I finally got
mine with N5105, yesterday, 9 days before the estimtated delivery with standard AliExpress free shipping. I'm very happy with "CWWK PC Store" shipping process.
Only issue so far is I can't seem to get DisplayPort video out. HDMI works fine. Only took a brief look at the BIOS options but there's no obvious option to enable DP, if someone knows please let me know.
As you can see the case of this one is a bit different than most of the others. It's smaller and probably less effective as a heatsink. I bought my own
Teamgroup 3200 MHz CL22 RAM and
WD SN750 SSD. The RAM is a bit overkill but with some BF discounts it was actually cheaper than lower rated RAM. It's running at 2933 MHz CL21 right out of the box.
Installed Windows 11 first to do some tests, expecting to have to do some modifications for heat management, but it's actually just fine. I slammed all cores with Prime95 (Small FFT) fully expecting to immediately throttle, but in ~75°F (~24°C) ambient, it took its sweet time for HWInfo to raise the throttling flag (maybe like 15-20 min). Max temps were about 81°C during the first 15 min or so, and it slowly raised to 85-87°C, then stabilizing, with occasional peaks at about 90°C just a bit below which seems to be near the throttling temp.
Even then, the min CPU freq stayed at 2.4 GHz, and actually occasional peaks of 2.8 GHz in all 4 cores. This exceeded my expectations for what kind of cooling I could get out of this smaller case. I can only assume the bigger cases are better at cooling and if anyone has trouble with heat management and throttling, there is something wrong in the way the copper block and/or aluminum sink are connected.
Installing Win 11 tip:
I had to install the
i-226V drivers manually which was easy. But this means I didn't have internet right away. Newer Win 11 versions make it hard even for the Pro version to install without internet, but not the Enterprise edition, which you can install and use it inactivated for a while (I assume you can also activate/downgrade to the version you own at a later time). This lets you install without internet and MS won't even bug you about signing in or install bloatware (which even Pro gets).
Instructions slightly modified from a very helpful
Reddit comment:
The key is a volume license key that comes from Microsoft themselves:
Key Management Services (KMS) client activation and product keys for Windows Server and Windows