I also tried playing some videos in the Windows 10 VM: I pottered around the demo installation and looked at the Ethernet connection speed between the R1 and a Windows PC on the same network: Together with some others which are covered in detail in the wiki. Or when the language is switched to English:Īnd Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC VM also in Chinese:ĭocker is also running on the Debian VM with various containers including Heimdall: The iKOOLCORE R1 came pre-installed with Proxmox 7.3-6: Additionally, the R1’s motherboard has hardware protection to prevent any issues from arising if the power supply is plugged into the side Type-C USB data port. It can use either a DC power supply with the included adapter or Power Delivery (PD) using the rear Type-C USB port and the included power supply. The R1’s power chip supports an input voltage of between 12 and 20V with the current varying depending on the device’s power consumption. Also included in the box are a VESA mounting bracket and screws, a 30W (12V 2.5A) Type-C USB power supply, and a ‘DC 5.5 x 2.1mm female to USB Type-C male power cable adapter’ allowing the use of a more typical mini PC power supply with a barrel connector if required. Internally, storage is a 42mm M.2 NVMe (‘M’ key) PCIe Gen 3.0 SSD drive which is accessed by ‘popping’ off the top, and the review sample included a Western Digital SN735 NVMe SSD 512GB M.2 2242 drive.ĭue to the R1’s size, there is soldered-on LPDDR4 memory and the review sample included dual-channel 16GB 2933MHz memory although 8GB is also available. The rear panel includes four Intel I226-V 2.5 gigabit Ethernet ports, an HDMI 2.0 port, and a Type-C USB port for Power Delivery. On the left panel are a Type-C USB port and a microSD card slot. The front panel has a power button and two USB 3.1 ports. As an actively cooled mini PC, the R1 uses either an Intel Jasper Lake Pentium Silver mobile N6005 processor (as in the review unit) which has 4 cores and 4 threads and can boost to 3.3GHz together with Intel UHD Graphics, or it is available with a Celeron 5105 processor. The iKOOLCORE R1 physically consists of a 75 x 75 x 48mm (2.95 x 2.95 x 1.89 inches) square metal case which has a removable plastic top. IKOOLCORE R1 overview Overview of hardware The rest of the specifications are aligned to the physical device with the possible exception of the data-only Type-C USB port (see below): Technically ‘EC’ refers to an ‘EC declaration of conformity’ which is not a certificate, however, the ‘EC declaration of conformity’ is called a ‘CE statement’ or ‘CE certificate’ which is why you often see this abbreviated as ‘CE’. Of note are the ‘EC, FCC, RoHS’ certifications indicating both European conformity and approval for use in the US. IKOOLCORE list the R1 specifications on their website as: I approached iKOOLCORE who kindly provided an R1 for review and I’ve looked at performance running both Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 and dabbled with using hypervisors on this mini PC through Proxmox virtual environment. When I first saw the iKOOLCORE R1 I was fascinated that a mini PC of similar size to the smallest fully functional ones available (think Chuwi LarkBox, GMK NucBox or ECS LIVA Q Series) could be equipped with four 2.5 gigabit Ethernet (2.5GbE) ports.
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