Beelink SER7 Intenral Hardware Overview
Getting inside the system requires four screws to be removed. These four screws hold the bottom cover on and that cover has a few features aside from the cutout for the magnetic charger.
Thermal pads help transfer heat to the bottom cover to control temperatures. One of these thermal pads is used to help cool the M.2 SSD slot located here. The system says HDD disk, and you probably could install one in this spot, but we would be very wary of doing so as a hard disk would block the fan and airflow in the system.
Something we also wanted to point out is that Beelink announced GTR7 and GTR6 bottom cover replacements with vents. The SER7 did not get this upgrade, but it seems like it should have sharing a similar design.
Pulling off that internal airflow shroud and fan, we get into the main part of the system. From a user service standpoint, this is about seven screws in, which we hope Beelink can address in the future.
Inside this area, we find a Phison-powered Crucial 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD and then the memory.
Despite this being a cost-optimized platform, the memory is Crucial DDR5-5600 and is 32GB in two 16GB SODIMMs.
Pulling the memory and SSD, we can find the WiFi module underneath the SSD. The perhaps strange thing is that this is an Intel AX200. For those who do not know the decoder ring, that is a WiFi 6, not WiFi 6E module which is a little strange since the cost delta is small and we are about to see WiFi 7 enter the high-end.
Pulling the motherboard, we can see the big fan on the other side.
Here is another angle.
This is a profile view.
Here is another profile view.
We can see a copper heatsink with some heatpipes and the fan as the cooling solution. We will see the performance of this in our power and cooling.
All of this makes for an interesting AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS system, but we wanted to see how that unit performs compared to other systems we have seen.
Next, let us get to the performance.
7040hs is impressive as heck. I bought a 7940hs notebook and I often end up using it in preference to my 5900x desktop. This might be AMD’s “Core” moment.
Little warning, not sure if Beelink changed mid product cycle, etc but I just got my SER7 today and it has a Realtek NIC not Intel.