MINIX NGC-5评测，Windows 10、Ubuntu 20.04和外部GPU

香港迷你PC和高清播放机制造商MINIX最近在其 NGC 系列中推出了一款名为 NGC-5 的新型迷你 PC。虽然该迷你PC使用的是有点过时的英特尔第八代酷睿 i5 处理器，但集成的 Iris Plus Graphics 655 却算得上是比较强大的 iGPU 解决方案之一。不久前，MINIX给我寄了一个样品用来评测。所以，本文我会讲解查看在该迷你PC上运行 Windows 和 Ubuntu，以及使用 eGPU性能的情况。

硬件概览

物理上来说，NGC-5 迷你PC是由一个 153 x 153 x 43 mm（6.02 x 6.02 x 1.57 英寸）的方形塑料外壳组成的。作为一款主动散热型的迷你 PC，它使用的是英特尔较旧的 14 nm++ Core i5-8279U Coffee Lake 处理器，这是一款四核 8 线程 2.40 GHz 处理器，通过英特尔的 Iris Plus Graphics 655 提升至了 4.10 GHz。

它的前面板只有一个 LED 电源指示灯，后面板包括双千兆以太网端口、双 USB 3.1 端口、一个 DisplayPort 1.2、一个 HDMI 2.0a 端口、一个 Type-C USB 3.1 端口和电源插孔。左侧面板有一个复位针孔、两个 wifi 天线和一个 Kensington 安全插槽。右侧面板有电源按钮、组合式耳机和 S/PDIF 插孔、一个微型 SD 卡插槽、两个 USB 3.1 端口和一个 RS232 端口。

我评测的这个型号含有一个安装了 Windows 10 Pro 的 256GB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD 驱动器和一个占据 SO-DIMM 插槽的单根 8GB DDR4 2666 MHz 内存：

该内存可能是由不可见的 BIOS 选项配置来以 2400 MHz 运行的，正如在Windows和Ubuntu中所看到的，如下图所示：

此外，还有一个 nano SIM 卡插槽、一个可更换的 M.2 2230 WiFi 5（或 802.11ac）Intel 3168NGW 卡，以及添加到额外 M.2 2242 SATA SSD 驱动器上的某种未公开功能。

该迷你PC箱体的规格说明如下所示：

箱内物品

在整套产品套装中，你们会拿到得到一个电源适配器和适合你所在国家/地区插头的电源线、一根 HDMI 电缆、两个外部天线、一个 VESA 安装支架以及用于将设备连接到显示器后面的螺钉。你还会得到一个小塑料袋，里面有一个 S/PDIF 3.5mm 适配器、一个 M.2 固定螺丝、看起来像两个支座的东西、几块粘性橡胶，还有一个更小的袋子，里面有几个小螺丝，现在对它的用途我还是不是很清楚。还有一份欧洲多语言的用户手册。

评测方法

在评测迷你 PC 时，我通常会同时查看它们在 Windows 和 Linux (Ubuntu) 下的性能，并将它们与一些最近发布的迷你 PC 进行比较。我现在正在使用 Windows 10 版本 21H1 和 Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 进行评测，并使用一系列常用的 Windows 基准测试、Linux 的等效测试，以及用Thomas Kaiser 的“sbc-bench”进行测试。“sbc-bench”进行测试跟 CPU 性能测试是完全不同的，这个测试主要专注在 Ubuntu 上运行时的服务器性能。我还在 Windows 和 Ubuntu 上使用了“Phoronix 测试套件”和基准测试，用来进行比较。在 Ubuntu 上，我还使用默认配置编译的 v5.4 Linux 内核作为使用真实场景的性能测试。

在进行基准测试之前，我要先进行全部有必要的安装和更新，从而使其可以运行两个操作系统的最新版本。我还为每个操作系统截图了设备的一些基本细节。

安装问题

在初始启动时，Windows“更新”屏幕显示“some settings are managed by your organization ”（某些设置由您的组织管理）。

查看配置的更新策略显示自动更新且已禁用。

鉴于 Windows 是工厂安装，所以要检查 Windows Insider Program 确认它没有被启用。

我进一步查看之后发现，Windows更新确实已通过添加注册表项被阻止了。

在进行WiFi测试时我发现2.4GHz网络性能很差，在我完成所有“stock”测试并打开设备以添加更多内存后，我发现网络性能很差是因为WiFi U.FL 尾纤连接器损坏了。

这是在制造商组装设备期间引起的，在安装调试内存时建议要特别小心，因为它需要将主板从塑料外壳中完全移除。而将主板重新安装回外壳时，WiFi 电缆很容易被卡住。

MINIX NGC-5上的Windows性能

最初，MINIX NGC-5 安装了 Windows 10 专业版 21H1 版本 19043.985 的许可副本。升级到 build 19043.1237 后，快速查看硬件信息可以看到它是符合规范的。

我简要检查显示音频、micro-SD、Wi-Fi、蓝牙和以太网之后，一切就都可以工作了。

然后我将电源模式设置为“高性能”并运行我的标准基准测试工具集来查看 Windows下的MINIX NGC-5性能。

对于我特定的一组 Phoronix 测试套件测试，我的测试结果如下：

然后我将这些测试结果与其他的迷你PC进行比较，如下所示：

与使用相同或类似Core i5 CPU的其他迷你PC相比，测试结果实际上略低了一点。这是由于 CPU throttling造成的，也就是当CPU温度过高后PC会进行降频保护CPU的机制。这部分我会再下面的“Thermals”部分详细讨论。

Ubuntu性能

在将 Windows 分区缩小一半并创建一个新分区后，我使用 Ubuntu 20.04.3 ISO 作为双系统安装了 Ubuntu。安装和更新后，我简要检查了显示音频、micro- SD、Wi-Fi、蓝牙和以太网，都是正常工作的。

Ubuntu 20.04.3下关键硬件的信息如下：

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ uname -a
Linux NGC-5 5.11.0-36-generic #40~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Sep 18 02:14:19 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ inxi -Fc0
System:    Host: NGC-5 Kernel: 5.11.0-36-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.36.9 
           Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: MINIX Limited model: MINIX NGC-5 serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0.07 date: 07/09/2021 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8279U bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           Speed: 4101 MHz min/max: 400/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4042 2: 4095 3: 4102 4: 4051 5: 4099 6: 3922 7: 4081 
           8: 3831 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 (CFL GT3) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-36-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM driver: e1000e 
           IF: eno1 state: down mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
           Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlp1s0 state: down mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
           Device-3: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver: igb 
           IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 19.38 GiB (8.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: ACR256GTLCG-E3C-2 size: 238.47 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 115.66 GiB used: 19.32 GiB (16.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 242 Uptime: 32m Memory: 7.58 GiB used: 907.3 MiB (11.7%) Shell: new-review-test inxi: 3.0.38 
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           776M  1.8M  774M   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p5  116G   20G   91G  18% /
tmpfs           3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop1       56M   56M     0 100% /snap/core18/2128
/dev/loop0      219M  219M     0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72
/dev/loop4       51M   51M     0 100% /snap/snap-store/547
/dev/loop3       66M   66M     0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515
/dev/loop2       33M   33M     0 100% /snap/snapd/12704
/dev/nvme0n1p1  1.5G   56M  1.5G   4% /boot/efi
tmpfs           776M   28K  776M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/loop5       33M   33M     0 100% /snap/snapd/13170
/dev/loop6      128K  128K     0 100% /snap/bare/5
/dev/loop7       66M   66M     0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lsblk -a
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0         7:0    0   219M  1 loop /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72
loop1         7:1    0  55.4M  1 loop /snap/core18/2128
loop2         7:2    0  32.3M  1 loop /snap/snapd/12704
loop3         7:3    0  65.1M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515
loop4         7:4    0    51M  1 loop /snap/snap-store/547
loop5         7:5    0  32.3M  1 loop /snap/snapd/13170
loop6         7:6    0     4K  1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop7         7:7    0  65.2M  1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   1.5G  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    16M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0   118G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   961M  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p5 259:5    0   118G  0 part /
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C cpu
  *-cpu
       description: CPU
       product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz
       vendor: Intel Corp.
       physical id: 46
       bus info: cpu@0
       version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz
       serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       slot: U3E1
       size: 4009MHz
       capacity: 4100MHz
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 100MHz
       capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp md_clear flush_l1d cpufreq
       configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=8
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C memory
  *-firmware
       description: BIOS
       vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
       physical id: 0
       version: V0.07
       date: 07/09/2021
       size: 64KiB
       capacity: 16MiB
       capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
  *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 3a
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 8GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2021-08-02 16:47+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 8bd362bf86c4b35e805f897f03c203e3576a7006)Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2021-08-02 16:47+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 8bd362bf86c4b35e805f897f03c203e3576a7006) [empty]
          physical id: 0
          slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
     *-bank:1
          description: SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2667 MHz (0.4 ns)
          product: KT8GS4NE8
          vendor: Numonyx (Intel)
          physical id: 1
          serial: XXXXXXXX
          slot: ChannelB-DIMM0
          size: 8GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 2667MHz (0.4ns)
  *-cache:0
       description: L1 cache
       physical id: 43
       slot: L1 Cache
       size: 256KiB
       capacity: 256KiB
       capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
       configuration: level=1
  *-cache:1
       description: L2 cache
       physical id: 44
       slot: L2 Cache
       size: 1MiB
       capacity: 1MiB
       capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
       configuration: level=2
  *-cache:2
       description: L3 cache
       physical id: 45
       slot: L3 Cache
       size: 6MiB
       capacity: 6MiB
       capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
       configuration: level=3
  *-memory UNCLAIMED
       description: RAM memory
       product: Cannon Point-LP Shared SRAM
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 14.2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
       version: 30
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz (30.3ns)
       capabilities: pm cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:a1434000-a1435fff memory:a143a000-a143afff
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ free -mh
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          7.6Gi       806Mi       5.0Gi       176Mi       1.7Gi       6.4Gi
Swap:         2.0Gi          0B       2.0Gi
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak]
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: wlp1s0
       version: 10
       serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.11.0-36-generic firmware=29.1654887522.0 3168-29.ucode latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:143 memory:a1300000-a1301fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: I211 Gigabit Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: enp2s0
       version: 03
       serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi msix pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=igb driverversion=5.11.0-36-generic duplex=full firmware=0. 6-1 ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:19 memory:a1200000-a121ffff ioport:3000(size=32) memory:a1220000-a1223fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: Ethernet Connection I219-LM
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1f.6
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6
       logical name: eno1
       version: 30
       serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=5.11.0-36-generic firmware=0.13-4 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:126 memory:a1400000-a141ffff
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Iris Plus Graphics 655
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:144 memory:a0000000-a0ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aa7 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
linuxium@NGC-5:~$
linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:3ed0] (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Iris Plus Graphics 655 [8086:3ea5] (rev 01)
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Thermal Controller [8086:9df9] (rev 30)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Controller [8086:9ded] (rev 30)
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Shared SRAM [8086:9def] (rev 30)
00:14.5 SD Host controller [0805]: Intel Corporation BayHubTech Integrated SD controller [8086:9df5] (rev 30)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:9de8] (rev 30)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP MEI Controller #1 [8086:9de0] (rev 30)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #7 [8086:9dbe] (rev f0)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point PCI Express Root Port #8 [8086:9dbf] (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 [8086:9db0] (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP LPC Controller [8086:9d84] (rev 30)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller [8086:9dc8] (rev 30)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SMBus Controller [8086:9da3] (rev 30)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SPI Controller [8086:9da4] (rev 30)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I219-LM [8086:156f] (rev 30)
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] [8086:24fb] (rev 10)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1539] (rev 03)
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Phison Electronics Corporation Device [1987:5013] (rev 01)
linuxium@NGC-5:~$

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linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lsb_release -a

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

Release: 20.04

Codename: focal

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ uname -a

Linux NGC-5 5.11.0-36-generic #40~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Sep 18 02:14:19 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ inxi -Fc0

System: Host: NGC-5 Kernel: 5.11.0-36-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.36.9

Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: MINIX Limited model: MINIX NGC-5 serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0.07 date: 07/09/2021

CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8279U bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 6144 KiB

Speed: 4101 MHz min/max: 400/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4042 2: 4095 3: 4102 4: 4051 5: 4099 6: 3922 7: 4081

8: 3831

Graphics: Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 driver: i915 v: kernel

Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 (CFL GT3) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3

Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel

Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-36-generic

Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM driver: e1000e

IF: eno1 state: down mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi

IF: wlp1s0 state: down mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Device-3: Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver: igb

IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 19.38 GiB (8.1%)

ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: ACR256GTLCG-E3C-2 size: 238.47 GiB

Partition: ID-1: / size: 115.66 GiB used: 19.32 GiB (16.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A

Info: Processes: 242 Uptime: 32m Memory: 7.58 GiB used: 907.3 MiB (11.7%) Shell: new-review-test inxi: 3.0.38

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

udev 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev

tmpfs 776M 1.8M 774M 1% /run

/dev/nvme0n1p5 116G 20G 91G 18% /

tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev/shm

tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock

tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/loop1 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2128

/dev/loop0 219M 219M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72

/dev/loop4 51M 51M 0 100% /snap/snap-store/547

/dev/loop3 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515

/dev/loop2 33M 33M 0 100% /snap/snapd/12704

/dev/nvme0n1p1 1.5G 56M 1.5G 4% /boot/efi

tmpfs 776M 28K 776M 1% /run/user/1000

/dev/loop5 33M 33M 0 100% /snap/snapd/13170

/dev/loop6 128K 128K 0 100% /snap/bare/5

/dev/loop7 66M 66M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lsblk -a

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

loop0 7:0 0 219M 1 loop /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/72

loop1 7:1 0 55.4M 1 loop /snap/core18/2128

loop2 7:2 0 32.3M 1 loop /snap/snapd/12704

loop3 7:3 0 65.1M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1515

loop4 7:4 0 51M 1 loop /snap/snap-store/547

loop5 7:5 0 32.3M 1 loop /snap/snapd/13170

loop6 7:6 0 4K 1 loop /snap/bare/5

loop7 7:7 0 65.2M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1519

nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk

├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1.5G 0 part /boot/efi

├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 part

├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 118G 0 part

├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 961M 0 part

└─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 118G 0 part /

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C cpu

*-cpu

description: CPU

product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz

vendor: Intel Corp.

physical id: 46

bus info: cpu@0

version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz

serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

slot: U3E1

size: 4009MHz

capacity: 4100MHz

width: 64 bits

clock: 100MHz

capabilities: lm fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp md_clear flush_l1d cpufreq

configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=8

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C memory

*-firmware

description: BIOS

vendor: American Megatrends Inc.

physical id: 0

version: V0.07

date: 07/09/2021

size: 64KiB

capacity: 16MiB

capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi

*-memory

description: System Memory

physical id: 3a

slot: System board or motherboard

size: 8GiB

*-bank:0

description: Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2021-08-02 16:47+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 8bd362bf86c4b35e805f897f03c203e3576a7006)Project-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2021-08-02 16:47+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 8bd362bf86c4b35e805f897f03c203e3576a7006) [empty]

physical id: 0

slot: ChannelA-DIMM0

*-bank:1

description: SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2667 MHz (0.4 ns)

product: KT8GS4NE8

vendor: Numonyx (Intel)

physical id: 1

serial: XXXXXXXX

slot: ChannelB-DIMM0

size: 8GiB

width: 64 bits

clock: 2667MHz (0.4ns)

*-cache:0

description: L1 cache

physical id: 43

slot: L1 Cache

size: 256KiB

capacity: 256KiB

capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified

configuration: level=1

*-cache:1

description: L2 cache

physical id: 44

slot: L2 Cache

size: 1MiB

capacity: 1MiB

capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified

configuration: level=2

*-cache:2

description: L3 cache

physical id: 45

slot: L3 Cache

size: 6MiB

capacity: 6MiB

capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified

configuration: level=3

*-memory UNCLAIMED

description: RAM memory

product: Cannon Point-LP Shared SRAM

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 14.2

bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2

version: 30

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz (30.3ns)

capabilities: pm cap_list

configuration: latency=0

resources: memory:a1434000-a1435fff memory:a143a000-a143afff

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ free -mh

total used free shared buff/cache available

Mem: 7.6Gi 806Mi 5.0Gi 176Mi 1.7Gi 6.4Gi

Swap: 2.0Gi 0B 2.0Gi

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C network

*-network

description: Wireless interface

product: Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak]

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

logical name: wlp1s0

version: 10

serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.11.0-36-generic firmware=29.1654887522.0 3168-29.ucode latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

resources: irq:143 memory:a1300000-a1301fff

*-network

description: Ethernet interface

product: I211 Gigabit Network Connection

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

logical name: enp2s0

version: 03

serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

size: 1Gbit/s

capacity: 1Gbit/s

width: 32 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi msix pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=igb driverversion=5.11.0-36-generic duplex=full firmware=0. 6-1 ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s

resources: irq:19 memory:a1200000-a121ffff ioport:3000(size=32) memory:a1220000-a1223fff

*-network

description: Ethernet interface

product: Ethernet Connection I219-LM

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 1f.6

bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6

logical name: eno1

version: 30

serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

capacity: 1Gbit/s

width: 32 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=5.11.0-36-generic firmware=0.13-4 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair

resources: irq:126 memory:a1400000-a141ffff

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ sudo lshw -C display

*-display

description: VGA compatible controller

product: Iris Plus Graphics 655

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 2

bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0

version: 01

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom

configuration: driver=i915 latency=0

resources: irq:144 memory:a0000000-a0ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0aa7 Intel Corp.

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

linuxium@NGC-5:~$ lspci -nn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:3ed0] (rev 08)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Iris Plus Graphics 655 [8086:3ea5] (rev 01)

00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]

00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Thermal Controller [8086:9df9] (rev 30)

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Controller [8086:9ded] (rev 30)

00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Shared SRAM [8086:9def] (rev 30)

00:14.5 SD Host controller [0805]: Intel Corporation BayHubTech Integrated SD controller [8086:9df5] (rev 30)

00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:9de8] (rev 30)

00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP MEI Controller #1 [8086:9de0] (rev 30)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #7 [8086:9dbe] (rev f0)

00:1c.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point PCI Express Root Port #8 [8086:9dbf] (rev f0)

00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 [8086:9db0] (rev f0)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP LPC Controller [8086:9d84] (rev 30)

00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller [8086:9dc8] (rev 30)

00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SMBus Controller [8086:9da3] (rev 30)

00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SPI Controller [8086:9da4] (rev 30)

00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I219-LM [8086:156f] (rev 30)

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] [8086:24fb] (rev 10)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1539] (rev 03)

03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Phison Electronics Corporation Device [1987:5013] (rev 01)

linuxium@NGC-5:~$

然后我将 CPU Scaling Governor 设置为“performance”并运行了我的 Linux 基准测试，其中大部分结果都是基于文本的，图形化结果则包括如下：

我还运行了 Passmark PerformanceTest Linux：

上述结果可以直接与它在 Windows 中运行时的结果进行比较：

对于同一组 Phoronix 测试套件的测试，结果如下：

完整的结果以及与其他迷你 PC 的比较，如下图所示：

结果再次显示处理器正在节流以防止过热。

使用网络浏览器和Kodi在MINIX NGC-5上播放视频

对于现实使用场景，我通过在 Windows 上的 Edge、Chrome 、Kodi中，以及在 Ubuntu 上的 Firefox、Chrome 和 Kodi 中播放了一些视频进行测试。我发现即使我播放的是 4K 视频也没有遇到任何问题。

我还尝试在 Edge 的 YouTube 中播放 8K 视频，视频也播放正常，只是偶尔出现丢帧。

然而，在 Ubuntu 中，虽然 Chrome 运行要比 Firefox 好一些，但相同的视频却一直卡住。

双通道内存

为了查看双通道内存的效果，我将原本的 8GB 2666 MHz 内存条换成了我自己的两个 2400 MHz 8GB 内存条。

再次运行 Passmark 基于改进的memory mark，则获得了更高的评分，而且graphics marks得分也有了轻微提高。

重新运行 3D Fire Strike 时也是如此，图形得分也略有增加。

但是，重新运行 Unigine Heaven 后，结果显示图形得分略有下降。

但这可能是测试范围内的简单差异。

在Coffee Lake上玩游戏

从上面Unigine Heaven的得分可以看出是这款迷你PC是可以玩游戏的。在安装了额外内存的情况下，我在 Windows的 Steam 上测试了三款游戏（反恐精英：全球攻势、侠盗猎车手 V、古墓丽影：暗影）。在 CS:GO 和 GTA V 中的默认设置下，平均帧率分别为 43 和 37。对于在内置基准测试中使用低图形预设的 SOTTR，帧率比较令人失望，仅有9。

遗憾的是，MINIX NGC-5 不包含 Thunderbolt 端口，但机箱底部包含一个 M.2 2280 NVME 驱动器的接入点。

这立即让我想到通过使用“PCIe x16 到 M.2 NVMe 适配器”不显眼地将eGPU 添加到迷你 PC。根据目前的情况，即该迷你PC内部有一个空的 M.2 2242 SATA 驱动器，我当即想到可以额外安装一个更长的 80 mm驱动器。所以，我就撕掉了用来固定风扇电缆但实际上没什么用的胶带，重新使用胶带来固定更长的 SATA 驱动器，因为 M.2 支架由于 CPU 冷却器的位置而无法更换位置了。

为了配置我的 eGPU，我重新使用了一个旧的MINIX NEO J5 M.2 2280 SATA 驱动器作为启动驱动器，并使用 ADT-Link 的“JHH-LINK DOCK-6”连接了 GTX 1650 Super（因为这个版本具有可互换性PCIe 电缆，使物理连接更容易）以及外部 SFX 电源和 24 针电源跳线开关。