Gigabyte BLCE-4000C BRIX PC

[Simon G4ELI]

Hi All,

Received an offer this morning from https://mini-itx.com, and as a developer can never have enough computers I bought this and added 8 GB RAM. I'll put Windows 10 on and see whether there's enough grunt to run the Airspy HF+ on 144 MHz.

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

I'll report back.

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[Simon G4ELI]

So,

It arrived today (August 13th, 2020) and was soon up and running with Windows 10 Professional.

System:

• Don't forget - this is a two core N4000 Celeron chip!

Verdict:

• Hardware build quality is excellent.

• Runs a NetSDR at 1 MHz bandwidth acceptably, also fine at 2 MHz bandwidth.

• Graphics 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:

• This will be used for running the g4eli.sdr-radio.com DX Cluster sometime in 2020.

[pa3bwe]

Hi Simon,

Tnx for the tip: I bought a similar barebone model GB-BLCE-4105C (rev. 1.0) and added 8G of ram and a 250G SSD drive.
SDRC with MSHV runs very smooth, it will be used as a remote station to get rid of the local rf-noise.

73's Antoon