Beelink SEI, Ryzen 7 7735HS, 24GB, 500GB SSD

A tiny office workhorse with a big CPU and a big gaming blind spot. Great for spreadsheets, terrible for frame rates.

What surprised us is how much CPU you get in a box this small. The 8-core Ryzen 7 7735HS boosts up to 4.75GHz, and that's real horsepower for multitasking, spreadsheets, and even light design work. The Radeon 680M integrated graphics are fine for video output and older titles, but the 13.1 gaming score tells the real story: this is not a machine for modern AAA games at anything beyond low settings. The 24GB of RAM is a nice sweet spot, though the 500GB SSD is on the smaller side for a desktop in this price range.

Stacked against the Lenovo Legion 90YA003GUS or the iBUYPOWER Slate SWI7N56T01, the Beelink gets absolutely smoked in gaming. Those towers have dedicated GPUs and are built for frame rates, while the Beelink is built for desk space. Against the HP OmniDesk M03-0064 or Dell Desktop ECT1250, the Beelink holds its own on CPU performance and actually wins on portability. The Apple iMac M4 is in a different league for display quality and overall polish, but it costs way more. For pure office work in a tiny box, the Beelink is a reasonable alternative to a boring Dell tower.

At $529 USD, this is a fair deal for a compact office PC with this much CPU and RAM. But it's not a bargain. You're paying for the small form factor and the Ryzen 7, not for storage or graphics. If you need a quiet, capable little box for work and web browsing, it's worth a look. If you want to game, save your money.

The Beelink SEI (often listed as the SER5 MAX) is a tiny desktop that punches above its weight for everyday work. The one thing to know: it's a genuinely fast little office machine with a Ryzen 7 7735HS and 24GB of DDR5, but don't let the marketing fool you into thinking it's a gaming rig. Our database puts its gaming chops near the bottom of the barrel, while compactness and home office scores are solidly middle of the pack.

If you're looking for a gaming PC, this isn't it. Go get a Lenovo Legion or an iBUYPOWER Slate instead. And if you need tons of storage out of the box, the 500GB SSD will annoy you fast. This is for people who want a tiny, quiet office machine, not a do-everything desktop.

Buy the Beelink SEI if you want a small, quiet, fast-enough desktop for work, browsing, and light creative tasks. It's a solid little machine with a surprisingly strong CPU. Just don't buy it expecting a gaming PC, because that's not what this is.