by Asus, but already completely equipped. A Realtek RTL8125B-CG takes care of the wired network, a MediaTek MT7922A22M card is responsible for lightning-fast WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2.

By the way, a fourth PCB is hidden on the back next to the fan, which can be seen on the last page. We’ll now get to the performance on the next pages.